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...er to imply her differences in sensibility and re- sponse from the hardier male. Her hesitation marked the full gravity of her reply. “It’s just that,... ...ively unemployed minds during those first dramatic days, the days when the Germans made their great rush upon Paris and it seemed that France was down... ...edless, for catastrophic unemployment. The war prob- lem and the puzzle of German psychology ousted for a time all other intellectual interests; like ... ...several sermons upon Ger- man materialism and the astonishing decay of the German character. He also read every newspaper he could lay his hands on—li... ... tolerate the world as it is if it were not for smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of lucidity. Certainly these things soothe the...
...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them...
...thematics.” “Stuff! I dare say you have.” “I can read and write French and German.” “Hum!” He reflected a moment, then opening a drawer in a desk near... ...d gave it to me. “Can you read that?” he asked. 16 The Professor It was a German commercial letter; I translated it; I could not tell whether he was ... ...t may enable you to earn your board and lodging: since you know French and German, I will take you as second clerk to manage the for- eign corresponde... ...d back to M. Pelet’s. “Look at this little woman; is she like the women of novelists and romancers? To read of female character as de- picted in Poetr... ...ly soothed her. Juanna T rista remained in Europe long enough to repay, by malevolence and ingratitude, all who had ever done her a good turn; and she... ...ot like her thus, so I cut short the tete-a-tete and departed. CHAPTER XIX NOVELISTS SHOULD NEVER allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.... ... teeth, complexion, shape, which hold at bay the admiration of the boldest male cham- pions of intellect (for women can love a downright ugly man if h... .... I thought it represented a very handsome and very individual-looking fe- male face, with, as he had once said, “straight and harmonious features.” I...
... to deal, selecting the game to be played. 5 Balzac Spanish, English, and German, with sufficient fluency to lead one to suppose that they had lived ... ...ing to those persons who were addicted to the fantastic. Occasionally some German would take for realities these ingenious jests of Parisian evil- spe... ...see in the stranger some great criminal, the possessor of enormous wealth. Novelists described the old man’s life and gave some really interesting det... ...Sarrasine came to Paris to seek a refuge against the threats of a father’s malediction. Having one of those strong wills which know no obstacles, he o... ...s frantic admiration could not long escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing ... ...e red facets sparkled merrily. He recognized the singers from the theatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists...
...ead of a frank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disas... ... val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then, no kind of life... ...ed beyond his reach. Or sud- denly he became aware of the scent of another male and rose up roaring, his roars the formless precursors of moral admo- ... ...crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family for- 38 The World Set Free tunes, which were largely i... ... of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and us... ...her. From the day when man contrived himself a tool and suf- fered another male to draw near him, he ceased to be alto- gether a thing of instinct and... ...cutely aware of secu- lar change than their predecessors were. The earlier novelists tried to show ‘life as it is,’ the latter showed life as it chang... ... of the world coming about like a ship that sails into the wind. Our later novelists give a vast gallery of individual conflicts in which old habits a...
...was no game-preserver, and could be popu- lar whenever he chose, which Sir Males Papworth, on the other side of the river, a fast-handed Whig and terr... ...themselves look as much like the public as it was pos- sible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom al- 35 George Meredith ready felt Adrian’... ...e defied. A summer-shower of cards fell on the baronet’s table. He had few male friends. He shunned the Clubs as nests of scandal. The cards he contem... ... attribute their successes and reverses. They are useful impersonations to novelists; but my opinion is sufficiently high of flesh and blood to believ... ... dame, and my lady the hope of Raynham. Joy and blessings unto all! as the German poet sings. Lady Judith accepted the hand of her decrepit lord that ... ...ne awaits him fruitful within. We heard of him last that he was trying the German waters—preparatory to his undertaking the re- lease of Italy from th...
...nying it that he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia l... ...ng up the blind the servant was startled by the dis- covery that the whole male population of the village was massed in front, trampling down the flow... ...y. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of Eur... ...nd that there was no idea of any sort of “career” in my call. Of Russia or Germany there could be no question. The nationality, the antecedents, made ... ...he Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grinding at German, perhaps; but I was not past the age of admission, and in other resp...
...nying it that he was a great man as long as he was content to thrash those Germans and Austrians and all those nations. But no! He must go to Russia l... ...ling up the blind the servant was startled by the discovery that the whole male population of the village was massed in front, trampling down the 60 ... ...y. My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of Eur... ...nd that there was no idea of any sort of “career” in my call. Of Russia or Germany there could be no question. The nationality, the antecedents, made ... ... Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grind- ing at German, perhaps, but I was not past the age of admission, and in other resp...
...o stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creations, the inhab- itants of thi... ... French—mind her accents, though!—and she needn’t attempt any of the nasty German—kshrra-kouzzra- kratz!—which her pretty lips can’t do, and won’t do;... ...urs, was the reply. Robert had an impulse to rush by the stolid little fe- male liar, but Percy’s recent lesson to him acted as a restraint; though, h... ...n—it must be a quarter past. Or, a three quarters to the next hour, as the Germans say.” “Odd!” Robert ejaculated. “Foreigners have the queerest ways ...
...versation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and hum... ...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... ...ace all the females of the establishment in mourning; and desired that the male servants should be similarly attired in deep black. All parties and en... ...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... ...y handsome. But wherever she went she touched and charmed every one of the male sex, as invariably as she awakened the scorn and incredulity of her ow...
...ellion, on consideration of his own age and that of his wife, had set up a male domestic, aged fifteen, his son having by that time entered upon his d... ... harpy which is but the trumpet of envy and calumny, the pretext seized by malevolence to belittle all that is great, soil all that is immaculate and ... ...e in winter. The hour of the great Market, which so many of his cli- ents, male and female, attended, was the determining cause of Cerizet’s early hou... ...feast of Tantalus had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seem... ... of the insurrection in Hungary our ears were battered by the press and by novelists about the famous citadel of Komorn; and la Peyrade knew that by a...
...he inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grandson Giguet a paltry two thousand fran... ...rica. I’ll stay there long enough to make my promotion to the same post in Germany legitimate. If I am worth anything, they will soon take me out of i... ...e than Bixiou’s, I would have chosen it. As it was, I have profited by the malevo- lent curiosity which induces that amiable lepidopter to in- sinuate... ...First, Marianina’s brother has just married into a grand-ducal fam- ily of Germany. Immense sacrifices must have been required of the de Lanty family ... ...him to the spirit of party; shall you silence him every time he makes some malevolent insinuation about Monsieur de Sallenauve, and denies his honor a... ...s, recalled so little the week-day Desroches, dining in cafes with all the male and female viveurs of renown, that one of them, Malaga, a circus-rider... ...le; there is no such fertile source for com- pilers of causes celebres and novelists. In the eyes of the law, you must remember, the counterfeiting of...
... transmit my orders or translate my censures. And with all this, honest, sober, industrious, miserably smiling over the miserable issue of his own un-... ...d. (Remember that the last third of my road, about a mile, is all made out of a bridle-track by my boys—and my dollars. )It was supposed a white man h... ...lked late, and it was arranged I was to write up for Fanny, and we should both dine on the morrow. On the Friday, I was all forenoon in the Mission Ho... ...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...
...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 ...
...ave as remote and curious survivals, three other languages alone held sway—German, which reached to Antioch and Genoa and jostled Spanish- English at ... ...ge of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo. And everywhere now... ... as antique, curious gatherings. And even in the two Empires of Russia and Germany, the influence of his wealth was conceivably of enormous weight. Th... ...w they work, marry, bear children, die—” “Y ou get that from our realistic novelists,” suggested Ostrog, suddenly preoccupied. “I want reality,” said ... ...stly muscles was taken by some dexterous machine. The latter-day labourer, male as well as female, was essen- tially a machine-minder and feeder, a se...
... detect anything in the nature of a meal among this pleasing people; they seem to peck and trifle with viands all day long in an amateur spirit: tenta... ...ind my heart beat at the thought of this one. ’Tis to fail in life, but to fail with what a grace! That is not lost which is not regretted. And where ... ...aning than an oath or a salutation. We are so much ac- customed to see married couples going to church of a Sun- day that we have clean forgotten what... ...iation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensi- tive people; and their hearts are still hot,... ...asant little village, gath- ered round a chateau in a moat. The air was perfumed with hemp from neighbouring fields. At the Golden Sheep we found exce... ...ar in reality!’ He particularised a complaint for every joint in the landlady’s body. Timon was a philanthropist alongside of him. And then, when he w... ... digging and hoe- ing and making dinner, this company of coquettes under arms made quite a surprising feature in the landscape, and convinced us at on...
...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ...s and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavians, a German or two, and one Russian; all now belonging for ten ... ... and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with generous app... ...son, entirely inno- cent of English, adding heartily to the general effect. And perhaps the German mason is but a fair example of the sin- cerity with... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...
...pirit. Romeo and Juliet were very much in love; although they tell me some German critics are of a different opinion, probably the same who would have... ...not of the confraternity. The sentimental old maid is a commonplace of the novelists; and he must be rather a poor sort of human being, to be sure, wh... ...TORY of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus was going down at the head of the legions into a dangerous river... ...gions into a dangerous river – on the opposite bank the woods were full of Germans – when there flew out seven great eagles which seemed to marshal th... ...so in a negative sense; in short, they are the typical young ladies of the male novelist. To say truth, either Raeburn was timid with young and pretty... ...them well enough for the purposes of art. Take even the very best of their male creations, take Tito Melema, for instance, and you will find he has an...
... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...ons of love, and he felt in himself none of that uprush of emo- tion which novelists described; he was not car- ried off his feet in wave upon wave of... ... it’s a man, isn’t it?” “Why?” asked Philip. “They generally always like a male better,” said the attendant. “A female’s liable to have a lot of fat a... ...aging, and friendly . Like everyone connected with hospitals he found that male patients were more easy to get on with than female. The women were oft... ...ple don’t commit suicide for love, as you’d expect, that’s just a fancy of novelists; they com- mit suicide because they haven’t got any money . I won...
...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...