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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE NEW MACHIAVELLI by H. G. Wells BOOK THE FIRST THE MAKING OF A MAN CHAPTER C... ...urous coaches in dry weather, became the Dover Road, and was presently the route first of one and then of several daily coaches. The High Street was d... ...ms almost a duty—” “They call them all -usians or -onians,” said Britten. 64 The New Machiavelli “I like City Merchandize,” I said. “We could probabl... ...om any station to any station in Great Britain by the nearest and cheapest routes… . 80 The New Machiavelli Codger lodged with a little deaf innocent... ... and out one tumbled to get coffee in Switzerland… . I have been over that route dozens of times since, but it still revives a certain lingering youth... ...the slightest modifications in the Pas de Calais or Rhenish Prussia or New Jersey or North Italy. No doubt you would find it in New Japan. These men h...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, t...

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...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...f the erection, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those... ...cher- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and ... ...uced an indulgent smile. “Has the Duke been carrying her off to parties?” 64 The Age of Innocence “Y ou know what these English grandees are. They’re... ...e had spoken of business to Beaufort simply to get rid of him; and to have routed Beaufort was something of a triumph. “I am here to talk about it,” h... ...o know Mr. Winsett.” “Oh, yes—I reached him some time ago; but not by that route,” Winsett said with his dry smile. The Marchioness shook her head rep... ... Archers chanced to be lunching, the question as to who should meet her at Jersey City was immediately raised; and the material difficulties amid whic... ... to the debate. It was agreed that Mrs. Welland could not possi- bly go to Jersey City because she was to accompany her hus- band to old Catherine’s t... ...k May, at the close of a winter afternoon, to go alone across the ferry to Jersey City, even in her own carriage. Nevertheless, it might appear inhosp...

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...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorag...

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..................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ............................................................... ... his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Com- bine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ank... ...g better, or is it senile decay?” “Climate, all climate.” Sophie swung her new-bought En- glish boots, as she sat on the stile overlooking Friars Par-... ... doctors thought marching in the cool of the day would do them good. Their route lay south to a place called Umballa, a hundred and twenty miles or mo... ...the Bee Mas- ter and his son came by. The Oddities crawled in and a Voice 64 Actions and Reactions behind a Veil said: “I’ve neglected the old Hive t... ...ed official Mr. L.L. Geary, Sec- 69 Kipling ond Despatcher of the Western Route—to the Captains’ Room (this wakes an echo of old romance), where the ... ...ms over Severnmouth) are dead ahead of us; for we keep the Southern Winter Route. Coventry Central, the pivot of the English system, stabs upward once... ...ul iron fence from a most park-like meadow of five or six acres, where two Jersey cows grazed. Tea was ready in the shade of a promising copper beech,...

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...members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen ...

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...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one half. An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, state... ...n would shout, “Gimme a pa a per!” as Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 64 the skiff drifted swiftly astern. The clerk would throw over a file o... ...ar Star made the run from St. Louis to St. Joseph, on the Missouri River, in 64 hours. In July, 1856, the steamer Jas. H. Lucas, Andy Wineland, Mas t... ...e me—to survey, in case anybody wanted it done. I had a contract to survey a route for a great mining ditch in California, and I was on my way thither... ...cattle, except what I was able to pick up in a week’s apprenticeship over in Jersey just before we sailed. My cattle culture and cattle enthusiasm hav... ...hed us to New York without missing schedule time ten minutes anywhere on the route; and there ended one of the most enjoyable five thousand mile journ...

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...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 18... ... General McDowell has been ordered to march upon that city by the shortest route. He is ordered, keeping himself always in position to save the capita... ...you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to supply him by that route. The President desires that General McDowell retain the com- mand of ... ... up, will be about 20,000. Please have your force at Strasburg, or, if the route you are moving on does not lead to that point, as near Strasburg as t... ...s. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 56 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH AT JERSEY CITY , JUNE 24, 1862. When birds and animals are looked at through a... ...ut. E. D. Morgan, Governor of New Y ork. Charles S. Olden, Governor of New Jersey. A. G . Curtin, Governor of Pennsyl- vania. A. W . Bradford, Governo... ...1863. GENERAL PECK, Suffolk, V a.: Colonel Derrom, of the Twenty-fifth New Jersey V olunteers, now mustered out, says there is a man in your hands und...

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...all. He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has... ...ve again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of them ever will be ann... ...GTON CITY , November 3, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD, Auburn, N. Y .: Nothing new. Dispatches up to 12 last night from Chatta- nooga show all quiet and ... ...special danger of renewed troubles in that neighborhood, and thence on the route toward New Mexico. I am not impressed that the danger is very great o... ...merchandise and other articles so purchased may be transported by the same route, and to the same place, from and by which the products sold and de- l... ... seizure, or for- feiture while being transported to the places and by the routes set forth in the said certificate. V . Generals commanding military ... ...ryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New Y ork, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, V ermont, West... ... number of all soldiers in the field from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, and California, who by the laws of tho... ...cember, conveying the announcement that the Trustees of the College of New Jersey had conferred upon me the degree of Doctor of Laws. The assurance co...

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...e under notice to quit, the last patch of country in a district flooded by new and prbaa things. He did his best to console himself, to imagine matter... ...rench artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zeala... ...a whole day before he was five, and nearly drowned in the reservoir of the new water-works before he was seven. He had a real pistol taken away from h... ...ve soon produced a sympathetic ripple in the Bun Hill establishment. Grubb routed out his flying- machine model again, tried it in the yard behind the... .... “I’ll have to be more careful next time. No good wastin’ drink.” Then he routed about for matches to utilise Mr. Butteridge’s cigars; but here again... ...avour to leave the country and come to us with your plans by the customary routes—either via Dover, Ostend, Boulogne, or Dieppe. We find it difficult ... ...angled from the forward cabin—that is to say, under the chin of the fish. 64 The War in the Air These monsters were capable of ninety miles an hour i... ...e to the east of the Narrows, soared over Upper Bay, and came to rest over Jersey City in a position that domi- nated lower New York. There the monste...

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...ight rolled off up Vaea mountain-side; back with Clarke to the Mis- sion; had a bit of lunch and consulted over a queer point of missionary policy jus... ... ingenuity, I begin it at different places; so that if you stumble on one section, you may not even then sus- pect the fulness of my labours. Accordin... ...was ready, and to finish it afterwards, before Henry has yet put in an appearance for his lesson in ‘long explessions. ’ Dinner: stewed beef and potat... ... giving reasons which are not my reasons, but calculated for the meridian of the particular objection; so soon does falsehood await the politician in ... ...sisted of one horse, and was extremely insubordinate and mutinous, owing to not being used to go into the bush, and being half-broken anyway—and that ... ...k with her rump criss- crossed like a clan tartan; the two cart horses, now only used with pack-saddles; two cows, one in the straw (I trust) to-morro... ...de, ride!’ like a hero in a ballad. Lady Margaret and he were only come to shew the place; they returned, and the rest of our party, reinforced by Cap... ...lay was due to D. ’s infinite precautions, leading them up lanes, by back ways, and then down again to the beach road a hundred yards further on. It w...

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...ere the rule. The little children of both sexes were nearly always nice enough to take into a body’s lap. And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, the... ...onage who is called the Portier (who is not the Porter, but is a sort of first-mate of a hotel) [1. See Appendix A] appeared at the door in a spick-an... ...e than even the black one had done. But he patiently fixed and refixed it until it was exactly right and lay precisely in the middle of the black carp... ...em, though we had had a little assistance here and there. After breakfast they found us trying to blast some infor- mation out of the dumb hotel clerk... ...t we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people think the Indians are ... ...t kind of a passage did you have?” “Pretty fair.” “That was luck. We had it awful rough. Captain said he’d hardly seen it rougher. Where are you from?... ...gs, I get the fan-tods mighty soon. I say ‘Well, I must be going now— hope I’ll see you again’—and then I take a walk. Where you from?” Mark Twain 15... ...d at the summit, but Harris preferred to ask a lot of ques- tions—as usual, of a man who didn’t know anything—and he told us to go back and follow the... ...me. One does not understand why rocks and landslides do not plunge down these declivities daily. A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, ...

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... Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared. “The new servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are ... ...f without a word. Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his 7 Jules Verne pre... ... somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s “people,” let it be said, are of wax, and ar... ...daily passing to and fro on the great ca- nal, by which the old roundabout route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at lea... ...at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would not be safe an hour in India, which i... ... left London intending to reach the New World, he would naturally take the route via India, which was less watched and more difficult to watch than th... ...ed to an En- glishman. Passepartout tried to reason about the matter, but 64 Around the World in 80 Days the policeman tapped him with his stick, and... ...man had no time to lose. It traversed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like a flash, rushing through towns with antique names, 155 Jules V... ...t about what is best to-morrow. Come.” The party crossed the Hudson in the Jersey City ferryboat, and drove in a carriage to the St. Nicholas Hotel, o...

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...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ... by one might, 7 Trollope perhaps, have done for the skeleton sketch of a new city. Less than half that would contain much more than the present popu... ...y the names of the respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They co... ...e names of the respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They come f... ...had the South- ern States been persistent in their demand. A way, indeed, 64 North America V ol. 2 has been found; but it has lain through fire and w... ...ight undertake this mili- tary duty. When he reached Kansas, having on his route made sundry violent abolition speeches, and proclaimed his intention ... ...ared to endure all the discomfort which light- ness of baggage entails. My route lay over the Alleghenies, 74 North America V ol. 2 by Pittsburg and ... ...h the cities which I had visited in coming thither, and stayed again on my route, for a few days, at Baltimore, at Phila- delphia, and at New York. At... ...he legislature of Massachusetts should offer six per cent., or that of New Jersey decide that four per cent. was sufficient? For awhile the arrangemen...

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...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ...usage, solely and merely upon your own spontane- ous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...tion; and, on our return in the evening, when we reached that point of our route from which the retreat was secure to Greenhay, we took such revenge f... ...ng women will insist on kissing major generals, they must expect that the 64 Thomas de Quincey generals will retaliate. One only of the crowd adverte... ...roaches for the last few miles, I had lost, in consequence of the stealthy route of by-roads, lying near Uxbridge and Watford, through which we crept ... ... at some place, which is as little within my dis- tinct remembrance as the route by which we reached it. For what had we come? To see London. And what... ...ith The Mount V ernon Hotel at Cape May, N. J., (meant, I suppose, for New Jersey,) which advertises itself in the “New York Herald,” of April 12, 185...

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... any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, on the groun... ...Aug. 5, 1858. HON. J. M. PALMER. DEAR SIR:—Since we parted last evening no new thought has occurred to [me] on the subject of which we talked most yes... ...orward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotatio... ...tage for Naples before daylight in the morning, having come in by the same route after dark the evening, previous to the speaking, when I found you wa... ... and agreeable journey which I have had from home, on my rather circuitous route to the Federal capital. I am very happy that he was enabled in truth ... ... much here, indeed, under the circumstances, as I have been anywhere on my route—to witness this noble demonstration—made, not in honor of an individu... ...ome to a close. 182 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five ADDRESS AT JERSEY CITY , NEW JERSEY , FEBRUARY 21, 1860. MR. DAYTON AND GENTLEMEN OF T... ... JERSEY , FEBRUARY 21, 1860. MR. DAYTON AND GENTLEMEN OF THE STA TE OF NEW JERSEY:—I shall only thank you briefly for this very kind reception given m... ...our make a worthy response to it. I therefore, ladies and gentlemen of New Jersey, content myself with say- ing, most heartily do I indorse all the se...

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... concerns as they did. I remember how jubilant Markham was at secur- ing a new photograph of the planet for the illustrated paper he edited in those d... ... point of vantage and continually looking at the sand heaps that hid these new-comers to our earth. Once a leash of thin black whips, like the arms of... ...was this, as much as anything, that gave people courage, and I suppose the new arrivals from Woking also helped to restore confidence. At any rate, as... ... near, and leaving us astonished. “Here they are!” shouted a man in a blue jersey. “Yonder! D’yer see them? Yonder!” Quickly, one after the other, one... ...Guildford. They were busy making the neces- sary arrangements to alter the route of the Southampton and Portsmouth Sunday League excursions. A nocturn... ...nders were disseminating. People were interested, or, if alarmed, alarmed 64 The War of the Worlds only on account of the local residents. At the sta... ...ill in my ears, “Ulla, ulla, ulla, ulla.” It was now dusk, and after I had routed out some biscuits and a cheese in the bar—there was a meat safe, but...

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...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...ed hero. Then she found a hobby in sociology. The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come... ... thin nose, and a silky indecisive brown mustache. He had a golf jacket of jersey, worn through at the creases in the sleeves. She noted that he did n... ... the party, but it’s getting late, and a doctor never knows when he’ll get routed out before morning.” (She remembered that he had given this explanat... ... He galloped to the station, brought home rail- way maps, and traced motor-routes from Gopher Prairie to Winnipeg or Des Moines or Grand Marais, think... ...o bed,” rather briefly. “I know. And rules are rules, these days. Kids get routed through the shop like a motor. But look here, sister; I’m one great ... ...ing. The stranger’s mouth was arched, the upper lip short. He wore a brown jersey coat, a delft-blue bow, a white silk shirt, white flannel trou- 341... ... reason- able for you, my soul, to ask that complete stranger in the brown jersey coat to come to supper tonight?” She brooded, not looking back. She ...

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...le difficulty in finding his cap before he came out. He wanted his cap—the new golf cap—and Mrs. Polly must needs fish out his old soft brown felt hat... ...ojecting cor- ners, technically a “wing-poke”; that and his tie, which was new and loose and rich in colouring, had been selected to encourage and sti... ...valu- able hints—and by his fifth birthday the perfect rhythms of his nice new interior were already darkened with perplexity…. His mother died when h... ...s is fairly On,” he said, and dived down to return by devious subterranean routes to the outfitting department. Presently the street door opened and P... ...intense devotion to business assumed to cover his adoption of that unusual route, came in and made for the staircase down to the warehouse. He rolled ... ...ratted lumpin baggage!…” For a while he mused malevolently upon Annie, and routed out a reluctant crumb from some coy sitting-out place in his tooth. ... ...E FOLLOWED an anxious peace for three days, and then a rough man in a blue jersey, in the intervals of trying to choke himself with bread and cheese a... ...oughtfully. “I dessay ‘e ‘ad a use for it,” said the gentleman in the blue jersey, and he took a mouthful that amounted to conversa- tional suicide. T... ...red at last. “‘Atchets or no ‘atchets.” He turned to the man with the blue jersey when he thought him clear for speech again. “How much did you say th...

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... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ... things than the Vicarage of Feniton. Indeed, the subject was not entirely new to him, for Edward Coleridge was always deeply interested in mis- sions... ...e well-writ- ten letter at once, because on our system of mutual explana- 64 Life of John Coleridge Patteson tion, there are two or three things I wi... ... and blue Scotch caps, and the more delicate a thick 195 Yo n g e woollen jersey in addition; and with all these precautions they were continually ca... ... fied against weather: ‘They wear a long flannel waistcoat, then a kind of jersey-shaped thing, with short trousers, reach- ing a little below the kne... ...lness made it more prudent to re- turn by what is on the whole the shorter route, i.e., to the west of New Caledonia. ‘Y ou should have been with me w... ...hall live ten or twenty years, and look back and say, “I recollect how in ’64 I really almost thought I should not last long.” But don’t fancy that I ... ...nd protec- tion we all trust.’ On the 9th, in a letter sent by a different route, he adds:— ‘So I think it will come to my doing my work on Norfolk Is...

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...pleton & Co., Macmillan & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and Harper Broth- ers, of New Y ork; to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dana, Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & ... ...with- out ambition for himself or his children, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mo... ...gratified; but how? At the age of nineteen he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade many mem- bers ... ...tes carried by Fremont in 1856, those that were classed as “doubtful,”—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, or Illinois in the place of either New J... ...rofession of the law always has been and is to this day the principal av- 64 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One enue to public life; and I am ... ...gfield for home on Tuesday be- fore mentioned they did not take the direct route,—which, you know, leads by the butcher shop,—but that they fol- lowed... ...rom Kentucky, Newland and Graham from North Caro- lina, and the famous New Jersey case. In all these districts 209 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V...

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...hen the great soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter... ...th the man on board, but it was hopeless for Captain S- to try to make his new iron clipper equal the feats which made the old Tweed a name of praise ... ...provided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars ... ...t look upon the gales. The little brigantine, then, had doubled the Cape. 64 The Mirror of the Sea Perhaps she was coming from Port Elizabeth, from E... ...and be heard of no more. For six weeks did the robber sheik hold the trade route of the earth, while our liege lord, the West Wind, slept profoundly l... ...way- station, where, in those days, the everyday male crowd was attired in jerseys and pilot-cloth mostly, and had the air of being more conversant wi...

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...olume of Pindar when Willoughby was launching his first ship. They built a new factory the very year the commentary on Aristotle—was it?—appeared at t... ... about the Reality of Matter, or the Nature of Good. Round her men in blue jerseys knelt and scrubbed the boards, or leant over the rails and whistled... ...They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetu- ally, the same waves kept returning and washing against ... ... medi- tated plan. The foreign correspondents of the _Times_ decided their route as much as anything else. Mr. Dalloway wished to look at certain guns... ...st gave out just as it reached its climax and dwindled away, and the ship 64 The Voyage Out instead of taking the usual plunge went steadily. The mon... ...bbold, Mr. Grice, Willoughby, Helen, and an obscure grateful man in a blue jersey. “Oh, it’s time,” said Clarissa. “Well, good-bye. I do like you,” sh... ...ith fixed eyes, she burst out: “So that’s why I can’t walk alone!” By this new light she saw her life for the first time a creeping hedged-in thing, d... ...quickly turned into a hotel, while a famous line of steamships altered its route for the convenience of passengers. Oddly enough it happened that the ...