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...A very heart touching story about two homeless children, a brother and sister, living on the streets of Liverpool, England during Victorian times. (Summary by Larraine Paquette)...

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...J.-R. Kazallon führt, wird die letzte Fahrt des Dreimasters Chancellor geschildert, der irgendwo im Atlantik zwischen Charleston (South Carolina) und Liverpool untergeht, nachdem an Bord Feuer ausgebrochen ist, weil die Ladung (Baumwolle) Feuer gefangen hat. Die Situation wird noch dadurch erschwert, dass ein Passagier, der Kaufmann John Ruby, eigenmächtig hochexplosiven S...

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...9 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. ................................................................................................... 23 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. .................................................................................................... 28 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. .......................................................

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......................................................... ........ 23 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. ................................................ ................................................. ............... 130 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10, 1869..................................................... ...tly in the wisdom, the mercy, and the forbearance of another race. SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. The following address was delivered at a soir... ... FEBRUARY 26, 1844. The following address was delivered at a soiree of the Liverpool Mechanics’ Institution, at which Mr. Dickens presided. LADIES AND... ...hat, in 1825, certain misguided and turbulent persons proposed to erect in Liverpool an unpopu lar, dangerous, irreligious, and revolutionary establi... ...volutionary establishment, called a Mechanics’ Institution; that, in 1835, Liverpool having, somehow or other, got on pretty comfortably in the meanti... ...ad the honour of attending at Manchester, shortly before Christmas, and at Liverpool, only the night before last, for a purpose similar to that which ... ... well. God bless you, and God bless the land in which I leave you. SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10, 1869. The following speech was delivered by Mr. Dicken... ...ed by Mr. Dickens at a Ban quet held in his honour at St. George ’s Hall, Liverpool, after his health had been proposed by Lord Dufferin. MR. M AYOR,...

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...ng Holmes was now twenty-seven years of age, and was employed in a bank at Liverpool, not as a clerk, but as assistant-manager, with a large salary. H... ...- looking enough.” “And in his manner, too. He is doing uncommonly well in Liverpool, I can tell you; and if he should think of Bessy—” “There is noth... ...tion. This Christmas visit had been arranged before that unhappy affair at Liverpool had occurred. Isabella’s visit had been partly one of busi- ness,... ...very dull here.” 19 Anthony Trollope “She is never dull anywhere,—even at Liverpool, which, for a young lady, I sometimes think the dullest place on ... ...be caught. “Bessy, I must speak to you once of what passed be- tween us at Liverpool.” “Must you?” said she. 20 The Mistletoe Bough “Unless you posit... ... an early hour, that Godfrey Holmes had left Thwaite Hall and gone back to Liverpool. To the girl she said noth- ing on the subject, but she felt obli... ...ly. “As to his misfortunes, I presume that his jour- neys between here and Liverpool are not the worst of them.” After breakfast on that day Bessy was... ...r and I. It must be so understood altogether.” “But, papa, when we were at Liverpool—” “I have told him everything, dearest,” said Mrs. Garrow. “I thi...

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... ing of turning to again, when I met what I call Smithick and Watersby of Liverpool. I chanced to lift up my eyes from looking in at a ship’s chronom... ...or do I think that there has been any one of either of those names in that Liverpool House for years back. But, it is in reality the House itself that... ... I had nearly decided, but not quite. “Well, well,” says he, “come down to Liverpool to morrow with me, and see the Golden Mary.” I liked the name (h... ...ood), so I began to feel that it was almost done when I said I would go to Liverpool. On the next morning but one we were on board the Golden Mary. I ... ... as cheerily as a blackbird, and a perfect sailor. We were in one of those Liverpool hackney coaches in less than a minute, and we cruised about in he... ...’s Land barely a month before, and I had heard of him as taking a frisk in Liverpool. W e asked after him, among many other places, at the two boardin...

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... me a few days before at Mount Desert, she was to embark on the morrow for Liverpool. I presently saw this appear- 4 The Patagonia ance confirmed by ... ... been settled almost from one hour to the other that Grace should sail for Liverpool, Mr. Porterfield at last being ready. He was taking a little holi... ...impression, over-smeared and confused, of the gentleman who was waiting at Liverpool, or who presently would be, for Mrs. Nettlepoint’s prote- gee. I ... ...cted me as clever. “I suppose I shall see him again if he’s to meet you at Liverpool,” I continued. “Well, it will be bad if he doesn’t.” It was too s... .... “How do you reconcile her laying a trap for Jasper with her going out to Liverpool on an errand of love?” Oh I wasn’t to be caught that way! “I don’... ...trap; I believe she acted on the impulse of the moment. She’s going out to Liverpool on an errand of marriage; that’s not necessarily the same thing a... ...veil? It’s as if she were ashamed to show her face.” “She’s keeping it for Liverpool. But I don’t like such incidents,” said Mrs. Nettlepoint. “I thin... ...ngaged to be married, and the gentleman she’s engaged to is to meet her at Liverpool. The whole ship knows it—though _I_ didn’t tell them!—and the who... ...bin and his mother had joined him there. He remained there till we reached Liverpool—I never saw him. His mother, after a little, at his request, left...

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...As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives has- tened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspi... ...m San Francisco to New Y ork, and a transatlantic steamer from New York to Liverpool, would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey... ...east, so he hoped—to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool. The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wh... ...be- fore nine o’clock in the evening, the time that the steamer leaves for Liverpool?” “It is absolutely necessary.” “And, if your journey had not bee... ...here was still some chances that it would be before the steamer sailed for Liverpool. Passepartout even felt a strong desire to grasp his ally, Fix, b... ...bank of the river, before the very pier of the Cunard line. The China, for Liverpool, had started three-quarters of an hour before! Chapter XXXII IN W... ...rt, did not leave until the 14th; the Hamburg boats did not go directly to Liverpool or London, but to Havre; and the additional trip from Havre to So... ... China, one of the fastest steamers on the Atlantic, he would have reached Liverpool, and then London, within the period agreed upon. Mr. Fogg left th... ... The Henrietta, well known.” “Will you carry me and three other persons to Liverpool?” “To Liverpool? Why not to China?” “I said Liverpool.” “No!” “No...

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... the year. The Post-office packet for the United States was to depart from Liverpool, weather permitting, on the first of the ensuing month, and I had... ...house where I had first seen Angela. What I had to do was to get across to Liverpool by the shortest open road, there to meet my heavy baggage and emb... ...ay , I drove the other way myself as hard as I could pelt. I never went to Liverpool, I never went to America, I went straight back to London, and I m...

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...e could get no crew on the south coast. They sent us one all complete from Liverpool, and we left once more—for Bankok. “We had fair breezes, smooth w... ...groaning even as we went about our work. But they all worked. That crew of Liverpool hard cases had in them the right stuff. It’s my experience they a...

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...ents in Europe; smart, bright fellows that we can depend on. I want one in Liverpool, one in Paris, and one in Odessa, and I want them to cable us abo... ...at length, “... yes. I guess I can arrange it. I can get you a good man in Liverpool—T raynard is his name—and there’s two or three in Paris we could ... ...s how it reads,” he said at last. “‘Cash wheat advanced one cent bushel on Liverpool buying, stock light. Shipping to interior. European price not att... ...m?” “Maybe. I’ll talk to Sam about it.” “And now the last one.” “It’s from Liverpool, and Liverpool, you must understand, is the great buyer of wheat.... ...r. To-day she had expected that quite possibly the business implied in the Liverpool cable of the morning might detain him, but surely he should be ho... ...ell the whole thing now. I’ve been putting through a little deal with some Liverpool fellows to-day, and I had to wait down town to get their cables t... ... but you said then you’d be up in half an hour.” “I know—I know. But those Liverpool cables didn’t come till all hours. Well, as I was saying, Mr. Cor... ... profoundest secrecy, had been to replace the five million bushels sold to Liverpool by five million more of the May option. This was in January, and ... ...front office, “say, find out about the primary receipts, and the Paris and Liverpool stocks. Bet you what you like that Paris and Liverpool together c...

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... clear to me. My father, then some time deceased, had been a wharfinger at Liverpool, and it was quite possible that Mahmoud might have found himself ...

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...e to Southampton can- not in truth be made as easily as one from London to Liverpool. Let us think of a month to be passed without any aid from the wa...

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...the “Indies.” First, he spoke freely of his intention to start shortly for Liverpool and take ship for America; a resolution which cost his good mothe... ...le, and walked off. In another half-hour he was on the coach on his way to Liverpool, smiling the smile of the triumphant wicked. He was rid of Jacob—...

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...s of brotherly congratulation, connecting the name of the particular mail—“Liverpool for ever!”—with the name of the particular victory—“Badajoz for e... ...e fifty-five miles north of Manchester, and the same distance exactly from Liverpool. The first three stages termi- nate in Preston (called, by way of... ...at name, Proud Preston); at which place it is that the separate roads from Liverpool and from Manchester to the north become confluent.* Within these... ...pital Y (the Pythagorean letter): Lancaster is at the foot of this letter; Liverpool at the top of the right branch; Manchester at the top of the left... ...night during the assizes. At that time, all the law business of popu- lous Liverpool, and also of populous Manchester, with its vast cincture of popul... ...sary. 43 17 LILLIPUTIAN LANCASTER: the county town of Lancashire, in which Liverpool and Manchester, towns of recent and far greater growth, are situa...

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...red from other concurrent anecdotes of Canning, reported by gentlemen from Liverpool, who de- scribed to us most graphically and picturesquely the way... ...verse contingencies—not even when calculated by mothers. To come by way of Liverpool or Parkgate, was not without grounds of reasonable fear; I myself... ...y, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soon give way to new modes of locomo- tion still more a... ...d, trampled on! In two hours from that time, my brother was on the road to Liverpool. Painfully he made out his way , having not much money, and with ... ...r his purposes. My brother went to an inn, after his long, long journey to Liverpool, footsore—(for he had walked through four days, and, from ignoran... ...lmyra, that he had unexpectedly lit upon amongst the undiscovered parts of Liverpool,—”here seems to be a fine building; shall we go in and ask leave ... ...tioned so imperti- nently, in public. The object of the mayor and of other Liverpool gentlemen then present was, to ascertain my brother’s real rank a... ...sed at once, but not his school. An express was therefore for- warded from Liverpool to our nearest male relative—a mili- tary man, then by accident o... ...f tyranny and revenge. In a few hours, my brother was again on the road to Liverpool. But not on this occasion did he resort to any inn, or visit any ...

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...nists buried in our ground, and according to our rites. May our heavenly Father reward you for your acts of humanity and true phi- lanthropy! The ‘Old... ... of a flash of lightning? If it be unreasonable, then am I the most unreasonable of men, for I believe it with all my soul. This was my thought as I w... ...along, Poor Mer- cantile Jack, and be tempest-tossed till you are drowned!’ The uncommercial transaction which had brought me and Jack together, was t... ...most began to hope that the hitherto-never-failing deserters on my rail- road would by-and-by become a phenomenon. In this agreeable frame of mind I e... ...ively the very best of all possible officers. My hand and my heart fail me, in writing my record of this journey. The spectacle of the soldiers in the... ...rength and capacity for work among them. Mormon agent (not looking about, but looking steadily at Uncommercial). I think so.—We sent out about a thous... ...sonages also in black, of whom only one had the conventional air of an itinerant preacher. This box contained a supply of hymn-books, neatly printed a... ...e continent of Europe—I find very striking after an absence of any dura- tion in foreign parts. London is shabby in contrast with Edinburgh, with Aber... ... the harbour of the city of New York, in the United States of America. Of all the good ships afloat, mine was the good steamship ‘Russia,’ Capt. Cook,...

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...order by reminding me of the promptness with which I had met Miss Braby at Liverpool on her return from her fiasco in the States. Hadn’t we published,...

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...; But when she’ s off soundings you shortly will know (Chorus.) She’ s the Liverpool packet – Lord, let her go! “Now the Dreadnought she’ s howlin’ cr... ...and. Sez all the little fishes that swim to and fro: (Chorus.) ‘She’ s the Liverpool packet- Lord, let her go!’’, There were scores of verses, for he ... ...res of verses, for he worked the Dreadnought every mile of the way between Liverpool and New Y ork as conscientiously as though he were on her deck, a... ... the mar- gin of the list, and resumed. “Same schooner, Charlie Ritchie, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 33, single. “ Albert May , 267 Rogers Street, City ...

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...ps, made of the tail, flog hard. In this last voyage, home- ward-bound for Liverpool from South America, I say to you, my young friend, it blew. Whole...

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...ts, and having acquired that, draws men in thousands round her properties. Liverpool, New York, Lyons, Glasgow, Venice, Marseilles, Hamburg, Calcutta,... ...ce, rumors of what the press in England was saying; rumors of a meeting in Liverpool, and rumors of the feeling in London. And then the papers followe... ...e same amount of contribution from the town of Chester as from the town of Liverpool, because both Chester and Liverpool return two members to Parliam... ...In fitting his tax to the capacity of Chester, he would be forced to allow Liverpool to escape unscathed. No skill in money matters on the part of the... ...ficial within, for such delivery, is more than four times that required at Liverpool for the same purpose. But Liverpool is three times the size of Ch... ...other. Our distances, as compared with theirs, are nothing. From London to Liverpool the line of railway I believe traverses about two hundred miles, ... ...ses about two hundred miles, but the mail train which conveys the bags for Liverpool carries the correspondence of probably four or five mil- lions of... ...her and afterward go about our business with contentment? On our return to Liverpool, we stayed for a few hours at Queenstown, taking in coal, and the...