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...ive up to the point of spiritual clarity and also fleshly vile; a guide to life and a biter at the fruits of death; both open mind and hypocrite. It h... ... a flower; you must have her with the stem, the thorns, the roots, and the fat bedding of roses. In this fashion she grew, says historical fiction; th... ... our human nature credible and acceptable. Fiction implores you to heave a big- ger breast and take her in with this heavenly preservative helpmate, h... ...ves, that we one and all deter- mine to know a purer,’ says the heroine of my columns. Phi- losophy in fiction tells, among various other matters, of ... ...d, ‘Who is she?’ Sir Lukin did not know. ‘She ‘s a new bird; she nodded to my wife; I’ll ask.’ He manoeuvred a few steps cleverly to where his wife re... ...o delightful and modest—my dream of a true soldier!—telling me of his last big battle, bit by bit, to my fishing.’ ‘Put off this person for a square d... ...urdened himself between succulent pauses. ‘They’ve killed him early. He ‘s fat; and he might ha’ been fatter. But he’s fat. They’ve got their Christma... ...first quadrille … Hungarian, I suppose? He was like a Tartar modelled by a Greek: supple as the Scythian’s bow, braced as the string! He has the air o... ... to be cool. And still I envy Emmy on her sofa, mastering Latin, biting at Greek. What a wise recommendation that was of Mr. Redworth’s! He works well...

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...ery is al- most unexampled even in the literature of that day. Ned Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, mer- rily translated into Hudib... ...idelity is prac- ticable, faithful to the spirit so far as he can make it. My purpose here is not to dogmatise on the rules of translation, but to ind... ...n, but to indicate those I have followed, or at least tried to the best of my ability to follow, in the present instance. One which, it seems to me, c... ...te for a satisfactory answer to the question when it was proposed to add a life of the author to the London edition pub- lished at Lord Carteret’s ins... ...ff in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower dropping tears as big as walnuts. Nay, it may well be that on those journeys into remote regi... ...ucate the public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek drama—like the “Numancia” for instance—and comedies that would not on... ...rther if at that mo- ment the landlord had not come out, who, being a very fat man, was a very peaceful one. He, seeing this grotesque figure clad in ... ... in, the house- keeper with them, and found more than a hundred volumes of big books very well bound, and some other small ones. The moment the housek... ...ant; for they under- stood about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could perceive they were all meant for expressions of go...

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...s but a feather on her brother’s Feverel-heart, and his ordinary course of life would be resumed. There are times when common men cannot bear the weig... ...a glimpse at the intruders, and observing their size, swore he would teach my gentlemen a thing, lords or no lords. Richard had brought down a beautif... ...er Blaize threw up his chin, and grinned grimly. “Please to you, sir? Why, my chap, you looks as if ye didn’t much mind what come t’yer nose, I reckon... ... that course open to them. They decided to surrender the field. “Look! you big brute,” Richard shook his gun, hoarse with passion, “I’d have shot you,... ...when you’re there.” The boy bit his lip and frowned. “Ask a favour of that big brute, Austin? I can’t!” “Just tell him the whole case, and that you do... ... Raynham at the scene he had just en- dured, and the figure of Belthorpe’s fat tenant burnt like hot copper on the tablet of his brain, insufferably c... ...dition! I think we have in this country what will match the Italian or the Greek.” His mind flutters to Mrs. Doria, Richard blushes before the vision ... ... It is true (of me, at least) that ‘Falstaff is only to us an incorrigible fat man.’ I want to know what he illustrates. And Don Quixote—what end can ... ...ou know.” “And the marriage is valid?” “You can dispute it.” “Yes, and the Greeks and the Trojans can fight. It holds then?” “Both water and fire!” Th...

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... countenance, and a nose like a parrot’s beak set in the middle of it; her fat little hands (she is as sleek as a church rat) and her shapeless, slouc... ...turnkey. The unwholesome corpulence of the little woman is produced by the life she leads, just as typhus fever is bred in the tainted air of a hospit... ...rames were solid enough; their constitutions had weath- ered the storms of life; their cold, hard faces were worn like coins that have been withdrawn ... ...with these gifts that reminded him of past do- mestic festivals. “This was my wife’s present to me on the first anniversary of our wedding day,” he sa... ...before we were married. Do you know, I would sooner scratch the earth with my nails for a living, madame, 19 Balzac than part with that. But I shall ... ...e 36 Father Goriot best in the Quarter, that I know. But about that great big chap Vautrin, Christophe; has any one told you anything about him?” “Ye... ... make dominoes out of his father’s bones, a Turk, a heathen, an old Jew, a Greek; it would be a difficult matter to rob him, for he puts all his coin ... ...d manners, and that is a fact.” “Sir!” cried Eugene. “Well, what then, you big baby!” said Vautrin, swallowing down his coffee imperturbably, an opera...

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...as acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not sav... ...s as he did; but Aegisthus is neither here nor there; it is for Ulysses that my heart bleeds, when I think of his sufferings in that lonely sea girt i... ...ery kind of blandishment to make him forget his home, so that he is tired of life, and thinks of nothing but how he may once more see the smoke of his... ... fice? Why then should you keep on being so angry with him?” And Jove said, “My child, what are you talking about? How can I forget Ulysses than whom ... ... they keep hanging about my father’s house, sacrificing our oxen, sheep, and fat goats for their banquets, and never giving so much as a thought to th... ...t out the thigh bones all in due course, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them; then Nestor laid... ...She stopped him and said: “Papa dear, could you manage to let me have a good big waggon? I want to take all our dirty clothes to the river and wash th... ...and walked back to the ship leaning upon my spear, for the stag was much too big for me to be able to carry him on my shoulder, steadying him with one... ... Lesbos, and threw him so heavily The Odyssey – Book XVII 208 that all the Greeks cheered him if he is still such, and were to come near these suit...

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...ne Prescott Wormeley Dedication T o Monsieur Theodore Dablin, Merchant. To my first friend, my first work. De Balzac. THE CHOUANS I AN AMBUSCADE Early... ...ngland, the very word being common to the two languages. A few cattle gave life to the scene, already so dramatic. The birds sang, filling the valley ... ...e still lower. “The Chouans have intercepted two couriers; I only received my despatches and last orders by a private messenger sent by Bernadotte jus... ...abriolet on two high wheels, in the depths of which two persons, if rather fat, could with difficulty have stowed themselves. The narrow quarters of t... ...d of flesh, and his florid complexion indicated a priest. Though short and fat, he displayed some agility when required to get in or out of the vehicl... ...g for a reduction. “If your Republic gets forced loans out of you for such big sums as that you must see that you would do better with us; our governm... ...e of her hat, foreign no doubt, did not belong to any of the styles called Greek, which ruled the Parisian fashions of the period. Corentin was one of... ... and beauty. “I daren’t touch you,” added Marche-a-T erre, putting out his big hand nevertheless, as if to weigh the gold chain which hung round her n... ...t understanding her mistress’s motives, opened the trunks, and suggested a Greek costume. The Republican fashions of those days were all Greek in styl...

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...he list of T urgenev’s chief works: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF WORKS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the Experiences of a Sportsman, from French versi... ... She frowned, and continued leisurely puffing her cigarette. “How are you, my dear … my dear … I am so sorry. I always forget your Christian name and ... ...gged her shoulders. “There is no need for you to know it. I think you know my surname. What more do you want? And why do you always keep on asking how... ...lackguard!” he thought to himself. Nejdanov he had come across in a little Greek restaurant, where he was in the habit of taking his dinner, and where... ...ed everyone that the main cause of his democratic turn of mind was the bad Greek cooking, which upset his liver. “I wonder where our host has got to? ... ...waiter runs with it, his fin- ger stuck in the bottle instead of a cork, a fat raisin in the neck, and when it has done frothing and foaming there is ... ...er aunt Mariana seemed plain. She had a round face, a large aquiline nose, big bright grey eyes, fine eyebrows, and thin lips. Her thick brown hair wa... ...efore every tavern door stood little peasant carts, harnessed with shaggy, big-bellied, miserable-looking hacks, whose heads were bowed submissively a... ...everywhere of an indifferent variety . Fiery landscapes, purple seascapes, fat naked women with pink-coloured knees 101 Turgenev and elbows, and “The...

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... might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being brought by my history so near to his time. Consider- ing therefore with myself Whom sh... ...ed in Crommyon, and had the name of Sow given her from the foulness of her life and manners, and afterwards was killed by Theseus. He slew also Sciron... ...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...en by a storm upon the isle of Cyprus, and having aboard with him Ariadne, big with child, and extremely discomposed with the rolling of the sea, set ... ...d this answer: Son of the Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...ied again before that time, by the laws of Numa she was to sacrifice a cow big with calf. Numa, also, was founder of several other orders of priests, ... ... marry! and if he finds a young man, with a rich and elderly wife, growing fat in his place, like the partridges, remove him to a young woman of prope... ... feet too much in fighting; or snored louder than he shouted. Ridiculing a fat overgrown man: “What use,” said he, “can the state turn a man’s body to...

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...views and different literary tastes have been for years displaying towards my work has done much for me, has done all—except giving me that over-weeni... ...ristic I want most to impress upon these short Author’s Notes prepared for my first Collected Edition is that of absolute frankness, I has- ten to dec... ... of the nature and the inward meaning of this first crisis of my writ- ing life. For it was a crisis undoubtedly. The laying aside of a work so far ad... ...n. As I moved slowly towards the aban- doned body of the tale it loomed up big amongst the glittering shallows of the coast, lonely but not forbidding... ... SHALLOW SEA that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centu- rie... ...n the sea. I have seen her. Have you seen her, too, O Haji Wasub?” “Am I a fat white man?” snapped the serang. “I was a man of the sea before you were... ...a passenger—an old gentleman—who was telling us a yarn about them old-time Greeks fight- ing for ten years about some woman. The Turks kid- napped her... ...r something. Anyway, they fought in Turkey; which I may well believe. Them Greeks and Turks were always fighting. My father was master’s mate on board... ...e a strange man. I suppose I must believe what you say—unless you and that fat mate of yours are a couple of escaped lunatics that got hold of a brig ...

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...errible stings. Matey was good at lessons, too—liked them; liked Latin and Greek; would help a poor stumbler. Where he did such good work was in sharp... ...th her humming bow at breast. The fair are simple sugary thing’s, prone to fat, like broad-sops in milk; but the others are milky nuts, good to bite, ... ...ed a lot of thousands, it does not prove he was unable. Lord Ormont was as big as Murat. More, he was a Christian to his horses. How about Murat in th... ...rotected, who smelt Jewish; he said they ran us Gentiles hard, and carried big guns. Only a reputation like Matey’s could have kept his leader- ship f... ...el they were sure, as to her, that she drove straight and meant blood, the life or death of it: all her own, if need be, and confidence in the captain... ...e Meredith He led her to her theme: “The excitement is pretty well over.” “My brother’s my chief care—always was. I’m afraid he’ll be pitchforking at ... ...m as a personal enemy.” “Better make a friend of him.” “How?” “Meet him at my table.” She jumped an illumined half-about on her chair. “So I will, the... ... had therewith a sharp vision of his features, re- pellent in correctness, Greek in lines, with close eyes, hollow temples, pressed lips—a face indica... ...appened. And they swear at prestige, won’t believe in it, because it’s not fat bacon. I tell them, after Napoleon’s first battles, prestige did half h...

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...878. I looked about me for the right sort of person to accom- pany me in the capacity of agent, and finally hired a Mr. Harris for this service. It wa... ...L. W. Garnham, B.A. All tourists mention the Rhine legends—in that sort of way which quietly pretends that the mentioner has been familiar with them a... ...s life, and that the reader cannot possibly be ignorant of them—but no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and... ... here. Seven years ago, the last man in this region but me moved away. There stands his house—been empty ever since; a log house, with a plank roof—ju... ...e cocked his head down and took another look; he glances up perfectly joyful, this time; winks his wings and his tail both, and says, ‘Oh, no, this ai... ...but he knows what he knows—it is not be- fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and... ...ll send their experts to him. Americans and Englishmen often join one or another of the five corps. A year or two ago, the principal Heidelberg expert... ...lly and many a soldier before him, was never taken: after the longest and closest sieges the besiegers were astonished to perceive that the besieged w... ...? Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?” “Because I didn’t know any French but two or three words, and I didn’t know any La...

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...dea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and changed with him, it interwove at last completel... ... manifestly present in his mind at the very last moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to that fortunate minority who are indepen- dent of daily... ...take or faced the levelled muskets of the firing party—“No, do not bandage my eyes”—because we would not betray the secret path that meant destruction... ...and as far as I know it I will be it. This is the essential disposition of my mind. God knows I have appetites and sloths and habits and blindnesses, ... ...t has to be conquered afresh. To this day I fear, little things as well as big things. I have to grapple with some little dread every day—urge myself…... ... up from his study. “I remember that he took me in his arms. “‘It’s only a big sort of pussy, Poff,’ he said. ‘Felis tigris. Felis, you know, means ca... ...ice. And gradually he was becoming familiar with his father’s repertory of Greek quotations. There was no breach between them, but each knew that holi... ...Lord! how clearly I see it! The intellectual is either a prince or he is a Greek slave in a Roman household. He’s got to hold his chin up or else he b... ...d the merits of Amanda. Then he became markedly attentive. He was a large, fat, curly-headed person with beautiful eyes, a cherished moustache, and an...

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...e provincial town of Angouleme. Part two is centered on Lucien’s Parisian life. Part three, Eve and David, reverts to the setting of Angouleme. Follo... ... you,” he said, as he greeted her; “I foresaw coming events. But if I lose my post for it, YOU, at any rate, shall not be lost.” “What do you mean?” e... ...eme had, in fact, counted upon preserving her in- cognito. “You are right, my dear friend,” she said at length; “but what am I to do?” “Allow me to fi... ...arrier’s blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time ... ...ctions; and, therefore, in this sense also the chances are in favor of the big battalions. Lucien had sufficient provincial foresight still left, and ... ...autiful youth come down from the hills of the Latin Quarter. Glorious as a Greek god, Lucien took a cab, and reached the Cafe Servel at a quarter to s... ... 99 Balzac natured, his business shrewdness was so well wadded round with fat. He had been an assistant until he took a wretched little shop on the Q... ...capital importance to you, Finot would allow you to bludgeon your man in a big paper with ten or twelve thousand subscribers, if you make yourself in-... ... you know what Vignon puts me in mind of?” said Lousteau. “Of one of those fat women in the Rue du Pelican telling a schoolboy, ‘My boy, you are too y...

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... again, if you cannot give her up with a good grace.’ ‘If I could have had my own way in disposing of her.’ ‘Perhaps the hero of your own composition ... ... for her energies,’ said Mr. Ferrars. ‘Even spoiling her nephew, and being my curate, have not afforded field enough for her spirit of usefulness.’ ‘T... ... the consent of her elder brother to her spend- ing a more real and active life than her aunts’ round of soci- ety could offer her. The aunts lamented... ...orn June 12th, 1844. Died June 19th, 1844.’ Then followed, in the original Greek, the words, ‘Because I live, ye shall live also.’ Four infants! how m... ...ok a kind, affectionate leave of the old lady , who again looked fondly in big face, and rejoiced in his having recovered his looks. As they arrived a... ...nts of forgotten authors, and immortalized his name by some edi- tion of a Greek Lyric poet, known by four poems and a half, and two-thirds of a line ... ... at least in public, though it came round that Miss Meadows did not admire fat children, and when he had once been seen in Lucy’s arms, an alarm arose... ...an audible gasp in the surrounding homely world, a few little cries, and a big boy clutched tight hold of her arm, saying, ‘I be afeard.’ She was expl... ...’s picture,’ began he, who had never been known to look at one, except the fat cattle in the Illustrated News. ‘What do you think of it? Has he not ma...

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...and accurate; I should not have been before him now if it had not been for my verses.” “I know Beatrice is very proud of Alexander,” said Henrietta, “... ... believe so,” said Frederick. “All her attachments are there—her own home; my father’s home.” “There is nothing but the sea to be attached to, here,” ... ...ness of manner, and threw herself into the occupation of the moment with a life and anima- tion that gave an uncommon charm to her manners, so that ho... ...ould in fact have been impossible during the latter years of Mrs. Vivian’s life: but she had now been dead about eighteen months, her daughter had rec... ...dy of shirt-making, and the copying out a review of her husband’s, full of Greek quotations.” “Well, the poverty is all over now,” said Henrietta; “bu... ...show of grandfathers and grandmothers, if there was one like Uncle Roger’s fat cattle shows. You know she thinks nothing of walking twice to church on... ...w,” said Beatrice; “I shall ponder on their requests, and decide maturely, Greek against Prussian, lover of the dance against hater of the dance.” “I ... ...bow on the part of the heir apparent, when about to change places with his fat friend, was strongly suspected of being for the purpose of turning over... ... and what do you think she found? A great monster of a cockroach, twice as big as any you ever saw.” “O, you horrid creature!” cried Jessie, “I am sur...

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... man’s reticence was a burden to himself. At no special conjuncture of his life, at no period which could be marked with the finger of the observer, d... ... concerned Ferdinand Lopez was thirty-three years old, and as he had begun life early he had been long before the world. It was known of him that he h... ...t hard up, are you?’ ‘I’m not going just at present to tell you much about my affairs, and yet I expect you to do what I ask you. I don’t suppose you ... ...airs, and yet I expect you to do what I ask you. I don’t suppose you doubt my ability to raise 750 pounds.’ ‘Oh, dear, no,’ said Sexty, who had been l... ...ch and German are very use- ful. I have a prejudice of my own in favour of Greek and Latin.’ ‘But I rather fancy I picked up more Greek and Latin at B... ...uble ourselves about the small fishes till we are sure that we can get the big fishes to join us.’ ‘I don’t know why he should be a small fish. No man... ...e trusted to two men so long that we don’t know how to suppose anyone else big enough to fill their places. Monk wouldn’t have done. The House doesn’t... ... society when the dinners given were supposed to be worth eating. He was a fat, silent, red-faced, elderly gentle- man, who said very little, and who ... ... feeling that there were not very many better men in the country. He was a fat, bald-headed old man, who was always pulling his spectacles on and off,...

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...he country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of the esta... ... sent from a truer and a younger hand than your’n or mine either; but, for my part, although I am a poor man I can live without the venison, but I don... ... am a poor man I can live without the venison, but I don’t love to give up my lawful dues in a free country . Though, for the matter of that, might of... ...ic equipage shouted aloud “Draw up in the quarry—draw up, thou king of the Greeks; draw into the quarry , Agamemnon, or I shall never be able to pass ... ...I should have claimed it for a certainty , but Natty said the hole was too big for shot, and he fired a single ball from his rifle; but the piece I ca... ...l I make the bowl of gin toddy the night, or it’s likely ye’ll stay at the big house the Christmas eve, and the very night of yer getting there?” “I a... ...n knows, in a dozen languages; mayhap in the Bay of State lingo; mayhap in Greek or High Dutch. But dost it know what it means itself? canst answer me... ...for I have fifty , at this moment, shut up in the coops, in every stage of fat, so that you might choose any quality you pleased. There are six that I... ...sel to eat from Monday morning come W ednesday sundown, and then I shot as fat a buck, on the Pennsylvany line, as ever mortal laid eyes on. It would ...

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...ulders. Its naked peak stands nearly four thousand five hundred feet above the sea; its sides are fringed with forest; and the soil, where it is bare,... ...larger, Washington and Broad- way, and then First and Second, and so forth, being boldly plotted out as soon as the community indulges in a plan. But,... ... posing that the interview was impossible, and that I was merely called upon to subscribe the general senti- ment, I boldly answered “Yes.” Next momen... ... high street. But it was an odd thing that here, on what we are accustomed to consider the very skirts of civiliza- tion, I should have used the telep... ...ful white oaks, in line and colour a finished com- position. We passed a cow stretched by the roadside, her bell slowly beating time to the movement o... ..., we turned sharply to the south and plunged into the thick of the wood. A rude trail rapidly mounting; a little stream 16 ti... ...rison with such imper- fect implements, turning the very obstacles to service. Irvine, in the same case, would have sat down and spat, and grumbled cu... ...s to service. Irvine, in the same case, would have sat down and spat, and grumbled curses. He had the soul of a fat sheep, but, regarded as an artist’...

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...laud ing themselves as the authors of their own distinc- tion. He was of a fat habit, even from boyhood, and in- clined to a cheerful and cursory read... ...m boyhood, and in- clined to a cheerful and cursory reading of the face of life; and possibly this attitude of mind was the original cause of his misf... ...ress, plea- sure, morality, politics, in which the formula was changed to ‘my papa thinks otherwise,’ and even religion, unless it 6 Tales & Fantasie... ...ou what: pop your watch.’ ‘Oh, yes, I dare say,’ said John. ‘And how about my father?’ ‘How is he to know? He doesn’t wind it up for you at night, doe... ...hould not John come there and get the money? To go to Colette’s was to see life, indeed; it was wrong; it was against the laws; it partook, in a very ... ...muddy pool, by which the vaqueros had encamped: splendid sun over all, the big bonfire blazing, the strips of cow browning and smoking on a skewer of ... ...to the black night. We three turned to our places in the parlour, with the big red fire and four clear candles; and as we recapitulated what had passe... ...glect more ambitious forms of art; how he had a picture in his studio of a Greek subject which was said to be remark- able from several points of view...

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... don’t mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. And p... ... change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious, ex... ...ive but disturbing mood lasted some little time; and then, as with many of my longer stories, the first hint for “Nostromo” came to me in the shape of... ...g in a shabby volume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance o... ...when I discovered his value, sir, was just the bos’n of an Italian ship, a big Genoese ship, one of the few European ships that ever came to Sulaco wi... ...om under the square-cut fringes on their foreheads; the noisy frizzling of fat had stopped, the fumes floated upwards in sunshine, a strong smell of b... ...opping Sulaco and the coast range away there towards Esmeralda had been as big as half the world. Signora Teresa, after an impressive pause, remon- st... ...ooped its narrow, blade-like leaves over the square pool of water, and the fat coachman sat muffled up on the edge, holding lazily the ends of halters... ...chooner was anchored opposite the New Custom House, with its sham air of a Greek temple, flatroofed, with a colonnade, Captain Fidanza went pulling hi...