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...d lets his wife spend the money ,” the Philadelphian went on lazily . “The West don’t suit her, she says. She just tracks around with the boy and her ... ...ing- fleet now . We’ve shaved three dories an’ near scalped the boom off a Frenchman since noon, an’ that’ s close sailing’, ye may say .” “You like m... ...nies can’t shake out a straight yarn. Go ahead” “In gold mines and things, West.” “I’ve read o’ that kind o’ business. Out West, too? Does he go aroun... ...ith a pistol on a trick-pony , same ez the circus? They call that the Wild West, and I’ve heard that their spurs an’ bridles was solid silver.” “You a... ... come he say there was.” “Where was that?” said Dan. “None o’ aour folk.” “Frenchman of Anguille.” “ Ah! Them West Shore Frenchmen don’t caount any- w... ... of supplies, and once Manuel howled because he had caught his finger in a Frenchman’ s hook. These hooks are made of soft metal, to be rebent after u... ...re! Not bad, so? Eh, wha-at?” “Can a schooner like this go right across to Africa?” said Harvey . “Go araound the Horn ef there’ s anythin’ worth goin...

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...ith his wife to France. Annis, as you know, is betrothed to the son of his French friends, Malcolm is to study at the Paris University, and Davie to b... ...e to be with Meg at Bourges?’ Jeanie opened her blue eyes wide. ‘Go to the French King’s Court?’ she said. ‘To the land of chivalry and song,’ exclaim... ...who, like Sir Patrick Drummond, had served in France, and re- tained their French breeding. So Jean, hawk and all, had to be handed to her seat by Sir... ...elf, ‘but I trust, my sweet cousins, that you will favour my poor house at Westminster with your presence at a supper, and share such entertainment as... ...ld have bitten the Cardinal.) ‘But I will take order with my Lord Abbot of Westminster for a grand requiem mass for the good Queen Joanna, at which th... ... King came or sent each day to St. Helen’s to arrange about the requiem at Westminster, and when their late travelling companions invited the young la... ...s house at Bourges. It would fit a prince! He has ships going to Egypt and Africa, and stores of silk enough to array all the dames and demoiselles in...

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...suspected of a certain unemotional, grim accep- tance of facts—of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” V ery true. Y es. There is th... ...ur members or our as- sociate members.” In my wanderings about London from west to east and back again (I was very idle then) the two little rooms in ... ... of the matter is, the captain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ade me, through all my sea wanderings, ever to achieve the crossing of the Western Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak ... ...which sailors speak of W estern Ocean trade, of W estern Ocean packets, of Western Ocean hard cases. The new life attended closely upon the old, and t... ...n 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representi... ...mated and embraced most subjects un- der heaven, from big-game shooting in Africa to the last poem published in a very modernist review, edited by the...

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...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...treets which are really inhabited cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the C... ...n. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance with the points of ... ...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...all the circumstances of their life, than their still untamed kins- men in Africa, must also be acknowledged. Who, then, can dare to wish that all tha... ...must probably be given mainly to Madison and Hamilton, Madison finding the French democratic element, and Hamilton the English conserva- tive element—... ...importations, and it was calculated that the race, when not recruited from Africa, would die out. That this calculation was wrong we now know, and the... ...By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to apply to the who...

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...uspected of a certain un- emotional, grim acceptance of facts; of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” Very true. Yes. There is the ... ...ur mem- bers or our associate members.” In my wanderings about London from West to East and back again (I was very idle then) the two little rooms in ... ...f the matter is, the cap- tain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ade me, through all my sea wanderings, ever to achieve the crossing of the Western Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak ... ...tern Ocean—using the words in that special sense in which sailors speak of Western Ocean trade, of Western Ocean packets, of Western Ocean hard cases.... ...n 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then represent-... ...- mated and embraced most subjects under heaven, from big-game shooting in Africa to the last poem published in a very modernist review, edited by the...

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...DAYS of exactness even a child’s historical romance must point to what the French term its pieces justficatives. We own that ours do not lie very deep... ...his mother left England. The youngest son, Amaury, obtained the hereditary French possessions of the family, and continued the line of Montfort as a F... ...e Hugh Millar who alleged that the huge stone under which Edward sleeps in Westminster Abbey agrees in structure with no rocks nearer than those whenc... ...d than his flock; and her lady spoke little but langue d’oui, the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in dealing with her Spanish and Pro... ...tle serviceable in dealing with her Spanish and Provencal as with the rude West-Saxon-English. Edward’s deep manly tones were to be heard, however, no... ...OVELTY has its charms, so has old age, and to us the great abbey church of Westminster has become doubly beloved by long generations of affection, and... ...r. Thy father and mother will be right glad to hear thou hast ‘scaped that African fever.” “They!—They’ d think me no better than a French monk!” said... ...s whom you said, even now, you had seen in the tent you shared with him in Africa.” “I said I had seen his wraith,” said John. No smile lighted upon t... ...hard, “I did indeed long after my brethren when Guy had been so near me in Africa; but now, I would far rather die than cast in my lot with them.” “Th...

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...the morning sunlight was like amber fire. At the cross-roads at the top of West Hill, where the cattle trough stands, he turned towards Kingston and s... ...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 ... ...st in the throat of the town cobbles and the stony streets branching east, west, north, and south, at a stone cross under the shadow of the cathedral ... ...saw that they were already out of Bognor—for the Vicuna stands at the very westernmost extremity of the sea front—and riding on a fair wide road. 73 ... ...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... ...ny was it?” “That I don’t know.” “You must guess,” said Hoopdriver. “South Africa,” she said. “I strongly incline to South Af- rica.” “South Africa’s ... ...South Af- rica.” “South Africa’s quite a large place,” he said. “But South Africa is right?” “You’re warm,” said Hoopdriver, “anyhow,” and the while h... ... the while his imagination was eagerly exploring this new province. “South Africa is right?” she insisted. He turned over again and nodded, smiling re... ... 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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...imited range of produce; but Progress came shoving things into his window, French artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of... ...lue outline far off in the east, going now very fast before a gentle south-west gale, returned above the Crystal Palace towers, circled round them, ch... ...sir,” he said, “there isn’t a big Power in Europe, or Asia, or America, or Africa, that hasn’t got at least one or two flying machines hidden up its s... ...ersity buildings, and dropped to within shouting distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmorehill. The thing flew quite steadil... ... and a County Council steamboat, the Isaac Walton, collided with a pier of Westminster Bridge, and narrowly escaped disaster by running ashore—it was ... ...ly shy and friendless young inventor named Palliser, who had come to South Africa from England in an advanced stage of consumption, and died there. Th... ...ing. The latter had an ivory plate bearing “statoscope” and other words in French, and a little indica- tor quivered and waggled, between Montee and D... ...t him thinking about lan- guages and trying to recall his seventh-standard French. “Je suis Anglais. C’est une meprise. Je suis arrive par accident ic... ...y. But at any time such a village would be liable to a raid of Asiatics or Africans or such-like air-pirates, de- manding petrol and alcohol or provis...

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...an: ‘ Anything doing in the City?’ For Mr. Fenellan’s proper station faced Westward. The reply was deferred until they had reached the pave- ment, whe... ...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ...d buried the wife whose behaviour vexed and dishonoured him: and it was in Africa! One would have to go to Africa to be free of the galling. But Dartr... ...qual, demands perpetually upon stomach and head. CHAPTER V THE LONDON WALK WESTWARD IN THAT NATIONALLY interesting Poem, or Dramatic Satire, once famo... ...ced by his observation of the march of Lon- don citizens Eastward at morn, Westward at eve, attributes their practice to a survival of the Zoroastrian... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ... do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gold and diamonds: and a wife must sometimes listen, mastering ... ... com- monly when our difficulty lies in the exercise of thinking. Victor’s African room, containing large wall-maps of au- riferous regions, was inspe...

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...cracy in America had ordained and established throughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of ... ...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ... the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville sa... ... the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular si... ...oys them. Oppression has, at one stroke, deprived the de- scendants of the Africans of almost all the privileges of hu- manity. The negro of the Unite... ...bjured their religion and forgot their customs when he ceased to belong to Africa, without acquiring any claim to European privileges. But he remains ... ...outh – Dangers to come – General anxiety – Foundation of a Black colony in Africa – Why the Americans of the South increase the hardships of slavery, ...

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... trip, I did not feel altogether satisfied with them. I intended to take a French guide, or dragoman, who had been with me for some days, and to put m... ...ng I found him in the nar- row street, the first on horseback. Joseph, the French- man, was strapping on to a rough pony our belongings, and was stari... ...ng at Mr. Smith. My new friend, unfortu- nately, could not speak a word of French, and therefore I had to explain to the dragoman how it had come to p... ...ers security in that somewhat insecure coun- try, many travellers from the west of Europe make ar- rangements to travel with them. On our way down we ... ...y late. It is as much as we shall do to catch it, and you may be half over Africa, or far gone on your way to India, before he can be on your track ag... ...t his portion of it, all might yet be right. “My name, sir, is Sir William Weston,” he began. I had heard of the name before, and knew him to be a man... ... I took off my hat, and said that I had much honour in meeting Sir William Weston. “And I presume you know the object with which I am now here,” he co...

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...‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of dust Rise... ...one moment he understood it all. The enemy were advancing, to surprise the French army, and would be upon them when night was further advanced. That m... ...the self-devotion of the chevalier; for, among the new war-steamers of the French fleet, there is one that bears the ever-honored name of D’Assas. THE... ...alled Thermopylae, or the Hot Gates. A wall had once been built across the western-most of these narrow places, when the Thessalians and Phocians, who... ...was the first naval battle that the Romans ever gained. It made the way to Africa free; but the soldiers, who had never been so far from home before, ... ...eemed to have been made, and the Roman legions were guarding the north and west, while Caesar himself had crossed the Alps. Subjec- tion pressed heavi... ...and character would be more like that of the modern Welsh, or of their own French descendants, small, alert, and dark-eyed, full of fire, but, though ... ...ut his struggle for power at Rome, and subdued Egypt, Pontus, and Northern Africa—and all the time the brave Gaul re- mained closely watched and guard... ...of the weak. All the Mediterranean Sea was infested by cor- sairs from the African coast and the Greek isles, and these brave knights, becoming sailor...

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...w servant,” said he. A young man of thirty advanced and bowed. “Y ou are a Frenchman, I believe,” asked Phileas Fogg, “and your name is John?” “Jean, ... ...ed that his departure from Lon- don would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and af- forde... ... is on board he will no doubt get off at Suez, so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some other route. He ought to know that he would... ...er reading the passport. “I am.” “And this man is your servant?” “He is: a Frenchman, named Passepartout.” “You are from London?” “Yes.” “And you are ... ...dream. So this is Suez?” “Yes.” “In Egypt?” “Certainly, in Egypt.” “And in Africa?” “In Africa.” “In Africa!” repeated Passepartout. “Just think, mons... ...n boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs. When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully. ... ... The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steamers is ... ... to reach Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in the north- west, and all sails aiding the engine. The steamer rolled but little, the l...

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...old and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere to the medit... ...om Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evident after the French Revo- lution. The church of Scotland, which, as a whole, had ex- hib... ...‘strange defeatures’ in Scottish society. A vast capital has arisen in the west, on a level with the first-rate capitalists of the Continent—with Vien... ...ous organization of irreligion, which gave its most fearful aspects to the French Revolution. Other evils are in the rear as likely to arise out of th... ... authority, that it was a practice of Patriarchal descent amongst both the African and Asiatic Bedouins, to suspend rings of iron, wood, or braided ha... ...with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the Christian times, we learn from Te... ... by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the Christian times, we learn from Tertullian, who cannot ... ... have hi every age, and through all parts of the hot climates, in Asia and Africa alike, been of such voluminous compass—as not only to envelop the wh... ...he very hills and woods; as once, we remember, upon 113 Thomas de Quincey Westminster Bridge, to a person who proposed bathing in the Thames by way o...

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...T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fairy Legends.” The old French “Vie de Bertrand du Guesclin” has like- wise been drawn upon for mat... ...rance of the locality compelled the stranger to apply for information. The French accent and occasional French phrases with which the Squire spoke, ma... ... to him- self, “Well, have it e’en your own way, I am too old for your gay French fashions. It was not so in Humfrey Harwood’s time, when— But the wor... ...n to gleam white like clouds against the sky, and the gray sea-line to the west closed the horizon. Eustace drew his rein, and gazed in silent admi- r... ...ton?” asked Eustace. “Near the pass by which we crossed?” “No; more to the west. My home, call you it? You would marvel to see what it is now. A shatt... ...y beneath him—the rich fields and fair vineyards spreading far away to the west and north, with towns and villages here and there rising among them; w... ...onsideration of his good services to Christendom, rendered on the coast of Africa under the banner of the Knights of St. John, whose Grand Master atte...

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...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...at- ever was yet known in the art, and gradually transferred it to 16 the Western World. Indeed the Jewish school was always re- spectable, even in t... ...ration himself; for, on reaching Embden, he resolved to sail instantly for West Friezland; and being very impatient of delay, he hired a bark, with a ... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...re? I understand he is comfortably settled in Ireland, considerably to the west, and does a little business now and then; but, as he observes with a s... ...ther too true; for, simply as a monokeras, he is found in the Himalaya, in Africa, and elsewhere, rather too often for the peace of what in Scotland w... ...e reader must not look to single cases, as that of Egypt or other parts of Africa, but take the whole collectively. On that scheme of valuation, we ha...

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... additional information in a future edition. The scientific portion of the French original is not with- out a few errors, which the translator, with t... ... sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century... ...s the word “tabiled”, which looked like Hebrew, and in the last the purely French words “mer”, “arc”, “mere.” “ All this was enough to drive a poor fe... ...werable; but I was mistaken. My uncle replied: “Follow my finger along the west coast of Iceland. Do you see Rejkiavik, the capital? You do. Well; asc... ...our sail. At seven in the morning we landed at Korsor, a small town on the west coast of Zealand. There we were transferred from the boat to another l... ...certain church spire situated in the island of Amak, which forms the south-west quarter of Copenhagen. I was ordered to direct my feet that way; I emb... ...rusive visits to fear. T ravellers who penetrate into the wilds of central Africa, and into the pathless forests of the New World, are obliged to watc... ...of domes placed in close array like the round, thatched roofs of a central African city. Yet I wanted to penetrate farther underneath, though a chill ... ...sia, Siberia: who knows where?—instead of bur- rowing under the deserts of Africa, or perhaps the waves of the Atlantic; and that is all I want to kno...

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...en; for there were a great many passengers. Upon inquiry we found it was a French merchant ship of three-hundred tons, home-bound from Quebec. The mas... ... the particu- lar circumstance of that nation they belonged to: I mean the French, whose temper is allowed to be more volatile, more passionate, and m... ...r this they came running into the cabin to the surgeon, who was bleeding a Frenchwoman that had fainted, and told him the priest was gone stark mad. I... ...und to the East Indies; and though we were driven out of our course to the westward a very great way, and perhaps were directed by Heaven on purpose f... ...t ourselves in the way of meeting with other ships homeward bound from the West Indies, and get them a passage, if possible, to England or France. The... ...ey then en- 19 Daniel Defoe treated me that as I was driven so far to the westward before I met with them, I would at least keep on the same course t... ... look.” Here it is to be observed that all those natives, as also those of Africa when they learn English, always add two e’s at the end of the words ...

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...ing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, French artist Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsy... ...d Danglars. “No! — you undertook to do so.” “True,” replied Danglars; “the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate... ...the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, while the French in- vent.” “Do you invent, then,” said Fernand impatiently. “Waiter,... ...ed the young man, “and that was fanaticism. Napoleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitions followers, not onl... ...- selves by casting pebbles into the ocean — see Plutarch’s life of Scipio Africanus.” M. de Blacas pondered deeply between the confident monarch and ... ...to rage. By de- grees the wind abated, vast gray clouds rolled towards the west, and the blue firmament appeared studded with bright stars. Soon a red... ... Elba; bets were offered to any amount that she was bound for Spain; while Africa was positively reported by many persons as her intended course; but ... ...ween Cape Blanc and Cape Boyador, sailing with a fair breeze, south-south- west after a week’s calm, when Captain Gaumard comes up to me — I was at th... ... refuge for the smugglers and pirates who come from Corsica, Sardinia, and Africa, and if it becomes known that we have been there, we shall have to p...

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...books. Not only was it accepted as an authority by British historians, but French chroniclers also used it for their own purposes. About the year 1150... ...e the death of Geoffrey, an Anglo Norman, Geoffrey Gaimar, wrote the first French metrical chronicle. It consisted of two parts, the Estorie des Bret... ...im that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey, which lies in the sea, toward the west, and is a part of the fief of Normandy. In the isle of 5 Wace Jersey ... ...it that he put into it. In the first place his vehicle is the swift moving French octo syl labic couplet, which alone gives an entirely different ton... ...cations of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America, XX, 231 ff.; J.L. Weston, as above (p. xv.), pp. 883 ft. EX EX EX EX EXCURSUS III.—THE HOP CU... ... of engines we may make them our own. King, these stones were carried from Africa: there they were first shapen. The giant who ravished them to Ire l... ...ad their plate who held land of the king, from the furthest marches of the west even unto the Hill of St. Bernard. A most discourteous lord would he b... ...om Bithyma, Polydetes, and from Idumea, King Xerxes Mustansar, the King of Africa, came from his distant home, many a long days’ journey. With him wer... ... of Afric died that day. Guitard passed across his body, smiting down many Africans and Moors. Holdin, Duke of the Flemings, was a wise prince, circum...