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...ns by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Europeans by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Europeans by Henry James CHAPTER I A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a b... ...se members— they were very plump and pretty—to the multifold braids 4 The Europeans of her hair, with a movement half caressing, half correc- tive. A... ...she looked at the glowing bed of anthracite coal in the grate. “Did 6 The Europeans you ever see anything so hideous as that fire?” she de- manded. “... ...cton looked at her a moment. “Now you would n’t like me to say that!” “You Americans have such odd ways!” the Baroness de- clared. “You never ask anyt... ...thing outright; there seem to be so many things you can’t talk about.” “We Americans are very polite,” said Acton, whose na- tional consciousness had ... ... complicated by a residence in foreign lands, and who yet disliked to hear Americans abused. “We don’t like to tread upon people’s toes,” he said. “Bu...

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...ong the mixed population of Somanlis, Ban- yans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs, and Europeans who comprise the twenty-five thousand inhabitants of Aden. He gaz... ... promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities—Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindes wi... ...o faltered at every step, followed. This woman was young, and as fair as a European. Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and toes were lo... ... astonishment to find herself in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European habiliments, and with travellers who were quite strangers to her! ... ...where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Bir- mingham, with its... ...river. Here, as at Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans and English, Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy... ...ere was a full complement of passengers on board, among them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and severa... ...r him, grasped him by the throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who immediately be- gan to bet on him, administered to the detec... ...rous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians. Passepartout was surprise...

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...aders have passed and died, and butchered here in vain. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of p... ...for the august arrival, and lined with the squat military in their bastard European costume; the sturdy police, with bandeliers and brown surtouts, ke... ... to pass, and only admitting (with a very unjust partiality, I thought) us Europeans into that reserved space. Before the august ar- rival, numerous o... ... looked small, young, clumsy, and ill-built; uncomfortable in their shabby European clothes; and about the legs, espe- cially, seemed exceedingly weak... ...ily well to do in the Beyrout world, and lived with as much comfort as any Europeans. They had one book; and, on the wall of the principal apartment, ... ...h— made his appearance and welcomed me cordially. It was some time, as the Americans say, before I could “realise” the semillant J- of old times. He s...

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... was just the bos’n of an Italian ship, a big Genoese ship, one of the few European ships that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the bui... ...y’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the European residents; that is, by Captain Mitchell himself and the staff of e... ...d his brother, orphans, had been brought up by the munificence of a famous European traveller, in whose service their father had lost his life. Anothe... ...you were his father.” This camp-master was the Italian sailor whom all the Europeans in Sulaco, following Captain Mitchell’s mispronunciation, were in... ...was to bring Nostromo into per- sonal contact, sooner or later, with every European in Sulaco, as a sort of universal factotum—a prodigy of efficiency... ...hing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind; but really we Span- ish-Americans do overstep the bounds. No man of ordinary intelligence can take ... ...dertaking which is to put money into the pockets of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans, Germans, and God knows who else. The silence about me is ominous... ... little, nervous men, and fat, placid, swarthy men, and Europeans or North Americans of superior standing, whose faces looked very white amongst the m...

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... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...ed the Prussian Corps at all, but only the White Cap Corps. 4. Any student can belong to it who is a German by birth. 5. Any student can belong to it ... ...oung fellow closed up to the sidewalk alongside him, fetched him a cordial slap on the shoulder with his broad palm, and sung out with a hearty cheeri... ...s broad palm, and sung out with a hearty cheeriness: “Americans for two-and-a-half and the money up! Hey?” The Reverend winced, but said mildly: “Yes—... ...fellow, with stuff in him for a useful citizen; he considered him rather a rough gem, but a gem, nevertheless. CHAPTER XXI Insolent Shopkeepers and Ga... ... by a lie; we pretend we like it. I know several of that sort of people— and I propose to be one of them myself when I get home Mark Twain 124 with m... ...fies its hotness, doesn’t make it cold. Water can only be made cold enough for summer comfort by being prepared in a refrigera- tor or a closed ice-pi... ...t only for announcing the sunset, which we did see, but for the sunrise, which we had totally missed; but we said no, we only took our solar rations o... ...her strap which belonged in its place. Our driver got a fresh piece of clothes-line out of his locker and repaired the break in two minutes. So much f...

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...was to be called by a whole generation of scientific men, ‘the greatest of European chemists,’ were staying in a villa near Santo Domenico, between Fi... ...rmies that sus- tained in their broader organisation the traditions of the European wars of thirty and forty years before. There was the infantry arm ... ... much of this was still drawn by horses; though there were also in all the European armies a small number of motor-guns with wheels so constructed tha... ...rs upon the board of Welt-Politik. The traditions of Japan and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still ref... ...rnational situations in recent years. This time it was talk of the Central European powers sud- denly attacking the Slav Confederacy, with France and ... ...dy; the children in the streets knew them. And yet the world still, as the Americans used to phrase it, ‘fooled around’ with the paraphernalia and pre... ...dishness which was the characteristic of the American imagination. For the Americans also were among the simple peoples by whom the world was saved. H... ...the Japa- nese very nearly got San Francisco.’ ‘I hadn’t heard, sir.’ ‘The Americans ran the Japanese aeroplane down into the sea and there the bomb g... ...American. ‘Man,’ said the king, ‘is always entering upon his heritage. You Americans have a peculiar weakness for anniversaries— if you will forgive m...

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...ike Paris, and at a Genevese boarding-house there was sure to be plenty of Americans with whom one could talk about the French metropolis. M. Pigeonne... ... speak of them,” Mrs. Ruck pursued. “Madame Beaurepas has had a great many Americans; she is very fond of Americans,” I replied. “Well, I must say I s... ...y fiez pas!” “It is a matter in which I have nothing at stake.” “You young Americans are droll,” said M. Pigeonneau; “you never have anything at stake... ...hey don’t meddle; they take what’s given them; they leave me tranquil. The Americans are often like that. Often, but not always,” Madame Beaurepas pur... ...Miss Ruck gave a little laugh. “I was saying that you wanted to pass for a European.” “Yes, I want to pass for a Dalmatian.” Miss Ruck looked at me a ... ...ying a little.” “Ah, I am glad to hear that. You are gathering up a little European culture; that’s what we lack, you know, at home. No individual can... ...“Very fortunate, indeed, mamma.” “You see we have acquired an insight into European life,” the elder lady pursued. “We have our place at many a Europe... ...teur?” “His digne epouse. Madame Galopin, for mamma, is the incarnation of European opinion. That’s what vexes me with mamma, her thinking so much of ... ...ke Ma- dame Galopin. Going to see Madame Galopin—mamma calls that being in European society. European society! I’m so sick of that expression; I have ...

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...reat deal faster than to the regular corps in the Company’s service. I had European officers, of course, to command them, and a few of my coun- trymen... ...te-faced-Feringhees-near-the-mango-tope-consecrated- to-Ram’), occupied by Europeans. (It is astonishing, by the way, how comprehensive that language ... ...r Gahagan power of your indomitable arm.’ “Futtyghur is, as I have said, a European station, and the pretty air of the bungalows, amid the clustering ... ...he dollars: do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my pipe for me, and then departe...

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...e. The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first oc- cupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent. They were, consequently, the fi... ...stile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, fre- quently expended months in struggling... ...endom.* A wide frontier *W ashington, who, after uselessly admonishing the European general of the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved ... ...ca rang with his well-merited reputation, his name does not oc- cur in any European account of the battle; at least the author has searched for it wit... ...l as it was, this uncommon engine had excited the curiosity of most of the Europeans in the camp, though several of the provincials 13 James Fenimore... ... king as the Sixtieth.” “The Sixtieth! you can tell me little of the Royal Americans that I don’t know, though I do wear a hunting-shirt instead of a ... ...he knaves its dark side. This is not such a supper as a major of the Royal Americans has a right to expect, but I’ve known stout detachments of the co... ...generally bear the impression of the reigning king, and those given by the Americans that of the president. 97 James Fenimore Cooper “Would ‘Le Gros ... ...swiftly toward the glacis. He knew them for his own battalion of the Royal Americans, and flying to their head, soon swept every trace of his pursuers...

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... seemed to leave nothing more to be said on that score. “ A last twinge of Europeanism,” she vouchsafed. “We were young in those days.” “You are well ... ...is just coming back to us.” “And what do you find you are?” 85 H G Wells “Europeans. Who came away from kings and churches-@- and Corinthian capitals... ...eciatively…. “Well!” said Dr. Martineau, as the door closed behind the two Americans, “This is a curious encounter.” “That young woman has brains,” sa... ...companion or governess butchered, the thing has been done…. These business Americans, I am told, neglect their womenkind, give them money and power, l... ...f it was for some other lover, some good-looking, worthless impostor, some European title or suchlike folly—! At the thought of a lover for V .V. a su...

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... days. ‘You are to know, dear Emmy, that we English are the aristocracy of Europeans.’ Lady Dunstane inclined to think we were; nevertheless, in the m... ...of being born to command: in fine, an aristocrat among the ‘aristocracy of Europeans.’ His differences of opinion were prefaced by a ‘Pardon me,’ and ... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...te tables with antelope legs, of approved workmanship in the chronology of European upholstery, and marble clocks of cunning device to symbol Time, ma... ...hman would not be likely to know better.’ ‘She speaks exquisite French—all European languages, Mr. Redworth. She does not pretend to wit. To my thinki...

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...fec- tion. An American, to excel, has just ten times as much to learn as a European. We lack the deeper sense. We have neither taste, nor tact, nor po... ...ver. The very heat of his devotion was a sign of conversion; those born to European opportunity manage better to reconcile enthusiasm with comfort. He... ...ious creations have met with great success. They are especially admired by Americans. I have sent them all over Europe—to London, Paris, Vienna! You m...

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...nd it is worthy of remark that one of the most ingenious machines known in European art is de- rived from the keen ingenuity which is exercised in thi... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...ith yellow strings, The shepherd of the forest came.” —Freneau. BEFORE THE EUROPEANS, or, to use a more significant term, the Christians, dispossessed... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...hese two tribes were the first who were dispossessed of their lands by the Europeans. The wars of a portion of the latter are celebrated among us as t... ...In common with all his people, who dwelt within the influence of the Anglo-Americans, he had acquired new wants, and his dress was a mixture of his na... ..., he had acquired new wants, and his dress was a mixture of his native and European fashions. Notwithstanding the in tense cold without, his head was ... ...es in this assembly , though all had closely assimilated themselves to the Americans in dress and appear- ance, except the English man. He, indeed, no...

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...County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about Americans being supposed to have the right to `life, liberty, and the pursu... ...y, the English ones.” “Not all of them?” “W-why yes. We’re learning all of European Literature this year. The club gets such a nice magazine, Culture ... ... make more than ten thousand a year or less than eight hundred are wicked. Europeans are still wickeder. It doesn’t hurt any to drink a glass of beer ... ...ws-stand. The hidden orchestra was lively. She saw a man who looked like a European diplomat, in a loose top-coat and a Hom- burg hat. A woman with a ... ...d pep. There’s where Ameri- can playwrights put it all over these darn old European glooms.” As selected by Carol and confirmed by the committee, the ... ...me to the board-meeting singing with a plan. She had made a list of thirty European novels of the past ten years, with twenty important books on psych...

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... Relentless Law we did not believe in for a moment, that no modern western European can believe in. We thought of the characters in the unconvincing w... ...college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, educati... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ... hos- tility to wealth and hostility to public expenditure… . Every modern European state will have in some form or other these three parties: the res... ... since those days out of the urgency of that apprehension. I still think a European war, and con- ceivably a very humiliating war for England, may occ... ...al and irrevo- cable destruction truncating all my schemes. At the most, a European war would be a dramatic episode in the recon- struction I had in v...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...se a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European intervention. And, if satisfactory explanations are not received f... ...act that has not yet been officially communicated to us—namely, that other European States are apprised by France and England of their agreement, and ... ...them. Y ou will take no notice of that or any other alliance. Whenever the European 236 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five governments shall ... ...aged, a war may ensue between the United States and one, two, or even more European nations. War in any case is as exceptionable from the habits as it... ...vitable part of the discipline of nations. The dispute will be between the European and the Ameri- can branches of the British race. All who belong to...

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..., and only flung out, in return for Darrow’s bribe, the statement that the Americans had gone to Joigny. To pursue them there at that hour was manifes... ... off, she said. “I don t know, of course; but people say it’s owing to the Americans. Certainly my waiter had a way of slapping down the dishes...they... ...of this question she continued in a tone of suppressed indignation: “Until Americans get used to the fact that France is under water for half the year... ...iner. She somehow regards the match as a protest against the corruption of European morals. I told Owen that was his great chance, and he’s made the m...

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.... But Washington, they say, isn’t as bad as it used to be—since T eddy has Europeanized ‘em….” Even the Reverend Harold Benham took a subdued but thou... ...mplicity. Only the heroes of romance, and a few strong simple clean-shaven Americans have that much emotional integrity. (And even the Americans do at... ...again with a queer little worn book, a parallel vocabulary of half-a-dozen European languages. He turned over the pages and pointed to a word. “May! A... ...his is perhaps the innate disposi- tion of the human mind, at least of the European mind— for I have some doubts about the Chinese. Theology drives ob... .... The Manchus crippled them, spoilt their roads and broke their waterways. European intervention paralyses ev- ery attempt they make to establish orde... ...his host, a man robed in marvellous silks and subtle of speech even in the European languages he used, and meanwhile Prothero, it seemed, had gone dow...

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...pan had sent that day to China, claim- ing a priority in many matters over European influences they were by no means sure whether it was a wrong or a ... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ... saw how unfair it was to them in a light that has only shone plainly upon European life since the great interlude of the armed peace came to an end i...

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...hrooms in the houses he sold. He was fond of explaining why it was that no European ever bathed. Some one had told him, when he was twenty-two, that a... ...is lunch- period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Wel... ...er, “though,” she sighed, “it’s becoming too dreadfully banal; nothing but Americans and frowsy English baronesses.” And at that moment in Zenith, a c... ...out those subjects, together with three funny sto- 318 Babbitt ries about European misconceptions of America and some spirited words on the necessity...