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...ms and mignonettes growing in the starch box at the window, underneath the fish globe with its one ven- 28 McTeague erable gold fish. That day Miss B... ... “Once I went sailing on the bay,” said McTeague. “It was in a tugboat; we fished off the heads. I caught three codfishes.” “I’m afraid to go out on t... ...ess. He even went so far as to ask for subjects from the audience, and the names of prominent men were shouted to him from the gallery. He drew portra... ...listened and quivered. He was there in that same room which they shared in common, separated only by the thinnest board partition. He was thinking of ... ...his arm, his hands full of plates and dishes. He was a great joker; he had names of his own for different articles of food, that sent gales of laughte... ...n; together and alone they entered upon the long retarded romance of their commonplace and uneventful lives. At last that great supper was over, every... ...“And you’ve been to market already, Miss Baker?” “Oh, my, yes; and I got a fish—a sole—see.” She drew the sole in question from her basket. “Oh, the l... ...tained in the fat oblong envelope, was a printed form with blanks left for names and dates, and addressed to McT eague, from an office in the City Hal... ...n a time when Trina had hated the idea of McT eague drinking steam beer as common and vulgar. “Say, let’s have a bottle of beer to-night. We haven’t h...

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...orthodox in politics, and altogether fit ter than themselves to serve our common Uncle. I knew it, too, but could never quite find in my heart to act... ...he moment that there was no longer any remedy. Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contract a kindness for th... ...pth of feeling, no troublesome sensibilities: nothing, in short, but a few commonplace instincts, which, aided by the cheerful temper which grew inevi... ...it of his maw, it always pleased and satisfied me to hear him expatiate on fish, poultry , and butcher’s meat, and the most eligible methods of prepar... ...bbish in the corner, unfolding one and an other document, and reading the names of vessels that had long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharve... ...ree, Phillips, Shepard, Upton, Kimball, Bertram, Hunt—these and many other names, which had such classic familiarity for my ear six months ago,—these ... ...by the tail, and made prize of several five fingers, and laid out a jelly fish to melt in the warm sun. Then she took up the white foam that streaked... ...everybody that meets him here among the trees; and they are to write their names with their own blood; and then he sets his mark on their bosoms. Dids... ...t Letter ever, all was looked upon as pertaining to the character, as to a fish his glistening scales. After parting from the physician, the commander...

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...indifference in matters of religion.” May the double signification of your names be for my book a prophecy! Deign to find here the respectful grati- t... ...’s instrument into a semblance of blocks of cut stone. This frontage is so common in Paris and so ugly that the city ought to offer premiums to house-... ...customed, change in a singular man- ner; some die outright; others take to fishing, the vacancy of that amusement resembling that of their late employ... ... to her, the social crisis which presently ex- 17 Balzac tinguished their common hopes. No more successes for that handsome Thuillier in the salons o... ...ever a quarrel in his household. Among business men he was looked upon, in common with all art- ists, as a scatter-brained fellow; and superficial per... ...ut, at the present moment this man of many legal crimes, now the banker of fishwives, the money-lender of costermongers, was the gnawing rodent of the... ...rdinal. Madame Cardinal was one of Cerizet’s earliest clients; she peddled fish. If Parisians know these creations peculiar to their soil, foreigners ... ...roat accustomed to send to the farthest recesses of the highest garret the names of the fish in their season. Her nose, a la Roxelane, her well-cut li... ...er the list, he exclaimed, vehemently:— “Heavens! my dear fellow, here are names of papers no- body ever heard of. Where’s the ‘Moralisateur,’ the ‘La...

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...ad heard the chaplain object to what he con- sidered unhallowed heathenish names, but she had been heartily glad that they should be taught and catech... ...ways ready to help her, even though it hindered him from ever going out to fish, or play at base ball, or any of the other sports the village boys lov... ... feet tied to his stirrups on a sorry nag, being hauled off to town like a common thief!” “Oh!” broke from the children, and Patience ventured to ask,... ...ck to Goody Grace’s as fast as he could, after turning out the cows on the common, not even stopping to count the sheep that were straggling about. Hi... ...IMES TIMES TIMES “Thrice welcome may such seasons be, But welcome too the common way, The lowly duties of the day.” THERE WAS OF COURSE much to do. ... .... Elmwood! let’s see—that was the troop that forded higher up, and came on Fisher’s corps. This way, dame. If your son be down, you’ll find him here; ... ...re tidy!” “We are not Puritans!” cried Rusha. Emlyn laughed. “Hark at your names,” she said. “And what’s that great rebel rogue of a brother of yours?... ...m Jack Presbyter, Puritan, 149 Yo n g e bookworm, and all the opprobrious names they could think of, though no one ever less merited sectarian nickna...

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...ks of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going for Dougl... ...ld be as foolish as unprincipled. It would lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. The question of men is a di... ... that we act upon no other principle than a desire to have “the loaves and fishes,” by which, in the end, our apparent success is re- ally an injury t... ...he same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, an... ...sented the opin- ion and sentiment of the whole nation at that time. Their names, being familiar to nearly all, and accessible to quite all, need not ... ...ur slaves. Surely, this does not encourage them to revolt. True, we do, in common with “our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live,” d... ...tion, blood, and thunder among the slaves. Slave insurrections are no more common now than they were before the Republican party was organized. What i... ... elected me, but by the patriotic people of the whole country. ADDRESS A T FISHKILL LANDING , FEBRUARY 19, 1861 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:—I appear before ... ...ain and France, a deep interest in the preservation and development of the fisheries adjacent to the northeastern coast and islands of this continent,...

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...h, will tell you that it is deadly because of its forbidden treasures. The common folk of the neighbourhood, peons of the estancias, vaqueros of the s... ... three miles off the shore, stared at it with amazement till dark. A negro fisherman, living in a lonely hut in a little bay near by, had seen the sta... ..., past Punta Mala—disregarding every- thing but the tyranny of time. Their names, the names of all mythology, became the household words of a coast th... ...keeping in a small way here and there; and once an organized enterprise of fishing—in Maldonado—for Giorgio, like the great Garibaldi, had been a sail... ...ident, a chance word would set him off talking on the beach to the Italian fishermen of Maldonado, in the little shop he kept afterwards (in 35 Josep... ... ugly, learned—and a little “loco”—mad, if not a bit of a sorcerer, as the common people suspected him of being. The little white jacket was in realit... ...d for their wives) imagined that he had fallen in love with a girl’s sound common sense like any other man, but these were not exactly the reasons why... ... judicature, and ministers of State. And this desire persisted, though the names of these people, he no- ticed, seldom remained the same for a whole y... ...ut with kindly eyes, pointing out the features of the country, telling the names of the little pueblos and of the estates, of the smooth-walled hacien...

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...wn kin and put themselves at the mercy of the next chance comer—an odd but common phenomenon, whose causes may readily be traced to the depths of the ... ...red francs a year to his landlady, and Mme. Vauquer saw nothing out of the common in the fact that a rich man had four or five mis- tresses; nay, she ... ...and they are sleeping like the logs they are.” “But, Sylvie, you put their names together as if—” “As if what?” said Sylvie, bursting into a guffaw. “... ...silk—in short, it was a splen- did affair, and I was as happy as a king—” “Fisher,” put in Vautrin, interrupting. “What do you mean, sir?” said Eugene... ...rupting. “What do you mean, sir?” said Eugene sharply. 41 Balzac “I said ‘fisher,’ because kingfishers see a good deal more fun than kings.” “Quite t... ... themselves with. What should induce M. d’Ajuda to take one of the noblest names in Portugal to the Rochefides? The Rochefides were only ennobled yest... ...t it. She said, ‘Let us send the three hundred and fifty francs in our two names!’ But I could not help telling you everything just as it happened. “D... ..., they list not to learn naught, wherefore the Papal Nuncio (called of the commonalty, M. le Cure) threateneth them with ex- communication, since that... ...dry,” said Vautrin, “and now you can have your fling, go into society, and fish for heiresses, and dance with countesses who have peach blos- som in t...

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...e quiet drizzle of autumn fell, hour after hour, into the 7 Wharton green fish-pond between the yews; but these back-waters of existence sometimes br... ... dropped contentedly back to trace the ara- besque of yew hedges about the fish-pond, and the shadow of the cedar on the lawn. “And now the other way,... ...the house. At their farther end rose a grass terrace, commanding, over the fish-pond and the yew hedges, a view of the long house-front, with its twis... ...s started. Everybody out there liked Bob Elwell, and most of the prominent names in the place are down on the list, and people began to wonder why—” P... ...ully. “Many words are supposed to define it—love and sympathy are those in commonest use, but I am not even sure that they are the right ones, and so ... ...l parlour (and Maria’s harp was throwing its gauzy web of sound across the Common), used to relate to his grandsons, about the year that Buonaparte ma... ...e volumes, frequently renewed, and almost always damp from the press, bore names generally unfamiliar to Mrs. Leveret, and giving her, as she furtivel... ...sappointment when their host- ess opened the conversation by the painfully commonplace inquiry: “Is this your first visit to Hillbridge?” Even Mrs. Le...

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...an is so clumsy—he knocks over the bowl, and flap-flap-flap go the gasping fishes, pizzicato!—but the sea—’ Helena’s speech was often difficult to ren... ...a of his questioning her concerning these things. She refused to learn the names of the stars or of the constellations, as of the wayside plants. ‘Why... ...seemed just out- side—brownies running and fairies peeping—just beyond the common, ugly place where I am. I seem to have been hedged in by vulgar circ... ...not realize how tremendously dear and indispensable to us are the hosts of common things, till we must leave them, and we break our hearts. ‘We have b... ...used till, like a brilliant bead, all their beauty ran together out of the common ore, and Siegmund saw it naked, saw the beauty of everything naked i... ...nt to go down to Cornwall with Louisa and Olive’—she accentu- ated the two names—’after this,’ she added. ‘Then Louisa will have no holiday—and you ha...

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...5 Balzac 1831, the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the... ...uise Charles de Vandenesse, was consumed with vexation at the confusion of names and the comparisons it sometimes 27 Balzac brought about. Though the... ...d three novels, not to speak of several others which he kept in press like fish in a tank. One of these three books, the first (like that of many writ... ...g to a Rothschild. Sophie Grignault, surnamed Florine by a form of baptism common in theatres, had made her first appearances, in spite of her beauty,... ...st him who is likely to rise. This wide-spread envy doubles the chances of common minds who excite neither envy nor suspicion, who make their way like... ...are not to en- lighten him. Rastignac, who wanted to return to power, made common cause with Nucingen and du Tillet. The others felt a satisfaction in... ..., through which the pasteboard showed its many layers. Along the walls the names and addresses of pupils written on scraps of paper were stuck on by w...

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...hase or war, three sabres, two game-bags, the utensils of a huntsman and a fish- erman hang from nails upon the wall. On one side is a dining-room, wh... ... window looking into the garden, is a lamp of an odd kind. This lamp has a common glass globe, about the size of an ostrich egg, which is fastened int... ... Mademoiselle du Guenic received the rents and sent them to her brother by fishermen. Monsieur du Guenic returned to Guerande in 1813, as quietly and ... ...in the offing to signal Georges; the hands of a gue- rilla, a cannoneer, a common solder, a leader; hands still white though the Bourbons of the Elder... ...f hu- manity, strong under necessary privations, but without cour- age for commonplace avocations. When the baron begged his sister in his wife’s name... ...r a week. He took pleasure in going to Croisic on fast-days, to purchase a fish to be had for less money there than at Guerande. Thus no household was... ... than I was by the musician, by the poet, by the soldier! Sterne is right; names signify much; mine is a bitter sarcasm. I shall die without finding i... ...e I ask for no return. Camille once said there was some hidden fatality in names, a propos of hers. That fa- tality I felt for myself on the jetty of ... ...mirched people; and only departed from this rule in favor of certain great names of the aristocracy. “They,” she said, “have a right to be stupid beca...

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...n he was here last Easter, and I was asking him to speak to mamma about my fishing, and saying how horrid it was to be kept back from everything. Firs... ... “and the poor people, you know them all, don’t you, mamma?” “I know their names, but my generation must have nearly passed away. But I should like yo... ...ver died away, and with a real friendship and esteem for each other, their names or rather their nicknames had almost become party words among their s... ...r on into the chancel, where, among numerous mural tablets re- cording the names of different members of the Langford fam- ily, was one chiefly notice... ...have been!” “Why?” said Fred, rather provoked. “Such masterly eyes are not common among our gentle- men. You will be quite her phoenix; and how much ‘... ...ever mind, Henrietta,” shouted the good-natured Alexander, “I’ll engage to fish him out if he goes in.” “It is as likely I may fish you out, Mr. Alex,... ... returned Fred, slightly affronted. “Or more likely still there will be no fishing in the case,” said the naughty little Syren, who felt all the time ... ...t. What a capital thought those charades are! Fred will meet the others on common, nay, on superior ground, and there will be none of these foolish qu... ...ies of coquetting with Fred. But between Roger and her there was little in common: he was not, and never had been, accessible to her influence; he reg...

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...led the family in my imagination for a time. They awoke once more with new names, but sub- stantially the same, and were my companions in many a soli-... ...or Jane, the fourth sister, a strong resem- blance of Eleanor in her clear common sense, love of neat- ness, and active usefulness; but there were oth... ...ld, and blithe—ever busy and ever restless, she was generally known by the names of Brownie and Changeling, which were not inappropriate to her active... ...anged places with her. He was horribly chilled, but thinking he had only a common cold, he took no care. Robert, coming to Oxford about a week after, ... ...’ ‘A romaunt in six cantos, entitled Woe woe, By Miss Fanny F . known more commonly so,’ muttered Claude to himself; but as Lily did not understand or... ...ose last four,’ said Claude. ‘Let me see, I like your bringing in the real names, though I doubt whether any but Greenwood could have been found here.... ...t with the two boys to get up at half-past four on Monday morning for some fishing, before the sun was too high—Maurice not caring for the sport, but ... ...e for their gambols; and Reginald, in high delight at the prospect of real fishing, something be- yond his own performances with a stick and a string,... ...household that this was no vain boast; before breakfast was quite over the fishermen were seen approaching the house. Lord Rotherwood was an extraordi...

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...e little arts of the drawing-room, made it appear as though they talked of commonplaces; as for Laura, exalted, all but hypno- tised with this marvell... ... he used to be. It seems he’s terribly dissipated—drinks. Yes, sir, like a fish. He had delirium tremens once behind the scenes in Phila- delphia, and... ...ndous. All around, on every side, in every direction the vast machinery of Commonwealth clashed and thundered from dawn to dark and from dark till daw... ...le generation, defying calamity, and through the flame and the debris of a commonwealth in ashes, rising suddenly renewed, formidable, and Titanic. La... ...In the middle of summer each stole a fortnight from his business, and went fishing at Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. “I say,” Jadwin observed, “I saw an ol... ...aders, collid- ing with one another, and without interruption intoning the names of those for whom they had despatches. The throng of traders concentr... ...r. And Laura comes in as though she were walk- ing on eggs, and gets their names wrong, as though it didn’t much matter, and calls them Pinky when the... ...s,’” suggested Page. “Well now, to tell the truth,” observed Jadwin “those names look pretty in print; but somehow I don’t fancy them. They’re hard to... ...no time ever too valu- able, when bass were to be caught. For Jadwin was a fisherman unregenerate. Laura, though an early riser when in the city, was ...

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...the various weak and scattered compa- nies. These legions were to bear the names of the depart- ments,—Sarthe, Orne, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbiha... ...gorous vegetation, and its verdure, worthy of England, the very word being common to the two languages. A few cattle gave life to the scene, already s... ...oes by. All those beasts,” he added, pointing to Marche-a-Terre, “stick on names which would give a stom- ach-ache to honest patriots if they bore the... ...nued to play with his whip, and fling out the lash of it as though he were fishing in the ditch. Meantime the commandant was saying to Merle, in a low... ...ut a certain firmness mingled with tender feeling. She wore a gown of some common woollen stuff. The fash- ion of her hair, done up closely under a No... ... not without danger,” he said, with a look which gave significance to that commonplace remark. “What is it you fear?” she answered, smiling sarcastica... ...igned by Laplace, and counter-signed by Dubois, minister of war.” At these names several heads were turned to her. “Listen to the wording of it,” she ... ...and served to increase imperceptibly his impromptu passion. She was like a fisher- man who lifts his line from time to time to see if the fish is biti...

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...e telegram into George Darrow’s ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketry, lett... ...d manner of oc- cupation shown in the passing faces, the street signs, the names of the hotels they passed, the motley brightness of the flower- carts... ...the enchant- ment of the middle distance, and thrust into prominence every commonplace fact of the foreground. It was the kind of situa- tion that was... ...ad reached the gateway of the court and stood look- 69 Wharton ing with a common accord at the long soft-hued facade on which the autumn light was dy... ...ted house, of all its unclassified odds and ends: Effie’s croquet- box and fishing rods, Owen’s guns and golf-sticks and racquets, his step-mother’s f... ...Anna whispered, her hand in Darrow’s. 144 The Reef “Don’t forget the gold-fish!” they heard another voice call out. Darrow halted on the threshold. “... ...ugh it with her, and now she hands me on to you, and you’re to call me any names you please.” He freed her with his happy laugh. “I’m to be stood in t...

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... few profligate compan- ions I have here introduced, are a specimen of the common practices of society—the case is an extreme one, as I trusted none w... ...stained no serious injury from the infliction; as, besides being more than commonly thick, it was protected by a redundant shock of short, reddish cur... ...that the mysterious occupant of Wildfell Hall would wholly dis- regard the common observances of civilized life,—in which opinion she was supported by... ... singular, but I think I can explain it: you see their brains—I mention no names, but you’ll understand to whom I allude—their brains are light to beg... ...f they haven’t a friend to talk to, they must whisper their secrets to the fishes, or write them on the sand, or something; and it’s well, too, I wasn...

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...nlarged to the patronage and protection of this Book: and I have put on a modest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discourse of Fish and Fishing, which you know so well, and both love and practice so much....

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...odest confidence, that I shall not be denied, because it is a discourse of Fish and Fishing, which you know so well, and both love and practice so muc... ...hich is often, dedicate a day or two to this recreation. At which time, if common Anglers should attend you, and be eyewitnesses of the success, not o... ...eget an industrious diligence to be so; but I know it is not attain bye by common capacities: and there be now many men of great wisdom, learning, and... ...ice this Art, that know I speak the truth. Sir, this pleasant curiosity of Fish and Fishing, of which The Compleat Angler — Walton 3 you are so grea... ...er yet see in English. But mine may be thought as weak, and as unworthy of common view; and I do here freely confess, that I should rather excuse myse... ...pecially in such days and times as I have laid aside business, and gone a fishing with honest Nat. and R. Roe; but they are gone, and with them most ... ...ians, who was called the friend of God, and knew the mind of the Almighty, names this element the first in the creation: this is the ele ment upon wh... ...eral fish that appeared and came when they were called by their particular names. And St. James tells us, that all things in the sea have been tamed b... ...s hand, Than which none’s greater in the world’s command; Nay more they’ve names, and, when they called are, Do to their several owner’s call repair. ...

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...t and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common cen- tre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourd... ...y seldom saw, left him little at her death; but she had given him that too common and incomplete education which produces so much ambition and so litt... ...ult. What coolness and composure of mind were needed to rule such a woman! Commonplace suitors held back in fear. Xavier Rabourdin, without parents an... ...ere are more young shoots than there are trees, more spawn than full-grown fish, and many great capacities (Athanase Granson, for instance) which die ... ...les under glass, hung Chinese parasols on the walls, to- gether with dried fishskins. He lived with his sister, an artifi- cial-flower maker, in the d... ...ing faith in his star. He continued to lay himself out, like a salmon at a fishmonger’s, in spite of his empty stomach and the fact that he had fruit-... ...passion for reading the horoscopes of fa- mous men in the anagram of their names. He passed whole months in decomposing and recomposing words and fitt... ...en in the words or phrase given by the transposition of the letters of his names and titles; and his patriotism struggled hard to suppress the fact—si... ...ned a promissory note; and had prudently attached his own salary under the names of fictitious creditors, so that he was able to draw nearly the whole...

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...yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously overcome! We shed our blood, we risk our future!...

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...an they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon ... ...lvet mosses drooping to the river but not falling to it; mouldering boats, fishing-nets; the monoto- nous sing-song of a shepherd; ducks paddling amon... ... for- tune of the family contrasts strangely with the distinction of their names; either from pride, or, possibly, from necessity, they never leave Cl... ...unless he mounted a horse, or went to church, and his shoes were thick and common. Though ten years of emigration and ten years more of farm- life had... ... on the water. This punt belonged to Monsieur de Mortsauf, who used it for fishing. “Well,” said Monsieur de Chessel, when we were out of ear-shot. “I... .... Before considering, as a Lenoncourt, what an aristocracy ought to be, my common-sense as a woman of the people tells me that societies can exist onl... ...lley degraded by alloy, of bitter regrets for a lost happiness. Why do the names of the two estates purchased after the Restora- tion, and in which Mo... ...est interest, the Cassine and the Rhetoriere, move me more than the sacred names of the Holy Land or of Greece? “Who loves, knows!” cried La Fontaine.... ...the count- ess after we had made a few turns. “We might go and look at the fishing which is going on to-day.” We went out by the little gate, found th...