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... their patronesses, not without comment. Finally, in this exclusive little set include two or three eccle- siastics, admitted for the sake of their cl... ...ed under the walls of Courcelles, and some gardener’s heavy footstep would set his heart beat- ing high with hope. He thought of writing to Mme. de Be... ...ife, as in the fairy tales, the woman belongs to him who can reach her and set her free from the position in which she languishes. The poor- est of ca... ...s love grew to the height of the ob- stacles to overleap; and the distance set between him and his extemporized lady-love produced the usual effect of... ... wife nor mother, she was an outlaw; she had lost the one heart that could set her pulses beating without shame; she had nothing from without to suppo... ...f her heart; who can track her thought through the seemingly contradictory workings of her mind, and read the sensations, shy or bold, written in flee...

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... she loved Enoch; tho’ she knew it not, And would if ask’d deny it. Enoch set A purpose evermore before his eyes, To hoard all savings to the uttermo... ...horse— And yet to sell her—then with what she brought Buy goods and stores—set Annie forth in trade With all that seamen needed or their wives— So mig... ...r Enoch parted with his old sea-friend, Bought Annie goods and stores, and set his hand To fit their little streetward sitting-room With shelf and cor... ...departed weeping for him; Then, tho’ she mourn’d his absence as his grave, Set her sad will no less to chime with his, But throve not in her trade, no... ...’ half abash’d him; yet unask’d, His bashfulness and tenderness at war, He set himself beside her, saying to her: ‘I came to speak to you of what he... ...then they begg’d For Father Philip (as they call’d him) too: Him, like the working bee in blossom-dust, Blanch’d with his mill, they found; and saying... ... I wonder’d at her strength, and ask’d her of it: “It came,” she said, “by working in the mines:” O then to ask her of my shares, I thought; And ask’d...

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...the scenery, develop the characters, and improve the style.” “My dear fellow,” said I, “they are just the three things that I would rather die than se... ...lack mark he had to his name; but the matter was hushed up at the time, and so defaced by legends before I came into those parts, that I scruple to se... ...augh- ter of his own, and my lady being long dead, she had grown up as best she might. To these four came the news of Prince Charlie’s landing, and se... ...t seemed too late. By fear and favour he had scraped together near upon a dozen men, principally tenants’ sons; they were all pretty full when they se... ...r of their loss. Miss Alison’s money, you are to bear in mind, wag highly needful for the estates; and the one brother being dead, my old lord soon se... ... the body, raving and swearing and daring us to come on. It was the silliest exhibition; and yet dangerous too, for the cowardly fellow was plainly wo...

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...ught my breath painfully, and opened my eyes. Two men were kneeling beside me, working over me. My mighty rhythm was the lift and forward plunge of a ... ... than any I know of. I was bloomin’ well sure you was a gentleman as soon as I set eyes on yer.” I had taken a dislike to him at first, and as he helpe... ...down an other companionway near the wheel. A moment later he emerged, a heavy set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villanous c... ...idge called an “’owlin’ sou’easter.” At half past five, under his directions, I set the table in the cabin, with rough weather trays in place, and then... ...ave been drawn and twitching from the pain. But I called up all my resolution, set my teeth, and hobbled back and forth from galley to cabin and cabin... ... swept his arm in an impatient gesture toward a number of the sailors who were working on some kind of rope stuff amidships. “They move; so does the j... ... revelation, on the other hand. I shall be able to appreciate the lives of the working people hereafter. I did not dream that work was so terrible a t... ...ction he looked. The psychology of it is sadly tangled, and yet could read the workings of his mind as clearly as though it were a printed book. 58 T... ... night in while other men do the work. That’s my purpose. Also, I have enjoyed working it out.” “The creative joy,” I murmured. “I guess that’s what i...

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...rge bottle, but such as may be seen in any ordinary ship’s medicine-chest. Set- ting this bottle on the table without removing his hand from it, Capta... ...se; and when at last it fell calm, it fell dead calm, and a strong current set one way, day and night, night and day, and I drifted—drifted—drifted—ou... ...rs. But it was harder navigation below-stairs than above. The instant they set foot in the parlour the quick, wom- anly eye detected that there was so... ...e was fast becom- ing the village Ogre; for there was not a woman standing working at her door, or a fisherman coming up or going down, who saw Young ... ... hide her tears in her own room, and Alfred spoke with her father, who was working in the garden. He was a rather infirm man, but could scarcely be ca... ....” “Not a doubt,” returned the captain. “Give me an arm apiece, and let us set this ship-shape.” So walking up and down in the shrill wind on the wild... ...ve the face to contradict it.” He took the child from her mother’s lap and set it on his knee. “Not a bit afraid of me now, you see. Knows I am fond o... ...softly danced the child on his knee. For he felt that Margaret had stopped working. “Yes,” said the captain, still looking at the fire, “I make up sto...

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...IX by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ..........................................................................4 A SET OF SIX ................................................................... .....................................................................223 4 A Set of Six A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad TO MISS M. H. M. CAPES AUTHOR’S NO... ...ast to get that idea into Horne’s head. He glared, perplexed, his nostrils working as if he were sniffing treachery in the air. “And here comes a piec... ...he lapels of his coat. Under his thin bluish cheeks one could see his jaws working with passion. “‘You have men posted outside. Get the lady taken hom... ...ery year in advertising all over the world! One can’t be too economical in working the show. Well, just you listen. When I took charge here the estate... ... Set of Six occasion to ride, but because no other bedding was used by the working-hands, who were all vaqueros —cattlemen. And on this horseman’s gea... ...into his hands. He had not spared himself of late and the marshal had been working all his aides-de-camp particularly hard. The last three weeks of ca...

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...he land breeze blew in our faces, and smelt strong of wild lime and vanilla: other things besides, but these were the most plain; and the chill of it set me sneezing. I should say I had been for years on a low island near the line, living for the most part solitary among natives. Here was a fresh experience: even the tongue would be quite strange to me; and the look of the...

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...: other things besides, but these were the most plain; and the chill of it set me sneezing. I should say I had been for years on a low island near the... ...t got dark. So it was high noon, and the schoo- ner was under way before I set my foot on shore at Falesa. I had a glass or two on board; I was just o... ... fashion, fat and pale, naked to the waist, grey as a badger, and his eyes set with drink. His body was covered with grey hair and crawled over by fli... ...m was an odd volume of a novel, and the words of his service not fit to be set down. My conscience smote me when we joined hands; and when she got her... ...of it after so long, it seems rather a sickening yarn. However, Case never set up to be soft, only to be square and hearty, and a man all round; and, ... ... or wheeling and calling in his ears. When he passed me I could see by the working of his lips that he was talking to himself, and what pleased me mig...

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...rge!’ muttered Riderhood, with his eyes on the passion-wasted face. ‘Y our working days must be stiff ‘uns, if these is your holidays.’ ‘And I have ne... ...uld have been no surprising sequel to the look. Perhaps his troubled soul, set upon some violence, did hover for the moment between that violence and ... ...ooked at him lying with his right hand clenched in his sleep and his teeth set, until a film came over his own sight, and he slept too. He awoke to fi... ...he was.’ She stood sketching on the table-cloth, with her face clouded and set, and was silent. ‘Because,’ said Alfred, ‘I am disposed to be sentiment... ...r anything Mr and Mrs Boffin ever saw of them to the con- trary; for, they set eyes on the Lammles never more. 25 Charles Dickens Chapter 3 THE GOLDE... ... your generous behaviour. I am removed from you and your family by being a working girl. How true a gentleman to be as considerate of me as if I was r... ...d for that old time, and grant, O Blessed Lord, that through thy wonderful workings it may turn to good at last! T o whomsoever the drifting face belo... ...oked down. ‘I heard of the outrage,’ said Bradley, trying to constrain his working mouth, ‘but I had not heard the end of it.’ ‘Where were you,’ said ... ...ain after her last interruption, sat looking at it, needle in hand but not working, for some moments. She then briskly resumed her work, and said with...

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... as it was supplied to them, and found it, if not luxurious, at least sufficient. But these working men were loud in their outcries. It was not ‘food ... ...nk of society, would have dared to make some fun for themselves and the spectators; but the working man, when sober, takes an extreme and even melanch... ...est old airs; ‘Logie o’ Buchan,’ for instance, he only knew as a quick, jigging figure in a set of quadrilles, and had never heard it called by name. ... ...nt in the steer- ages about his antecedents. Some said he was a Nihilist es- caping; others set him down for a harmless spendthrift, who had squandere... ...as fairly tripped. He made no answer, but put out his pipe, gave me one murderous look, and set off upon his errand strolling. From that day forward, ... ...winging from his finger. The light, as it reached the spot, showed us an elderly man, thick-set, and grizzled with years; but the shift- ing and coars... ...gh Tory and a high Englishman. No manufacturer could have held opinions more hostile to the working man and his strikes. ‘The workmen,’ he said, ‘thin... ...us lad that he was strongly under the influence of sex. If a woman passed near where he was working, his eyes lit up, his hand paused, and his mind wa... ...tests to work. If I thought that I should have to work every day of my life as hard as I am working now, I should be tempted to give up the struggle. ...

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...ny true stories of splendid acts in the past two years ever to be properly set down. The V.C.’s and the palms do but indicate samples. One would need ... ...ed the organisation of the push. They had got an organisation now that was working out most satisfactorily. Had I seen a sector? I had seen the sector... ...than any other single human figure I can think of or imagine. If I were to set a frontispiece to a book about this War I would make General Joffre the... ...lk about the Super Man, for this encounter had suddenly crystallised out a set of realisations that had been for some time latent in my mind. How much... ...ew time we see the emperor-god for the guy he is. In the August of 1914 he set himself up to be the paramount Lord of the World, and it will seem to t... ...ate utilise his excep- tional position by sound hard work. It is an age of working kings, with the manners of private gentlemen. The King of Italy for... ...6 6 6 6 Manifestly one might continue to multiply portraits of fine people working upon this great task of breaking and ending the German aggression, ... .... One might fill a thick volume with pictures of men up the scale and down working loyally and devotedly upon the war, to make this point clear that t... ...moke. But these things are now to be seen on the cinema. Forthwith the men working on the road about us begin to down tools and make for the shelter t...

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...l, then, that’s a good child — kiss me. Now, then, sit up in that chair, and set your eye on that clock. There — that’s right. If you stir — if you so... ...edient she looked, sitting there, still as a mouse; I could hardly keep from set ting her free and telling her to make as much racket as she wanted t... ... me?” “No, I don’t, I love you!” and he gathered her up with a hug, and then set her on his shoulder — apparently nine feet from the floor. She was at... ...k Dorcas’s youth and the joys of that long vanished time. My father tried to set Dorcas free twenty years ago, when we still lived in Vir ginia, but ... ... and dear; and it ain’t her fault, it’s her nature; her interest is always a working and always red hot, and she can’t keep quiet. Well, yesterday it ... ... have it up and down, the children do, she standing up for the Cid, and they working George Washington for all he is worth.” “Do they quarrel?” “No; i... ...agoons, U.S.A., — on whom be peace!” “Amen. I listen — tell me more.” “She set to work and organized the Sixteen, and called it the First Battalion ...

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...us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the Future... .... But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the smallest of the old surviv- ing village houses in the ... ...d-twenty hours, of old Sir Peter’s white top-hats, of Lady Bone, who never set foot to ground except to walk in the garden, of the great, prize-fights... ...entre of power distribution—the Home Coun- ties Power Distribution Company set up transformers and a generating station close beside the old gas-works... ...er degree in geology and mineralogy in the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spe... ... the huge newspaper estab- lishments of Park Row. They were all alight and working; they had not been abandoned even while the actual bomb throwing wa... ... Away in the north-west clouds gathered. The throb-throb of her slow screw working against the breeze was much more perceptible than when she was goin... ... driving weather another airship wallowing along like a porpoise, and also working up. Presently the clouds swallowed her again for a time, and then s... ... the gesture. Several times the Prince grew angry; once with a man who was working slowly, once with a man who stole a comrade’s ration. The first he ...

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... But when I have done so, Some man, his art and voice to show, Doth Set and sing my paine, And, by delighting many, frees againe Griefe,... ..., But mixt of all stuffes, paining soule, or sense, And of the Sunne his working vigour borrow, Love’s not so pure, and abstract, as they use To s... ...t to seeke new lands, or not to deale withall? Or built faire houses, set trees, and arbors, Only to lock up, or else to let them fall? ... ...s like the light which bideth yet When the lights life is set, Or like the heat, which fire in solid matter Leaves ...

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...S WS WS WS WS S S S S Section 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 I HAVE SET MYSELF to write the story of the Great Change, so far as it has affecte... ...ents itself to be done, even by an old man, would not, I think, suffice to set me at this desk. I find some such recapitulation of my past as this wil... ... of infinite leisure equipped with a pot of ocherous paint, varnish, and a set of flexible combs. This person had first painted the ar- ticle, then, I... ...ing. T o think at all about certain questions was an act of rebellion that set one oscillating between the furtive and the defiant. People begin to fi... ...e, and drunkenness, suf- fered multitudinously their blameless victim, the Working Man. And we, almost at the first glance, had found all this out, it... ...fficient rhetoric and vehemence to change the face of the whole world. The Working Man would arise—in the form of a Labor Party, and with young men li... ...s my home. The road I followed came down between banks of wretched-looking working-men’s houses, in close-packed rows on either side, and took upon it... ...mething was wrong there, an indecision if nothing else; the mine was still working, and there was a rumor that men from Durham had been held in readin... ..., incoherencies. You imagine all the parts of this complex lunatic machine working hysterically toward a crescendo of haste and excitement as the nigh...

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... a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length— we might fairly conclud... ...des, Captain Farragut had spoken of a certain sum of two thousand dollars, set apart for whoever should first sight the monster, were he cabin-boy, co... ...nd one can do a good deal in some hours.” Conseil’s imperturbable coolness set me up again. I swam more vigorously; but, cramped by my clothes, which ... ... prevailing qualities directly: self- confidence—because his head was well set on his shoul- ders, and his black eyes looked around with cold assur- a... ...reeable. A sliding noise was heard: one would have said that pan- els were working at the sides of the Nautilus. “It is the end of the end!” said Ned ... ...s we had entered the first cell. He then pressed a knob. I heard the pumps working in the midst of the vessel, I felt the water sink- ing from around ... ...ly immov- able. On the platform, and on the mountain, the ship’s crew were working like black shadows clearly carved against the luminous atmosphere. ... ...autilus, do you think?” “I cannot tell, my friend.” “I should say that its working does not require a large crew.” “Certainly, under existing conditio... ...to our vessel like dogs worrying a wild boar in a copse. But the Nautilus, working its screw, carried them here and there, or to the upper levels of t...

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...50 150 150 CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV: XX SET : XX SET : XX SET : XX SET : XX SETTEMBRE TEMBRE TEMBRE TEMBRE TEMBRE .... ... girls in white pinafores ran out in front of his legs. “Father, shall you set the Christmas Tree?” they cried. “We’ve got one!” “Afore I have my dinn... ...ey cried. “We’ve got one!” “Afore I have my dinner?” he answered amiably. “Set it now. Set it now.—We got it through Fred Alton.” “Where is it?” The l... ...ough. He went to the back kitchen to take off his coat. 5 D. H. Lawrence “Set it now, Father. Set it now,” clamoured the girls. “You might as well. Y... ...s it lasts,” said Robert again. “Starting with eternity,” said Lilly, “and working back to a fortnight.” “And what’s the matter?—looks bad in the eyes... ...aid Jim, rising and pointing luridly to Clariss. “She’s Love. And he’s the Working People. The hope is these two—” He jerked a thumb at Aaron Sisson, ... ...ut it. I’m dead. I’m dying.” “Only because you force yourself. If you drop working your- self up—” “I shall die. I only live when I can fall in love. ... ...id Lilly. “More than there was, though. Coming back to the old days, like. Working round, bit by bit.” They had arrived at the stairs. Aaron stumbled ... ...inued his race like some fran- tic lizard running up the great wall-front, working away from the noise below, as if in sheer fright. It was one unendi...

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...nteresting. She is pre-eminently Gothic, and all the more so since she has set herself off with some Greek airs, and erected classic temples on her cr... ...aces all beflagged upon some great occasion, see, across a gardened valley set with statues, where the washings of the Old Town flutter in the breeze ... ... of jealous nobles, not only on Greenside, or by the King’s Stables, where set tournaments were fought to the sound of trumpets and under the authorit... ...iciency of its situation, and on the hills that back it up. If you were to set it somewhere else by itself, it would look remarkably like Stirling in ... ...of the Old T own blowing abroad over the subjacent country. A city that is set upon a hill. It was, I suppose, from this distant aspect that she got h... ...f the front? Is there any profit in a misplaced chimney-stalk? Does a hard-working, greedy builder gain more on a mon- strosity than on a decent cotta...

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...Rackets to these Balles, 412 We will in France (by Gods grace) play a set, 413 Shall strike his fathers Crowne into the hazard. 414 Tel... ... For that I haue layd by my Maiestie, 427 And plodded like a man for working dayes: 428 But I will rise there with so full a glorie, 429 ... ... 495 The summe is payde, the Traitors are agreed, 496 The King is set from London, and the Scene 497 Is now transported (Gentles) to Sou... ...ayl’d against our person: We consider 671 It was excesse of Wine that set him on, 672 And on his more aduice, We pardon him. 673 Sc... ...together, 735 As two yoake diuels sworne to eythers purpose, 736 Working so grossely in an naturall cause, 737 That admiration did not ... ...he blood, 763 Garnish’d and deck’d in modest complement, 764 Not working with the eye, without the eare, 765 And but in purged iudgemen... .... - 24 - The Life of Henry the Fift Shakespeare: First Folio 1098 Now set the Teeth, and stretch the Nosthrill wide, 1099 Hold hard the Breat... ...e speake prowdly: Tell the Constable, 2356 We are but Warriors for the working day: 2357 Our Gaynesse and our Gilt are all besmyrcht 2358 ... ...ite from himselfe, to God. But now behold, 2873 In the quick Forge and working- house of Thought, 2874 How London doth powre out her Citizens,...