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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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... 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...