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...ent looks, and Albinia, accustomed to a brother with whom to assent was to act, believed the matter was in train, and that pond and fever would be ann... ... from his knowledge of old Mr. Meadows, he believed him capable of such an act of domestic tyranny. Maria had always been looked upon as a mere child,... ...e matter beyond ourselves. Your brother and sister would, I have no doubt, act as sponsors. Nay, if Ferrars would officiate, we need hardly mention it... ...al, was an evidence not only of a powerful reasoning intellect bowed to an act of simple faith but of a victory over the false shame that had always b... ...antly moaning the name of her eldest and favourite granddaughter, and when telegraph and express train brought home the startled and trem- bling Lucy,... ...25th Lancers were cut to pieces. In spite of Algernon’s reit- eration that telegraphs were lies, all the household would have been glad to lose the se... .... Late that evening the maid came hurriedly in with a packet of papers. ‘A telegraph, ma’am, come express from Hadminster.’ It was to Mrs Kendal from ... ...e one of the family. Moreover, he was so much elevated at the receipt of a telegraph direct from the fountain-head, that he rode about the next day ov... ...uncle had become suddenly worse; but he had only reached Hadminster when a telegraph met him with the news of Mr. Goldsmith’s death, and orders to re-...

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...forms of mittimus for ghosts that might be refractory, and probably a riot act, for any émeute amongst ghosts in- clined to raise barricades; since he... ...c drama. He got to work instantly; and very soon he had composed the first act of his “Sultan Selim;” but, in defiance of the metre, he soon changed t... ...te boxes. He expected every one of us, he said, to pull an oar. We were to act the tragedy. But, in fact, we had many oars to pull. There were so many... ...veral times (that is, once in every one of his six parts) during the first act. In reality, the sultan, though otherwise a decent man, was too bloody.... ...business, that scarcely any of the characters remained alive at the end of act the first. Sultan Amurath found himself in an awkward situation. Large ... ...of distant communication. At present I am content to regard the elec- tric telegraph as the oracular response to that prefiguration. But I still look ...

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...all the Universe (de l’Univers) is eligible; for in these very days we, by act of Assembly, ‘naturalise’ the chief Foreign Friends of humanity: Priest... ...urety of letting whosoever wills perform. From the purpose of crime to the act of crime there is an abyss; wonderful to think of. The finger lies on t... ... pealing and piping, these men, left to their own guidance, will speak and act? Readers know well that this French National Convention (quite contrary... ...e, this: Louis, who wert King, art thou not guilty to a certain extent, by act and written document, of trying to continue King? Neither in the Answer... ...he simple basis of No: I do not recognise that document; I did not do that act; or did it according to the law that then was. Whereupon the Fifty-seve... ... call Far-writing without the aid of postbags; in Greek, it shall be named Telegraph.—Telegraphe sacre! answers Citoyenism: For writing to Traitors, t... ...ases not to merit well of the country, are transmitted and acknowledged by Telegraph. I have instructed my Officer at Lille to forward them to North- ...

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...ay afternoon, to remonstrate upon her sud- den defection, found her in the act of tacking up a cur- tain across the pantry window. But Blix had the af... ... discovered a tiny striped snake, hardly bigger than a lead pencil, in the act of swallowing a little green frog, and they passed a rapt ten minutes i... .... But why don’t he do something, that captain?” mourned Blix. “Why will he act like such a ninny?” “He’s waiting for us to go,” said Condy; “I’m sure ... ... later, just as he, Sargeant, and the other men of their “set” were in the act of going upstairs to the card-rooms, a hall-boy gave Condy a note, at t... ...“Well!” “Well!” “We’re in for it now.” “But we must see it through, Condy; act just as natu- ral as you can, and we’re all right.” “But supposing she ... ...s when he gets to Mazatlan is to communicate his arrival to Senora Estrada—telegraphs, you know; and, by the way, have him use a cipher.” “What kind o... ...g of the great, steel wheat ships; now climbing the ladder-like streets of Telegraph Hill, or revisiting the Plaza, Chinatown, and the restaurant; or ...

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...n the heart of the City, all among themselves, without the deserted City’s know- ing anything about it. It was as if you should take an empty counting... ..., and who takes his portrait with him when he makes an engagement, for the illustration of the play-bill. His portrait (which is not at all like him) ... ...e other day, by train. My ticket had been previously collected, like my taxes, and my shining new portmanteau had had a great plaster stuck upon it, a... ...’ Could it be that, after all this, and much more, the Playing-field was a Station, and No. 97 expectorated boiling water and redhot cinders on it, an... ...sized coach-office (in fact, a little coach-office), with an oval trans- parency in the window, which looked beautiful by night, representing one of T... ...young priest (who joined us at Calais) are soon asleep, and then the bird and I have it all to ourselves. A stormy night still; a night that sweeps th... ... blue-light burnt. All eyes watch the light again. At last a little toy sky-rocket is flashed up from it; and, even as that small streak in the dark- ... ...the great gooseberry, that a costly police-system such as was never before heard of, has left in London, in the days of steam and gas and photographs ...

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...cludes the idea of PROPERTY IN THAT BEING. —Coleridge Entered according to Act of Congress in 1855 by Frederick Douglass in the Clerk’s Office of the ... ...entioned, and their movements chronicled, under the head of “BY MAG- NETIC TELEGRAPH, in the daily papers. The keen cater- ers for the public attentio... ...s clothes, for he has almost none to soil or tear. He is never expected to act like a nice little gentleman, for he is only a rude little slave. Thus,... ...an to sell his own blood to the traffickers in human flesh, it is often an act of humanity toward the slave-child to be thus removed from his merciles... ...y favorable impression. Aunt Katy was a woman who never allowed herself to act greatly within the margin of power granted to her, no matter how broad ... ...hich I have been referring. Howsoever the slaveholder may allow himself to act toward his slave, and, whatever cruelty he may deem it wise, for exampl...

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...s of del- egates or ambassadors, two or three from each State, who were to act in accordance with the policy of their own individual States. It is wel... ...ate, was tried, and was found to fail. South Carolina took upon herself to act as she might have acted had that confederation remained in force; but t... ...ion ordinance of South Carolina should have been ac- cepted as a political act by the Government of the United States. It seems to me that no governme... ...United States. It seems to me that no government can in this way accept an act of rebellion without declaring its own functions to be beyond its own p... ...staff, with whom however our acquain- tance was of the very slightest, had telegraphed down to say that we were coming. I cannot say that I expected m... ... as is shown with clearness in the report, and on hearing of these muskets telegraphed to the general at once: “I have 5000 Hall’s rifled cast-steel m... ...cast-steel muskets, breach-loading, new, at 22 dollars.” General Fre- mont telegraphed back instantly: “I will take the whole 5000 carbines. . . . I w... ...n sus- pended, the liberty of the press has been destroyed for a time, the telegraph wires have been taken up by the gov- ernment into their own hands... ... It is I think owing to this—at any rate partly to this—that the system of telegraphing has become so prevalent. It is natural that this should be so ...

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...d survive the coming of the night, and where each sunrise, like a dazzling act of special creation, was disconnected from the eve and the morrow. Kara... ...ering confidence, &c., &c. Kayerts had been in the Admin- istration of the Telegraphs, and knew how to express himself correctly. Carlier, an ex-non-c... ...e was his daughter. He had thrown up his post in the Administration of the Telegraphs, though he had been for seventeen years perfectly happy there, t... ...one. Why? His head was ready to burst with the endeavour to understand her act and his subtle horror of it. Every- 113 Joseph Conrad thing was change... ...une struck him with such shame that, next moment, he caught himself in the act of pondering absurdly over the notion whether it would not be more dign... ...he important thing was that their life would begin again with an every-day act—with something that could not be misunderstood, that, thank God, had no...

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...nd directed. This proved persuasive, and as the hour was late Nevil had to act on her advice in a hurry. His uncle Everard enjoyed a perusal of the ma... ...or the reply, half ex- pecting an appointment on the French sands: for the act of posting a letter, though it be to little short of the Pleiades even,... ...ea which objurgation insists upon implanting, but batters to pieces in the act. ‘Manchester’s the belly of this country!’ Everard contin- ued. ‘So lon... ...ane, and supposing that one of them determines to sit down, the other will act wisely in bending his knees at once, and doing the same: he cannot but ... ...se his doing it if I come across him. ‘Perhaps the best course would be to telegraph for the mar- quise!’ This was from Cecil Baskelett. He added a po... ... his devotions be- fore he followed her example. ‘There, ma’am, you have a telegraphic system for the soul,’ he said. ‘It is harder work to travel fro... ...give you of them all: Roland is in garrison at Rouen, and will come when I telegraph. My father is in T ouraine, and greets you affectionately; he hop... ...deplore the mis- chance which has prevented him from welcoming you. I have telegraphed to him; he is at one of the Baths in Germany, and will come ass... ...ng I could be of some use to Madame la Marquise. She writes as if she were telegraphing.’ ‘Perfectly true of her! For that matter, I saw the letter. Y...

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...y mind. To make a profit of such pitiful misadven- tures seemed an unmanly and a sordid act; and I began to think of my then quest as of something sac... ...f joy to me. The murder, then, had not sprung in cold blood from calculation; it was an act of madness no more to be condemned than to be par- doned. ... ...ad spoken, that body had been all on fire with governable energies; and now, and by his act, that piece of life had been ar- rested, as the horologist... ...d the hands of God reached forth against sin. But about God himself he was at ease; his act was doubtless exceptional, but so were his excuses, which ... ...ompliance with desire. Now that he draws so near to his deliverance, he can add but one act of service – to repent, to die smil- ing, and thus to buil... ...ies of sunny visions, ale and pleasure dancing in his veins. At last he spoke. ‘I shall telegraph for Casimir,’ he said. ‘Good Casimir! a fellow of th... ...erous cane for himself, and a kepi of the newest fashion for the boy; in and out of the telegraph office, whence he despatched his telegram, and where... ...icence –’ ‘Desprez,’ interrupted Casimir, ‘for Heaven’s sake be a man of the world. You telegraph me to leave my business and come down here on yours.... ...utes! I can catch it, if I run,’ he cried. ‘It is al- ways late. I go to Paris. I shall telegraph.’ ‘Henri! what is wrong?’ cried his wife. ‘Ottoman B...

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...senger to say that he was about to enter the house. Her punishment for the act of sinfulness was a week of severe silence; and the farmer would have k... ... of poor Dahly. She was always the pretty one, and when they know it, they act up to it: she was her mother’s favourite.” 24 Rhoda Fleming “Ah! poor ... ... shall be snares and traps unto you;” a line from Joshua. She received the act as a polite pawing civility; but when she was coming out of church, Rob... ...cupied Wrexby pew. She was a beauty, and therefore powerful; otherwise her act of nonconformity would have produced bad blood between her and the squi... ...l—”do you know that Edward’s father would be worse than yours over such an act of folly? He would call it an offence against common sense, and have no... ...y gout’s beginning to settle in the leg again, and shoots like an electric telegraph from purgatory.” He wheezed and lowered himself into his arm-chai... .... He then commu- nicated with Edward, in the brief Caesarian tongue of the telegraph: “All right. Stay. Ceremony arranged.” After which, he hailed a s... ...dwelling-place, noted the house, and sped to the Temple. There, he found a telegraphic message from Edward, that had been awaiting him since the morni...

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...very rude of John, but she saw no reason why a girl of Bessie’s age should act so childish a part. “He’s been teasing me, and so has Anne, all this ti... ... two, she could not live. If she should be worse, he would either write or telegraph, and Susan and Sam must be ready to set out at once on the receip... ...id Hal. “Yes, we shall,” returned Sam. “Oh don’t,” cried Susan. “Suppose a telegraph should come!” “Well, then you can send for me,” said Sam. “Come, ... ...won’t be any carriages, you know. I say, Sam, if you go to church, and the telegraph comes, I shall set off.” “You’ll do no such thing,” said Sam. “Yo... ...o alone remained to listen to him, “that one of us should stay in case the telegraph comes in, and there are any orders to give. I can catch the pony,... ...so savage, we’ll go and look out at the gate, and then we shall see if the telegraph comes.” Johnnie had no clear idea what a telegraph was, and was c... ... old as that!” “I am not going to argue with you, Henry; but after such an act of disobedience, I cannot allow you to sit down to dinner with us. Go u... ...y, Sam?” said his father, really imagining that this preference to Hal was act- ing on him so as to make him mention some concealed misdemeanour; “if ... ...illingly yielding to his father’s wishes; which would have been a mistaken act, as the Cap- tain thought no one ought to be a sailor unless with a ver...

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...either the porter nor the mother of the child paid the least attention to my act. It was not till some time after that I 5 Robert Louis Stevenson und... ... houses and crowds of comfortable burghers, I thought it would be a graceful act for the corporation to refund that sixpence, or, at the least, to ent... ...se never lost an opportunity, and you would see them washing their feet – an act not dreamed of among ourselves – and going as far as decency permitte... ... of these Indian singers. It was to them not only the worship of God, nor an act by which they recalled and commemorated better days, but was besides ... ...armed with his visitor) supposed the attraction to be mutual and took for an act of growing friendship what the Cigarette himself regarded as a bribe.... ...d his handful of heroes at the maga- zine, and the nameless brave one in the telegraph office was perhaps already fingering his last despatch; and jus... ...ng in your ears and (down the long road that led nowhere) thrum- ming in the telegraph wires. Only as you approached the coast was there anything to s...

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...id not come up to date until the battle of the Aisne. With that the second act of the great drama began. I do not believe that the Germans ever though... ...ng on. The Dutch conference would be in immediate contact by telephone and telegraph with the Allied conference and with Berlin…. The broad conditions... ...cy; unplanned, though perhaps not unforeseen. It is not a deliberate State act, but a consequence of the interruption of communications, the diversion... ...ir Edward as its Deliverer. It is as if Lord Kitchener took a month off to act at specially high rates for the “movies.” Our standard for the lawyer i... ...it was before the war, with its railway in German hands and its postal and telegraphic service (since 1913) under Hohenzollern control. It is quite im... ...tremely anxious to keep it from the knowledge of the German peoples. Every act or word from a British source that suggests an im- placable enmity agai... ...nd class of German, by this organisation of foolish violence of speech and act, by this profession of an irrational and implacable hostility. His prac...

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... lose much,” she said. “The air of the over- ture is repeated in the first act—I’ve heard it once be- fore.” “If we even see the first act,” mourned L... ... know—I don’t know,” murmured Mrs. Wessels vaguely. No one seemed ready to act upon Laura’s sugges- tion, and again the minutes passed. “I’m going,” d... ...ed the others down the side-aisle to the box. “Too bad, this is the second act already; you’ve missed the whole first act—and this song. She’ll sing i... ...ulls—” “—fifty thousand dollars—” Then all at once the lights went up. The act was over. Laura seemed only to come to herself some five minutes later.... ...sh and melted snow was freezing, and the north side of every lamp post and telegraph pole was 53 Frank Norris sheeted with ice. To add to their disco... ... metal clamps, walked up and down. Screwed to the black-board itself was a telegraph instrument, and from time to time, as this buzzed and ticked, the... ...only noises were the low hum of conversa- tions, the unsteady click of the telegraph key, and the tapping of the chalk in the marker’s fingers. But no... ...one of the chairs that were ranged in files upon the floor in front of the telegraph enclosure. He scru- tinised again the despatches and orders that ... ...s beginning to fill up. Over in the railed-in space, where the hundreds of telegraph in- struments were in place, the operators were arriving in twos ...

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...ding. Sud denly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the court yard of a vast ruined castle, ... ...o have more than one solicitor engaged in one transaction, as only one could act at a time, and that to change would be certain to militate against hi... ..., but the door is fastened from the inside. I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise. 19 May.—I am surely in the toils. Last night the Co... ...ht is coming on. If He can look me in the face again, I may not have time to act… . If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who ... ... visit, just as if I were doing a descriptive special article for THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts of London... ...a moment. I could hear his voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest telegraph office. Lucy chatted with me freely, and seemed quite un con... ...e my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass houses all the year. I had to telegraph yesterday, or they would not have been here.” We went into th... ...wn self, although a dying one. In the afternoon she asked for Arthur, and we telegraphed for him. Quincey went off to meet him at the station. When ... ...were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman’s knock of the telegraph boy. We all moved out to the hall with one impulse, and Van He...

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...n, his face now purplish with wrath, and with arms extended overhead as in the act of hurling thunderbolts, is shouting, “Shut up! Oh, shut up!” I rem... ...ings men do when they have no immediate call to do anything in particular, but act because they are alive and must do something. But life and death we... ...ying man. So fierce had this final struggle become that the sailor paused in the act of flinging more water over him and stared curiously, the canvas buc... ...our name, and I’ll like you none the worse for it as long as you toe the mark. Telegraph Hill, of course, is your port of entry. It sticks out all ove... ...e. As I say, I debated with myself, and then I did what I consider the bravest act of my life. I ran to the side, waving my arms and shouting: “Lady M... ...dies, and who had thought much and talked little or not at all. “An altruistic act is an act performed for the welfare of others. It is unselfish, as o... ...ith the knife he was sharp ening for me. Leach laughed and hurled more of his Telegraph Hill billingsgate, and before either he or I knew what had ha...

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...y, and your unhappiness interested me; that’s all; but since you believe I act for my own account, adieu, my dear friend, get out of the affair as bes... ... to attend the nuptial feast; but all seemed unanimous in doubting that an act of such rare and exceeding con- descension could possibly be intended. ... ...plied the count. “So much the better. As Villefort observes, it is a great act of folly to have left such a man between Corsica, where he was born, an... ...hich is undergoing great fatigue and anxiety, my dear duke, when we have a telegraph which transmits messages in three or four hours, and that without... ... and while a deep color overspread his cheeks, he stammered out, — “By the telegraph, sire.” — Louis XVIII. advanced a step, and folded his arms over ... ...n which the monarchy hung suspended, — “to fall, and learn of that fall by telegraph! Oh, I would rather mount the scaffold of my brother, Louis XVI.,... ...o would have saved my crown, if, like you, he had the power of directing a telegraph.” The look of the minister of police was turned with concentrated... ...cret, and, above all, inoffensive; for this time, I swear to you, we shall act like powerful men who know their enemies. Go, my son — go, my dear Gera... ...lections to direct; making more use of your cabinet with your pen and your telegraph than Napoleon did of his battle-fields with his sword and his vic...

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...wering her veil again, she passes on, and passes out without looking back. ACT I THE CURTAIN RISES I n a court-yard in the City of London, which was ... ...r into my household affairs, Mrs. Goldstraw, till I know why you regret an act of kindness to my mother, which she always spoke of gratefully to the e... ... this finger went down, or that went up, he even fancied that it made some telegraphic communication to Obenreizer: whose back was certainly never tur... ... street. Sweet Marguerite at her frame, and Madame Dor’s broad back at her telegraph, floated before him to Cripple Corner. On his arrival there, Wild... ...ch persists in disguising itself as Hope. Wild- ing checked himself in the act of throwing the useless morsel of paper out of the carriage window. “It... ... tence, his time came, and he died. 53 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins ACT II VENDALE MAKES LOVE T he summer and the autumn passed. Christmas and... ... look was for Marguerite. Marguerite’s last words to him were, “Don’t go!” ACT III IN THE V ALLEY I t was about the middle of the month of Februar...

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...ness. It was remarkable what bright pros- pects were just then in the very act of opening before each of that little company of youths, and what pious... ...isit to a dive with a month’s wages in his 20 Tales & Fantasies pocket—an act of such transcendent virtue, or even wis- dom, as to seem to merit the ... ...revents young men—not otherwise beasts—from the performance of this simple act of piety—months and years had gone by, and John had never written. The ... ...h none were found, there still prevailed a general impression of loss. The telegraph was set in motion; and the correspondent of the bank in Edinburgh... ...innocent man, perhaps all the ug- lier; for if some judicial error were in act against him, who should set a limit to its grossness or to how far it m... ... have been out all night?’ ‘All night, as you say, sir. I have been to the telegraph and the police office, and Mr. Macewen’s. Oh, I had my hands full... ...ay to Parliament; and the great man’s still greater London doctor had been telegraphed to his bedside. It was the first time that such a thing had hap... ... no boundary but the horizon. Two lines of rails, a waggon shed, and a few telegraph posts, alone diversified the outlook. As for sounds, the silence ... ... outlook. As for sounds, the silence was unbroken save by the chant of the telegraph wires and the crying of the plovers on the waste. With the approa...