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...Contents: I. PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE - ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A...

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...IC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. ... ...ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. ... ... began to be observed that Mr. Nicho las Tulrumble attended the corporation meetings more fre quently than heretofore; and he no longer went to slee... ...Lord Mayor too, and have patronized the judges, and been affable to the Lord Chancellor, and friendly with the Premier, and coldly condescending to th... ...ng on the table before me, and Professor Grime has won. Tossing is a game of chance; but on every ground, whether of public or private character, inte... ...he other lions are compelled to go through as many forms of courtesy as they chance to be acquainted with, just as often as admiring parties happen to... ...romises of interceding to procure the majestic brute’s sign manual for their albums. Then, there were little private consultations in different corner...

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... you. It is the business of a court in London, that is called the Court of Chancery, to provide that proper care is taken of young heirs and heiresses... ...ked at her finger again, and asked, “Then am I to live up in this Court of Chances?” “Not exactly,” said Mr. Wardour. “Your two aunts in Lon- don, Lad... ...re and angry, she never, except once or twice when the word slipped out by chance, incurred the penalty, though she would have respected herself more ... ...on, whose shake was a real treat; the contact with anything young was like meeting a follow-countryman in a foreign land, though neither as yet spoke.... ...a constant ferment with the uncertain possibility, and the longing for the meetings. The advances came from them; Lady Barbara said very truly, that s... ...ashamed, and would not know which way to look. She said not one word about meeting them, and for the first day or two even begged to walk in the squar... ...th her own performance, and thought it quite worthy of a little ornamental album, where she could write out the verses and gum in the drawings. “Pleas... ...d Kate began to lament. “If she could only have gone to the bazaar for her album! It was very hard!” “Eh,” Josephine said, “why should they not go? Th... ...ldered to do more than hurry along the passages, staring so wildly for her albums, that Josephine touched her, and said, “T enez, Miladi, they will th...

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...age- ment of this man or that, would do as much themselves if they had the chance, and are constant, as I am to my coat just now, because I have no ot... ...ne another that we are both of us in love with Miss Morgiana, and that our chances up to this time have been pretty equal. But that Captain whom you i... ...now, Woolsey, let us ‘ave a glass of curacoa to celebrate this hauspicious meeting.” The tailor, however, stiffly replied that he never drank in a mor... ... repartee. He told his stories about his club and his lordly friends. What chance had either against the all- accomplished Howard Walker? Old Crump, w... ...dified by the friendly tone adopted between them. Mr. Snaffle, at the club meeting, made the very same pro- posal to Mr. Woolsey that the perfumer had... ...neys” was compelled to vacate his armchair. Woolsey himself attended every meeting regularly, but he did not evince that gaiety and good-humour which ... ...e among the old-fashioned in the country), the bushels of pincushions, the albums they labo- riously fill, the tremendous pieces of music they practis... ... Berry. It was, “Mr. Butts, have you finished that drawing for Lady Pash’s album?” and Butts produced it; and, “Did you match the silk for me at Delil... ...on, nor a Jack-of-all-trades; you make him paint pictures for your women’s albums, and look after your upholsterer, and your canary-bird, and your mil...

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...“If a reformed rake makes a good husband, sure it’s she will have the fine chance with Garge,” Mrs. O’Dowd remarked to Posky, who had lost her positio... ... those days when he visited the 0sborne house, seldom had the advantage of meeting his old friend, much painful and unavailing talk between them was s... ...hings but these in his rapid walk to his quarters—his past life and future chances—the fate which might be before him—the wife, the child perhaps, fro... ...asure! What tremendous hazards of loss or gain! What were all the games of chance he had ever played compared to this one? Into all contests requiring... ...hey were, were complimentary—the groans of a person stinging under defeat. Meeting Mrs. O’Dowd, whom the Dean’s sermons had by no means com- forted, a... ...ed apartments in this hotel; and had before this period had sundry hostile meetings with the ladies of the Bareacres family. My Lady Bareacres cut Mrs... ...” And so he went on riding with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and play- ing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with t...

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...NHERITANCE ANCE ANCE ANCE ANCE ONE OF THE CHILDREN brought me a photograph album, long ago finished and closed, and showed me a faded and blurred figu... ... of State, backed by persons from our own neighbourhood, would be the best chance, and on this he consulted Mr. Prosser, but without meeting much symp... ...ould be the best chance, and on this he consulted Mr. Prosser, but without meeting much sympa- thy. Mr. Prosser said many people’s minds had changed w... ...st all the world.” “And if they be worthy, Lucy, your doing so is the best chance of their weathering the storm. See! is not that one of them? The gra... ...d again been told that some influential person must push it to give it any chance. Mr. Prosser’s acquaintance lay in no such line; or, at least, were ... ...dshire man came, and the former workmen looked very bitter on him. After a meeting, in which the minority made many vehement objections, Eustace addre... ...he effect was, that Harold summoned a special 67 Charlotte M. Yonge meeting of the shareholders, the same being nearly identical with the Direc...

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...coveries he might have made; while Dr. May declared that if by any strange chance he had come back at all, he would have been so rabid on improved nur... ...rintend the house, and Leonard continue at the school, where he had a fair chance of obtaining the Randall scholarship in the course of a year or two.... ...s for you, and forgets that other people ever want to eat. There will be a chance of making a housekeeper of her now.’ How selfish, thought Averil, to... ... assertion of independence; and to Averil it was something like a midnight meeting of perse- cuted Christians—to Leonard it was ‘great fun.’ That even... ...ush up to the station en masse to excite and over- whelm, but to leave the meeting there entirely to himself and his brougham. He had, therefore, been... ...ose wonder- ful fingers of his. Richard and Ethel were arranging the ‘sick albums’ which they had constructed—one of cheap religious prints, with text... ...ssue with the captain’s Southdown practice, and the experiences of the one meeting the techni- calities of the other were so diverting, that Leonard f... ... in mathematical drawing, in illumination, said Tom, looking across to the album in which Mrs. Pugh’s collection was en- shrined, each device appropri...

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...rave-eyed girl, she had seldom misplaced her light strokes; and Darrow, on meeting her again, had immediately felt how much finer and surer an instrum... ... by repetition. This fact immensely increased Darrow’s impression that his meeting with her had annihilated the intervening years. She, who was always... ...he had entrusted something precious to keep. It was her happiness in their meeting that she had given him, had frankly left him to do with as he wille... ...val in England of her husband’s mother, she left without giving Darrow the chance he had counted on, and he cursed himself for a dilatory blun- derer.... ...mpartment as the train was moving from the station. Y es, he had given her chance enough to learn where he lived; and this minor proof of her indiffer... ...for stability; besides which—she threw it off with a slight laugh—no other chance, in all these years, had happened to come to her. She had brushed in... ...k, a locket on her tuck- ered bosom, toward the end of an embossed morocco album beginning with The Beauties of the Second Empire. She received her da...

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.... In- stead of a frank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in the... ...ls United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard to make impotent gestures... ...d at, but that these secrets were Power. Hitherto Power had come to men by chance, but now there were these seekers seeking, seeking among rare and cu... ...effect of various gases and varying temperature upon their light. Then the chance present of a little scientific toy invented by Sir William Crookes, ... ...uffiness behind and below them. There was a band still, a women’s suffrage meeting— for the suffrage women had won their way back to the toler- ance, ... ...ind. For a time the face of the world festered with patent legislation. It chanced, however, to have one oddly dramatic feature in the fact that Holst... ...nd nonagenarians and all that sort of thing. Incredibly. They used to keep albums of cuttings from all the illustrated papers showing them at it, and ...

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...ou can go and bury yourself at Chinon? I, thank God, am only thirty- nine. Chance opens to me a fine career; I enter upon it. If I conduct myself prud... ...made this discovery just as I made that of the Double Paste of Sultans,—by chance. The first time by opening a book; this time by looking at an engrav... ...stoms of retail shop- keepers, this sketch will also show by what singular chances Cesar Birotteau became deputy-mayor and perfumer, retired officer o... ...t to give to pleasure. In such a life wants become imperious, and a chance meeting with a beautiful young woman, of whom a libertine clerk would scarc... ...into bankruptcy. Cesar then stopped all proceedings, never appeared at any meeting of creditors, and held on to his securities. He adopted this system... ...id Delphine de Nucingen. “I dote on him; he makes delicious drawings in my album.” No culprit enduring the torments of hell in V enetian dun- geons ev... ... his eye beaming with confidence, now, unstrung by perplexity, shrank from meeting Claparon; he began to realize that a banker’s heart is mere viscera...

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... see even in a grotesque vignette like that of Fomishka and Fimishka, or a chance picture like that of the Irish girl once seen by Solomin in London. ... ...danov with an amiable smile and began: “I have already had the pleasure of meeting you and even speaking to you, Mr. Nejdanov, the day before yesterda... ...or two,” he went on, in an easy tone. “There is nothing I love better than meeting spring in the country, although I am a busy, prosaic sort of person... ...danov wandering aimlessly about the room and turning over the photographic albums, apparently without any interest, Sipiagin begged him not to be on c... ...ature, but for all that honest and full of strength. Moreover, the strange meeting in the wood, Mariana’s unexpected explana- tion … “V ery well!” Mar... ...ldn’t care a straw! She would not move a finger to save you, and if by any chance it should happen to be necessary or useful to her…then heaven have m... ...s”, “The World’s Mirror”, or “Amides”, or turned over the leaves of an old album, bound in red morocco, with gilt edges. This album had once belonged,... ...ld, And other interesting people. 112 Virgin Soil On the last page of the album, instead of verses, there were various recipes for remedies against s... ...because I’m necessary to him. I just looked in to say that I may not get a chance of seeing you again today. Dinner will be brought to you here, and p...

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...while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chanced to be open simultaneously, a sudden draught of air gushed in, damp,... ...man who had come with Landry Court managed to place himself next to Laura. Meeting her eyes, he murmured: “Ah, you did not wear them after all. My poo... ...d Laura out of the conversation, and the capitalist was quick to seize the chance of talking to her. Soon she was surprised to notice that he was tryi... ...e idea of finishing his studies in the High School in Grand Rapids, on the chance of going into business with a livery stable keeper. Then in time he ... ... listening with languid interest. Aunt Wess’ turned the leaves of a family album, counting the number of photographs of Mrs. Cressler which it contain... ...e up to it. He was here about five years ago, and I went to one of his big meetings, and then to all of them. And I met the fellow, too, and I tell yo... ... she added. “At dinner Mrs. Cressler said you had an impor- tant committee meeting—something to do with the Art Institute, the award of prizes; was th...

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... age to elicit a single satisfactory answer, or even a casual re- mark, or chance expression calculated to allay their curiosity, or throw the faintes... ...les. Dear Arthur! what did I not owe to you for this and every other happy meeting? Through him I was at once delivered from all for- mality, and terr... ...ks. I seldom attempted to see her above twice a week; and still I made our meetings appear the result of accident as often as I could—for I found it n... ... misanthropi- cally inclined, and, moreover, had a particular objection to meeting Jane Wilson or her mother; for though I had too good reason, now, t... ...our- selves. As for what he might choose to say hereafter, I would take my chance about it: if he told lies, I would contradict him; if he told the tr... ...ot speak, but flew to her desk, and snatch- ing thence what seemed a thick album or manuscript volume, hastily tore away a few leaves from the end, an... ... so obstinate and blind to my own interests, that there was no shadow of a chance that either he or my aunt would ever be able to overcome my objectio...

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...s him permitted on the part of her dead father, that her life might have a chance of ending that day? There has been a time since when I have wondered... ... greatly resembled in face and voice; and with very heavy eyebrows, nearly meeting over her large nose, as if, being dis- abled by the wrongs of her s... ...ard to which we drove, that I at once abandoned a latent hope I had had of meeting with some of Mr. Peggotty s fam- ily there, perhaps even with littl... ... to my appetite, I was left far behind at the first mouth- ful, and had no chance with him. I never saw anyone enjoy a pudding so much, I think; and h... ... she wrote to me the name of this here place, and wrote to me as if ever I chanced to come to Gravesen , I was to come over and in- quire for Mas r Da... ...him with transport, and held an har- 207 David Copperfield Vol. I monic meeting that evening in his honour; while Mrs. Micawber and I had a lamb s ... ...he must be all right. I give em away to the young ladies. They put em in albums, I believe. Ha! ha! ha! Upon my life, the whole social system (as ...

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...ave enough money to keep Helena, even if he managed to keep himself. Their meetings would then be occasional and clandestine. Ah, it was intolerable! ... ...ere was no movement perceptible. Vera entered, ostensibly for an autograph-album into which she was going to copy a draw- ing from the London Opinion,... ...red amid the five days by the sea, pulling forwards as far as the morrow’s meeting with Siegmund, but 146 The Trespasser reaching no further. Friday ... ...n, was humorous and amiable, yet extraordinarily learned. He never, by any chance, gave himself away, maintaining always an absolute reserve amid all ...

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...ke a dis- guised Columbine. The installation of the Duke of Wellington, as Chancel- lor of the University of Oxford, was nothing, in point of bustle a... ...d. He was a thorough radical, and used to attend a great variety of public meetings, for the express purpose of finding fault with everything that was... ... the affections of that young woman, Agnes, and that he is in the habit of meeting her in the store-room on the first floor, over the leads. From my b... ...d. Knowing that of course, under your care, she can have no opportunity of meeting this person, I do not object to—indeed, I should rather prefer—her ... ...celets, dispensing fancy articles in the shop, and presiding over games of chance in the concert-room. There were marriageable daughters, and marriage... ...ell known as the lion on the top of Northumberland House, and had an equal chance of ‘going off. ’ 86 Sketches by Boz ‘I am quite sure you’d like him... ... and graces. Miss Marianne would request the favour of some verses for her album. Mr. Malderton would patronise the great un- known by asking him to d... ...m presented a strange chaos of dress-gloves, boxing-gloves, carica- tures, albums, invitation-cards, foils, cricket-bats, card- board drawings, paste,... ...such lovely whis- kers: to say nothing of his talent for writing verses in albums and playing the flute!Roderigo simpered and bowed. ‘But I think, ’ a...

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...d a sinecure. Giglio would not learn classics or mathematics, and the Lord Chancellor of Paflagonia, Squaretoso, pulled a very long face because the P... ...curtains uncov- ered, the work and things carried away, and the handsomest albums on the tables. Angelica had her hair in papers: in a word, it was ev... ... his or her best clothes on: the footmen had their gala liveries; the Lord Chancellor his new wig; the Guards their last new tunics; and Countess Gruf... ...he would have nothing but her! To marry the heir to the throne! Here was a chance! The artful hussy actually got a sheet of paper, and wrote upon it, ... ...an’s castle to another; and they visited among them- selves again, and had meetings, and composed proclamations 46 The Rose and the Ring and counterp... ...nt him tea, and the turnkey’s daughter begged him to write his name in her album, where a many gentlemen had written it on like occasions! ‘Bother you... ...bum, where a many gentlemen had written it on like occasions! ‘Bother your album!’ says Bulbo. The Undertaker came and measured him for the handsomest...

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...ation To Monsieur le Comte Ferdinand de Gramont. My Dear Ferdinand,—If the chances of the world of litera- ture—habent sua fata libelli—should allow t... ...a certain paymaster-general of the forces has a claim on it, but he has no chance of getting it; you have the chance—and no claim. You will get the pl... ... of mechanical instrument, going off on a round of phrases as soon as some chance remark released the spring. To do her justice, Dinah was choke full ... ...aly. Anna wished to spend the day at Sancerre with her school-friend. This meeting was strangely disastrous. Anna, who at school had been far less han... ...ions. Poetry and dreams of celebrity, which had lulled her grief since her meeting with Anna Grossetete, no longer sufficed to exhaust the activity of... ...the sham Byron at her feet, suddenly stepped off it as she recollected her album. Madame de la Baudraye had caught the mania for auto- graphs; she pos... ...or auto- graphs; she possessed an oblong volume which deserved the name of album better than most, as two-thirds of the pages were still blank. The Ba... ...bars written by Meyerbeer, the four lines that Victor Hugo writes in every album, a verse from Lamartine, a few words from Beranger, Calypso ne pouvai... ...on that Madame de la Baudraye had so audaciously prophesied at their first meeting. “Ah, what things they will say about us on the drive home!” cried ...

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...ty. “Thanks — thanks; but, fortunately, I do not want for anything; and it chances that at times there are others who have need of me.” Dantes made a ... ...wing it, went to sit down at the first vacant place, and this was, by mere chance, placed next to the seat on which poor Mercedes had fallen half fain... ... 40 “Surely,” answered Danglars, “one cannot be held responsible for every chance arrow shot into the air.” “You can, indeed, when the arrow lights po... ... “and recently we have had information that the Bonapartist clubs have had meetings in the Rue Saint-Jacques. But proceed, I beg of you. How did you o... ...is all that is known?” “They are on the track of the man who appointed the meeting with him.” “On his track?” said Villefort. “Yes, the servant has gi... ...nebiere, was one of the crew belonging to the Pharaon. Edmond welcomed the meeting with this fellow — who had been one of his own sailors — as a sure ... ...o 404 gels and women with the features of a virgin; sketches torn from the album of Dauzats’ “Travels in the East,” that had been made in a few second... ...bray, standing before a small work-table, was turning over the pages of an album. Lucien had found time, preparatory to the count’s arrival, to relate... ...l circumstances detailed by Debray . This posing at the piano and over the album was only a little ruse adopted by way of precaution. A most gracious ...

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...ce and behoof. If the bashful young gentleman, in turning a street cor ner, chance to stumble suddenly upon two or three young ladies of his acquaint... ...rcels, which he hastily picks up, and returns very muddy and disordered. The chances are that the bash ful young gentleman then observes it is very f... ...le, which is the shortest mode and the clearest. We encountered one day , by chance, an old friend of whom we had lost sight for some years, and who —... ...by Charles Dickens 36 for his genius, adorn the rainbow leaves of a lady’s album. These are generally written upon some such occasions as contemplat... ...etical young gentleman? ‘Mr. Milkwash,’ says a young lady as she unlocks her album to receive the young gentleman’s original impromptu contribution, ‘... ...dies’ young gentle man, whom we were very anxious to have an opportunity of meeting. This determined us, and we went. We were to make for Chigwell in...

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...much is it?” “Only a small thing,” whispered Mr. Moss, of Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, and assistant officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex—”One hundr... ...en’s relations, but great men themselves, sent their sons to profit by the chance—Right Rev. prelates sent their own kinsmen or the sons of their cler... ...ave. But in the meantime it was clear that honest Briggs must not lose her chance of settlement for life, and so she and her bags were packed, and she... ... his brother, he was going away to make the necessary arrangements for the meeting which must ensue. “And as it may end fatally with me,” Rawdon said ... ...mate that he was empowered by the Colonel to make any arrangements for the meeting which, he had no doubt, it was his Lordship’s intention to demand, ... ...end, with whom he (Captain M’M.) might com- municate, and desired that the meeting might take place with as little delay as possible. In a postscript ... ...g kept her eye, but four richly gilt Louis Quatorze candlesticks, six gilt albums, keep- sakes, and Books of Beauty, a gold enamelled snuff-box which ... ...w, as malicious as Satan, and who made caricatures of Tapeworm in all the- albums of the place. Their headquarters and table d’hote were established a...