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...in which he had added: ?If you?ll come in and see me, I?ll show you what I mean.? This communication had reached Jersey Villas by the first post, and Peter Baron had scarcely swallowed his leathery muffin before he got into motion to obey the editorial behest. He knew that such precipitation looked eager, and he had no desire to look eager--it was not in his interest; but ...

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...mean.” This communication had reached Jersey Villas by the first post, and Peter Baron had scarcely swallowed his leathery muffin before he got into m... ...nse. It was really degrading to be eager in the face of having to “alter.” Peter Baron tried to figure to himself at that moment that he was not flyin... ... a character together,” this pitiless monitor had somewhere else remarked. Peter Baron, as he sat in his corner while the train stopped, considered, i... ...piano. She had further- more a little boy and a very sweet voice, of which Peter Baron had caught the accent, not from her singing (for she only playe... ...fied Mrs. Bundy that she was not a simple strummer. Mrs. Bundy admitted to Peter Baron that, for herself, she had a weakness for a pretty tune, and Pe... ...almost always came back with them. Her vain ap- proaches were to the music-sellers; she tried to compose— to produce songs that would make a hit. A su...

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...diligence. He was conventionally honest, he kept his records of buyers and sellers complete, he had experience with leases and titles and an excellent... ...begin to make as much money as fellows that went to work early. Old Shimmy Peters, that teaches Latin in the High, he’s a what-is-it from Columbia and... ...- ciple of Boosterism—Good Citizenship in all its factors and aspects. Dad Petersen. Compliments of Dadbury Petersen Advertising Corp. “Ads, not Fads,... ...rsen Advertising Corp. “Ads, not Fads, at Dad’s” The Boosters all read Mr. Peterson’s aphorism and said they understood it perfectly. The meeting open... ...h and let on they’re going to change the whole works, and pretty soon they peter out and every- body forgets all about ‘em!” “But if it’s the fad now,...

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...eet. All three give glimpses of the shops of grocers, block mak ers, slop sellers, and ship chandlers, around the doors of which are generally to be ... ...an account of the digging up of his remains in the little graveyard of St. Peter’s Church, dur ing the renewal of that edifice. Nothing, if I rightly...

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... as flabby as Prothero’s body. Among them were such men as Lord Breeze and Peter Westerton, and that current set of Corinthians who supposed themselve... ...n January, in an outbreak of enquiry, he had gone with Lionel Maxim to St. Petersburg and had eaten 89 H G Wells zakuska, brightened his eyes with vo... ...cracy and assassination, Japan, the Russian destiny, and the government of Peter the Great. That excursion was the most after his heart of all the dis... ...of sleeping the night in Chichester and going back next day via Harting to Petersfield station and London. He carried out this scheme and got to South... ...r they had gone in again. When he looked back at the corner of the road to Petersfield she was still at the door and waved farewell to him. He only sa... ...he ample compass of the walls of Diocletian’s villa, and a few troublesome sellers of coins and iridescent glass and fragments of tessellated pavement...

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...d with the quality and quantity of the wares— and extremely taken with the sellers, especially with Gilbert’s wit, and with Miss Durant’s ready, livel... ... Albinia, nearly smiling. ‘Grandmamma’s Betty said so, she used to call me Peter Grievous, and I know it is so. It is of no good to bother your- self ... ...thereupon, and a lot of lawyer’s jargon. I’m sure I thought it was left to Peter Pettilove himself. And when I came to understand it, one would have t... ... ‘The very thing!’ cried the Vicar. ‘I’ll go this moment.’ ‘Or there’s old Peter, the sailor,’ called Ulick; ‘if he wanted any tackle fitted, he might...

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...s in a hardware store at Charlottesville, while “skylarking,” came to blows. Peter Dick threw pepper in Charles Roads’s eyes; Roads demanded an apolog... ...wrote the book called “The Gilded Age.” There is a char acter in it called “Sellers.” I do not remember what his first name was, in the beginning; bu... ...ted it improved. He asked me if I was able to imagine a person named “Eschol Sellers.” Of course I said I could not, without stimulants. He said that ... ..., and actually shaken hands with a man bearing that impossible name— “Eschol Sellers.” He added— “It was twenty years ago; his name has probably carri... ... are using is common, and therefore dangerous; there are probably a thousand Sellerses bearing it, and the whole horde will come after us; but Eschol ... ...dition of ten million * copies of the book and change that name to “Mulberry Sellers” in future editions. Chapter 48 Sugar and Postage ONE DAY, ON ...

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... are made in honour of his memory! nay, to see the very place in which St. Peter and he lie buried together! These are in and near to Rome. And how mu... ...l invite an an gler to it: and this seems to be maintained by the learned Peter du Moulin, who, in his discourse of the fulfilling of Prophecies, obs... ...f nomination in the catalogue of his twelve Apostles, as namely, first St. Peter, St. Andrew, St. James, and St. John; and, then, the rest in their or... ...ieve, by comparing the affectionate, loving, lowly, humble Epistles of St. Peter, St. James, and St. John, whom we know were all fishers, with the glo... ...ss of fishing: it may very well be maintained by our Saviour’s bidding St. Peter cast his hook into the water and catch a fish, for money to pay tribu... ...e I will go with you, either to Mr. Margrave, who dwells amongst the book sellers in St. Paul’s Church yard, or to Mr. John Stubs, near to the Swan i...

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...very year, — the Carnival, Holy Week, Corpus Christi, and the Feast of St. Peter. All the rest of the year the city is in that state of dull apathy, b... ... seat behind. “Where do your excellencics wish to go?” asked he. “To Saint Peter’s first, and then to the Colosseum,” returned Albert. But Albert did ... ... returned Albert. But Albert did not know that it takes a day to see Saint Peter’s, and a month to study it. The day was passed at Saint Peter’s alone... ...ished to show Albert the Colosseum by moonlight, as he had shown him Saint Peter’s by daylight. When we show a friend a city one has already visited, ... ...stian world without laying his respectful homage at the feet of one of St. Peter’s successors who has set the rare example of all the virtues. He did ... ...nite banks. A new source of noise and movement was added to the crowd. The sellers of moccoletti entered on the scene. The moccoli, or moccoletti, are...

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... our two friends were now standing. At any nearer view the grandeur of St. Peter’s hides itself behind the immensity of its separate parts,—so that we... ...aternity, it is a wonder that no artist paints him as the cripple whom St. Peter heals at the Beautiful Gate of the T emple,—was just mounting his don... ...om what a depth within this painter’s heart the Angel is leading forth St. Peter. Thus it would be easy to go on, perpetrating a score of little epigr... ...e unseen river. Far away on the right, the moon gleamed on the dome of St. Peter’s as well as on many lesser and nearer domes. “What a beautiful view ... ...spear, the sponge; and perched over the whole, the cock that crowed to St. Peter’s remorse- ful conscience. Thus, while the fertile scene showed the n... ... across the rest of the piazza—was a crowd of people, engaged as buyers or sellers in the petty traffic of a country fair. Dealers had erected booths ...

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...ped slowly, calling one to the other and stopping to haggle with sweetmeat sellers, or to make a prayer before one of the wayside shrines–sometimes Hi... ...ot well remember one from the other. Was it some matter of a bay mare that Peters Sahib wished the pedigree of?’ Kim saw the trap at once. If he had s... ... pretty ladies’ ‘rickshaws by night and gamble till the dawn; grocers, oil sellers, curio vendors, firewood dealers, priests, pickpockets, and native ...

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...cellencies, Lord and Lady Lytton, to invite Mr. and Mrs. Cusack-Bremmil to Peterhoff on July 26th at 9.30 P . M.”— ”Dancing” in the bottom-left-hand c... ...was taken home just as every one was going to a dance at Viceregal Lodge— “Peterhoff ” it was then—and the doc- tor found that she had fallen from her... ...l head the conspiracy for plucking out Gabriel’s tail-feathers or stealing Peter’s keys. Then I shall report him.” But, though the Viceroy did nothing... ...rly wept with pride and delight, and at the appointed hour cantered off to Peterhoff, a big paper-bag full of the Fumigatory in his coat-tail pockets.... ...Excellency had fled, and was coughing at the foot of the stairs, while all Peterhoff hummed like a hive. Red Lancers came in, and the Head Chaprassi, ... ... questions so:— It lies between the Copper-smith’s Gully and the pipe-stem sellers’ quarter, within a hundred yards, too, as the crow flies, of the Mo...

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... Saint Saviour’s, Southwark; and the church of Milton’s tomb to be the church of Cripplegate; and the church on Cornhill with the great golden keys to... ...dy in the streets, and, as waking life had become extinguished with the last pieman’s sparks, so it began to be rekindled with the fires of the first ... ...e of trees, shading the quaintest of Dutch landing-places, where the leaf-speckled shadow of a shipwright just passing away at the further end might b...

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...deur of the place, its numerous slave population, and the fact that Harry, Peter and Jake the sailors of the sloop—almost always kept, pri- vately, li... ...sly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice, and rapacity of the buy- ers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight. Is this the land your f...

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... For example, you see these two fish; one brought fifty leagues beyond St. Petersburg, the other five leagues from Naples. Is it not amusing to see th... ... rumbling of the omnibuses and the tin- kling of the bells of the lemonade-sellers, and now I feel as if I were suddenly transported to the East; not ... .... May I give you a friendly counsel? Set out for Naples, the Hague, or St. Petersburg — calm countries, where the point of honor is better understood ... ...leads strangers to stand up and endeavor to catch sight of the dome of St. Peter’s, which may be seen long before any other object is distinguishable.... ...e most celebrated in Rome. It was situated in the Via dei Banchi, near St. Peter’s. In Rome, as everywhere else, the arrival of a post-chaise is an ev... ...coachman. Peppino mounted the seat behind. “Will your excellency visit St. Peter’s?” asked the cicerone. “I did not come to Rome to see,” said Danglar...

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... Fit, fit, fit for a soldier … First mind you steer clear o’ the grog-sellers’ huts, For they sell you Fixed Bay’nets that rots out your guts — A... ... down and drone and cease, And they came to the Gate within the Wall where Peter holds the keys. “Stand up, stand up now, Tomlinson, and answer loud a... ... The good souls flocked like homing doves and bade him clear the path, And Peter twirled the jangling keys in weariness and wrath. “Ye have read, ye h... ... the trail that is always new? See the shaking funnels roar, with the Peter at the fore, And the fenders grind and heave, And the derricks clack... ...hes of comets’ hair; They shall find real saints to draw from — Magdalene, Peter, and Paul; They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired...

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...a very long whip, and drives his team, something like the Courier of Saint Petersburgh in the circle at Astley’s or Franconi’s: only he sits his own h... ...le are grouped about, with their clean baskets before them. Here, the lace sellers; there, the butter and egg sellers; there, the fruit sellers; there... ...ly relates, towards my conversion, an abridgment of the His tory of Saint Peter—chiefly, I believe, from the unspeakable delight he has in his imitat... ... garbage seem to accumulate spontaneously. Beneath some of the arches, the sellers of macaroni and polenta es tablish their stalls, which are by no m... ... congre gate. There is a street of jewellers, and there is a row of book sellers; but even down in places where nobody ever can, or ever could, pene... ...pal terri tory: which is not, in any part, supremely well governed, Saint Peter’s keys being rather rusty now; the driver had so worried about the da... ...he smooth lake of Geneva, was beautiful to see; or how the statue of Saint Peter in the street at Fribourg, grasps the larg est key that ever was beh... ... that can be connected with the Saviour’s death. The cock that crowed when Peter had denied his Master thrice, is usu ally perched on the tip top; an... ...he Moccoletti, the last gay madness of the Carni val, is now at hand; and sellers of little tapers like what are called Christmas candles in England,...

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...spear, the sponge; and perched over the whole, the cock that crowed to St. Peter’s remorse- ful conscience. Thus, while the fertile scene showed the n... ... across the rest of the piazza—was a crowd of people, engaged as buyers or sellers in the petty traffic of a country fair. Dealers had erected booths ... ...rble Faun V ol 2 Oftener than to the other churches, she wandered into St. Peter’s. Within its vast limits, she thought, and beneath the sweep of its ... ...ion had been dazzled out of sight by the reality. Her preconception of St. Peter’s was a structure of no definite out- line, misty in its architecture... ...f the dream edifice, she had said, “How vast it is!” while of the real St. Peter’s she could only say, “After all, it is not so immense!” Besides, suc... ...s cloudy pinnacles be- neath the dome. One afternoon, as Hilda entered St. Peter’s in sombre mood, its interior beamed upon her with all the effect of...

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...ment was manufac- tured just before the election, turn to the affidavit of Peter S. Weber, where the following will be found viz.: “I, Peter S. Weber,... ...ony, is surpassing. He brings in the affidavit of his own son, and even of Peter S. Weber, with whom I am not ac- quainted, but who, I suppose, is som... ...judicious? It seems to me it was not. Too much de- nunciation against dram-sellers and dram-drinkers was indulged in. This I think was both impolitic ...

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... Sansculottes get water-pails; form quenching-regulations, “The ball is in Peter’s house!” “The ball is in John’s!” They divide their lodging and subs... ...hour it is done; and the multitude has all departed. Pastrycooks, cof- fee-sellers, milkmen sing out their trivial quotidian cries: the world wags on,... ... time when steel Europe shook itself simultaneously, at the word of Hermit Peter, and rushed towards the Sepulchre where God had lain, there was no un... ...au-waus, one can understand: but this of Procureur Anaxagoras whilom John- Peter Chaumette? We will say only: Man is a born idol- worshipper, sight-wo...

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...a sciolist for any age. The tutor of 87 Thomas de Quincey Charlemagne was Peter of Pisa, a man eminent at that time for his attainments in literature... ...o the higher modes of aris- tocratic life, he may know that London and St. Petersburg are far more magnificent capitals than Paris; but that will not ... ...too justly prized by the wealthy purchas- ers nor to be hated by the needy sellers. Indeed to hear Von Raumer’s account of our water-color exhibitions...

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...r along the street the mighty howlings, to and fro of the Hoo- ligan paper-sellers making a Boom. “‘Orrible affair in Kent—’orrible affair in Kent. Do... ...ive feet high and scaled eight stone three; he was as big in fact as a St. Peter’s in Vaticano cherub, and his affectionate clutch at the hair and fea...

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...; in fact, it resembled the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal the shrewdest, of th... ...e. The small amount of wood they burned in winter they bought of itinerant sellers day by day. By seven in win- ter, by nine in summer, the household ... ...nt. That’s a day on which I do not fear comparison with the pomps of Saint-Peter at Rome; the Holy Father has his gold, and I my flowers,—to each his ...

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...ut who froze to death my teamster on the prairie? And who made an idiot of Peter the Wild Boy?” “Then you don’t believe in these ‘ere yarb-doctors?” “... ... in Hebe’s cheek. While, as for suspicions against the dealers in wine and sellers of it, those who cherish such suspicions can have but limited trust...

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...tion for the masterpieces of past ages has created the modern trade of the sellers of bric-a-brac? In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the trade ... ...hese pretty gardens. If I go away it will be to Italy with you, to see St. Peter’s, and Raffaelle’s pictures.” “And the orange-trees? Oh! my darling k... ...ee centuries earlier a monk of Picardy drove the whole West upon the East. Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hun...

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...much more than I could understand. Sam Miles had been caught poaching, and Peter Bailey had gone to the workhouse at last. “Serve him right,” said Sir... ...et us set down the items of her happiness. In the first place, she gave up Peter Butt, a young man who kept company with her, and in consequence of hi... ... anity Fair—V anity Fair! This might have been, but for you, a cheery lass—Peter Butt and Rose a happy man and wife, in a snug farm, with a hearty fam... ...t sleep in what they call my bedroom. The bed is like the baldaquin of St. Peter’s, and the pictures frighten me. I have a little brass bed in a dress... ... the present historian to say much. There was his Excellency the Prince of Peterwaradin, with his Prin- cess—a nobleman tightly girthed, with a large ... ...ere all sorts of people were col- 684 V anity Fair lected; Tyrolese glove-sellers and Danubian linen-merchants, with their packs; students recruiting...

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...y dear Martin, into any form which would remind me on my return say of St. Peter’s at Rome, or the Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople, it would be... ...eing a disgrace to the Dragon. That’s my opinion. I wouldn’t have any such Peter the Wild Boy as him in my house, sir, not if I was paid race-week pri... ... it wouldn’t have engaged my dollars, I opinionate.’ ‘I don’t mean for the sellers,’ said Martin. ‘For the buyers—for the buyers!’ ‘For the buyers, si... ...the world. The naked visitors to Crusoe’s Island, sir; the flying wives of Peter Wilkins; the fruit-smeared children of the tangled bush; nay, even th... ...nd though it was the same market as of old, crowded by the same buyers and sellers; brisk with the same business; noisy with the same confusion of ton...

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...royal ingrates, she took care to express no surprise. When you go into St. Peter’s at Rome, to enable you to appreciate the extent and height of this ... ..., where a thousand costermongers wander round, and two hundred old-clothes sellers are chaffering. The two prisoners had hardly been locked up when sh...

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...e attributed to Andronicus of Rhodes), edited by E. Hatch, 1879; by F , H. Peters, 1881; J. E. C. Welldon, 1892; J. Gillies (Lubbock’s Hundred Books),... ... life; the third sort are your exchange- men, I mean by these your buyers, sellers, merchants, and victuallers; the fourth are your hired labourers or... ...rder; for of necessity, in almost every city there must be both buyers and sellers to supply each other’s mutual wants: and this is what is most produ...

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...id not taste from year’s end to year’s end. He had found that among muffin-sellers there existed drunkenness, debauchery , and profligacy , which he a... ...cognised the expediency of immediately abolishing ‘all muffin (or crumpet) sellers, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, wh... ...rts and waggons; the roll of the lighter vehicles which carried buyers and sellers to the different markets; the sound of ineffectual knocking at the ... ... objection. ‘Shall we join company in the avenue of trees which leads from Petersham to Ham House, and settle the exact spot when we arrive there?’ sa... ...ll his uncle Lillyvick say? What will he like him to be called? Will he be Peter, or Alexander, or Pompey, or Diorgeenes, or what will he be?” And now...

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...ng of tobacco is so con siderable, that it is well worth the while of the sellers of smuggled tobacco to use hydraulic presses, to squeeze a single p... ...t, and caught each other’s eye. He was present at that illumination of St. Peter’s, of which the Pope is known to have remarked, as he looked at it ou...

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...for the stage, he was very desirous that it should be brought forward. Mr. Peter Garrick told me, that Johnson and he went together to the Fountain ta... ...Sir William Hamilton, Dr. Warren, Mr. Courtenay, Dr. Hinchcliffe Bishop of Peterborough, the Duke of Leeds, Dr. Dou- glas Bishop of Salisbury, and the... ...to Dr. Johnson’s before din- ner, found him in his study, sitting with Mr. Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, strongly resembling him in count... ...oth at this interview, and in the evening at Mr. Thrale’s where he and Mr. Peter Garrick and I met again, he was vehe- ment on the subject of the Ossi... ...erenced him, and he had a parental tenderness for her. We then visited Mr. Peter Garrick, who had that morning received a letter from his brother Davi... ...y him: but that he was to furnish a Preface and Life to any poet the book- sellers pleased. I asked him if he would do this to any dunce’s works, if t... ...critical, to the most eminent of the English Poets, published by the book- sellers of London. The remaining volumes came out in the year 1780. The Poe...

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...eak, of preparation were to set in, when arrivals were ex- pected, and the sellers were in commotion, and he had been all day putting the singers one ... ... with food better than he had done at breakfast. It did not last long. The sellers had to rush off to relieve those who had begun the sale, and the pe... ...stone party waited to see the illumi- nations. T alk was eager between the sellers and the sailors as V aletta described the two parties, the fate of ... ... home, having broken down, and having spent most of her holidays with Mrs. Peter Brown, the wife of Sir Ferdinand’s partner. She had come back, not lo...

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...l have his mahajuns, and Bhairon the donkey-drivers, the pilgrims, and the sellers of toys. Beloved, they will do no more than change the names, and t... ...e an- swer, “without lookin’ after your back-numbers. Guess it’s something Peter Cooper left over when he died.” 007 quivered; his steam was getting ... ...held his tongue. Even a hand-car knows what sort of locomotive it was that Peter Cooper experimented upon in the far-away Thirties. It carried its coa...

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...shed, September Massacres, Bridges of Lodi, retreats of Moscow, Waterloos, Peterloos, Tenpound Fran- chises, Tarbarrels and Guillotines;—and from this... ... two to Saint-Cloud, where his Majesty was hunting, on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul; and waited there, in antechambers, a wonder to whisperi... ...hether we think of it or not. So that when your Epimenides, your somnolent Peter Klaus, since named Rip van Winkle, awakens again, he finds it a chang... ...ed he sleep; of- ten not by the seven months. Fancy, for example, some new Peter Klaus, sated with the jubilee of that Federation day, had lain down, ... ...e guns, incense-pans and concourse right over his head: none of these; but Peter sleeps through them all. Through one circling year, as we say; from J... ...- hour it is done; and the multitude has all departed. Pastrycooks, coffee-sellers, milkmen sing out their trivial quotidian cries: the world wags on,...

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...he greatness of the ex- cess increases more or less the competition of the sellers, or ac- cording as it happens to be more or less important to them ... ...t is supposed they will consent to give; the other is the lowest which the sellers can commonly afford to take, and at the same time continue their bu... ...ight from their own country to Great Britain. By diminishing the number of sellers, therefore, we necessarily di- minish that of buyers, and are thus ... ...se admit of any. Whoever examines with attention, the im- provements which Peter the Great introduced into the Russian empire, will find that they alm...

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...been engaged to go to Germany, and in Germany had had an offer to go to St Petersburg, and there had done very well indeed—never better. However, he h... ...e side of the way, and down it on the other, what time two vociferous news-sellers, announcing an extraor- dinary event that had never happened and ne... ...d that Prunes and Prism got the upper hand. Everybody was walking about St Peter’s and the V atican on somebody else’s cork legs, and straining every ... ...e thousand churches rang their bells without any ref- erence to it; and St Peter denied that he had anything to do with it. But by that time the Bride...

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...eir blood freezing crimson upon the snow of the squares and streets of St. Petersburg; since their generations born in the grave are yet alive enough ... ...fathers, of our childhood, of our middle-age; the testamentary Rus- sia of Peter the Great—who imagined that all the nations were delivered into the h... ... Prince Bismarck, then about to leave his post of Prussian Minister in St. Petersburg, called—so the story goes—upon another distinguished diplomatist... ...ame mood of trivial demonstrations. One could not take to-day a ticket for Petersburg. “You mean Petrograd,” would say the booking clerk. Shortly afte... ...hings said by sol- emn experts, by exalted directors, by glorified ticket- sellers, by officials of all sorts. I suppose that one of the uses of such ...