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...mmits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Michael Brand to find the truth. The detective discovers that Stone was murdered, but the reason behind his death is a mystery. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to ins...

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...nager, shouted at everyone within earshot, commanding the floor like a general. “Let’s go people! Twenty minutes to airtime.” Simmons had been with ... ...most ready,” she said and walked away. Jamieson Stone sat there watching at least fifty people preparing for his nightly news cast, plus another t... ...world. A hundred and forty countries tuned in via satellite and Internet – over a billion people at last count. However, his fame had not been meteo... ...fore. He stared at her for a minute, and then started pacing. “I believe your husband was murdered. Without getting into the specific details, his e... ... arrogant and exasperating you could be…I need you to help me find out why my husband was murdered… or committed suicide.” “Did you love him?” Bran... ... proving it is another thing.” “But that’s exactly what I have to do. I believe Stone was murdered for what he knew, and Kensey because he was consi... ...ry has agreed to go along with Russia and China.” “Why?” she asked between mouthfuls of Canadian bacon. “Russia and China were planning a nuclear... ...dall, the president’s NSA advisor greeted the Generals. Zlatamir rushed over to them with abroad grin and shook their hands, but Ramsey and Randall ...

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...it; although from it, despite its limitations, he was always introduced to people so different than he was. They were the favored ones whose ideas we... ...icemen, who could easily be bribed, were never to be trusted. The favored people did not have everyday to roam the streets like homeless but highly m... ...the pronouncement of street names called out from the back seat. "Do young people like you have money to go off wherever you wish?" The words pierced ... ...nto the forest with a kind stranger where he is bound to a tree, raped and murdered; and only one warped in the wisdom gained in tragedy finds himself... ... is the symbol of Canada?" "Snowmen," said Nawin as he chuckled, "and Canadian dollars." He was enjoying the conversation. "What are they: ... ... of course in Montreal." "Why don't they have kings now?" "Well, Canadians do have the British monarchy. Canada is a commonwealth." He... ... bottles for prizes. They continued doing this until the infancy of night murdered the sun allowing it to slowly die, languishingly sliding off golde... ...d (even Sanam Luang in Bangkok) there was little chance of being robbed or murdered. He realized that he wasn't really worried on that score. He ... ... They flowed in tight brushstrokes of an earthy tone. They were of French-Canadian mannequins performing their perfunctory duties of marriage. A sum...

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...ted especially for him. He was born and raised there. He knows no other place. The people around him – unbeknownst to him – are all actors. His lif... ...efine him and infuse his life with meaning. Caught in a narrative, the movie says, people act immorally. (IN)famous psychological experiments supp... ... walks out on the whole project. He destroys an investment of billions of dollars, people's lives and careers. He turns his back on some of the act... ...ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional... ...s not present because he does not remember Dan and how it is to be Dan. He may have murdered Jake - but, by all philosophical and ethical criteria, ... ...th, the USA believes that it should be immune to the consequences of its misconduct abroad. Hence its shock when al-Qaida brought the blazing messa... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ...sn‘t. Why stop a physician-assisted suicide when the patient is not being ―murdered‖ because she wants to die?‖ --―Well Con, remember when ... ...ges than the rural areas. Atheists and agnostics make up 20 to 30% of the Canadian population. ―When we look at scientific studies of any... ...nda, the rapist served several years after his retrial only to be himself murdered some years later. So often we place individual desires, or rights,... ... higher retirement age. The Norwegian government has invested its profits abroad so that when the oil and gas in the North Sea are exhausted there w... ...r mothers seeking abortions and doctors performing them may be hassled or murdered. SEMANTICS ―The same word or paragraph doesn‘t always hav... ...ups. It put the net cost to California residents at $433 per European and Canadian immigrant household, $1,240 per Asian immigrant household and $8,1...

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...drek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presen... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ...ook at other races, tribes etc. as enemies: They were all killed, butchered, murdered, and enslaved. Their cultures were stolen from them, their c... ... overcome their killers. Instead: they just stood there and let themselves be murdered because they were so stupid, so cowardly, so craven, so lacki... ...arger groups: just to protect ourselves from being killed, robbed, raped, and murdered. Making better tools, more specialized tools, creating mo... ...that whatever is glorified: is a complete reversal of the actual truth. The Canadian Anthem glorifies Canadians as standing on guard. Guarding the... ... to be ‘strong and free’. That is a complete reversal of the actual truth. Canadians are not free. They are weakest of slaves to the American ca...

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..."For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to... ...1. A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily co... ...pace the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an e... ...mented. In Northwestern Macedonia, an adolescent girl was raped by 50 soldiers and murdered afterwards. In another village, they cut a girl's arm t... ...lieved that the salvation of such an entity - both demographic and financial - lies abroad, with the diaspora and benevolent foreign powers. A third... ...uisling ruler of Vardar Macedonia). It was an IMRO man ("Vlado the Chauffeur") who murdered King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934. All this period... ... All this period, the IMRO continued to pursue its original agenda. IMRO terrorists murdered staff and pupils in Yugoslav schools in Vardar Macedoni... ...of declining commodity prices, Kosovo relied on transfers from Yugoslavia and from abroad for more than 90% of its income. Inevitably, unemployment... ...es – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General M...

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...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ... eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same... ...or a Peeping Tom." Thus, America's foreign policy - i.e., its presence and actions abroad - is, by far, its foremost vulnerability. According to th... ...nghi sexually molested, forcibly sodomized ("indecent acts with a child") and then murdered an 11-years old girl in the basement of her drab buildi... ...led by the hardliner Khalq communist Hafizullah Amin. In 1979, the Soviet Spetsnaz murdered Amin and replaced him with the Parcham follower Babrak ... ...or of Political Friends, an independent Russian think-tank, in an interview in the Canadian daily, National Post. These are not trivial concerns. R... ... really "just a farce" and its members mostly "petty despots" as Conrad Black, The Canadian media mogul, has it in recent interviews? Or, paradoxic... ...ddle Eastern petrochemicals sector is reliant on the kindness of strangers: Indian, Canadian, South Korean and, lately, Chinese. Singapore and Malay...

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...oximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematically. The... ...ize their preferences. Altruism can be such a preference, as well. Still, many people are non-rational or only nearly rational in certain situa... ...ndbook of Experimental Economics", by John Hagel and Alvin Roth (eds.) admits that people do not behave in accordance with the predictions of basic... ...t on by - as Cato Institute's Daniel Griswold summarizes it - "high trade barriers abroad, predatory import pricing, declining competitiveness of c... ...a long time, America's savings rate turned negative. Americans borrowed at home and abroad to embark on a fervid shopping spree. Even worse, the pa... ... Irian, 2001 Heyne, Paul and Palmer, John P. - The Economic Way of Thinking - 1st Canadian edition - Scarborough, Ontario, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1... ... members to forcibly board whaling ships. In the USA, anti-abortion activists have murdered doctors. In Britain, animal rights zealots have both as... ...ng to the Ernst & Young 2002 Alberta Technology Report released in March 2003, the Canadian hi-tech sector is languishing with less than $3 billion... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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... be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions); • Requires excessive admiration, adulation, att... ... (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy. Prevalen... ...ne after a while. Living in the same country or apartment, meeting the same people, doing essentially the same things (though with changing content... ...leadership which yields political stability; prosperity; security; prestige abroad; authority at home; a renewed sense of nationalism, collective an... ...ptimal conditions, with all hindrances (read: undesirables) removed (read: murdered). All four ideologies subvert modernity (in other words, Progre... ...e: Alexander later ordered him assassinated and his son executed. He also murdered anyone who had anything to do with the two. When he tried to im... ...ccounts of his drunken and violent reveries remain, in which he habitually murdered people and tore down cultural treasures (such as the palace of ... ...ice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of...

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...he evil eye, Mr. Brewster?” “There are those who are born able to put spells on people, even strong people like you are, Miss Laura Kate.” S... ...des, wasn’t being eccentric de rigueur in the South? Her impoverished side of what people called ’the blue-blooded O’Connells‘ was right up there w... ...fore we’ll tell the whole goddamned world we’re in love. I can’t wait because won’t people in this shitty town be surprised at who I snagged after a... ...but even he can spot an appeal probability. You go to trial, you’re partner’s been murdered, you’re under suspicion, how can you do a good job?” M... ... his jaw to the other. “People don’t lie to you?” “You’re telling me Royce was murdered, aren’t you?” He grunted and walked sideways dow... ...er.” “What’s she told you about Royce’s murder?” “How are you so sure he was murdered?” “That’s what Mather says. So what’s this with Ha... ... ready-made cocktails on a tray — a gin and tonic for Johnnie, Glenfiddich for her, Canadian and Coca-Cola with lime for Clay. The three sipped as ... ... Hong Kong.” Sammie’s laugh was ironic. “I’m very helpful when it comes to going abroad.” “I loved the fabulous Yingqing ewer from the Song Dynas... ...rday.” “I didn’t know you knew Mama very much.” “I didn’t because I’ve lived abroad for years. But in this community we help each other in ti...

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...as been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really do exist....

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...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...wn, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the wharf, gazing with a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the f... ...risoners. A spot was shown me in the sleep ing ward, where a watchman was murdered some years since in the dead of night, in a desperate attempt to e... ...our heads, the door closes on him, and is fastened as before. This man has murdered his wife, and will probably be hanged. ‘How long has he been here?... ... feature in the case was, that if the unfortunate deceased were not really murdered by this own son of his, he must have been murdered by his own brot... ...ch the changing rain bows made! I never stirred in all that time from the Canadian side, whither I had gone at first. I never crossed the river again... ... secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in... ... height and water, which lies stretched out before the view, with miles of Canadian villages, glancing in long white streaks, like veins along the lan...

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...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...ld is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of... ...s this dusty space there was carried the head of the upstart Maximinus who murdered Alexander Severus, and later Aquileia brought Attila near to despa... ...ddle. “You will find it more comfortable to sit down.” But anxious as I am abroad not to discredit my country by unseemly exhibitions I felt unequal t... ...s railway station gave me all the sensations of coming suddenly on a newly murdered body. Before I visited the recaptured villages in the zone of the ... ...in British military circles because he had “had no military train- ing”? A Canadian expressed the new view very neatly on be- ing asked, in consequenc... ...e publication of any pictures or descriptions of these contrivances except abroad; then abruptly the embargo was relaxed, and the press was flooded wi... ... hampered production of other things, and in increas- ing inability to buy abroad. And so we go down and down. It does not follow that because a cours...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...ow and show off to an attentive world. Rumours of his real identity spread abroad. It was said that he had been the landlord of an ambiguous hotel in ... ...before nine o’clock, there was already a great multitude of holiday people abroad upon the roads. There were quantities of young men and women on bicy... ... was our Mos- cow or not remains to be seen. We’ve had a high old time and murdered no end of people! War! Noble war! I’m sick of it this morning. I l... ...irectly Great Britain and France declare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and m... ...rge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sen... ...the wounded one by one into the nearest of the large hotels that faced the Canadian shore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two traine...

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...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...t always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so i... ...hich supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward bound boat had its flag flying at th... ...t was the mistake of my life that I did not do it. It was bitter now to look abroad over this domed and steepled metropolis, this solid expanse of bri... ...ippi. Even if it was established that they had stolen a negro, before he was murdered, they were always prepared to evade punishment; for they conceal... ...n myself from going on my knees and begging him to point out the man who had murdered my wife and child; but I managed to bridle my tongue. I bided my... ... but it is no matter—it does not always bring help. When you and your cousin murdered a helpless woman and child in a cabin in Arkansas—my wife, it wa... ...ch St. Paul now occupies, in June 1837. Yes, at that date, Pierre Parrant, a Canadian, built the first cabin, uncorked his jug, and began to sell whis...

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...ll alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigine... ...that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects. The writer r... ...fferent account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people. He is much addicted to over- estimating his own perfections, and to... ...hat neither was destined to retain. The imbecility of her military leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered t... ...ot have my confidence, and least of all at this moment. He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you k... ...eached the portage at all, a thing by no means probable, as our scouts are abroad, they will surely be found skirting the column, where scalps abound ... ...their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Canadian savages should be lurking so * In the state of Rhode Island there ... ...es? Where is ‘Le Gros Serpent’?” Duncan, who perceived by the use of these Canadian ap- pellations, that his late companions were much better known to... ...like a frightened fawn, to the wood; none who could fly would remain to be murdered. Let us search for the marks she left; for, to Indian eyes, I some...

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...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...ling with a question of pure speculative curiosity: so little suspicion is abroad of that real question which lies below. Essenism means simply this— ... ...fields. The awful stillness oftentimes of summer noons, when no winds were abroad, the appealing silence of gray or misty afternoons,—these were fasci... ...s. In my father’s case, this arose from the accident of his hav- ing lived abroad for a space that, measured against my life, was a very long one. Fir... ...ice in the art of contending with the rapids of the St. Lawrence and other Canadian streams. However, as the danger had been considerable, he was pro-... ...g, perhaps, too entirely upon the protection of perfect solitude) had been murdered in pure wantonness by some of the lawless rovers who frequented th...

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...rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s going for a song— you ought to buy it.” It ... ...the shivering greyhound. It was more as if they had lived a long time with people who never spoke to them or looked at them: as though the silence of ... ...hese rumours are not par- ticularly relevant, and it is certain that among people of his own class in the neighbourhood he passed for a stern and 12 ... ...ery, and probably caused his death. But how did he come there, and who had murdered him? His wife declared that she had been asleep in her bed, and he... ...om his row of dozing colleagues): “Then you would have us believe that you murdered your husband because he would not let you keep a pet dog?” “I did ... ...hat night she could not sleep. The weather had changed and a wild wind was abroad, blotting the stars with close- driven clouds. Mrs. Manstey rose onc... ...rried Mrs. Manstey to the window and placed her in her chair. The dawn was abroad, a jubilant spring dawn; the spire had already caught a golden ray, ... ...another day—displaced his fleeting vision. “I haven’t a theory. I know who murdered Joseph Lenman.” Ascham settled himself comfortably in his chair, p... ...turn to the primitive emotions might be as restorative as a holiday in the Canadian woods. And it was precisely by the girl’s candor, her direct- ness...

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...hought the subject of too delicate a nature to be made common; and as many people might then indiscriminately use it, it would take from that neces- s... ...rnishing a key to some parts of that tremendous scen- ery which afterwards peopled the dreams of the Opium-eater. 3. As creating some previous interes... ...e year, it seems to differ from perfect day chiefly because man is not yet abroad; and thus the peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of God s... ...r may have remarked, but I have often remarked, that the proudest class of people in England (or at any rate the class whose pride is most ap- parent)... ...unslow Heath. I think I cannot be mistaken when I say that the name of the murdered person was Steele, and that he was the owner of a lavender plantat... ...ally occurred to me that I and the accused murderer, if he were that night abroad, might at every instant be unconsciously approaching each other thro... ... even to gentlemen, if I am no to have the article good of its kind? No, a Canadian winter for my money, or a Rus- sian one, where every man is but a ... ...ay on which they cel- ebrate the first fruits of resurrection. I will walk abroad; old griefs shall be forgotten to-day; for the air is cool and still...

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...nce from the ground. The reader is to anticipate none of the appliances of people of condition in the description of the personal appearances of the g... ...ld, there is more or less ocean all round the land; that’s what I tell the people ashore, youngster. They are living, as it might be, in the midst of ... ...ve very sufficient as substitutes. Leaving these two unsophisticated young people to become acquainted through their feelings, rather than their expre... ...nd the place where he believed them to have taken refuge below. Should the Canadian Indians return on their own trail, and discover that made by the P... ... no betrayal from that quarter; but he was quite aware, should it ever get abroad that he had been refused by the child of a non-commissioned officer,... ...eir language, as a matter of course, and got his name from the Indians and Canadians, who are fond of calling men by their qualities, as it might be.”... ... Sandy?” she cried, pulling at the 304 The Pathfinder arm. “Y e’ll all be murdered by these accursed Indians, and you no’ takin’ to the block like tr... ...s is not yourself. I cannot, will not believe that you wish to see our men murdered!” June turned her dark eyes quietly on Mabel; and for a mo- ment h... ...out sarving any one. We must return to the block.” “Father! my poor, dear, murdered father!” said the girl wildly, though habitual caution, even at th...

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...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...ionately mentioned, had been failing for some time. He had taken a journey abroad, with one of his daughters, in hopes of refreshment and invigora- ti... ... 93 Yo n g e Coleridge Patteson devoted himself to the more remote fields abroad? I think we shall find that his judgment was right. Alfington might ... ...the chief Malope himself fell into the hands of some Spanish soldiers, who murdered him. Mendana punished them with death; but his own health was fast... ...ey, for several years a most valuable helper in the work, both at home and abroad, 179 Yo n g e gives the following account of his own share in it, a... ...ith a mo- notonous, not unpleasing refrain, reminded us of some old French Canadian ditties. I remember well the excitement when the Bishop sent up a ...

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... in Chicago; “but,” he always added, “I couldn’t help that, you know.” His people had come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father... ...lored globe of the little brass chandelier. The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. A gold-and-... ...ck Carter and his dirty sto- ries; I simply don’t want to know the kind of people who have made Jack Carter possible. The other girls don’t mind it, n... ...no matter for conscience in the smuggling 96 Blix of Chinamen across the, Canadian border at thirty dollars a head—a venture in which he had had the ... ...d a crew of Chinamen shark-fish- ing in Magdalena Bay, and had been nearly murdered by his men; had been a deep-sea diver, and had burst his ear-drums... ...led “The Exiles,” made up chiefly of “younger sons” of English and British-Canadian families, every mem- ber possessed of a “past” more or less disrep... ...ever hear about or read about Heidelberg University?” But K. D. B. was all abroad now. Gibraltar and Heidel- berg were unknown subjects to her, as wer...

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...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ..., Fenellan, all-stocks, shares, mines, companies, indus- tries at home and—abroad—all, at a sweep, to have the woman strike that blow! Cheerfully woul... ...ord makes nonsense of it. Could—I must ask you—could any sane man—you were abroad in those days, horrible days! and never met her: I say, could you co... ...artly explained the successful, as- tonishing career of his friend among a people making ur- gent, if unequal, demands perpetually upon stomach and he... ...ent.’ ‘Y ou may compare it to a rustic’s finger on a fiddlestring, for the murdered notes you get out of the practical instrument. ‘I am bound to defe... ...r hints. He chose to call it feminine inconsistency, in a woman who walked abroad with a basket of marriage-ties for the market on her arm. He knew th... ...n, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places. There was no fluting. A famous Canadian lady was the principal singer. A Galician 340 One of Our Conquero...

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...ye) of five or six inches; at times only one individual plant appears frightened at a time. We tried how long it took one to recover; ’tis a sanguine ... ... tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Apia. There was a vast mass... ...a gap in the hedge, was kicked at by a chestnut mare, who straightway took to the bush; and came back. A little after, they had found another gap, and... ...age-long talk about Edinburgh folk; it was very pleasant. He has been studying in Edinburgh, along with his son; a pretty relation. He told me he knew... ... been riding up of late on moon- less nights. Jack is a bit of a dandy; he loves to misbehave in a gallant manner, above all on Apia Street, and when... ...self by a wild-cocoanut—(so called, it bears bunches of scarlet nut- lets)—which grew upon the brink. As I so swung, I re- ceived a crack on the head ... ... The covered cart. XIII. The doctor. XIV. The Luddites. XV . Set a thief to catch a thief. XXVI. M. le Comte de Keroualle (his uncle, the rich EM... ...e; I have been as jolly as a sand-boy as usual at sea. The Amanuensis sits opposite to me writing to her off- spring. Fanny is on deck. I have just su... ...for the ninth time perhaps— and that was no easy matter either, for I had a crick in my neck so agonising that I had to sleep sitting up—I heard noise...

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...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to... ...inter or writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you wer... ...head. He worked his revolver out of the pocket in his sleeve, and casually murdered her. At that moment in Zenith, two men sat in a laboratory. For th... ...he way I figure it out, there must be a good many of our own sort of folks abroad. Indeed, one of the most enthusiastic Rotarians I ever met boosted t... ...ent hotel with a private garden), but if one was a Bad Man, that is, if he murdered or committed burglary or used cocaine or had mistresses or sold no... ...was to be followed by the annual election of officers. There was agitation abroad. The lunch was held in the ballroom of the O’Hearn House. As each of... ...e never lets folks know the kind of an outfit he travels with when he goes abroad. Well, during the strike Clarence Drum comes pee-rading up to our ta...

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............................................................... 181 A CERTAIN PEOPLE ....................................................................... ... ark of human fate, Long baffled by the wayward wind, Is drifting with its peopled freight, Safe haven on the heights to find; 23 Safe haven from the... ...the Heavens, to speak the word, The fathoms of the deep to sound, And send abroad the missioned bird, On strengthened wing for evermore, Let Science, ... ...rnity; – A marbled City planted there With all its pageants and despair; A peopled hush, a Death not dead, But stricken with Medusa’s head; – And in t... ...he upper foliage sounds A symphony of distant seas. The voice of nature is abroad This night; she fills the air with balm; Her mystery is o’er the lan... ...mn shape of night, And broods above the earth. A thing of Nature am I now, Abroad, without a sense or feeling Born not of her bosom; Content with all ... ...ferers reciprocate, The one sings for its woodland life, The other for its murdered mate. But deeper doth the secret prove, Uniting those sad creature... ...nister, in one Session, Juggles more games than my sins ‘ll count. VI I’ve murdered insects with mock thunder: Conscience, for that, in men don’t quai... ...ruth once scored on Britain’s breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, T o tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust be on the bes...

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...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ... at any rate, since the harpoon stands yonder, and he seldom or never goes abroad without it, therefore he must be inside here, and no possible mistak... ...hip’s company; but Archy’s fancied discovery having some time previous got abroad among them, though indeed not credited then, this had in some small ... ...t is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Per- sian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the crea- tures which itself hath spaw... ...rom the consideration before mentioned: i.e. that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt th... ...sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man that ever murdered an ox was re- garded as a murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if he... ...ast they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunt- ers and trappers of the West, when the far west (...

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...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ... at any rate, since the harpoon stands yonder, and he seldom or never goes abroad without it, therefore he must be inside here, and no possible mistak... ...hip’s company; but Archy’s fancied discovery having some time previous got abroad among them, though indeed not credited then, this had in some small ... ...ut it is also a fiend to its own offspring; worse than the Persian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawne... ...rom the consideration before mentioned: i.e. that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt th... ... sea, and eat it too by its own light. But no doubt the first man that ever murdered an ox was regarded as a murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if he h... ...last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in...

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... see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fiel... ...h, would you like to go to them?” I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, ... ... was synonymous with degradation. “No; I should not like to belong to poor people,” was my reply. “Not even if they were kind to you?” I shook my head... ... the age was tending! Still, I like Charles—I respect him—I pity him, poor murdered king! Yes, his enemies were the worst: they shed blood they had no... ... gentler breathings of April; the nights and morn- ings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure... ...eturn to the house,” I thought; “I cannot sit by the fireside, while he is abroad in inclement weather: better tire my limbs than strain my heart; I w... ...seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at ... ... to you the absurdity of a single woman of your age proposing to accompany abroad a single man of mine. I proved it to you in such terms as, I should ...

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...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ...nities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the perspective and skills needed to understand a different ... .../04 9:12 AM Page 63 of potential trouble at home but potentially useful abroad.Those who joined the Taliban movement, espousing a ruthless version ... ...ontacts while tracking down Mir Amal Kansi, the Pakistani gun- man who had murdered two CIA employees in January 1993.These contacts contributed to in... ...ria, Ressam presented officials with his genuine but fraudulently obtained Canadian passport, from which he had torn the Afghanistan entry and exit st... ...nt broker for Islamist terrorists. 22 Ressam eventually obtained a genuine Canadian passport through a document vendor who stole a blank baptismal cer... ...tificate from a Catholic church.With this document he was able to obtain a Canadian passport under the name of Benni Antoine Noris.This enabled him to...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...table enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that made it possible we can only claim so much as is due to... ...y claim so much as is due to the improvement of the bicycle. Gliding began abroad while our young men of muscle and courage were braving the dangers o... ...ve some regard for education and some freedom of imagi- native play, where people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for scien... ...le invited to pay taxes, and beyond measure bitter. They are going to live abroad, cut their charities, dismiss old ser- vants, and do all sorts of si... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ...father its public representative, and though the law might intervene if he murdered or ill-used wife or children, or they him, it would do so in just ... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t...

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...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ...your Putois to come and see me.” And there- upon Putois is born; he stalks abroad, invisible, upon his career of vagabondage and crime, stealing mel- ... ...ollies in the eyes of the world we may have perpe- trated, we have neither murdered our enemies nor acted treacherously against them, nor yet have bee... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people...

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...rs in the very name of the white man’s canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian V oyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe a... ...and woodshed, not homesteads, even Indian homesteads, but instead of home or abroad steads, for their life is domi aut militiæ, at home or at war, or ... ...trim looking building, but that is not Abenaki, that was Rome’s doings. Good Canadian it may be, but it is poor Indian. These were once a powerful tri... ...rprising neighbors that he did n’t know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity ... ... among the parents, than which nothing can be more acceptable to a backwoods people. It was really an important item in our outfit, and, at times, the ... ...a practised eye could distinguish a safe course, or tell what was deep 3 The Canadians call it picquer de fond. Ktaadn 19 water and what rocks, frequ... ... come down to drink, or else a wolf. The little rill tinkled the louder, and peopled all the wilderness for me; and the glassy smooth ness of the sle... ...e most startling and unimagined phenomena witnessed by “his folks,” they are abroad at all hours and seasons in scenes so unfrequented by white men. N... ...not cut it down. What right have you to celebrate the virtues of the man you murdered? The Anglo American can indeed cut down, and grub up all this wa...

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...makes me feel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always read other people’s. Listen to poor Sarah’s tale of guilt. ‘1st October. I am very sor... ...at her daughter had taken the hint. “You had better go and wash your face. People may call, and I presume you don’t wish to receive them in that pligh... ...eps a re- cording angel inside her little head, and it is so full of other people’s faults, written in large hand and read through a magnifying glass,... ...Jane, hurrying on. “It’s just the sort of place that people get robbed and murdered in.” “It is not such a bad place to shelter in if we get caught in... ...ointment. “Don’t lose heart, ladies,” said Smilash. “She may be drowned or murdered for all we know. Anyone may send a telegram in a false name. Perha... ...h the bolts. T wo of the servants exclaimed that they were all about to be murdered in their beds, and ran away. A few of the students seemed inclined... ...nce was welcome, and Miss Ward allowed him to put on her skates. She was a Canadian, and could skate well. Jane, the first to follow her, was anxious ... ...nscanadian Railway Company, having got a great deal of spare land from the Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle ... ...nd be told that their own exorbitant demand for wages is driv- ing capital abroad, and must continue to do so whilst there is a Chinaman or a Hindoo u...

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...r and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when... ...ngers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams oh, so high, — te... ...tside next year, — her and I, — but it ’s too late. Don’t send her back to her people, Kid. It ’s beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! — ... ...ot good for her to have tried our ways, to come to know they ’re better ’n her people’s, and then return to them. Take care of her, Kid, — why don’t y... ...nderer, and I learned that he was a hunter of seals, and that even then he was abroad on the ocean. “So I shipped on a seal schooner with the lazy Siw... ...s that had perished at his hand. They had been whites, all of them, these poor murdered people, and they had been slain singly, in pairs, and in parti... ...w that in that direction the Arctic Cir cle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Cop... ...from Lake The Wit of Porportuk 215 Le Barge, and, beyond, a half dozen French Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves. From afar came the faint cri... ... passage, he was prompted to warn them. But his gaze fell upon the body of the murdered maid, and he kept silent. When six had ventured on the knife e...

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...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...derness for animals; he carried a book with him in his pocket when he went abroad, and wore out in this service two copies of the Man of Feeling. With... ...ng the works of Whitman as in lending them Shakespeare, or letting them go abroad outside of the grounds of a private asylum. 84 Robert Louis Stevens... ... man for any genuine quali- ties, as we see by his admirable sketch of the Canadian wood- cutter in Walden; but he would not consent, in his own words... ...ar to that of Shakspeare’s Hamlet. The times were out of joint; here was a murdered father to avenge on a powerful murderer; and here, in both cases, ... ...s not the man to avenge his father. Like Hamlet, this son of a dear father murdered was sincerely grieved at heart. Like Hamlet, too, he could un- pac... ... high thoughts came to Charles only in a flash. John the Fearless had been murdered in his turn on the bridge of Montereau so far back as 1419. His so...

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... till long after. Bertram was starting out on a sporting expedition with a Canadian gentleman, when about ten miles from Montreal they halted at a far... ...and blunt—but very kindly and friendly, was at work there with some French-Canadian labourers. Bertram’s friend knew him and often halted there on hun... ... seems that her name was Faith Le Blanc; she was half English, half French-Canadian, and lived in a village in a very unsettled part, where Captain Tr... ... way, make him think the most sensible thing in the world. What odd things people can do who have lived together like brothers and sisters! I can hard... ... sweetness and grace, and Mrs. Deerhurst had gone on very well. Of course, people were 13 Lady Hester unkind enough to say, it was only because she h... ...o the title and estate, and, next after him, stood Hester Lea and her son. People said she was like the family; I never could see it, and always thoug... ...orse, and they were in danger of having to let Spinney Lawn and go to live abroad. As to keeping Trevor at Eton that was becoming impos- sible. At Chr... ...y child— my dear, noble, beautiful, only one! He made him miser- able, and murdered him at last!” She gave another passionate kiss to the cheeks, and ...

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...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...ing persons whose states of mind we regard as overstrained. But when other people criticize our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them ‘nothing... ...like immense wings. “No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love; and I do not know but I... ...ly quaint and candid ac- count of the trials he underwent both at home and abroad, in following Fox’s canons of sincerity. The anecdotes are too lengt... ... began to ferment within him seriously. “I fasted much,” Fox says, “walked abroad in soli- tary places many days, and often took my Bible, and sat in ... ...lity, and of the deep impression which they make on those who have them. A Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. R. M. Bucke, gives to the more distinctly charac... ...retreat of it prevented by the arrow transfixed. Similarly hath not many a murdered carcase at the coroner’s inquest suffered a 480 The V arieties of...

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...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th... ...ed from the house of her mother, a native. There were some singular rumors abroad regarding this latter lady’s history: it was reported that she was t... ... idea of our regimental breeches), who before had been gadding ceaselessly abroad, and poking her broad nose into every menage in the cantonment, stop... ...rmer, according to the usage of the good old times, having been hung up or murdered to a man, and the latter killed in the manner de- scribed by the l... ...end to the royal hero—and that from that 29th of March he never robbed nor murdered any more. And we have legends in recondite books of the manner of ... ...the monarch exasperated his subjects in a variety of ways,— that before he murdered his royal nephew, Prince Arthur, there was a great question whethe...

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... of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and ... ...early days with Beechcroft, Stoneborough, and V ale Leston, when they were peopled with the outcome of a youthful mind, and that they may be ready to ... ...yellow dust.” “I don’t want to worry her, but there never were such groovy people as you are! I shall think it over, and make up my mind by the time I... ... kind uncle to her little charge, and who introduced her to all at home or abroad that was refined, intellectual, or beautiful. It was in the first su... ...ch, and then, though it does seem absurd to think that singing through the murdered T empest should be aiding the cause of the Church, yet anything to... ...e every worry tells on him in this manner. You must, if possible, take him abroad for the win- ter, before he begins to think about it.” “He has leave... ... simplified by Miss Mohun, who, hearing that Clement’s doctors ordered him abroad for the winter, came to the rescue, saying that she should miss Ferg... ...is house, where his wife was equally kind. He fetched the priest, a French Canadian, and the doctor, and Lida has been watching over her most tenderly...

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...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...now enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe... ...ative. You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house lord dogging you for rent. Many a ma... ...ver read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wreck... ...he says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he... ...advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here, — a Canadian, a wood chopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day... ...uld greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him h...

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...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...nough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe w... ...ive. You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad with out any landlord or house lord dogging you for rent. Many a ma... ...r read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked... ... says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he c... ...vantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amuse ment, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here a Canadian, a woodchopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, ... ...d greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he ...