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...en men hang about the stage of a large establishment—not regularly engaged actors, but ballet people, procession men, tumblers, and so forth, who are ... ...articles in requisition, while a couple of large headed, circular visaged males rose from their seats in the chimney corner (for although it was a Ma... ...lar wagrants there; trust ‘em, they knows better than that. Young beggars, male and female, as hasn’t made a rise in their profession, takes up their ... ...onclusion, when a window above stairs was thrown up, and three or four fe male voices repeated the query—’Who’s there?’ Mr. Pickwick dared not move h... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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...aven and lean built. But his youth- ful appearance was offset by a certain male cast of counte- nance, the lower lip thrust out, the chin large and de... ...deep into the warm, moist soil. It was the long stroking caress, vigorous, male, power- ful, for which the Earth seemed panting. The heroic em- brace ... ... Titan began, the vast primal passion, the two world-forces, the elemental Male and Female, locked in a colossal embrace, at grapples in the throes of... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ...ristian, the real estate broker, and cousin of S. Behrman, one of the main actors in the drama of Dyke’s capture, who had come forward as a purchaser ... ...d by those who crowded into and about that house of death. Of all the main actors of the tragedy 417 Frank Norris of the fight in the ditch, they rem...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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.... While the words were coming out of his mouth, he saw the tramps, and the male tramp’s eyes and his met. The man had one eyebrow and his lips at one ... ...ained the day in love-affairs, I suspect you’d run a good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, ... ...d. ‘Pretty nigh, William.’ ‘That’s our curse, Greg. Money settled on their male issue, and money in hand; by the Lord! we’ve always had the look of a ... ...mewhere, for news arrived of my father’s approach with a French company of actors, and deafening entertainments were at hand. On the whole, I thought ... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w...

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...ere to be for ever dis- appointed by the intervention, as it were, of some malevo- lent being, and who was at last to come off victorious from 10 Guy... ...because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be so) from all the males of the family, but especially from the hus- band and master. He was, ... ... for the Laird to pass.” “He shall have his share of the road,” answered a male gipsy from under his slouched and large-brimmed hat, and without raisi... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ... of the whole scene was at once destroyed, and the natural passions of the actors called forth into very indecent and active emulation, by a wag who t... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ... this slavish mimic warfare—sport to the beholders, but sad earnest to the actors. Christianity worked its way upwards, and at least was pro- fessed b... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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...ishment. Its consort The Sceptre collapsed within the week. I won’t say in American parlance that suddenly the bottom fell out of the whole of de Barr... ...blished, I’ll al- most say hackneyed, illusions, without which the average male creature cannot get on. And that condition is very important. For ther... ... to drive people into sudden irrelevancy. Hers was feminine irrelevancy. A male genius, a male ruffian, or even a male lunatic, would not have behaved... ...y! But Mrs. Fyne’s fervent “thank goodness” turned out to be a bit, as the Americans—some Americans—say “previous.” In a very short time the odious fe... ...to Flora de Barral. See the might of suggestion? We live at the mercy of a malevolent word. A sound, a mere disturbance of the air, sinks into our ver... ...rom perverted ambition, for spectacular reasons too. There are on earth no actors too humble and obscure not to have a gallery; that gallery which env...

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... Vol. One ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ...ut Boodle and his retinue, and Buffy and his retinue. These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. A People there are, no doubt—a certa... ...g up at me. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared ex... ... but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of m... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of supposing that the actors were try- ing to represent human beings. I looked round on my first-... ...tion. Barnaby was delighted. But I could not sleep that night. I dreamt of actors—ac- tors glaring, actors smiting their chests, actors flinging out a... ...s smiting their chests, actors flinging out a handful of extended fingers, actors smiling bitterly, laughing despairingly, falling hopelessly, dying i... ...bble sat, luckily for himself, at a safe distance, regarding him. The four malefactors, feigning a profound absorption in their work, watched him furt... ...tres, and “all that.” And in addition were aunts of his wife, and cousins (male and female) to eat up capital, insult him per- sonally, upset business... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,...

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...ered by a most intelli- gent master. I remarked in it, an instance of the collateral harm that obstinate vanity and folly can do. ‘This was the Hall w... ...dems and robes of kings are made. I noticed that some shops which had once been in the dramatic line, and had struggled out of it, were not getting on... ... waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of ... ...es meet in ‘um middle, FOUR gents goes round ‘um ladies, Four gents passes out under ‘um ladies’ arms, swing—and Lemonade till ‘a moosic can’t play no... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...s to say the rumour origi- nated in the same base quarters, that a certain male Chuzzlewit, whose birth must be admitted to be involved in some obscur... ...is: merely adding, by way of a final spadeful, that many Chuzzlewits, both male and female, are proved to demonstration, on the faith of letters writt... ...ts bonds, and hung upon her neck; for which instance of its waywardness no male observer would have had the heart to blame it. Her attire was that of ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ... of any im- pression from it, that, although Tom had been one of the chief actors, it was like a dream. No one had noticed him after they had left the... ...h of the morning’s business, immediately after the dispersion of the other actors in the scene upon the wharf with which the reader has been already m...

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... is usually a drawn game. After that, the performer instantly departs with male dictory expressions, and is never heard of more. But the most wonderf... ...ose that between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose legs, fur nished with so many j... ..., git along with you, Sir, if you please; me and Mrs. Bigby don’t want no male parties here!’ That female was Mrs. Prodgit. I immediately withdrew, o... ... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...ich I thought it just as well to appear to be) he told me the names of the actors on the stage, and we got into conversation. When the play was over, ... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

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...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...ut the ship about. Jadwin having criticised the effect because none of the actors turned with it, was voted a Philistine by Mrs. Cressler and Corthell... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...n exhilaration. Beneath that boyish exterior was the tough coarseness, the male hardness, the callous- ness that met the brunt and withstood the shock... ...e posed as a task- master, relentless, never pleased, hustling the amateur actors about without ceremony, scolding and brow-beat- ing. He was a small,... ...ed upon re- peating certain scenes over and over again. By ten o’clock the actors were quite worn out. A little supper was served, and very soon after...

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...10 Bureaucracy like so many other portentous events, was the result of fe- male influence. Thus, goaded by Celestine’s ambition, Rabourdin had long co... ...was al- 25 Balzac ways in search of Ratons. As he is one of the principal actors in this drama he deserves a description, all the more precise becaus... ...ther costly gratification. Consequently, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the ... ...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... ...lancholy, like most of the great comic players. Launched into the world of actors and actresses, writers, artists, and certain women of uncertain mean... ...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...

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.... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...st not stand and slouch, but do my best as best I can. But you may conceive the difficulty of a history extending to the present week, at least, and w... ...aces were all arranged with much care; the native ladies of the house facing our party; the sides filled up by the men; the guests, please observe: th...

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...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect... ..., and also the evidence in his possession upon which some of the principal actors and head men were tried and condemned to death,” I have the honor to... ...sons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall ... ...ong the exceptions are the massacre of vanquished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation, as law, either is valid or is not va...

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...ce certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool wa... ...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. He could knock you off forty Lat... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...ders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall. All the servants were re... ...n! Ah monstre:” and cursing the tyrant of the play from the boxes; but the actors themselves positively refuse to play the wicked parts, such as those...

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...– Dickens ain, the Sisters of all the cardinal virtues separately, the Fe males of America, the Ladies of a hundred denominations. They appeared to b... ...ith another blot headed candle in his hand. “Pray is your lodger within?” “Male or female, sir?” says Mr. Krook. “Male. The person who does copying.” ... ...ut Boodle and his retinue, and Buffy and his retinue. These are the great actors for whom the stage is reserved. A People there are, no doubt—a certa... ...g up at me. I felt all through the performance that he never looked at the actors but constantly looked at me, and always with a carefully prepared ex... ... but still a demon of the patrician order. All the Dedlocks, in the direct male line, through a course of time during and beyond which the memory of m... ...ghts as I lie here. T ake an extreme case. T ake the case of the slaves on American plantations. I dare say they are worked hard, I dare say they don’...

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...nd had rather 85 Yo n g e not have done so now, but as he saw none of his male com- panions setting off, he fancied that to attend a week-day ser- vi... ... lest the others should tell. As soon as the tea was despatched, the three actors de- parted, and presently there was a call from behind the screen, “... ...ndshakings before the sailor had time to distinguish one from another, the actors assuming their own characters, grandmamma and Mrs. Roger Langford as... ...augh arose the next moment at the appearance of the still half-dis- guised actors: Alex without Bassanio’s short black cloak and slouched hat and feat... ...son about his travels. A sailor just returned from four years on the South American coast, who had doubled Cape Horn, shot condors on the Andes, caugh...

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...au, are flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ... working in them; and withal has quarrels enough with Dame le Jay, his Fe- male Bookseller, so ultra-compliant otherwise. (See Dumont: Souvenirs, 6.) ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...iclers are trustworthy, as was not witnessed since the Age of Gold. Paris, male and female, precipitates itself towards its South-west extremity, spad... ...Spectrum and squeaking and gibbering Shadow! One of the few Royalist Chief-actors this Bouille, of whom so much can be said. The brave Bouille too, th... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...