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...onsibility in the situation and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicke... ...ccupied with looking for the Cresslers, hardly listened. Aunt Wess’, whose count was confused by all these figures murmured just behind her, began ove... ...d with his family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in Illinois. For a time he tried wheat-raising, until the War, which... ...ighest register, bringing out the notes with vigorous twists of her entire body, and tossing them off into the air with sharp flirts of her head. On t... ...tra redoubled its efforts, the director beating time with hands, head, and body. “Il perfido, l’ingrato” thundered the basso. “Ineffabil mistero,” 27... ...er, and the blood of those who had wrestled with a new world flowed in her body. Yes, Corthell’s was a beautiful life; the charm of dim painted window... ... listening with languid interest. Aunt Wess’ turned the leaves of a family album, counting the number of photographs of Mrs. Cressler which it contain...

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...ost scorn and contempt; but rather wonder, when I ob- serve gentlemen in the country, rich enough to serve the nation in parliament, poring in Partrid... ... observations and predictions, they are such as will equally suit any age or country in the world. This month a certain great person will be threaten... ...to the Duke of Anjou: On the 14th a great peer of this realm will die at his country-house: On the 19th an old lay- man of great fame for learning: an... ...of this month, the fulfilling of this pre- diction will be manifest to every body. This is the farthest I have proceeded in my calculations for the pr... ...om the stars, till the year 1686, a man of quality shew d me, written in his album, That the most learned astronomer, Captain H. assured him, he would... ...Fortunes seek, Step to his Grave but once a Week: This Earth which bears his Body s Print, You ll find has so much Vertue in t, That I durst pawn my E... ...arlborough: One kind of stuff used to fatten land is called marle, and every body knows that borough is a name for a town; and this way of expression ...

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...pockets on one side of his coarse convict dress, are portions of the man’s body, on which he is regaling; in the pockets on the other side is an untou... ...rown grey under the shade of the bread fruit trees, speaking of their lost country far away. See the Halsewell, East Indiaman outward bound, driving m... ...h for me, going out and coming in; he has followed me out of town into the country; he has appeared at provincial hotels, where I have been staying fo... ...ng resolved to earn an honest livelihood, he had been travelling about the country with a cart of crockery. That he had been doing pretty well until t... ... small. We have a fine sea, whole some for all people; profitable for the body, profitable for the mind. The poet’s words are sometimes on its awful ... ... the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers are made to in ... ...ere is an ancient belfry in it that would have been in all the Annuals and Albums, going and gone, these hundred years if it had but been more expensi...

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...ed windows of the town hall, warns the inhabitants of Mudfog that its little body of legis lators, like a larger and better known body of the same ge... ...und, are patriotically dozing away in company, far into the night, for their country’s good. Among this knot of sage and learned men, no one was so em... ...ant and mysterious allusions to ‘masses of people,’ and ‘the property of the country,’ and ‘productive power,’ and ‘the monied interest:’ all of which... ...from his right hand top boot, a damp copy of that afternoon’s number of the county paper; and there, in large type, running the whole length of the v... ...e solemn; but, as the epistle wound up with a formal invitation to the whole body to dine with the Mayor on that day, at Mudfog Hall, Mudfog Hill, Mud... ... all,’ replied Ned, ‘nothing at all. Gentlemen, I’m an unhappy wretch. I’m a body, gentlemen, in a brass coffin.’ At this poetical idea of his own con... ...romises of interceding to procure the majestic brute’s sign manual for their albums. Then, there were little private consultations in different corner...

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...- mate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, some- times floods the country around it, but of which the rav- ages appear to be so easily repair... ...faction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi- cally national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgun... ...u can travel beside it. The great dike which protects it, or, protects the country from it, from Blois to Angers, is an admirable road; and on the oth... ...gives the work a certain look of being softened and worn by time, lies the body of the Breton soldier, with, a cruci- fix clasped to his breast and a ... ...ier, with, a cruci- fix clasped to his breast and a shroud thrown over his body. At each of the angles sits a figure in bronze, the two best of which,... ...t a powerful, though disagreeable specimen of Henner, who paints the human body, and paints it so well, with a brush dipped in blackness; and, placed ... ..., for the most part; and the worst—those in the form of the hideous little album- pano-rama—are thrust upon you at every turn. They are a kind of tax ...

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... from Paris, and wears the Cross of the Legion of Honor. In short, he is a country gentleman who has fully grasped the significance of the Restoration... ...all things here below they pass immutable judgments, which go to make up a body of tradition into which no power of mortal man can infuse one drop of ... ... himself at the expense of the circle. He drew, as it were, for his mental album, a series of portraits of these folk, with their angular, wrinkled fa... ...s forward all through the day, found himself justifying the customs of the country. He began to understand why these good folk continued to play with ... ... the contrary, sheer pride was the motive that led him to try to force the country families to meet the Vicomtesse. The women appeared to take counsel... ...cations, the charming ways of a young heart, the soul’s winning charm, the body’s grace, the swift communion of rapture, the whole divine cortege of y...

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... ened. The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands felt the warm body through his white flannel nightgown. She pressed him closer to herself... ... much longer, the woman kissed him again; and she passed her hand down his body till she came to his feet; she held the right foot in her hand and fel... ... a table on the other side of the room, upon which, under a towel, lay the body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden f... ...me- times, and that she would never forget him; and she told him about the country he was going to and about her own home in Devonshire—her fa- ther k... ... it away, but Philip’s keen appetite relieved him from the duty. Then they counted the money. It consisted of pennies, six- pences and threepenny bits... ...d Philip limped along by his side. The walk through the darkness along the country road strangely im- pressed him, and the church with all its lights ... ... Louisa during her youth had painted in water colours, and she had several albums filled with sketches of churches, old bridges, and picturesque cot- ... ...aged had invited her to visit them in England, and she had set off with an album of water colours to show how accom- plished she was and a bundle of l...

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...ewed at a proper distance, precisely to resemble the features of the human countenance. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured ... ...rich merchant, and owner of a whole fleet of bulky bottomed ships. All the countries of the globe appeared to join hands for the mere purpose of addin... ...d become so very rich that it would have taken him a hundred years only to count his wealth, he bethought himself of his native valley, and resolved t... ...ied; and the oddest part of the matter was, that his wealth, which was the body and spirit of his existence, had disappeared before his death, leaving... ...truly or not, that, at the commencement of his studies, he had drained his body of all its richest blood, and wasted it, with other inestimable ingred... ...l One. Now think ye that I would have done this grievous wrong to my soul, body, reputation, and estate, without a reasonable chance of profit?’ ‘Not ... ...gle day’s journey, though it had cost him eighteen. The Georgians held the album between them, and favored us with the few specimens of its contents w...

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...swung as she forced the rhythm, determinedly swaying to the time as if her body were the white stroke of a metronome. It made the young man frown as h... ... as he watched. Yet he continued to watch. She had a very strong, vigorous body. Her neck, pure white, arched in strength from the fine hollow between... ...o dead months the first string had snapped, sharply striking the sensitive body of the instru- ment. The second string had broken near Christmas, but ... ...ds that shivered in the marshy places. Siegmund sat in a chilly torpor. He counted 19 D. H. Lawrence the stations. Beneath his stupor his heart was t... ... Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 THE WAY HOME lay across country, through deep little lanes where the late foxgloves sat seriously, ... ... ‘ And I,’ he said, lying down in the warm sand, ‘I am noth- ing. I do not count; I am inconsiderable.’ He set his teeth with pain. There were no tear... ...ere was no movement perceptible. Vera entered, ostensibly for an autograph-album into which she was going to copy a draw- ing from the London Opinion,...

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...eally wasted, because Cecilia was a very clever woman, and a most skillful counter-plotter to adversity. She had made herself a charming home, her eco... ... really cost a good deal of money to preserve unbroken. He was kept in the country for months together, in the midst of servants who had strict injunc... ... him decently, and as soon as he graduated, he was taken into his father’s count- ing-house, to do small drudgery on a proportionate sal- ary. For thr... ...if he needs help,” Rowland answered, after a long pause. “Of course when a body begins to expand, there comes in the possibility of bursting; but I ne... ... conception is sitting on a globe with a pen in her ear and a photographic album in her hand. I shall have to conceive, myself. For the money, I ought... ...hat the soul of a world-wearied mortal had found its way into the blooming body of a goddess. “Where in the world has Miss Light been before she is tw... ...d fallen fifty feet or three hundred little mattered. The condition of his body indicated the shorter fall. Now that all was over, Rowland understood ...

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...; the finer hand, the quicker eye, the bigger brain, the better bal- anced body prevailed; age by age, the implements were a little better made, the m... ... He made astonishingly far-reaching discoveries within him- self, first of counting and then of writing and making records, and with that his town com... ... of indus- trial production, population was streaming steadily in from the country-side and concentrating in hitherto unthought- of masses about a few... ...’ legs must have hung by copper hooks from iron railings and twitched upon count- less occasions before Galvani saw them. Except for the light- ning c... ...s!’ said his father. ‘And old Broomie, the Head I mean, he rots me. Every- body rots me.’ ‘But there is going to be flying—quite soon.’ The little boy... ...n of ease that marks an overstrained nervous system and an under-exercised body. He hesitated at the White Stone Pond whether to go to the left of it ... ...nd nonagenarians and all that sort of thing. Incredibly. They used to keep albums of cuttings from all the illustrated papers showing them at it, and ...

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... Lady G . Glowry, daughter of Lord Grey of Glowry), and the like. When the Countess of Fitz-Willis (her Ladyship is of the Kingstreet family, see Debr... ...se Alessandro Strachino, Comte de Brie, Baron Schapzuger, Chevalier Tosti, Countess of Slingstone, and Lady F. Macadam, Major-General and Lady 9 Thac... ...rades had come among us from France, and was considerably in vogue in this country, enabling the many ladies amongst us who had beauty to display thei... ...g pre- sented to the charming Clytemnestra. “Heigh ha? Run him through the body. Marry somebody else, hay?” was the ap- posite remark made by His Roya... ...er triumph. There was a ball after the dramatic entertainments, and every- body pressed round Becky as the great point of attraction of the evening. T... ... you,” he screamed out. “Y ou innocent! Why every trinket you have on your body is paid for by me. I have given you thousands of pounds, which this fe... ...g kept her eye, but four richly gilt Louis Quatorze candlesticks, six gilt albums, keep- sakes, and Books of Beauty, a gold enamelled snuff-box which ... ...w, as malicious as Satan, and who made caricatures of Tapeworm in all the- albums of the place. Their headquarters and table d’hote were established a...

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...im- pression. They had found each other again, a few days later, in an old country house full of books and pictures, in the soft landscape of southern... ...erica, when she was a girl, and he had gone to stay with her family in the country, she had been out when he arrived, and her mother had told him to l... ... of her husband’s mother, she left without giving Darrow the chance he had counted on, and he cursed himself for a dilatory blun- derer. Still, his di... ...w months, she acted as a buffer between three autocratic infants and their bodyguard of nurses and teachers. The too-pressing attentions of their fath... ...he room, coming cautiously toward him. He kept his eyes shut, relaxing his body to feign sleep. There was another pause, then a wavering soft advance,... ...k, a locket on her tuck- ered bosom, toward the end of an embossed morocco album beginning with The Beauties of the Second Empire. She received her da... ...ee no change in her appearance, and she wondered that at such a moment her body should seem as unrelated to the self that writhed within her as if it ...

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...ll difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James?s phrase and story of ?The Great Good Place,? twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no l...

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...uld name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country . It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land ... ...ection. Parload’s truckle bed hid its gray sheets beneath an old patchwork counterpane on one side of the room, and veiled his boxes and suchlike oddm... ...tripped for a swim in his life; never had a simultaneous bath all over his body since his childhood. Not one in fifty of us did in the days of which I... ... he told me. It was the first time I had heard of this new speck among the countless specks of heaven, and I did not care if I never heard of the thin... ...” I said, “of humdrum drudgery for other men. One may as well starve one’s body out of a place as to starve one’s soul in one.” “I don’t know about th... ...fficient pair of brown-stockinged legs. Now there was coming a strange new body that flowed beneath her clothes with a sinuous insistence. Every movem... ...e under the window was littered with photo- graphic material and the later albums of his continental sou- venirs, and on the American cloth trimmed sh... ...ps eight hundred altogether, including the reverend gentleman’s photograph albums and college and school text- books. This suggestion of learning was ...

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... window? Of all the grotesque sights which amuse the eyes of travellers in country towns, that is the most unpleasant. It is too repulsive to laugh at... ...the exaggerated proportions of certain Swiss heads. The character of their countenance—the features being marked by a total want of harmony—was that o... ...silence of the street was unbroken except by peas- ants coming in from the country, or very early persons mov- ing about. When there is an old maid in... ...ble malady of girlhood which goes by the name of chlo- rosis, deprives the body of its natural colors, destroys the appetite, and shows a disordered s... ...dame Tiphaine, glancing at her own table covered with fashionable trifles, albums, and little presents given to her by friends; “and there are no flow... ...f a rascal.” His legs seemed slender for his torso. In that fat and active body an absolutely lawless spirit dis- ported itself, and a thorough experi... ... atmosphere she had entered. The heart turns suddenly cold or hot like the body. The poor child wanted to cry, without knowing why; but being very tir...

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...a large garden round the house, which on one side looked out upon the open country away from the town. “And so,” decided Kalitin, who had a great dist... ...town. “And so,” decided Kalitin, who had a great distaste for the quiet of country life, “there would be no need for them to be dragging themselves of... ...e, “there would be no need for them to be dragging themselves off into the country.” In her heart Marya Dmitrievna more than once regretted her pretty... ...ed with dull fire. He moved painfully, at every step swinging his ungainly body forward. Some of his movements recalled the clumsy actions of an owl i... ...d the books I bring you, for the wretched sketches with which I adorn your album, and so forth. I might do all that—and be an egoist all the same. I v... ...er name? I have forgotten... will be more propi- tious to me. Where’s your album? I remember, my landscape there is not finished.” Lisa went into the ... ...ndscape there is not finished.” Lisa went into the other room to fetch the album, and Panshin, left alone, drew a cambric handkerchief out of his 20 ... ...rpretations of them in five languages. Cu- pid—naked and very puffy in the body—played a leading part in these illustrations. In one of them, under th... ...by a fit of convulsive yawning. He could scarcely stand upright, his whole body was worn out, and he did not even feel fa- tigue, though fatigue began...

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...enormous stomach of this giant rested on thighs which were as large as the body of an ordinary adult, and feet like those of an elephant. Anger was a ... ...e’s not bad.” The master of Nemours, to use the common abbreviation of the country, wore a velveteen shooting-jacket of bottle- green, trousers of gre... ...ition of life might he not aspire as the son of a man about whom the whole countryside, from Montargis to Essonne, was in the habit of saying, “Pere M... ...hearing the shrill, sharp voice which contrasted so absurdly with his huge body, would have un- derstood why this ponderous, coarse being adored his o... ...ition.” In the days of the Lecompte company their coaches were called the “Countess.”— “’Caillard’ could not overtake the ‘Countess’; but ‘Grand Burea... ...dred pounds, each field should bear. Though she was the soul of that great body called Minoret-Levrault and led him about by his pug nose, she was mad... ...ne, on which she read the inscription, opened, like the cover of an oblong album. She uttered a piercing cry, but the doctor’s spectre slowly rose. Fi...

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...the doubts and struggles of life ended: as if, once landed in the marriage country, all were green and pleasant there: and wife and hus- band had noth... ...nd perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the bank of her new country, and was already looking anxiously back to- wards the sad friendly ... ...ating over the money (for he had never had such a sum before), to mark the countenance or flight of the cadaver- ous suitor of his sister. Fred Bulloc... ...ad, what a shoul- der she has! Emmy, why didn’t you have a bouquet? Every- body has a bouquet.” “Faith, then, why didn’t you boy one?” Mrs. O’Dowd sai... ...iform and equipments, Regulus and his com- rades looked to be as gallant a body of men as ever trumpet sounded for. When Ney dashed upon the advance o... ...ops, carrying one position after the other, until the arrival of the great body of the British army from Brussels changed the as- pect of the combat o... ...” And so he went on riding with her, and copying music and verses into her albums, and play- ing at chess with her very submissively; for it is with t...

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...act, from Mississippi, and he spoke very perceptibly with the accent of that country. It is not in my power to reproduce by any combination of charact... ... time, while his eyes wandered over Mrs. Luna, and he probably wondered what body of doctrine she represented, little as she might partake of the natu... ...ignorance (he was fond of an elegant phrase); that he lived in a part of the country where they didn’t think much about Europe, and that he had always... ...e holding oligarchy which, within her own vivid remembrance, had plunged the country into blood and tears, and that, as associated with such abominati... ...ept him— did it because he was making a collection of such episodes—a mental album of declarations, blushes, hesitations, refusals that just missed im... ...verturned and drifting out to sea, and (after a week of nameless horror) the body of an unknown young woman, defaced beyond recognition, but with long...

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...uld come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, ... ...y displeased with Dick, she left him to understand that he had a heavy ac- count to settle with his Creator; wherefore Dick learned to loathe his God ... ...o you after she has whacked me.’ Dick shambled through the days unkempt in body and savage in soul, as the smaller boys of the school learned to know,... ...an do with the selvage. I don’t think there’s enough to pro- tect my royal body from the cold blast as it is. What are you doing with that everlasting... ... island-group island-group, till the rank and file had long since lost all count of direction and very nearly of time. They were moving somewhere, the... ...w, ‘can’t say I care for Verestchagin-and-water myself, but there’s no ac- counting for tastes. Doing anything now, are you?’ ‘No. I’m amusing myself ... ...m. Once, and only once, when she had left the studio, Maisie showed him an album that held a few poor cuttings from provincial papers,—the briefest of...