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...is fame was above everyone’s—and in the opinion of the young people of the day Pushkin could not hold candle to him. He not only enjoyed the reputatio... ...r did a great deal to strengthen his “fatal” reputation. On the very first day after receiving his commission—about the middle of March—he was walking... ... oth- ers.... But I was the only one who knew T yeglev on that side. V ONE DAY—I remember it was St. Elijah’s day, July 20th—I came to stay with my br... ...me to time, “T yeglev! T yeglev!” “Here!” I heard suddenly in answer. Holy saints, how relieved I was! How I rushed in the direc- tion from which the ... ...t a word, and Naum said that he had come for his master’s gloves which the latter, he said, had left behind on the bench; and he, too, went away. We w... ...vna to her boudoir. “I can’t see him,” she began hurriedly, as soon as the latter appeared. “I absolutely cannot. What am I to say to him? I told you ... ...been recently built by the heirs of a rich merchant in accordance with the latter’s will. Yefrem said nothing to Akim all the way; he merely shook his... ...d you?” Naum said all this very calmly and even with a slight smile. “Holy saints!” cried Avdotya, “it’s beyond everything! Be- yond everything! How c... ...room with a huge cupboard against the further wall and a sofa covered with American leather; above the doors and between the windows hung three portra...

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... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ... fortune undismayed; and if the sky were to fall to-morrow, I should look to see Jones, the day following, perched on a step-ladder and getting things... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ... which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred pounds (I think it was) to an English ap... ...s; and we could hardly go to bed in comfort till we had exchanged notes and dis- cussed the day’s experience. We were then like a couple of anglers co... ...e order as the old prob- lem of the fox and goose and cabbage, were always welcome; and the latter, I observed, more popular as well as more con- spic... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ...ay believed in the unlimited per- fectibility of all machines except the human machine. The latter he gave up with ridicule for a compound of carrion ... ...d his comrade stared at each other like Vasco’s seamen, ‘with a wild surmise’; and then the latter, catching up the lamp, ran to the other frame and r...

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...rded this training; he dared not tell her the real state of affairs on the day after their wedding, nor for some time afterwards. His father’s avarice... ...t hundred francs. On the other hand, wages at the rate of three francs per day—two francs to Cerizet, and one to Kolb— reached a total of six hundred ... ... under Mme. Sechard’s direction. There was a pretty triumph for Eve on the day when David came in to see what she was doing, and praised the idea, and... ...ank, while Boniface was a general. Jean left the command to Boniface. This latter was thin and spare in person; his face, sallow as an altar candle, w... ...on the blinds. He always came at midnight for a chat with Cerizet, for the latter played the spy upon his former master’s every movement. “He is showi... ... said to her mother and Marion, whom she found still “in a taking,” in the latter’s phrase. “Oh! they are gone,” said Marion, when Eve looked un- thin... ...lity at the home-com- ing. Eve was smiling in the midst of her joy, as the saints smile upon martyrdom. The face of a young and very fair woman grows ... ...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...

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... Grisapol; and he, as he was a man who held blood thicker than wa- ter, wrote to me the day he heard of my existence, and taught me to count Aros as m... ...hen I had done with my classes, I was returning thither with so light a heart that July day. The Ross, as we call it, is a promontory neither wide nor... ... we call it, is a promontory neither wide nor high, but as rough as God made it to this day; the deep sea on either hand of it, full of rugged isles a... ...ought of his heart, and represented the regular tenor of the man’s reflections; but the latter burst forth from time to time with an unruly vio- lence... ...ee their faces, they would be altogether different, they would shine out for heroes and saints! I am worse than most; myself is more overlaid; my excu... ...d huskily, ‘I have in some de- gree complied with evil. But it is so with all: the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and ... ...Tentaillon and Desprez exchanged expressive glances. ‘That is bad, my man,’ resumed the latter, with a shade of sternness. ‘Every one should be fond o... ...is an argument exactly suited to your intellectual level – many of them are English and American. Where else should we expect to find a thief? – And n... ...answered the Doctor, ‘combines the func- tions of a son and stable-boy. He began as the latter, but he rose rapidly to the more honourable rank in our...

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...in echter Spass-und Galgen- vogel, said several; meaning thereby that, one day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt d... ...een yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To-day, with- out a Yesterday or a To-morrow; and had not rather its Ancestor ... ...elung, which twelve wagons in twelve days, at the rate of three journeys a day, could not carry off. Sheepskin cloaks and wampum belts; phy- lacteries... ...s small favor with Teufelsdrockh, much as he otherwise venerates these two latter processes. “Shall your Science,” exclaims he, “proceed in the small ... ...with us, courageous reader; be it towards failure, or towards success! The latter thou sharest with us; the former also is not all our own. BOOK II CH... ...ow forth my future destiny, or his own present ma- lign humor? Perhaps the latter, perhaps both. Thou ill- starred Parent, who like an Ostrich hadst t... ...as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle wit... ...onsiderably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly... ... pacificated. ’ Here is a” ...— Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. ... “After a careful survey of the whole ground, our bel...

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...rned again to the owner. “And how did this misfortune occur?” inquired the latter, resum- ing the interrupted conversation. “Alas, sir, in the most un... ...assumed the command without consulting any one, and he caused us to lose a day and a half at the Island of Elba, instead of making for Marseilles dire... ...sel,” replied Morrel, “that was his duty as captain’s mate; as to losing a day and a half off the Island of Elba, he was wrong, unless the vessel need... ... in as good condition as I am, and as, I hope you are, M. Morrel, and this day and a half was lost from pure whim, for the pleasure of going ashore, a... ...lars and Caderousse took their places beside Fernand and old Dantes, — the latter of whom attracted universal notice. The old man was attired in a sui... ... sake, then, what would you call Robespierre? Come, come, do not strip the latter of his just rights to bestow them on the Corsican, who, to my mind, ... ...e waves, and assuming attitudes which the gods could not resist, but which saints withstood, and looks inflexible and ardent like those with which the... ...wns before six, at ten minutes past I should have gone to join the blessed saints and glorious martyrs in whose company I had the honor of Alexandre ... ...y by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my ...

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...“That is what I have tried. Unwisely perhaps. I have fol- lowed the coast, day after day—from New Quay. It has only added muscular fatigue to the ment... ...es drowsiness and sleep. Men seem to live for sleep. How little of a man’s day is his own—even at the best! And then come those false friends, those T... ...ly—” “Yes?” “You have seen things go down an eddy? Out of the light of the day, out of this sweet world of sanity—down—” “But,” expostulated Isbister.... ... raised a family, my eldest lad—I hadn’t begun to think of sons then—is an American citizen, and looking for- ward to leaving Harvard. There’s a touch... ... blankness. He started and rubbed his eyes. He had been so absorbed in the latter-day substitute for a novel, that he awoke to the little green and wh... ... man who had first come down made a hissing with his teeth. Graham saw the latter start back, gesticulate to them to conceal themselves, and move as i... ...hadows. Suddenly his hand came against his guide’s. “Still!” whispered the latter very softly. He looked up with a start and saw the huge wings of the... ...ty at the very beginning.” “What was his name?” “Graham.” “No, I mean—that American’s.” “Isbister.” “Isbister!” cried Graham. “Why, I don’t even know ... ...earn much in the schools nowadays. But I know all about him. He was a rich American who went from En- gland, and he left the Sleeper even more than Wa...

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...gar necessities—were exactly those pleading in its favor with two romantic Americans per- versely in search of the economic drawbacks which were as- s... ...s it was the mere fact of the other incident’s having occurred on the very day of their ascent to Meldon that had kept it stored away in the unconscio... ... His wife felt a sting of compunction. Theoretically, she dep- recated the American wife’s detachment from her husband’s professional interests, but i... ...ne of the strangest things she was afterward to recall out of all the next day’s incredible strangeness was the sudden and complete recovery of her se... ..., in some roundabout way, all her dif- fused apprehensions of the previous day, with their moment of sharp concentration about the newspaper article,—... ...r. Boyne,” he replied. His intonation, rather than his accent, was faintly American, and Mary, at the famil- iar note, looked at him more closely. The... ...at the landing-place. The Count repeated this to Tony’s custodian, but the latter shook his head and rattled off a sharp denial. “Impossible, sir,” sa... ...new show. Tony’s fist shot out at the black fellow’s chest, and before the latter could right himself the young New En- glander was showing a clean pa... ...he little maid-ser- vant and submerged her under a flood of V enetian. The latter volleyed back in the same jargon, and as she did so, Tony’s astonish...

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...ed, and baked and crisped after four months of cloudless weather, when the day seemed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley fro... ...ood, straddling clumsily on its four uprights by the road- side. Since the day of its completion, the storekeepers and retailers of Bonneville had pai... ...y was impatient to be on his way again. A little more time wasted, and the day would be lost. He had noth- ing to do with the management of the ranch,... ...alajara and Bonneville. Once, even, he had made the entire run between the latter town and San Francisco in the cab. Dyke’s home was in Guadalajara. H... ... found an excuse for going to bed, but Annixter and Harran remained in the latter’s room, in a haze of blue tobacco smoke, talking, talking. But at le... ...nt him across the ranch to one of his division superin- tendents, and this latter, after assuring himself of Vanamee’s familiarity with horses and his... ...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...

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...el upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in prac tice in that day also. One is quite justified in inferring that whatever one of these ... ...re startled at his fantastic make up than if she was used to his like every day of her life. She was going by as indifferently as she might have gone... ...n, I now shoved this whole problem clear out of my mind till its ap pointed day and hour should come, in order that I might turn all my attention to ... ...century, or noth ing but a dream? Dear me, if I could only prove it was the latter! Here was a glad new hope. If the boy was right about the date, a... .... I said: “You wanted to burn me alive when I had not done you any harm, and latterly you have been trying to injure my professional reputation. Ther... ...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro... ...uiet. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of ... ...these two being a young black sow with a white star in her forehead, and the latter a brown one with thin legs and a slight limp in the forward shank...

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...ust-September, 1846. 5 Balzac COUSIN BETTY PART I THE PRODIGAL FATHER ONE DAY, about the middle of July 1838, one of the car- riages, then lately int... ...ed for— in my eyes, as an old man of business.” “Monsieur, you may at this day see in the Ministry of Com- merce Monsieur Popinot, formerly a druggist... ...at cursed bachelor life! But for my misconduct, my Celestine might at this day be Vicomtesse Popinot!” “Once more have done with recriminations over a... ...they fail for the second time in such an attempt. “You do not yet know the latter end of poverty—shame, disgrace.—I have tried to warn you; I would ha... ... 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. ... ...l, is a striking instance in his poverty-stricken youth, compared with his latter years of opulence. This is the reason why the same prize, the same t... ...or ingratitude! Heaven does not see the char- ity that costs us nothing—” “Saints, madame, may if they please go to the workhouse; they know that it i... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...army was now in presence of the en- emy; and a great battle expected every day. ’Twas known that 8 Henry Esmond – Book Three the General-in-Chief was... ... and commanders whose gallantry was most conspicu- ous upon this frightful day of carnage, the general cry was, that there was enough of the war. The ... ...rending for an of- ficer who had a heart to look down his line on a parade-day afterwards, and miss hundreds of faces of comrades—humble or of high ra... ...r. Holt, the influence of his Clotilda, and the blessing of heaven and the saints,” says my lord, demurely, “to change his religion, and be received i... ...; and that his mother and sister should have his lordship’s prayers to the saints (an inestimable benefit, truly!) for their conversion. If Esmond had... ...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... ...ard and plentiful, during the campaign. This was a great feast, and of the latter sort; the honest old gentleman loved to treat his friends splendidly... ...from us common people. Her mother and kinsman both fell into her ways, the latter scorn- fully perhaps, and uttering his usual gibes at her vanity and... ...y inac- curacy in Mr. Simon’s pronunciation, ’twas to be attributed to the latter’s long residence in England, where he had married and remained ever ...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...t the two gringos, spectral and alive, are believed to be dwelling to this day amongst the rocks, under the fatal spell of their success. Their souls ... ...nd vanish into thin air all along the front before the blazing heat of the day. The wast- ing edge of the cloud-bank always strives for, but seldom wi... ... in smashing the windows of the Intendencia.” Early on the morning of that day the local authori- ties of Sulaco had fled for refuge to the O.S.N. Com... ...sat on another chair by his side, muttering pious invo- cations to all the saints of the calendar. The old republican did not believe in saints, or in... ... the title, with which he greeted the old major banteringly as soon as the latter’s soldierly figure appeared in the doorway. Don Pepe only smiled in ... ...s al- lied to Señores Fuentes and Gamacho with their armed rabble. All the latter part of the afternoon an animated dis- cussion went on in the big ro...

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... stream running along the bottom. Steadfast’s little herd knew the time of day as well as if they all had watches in their pockets, and they never fai... ... old sister. The children’s lives had been much less bright since that sad day; and Steadfast seldom had much time for play. He knew he must get home ... ...at last. I’ve never gone nigh the place with mine own good will since that day—nor knew the children had done so—but methought ’twas a lonesome place ... ...ide of the river, being ferried over and carrying the goods themselves the latter part of the way. CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHA... ...tress Lightfoot, but this was laughed to scorn. “The rulers of the army of saints had a right to be served first, above all before one who was believe... ... of them noticing Stead asked whether he had come to take service with the saints and enjoy their dominion, but Jeph answered for him that his call la... ...hildren were to be admitted to Matins, for if any idea oozed out that this latter service had been held, no great danger was likely to come of it. Dr.... ...s were gone. Patience sorely missed Rusha, her diligent little helper, and latterly her companion too; and the lack of Emlyn’s merry tongue made all a... ...nment in London, he had been trans- ported to the plantations, namely, the American settlements, and had fallen in with friends, who took him to Virgi...

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...eration. It is a fine thing to be a providence, and to be told so on every day of one’s life. It gives one a feeling of enormously remote su- periorit... ...of skill—poker. He had been the aptest pupil of a steady-eyed, sententious American, who had drifted mysteriously into Macassar from the wastes of the... ...ad boy to head boy of the Chinese servants in the Sunda Hotel even to this day. Willems was a connoisseur in the drink and an adept at the game. Of th... ... fills the ignorant man’s universe. Willems knew all about himself. On the day when, with many misgivings, he ran away from a Dutch East-Indiaman in S... ...e- leased, towards the quiet heaven. Aissa and Babalatchi started, but the latter gripped in his turn the girl’s arm and restrained her with a strong ... ... sudden exal- tation, “You are noble … I shall pray every day … to all the saints … I shall …” “Never mind … never mind!” stammered out Almayer, confu...

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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... ... Who the inhabit- ants Who with a slender pittance will relieve Even for a day the wandering Oedipus?’ Potter. The place to which the... ... his mighty men, it is apt to appear to us as if it had taken place in his latter days; but such is not the case, it befell while he was still under t... ... the Romans pray, A Roman’s life, a Roman’s arms Take thou in charge this day.’ And with this brief prayer he leapt into the foaming stream. Polybius... ...made a molten image, And set it up on high, And there it stands unto this day, To witness if I lie. ‘It stands in the Comitium, Plain for all folk ... ... earnest faith that gave the earlier Romans such truth and resolution; but latterly they so corrupted it with the Greek myths, that, in after times, t... ...then beheaded to gratify the rage of the vindictive woman. Since Scripture Saints in the age of miracles were not al- ways shielded from the wrath of ... ...of the little republic of Switzerland. Of differing races, languages, and, latterly, even religions— unlike in habits, tastes, opinions and costumes—t...

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... life when it comes at all. In Benham’s case we might trace it back to the Day Nursery at Seagate, we might detect it stirring already at the petticoa... ...h time and always I have found that it has to be conquered afresh. To this day I fear, little things as well as big things. I have to grapple with som... ...ings as well as big things. I have to grapple with some little dread every day—urge myself… . Just as I have to wash and shave myself every day… . I b... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...is way over Box Hill to the little inn at Burford Bridge. He would try the latter. 14 14 14 14 14 The April sunset found our young man talking to hims... ...d go back and spend the night in one of the two kindly-looking inns of the latter place or push on over the South Downs towards the unknown luck of Si... ... two groupings have a quite definite meaning for me. There is pride in the latter group of impulses and not in the former; the former are always a lit...

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...haracteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the de... ...thing like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. The reader may r... ... the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long ... ...which, half a century ago, were as deserted as waters well can be; and the day is not distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become t... ...e is clearing the way for the advancement of civilization across the whole American continent. THE P A THFINDER CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... ...eeping top, the rich varieties of the maple, most of the noble oaks of the American forest, with the broad-leaved linden known in the parlance of the ... ...r met with among the aborigines of this continent a century since than to- day; and, while he had mingled sufficiently with the colonists to be famili... ... more than a week. The sight of the curling smoke, however, had struck the latter like the sudden appearance of a sail at sea; and, for the first time... ...contrary, the white man left the fire, and came forward to meet Mabel. The latter saw, as the stranger approached that she was about to be addressed b...

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...gyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be s... ...u go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a coun try which was full of beauty... ...that I was engaged on important business, she asked again: “Do you know what day it is?” I answered that it was the fourth of May. She shook her head ... ... as she said again: “Oh, yes! I know that! I know that, but do you know what day it is?” On my saying that I did not understand, she went on: “It is t... ...zeks with their white, and the Slo vaks with their coloured sheepskins, the latter carry ing lance fashion their long staves, with axe at end. As th... ... like a baby, by my own fears, or else I am in desperate straits, and if the latter be so, I need, and shall need, all my brains to get through. I h... ... Well, my dear, number Two came after lunch. He is such a nice fellow,and American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems alm... ...d has exquisite manners, but he found out that it amused me to hear him talk American slang,and whenever I was present, and there was no one to be sho... ...ngs that you cannot. Let me illus Chapter 14 234 trate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, ‘that faculty which enables us to believe ...

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...h, in rather smaller letters, “Lodg- ings for both sexes, etc.” During the day a glimpse into the garden is easily obtained through a wicket to which ... ...th still survived. M. Poiret was a sort of automaton. He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, o... ...ictorine’s mother had died broken-hearted in Mme. Couture’s house; and the latter, who was a near relation, had taken charge of the little orphan. Unl... ...ad nothing in the world but her jointure and her widow’s pension, and some day she might be obliged to leave the helpless, inexperienced girl to the m... ...y to Eugene; it was suf- ficiently evident that he wished to be rid of the latter. An exact and faithful rendering of the glance might be given in the... ...y workman, sufficiently enterprising to buy his master’s business when the latter fell a chance victim to the disturbances of 1789. Goriot established... ...w the left bank of the Seine between the Rue Saint-Jacques and the Rue des Saints- Peres know nothing of life. “ Ah! if the women of Paris but knew,” ... ... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ...