...ap- peared the following paragraph: “Two small rooms con- nected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary h... ...s coach and four and pervade society if he pleases. In a vast marble-paved hall, under the glare of an electric light, sat forty or fifty men, and for... ...asked me what I thought of the city, and I made answer suavely that it was hallowed ground to me, because of Bret Harte. That was true. “Well,” said t... .... Next morning I had entered upon the deferred inherit- ance. There are no princes in America—at least with crowns on their heads—but a generous-minde... ... two clubs, and booked for many engagements to dinner and party. Now, this prince, upon whose financial operations be continual increase, had no reaso... ... I for one fell in love with Carlin on the spot. Wallah! He was a man. The prince among merchants bid me take no heed to the warlike sentiments of som... ...class engine for pioneer work. The tawdry mysticism and the borrowing from Freemasonry serve the low caste Swede and Dane, the Welshman and the Cornis...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...

...hich is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. On the other hand, I felt the difficulty ... ...ion, which is indeed one of the requisites of the art. 5 Sir Walter Scott Prince David of Scotland, who was actually in the host, and was the hero of... ...subject by adding, “ And is bravery so much esteemed amongst the Christian princes that thou, thus void of means and of men, canst offer, as thou dids... ...st us the seed of a better faith than our ancestors learned in the ghostly halls of Tugrut, yet we are not willing, like other Moslemah, to pass hasty... ...f observation—by what secret signs, looks, or gestures—by what instinctive freemasonry of love, this degree of intelli- gence came to subsist between ... ...hood of Lady Edith; he had received tokens of her grace; he was in a place hallowed by relics of the most awful sanctity. A Christian soldier, a devot... ...own the descent, for I must not un- cover my eyes until I am far from this hallowed spot.” The Scottish knight obeyed in silence, for a solemn and yet...

... right of the entree. They say the honest newspaper-fellow who sits in the hall and takes down the names of the great ones who are admitted to the fea... ...sitory. The upshot of her visit to Lord Steyne was that His High- ness the Prince of Peterwaradin took occasion to renew his acquaintance with Colonel... ...ute of the hat. She and her husband were invited immediately to one of the Prince’s small parties at Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ... ...onet her lady- ship, then the youthful Georgina Frederica, daughter of the Prince of Wales’s favourite, the Earl of Portansherry, had once tried), thi... ...anting upon this part of her career. As I cannot describe the mysteries of freemasonry, although I have a shrewd idea that it is a humbug, so an unini... ...ho accompanied the vehicles were too big to be contained in Becky’s little hall, and were billeted off in the neighbouring public-houses, whence, when... ...w. Ilium is down. Iphigenia is slain. Cassandra is a prisoner in his outer halls. The king of men (it is Colonel Crawley, who, indeed, has no notion a...

..., dwelt there yet; and in each century they had done something for the old Hall,— building a tower, adding a suite of rooms, strengthening what was al... ... expression of a person gifted with a natural liking for children, and the freemasonry req uisite to bring him acquainted with them; and it lighted u... ...al substance of ancient, ivy grown, hewn stone some where,—that visionary hall in England, with its surround ing woods and fine lawns, and the becko... ...“Tell Ned,” said the Doctor solemnly, “to think no more of the old English hall, or of the bloody footstep, or of the silver key, or any of all that n... ...achment—the lofty and noble and unselfish attach ment of a subject to his prince—is out of the question? where your sovereign is felt to be a mere ma... ... were a naked sword between the Englishman and him, as between the Arabian prince in the tale and the prin cess whom he wedded; he felt as if that wo... ...to him, there was no such beautiful festoon and drap ery for the halls of princes as the spinning of this heretofore despised and hated insect; and b...

...parting below. Words refuse to tell it. All the servants were there in the hall—all the dear friend—all the young ladies—the dancing-master who had ju... ...d was as tall as a grenadier, and had been up to this time an irresistible princess, had no will or strength like that of her little apprentice, and i... ...s in the house, as they stood bobbing, and curtseying, and smiling, in the hall to welcome their young mistress. Y ou may be sure that she showed Rebe... ...mical, good-humoured air, “I ought to have remembered the pepper which the Princess of Persia puts in the cream-tarts in the Arabian Nights. Do you pu... ...n him with uncontrollable force. His father was asleep: his hat was in the hall: there was a hackney-coach standing hard by in Southampton Row. “I’ll ... ..., and was away with Sindbad the Sailor in the V alley of Diamonds, or with Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peribanou in that delight- 44 V anity Fair ful ... ...anting upon this part of her career. As I cannot describe the mysteries of freemasonry, although I have a shrewd idea that it is a humbug, so an unini...

...l somewhat ere his time. Vernon, the butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppel, Howe, Evil and good, have h... ...wn more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, an... ...power Of calling wholly back its self control; The silver light which, hallowing tree and tower, Sheds beauty and deep softness o’er the who... ... I ‘ll tell you who they were, this female pair, Lest they should seem princesses in disguise; Besides, I hate all mystery, and that air O... ...ptacles Work’d by the storms, yet work’d as it were plann’d, In hollow halls, with sparry roofs and cells, They turn’d to rest; and, each clas... ...ed: Ocean their witness, and the cave their bed, By their own feelings hallow’d and united, Their priest was Solitude, and they were wed: ... ...inners, or at other— For Juan stood well both with Ins and Outs, As in freemasonry a higher brother. Upon his talent Henry had no doubts; ...

...rtments for her soldiers, her workers, etc.; and they and the multifarious halls and corridors which communi cate with them are arranged and distribu... ...tiness? How foolish I was! But I shall stay in it. The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me. It was not so with other members of the family. Sus... ...or the employment the useless seeking gives, I came upon Jean’s dog in the hall downstairs, and noted that he did not spring to greet me, according to... ... the Henrys cover 227 years. It might have been well to name all the royal princes Henry, but this was overlooked until it was too late. ( Image not a... ...y of despair and make Mark T wain 111 an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his o... ... would have been obliged to emigrate or starve but for a fortunate idea of Prince Fridolin’s, who started a labor union, the first one in his tory, a... ...ous,” wrote Lord Campbell, “as for one not of the craft to tamper with our freemasonry.” A layman is certain to betray himself by using some expressi...

...g upon points more adapted to poetry than to the prose of real life. Their prince, young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising danger, heading h... ... although wisdom and reason frowned upon the en- terprise. The adventurous prince, as is well known, proved to be one of those personages who distingu... ... course farther, we may say the latter pursuits and habits of this unhappy prince are those painfully evinc- ing a broken heart, which seeks refuge fr... ... who impose on grown country gentlemen with bouncing brocards of law. [The Hall of the Parliament House of Edinburgh was, in former days, divided into... ... of The Plain Dealer, it seems such was formerly the case with Westminster Hall. Minos has now purified his courts in both cities from all traffic but... ... observation, for my companion’s loud whistle, seconded by an equally loud halloo, speedily brought to the door of the principal cottage a man and a w... ...music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a kind of freemasonry amongst performers, by which they can, by the mere choice of a ...

...ny; of the insuperable excellences of German Kultur, the Kaiser, and Crown Prince, and so forth; abuse of the “treacherous” English who allied themsel... ... is with General Joffre as the antithesis of the Effigy. The effigy, “Thou Prince of Peace, Thou God of War,” as Mr. Sylvester Viereck called him, pra... ...ete this impression let me repeat a pleasant story about this king and our Prince of Wales, who recently visited the Italian front. The Prince is a so... ...de Ville at Ar- ras and seen photographs of the present state of the Cloth Hall at Ypres—a building I knew very well indeed in its days of pride—and I... ...the cavalry, the brewing and distilling industries, the theatres and music halls, and the like unproductive occupations. The under-staff- ing of munit... ... latter. 148 War and the Future All about the world to-day goes a certain freemasonry of thought. It is an impalpable and hardly conscious union of i...

...otice of his co-religionists. This secret language is in a certain way the freemasonry of the passions. Monsieur Grandet inspired the respectful estee... ...uses. The most important room on the ground-floor of the house was a large hall, entered directly from beneath the vault of the 16 Eugenie Grandet po... ...the 16 Eugenie Grandet porte-cochere. Few people know the importance of a hall in the little towns of Anjou, T ouraine, and Berry. The hall is at one... ...by much darning, were difficult to distinguish. At the four corners of the hall were closets, or rather buf- fets, surmounted by dirty shelves. An old... ... A Bachelor’s Establishment Ursule Mirouet The Imaginary Mistress A Prince of Bohemia A Daughter of Eve The Unconscious Humorists Nucingen,...

...that drowned Shelley—since I began a laboured and futile imitation of “The Prince.” I sat up late last night with the jumbled accumulation; and at las... ...g in his limbs. Such twinges could not stop his dreaming. Then it was “The Prince” was written. All day he went about his personal affairs, saw homely... ...ght of candles in silver candlesticks, or heading some new chapter of “The Prince,” with a grey quill in his clean fine hand. So writing, he becomes a... ...d punishments, all flavoured with the leathery stuffiness of time-worn Big Hall… . And then out one would come through our grey old gate into the even... ...classes still worked together with much clashing and uproar in the old Big Hall that had once held in a com- mon tumult the entire school. Gates used ... ...he organisation of regular evening prepara- tion for the lower boys in Big Hall as a “revolutionary change,” but he achieved it, and he declared he be... ...nnishness. A widening sense of fair play destroys such things. They follow freemasonry down—freemasonry of which one is chiefly re- minded nowadays in...

...ut the tea-things and provided some cake.” He ushered her into a slip of a hall hung with old prints. She noticed the letters and notes heaped on the ... ...vour to her artificiality. He followed her across the room to the entrance-hall; but on the threshold she held out her hand with a gesture of leave- t... ...her in her room, she lingered on the broad stairway, looking down into the hall below, where the last card-players were grouped about the tray of tall... ... political ambi- tions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in the V ati... ...ce she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? Relentlessly her mind travelled on over the dreary interval… . Afte... ... mean—of course there isn’t anything, really; but I suppose she brought in Prince V arigliano—and Lord Hubert—and there was some story of your having ... ..., noticing Selden’s approach, gave way to him in accordance with the tacit freemasonry of the ball-room. Lily was therefore standing alone when he rea...

...w. When I was here with Mamie Hoke we never went anywhere but to the music halls, because she couldn’t understand any French; and when I came back aft... ...he turned to the lift a new thought struck him, and hurrying back into the hall he dashed off another telegram to his servant: “Have you forwarded any... ... and her curiosity ranged from the official temples of the art to its less hallowed haunts. Her searching enquiries about a play whose production, on ... ...essed of some vital secret which escaped her. There seemed to be a kind of freemasonry be- tween them; they were wider awake than she, more alert, and... ...he bedspread, his mistress sank back with a laugh. “Isn’t he a beauty? The Prince gave him to me down at Nice the other day—but he’s perfectly awful,”...

...ag, following in a cab. ‘Lowten,’ said Perker, when they reached the outer hall of the court, ‘put Mr. Pickwick’s friends in the students’ box; Mr. Pi... ...tiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curli est. His snuff was princes’ mixture; his scent Bouquet du Roi . His features were contracted ... ...aitin’, will you?’ said Sam. And saying it, he very coolly walked into the hall, and sat down. The powdered headed footman slammed the door very hard,... ...EATURES OF WHICH WILL BE FOUND TO BE AN AUTHENTIC VERSION OF THE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADUD, AND A MOST EXTRAORDINARY CALAMITY THAT BEFELL Mr. WINKLE AS ... ...and drawing his chair nearer the fire, read as follows— THE TRUE LEGEND OF PRINCE BLADUD ‘LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED years ago, on one of the public bat... ...al service that was required of him, being, that he should look out of the hall window as much as possible, in company with another gentleman, who had... ...salutation between Mr. Weller and his friends was strictly confined to the freemasonry of the craft; consisting of a jerking round of the right wrist,...

...nting of my moods of sickness had suddenly laid hold upon me, and like the Prince in T ennyson’s poem, “I seemed to move amid a world of ghosts.” Ther... ...ut and the billiards stopped, and I felt that I had ruined my one genuine, hall-marked ghost story. Had I only stopped at the proper time, I could hav... ...om Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy THE L AW, as quoted, la... ... finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veri... ...right hand and the help of Peachey, I declare myself Grand Mas- ter of all Freemasonry in Kafiristan in this the Mother Lodge o’ the country, and King... ...he back of it. This is what I read: “The day is most fair, the cheery wind Halloos behind the hill, Where be bends the wood as seemeth good, And the s...

... which Mr Dombey reserved for his own inhabiting, were attainable from the hall, and consisted of a sitting-room; a library, which was in fact a dress... ...ephants, howdahs, hookahs, umbrellas, palm trees, palanquins, and gorgeous princes of a brown complexion sitting on carpets, with their slippers very ... ...aighter either. Due north. Not the twentieth part of a point either way.’ ‘Halloa, Uncle Sol!’ ‘Halloa, my boy!’ cried the Instrument-maker, turning b... ...urned Susan, slightly mollified, ‘when their child’ s made as much of as a prince, and is petted and patted till it wishes its friends further, but wh... ...rf before. Walter picked up the shoe, and put it on the little foot as the Prince in the story might have fitted Cinderella’ s slipper on. He hung the... ...r House. Not Carker our Manager, Miss Dombey—the other Carker; the Junior -Halloa! Mr Carker!’ ‘Is that W alter Gay?’ said the other, stopping and ret... ...cterises the daughters of Eve in their tending of each other; none of that freemasonry in fainting, by which they are generally bound together In a my...

...plain of the Queen’s Yeomanry Guard, and almoner to his Royal Highness the Prince of Rappe- Blankenburg. His residence in the metropolis, rendered nec... ...rdship was at home, and the two visitors were shown through the accustomed hall into the well-known room, where the good old bishop used to sit. The f... ... had discovered a large hole, evidently the work of rats, in the servants’ hall. The bishop expressed an utter detestation of rats. There was nothing,... ...bered how to behave himself en bishop. At last a carriage dashed up to the hall steps with a very different manner of approach from that of any other ... ... on, for he did not know whether his friend was a signor, or a count, or a prince. ‘My sister really puts you all to great trouble, ’ said Bertie. ‘No... ...r and sister. The man, he presumed, must be Signor Vicinironi—or count, or prince, as it might be. It was wonderful what good English he spoke. There ... ...d for the last few days with his first incipient masticator, and with that freemasonry which exists between ladies, Miss Thorne became aware of the fa... ...feeling of faithful staunch high-churchism, which to him was tantamount to freemasonry. He was not strict in his lines of definition. He endured witho...

...e the Second.’ ‘That’s a very true observation, always excepting the young princes,’ said the parish clerk, who, as the repre sentative of church and... ... being of the ages of boys, to behave themselves like boys, then the young princes must be boys and cannot be otherwise.’ ‘Did you ever hear tell of m... ...d as is not a woman must be a fish. According to the constitution of young princes, so much of a young prince (if anything) as is not actually an ange... ...ht,’ thought the locksmith, changing colour. ‘What dark history is this!’ ‘Halloa!’ cried a hoarse voice in his ear. ‘Halloa, halloa, halloa! Bow wow ... ...t seemed to come through his thick feathers rather than out of his mouth. ‘Halloa, halloa, halloa! What’s the matter here! Keep up your spirits. Never... ...he dismounted, with the aid of the block before the door, in a twinkling. ‘Halloa there! Hugh!’ roared John. ‘I ask your pardon, sir, for keeping you ... ...ose marks of distinction, which, as a regular customer, and one within the freemasonry of the trade, he had a right to claim. 239 Charles Dickens Thi...

...nen Company’s Bank, he had the whole afternoon at his disposal. He went by Princes Street enjoying the mild sun- shine, and the little thrill of easte... ...ock and entered that citadel of the proprieties! All slept; the gas in the hall had been left faintly burning to light his return; a dreadful stillnes... ...king of the eight-day clock. He put the gas out, and sat on a chair in the hall, waiting and counting the minutes, longing for any human counte- nance... ...s, John had left his portmanteau in the cloak-room, and stepped forth into Princes Street with a won- derful expansion of the soul, such as men enjoy ... ...he steps and thrust the key into the key-hole. He stepped into the lighted hall, shut the door softly be- hind him, and stood there fixed in wonder. N... ... Europe in a chaise and four, drawing bridle at the palace-doors of German princes; queens of song and dance had followed him like sheep and paid his ... ...’ ‘Ten to one, you do yourself injustice,’ returned Dick. ‘Besides, it’s a freemasonry. I sketch myself, and you know what that implies.’ ‘No. What?’ ...

...ad dipped it in the wine and brandy; ‘we poor gentlemen do not travel like princes, but the courtesies and graces of life are precious to us. To your ... ...chambers, some couple of hours before assem- bling at breakfast in a faded hall which had once been sumptu- ous, but was now the prey of watery vapour... ...the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, ... ...elt obliged to say it!’ and then went, in his bowed way, out of the palace hall, just as he might have gone out of the Marshalsea room. All this time ... ... and here he laughed again in the easiest way, ‘that I am lapsing into the freemasonry of the craft—for it’s not so; upon my life I can’t help betrayi... ...od. Through the rugged remains of temples and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongue-tied ... ...hich, in—ha—common with the rest of the world, I hold so distinguished and princely a character as Mr Merdle’s.’ The bosom received this tribute in it...

... clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some hundreds of ... ...as mad — insane.” “You have compromised yourself seriously.” “I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now.” “It must be recovered.”... ...ing in the character of a groom out of work. There is a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsy men. Be one of them, and you will know all that... ...re sticking out of the buckles. It hadn’t pulled up before she shot out of the hall door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, bu... ... seen by Mr. Godfrey Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the photograph?” “Wh... ... she stood at the top with her superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking back into the street. “Is the poor gentleman much hurt?” ... ... with it, and the muscles are more developed.” “Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?” “I won’t insult your intelligence by telling you how I re...

...e, at one end of the terrace, burns the cook- ing-fire under a shed; at the other there is perhaps a pen for pigs; the remainder is the evening lounge... ...suffered, on grounds of policy, to spare one child; all other children, who had a father or a mother in the company of Oro, stood condemned from the m... ...f, Taipi-Kikino; and yet that was not his name, but only the wand of his false position. As soon as he was appointed chief, his name—which signified, ... ...e of a High Place, Father Simeon Delmar was shown a stone, and told it was the throne of some well-descended lady. How exactly parallel is this with E... ...ck quarters; and, when we visited the Government bungalow, that Mr. Donat, acting Vice-Resident, greeted us alone, and entertained us with cocoa-nut p... ...,’ and he pointed to one of the coloured photo- graphs on the wall. On this I gave up all desire of under- standing; and when the time came for me to ... ...cording to a very intelligent observer, Mr. Magee of Mangareva, this element of the mysterious is a chief attraction of the Mor- mon Church. It enjoys... ... is singular in itself, is well-known in Tahiti, and has this of interest, that it is post-Christian, dating indeed 145 Robert Louis Stevenson from b...

...l concessions, well known to most husbands, and which, like the secrets of freemasonry, should be divulged to none who are not members of that honoura... ...rto ignorant, now utterly abandoned him. He ran instantly into the street, hallowing out that his wife was in the agonies of death, and beseeching the... ...sation. At the time appointed, before Mr. Allworthy himself, at Paradise hall, came as well the said Partridge, with Anne, his wife, as Mrs. Wilkins... ...then committing, roar and bellow; so roared forth the Somersetshire mob an hallaloo, made up of almost as many squalls, screams, and other different s... ...t these sudden emo *A play on The Aeneid, IV, 124: “Dido and the Trojan prince to the same cave shall come.” The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling ... ... at no great loss. The judgment which can penetrate into the cabi nets of princes, and discover the secret springs which move the great state wheels ... ... between kingdoms, as when a daughter of France is married into Spain, the princess herself is alone considered in the match? No! it is a match betwee...

... were nowt, he tuk ‘em so suddint-like they rolled over like skittles in a halley, an’ when they coot he stretched after ‘em as if he were rabbit-runn... ...illin’ from t’ man as bred him; ‘at his own brother was t’ propputty o’ t’ Prince o’ W ailes, an’ ‘at he had a pedigree as long as a Dook’s. An’ she l... ...ERVAL OF THREE WEEKS.) GILDED YOUTH. (Sitting on railings opposite T own Hall.) Hullo, Gaddy! ‘Been trotting out the Gorgonzola! We all thought it w... ...es with Gaddy for a while. ‘Sport with Amaryllis in the shade of the T own Hall, and all that. Oh, why doesn’t somebody come and marry me, instead of ... ...n. When you are reading one of those things about Cavalry, by that idiotic Prince—why doesn’t he be a Prince instead of a stable-boy? CAPT. G. Prince ... ...medicine- men of all ages have manufactured. It approved of and stole from Freemasonry; looted the Latter-day Rosicrucians of half 222 Soldiers Three... ...who had once made history with a thousand followers, and would have been a princeling but for the power of the Supreme Government aforesaid. The Senio...

...h ordinary work and play, enjoying the pageantry of the christening of the Prince of Wales, and cheering himself hoarse and half-fran- tic when the Ki... ...arest Father,—Hearing that “Israel in Egypt” was to be performed at Exeter Hall on Friday night, I went and asked my tutor whether he had any objectio... ...er the reception of King Louis Philippe at Eton, accompanied by the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duke of Wellington: ‘The King wore a white great coa... ... was half-mad and roared myself hoarse in about five minutes. The King and Prince kept their hats off the whole time, incessantly bowing, and the King... ...pushing through such a crowd as usually blocks up the entrance into Exeter Hall, I found on getting into the Ca- thedral that every seat was occupied.... ...ts over anxious in mind, and was completely chilled the week he sat in the hall. No doubt his house is still both cold and damp, and the Church the sa... ...s going on the sec- ond week of the residence at Mota—apparently a sort of freemasonry, into which all boys of a certain age were to be initiated. The...

...y. War and Peace by Leo T olstoy/T olstoi BOOK ONE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRINCE, so Genoa and Lucca are now just fam- ily estates of the Buonapartes... ...nd fa- vorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. With these words she greeted Prince V asili Kuragin, a man of high rank and importance, who was the firs... ...at morn- ing, ran as follows: “If you have nothing better to do, Count [or Prince], and if the prospect of spending an evening with a poor invalid is ... ...e, including Anna Pavlovna, felt this. Prince Andrew had gone out into the hall, and, turning his shoulders to the footman who was helping him on with... ...tly to his wife’s chatter with Prince Hippolyte who had also come into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood close to the pretty , pregnant prin- cess, and... ...t me know how her father looks at the matter. Au revoir!”—and she left the hall. Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face... ...n the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how Freemasonry presented itself to him. CHAPTER III ON REACHING P ETERSBURG Pi... ...tomed to speak of abstract matters in Russian. “What is your conception of Freemasonry?” “I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of... ...ill lived the old life, only in new surroundings. Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not fulfill the one which enjoined ...

...rsity. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK SIX: 1808-10 CHAPTER I PRINCE ANDREW HAD SPENT two years continuously in the country. All the plan... ...ing from one thing to another had never accom- plished—were carried out by Prince Andrew without display and without perceptible difficulty. He had in... ...h reading and writing to the children of the peasants and household serfs. Prince Andrew spent half his time at Bald Hills with his fa- ther and his s... ...ry life, and it was difficult for him to regard them merely as Brothers in Freemasonry and not as Prince B. or Ivan V asilevich D., whom he knew in so... ...did not share their interests. His heart was not in the mystical aspect of Freemasonry. In the second category Pierre reckoned himself and others like... ...elf and others like him, seeking and vacillating, who had not yet found in Freemasonry a straight and comprehensible path, but hoped to do so. In the ... ...tures but was apathetic. After- wards went and paced up and down the large hall. I wished to meditate, but instead my imagination pictured an occurren... ...y when, after stepping over the red baize at the entrance, she entered the hall, took off her fur cloak, and, beside Sonya and in front of her mother,... ... in peace she could not now be at peace, and immediately felt this. In the hall the porch door opened, and someone asked, “At home?” and then footstep...

...n the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that is how Freemasonry presented itself to him. 12 War and Peace – Book Five CHAPTER ... ...tomed to speak of abstract matters in Russian. “What is your conception of Freemasonry?” “I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of... ... to the welfare of his serfs. He was joyfully planning this new life, when Prince V asili suddenly entered the room. “My dear fellow, what have you be... ...ve you quarreled with Helene, mon cher? Y ou are un- der a delusion,” said Prince V asili, as he entered. “I know all about it, and I can tell you pos... ... before you as Christ was before the Jews.” Pierre was about to reply, but Prince V asili interrupted him. “And why didn’t you simply come straight to... ...ill lived the old life, only in new surroundings. Of the three precepts of Freemasonry Pierre realized that he did not fulfill the one which enjoined ... ...ed to put on the uni- form the valet handed him. Rostov went back into the hall and noticed that in the porch there were many officers and generals in...

...eals, but always aches and shrinks at any external irritating touch. After Prince Andrew’s death Natasha and Princess Mary alike felt this. Drooping i... ...g. But pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Princess Mary, in her position as absolute and independent arbiter of her o... ... Life did not stand still and it was necessary to live. Hard as it was for Princess Mary to emerge from the realm of secluded contemplation in which s... ...nitsyn rushed into the vestibule to inform Kutuzov, who was waiting in the hall porter’s little lodge. A minute later the old man’s large stout figure... ...ely because it was not clearly seen. And such had European life, politics, Freemasonry, philosophy, and philan- thropy seemed to him. But even then, a... ...or sometimes listening to Pierre’s stories, and then would go out into the hall with a pleasant sense of intimacy with his master and affection for hi...

...about the income-tax, as I have said, or perhaps about a patent, or in the halls of an embassy at the hands of my friend of the eye- glass, he occasio... ...- 90 Robert Louis Stevenson treat to resume their perfunctory march along Princes Street. Flirtation is to them a great social duty, a painful obliga... ... their downward progress for approval and encouragement. These folk form a freemasonry of their own. An oath is the shibbo- leth of their sinister fel... ... benches. Let the great A be held ex- cused for nodding to the shabby B in Princes Street, if he can say, ‘That fellow is a student.’ Once this could ... ...o merrier men on earth. It is pleasant to picture us, sunning ourselves in Princes Street of a morning, or chirping over our evening cups, with all th... ...ucleus: one of the class- rooms at first, and perhaps afterwards the great hall above the library, might be the place of meeting. There would be no wa... ...ddo’ is Shield’s ex- pression. But Patrick Walker is more copious. ‘Curate Hall Haddo,’ says he, sub voce Peden, ‘or Hell Haddo, as he was more justly...

...n she met Captain Ardale she sinned “but in intention.” Play number one. A prince is compelled by his parents to marry the daughter of a neighboring k... ...er of a neighboring king, but loves another maiden. The scene represents a hall in the king’s palace at night. The wedding has taken place that day; a... ...osed door of the nuptial chamber is in view of the audience. In- side, the princess awaits her bridegroom. A duenna is in at- 10 Mrs. Warren’s Profes... ...d narration of the licentious fictions which slip through its net, and are hallmarked by it with the approval of the Throne. But since these narration... ...nterest. But that is not the alternative. The managers of our London music-halls are not subject to any censorship. They produce their entertainments ... ...ou do. FRANK. Heaven forbid! VIVIE. What do you mean? FRANK. Viv: theres a freemasonry among thoroughly im- moral people that you know nothing of. You...

...late lamented Dusommerard tried his best to gain Pons’ confidence, but the prince of bric-a-brac died before he could gain an entrance to the Pons mus... ...ose times of the Empire when Paris was glut- ted with kings and queens and princes, and many a private house emulated royal splendours. People used to... ...it cost the President at least a thousand crowns to keep up a state almost princely in our days, his yearly revenue, “all told,” as the saying is, was... ...s to the member of the Incorporated Law Society as the money-lender of the Halles, offering small loans for a short period at an exorbitant interest, ... ...has not recovered her figure yet,” remarked the 153 Balzac heroine of the Halles. Fraisier laughed, and drew the bolt lest his housekeeper should int... ...portress, and traversed all distances in a brief space. There is a sort of freemasonry among the porter tribe, and, indeed, among the members of every... ...ome- thing to save himself. But, as many know, the dying are haunted by an hallucination that leads them to snatch at things about them, like men eage...

...3 Charles Dickens ‘“Education.—At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Y orkshi... ...p before him. ‘Or suppose some young nobleman who is being educated at the Hall, were to take a fancy to me, and get his father to appoint me his trav... ...mean?’ Here the little boy on the top of the trunk gave a violent sneeze. ‘Halloa, sir!’ growled the schoolmaster, turning round. ‘What’s that, sir?’ ... ... and herself there had passed various grins and glances, indicative of the freemasonry of the craft. This girl followed her mistress; and, before Nich... ... reflection. ‘Could I live by it?’ ‘Live by it!’ said the manager. ‘Like a prince! With your own salary , and your friend’ s, and your writings, you’ ... ...eat valour, relieved by a touch of humour; each of the Master Crummleses a prince in his own right; and the low-spirited lover, a desponding captive. ... ...d Smike was pronounced unanimously, alike by audience and actors, the very prince and prodigy of Apothecaries. CHAPTER 26 IS FRAUGHT WITH SOME DANGER ...

...because of the chastity of his expressions—and they say that is always the hall-mark of a libertine—what about myself? For I solemnly avow that not on... ...t be done. Good God, are all these fellows monstrous idiots, or is there a freemasonry between all of them from end to end of the earth? … That is wha... ...I knew it because every evening just before dinner, whilst I waited in the hall, I used, by the courtesy of Monsieur Schontz, the proprietor, to in- s... ...pted the Ameri- cans. But that once done, they seem to say to themselves: “Hallo, these women are so bright. We aren’t going to be outdone in bright- ... ...may become—how im- becile, in view of that engrossment, appear the ways of princes, of republics, of municipalities. A rough bit of road beneath the m... ...eir quick jolts would be enough to set me grumbling to Leonora against the Prince or the Grand Duke or the Free City through whose territory we might ... ...piked helmet of the official would be close to the healthy baldness of the prince; then M. Schontz’s oiled locks would push in between the two. The so...

...3 Charles Dickens ‘“Education.—At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Y orkshi... ...p before him. ‘Or suppose some young nobleman who is being educated at the Hall, were to take a fancy to me, and get his father to appoint me his trav... ...mean?’ Here the little boy on the top of the trunk gave a violent sneeze. ‘Halloa, sir!’ growled the schoolmaster, turning round. ‘What’s that, sir?’ ... ... and herself there had passed various grins and glances, indicative of the freemasonry of the craft. This girl followed her mistress; and, before Nich... ... reflection. ‘Could I live by it?’ ‘Live by it!’ said the manager. ‘Like a prince! With your own salary , and your friend’ s, and your writings, you’ ... ...eat valour, relieved by a touch of humour; each of the Master Crummleses a prince in his own right; and the low-spirited lover, a desponding captive. ... ...d Smike was pronounced unanimously, alike by audience and actors, the very prince and prodigy of Apothecaries. CHAPTER 26 IS FRAUGHT WITH SOME DANGER ...

...and closely then) between the river and Cheapside. Passing, now the mouldy hall of some obsolete Worshipful Company, now the illuminated windows of a ... ...rn, and knocked. A shuffling step was soon heard on the stone floor of the hall, and the door was opened by an old man, bent and dried, but with keen ... ...e banisters on account of her candle having died out. In one corner of the hall, behind the house- door, there was a little waiting-room, like a well-... ...ture to congratulate one of England’s world-famed capitalists and merchant-princes (he had turned that original sentiment in the house a few times, an... ...let’s have a good ‘un!’ ‘What shall it be about, Maggy?’ ‘Oh, let’s have a princess,’ said Maggy, ‘and let her be a reg’lar one. Beyond all belief, yo... ...t prime!’ ‘This King had a daughter, who was the wisest and most beautiful Princess that ever was seen. When she was a child she understood all her le... ... and here he laughed again in the easiest way, ‘that I am lapsing into the freemasonry of the craft—for it’s not so; upon my life I can’t help betrayi...

... eyelids red. She was an image of sorrow, and her uncle who met her in the hall would have been alarmed, if Celia had not been close to her looking so... ...hour, Mrs. Cadwallader had circumvented Mrs. Carter and driven to Freshitt Hall, which was not far from her own parsonage, her husband being resident ... ... by that background. “Oh dear!” Celia said to herself, “I am sure Freshitt Hall would have been pleasanter than this.” She thought of the white freest... ...tico, and the terrace full of flowers, Sir James smiling above them like a prince issuing from his enchantment in a rose-bush, with a handkerchief swi... ...l schemes, accurate work, and the faithful completion of undertakings: his prince of darkness was a slack workman. But there was no spirit of denial i... ...htful to make captives from the throne of marriage with a husband as crown-prince by your side—him- self in fact a subject—while the captives look up ... ...ptation to go there. Probably its regular visitants, like the initiates of freemasonry, wished that there were something a little more tremendous to k...

... eyelids red. She was an image of sorrow, and her uncle who met her in the hall would have been alarmed, if Celia had not been close to her looking so... ...hour, Mrs. Cadwallader had circumvented Mrs. Carter and driven to Freshitt Hall, which was not far from her own parsonage, her husband being resident ... ... by that background. “Oh dear!” Celia said to herself, “I am sure Freshitt Hall would have been pleasanter than this.” She thought of the white freest... ...rtico, and the terrace full of flowers, Sir James smiling above them like a prince issuing from his enchantment in a rose bush, with a handkerchief swi... ...l schemes, accurate work, and the faithful completion of undertakings: his prince of darkness was a slack workman. But there was no spirit of denial i... ...htful to make captives from the throne of marriage with a husband as crown prince by your side—himself in fact a subject— while the captives look up f... ...ptation to go there. Probably its regular visitants, like the initiates of freemasonry, wished that there were something a little more tremendous to k...

...s made the more difficult by the unconscious Joe. In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fellow-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with... ...said the sergeant. “And I’ll tell you where from. From the blacksmith’s.” “Halloa!” said the sergeant, staring at Joe. “Halloa, Pip!” said Joe, starin... ...ts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet – Ah!” added Joe, with a shake of the head that w... ...e in company with Mr. Wopsle and a stranger. Joe greeted me as usual with “Halloa, Pip, old chap!” and the moment he said that, the stranger turned hi... ...s when I had found myself staring at him, and I now saw that he was inky. “Halloa!” said he, “young fellow!” Halloa being a general observation which ... ... struggle, and had informed Mr. Pocket that his wife was “a treasure for a Prince.” Mr. Pocket had invested the Prince’s treasure in the ways of the w... ...g deeds of the young Knight 213 Charles Dickens of romance, and marry the Princess. I had stopped to look at the house as I passed; and its seared re...