The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair. He would pass by them calmly waiting for a sudden movement of his own will or a sudden call to his sin loving soul from their soft perfumed flesh.
Fresh Nelly is waiting on you.
Does a tiny particle of the consecrated bread contain all the body and blood of Jesus Christ or a part only of the body and blood?
Perhaps they had taken refuge in number and noise from the secret dread in their souls.
He felt above him the vast indifferent dome and the calm processes of the heavenly bodies; and the earth beneath him, the earth that had borne him, had taken him to her breast.
And therefore, primarily, they must be able to divide; so that elementary exercises in color must be directed, like first exercises in music, to the clear separation of notes; and the final perfections of color are those in which, of innumerable notes or hues, every one has a distinct office, and can be fastened on by the eye, and approved, as fulfilling it.
A Bill Poster.
"We say, of course," somebody exclaimed, "that they give two turns!
It's quite too horrible." This, naturally, was declared by several voices to give the thing the utmost price, and our friend, with quiet art, prepared his triumph by turning his eyes over the rest of us and going on: "It's beyond everything.
"For sheer terror?" I remember asking.
I shall have to send to town." There was a unanimous groan at this, and much reproach; after which, in his preoccupied way, he explained.
"More's the pity, then.
He sprang to his feet again.
Then he reappeared, creeping along the earth, from which his dress was hardly distinguishable, directly in the rear of his intended captive.
As I approached my outer door, I was amazed to see a key in it.
"For which he was entered?"
Holmes gave an enigmatic smile.
On the ground floor was the tutor's room.
He was in the midst of that when your return caused him to make a very hurried retreat-VERY hurried, since he had not time to replace the papers which would tell you that he had been there.
No, I see nothing.
"I will tell you, then, in a few words the character of the three men who inhabit these rooms.
He was nearly expelled over a card scandal in his first year.
"When mr Soames returned and called for you, you were very much disturbed?"
Now, mr Soames, we will take a walk in the quadrangle, if you please."
"Good gracious, mr Holmes, you are surely not going to leave me in this abrupt fashion! You don't seem to realize the position.
Pencils, too, and knives-all was satisfactory.
"You will kindly close the door," said Holmes.
"Well, then, I must make some suggestions to you.
It was not a dangerous exploit for he could always pretend that he had simply looked in to ask a question.
Come, Watson!
Nevertheless, when the end of the summer came and the only opening facing her was the teaching of children at Miss Smith's experiment in the Alabama swamps, it must be frankly confessed that Miss Taylor was disappointed.
She had pictured herself earning this by teaching one or two of her "specialties" in some private school near New York or Boston, or even in a Western college.
mrs Grey wanted to hear the incident, but the young man was politely reluctant.
Burbank and his tribe represent in the vegetable world, Edison in the mechanical.
It had been stepped on and flattened.
They said they 'were sorry'--that is, 'Wall Street sorry'--and refused to pay it.
POLLY IS COMFORTED
"Here I'm!
"Oh, Phronsie!" she cried, and strained her to her heart; while the boys crowded around, and plied her with sudden questions.
"Oh!" she cried, coming out of her rapture a little, and springing over to mr King with Phronsie still in her arms.
"So you see, I was just in time; in the very nick of time, in fact!"
"So her mother was willing?" asked his daughter, curiously.
"Oh, she couldn't help it," cried mr King, beginning to walk up and down the floor, and beaming as he recalled his successful strategy; "there wasn't the smallest use in thinking of anything else.
A stranger, approaching it, could not help noticing the beauty and fruitfulness of the outlying fields.
There was something individual about the great farm, a most unusual trimness and care for detail.
One room is papered, carpeted, over furnished; the next is almost bare.
Emil paused and straightened his back.
Well, which are the lucky trees? I'd like to know."
"Oh, ever so much; only he seems kind of staid and school teachery. But, of course, he is older than Frank, even.
Marie clasped her hands and started up from her seat.
My uncle has had no dreams, but he is out of temper.
Therefore don't talk to me about views and prospects."
My uncle took soundings several times.
The raft was heaved up on a watery mountain and pitched down again, at a distance of twenty fathoms.
AN ELECTRIC STORM
It seems to me as if my companions, the moment they touched me, would receive a severe shock like that from an electric eel.
He can only spare time to shrug his shoulders viciously.
"Never!
And now my turn comes; pale and trembling under the blinding splendour and the melting heat, it drops at my feet, spinning silently round upon the deck; I try to move my foot away, but cannot.
Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'
'Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
'As if I would talk on such a subject!
"And what book would be your choice?"
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead).
As the ambassador of a government is honored for his office and not for his private person, so the minister of Christ should exalt his office in order to gain authority among men.
He says to the galatians: "My call may seem inferior to you.
I am angry with you." But his purpose was to call them back to the Gospel.
The old man brightened up at hearing this, and said: Had Solon only had the leisure which was required to complete the famous legend which he brought with him from Egypt he would have been as distinguished as Homer and Hesiod.
The soul was first made by him-the elder to rule the younger; not in the order in which our wayward fancy has led us to describe them, but the soul first and afterwards the body.
God took of the unchangeable and indivisible and also of the divisible and corporeal, and out of the two he made a third nature, essence, which was in a mean between them, and partook of the same and the other, the intractable nature of the other being compressed into the same.
The outer circle or sphere was named the sphere of the same-the inner, the sphere of the other or diverse; and the one revolved horizontally to the right, the other diagonally to the left.
The gods were made in the form of a circle, which is the most perfect figure and the figure of the universe. They were created chiefly of fire, that they might be bright, and were made to know and follow the best, and to be scattered over the heavens, of which they were to be the glory.
It is an adaption to a new end, by a selective process, of a distinction previously existing and well established in men's habits of thought.
With a further advance in culture this tabu may change into simple custom of a more or less rigorous character; but whatever be the theoretical basis of the distinction which is maintained, whether it be a tabu or a larger conventionality, the features of the conventional scheme of consumption do not change easily.
The canon of reputability is at hand and seizes upon such innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive.
The aid of friends and competitors is therefore brought in by resorting to the giving of valuable presents and expensive feasts and entertainments.
So many of them, however, as make up the retainer and hangers on of the patron may be classed as vicarious consumer without qualification.
Of course the distinction is not observed with strict consistency in practice; the less debasing of the base services and the less honorific of the noble functions are not infrequently merged in the same person.
The last items of this category of consumption are not given up except under stress of the direst necessity.
The choice between them is a question of advertising expediency simply, except so far as it may be affected by other standards of propriety, springing from a different source.
On grounds of expediency the preference may be given to the one or the other at different stages of the economic development.
It is not that the city population is by nature much more eager for the peculiar complacency that comes of a conspicuous consumption, nor has the rural population less regard for pecuniary decency.
The state of the case for the men who work in the composition and press rooms of the common run of printing houses may be summed up as follows. Skill acquired in any printing house or any city is easily turned to account in almost any other house or city; that is to say, the inertia due to special training is slight.
Here as elsewhere prescription seizes upon the custom as soon as it gains a vogue, and incorporates it in the accredited standard of decency.
But the actual course of development has been somewhat different from this ideal scheme.
From that point onward, consumption has gained ground, until, at present, it unquestionably holds the primacy, though it is still far from absorbing the entire margin of production above the subsistence minimum.
So that however wasteful a given expenditure may be in reality, it must at least have some colorable excuse in the way of an ostensible purpose.
But the fact that it may under stress of circumstances eventuate in inanities no more disproves the presence of the instinct than the reality of the brooding instinct is disproved by inducing a hen to sit on a nestful of china eggs.
I am not good enough for you, and you must be kept from the contamination of too intimate society.
Let us observe the contrast between the beginning and the present proportions of the Church.
Who began the quarrel?
But "Mormonism" died not; every added pang of grief served but to unite the people.
With the seal of the holy Priesthood upon their wedded state, these people believe implicitly in the perpetuity of that relationship on the far side of the grave.
As they sat down, a burst of applause drew Alexander's attention to the stage.
They met a good many acquaintances; Mainhall, indeed, knew almost every one, and he babbled on incontinently, screwing his small head about over his high collar.
"He's hit terribly hard.
Hugh MacConnell came with his sister, and stood about, managing his tea cup awkwardly and watching every one out of his deep set, faded eyes.
But I don't like it so well as this." Bartley held the yellow wine against the light and squinted into it as he turned the glass slowly about.
"Oh, yes, I go over to Paris often.
It was very jolly," he murmured lazily, as Marie came in to take away the coffee.
"Well, we are neither of us twenty now, you know.
Hilda started up from the stool and moved restlessly toward the window. "It's really too warm in this room to sing.
She looked about desperately from Bartley to the door, then to the windows, and back again to Bartley.
She leaned her head against his arm and spoke softly:--
Bartley leaned his head in his hands and spoke through his teeth.
Bartley, you're cowardly!"
And I've got nobody but you.
Of course it does.
This service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two Carthaginian soldiers talk Phoenician; that service Moliere rendered, by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of dialects.
Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and the unfortunate.
That is why we cry: Education! science!
When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears.
"I think I should like it of all things," replied Philip, with some hesitation, "but what for."
You know my uncle is a great railroad man.
"Never mind the map.
And if I had a fortune, would thee want me to lead a useless life?"
"What's the good, father, of a series of human beings who don't advance any?"
He took it with him from the Southern Hotel, when he went to walk, and read it over and again in an unfrequented street as he stumbled along.
Miss Woodley was too little versed in the subject, to know, this would have been not to love at all; at least, not to the extent of breaking through engagements, and all the various obstacles that still militated against their union.
Then for the three years before her mother's death there had been surreptitious lessons from a Portland teacher, paid for out of mr Lord's house allowance; for one of his chief faults was an incredible parsimony, amounting almost to miserliness.
A few moments later Nancy entered her mother's room, her arms filled with treasures from the woods and fields.
"Was that the Bible, Osh?" whispered Bill Harmon.
She was a colonel's widow, young and handsome, very reserved, not to say haughty in her manner, and either indifferent or impervious to the admiration which she inspired. Captain Servadac had not yet ventured to declare his attachment; of rivals he was well aware he had not a few, and amongst these not the least formidable was the Russian Count Timascheff.
"'This is my vow: I will sail to Norway and I will harry the coast and fill my boat with riches.
"Up and down the water we went to get much wealth and much frolic.
Hello!' I shouted, and my men made a great din.
"The door opened only a little, but I pushed it wide and leaped into the room.
He shall not leave you day or night, whether you are working or playing or sleeping.
"'I heard a cuckoo to day!'
When one kidney ceases to act from disease, the other increases in size, and does double work.
His grandfather and grandmother were so delighted with his grace, beauty, and good behaviour, that they came at last to regard their daughter's mischance as a happy event, since it had given them such a grandson.
The poor child lay senseless on the ground, bleeding profusely from his head.
Dona Estafania, the kind gentleman's wife, often observed, in conversation with Leocadia, that the boy so strongly resembled a son of hers who was in Italy, she never could look at him without thinking her son was actually before her.
This was done; for the event took place at a time when the consent of the parties was sufficient for the celebration of a marriage, without any of the preliminary formalities which are now so properly required.
'What are you laughing at?' asked Wylder, a little snappishly.
I suppose Miss Partridge would have had a precious lot of babbies; and who knows where the estate would have been by this time.'
I forget all the other good things he did; but he ended by shooting himself through the head in his bed room, and that was not the worst thing ever he did.'
I'm not quite sure.'
I suppose she was glad and took this way of showing it; and tall, beautiful, graceful, in rustling silks, she glided into the tiny drawing room silently, and sate down softly by the window, looking out upon the flowers and the falling leaves, mottled in light and shadow.
But poor Rachel Lake had more than that stoical hypocrisy which enables the tortured spirits of her sex to lift a pale face through the flames and smile.
There was something of sweetness and fondness in her tones and manner, which was new to Rachel, and comforting, and she returned the greeting as kindly, and felt more like her former self.
Dorcas's large eyes rested upon her with a grave enquiry, and then Miss Brandon looked down in silence for a while on the carpet, and was thinking a little sternly, maybe, and with a look of pain, still holding Rachel's hand, she said, with a sad sort of reproach in her tone,
Be he near, or be he far, I regard his very name with horror.'
She seized it; she clung to it.
So as soon as breakfast was over the next morning Beth and Kenneth took one of the automobiles, the boy consenting unwillingly to this sort of locomotion because it would save much time.
That's how all the trouble came about."
"I've been bothered already over your election campaign," resumed the manager, arranging his papers in a bored manner.
"I'll pay all the costs besides."
The Fairview band was engaged to discourse as much harmony as it could produce, and the resources of the great house were taxed to entertain the guests.
The gardens and grounds were gaily decorated with Chinese and Japanese lanterns, streamers and Forbes banners.
Standing before her was the young girl she had seen riding with mr Hopkins-the girl she had declared to be the missing daughter of mrs Rogers.
CHAPTER eleven
"But you have been together."
The images which have been awakened in her mind, the emotions connected with them, and the effect of these images and emotions upon her faculties of imagination and conception, will infuse a life into them which will make her, in respect to this aspect of her spiritual nature, a different being as long as she lives.
We can not surrender this trust.
In the palace yard stood two soldiers with shining helmets, and with muskets over their shoulders; and when Anders came, both the muskets were levelled at him.
He knew well enough that mother's cap was the best cap in all the world.
"But what?"
"Oh! mademoiselle, why have I not a devoted sister, or a true friend, such as yourself?"
"In other words," said Montalais, "she is insupportable.
I was still half crazy at you know what; so that she could hardly have understood what I was saying, and must have grown alarmed."
"You do not know Louise, count," said Raoul.
The drake sank again instantly.
He saw the great hawk swoop savagely.
At the same moment he felt the light restraint of the almost invisible leader upon his wings, where the other two flies had affixed themselves.
Let us, to give an example of how this method works, go back again to the play we have been discussing.
It is to let Hamlet, if that happen to be the name of your character, enter with a small dog, pet falcon, mongoose, tame bear or whatever animal is most in keeping with the part, and confide in this animal such sorrows, hopes or secret history as the audience has got to know.
Sugar?
"Now is the time to show game, and if we are defeated this time, the Territory is lost to the South," said the leaders.
With the advantage of its defensive position, Lawrence was as strong as the sheriff's mob.
The Missouri cabal, on the other hand, having three of their best men constantly at the Governor's side, were compelled to recognize their lack of justification.
From these, again, sprang barricaded and fortified dwellings, camps and scouting parties, finally culminating in roving guerrilla bands, half partisan, half predatory.
A propitious moment for carrying it out seemed now to have arrived.
During the forenoon the deputy marshal rode leisurely into the town attended by less than a dozen men, being neither molested nor opposed. He summoned half a dozen citizens to join his posse, who followed, obeyed, and assisted him.
The marquis of Worcester, a man past eighty four, was the last in England that submitted to the authority of the parliament.
What is called perception differs from sensation by the fact that the sensational ingredients bring up habitual associates-images and expectations of their usual correlates-all of which are subjectively indistinguishable from the sensation.
One reason for treating memory at this early stage is that it seems to be involved in the fact that images are recognized as "copies" of past sensible experience.
"Habit" is a concept involving the occurrence of similar events at different times; if the behaviourist feels confident that there is such a phenomenon as habit, that can only be because he trusts his memory, when it assures him that there have been other times.
If we are to know as it is supposed we do-that images are "copies," accurate or inaccurate, of past events, something more than the mere occurrence of images must go to constitute this knowledge.
How is it possible to know that a memory image is an imperfect copy, without having a more accurate copy by which to replace it?
Very often our knowledge of the temporal relation of a remembered event to the present is inferred from its temporal relations to other remembered events.
The study of any topic is like the continued observation of an object which is approaching us along a road: what is certain to begin with is the quite vague knowledge that there is SOME object on the road.
The recollection alone is true memory.
Jack had been standing in the far corner of the room talking to Eva, and was now reduced to silence by his praises.
At the present moment a law has been passed which, if carried into action, would become abhorrent to mankind at large.
In regard to Mr Neverbend himself, it is the especial wish of h m
Henry was about twenty three years of age, of an active turn, brown skin, and had given the question of freedom his most serious attention, as his actions proved.
What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions twelve or fifteen miles beneath the surface of the water? It's almost beyond conjecture."
But with Verne the operative word is "travel," and some of his best known titles don't really qualify as scifi: Around the World in Eighty Days (eighteen seventy two) and Michael Strogoff (eighteen seventy six) are closer to "travelogs"-- adventure yarns in far away places.
Other subtleties occur inside each episode, the textures sparkling with wit, information, and insight.
"Conseil!" I called in an impatient voice.
The hotel elevator dropped us off in the main vestibule on the mezzanine. I went down a short stair leading to the ground floor. I settled my bill at that huge counter that was always under siege by a considerable crowd.
Rich jewels of blue stones glittered upon their persons and the royal ladies were fully as gorgeous as they were haughty and overbearing.
"When?
Fine!
I'll always be Queen of Sky Island, but the Pink and Blue Countries must each have a Ruler.
"'Scuse me," said Trot; "I neglected to tell you that you're not the Boolooroo any more.
The combined bands of both the countries played the music and a fine supper was served.
And still the sensitive silhouettes Of the gondolas pass and leave no track, Light on the tides as lilies, and black In the rippling waters of long sunsets.
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