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...ly busi- ness I had still to handle; the second, the place that I was in. The tall, black city, and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk... ...durable.” But I had other matters on my hand more pressing. Here I was in this old, black city, which was for all the world like a rabbit-warren, not ... ...at’s all this? A Whig? Then why are you here with Alan’s button? and what kind of a black-foot traffic is this that I find ye out in, Mr. Whig? Here i... ... liked the business as little as myself, for it was fair ruin to the pair of us – a black mark, disaffected, branded on our hurdies, like folk’s names... ... my judicial duty only second. For the same reason – I repeat it to you in the same frank words – I do not want your testimony.” “I desire not to be t... ...er of your country, good gov- ernment, and religious truth.” “You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,” said I. “I will try on my side t... ... seen her the once. I’ll not deny,” I added, making up my mind to try her with some frankness, “I’ll not deny but she has run in my head a good deal s... ...ere to regard yourself in the light of my guest?” “Sir,” said he, “when an offer is frankly made, I think I honour myself most to imitate that frankne... ... me by the coat, “what is it you drink in the morning, whether ale or wine?” “To be frank with you, sir,” says I, “I drink nothing else but spare, col...

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... smile. He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden ... ...an a dozen doctors. For I love him dearly, and I don’t love doctors, or doctors’ stuff.’ Mr. Jasper is a dark man of some six-and-twenty, with thick, ... ...nces it to the Dean as an established discovery. In a suit of coarse flannel with horn buttons, a yellow neckerchief with draggled ends, an old hat mo... ... - courage to tell only you. Hold me! Stay with me! I am too frightened to be left by myself.’ The lustrous gipsy-face drooped over the clinging arms ... ...g manner, ‘we had better not qualify our good understanding. We had better not say anything having the appearance of a remonstrance or condition; it m... ...em generous. Frankly and freely, you see there is no anger in Ned. Frankly and freely, there is no anger in you, Mr. Neville?’ ‘None at all, Mr. Jaspe... ...g what I now know from you, and you living under my roof. Whatever prejudiced and unauthorised constructions your blind and envious wrath may put upon... ...hing until Neville put his key in his door; then, seeming to make sure of his identity from the action, he spoke: ‘I beg your pardon,’ he said, coming... ...dote in point, but that it would be premature.’ ‘If Miss Rosa will allow me, then? Let the gentleman come in,’ said Mr. Crisparkle. The gentleman came...

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...ncy. So did his manner, which was soft and oily. In a word, even his plain black suit, and state of widower and dangling double eye-glass, all tended ... ...th the gathering too, on her lips, for that matter. She had still a bright black eye, and jet black hair; was comely, dimpled, plump, and tight as a g... ... his straggling locks of long grey hair, were rendered whiter by the tight black velvet skullcap which he wore, he searched her face intently. ‘Ah! yo... ...at it would have been hard to determine whether it was originally white or black. But he wore a moustache—a shaggy moustache too; nothing in the meek ... ...for Slyme. Any other man in the wide world, I am equal to; but Slyme is, I frankly con- fess, a great many cuts above me. Therefore you are wrong.’ ‘I... ... wish it, I will. I—I am very glad,’ said Tom, smiling with an embarrassed frank- ness peculiarly his, and which was as plainly a confession of his ow... ...acy in speaking plainly. Don’t mind me, I beg. I don’t like him I tell you frankly. I am with him because it happens from particular circumstances to ... ...n by their lessons only. Unspoiled, unpampered in her joys or griefs; with frank and full, and deep affection for the object of her early love; she sa... ... with a question, I’ll ask you how you like the colonel?’ ‘You are so very frank,’ returned Martin, ‘that I have no hesita- tion in saying I don’t lik...

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...of a river. Then on through a brown liquid, three parts water and one part black earth, on and on between the low shores, three parts black earth and ... ...ighway of the Far East. Darkness and gleams on the water, clear stars on a black sky, perhaps the lights of a home steamer keep- ing her unswerving co... ...wife, a flat bituminous oil-painting representing the profile and one long black ringlet of a young woman, faced his bedplace. Three chronometers tick... ... daughter, her husband, and two fat-legged babies—his grandchildren—set in black frames into the maple-wood bulkheads of the cuddy. After breakfast he... ...cts, she judged, were good. Good enough, at any rate, to make her tell him frankly that with two hundred pounds she could make a start. He had torn th... ...m to let it dwindle in his hands for want of use. The uproarious, choleric frankness of his comments on people’s character and conduct caused him to b... ...he had been in the Sofala he had never been known to exchange as much as a frank Good-morning with any of his shipmates. He did not seem aware that me... ...brows were straight, furry, of a chestnut color, and the directness of his frank gaze seemed to tremble on the verge of impudence. Captain Whalley had... ...with Massy, became very incisive— 101 Joseph Conrad “Indeed—if I am to be frank with you—his whole character does not seem to me particularly estimab...

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...purity. The river doubled among the hillocks, a shining strip of mirror glass; and the dip of the paddles set the flowers shaking along the brink. In ... ... the brink. In the meadows wandered black and white cattle fantas- 22 Robert Louis Stevenson tically marked. One beast, with a white head and the res... ...lling all that was fortunate in his little existence. No schoolboy could have talked more of the 31 The Inland V oyage holidays which were just begin... ...utation inspecting the canoes. There was a stout gentleman with a knowl- edge of the river, which he seemed eager to impart. There was a very elegant ... ... the trees that grow along their summit. It was too high up, too large, and too steady for a kite; and as it was dark, it could not be a star. For alt... ...k,’ he said; ‘that is what makes a good workman; it kindles a spark.’ We asked him how he managed in La Fere. ‘I am married,’ he said, ‘and I have my ... ...eemed. And here were females of our own species playing croquet, just as if Precy had been a place in real life, instead of a stage in the fairyland o...

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...zard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes—go... ...eeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings. One peculiarity of his black clothes and of his black stockings, be they silk or worsted, is that ... ... papa either, but I felt more interested about my mama. I had never worn a black frock, that I could recollect. I had never been shown my mama’s grave... ...indeed—a stranger. A portly, important looking gentle man, dressed all in black, with a white cravat, large gold watch seals, a pair of gold eye glas... ...” Richard shook him by both hands with an intuitive mixture of respect and frankness, and only saying (though with an earnestness that rather alarmed ... ... prince, at last, objecting to this, “in which,” said Mr. Skimpole, in the frankest manner, “he was perfectly right,” the engagement terminated, and M... ...let me tell you: a penny saved is a penny got!” I believe Richard’s was as frank and generous a nature as there possibly can be. He was ardent and bra... ...ng with Mr. Snagsby, which he always offers with a sort of ar gumentative frankness, “hard up! My little woman is not in general partial to strangers... ...he united tenderness of two angels to guard him—I shall go. He proposes to frank me down and back again. I suppose it will cost money? Shillings per ...

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...zard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes—go... ...eeches tied with ribbons, and gaiters or stockings. One peculiarity of his black clothes and of his black stockings, be they silk or worsted, is that ... ... papa either, but I felt more interested about my mama. I had never worn a black frock, that I could recollect. I had never been shown my mama’s grave... ...indeed—a stranger. A portly, important looking gentle man, dressed all in black, with a white cravat, large gold watch seals, a pair of gold eye glas... ...” Richard shook him by both hands with an intuitive mixture of respect and frankness, and only saying (though with an earnestness that rather alarmed ... ... prince, at last, objecting to this, “in which,” said Mr. Skimpole, in the frankest manner, “he was perfectly right,” the engagement terminated, and M... ...let me tell you: a penny saved is a penny got!” I believe Richard’s was as frank and generous a nature as there possibly can be. He was ardent and bra... ...ng with Mr. Snagsby, which he always offers with a sort of ar gumentative frankness, “hard up! My little woman is not in general partial to strangers... ...he united tenderness of two angels to guard him—I shall go. He proposes to frank me down and back again. I suppose it will cost money? Shillings per ...

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...e calico with red spots, costumes), but amongst them there was a girl in a black dress sewn over with gold half moons, very high in the neck and very ... ...one and idle, stared abstractedly. The girl costumed as Night wore a small black velvet mask, what is called in French a “loup.” What made her daintin... ...s so good that it was saved from the danger of banality only by the mobile black eyes of a keenness that one doesn’t meet every day in the south of Fr... ...ort of contemptuous affection. He generalized, he particularized about the blacks; he told anecdotes. I was 14 The Arrow of Gold interested, a little... ...and of the most seductive gentle- ness. She offered her hand to Mills very frankly as to an old friend. Within the extraordinarily wide sleeve, lined ... ...aid was removing the cups and the plates with brusque move- ments. I gazed frankly at Dona Rita’s profile, irregular, ani- mated, and fascinating in a... ..., 60 The Arrow of Gold and a friendly turn of the head. “I know you for a frank and loyal gentleman… Adventure— and books? Ah, the books! Haven’t I t... ...s is not in us. The fault is in life itself, I suppose. I have been always frank with you.” “And I obedient,” he said, bowing low over her hand. He tu... ... be marrying the heiress of Henry Allegre.” It was the first time that the frank word, the clear idea, came into the conversation and it made me feel ...

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...case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ‘four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they began to sing’ (... ...ted in your wish To supersede all warblers here below, And be the only Blackbird in the dish; And then you overstrain yourself, or so, And... ... But passion most dissembles, yet betrays Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest, it displays Its workin... ..., Waved and o’ershading her wan cheek, appears Her streaming hair; the black curls strive, but fail, To hide the glossy shoulder, which upre... ...h like nectar stream’d; Their throats were ovens, their swoln tongues were black, As the rich man’s in hell, who vainly scream’d To beg the be... ...short armistice with truth. He had travell’d ‘mongst the Arabs, Turks, and Franks, And knew the self loves of the different nations; And havin... ... The Heracleidan blood might own. Trust not for freedom to the Franks They have a king who buys and sells; In native ... ...y of his train came, rank on rank; He gave the word, — ‘Arrest or slay the Frank. ’ Then, with a sudden movement, he withdrew His daughter; wh... ...ne. Yet there will still be bards: though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought; And the unquiet feelings, which first wo...

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... by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two.” The Frankeleyn’s Tale L ANDFALL AND DEPARTURE mark the rhythmical swing of a se... ...or so of their married life. There was also another woman there in a plain black dress, quite gray-haired, sitting very erect on her chair with some s... ...recision of steel moved by white steam and living by red fire and fed with black coal. The other seems to draw its strength from the very soul of the ... ...nd, the vision of ships frozen in a row, appearing vaguely like corpses of black vessels in a white world, so silent, so lifeless, so soulless they se... ...at was another matter altogether. He was a big, swarthy Netherlander, with black moustaches and a bold glance. He always began by shoving me into a ch... ...f- indulgence. Long anger, the sense of his uncontrolled power, spoils the frank and generous nature of the West Wind. It is as if his heart were corr... ...tired Titan, or else remained lost in a mood of idle sadness known only to frank natures. All was still to the westward; we looked in vain towards his... ...th or forty south of the Equator, is charac- terized by an open, generous, frank, barbarous reck- lessness. For he is a great autocrat, and to be a gr... ... heartiest expres- sions of attachment to his person and admiration of his frank and conciliatory manner to his subordi- nates.” And Sir Robert Stopfo...

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...ing home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was... ...of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness—frightened to, I could see that—but carrying it off... ... and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good. Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the... ...an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Black Mail House is what I call the place with the door, in consequence. Th... ...ster Hyde, if he were studied,” thought he, “must have secrets of his own; black secrets, by the look of him; secrets compared to which poor Jekyll’s ... ...so, sir, indeed,” returned the butler. “It is well, then that we should be frank,” said the other. “We both think more than we have said; let us make ...

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...e had taken refuge in a church, but they dragged him out and took him to a blacksmith to have chains put on his feet; the smith however said he would ... ...og;” the Earl of Pembroke, “Joseph the Jew;” and the Earl of Warwick, “the black dog.” Meantime, the king and he were wasting the treasury, and doing ... ...they could not forget the names he had called them, and he was beheaded on Blacklow Hill. Edward was full of grief and anger for the cruel death of hi... ...ere was one great sea-fight off Sluys, when the king sat in his ship, in a black velvet dress, and gained a great victory; but it was a good while bef... ... He was very hand- some, and skilled in all sports and games, and had such frank, free manners, that the people felt as if they had one of their best ... ...o the common people; and he would do good-natured things, and speak with a frank, open manner, that was much liked. England was prosperous, too, and s... ...hem openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very curious discoveries. One of... ...m on the tops of churches or tall buildings; they are called conduc- tors. Franklin was a plain-spoken, homely dressing man; and when he was sent to P... ... war news flew faster than ever it had done before. You heard how Benjamin Franklin found that electricity— that strange power of which lightning is t...

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...st. Twenty years and more he labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He recorded the talk of Johnson and his associates ... ...ad been in some degree personally related with him, from Bet Flint and his black servant Francis, to the adored Duchess of Devonshire and the King him... ...Floyer, then a phy- sician in Lichfield. Johnson used to talk of this very frankly; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of ... ... somehow a sort of solemn rec- ollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood.’ This touch, however, was without any effect. I ventured to say... ...pt a school for young children in Lichfield. He told me she could read the black letter, and asked him to borrow for her, from his father, a bible in ... ...he names of Mr. Hawkins the Poetry Pro- fessor, Mr. Shenstone, Sir William Blackstone, and others; not forgetting the celebrated popu- lar preacher, M... ...ing of his very enter- taining conversation. It was here that he made that frank and truly original confession, that ‘ignorance, pure ignorance,’ was ... ...o may acquire a great deal of knowledge.’ To such a degree of unrestrained frankness had he now accustomed me, that in the course of this evening I ta... ...ar his account of this memorable conversa- tion, Dr. Joseph Warton, in his frank and lively 190 Boswell’s Life of Johnson manner, was very active in ...

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...r inebriate, and the haul- ing off to captivity of the three braves of the black dragon on a yellow ground, and the tying of them together back to bac... ...the shell, and seeing him with her sex’s eyes first of all men. She talked frankly of her cousins and friends, young males. She could have replied to ... ...rds’ eggs and stuffed birds of every English kind, kingfish- ers, yaffles, black woodpeckers, goat-sucker owls, more mouth 30 The Egoist than head, w... ...rough not forfeiting his own. Those were proud and happy days when he rode Black Norman over to Upton Park, and his lady looked forth for him and knew... ...ll be a novelty to our neighbourhood and an animation of the Hall.” “To be frank, rogue does not rightly match with me.” “Take her for a supplement.” ... ...ing my absence. I will write. I shall hear from you? Come and see me mount Black Norman. My respects to your father. I have no time to pay them in per... ...pital. She was femi- nine indeed, but she wanted comradeship, a living and frank exchange of the best in both, with the deeper feelings un- troubled. ... ...-season. Constantia … can it he told? She had been, be it said, a fair and frank young merchant with him in that season; she was of a nature to be a m... ...rse. His experience of a section of the world had educated him—as gallant, frank, and manly a comrade as one could wish for—up to this point. But he s...

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...searchingly). Have ye ever haird of a bad charac- ter in these seas called Black Paquito? DRINKWATER (with a sudden radiance of complete enlight- enme... ...: Ev aw said a word agin him? Ev aw nah? RANKIN. But is Captain Brassbound Black Paquito then? DRINKWATER. Waw, it’s the nime is blessed mather give i... ...lidy mawt call er little boy Birdie. RANKIN (not quite convinced). But why black Paquito? DRINKWATER (artlessly). Waw, the bird in its netral stite be... ...Y. What a pleasant face your sailor friend has, Mr. Rankin! He has been so frank and truthful with us. You know I don’t think anybody can pay me a gre... ...e is now a converted man. LADY CICELY. Of course he is. His telling you so frankly proves it. You know, really, Howard, all those poor people whom you... ...m. LADY CICELY. Captain Brassbound: I have heard all that before about the blacks; and I found them very nice people when they were properly treated. ... ...Sunday School! The darlings would love this place, with all the camels and black men. I’m sure you would enjoy having them here, Captain Brassbound; a...

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... O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power .............70 127 In the old age black was not counted fair, .............70 128 How oft, when thou, my m... ...thy beauty’s legacy? Nature’s bequest gives nothing but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free. Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou... ...hadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, ... ... My sweet love’s beauty, though my lover’s life: His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, And they shall live, and he in them still green. S... ...l of beauty can forbid? O, none, unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 39 66 Ti... ...the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in res...

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...U!? Those growling sounds weren’t funny, you idiot! And look…you made me drop an expensive piece of equipment. Hard to believe you’re a professional, Frank.” Sarah took a slow, deep breath to calm her nerves. He slipped off his leather jacket. “Oh, come on. I even bought a proper Indiana Jones fedora for the occasion.” Her cheeks grew hot as she stared at the safari shi...

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... like a fine lady from sleepless- ness and vapours; he would fall into the blackest melanchol- 42 Robert Louis Stevenson ies, and be filled with remo... ...by his dog; and the dog, “scouring in long excursion,” scampered with four black paws across the linen. This brought the two into conversation; when J... ...; for they are often as polished and elaborate as his ear- lier works were frank, and headlong, and colloquial; and this 54 Robert Louis Stevenson so... ...o, if Burns helped to change the course of literary history, it was by his frank, direct, and masterly utterance, and not by his homely choice of subj... ...rom a letter to a mother, unknown to Whitman, whose son died in hospital:– Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requi site in surgical treatment, nu... ...ark’d that many a man’s conversation in his senses was not half so good as Frank’s delirium. He was perfectly willing to die – he had become very weak... ... that of a good man. He knew that what the mother wished to hear about was Frank; and he told her about her Frank as he was. V. SOMETHING SHOULD BE SA... ...e than the merest smattering of knowledge; whereas his ac- quaintance with blackguard haunts and industries could only have been acquired by early and... ...nd an enduring and most unmanly resent- ment; Regnier de Montigny, a young blackguard of good 122 Robert Louis Stevenson birth; and Colin de Cayeux, ...