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... what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise that h... ...turdays. He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had be... ...is bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despised most, and with wh... ...eneral tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail- coat after the holidays. Dobbin was much too modest a young fellow to suppose that this ha... ... Rebecca chose that one to dream about. At four o’clock, on such a roseate summer’s morning as even made Great Gaunt Street look cheerful, the faithfu... ... during the season in London, she went to Harrowgate or Cheltenham for the summer. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been... ...ed young heiress from St. Kitt’s. She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that... ...lgar school? Of course I did. Doesn’t every girl like to come home for the holidays? And how was I to know any better? But oh, Mr. Osborne, what a dif...

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...rtainly that May day was a lovely one, and it closed in moonlight night of summer warmth and serenity. I remem- ber this well; for, having sat up late... ...f the middle alley, and when the foliage of shrubs and trees, now in their summer pride, closing behind end around us, shut out the view of the house,... ...ning in the expansive light, now diffused over my pupil’s face. It was the summer sun flashing out after the heavy summer shower; and what fertilizes ... ...ult to pay him back in his own coin. The crisis drew on. No sooner had the holidays commenced 155 Charlotte Brontë than note of preparation for some ... ... of mourn- ing for her aunt. One January morning—the first of the new year holidays—I went in a fiacre, accompanied only by M. Vandenhuten, to the Rue... ...ying, in an- ticipation, a walk I proposed to take with Frances, that fine summer day (it was June), to a certain farmhouse in the coun- try, where we... ...,” was my not very apposite reply; but she looked so engaging in her light summer dress and little cottage bonnet, and her manner in speaking to me wa...

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... what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays—”When I was a girl at school,” said she, laughing—a promise that h... ...turdays. He had his top-boots in his room, in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had be... ...is bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despised most, and with wh... ...eneral tuck-out for the school: and he came back in a tail- coat after the holidays. Dobbin was much too modest a young fellow to suppose that this ha... ... Rebecca chose that one to dream about. At four o’clock, on such a roseate summer’s morning as even made Great Gaunt Street look cheerful, the faithfu... ... during the season in London, she went to Harrowgate or Cheltenham for the summer. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been... ...ed young heiress from St. Kitt’s. She had little Laura Martin home for the holidays; and my belief is, she made a confidante of her, and promised that... ...ntry never could have looked more rich and prosperous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by mu... ...the children began to laugh. “Y ou won’t see a prettier pair I think, this summer’s day, sir,” said the good-natured Corporal; and the Colonel, the Co...

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...ver! Well, Perce comes back here for the black-bass fish- ing almost every summer, and he says if he could get away from business, he’d rather live he... ... “Look at my shoe-packs!” There is so sharp a division between the panting summer and the stinging winter of the Northern plains that they rediscovere... ...y—man got to be blame shift- less if he don’t get ahead.” But now that the summer mask of leaves and grass was gone, Carol discovered mis- ery and dea... ...as the Cities, but we do have the daisiest times and—oh, we go swimming in summer, and dances and—oh, lots of good times. If folks will just take us a... ...- tional parsonage, her enthusiasm pattering upon Mrs. Leonard Warren like summer rain upon an old gray roof; at two minutes to five a town of demure ... ...he fictional tradition, resolutely stay there, sel- dom returning even for holidays. The most protesting pa- triots of the towns leave them in old age... ...xcellent nurse for Hugh. She herself put him to bed and played with him on holidays. There were walks with him, there were motionless evenings of read...

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...s, in the half yearly caravan that crossed the intermediate desert after the holidays), held more liberal opinions, but stipulated for limiting the be... ...egan to think of my mother, and what she would say to my taking home at Mid summer eight of the most beautiful of the daughters of men, but all unexp...

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...spend the evening of his life, and to die; and here his son John spent his holidays, and afterwards his Christmas vacation when he went from school to... ...al. The day was now far advanced, but he knew that Mr Harding dined in the summer at four, that Eleanor was accustomed to drive in the evening, and th... ...ut an audience. The musician was seated in a garden- chair just within the summer-house, so as to allow the violoncello which he held between his knee... ...diately before him, on the extreme corner of the bench which ran round the summer-house, sat one old man, with his handkerchief smoothly lain upon his... ...erchief, for he had felt busy, and had walked quick, and it was a broiling summer’s day. ‘Of course you have heard of the petition?’ Mr Harding owned,... ...ing family. There were, first, three boys, now at home from school for the holidays. They were called, respectively, Charles James, Henry, and Samuel.... ...wer, and other paraphernalia, the position of which chair was never moved, summer or winter; and when, as was usual, the archdeacon was there also, he...

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...w wearisome with the same strong impression, repeated day after day. A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slo... ...le thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor’s little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside. It is a mere skeleton of slender, dec... ...good as a cathedral. Ah, it would be just the spot for one to sit in, of a summer afternoon, and tell the children some more of those wild stories fro... ...wild stories from the classic myths!” “It would, indeed,” answered I. “The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales,... ..., and purple fruitage, over the worm eaten posts and rafters of the rustic summer house. I was not insensible to the advantages of his proposal, and g... ...e very kind to ourselves, we might all have been Giants too.” On all their holidays, the Pygmies had excellent sport with Antaeus. He often stretched ...

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...nches, rattled rather than rustled, their leaves were so smoked-dried. The summer sun was never on the street, but in the morning about breakfast-time... ...nd cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway.... ...’s Gardeners trained scarlet beans, kept fowls and rabbits, erected rotten summer-houses (one was an old boat), dried clothes, and smoked pipes. Some ... .... In the winter time the air couldn’t be got out of the Castle, and in the summer time it couldn’t be got in. There was such a continual reverberation... ...HAPTER 14. PAU L GROWS MORE AND MORE O LD-FASHIONED, AND GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WHEN THE MIDSUMMER vacation approached, no indecent manifestations... ...had a dreadful Uncle, who not only volunteered examinations of him, in the holidays, on abstruse points, but twisted innocent events and things, and w... ... on the bank. Briggs, therefore, was not at all sanguine on the subject of holidays; and these two sharers of little Paul’s bedroom were so fair a sam... ...resignation. It was far otherwise with little Paul. The end of these first holidays was to witness his separation from Florence, but who ever looked f... ...ents floated past him, constantly; and, as if borne in upon the air of the summer night, there was a half intelligible sentiment diffused around, refe...

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...aped. They have found a fragment of a lumber raft (it is high water and dead summer time), and are floating down the river by night, Life on the Missi... ...self now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer’s morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two cler... ...siting pilots were useful, for they were always ready and willing, winter or summer, night or day, to go out in the yawl and help buoy the chan nel o... ...rd. Come ahead on it. Point her for the bar.” I sailed away as serenely as a summer’s morning Mr. Bixby came in and said, with mock simplicity— “When ... ... a deal of fun and excitement about sounding, especially if it is a glorious summer day, or a blus tering night. But in winter the cold and the peril... ... 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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... emerge from a twelvemonths’ winter, or melt in a 9 James Fenimore Cooper summer of equal duration.” I could have listened forever to this astronomer... ... were loud and deep among those who lived by its innocent arts. Still, the holidays were near, and hope revived. If revolutionized Paris would not buy... ...al of a girl dying to rush into the dissipations of society. CHAPTER V THE HOLIDAYS WERE OVER, without there being any material revival of trade, when... ... you forgot to purchase this ne plus ultra of elegance while in Paris last summer.” “My father said he could not afford it; we spent a great deal of m...

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...though there was a certain person in the village with whom on those golden summer evenings I should have liked to have taken a stroll in the hayfields... ...your income, as other young men would; and you have de- voted your month’s holidays to your old aunt, who, I assure you, is grateful.” “Oh, ma’am!” sa... ...th a great lot of muffins, and sat most of the evening (it was a cruel hot summer) whistling and talking with Roundhand on the verandah. I think I sho... ... that he did not care for me any more, by Abednego’s manner to me. No more holidays, no more advances of money, had I: on the contrary, the private cl...

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..., and were not griffins and brothers. Such a Columbus of a morning was the summer morning, that it discovered Cripple Corner. The light and warmth pie... ...t with her face turned close to an- other white-tiled stove (though it was summer, and the stove was not lighted), cleaning gloves. The young lady wor... ...ed. 53 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins ACT II VENDALE MAKES LOVE T he summer and the autumn passed. Christmas and the New Y ear were at hand. As ... ...ave heard of the Bridge of the Ganther?” “I have crossed it once.” “In the summer?” “Y es; in the travelling season.” “Y es; but it is another thing a... ...d in at the windows. Maitre Voigt’s bees hummed through the office all the summer, in at this window and out at that, taking it frequently in their da... ...intrey,” he said. “Do me the honour to come in. It is one of our town half-holidays— our Tir—but my people will be back directly. It is droll that you...

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... for festivity: and indeed some of them could not come on Saturdays in the summer having el- egant villas in the suburbs, where they passed the six-an... ... dialogue which took place be- tween the two gentlemen at five o’clock one summer’s after- noon, when Mr. Walker, issuing from his chambers, came acro... ...glets, of a sudden pleaded cold in the head, and took to wearing caps. One summer evening, as she and the baby and Mrs. Crump and Woolsey (let us say ... ...ys; passed over all his blunders, which were many; let him go out of half- holidays into the town as he pleased: how should any man dare to stop him—t... ...to Notley’s the pastrycook’s, who did not admire fisticuffs at all on half-holidays, for the fights kept the boys away from his shop. Gutley was the o... ...that I was not so curious as even to ask the maiden name of his lady. Last summer I was at Paris, and had gone over to V ersailles to meet a party, on...

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... rather hasty attempt to parody the 4 ABBEYCHURCH CHAPTER I. ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON, Helen Woodbourne returned from her daily walk with her si... ...aid Elizabeth, ‘he will not fidget, and I am not afraid of anything in the summer, and on such a great day as to-morrow. I could walk to Johnny Groat’... ...ay so,’ said Mrs. Woodbourne; ‘she has seemed very well and strong all the summer, but she still has that constant cough, and we must always be anxiou... ...ey choose such an exposed situation?’ contin- ued Mrs. Hazleby; ‘so hot in summer, and so cold in winter.’ ‘There was no other open piece of ground to... ...ve liked to leave Papa and the rest, and not to be at home in my brothers’ holidays, so I believe things are best as they are.’ ‘How you must wish to ... ... have been all your life.’ ‘Wait till Horace and Edward are at home in the holidays before you talk of slavery,’ said Anne; ‘there will be five slaves...

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... horse- guard artillery. His battery was stationed at Krasnoe Selo— it was summer time. My brother lodged not at Krasnoe Selo itself but in one of the... ... the shelter of an empty barn where he had, as he expressed it, set up his summer resi- dence. We had a little conversation but for the most part dran... ...ng li- quor and he used to give his men ten kopecks for vodka on the great holidays; they did not dare to drink on other days. People like Naum quickl... ...and went on believing in her as be- fore. T wo years passed like this. One summer day it happened that Lizaveta Prohorovna— who had somehow suddenly g... ...useless. One morning Akim and wife were just beginning lunch (owing to the summer work in the fields there were no trav- ellers at the inn) when sudde... ... the face of Kuzma Vassilyevitch who had time, however, to make out in the summer twilight the outline of a stout, elderly woman in a red dress with a...

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... children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chil- blains with her own hands. It was... ...nd of it, it should be called her cow; and of their having a very handsome summer-house in their garden, where some day next year they were all to dri... ...den, where some day next year they were all to drink tea:— a very handsome summer-house, large enough to hold a dozen people.” For some time she was a... ...s one think she must catch cold.” “But, my dear papa, it is supposed to be summer; a warm day in summer. Look at the tree.” “But it is never safe to s... ...ptionable quarter:—Robert Martin is the man. Her visit to Abbey-Mill, this summer, seems to have done his business. He is desperately in love and mean... ...marriage had been divided between Hartfield and Donwell Abbey; but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children, and...

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...the sense Of hope thro’ her fine texture did suffuse Such varying glow, as summer evening casts On undulating clouds and deepening lakes. ... ... a miserable grave. ‘The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket!’ December 14, 1815. AL AL AL AL ALAST AST ... ...ereally pale, _585 Rivals the pride of summer. ’Tis the haunt Of every gentle wind, whose breath can teach The wil... ...his imagination had been excited by a description of such a voyage. In the summer of 1815, after a tour along the southern coast of Devonshire and a v... ...d several months of comparative health and tran- quil happiness. The later summer months were warm and dry. Accompanied by a few friends, he visited t... ...d against poor Archy for presenting them bitter physic the last day of the holidays. ...

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...l in it. Fyne, you must know, was an enthusiastic pedestrian. He spent his holidays tramping all over our native land. His tastes were simple. He put ... ...s tastes were simple. He put infinite conviction and perseverance into his holidays. At the proper season you would meet in the fields, Fyne, a seriou... ...Indian and colonial affairs, matters of trade, talk of travels, of seaside holidays and so on. Once I remember “My wife’s sailor-brother Captain Antho... ...stand-up collar and a long necktie. Marlow had made their acquaintance one summer in the country, where they were accustomed to take a cottage for the... ...ummer in the country, where they were accustomed to take a cottage for the holidays … At this point we were interrupted by Mr. Powell who de- clared t... ...g across him before long. “He cruises about the mouth of the river all the summer. He will be easy to find any week-end,” he remarked ringing the bell... ...with life. In what I am telling you of now—an episode of one of my humdrum holidays in the green country, recalled quite naturally after all the years... ...e had a rather pleasant time in a quiet way. It was, I remember, a hot dry summer, favourable to contemplative life out of doors. And Mrs. Fyne was sc...

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... was our old parson’s daughter. They waited eight years, and she died last summer. I see he wears his mourning still.’ Violet looked aghast, and spoke... ...louds vanished, and she had no recollection of anxieties or vexations. The summer sky was overhead, the river shone blue and bright, the mead- ows smi... ...is nearly two years ago.’ ‘Nearly. She died in June. It was that cold late summer, and her funeral was in the middle of a hail-storm, horridly chilly.... ...ufficient in themselves, and when to these were added the bright extent of summer sea, the beautiful curving outline of the bay ending in the bold Cul... ...egan to gather the state of the case as he listened in the twilight of the summer evening, while Arthur and Violet sat together on the sofa, and he le... ...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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...as not back home again until within an hour of my bedtime. I spent my half holidays at school in order to play cricket and football. This, and a prett... ...ch we saw from the shoulder of the mountain above the Gemmi, and the early summer dawn breaking over Italy as we moved from our night’s crouching and ... ... path. Then, a little breathless, we went into the new twenty-five guinea summer-house at the end of the herba- ceous border. We sat side by side, pl... ...with it for a moment,—she had pleasant soft hands;—she began to drift into summer houses with me, to let her arm rest trustfully against mine, to ask ... ...ful Primavera. It was one of those May days that ape the light and heat of summer, and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figure... ... with the other excellent and ad- vantageous things that should occupy her summer holiday. It was her pride and glory to put things down and plan them... ... very like a boy who has returned to school with the first batch after the holidays. The London world reeked with the General Election; it had invaded...