...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...er mysteriously discredited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head... ...ecause Kate Merry had had bronchitis. They were planning to lay out a lawn tennis court on the sands; but no one but Kate and May had racquets, and mo... ... riding, swimming, and trying her hand at the fascinating new game of lawn tennis; and when they finally got back to London (where they were to 136 T... ...nown no rival but croquet, was beginning to be discarded in favour of lawn-tennis; but the latter game was still considered too rough and inelegant fo...

...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

...ved at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could ... ...ain and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the cor ... ... the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered ... ...eep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, some Chapter 1 5 times crowds, and in all sorts of attire. Som... ... the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casu alties of war proper being assisted by famine and dis ... ...tly talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door—came and listened, ... ...at Arthur is here. We have such walks and drives, and rides, and rowing, and tennis, and fishing together, and I love him more than ever. He tells me ... ...the, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.” Whilst he was speaking, Lucy had ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...g a tyrant, as so often befalls those whose skill ren- ders them valuable. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superf... ...to take), and am quite as much disposed as ever to wish for a good game at tennis or fives to take it out of me. ‘Your loving Brother, ‘J. C. Patteson... ...y from Kohimarama to St. John’s College. I got him to describe the game of tennis, and he warmed up and told me of games he had played at. ‘How that c...

... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...had already given sufficient testi- mony of his valour, playing a match at tennis, received a blow of a ball a little above his right ear, which, as i... ...t be no better settled, I had much rather my scholar had spent his time at tennis, for, at least, his body would by that means be in better exercise a... ...xcellent, to return all dust and sweat victorious from a battle, than from tennis or from a ball, with the prize of those exercises; I see no other re...

...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...ess was thinning out. It was understood that the overture had begun. Other people who were waiting like Laura and her sister had been joined by their ... ...and coat at the coat room near the north entrance, and slipped into an old tennis jacket of striped blue flannel. Then, hatless, his hands in his pock... ...o Geneva Lake and fish through the ice. Laura, how would you like to go to Florida?” “Oh, I tell you,” she exclaimed. “Let’s go up to Geneva Lake over...

...o give the form of a white house-front. “Oh, come when we’d five to choose from. At least if you count the Chicago flat.” “So we had—you wonder!” He l... ...ng loveliness of the night, she was aware only of the warm current running from palm to palm, as the moonlight below them drew its line of magic from ... ...Apples of silver in a net-work of gold ….” They leaned together, one flesh from shoulder to finger-tips, their eyes held by the snared glitter of the ... ...of bills and borrowing against which its frail structure had been reared. “People with a balance can’t be as happy as all this,” Susy mused, letting t... ...l this,” Susy mused, letting the moonlight filter through her lazy lashes. People with a balance had always been Susy Branch’s bug- bear; they were st... ...d them, detested them doubly, as the natural enemies of mankind and as the people one always had to put one’s self out for. The greater part of her li... ...on afterward to get taken to Canada for a fortnight’s ski-ing, and then to Florida for six 10 The Glimpses of the Moon weeks in a house-boat …. As sh... ...use-boat …. As she reached this point in her retrospect the remembrance of Florida called up a vision of moonlit waters, magnolia fra- grance and balm... ...m. Signs of departure were already visible. There were trunks in the hall, tennis rackets on the stairs; on the landing, the cook Giulietta had both a...

...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...als, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility. She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate semi- nar in the drama, ... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...te flannel trou- 341 Sinclair Lewis sers. He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, any- thing but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street. A vi... ... Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament. It proved that he had learned to play in Minneapolis; th...