...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...he matter; the rest would be all the picture of the struggle involved, the adventure brought about, the gain recorded or the loss incurred, the precio... ... seemed particularly to bristle. It was formed, I judged, to make the wary adventurer walk round and round it—it had in fact a charm that invited and ... ...ing that moved him. “If it only displeases you, you can go to Marian to be consoled.” What he couldn’t forgive was her dividing with Marian her scant ... ..., which Kate never did; it being a relation in which Kate could but mutely listen. She couldn’t indeed too often say to herself that if that was what ... ...n the line of his vision; he saw them, large and black, while he talked or listened, take, in the bright air, singular positions. Sometimes the right ... ...- ing damsels; that was why, after effigies, processions and other stately games, frank human company was pleasant to them. Kate Croy really presented... ... of a quarter of an hour fully known what to conclude from it. This fairly consoled him for their awk- wardness, as if he had been watching it affect ...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...nexampled even in the literature of that day. Ned Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudibrastic Verse” (17... ...y get the mere narrative with its full complement of facts, incidents, and adventures served up to them in a form that amuses them, care very little w... ...tramping along the road singing; the reapers gathered in the venta gateway listening to “Felixmarte of Hircania” read out to them; and those little Ho... ...emporaries. In some of the others there is a good deal of exaggeration. To listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in l... ...xampled and terrible adventure, will take care to watch over my safety and console thy sorrow; what thou hast to do is to tighten Rocinante’s girths w... ... my charges.” Don Quixote, when he heard the lament and learned the cause, consoled Sancho with the best arguments he could, entreating him to be pati... ...at this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those...

...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ng to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a lad with a heart for games to bring renown, and no thought about girls. His emulation, the fello... ...football, suited Matey, going at long strides, for the story of his hero’s adventures; and it was nicer than talk about girls, and puzzling. Here lay ... ...oping over hedges and ditches to swell Napoleon’s ranks in distress. Matey listened to him there; he became grave; he nodded like a man saying, “I sup... ... what he was fit for, Matey gave no offence by choosing, half-way down the list, his little French friend, whom he stationed beside himself, rather of... ...hink he was not the donkey she sketched for admiration; and she was partly consoled, or played at the taking of a comfort needed in her perpetual stru... ...w. Yes, and that’s better than “passion” splitting and dispersing upon new adventures, from habit, with two sparks remaining of the fire.’ Aminta took... ...essive. Now, a just man, who has overdone the stroke, will indem- nify and console in every way, short of humiliating himself. He had an unusually cle...

...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...octogenar- ian sister, like in all points save clothes to her brother, sat listen- ing to the reading of the newspaper and knitting stockings, a work ... ...utionary morals. Calyste, who might have gained in her estimation by a few adventures with Breton girls, would have lost it considerably had she seen ... ...ore reserve and greater modesty; etc. It can easily be imagined that these games, carried on nightly for twenty years, were interrupted now and then b... ...n the mat- ter of Calyste and Mademoiselle des T ouches, did not enter the lists. “What does she do that is so extraordinary, Mademoiselle des T ouche... ...timents, a creature who will deceive him and make him unhappy! She has had adventures—” “With several men,” said the rector. “And yet this impious cre... ...e felt at this episode. Her distress was perceived by a friend, a man, who consoled her without personal after- thought, or, at any rate, he concealed... ...was struck with the expression she now saw on Calyste’s face, and tried to console him with a look of sympathy. Claude Vignon intercepted that look. F...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...HE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imaginatio... ...think he’ d kill a schoolboy for honest doubt. Even old Roddles—” “I can’t listen to you,” cried Latham the humourist, “I can’t listen to you. It’s—ho... ... a field contain- ing cattle without keeping a wary eye upon them—his bull adventure rather increased than diminished that disposi- tion—he hated a st... ... heavy with the reek of the crushed flowers. For some time Benham remained listening to and peering at these preoccupied gluttons. At last he shrugged... ... shape- less nose well up to show he didn’t care. Providence had sought to console him by giving him a keen eye for the absurdity of other people. He ... ...stic touts and the theatrical touts and the hunting and the elaboration of games and—Mrs. Skelmersdale and all that had clustered thickly round him in... ...ir dirty little tricks to get profit, their garlic, their sour wine, their games of domi- noes, their moments of lust. They crawl in this place like c...

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...d ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several years and developed from... ...tion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My mother did not understand my games, but my father did. He wore bright-coloured socks and carpet slippers... ...ued so that at times he produced an effect of weird world-forgetfulness. I listened puzzled, and at that time not upderstanding many things that after... ...er name. It was some insignifi- cant name. Yet the peculiar quality of the adventure keeps it shining darkly like some deep coloured gem in the common... ...to do any fine writing,” said Shoesmith. “What you’ve got to do is just to list all the chaps and put a note to their play:—’Naylor minor must pass mo... ...behold! I was a man. I felt myself the most wonderful and unprecedented of adventurers. It was hard to believe that any one in the world before had do... ...s; we had promised ourselves success visible and shining in our lives. T o console ourselves in our separa- tion we had made out of the Blue W eekly a...

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...ion of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this d... ...lf, for the laws against mendicancy were stringent, and the penalties heavy; so he put in a good deal of his time listening to good Father Andrew’s ch... ... came I here to cast away my life?” 22 Mark Twain He walked up and down the floor, filled with name- less fears, listening, starting at every triflin... ...dom. I fought out my long probation in the continental wars, tasting sump- tuously of hard knocks, privation, and adventure; but in my last battle I w... ..., as soon as he had finished calling back to Tom’s dis- eased mind the various particulars of his experiences and adventures in the royal school-room ... ... news. Half my new joy is withered now. Prithee let me see my brother Arthur—he will know me; he will know me and console me.” “He, also, is dead.” “G... ...alked— I told you of my sisters, Nan and Bet—ah, yes, you remember that; and about mine old grandam—and the rough games of the lads of Offal Court—yes...

...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

...s Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...s Verne lar, constantly running about the country, or on the look- out for adventure. His last master, young Lord Longferry, Member of Parliament, aft... ...d pounds on Phileas Fogg. When the folly as well as the uselessness of the adventure was pointed out to him, he contented himself with replying, “If t... ...on to Passepartout’s trouble about the gas? It is not probable. He was not listening, but was cogitating a project. Passepartout and he had now reache... ..., by the visa, that he had passed through Suez?” “Why? I have no idea; but listen to me.” He reported in a few words the most important parts of his c... ...urs were whirled away, when the sea was tranquil, with music, dancing, and games. But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous, like most ... ...took a great interest in the scenes through which they were pass- ing, and consoled himself with the delusion that his master’s whim would end at Bomb... ...st moment. He had confided his anxiety to Fix who—the sly rascal!—tried to console him by saying that Mr. Fogg would be in time if he took the next bo...

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e conveniences due to the progress of coach-building, instead of having to listen to perpetual com- plaints of his “sabots” (tires of enormous width),... ...zy!” cried the coach-proprietor. “Yes, my land, neither more nor less. But listen! here’s a special order. If you have any of the country neighbors in... ...the quasi-military air, the waxed moustaches, and the gen- eral look of an adventurer that distinguished Georges, he concluded that his note had reach... ...y was boiling in his veins; so when the famous Schinner allowed a romantic adventure to be guessed at in which the danger seemed as great as the pleas... ...n, after gently drawing him to her, Madame Clapart ended by kissing him to console him for being scolded. “In future,” she said, “you will listen to y... ...Come, Oscar, we’ll make an end of them!” Georges and his partner lost five games running. After los- ing the thousand francs Oscar was seized with the...

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nce of the modern bourgeoisie. Have you re- marked the card-tables and the consoles of the Empire, the tea-table supported by a lyre, and that species... ...suits; the men defended the University; and, as a general thing, the women listened. A man of intelligence (could he have borne the dulness of these e... ...boston, and Celeste was sitting beside Prudence Minard. Young Phellion was listen- ing to Madame Thuillier and looking at Celeste. At a corner of the ... ...and on his heart. “You are one of the men of whom we have too few,—men who console us for many evils inherent in our social state. Righ- teousness is ... ...version from bouillotte and boston. Old-fashioned and venerable, those two games were forced to beat a retreat before whist, the only manner, said the... ...e. We can therefore imagine the perplexity of this novice in the matter of adventures when he saw himself placed between the dan- ger of losing what s... ...ulsion of thought overcame him:— “Suppose she were one of those intriguing adventurers whom foreign governments employ as agents? Suppose the tale, mo...

...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy ...

...ics Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...o be of the family. And I main- tain it against him, who have nevertheless listened attentively to the eulogies pronounced by the vendors of prize bac... .... At times the party hung still, fancying the voice aloft, and then, after listening to the unrelieved stillness, they laughed, and trod the stiff dry... ...ry, they felt satisfied that she wanted nothing. Wilfrid came up to her to console her for her loneliness, until Mr. Pericles had stationed himself at... ...he gar- den, where he expected to find her, and to be the first to pet and console her. Threading the scented shrubs, he came upon a turn in one of th... ...shman, pen in hand, is the cadet and vaga- bond of the family—an exploring adventurer; whereas to a Frenchman it all comes inherited like a well fille... ...hty conduct. She seemed contrite very still and timid, since that night of adventure. The ladies were glad to 101 George Meredith observe it, seeing ... ...t I?” “Thank heaven, he is not yet in existence!” ‘Husband’ being implied. Games of this sweet sort are war- ranted to carry little people as far as t...

...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the very pink of general propitiation and politeness. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence, and looki... ...s time you roused yourself a little? Eh?’ She bent her ear to the bed, and listened: at the same time 14 Dombey & Son looking round at the bystanders... ...R 4. IN WHICH SOME MORE FIRST APPEARANCES ARE MADE ON THE STA G E OF THESE ADVENTURES THOUGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties o... ...erything that had ever been put before the boy to deter him from a life of adventure, had had the usual unaccount- able effect of sharpening his taste... ...n a blundering young rough- and-tough boy like me, who has got the will to console you, Uncle, but hasn’t got the way—hasn’t got the way,’ repeated Wa... ...ow- and whether there is anything to fear, and whether you will not go and console his poor Uncle every day, until we have some intelligence of him?’ ... ...y backgammon a little too,’ replied the man of teeth. ‘Carker plays at all games, I believe,’ said Mr Dombey , lay- ing himself on a sofa like a man o...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution w...

...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...thern tongue, and gave great offence to his lord- ship, who was used to be listened to with a sort of feudal deference. He was of the fierce old Norse... ...d not even know whether their mothers were alive; but I saw that if I only listened, Eustace would soon tell everything. He had a run- away chin, and ... ...ated by distress and agitation, that he did not live a month after Dora’ s adventure; but at least he had the comfort of seeing Harold’s restoration, ... ...rmer “Dragon’s Head” a place where they might smoke, read the papers, play games, and have any refreshment such as coffee, tea, or ginger-beer, at whi... ...ompany—once about his sister, and once to in- quire after Harold after the adventure with the lion. There I found I had alluded to what made Lord Erym... ...ot well have been squeezed in with her paraphernalia, but I did my best to console the old lady for the absence of her protector, and I began at last ... ... finding him a free-thinker, but there was something in both speeches that consoled me, and he afterwards said to me: “Madam, in our youth intellectua...

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...carcely sit up in bed. It was piteous to see him lying with his door open, listening. He is full of warm sound feeling, poor fellow. You would like to... ... it is the nurse-maid that takes up the young ladies’ meals.’ Mary did not listen to the rest; she was desperate, and pounc- ing on the bread with one... ...n her words out; and on her return she made such a touching history of the adventure, that Leonard listened earnestly, and Aubrey looked subdued. When... ...them in my power. Good-bye.’ * * * ‘August 2nd.—Safe back, without adventure, only a great deal of enjoyment, for which I am doubly thankful, ... ...r display of the cariosities of the place, and explanations of the curious games and puzzles taught by ‘Mr. T om.’ Ethel, watching the sweet wist- ful... ... difficulty in getting Aubrey away from the friend so much stronger as the consoler than as the consoled, and unconsciously showing how in the last tw... ...nd be sure that they only wished to guess what would make her happiest. To console or to scold were equally unsuccessful, and after attempting all var...

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...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...eturning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure considerably illuminated by cham- pagne. Below the bridge curved ... ...of room, manoeuvered to bring the car level with the curb. It was a virile adventure masterfully executed. With satisfaction he locked a thief-proof s... ...bitt disapproved of Laylock, who sang in choirs and was merry at home over games of Hearts and Old Maid. He had a tenor voice, wavy chestnut hair, and... ...n’t we try something in poetry? Honest, it’d have wonderful pulling-power. Listen: ‘Mid pleasures and palaces, Wherever you may roam, You just prov... ...man who desired to lease a store-building for a pool-room; he ran over the list of home-leases which were about to expire; he sent Thomas Bywaters, a ... ... hereby was, instructed to spread these resolutions on the minutes, and to console the bereaved families by send- ing them each a copy. A second resol... ...e—the eternal essence. With Verona he sounded fatherly again, and firm. He consoled Tinka, who satisfactorily pointed the excitement of the hour by wa...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...very undesirable,’ and Aunt Maria had talked to him about it, but he never listened to Aunt Maria. Albinia privately thought that it must be a severe ... ... Aunt Maria. Albinia privately thought that it must be a severe penance to listen to Aunt Maria, and took Gilbert’s part. She sup- posed that he must ... ...of the notice of one who seemed to him a man, and an adept in all athletic games. It was a dangerous intimacy, and her heart sank as she found that th... ...ch to him like having a curate disabled, and she believed he could only be consoled by the hopes of a pattern christening, and of a nurs- ery for his ... ...discovery of the Indian plans was such a blow to her that she could not be consoled by all her husband’s representations of the advantages Gilbert wou... ... smile, that Lucy bethought herself of saying she had known nothing of his adventure, and Albinia, thus recalled to the thought of the culprit, asked ... ... the pleasures of silence. The four within talked incessantly and compared adventures. Lucy had been gratified by being pa- tronized by Miss Ferrars, ...

Excerpt: The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...sics Series Publication Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...usual case, for the kind old woman could be querulous, and belonged to the list of those whose hearts are as scales, so that they love not one person ... ...ct or soften it. Rhoda thanked her father, and chose to think that she had listened to good and wise things. “Your sister,” he said—”but we won’t spea... ...dimly luminous and immense, what he could do, if his sagacity prompted the adventure. The farmer had listened through the buzzing of his uncertain gri... ...looks. “Come! I’ll speak out now I’m at work. I thought you at some girl’s games in the Summer. You went out one day to meet a young gentleman. Offenc... ...-day. There’s a gang. It’s in the hands of confederates.” “Think so, if it consoles you,” said Mrs. Lovell, “don’t men- tion your thoughts, that is al... ...en the last new moon, and where? A cloud obscured it; he had forgotten. He consoled himself by cursing superstition. T enpenny Nail was to gain the da... ...o the light, but coming upon absurd mishaps in his effort to reach it. His adventures in London partook somewhat of the character of those in Warbeach...

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tance already?” “Oh! is that the famous Mme. de Serizy who has had so many adventures and yet goes everywhere?” “ An unheard-of-thing, my dear, explic... ... one cruelly ignored the unlucky stranger; he was so much like a foreigner listening to an unknown language, that the Marquise d’Espard took pity upon... ...astignac is soaring away like a paper-kite. Look at him in the Marquise de Listomere’s box; he is making progress, he is putting up his eyeglass at us... ...with living attractions, and perhaps fell in with one of those commonplace adventures which loom so large in a young and timorous imagination. One day... ... will give credit for the time required to play some seven or eight of the games of chance called “new publications.” At that time, as at present, the... ...y overcome. He wept (towards the close of a dinner given by his friends to console him in his afflic- tion). In the course of that banquet it was deci...

...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-se...

... Henrietta ’s Wish; or, Domineering by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...you talk of, on a summer’s day, and nursing your pinks and carnations, and listening to the nightingales, and Grandpapa and Grandmamma Langford, and U... ... it? Is it the reviving old recollections that is too much for her?” “Just listen what an effect last evening’s conversation had upon her. Last night,... ...lexander are to come and reach the high places for us. But do tell us your adventures.” Fred had been all over the farm; had been introduced to the wh... ...nd steps, in the reaching over for branches, in all the little mishaps and adventures that befell them, their behaviour was out- wardly perfectly what... ...p in imagination the bright scenes of her mother’s youth; those delightful games of which she had often heard, and which she could place in their appr... ...remembrances thus excited of the former bereavement; and in the attempt to console her, the sense of her own sorrow would have been in some degree rel... ...and comforter. She only wished and longed to know what might best serve to console her poor Henrietta; but all that occurred to her was to embrace and...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts ...

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...life at Les Aigues, one might even call it a saintly one, after her famous adventure,—you remember it? One evening in a paroxysm of despairing love, s... ...roiders its de- signs of many colors; where sofas and reclining-chairs and consoles and what-nots invite to that contemplative idleness which forbids ... ...her-in-law. “If you will give me a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, and some list braces, so as not to disgrace Vermichel on the mu- sic stand at Tivoli... ...ges of France cannot be reached. They make it a law unto themselves not to listen to us; whereas the church does get some hold on the savages of Ameri... ... might have envied the trick; O Muse of the Loves and the Laughs and the Games, Come down and assist me, for, true to your aims, I have ruled of... ...But little he cares for the sting of the ball, A smile from his mistress consoles for it all. It was this delineation, worthy of Virgil, which first... ...t the end of the garden, where he kept various contrivances for the public games, such as weighing-machines, merry-go-rounds, see-saws, all in readine...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.