... name, it was all his (Mr. Woolsey’s) eye; that he was in the hands of the Jews, and his stock and grand shop eaten up by usury. And with regard to Wo... ... If the truth must be told, he loved pleasure, and was in the hands of the Jews. He had been in business twenty years: he had borrowed a thousand poun... ...n’t.” “Indeed I don’t.” “Nonsense. Don’t humbug a poor old fellow like me. Jews— Amos—fifty per cent., ay? Why can’t he get his money from a good Chri... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or...

..., just the mere land, and that’s all they do own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven’t any busi nes... ...uld to bury a steamboat, I reckon. We landed Jim on top of the head, with an American flag to protect him, it being a foreign land; then we sailed off...

...the sake of a country that is all bog-land, they say, and full of horrible Jews, to say nothing of the Cossacks and the peasants—a sort of wild beasts... ...of country-folks never to give up bread-winning; in this they are like the Jews. Every morning, very early, Cousin Betty went off to mar- ket with the... ... 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 lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...uty, insists on interest, and is always engaged in seeking it! ‘God of the Jews, thou art supreme!’ says Racine. The perennial parable of the golden c... ...ou, poor old man?—On my honor, you look like a twenty-franc piece that the Jews have sweated and the money-changers refuse.” “Alas, yes,” replied Hulo... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

...ed an enor- mous bunch of old trinkets, among which in 1824 he still wore “American beads,” which were very much the fashion in the year VII. In the b... ...ling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou told him was American. He smiled to show his fine teeth; he wore no socks under his boot... ...ace, cheese, men, women, and children; they are a conglomeration of Arabs, Jews, Genoese, Genevese, Greeks, Lombards, and Parisians, suckled by a wolf... ...nd China (where all government officials steal), also that of Austria, the American republics, and indeed that of the whole world, to the fact that fo...

...very possible shade of white. If old Sechard and the two Cointets had been Jews examining diamonds, their eyes could not have glistened more eagerly. ... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ...rdicts and you shall arrive within a reasonable distance of the truth! The Jews have monopolized the gold of the world; they compose Robert the Devil,...

...now, of Jewish kindred: but with that deadly terrible ear- nestness of the Jews they seem to combine something grace- ful, brilliant, which is not Jew... ...n comparison. The jargon of argumentative Greek Sects, vague traditions of Jews, the stupid routine of Arab Idolatry: there was no answer in these. A ... ...ve theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumors and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wire-drawings, this wild man of the Desert, with his ... ...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,...

...o sell us to the biggest buyer, and were not En- glishmen but ‘Germans and Jews, and quakers and hybrids, diligent clerks and speculators, and commerc... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...T ell me about the Giudecca.’ ‘The Giudecca was a place kept apart for the Jews, I be- lieve. You have seen their burial-ground on the Lido. Those are... ... for his first fling, like the son of a family sowing his oats to reap his Jews. Credit me, sir, I thought it prudent to counteract a bit of an apothe... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...ut, for the honour of it. What’s that story they tell of you in one of the American cities or watering-places, North or South? You 153 George Meredit... ...reak- fast-table to the stables, and gallop away to the station, while the American Quaker gentleman soberly paced down a street in Paris on the same ...

...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ... ...t Mademoi- selle de Villenoix’s birth, and the cherished prejudice against Jews that prevails in the provinces, would not allow of her being received ...

...he was about to start with others to Palestine on a mission for converting Jews. He did go to Judea, but being unable to convert the 73 Anthony Troll... .... He did go to Judea, but being unable to convert the 73 Anthony Trollope Jews, was converted by them. He again wrote home, to say that Moses was the... ...id Bertie, ‘and he’ll turn up soon. By the bye, do you know much about the Jews?’ At last the bishop saw a way out. ‘I beg your pardon, ’ said he; ‘bu... ...indulged, nor they polluted. The bishop, in mortal dread of Bertie and the Jews, tried to converse with Char- lotte Stanhope about the climate of Ital... ...u’ll have enough to supply yourself with gloves and boots; that is, if the Jews have not got the possession of it all. I believe they have the most of... ...find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Just then there was no talk of a new American president. No won- derful tragedies had occurred on railway trains...

...- latto, quadroon; modish young Spanish Creoles, and old- fashioned French Jews; Mormons and Papists; Dives and Lazarus; jesters and mourners, teetota... ... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ... what I say. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that Ch...

...scheme ended in bankruptcy, a swift deliverance to the tender mer- cies of Jews and Pharisees; and he well knew it. But to a poor devil who was despon... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...words. The wily banker retained the horrible pronun- ciation of the German Jews,—possibly that he might be able to deny promises actually given, but o...

...spects, cannot be lessened to ran- som a Portenduere from the hands of the Jews. Sell your farm, pay his debts, and come and live with us at Portendue... ... three thousand francs, a gift from Havana, which city, at the time of the American War of Independence, he had protected from an attack by the Britis...

...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...ey took in the public mourning; and that, beyond all other foreigners, the Jews for night after night kept watch and ward about the emperor’s grave. N...

...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ... priest, who had converted us all into Papists, and that Papists were like Jews, eating together, and not choosing to take their 126 Henry Esmond – B...

...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...g to do for any one who took his drug exactly what Nature has done for the Jews and Orientals, who are men in their teens and aged by fifty, and quick...

...beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda’s diamonds, “which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.” “But I hope your lordship is orthodox,... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

...hour I remem- ber portions of Belzoni’s Researches and Franklin’s terrible American adventures, and they bring back tones of my father’s voice. As an ... ...ke attempted to abscond, but he was brought back as he was embarking in an American vessel; and he then confessed the whole,—how speculation had led t... ...e round. Don’t be hard on me. She drove me to it. It is all right now. The Jews will be disappointed.’ For even at the crisis in London, he had concea...

...of religion, —have always advocated the admis- sion of Roman Catholics and Jews into Parliament, and even to the Bench. In ordinary life I never quest... ...ty. I don’t want him to sell his country to Germany, or to turn it into an American republic in order that he may be president. But when he gets the r... ... money. And, more than that, peers’ daughters were bestowing themselves on Jews and shopkeepers. Had he not better make the usual inquiry about the ma... ...eas, ‘all England does not return one Catholic to the House, while we have Jews in plenty. You have a Jew among your English judges, but at present no... ...r,—the result of which was, that he had gone rather deep into two or three American mines before the end of July. But he had already made some money o... ...rds, has not yet given it a name. I am a good deal at present in the South American trade.’ She listened, but received no glimmering of an idea from h... ...derived no informa- tion whatever from her husband’s hints about the South American trade, though she was ignorant as ever of his affairs, yet she fel... ...ilar franchise for the counties and bor- oughs must inevitably lead to the American system of nu- merical representation. But when time had been given...

...hem that no one in our time has been able to make out. There were also the Jews, who were the only ancient people that knew how wonderful and how good... ...a disastrous shadow hanging over it, not to be cleared away by effort. Two American gentlemen, acquaintances also of mine, had been recommended to him...

...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- male will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her cha... ...ocoanut Indians—painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews—sat under Mr. Rowls on Wednesdays, Mr. Huggleton on Thursdays, attende...