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...s I remount the stream, the absent values, the palpable voids, the missing links, the mocking shadows, that reflect, taken together, the early bloom o... ... cheque; but this had not been for her more than the shadow of an admitted link with Mrs. Condrip’s course. She disapproved of clamorous children for ... ...ith nothing in her but what he accounted for. She had grown red and almost fat, which were not happy signs of mourning; less and less like any Croy, p... ...where they had left off, but ever so much further on, and that these added links added still another between High Street and Notting Hill Gate, and th... ...ut of its rather dim windows. But this imagination—the fancy of a possible link with the re- markable young thing from New York—had mustered cour- age... ...t for her, there was doubtless some oddity in its now offering itself as a link, rather than as another break, in the chain; and indeed there might we... ... with hands in position and the look, in his thick neat white hair, smooth fat face and black pro- fessional, almost theatrical eyes, as of some famou...

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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...ge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Penn... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e THE TRIAL or MORE LINKS OF THE DAISY CHAIN By Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... ...spected, and Blanche always takes care to in- vite her to a safe seat on a fat scarlet cushion on the sofa (Mrs. Ledwich’s wedding present), when the ... ...ked him, and said he hoped to get off to Cambridge, he laughed that horrid fat laugh, and told him learning would never put him in good case. Where sh... ...rsal. The facts that have come to light are manifestly incomplete. Another link in the chain has yet to be added; and when it shall come forth, how wi... ...of the prisoner too late? Too late, when a young life of high promise, and linked by close family ties, and by bonds of ardent friendship with so many...

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... I find thee apt; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir ... ...h lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel link’d, Will sate itself in a celestial bed, And prey on garbage. But, so... ... politic worms are e’en at him. Y our worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your... ...o confess. KING CLAUDIUS : Our son shall win. QUEEN GERTRUDE : He’s fat, and scant of breath. Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows; Th...

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... vengeance: talk that the boys jerked out by fits, and that came as broken links of a chain impossible to connect. But they awake curiosity. The baron... ... Raynham at the scene he had just en- dured, and the figure of Belthorpe’s fat tenant burnt like hot copper on the tablet of his brain, insufferably c... ... It is true (of me, at least) that ‘Falstaff is only to us an incorrigible fat man.’ I want to know what he illustrates. And Don Quixote—what end can ... ... book than that ther’ Folly! Talk about attitudes!” The farmer laughed his fat sides into a chair, and motioned his visitor to do likewise. “It’s a co... ... of an eyebrow, that bursts upon the field of thousands. They will see the links of things as they pass, and wonder not, as foolish people now do, tha... ... a crack hotel, and living famil- iarly with West-End people—living on the fat of the land (which forms a stout portion of an honest youth’s romance),... ...haze. The day was like none that Richard vividly remembered. It touched no link in the chain of his recollection. It was quiet, and belonged to the sp... ... the mignonne, as if to excuse her conduct. “You always appear to be,” the fat one sniffed and snapped. “Won’t you warm two, Mrs. Mortimer?” said the ...

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...e day— They thought it a slam on colts. Robert Davidson I GREW spiritually fat living off the souls of men. If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded ... ...inverted thumb, like Elagabalus? And yonder is a broken chain, The weakest-link idea perhaps—but what was it? And lambs, some lying down, Others stand... ...winked at me as I asked for work— It was Wash McNeely’s son. He proved the link in the chain of title To half my ownership of the mansion, Through a b... ...f machine that’s known— 83 I could not run or play 47 I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men 59 I had fiddled all day at the county fai...

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... a flower; you must have her with the stem, the thorns, the roots, and the fat bedding of roses. In this fashion she grew, says historical fiction; th... ...urdened himself between succulent pauses. ‘They’ve killed him early. He ‘s fat; and he might ha’ been fatter. But he’s fat. They’ve got their Christma... ... worst for last, and home-fed filled them with stuff to make good meat and fat ‘what we calls prime bacon.’ As it is not right to damp a native enthus... ... it was no wonder that Andrew Hedger enjoyed prime bacon. Bacon frizzling, fat rashers of real homefed on the fire-none of your foreign-suggested a ge... ...east, sharp and ringing, at divers tables descending from the upper to the fat citizen’s, where, instead of coming in the sequence of talk, they are e... ...his detestable image of the white cat on the dead circle, he kicked at the links between his uncle and Diana Warwick, whatever they had been; particul... ...terly depaysee. Have you spoken to the poor soul? I can never discover the links of her attachment to my service.’ ‘She knows a good mistress.—I have ... ...r story, labelled for broad guffaw or deluge tears—the grap- pling natural links between our public and an author. Her feelings were aloof. They flowe... ...ellow ring of appositeness being the concordant note of deliveries running linked as they flashed, and a tolerant philosophy of the sage in the world ...

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...forgiveness too: I should have had to do with none but maids, That have no links with men. Ah false but dear, Dear traitor, too much loved, why?—why?... ...y-handed Baronet he, A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman, A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep, A raiser of huge melons and of pine, A patron ...

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...nwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and co... ... me why?’ ‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and ... ...chains like Marley’s Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scroog... ...ws to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: ‘Yo ho, there. Ebenezer. Dick.’ Scrooge’s former self,... ...nted to them, Scrooge ad vanced to listen to their talk. ‘No,’ said a great fat man with a monstrous chin,’ I don’t know much about it, either way. I... ...se were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of cor rupted fat, and sepulchres of bones. Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by ... ...the growth of vegetation’s death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place. The Spirit stood among the gr...

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... humble relative of the farmer’s, widowed out of Sus- sex, very loving and fat; the cook to the household, whose waist was dimly indicated by her apro... ...ble old woman snapped in pain, as she applied her hand to the inconsolable fat foot, and nursed it. “What’s roused ye, you tiger girl? I shan’t be abl... ...fidgety as a girl who anticipates the visit of a promising youth, over his fat goose for next day’s dinner, and his shrimps for this day’s tea, and hi... ..., were in peril. When he had purchased 69 George Meredith the well-probed fat goose, the shrimps, and the cheese, he was only half-satisfied. His ide... ...” she repeated, defiantly. “And it ain’t,” she gathered up her comfortable fat person to assist the words “it ain’t good—no, not the best pious ones—I... ... and sug- gest more. My excuse for dwelling upon him is, that he holds the link of my story. Where fools are numerous, one of them must be prominent n... ...lding a policeman, became stolid of aspect. The policeman was a connecting link with his City life, the true lord of his fearful soul. Though the mone...

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...r look piercing. The bloody answer given by the count at the banquet was a link mysteriously connecting the past with this premature confinement. That... ...ty in keeping with his puffy cheeks and rotund figure, the vivacity of his fat little body, and the frankness of his speech. He was anxious to marry t... ...omplaint or resistance, these attentions of the old retainer, but too many links were now broken between the hated child and other creatures to admit ... ...nto the secrets of the Immortal labor. His yearnings, his sorrows were the links that united him to the unseen world; he went there, armed with his lo... ...ed:— 76 The Hated Son “Because I too love flowers.” T o believe ourselves linked far back in the past by commu- nity of tastes, is not that a declara...

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...laud ing themselves as the authors of their own distinc- tion. He was of a fat habit, even from boyhood, and in- clined to a cheerful and cursory read... ...stand-off attitude of waiting; ay, and down to his shirt-sleeves and wrist-links, were seen by John through a luxurious glory. He valued himself by th... ...ed to his room, tore off the spot- ted trousers which seemed in his eyes a link to bind him to the gallows, flung them in a corner, donned another pai... ...an of the night before. ‘Here,’ he could not but reflect, ‘here is another link in the Judicial Error.’ The driver, on the other hand, was pleased to ... ...hose, his destination, thus possibly balking the Judicial Error of another link. This was his cunning aim, and now with one foot on the roadway, and o... ...o expose himself to capture on the very scene of the misdeed: conceive him linked to the mouldy cab and the familiar cabman. John cursed the cabman si...

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...be, of course, a mere nothing to Ferdinand, who handles millions with that fat banker, Baron de Nucingen. Sometimes, at dinner, in my presence, they s... ...furrow that united the upper lip with the nose. Her chin, white and rather fat, betrayed the violence of passion. 47 Balzac Her hands and arms were w... ...gn. But she had one ineradicable sign of low birth,—her foot was short and fat. No inherited quality ever caused greater distress. Florine had tried e... ... the rival of the innocent Madame de V andenesse. Raoul was the connecting link between the actress and the countess,—a knot severed by a duchess in t...

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...enimore Cooper the desolation; the earliest fruits of a soil that had been fat- tened with human blood. The whole landscape, which, seen by a favoring... ...If a rock, or a rivulet, or a bit of earth harder than common, severed the links of the clew they followed, the true eye of the scout recovered them a... ...a nation of mourners. The sounds of the battle were over, and they had fed fat their ancient grudge, and had avenged their recent quarrel with the Men... ...from the ex- tremes of the other continent, and which form of themselves a link to connect the ancient histories of the two worlds. She called him the... ...tten. Through the medium of the scout, who served for years afterward as a link between them and civilized life, they learned, in answer to their inqu...

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...o Hollingsworth. “But how can there possibly be any interest or connecting link between him and her?” “The old man, for years past,” whispered Holling... ...t had been accomplished. And here, to day, was the questionable Professor, linking one with the other in his in quiries, and seeking communication wi... ...ntly inspired her with horror and disgust. “With what kind of a being am I linked?” cried she. “If my Creator cares aught for my soul, let him release... ...vement appeared to make them only the more sen sible of the ponderous and fat satisfaction of their existence. Peeping at me an instant out of their ... ...,” said Silas Foster, giving my hand a mighty squeeze. “I shall have these fat fellows hanging up by the heels, heads down ward, pretty soon, I tell ... ...time, among his distant relatives,—with whom he had grown a weary thought, linked with contagious infamy, and which they were only too will ing to ge... .... He spoke of a new era that was dawning upon the world; an era that would link soul to soul, and the present life to what we call futurity, with a cl...

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...pect that Harold did not refrain from producing needle and thread from his fat miscellaneous pocket-book, and repairing her many disas- ters before th... ...ld, as the train steamed out of the station, was bearing on his shoulder a fat child—a potter’s—who had just arrived by the train, and had been scream... ...my loss which is far better than compassion. For himself, he said his last link with the world was gone, he found the peace, and the expression of pen...

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...n the sea. I have seen her. Have you seen her, too, O Haji Wasub?” “Am I a fat white man?” snapped the serang. “I was a man of the sea before you were... ...e a strange man. I suppose I must believe what you say—unless you and that fat mate of yours are a couple of escaped lunatics that got hold of a brig ... ..., nor angry words; and curses have no power, else the Dutch would not grow fat living on our land, and I would not be alive to-night. Do you under- st... ...As if this was any concern 185 Joseph Conrad of mine. He’s as mad as he’s fat—or else he puts it on.” Carter laughed a little and leaned his shoulder... ...k dog, invisible, and chained to a deck-ringbolt, whined, rattled the thin links, pat- tered with his claws in his distress at the unfamiliar surround... ...uddenly his eyes became stony with amazement and indignation; he pointed a fat and trembling fore- finger. 193 Joseph Conrad “Niggers,” he said, husk...

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...show of grandfathers and grandmothers, if there was one like Uncle Roger’s fat cattle shows. You know she thinks nothing of walking twice to church on... ...t say—let me see— 70 Henrietta’s Wish ‘And still Thy Church’s faith Shall link, in all her prayer and praise, Thy glory with Thy death.’ So you see, ... ...bow on the part of the heir apparent, when about to change places with his fat friend, was strongly suspected of being for the purpose of turning over... ... leaf. It was with great spirit that the parting appeal was given, “Banish fat Jack, and banish all the world!” And there was great applause when fat ... ... so will Philip.” “And is Fanny Evans as pretty as ever?” “Oh! grown quite fat and coarse,” said Jessie; “but you may judge for yourself on Monday. De... ...fe; and even with the fair peaceful image of her beloved mother, there was linked a painful memory of a long course of wilfulness and domi- neering on...

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...wn low over his stomach, which was rather protuberant, for he was somewhat fat. He wore blue trousers, black silk stockings, and shoes with ribbon tie... ... trinkets, was under the yoke of this Catherine II. of commerce. Short and fat, harnessed with spectacles and a shirt-collar worn above his ears, he w... ...ndering eyes. Madame Roguin, Constance, and Cesarine formed, as it were, a link which united the three types of feminine aristocracy to the com- merci... ... and in the quartier Saint- Lazare and at Tivoli, we shouldn’t be, as that fat Nucingen says, in peaseness at all. What’s the Madeleine to us?—a midge... ...live in hovels like Claparon,” said Gigonnet. “Hey! mein freint,” said the fat Nucingen to du Tillet, “you haf joust missed blaying me a bretty drick ... ...ur breakfast,” said Madame Lourdois. “You are doing well, then?” asked the fat Lourdois. “No, monsieur, I have lived from hand to mouth, that I might ... ...d space of light; it is impossible to forget that the history of France is linked to those walls. The stairway should therefore be imposing in charact...

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...ed him,—”philosophically to- tally wrong, my Marco. Those affirmatives are fat worms for the catching of fish. They are the real pretty fruit of the H... ...schief; she may do mischief; let it be only on the right Side!” “She looks fat.” “She sits doubled up and forward, don’t you see, to relieve 17 Georg... ...ve 17 George Meredith the poor donkey. Y ou, my Giulio, would call a swan fat if the neck were not always on the stretch.” “By Bacchus! what a throat... ...attles on their shroud-shirts, and a North-east wind blowing them upon our fat land. Or take a turn at the other side toward Orta, and look out for an... ...ntentions and deeds. Nothing of the sort! There is only the intention of a link to unite them. You perceive? It’s much to be famous for fine intention... ...g to bed at her proper time when I am out.’ ‘Signorina,’ rejoined Zotti, a fat little round-headed man, with vivacious starting brown eyes, ‘I have on... ...in the Piazza of La Scala. The ceremony was cordially renewed. Luciano un- linked his arm from Carlo and left him. ‘It appears that you are mistaken w... ...It is possible that he has children, and children like bread.’ Wilfrid was linking his arm to De Pyrmont’s, when, with a vivid recollection of old tim... ...s bed; he could stand, and he smiled. “That Jacopo is just now the nearest link to me,” he said, when she related her having seen the two men guarded ...

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...least 62 The First Men in the Moon of the almost brainless head, with its fat-encumbered neck, its slobbering omnivorous mouth, its little nostrils, ... .... I drummed with my fingers on the floor between my knees, and gritted the links of my fetters together. Presently I was forced to talk again. “What d... ...rse course course WHEN AT LAST we had made an end of eating, the Selenites linked our hands closely together again, and then untwisted the chains abou... ...ed to set free some pent-up reserve of en- ergy in my being. Instantly the link of the wrist-chain snapped, and with it snapped all considerations tha... ... the blue backs of the Selenites were receding into the darkness. I bent a link by main force and untwisted the chain that had ham- pered me about the... ...ke kittens round a beetle. They didn’t know what to do with the stuff. The fat little man stooped and lifted the end of one of the bars, and then drop... ...e was a pause, a doubt who should answer me. “It’s near the ebb,” said the fat little man. “Well, anyhow,” I said, “it won’t float far.” I decapitated... ...early upset, and recovered with some exertion. “Not a bit of it,” said the fat young man. “Don’t you imagine that!” and they all got up and dis- perse... ...nt on 136 The First Men in the Moon with my third egg. “The weather,” the fat little man remarked presently, “has been immense, has it not? I don’t k...