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...ntly.’ The son, still more gallantly continuing the tradition, entered the army, loaded himself with debt, was forced to sell out, took refuge in the ... ...s supported the honour of the family with a better grace, and married West Indian mag- nates of whom, I believe, the world has never heard and would n... ...cloudy stories of adven- ture, and next his heart, the daguerreotype of an Indian prince with whom he had mixed blood. The last of this wild family, t... ...ed with distinctions and generalisations, contrasting the dramatic art and national character of England, Germany, Italy, and France. If he were dull,... ...tevenson splendid sight: the mob in front chanting the “Marseillaise,” the national war hymn, grave and powerful, sweetened by the night air – though ... ...when suddenly the Municipal Guard, now fairly exasperated, pre- vented the National Guard from proceeding, and fired at them; the National Guard had c... ...irthday, they were, the mother writes, ‘in great anxiety for news from the army. You can have no idea what it is to live in a country where such a str... ...nd wave their arms like giants; sheep in the distance are somewhat like an army; a little boat on the river-side must look much the same whether encha... ...ws they are, too: the officers rather raffish, but with medals Crimean and Indian; the men 87 Robert Louis Stevenson a very sturdy set, with many lad...

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...ily of that name, who had been quartered at Lichfield as an officer of the army, and had at this time a house in Lon- don, where Johnson was frequentl... ...that is not better expressed than was usual before he appeared to lead the national taste. Though The Rambler was not concluded till the year 1752, I ... ...new gown at a dancing school ball, a gen- eral at the head of a victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assemb... ...cotland with a good humoured pleasantry, which gave me, though no bigot to national prejudices, an op- portunity for a little contest with him. I havi... ...e had drubbed those fellows into a proper reverence for us, and that their national petulance re- quired periodical chastisement. ‘Speaking of a dull ... ...e may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself. When Eustac... ...of the negroes in the West Indies.’ His violent prejudice against our West Indian and American settlers appeared whenever there was an opportunity. To... ...ed upon the whole with Johnson. I compared him at this time to a warm West-Indian climate, where you have a bright sun, quick vegetation, luxuriant fo... ...r observes, that it is said there are no weak or deformed people among the Indians; but he with much sagacity assigns the reason of this, which is, th...

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...in Tartary 49 degrees north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians, the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations derived the... ...reasoning is superfluous. The Mahometan dies fighting for his prophet, the Indian immolates himself at the chariot- wheels of Brahma, the Hottentot wo... ...the causes of so much individual rivalship, such calamitous and sanguinary national disputes. In the history of modern times, the ava- rice of commerc... ... The peasantry work, not only for themselves, but for the aristocracy, the army, and the manu- facturers. The advantage of a reform in diet is obvious... ... _5 To Zephyr’s passing wing? 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. Not the swart Pariah in some Indian grove, Lone, lean, and hunted by his brother’s hate, Hath drunk so d...

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.... Two full months before the time!” “ That’s why it comes. I’ve only known Indian rivers for five-and-twenty years, and I don’ t pretend to understand... ... now royally wasting the revenues accumulated dur- ing his minority by the Indian Government. His steam-launch, 33 The Day’s Work with its silverplat... ...n Chinn the Second was rather clever, but as the eldest son he entered the army, according to Chinn tradition. His duty was to abide in his father’s r... ...he Order of British India, with thirty-five years’ spotless service in the army, and a rank among his own people superior to that of many Bengal princ... ...idence men, women, and children stole away to their villages as the little army passed by. They carried news that it was good and right to be scratche... ... are no facilities for even the smallest repairs. —Sailing Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list o... ...ubalterns, a Civilian twenty years her senior, one Major, and a man in the Indian Medical Department. This, too, was com- mon property. She had “staye... ...kidars were what they call a Pioneer regiment, and the bag- pipes made the national music of half their men. The native officers held bundles of polo-... ...m for an infinity of mistakes when a man begins to take liberties with his nationality; and I went down expect- ing things. A seven-foot dog-cart and ...

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...lves in the art of self-defence, as the British Constitution expresses our national estimate of them by allowing us to blacken three of their eyes for... ...ildhood, as of everything else, lies our ridiculous misdistribution of the national income, with its accompanying class distinctions and imposition of... ...l place. I should have gone into the country, or into the sea, or into the National Gallery, or to hear a band if there was one, or to any library whe... ...his 53 Shaw parents or his schoolmaster or his bishop or his judge or his army or his navy will do something to frighten these bad things away. And t... ...on complained that it was impossible to get an order obeyed in the British army except in two or three crack regiments. Such frantic excesses of this ... ...t of us to any extremity. We will allow a village of Egyptian fellaheen or Indian tribesmen to live the lowest life they please among themselves witho... ... the family organization is as frankly political as the organization of an army or an industry: fathers being no more expected to be sentimental about...

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... story, Mr. Rankin. When Miles died, he left an estate in one of the West Indian islands. It was in charge of an agent who was a sharpish fellow, wit... ... wish he would!! SIR HOWARD. Yes. A few years ago the collapse of the West Indian sugar industry converted the income of the es- tate into an annual l... ...y? That it was time for you to make room for younger and better men. You a national hero! You had better find a goldfield in the Atlas Mountains. Then... ... Brassbound). Captain Burton’s Ara- bian Nights—copy in the library of the National Liberal Club. LADY CICELY (calling without). Mr. Drinkwater. Come ... ...t to have any property either. People will never understand about the West Indian Estate. They’ll think you’re the wicked uncle out of the Babes in th... ...can com- mand a schooner and a shore party if I can’t command a ship or an army. When work is put upon me, I turn neither to save my life nor to fill ...

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... Control, without having their force much weak ened, his real opinions on Indian subjects. In his History he had set forth, for the first time, many ... ...story he had set forth, for the first time, many of the true principles of Indian administration: and his despatches, following his History, did more ... ...had ever been done before to pro mote the improvement of India, and teach Indian officials to understand their business. If a selection of them were ... ... it is true, the bad as well as the good points, both of individual and of national character, come more to the surface, and break out more fearlessly... ...itings on jurisprudence have made him celebrated, was for some time in the army, and served in Sicily under Lord William Bentinck. After the Peace he ... ...y against liberty called the Holy Alliance, and the enormous weight of the national debt and taxation occasioned by so long and costly a war, rendered... ...ents in themselves, and proposing that they should be taken to pay off the national debt. On the contrary, I urged strenuously the importance of a pro...

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...e kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.... ...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ... and a letter of instructions that extinguished him. It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocu- tion Office that had gradually led t... ... to give me his—his own opinion. Cap- tain Martin (highly respected in the army) then unhesitatingly said that it appeared to him that his—hem!—sister... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c...

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...e very much pleased with themselves for the time. Mowgli had never seen an Indian city before, and though this was almost a heap of ruins it seemed ve... ...hey shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked. Mowgli walked on, for he was feel- ing hungry, and w... ...ile Buldeo puffed and snorted at Mowgli’s impertinence. The custom of most Indian villages is for a few boys to take the cattle and buffaloes out to g... ...ave scorned to look at or touch one of his wounds. A week later he and his army (nearly ten thousand holluschickie and old seals) went away north to t... ...heading back to their beaches in the summer. It is a sort of very sad seal National Anthem. I met my mates in the morning (and, oh, but I am old!) ...

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...stnut and Walnut Streets. These title deeds are of wampum, the grant of an Indian chief to the first Dowell, who left Farnham in Surrey in company wit... ...dd, obstinate way, did not like my presence. But they were hampered by the national manners of these occasions. Florence had her own sitting- room. Sh... ...erned during his years of active service, Colo- nel Powys retired from the army with the necessity of making a home for them. It happened that the Ash... ... influence, his ignorances, the crammings that he received at the hands of army coaches—I dare say that all these excellent influences upon his adoles... ...rticulars as to Edward’s death. She had read the advertisement of it in an Indian paper. I think she must have been a very nice woman… . And then the ... ...rds a place or a district called Chitral. I am no good at geography of the Indian Empire. By that time they had settled down into a model couple and t... ... unbroken silence. “I propose,” she said, “that you should resign from the Army and that we should go back to Branshaw. We are both too ill to stay he... ...ne evening she went into Edward’s gun-room—he had gone to a meeting of the National Reserve Committee. On the table beside his chair was a decanter of...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ... ducted in the politest manner.)—‘Did you ever happen to hear I was in the army, sir?’—’No, sir. ’—‘Oh, yes, sir— I can go through my exercise, sir. ’... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...ked countenances, in very old green tunics, and dirty drab boots, are the ‘army. ’ ‘Look sharp below there, gents, ’ exclaims the dresser, a red-heade... ...—thunder and lightning—all ready, White?’ [This is addressed to one of the army.] ‘All ready.’—’Very well. Scene 2, front chamber. Is the front chambe... ...ave performed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the ... ...y hat, ’ which was then just beginning to form a recognised portion of our national music. We started.—’What voice is that?’ said we. The Gover- nor s...

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...e kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.... ...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ... and a letter of instructions that extinguished him. It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocu- tion Office that had gradually led t... ... to give me his—his own opinion. Cap- tain Martin (highly respected in the army) then unhesitatingly said that it appeared to him that his—hem!—sister... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ...hing for doing it. Whether it would be more agree- able to Edmund than the army, remained to be seen. Thus the Bosom; accomplished in the art of seemi... ...ntervening country, bristling with custom-houses, garrisoned by an immense army of shabby mendicants in uniform who incessantly repeated the Beggar’s ...

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...s of the squire of the Homestead; Fanny, of his brother, an officer in the army. Left at home for education, the little girl had spent her life, from ... ...had, however, examined her minutely whether she had any connexion with the army, and looked grave on her disavowal of any relationship with sol- diers... ...er own. She looked in vain, half stealthily, as often before, for a recent Army List or Peerage. Long ago she had lost the Honourable Colin A. Keith f... ...date had not gone back far enough to establish that he had not died in the Indian war. It was fear that predominated with her, there were many mo- men... ...all dream, all delusion, and waste of feeling, while you are lying in your Indian grave, more mine than you can ever be living be as it may,— ... ...hed to see how entirely he had recovered.” “Then you went through all that Indian war?” “Yes; with Sir Stephen.” “You must show me all your medals! Ho... ...uleverer said that there was an individual of humbler rank, the widow of a National Schoolmaster, so anxious to devote 182 The Clever Woman of the Fa...

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...a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame......... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...taracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman ... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...reak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind, Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers! TO Y OU Wh... ... in Manhattan, Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana, Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the A... ...talk I remember all, I remember the Declaration, It was read here, the whole army paraded, it was read to us here, By his staff surrounded the General... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...

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... that she had four brothers, all University men, except one who was in the army, who always made a point of talking to commercial travellers.” “Let me... ...ng where she was. “Do you know where I met these desirable tenants? In the National Gallery, when I was up to see my mother last week.” “What an odd p... ...r we know Mr. Vyse, too. He has been most kind. He met us by chance in the National Gallery, and arranged every- thing about this delightful house. Th... ...And where did you meet Mr. Vyse, who is going to marry Miss Honeychurch?” “National Gallery.” “Looking at Italian art. There you are, and yet you talk... ... sight. They ran to get dry, they bathed to get cool, they played at being Indians in the willow-herbs and in the bracken, they bathed to get clean. A... ...ll that she and George would meet in the rout of a civilization, amidst an army of coats and collars and boots that lay wounded over the sunlit earth?... ... course of nature, those allied deities will be avenged. Lucy entered this army when she pretended to George that she did not love him, and pretended ...

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... twisted, naked, striking their minds with an indeterminate ghostliness of Indian, so strange they were in shape and colouring. These sharp points wer... ...d nurses for wounded soldiers, if they were good walkers to march with the army; and, as evidently it sounded witless to him, she added, to seem reaso... ...could. 44 The Amazing Marriage ‘You’re not scheming to have them serve as army hospital nurses, my dear?’ ‘No, Chillon.’ ‘You can’t explain it, I sup... ... the sight of blood. She should make a natural Lady Patroness of England’s National Sports. We might turn her to that purpose; wander over England wit... ...onderfully to conceal the crack of a string. The merit of being one of her army of admirers was accorded to him. The letter to Lady Arpington was reta... ...g circumstances concerning her, and magnified them in the interests of the national humour: which is the English way of exalting to criticize, critici... ... the English party’s cost. Laughter, let it be but genuine, is of a common national- ity, indeed a common fireside; and profound disagreement is not e...

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...; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Eco... ... produced his snuff-box, which was with him, like the calumet with the Red Indian, a part of the heraldry of peace; and at length, in the ripeness of ... ...ll of things that I have never done or seen, it is one of that innumerable army of my ancestors rejoicing in past deeds. Thus novels begin to touch no... ...time glowing with hope that, if I said it well, he might reward me with an Indian picture. “Thy foot He’ll not let slide, nor will He slumber that the... ...he world, guiding the mari- ner; his firm were consulting engineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighth... ...E WORDS WILL BE familiar to all students of Skelt’s Juve- nile Drama. That national monument, after having changed its name to Park’s, to Webb’s, to R... ..., of the peep of day, of ships, of the open ocean, calls up in the mind an army of anonymous desires and pleasures. Something, we feel, should happen;...

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...e.” Margaret asked who Dolly’s people were. “Fussell. The father is in the Indian army—retired; the brother is in the army. The mother is dead.” So pe... ...garet asked who Dolly’s people were. “Fussell. The father is in the Indian army—retired; the brother is in the army. The mother is dead.” So perhaps t... ... of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. It assumes that preparation against dange... ... by the self-denial of the first. What right had “Mr. Bast” to profit? The National Gallery was good enough for the likes of him. After prop- erty had... ...tiful and more lively, but “the Miss Schlegels” still remained a composite Indian god, whose waving arms and contradictory speeches were the product o... ...e London party only numbered eight—the Fussells, father and son, two Anglo-Indian ladies named Mrs. Plynlimmon and Lady Edser, Mrs. Warrington Wilcox ... ...em, and cause Mr. Wilcox to write letters to the papers complaining of our national degeneracy, or else they entrap a boy into marriage before it is t...

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...ves you partook of my cream tarts! I am only a unit, but I am a unit in an army. I know Death’s private door. I am one of his familiars, and can show ... ...ide a Saratoga trunk; whom he must get rid of, or perish from the rolls of national glory! I should be afraid to chronicle the language employed by th... ...NT BRACKENBURY RICH had greatly distinguished himself in one of the lesser Indian hill wars. He it was who took the chieftain prisoner with his own ha... ...ure. And the next moment he was conversing with the two officers about the Indian army and the native troops, a sub- ject on which, as on all others, ... ...d the next moment he was conversing with the two officers about the Indian army and the native troops, a sub- ject on which, as on all others, he had ... ...eps recalled their glances towards the door. It was the Prince and the two Indian officers who entered. God had defended the right. “I am ashamed of m... ...sary. The darkness was so complete that I might have been surrounded by an army and yet none the wiser, and the uproar of the gale so loud that my hea...

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... Besides, you must soon be thinking of a profession.” “I shall go into the army,” said Cashel. “It is the only pro- fession for a gentleman.” Mrs. Byr... ...esides, you would have to pass an exami- nation to enable you to enter the army; and how can you do that unless you study?” “Oh, I shall do that all r... ... ruddy gold hair, now shaded by a large, untrimmed straw hat. Her dress of Indian muslin, with half-sleeves terminating at the elbows in wide ruffles,... ...y recollection of his habit of getting drunk at races, regattas, and other national festivals, by an accident at one of which he had met his death. Al... ...who had made a trip to London once. “Indeed!” said Lydia. “Were you in the National Gallery?” “The National Gallery! I think not. I forget.” “I know m... ...know many persons who never miss an Academy, and who do not know where the National Gallery is. Did you enjoy the pictures, Alice?” “Oh, very much ind... ...o the round drawing-room, where she found Mr. Parker examining a trophy of Indian armor, and presenting a back view of a short gentleman in a spruce b... ...reat surprise that Cashel, notwithstanding his prowess, was neither in the army nor in Parliament; and fi- nally offered to provide him with three han...

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...n, etc.) and the section itself was affiliated with a branch of the French army, fraternization was easy . Now when he saw that we had not the slighte... ...ions would be affiliated with the American, and no longer with the French, Army) we three at any rate might be allowed to continue our association wit... ...to say that my friend was not only trying to avoid serving in the American Army but was contemplating treason as well?” I asked. “Well, that would be ... ...- dren; some babies. In addition there were certain femmes honnettes whose nationality, as in the case of the men, had 68 The Enormous Room cost them... ...chine-Fixer might have been a Polak or an Idol or an Esquimo so far as his nationality affected his soul. By and large, that was the trouble—the Machi... ...that institution; the arrivals, singly or in groups, of nouveaux of sundry nationalities whereby our otherwise more or less simple existence was happi... ...—to which jest astonishingly re- acted a certain old man known as the West Indian Negro (a stocky credulous creature with whom Jean would have noth- i...

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...out the Fatherland like the call of a warder’s trumpet, till it produced a national courage, founded on the recollection of an illustrious past, which... ...amusing to both of us.” Then she brought out some boxes, in which I saw an army of little soldiers piled one upon the other, of which I must needs con... ...ung a couple of the remaining agate balls with force into the midst of her army. Unhappily I hit the queen, who had hitherto, during our regular game,... ...about upon the golden lances. It was my fierce desire to destroy her whole army. She, on the other hand, not idle, sprang at me, and gave me a box on ... ...hy endeavors, however, the doors and gates were thrown open to an extended national insipidity, nay,— the dike was dug through by which the great delu... ...at was wanting in the Ger- man poetry, it was a material, and that, too, a national one: there was never a lack of talent. Here we make mention only o... ...f handwriting, before the crow-quills were provided and cut into pens, and Indian ink was rubbed, whole weeks passed, without the least bit having bee... ...thing it was to write down a verse on Dutch paper, with the crow-quill and Indian ink; what time, talent, and exertion it required, which ought not to...

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...hope, Agnes, you’ll be most awfully happy. I don’t know anything about the army, but I should think it must be most awfully interesting.” Mr. Pembroke... ...most awfully interesting.” Mr. Pembroke laughed faintly. “Yes, Rickie. The army is a most interesting pro- fession,—the profession of Wellington and ... ...y profession may mean dishonour, but one isn’t allowed to die instead. The army’s different. If a sol- dier makes a mess, it’s thought rather decent o... ...e door of Herbert’s study: boys’ grubby feet should not go treading on her Indian square. It was she who always cleaned the picture-frames and washed ... ...iltshire, and did we con- descend to worship her, here we should erect our national shrine. People at that time were trying to think imperi- ally, Ric... ...come of Toddie?’ I must say I was touched. Fam- ily life is more real than national life—at least I’ve 172 The Longest Journey ordered all these book...

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...e chuckling while Egoism is valiant, while sober, while socially valuable, nationally serviceable. They wait. Aforetime a grand old Egoism built the H... ...ents. Had the standard of the public taste been set in philosophy, and the national enthusiasm centred in philosophers, he would at least have worked ... ...e showers of adula- tion drenched him might be likened to the composure of Indian Gods undergoing worship, but unlike them he re- posed upon no seat o... ... had set going again when the ladies were weeded of us, in Lady Patterne’s Indian room, and could converse unhampered upon their own ethereal themes. ... ... of a father-in-law for Willoughby. The father of Miss Dale was a battered army surgeon from India, tenant of one of Sir Willoughby’s cottages borderi... ...esign myself if I have not been popular among them. I could not sing their national song—if a congery of states be a nation—and I must confess I liste... ..., and he put it in these words, following: “My father’s the one to lead an army!” when he paused. “I say, Mr. Whitford, Sir Willoughby’s kind to me, a... ...alley, where a shallow river ran, with the indentations of a remotely seen army of winding ranks in column, topaz over the pebbles to hollows of ravis... ...ore I come, say you are admiring the plumage of the Himalaya—the beautiful Indian bird; and if we’re found together, we run a race, and of course you ...

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...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...foreshadowed on the horizon; the fatality of distant events, the stream of national tendency, the salient framework of causation. And all this thrown ... ... done in a play-book: Tom and Molly retire into a practicable wood. As for nationality and public sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om J... ...ent; and he could make himself useful in many other ways. The whole ragged army of Bohemia, and whosoever loved good cheer without at all loving to wo... ...utlet be denied, nourish rebellious thoughts. It is a calumny on the noble army of the poor. Thousands in a small way of life, ay, and even in the sma... ...g his neck “to have the portrait full of shad- ows,” and draping him in an Indian gown hired expressly for the purpose, he was preoccupied about no me... ...poet; he was the first beyond mere actors on the rolls of that innumerable army who have got “T o be or not to be” by heart. Nor was he content with t...

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...vagance he had never made himself a mere fashionable man. In the burlesque army of men of the world, the man of fashion holds the place of a marshal o... ...andson of the baroness, Auguste de Maulincour, held a fine position in the army. Paul would therefore be an excellent introducer for the Evangelistas ... ...better done with a laugh than seriously. He is the notary cap- tain of the national guard, who dislikes to be taken for a no- tary , solicits the cros... ...u my Natalie.” “Give me, give me?” said the young girl, waving a screen of Indian feathers, “what are you whispering about me?” “I was telling her,” r...

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... he had been an inferior sort of attorney’s clerk, or else the master of a national school—whatever he was, it is clear his present position is a chan... ...a grand public examination of the pupils; and the large school-room of the national seminary was, by and with the consent of the parish authorities, d... ... ducted in the politest manner.)—‘Did you ever happen to hear I was in the army, sir?’—’No, sir. ’—‘Oh, yes, sir— I can go through my exercise, sir. ’... ... of great curiosity, and as a dwarf, a giantess, a living skeleton, a wild Indian, ‘a young lady of singular beauty, with perfectly white hair and pin... ...ked countenances, in very old green tunics, and dirty drab boots, are the ‘army. ’ ‘Look sharp below there, gents, ’ exclaims the dresser, a red-heade... ...—thunder and lightning—all ready, White?’ [This is addressed to one of the army.] ‘All ready.’—’Very well. Scene 2, front chamber. Is the front chambe... ...ave performed such evolutions as would have put the whole company to shame—Indian chiefs, knights, Swiss peasants, and all. Some people object to the ... ...y hat, ’ which was then just beginning to form a recognised portion of our national music. We started.—’What voice is that?’ said we. The Gover- nor s...

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...en at one time ven- tured to hope. And he had had wonderful luck with that Indian Mutiny. It is true that many of those even who voted with him would ... ...by really does not take it up. ’ ‘It is just as likely he will take up the National Debt.’ Robarts then told him about the projected marriage with Mis... ...There were two brothers also left, one in the Church, and the other in the Army. That was the extent of the archdeacon’s family, and as the archdeacon... ... that your present mode of life is one not befitting a soldier in Christ’s army. ’ ‘Men say so? What men?’ ‘The men around you, of your own neighbourh... ...t very far, and I certainly mean to go back to it.’ ‘That’s impossible! An army of old women, with coils of rope made out of time-honoured prejudices,... ...struck with amaze- ment. Had I suggested that she should join me in a wild Indian war-dance, with nothing on but paint, her face could not have shown ... ...ned in disgust, having been unable to digest the Prime Minister’s ideas on Indian Reform, and Mr Harold Smith, after sundry hitches in the business, w... ..., in the hands of his friends, had appeared to him to be a means of almost national salvation. And then, how great had been the good fortune of the gi...

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..., gentlemen, take your places!” called Pons, look- ing round at his little army, as the stage manager’s bell rang for the overture. The piece was a dr... ...e no mysteries for us. The Egyptian ancestors of that mysterious people of Indian ori- gin, the gypsies of the present day, simply used to drug their ... ...es are all of the same rank and distinction. Wherefore Magus laughs at our national collection, raked by the sunlight which destroys the fairest paint... ...d, just as I myself am a portress. Why do they have silk epaulettes in the army? Let everybody keep their place. Look here, do you want me to tell you... ...always thought that the truly deathless work of a great master ought to be national property; put where every one of ev- ery nation may see it, even a... ...itelot had turned the Three Glorious Days— “les trois glorieuses”—into the Army, Finance, and the Family, and sent in the design for the sepulchre of ...

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...TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly , and Former Minister of the Interior Dear and Illustriou... ...nce of manners with delicacy of sentiment. 53 Flaubert Did not love, like Indian plants, need a special soil, a particu- lar temperature? Signs by mo... ...reached even to Emma. Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leapt with the... ...efect and the names of the successful farmers who had obtained prizes. The National Guard of Buchy (there was none at Yonville) had come to join the c... ...rot in front of the peristyle of the town hall at the very moment when the National Guard and firemen deployed, beating drums and marking time. “Prese... ...you a man? Hang it! what would you have done if you had had to go into the army , to go and fight beneath the standard? Ah! Hippolyte!” And Homais ret...

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...passionate, the Merciful HAST thou not seen 1 how thy Lord dealt with the army of the ELEPHANT? Did he not cause their stratagem to miscarry? And he ... ...ime for his own encouragement, on the ground of their deliverance from the army of Abraha, the Christian King of Abyssinia and Arabia Felix, said to h... ...n expe- dition against Mecca for the purpose of destroying the Caaba. This army was cut off by small-pox (Wakidi; Hishami), and there is no doubt, as ... ...me and its application in the present instance, is to be traced to the old national feud between the Jews and Samaritans. See De Sacy, Chrestom. i. p.... ...e letter of the Koran forbid the game of chess. The Persians, however, and Indians generally interpret this verse more liberally. 35 This and the two...

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... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ... to Miss Boulder, ‘I declare I must remonstrate. I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;’ and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine wa... ... of hearing those spelled over for ever; they have some nicer books at the national school.” “What is the name of them? Do you see any of them here?” ... ...st it was a call to take leave.” “No, he thinks he shall sell out, for the army is a great nuisance.” “You seem to have got into his confidence.” “Yes... ...to him. It was a great step when his packages arrived, and his beau- tiful Indian curiosities were arranged, making his drawing- room as pretty a room... ...oing to put conceit in that lion head of yours, but you were as good as an Indian prince to my party. Do you know to whom you have been talking so coo... ...hey were savages,” said the vicar. “And yourself—you will tell them of the Indian missions.” 654 The Daisy Chain “With all my heart,” said Dr. Spence...

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...the air. *He observed a flock of pigeons passing betwixt Frankfort and the Indian territory, one mile at least in breadth; it took up four hours in pa... ... failed to en- tertain clearly, or has sacrificed in its expression to his national love of point, is, doubtless, the very tenable one that the higher... ...the decora of what is technically called keeping, or to the proprieties of nationality. The eye wan- dered from object to object, and rested upon none... ...fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies. ... ...heless, had been un- pleasantly warm. A smoky mist, resembling that of the Indian summer, enveloped all things, and of course, added to my un- certain...

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...et society for the assassination of the royal family and blowing up of the army, his atheistic denial, in a pamphlet addressed to the clergy, of a sta... ...n such scenes, she counted the proposals of marriage she received as a Red Indian counts the scalps he takes. “We have had a very pleasant time of it ... ...rom that which you held when I broke your wall down and invited those Land Nationalization zealots to march across your plea- sure ground. You have se... ...ind out its value, and never shall. The principle on which we farm out our national industry to private ma- rauders, who recompense themselves by blac...

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...ISHMENTS, AND HIS UNDERTAKINGS, AND OF A GREAT JOINT STOCK COMPANY OF VAST NATIONAL IMPORTANCE MR RALPH NICKLEBY WA S NOT, strictly speaking, what you... ...andished 287 Charles Dickens a walking-stick. ‘They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘... ...played the irascible old men—those funny fellows who have neph- ews in the army and perpetually run about with thick sticks to compel them to marry he... ...and ‘went on’ chattering his teeth and brandishing his tin tomahawk as the Indian Savage. ‘So these are some of the stories they invent about us, and ...

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...el Bob had, a few years after his marriage, left Book I, Chapter 2 21 the army, which had clearly by that time done its laudable all for the enrichme... ...“to the British Museum—which you know I always adore. And I’ve been to the National Gallery and to a dozen old booksellers’, coming across treasures, ... ...ng the first to appear in festal array. The hall then was empty, before the army of rearranging cushion patting housemaids were marshalled in, and ther... ...was very sure of. They would n’t have them at any price; it had been their national genius and their national success to avoid them at ev ery point. ... ...nturous path. The custodian of one of the richest departments of the great national collection of precious things, he could feel for the sincere priva... ...on of a settler or a trader in a new country; in the likeness even of some Indian squaw with a papoose on her back and barbarous beadwork to sell. Mag...

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...orts of articles to the nobility and gentry, from a service of plate to an army of footmen, clapped into this house a silver-headed butler (who was ch... ... for such a cause— will I go now till I have said the rest, I may not be a Indian widow Sir and I am not and I would not so become but if I once made ... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi... ... chaise-carts reappear; and with them come spring-vans and waggons, and an army of porters with knots. All day long, the men with carpet caps are scre...

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...had married a lady with some money, and had left the active service of the army, with the concurring advice of his own family and that of his wife. He... ..., you know. But he pre- fers to be called Mr Dale, because he has left the army, and has set up as junior squire of the parish. Uncle Christopher 90 ... ... to her eyes, however, as she answered—’I think Major Grantly has left the army.’ ‘We shall get round her in a day or two, mamma,’ said Lily Dale to h... ...self from a breach of promise case?’ ‘I wonder whether he had any money in Indian securities?’ 443 Anthony Trollope ‘What makes you ask that?’ ‘Nothi... ...e conclusion that if Mr Shorter must have been the handsome gentleman with Indian securities, to whom ‘no’ had been said once too often. While sitting... ...ank you, I am not tired yet,’ said Clara, not changing the fixed glance of national wrath with which she regarded her wooden Sisera as she held her ha...

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...ISHMENTS, AND HIS UNDERTAKINGS, AND OF A GREAT JOINT STOCK COMPANY OF VAST NATIONAL IMPORTANCE MR RALPH NICKLEBY WA S NOT, strictly speaking, what you... ...andished 287 Charles Dickens a walking-stick. ‘They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘... ...played the irascible old men—those funny fellows who have neph- ews in the army and perpetually run about with thick sticks to compel them to marry he... ...and ‘went on’ chattering his teeth and brandishing his tin tomahawk as the Indian Savage. ‘So these are some of the stories they invent about us, and ... ...ted to make their fortunes. And a most ex- traordinary proof it was of the national prosperity , that people had not been found to avail themselves of...