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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...KE GRAY AND DULL. The clouds hung heavily , and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child ... ...movements of goldfish in a bowl. The windows were never opened ex- cept to air the room for a few minutes in the morning, and it had a stuffy smell wh... ...ave him the look of a priest, and in his youth he had possessed an ascetic air which added to the impression. He often related that on one of his holi... ... in the Latin Quarter in Paris, and I’ve met him in pensions in Berlin and Munich. He lives in small hotels in Perugia and Assisi. He stands by the do... ... her he would do that; the future could look after itself. It might end in disaster; he did not care. When he got hold of an idea it obsessed him, he ... ...t be good or bad; it seemed just a chance whether they led to tri- umph or disaster. Life seemed an inextricable confusion. Men hurried hither and thi...

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...he War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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...ce. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that... ...was clear, there was still a crystalline, non- luminous light in the under air. Aaron rummaged in his shed at the bottom of the garden, and found a sp... ...their chins as they ran. The tree and the box lay on the frozen earth. The air breathed dark, frosty, electric. “Hold it up straight,” he said to Mill... ...itching, in her black and silver dress she looked like a sym- bol of young disaster. “Must it be bloody, Josephine?” said Robert. “Why , yes. I don’t ... ... where he is.” “Angus! Didn’t we hear that Lilly was in Germany?” “Yes, in Munich, being psychoanalysed, I believe it was.” Aaron looked rather blank.... ...l, as you say.” “Dear me! Dear me!” said Algy. “But this is really another disaster added to the war list.—But—but—will none of us ever be able to per...

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...the influences of the place, the ancient home of his forefathers, with the air that he breathed; then he flung out a most mel- ancholy exclamation. “C... ...ong whom he had come to live, thinking to rule over them. It was so real a disaster that he was not long in feeling the consequences of it. He betook ... ...om, the ancient Hall of Audience, stood above a row of cellars with grated air-holes, once the prison cells of the old court-house, now converted into... ...fortune has initiated me into the secrets of irremediable and overwhelming disaster; whether that I have come to understand the whole range of human f... ...fter times, I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray-headed custodian who shows you the splendo... ...were bourgeois and insignificant in the presence of that proud court.” The disasters of 1813 and 1814, which brought about the downfall of Napoleon, g... ...y reason why she looks as she does,” returned de Marsay, with a triumphant air. The two young men exchanged a smile. Mme. de Maufrigneuse saw the smil...

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...re they entered the realms of spring. The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, the opening flow ers, betokened the reviving li... ...you are, gentlemen. Leave him to me; he’s my meat.” Then he jumped up in the air three times and cracked his heels together every time. He flung off a... ...d says, “You lay thar tell his sufferin’s is over.” Then he jumped up in the air and cracked his heels to gether again and shouted out— “Whoo oop! I’... ...in 36 from side to side of his wheel, and trimmed the ships so closely that disaster seemed ceaselessly imminent. When he had cooled a little he told... ...” The boat rasped and ground her way through the sand, hung upon the apex of disaster a single tremendous instant, and then over she went! And such a ... ...he chat, mainly, was one which I think we had not exploited before—steamboat disasters. One was then on its way to us, little as we suspected it; the ... ...bstantially as follows: Toward the end of last year, I spent a few months in Munich, Bavaria. In November I was living in Fraulein Dahlweiner’s pensi... ...ve killed him!” Four years ago, my health began to fail. I had wandered into Munich, in my purposeless way. Being out of money, I sought work, and got...

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...his infernal War Machine in the very centre of Europe, but this tremendous disaster? It is a disaster. It may be a necessary disaster; it may teach a ... ...t in no other way; but for all that, I insist, it remains waste, disorder, disaster. There is a disposition, I know, in myself as well as in others, t... ...s and the red-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out into eddying w... ...tria or Germany. It is a short distance as the crow flies from Rovereto to Munich, but not as the big gun trav- els. The Italians, therefore, as their... ...d then suddenly a whole valley organisation may crumble away in retreat or disaster. Italy is gnawing into the T rentino day by day, and particularly ... ...ge, and so with an effort thrust my legs over to dangle in the crystalline air. “That,” proceeded General Bompiani, pointing with a giddy flourish of ... ...d, chest-tightening atmosphere, with wisps of clouds floating in the clear air below and club- huts close at hand…. Among these mountains avalanches a...

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...egan to rain blows down upon each other with such light- ning rapidity that I could not quite tell whether I saw the swords or only flashes they made ... ...understand why the opposing sword was not beaten down under the assault. Presently, in the midst of the sword-flashes, I saw a handful of hair skip in... ...ere not always idle; every now and then we heard a succession of the keen hissing sounds which the sword makes when it is being put through its paces ... ...e of Wagner’s operas bang along for six whole hours on a stretch! But the people sit there and enjoy it all, and wish it would last longer. A German l... ...lost his voice and a jumper had lost his legs, these par- ties ceased to draw. I said I had been to the opera in Hanover, once, and in Mannheim once, ... ...c. I had never seen this two-minute business between acts but once before, and that was when the “Shaughraun” was played at Wallack’s. I was at a conc... ... the lost men were accounted for, beyond cavil or question. Dr. Hamel was the Russian gentleman of the party which made the ascent at the time of the ... ... brought nearly their weight in gold; and an Englishman of- fered a pound sterling for a single breeches-button. 247 A Tramp Abroad CHAPTER XLI The F... ...Chamonix. C. What was the distance between you? W. A little over five miles, as the bird flies. This accident occurred in 1866, a year and a month aft...

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...shed the inscription in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the second. “For whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pink... ... was very rich, she had built for herself a most magnificent castle in the air, of which she was mistress, with a husband somewhere in the background ... ...re it, and as soon as she could speak, said, with a comical, good-humoured air, “I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia pu... ... lodgings to the street, al- ways returning with some fresh particulars of disaster. Jos’s face grew paler and paler. Alarm began to take entire posse... ...sh and beer which he devoured—and during the mouthfuls he told his tale of disaster. His regiment had performed prodigies of courage, and had withstoo... ...f a very ungrammatical sort, Jos besought the hussar to tell his tale. The disasters deepened as Regulus spoke. He was the only man of his regiment no... ...assee kept house at Flo- rence together. It is said she was ordered out of Munich, and my friend Mr. Frederick Pigeon avers that it was at her house a...

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...hirr of their wheels, repeated by the echoes of the Upper Town in the keen air and sparkling clearness of the early morning, only intensified the gene... ...nt you; Alas! your fleeting honors Will fade as they.” This native air (as sweet as that adapted by Chateaubriand to Ma soeur, te souvient-il ... ...aults who made Provins what Ferrara was to Italy, Weimar to Germany,— what Munich is trying to be to-day.” “Was Provins ever a capital?” asked Rogron.... ...exactly as Paul and Virginia might have done. Petted by everybody, free as air, they gaily chased the joys of childhood. In summer they ran to watch t... ...th smiles wherever they went. When the time came to begin their education, disasters came, too. Jacques, left without means at the death of his father... ...ty-four thou- sand francs, had gone to America with his children after his disasters. He had too high a courage to remain a ruined man. After eleven y...

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...y. When attacked sometimes, Becky had a knack of adopting a demure ingenue air, under which she was most dangerous. She said the wickedest things with... ...t dangerous. She said the wickedest things with the most simple unaffected air when in this mood, and would take care artlessly to apolo- gize for her... ...yllable. The lamps are lighted up all of a sudden. The music plays the old air from John of Paris, Ah quel plaisir d’etre en voyage. It is the same sc... ... over her yellow satin and laughed at 68 V anity Fair – V olume Three the disaster; nor was she better pleased, although old Osborne was highly delig... ...assee kept house at Flo- rence together. It is said she was ordered out of Munich, and my friend Mr. Frederick Pigeon avers that it was at her house a...

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...OM of Hollywell House was one of the favoured apartments, where a peculiar air of home seems to reside, whether seen in the middle of summer, all its ... ...ten, good-natured face, gray whiskers, quick eyes, and a hasty , undecided air in look and movement. He greeted Philip heartily, and the letter was gi... ...ally lost their animated and rather satirical ex- pression, and assumed an air of weariness and discontent. Charles was at this time nineteen, and for... ...at she could hardly believe it real. A taste of society, which they had at Munich, though very pleasant, had only made them more glad to be alone toge... ...n; besides, she thought Philip ought to take some blame to himself for the disaster on the stairs. She made no answer, and Guy asked what Philip had b... ...l’s parasol.’ ‘And the other day,’ said Guy, ‘when Thorndale’s brother, at Munich, inquired after Lady Morville, I had to consider who she was.’ ‘Oh! ... ...alahad,’ said Amy. ‘T wo—three evenings. You must have been a long time at Munich.’ ‘A fortnight,’ said Guy, ‘there is a great deal to see there.’ Phi...

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...’m concerned,” she finally pronounced. “How do you mean? If I’m as free as air—?” “I’m not.” He grew thoughtful. “Oh, then, of course—. It only seems ... ...er to secure the inestimable advantage of “atmosphere.” In this privileged air they gath- ered about them their usual mixed company of quiet studious ... ...ort at explicitness. “Oh, shall we?” she retorted gaily; and added with an air of mystery and importance, pivoting about on her high heels: “Nick’s go... ...ollision. Both bodies recovered.” He read on. He grasped the fact that the disaster had hap- pened the night before he had left V enice and that, as t... ...malicious gossip, was virtually over: one was left with one’s drama, one’s disaster, on one’s hands, because there was nobody to stop and notice the l... ... the Moon beneath his habitual bantering tone Susy discerned a change. The disaster had shocked him profoundly; already, in his brief sojourn among hi... ...s. And later it’s just possible 98 The Glimpses of the Moon we may get to Munich for a week—oh, Susy!” Her hands clasped, her eyes brimming, she dran...

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...which, though pure fictions from first to last, counterfeit so vividly the air of grave realities, that, if deliberately offered for such, they would ... ...ate’s narrative as may save all readers from my fair Westmoreland friend’s disaster,—it remains to give such an answer, as without further research ca... ...difference to her whether the month were July or January; good, undeniable air is to be had in either month. Once only she was baffled, and most indig... ...s child. Happy be the sequel! Thou hast as chiding a nativity As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven, can make, T o herald thee from darkness!”—... ... Christendom obsolete for ages, so long it seemed inevitable that the same disasters should follow the T urkish banners. And to this point, accordingl... ...or its osten- sible object, as a mask to its political designs, expired at Munich in 1807; but not before it had founded a successor more directly pol... ...nd of the insurrection. But far worse and more decisive was the subsequent disaster of the 17th. Ypsilanti had been again reinforced; and his advanced... ...s were entirely new, having been plundered from an ill-guarded armory near Munich, or from convoys which he had attacked. “Who would be a gentleman,” ...

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...ving left Switzerland he went to Isne, an imperial then on to Augsburg and Munich. He afterwards proceeded to the Tyrol, where he was agreeably surpri... ...em with hopes. I then went to call them. They came, wearing as composed an air as possible; and when we four were together, he addressed us, with an u... ...ciled with your relatives; do not act apart, but unite. Y ou perceive what disasters our quarrels have brought upon this kingdom, and I anticipate sti... ... persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw as near to you on Wednesday as I can... ...ake a pleasant prospect, the sight should not be lost and dilated in vague air, but have some bound and ob- ject to limit and circumscribe it at a rea... ...ther had done; and from that time forward, the scurvy re- membrance of his disaster running in his mind and 143 Montaigne tyrannising over him, he wa... ...- son, unless upon the account of some excusable weakness. Neither is this disaster to be feared, but in adventures, where the soul is overextended wi...

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... while I go by the name of a man.’ Mr. Richmond succeeded in preserving an air of serious deliberation under the torrent of this tremendous outburst, ... ...he trick. My father related all this with such a veritable matter-of- fact air, and such liveliness—he sounded the chase and its cries, and showed Kin... ... ‘I’d go through a regiment of sabres to get at you.’ ‘But smell the night air; how sweet! oh, how sweet! No, not kiss me, if you are going to leave m... ...ron? If a woman refuses me, is that an accident? There’s a cause for every disaster: too much cargo, want of foresight, want of pluck. Pooh! when I’m ... ...for the winter, if we hear nothing of entreaties to turn aside to Ischl at Munich. She is sure to entreat me to accompany her on her annual visit to h... .... Mr. Peterborough is for exploring a battle-field in the neighbourhood of Munich. He shall. I wish him to see the Salzkammergut, and have a taste of ...

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..., and I paid her a visit when I could. I remem- ber how on this occasion, after weeks in my stuffy studio with my nose on my palette, I sniffed up the... ... our friend I made more discoveries. The figure from the neck down was meagre, the stature insignifi- cant, but the desire to please towered high, as ... ... her had been determined by an accident remarkable enough, I admit, in connexion with what had gone before—a coincidence at all events superficially s... ...plied: “Even with those things of Mrs. Meldrum’s.” I begged him not to resent my laughter, which but exposed the fact that we had built a monstrous ca... ...ared, his latch- key still in his hand, had just pushed open the door and, startled at finding us, turned a frightened look from one to the other, won...

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...NEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE IMPERIAL ROAD to Italy goes from Munich across the T yrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the m... ... atmosphere over the whole of the countryside, a darkness, a weight in the air that is so unnaturally bright and rare with the reflec- tion from the s... ...e darkness of the pine-woods, there is always the faint tang of ice on the air, and the rush of hoarse-sounding water. And the ice and the upper radia... ...atic, cut off. Where they are everything is set back, as in a clear frosty air. 7 Twilight in Italy Their beauty is almost this, this strange, clean-... ...nd fear, perpetuated in the little paintings nailed up in the place of the disaster. This is the worship, then, the worship of death and the approache... ...ng to get myself to rights with the play, which I have just lately seen in Munich, perfectly pro- duced and detestable. It was such a change from the ... ... to me: where had I bought my boots, was his first question. I told him in Munich. And how much had they cost? I told him twenty-eight marks. He 122 ...

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...mithsonian Institute) could send the writer a photograph of a heavier-than-air flying machine actually in the air. There were articles in the monthly ... ...he engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (which country had been too un- enterprisin... ...nt Ader. M. Ader was probably the first man to get a mechanism up into the air for something more than a leap. His Eole, as General Mensier testifies,... ... revolution in Europe, or shall we pull through the crisis without violent disaster? May we even hope that Great Britain will step straight out of the... ...esses ahead. I do not see that it is any consolation to share in a general disaster. And I am sure that there must be the most delightful and pictures... ...o attempt again what has already been so abundantly worked out in national disaster across the Channel. The essential business of government is to dea... ... sort of thing was supposed to be nec- essary to the national success. But Munich, the comic papers, Herr Harden, Vorwaerts, speak, I think, for the c...

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...n idle, strolling custom-house guard, belted over his blue capote, had the air of being depressed by exposure to the weather and the monotony of of- f... ...V.S. (of noble extraction), a man of about thirty-five, ap- peared with an air of perplexity on his open and moustachioed countenance. I got up from t... ...n active ser- vice, while bearing up bravely against the greatest military disaster of modern history, and, in a man- ner, for the sake of his country... ...the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Constance—in fact it was a 42 ... ... bald-headed man sat down gravely at the head of the table. It all had the air of a family party. By-and-by, from one of the vigorous servant-girls in... ...or allow myself to hint in any other way at the appalling magnitude of the disaster. The whole world of Costaguana (the country, you may remember, of ... ...the formation of my charac- ter. One is nothing if not modest, but in this disaster I think I have done some honour to their simple teaching. “Won’t y...

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...n idle, strolling custom house guard, belted over his blue capote, had the air of being depressed by exposure to the weather and the monotony of offic... ...V . S. (of noble extraction), a man of about thirty-five, appeared with an air of perplexity on his open and mustached counte- nance. I got up from th... ... on active service, while bearing up bravely against the greatest military disaster of modern history, and, in a man- ner, for the sake of his country... ...the day on which the remark was made we had seen Vienna, the Upper Danube, Munich, the Falls of the Rhine, the Lake of Constance,—in fact, it was a me... ... bald-headed man sat down gravely at the head of the table. It all had the air of a family party. By and by, from one of the vigorous servant- girls i... ...or allow myself to hint in any other way at the appalling magnitude of the disaster. The whole world of Costaguana (the country, you may remember, of ... ...n the formation of my character. One is nothing if not modest, but in this disaster I think I have done some honour to their simple teaching. “Won’t y...

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...pe. White and black smoke rose up in steady columns, magic within the dark air. Near at hand came the long rows of dwellings, approach- 8 ing curved ... ...coat, of a strong blue colour. And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstable, her heart was con- tracted, as if at any minute she mi... ...ed over the fields and the wooded hills, and seemed darkly to gleam in the air. It was a spring day, chill, with snatches of sunshine. Yellow celandin... ...is. Paris was dry, and essen- tially boring. She would like to go to Rome, Munich, Vienna, or to St Petersburg or Moscow. She had a friend in St Peter... ... Petersburg or Moscow. She had a friend in St Peters- burg and a friend in Munich. To each of these she wrote, asking about rooms. She had a certain a... ...ight of stairs. They creaked under his weight—it was exasperating. Ah what disaster, if the mother’s door opened just beneath him, and she saw him! It... ...r in the air at the crisis. The Germans were all proficient—they were from Munich chiefly. Gerald also was quite passable. There were three zith- ers ...

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...d and en- riched by a warm, sanguinary coloring, has too much of the naked air of the savage school; as if the deed were perpe- trated by a Polypheme ... ...n a case which I learned in Germany. Riding one day in the neighborhood of Munich, I over- took a distinguished amateur of our society, whose name I s... ...painful to him; he rarely spoke, he seemed conversing with phantoms in the air, his housekeeper informed us that his reading was nearly con- fined to ... ...lace were grand, the times, the burthen of the times, was far more so. The air overhead in its upper chambers were hurtling with the obscure sound; wa... ...ch, instead of mending the matter, laid an ominous foundation for com- ing disasters. The summer assizes were now proceeding at Lancaster: in conseque...

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...a parchment MS. of the second half of the thirteenth century, now found in Munich. It forms the basis of Lachmann’s edition. It is a parchment MS. of ... ...oble knights, be- seech me not with such concern, but order me with lordly air to do whatso ye list. I stand at your bidding and will do it with a wil... ...rs willingly obeyed. Then spake Sir Gernot: “Let stand the steeds till the air grow cooler, for ye must be full ready when that the king will ride. Me... ...re minded to ride away. Just at eventide, when the sun was setting and the air grew chill, no longer they delayed, but man and woman hasted toward the... ...ote 2. (2) “Fall.” The word “not,” translated here “fall,” means re- ally ‘disaster’, but as this word is not in keeping with the style, “fall” has be...

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...esden for the purpose; revelling, by the way, on the pictures and glass at Munich, descriptions of which fill three or four letters. He remained a mon... ...ue, and such an idea of distance is given by the great transparency of the air. It is full moon too now, and I walk the deck from eleven to twelve eve... ...rubs and flowers in full bloom. Midwinter, recollect. The fragrance of the air, the singing of the birds, the fresh smell (it was raining a little and... ...ter the funeral they all (according to native custom) sat down in the open air, round a large cloth on the ground, on which were spread tins of potato... ...hat the effects were far more serious than those of a common fracture. The disaster took place in Patteson’s presence. ‘I shall never forget,’ writes ... ...up to cast in his lot with the Mission. It was on August 15 that the first disaster at these islands took place. Not till the 27th could the Bishop—on...

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...ne company. The smell of rock-waters and roots of herb and moss grew keen; air became a wine that raised the breast high to breathe it; an uplifting c... ...rface. Carinthia’s mind stepped out of the chamber of death. The different air and scene breathed into her a timid warmth toward the future, and betwe... ...to combat the elements with an exulting blood. Besides they loved mountain air and scenery, and each step to the ridge of the pass they climbed was an... ...s Livia’s beloved Baden. We rest a night in the city of Mozart, a night at Munich, a night at Stuttgart. Baden will detain my cousin full a week. She ... ...nd carried him away in a little donkey-cart, comfortably cushioned to meet disaster. This petty incident drew the attention of the Earl of Fleetwood, ... ...ly to be got hold of, and lugged away to the altar—the terminus. That foul disaster has happened, through our having temporarily yielded to a fit of t... ...t of enterprises! But a criminal saw himself guilty of a large part in the disaster the two heroical souls were striv- ing desperately to repair. If h...

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...with her usual frankness, held out her hand. The Hungarian took it with an air of sad solemnity, pressed it fervently, and said:—‘Lady, it is my part ... ...f the morn- ing sun illuminated the room; incense was floating through the air from the gorgeous flowers within and without the house; there in youthf... ... therefore, to her child she supported the matronly part of guide, and the air of an experienced person; to me she wore, ingenuously and with- out dis... ... hand, bowing to Mr. Somebody, successor of Frauenhofer or Frauendevil, in Munich! Who caused that, we should all be glad to know, if not the wicked T... ... of a victim, must often have roused violent suspi- 245 Thomas de Quincey disaster of his own upon having neglected such an omen of the morning. The ... ...unced to Lord Lindsay’s Arab attendants in the desert the approach of some disaster, which partially hap- pened in the morning. And a Highlander of th... ...same harbinger of evil as having crossed his own path on a day of personal disaster in Spain. Birds are even more familiarly associated with such omi-...

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...less it continued the same theme of how to live, showing how man can avoid disasters by attending to the omens to be drawn from birds. It is possible ... ...lorence, Laur. 32, 4. M Leyden (the Moscow MS.) 33 H (14th cent.). Mon. Munich, Royal Lib. 333 c. N Leyden, 74 c. O Milan, Ambros. C 10 inf. ... ... all- seeing Zeus never decrees cruel war against them. Neither famine nor disaster ever haunt men who do true justice; but light-heartedly they tend ... ... and put the lesser part on board; for it is a bad busi- ness to meet with disaster among the waves of the sea, as it is bad if you put too great a lo... ...d round the earthborn Titans: flame unspeakable rose to the bright up- per air: the flashing glare of the thunder-stone and lightning blinded their ey... ...nt feet. So they (the Harpies) sped over the sea and through the fruitless air...’ Fragment #40 — Strabo, vii. p. 300: ‘The Aethiopians and Ligurians ... ...r deed of mine I have cheered your heart and spirit. Through the fruitless air I heard the thrilling cry of my daughter whom I bare, sweet scion of my...