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...Anthony T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...y T rollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Anthony Trollope The Prime Minister by Anthony T rollope VOLUME I CHAPTER 1 FERDINAND LOPEZ IT I... ...iversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Anthony Trollope The Prime Minister by Anthony T rollope VOLUME I CHAPTER 1 FERDINAND LOPEZ IT IS A CE... ... the light of day his grandfather’s cobbler’s awl? And yet it is so 4 The Prime Minister difficult to be altogether silent! It may not be necessary f... ...ight of day his grandfather’s cobbler’s awl? And yet it is so 4 The Prime Minister difficult to be altogether silent! It may not be necessary for any... ...essed. But nobody, not even his own bankers, or his own lawyer,—not 6 The Prime Minister even the old woman who looked after his linen,—ever really k...

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...himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, taking with them their three children. The eldest, Lord Silverbridge, had been at Oxford...

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...m, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he an... ...n the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the ... ...as a peer, he had a seat in Parliament; and that though he was no longer a minister, still he might be useful as a legislator. She, in her careers as ... ...en persistently de- clined to comply with the constitutional advice of her ministers, had a majority in the House of Commons lost its influence in the... ... and then died, it was this woman who had always been at her side, who had ministered to her, and had listened to the fears and the wishes and hopes t... ...before the great man, before the Duke, before the Croesus, before the late Prime Minister, before the man who was to be regarded as certainly the most... ...h the eldest son of a Duke in the possession of that magnificent colt, the Prime Minister, and he was a member of the Beargarden. He was a man who had... ...That’s all very well if you happen to be up. Well, Silverbridge, how’s the Prime Minister?’ ‘How is he, Tifto?’ asked the noble partner. ‘I don’t thin... ...akfast he tried to be gracious, and conde- scended to ask a question about Prime Minister. Racing was an amusement to which English noblemen had been ...

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...were not in variably old; there were men among them in their strength and prime, of marked ability and energy, and altogether su perior to the slugg... ...he gover nor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a bal cony of the meeti... ...tive gifts and scholar like attainments, there was an air about this young minister—an apprehensive, a startled, a half fright ened look—as of a bein... ... arms with a half pleased, half plaintive mur mur. So powerful seemed the minister’s appeal that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne ... ...hy secret from the prying multitude. Thou mayest conceal it, too, from the ministers and magistrates, even as thou didst this day, when they sought to... ...on the ruff of the Governor; military men wore it on their scarfs, and the minister on his band; it decked the baby’s little cap; it was shut up, to b... ... Hawthorne lifetime—could have borne a fair examination in the New England Primer, or the first column of the Westminster Cat echisms, although unacq... ...was no other than a foot path. It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dens...

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...the soul, and his value is reckoned at a much higher salary than that of a minister. One hundred thousand francs for a throat, one hundred thousand fr... ...of losing the salaries given us by the State, the rue de Jerusalem, or the minister of Commerce.” “Y ou certainly seem to me a remarkable man,” said G... ... is more difficult to find than—what shall I say? than—I don’t know what—a minister?—(Sit still!) No, for you can’t judge by ministers, the streets ar... ...atesmen, and one-half of all artists consult Madame Fontaine; and I know a minister to whom she is an Egeria.” “Did she tell you about your future?” a... ...raphers of the “Moniteur” and persons attached to the Chamber. “As for the minister,” replied the usher to Leon as Gazonal 46 Unconsious Comedians ap... ...n’t be serious. This is one of my hilarious days. Now, at this moment, the prime minister, being summoned by the Op- position to make known a certain ... ...et ballot we have come out for a little air,” replied Giraud. “How did the prime minister pull through?” “He was magnificent!” said Canalis. “Magnific...

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...g of the lashes of a barbarous horde—or perhaps he is some Indian prince’s prime minister. Action is my vocation. Leaving a civil college at the age o... ...he lashes of a barbarous horde—or perhaps he is some Indian prince’s prime minister. Action is my vocation. Leaving a civil college at the age of twen... ... statesmen who are the battledores with which two cunning players toss the ministerial portfolios exactly as the man behind the puppet-show hits Punch... ...e contributed largely to his overthrow, and covered him with mud. A fallen minister, if he is to rise again to power, must show that he is to be feare... ...ically, was being subsidized too, consented to take the part of the fallen minister. Without unmasking at once all the batteries of his superior intel... ...his puppet again became a mem- ber of the Ministry, and then the paper was ministerial. The Ministry united the paper with another, solely to squeeze ...

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...ge to accept me, because she expects to manage me as she pleases and to be minister under my name.” “That’s a good joke!” cried Madame Marion. “What d... ...raud,” in the triumph of the present system, by which the Chambers and the ministers are like the wooden puppets which the proprietor of the Guignolet... ...ore returning to their hives at night. The four promenaders were the whole ministerial conclave of Arcis, namely: the sub-prefect, the procureur-du-ro... ...ing-judge by count- ing the electors. 31 Balzac “If Charles Keller is the ministerial candidate,” resumed the sub-prefect, “I ought to have been told... ...doubles the chances of Simon Giguet. You know Arcis; there can be no other ministerial candidate than Charles Keller. Any other man would find the who... ...he famous Simeuse melodrama.” “It would be easier for you to make yourself prime-minis- ter,” said Madame Marion. “There will never be any alliance be... ...ressed myself to his wife,—a rather appetizing provincial, though past her prime.” “Yes, yes, I see; very good!” said Franchessini; “husband 218 The ...

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...fferent positions, and he wondered whether at Washington the President and ministers, whom he expected to see—to have to see—a good deal of, would be ... ...er having lived there, as Mrs. Bonnycastle once told the wife of a foreign minister. They solved all their problems successfully, including those of k... ...ed eminent, but he looked relaxed, 33 Henry James and the lady beside him ministered freely and without scruple, it was clear, to this effect of his ... ...w the host and hostess accompany the President to the door and two foreign ministers and a judge of the Supreme Court address themselves to Pandora Da... ...ver there.” “I wish they would send you to my country,” one of the foreign ministers suggested. “I’d immediately get re- called.” “Why perhaps in your... ...inence on which they stood didn’t give him an idea of the Acropolis in its prime. Vogelstein de- ferred the satisfaction of this appeal to their next ...

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... his hut. Very like he said his mass here.” John wondered to find that the minister thought this made the place more suitable. The whole cavern was so... ... never give up the secret of yonder cavern to any save a lawfully ordained minister of the church.” “No doubt poor old Clerk North will be in distress... ...st gave his brown red hand, and with head bare said, “I promise, after the minister and before God, never to give up that which lies within the cave t... ...ve up that which lies within the cave to any man, save a lawfully ordained minister of the Church.” CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTER II CHAPTE... ...w who did it,” said the Churchwarden. “Something they said of a scandalous minister, as though his had not ever been a godly life and preaching. These... ... of Elmwood,” explained the steward, “on the tenure of the delivery of the prime beast on 45 Yo n g e the land on the demise of lord or tenant, and t...

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...dulge in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking. Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leaders prepare and polish... ...in moralities about buffoons, paint, motley, and mountebanking. Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leaders prepare and polish them:... ...nt struck him; wherein lies his power of pathos, humour, eloquence; — that Minister of State, and what moves him, and how his private heart is working...

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...du Chatelet came in, gor- geously arrayed in evening dress, fresh from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to inquire whether Mme. de Bargeton was satis... ...o herself when Lucien was included in the invitation. In the month of June ministers are often puzzled to know what to do with boxes at the theatre; m... ... saw a fine carp to-day; I expect to buy it this day week.” Instead of the prime vegetables more fittingly described by the word primeval, artfully di... ...?” “The Liberal newspapers have far more subscribers than the Royalist and Ministerial journals; still, though Canalis is 85 Balzac for Church and Ki... ... actress. As for me, I am not sure what I shall be when that time comes, a minister or an honest man—all things are still possible.” He raised his hum... ...en’s mind. “That is Nathan,” Lousteau said in his ear. Nathan, then in the prime of his youth, came up to the group of journalists, hat in hand; and i... ...led amiably. “Poetry is like the sun,” said Blondet, “giving life alike to primeval forests and to ants and gnats and mosquitoes. There is no virtue b... ... of fifteen or sixteen hundred thousand francs every year. He is a kind of Minister of Literature,” Lousteau continued. His self-con- ceit had been pl... .... She deplored the way in which you were throwing away your talent and the prime of youth; she was thinking of you, and not of herself, all the while....

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...him in charge of his private affairs, and appointed him one of his cabinet ministers. On the 20th of March, Monsieur de Serizy did not go to Ghent. He... ...lain the meaning of this sudden journey, and the incognito maintained by a minister of State. A rich farmer of Beaumont-sur-Oise, named Leger, leased ... ...g of hedges and ditches and the cutting of trees. Any other than a cabinet minister would probably have had scores of lawsuits on his hands. Pere Lege... ...o his study the next morning at seven. “Monsieur,” she said to the cabinet-minister, “we are inca- pable, my husband and I, of writing anonymous lette... ...etired army officer, about whom he could obtain exact information from the minister of war. “Madame,” he resumed, ringing for his valet, “return to Pr... ...way of dismissing his functionaries. A gardener is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of ...

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...g that every form of labour, even this flimsiest, as you esteem it, should minister to growth. If in any branch of us we fail in growth, there is, you... ...resence for a cur masquerading as a cat. ‘ And that is not the scoundrel’s prime offence. For what d’ 34 Diana of the Crossways ye think? He trumps u... ...en the husband of a beautiful woman accepts an appointment from the potent Minister admiring her. So Lady Dunstane thought, for she was sure of Diana ... ...d home-fed filled them with stuff to make good meat and fat ‘what we calls prime bacon.’ As it is not right to damp a native enthusiasm, Redworth let ... ...had loved to look on them! And it was no wonder that Andrew Hedger enjoyed prime bacon. Bacon frizzling, fat rashers of real homefed on the fire-none ... ...he done to deserve it? She listened to the advocate pleading her case; she primed him to admit the charges, to say the worst, in contempt of legal pru... ...he could do at present. 186 Diana of the Crossways CHAPTER XXI ‘THE YOUNG MINISTER OF STATE’ DESCRIPTIONS in the newspapers of the rural funeral of L... ...utumn of the year, when Antonia published her new book, entitled The Young Minister of State. The signature of the authoress was now known; and from t... ...anks, and saw beauty and pleasure sweep along and away, while the sun that primed them dried her veins. At this time she was gaining her widest reputa...

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...and his fortune is made. I see him pass sometimes more full of care than a minister of state, with an 15 Balzac underhand look which I don’t like; he... ... his proprietor, Monsieur Molineux. T o-mor- row I have as much to do as a minister of state.” “You turn my brain with your projects,” said Constance.... ...dom, such as melons in their 26 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau earliest prime, choice dinners at V enua’s followed by the the- atre, Sunday jaunts ... ...ve got to please everybody,—clerks, chambers, antechambers, min- isters—” “Ministers?” said Pillerault, determined to get to the bot- tom of this co-a... ...t, determined to get to the bot- tom of this co-associate. “Yes, monsieur, ministers.” “Well, then the newspapers are right?” said Pillerault. “There’... ... didn’t. I have put my eyes out reading and ciphering.” “To go back to the ministers,” said Pillerault, hoping for revelations. “Ministers are a mere ... ...ing with him more than half an hour. In the course of the after- noon this prime minister of the house of Nucingen wrote Birotteau that the baron woul...

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...ostaguana is, of course, my venerated friend, the late Don Jose Avellanos, Minister to the Courts of England and Spain, etc., etc., in his impartial a... ...d for ever had it not been for that accursed Piedmontese race of kings and ministers. When sometimes a frying-pan caught fire during a deli- cate oper... ... the fatal day of Aspromonte, when the treachery of kings, em- perors, and ministers had been revealed to the world in the wounding and imprisonment o... ...at the pacification by the post of Military Commandant of the capital. The Minister of War, then, accompanied the Dicta- tor. The board of the O.S.N. ... ...rite at Dona Emilia’s house reminded him of the time he lived in London as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James. He did not like tea; an... ...he possession of a silver mine is not, at the age of fourteen, a matter of prime importance as to its main statement; but in its form it is calculated... ...ividually, all the innumerable Joses, Manuels, Ignacios, from the villages primero— segundo—or tercero (there were three mining vil- lages) under his ... ...zing an army, gathering 129 Joseph Conrad malcontents, sending emissaries primed with patri- otic lies to the people, and with promises of plun- der ... ...nd the early refinement of their ingenuity. But it may safely be said that primeval man did not go to the trouble of inventing tortures. He was indole...

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...ghosts, with eyes as fair As star-beams among twilight trees:— Such lovely ministers to meet _5 Oft hast tho... ...ept, T reason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust, And stifled thee, their minister. I know _10 Too late, since thou and F... ...lighting faith and a cause of crime They have bound them slaves in youthly prime, And they will curse my name and thee ... ...d Foundations in this foulest age, and stir Me whom they cheer to be their minister. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Dark is the realm of grief: but human things Those... ...eading the infantine moon, And that one star, which to her Almost seems to minister Half the crimson light she brings ... ...Relics of Shelley”, 1862. Maddalo, a courtier. Malpiglio, a poet. Pigna, a minister. Albano, an usher. MADDAL MADDAL MADDAL MADDAL MADDALO: O: O: O: O... ...ows; And all rare blossoms from every clime Grew in that garden in perfect prime. _40 And on the stream whose inconstan... ... one stem, which the same beams and showers Lull or awaken in their purple prime, Which the same hand will gather—the same clime 163 Shelley Shake wi... ...bling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime? No more—Oh, never more! ...

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..., coalitions formed, how permanent offi- cials worked and controlled their ministers, how measures were brought forward and projects modified. And whi... ...ust the How perplexes me. I can quite easily imagine a socialist state ad- ministered in a sort of scrambling tumult that would be worse than anything... ...ously hard with one of his shafts. “Suppose,” he said, “you found yourself prime minister—” I looked at Chris Robinson, bright-eyed and his hair a lit... ...hard with one of his shafts. “Suppose,” he said, “you found yourself prime minister—” I looked at Chris Robinson, bright-eyed and his hair a little ru... ...on of the superficial morals of the valley. And he spoke of the ladies who ministered to the delights of his jolly-dog period, when he spoke of them a... ...t was we went into things. A woman Factory Inspector and the Edu- cational Minister for New Banksland and his wife were also there, but I don’t rememb... ... the rapid improvement of my platform style. I ceased to speak of the late Prime Minis- ter with the respect I bore him, and began to fall in with the... ...aw! 241 H G Wells Ugh!” I sailed on over him to my next propositions. The prime essential in a progressive civilisation was the establishment of a mo...

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...years have heard no sound of axe. One might think it a virgin forest, made primeval again through some phenomenon granted exclu- sively to forests. Th... ...tical questions.” Just then Francois announced Monsieur Sibilet. “He is my minister of finance,” said the general, smiling; “ask him in. He will expla... ...these things merely to terrify the inhabitants of Les Aigues. “This is the minister of war,” said the general to Blondet, nodding at Michaud. “Pardon ... ...at Sibilet, in his capacity of financier, is timid and cowardly, while the minister of war is brave and, like his general, fears nothing.” “Call me pr... ...lves. Come, my dear abbe, give me your arm. Leave the general with his two ministers, and let us go to the gate of the Avonne to see Madame Michaud, f... ...of his predecessor. Mademoiselle Laguerre then made Francois Gaubertin her prime minister, as much through policy as from gratitude. The late steward ... ... predecessor. Mademoiselle Laguerre then made Francois Gaubertin her prime minister, as much through policy as from gratitude. The late steward had no...

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...eads thought it was all an expiring clutch at popularity, on the part of a Minister, whom domestic embarrassments, court intrigues, old age, and drops... ...s portion of the Work, with its profound glances into the Adam- Kadmon, or Primeval Element, here strangely brought into relation with the Nifl and Mu... ...f Blue, no clutch of him, is nowise in contact with him: neither are those ministering Sheriffs and Lord-Lieuten- 44 Sartor Resartus ants and Hangmen... ...ecoils on itself, and will not forward with the picture. The Woolsack, the Ministerial, the Oppo- sition Benches—infandum! infandum! And yet why is th... ...o know, to believe; nay does not the spirit of Love, free in its celestial primeval brightness, even here, though but for moments, look through? Well ... ... “do I dilate on the uses of our Teufelsdrockh’s Biography? The great Herr Minister von Goethe has penetratingly remarked that Man is properly the onl... ...is Arch too, leading, as we humbly presume, far otherwards than that grand primeval one, the materials are to be fished up from the weltering deep, an... ...anguages, on almost all subjects and sciences; farther, as man is ever the prime object to man, already it was my favorite employment to read char- ac... ...uncing; even as, under simpler figures, to the simplest and least. The mad primeval Discord is hushed; the rudely jumbled conflicting elements bind th...

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...r?It will matter very little then under what flag people live, and foreign ministers and ambassadors may enjoy a dignified sine- cure; the army will r... ...ed the howling of the poor boy, and the confusion of the brute who was ad- ministering the correction. The other children were made to shout, I believ... ...nerally get their political information), that the Sultan’s mother and his ministers conspire to keep him plunged in sensuality, that they may govern ... ...write to Halil Pasha the next morning, and to His Excellency the En- glish Minister at the Sublime Porte. Then you should have heard the chorus of Tu... ...r perfectly convalescent. This, and the Opera, and the quarrels of the two prime donne, and the beauty of one of them, formed the chief subjects of co... ...of the greatest of the great in the Turkish Empire (ranking with a Cabinet Minister or Lord Chamberlain here), his fine coun- tenance was clouded with...

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...ght earn a living comfortably enough by taking to pleading law, or turning minister, or doctoring, or some such like easy calling.’ Still, there was g... ...llection in a hat, before the congregation separated. When no such regular minister of- fered, a kind of colloquial prayer or two was made by some of ... ...gs. Let the lad go with you in welcome; he is used to keeping company with ministers, and talking of such matters; so is old John, who was christianiz... ...hat, as it was a written discourse, it is not so easily altered as where a minister preaches without notes.” “Ày! there’ s the rub, Joodge,” cried the... ...y sarmon that Parson Grant gave us to-night,” said Remarkable. “The church ministers be com- monly smart sarmonizers, but they write down their idees,... ...earted fellow, and would make an excellent king; that is, if he had a good prime minister. But who have we here? voices in the bushes— a combination a... ...id truer word, Mr. Oliver; ah’s me! if you had knowed him as I did, in his prime, in that very battle where the old gentleman, who sleeps by his side ...