...ing way to an irritated pugnacity, and sucked the comforting caramel of an alliance with their troublesome next-door neighbour, profuse in comfits as ... ...them—met one day; they were a comtesse and a baronne, and they settled the alliance. The bell was rung, and Renee came out of school. There is this to... ...esn’t know when he can! Has he thrown up the service? I am to preserve the alliance between England and France by getting this French girl for him in ... .... It’s a very pretty sacrifice of himself he in- tends for the sake of the alliance, tell him that, but a lieutenant’s not quite big enough to establi... ...y on the ebb of tides and flung back on the flow, ignorant whether they be progressive or retrograde. Timothy Turbot assisted in that vast effort. It ... ... not a condition unnatural to us. The danger would be in not letting it be progressive, and there’s a little danger too at times in our slowness. We c... ...date for the borough. He announced his name and his principles T omlinson, progressive Liberal. ‘A true distinction from some Liberals I know,’ said B... ...at; but faithful to her comrade! I can swear it for her—faithful to a true alliance! You are not married, you are simply chained: and you are terroriz...

...guess at the opening phase of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erl... ...m swept away a thousand more specialised cults, but essentially these were progressive adaptations of mankind to material condi- tions that must have ... ...e-tables and appointments and payments and dues as it were one unified and progressive spectacle. Sometimes such visions came to him; his mind, accust... ...a more efficient organisation of production. It developed a scheme for the progressive establishment throughout the world of the ‘modern system’ in ag...

...writers anyhow, and so they wisely refrained from entering into en tangling alliances. As I have remarked, the pilots’ association was now the compac... ...te eye and taste; a suggester, so to speak. The city is well outfitted with progressive men—think ing, sagacious, long headed men. The contrast betw... ...ott Middle Age sham civilization; and so you have practical, common sense, progressive ideas, and progressive works; mixed up with the duel, the inf... ...onal people in the State; but not by the bench of Judges. Burlington has the progressive modern city’s full equip ment of devices for right and intel... ...enac looms upon our vision, delightful resort of jaded summer tourists; then progressive Red Wing; and Diamond Bluff, impressive and preponderous in i...

...udden ca- pacities of horror; sometimes through the more natural and fixed alliances with the sense of power so various lodged in the mail system. The... ...lf, by multiplying to the imagination into infinity the 107 stages of its progressive diffusion. A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, which from that...

...eys. With one of them, from whom he first received overtures, he formed an alliance, and became what he now was, the military leader of the tribe, and... ...e brought us troops of “tayos,” or 133 Melville friends, eager to form an alliance after the national custom, and do our slightest bidding. The reall... ... A few very brief extracts will enable the reader to mark for himself what progressive improvement, if any, has taken place. Nor must it be overlooked... ...ing, being unwilling to entangle themselves 177 Melville in a matrimonial alliance, however splendid in point of fam- ily. Tonoi’s men, the fishermen... ...r, an island about one hundred miles from T ahiti. This proving an unhappy alliance, the pair were soon afterwards divorced. The present husband of th...

... a secret personal signification: ‘We women are the verbs pas- sive of the alliance; we have to learn, and if we take to activ- ity, with the best int... ...often talked of the possibility of a classic friendship between women, the alliance of a mutual devotedness men choose to doubt of. She caught herself... ...d’s jealousy of her good name. And a lover, that without the claims of the alliance, can be wounded on her behalf, is less distracted in his homage by... ...arliamentary road to entreat a husband to relent, and arrange the domestic alliance of a contrary couple! Quixottry is agreeable reading, a silly perf... ...ere married. She did not ask herself why she called it up. The remorseless progressive interrogations of a Jesuit Father in pursuit of the bosom’s ver... ...owed nobility. She irradiated the man; but no baseness could be in such an alliance. If allied, they were bound to- gether for good. The tie-supposing...

... Gar- dener and Roper, teaching Greek like passionate missionar- ies, as a progressive Chinaman might teach English to the boys of Pekin, clumsily, im... ...ve expressions with phrases of my own, and so we came very readily into an alliance that was to last some years, and break at last very painfully. Alt... ... no metaphysical aptitude and no metaphysical training. It leads them to a progressive misun- derstanding of the world. It was a favourite trick of Al... ...ed upon it by the organisation of its adversaries. It lapses in and out of alliance with Labour as it sways between hos- tility to wealth and hostilit... ...h!” I sailed on over him to my next propositions. The prime essential in a progressive civilisation was the establishment of a more effective selectiv... ...id. “It’s the peculiarity of English conservatism that it’s persis- tently progressive and rejuvenescent.” I think it must have been about that point ...

...essence of constitutional morals; he! he! he! That is how I understand the alliance of monarchy with liberty; ha! ha! ha!” Whereupon the mayor took Si... ... bachelors, and tolerably rich, they had formed, without premeditation, an alliance against the dulness of the provinces. The three functionaries had ... ...handsome, was considered at that time the best match in Arcis. In fact, an alliance with the intimate friend of the senator Comte de Gondreville, peer... ..., he looked at the boards which formed the floor of the salon. Perhaps the progressive abolition of mind and will in Beauvisage will be explained by t... ...e yourself prime-minis- ter,” said Madame Marion. “There will never be any alliance between the granddaughter of Grevin and the Cinq-Cygnes.” “Romeo c... ... Madame Beauvisage said that, as for herself, she saw no ob- jection to an alliance by which she should feel herself hon- ored; although she postponed...

...lds tempt his eye; but to him they are forbidden pasture: either pining in progressive starvation, he must stand; or, in mad exasperation, must rush t... ...rs) escape him; and you too he devours at last. Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake themse... ... now shrouded himself, no doubt but his spiri- tual nature is nevertheless progressive, and growing: for how can the “Son of Time,” in any case, stand...

... an inexpli- cable impulse. It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of con- tradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear a... ...scribed himself as the manager of a coal-mine; which sounded civilized and progressive till you heard that the mine could not be worked at present bec...

... England, sire, and not of Charles II. It was doubtless wrong, from a family point of view, to sign a treaty with a man who had cut off the head of th... ..., would you approve of England’s sending to the United Provinces or to Spain a regiment, a company, a squadron even, of English gentlemen? Would you t... ...ld be separated you would no longer think of me.” “Dear Marie, is it then to-day only that you have discov- ered we are surrounded by people intereste... ...: Lambert demanded a profession of faith from his rival. The latter declared he had no other opinion than that of the majority. Lambert asked if it wo... ...ening, monsieur le prince,” said the minister, in a careless tone; “it is very kind of you to visit an old sick friend.” “A friend!” murmured the Comt... ...e refalling stone. Every time, the stone, abandoned by them, sunk deeper into the damp earth, which rendered the operation more and more difficult. A ...

...an’s oldest friends, and chamberlain to the Comte d’Artois, “that the Holy Alliance purpose removing him from thence?” “Yes; they were talking about i... ...“Well,” said the marquise, “it seems probable that, by the aid of the Holy Alliance, we shall be rid of Napoleon; and we must trust to the vigilance o... ...ed by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the sin- gularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daugh- ter of an officer of ... ...tunity. If the emperor remained on the throne, Gerard required a different alliance to aid his career; if Louis XVIII. returned, the influence of M. d... ...on of francs for his release; the second, two; the third, three; and so on progressively. He is now in his fifth year of captivity; he will ask to spe... ...ad not a daughter, that he might have bound Edmond to him by a more secure alliance. At seven o’clock in the evening all was ready, and at ten minutes... ... a man would habituate himself more easily than in a warm latitude to this progressive absorption of poison?” “Certainly; it being at the same time pe...

...led; his wife perished, by the ne cessity of her innate nobleness, in its alliance with a being so ignoble; and betwixt her mother’s death and her fa... ...in which a bold intellectual development seems to be keeping pace with the progressive delicacy of the physical constitution. Of all these people I to...

...ouse, but uncertain, suspended. She did not quite know her posi- tion. Her alliance for the time being was with Gerald, and she did not know how far t... ...ference. Dissolution rolls on, just as production does,’ he said. ‘It is a progressive pro- cess—and it ends in universal nothing—the end of the world... ..., these married people, and 195 shut themselves in to their own exclusive alliance with each other, even in love, disgusted him. It was a whole commu... ...e degradation to go through: agelong. We live on long after our death, and progressively, in progressive devolution.’ Gerald listened with a faint, fi... ...ave lapsed, leaving the single impulse for knowledge in one sort, mindless progressive knowledge through the senses, knowledge arrested and ending in ... ... his life. This he would do. The other way was to accept Rupert’s offer of alliance, to enter into the bond of pure trust and love with the other man,...

...t have coarser tastes than that. You see they’re very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel moral... ...rt of way. The com- mon lot? Why, I’m devoted to the common lot! Strike an alliance with me, and I promise you that you shall have plenty of it. You s... ...or the first time in England, several months ago, and we struck up a grand alliance. I like her immensely, and I do what I don’t do every day— I admir... ...r, to think that he had taken it into his head to marry her niece. Such an alliance, on Isabel’s part, would have 289 Henry James an air of almost mo... ...ing to grudge to Henrietta’s violated conscience. Osmond had thought their alliance a kind of monstrosity; he couldn’t imagine what they had in common... ...rre- spondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed tha...

...ay. Con- ceiving that he could now only appeal to the broader-minded, more progressive type of parent, he became an educational reformer, and wrote up... ... replete with histori- cal detail, could find nothing but absurdity in the alliances and dynasties and loyalties of our time. “Patched up things, Benh...

...moved from each other. In the one is shown the result of long centuries of progressive Civilization and refinement, which have gradually converted the... ... as it is termed with us, might have been followed by an immediate nuptial alliance. At any rate, I have more than one reason to believe that tedious ... ...hiefly prize. They have at least twenty different terms to express as many progressive stages in the growth of the nut. Many of them reject the fruit ...

...e. Here, then, we have one side of the case. Man-eating among kindly men, child-murder among child-lovers, in- dustry in a race the most idle, inventi... ...ption had caused much excitement in the vil- lage; it made the strangers popular. Paaaeua, in his difficult posture of appointed chief, drew strength ... ...metimes from the midst of the roof, an aerial whistling proceeds, appalling to the in- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its...

...ena, whom he had mistrusted as so proud and fierce, submitted herself to the fairy-bride (as he called her), and learnt from her what she knew. He tho... ...k what a poor, mean, miserable thing it is! That must be real. It’s over.’ He has accompanied this incoherence with some wild unmeaning gestures; but ...

... _100 Freedom calls “Famine”,—her eternal foe, To brief alliance, hollow truce.—Rise now! [Whilst the veiled figure has been chanti... ... the Turkish tyrant, and to brand upon their name the indelible blot of an alliance with the enemies of domestic happiness, of Christianity and civili... ...d their mutual jealousies in the presence of a mightier fear. Of this holy alliance all the despots of the earth are virtual members. But a new race h... ...s of the external world. 554 V olume One The concluding verses indicate a progressive state of more or loss exalted existence, according to the degre... ...berty in Italy. We have seen the rise and progress of reform. But the Holy Alliance was alive and active in those days, and few could dream of the pea...