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... in diamonds. They talked in English, not in bad French, as they do in the novels. They talked about each oth- ers’ houses, and characters, and famili... ...n (while the music was performing a symphony as if ever so many birds were war- bling) the whole house was unanimous for an encore: and ap- plause and... ...sborne and Co.), George tried to whop the little baker. But the chances of war were unfavourable this time, and the little baker whopped Georgy, who c... ...n, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. Example: The selfishness of Achilles, as remarked by the poet Homer, o... ...een her. When he got back to the Slaughters’, the roast fowl was of course cold, in which condition he ate it for supper. And know- ing what early hou... ...ewed eels, veal cutlets, and French beans, with a bottle of claret. He was cold over Bagshot Heath, where the native chattered more 98 V anity Fair –... ...Southampton and the shuddering native, whose brown face was now livid with cold and of the colour of a turkey’s gizzard. He created an immense sensati... ...elieved that La Petite Vivandiere, as she was 139 Thackeray called, was a spy in the French interest), and the delighted people are permitted to marc... ...re cannot be any possibility of truth in the report that she was a Russian spy at Toplitz and Vienna after- wards. I have even been informed that at P...
...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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...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...
...h recent prejudice; and it is quite another business to put these writings coldly forth again in a bound volume. We are most of us attached to our opi... ... with the exaggeration, some of the truth is sacrificed; and the result is cold, constrained, and grudging. In short, I might almost everywhere have s... ...s own sorrow. But in the light of this new fact, those pages, seemingly so cold, are seen to be alive with feeling. What appeared to be a lack of inte... ...ngation of one of the main lines of literary tendency. When we compare the novels of Walter Scott with those of the man of genius who preceded him, an... ...ng up these identities that art gains true strength. And so in the case of novels as compared with the stage. Continuous narration is the flat board o... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...mbar- rassed in this society, because he read and judged the men; he could spy snobbery in a titled lord; and, as for the critics, he dismissed their ... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...se States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which...
...the roofs are steeper-pitched; even a hill farm will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English houses, in comparison, have the look... ...less interest and conviction. The first shock of English society is like a cold plunge. It is possible that the Scot comes looking for too much, and t... ... boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to ha... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...e of the Book of Snobs. So I might go on for ever, through all my abortive novels, and down to my later plays, of which I think more tenderly, for the... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...mon, and the old, eloquent lighthouse prayer. In fine weather, when by the spy-glass on the hill the sea was observed to run low upon the reef, there ... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ... ... is none that I love so wholly. There are many spiritual eyes that seem to spy upon our actions – eyes of the dead and the absent, whom we imagine to ...
...o make her acquaintance. He observed that Miss Chancellor’s hand was at once cold and limp; she merely placed it in his, without exerting the smallest... ...m very picturesque, though in the gathered dusk little was left of it save a cold yellow streak in the west, a gleam of brown water, and the reflection... .... She had absolutely no figure, and presented a certain appearance of feeling cold. With all this, there was something very modern and highly developed... ...the whole she preferred these two classes of the human race. Since the Civil War much of her occupation was gone; for before that her best hours had b... ...d? It is well known that the Empress of France was at the bottom of the last war in that country. And as for our four fearful years of slaughter, of c... ...ned last night?—Eliza P. Moseley. I regard Eliza as the cause of the biggest war of which history preserves the record.’ Basil Ransom enjoyed his humo... ...ly say that she didn’t pretend to give definite information, and she wasn’t a spy anyway, but that the night before he had positively flaunted in her fa... ...ile behind a counter, set apart and covered with an array of periodicals and novels in paper covers, little boys, with the faces of old men, showing p...
...that went astray here was a pagan of old Rome, who hid himself in order to spy out and betray the blessed saints, who then dwelt and worshipped in the... ...allusion to the legend of Memmius. This man, or demon, or man-demon, was a spy during the persecutions of the early Christians, probably under the Emp... ... elegance of the middle height were exchanged for a sort of Alpine region, cold and naked in its aspect. Steps of rough stone, rude wooden balustrades... ...ge-time, and the old, ripened wine, which our podere is famous for, in the cold winter evenings; and to devour great, luscious figs, and apricots, pea... ...ain within the Precincts of this sunny glade, thawing mankind out of their cold formalities, releasing them from irksome restraint, mingling them toge... ..., within which a convent of nuns is now estab- lished,—a dove-cote, in the war-god’s mansion. At only a little distance, they passed the portico of a ... ..., books, chiefly little volumes of a religious Character, and a few French novels; toys, tinware, old iron, cloth, rosaries of beads, crucifixes, cake... ...s, but only a com- paratively few, in street and balcony, who carry on the war- fare of nosegays and counterfeit sugar plums. The populace look on wit...
... ward off heavy boxes seemed at the moment a natural incident of human life. Cold, wet, clamour, dead opposition to progress, such as one encounters i... ...sat on my valise, too crushed to observe my neighbours; but as they were all cold, and wet, and weary, and driven stupidly crazy by the mismanagement ... ...a number, and proceeded to deal with my pack- ages. And here came the tug of war. I wished to give up my packages into safe keeping; but I did not wis... ...about the rail- ing, and made a shift to wash his face and neck and hands; a cold, an insufficient, and, if the train is moving rapidly, a somewhat da... ...rvatory on the top of a fruit-waggon, and sat by the hour upon that perch to spy about me, and to spy in vain for something new. It was a world almost... ...; then three shots (they all struck poor Tom, I suppose); then they gave the war hoop, and as many as twenty of the redskins came down upon us. The th... ...untry is bound to submit to immigration any more than to inva- sion; each is war to the knife, and resistance to either but legitimate defence. Yet we... ...unds in greater safety; for along with more interesting matter, the Prussian spy would have somewhat faded from men’s imaginations. For all that, our ... ...ery different from Le Vicomte de Braglonne; and if any gentleman can bear to spy upon the nakedness of Castle Dan- gerous, his name I think is Ham: le...
...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...
... much ruin they will bear. We have an excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butchers, bakers, ... ... content with chalking ‘No Gas!’ and ‘Down with Gas!’ and other such angry war whoops, on the few back gates and scraps of wall which the limits of ou... ...erfully populous in children; English children, with gov ernesses reading novels as they walk down the shady lanes of trees, or nursemaids interchang... ...morrow. It is never hot on the Property, he contends. Likewise it is never cold. The flowers, he says, come out, delighting to grow there; it is like ... ...ed, through the instrumentality of the attendant charioteer, with a can of cold rum and water, flavoured with sugar and lemon. We were also furnished ... ... or stood leaning forward against the wind, looking out through bat tered spy glasses. The parlour bell in the Admiral Benbow had grown so flat with ... ... gallop into the Swartz Kop location and exterminate the whole kraal. When war is afoot among the noble savages—which is always—the chief holds a coun... ... exterminated. On this occasion, after the performance of an Umsebeuza, or war song,—which is ex actly like all the other songs,—the chief makes a sp...
...story in “The Man of Destiny,” Napo- leon at T avazzano knew of the Art of War. But both men were successes each in his way—the latter won victories a... ...the former gained audiences, in the very teeth of the accepted theories of war and the theatre. Shaw does not know that it is unpardon- able sin to ha... ...n- tionalized senses are shocked. The only men who have no illusions about war are those who have re- cently been there, and, of course, Mr. Shaw, who... ...ed by a variegated native cloth, and on it there is a pile of paper backed novels, a box of chocolate creams, and a miniature easel, on which is a lar... ... lady, a thousand pardons. Good- night. (Military bow, which Raina returns coldly. Another to Catherine, who follows him out. Raina closes the shutter... ...ose three chocolate creams. It was unsoldierly; but it was angelic. RAINA (coldly). Thank you. And now I will do a soldierly thing. You cannot stay he... ...iddy. I came up it fast enough with death behind me. But to face it now in cold blood!—(He sinks on the ottoman.) It’s no use: I give up: I’m beaten. ... ...re a provoking little witch, Louka. If you were in love with me, would you spy out of windows on me? LOUKA. Well, you see, sir, since you say you are ... ...ou realize what he has done, Captain Bluntschli? He has set this girl as a spy on us; and her reward is that he makes love to her. 67 Shaw SERGIUS. F...
...x). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in ?The Man of Destiny,? Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War....
...as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a... ...you traced rather confusion worse confounded; at most, Timidity and physical Cold? Some indeed said withal, he was “the very Spirit of Love embodied:”... ...n! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called ... ...ands in legible print. Over such a universal medley of high and low, of hot, cold, moist and dry, is he here strug gling (by union of like with like,... ...ous sports of skill or strength, the Boy trains himself to Co operation, for war or peace, as governor or governed: the little Maid again, provident o... ...awn two ways at once, and in this im portant element of school history, the war element, had little but sorrow.” On the whole, that same excellent “P... ...character. At first we find our poor Professor on the point of being shot as a spy; then taken into private conversation, even pinched on the ear, yet p... ...ecret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and o... ...e, appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directi...
...lier. Additional sconces were set in various parts of the hall, out of the war, and a flambeau, emitting sweet odor, was placed in the right hand of e... ...colors than a pirate runs up, one after the other, when chased by a man-of-war. “Are you quite sure he said that? W ell, at all events I am in for it ... ...is invariably mistranslated and misconceived. “Cui bono?” in all the crack novels and elsewhere,—in those of Mrs. Gore, for example, (the author of “C... ...e threw open her two peepers to the itmost, and thin it was a little gould spy-glass that she clapped tight to one o’ them and divil may burn me if it... ...idn’t spake to me as plain as a peeper cud spake, and says it, through the spy-glass: “Och! the tip o’ the mornin’ to ye, Sir Pathrick 62 EA Poe O’Gr... ...ume Five Hippocrates!—smelt of asafoetida—ugh! ugh! ugh!—caught a wretched cold washing him in the Styx—and after all he gave me the cholera morbus.” ... ...k, and Harry to strip me of my coffins, and my clothes, in this wretchedly cold climate? In what light (to come to the point) am I to regard your aidi... ...it seems, of Allamistakeo) had a slight fit of shivering—no doubt from the cold. The Doctor immediately repaired to his wardrobe, and soon returned wi... ...he expediency, Taste con- tents herself with displaying the charms:—waging war upon Vice solely on the ground of her deformity—her dispropor- tion—her...