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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CH...

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...R I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COM- MUNITIES OF PA... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...my imagination; I have played at being in Ohio by the week, and enjoyed some capital sport there with a dummy gun, my person being still unbreeched. M... ...h summer daylight. [1879.] 38 Across the Plains CHAPTER II THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL THE WOODS AND THE PACIFIC THE BAY OF MONTEREY has been compared b... ...ancy; and with the coun- tenance of a certain handsome scamp of a diver, Bob Bain by name, I gratified the whim. It was gray, harsh, easterly weather,... ...encouragement; and looking in at the creature’s window, I beheld the face of Bain. There we were, hand to hand and (when it pleased us) eye to eye; an... ...ift as humming-birds – yet I fancy I was rather relieved than otherwise when Bain brought me back to the ladder and signed to me to mount. And there w...

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...y a loaf! He is a perfect pig, I declare! I only wonder you did not find of him up here! The police ought to hinder such folk from coming into decent people?s shops! There, you may see him now!? ?Is that he upon the bridge--that chap about the size of our Harold??...

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...im up here! The police ought to hinder such folk from com- ing into decent people’s shops! There, you may see him now!’ ‘Is that he upon the bridge—th... ...ld tea, tobacco and snuff, tape, cottons, and such little matters, besides capital bread of her own baking, and vari- ous sweet-meats, the best to the... ...ost to Vancouver’s Island’—and all sorts of places to which the Friarswood people never thought of writing. Altogether, she throve very well; and she ... ...hough he had begun to think no phrase so tiresome, hopeless, or provoking. People always told him to be patient when they had no comfort to give him, ... ...elling Mrs. King that the glass was fall- 17 Yo n g e ing, and his hay in capital order, and his hands short, and asking whether her boy Harold would... ..., how do you know?’ she said, starting back. ‘I learnt at school, Cayenne, capital of French Guiana.’ Sure enough Cayenne had Guiana to it in her list... ...as pulled off, another was put on. ‘Mind, you needn’t make such a work, it bain’t presents,’ said George Grant, ‘only we won’t have them asking up at ...

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...s and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listeni...

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... vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, — that is, he went to church,... ...farmer.’ ‘And the greatest of them is — well, what it is always.’ ‘Beating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little ... ...the shepherd in his enforced nightly attendance. It was only latterly that people had begun to call Gabriel ‘Farmer’ Oak. During the twelvemonth prece... ... There, ’tis clane dirt; and we all know what that is, as you say, and you bain’t a particular man we see, shepherd.’ ‘True, true — not at all,’ said ... ...by the company, Jan went on meditatively: — ‘And he’s the fearfullest man, bain’t ye, Joseph? Ay, another time ye were lost by Lambing Down Gate, were... ...shep herd and your time will come But we could thank ye for a tune, if ye bain’t too tired?’ ‘Neither drum nor trumpet have I heard since Christmas,’... ...ly affixed. Bathsheba looked closely at the hot wax to discover the words. ‘Capital!’ she exclaimed, throwing down the letter frolicsomely. ‘Twould ups... ...onal effects are not to be arranged in regular equa tion. The result from capital employed in the production of any movement of a mental nature is so... ...aid she might stay with them till to morrow — when you’ll be gone again.’ ‘Capital,’ said Troy. ‘But, dear me, I had better go back for my bag, becaus...

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...e France of which you get no hint in a walk between those ornaments of the capital; but the truth had been revealed only in quick-flashing glimpses, a... ..., but Paris is not France; that was perfectly evident on the return to the capital. I must not speak, however, as if I had discovered the provinces. T... ...ss disposed to envy the responsibilities of bigger places. It is truly the capital of its smiling province; a region of easy abun- dance, of good livi... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...e water and carries its stunted verdure as far as a big Etablissernent des Bains. It was too late in the year to bathe, and the Etablissement had the ... ...cay. La Rochelle serves, in the months of July and August, as a station de bains 88 A Little Tour in France for a modest provincial society; and, put...

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...the word “superstition” as signifying all that remains after the ruin of a people, all that survives their revolutions. As he finished the first coupl... ...in their hands. This small sum was now applied to her maintenance. The old people, who were growing less and less fit for business, soon found themsel... ...e that of Sainte-Perine in Paris, called Saint- Jacques, where the two old people had bed and board for a humble payment. As it was impossible to keep... ...ong ago.” “What!” cried Rogron, opening his eyes very wide. “It was once a capital, holding its own against Paris in the twelfth century, when the Com... ...ecture!” “Ah! what mightn’t France be if she had only preserved her feudal capitals!” said Desfondrilles. “Can sub-prefects replace the poetic, gallan... ...imar to Germany,— what Munich is trying to be to-day.” “Was Provins ever a capital?” asked Rogron. “Why! where do you come from?” exclaimed the archae... ...or each cousin in a large silver goblet, after heating it carefully in the bain-marie. The brother and sister poured in the coffee made by Sylvie hers...

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...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...h I have been insisting upon. You must remember and always distinguish the people who can ’t bear things from people who can. It will throw light up... ...hing to learn when it came his turn. Very well, Circumstance furnished the capital, and my temperament told me what to do with it. Sometimes a tem pe... ...R IVER, in the State of Mis souri—a village; time, 1845. La Bourboule les Bains, France—a village; time, the end of June, 1894. I was in the one vill... ...me of God must begin with a caterpillar. “Caterpillar” is well enough, but capital letter would have Mark T wain 161 been stricter. The following is ... ...ountry compared with some other countrys, but it about as industrious. The capital of the United States is Long Island. The five seaports of the U.S. ...

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...e best part of the jugful of beer…. But there seems to be no pleasing some people. “Tantrums!” said Mrs. Polly at the sink, struggling with the mustar... ... tumbrils…. I do not know why the east wind aggravates life to un- healthy people. It made Mr. Polly’s teeth seem loose in his head, and his skin feel... ...n the absence of book-keeping and a total inability to distinguish between capital and interest could not blind him for ever to the fact that the litt... ...t, mewling and puking in its nurse’s arms.” There had been a time when two people had thought Mr. Polly the most wonderful and adorable thing in the w... ...netrating and none too flattering portraits of church dignitaries upon the capitals, and when he strolled, with his hands behind his back, along the c... ...ration, but none of the colonies were in want of shop assistants with- out capital. He kept up his attendance in Wood Street. He subdued his ideal of ... ...ady, understanding his gestures rather than his words. “Not a bit of it. I bain’t no good at jumping and I wunt.” They urged her gently but firmly tow...

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...played a part in Nemours far beyond that of a prince royal in his father’s capital, chose to gratify his fancies in Paris just as he had gratified the... ...is shrill voice grew sibilant, and his face took on the appearance of what people oddly enough call a sunstroke. 9 Balzac “Is that true?” he asked, a... ...-heir, Massin, with the words:— 14 Ursula “Didn’t I tell you so?” T ricky people always attribute trickiness to others. Massin therefore looked askan... ...ois, Levrault-Jacques, Jean-Minoret— enough to drive a Pere Anselme of the People frantic,—if the people should ever want a genealogist. The variation... ...ust now have at least four hundred thou- sand francs, without counting the capital of his fourteen thou- sand a year from the five per cents. If he we... ...ourt; sooner or later Massin’s share in the doctor’s money would swell the capital with which these secret associates worked the canton. “We must try ... ...e said, seeing that the abbe meant to drink it, “I’ll just put it into the bain-marie, it won’t spoil it.” “Well,” said the abbe to Madame de Portendu...

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...Bohemia, celebrated for its flowers and mountain bears, and inhabited by a people of singular simplicity and ten- derness of heart. Several intermarri... ...f the two) it was already so far forward in the spring, that when mountain people heard horns echoing all day about the north-west corner of the princ... ... old man, nodding, ‘a very pleasant state, and a fine race, both pines and people. We reckon ourselves part Grunewalders here, lying so near the borde... ...e Prince. ‘No, no,’ she panted, ‘the Count von Rosen – my young brother. A capital fellow. Let him get his breath.’ ‘Ah, madam…’ said he. ‘Call me Cou... ...ops to shine with lamps along the tree-beshadowed thorough-fares of Otto’s capital, when the Countess started on her high emprise. She was jocund at h... ...nd your Highness takes it in good part, I be- gin to believe we may have a capital time together, sir – a capital time. For a gaoler is only a fellow-... ...r Frederic et Amelie.’ Mine is a presentation copy, obtained for me by Mr. Bain in the Haymarket; and the name of the first owner is written on the fl...

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...that your father rode home in the vlee; not because he’d been drinking, as people supposed.’ ‘I’m glad of that. Will it do us any good, mother?’ ‘O ye... ...tions as were involved in being of the shiftless house of Durbeyfield. Some people would like to know whence the poet whose philosophy is in these days... .... ‘Abraham,’ she said to her little brother, ‘do you put on your hat — you bain’t afraid? — and go up to Rolliver’s and see what has gone wi’ father a... ...y tone, after a silence. Phase the First — The Maiden 21 ‘Yes, Abraham.’ ‘Bain’t you glad that we’ve become gentlefolk?’ ‘Not particular glad.’ ‘But ... ... sight of the house. ‘Tess Durbeyfield, down at Marlott.’ ‘And you say your people have lost their horse?’ ‘I — killed him!’ she answered, her eyes fill... ...horned?’ ‘I don’t!’ interposed the milkmaid. ‘Why do they?’ ‘Because there bain’t so many of ’em,’ said the dairyman. ‘Howsomever, these gam’sters do ... ...it, and I sometimes wonder that a certain school of politicians don’t make capital of the circumstance; but they don’t seem to know it....I wonder tha... ... said quietly. LIX T he city of Wintoncester, that fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex, lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the b...

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...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ... anybody—especially the tramps and vagabonds. In our fancy shops we have a capital collection of damaged goods, among which the flies of countless sum... ... it is surprising how much ruin they will bear. We have an excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as go... ... is impos sible to be so.’ The means of communication between the French capital and our French watering place are wholly changed since those days; ... ..., to half a sov ereign. There was nothing to offend any one,—the good Mr. Baines of Leeds excepted. Mrs. B. Wedgington sang to a grand piano. Mr. B. ...

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... rose dimly the spires and towers of a cathedral town, one of those county capitals to which the provincial magnates were wont to resort during the wi... ...ho had been put out to nurse had no more manners than the calves and pigs. People were the more flattering to us because they expected soon to see my ... ...ced, after which the walk was continued to the farm-house, where the young people were made very welcome. Farmers were, as a rule, more rustic than th... ....” “O sir, I was heartily glad to escape and to get the children away. The people were becoming so rude and riotous that I was frightened. I never wou... ... of annihilation. The threat was unspeakably frightful. Those were days of capital punishment for half the offences in the calendar, and of what was t... ... person. “Down, Bouncer! A won’t hurt’ee, my lass. What d’ye lack that you bain’t at church?” “May I speak to you, Mrs. Wheatfield?” “My stars, if it ...

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...n, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon. The red tiles of the floor are full of depressions... ...mers who 11 Balzac lived in the neighborhood. There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme. Vauque... ...ted about a throat like a turkey gobbler’s; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious ra... ...as as to Goriot were cordially approved by Mme. de l’Ambermesnil; it was a capital notion, which for that matter she had guessed from the very first; ... ...s; to learn the language, and be- come familiar with the amusements of the capital, he must explore its recesses, good and bad, follow the studies tha... ...mad, Maxime?” she said. “A young lad of a stu- dent is, on the contrary, a capital lightning-conductor; is not that so? Of course, I mean to make Rest... ...e silver cup belong- ing to Vautrin—it was standing with the others in the bain- marie that kept the cream hot for the morning coffee. The spinster ha...

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...rs’ respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had b... ...Trial it a wholesome one, because it is so visible and unjustifiable, that people strive against it. And the rest? Was Henry able to see his father or... ...0.’ ‘There are some Axworthys still,’ said Ethel, ‘but not very creditable people.’ ‘You may say that,’ said Dr. May emphatically. ‘There was a scapeg... ..., it is not marked.’ ‘Never mind. I see where it is; and I can see it is a capital place; just in that little jag, with famous bathing. I wonder if th... ...h a little prig as he is, to take the place of such a fellow as Leonard, a capital shot already.’ ‘I wish Henry had been magnanimous,’ said Ethel. ‘I’... ... the best circles—eh?’ ‘Well, if he were alone in the world, it would be a capital match.’ ‘So she thinks, I fancy; but L600 a year might do better th... ...e Henry. I had a talk with Wright this morning, and he tells me that young Baines, at Whitford, is going to the dogs, and the practice coming in to hi...

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...iven two or three blazing dinners in the great hall he would have deceived people generally, as he did his relatives and intimates. He was too sick fo... ...ose troublesome appendages of success. He caused himself to be required by people who could serve him; feared by such as could injure. Not that he wen... ...repeated the obnoxious word. At the twentieth solemn iteration of Ripton’s capital short- coming, Ripton delivered a smart back-hander on Richard’s mo... ...Turnus was a noble youth; but he had not Pallas at his elbow. Ripton was a capital boy; he had no science. He could not prove he was not a fool! When ... ... cousin’s birthday with anyone but him. What are we to do to enliven these people?” “Alas, madam! you cannot do for all what you do for one,” the cura... ... Ripton. “You let it all clean out to your cousin and uncle at supper.—How capital claret is with partridge-pie! What a lot I ate!—Didn’t you see me f... ...m to have a look at him, and beheld the stolidest mask ever given to man. “Bain’t makin’ no faces at nobody,” growled the sulky el- ephant. 56 Ordeal...

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...s. Eclipsed as they may be in the gross appreciation of the world by other people, who excel in this and that accomplishment, persons that nourish Nic... ...s, and was there- fore useful in exaggerating the features of disagreeable people, and showing how odious they were: besides endearing pleas- ant ones... ...s thought by the ladies. She added: “I feel that I sing better when I have people to listen to me.” “You find it more sympathetic, do you not?” remark... ...treat, miss,” mumbled Jim, “and they’re all right mad for ‘t, that they be—bain’t ye, boys?” That they were! with not a few of the gesticulations of m... ...Austrians. A very gentlemanly set of men! At least, so I find them always. Capital horsemen!” “I will explain to you how it must be,” said Mr. Powys t... ...re than you fancy,’ was his answer. He seemed to speak every word at me in capital letters. Then, as if a little ashamed, he sat down, and reached out... ...lan.” “Yes,” said Mr. Pole, “and I’ve told you I’ve no pretensions to be a capitalist. We have no less than three ventures out, already.” “It is like ...

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...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...s a word could I understand of his answer. What is still worse, I find the people here-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol... ...uch. Simpson and I seem to get on very well to- gether. We suit each other capitally; and it is an awful joke to be living (two would-be advocates, an... ...i, and to make every allowance for the potter (I beg pardon; Potter with a capital P .) on his ill-success, and rather wish he would reduce you as soo... ...I come to quote; but that seems too plain sailing. I should put regibus in capitals for the pleasantry’s sake. We are in the Coast Range, that being s... ...an be had – the latter B’s above all, Blackbeard and sich, and get Nutt or Bain to send it skimming by the fastest post. And now I know you’ll 176 Th... ...I fear, and certainly note pages on the fly. If you think it a dream, will Bain get me a second-hand copy, or who would? The sooner, and cheaper, I ca...

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...untenance grotesque and droll, as the faces which the Chinese alone of all people can imag- ine for their quaint curiosities. The broad visage was as ... ...c in much the same way, with the same love of art, the same hatred of rich capitalists with well- known names who collect for the sake of running up p... ...as been called through all ages, try to collect something, no matter what (people have been known to collect placards), so shall you receive the small... ...nd queens and princes, and many a private house emulated royal splendours. People used to play at Royalty then as they play nowadays at parliament, cr... ...l of soaring speculations on too grand a scale to tempt shy, easily scared capital. Moreover, this friend of his youth, Gaudissart by name, had done n... ...r retired from a firm founded before the Revolution of 1789, leaving their capital in the business until Mlle. Pons’ father sold it in 1815 to M. Rive... ...erman, indicating the pictures and rarities. “Not von of dem haf efer gifn bain to mein boor Bons. … Here ees everydings dot he lofed, after me.” Schm...

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...nging places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- ters even as one people; and tha... ...f lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsenti- mental people so often pass on their more sentimen- 19 William James tal acquaint... ...ing persons whose states of mind we regard as overstrained. But when other people criticize our own more exalted soul-flights by calling them ‘nothing... ...ndition for the kind of effective ge- [7] Superior intellect, as Professor Bain has admira- bly shown, seems to consist in nothing so much as in a lar... ...manic races have tended rather to think of Sin in the singular, and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably in- grained in our natural subjecti... ...pity—put a thorn in my nest to prevent me from it.’”[193] The loathing of “capital” with which our laboring classes today are growing more and more in... ...ation. Unless, indeed, by adopting new movements of the spirit it can make capital out of them and use them for its selfish corporate designs! Of prot... ...ume. Dugald Stewart and Thomas Brown, James Mill, John Mill, and Professor Bain, have followed more or less consistently the same method; and Shadwort...

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... rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the p... ...re- scribe for an ailing constitution. So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delphi to help them in their dissensio... ... represents one of the persons of the dialogue as having been asked by the people of Gortyna to draw up laws for a colony which they were founding. Th... ...Morals, Socrates, Aristotle, etc., 1871; G. Grote, Aristotle, edited by A. Bain and G. C. Robertson, 1872, 1880; E. W allace, Outlines of the Philosop... ...ot by lot; in there being but a few who have a right to sit in judgment on capital causes and the like. Indeed, a state which is well com- posed of tw...

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... seemed to charm her above all. “I always did want to know what was inside people’s windows,” she said. And in the same way it was a feast to her to g... ...en, you know. It will be always warm about my heart to know there are such people.” Mrs. Brownlow happened to overhear this little colloquy while her ... ...her for long drives, shown her everything, introduced her to quantities of people; but, oh dear! was it absolutely only three weeks since she had been... ...ere getting on,” said the Colo- nel, kindly. “Thank you, we are getting on capitally. And oh, Robert, Mr. Ogilvie will tell you; he thinks Armine too—... ...eep up flighti- ness and excitability.” “Oh, that’s grief, poor dear!” “We bain’t carousing, we be dissembling grief, as the farmer told the clergyman... ...e. Besides, one is more sure of being of use that way than in any other.” “Capital! Then what withholds you? Isn’t it swell enough?” Johnny laughed an... ... he grows older. I had him to dine the other day at our mess, and he cut a capital figure by judiciously holding his tongue and looking such a fine fe...

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...ly liked, evinces a peculiar construction of mortal. Mr. Melchisedec, whom people in private called the great Mel, had been at once the sad dog of Lym... ...t a man who wishes to pass off for more than he is, Kilne, and impose upon people,” he says, “he’s contemptible, Kilne! contempt- ible!” So that, you ... ...y; and for some reason that I am quite guiltless of,” says Mel, “the hotel people gave out that I was a Marquis in disguise; and, upon my honour, ladi... ...eir pretty language, signalized him as a ‘finick.’ Now, having achieved so capital a marriage, Caroline, wor- thy creature, was anxious that her siste... ...weet child! how does she this morning? blooming?” when she kisses me?’ Her capital imitation of his sister’s manner constrained him to join in her lau... ...e wants us to send a couple of frigates, and threaten bombard- ment of the capital, if they don’t take her husband back, and receive him with honours.... ...teps. Suddenly the waggoner came to a halt, and said ‘Blest if that Gearge bain’t a snorin’ on his pins!’ Evan lingered by him with some curiosity, wh... ...some curiosity, while the waggoner thumped his thigh to, ‘Yes he be! no he bain’t!’ several times, in eager hesitation. ‘It’s a fellow calling from th...