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... years after- wards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity— had never been commercially anythin... ...safe proceeding. Such was also the opinion of a stout, loud-voiced lady of French extraction, the daughter, she said, of an of- 54 Nostromo ficer of ... ...ntage was German and Scotch and English, with remote strains of Danish and French blood, giving him the temperament of a Puritan and an insatiable ima... ... who piqued him- self on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had lived in Europe for some years—in exile, he sai... ...aternal uncle, Don Jose Avellanos; but his letters—unless those expressing formally his dutiful affection—were seldom en- trusted to the Costaguana Po... ...before the ringing hoofs of his horse. Dogs barked behind the walls of the gardens; and with the colourless light the chill of the snows seemed to fal... ...It was not Charles Gould’s policy to make the San Tome mine a party to any formal proceedings. “My advice, señores, is that you should wait for your f... ...r fate in your houses. There is no necessity for you to give yourselves up formally into Montero’s hands. Submission to the inevitable, as Don Juste c... ...señor doctor came slowly through the inner gateway of the patio. The large gardens of the Casa Gould, surrounded by high walls, and the red-tile slope...

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...ed by art. She liked a bulk of colour; and when the dahlia dawned upon our gardens, she gave her heart to dahlias. By good desert, the fervent woman g... ...ctor and his lady, and of people in story-books, especially of the courtly French fairy-books, wherein the princes talk in periods as sweetly rounded ... ...meeting him with the pretty motion of the gloves. “I’ll step as light as a French dancing-master. Let’s go to Paris and learn the savate, Ned. It must... ...mach reports that if provision doesn’t soon approach——why don’t you keep a French cook here, Ned? Let’s give up the women, and take to a French cook.”... ... am and have to you. I would almost wish and wait to see you to-day in the Gardens, but my crying has made me such a streaked thing to look at. If I h... ...eyes open; Number 15 is the corner house, the bow-window, to a certainty.” Gardens were in front of the houses; or, to speak more correctly, strips of... ...t pleased him that she should bow to him over fresh bubbles; and they went formally through the cer- emony, and she smiled. He joked and laughed and t... ...kbut, which included interest. Algernon remonstrated against so needless a formality; but Anthony put the star- tling supposition to him, that he migh... ...tween him and Lord Suckling. They were at first preternaturally polite and formal toward one another; by degrees, the influence at work upon them was ...

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...t they had been entirely one with each other; and there had been little of formal demand either of the maiden’s affection or her father’s consent; but... ...ce and sweet open expression, had begun, at Gertrude’s entreaty, a game of French billiards. Gertrude had still her childish sunny face and bright hai... ...nd ornamental shrubs, and with sheets of glass glaring in the sun from the gardens at the back, was the house that poor Mr. and Mrs. W ard had bought ... ...nd of assistance.’ ‘At Cocksmoor!’ cried Ethel, much as if it had been the French. ‘Every district is filled up here, you know,’ said Richard, ‘and Mr... ...t Mrs. Ernescliffe. Having disposed of the others in the drawing-rooms and gardens, Flora and her father came to the nursery, and Ethel was set at lib... ...cern, even the invitation to Dr. and Miss May, knowing that it was sent in formal vanity, accepted in pure good-nature, would bring them into soci- et... ...s. He was the guest of the Mays during the examination; and though his shy formal manner, and convulsive efforts at young lady talk, greatly affronted... ...r amusement, treated her to an exhibition of his microscope, and played at French 187 Yo n g e billiards with her the rest of the evening, till she w... ...bserved that he had seen the Andersons knocking about the balls in the new gardens by the river; and proposed to go down and try to get up a match. Th...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...le apartment into the space of what used to be a salon, and wages war upon gardens, will infallibly react on Parisian manners and morals. We shall soo... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...rner of Colleville’s house, opposite to which was a passage leading to the gardens by the stairway of a little building, the last remains of the fa- m... ...re. He had as great a horror for straight courses as the lovers of English gardens show in the lines of their paths. Dutocq, having still a portion of... ...huillier had turned as pale as death. “Didn’t you fulfil all the necessary formalities?” he said to Barbet, in a choking voice. “This is not a matter ... ...malities?” he said to Barbet, in a choking voice. “This is not a matter of formalities,” said la Peyrade, “it is a seizure for what is called press mi... ...y impatience, you are very caustic and cruel.” “So,” said la Peyrade, “you formally request me to defend you before the jury?” “Yes, my dear fellow; a...

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...o the nature of her nether costume. He had heard of such things of course. French, perhaps. Her handles glittered; a jet of sunlight splashed off her ... ... background. You should have seen Mr. Hoopdriver promenading the brilliant gardens at Earl’s Court on an early-closing night. His meaning glances! (I ... ...and he pulled himself together. In the lanes he breathed freer, and a less formal conversation presently began. “You’ve ridden out of Chichester in a ... ...nce for foolishness. She had begun with a few experiments. He did not know French except ‘sivver play,’ a phrase he seemed to regard as a very good li... ... I wasn’t so backward. I did algebra, and Latin up to auxiliary verbs, and French genders. I got a kind of grounding.” “And now you mean, should you g...

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...further side. “Don’t be afraid!” cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficien... ...nd. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his pub- lic-school French. “Pas de peur,” he said. “Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n’a pas l’habit... ...hen far away and bringing back memories of terraced houses and ripe walled gardens, was the scream of peacocks. And some invisible bird was making a h... ...ulse in conversation, and had adopted the defensive precaution of a rather formal and sonorous speech, which habit had made a part of him. His general... ... insisted upon regarding Socialism as a proposal to reinaugurate the first French Revolution, as an inversion of society so that it would be bottom up... ...,” said Benham, “can you come 123 H G Wells and have a talk in Kensington Gardens? You know the place, near that Chinese garden. Paddington Gate… .” ... ...ps…. It was odd that for the first time now, in the sunshine of Kensington Gardens, he saw the little gossamer lines that tell that thirty years and m... ...dged by their reaction and fatigue products, and Confucianism had produced formalism, priggishness, humbug… . No doubt its ideals had had their succes...

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... St. Paul side, upon mud flats, is a wild settle- ment of chicken-infested gardens and shanties patched together from discarded sign-boards, sheets of... ... was a martial im- mensity, vigorous, a little harsh, unsoftened by kindly gardens. The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short w... ...to give you a chance to get settled. I am Vida Sherwin, and I try to teach French and English and a few other things in the high school.” “I’ve been h... ...the town only when she went shopping and on the ritualistic occa- sions of formal afternoon calls, when Mrs. Lyman Cass or Mrs. George Edwin Mott, wit... ...’ was the most interesting pa- per we had, the year we took up English and French travel and architecture. But— And of course Mrs. Mott and Mrs. Warre... ...ds of a Main Street to a way which led the eye down a vista of arcades and gardens. Assured that she was not quite mad in her belief that a small Amer... ...al and personalities and so on.” All—save one—nodded. They interrupted the formal business-meeting to discuss Mrs. Edgar Potbury’s husband, Mrs. Potbu... ...ven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid with the mirror and the loyal ears?” “Oh, wha...

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...better!” he ex- claimed, as he substituted the loose business suit for the formal rigidity of his evening dress. It was with a sensation of positive l... ...ation; and isn’t study- ing medicine, Condy, better than piano-playing, or French courses, or literary classes and Browning circles? Oh, I’ve no patie... ...ad just known each other, and met each other in the weekly course of their formal life, it had not been so, even though they pretended a certain amoun... ...f the breeze, that carried with it the smell of trees and flowers from the gardens below them, and the faint fine taint of the ocean from far out be- ...

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... Yellow celandines showed out from the hedge-bot- toms, and in the cottage gardens of Willey Green, currant- bushes were breaking into leaf, and littl... ... off, mother dear? We shall be sitting down to eat in a minute, and it’s a formal occasion, darling, isn’t it?’ She drew her arm through her mother’s,... ...e was a silence. Suddenly the girl turned to Gerald, and said, in a rather formal, polite voice, with the distant manner of a woman who accepts her po... ...‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’ said Alexander, with a fine declamatory voice. ‘Bazarov ouvra la p... ...es gens-la! Ne sont-ils pas des hiboux incroyables?’ And with the words of French in her mouth, she would look over her shoulder at the giggling party... ...e activity. According to conventionality, he wore black clothes, he looked formal, handsome and comme il faut. His hair was fair almost to whiteness, ... ...He’s a real king, he really is.’ ‘Bon jour, Mademoiselle,’ said the little French governess, wavering up with a slight bow, a bow of the sort that Gud... ...veins like an exhilaration. Nevertheless she dreamed of a valley, and wild gardens, and peace. She had a desire too for splendour—an aristocratic extr...

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...descent; and there are many who appreciate her sprightly conversation, her French conundrums so old as to have become in the cycles of time almost new... ...old man’s sight for print or writing being defective at night—he opens the French window and steps out upon the leads. There he again walks slowly up ... ...xactly as he has stood before her at any time since her marriage. The same formal politeness, the same composed deference that might as well be defian... ...n eyes him with some surprise. “What foreigner?” “The foreign female, sir. French, if I don’t mistake? I am not acquainted with that language myself, ... ... with the grey ghost of a bloom upon them; not only is it a still night in gardens and in woods, and on the river where the water meadows are fresh an... ...posed, as you see—no act I have done for her advantage and happiness.” His formal array of words might have at any other time, as it has often had, so... ... limits of the present dispatch. I have the honour to be, GEORGE “A little formal,” observes the elder brother, refolding it with a puzzled face. “But...

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... all over the place here.’ Louis pressed to hear what. ‘Why, that when the French were going on like Robert Spear and them old times, he had convoyed ... ..., and rec- tified errors of the workmen. It might not be poetical, but the French sky-blue paper, covered with silvery fern-leaves, that Louis took su... ...ive. It was the letter of a very angry man, too violent to retain the cold formality which he tried to assume. ‘He was beholden to his lordship for hi... ...new it to be—was an infinite solace to the young people, by sparing them a formal parting, and permitting them still to feel that they belonged to eac... ...ot even let her dreams rest. Then came a drive with Rosita, resplendent in French mil- linery, then supper; then the Opera, to which her father ac- co... ...lerkly handwriting, the trustees of King Edward’s Northwold Grammar School formally ac- cepted the resignation of the Reverend James Roland Frost Dyne... ...liver would not have looked so benignant at us when we were sitting in the gardens last night, if he had known that I was giving Louis all my Lima let...

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... Anne type with big sash windows, and others quite modern. Some have their gardens in front, some stand flush with the road, and the better sort are m... ...was intoxication; but good dwelling-houses capable of being made cheerful, gardens, innocent recreations, and in- struction had, he could testify from... ...the roll- ing-pin covered with sentimental poetry, and her extraordi- nary French pictures on the walls. Dermot kept us full of merriment, and we laug... ...ell.” He went decisively out of the way of further persuasions, and when a formal note of invi- tation arrived, he said Eustace and I might go, but he... ...rford Vicarage, but I had not time for sentiment over the old home and old gardens. I was turning out the old Indian cabinets, which were none of mine... ... mon. I hate the sound of dice to this hour, and when I heard that unhappy French criminals, the night before their ex- ecution, are apt to send for F...

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...fficiently thankful to my guardian for doing so.’ ‘I dare say;—I dare say. French and German are very use- ful. I have a prejudice of my own in favour... ...t you knew about it.’ ‘Do you mean that my daughter went to the Zoological Gardens alone with this man?’ the father asked in dismay. 34 The Prime Min... ...I had a headache. Did you not know that she went?’ ‘Yes,—I heard about the Gardens. But I heard nothing about the man.’ ‘I thought, Mr Wharton, you we... ... husband was away in Ireland, Mrs Finn was staying in the house in Carlton Gardens. The Duchess at present required so much of her time that this was ... ...down soon.’ This name, which Mrs Pritchard called Milleypoise, indicated a French cook who was at yet unknown at the Castle. ‘He’ll be here tonight.’ ... ...ther than of working mechanics, should be English rather than Span- ish or French. The man could not be her hero without edu- cation, without attribut... ...na De Courcy. In her active anger she did write to Lady Rosina De Courcy a formal letter, in which she said that the Duke hoped to have the pleasure o... ...on Hall,—and the bishop, whose services had been happily se- cured. He was formally introduced to Mrs Lopez, the use of the name for the occasion bein...

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...ight have been built on purpose for its present uses. Access is given by a French window to the first room on the ground floor, a sitting-room which l... ... a smile. “That would be a very compromising step for you,” she said. “‘ A Frenchman loves danger, because in danger there is glory ,’ to quote M. de ... ...staud’s house, where he was expected that evening. It was one of those in- formal gatherings where tea and little cakes are handed round, but where it... ...ll the care of an antiquary.” “There is a man who can talk the language of French gallantry!” said the widow, bending to speak in Mme. Couture’s ear. ... ...and carrying out the sentence, it costs a lot to go through all the proper formalities before you can get quit of one of these good-for-nothings, over... ...d?” Rastignac asked himself. He hurried along the alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens as if the hounds of justice were after him, and he already heard th... ...ake the certificate to the registrar themselves, and by twelve o’clock the formalities were completed. T wo hours went by, no word came from the Count...

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... AC TION, AND RATHER ASTONISHES HIM THE MONTH’S TRIAL OVER, Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice sickly season just at this time. In com... ...r had seen 62 OLIVER TWIST smoking on the previous night, and who was now formally introduced to him as Charley Bates. The four sat down, to breakfas... ...n that it was time to pad the hoof. This, it oc curred to Oliver, must be French for going out; for directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and... ...ing on his hat, expeditiously departed: without de voting any time to the formality of wishing the company good morning. ‘We must know where he is, m... ...oom, quite full of books, with a window, looking into some pleasant little gardens. There was a table drawn up before the window, at which Mr. Brownlo... ...n, taking a right hand road, walked on for a long time: passing many large gardens and gentlemen’ s houses on both sides of the way, and stopping for ... ...e hastily threw upon the table a small kid bag scarcely large enough for a French watch, which Monks pouncing upon, tore open with trembling hands. It...

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...t it 5 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, wh... ...iration, love, and gratitude we see struggling to find ex- pression in the formal language of the notary, as they testify one after another to the goo... ...one of the most intensely national. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not more English, “Rob Roy” not more Scotch, than “Don ... ... like that of Motteux’s version for example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes adopt. It is the grave matter-of-factness of t... ... his hold; and when they got down there he found himself among palaces and gardens so pretty that it was a wonder to see; and then the serpent changed...

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...eld or the garden, and then there would be no great difficulty: it was the formal knock- ing at the door, with the prospect of being gravely ushered i... ... melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride. ‘Well, Mr. Markham, what is it?’ said the young mother... ... a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer. There might be, it is true, a lit... ...wn with her mother; there is no one at the Grove but little Esther and her French governess, for Walter is always away. I saw that para- gon of manly ... ...would then defer my ramble, or confine myself for that day to the park and gardens, or, if the proposed excursion was a matter of importance, such as ...

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...nsieur Achille Deveria An affectionate remembrance from the Author. IF THE FRENCH have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propen... ...on for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than En- gland is ... ... thinking, but does not say, the spirit of the unspoken, which is half the French language, is nowhere else to be met with. Hence a French- man, whose... ...he cobblestones were hidden in the grass, the blackened walls where little gardens were flourish- ing above the decorations of the elegant architectur... ...at home; we might as well make a little door of open railings to unite our gardens. . . . Y ou, too, are fond of flowers; you will see mine, I shall s... ...robability to arouse no contradiction. “When I moved to Genoa I received a formal announce- ment of the happy event of the birth of a son to the Count...

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............... 192 CHAPTER IX: FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ............

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.............................................................. 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI... ... absolutely enveloped Greenhay; and, for any thing I know, the grounds and gardens which then insulated the house may have long disappeared. Being a m... ...hat then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answered with brotherly signals to the cry of “Church and king,... ...,”) so that very seldom any serious business was trans- acted. Without any formal armistice, the paramount conve- nience of such an arrangement silent... ...ascending to a height beyond any that I have since seen in fairs or public gardens. Horror was at my heart regularly as the swing reached its most aer... ...n a favored 113 Autobiographic Sketches correspondent of the most eminent Frenchmen at that time who cultivated literature jointly with philosophy. V... ...des laborers equal to at least two more, were required for the grounds and gardens. And no motive ex- isted any longer for being near to a great tradi... ... however, I, my younger brother, and a school-fellow of my own age, called formally upon the naval hero. Why, I know not, unless as alumni of the scho... ...nd manuscripts, which were originally collected and 166 Thomas de Quincey formally bequeathed to the public, under the generous and noble idea of giv...

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...tectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feeling that he is French to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi-... ...ur- mount the agricultural blouse. This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a refle... ... glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it wa... ...nge. Peace and plenty, however, have succeeded that episode; and among the gardens and vineyards of Touraine it seems, only a legend the more in a cou... ...our eye wanders over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away ... ...astions, the terraces, the high-perched windows and balconies, the hanging gardens and dizzy crenellations, of this complicated structure, keep you in... ...f the Archeveche, which has been arranged as a public walk, with the usual formal alleys of the jardin francais. I must add that I appreciated these p... .... Superficially, the association is incongruous, for nothing could be more formal and decorous than the patent expression of these eligible residences...