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Excerpt: The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a public... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsy... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedi... ...laws, and were speculating only on the pleasures of life, you would 4 The Red Inn have found no cause to hate usurious discounts, or to curse bankrup... ...nt, into a decanter full of water that was near his plate, and then 6 The Red Inn he turned to Monsieur Hermann and smiled. After all, that man, now ... ... will put the ques- tion before you in a broad way. There is undoubtedly a sea of blood in Mademoiselle Taillefer’s estates; her inheritance from her ...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...iel, Ettrick Forest. November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden... ...led speed, Hurries its waters to the T weed. No longer Autumn’s glowing red Upon our forest hills is shed; No more, beneath the evening beam, Fair ... ...heir theme the merry minstrels made, Of Ascapart, and Bevis bold, And that Red King, who, while of old, Through Boldrewood the chase he led, By his lo... ...et the drawbridge fall. V. Along the bridge Lord Marmion rode, Proudly his red-roan charger trode, His helm hung at the saddlebow; Well by his visage ... ...; On hills of Armenie hath been, Where Noah’s ark may yet be seen; By that Red Sea, too, hath he trod, Which parted at the prophet’s rod; In Sinai’s w... ... hills of Armenie hath been, Where Noah’s ark may yet be seen; By that Red Sea, too, hath he trod, Which parted at the prophet’s rod; In Sinai’s wilde... ...ughed to see Their gallant ship so lustily 38 Marmion Furrow the green sea-foam. Much joyed they in their honoured freight; For, on the deck, in c... ... surge grew pale, And would for terror pray; Then shrieked, because the sea-dog, nigh, His round black head, and sparkling eye, Reared o’er the ... ... lofty Seaton-Delaval; They saw the Blythe and Wansbeck floods Rush to the sea through sounding woods; They passed the tower of Widderington, Mother o...

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...ATIVE YOUTH THIS COULD HAVE OCCURRED nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men,... ...he life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning. We were sitti... ...he director had been a Conway boy, the accountant had served four years at sea, the law- yer—a fine crusted Tory, High Churchman, the best of old fell... ...were square- rigged at least on two masts, and used to come down the China Sea before a fair monsoon with stun’-sails set alow and aloft. We all began... ...gliding high and of green lights gliding low in the night, when suddenly a red gleam flashed at me, vanished, came into view again, and remained. The ... ...re in it.’ “The coal-dust suspended in the air of the hold had glowed dull-red at the moment of the explosion. In the twinkling of an eye, in an infin... ...d and cut the rope with an ax. There was no time to cast off the lashings. Red tongues could be seen licking the wilderness of splinters under our fee... ...eaning slightly above the ship. The cat-heads had burned away, and the two red-hot anchors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred ... ...chors had gone to the bottom, tearing out after them two hundred fathom of red-hot chain. The ship trembled, the mass of flame swayed as if ready to c...

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...unate effects of rage. A man (who might be you or me) Hurls another into the sea. Poor soul, his unreflecting act His future joys will much contract, ... ... Poem: I With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee, The dancing skiff puts forth to sea. The lone dissenter in the blast Recoils before the sight aghast. But... ...ent out, A wealthy cleric, very stout, And Robin has that Abbot stuck As the red hunter spears the buck. The djavel or the javelin Has, you observe, g... ...s Pines The first pine to the second said: ‘My leaves are black, my branches red; I stand upon this moor of mine, A hoar, unconquerable pine.’ The sec... ...intolerant of trammels - Wild as the wild Bithynian camels, Wild as the wild sea-eagles - Bob His widowed dam contrives to rob, And thus with great or... ...The silent pirates of the shore Eat and sleep soft, and pocket more Than any red, robustious ranger Who picks his farthings hot from danger. You clank...

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...e’s gone, the king’s seas must please: He ‘scaped the land, to perish at the sea. I’ll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre! HELICANUS: Lord Th... ...hat heaven can do! By this our change, These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air, Were all too little to content and please, Although they ga... ...wer,—this longs the text. [Exit.] SCENE I: Pentapolis. An open place by the sea side. [Enter PERICLES, wet .] PERICLES: Yet cease your ire, you angr... ...nce that must yield to you; And I, as fits my nature, do obey you: Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks, Wash’d me from shore to shore, and left me... ...er come but I look to be washed. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. First Fisherman : Why, as men do a land; the great ones eat up the ... ... Well, call forth, call forth. BOULT: For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but— L...

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..., and devised for him the toil of a troublous voyage, in order that on the sea or among strangers he might lose his home return. (ll. 18 22) The ship... ...t now I will tell the lineage and the names of the heroes, and of the long sea paths and the deeds they wrought in their wanderings; may the Muses be ... ... of the Thespians, well skilled to foretell the ris ing wave on the broad sea, and well skilled to infer from sun and star the stormy winds and the t... ...fore it proved the most excellent of all ships that have made trial of the sea with oars. (ll. 115 11 7) After them came Phlias from Araethyrea, wher... ...d that blazing splendour. For indeed in the middle the fashion thereof was red, but at the ends it was all purple, and on each margin many separate de... ...e their homes, and through the dark air it charms their eyes with its fair red gleam and the maid rejoices, love sick for the youth who is far away am... ...ar; and round his head a fair helm with four peaks gleamed with its blood red crest. And again he entered the vast gloom; and they looked and marvell... ...heir heads they placed helmets of bronze, gleaming terribly, and the blood red crests were tossing. And half of them rowed in turn, and the rest cover... ...the destroyer; and the hue of her soft cheeks went and came, now pale, now red, in her soul’s distraction. (ll. 299 303) Now when the thralls had lai...

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...itted lad, very black hair, and wore a blue coat and metal buttons, an old red vest, and breeches of the same colour.” A second witness testified to h... ...s testified to having seen him wearing “a blue coat with silver buttons, a red waistcoat, black shag breeches, tartan hose, and a feathered hat, with ... ...rested to discover that the feeling concerning the murder of Glenure (the “Red Fox,” also called “Colin Roy”) was almost as keen as though the tragedy... ...at the first off-go; but, O Davie, laddie, it’s but a drop of water in the sea; it’ll help you but a step, and vanish like the morn- ing. The second, ... ...f my life, was a little piece of coarse yellow paper, written upon thus in red ink: “To Make Lilly of the Valley Water.—Take the flowers of lilly of t... ...o the top of a hill, I saw all the country fall away before me down to the sea; and in the midst of this descent, on a long ridge, the city of Edinbur... ...der, I beheld a regiment marching to the fifes, every foot in time; an old red-faced general on a grey horse at the one end, and at the other the comp... ...e he was, I went to open it, and found on the doorstep a half-grown boy in sea-clothes. He had no sooner seen me than he began to dance some steps of ... ...clothes. He had no sooner seen me than he began to dance some steps of the sea-hornpipe (which I had never before heard of far less seen), snapping hi...

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......................................................... 122 A VISION OF THE SEA. ......................................................................... ...oony smile Which the meteor beam of a starless night Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle, Ere the dawning of morn’s undoubted light, Is the flame of l... ... spells towards the departing day, Encompassing the earth, air, stars, and sea; Light, sound, and motion own the potent sway, Responding to the charm ... ..., And are the uncomplaining things they seem, Or live, or drop in the deep sea of Love; Oh, that like thine, mine epitaph were—Peace!’ ... ...ong whose everlasting walls T wo mighty cities shone, and ever Through the red mist their domes did quiver. 9. 9. 9. 9. 9. On two dread mountains, fro... ...12. 12. Sudden, from out that city sprung A light that made the earth grow red; T wo flames that each with quivering tongue Licked its high domes, and... ...e sun upsprings behind, _100 Broad, red, radiant, half-reclined On the level quivering line Of the waters cryst... ... With his morning-winged feet, Whose bright print is gleaming yet; And the red and golden vines, Piercing with their trellised lines ... ...after month endured; it was a feast Whene’er he found those globes of deep-red gold Which in the woods the strawberry-tree doth bear, Suspended in the...

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...tween me and the deserted “Rescue” like the smooth hazy spaces of a dreamy sea. Yet I never actually lost sight of that dark speck in the misty distan... ...AIM OF LIFE AND THE TOLL OF DEATH PART I. THE MAN AND THE BRIG THE SHALLOW SEA that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and l... ...eir lawful and unlawful instincts. Their country of land and water—for the sea was as much their country as the earth of their islands—has fallen a pr... ...and intelligence; who had only his sympathy with the people of forests and sea he un- derstood and loved so well. They can not be said to be forgotten... ...atch—no catch—that’s all you know about 11 Joseph Conrad it,” growled the red-faced seaman. “By and by catch Ali—” he went on with sudden condescensi... ...” The Malay revolved the spokes again with disdain- ful obedience, and the red-faced man was moving forward grunting to himself, when through the open... ...pen- ing. “What’s the matter up there?” asked a deep voice from below. The red-faced man in a tone of surprise said: “Sir?” “I hear that rudder grindi... ...gable canary, a feeble twittering that seemed to ooze through the drooping red blossoms of geraniums growing in flower-pots under the glass panes. He ... ...e was straight, short, slightly blunted at the end; a broad band of deeper red stretched under the eyes, clung to the cheek bones. The eyes gave the f...

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...ds. Once before, some three years ago, when I published “The Mirror of the Sea,” a volume of impressions and memories, the same re- marks were made to... ...stood the kind of thrift they recommend. I wanted to pay my tribute to the sea, its ships and its men, to whom I remain indebted for so much which has... .... Having matured in the surroundings and under the special con- ditions of sea life, I have a special piety toward that form of my past; for its impre... ...giance, I may safely say that through the blind force of circumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long... ... all that morn- ing, but the hands he rubbed together vigorously were very red and imparted to me a chilly feeling by their mere aspect. He has remain... ...w of casks ranged on the frozen ground and the tail end of a great cart. A red- nosed carter in a blouse and a woollen night-cap leaned against the wh... ...n the plains as I saw it in the travels of my childhood. It set, clear and red, dipping into the snow in full view as if it were setting on the sea. I... ...he world of men and the scenery of mountains illumined his clean-cut, very red face, his short, silver-white whiskers, his innocently eager and triump... ...light my little cousin in a short skirt of a tartan pattern with a deal of red in it, and like a small princess at- tended by the women of her own hou...

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...ds. Once before, some three years ago, when I published “The Mirror of the Sea,” a volume of impressions and memories, the same re- marks were made to... ...ood the kind of thrift they recommended. I wanted to pay my tribute to the sea, its ships and its men, to whom I remain indebted for so much which has... ...le. Having matured in the surroundings and under the special conditions of sea-life, I have a special pi- ety towards that form of my past; for its im... ...ance, I may safely say that through the blind force of cir- cumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long... ...ck all that morning, but the hands he rubbed together vigorously were very red and imparted to me a chilly feeling by their mere aspect. He has remain... ...w of casks ranged on the frozen ground and the tail-end of a great cart. A red-nosed carter in a blouse and a woollen nightcap leaned against the whee... ...n the plains as I saw it in the travels of my childhood. It set, clear and red, dipping into the snow in full view as if it were set- ting on the sea.... ...he world of men and the scenery of mountains illumined his clean-cut, very red face, his short, sil- ver-white whiskers, his innocently eager and triu... ...ght my little cousin in a short skirt of a tartan pat- tern with a deal of red in it, and like a small princess attended by the women of her own house...

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... stone walls, towers, and block- houses, had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid, so still and stable did it lie below my feet;... ...de the bar, I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea, edge to edge, with a perfect and unmarked closeness, in one leveled fl... ...ome of the sky. Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea, two small clumps of trees, one on each side of the only fault in the i... ...r existences to be carried out, far from all human eyes, with only sky and sea for spectators and for judges. There must have been some glare in the a... ...e people, I had hardly seen her yet properly. Now, as she lay cleared for sea, the stretch of her main-deck seemed to me very find under the stars. V... ...y? . . . Finally I went on deck. II T HE SKIPPER OF THE SEPHORA had a thin red whisker all round his face, and the sort of complexion that goes with h...

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...ce was low, and she could spread her elbows on the top. Her hands would be red with the bit of washing she had done, but her forearms were white and s... ...nough for a decent billiard-room. A heavy figure of a man of stone, with a red handsome face, a blue wan- dering eye, and a great white beard flowing ... ...e boy had been driven away from home, he shouldn’t wonder; had run away to sea and had never been heard of since. Put to rest in Davy Jones’s locker t... ... expressed by a faint blush. He winked not in the least vulgarly; his thin red face with a well-modelled curved nose, had a sort of distinc- tion—the ... ...d hurriedly to a coast- ing skipper, and had remained on the coast all his sea life. It must have been a hard one at first: he had never taken to it; ... ...nd its firesides. Many sailors feel and profess a rational dislike for the sea, but his was a pro- found and emotional animosity—as if the love of the... ...ople did not know what they let their boys in for when they let them go to sea,” he expounded to Bessie. “As soon make convicts of them at once.” He d... ...ime you did not put your foot inside your house? Di- rectly you got out to sea you had no means of knowing what went on at home. One might have though... ...d black stones. There’s not a blade of grass to see; and the sun sets more red over that country than I have seen it anywhere—blood-red and angry. It ...

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...th whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but ... ... Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea girt island, far away, poor man, from all his friends. It is an islan... ... his friends. It is an island covered with forest, in the very middle of the sea, and a goddess lives there, daughter of the magician Atlas, who looks... ... Odyssey – Book I 4 is son to Neptune by the nymph Thoosa, daughter to the sea king Phorcys; therefore though he will not kill Ulysses outright, he ... ...o set beds in the room that was in the gatehouse, and to make them with good red rugs, and spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for... ... spoke she drew a table loaded with am brosia beside him and mixed him some red nectar, so Mercury ate and drank till he had had enough, and then sai... ...ds to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread cov erlets on the top of them with woollen cloak... ...us to dance alone, for there was no one to compete with them. So they took a red ball which Polybus had made for them, and one of them bent himself ba... ... strap can keep on turning as long as they choose. Even thus did we bore the red hot beam into his eye, till the boiling blood bubbled all over it as ...

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... be as luckily exceptional as this beautiful, dreamlike vision so very few sea- men have been privileged to behold. But horrid thoughts of business in... ...ad not been my lot at one time to nurse him through a desperate illness at sea. After snatching him out of the jaws of death, so to speak, it would ha... ...ing. “So early!” I cried. “Who’s he? What does he want?” On coming in from sea one has to pick up the conditions of an utterly unrelated existence. Ev... ...poor breakfast,” I cried apolo- getically. “We have been sixty-one days at sea, you know.” A quiet little laugh, with a “That’ll be all right, Captain... ...ommercial interests—spoiling the finest life un- der the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade—and for war as well? Why kill and traffic on it, purs... ...se, and went on deck. Shortly after- wards the second mate took his smooth red countenance out of the cabin. With the appetite of a schoolboy, and aft... ...s and several gleaming glasses made a brilliant cluster round a tall, cool red earthenware pitcher on the centre table which was littered with newspap... ...f the garden. I looked at her rounded chin, the Jacobus chin; at the full, red lips pouting in the powdered, sallow face; at the firm mod- 47 Joseph ...

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...n Oregon. Three counties, Napa County, Lake County, and Sonoma County, march across its cliffy shoulders. Its naked peak stands nearly four thousand f... ...rail- way, from Vallejo junction to Vallejo. Thence he takes rail once more to mount the long green strath of Napa Valley. In all the contractions and... ...contractions and expansions of that inland sea, the Bay of San Francisco, there can be few drearier scenes than the Vallejo Ferry. Bald shores and a l... ...ado) the steamer jumped, and the black buoys were dancing in the jabble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, al- though the upper sky was still ... ...en up to labourers, and partly ruinous. At dinner 5 there was the ordinary display of what is called in the west a two-bit hou... ...white oaks, in line and colour a finished com- position. We passed a cow stretched by the roadside, her bell slowly beating time to the movement of he... ... the crested moun- tain quail; he showed me where some young redwoods were already spiring heavenwards from the ruins of the old; for in this district... ...l, here’s the reason.” And opening a large cupboard, fitted with many little drawers, he proceeded to shower me all over with a great variety of gorge... ...hed a certain neophite and girlish trepida- tion, and he followed every sip and read my face with proud anxiety. I tasted all. I tasted every variety ...

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...or some time Victorine stood looking down at the great expanse of land and sea, then faced about with an impatient exclamation. On Sundays all the wee... ... a most charming pink upon her smooth, cool cheeks. Her lips were full and red, her chin very round and a little salient. Curiously enough, her eyes w... ...her boy and girl kept com- pany with the clock, a huge timepiece, set in a red plush palette, that never was known to go. But at the right of the fire... ...l lum- ber, of coffee, of tar, of bilge, and the brisk, nimble odor of the sea. T ravis was delighted, her little brown eyes snapping, her cheeks flus... ...bright sunlight upon the deck outside. “I began life,” he said, “as a deep-sea diver—began pretty young, too. I first put on the armor when I was twen... ...ing facade, like a sudden burst of flame. Gigantic pot-bellied lanterns of red and gold swung from its ceiling, while along its railing stood a row of... ...ow of pots—brass, ruddy bronze, and blue porcelain—from which were growing red saffron, purple, pink, and golden tulips without number. The air was vi... ...s. The walls were painted blue and hung with vertical Cantonese legends in red and silver, while all around the sides of the room small ebony tables a... ... Listen.” “‘Bachelor, thirty-nine, sober and industrious, retired 52 Blix sea captain, desires acquaintance respectable young woman, good house-keepe...

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...aic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted win- dows. When h... .... Fogg. Mr. Fogg was quite ready. Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Rail- way Steam Transit and Genera... ...aining the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea. As he passed among the busy crowd, Fix, according to habit, scruti... ...ng the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, were discernible on the Red Sea. As he passed among the busy crowd, Fix, according to habit, scrutinise... ... thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply.” “And does she go from... ...rteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply.” “And does she go from Sue... ...r from here?” asked Passepartout. “Pretty far. It is a ten days’ voyage by sea.” “And in what country is Bombay?” “India.” “In Asia?” “Certainly.” “Th... ...ts longer, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea. Chapter IX IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITI... ...onger, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea. Chapter IX IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS ...

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...ame out on the verandah for the first look westward, Sumatra way, over the sea, she seemed as fresh and sparkling as a dewdrop. But a dewdrop is evane... ...hands with tapering fingers. I don’t know whether she was actually born at sea, but I do know that up to twelve years of age she sailed about with her... ...ounding-board) was really astonishing. It thundered sweetly right over the sea. Jasper Allen told me that early of a morning on the deck of the Bonito... ...at Allen was sweet on his girl; the fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea, most of the traders in the Archi- pelago, and all sorts and conditions... ...was then all black and enigmatical, and very dirty; a tarnished gem of the sea, or, rather, a neglected work of art. For he must have been an artist, ... ...ds to the left side of his face, which had taken on suddenly a dusky brick-red tinge. Freya, very erect, her violet eyes darkened, her palm still ting... ...brig below her white— dazzlingly white in the spread of her wings—with the red en- sign streaming like a tiny flame from the peak. And each time she m... ... sea with the Seven Islets like minute specks swimming in my eye, the high red roof of the bungalow crowning the very smallest of them all. This visua...

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... they who bang the drum outnumber the silent ones as do the billows of the sea the ships that swim, or the grains of sand the trees that grow; a noisy... ...a very excellent earnest.’ Thereat the face of Shagpat was as an exceeding red berry in a bush, and he said angrily, ‘Have done! no more of it! or hap... ...anches in a wind, and the puckers of her visage moved as do billows of the sea to and fro, and the anticipations of a fair young bride are not more ea... ...heard him, and were as the eyes of a falcon that eyeth game, hun- gry with red fire, and she looked brisk with impatience, laugh- ing a low laugh and ... ...g not till he was in the hum of many tents, and the sun of that day hung a red half-circle across the sand. He alighted before the tent of his mother,... ...eep, and his soul melted to the parted sweetness of her soft little curved red lips and her closed eyelids, and her innocent open hands, where she lay... ...ing of the lion was hoarse in her dream, and it was to her as were she the red whirlwind of the desert before whom all bowed in terror, the Arab, the ... ...ued their journey toward the mountains and across the desert that was as a sea asleep in the blazing heat, and the sun till his setting threw no shade... ...t approach me?’ And he replied: Long we the less for the pearl of the sea 36 The Shaving of Shagpat Because in its depths there ‘s the deat...