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... through the grimy streets of Port Burdock with his eye on the first floor windows—looking for balconies. A ladder in the yard flooded his mind with r... ...p was over; he had reached the sta- tus of an Improver, and he dressed the window of the Manchester department. By all the standards available he dres... ...” he used to say, “there’s one thing about my position here,—I can dress a window.” And when trouble was under discussion he would hold that “little F... ...idity and be- come excessively irritable, but the cousin’s wife was a born manager, and contrived to get along with him. Our Mr. Polly’s status was th... .... Won’t let me shop, she won’t, because I’m so keerless. She’s a wonderful manager, that girl. Minnie’s got some work at the carpet place. ‘Ope it won... ...9 H G Wells Presently Minnie came in with some vague grievance against the manager of the carpet-making place about his method of estimating piece wor... ...in’t there no police here?” and it was evident that once more public opin- ion was rallying to the support of Mr. Polly. “Oh, come on then all the LOT...

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... more or less fantastic costumes as far as possible removed from the fash- ion of the day, with be-ribboned caps above their curled and powdered ‘head... ...he heads on wooden nutcrackers carved in Ger- many. Peeping in through the window-panes, I gazed at the battered bodies, and ill-jointed limbs (how th... ... 31 Balzac “No, M. le Chevalier.” “Oh, well; he flung the purse out of the window to a sweeper in the courtyard, and said to his grandson, ‘Then they ... ...ved courtyard in front, where the rose-bushes grew and clambered up to the windows of the upper story. Behind lay a little country garden, with its bo... ...ay, and to postpone business of every kind for three days. He wheedled the manager of the coach-office, made up a tale for his benefit—he had the mak-...

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...e stone piers, great staircases, and thick walls pierced with small sunken windows—fortifications against the moun- tain storms, as if they had been h... ...vived from her fainting fit. A dull light placed in the deep recess of the window, made little impression on the arched room. The visitor timidly step... ...ernal pull from within. He was no sooner within than the pad of the little window in the back of the chariot disappeared, and his eye usurped its plac... ... all events, they would go in a contrary direction from their late compan- ion. He soon saw them in a neighbouring bye-street, which was not a thoroug... ...he won- derful Bank, of which he was the chief projector, establisher, and manager, was the latest of the many Merdle wonders. So modest was Mr Merdle... ...andy replied: ‘I am heartily of your opinion, Thomas, and which your opin- ion is the same as mine, and therefore no more words and not being backward... ...ked out to me, and mention it. Personally,’ said Mr Rugg, ‘I have no opin- ion on the topic.’ ‘That’s well,’ returned Arthur. ‘Oh! None at all, sir!’ ...

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...osolio. The truth is, at ten I had an appointment under a certain person’s window, who was to have been looking at the moon at that hour, with her pre... ... pretty quilled nightcap on, and her blessed hair in papers. There was the window shut, and not so much as a candle in it; and though I hemmed and haw... ...ang a song of which Somebody was very fond, and even threw a pebble at the window, which hit it exactly at the opening of the lattice,—I woke no one e... ...ble concern. On this point I could not surely do better than ask the opin- ion of Mr. Brough. Mr. B. told me that shares could not be had but at a pre... ... Brough carriage-and-four was seen at our house. But Mrs. Brough was a bad manager; and, instead of carry- ing matters with a high hand, fairly burst ...

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... red-and-white rough-cast villas, with meretricious gables and very brassy window-blinds. Behind the Avenue was a little hill, and an iron-fenced path... ...ntimation whatever that the blinds would ever 6 Ann Veronica go up or the windows or doors be opened, or the chande- liers, that seemed to promise su... ...y received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in the ... ...rather the master, you know.” The idea struck him as novel. “Of course I’m manager for this expedition,” he said, after an interval of self-examinatio...

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...d his morals on the Platonic model, yet he perfectly agreed with the opin ion of Aristotle, in considering that great man rather in the quality of a ... ...suing scene. And not only the poets, but the masters of these poets, the managers of playhouses, seem to be in this secret; for, besides the aforesa... ... as unwilling to draw on himself the indignation of Mr. Wilks (his brother manager) for making the audience wait, had bribed these his harbingers to b... ...ou, by right and wrong. To take away my girl’s bird was wrong, in my opin ion; and my neighbour Allworthy may do as he pleases; but to encourage boys... ... from serenading his patient every hunting morning with the horn under his window, it was impossible to withhold him; nor did he ever lay aside that h... ...ent hands on the horses, for whose escape from the stable no place but the window was left open, he next applied himself to his sister; soft ened and... ...ges say, there is not much in it.”—”I dare not, madam, set up my own opin ion,” says Sophia, “against the best judges, but there ap pears to me a gr... ... some place of shelter from the approaching danger; and if the well barred windows did admit their exit, would venture their necks to escape the threa... ...o with the fantastic and capricious behaviour of the Passions, who are the managers and directors of this theatre (for as to Reason, the patentee, he ...

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...oor”—(replied my Mother.) “it does indeed.” (cried I.) “I am of your opin- ion; (said my Father) it certainly does appear to proceed from some uncommo... ...andestine Mar- riage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opin- ion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accept- ing any proposals... ...Great as was my astonishment, it was yet increased, when on looking out of Windows, I beheld the Husband of Philippa, with Philippa by his side, on th... ...accepted; our Company was indeed rather small, as it consisted only of the Manager his wife and ourselves, but there were fewer to pay and the only in... ... most admired Performances was MacBeth, in which we were truly great. The Manager always played Banquo himself, his Wife my Lady MacBeth. I did the ... ...btained the two Hundred Pounds, we instantly left the T own, leav- ing our Manager and his Wife to act MacBeth by them- selves, and took the road to S... ... an horrible East wind —said her Mother—I assure you I can hardly bear the window down—But you are used to be blown about by the wind Miss Maria and t...

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...ly noticed this stranger; he had observed him continually peeping into the window of Marr’s shop; and had thought this act, connected with the man’s a... ...ore immediately fatal to such an attack than any alarm given from an upper window to the passengers in the street. Through one half-minute the poor pa... ... in considerable doubt whether he had any sure means of egress. There were windows, he knew, to the back; but upon what ground they opened, he seems t... ...hom the mere decencies of justice must have compelled to ac- knowledge the manager’s trouble and expense on their be- half; but what was the degree of... ... there he insists upon an exceptional case. There is a moral, in his opin- ion, hanging like a tassel of gold bullion from the ‘Iliad;’— and what is i...

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...ce of hoar-frost gathers about a straw that the wind has blown against the window-sill. For the past ten months she had made a reality of her cousin’s... ...posy in the course of their walk. The lady ran upstairs, and in a moment a window on the second floor was thrown open, and she appeared at it, but acc... ... he leaned forward to see the lady again, and in fact she was again at the window. Ashamed of being caught gazing at the hood under which her admirer ... ... we are all so much on here, that it was necessary to close the Opera. The manager is as drunk as a cornet-a-piston; he is hiccuping already.” “Oh, Jo... ...neffe household of a relation who combines the functions of a lady compan- ion and a housekeeper; but she suffered from none of the humiliations which... ...our old and valued friendship that I—” “Well, well,” said the departmental manager, seeing Hulot’s face clouded with embarrassment, “I will take mysel...

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...he wind and draughts of air, blowing into the palace through the doors and windows, and through the chinks in the walls, caused them to gutter and bur... ... England 34 one day when he was at work, the devil looked in at the little window, and tried to tempt him to lead a life of idle pleasure; whereupon, ... ..., galloped to the house, surrounded it, forced their way in (the doors and windows be ing closed when they came up), and killed the man of Dover at h... ...at name from the colour of the armour he wore to set off his fair complex ion, continuing to burn and destroy in France, roused John into determined ... ...n, as he did most other conspiracies; and it was well for one of its chief managers—that same Lord Wilmot who had assisted in Charles’ s flight, and w...

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... from her shelf, began to weigh the fates of Tom Jones, his female compan ion, and Partridge, against the landlord, his wife, and maid; all which hun... ...d! madam,” says she, “how should I have imagined that a lady of your fash ion would appear in such a dress? I am sure, madam, if I had once suspected... ... to entertain a bad opinion of her because she conceived a very good opin ion of him. But, whatever censures may be passed upon her, it is my busin... ...lf again on his pillow, a screech owl had given him such a serenade at his window, that he leapt in a most horrible affright from his bed, and, huddli... ...ections, that, “if we shut Nature out at the door, she will come in at the window; and that puss, though a madam, will be a mouser still.” In the same... ...il of a fellow he is. He can take me up with one hand, and throw me out at window; and he would, too, if he did but imagine—” “Pogh!” says the excis... ...ole furniture of the infernal regions hath long been ap propriated by the managers of playhouses, who seem lately to have laid them by as rubbish, ca...

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...pers something about sacraments, he will threaten to ‘throw him out of the window if he mention such a thing.’ Happy these, we may say; but to the res... ... considerable impatience for his sacra- ments; sends more than once to the window, to see whether they are not coming. Be of comfort, Louis, what comf... ...athsome sick-bed; but dull, unnoticed there: for they that look out of the windows are quite darkened; the cistern-wheel moves discordant on its axis;... ...torical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beautifying ... ...ns, Asses- sors), could not prevent it; such was the force of public opin- ion. He, with his Echevins, and the Six-and-Twenty Town-Coun- cillors, all ... ...s with the cold dastard spurt of their pen, has been driven—into a Commun- ion of Drudges! For now, moreover, there have come the strang- est confused... ...Four Elements did the Anarch Old, has an august Assembly spread its pavil- ion; curtained by the dark infinite of discords; founded on the wavering bo...

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...pron of this same unmentionable woman. But then ‘the force of public opin- ion’? Rigorous Christophe de Beaumont, who has spent his life in persecutin... ...aken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opin- ion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twitch him by the rochet, ... ...pers something about sacraments, he will threaten to ‘throw him out of the window if he mention such a thing. ’ Happy these, we may say; but to the re... ...in considerable impatience for his sacraments; sends more than once to the window, to see whether they are not coming. Be of comfort, Louis, what comf... ...autiful days of international commun- 48 The French Revolution: V ol. One ion! Swindlery and Blackguardism have stretched hands across the Channel, a... ...livered promissory conciliatory eloquence: ‘The Queen stood wait- ing at a window, till his carriage came back; and Monsieur from afar clapped hands t... ...torical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Stage-manager there. Behold, accordingly, a Home-Secretary Breteuil ‘beauti- fyin...

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...ment there was a loud shriek, half-laugh, half- fright, coming through the window, and Lady Thistlewood, starting up, exclaimed, ‘The child will be dr... ...and all through the journey it came naturally that he should be the entire manager, and Berenger the paymaster on a liberal scale. Thus had the travel... ... table had been for- saken in favour of a lesser table placed in the ample window, round which sat assembled some six or eight persons, with fruit, wi... ...t of Pearls rich primrose-coloured dress setting off her brunette complex- ion and her stately presence. She looked older than he had expected; but th... ...his lips, as a glimpse of ruffs, hats, and silks dawned on him through the windows. The king rose from his lair among the fern, the Admiral stood forw... ...on will not doubt explain to Mademoiselle, while I shall sit on this cush- ion, and endure the siege of St. Quentin from the bon Sieur de Selinville... ...life she had led. Her eyes were of brilliant, beautiful black her complex- ion had a glow, her hair—for she wore it visibly—formed crisp rolls of jett...

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... as opposed to the teachings of religion—but in deference to public opin ion he fought a duel. He deeply loved his family, but to buy public approv... ... in his hand. “I have finished it,” he said; “read it. I can form no opin ion of it myself. If you think it worthy, some day—at the proper time—it ca... ... ex slave and children’s idol who came one day—a flitting stranger—to wash windows, and stayed eighteen years. Until he died. Clara and Jean would nev... ...d in my heart with Susy and Livy in their last hours in this life. From my windows I saw the hearse and the carriages wind along the road and graduall... ...ods. I witnessed the funeral procession, in company with friends, from the windows of the Krantz, Vienna’s sumptu ous new hotel. We came into town in... ...low; years in which he accumulated money, and also reputation as actor and manager. Meantime his name, liberally and variously spelt, had become assoc... ...ession. Right soon thereafter he became a stockholder in two theaters, and manager of them. Thenceforward he was a busy and flourishing business man, ... ...celeb rity, there or elsewhere, and no considerable repute as ac tor and manager. Now then, I am away along in life—my seventy third year being alre... ... Other Essays 230 White, and other lawyers, who have expressed their opin ion on the matter of Shakespeare’s legal acquirements. … Here it may, perha...

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...rt time before would not speak to him, as Tom passed under my lord’s coach window, his lordship go- ing in state to his place at Court, while his neph... ...dyship’s painted face and eyelids, as she bobbed her head out of the coach window, meaning, no doubt, to be very gracious; and one old woman said, “La... ...d house that was before them, with many gray towers and vanes on them, and windows flaming in the sun- shine; and a great army of rooks, wheeling over... ...nly when he should enter into the one church and receive his first commun- ion, but when he might join that wonderful brotherhood, which was present t... ... which was swathed in flannel, and put up rather ostentatiously on a cush- ion—”my lord, I studied medicine at Cambridge.” “Indeed, Parson Harry,” say... ... young man, in error of which opinion he chose to leave them. As a compan- ion he was so moody and silent that the two officers, his fel- low-sufferer... ... horses at the Posting-House over against Westminster, and being fer- *The managers were the Bishop, who cannot be hurt by hav- ing his name mentioned...

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...joy the thought of remaining behind the curtain unseen, like the ingenious manager of Punch and his wife Joan, and enjoying the astonishment and conje... ...e of Lammermoor “That’s home as well as true, Master,” replied his compan- ion; “but, by your leave, you have nursed in your bosom one great goodly sn... ...orn abode, excepting that one, and only one, of the narrow and stanchelled windows which appeared at irregular heights and distances in the walls of t... ...ape and alive, save that I am half dead with cold.” The light at the upper window disappeared, and glancing from loophole to loophole in slow successi... ...the state of Caleb’s larder; and if there had been shutters to that grated window, or a curtain to the bed, I should think it, upon the whole, an impr... ...ide of the way. “If you, Mr. Lockhard,” said the old butler to his compan- ion, “will be pleased to step to the change-house where that light comes fr... ... full of suspi- cion and murmuring, assembled round him to learn the opin- ion of the surgeon. In the mean while, Lady Ashton, her husband, and their ...

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...bracelet on her finely turned finger and wrist, and holding them towards the window on a level with her eyes. All the while her thought was trying to ju... ... occupation, simply leaned her elbow on an open book and looked out of the window at the great cedar silvered with the damp. She herself had taken up ... ... his marrying my niece,” said Mr. Brooke, much relieved to see through the window that Celia was coming in. “Why not?” said Mrs. Cadwallader, with a s... ...hichely, a middle aged bachelor and coursing celebrity, who had a complex ion something like an Easter egg, a few hairs carefully arranged, and a car... ...ure of passions was excited in Fred—a mad desire to thrash Horrock’s opin ion into utterance, restrained by anxiety to retain the advantage of his fr... ...d sent her down with the still more unpleasant task of telling them so. As manager of the household she felt bound to ask them in good provincial fash... ...like the rest of us, felt how soothing it would have been to have a co pan ion who would never find it out. This sore susceptibility in relation to Dor... ...it die with thee.” —Ecclesiasticus. M r. Bulstrode was still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of the same day on which he...

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... let on her finely turned finger and wrist, and holding them to- wards the window on a level with her eyes. All the while her thought was trying to ju... ... occupation, simply leaned her elbow on an open book and looked out of the window at the great cedar silvered with the damp. She herself had taken up ... ... his marrying my niece,” said Mr. Brooke, much relieved to see through the window that Celia was coming in. “Why not?” said Mrs. Cadwallader, with a s... ...ure Brooke; and I have reminded her that her friends had a very poor opin- ion of the match she made when she married me.” “But look at Casaubon,” sai... ...g clergyman’s alleged greatness of soul, or Sir James Chettam’s poor opin- ion of his rival’s legs,—from Mr. Brooke’s failure to elicit a companion’s ... ...be called an ugly thing in contrast with that lovely creature your compan- ion, is apt to produce some effect beyond a sense of fine ve- racity and fi... ...d sent her down with the still more unpleasant task of telling them so. As manager of the household she felt bound to ask them in good provincial fash... ...it die with thee.” —Ecclesiasticus. MR. BULSTRODE WA S still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of the same day on which he...

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...Thackeray ’Twas noon in Chepe. The ware-rooms were thronged. The flaunting windows of the mercers attracted many a purchaser: the glittering panes beh... ... lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave had toiled, died perhaps, to produce yon pyramid of ... ...n with their dulness, are called Clubs no doubt; those who yawn from a bay-window in St. James’s Street, at a half-score of other dandies gaping from ... ...p off every stick of my furniture. ‘Wardrobe & furniture of a man of fash- ion.’ What an adwertisement George Robins DID make of it; and what a crowd ... ... as Rowena, that vapid, flaxen-headed creature, who is, in my humble opin- ion, unworthy of Ivanhoe, and unworthy of her place as hero- 258 Thackeray... ...rters of an hour which they allow for the entertainment of us men of fash- ion on the stage, before the curtain draws up for the bally, while the ladi... ...’s-Or- phans’ Home;” Lady de Sudley was the great projector of it; and the manager and chaplain, the excellent and Reverend Sidney Slopper. His salary...