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... it might have had when it was new had long since been tarnished by time and the British weather. PC O’Brien of the Metropolitan Police trudged up a... ...poken to any of them so far because I have been too upset, I may decide that the British public, and people around the world, have a right to know h... ...p if we had him treated in the US by the very best doctors. 53 That way the British police would have no jurisdiction anyway. We’d pick up the ... ... and Soames left the room looking, thought Sam with amusement, like some kind of comedy double act. “Right,” said Dr Okocha when they had departed. ...

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...t ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situations. Return Dreamcatcher - The Myth of Destr... ... In a series of experiments described in articles published in Science in mid 2007, British and Swiss researchers concluded that "their experiments ... ...marries the girl of his dreams (who scorned him before). But, this clever piece of comedy is philosophically muddled. The denizens of this dystopia...

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...ec. 1866 en Manchester. E-istiĝis en 1905 kaj de tiam li kunlaboris en e British E-ist, La E-a Instruisto, e E Monthly kaj Literaturo. Li kunlabor... ...l int. lingvo. La vorto “Basic” formiĝis el la unuaj literoj de la vortoj “British, American, Scienti c, International, Commercial” . La bazo de la s... ...feroj netakseble valoraj por la studantoj kaj ĝi rimarkinde kreskadas. Laŭ BRITISH E-IST,1931, p: 120. 77 Bibtioteko de C O. (Centra O cejo). Unu el... ...eprenojn. Verkis multajn originalajn poemojn, kiuj aperis en La Revuo, e British E-ist, (multaj restis manuskriptoj). Tradukis: Horacio de I.ord Mac... ...kontentigi la sentatan bezonon por forta centro de ĉiuj britaj grupoj, la “British E Association” (BEA) fondiĝis je la iniciato de la Londona Klubo. A... ...losilo, kiun li multjare reklamis en ĉiu numero de siaj gazetoj “Pictorial Comedy” , “Seraps” k. a. 344 Hendriks Pieter, nederlandano, (friso),ĉe n s...

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...nding the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tediu...

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...line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently con- sidered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplin... ... that might have belonged to the open- hearted, improvident hero of an old comedy, who would have delighted in raining sugared almonds, like a new man...

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... from its capsule of cloth. “Wood is dear,” he said to Grassou. “Ah!” “The British are after me” (slang term for creditors) “Gra- cious! do you paint ... .... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bridau, Joseph The Purse A Bachelor’s Establishment A Disting...

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...ain Osborne was a great lover of the drama, and had himself performed high-comedy characters with great distinction in several garrison theatrical ent... ...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...from the conversation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to o... ... Opera. It was almost like Old England. The house was filled with familiar British faces, and those toilettes for which the British female has long be... ... which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or performed her comedy of action better), she skipped back to her own box, leaning on Capta... ...o, and the ladies were of the rank of those with whom Y oung Marlow in the comedy is represented as having been familiar before he became abashed in t...

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...campaign as a mere boy at the time of the battle of Almanza, that solitary British defeat, for which our na- tional consolation is that the French wer... ...idst of his Eastern salaam, gave the Countess a sense that he was acting a comedy, and carried her involuntarily back to the Moors whom she had seen i... ..., when the pos- session of Gibraltar and Minorca had provided harbours for British ships, which exercised a salutary supervision over these Southern s... ...Egypt.’ ‘Ah! the poor demoiselle, she always seems as if she were acting a comedy.’ This was happily true. Estelle seemed to be in a curious manner bo... ... down on them from the opposite direction. ‘Rascals. Do they not dread the British flag?’ cried Arthur. ‘Surely that will protect us?’ ‘They are small... ...ible of a relaxation of effort, and that the chase was over, then that the British boat was alongside, friendly voices ringing in his ears, ‘How now, ... ...his ears, ‘How now, mates? Runaways, eh? Where d’ye hail from?’ ‘Scottish! British!’ panted out Arthur, unable to utter more, faint, giddy, and astoun...

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...he out- rage at the time, but had seemed obliging and amused, enjoying the comedy of asking Mrs. Monarch, who sat vague and silent, whether she would ... ...Beatrice. As I never insisted, in such situations, on the blankness of the British domestic, I reflected that he had the making of a servant (and I ne...

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...ays be for reasons that differed. It came home to me that he was admirably British as, without so much as a sociable sneer at my bookbinder, he turned... ...n’t matter, for it was through Adelaide Mulville that the side-wind of the comedy, though I was at first unwitting, began to reach me. I went to Wimbl... ...ver re- ally materialised her. She feels indeed that she has be- come very British—as if that, as a process, as a ‘Werden, ’ as anything but an origin...

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...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...” or the brave “Horse Marine,” where the people of our nation are drinking British beer and gin, you hear choruses of “Garryowen” or “The Lass I left ... ...rtifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the Peninsula. Y ou see vessels lyin... ...tist. As he sits, and endeavours to make a sketch of this plaintive little comedy, a shabby digni- tary of the island comes clattering by on a thirty-...

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...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ... of the yacht. A stout champion in the person of T om Redworth was left on British land; but for some reason past analysis, intermixed, that is, among... ...NCESS EGERIA’ LONDON, say what we will of it, is after all the head of the British giant, and if not the liveliest in bubbles, it is past competition ... ...dly used. Society is big engine enough to protect it- self. I incline with British juries to do rough justice to the victims. She has neither father n... ...ur lighter touches. London is a school, but, you know it, not a school for comedy nor for philoso- phy; that is gathered on my hills, with London dist... ... possible. Percy had not a common interest in fiction; still less for high comedy. He liked the broad laugh when he deigned to open books of that sort... ...ds with Providence.’ ‘But then we lose our T ragedy,’ said Whitmonby. ‘Our Comedy too,’ added Diana. ‘We must consent to be Busbied for the sake of th... ...ion to burlesque was a further hindrance, for she did not perceive how her comedy could be strained to gratify it. There was a knock, and Danvers ente...

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...e aggressive and interfering old ladies who play so overwhelming a part in British public affairs. She had been known to initiate ad- verse judgments,... ...s of the race. The flimsy roof under which we had been living our lives of comedy fell and shattered the floor under our feet; we saw the stars above ... ...he allied defensive. The events of the early spring, the bloody failure of British generalship at Neuve Chapelle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelle... ...he intention of Mrs. Garstein Fellows to succeed very conspicuously in the British world, and the British world she felt was a complicated one; it is ... ...ne the treatment he or she was accustomed to receive. And since all things British are now changing and passing away, it may not be uninteresting to r... ... at all, and no other relations with “art.” At the skirts of this crowning British world Mrs. Garstein Fel- lows tugged industriously and expensively.... ...n. Before the war such a lot of things in England and Europe seemed like a comedy or a farce, a bad joke that one tolerated. One tried half consciousl...

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...a word with you?” Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old... ...ghter who is my Beauty daughter, I have a Sentiment daughter, and I have a Comedy daughter. You must see them all. They’ll be en chanted.” He was goi... ... is my Sentiment daughter, Laura—plays a little but don’t sing. This is my Comedy daughter, Kitty—sings a little but don’t play. We all draw a little ... ...d to be very fond of him, were amused by this droll fact, particularly the Comedy daughter. “My dears, it is true,” said Mr. Skimpole, “is it not? So ... ...s have their nest upstairs. I dare say at some time or other Sentiment and Comedy will bring their husbands home and have their nests upstairs too.... ...ter for the national glory even that the sun should sometimes set upon the British dominions than that it should ever rise upon so vile a wonder as To... ...Not in a scientific way, as I expect he does, but by ear. Lord bless you! ‘British Grenadiers’—there’s a tune to warm an Englishman up! could you giv... ...h Grenadiers’—there’s a tune to warm an Englishman up! could you give us ‘British Grena diers,’ my fine fellow?” Nothing could be more acceptable to... ...h enlivened, beats time and never falls to come in sharp with the burden, “British Gra a anadeers!” In short, he shows so much musical taste that Mr....

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...far too expensive, as he hinted, and he was on the point of completing his comedy by a pensive retreat when the shopman bespoke his attention for an- ... ...require to look at them before answering that question.” “I’ve been to the British museum—there are many of his letters there. I’ve obtained permissio...

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...nly a minute 22 The Secret Places of the Heart or so before been a decent British citizen. He made some blind lunges at the tremulous but obdurate ca... ... labour and finance. The sooner we scrap this nonsense about an autonomous British Empire complete in itself, contra mundum, the better for us. A worl... ...d years old or even more. It is the most important historical relic in the British Isles. And the most neglected. “ They exchanged archaeological fact... ...ls you so much of this affair, I may as well tell you all. It is a sort of comedy, a painful comedy, of irrelevant affections.” The doctor was prepare... ... lunched in Marlborough and went on in the afternoon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe. They left the car ... ...rcumvallation that was al- ready two thousand years old before the dawn of British his- tory; a great wall of earth with its ditch most strangely on i...

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...d comedians. No: no Art arrives at the artlessness of nature in matters of comedy. Y ou can’t simu- late the ape. Your antics are dull. They haven’t t... ... great people to a pretty low pitch. He had welcomed them hospitably, as a British yeoman should; but not budged a foot in his demands: not to the bar... ...ung back in his chair. “Lie number Two,” said his shoulders, soured by the British aversion to being plotted at, and not dealt with openly. “And ye’ve... ...deal of Richard Feverel CHAPTER XI OF ALL THE CHIEF ACTORS in the Bakewell Comedy, Master Ripton Thompson awaited the fearful morning which was to dec... ...tten with the careless composer. And so ended the last act of the Bakewell Comedy, in which the curtain closes with Sir Austin’s pointing out to his f... ...or statesmanship, and he and his father read his- tory and the speeches of British orators to some purpose; for one day Sir Austin found him leaning c... ...orner here and there for a solitary arrow. Hail the occasion propitious, O British young! and laugh and treat love as an honest God, and dabble not wi... ...n town, with a manuscript ‘Pro- posal for a New System of Education of our British Youth,’ which may come in opportunely. I think I am entitled to spe... ...his turn, and pretending to interpret his fits of song: “Oh, what a pretty comedy!—Don’t we wear the mask well, my Fiesco?—Genoa will be our own to-mo...

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... which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has been employed in spite of its disadvan... ...There is no little town in France where, at a given time, the drama or the comedy of the stranger is not played. Often the stranger is an adventurer w... ...ttention. They bring upon the scene many persons already well-known in the Comedy of Human Life, and they reveal a vast number of facts neces- sary to... ...lways found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them; but the comedy of this affair begins with the co-arrival and the co-presence in the... ...ar producing unpleasant complications, inas- 245 Balzac much as the young British scion of nobility had assumed a boxing attitude. That fray pacified... ...ruin that 271 Balzac idol in her estimation.” “But there again, as in the comedy of hatred you mean to play for Monsieur de l’Estorade’s benefit, you...

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... century, is one of Balzac’s remark- able and most famous pictures in the “Comedy of Human Life.” K.P.W. 4 Balzac BEATRIX I A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION... ... you regret not staying.” When the three actors met in the salon, and this comedy was played, Calyste felt for a moment his equivocal position, 128 B... ...ficant. T wo women observing each other play one of the choicest scenes of comedy that the world can show. “Calyste has committed some folly,” thought... ...t gives the homage of its interest to real feelings only . Beatrix playing comedy was judged to be a second-rate actress. There was no reason whatever... ...stinction due to her rank as the wife of a du Guenic and the daughter of a British peer. Mademoiselle des T ouches urged Calyste to see Paris, while s... ...Calyste swear and reswear hatred to the wife, who, she said, was play- ing comedy, took place in a perfect bower where she played off her graces amid ...

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...un- powder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen. You know, don’t you, that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, a... ...r which would make you die of laughing,—exactly like Arnolphe in Moliere’s comedy.” The count, horror-stricken, looked at Pierrotin, who, find- ing th... ...e Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Beaupre, Fanny Modest Mignon The Muse of the Department Scene...

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...lours, Spaniards in black and white, Peruvians—orange, Mexicans—red as the British army. Well, it’s just my whim. If I like red, I go at red. I ain’t ... ...i- sons; while Algernon vehemently defended her with a bat- tering fire of British adjectives in superlative. He as much as hinted, under instigation,... ...ands of the Eccleses, by running off one day and entering the ranks of the British army. Those framed letters became melancholy objects for con- templ... ... rigmaroles about my brandy, which is French; it is, as sure as my blood’s British.” “Oh! Missis,” quoth Sedgett, maliciously, “as to tales, you’ve go... ...cter, if it’s really to go on. I wonder whether you will ever perceive the comedy of, life. I doubt whether a man is happier when he does perceive it.... ... that they find scarce any terrors in the inevitable final stroke. No; the comedy is painfullest. You and I, Algy, old bach- elors, will earn the righ... ...uired a healing medicament; she put her lips to his fingers. Assuredly the comedy would not have ended there, but it was stopped by an intrusion of th... ...lloquy,—”an eternal broad grin is not, in the instance of a dualogue, good comedy.” “It may hide profound grief.” Edward made his eyes flash. “I find ...