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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...either to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Chur... ... Bellechasse and the Rue de Bourgogne, at the door of a large, newly-build house, standing on part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a... ...n part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original state, beyond the courtyard curtailed by hal... ...e carpet, the very rags of wealth which made the large room, with its red, white, and gold, look like a corpse of Imperial festivities. “Monsieur, vir... ...ed. Nor did a single freckle mar her skin, such as those with which many a white and golden maid pays toll for her milky whiteness. Tall, round withou... ...e the crowd. He looked up at the announcement-board, and beheld a strip of white paper, on which was printed the solemn notice: “CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF ... ...ve me, do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have l... ...y love that you may require.” “Well, then, to-night—” “But you, son of the South, my splendid jaguar, come ex- pressly for me from the virgin forest o... ... so quaint and delicious was the nudity revealed through the light film of lawn. “I have just seen virtue in despair.” “Can despair possess virtue?” s...

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...d Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it....

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...ay for three days. I suppose, sister, you will put the child in the little white attic, near the old nurseries. It will be much the best place for her... ...ld me so. It is quite settled. I am to leave Mansfield Park, and go to the White House, I suppose, as soon as she is removed there.” “Well, Fanny, and... ...y, indeed, Fanny, I should hope to be remembered at such a distance as the White House. You speak as if you were going two hundred miles off instead o... ...both placed near a window, cut down to the ground, and opening on a little lawn, surrounded by shrubs in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to cat... ...king his head at the windows. Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately be- yond tall iron palisade... ...e walls of great promise. Mr. Rushworth, shall we summon a council on this lawn?” “James,” said Mrs. Rushworth to her son, “I believe the wilderness w... ...ver,” said Fanny. “I have been watching them. This weather is all from the south.” “South or north, I know a black cloud when I see it; and you must n... ...ouse; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east. The ground seems precisely formed for it. I rode fifty yards up... ... his own, over the various advertise- ments of “A most desirable Estate in South Wales”; “To Parents and Guardians”; and a “Capital season’d Hunter.” ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s...

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... ing dwells beyond the silence and obscurity. Noirtier’s hair was long and white, and flowed over his shoulders; while in his eyes, shaded by thick bl... ...country around him, but all his monotonous life was passed in watching his white-bellied, black-clawed fellow insect, four or five leagues distant fro... ...imself stopped by a hedge, upon which green fruit had succeeded to red and white flowers. Monte Cristo looked for the entrance to the enclosure, and w... ...ead of the usual paving-stones, half hidden by the grass, there extended a lawn but that morning laid down, and 35 Alexandre Dumas upon which the wat... ...he spot where each tree was to be planted, and the shape and extent of the lawn which was to take the place of the paving- stones. Thus the house had ... ...ure accent,” said Danglars. “The son has been educated in a college in the south; I believe near Marseilles. You will find him quite enthusiastic.” “U... ...e, and the court-yard was paved and empty; while to-day we have a splendid lawn, bordered by trees which appear to be a hundred years old.” “Why not? ... ...inct led you to believe the grant would be given to the company called the Southern. I bought two thirds of the shares of that com- pany; as you had f... ...ed with death; at last, as I seemed to cling to life, I was ordered to the South. Four men carried me from Paris to Chalons, walking six leagues a day...

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...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together...

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... ORKS. ORKS. ORKS. THESE PAPERS I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclu- sively; not wi... ...2) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their preeminence when he said to me that they ranked am... ...ot uniform; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whate... ... decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred, I believe, from Cadiz and St.... ...tural of mere hu- man agencies, this change was suddenly accomplished. Mr. White, whom I have already had occasion to mention elsewhere, was in those ... ...ood. What might be the quality or the extent of that relief with which Mr. White was able to crown the expectations of poor Mrs. Schreiber, I do not k... ...liction for its mistress, would have of- fered too cheerless a life to Mr. White. He took up his abode, therefore, at Laxton during his earliest visit... ... holly and the ilex. Under her present frame of pensive feeling, the quiet lawns and long- withdrawing glades of these vast woods had a touching ef- f... ...overs and their beloved. Not more than eighteen miles of shadowy woods, of lawns, and sylvan glades, divided hearts that would either have encountered...

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...the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy....

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...and slightly withdrawn be- hind these brocaded matrons sat a young girl in white with eyes ecstatically fixed on the stagelovers. As Madame Nilsson’s ... ...e bouquet of lilies-of- the-valley on her knee, and Newland Archer saw her white- gloved finger-tips touch the flowers softly. He drew a breath of sat... ...r-off prodigies. In the centre of this enchanted garden Madame Nilsson, in white cashmere slashed with pale blue satin, a reticule dan- gling from a b... ...onnection between the Mingotts (through the Thorleys) with the Dallases of South Carolina, and that of the relationship of the elder branch of Philade... ...ca’s most honoured families; she had been the lovely Regina Dallas (of the South Carolina branch), a penniless beauty introduced to New York society b... ...ed in simplicity and seclusion, digging invisible weeds out of the perfect lawns of Skuytercliff, and playing Patience together in the evenings. Mr. v... ... he perceived that the only visible specimen had stopped. He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, a... ...ung by rare weeping conifers. To the right and left, the fa- mous weedless lawns studded with “specimen” trees (each of a different variety) rolled aw... ...eks because Kate Merry had had bronchitis. They were planning to lay out a lawn tennis court on the sands; but no one but Kate and May had racquets, a...

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... Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett’s—the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties—where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine Engl... ...ored kitchen, made them shyly welcome. They lay in an attic beneath a wavy whitewashed ceiling, and, because it rained, a wood fire was made in an iro... ...posts leaned out and in. A narrow path doubled among the bushes, scores of white tails twinkled before the racing hound, and a hawk rose, whistling sh... ...ind her husband. The front door opened slowly, to show the hound, his nose white with milk, in charge of an ancient of days clad in a blue linen ephod... ...ran and returned swiftly. “Our land marches with Pardons for a mile on the south,” she explained, waving the full cup, “but one has quite enough to do... ...of the mistress of Pardons. A gate in a beech hedge, reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea-time into the unkempt south side of their la... ...reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea-time into the unkempt south side of their land. “I want your hand, please,” said Sophie as soon a... ...t on. “They’d be sure to build a red-brick lodge at the gates, and cut the lawn up for bed- ding out. You must leave instructions in your will that he... ... pithing-irons, winches, haw- sers, snaps, shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations. Detachable under-cars, aluminum or st...

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...e are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. ?Yes, you too have been in Arcadia,? we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don?t know who has it now, and don?t want to know; it?s enough to be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such luck for me as that Brooksmith ...

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... have been in Arcadia,” we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don’t know w... ...he intensely Londonish look of the grey opposite houses, in the gap of the white curtains of the high windows, and the exact spot where, on a particul... ...t in his ap- pearance; in his spare brisk little person, in his cloistered white face and extraordinarily polished hair, which told of responsibility,... ...et over his legs at a clean little window where, from behind stiff bluish- white curtains, he could look across at a huckster’s and a tinsmith’s and a... ...hose protected by the verandah their vicious splotches of rain. Beyond the lawn, beyond the cliff, the great wet brush of the sky dipped deep into the... ...he cliff, the great wet brush of the sky dipped deep into the sea. But the lawn, already vivid with the touch of May, showed a violence of watered gre... ...nking in the watery sunshine, had come back with it across the fine little lawn. He was neither fatuous nor asinine, but he had almost to put it to hi... ...manner disconcert- ing enough. The poor lady was Miss Cutter, who lived in South Audley Street, where she had an “upper half” so concise that it had t... ... Her hansom had waited. “She’ll come.” Lady Wantridge did come. She met in South Audley Street, on the fourteenth, at tea, the ladies whom Mamie had n...

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... it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at large, May fix my habitation where I will. What dwelling shall receive me, in what vale Shall be m...

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... welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city’s walls set free, A prison where he hath ... ...s Almost as silent as the turf they trod. 335 Nor less in springtime when on southern banks The shining sun had from his knot of leaves Decoy’d the pr... ...with no reluctant voice The woods of autumn and their hazel bowers With milk white clusters hung; the rod and line, 515 True symbol of the foolishness... ...ad In strife too humble to be named in Verse. Or round the naked table, snow white deal, 545 Cherry or maple, sate in close array, And to the combat, ... ...een reared; ’Twas but a short hour’s walk ere, veering round, I saw the snow white church upon its hill Sit like a thron` ed lady, sending out A graci... ...f heaven, now seen in their old haunts— 235 White Sirius glittering o’er the southern crags, Orion with his belt, and those fair Seven, Acquaintances ... ...a few, How bright a face is worn when joy of one Is joy of tens of millions. Southward thence 360 We took our way, direct through hamlets, towns, Boo... ... naked huts, wood built, and sown like tents Or Indian cabins over the fresh lawns And by the river side. That day we first Beheld the summit of Mount ... ...dless, here opening widely out, and there Shut up in lesser lakes or beds of lawn 335 And intricate recesses, creek or bay Sheltered within a shelter,...

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...of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the ?Coach and Horses? more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. ?A fire,? he cried, ?in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!? He stamped and shook ...

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...se; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the “Coach and Hors... ...s she did so her visitor moved quickly, so that she got but a glimpse of a white object disappearing behind the table. It would seem he was picking 5... ...r. For a moment she stood gaping at him, too surprised to speak. He held a white cloth—it was a serviette he had brought with him—over the lower part ... ...in’t no time for foolery.” The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bor- dering stakes, ran ... ...allow ditches and white bor- dering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too. “So help me,”... ...urdock. It was a pleasant little room, with three windows—north, west, and south—and bookshelves covered with books and scientific publications, and a... ... door. Then he marched, upright and square, down the steps. He crossed the lawn and approached the gate. A little breeze seemed to ripple over the gra... ...through the shrubbery between the house and the road gate. Adye lay on the lawn near the gate. The blinds of all the villas down the hill-road were dr... ...o shots—left. He’s killed Adye. Shot him anyhow. Didn’t you see him on the lawn? He’s lying there.” “Who?” said one of the policemen. “Adye,” said Kem...

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...wy pine trees as through a doorway, at the greengrassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage that crouched near the earth amid flowers, blossoming in the bit of shaggy wildness round about....

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...from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage ... ...gy gorse com- mons, and marshy, snake infested places near the foot of the south downs. The spirit of place lingering on primeval, as when the Saxons ... ...w he had loved it! The green garden path, the tufts of flowers, purple and white columbines, and great oriental red poppies with their black chaps and... ...s. Her eyes were nut-brown, too, like a robin’s for brightness. And he was white-skinned with fine, silky hair that had darkened from fair, and a slig... ...egetable garden stretching away to the oak copse. And then away beyond the lawns and rose trees of the house-garden went the track across a shaggy, wi... ...would easily take the place of poetry. Winifred loved him, loved him, this southerner, as a higher being. A higher being, mind you. Not a deeper. And ... ...in the year—and so fragrant! Do you remember the violets under Aunt Bell’s south wall?’ The two friends looked at each other and exchanged a smile, Is... ...he chimneys and the outhouses. But inside the hedge, a pleasant garden and lawn sloped down to a willow pool, which had once supplied the works. The P... ...hairs to watch. Be- yond the dark holly-bushes that separated the strip of lawn from the highroad, they could see a cavalcade of shire horses swinging...

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...s reserved for themselves along the beach, where they may be seen in their white kilts and jackets openly passing the lines, while not a hundred yards... ...and had another code to observe be- side his own, he was always asking his white advisers if “things were done correctly.” Let us try to be as wise as... ...es in that excursion, than has yet been collected in the blue-books or the white- books of the world. Mulinuu (where the walk is to begin) is a flat, ... ...aper and Westphalian iron, his most considerable asset was found to be the South Sea business. This passed (I understand) through the hands of Baring ... ... very brief interval he had thus run through the gamut of religions in the South Seas. It does not appear that he was any more particular in politics,... ...awaii and descriptions of Honolulu are grateful topics in all parts of the South Seas; and there is no better introduction than a photograph in which ... ... Pelly of the Lizard strained every nerve to help, and set up tents on the lawn to be a shelter for the patients. The doctors of the English and Ameri... ...on the de Coetlogons that the distress fell. For nearly half a year, their lawn, their verandah, sometimes their rooms, were cumbered with the sick an... ...rn volley rang across the ravine, and was punctually answered: harmless as lawn-ten- nis. The whites expostulated in vain. The warriors, drunken with ...

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... looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- time many splashing brooks. From its summit you must have an excellent lesson of... ...s the corn-lands and thick tule swamps of Sacramento Valley, to where the Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the Sierras; and north... ...al- though the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great... ...oons, a hotel of a great size, marshy pools where the frogs keep up their croaking, and even at high noon the entire absence of any human face or voic... ... labourers, and partly ruinous. At dinner 5 there was the ordinary display of what is called in the west a two-bit house: the ... ...horus. Early the next morning we mounted the hill along a wooden footway, bridging one marish spot after another. Here and there, as we ascended, we p... ...war; and right against one of these hillocks is the Springs Hotel – is or was; for since I was there the place has been destroyed by fire, and has ris... ...that vile lad to head them off on idle divagations, for five they would have smiled and stumbled through the woods. However, we came forth at length, ... ...titude, and almost love. A fine place, after all, for a wasted life to doze away in – the cuckoo clock hooting of its far home country; the croquet ma...

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...et the travellers at the door with her charm- ing welcome. Kunz, all snowy white, wagged his tight-curled tail amid his barks, at sight of Aunt Jane, ... ...ther a broad space of short grass, where there was a cricket ground, and a lawn-tennis ground, and the volunteers could exercise, and the band played ... ... the dramatic sports of Silverfold. Aunt Ada found another acquaintance, a white moustached old gentleman, who rose from a green bench in a sunny cor-... ...en grew up to be companionable, said Gillian. ‘There was nobody except the Whites. And that wasn’t exactly friendship.’ ‘Who were they?’ said Aunt Jan... ...ote to beg the Misses Mohun to bring themselves and her niece to make up a lawn-tennis set, since some one had failed. Gillian vainly protested that s... ... some one had failed. Gillian vainly protested that she did not care about lawn tennis, and could not play unless Jasper was her partner; and 47 Beec... ...to turning back, and desire of giving her a little preparation. ‘Ah! those southern beauties soon go on. Some one told me that Lord Byron’s “Maid of A... ...as a protector. Maura was quite as pretty as her elders, and had more of a southern look. Perhaps she was proportionably precocious, for she returned ... ...ple of gentle breeding, which perhaps their partly foreign extraction, and southern birth and childhood, made it easier for them to assimilate. Their ...

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...er the moun- tains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how muc... ...uld all be. The imperial procession no longer crosses the mountains, going South. That is almost forgotten, the road has almost passed out of mind. Bu... ...ses away into this change- less radiance. Summer and the prolific blue-and-white flow- ering of the earth goes by, with the labour and the ecstasy of ... ...wards Austria, travelling up the Isar, till the stream becomes smaller and whiter and the air is colder, the full glamour of the northern hills, which... ...nearer to the turning-point of the Alps, to- wards the culmination and the southern slope, the influence of the educated world is felt once more. Bava... ...nel of the truth. Further into Aus- tria they become new, they are painted white, they are larger, more obtrusive. They are the expressions of a later... ...bing for an hour, I found myself in a snow lane, and saw olive orchards on lawns of snow. The padrone says that all lemons and sweet oranges are graft... ...We climbed up the water-course in the mountain-side, up to a smooth little lawn under the olive trees, where daisies were flowering and gladioli were ... ...here daisies were flowering and gladioli were in bud. It was a tiny little lawn of grass in a level crevice, and sitting there we had the world below ...

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...tand watchful and still over sleep- ing stretches of open water; a line of white surf thun- ders on an empty beach, the shallow water foams on the ree... ...rous crowd, with the variegated colours of checkered sarongs, red turbans, white jack- ets, embroideries; with the gleam of scabbards, gold rings, cha... ...ed the villages; slim palms put their nodding heads together above the low houses; dried palm-leaf roofs shone afar, like roofs of gold, behind the da... ...his stage well—the purple semicircle of hills, the slim trees leaning over houses, the yellow sands, the streaming green of ravines. All that had the ... ...ng foam trailed behind the flotilla. The canoes appeared very black on the white hiss of water; turbaned heads swayed back and forth; a multitude of a... ...er his people admired him. We saw him once walking in daylight amongst the houses of the settlement. At the doors of huts groups of women turned to lo... ...de, pathless, and with- out voice. A sailing prau leaves no track. We went south. The moon was full; and, looking up, we said to one another, ‘When th... ... have grown full and withered and I have not seen my land since. We sailed south; we overtook many praus; we examined the creeks and the bays; we saw ... ...e himself proposing to her—ages ago. They were strolling up the slope of a lawn. Groups of people were scattered in sunshine. The shadows of leafy bou...

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...down for the night to Apia; put in Sunday afternoon with our consul, ‘a nice young man,’ dined with my friend H. J. Moors in the evening, went to ch... ...way up I met a native coming down with the trunk of a cocoa palm across his shoulder; his brown breast glittering with sweat and oil: ‘Talofa’—‘Talofa... ...a, alii—You see that white man?He speak for you. ’‘White man he gone up here?’—‘Ioe (Yes)’—‘Tofa, alii’—‘Tofa, soifua!’I put on Jack up the steep path... ...u details and news. That is a 5 V ailima Letters picture of a letter. I have been hard at work since I came; three chapters of The Wrecker, and since... ...d, along and about and in between, a hatful of verses. Some day I’ll send the verse to you, and you’ll say if any of it is any good. I have got in a b... ...int. It seems a long while since I have heard from you. I do hope you are well. I am wonderful, but tired from so much work; ’tis really immense what ... ... and am just recovering—I am overlaid with proofs, which I am just about half fit to attend to. One of my horses died this morning, and another is now... ...uperintending the floor, Lloyd down in Apia, and Belle in her own house cleaning, when I heard the latter calling on my name. I ran out on the veranda... ... to vengeance. But what an end to one chosen for her beauty and, in the time of peace, watched over by trusty crones and hunchbacks! EVENING. Can I wr...

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...e that the grey scale of the Thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had ... ...ell, I noted a little black knot of men, the foremost of whom was waving a white flag. This was the Deputation. There had been a hasty consul- tation,... ...d became audible. Beyond the pit stood the little wedge of people with the white flag at its apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small... ...ite, firelit smoke, and a long caterpillar of lighted windows, went flying south—clatter, clatter, clap, rap, and it had gone. A dim group of people t... ...rash, quite close to us, that shook the ground; and, starting out upon the lawn, I saw the tops of the trees about the Oriental College burst into smo... ...He stopped astride of the fence in doubt. Then he came over and across the lawn to the corner of the house. He bent down and stepped softly. 44 The W... ...tinct. It would seem that a number of men or animals had rushed across the lawn. I began to see his face, blackened and hag- gard, as no doubt mine wa... ... He’s at Weybridge. Know the way?” “I do,” I said; and he turned his horse southward again. “Half a mile, you say?” said he. “At most,” I answered, an... ...e, you say?” said he. “At most,” I answered, and pointed over the treetops south- ward. He thanked me and rode on, and we saw them no more. Farther al...

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...d slaves until adult age, yet they all have not only won equality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but ... ... land. The fundamental prin- ciples of the republic, to which the humblest white man, whether born here or elsewhere, may appeal with confidence, in t... ...lmost the same was his prayer. One of his earliest observa- tions was that white children should know their ages, while the colored children were igno... ... give that hate telling effect. Women—white women, I mean—are IDOLS at the south, not WIVES, for the slave women are preferred in many instances; and ... ...rrible peculiarities, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-west- ern states of the American union. The argument in ... ...m it; the 44 My Bondage and My Freedom intermediate space was a beautiful lawn, very neatly trimmed, and watched with the greatest care. It was dotte... ...e beach, and, in its course, formed a complete circle around the beautiful lawn. Carriages going in and retiring from the great house, made the circui... ...riages going in and retiring from the great house, made the circuit of the lawn, and their passengers were permitted to behold a scene of almost Eden-... ...slave gets a surname from anybody in Maryland; and so com- pletely has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolition...

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...Machiavelli’s time have come near to one another; it is no simple story of white passions struggling against the red that I have to tell. The state-ma... ...beauty of women. Thousands of men there are to-day almost mastered by this white passion of statecraft, and in nearly every one who reads and thinks y... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ... geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big fossil bones, and above that hangs the por... ...hat wrecked my preparation work for school next day. My father dug up both lawns, and trenched and manured in spasms of immense vigour alternating wit... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ...vailed over the original Bromstead thatch, the huge space of Common to the south was extensively en- closed, and what had been an ill-defined horse-tr... ...uch a proceeding. The family occupied a large villa in Newcastle, with big lawns before it and behind, a shrubbery with quite a lot of shrubs, a coach... ... mown grass, which was as it were grass path with an occasional lapse into lawn or glade. And Margaret, hatless, with the fair hair above her thin, de...

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...e Point of View by Henry James I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. …My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that’s what ... ... soon as we come up to the dock. I believe they are dreadful at the custom-house, and you will remember how many new things you per- suaded mamma that... ... should find my ignorance incredible. “Now, how would it be in one of your South-Western States?”—that’s his favourite way of opening conversation. Fa... ...s favourite way of opening conversation. Fancy me giving an account of the South-Western States! I tell him he had better ask mamma—a little to tease ... ...rs come up from the deep sea, which murmurs on the rocks at the end of the lawn. Newport is more charming even than you remember it; like every- thing... ...f prodigies of blue. Here and there a pretty woman strolls over one of the lawns, which all touch each other, you know, without hedges or fences; the ... ... me was going to bed), offered a rather ragged expanse, dotted with little white wooden houses, which looked in the moonshine like pasteboard boxes. I... ...impression I have gathered in the Middle States and in New England; in the South-west, the North-west, and the far West, it will doubtless be liable t... ...sit to Philadel- phia, where I saw several thousand little red houses with white steps, occupied by intelligent artizans, and arranged (in streets) on...