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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...ind, men who would shed a grace upon, and do honour to, any society in the civilised world. Many of the resident gentry in Boston and its neighbourhoo... ...nctly rec ognized. There are no grim door keepers to dole out their tardy civility by the sixpenny—worth; nor is there, I sincerely believe, any inso... ...t in the fulness of time, even deans and chapters may be converted. In the civil court an action was trying, for damages sustained in some accident up... ...ore, he had risen up and said, ‘A gang of male and female slaves for sale, war ranted to breed like cattle, linked to each other by iron fetters, are... ...im self. He looked somewhat worn and anxious, and well he might; being at war with everybody —but the ex pression of his face was mild and pleasant,... ...pen and ink outline of a great turtle; the Buffalo sketches a buffalo; the War Hatchet sets a rough image of that weapon for his mark. So with the Arr...

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that ev...

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...X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR A AR A AR A AR A AR AGAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN ............................ ... and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christ- mas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace.... ...n Sisson, this was home, this was Christmas: the unspeakably familiar. The war over, nothing was changed. Yet everything changed. The scullery in whic... ...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...ing that proud, rather stiff bend of her head was. She had some aboriginal American in her blood. But as she looked, she pursed her mouth. The artist ... ...n’t you think it all works out rather stupid and unsatisfying?” “Ah, but a civil war would be different. I’ve no interest in fighting Germans. But a c... ... don’t agree,” cried Josephine. “You’d feel you were doing something, in a civil war.” “Pulling the house down,” said Lilly. “Yes,” she cried. “Don’t ... ...aught: that warm and luxurious house. Heaven bless us, we who want to save civilisation. We had better make up our minds what of it we want to save. T...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controve...

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...call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some... ... the delicate dressing of the old knight, came on him almost like gracious civilities. There was no love lost between the Chevalier and the chap- lain... ...resence at the table; and Berenger, though his kinsman’s patronage secured civil treatment, felt much out of his element, confused, unable to take par... ... Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at l... ...ut ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish war, or civil war!’ The heart of France was, if not with the Reformed, at least aga... ...g himself from the thraldom of his mother, and engag- ing the country in a war against Philip II. Sidney listened, but Berenger chafed, feeling only t... ...son should bear. Such baptisms were not unfrequently per- formed by French nurses, but Eustacie exclaimed with a sound half dismay, half indignation. ... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri... ...treet. The two lads had made up their minds to encumber themselves with no nurses, or womanfolk. The child should be carried, fondled, and fed by her ...

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... and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but the Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled the Chapins? suite of cabins with overwhelming flower-works....

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...he Combine that had shivered beneath his knife gave him all the honours of war: Gunsberg himself, full of condolences, came to the steamer and filled ... ...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ... Cry, which to a bee of good blood should be what the trumpet was to Job’s war-horse. In spite of her immense age (three, years), it rang between the ... ...d out how to steer dirigible balloons. Magniac invented his rudder to help war-boats ram each other; and war went out of fashion and Magniac he went o... ...w score of persons of both sexes, controls this planet. “Transportation is Civilisation,” our motto runs. Theoretically, we do what we please so long ... ...d by the way,” said he to her, stepping forth in sunshine under the hat of civil life, “I saw young Williams in the Mark Boat. I’ve asked him to tea o... ... your cannibals to work for you?” asked Strickland. “They got converted to civilization after my Chief smashed Ibn Makarrah—just at the time I wanted ...

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...tober 28, 1863. GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD: There have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three commun... ... like of them ever will be announced or decided. TELEGRAM TO W. H. SEWARD. WAR DEPART- MENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD... ...a House of Representatives which will really support the Government in the war. If the result shall be the election of himself as Speaker, let him se... ... proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so de... ... of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven visions are all who are or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Governm... ...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...ed a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of internationa... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... .... The world has never had a good definition of the word lib- erty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for lib...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...ng agitations and the un- conquerable impatience of my nervous malady. 2. “War.”** —In this paper, from having faultily adjusted its proportions in th... ...ngs of his- tory, to show that the criminal (because trivial) occasions of war are not always its trifle causes, or to suggest that war (if resigned t... ...ld, Gustavus Adolphus* in modern days, fighting for the *The Thirty Years’ War, from 1618 to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, was notoriously the last... ...en vindictive impulse, but in cold blood, to a simple case ap- parently of civil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...rent quarters,—what we both knew of Laxton, the barbaric splendor, and the civilized splendor,—had natu- rally an interest for us both in their contra... ...s, our sea-ports, and our universities, all so many recurring cen- tres of civility, it is not very easy to imagine such a thing in an island no large...

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...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... word, the deluge of blows began, but before long the surgeon once more inter- fered—for the only reason which ever permits him to inter- fere—and the... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...bering him in his needs and delivering sun- dry such cargoes into his hands at times when only special providences could have relieved him. He was a d... ... the cause of humanity, and so find a worthy death and a blessed reunion with the brave true heart whose love had more honored him than all his victor... ...er at Allerheiligen and Baden-Baden. She ought to be an Empress, but she may be only a Duchess; it is the way things go in this way.” If one asks a Ge... ...ake-front is walled with masonry like a pier, and has a railing, to keep people from walking overboard. All day long the vehicles dash along the avenu... ... in evening dress. We watered the caravan at the cold stream which rushes down a trough near the end of the village, and soon after- ward left the hau...

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...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...illiant exceptional look—the air of a happy temperament fertilized by a high civilization—which would have made almost any observer envy him at a vent... ...dered, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. 4 Portrait of a Lady Th... ...asked. “Perhaps it’s Mrs. Touchett’s niece—the independent young lady,” Lord War burton suggested. “I think she must be, from the way she handles the... ...m of forgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months ... ...orgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of thi... ...ed. “I’ll light your candle; do let me light your candle, Miss Archer!” Lord War burton exclaimed. “Only I beg it shall not be before midnight.” Mrs.... ...u that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding house civilization, and she detests me for detesting it, because she thinks it ...

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...ggled, momentary victor in the greatest of Great Wars, which is the family war. Ted looked at her hope- lessly, then shrieked at Tinka: “For the love ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ... period were somewhat less elaborate than the plans for a general European war. He fretted to Miss McGoun, “What time you going to lunch? Well, make s... ...des? Why do you suppose so many Substantial Citizens jumped right into the war? Think it was all pa- triotism?” Babbitt snorted, “What do you expect? ... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ld codgers lack the subtlety that you got to have to-day.” This advance in civilization could be carried too far, Babbitt perceived. Noel Ryland, sale... ...Lincoln. At that moment a G. A. R. veteran was dying. He had come from the Civil War straight to a farm which, though it was officially within the cit... ...re-tour among the small towns, and he chuckled, “Awful good to get back to civilization! I certainly been seeing some hick towns! I mean—Course the fo...

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...ee months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like “Roderick” and like “The American,” it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, wh... ...e eigh- teenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstanc... ... thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiognomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he had k... ...ant exceptional look—the air of a happy tem- perament fertilised by a high civilisation—which would have made almost any observer envy him at a ventur... ...of forgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of... ...giving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was still a very young girl; but she passed months of this ... ...Then when he had fallen into the trap, “It’s a pity you can’t see me in my war-paint and feathers,” she remarked; “if I had known how kind you are to ... ...that I prefer them immensely. Miss Stackpole knows I detest boarding-house civilisation, and she de- tests me for detesting it, because she thinks it ... ...that he might have ridden, on a plunging steed, the whirl- wind of a great war—a war like the Civil strife that had overdarkened her conscious childho...

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...It. Encourages them to forget duties and set up preposterous claims. Class war and all that sort of thing. You gentlemen of the clergy don’t quite rea... ...lism may begin with Ruskin and end with Karl Marx. And that from the Class War to the Commune is just one step.” 5 5 5 5 5 From this conversation the ... ...ders. Through the swiftest, tensest week in history Europe cap- sized into war. 6 6 6 6 6 The first effect of the war upon the mind of the bishop, as ... ...and it seemed that France was down, France and the whole fabric of liberal civilization. He emerged from these stunning apprehensions after the Battle... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...us fierceness or- thodoxy would sometimes display. Nowadays atheism can be civil, can be generous; it is orthodoxy that trails a scurril- ous fringe. ... ...ng the sights I suppose like any tourist and being treated with diplomatic civilities for three terrestrial days; and on the other hand there is the t... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ... before they went up to their work in town. Every- body seemed abroad. Two nurses, not very well trained as nurses go nor very well-educated women, we...

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...ed her destiny. Caius Julius, you say, deflowered the virgin purity of her civil liberties. Doubtless, then, Rome had risen immaculate from the arms o... ...Monarchies. These are noticed in the Holy Scriptures; and it is upon their war- rant that men have supposed no fifth monarchy or uni- versal empire po... ...time. But for the third—the Grecian or Macedonian—we know that the arts of civility, and of civil organization, had made great progress before the Rom... ... and each by and through that very superior- ity in the arts and policy of civilization. Rome, therefore, which came last in the succession, and swall... ...idable as thyself;—thou, Rome! didst now for the first time behold a civil war issuing in a hallowed prosperity, a soldiery appeased, recov- ered Ital... ...rty established. Now first in thy long annals thou didst rest from a civil war in such a peace, that righ- teously, and with maternal tenderness, thou... ...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...ions, and of our consolations in misery, except the fairy mythology of our nurses. The condition of a people so situated, of a people under the calami...

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...Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwell ing place for civilized man it is by far the first upon our globe. EDITOR’S TABLE, HAR... ...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ...were trading beads and blankets to them for a consideration, and throwing in civili zation and whiskey, ‘for lagniappe;’ and in Canada the French wer... ...eshift awnings, and broil ing with the heat; they encountered and exchanged civilities with another party of Indians; and at last they reached the mo... ...e Arkansas (about a month out from their start ing point), where a tribe of war whooping savages swarmed out to meet and murder them; but they appeal... ...cality as Marquette had before been greeted by them— with the booming of the war drum and the flourish of arms. The Virgin composed the difficulty in ... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ...d of every line very long. When he was done they all fetched a kind of Injun war whoop, and then another was sung. It begun:— “There was a woman ...

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... savage plun- derer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch mak- ing war to feed his own ambition. There is a courage that breaks out in bravado... ...ely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; whose very step and shadow car- ried gladness and healing t... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...llow soldier to be raised to the bed above him, he surprised his kind lady nurses (daily scatterers of Golden Deeds) by saying, ‘Put me up 11 Yo n g ... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...eek peace and ensue it.’ With such strains as these, sung to his harp, the war- 17 Yo n g e rior gained the hearts of his men to enthusiastic love, a... ...g his tributary nations he counted the Chaldean, with his learning and old civilization, the wise and steadfast Jew, the skilful Phoenician, the learn... ...tory has spoken clearly, and had become, in Gaul especially, slightly more civilized from intercourse with the Greek colony at Massilia, or Marseilles... ...on condition of keeping the natives in check. A growing taste for arts and civilization was leading to Romans of inferior classes settling themselves ...

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...ost we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in f... ...y, and said they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laugh... ... history. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! Such puzzles are ne... ...ry. And oh, to feel for certain which side was the wrong side in our Civil War, so that one should not hesitate in choosing! Such puzzles are never, h... ...parrot repeating a line from some Lancastrian pamphlet. He really disliked war and the sword; and scorn- ing the prospect of an idle life, confessing ... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...up, he inclined to despise that black spot in the creation, with which our civilization should never have had anything to do. So he pronounced his min... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir...

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...lve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we write, in t... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...men screamed! By Jove, sir, it did my heart good to see you. I thought you civilians had no pluck; but I’ll never get in your way when you are in your... ...r with a great deal of liveliness upon the effect of her charms on the fat civilian. “O Miss Sharp! if you could but see him this morning,” he said—”m... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an... ...s, that he blessed Heaven for sending his dearest Aunty two such admirable nurses as her attached Firkin and her admirable Miss Briggs. Should the mac...

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...r wanting to make her and us presents of whatever we admired, and when she civilly praised Mab, vehemently declaring that she should have just such an... ...him. At home he was sufficient to himself, properly behaved to his father, civil to Richard, un- merciful in ridicule, but merciful in dominion over t... ...t a party; as to the rest— unprofessionals were a mistake! After that, the civil speeches with which Tom would ap- proach the piano only added insult ... ...ow could he suppose that any man could be crazed enough to prefer to be an American citizen, when he might remain a British subject? Repugnance to Ame... ...hate to see it, and to hear people say my roses will surprise the delicate Americans. Fancy, in a shop in London I met an old school-fellow, who was d... ... owns she does not know half so much as Cora!’ This regular declaration of American independence con- founded the two sisters, and made Averil recall ... ...rvid heat of the first commencements of disunion and threatenings of civil war. After the ladies had repaired to their saloon, with its grand ottomans... ...f it were safe to invest money in a country apparently on the eve of civil war? He laughed the idea to scorn. How could the rebel states make war, wit... ... contin- ued, with anxiety that he could not suppress, ‘what is this about war in America?’ ‘Not near Indiana; no fear of that, I trust. But how did y...

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...................................................... 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ................................................................... ................................................ 146 Chapter 3.4.II. In Civil War. ......................................................................... ...lches, what have you invented?’ This?—Poor old Laporte, Inten- dant of the Civil List, follows next; quietly, the mild old man. Then Durosoy, Royalist... ...ing Galleries; Prussian Brunswick, ‘over a space of forty miles,’ with his war-tumbrils, and sleeping thun- ders, and Briarean ‘sixty-six thousand’ (S... ...winds: and, in brief, for years coming, such a suite of scenes as glorious war has not offered in these late ages, not since our Albigenses and Crusad... ... we, with Maton’s eyes, transiently saw haranguing, in the Court called of Nurses, Cour des Nourrices. On the other hand, cruel Billaud, likewise in s... ...emark with praise: the force of Politeness. To such depth has the sense of civilisation penetrated man’s life; no Drouet, no Legendre, in the maddest ... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...ed. Her letter had reached me when I came home after old Rawdon’s none too civil refusal to raise my wages. On this particular evening of which I writ... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...ing to say to me, “Dear, I know it’s hard—but revolt is harder. Don’t make war on it, dear—don’t! Don’t do anything to offend it. I’m sure it will hur... ...istrate’s grudging or eccentric advice for the mass of the population. The civil law, in particular, was a mysterious upper-class weapon, and I can im... ...ittle gramophone… . It is only on Monday I find, and buried deep below the war news, that these publications contain any intimation that unusual happe... ...der interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irrational phenomena of the former time, war was ... ...lway station reading such details as were given of this triumph of the old civiliza- tion, of the blowing up of this great iron ship, full of guns and...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ...atrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity.... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ... one day to go for a walk he accepted only because he could not think of a civil excuse. He made his usual apology , angry with himself for the flush-... ...getically , Weeks tore to pieces all that Hayward had said; with elaborate civility he displayed the superficiality of his attainments. He mocked him ... ... had been before: one could not tell whether his manner was a tri- umph of civilisation or an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for t... ...re had got into his bones, ruling a small cenacle with a savage tongue, at war with himself and the world, producing little in his increasing passion ... ...tor Johnson with Boswell by his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o’-war: the pageant of English history , and romance, and high adven- ture. Ph...