...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ...t Miss Pinkerton’s academy “The very name,” George said. “Her father was a German Jew—a slave-owner they say—connected with the Cannibal 200 V anity ... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared... ...y handle them. To use a cue at billiards well is like using a pencil, or a German flute, or a small-sword—you cannot master any one of these implement... ...re—qui brenoit des sangviches dans la voiture,” said the courier in a fine German French. Kirsch emerging presently from the neighbourhood of the hold...

...intimated that she was secretly engaged to that popular character whom the novelists and versifiers call Another, and that such a marriage would make ... ...ciously with his dessert-knife. Mortimer proceeds. ‘We must now return, as novelists say, and as we all wish they wouldn’t, to the man from Somewhere.... ...rted, and re- turned. Lizzie, following him, arrived as one of the two fe- male domestics of the Fellowship Porters arranged on the snug little table ... ...dwise, and too many sharp angles of him angle-wise. One of those shambling male human creatures, born to be indiscreetly candid in the revelation of b... ..., but simply Mr Lammle’s room, so it would have been hard for stronger fe- male heads than Georgiana’ s to determine whether its frequent- ers were me... ... which you have no control, interpose obstacles between yourself and Small Germans, you can’t do better than bring a contented mind to hear on’— again... ...ard-grained face of Wegg, and in his stiff knotty figure (he looked like a German wooden toy), there was expressed a politic conciliation, which had n...