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...r charm is qualified by the fact that the prescriptions here spring from a soil often wholly alien to the ground of the work itself. They are almost a... ...accordingly as a muddle?— one of the muddles ever blooming so thick in any soil that fails to grow reasons and determinants. No, distinctly not; for I... ...tched the thin trickle of a fictive “love- interest” through that somewhat serpentine channel, in the magazines, which she mainly managed to keep clea... ...m again that they had no place of convenience. He found himself on English soil with all sorts of feel- ings, but he hadn’t quite faced having to reck...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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... Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publicati... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedicat... ...t indefatigable mole, that ro- dent which undermines and disintegrates the soil, par- cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 So... ... cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 Sons of the Soil ever spurred on to his banquet by the lower middle classes who make hi... ...r, made by scores of brooklets, crosses the park at its lower level with a serpentine movement; giving a dewy freshness and tranquillity to the scene,...

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... space from which the stars swung flaming, held by invisible ties, and the soil be- neath his feet was a dust of atoms and the little beginnings of li... ...lked now after his unsuccessful quest of Dr. Brighton- Pomfrey towards the Serpentine he acted that stormy inter- view with Lady Sunderbund over again... ...thought over that comparison. By this time he had reached the banks of the Serpentine and was approaching the grey stone bridge that crosses just wher... ...then the tears gathered and ran down her cheek. She turned her face to the Serpentine and clenched her fist. But she was now fairly weeping. “I didn’t...

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...danger- ous entrance to the little bay bears obliquely to the right with a serpentine movement, and there encounters a moun- tain rising some twenty-f... ...surface of her rug- ged rocks. The eye can readily mark the line where the soil, warmed by the rays of the sun, bears cultivation and shows the native... ...ures provided milk and butter; a certain amount of fruit- ful, well-tilled soil yielded rye and hemp and vegetables, which necessity taught the people... ...imself return to youth and purity after growing cold and numb with age and soiled with impurity? Suddenly, Wilfrid loved as he had never loved; he lov... ...e their depths, shows him lost species, wakens dry bones whose dust is the soil of valleys; the Apostle writes the Apoca- lypse, and twenty centuries ... ...he soul to God, with whom we unite as the root of the tree unites with the soil; our veins draw life from the principle of life, and we live by the li...

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...the water-soldier. Mr. Dutton needn’t come, for he’s like a cat, and won’t soil his boots, but Gerard is dying to get another look at the old ruin. He... ...ent. Did he say where he was going?’ ‘I think he said he’d take him to the Serpentine to sail his ship,’ said Ellen, disposed to carry on asseveration... ...h, and all dirt! His nice new sailor suit too! Going grubbing about at the Serpentine with no one knows who, as isn’t fit for a young gentleman,’ moan... ...ce, such as Nuttie had never heard. ‘In the Park, near the bridge over the Serpentine. I was speaking for a few moments to a friend. Bah! Il etait par... ...doing in the search, put forward the advertise- ments, and obtain that the Serpentine should be dragged, for he saw that only that measure would remov...

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...etual stream; vast pines are strewing Its destined path, or in the mangled soil _110 Branchless and shattered stand; the ro... ...1862. At the creation of the Earth Pleasure, that divinest birth, From the soil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies— Like an exhalation... ...t drained not by the day; _20 And wild roses, and ivy serpentine, With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray; And flowers az...

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... crumbles away below and pits are formed, rank with vegeta- tion, splendid soil for potatoes.’ Christmas-day was spent at Wellington, in services on s... ... new comers to the novelties of a more temperate climate and a more genial soil than they had known on the torrid rock of Pitcairn’s Island. 142 Life... ...re and broken, and here and there with pits that have be- come filled with soil enough to grow yams and cocoa-nuts. The yams—except those for five of ... ... to which, indeed only 200 yards off, is another considerable village. The soil is ex- cellent; the houses good—built round the open space which answe... ... off to him the beauties of the villages where I slept in May last—the dry soil, the spring of water, the wondrous fertility, the large and remarkably... ..., is very handsome. Some day Joan must send me a solid block of Devonshire serpentine for my Font, such a one as there is at Alfington, or Butterfield...

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...’s bullet struck down one of the no- blest creatures that ever trod French soil, and Michel Chrestien died for other doctrines than his own. His Feder... ... inviolate of body and soul; unless, indeed, she comes to lie at the last, soiled, despoiled, polluted, and forgotten, on a pauper’s bier. As for the ... ...the foundations of his fortunes. Here, in the Palais, you trod the natural soil of Paris, aug- mented by importations brought in upon the boots of foo... ...well, then, that smile of yours pays for everything,” she said, and with a serpentine movement she raised her head and laid her lips against his. When... ...st as at a rather later day every one must needs look for asphalt in stony soil, or bitu- men in marshes, and speculate in projected railways. The stu... ...treat you in the name of our friendship, weakened though it may be, not to soil yourself in this way. You have been prominent in attacking the Romanti...

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...n- ing. 67 Beatrix VII LES TOUCHES A FEW HUNDRED YARDS From Guerande the soil of Brit- tany comes to an end; the salt-marshes and the sandy dunes be... ...w, reclining on a divan, as if a sculptor had placed it there, a white and serpentine shape which thrilled him. With- out being aware of it, Felicite ... ...h toilets of Beatrix and Camille. She was painfully aware of the stockings soiled among the rocks as she had jumped from the boat, of shabby leather s... ... une carotte!” The saying has become so popular that it must be allowed to soil this page. Besides, if we penetrate within the 13th arrondissement, we...

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...evealed the coils of rope, and Ripton displayed the point of a file from a serpentine recess in his jacket: how they had then told the astonished woma... ...made him so uncom- fortable—the birds were so noisy, pairing—the rude bare soil sickened him. Richard treated him with a gravity equal to his father’s... ...ted. “It will do us no harm,” he thought, “some of the honest blood of the soil in our veins.” And he was content in mus- ing on the parentage of the ...

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...d of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand cracks lay on the soil itself, which was damp in places, and would have tripped up those who ... ...g tall; but her figure was charming in its graceful suppleness, and in the serpentine curves laboriously sought by painters and sculptors,—curves whic... ...bitants of this region Nature is cruel, savage, and without resources. The soil of these great gray plains is thank- less. The vicinity of a capital t... ...nown to botanists, covered by mineral refuse, round pebbles, and a sterile soil, cast defiance to civi- lization. France should adopt the only solutio... ...n acres of waste land, certain parts of which, especially in Berry, have a soil from seven to eight feet deep. Many of these plains which might be cov... ...ll these useless, unproductive lands is written the word “Incapacity.” All soils have some special fertility of their own. Arms and wills are ready; t...

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...nd firm by honor: We turn not back the silks upon the merchant, When we have soil’d them, nor the remainder viands We do not throw in unrespective sie... ...y to myself The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; But I would have the soil of her fair rape Wiped off, in honorable keeping her. What treason w... ...mpus, forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and, Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus, if ye take not that little, little les... ...e merits well to have her, that doth seek her, Not making any scruple of her soilure, With such a hell of pain and world of charge, And you as well to... ...ather think this not Cressid. ULYSSES: What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers? TROILUS: Nothing at all, unless that this were she. TH...

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...e could be found floundering purposelessly with fluttering plastic bags of soiled laundry in hand as sails, never, like her peers, permitted to moor ... ... Koan III Chapter One Top soil peeled, scathed, by wind; the shed skin sifted into smaller grain and ... ...walked away from all this, away from the thicket of trees, and the stray, serpentine immersion of the bayou. As she did so, she pondered the unfathom...

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...ls and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere run- ning off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark ... ...! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven in the wood, my mat! green the first day I ... ...hake! Pines are the hardest sort of tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helms- man!... ...knowing them to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil; even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species... ...all, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into ac- tual play—this ... ...s, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like themselves. So t... ...r only a few minutes, my fingers felt like eels, and began, as it were, to serpentine and spiralise. As I sat there at my ease, cross-legged on the de...

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... so pleasant to feel them lifted, their heavy earthly feet from the actual soil of life. The world had been set afloat, as it were, for a moment, and ... ...ea—what a needless labor—to construct artificial ruins in Rome, the native soil of ruin! But even these sportive imitations, wrought by man in emulati... ... pets of nature dreaded him no more in his buoyant life than if a mound of soil and grass and flowers had long since cov- ered his dead body, converti... ...blood recklessly poured out, and deaths of myriads, have corrupted all the soil, creating an influence that makes the air deadly to human lungs. “You ... ... to fill them to the brim; who reared up the immemorial obelisk out of the soil that had long hidden it; who placed pedestals along the borders of the... ...might twist it to more than one grave purpose, as you saw how the knotted, serpentine growth imprisoned within its strong embrace the friend that had ...

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...was soon startled to perceive the germ of a plant shooting upward from the soil. Then came the slender stalk; the leaves gradually unfolded themselves... ...read all its leaves. Aylmer poured a small quantity of the liquid upon the soil in which it grew. In a little time, when the roots of the plant had ta... ...astonishment, and, looking down again, beheld neither Goody Cloyse nor the serpentine staff, but his fel low traveller alone, who waited for him as c... ...mbodied it in marble and another scattered the perishable garniture on the soil. All about the pool into which the water subsided grew various plants,... ...luminate the garden, even had there been no sunshine. Every portion of the soil was peopled with plants and herbs, which, if less beautiful, still bor... ...ce; “and, at the hour when I first drew breath, this plant sprang from the soil, the offspring of his science, of his intellect, while I was but his e...

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...t among the mountains, there where it multiplied and grew according to the soil, and the race that received it. 5 Twilight in Italy As one goes among... ...ld be the same whatever mother he had. The mother was but the vehicle, the soil in which the paternal seed was planted. When Clytemnestra murdered Aga... ...darkness, white and wonderful be- yond belief. Then their radiance becomes soiled and brown, they thaw, break, and scatter and vanish away. Already th... ...rom reality, a kind of sleep-walking. He left his own reality there in the soil above the lake of Garda. That his body was in California, what did it ... ...will not spend their lives wringing a little oil and wine out of the rocky soil, even if they are not killed in the fighting which is going on at the ... ...sometimes above and sometimes below the twist- 131 Twilight in Italy ing, serpentine railway, then afterwards along a path on the side of the hill—a ...

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...fit in autumn; but if the crop be scanty, better let it lie and fatten the soil.’ ‘Old earth’s the wisest creditor,’ he would add; ‘she never squeezes... ...arms hastening to obey the Kaiser’s mandate. A string of horse and foot in serpentine knots stretched along the flat land, flashing colours livelier t...

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...e si- lently by souls whose tender roots find stony ground in the domestic soil, whose earliest buds are torn apart by rancor- ous hands, whose flower... ... double hillsides,—a splendid emerald cup, in the depths of which flow the serpentine lines of the river Indre. I gazed at this scene with ineffable d... ...; I know nothing of farming, nor of the various methods of cultivating the soil.” “Well, come and learn,” he cried gaily, returning upon his steps. “C... ...sieged him with questions about prices, means of preparing and working the soil, etc., and he seemed glad to answer all in detail. “What in the world ... ...where no herbage grew; the ground was stony, arid, and with- out vegetable soil of any kind; nevertheless a few scrub oaks and thorny bushes straggled... ...utiful flowers all the more charming to the eye when they grow in a barren soil. But if I enjoyed the delightful benefits of naturalization in a famil...

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...y as any to be found on earth. It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil — an ordinary specimen of those smoothly outlined protuber ances of t... ...ate, and, leaping down on the other side upon what he found to be ploughed soil, made across the field in the exact direction of the fire. The blaze, en... ...ush of varnish had been lightly dragged across it. Oak’s eyes followed the serpentine sheen to the other side, where it led up to a huge brown garden ... ...on some loose stones spread thereabout, which had acted as a shield to the soil under the onset. These during the summer had been cleared from the gro... ...ase of the hill, and the flocks became in dividually visible, climbing the serpentine ways which led to the top. Thus, in a slow procession, they ente...