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...ut those whom we offend by such unconscious selfishness pay little heed to our real innocence; what they want is vengeance, and they take it. Thus it ... ...of oth- ers show out so strongly against the good that they usually strike our eyes before they wound us. This moral phenom- enon might, at a pinch, b... ..., to laugh at the failings of others that we ought to forgive the ridicule our own absurdities excite, and be annoyed only by calumny. But in this ins... ...the more insulting, because it made her feel her want of social value; all choice implies contempt for the thing rejected. “Monsieur Birotteau does no... ...their retreats, where they were lost in holy contemplations,” and that “in our days, priests could make a retreat for themselves in the solitude of th... ...can’t yet make out. The Abbe T roubert is too deep to be fathomed at once. Our dear Birotteau is at the beginning of his troubles. Besides, would he b...

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... begin to close round us, and that “vision splendid” which has accompanied our steps in our journey daily farther from the east, fades away and dies i... ... twilight through which we are about to tramp and flounder for the rest of our existence, wandering farther and farther from the beauty and freshness ... ... kindly gushing springs of clear gladness that made all around us green in our youth! One wanders and gropes in a slough of stock-jobbing, one sinks o... ...ct shall suit us, and by no means admit the public has any right to ask in our sentences for any mean- ing, or any connection whatever) it happens tha... ...boys, each drawing lots afterwards for the separate prints, and taking his choice in rotation? The writer of this, too, had the honor of drawing the f... ...ot, and seized immediately upon “Philoprogenitiveness”—a marvellous print (our copy is not at all improved by being colored, which operation we perfor... ...chidaceae of Mexico, by Mr. Bateman. Mr. Bateman despatched some extremely choice roots of this valu- able plant to a friend in England, who, on the a...

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...r calculation! Ninety! V ery good, granny: you were born, then, in 1772. Y our mother, we will say, was twenty-seven when you were born, and was born ... ...ay, was twenty-seven when you were born, and was born therefore in 1745. Y our grandmother was thirty-five when her daughter was born, and was born th... ..., your Mr Burke and 6 Thackeray your Mr Johnson, and your Dr Goldsmith. Y our father often took him home in a chair to his lodgings; and has done as ... ...have they ever been to her? Granny, did you ever hear of General W olfe? Y our mother may have seen him embark, and your father may have carried a mus... ...ve seen him embark, and your father may have carried a musket under him. Y our grandmother may have cried huzza for Marlborough; but what is the Princ... ... lecture, which he can read at leisure in a book?” I never went, of my own choice, to a lecture; that I can vow. As for sermons, they are different; I...

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...ighted up with a wonderful clearness of air, which rarely adorns a view in our country. The sun had not yet set, but over the town and lofty rocky cas... ... boats were seen, incontinently, to put off from the little shore. And now our attention was withdrawn from the land to a sight of great splendour on ... ...of the slimy substitute of whipped yolk of egg which we had been using for our morning and evening meals), and, if pos- sible, oysters, for which it i... ...e shoulder only, holding on by the porter’s whis- kers; and though some of our party were of the tallest and fattest men whereof our race is composed,... ...ent, and provided us with the desired refreshment. Sounds of clarions drew our eyes to the Place of the Consti- tution; and, indeed, I had forgotten t... ... venient or romantic place of residence than an English house; others made choice of the club-house in Commercial Square, of which I formed an agreeab... ... waggling his head to and fro, swaying about, and singing through his nose choice phrases from the sacred work. But from the room above came a clear n... ...some in three hours; and so left us with a world of grinning bows and many choice compliments from one side to the other, which came to each filtered ... ... the ceiling is carved, gilt, painted and embroidered with arabesques, and choice sentences of Eastern writing. Some Mameluke Aga, or Bey, whom Meheme...

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...ormeley Dedication To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane. LEON DE LORA, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of the noblest families of... ...us voice which speaks to gamblers before they win had sounded in his ear: “Our celebrated landscape painter, Leon de Lora, lately re- turned from Ital... ...ike nothing at all, called out when they saw me on the boulevard, ‘There’s our Gazonal!’” The speaker was Bixiou, with whom Leon de Lora had armed him... ... who leave their duties to little scamps every one of whom is bought up by our prefect. That’s my lawsuit! They want my manufactory! Well, they’ll get... ...o was cel- ebrated before T aglioni and Ellsler appeared, has preserved to our day some of the old traditions of the character dance and pantomime. If... ...ous face, like the king on a five- franc piece, for you are going to see a choice original, a man whose importance has turned his head. In these days,... ...nce, and replied: ‘I think there’s more wear and tear in that, but as your choice is made I’ll see what I can do’; and he got him, as Ravenouillet say...

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... sweetness, and there was nothing to mitigate the com- placency with which our young friend gave himself up to it; nothing, that is, save a natural be... ... might be said of him; and if circumspec- tion is the essence of diplomacy our young aspirant prom- ised well. His mind contained several millions of ... ..., he would have admitted it —an unscientific way of furnishing one’s mind. Our young man was a stiff conservative, a Junker of Junkers; he thought mod... ...is seat. “I’m much obliged to you; of course not. I thought you had one of our chairs, and I didn’t like to ask you. It looks exactly like one of ours... ...ame—you can scarcely see it,” she added with the same friendly intention. “Our name’s just Day—you mightn’t think it was a name, might you? if we didn... ... could rarely catch the joke; but he could see at least that these must be choice specimens of that American humour admired and practised by a whole c...

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...iterary monuments to record what his intellectual powers were; and even in our common profession the ordinary course and practice are so changed, that... ... were crowned by a firm, unhesitating, devout belief in the doc- trines of our faith, which issued in strictness to himself and the warmest, gentlest ... ...I was not there. There were a great many soldiers there, and they all took our part. The alarm was given, and the police came. Then there was such a r... ...and the rest were half-knocked down. At last they took in custody three of our boys, upon which every boy that was there (amount- ing to about 450) wa... ...s summoned. They burst open the door, knocked down the police, and rescued our boys. Meantime the boys kept on shying rotten eggs and crackers, and th... ...is first tail-coat that ‘this is really an important thing;’ and had grown choice in the adorning of his room and the binding of his books, though he ... ..., and the mind begins to get fair play. There is also a certain liberty of choice as to the course to be taken and the persons who shall become guides... ...ch should be at least twenty-four inches by ten. ‘T ry to remember, in the choice of any other picture books for them, that anything that introduces E... ... nearly becalmed to the south-east of Leper’s Isle, the Bishop gave me the choice of a visit to Whitsuntide or Leper’s Island. I voted for the latter,...

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... duty, each in his own sphere of influence, to celebrate the liberation of our territory. Let us show a true patriotism which shall put these liberals... ...ot any enemies, my poor Birotteau?” “Why, yes, wife, we have enemies. Half our friends in the quarter are our enemies. They all say , ‘Birotteau has h... ...ovial, I have decided to put the household on a footing in conformity with our high position. If I can become anything, I’ll risk being what- ever the... ...twenty years to those who came to buy it. If the State demands the help of our intelligence, we are as much bound to give it as we are to pay the tax ... ... counter? Y ou have been there, thank God, a long time. This ball shall be our fete,—yours and mine. Good-by to economy,—for your sake, be it under- s... ...ch as melons in their 26 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau earliest prime, choice dinners at V enua’s followed by the the- atre, Sunday jaunts to the ... ...n too much, believing them all corruptible, he was too unscrupulous in the choice of means, thinking all equally good, he was too thoroughly convinced... ... him to the prefect of the Seine when that official consulted Cesar on the choice to be made. Monsieur and Madame Birotteau were therefore never forgo... ... address of your cabinet-maker; I shall have to arrange with him about the choice of colors, so as to have everything in keeping.” “Monsieur Braschon,...

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...ugh is, as it were, the central part—the navel (si fas sit dicere) of this our native realm of Scotland; so that men, from every corner thereof, when ... ...thereof, when travelling on their concernments of business, either towards our metropolis of law, by which I mean Edinburgh, or towards our metropolis... ...parately, adding my own refutation thereof. His honour, the Laird, accused our Landlord, deceased, of having encouraged, in various times and places, ... ...ew travellers, from distant parts, as well as from the remote districts of our kingdom, were wont to mingle in the conversation, and to tell news that... ...t had been gathered in for- eign lands, or preserved from oblivion in this our own. Now I chanced to have contracted for teaching the lower classes wi... ...ed, continued to sit late in the evening, seasoning their liquor with many choice tales and songs. The last inci- dent which I recollect, was my learn... ... name of the political renegade. It is not to be thought of. And yet, what choice remains between this lot and the ignominious scaffold? Noth- ing can... ...ose I would drag my daughter to the foot of the altar, were it not her own choice?” “T ut, Ellieslaw,” retorted the young gentleman, “never tell me of...

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...ld be very well pleased to see him a deputy because—” “Come, sister, leave our own business of politics to us men. Where is Simon?” “He is dressing,” ... ...hysician of Arcis, brother-in-law of Grevin, and a few other liberals. “If our dear boy is not nominated,” said Madame Marion, having first looked int... ... trip me up.” “Your meeting isn’t a conspiracy against the independence of our votes,” replied the notary, smiling. “We are all playing above-board, I... ...ook Simon’s hand, saying: “How are you, my good friend? Your dear aunt and our worthy colonel are no doubt as well to-day as they were yes- terday,—th... ...! young man; so we intend to enter a political career? Ha! ha! ha! This is our first step—mustn’t step back—it is a great career. I’ d rather it were ... ... natural to Maitre Giguet, who had the merit of divining our wishes in the choice of a chairman, to guide us still further in electing inspectors; but... ...ving us of our liberty! I ask you: is it proper that the chair- man of our choice should tell us to nominate, by rising or sitting, inspectors of the ... ...ting, inspectors of the ballot thus forced upon us? Have we any liberty of choice? If I were proposed, I believe all present would rise out of politen... ...e should all feel bound to rise for one another, and I say there can be no choice where there is no freedom of action.” “He is right,” said the sixty ...

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...t whole nations in motion and upheaved the dry, hard ground on which rests our whole social fabric. There’s “virtue” for you if you like! … Of course ... ...omic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which ... ...ust deliberately allow ourselves to be car- ried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility—inno- cently enough, perhaps, and of necessity, like... ...esignation open- eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our 9 Joseph Conrad feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ... ...d in this matter of life and art it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la manier... ...e sea, could feel itself nearer to the ships, the men, and the life of its choice—nearer there than on any other spot of the solid earth. This resting... ... hold me with for very long. And then that memorable story, like a cask of choice Madeira, got carried for three years to and fro upon the sea. Whethe... ...as not her own. It was only later, when united at last with the man of her choice, that she devel- oped those uncommon gifts of mind and heart which c... ... and questionable spoil. Here they are. “Failure”—”Astonishing”: take your choice; or perhaps both, or neither—a mere rustle and flutter of pieces of ...

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...And we have nothing but the old habits and ideas ac- quired in the days of our assurance. There is a discord, a jarring.” The doctor pursued his train... ...e shall be able to manipulate drugs—all sorts of drugs—and work them in to our general way of living. I have no prejudice against them at all. A time ... ...e no prejudice against them at all. A time will come when we shall correct our moods, get down to our reserves of energy by their help, suspend fatigu... ...ow…. The repair people promise to release it before Friday.” “But I have a choice of two very comfortable little cars. Why not be my guest?” “That mig... ...m of adaptations, between his essential self and his sur- roundings. Well, our surroundings have become—how shall I put it?—a landslide. The war which... ...es on,—it goes, if anything, faster, with- out a sign of stopping. And all our poor little adaptations! Which we have been elaborating and trusting al... ...d. We don’t get enough to do. We’re spenders and wast- ers—not always from choice. While these fathers and broth- ers and husbands of ours play about ...

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...h, Greater than their knowing. Western wind and open surge T ore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the shore! ... ...e love they bore us! Out of Egypt unto T roy— Over Himalaya— Far and sure our bands have gone— Hy-Brasil or Babylon, Islands of the Southern Run, An... ... Gifts of Case and Shrapnel. This we learned from famous men T eaching in our borders. Who declare’d it was best, Safest, easiest and best— Expeditio... ...zzy.” “All up,” said Stalky, serenely. “I spotted Heffy’s fairy feet round our hut after dinner. ‘Blessing they’re so big.” “Con-found! Did you hide o... ...yet? His rebus infectis—after I’ d seen Heffy’s man-tracks marchin’ round our hut, I found little Hartopp—destricto ense—wavin’ a butterfly-net. I co... ...vor overturned a student’s lamp, which dripped, via King’s papers and some choice books, greasily on to a Persian rug. There was much broken glass on ... ...ttitude of indiference’ — how many f’s in indifference, Beetle?” “T wo for choice.” “Only one here—’adopted by the occupants of Number Five study in ... ..., you were sporting with them, were you? I must say I do not envy you your choice of associates. I fancied they might have been engaged in some of the... ... him back to right thinking. He took his revenge by filling the house with choice selections of old schoolmates home on leave— affable detrimentals, a...

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...t whole nations in motion and upheaved the dry, hard ground on which rests our whole social fabric. There’s “virtue” for you if you like!… Of course t... ...omic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which ... ... must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our nor- mal sensibility—innocently enough perhaps and of necessity, like a... ... resignation open-eyed, conscious and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. Not that I think ... ...d in this matter of life and art it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la manier... ...e sea, could feel itself nearer to the ships, the men, and the life of its choice—nearer there than on any other spot of the solid earth. This resting... ... hold me with for very long. And then that memorable story, like a cask of choice Madeira, got carried for three years to and fro upon the sea. Whethe... ...as not her own. It was only later, when united at last with the man of her choice that she developed those uncommon gifts of mind and heart which comp... ...nd questionable spoil. Here they are. “Fail- ure”—”Astonishing”: take your choice; or perhaps both, or neither—a mere rustle and flutter of pieces of ...

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...t, let it be seen that they had minds occupied with thoughts of their own. Our gallant fellows forgot the intrusion of the foreign as soon as it had p... ...lky nuts, good to bite, Lacedaemonian virgins, hard to beat, putting us on our mettle; and they are for heroes, and they can be brave. So these boys f... ... reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our general of cavalry, whose charge at the head of fifteen hundred horse i... ...n under arms, with a passion to serve his country and sustain the glory of our military an- nals. He revived respect for the noble class in the hearts... ...chman of a superlative merit to swallow and make nothing of the mention of our best cavalry generals irritated him to call Murat a mountebank. Shalder... ...irst, and a Briton next. He had lots of plunk; which accounted for Matey’s choice of him as a friend among the juniors. CHAPTER II LADY CHARLOTTE LOVE... ...e? They are hard bargainers. She thought this of men; and she liked men by choice. She had old nurse’s preference for the lustier male child. The oth-... ...ttered. Her kite-like ascent into the general, with the sudden drop on her choice morsel, switched his humour at the moment when he was respectfully c... ...luring to the deeps and gripping with cramps. She pushed him to defend his choice of the tutor’s profes- sion. “Think you understand boys?” she caught...

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... procure bearing on Old Bailey trials. A great package came in response to our order, and very soon we were both absorbed, not so 4 Kidnapped much in... ... back from a distance both in time and space on these bygone adventures of our youth, it must be stranger for you who tread the same streets—who may t... ...u, here is the testamentary letter itself, superscrived by the own hand of our departed brother.” He gave me the letter, which was addressed in these ... ...e-spun stockings. Once only, when he had ventured to look a little higher, our eyes met; and no thief taken with a hand in a man’s pocket could have s... ...ed that goes near to make the vice respectable. When we had made an end of our meal, my uncle Ebenezer unlocked a drawer, and drew out of it a clay pi... ... my mind was made up all in a moment. I have no credit by it; it was by no choice of mine, but as if by compulsion, that I walked right up to the tabl... ...th this coast, sir; and it’s one very dangerous to ships.” “I give ye your choice,” says Alan. “Set me on dry ground in Appin, or Ardgour, or in Morve... ...e in such a spot, I must have burst out weeping. I had good reasons for my choice. There was in this part of the isle a little hut of a house like a p... ...er: Nane. Either take to the heather with me, or else hang.” “And that’s a choice very easily made,” said I; and we shook hands upon it. “And now let’...

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...elf. The great crime, after which his life was a bondage of expiation; the choice between Vir- tue and Vice; the slain passion; the hundred-headed sin... ... Alcides as he now stands before me in memory. 5 Charlotte M. Yonge Our family history is a strange one. I, Lucy Alison, never even saw my twin... ...friends and neighbours, they could only make me feel what they were _not_. Our old lawyer, Mr. Prosser, had written to my nephew, for we knew that bot... ...er of a former clergyman of Mycening, the little town which is al- most at our park-gates. She was always confined to the house by rheumatic-gout. She... ... There’s ever so many of them!” I believe we caught hold of one another in our fright, and were almost surprised when, outstripping lame old Richardso... ... He shan’t hurt you, my dear ladies. I’ll stand between.” We had recovered our senses, however, enough to see that it was only a harmless kangaroo; an... ...his cousin, and gave orders accordingly, the much-aggrieved Bullock had no choice but in delaying their execution and demonstrating their impracticabi... ...nd though to a certain extent he had, with Prometesky beside him, made his choice between virtue and vice beside his uncle’s death- bed; yet it was as... ... so it is; but the cat—my poor pussy. No, my dear, that’s the bantams—very choice. My poor little Henry had them given to him when he was six years ol...

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... least as far as that with Benham. And we have died like Horatius, slaying our thousands for our country, or we have perished at the stake or faced th... ...yes”—because we would not betray the secret path that meant destruction to our city. But with Benham the vein was stronger, and it increased in- stead... ...e desires and dreams and discretions that, to say the least of it, qualify our nobility, we take refuge in our sense of humour and congratulate oursel... ...instead of that glorious impossible being of ourselves, we would figure in our own eyes as jolly fel- lows, or sly dogs, or sane, sound, capable men o... ... grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudden silence as Challoner stopped the engine… .... ...spects he is like her…. Quick. T oo quick…. He must choose. But I know his choice. Yes, yes,—I’m not blind. She’s worked upon him…. I have done what I... ...ly life in the world outside us, but life in our own selves, as an immense choice of possi- bilities; indeed, for us in particular who have come up he... ...er any urgent necessity to take this line or that, life is apparently pure choice. It is quite easy to think we are all going to choose the pattern of... ... And, meanwhile, there is no great hurry…. “I want to begin by saying that choice isn’t so easy and so necessary as it seems. We think we are going to...

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...propose dwelling longer at this time on this subject. When Judge Trumbull, our other Senator in Congress, re- turned to Illinois in the month of Augus... ...til they plant the institution all over the nation, here and wherever else our flag waves, and we acquiesce in it, there will be peace. But let me ask... ...o the slavery agitation amongst us but to put it back upon the basis where our fathers placed it; no way but to keep it out of our new Territories,—to... ...as one of the common matters of property, and speak of negroes as we do of our horses and cattle. But while it 21 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ... ...and published. There has been an opportunity afforded to the public to see our respective views upon the topics discussed in a large portion of the sp... ...it at that time. When Judge Douglas undertakes to say that, as a matter of choice, the fathers of the government made this nation part slave and part ... ...her an indifferent thing is voted up or down, but he must logically have a choice between a right thing and a wrong thing. He contends that whatever c...

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...tand, instead of going back to the House of Hanover for the appellation of our finest sheet of water. W e relieve our conscience by the confession, at... ...ting’ It would seem that the stock of the horse of Israel had descended to our own time; would it not, friend?” Receiving no reply to this extraordina... ... the woods, Heyward, or is this sight an especial entertainment ordered on our behalf? If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the form... ...ll at this moment. He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you know, are one of the six allied nation... ...rigidly dealt by; but I forget the idle tale, it is enough, that he is now our friend.” “If he has been my father’s enemy, I like him still less!” ex-... ...eth well, Together e’en in unity, For brethren so to dwell. “It’s like the choice ointment, From the head to the beard did go; Down Aaron’s head, that... ...od is never seen, and it ought not to appear a marvel in my eyes, that the choicest blessings of Provi- dence are wasted in such cries as these.” Davi... ...to prosecute the investigation. As no time was to be lost, the instant the choice was made the individuals appointed rose in a body and left the place... ...id which pas- sion preponderated. None, however, was idle. Some bore their choicest articles, others their young, and some their aged and infirm, into...