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...of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country....

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...of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. T ruth, in the midst of conflicting rumour... ... of proprietors can only be illustrated by examples. We have a girl in our service to whom we had given some finery, that she might wait at table, and... ...nt lime enclose, broad avenues intersect them. You shall walk for hours in parks of palm-tree alleys, regular, like soldiers on parade; in the recesse... ...may babble of the firm over the walnuts and the wine, will rally round the national concern at the approach of difficulty. They are so few – I am asha... ...r, it were to challenge contradiction – they are so few, and the amount of national capital buried at their feet is so vast, that we must not wonder i... ...of the independent traders broke be- yond restraint. And, largely from the national touchiness and the intemperate speech of German clerks, this scram... ...esert of food. In the eyes of the Samoan the place has the attraction of a park for the holiday schoolboy, of a granary for mice. We must add the yet ... ...man war-flag over Mulinuu; the American consul (in a sudden access of good service) had flown the stars and stripes over Samoan colours; on either sid...

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...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ... whole strength,” he tells the Convention once, “is, day and night, at the service of my fellow-Citi- zens: if they find me worthless, they will dismi... ... my Master, when all the world coveted that honour; and I owe him the same service now, when it has become one which many reckon dangerous.’ These two... ...real lie of. Call him, with Burke, Anacreon of the Guillo- tine, and a man serviceable to this Convention. The other Peace-maker whom we name is Danto... ... Tannery! What, for example, is this that Engineer Chappe is doing, in the Park of Vincennes? In the Park of Vincennes; and onwards, they say, in the ... ...nnot continue. Hast thou considered how Thought is stronger than Artillery-parks, and (were it fifty years after death and martyrdom, or were it two t...

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...ng some pretence to gentility, the poverty of the country of Scotland, the national disposition to wandering and to adventure, all conduced to lead th... ... and to adventure, all conduced to lead the Scots abroad into the military service of countries which were at war with each other. They were distingui... ... 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture of learning, which most of them pos- sesse... ...lier of honour, in search of his fortune, might, for ex- ample, change his service as he would his shirt, fight, like the doughty Captain Dalgetty, in... ...g chid- den him, did promise to reveale him unto me, as he did after their service. The sergeant being called before me, and ac- cused, did deny his a... ...rom a contented people,—after all this, and without even the pretext for a national grievance, the same men have, upon doubts and suspicions, equally ... ...amily of Grishornish, a dairy-maid, who daily used to herd the calves in a park close to the house, observed, at different times, a woman resembling h...

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...She had a compartment to herself in the train from Lon- don to Morningside Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would ... ...discovered with a start, from a lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving out of the station, whereas she was only m... ...cupa- tion. “It’s either now or never,” she said to herself… . Morningside Park was a suburb that had not altogether, as people say, come off. It cons... ...f warping and delay, they were pursuing these. One was in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly devel- oping motor business. The daughters, ... ...t. Of course, if at any time—see reason—alter your opinion. Always at your service. No offence, I hope. All right! I’m off. Due to play hockey. Jackso... ... I have found myself promoted almost yearly in a widening sphere of social service. Before I met you I never met any one whom I felt I could love, but... ...between what was official and what was merely a rebellious slight upon our national justice, found herself involved in a triumphal procession to the V...

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...arl of Shrewsbury, a young man who, with the indifference of those days to service by land or sea, had been at one time a gentleman pensioner of Queen... ...ok his wife home to his old father’s house in the pre- cincts of Sheffield Park, where she was kindly welcomed; but wealth did not so abound in the fa... ...omewhat, and said, ‘If my son’s ship be come in, he must do as her Grace’s service permits, but meantime he must spare us 20 Unknow... ...llon, that he held the estate of Bridgefield in fief on tenure of military service to the head of his family. She did not know how much it was worth b... ... Unknown To History four miles off, right across Sheffield Park. The Bridgefield estate had been a younger son’s portion, and its owne... ...rnoon. Com- mands were sent that the inhabitants of the little town at the park gate should keep within doors, and not come forth to give any show of ... ...visit town, and above all such travellers as these, bringing news of grand national achievements. V ery soon after Gilbert’s accession to the heirship...

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...Polly did not follow this picture very closely. He went for some time to a National School, which was run on severely economical lines to keep down th... ...d used a cane with remarkable dexterity and gusto. Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by t... ..., and had been in a church choir, and so he led the singing; Parsons had a serviceable bellow, which roared and faded and roared again very wonderfull... ...gentle lines of hill and dale, its ordered confusion of features, its deer parks and downland, its castles and stately houses, its hamlets and old chu... ...eristic type of medieval churchman. He liked to sit in the nave during the service, and look through the great gates at the candles and choristers, an... ...came” said Uncle Pentstemon. “I came.” He turned on Mrs. Larkins. “Gals in service?” he asked. “They aren’t and they won’t be,” said Mrs. Larkins. “No... ...some.” “Delphicums and larkspurs,” said Mr. Polly. “They used to be in the park at Port Burdock. “Floriferous corner,” he added approvingly. He put an... ...swer can a man give to such a question but “Yes!” Regardless of the public park, the children in the sandpit and everyone, she bent forward and seized... ...merged by piety. Tonks went bankrupt, and was succeeded by a branch of the National Provision Com- pany, with a young manager exactly like a fox, exce...

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...The commissary having been buried with all the decorations suitable to the service (the whole team of proprieties were harnessed to his hearse, and th... ... have felt disposed to question the accuracy of that por- tion of the late service which had declared that the commis- sary could take nothing away wi... ...lined her head. ‘I cannot, therefore, 22 Charles Dickens put a price upon services which it is a pleasure to me to render if I can render them sponta... ...e. They bring him in such vast sums of money that they are regarded as—hum—national benefits. Mr Merdle is the man of this time. The name of Merdle is... ...eet from end to end, and leave nearly a quarter of a mile to spare for the park (Immense cheering and laughter); while of tape—red tape—it had used en... ...pe—red tape—it had used enough to stretch, in graceful festoons, from Hyde Park Corner to the General Post Office. Then, amidst a burst of official ex... ...oke of his pipe, he told Pancks how and why he was occupied with the great National Department. ‘A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doy... ... of his not being usually of a sanguine character. He thought of the great National Department, and of the delight it would be to him to see Doyce bet...

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...ined still entire. The left hand scene presented the view of a very fine park, composed of very unequal ground, and agreeably var ied with all the ... ...m Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 15 ever since her return from her service. Their envy did not, however, display itself openly, till poor Je... ...same time flies in our face, and upbraids us with having spotted it in the service of one so worthless! Mr. Allworthy himself spoke to the captain i... ...the little foundling, she fancied it would be rendering him an agree able service, if she could make any discoveries that might lessen the affection ... ...n; “but I thought the whole story altogether deserved commemorating. As to national matters, your worship knows them best. My concerns extend no farth... ...more of the world, I should not be ashamed to walk with you in St. James’s Park.”—”Hoity toity!” cries Honour, “madam is in her airs, I protest. Mrs. ...

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...der has ever been present in a vast metropolis, on the day when some great national idol was carried in fu- neral pomp to his grave, and chancing to w... ...ver, was, that he supposed this art to be part of his regular duties in my service. Now that was a thing I would not allow; so I said at once, “Richar... ... nius for it, why, he might as well pursue his studies whilst living in my service as in another’s. And also, I may observe, that it can do no harm ei... ... of the company during the earlier toasts, I overruled the call. After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was, Th... ...e fur- ther improvement of T ooling, and thanks to the Committee for their services.” Mr. L., on behalf of the committee who had reported on that subj... ... purpose of malice, faithfully pursued, has quartered some people upon our national funds of homage as by a perpetual annuity. Bet- ter than an inheri... ...ppiness within the domain of our common country—within that ancient watery park— within that pathless chase where England takes her pleasure as a hunt...

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...s soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which is operating upon private property, pi... ..., that it was a private event of that order which rose to the dignity of a national event. 2 But now, having prepared the reader to appreciate on its... ...for its own pe- culiar purposes, but utterly incommensurate to the general service of the capital, it was a most dangerous quarter. Every third man at... ...sible, from the weight of her maternal duties, with the cheerful voluntary service of a sister. To this young woman it was, that, suddenly, within thr... ... is thrown away the opportunity, not only of applying corrections to false national tastes, but oftentimes even to the unfair accidents of luck that b... ...because, though tolerable perhaps in another situation, they really were a national disgrace, when standing behind that unrivalled portico of book 1. ... ...paired duly in the morning, as he had done in former years, to St. James’s Park,—where he sate in contemplative ease amongst the cows, inhaling their ...

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...e out the Picts and Scots; and Vortigern, being grateful to them for that service, made no opposition to their set tling themselves in that part of ... ...to be quick about it. When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his noble... ... the ground re spectfully and humbly, and that the King took him into his service. The story may or may not be true; but at any rate it is true that ... ...r an Interdict at one period of this reign; which means that he allowed no service to be performed in the churches, no couples to be married, no bells... ...rl in all the world; and how he had a beau tiful Bower built for her in a Park at Woodstock; and how it was erected in a labyrinth, and could only be... ...ut into him by the brave spirit of the Scottish people, who took this as a national insult, that he refused to come any more. Thereupon, the King furt... ...oo fed the fire. All this the people bore, and more than all this yet. The national spirit seems to have been banished from the king dom at this time... ...lar, how it comforted him, at that pass, to have assisted in reforming the national religion, a member of the Council was seen riding up on horseback.... ... who had always been a quick walker, walked at his usual speed through the Park, and called out to the guard, with his accustomed voice of command, ‘M...

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... seventy thousand times! Very curious: if one sought for “discrepancies of national taste,” here surely were the most eminent instance of that! We als... ... so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever was! So much for national discrepancies, and the standard of taste. Yet I should say, it was... ...ters hanging round. Is not that a sign?” Your cattle too,—Allah made them; serviceable dumb creatures; they change the grass into milk; you have your ... ... embassy; had in his thirty-fifth year, by natural gradation of talent and service, become one of the Chief Magistrates of Florence. He had met in boy... ... Fifth and the others, which is worth remembering. He calls them a kind of National Epic. Marlborough, you recol- lect, said, he knew no English Histo... ...hful valorous conflict, in times all violent, dismembered: a more perilous service, and a more memorable one, be it higher or not. These two men we wi... ...tful compound-interest. I am not sure but he had better have lost his best park of artillery, or had his best regi- ment drowned in the sea, than shot...

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................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...e a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes grow- i... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ...nce, cursorily; not dwelt on with minute near scrutiny. In a word, that no service the Notables could now do were so obliging as, in some handsome man... ...two of them: a bolt for D’Espremenil; a bolt for that busy Goeslard, whose service in the Second Twentieth and ‘strict valuation’ is not forgotten. Su... ...e for him! In these cases, not invitation but com- mand has usually proved serviceable.—The Queen stood, that evening, pensive, in a window, with her ... ...h four Rows of Elms; and then the Cha- teau de Versailles, ending in royal Parks and Pleasances, gleam- ing lakelets, arbours, Labyrinths, the Menager... ... Tannery! What, for example, is this that Engineer Chappe is doing, in the Park of Vincennes? In the Park of Vincennes; and onwards, they say, in the ...

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...e a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes growing... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ...nce, cursorily; not dwelt on with minute near scrutiny. In a word, that no service the Notables could now do were so obliging as, in some handsome man... ...two of them: a bolt for D’Espremenil; a bolt for that busy Goeslard, whose service in the Second Twentieth and ‘strict valua- tion’ is not forgotten. ... ...e for him! In these cases, not invita- tion but command has usually proved serviceable.—The Queen stood, that evening, pensive, in a window, with her ... ...ith four Rows of Elms; and then the Chateau de Versailles, ending in royal Parks and Pleasances, gleaming lakelets, arbours, Labyrinths, the Menagerie...

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... to the borders of the Itchen, through a wooded slope known as Otterbourne Park. The boundaries of estates fixed those of parishes, and Otterbourne wa... ...another manor of his own, where he was received by his resident steward or park- keeper, and took up his abode, the neighbouring clergy com- ing in to... ...itular bishops in partibus infidelium, to perform their duties. One of the park-keepers of Merdon was judged worthy of a Latin epitaph, probably the w... .... Yonge of the manor, according to ancient usage, to perform the customary service of reaping and housing his crops: (1) The days employed in this ser... ...he will of the lord, and at his death they reverted to the lord again. The services to be performed for the lord were uncertain and unlimited. The cop... ... were held, is remarkably strik- ing: here the copyhold is hereditary, the services are certain and limited, the fines are fixed and unchangeable, the... ...r Mrs. Ranger and her daughter, whose rule continued almost to the days of national education. One of his first proceedings was to offer the living of... ...ealth. He had two years previously preached at Oxford the assize sermon on National Apostasy, which Newman marks as the beginning of the awakening of ... ...g with standing round in the twilight below the ter- race, and singing the National Anthem and Bishop Ken’s Evening Hymn. The Anniversary of the Conse...

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...unded by hilly woodland, thirty acres of which were enclosed as Wiltstoken Park. Half a mile south was the little town of Wiltstoken, accessible by ra... ... This Miss Carew was a remarkable person. She had inherited the castle and park from her aunt, who had considered her niece’s large fortune in railway... ... began to be tired of sitting still, and she rose and wandered through the park for nearly an hour, trying to find the places in which she had played ... ...y recollection of his habit of getting drunk at races, regattas, and other national festivals, by an accident at one of which he had met his death. Al... ...who had made a trip to London once. “Indeed!” said Lydia. “Were you in the National Gallery?” “The National Gallery! I think not. I forget.” “I know m... ...know many persons who never miss an Academy, and who do not know where the National Gallery is. Did you enjoy the pictures, Alice?” “Oh, very much ind... ...g secrets. Mr. Lucian Webber is my cousin and friend, and has done me many services. May I rest as- sured that he has nothing to fear from you?” “He h... ...e. Having thus muffled his left hand so as to make it useless for the same service to his right, he dipped his fingers into the other glove, gripped i... ...aid in a low voice, very nervously, that he had no intention of going into service again, but that he should always be proud of her good opinion. “You...

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...said they. Nevertheless, Gisco continued, the Republic had respected their national divisions, their customs, and their modes of worship; in Carthage ... ...ng from them. Spendius, who was seated on a dromedary stolen in Hamilcar’s parks, perceived Matho at a distance, with his arm hanging against his brea... ... elephants in the forests of the Garamantes. Afterwards he had entered the service of Carthage. He had been appointed tetrarch at the capture of Drepa... ...were disciplined in 25 Flaubert regular troops, and the rest according to nationality or their own fancy. The Greeks ranged their tents of skin in pa... ...erous, full of invention and talk; the Bar- barians grew accustomed to his services, and he came to be loved by them. However, they were awaiting an a... ...ecoming 32 Salammbo exhorbitant; we have scarcely unguents enough for the service of the gods! As for the things of the table, I shall say nothing ab... ...e untruthful, he made no use of them. They defiled before him according to nationality, opening their fingers to show the number of their years of ser... ...traces of the feast of the Mercenaries were everywhere still manifest. The parks were broken up, the trenches drained, the doors of the ergastulum ope... ...le stroke. Abdalonim shuddered each time that he saw him approach- ing the parks. But Hamilcar took the path towards the mill, from which there might ...

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...rors of incipient delirium tre- mens. HAFFIGAN. Tim Haffigan, sir, at your service. The top o the mornin to you, Misther Broadbent. BROADBENT [delight... ...res. BROADBENT. T ry a whisky and soda. TIM [sobered]. There you touch the national wakeness, sir. [Piously] Not that I share it meself. I’ve seen too... ...adbent. If my name were Breitstein, and I had a hooked nose and a house in Park Lane, I should carry a Union Jack handkerchief and a penny trumpet, an... ...rt the Navy League, and clamor for the destruction of the last remnants of national liberty— TIM. Not another word. Shake hands. BROADBENT. But I shou... ...en I heard you speak the other evening in Bermondsey at the meeting of the National League, I saw at once that you were—You won’t mind my speaking fra... ... aback; for I liked the old rascal when I was a boy and had the run of his park to play in. I was brought up on the property. BROADBENT. But he wouldn... ...polize England. Hypocrites, hum- bugs, Germans, Jews, Yankees, foreigners, Park Laners, cos- mopolitan riffraff. Don’t call them English. They don’t b... .... We English must place our ca- pacity for government without stint at the service of nations who are less fortunately endowed in that respect; so as ... ...rnelius shows signs of sleepiness. The contrast between Aunt Judy ’s table service and that of the south and east coast hotels at which he spends his ...

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...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ...age was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values ... ...e urns of other men. We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chast... ...on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him t... ...me woman’s form, poor and sad and single, in some Dolly or Joan, go out to service, and sweep chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent daybeams ca... ...ntains cool the air, Singing in the sun-baked square. Let statue, picture, park and hall, Ballad, flag and festival, The past restore, the day adorn A... ...esome, to thy invulnerable essence. Thou shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor, the sea for thy bath and navigation, without tax and withou... ...ing of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden- 276 Essays houses, islands, parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong acc...

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...TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly , and Former Minister of the Interior Dear and Illustriou... ...812 in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time to leave the service, had taken advantage of his fine figure to get hold of a dowry of s... ... pantry, full of old rubbish, of empty casks, agricultural implements past service, and a mass of dusty things whose use it was impossible to guess. T... ...clear eyes. Some there were lounging in their carriages, glid- ing through parks, a greyhound bounding along in front of the equipage driven at a trot... ...box between his knees. They arrived at nightfall, just as the lamps in the park were being lit to show the way for the carriages. 42 Madame Bovary Ch... ...e Nastasie (who left Tostes shedding torrents of tears) Emma took into her service a young girl of fourteen, an orphan with a sweet face. She forbade ... ...efect and the names of the successful farmers who had obtained prizes. The National Guard of Buchy (there was none at Yonville) had come to join the c... ...rot in front of the peristyle of the town hall at the very moment when the National Guard and firemen deployed, beating drums and marking time. “Prese... ...from the buds to the grass. She entered, as she used to, through the small park-gate. She reached the avenue bordered by a double row of dense lime-tr...