...s ies ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. War and Peace by Leo T olstoy/T olstoi BOOK ONE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRIN... ... ou know everything.” “What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonapa... ...inine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the group where the vicomte wa... ...ed fixedly at her through his eyeglass. “Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, taking leave of Anna Pavlovna. “It is sett... ... they both knew. CHAPTER XIV ON NOVEMBER 1 Kutuzov had received, through a spy, news that the army he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. Th... ...y, news that the army he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that the French, af- ter crossing the bridge at Vienna, were a... ...m him in from two sides. Kutuzov chose this latter course. The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were advancing by forced ma...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...c transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...f war. War is continually becoming more scientific, more destructive, more coldly logical, more intolerant of non-combatants, and more exhausting of a... ...ost completely in Great Britain—that- newspapers were party organs. In the novels of Disraeli the Press appears as an ambigu- ously helpful person who... ...eria can compare with them; but as ad- ministrators the British are a race coldly aloof. They have nothing to give a black people, and no disposition ... ...cupboard every night for a Jesuit, just as nowadays they look for a German spy, and as no doubt old German ladies now look for Sir Edward Grey. It may... ...of it. We may bring ourselves to understand, we may bring our- selves to a cold and reasonable forgiveness, we may suppress our Sir George Makgills an...

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...8 81 1 1 1 12 2 2 2 2 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...nnsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK TEN: 1812 CHAPTER I NAPOLEON BEGAN THE WA... ...tely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne. His looks and cold tone to his daughter seemed to say: “There, you see? Y ou plotted agai... ...!” he thought, and he looked at his own naked body and shuddered, not from cold but from a sense of disgust and horror he did not himself understand, ... ...nd frightened eyes, crossing themselves, bowed and kissed the old prince’s cold and stiffened hand. 48 War and Peace – Book Ten CHAPTER IX UNTIL PRIN... ...“Y ou know, Count, such knights as you are only found in Madame de Souza’s novels.” “What knights? What do you mean?” demanded Pierre, blushing. “Oh, ... ...Place, stopped and got out of his trap. A French cook ac- cused of being a spy was being flogged. The flogging was only just over, and the executioner...

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...might be apt to forget, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate p... ...ke his companion, but a strong hack- ney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a ch... ... a black varnish of soot. On the sides of the apartment hung implements of war and of the chase, and there were at each corner folding doors, which ga... ...atisfied the most prejudiced enemy of the tribes of Israel. Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew’s repeated salutations, and signed to hi... ... emblematical personification of the Win- ter season. Having dispelled the cold, he turned eagerly to the smoking mess which was placed before him, an... ...red by a cloak of scanty dimensions, neither fit to defend the wearer from cold or from rain, and the only purpose of which appeared to be to display ... ...ully boy, bully boy, Come, trowl the brown bowl to me: Ho! jolly Jenkin, I spy a knave in drinking, Come, trowl the brown bowl to me.” “Now, that is n... ...ush affords, and shun exposing themselves to the shot of our cross-bows? I spy neither banner nor pennon among them, and yet will I gage my golden cha... ...rate courage. 273 Sir Walter Scott wing of the night raven. Nothing can I spy that can mark him further—but having once seen him put forth his streng...

...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ...au may be said to have done for Switzerland what the author of the Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly... ...suality, almost from my birth, preserved my purity beyond the age when the cold- est constitutions lose their insensibility; long tormented, without k... ...is, my conduct was pre- determined, I was resolved not to return. Madam de War- rens, seeing her endeavors would be fruitless, became less explicit, a... ...ould I perceive on her part any desire to forward it; her behavior was not colder, but more distant than usual, and I believe she avoided my looks for... ...sseau its feelings, whenever I encountered a similar disposition; but dry, cold interrogatories, without any sign of blame or approbation on my answer... ...some one prevented me. The good bishop, who that day was visiting Madam de War- rens, did not remain idle; he took her into the garden, where they wen... ...ian who had taken up his residence in my neighborhood; telling me he was a spy whom the minister of France had appointed to watch my proceedings. This... ...ves, nor take away from the oppressed. I will never believe Sauttern was a spy, nor that he be- trayed me: but I was deceived by him. When I opened to...

...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...und himself in a few minutes seated by a comfortable supper, for which his cold ride gave him a hearty appetite. 23 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER II. —Co... ...hough they afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram. They had made war, raised rebellions, been defeated, beheaded, and hanged, as became a fa... ...y pinched and pared, rose early and lay down late, ate dry bread and drank cold water, to secure to Abel the means of learn- ing. Meantime, his tall, ... ...ere placed within sight of each other, that, in times of invasion or civil war, they might. communi- cate by signal for mutual defence and protection.... ...battered by the ships of the Parliament under Deane, during the long civil war, this part of the castle was much more ruinous than the rest, and exhib... ...en years after the catastrophe related in the fast chapter, that, during a cold and stormy night, a social group had closed around the kitchen fire of... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ...” “Oh, the curly-headed varlets! I must come to play at Blind Harry and Hy Spy with them.—But what is all this?” added Pleydell, taking up the plans;—...

...th such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the mos...

...E. ................................................................ 20 The cold earth slept below, ...................................................... ...h one last tear thy friend’s ungentle mood: Thy lover’s eye, so glazed and cold, dares not entreat thy stay: Duty and dereliction guide thee back to s... ..., nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.—Ecclesiastes. The pale, the cold, and the moony smile Which the meteor beam of a starless night Sheds o... ...usseau. T o these may be added several modern books of travel. He read few novels. POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS WRIT WRIT WRIT WRIT WRITTEN IN 1816 T... ... _15 All ghastly-visaged clouds did sweep; And the Lady ever looked to spy If the golden sun shone forth on high. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. And as towards th... ...ismondi’s “Histoire des Republiques Italiennes”, which occurred during the war when Florence finally subdued Pisa, and reduced it to a province.— Mrs.... ...re the earth’s breath is pestilence, and few But things whose nature is at war with life— Snakes and ill worms—endure its mortal dew. The trophies of ... ...igh. And ye who attend her imperial car, Lift not your hands in the banded war, _20 But in her defence whose children ye...

.......................... 20 FEELINGS OF A REPUBLICAN ON THE FALL OF BONAPARTE. ................................................................ 20 The cold earth slept below, .......................................................................................................................................... 21 NOTE ON THE EARLY POEMS, BY MRS. SHELLEY. ....................

... to beg twenty dollars because he heard I was a Scotchman, offering to leave his portmanteau in pledge. Settle this, and on again; and here my house c... ...ee this place! but I don’t want any one to see it till my clearing is done, and my house built. It will be a home for angels. So far I wrote after my ... ...at, for, me, it had come true; and I thought, forbye, that, if the great powers go on as they are going, and the Chief Justice delays, it would come t... ...MA RESUMED. ) A gorgeous evening of after-glow in the great tree-tops and behind the mountain, and full moon over the lowlands and the sea, inaugurate... ...coverings, I know not at what hour—it was as bright as day. The moon right over Vaea—near due west, the birds strangely silent, and the wood of the ho... ... Fanny, and we should both dine on the morrow. On the Friday, I was all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board ... ...a deuce of a row—new proc- lamation, no one is to interview the sacred puppet without consuls’ permission, two days’ notice, and an approved interpret... ... not yet moved; no thanks to our idiot gover- nors. They have shot their bolt; they have made a rebel of the only man (to their own knowledge, on the ... ...have not yet touched, and who comes next in order. Characters: Balmile, or Lord Gladsmuir, comme vous voulez; Prince Charlie; Earl Marischal; Master o...

...vel Newspaper, 143]) and (London: N. Bruce, 72 pp., 1842 (Series: Standard Novels, 5]). It also appeared by itself as “Imagination: A Tale for Young W... ...ted with writer’s block while composing his first best-selling novel, “The Spy”. Coo- 5 Tales for Fifteen per had envisaged a series of five stories,... ...imagination gets the better of her, presumably because of reading romantic novels. This, of course, was a commonplace notion in the 1820s, except that... ...Charles Weston with emphasis. “As her heart, Sir,” repeated the young lady coldly. The last adieus were hastily exchanged, and Anna Miller was handed ... ...arge than otherwise. Miss Emmerson had been educated immediately after the war of the revolution, and at a time when the intellect of the women of thi... ... the justice to say, that instantly I thought of the danger of your taking cold and drew you into the house.” “Oh! you ran from another clap,” said Ju... ... have learnt from acts of desper- ate courage that he had performed in the war which had so recently terminated; or perhaps he might have even distin-... ...ontinued peacefully to wander amid the academic bowers, until the blast of war rung in his ears, and called him to the field of honour. Edward was eve... ...ur plea- sures with those we love. What heart of sensibility has stood and coldly gazed on a scene over which the eye, that it loves to admire, is rov...

...d, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and un- read-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert ... ... Raymie. His eyes were like those of a dog waiting to be let in out of the cold. He passed the stewed apricots effusively. “There are a great many bri... ...and was boisterously greeted by every other couple; or, till it became too cold, they sat on the porch, bawling to passers-by in motors, or to neighbo... ...ave you last year?” and he looked to the other men to laugh. They laughed. Cold and still, Carol walked up to Kennicott and com- manded, “I want to se... ...to franker rebuffs; they were working up to a state of painfully righteous war when they were saved by the coming of food. Though Juanita Haydock was ... ...old Bell Wright is a lovely writer, and he teaches such good morals in his novels, and folks say he’s made prett’ near a million dollars out of ‘em.” ... ...o—lived 181 Sinclair Lewis seven miles out. He was a captain in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right ... ... of virtuousness, and the procession of Decoration Day, when the few Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the sprin... ...nt he was analyzing the noisy Mr. Zitterel. Carol was ashamed to have this spy from the Great World hear the pastor’s maundering. She felt re- sponsib...

...Their own masters had not handed the sacred fire into the keeping of their cold and skilful hands. One of those last I remember specially, now gone to... ...miraculous smartness. And they both held. I could have kissed their rough, cold iron palms in gratitude if they had not been buried in slimy mud under... ...ucky, perhaps, in the placing of her masts - who knows? Officers of men-of-war used to come on board to take the exact dimensions of her sail- plan. P... ...up at once, then?” he asked in a tone that ought to have made my blood run cold. But this was my chance, and I did not let it slip. “Well, sir,” I sai... ... perfectability. How will they feel on seeing the illustrations to the sea novels of our day, or of our yesterday? It is impossible to guess. But the ... ...and South Winds are but small princes in the dynasties that make peace and war upon the sea. They never assert themselves upon a 70 The Mirror of the... ...ye of an impla- cable autocrat out of a pale and frightened sky. He is the war-lord who sends his battalions of At- lantic rollers to the assault of o... ..., for, amongst his other perfections, he was a consummate eavesdropper and spy. At the sound of the heavy plop alongside hor- ror held me rooted to th... ...?” I stammered out, bewildered. “And who else? Canallia! He must have been spy- ing on you for days. And he did the whole thing. Absent all day in Bar...

... of the enemy. My knowledge of the English language had marked me out for a certain employment. Though I cannot conceive a soldier refusing to incur t... ...a certain employment. Though I cannot conceive a soldier refusing to incur the risk, yet to be hanged for a spy is a disgusting business; and I was re... ...ge on the occasion rising. I never lost an opportunity to flatter either the person of my visitor, if it should be a lady, or, if it should be a man, ... ... tend to increase her interest and engage her heart. This done, there was nothing left for me but to wait and to hope. And there is nothing further fr... ...s too clean; he seemed to bear about with him the smell of soap. Cleanliness is good, but I cannot bear a man’s nails to seem japanned. And cer- tainl... ...seem japanned. And cer- tainly he was too self-possessed and cold. There was none of the fire of youth, none of the swiftness of the soldier, in this ... ...ell understand,’ he began, ‘that precautions have had to be taken. I dare say an oath was administered. I can comprehend that per- fectly.’ (He was wa... ... that he should have another kinsman who was so remarkably well informed of events in France. And it now became a very disagree- able question, whethe... ...biety permitted. M. Alain’s expensive way of life, his clothes and mistresses, his dicing and race- horses, were all explained: he was in the pay of B...

...hom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad-brimmed Panama hat, and his spy- glass was levelled as we advanced. When we came alongside, a low cry r... ...t two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of- war’s-man, whose acquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at which place ... ...nd very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after ... ...g near the shore, the grim, black spars and waspish hull of a small man-of-war craft crept into view; the masts and yards lined distinctly against the... ...her things which looked somewhat strange in a ship’s forecastle, a capital spy- glass, and on the present occasion we had it in use. When the boat nea... ...id. But no sooner was the announcement made, than he came running on deck, spy-glass in hand, and clapping it to his eye, turned round with the air of... ...y saunter too, looking me pleasantly in the eye, and merely exchanging the cold salute of the road:—”Yar onor, boyoee,” a mere sidewalk how d’ye do. A... ...arty, and sleeping overnight among the mountains, awoke one morning with a cold in his head; and some wag of a courtier had no more manners than to vu... ...nd lady-like little damsel there was not in all Imeeo. 242 Omoo She was a cold and haughty young beauty though, this same little Loo, and never deign...

...ay here be allowed to point out the depraving effect of the necessities of war upon certain minds who venture to act in domestic life as if upon the f... ...e ministers who succeeded each other in that office. She put Bridau on the war-path to save her grocer. That incorruptible official—one of the virtuou... ...cretary paid to the un- fortunate Madame Descoings, he was struck with the cold, calm, innocent beauty of Agathe Rouget. While consoling the widow, wh... ...ow came to live on the third floor of a house standing at this damp, dark, cold corner. Opposite, rose the Institute buildings, in which were the dens... ... are penning the words, this menagerie has already been removed from these cold and cheerless buildings, and taken to the elegant Palais des Beaux-Art... ...d ear- nest a mortal enmity to the Bourbons, never reported himself at the War department, and even refused opportunities which were offered to him fo... ...poetry of Lord Byron, the painting of Gericault, the music of Rossini, the novels of Walter Scott. “Every one to his taste, maman,” he would say; “but... ...avior before the Court of Peers proves him to have been either a dupe or a spy; he is, as you say, ninny enough to have been duped by the great player... ...de any form of vengeance impossible. Benjamin was his innocent and devoted spy. The Vedie trembled before him. Flore felt herself deserted and utterly...

...lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distinguished on the Continent by their brav... ...quarrel, and might plun- der the peasantry subjected to him by the fate of war with the most unrelenting rapacity; but he must beware how he sustained... ...d knocks. —Butler. It was during the period of that great and bloody Civil War which agitated Britain during the seventeenth century, that our tale ha... ...rd Menteith, “you have gone through some hot service, as well as this same cold duty you talk of?” “Surely, my lord, it doth not become me to speak; b... ...Martinmas wind shalt blow shall lie there stark enough, and reck little of cold or lack of covering.” “Do not forespeak us, brother,” said Angus; “tha... ...t? I have known a case where an honourable ambassador has been hanged as a spy before now. Neither did the Romans use ambassadors much more mercifully... ...PHAN MAID. November’s hail-cloud drifts away, November’s sunbeam wan Looks coldly on the castle grey, When forth comes Lady Anne. The orphan by the oa... ... Gustavus Adolphus, that a flag of truce should be half a messenger half a spy?—And, having finished burnishing his arms, he sate down patiently to co... ...ier’s arm, and point backward in the direction of the wind. Dalgetty could spy nothing, for evening was closing fast, and they were at the bottom of a...

...e second. “For whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness. “For Becky Sharp,” answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blus... ...e was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most so... ... he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. Well, then. The fl... ...ead under the neckcloth, shaking very much—”that is, yes—what abomina- bly cold weather, Miss”—and herewith he fell to poking the fire with all his mi... ...d?” said her husband, “and that a woman of your years and size is to catch cold, in such an abominable damp place?” ‘The children must have someone wi... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...quarrelled, all his outgoings and incom- ings you know, as if you were his spy. V ery soon then after her arrival, Rebecca began to take a regular pla... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an...

...to be praised for courage and be huzza’d at with tear choked voices as the war worn regiment marches past the worshiping multitude with flags flying a... ...the case in the book here. The man lives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about to enter the horse car when a gr... ...d his weeping family and marches out to manfully expose himself to hunger, cold, wounds, and death. Is that seeking spiritual comfort? O.M. He loves p... ...at mere public opinion could force a timid and peaceful man to— O.M. Go to war? Yes—public opinion can force some men to do anything. Y.M. Anything?... ...nd flourish, and ended in producing a surprising fruitage—in the fields of war. The history of man is full of such accidents. The accident of a broken... ...hich it hasn’t. It is merely a thermometer: it registers the heat and the cold, and cares not a farthing about either. Y.M. Then we must not claim th... ... third rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. We do not mind one or ... ... empty lip affection in place of the love which her heart hungers for; who spy upon her in the interest of her waiting heirs, and report and exagger ...

...h they should gain by it;—whatever the reason was, it was evident that the war was to continue, and there was almost as much soldiering and recruiting... ...amation to his soldiers after running away, a hijo de la guerra—a child of war. Not seven cities, but one or two regiments, might contend for the hono... ... public capacity displayed him as a fifer in the General’s own regiment of Coldstreamers, when they marched from Scotland to Lon- don, and from a repu... ...which makes passions for women often so fierce and unreasonable among very cold and selfish men. His parents (whose frugality he had inherited) had tr... ... at the “Bugle Inn,” they might have taken down a conversation on love and war—the two themes discussed by the two parties occupying the kitchen—which... ...st these popular plans we here solemnly appeal. We say, let your rogues in novels act like rogues, and your honest men like honest men; don’t let us h... ...om for military service. What is one to do after that? Had we been writing novels instead of authentic histories, we might have carried them any- wher... ...stars, which freckled the ebon countenance of the latter; and the air grew colder; and about two o’clock the moon appeared, a dismal pale-faced rake, ... ...ery well. Father O’Flaherty did all the duties, and furthermore acted as a spy over the ambassador—a sinecure post, for the man had no feelings, wishe...

...suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Ta- hiti. There, as is notorious, he spent the last... ...ught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success. Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude. Y outh has turned to gods we... ...lves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds 11 Somerset Maugham hollow in their mouth; they are like po... ...er, I was in- troduced to it. It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is n... ...e combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversity , and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting. It was at her house one d... ...ng freely. I was extraordinarily touched. I felt indignant at Strickland’s cold cruelty , and I promised to do all I could to bring him back. I agreed... ...ll our hearts, set there to watch that we do not break its laws. It is the spy seated in the central stronghold of the ego. Man’s desire for the ap- p... ... anger that had seized Mrs. Strickland, and her pallor was the pallor of a cold and sud- den rage. She spoke quickly now , with little gasps. “I could... ...agine what the winters are like in those coun- tries, so long and dark and cold. They like to think that Italy is like my pictures. That’s what they e...

...to the Azores in 1582 and the following year, and on the conclusion of the war returned to Spain in the autumn of 1583, bringing with him the manuscri... ... new year, 1605. It is often said that “Don Quixote” was at first received coldly. The facts show just the contrary. No sooner was it in the hands of ... ... he secured in February. No doubt it was received with something more than coldness by certain sections of the community. Men of wit, taste, and discr... ...ervantes, and fourteen years after his death gives him only a few lines of cold commonplace in the “Laurel de Apolo,” that seem all the colder for the... ...s” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedi- cation to the Con... ...in his head.” “Hush, friend Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “the fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations; and moreover I... ...- with all the sweet and delectable course of his achievements in love and war. Handed down from that time, then, this order of chivalry went on exten... ...e of an Arnaut, 309 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. in company with a Greek spy; but whether he regained his liberty or not I cannot tell, though I fan... ...l this good man to come in; but take care first of all that he is not some spy or one of my assassins.” “No, my lord,” said the page, “for he looks li...