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...brother Arthur. Do you know when he comes home?’ ‘He promised to come this spring, but I fancy Captain Fitzhugh has inveigled him somewhere to fish. H... ...e my last evening at home. I must tell her that you have seen it!’ and the springing steps grew so rapid, that her companion had to say, ‘Don’t let me... ...ed Violet. ‘O dear! and there have I been telling him all about—about this spring. I would not have done it, if I had known. I thought he looked melan... ...taircase for use and comfort.’ ‘ And here is the hall! Oh !’ cried Violet, springing towards it, ‘this really is the Dying Gladiator. Just like the on... ...he led her into a history of an ascent of Helvellyn, which had, until this spring, been the great event of her life. On coming into the drawing-room, ... ...istance; and when I was at home, either she went out on long visits in the holidays, or there was a surveillance on me; and when I did get down to the... ... into my mind, as it used to look up the avenue, when we came back for the holidays. Those old shields with the martlets—see, Johnnie, like that— ’ ho... ...y pear equal to that jargonelle, where you ate twenty the first day of the holidays. What do you think of that, Johnnie?’ ‘Ay, Johnnie, and I can tell...

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... knows where, in the nooks and crannies hollowed by the rain, in which the spring-tide brought forth fragile flowers, timid creeping plants, and spars... ... of this century, was encumbered with old iron and brass, tires of wheels, springs, bells, anything in short which the destruction of buildings afford... ...r of the house on the two streets, the multifarious col- lection of bells, springs, broken gunlocks, and the other rub- bish of their business, which ... ...wed- ding were issued to all Graslin’s friends and acquaintance. On a fine spring morning a caleche and a coupe, drawn by Limousin horses chosen by Mo... ...n. A hot, baked, reddish soil shows a region where chestnuts flourish. The springs, carefully applied to irrigation, water the mead- 76 The Village R... ...lly so full of misery and hard work, were to me a golden period. I dreaded holidays. My mother herself preferred to come and see me. When I had finish...

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... into Mary’s eyes at the veiled windows, and the unfeeling contrast of the spring glow of flowering thorn, lilac, laburnum, and, above all, the hard, ... ...onard is well, and goes back to school.’ ‘And that won’t be till after the holidays. No, some break there must be. When he is gone, Mary can put her i... ...fter another, learning all sorts of things; but only coming home for short holidays, like company, for us to wonder at her and show her about, thinkin... ...lf in an impossible place on the cliff side, trying to disinter what hope, springing eternal in the human breast, pronounced 66 The Trial to be the p... ... September. This will bring Leonard home four days be- fore the end of the holidays, for he has been most warmly invited, Hector adopting him into the... ... the humming-bird sprite, delicately limbed and featured, and with elastic springiness, visible even in the pencilled outline. The dancing dark eyes w... ...e into the contest. The annual game had been delayed by the illness in the spring, and the school had lost several good players at the end of the half... ...eral good players at the end of the half year; but, on the other hand, the holidays being over, George Larkins had been unable to collect an eleven ei... ...’s villa at Bristol have been our staple subject, but Mr. Pugh died in the spring, leaving his lady five hundred a year absolutely her own, and she is...

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...efore, he had played poker at Vergil Gunch’s till midnight, and after such holidays he was irritable before breakfast. It may have been the tre- mendo... ...nd cigar of the day. “Yes, it’s a mighty fine morning,” said Littlefield. “Spring coming along fast now.” “Yes, it’s real spring now, all right,” said... ...s—considering.” “Well—” uneasily. “Darn fine morning,” Babbitt explained. “Spring com- ing along fast.” “Yes, it’s real spring now.” The victim had no... ... raged or rejoiced with equal ner- vous swiftness, and to-day the light of spring was so win- some that he lifted his head and saw. He admired each di... ...n anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words. He was, for a spring-enchanted moment, the lyric and almost un- selfish lover of Zenith. ... ...enog., smart’s a whip, but Stan Graff and all those bums—” The zest of the spring morning was smothered in the stale office air. Normally he admired t...

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...d for a year or more. I remem- ber only one man who walked his deck with a springy step, and gave the first course of the pas- sage in an elated voice... ... gist would be: There is no cargo, and no prospect of any coming till late spring apparently. And all the time I sat there the necessity of getting ba... ...declare that he ever saw the sea looking young as the earth looks young in spring. But some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affectio... ...r two belated fruit schooners in company. There we were, in that memorable spring of a cer- tain year in the late seventies, dodging to and fro, baffl... ...ires a dread of treachery. I have heard upwards of ten score of windlasses spring like one into clank- 85 Joseph Conrad ing life in the dead of night... ... wool. Their names attained the dignity of household words. On Sundays and holidays the citizens trooped down, on visiting bent, and the lonely office...

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...tic air which added to the impression. He often related that on one of his holidays in Boulogne, one of those holidays upon which his wife for economy... ...ther , and then more, and they began to talk about their doings during the holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. ... ...and butter for growing lads— but some parents, unduly pampering their off- spring, insisted on it. Philip noticed that ‘extras’ gave boys a cer- tain ... ..., for he knew quite well that he had bought the pen-holder during his last holidays at Blackstable for one and twopence. He did not know in the least ... ...o ask at school, so he kept the question he had in mind till the Christmas holidays, and then one day he made an opportunity. It was after supper and ... ...Bondage after Easter than after Christmas. It’ll be much pleasanter in the spring than in midwinter. If at the end of the next term you still want to ... ...hey had upon Philip; they seemed to make his life very hum- drum. With the spring Hayward grew dithyrambic. He proposed that Philip should come down t... ...how could the soul come to her own in that prim landscape? In T uscany the spring was scattering flowers through the land, and Philip was nineteen; le... ...was a white antimacassar over the back of it, and on the seat, because the springs were broken, a hard cushion. After having his tea he unpacked and a...

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...y. A 16 The Alkahest precipitate, headlong step produces fear. When a man springs forward and cries, “Fire!” his feet speak as loudly as his voice. I... ... was in this case involuntary, and not without the sweet flatteries of the spring- time of love. Duty was the only marriage obligation unknown to thes... ...c- tions are ever new? How make head against the fascination of ideas that spring the fresher and the lovelier out of diffi- culty, and entice a man s... ... fears. When she saw Balthazar about to leave the room, her impulse was to spring towards him; then a cruel thought restrained her—she should stand be... ...band, nor father, nor master of your family.” “What!” exclaimed Balthazar, springing to his feet and cast- ing a piercing glance at his wife, “do you ... ...t as the Bourse becomes a necessity to a stock-gambler, to whom the public holidays are so much lost time. Here were his hopes; here the heavens conta...

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.... THE TOWN OF MICKLETHWAYTE was rising and thriving. There were salubrious springs which an enterprising doctor had lately brought into notice. The fi... ...s,’ was the sincere and gentle answer. ‘I had her with me generally in the holidays, and I confess I was absolutely alarmed to see how pretty the chil... ...nd cutting-out for the working party,—an operation always performed in the holidays. Miss Headworth had of late years been excused from it, and it gav... ...ged his health a good deal,’ was the answer. ‘He had a sharp attack in the spring, but he has pretty well got over it, and Raikes told me there was no... ...‘ Ah, I remember! But you’re out now, aren’t you? I’ve been out since this spring. Mother won’t let us come out till we are eighteen, isn’t it horrid?... ...er by assuring her that her husband had suffered in the same manner in the spring, and she saw how well he had recovered; and then telling Nuttie to b... ...uncle that the attack was pronounced to be a return of the illness of last spring, and that it would be expedient to go abroad for the winter. Go abro... ...make the tiny appartement a home to her boy, of their pleasant Sundays and holidays, and the life that in this manner was peculiarly guarded by her in...

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...og and a little dog stood on their hind legs; a lion seemed* just about to spring on a young maiden’s head; and all were thickly spot- ted over, just ... ...ckings,” said his sister, Nunziata; “we never wear them but on Sundays and holidays.” Lucy was not sure that she might, but the children looked so joy... ...lp me. I’m afraid,” said Lucy. “That is nothing,” said the mountain maiden springing up to her like a kid, in spite of her great heavy shoes; “you sho... ...rsation. “Y es; my father is the hetman of the Stantitza, and these are my holidays. I go to school at Tcherkask the greater part of the year.” “Tcher... ...de of the river Volga; all the houses stand on piles of timber, and in the spring the streets are full of water, and one has to sail about in boats.” ...

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...w world was more and more unveiled. More and more they entered the realms of spring. The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, t... ...ssippi Mark T wain 13 basin of the Mississippi, from its frozen northern springs to the sultry borders of the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the A... ... sheets and steer a swift yawl; there is some thing fine about the exultant spring of the boat when an experienced old sailor crew throw their souls ... ...down, mistaking his lantern for the buoy light; so he sang out, “Stand by to spring for the guard, men!” and the next instant the jump was made. Chapt... ...and everything else, and the customary latest procras tinator making a wild spring shoreward over his head. Now a number of the boats slide backward ... ... like it i wish i was nere you so i could send you chuck (RE- FRESHMENTS) on holidays; it would spoil this weather from here, but i will send you a bo...

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... a queer point of missionary policy just arisen, about our new Town Hall and the balls there—too long to go into, but a quaint ex- ample of the intric... ...e weed- ing sensitive in the paddock. The men have but now passed over it; I was round in that very place to see the weeding was done thoroughly, and ... ...tted for—you can conceive what a nightmare it is at times. Then God knows I have not been idle. But since THE MAS- TER nothing has come to raise any c... ..., clean it, and put it up again. As this is a most intricate job—the thing dissolves into seventeen separate members, most of these have to be fitted ... ... dry; it mounts with a sharp turn a very steep face of the mountain, and then stops abruptly at the lip of a plateau, I suppose the top of Vaea mounta... ... by Birrell; another time if I have a letter in the Times, you might send me the text as well; also please send me a cricket bat and a cake, and when ...

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... suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over p... ...‘It will never check hers, ’ said the old man looking steadily at me, ‘the springs are too deep. Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasu... ... passing so long upon your attention. Good night.’ ‘There’s one good thing springs out of all this,’ said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had rea... ... were the birds singing, as the sun only shines and the birds only sing on holidays and half holidays; there were the trees waving to all free boys t... ...he governess; no deferential servant to at tend and bear her home for the holidays; nothing gen teel to talk about, and nothing to display. But why ... ...for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate th... ...er,’ said Short; ‘that’s where it is. We takes the East of Lon don in the spring and winter, and the West of England in the summer time. Many’s the h... ...rrily home together. CHAPTER 40 FULL OF THAT VAGUE kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning, Kit turned out at sunrise, and, with his fait... ...pockets, but free from any very great oppression notwithstanding. Oh these holidays! why will they leave us some re gret? why cannot we push them bac...

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...nquests, provided that himself and all his men should drink of the nearest spring. After the usual oaths and ratifications, he called his soldiers tog... ...when they had all drunk their fill, at last comes king Sous himself to the spring, and, having sprinkled his face only, without swallowing one drop, m... ... about it, where they had been chiefly wont to meet with him, and that the spring which watered the field should be hallowed for the use of the vestal... ...hin the walls of the city, two demi-gods, Picus and Faunus, frequented the Springs and thick shades of that place; which might be two satyrs, or Pans,... ...to surprise these demi-gods, by mixing wine and honey in the waters of the spring of which they usually drank. On finding themselves ensnared, they ch... ...ehension, and a strong and aspiring bent for action and great affairs. The holidays and intervals in his studies he did not spend in play or idleness,... ...ch’s Lives the assembly and the forum; and to the feasts, called the Latin holidays, they added one day more, making four in all; and ordained that, o... ..., they should be remanded. And, accordingly, they were sent back after the holidays; it being decreed pain of death for any that stayed behind. After ... ...ays, and were overjoyed. What would have been their feelings, and how many holidays would they have celebrated, if Crassus had sent news from Babylon ...

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...Clovelly?” he puffed at last, and they flung themselves down on the short, springy turf between the drone of the sea below and the light summer wind a... ... again the barren purple moun- tains of the rainy West coast, where in his holidays he was viceroy of four thousand naked acres, only son of a three- ... ...if he thought we got tight.” “I never got squiffy but once—that was in the holidays,” said Stalky, reflectively; “an’ it made me horrid sick. ‘Pon my ... ...nior who had passed his Army Preliminary and hoped to enter Sandhurst next spring. Aladdin came to his own at last, Abanazar lay poisoned on the floor... ...unned ‘em all along under the ‘ang of the heaves, like. Runned ‘em in last holidays. I can’t rache the turncock.” “Let me try,” said Stalky, diving in... ...der—I cashed it at Keyte’s—for five bob; but he’ll pay me back before the holidays. We didn’t know there was anything wrong in it.” They waded throug... ...y tossed it into a glove and foil locker. Then, as though he had touched a spring, broke out the low murmur of content, changing to quick-volleyed han... ...g. McTurk was going up for Cooper’s Hill, and Stalky for Sandhurst, in the spring; and the Head had told them both that, unless they absolutely col- l... ...; I’ll let you in at the proper time. I went down to my regiment, and that spring, five mouths later, I got off with a couple of companies on detachme...

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...old mortal all at once sinking into a decline, she might, some dark night, spring a leak and carry us all to the bot- tom. However, she played us no s... ...nother boat, and then darted into the cabin to tell the captain the news. Springing on deck again, he drove down into the forecastle for a couple of ... ...h vessel and crew that, whatever might be the event, a long stay, and many holidays in Tahiti, were confidently predicted. Everybody was in high spiri... ...pe Yarn, crawling close up to him. “Avast! avast!” roared Jermin, making a spring toward Bembo, and dashing two or three of the sailors aside. At this... ... fiercely round. “Over with them together, then,” exclaimed the carpenter, springing forward; but the rest fell back before the coura- 80 Omoo geous ... ...oner we saw, in which he traded among the neighbouring islands. The breeze springing up again just after nightfall, Viner left us, promising his old s... ...g calls was more than could be made good by his entertainer’s spending the holidays with them. The old man, as I have hinted, had, once upon a time, b...

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...ing in foliage, support at regular distances corbeils of fruit, from which spring the garlands of the ceiling. Charming paintings, the work of unknown... ...alism and politics. When shall we poor fellows come upon a land where gold springs up with the grass? That is what I desire for you and for me and the... ... this year; God grant he came by it honestly. Let me see that,” she added, spring- ing at the coin and snatching it from Fourchon’s fingers. “Marie,” ... ... is that of a brook formed by the overflow of the mill-race and of certain springs in the park of Les Aigues. It runs by the side of the county road a... ...f the altar and the mayor’s office. Endowed with the suppleness of a steel-spring, he yielded to pressure, certain to revert to his first thought. Thi... ...lds; but this village cock-of-the-walk had others in reserve for balls and holidays. He lived, it must be said, on the gifts of his female friends, wh...

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...nvenient.” “Yes. First there was whooping cough here to destroy the summer holidays; then came the Milsoms’ measles, and I could not go and carry infe... ...ghtened us all very much. Next came influenza to every one. And these last holidays! What should the newly-come little one from India do, but catch a ... ...in, especially over little Thekla and Polly. But if George comes home this spring, and I go out to Queensland with him, perhaps I should have asked yo... ...ink I should have asked you to consent to Vera and Thekla’s spending their holidays at Mr. Waring’s coun- try house.” “Very worthy people, you said. I... ...hey come, we ought to talk over means! Some- thing is owing for these last holidays. Oh! Sophy, I cannot find words to say how thankful I am to you fo... ...out at their window, and saw that it was a beautiful morning, and that the spring sunshine glowed upon the purple summits of the hills. Agatha suppose... ...to one or other of them on week-days. It is too late to come back on these spring Sundays.” “I should not like to live among so many churches,” said M... ...y?” Neither girl seemed to have eyes for the lovely blue of the sea in the spring sunshine, nor the striking forms of ruddy peaks of rock that enclose... ...eling, which were the more excited when she saw her own chilliness of last spring carried further by the two young girls. So breakfast went off merril...

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...r worth the money than some shares I have paid for in my time. In the same holidays the line was made and worked and opened and ran excursions and had... ...would have done and even actually jerking his neat little legs ready for a spring as it was. “This,” says Mr. Buffle without his pen “is an assault an... ...out railroads and steamboats, as our boy was coming home for his Midsummer holidays next day and we were going to take him somewhere for a treat and a...

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...amend it, if the birching did not do, he should not let me go home for the holidays; but I will not catch the birching... —‘So believe me your dear So... ...838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. AFTER the Christmas holidays of 1837-8, when Coley Patteson was nearly eleven years old, he was... ...from home severely, and seldom failed to write a mournful letter after the holidays. There is one, quite pa- thetic in its simplicity, telling his mot... ... it, I do not know whether there will be another Sacrament here before the holidays, or whether I shall receive it with you at Feniton next time.’ 23... ...turn to the outer world and ready attention to what- ever was in hand. The spring found him of course in the full tide of Eton interests. The sixth an... ...to be selected next time. My tutor is not at all disappointed in me.’ This spring, 1843, Patteson became one of the Eleven, a perilously engrossing po... ...e crowd, with no attendant near him. ‘I was the first to perceive him, and springing forward, pushed back the fellows on each side, who did not know w... ...lace among the ‘select,’ at his last examination for the Newcastle, in the spring of 1845. Before the list was given out he had written to his father ... ...in especial to the Rev. Henry Gardiner, who was much beloved there. In the spring of 1853, he had a long and dangerous illness, when Coley came to nur...

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...he funeral, stating the limit of the cost. It is unfair to sound any man’s springs of action critically while he is being tried by a sorrow; and the f... ... gratification to him to be invited down, whether he could come or no; for holidays were expensive, and jour- neys by rail had to be thought over befo... ...o actually shot across him, and his 26 Rhoda Fleming heart sent up a warm spring of tenderness toward the pa- tient, good, grubbing old fellow, sitti... ...on sighed. “ All my guessing and reck- oning goes wrong. I’m safe for next Spring, that’s one com- fort. I shall make twenty thousand next Spring.” “O... ...h, and no more; and she said, “Good-bye, Edward.” He had been on one knee. Springing cheerfully to his feet, “Good-bye, darling,” he said. “But I must... ...ed for him by the women of W arbeach; but his fame was fresh again. As the Spring brings back its flowers, Robert’s presence re- vived his youthful de...