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...olf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf Chapter I A s the streets t... ... Circus she was greatly relieved to pass a build- ing put up by the London County Council for Night Schools. “Lord, how gloomy it is!” her husband gro... ...iew, indeed, was not much clearer than the view of the little creatures in bathing drawers who were trotting in to the foam all along the coasts of En... ...ften d’you think, Hilda,” he called out to his wife, “her ladyship takes a bath?” “I should hardly like to say, Hugh,” Mrs. Elliot tittered, “but wear... ...e thing is that they feel nothing at all—about what I do when I have a hot bath. They’re gross, they’re absurd, they’re utterly intolerable!” So sayin...

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...oolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Virginia Woolf Night and Day by Virginia Woolf CHAPTER I It was a Sunday ev... ...s like the drawing-room, and he thought, inconsequently, how beautiful the bath- room must be, and how leisurely it was—the life of these well-kept pe... ...ncle Judge Peter, who used to be heard delivering sentence of death in the bathroom. Thank Heaven, Katharine, I’ve not a drop of HIM in me!” 37 Virgi... ...y that here was a deep pool of past time, and that she and her mother were bathed in the light of sixty years ago. What could the present give, she wo... ...not England. In those days we thought an Indian Judgeship about equal to a county-court judgeship at home. His Honor—a pretty title, but still, not at... ...nd,” Ralph replied. They were all gratified by this praise of their native county; and Mary now had the pleasure of hearing these short questions and ... ... passengers were approaching Lincoln mean- while by other roads on foot. A county town draws the inhabitants of all vicarages, farms, country houses, ...

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...ateaux, terraces with gray balustrades, moss-grown walls draped in scarlet Virginia-creeper. You turn into the town again beside a great military barr... ...ness what they lack in extent, constitute of come but a scanty domain. But bathed, as we found them, in the autumn sunshine, and doubly pri- vate from... ...er—the water of the Indre—surrounds it, but it is only on one side that it bathes its feet in the moat. On one of the others there is a little terrace... ...e as far as a big Etablissernent des Bains. It was too late in the year to bathe, and the Etablissement had the bankrupt aspect which belongs to such ... ...gateway that is still impos- ing, and in which a clambering vine and a red Virginia- creeper were suspended to the rusty walls of brick stone. The mos... ...ple of very ancient towers, brownish-yellow in hue, and mantled in scarlet Virginia-creeper. One of these towers, reputed to be of Saracenic origin, i... ...s in the midst of the great dairy-feed- ing plains of Bresse, of which fat county, sometime prop- erty of the house of Savoy, it was the modest capita...

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...by his favourite hanger- on to be destined ‘literally to cut the throat of Bath and Cheltenham.’ Some towns are said to have required the life of a ch... ...re the foremost victims to the Cheveleigh iron foundries and the Northwold baths. The close of the war brought a com- mercial crisis that their compan... ...Oh! I have heard it all this time gurgling there!’ She filled his cap, and bathed his face, apparently to his great relief, and she ventured to ask if... ...e confusion upon the table, and which proved to be the Ordnance map of the county, embellished with numerous streaks of paint. ‘The outlines of the ol... ..., ‘ Ah! I see you understand these things! Yes, they are very interesting! Virginia will be delighted; she has been begging me for an aquarium whereve... ...ness who was pouring out the tea. ‘The reconnoitring party!’ eagerly cried Virginia. ‘Did you find the cousin?’ ‘Yes, we did.’ ‘Oh! Then what is he li... ...n see how pretty a woman your Aunt Louisa must have been.’ ‘News!’ laughed Virginia; ‘when mamma is always preach- ing to me to be like her!’ ‘Is he g... ...ord Ormersfield short, in his eagerness to impress on him the views of the county on a police-bill in course of preparation for the next session. The ... ... innocence; but I am the worst person in the world to consult; for all the county and all the town are so kind to me, that I don’t know whom I could l...

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...ile this picture was thought to be Bindi Altoviti’s portrait; now somebody will again have it to be the self-portrait of Raphael.” 73 A Tramp Abroad ... ... existence. A good many of these people are there for a real purpose, however; they are racked with rheumatism, and they are there to stew it out in t... ...mp stone houses, is the home of rheumatism. If that is so, Providence must have foreseen that it would be so, and therefore filled the land with the h... ...trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a town- ship or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an outlying dis- trict of this... ...k, from style. Baltimore. Hot buckwheat cakes. Prairie-hens, from Illinois. American toast. Clear maple Mis- souri partridges, broiled. syrup. Possum.... ... a little to the present day, but with the hyphens left out, in the German fashion. This is the shape it takes: instead of saying “Mr. Simmons, clerk ... ...the shape it takes: instead of saying “Mr. Simmons, clerk of the county and district courts, was in town yesterday,” the new form put it thus: “Clerk ...

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... his idea he was carried down the hard, dean, unused-looking hall into the bathroom. Though the house was not large it had, like all houses on Floral ... ...s not large it had, like all houses on Floral Heights, an altogether royal bathroom of porce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towe... ...he Babbitt whose god was Modern Appliances was not pleased. The air of the bathroom was thick with the smell of a heathen tooth- paste. “Verona been a... ... in Zenith or anywhere else. He had heard it said that “conditions” in the County Jail and the Zenith City Prison were not very “scientific;” he had, ... ...an English family—in- deed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen- mill viscount... ...n expense fund of forty thousand dollars had been underwritten; out on the County Fair Grounds a Mike Mon- day Tabernacle had been erected, to seat fi... ...our vertebrae. Well, my guest to-day is from such a place, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the beautiful Southland, with 226 Babbitt memories of good ol... ...ntity. He recalled their high lights the sum- 302 Babbitt mer vacation in Virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains; their motor tour thr...

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...lived for fourteen days and nights in the firm belief that it was a shower bath. CHAPTER IV —AN AMERICAN RAILROAD. LOWELL AND ITS FACTORY SYSTEM BEFOR... ...n English eye it was infinitely less like a steamboat than a huge floating bath. I could hardly persuade myself, indeed, but that the bathing establis... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...mpany, in a new chapter. CHAPTER IX —A NIGHT STEAMER ON THE POTOMAC RIVER. VIRGINIA ROAD, AND A BLACK DRIVER. RICHMOND. BALTIMORE. THE HARRISBURG MAIL... ...ng away; the sheds are patched and half roofless; the log cabins (built in Virginia with external chimneys made of clay or wood) are squalid in the la... .... I found it, on after measurement, just the width of an ordinary sheet of Bath post letter pa per; and I was at first in some uncertainty as to the ... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ... ...e learn that the Hon. Charles C. P. Arndt, Member of the Council for Brown county, was shot dead on the floor of the concil chamber, by James R. Vin...

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...ndon, October 18, 1852. 4 Henry Esmond – Book One PREFACE. THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA. THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our anc... ...ces made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great ... ...uce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esmond, whose ... ...tory, written by himself, is contained in the accompanying volume, came to Virginia in the year 1718, built his house of Castlewood, and here permanen... ... title, and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood, county Hants, in the year 1691, almost the only tenant of the place besides... ... was performed in the most quiet manner), got her no favor at first in the county or village. By far the greater part of the estate of Castlewood had ... ... my lord was carried to one Mr. Aimes, a surgeon, in Long Acre, who kept a bath, and there the house was wak- ened up, and the victim of this quarrel ... ...terbury. There was a fire in the room where the cloths were drying for the baths, and there lay a heap in a corner saturated with the blood of my dear...

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... there was some difficulty in deciding on which evening he should have his bath. It was never easy to get plenty of hot wa- ter , since the kitchen bo... ...tchen boiler did not work, and it was impossible for two persons to have a bath on the same day . The only man who had a bath- room in Blackstable was... ...e was Mr. Wilson, and it was thought ostentatious of him. Mary Ann had her bath in the kitchen on Monday night, because she liked to begin the week cl... ... up farm- ing: the local paper constantly reported the cases he had in the county court against this one and that, labourers he would not pay their wa... ...made Cronshaw’s conversation so captivating. Athelny was very proud of the county family to which he belonged; he showed Philip photographs of an Eliz... ...h Philip; and he found him- self an object of interest because his family, county people in a very good position, had cut him off with a shilling beca... ...nd took a cab to Doc- tor South’s. It was a broad low stucco house, with a Virginia creeper growing over it. He was shown into the consulting-room. An...

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...body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed; a fragile chi... ...ght-eyed crea- tures—the tam htab, who is woolly and blue and lives in the bathroom, and runs rapidly to warm small feet; the ferruginous oil stove, w... ... a heavy, “Oh, these Dutch farmers don’t want sympathy. All they need is a bath and a good dose of salts.” 17 Sinclair Lewis Carol must have flinched... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ... mostly it’s be- cause I mean something. I’m about the only man in Johnson County that remembers the joker in the Declaration of Inde- pendence about ... ...prettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily in- terested in getting up a Virginia Reel. Without seeming 261 Sinclair Lewis to watch Kennicott, she ... ...tan Apollo nameless and evasive—building a house in the Berk- shires or in Virginia; exuberantly buying a chair with his first check; reading poetry t...

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...written chiefly by Pope, in which he lashed the various proficients in the bathos, under the names of flying fishes, swallows, parrots, frogs, eels, &... ...rs. In 1732 appeared his epistle on “The Use of Riches,” addressed to Lord Bathurst. These two epistles were afterwards incorporated in his “Moral Ess... ... and for ever weeps; Still bears the name 45 the hapless virgin bore, And bathes the forest where she ranged before. In her chaste current oft the go... ...es; a steed That carries double when there’s need: October store, and best Virginia, Tithe-pig, and mortuary guinea: Gazettes sent gratis down, and fr... ...gue. Against the thief th’ attorney loud inveighs, For whose ten pound the county twenty pays. The thief damns judges, and the knaves of state; And dy...

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...eir especial merits at one’s memory. And there are the hills and fields of Virginia, like an England grown very big and slovenly, the woods and big ri... ...of the mud and pebbles and coaly défilements of Port Burdock, a row of six bathing machines, and a shelter on the parade in which the Three Ps sat aft... ... wanted these nice people to live more and yarn less. He liked the Wife of Bath very much. He would have liked to have known that woman. At Canterbury... ...ut up in odd time. Humorous wind vane. Creeper up the back of the house.” “Virginia creeper?” asked Miriam. “Canary creeper,” said Mr. Polly. 80 The ... ...dressing could do. He meant to give them boater straws, imitation Panamas, bathing dresses with nov- elties in stripes, light flannel shirts, summer t... ...ion than his quarrel with Rusper and the indignity of appearing before the county bench. He was for the first time in his business career short with h... ...2 The History of Mr. Polly V V V V V WITH THE DUSK and the arrival of some county constabulary, and first one and presently two other fire engines fro... ...he liked the name of Gilhampton and the rural suggestion of its containing county, which was Sus- sex, and having so despatched it, he set himself to ...

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...which increased my pain dreadfully! I was obliged to have sev- eral shower-baths, before I could leave my room. ’ ‘Capital things those shower-baths!’... ... his own family arrangements, he considered him- self unrivalled. He was a county magistrate, and discharged the duties of his station with all due ju... ... four young ladies, each furnished with a towel, tripped up the steps of a bathing-machine. In went the horse, floundering about in the water; round t... ...’s Harry Thompson!’ ‘Where?’ said Belinda, applying her glass to her eye. ‘Bathing. ’ ‘Lor, so it is! He don’t see us, does he?’ ‘No, I don’t think he... ...oat and bright buttons, like the pictures of Paul—not the saint, but he of Virginia notoriety. The remainder of the commit- 123 Charles Dickens tee, ... ...um- ming, the captain began the following duet from the opera of ‘Paul and Virginia,’ in that grunting tone in which a man gets down, Heaven knows whe... ...to bear on Mr. Trott. ‘I say, he’s a lawyer, our mayor, and insured in the County. If you’ve a spite agen him, you’d better not burn his house down—bl...

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...ll, though they have nightingales in their Bois. It’s the rustic I want to bathe me; and I had the feeling at school, biting at Horace. Well, this is ... ... dubious. ‘A river?’ ‘A good long stretch—fairish, fairish. Bit of a lake; bath- ing-shed; the Naiad’s bower: pretty water to see.’ ‘Ah. And has the h... ... mother’s complacent questions con- cerning this Lakelands: the house, the county, the kind of people about, the features of the country. Physically u... ...rrification of the prim. So to refresh ourselves, by having publicly a hip-bath in the truth while we shock our hearers enough to be dis- credited for... ...r for grave debate in the Radnor family. The Duvidney ladies, Dorothea and Virginia, would have cited ancestral names, showing it to be the worst of i... ...ouse in the mind of Mr. Caddis, the sitting Member for the division of the county (said to have the seat in his pocket), a particu- lar inquisitivenes... ...a singer before he married her, they say: a lady by birth one of the first County families. But it was a gift, and she could not be kept from it, and ... ...personally fail? Fredi stays at Moorsedge for a month or two. Dorothea and Virginia Duvidney will give her a taste of a new society; good for the girl... ...NTOUS EFFECTS PRODUCED BY VERY MINOR CAUSES THE MAIDEN LADIES Dorothea and Virginia Duvidney were thin—sweet old-fashioned grey gentlewomen, demurely ...

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...pposed energy that I had manifested, I was decorated with the Order of the Bath. My reading had been extensive enough to give me some vague aerial sen... ...tain select families, of conferring knightly honors? The red ribbon of the Bath he certainly did confer upon me; and once, in a 69 Autobiographic Ske... ...y, the Garter itself. This, I knew, was a far loftier distinction than the Bath. Even then it was so; and since those days it has become much more so;... ...and mentioned that in Devonshire, or at least on the western coast of that county, near Ilfracombe, upon any excessive take of herrings, beyond what t... ...t? Why, it’s like Charing Cross—always the least secret place in the whole county.” So one might fancy; since the summit of a mountain, like Plinlimmo... ...she and her pupil were go- ing on a visit to an old Catholic family in the county of Durham, (the family of Mr. Swinburne, who was known advantageousl... ...ed that she is the person de- scribed by Miss Edgeworth, under the name of Virginia, in the latter part of her “Belinda.” How that may be, I cannot pr... ... and the same docility to any chance impres- sions, which characterize the Virginia of Miss Edgeworth. She was a reputed daughter (as I have said) of ...

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...s the Stelletto of Spain, The Blood red Rook from Turkey, The Waskite from Virginia: And there is of short winged Hawks, The Eagle and Iron The Goshaw... ... known advantages. And first, to pass by the miraculous cures of our known baths, how advantageous is the sea for our daily traf fick, without which ... ... by one Mr. Mascal, a gentle man that then lived at Plumsted in Sussex, a county that abounds more with this fish than any in this na tion. You may ... ... stay Begging themselves they may betray. When thou wilt swim in that live bath, Each fish, which every channel hash, Most amorously to thee will swim...

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...y any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsyl... ..., perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country- house called Arlington Heig... ...the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they... ...rd in those disgraceful years of the later Stuarts. We know how France was bathed in blood in her effort to rid herself of her painted sepulcher of an... ...he average accom- modation of hotels in Europe. In the large Eastern towns baths are attached to many of the rooms. I always carry my own, and have ne... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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...ushions, placed her on the sofa, and hung over her to chafe her hands, and bathe her forehead with eau de Co- logne; while, as he detected signs of ha... ...r you to dispel, Aunt Kitty. I told him you were the best dissipation, and Virginia was of the same mind. Isabel, she says Dynevor Terrace is the only... ...Terrace is the only place she ever wishes to see again.’ ‘Do you often see Virginia?’ asked Isabel. ‘Not unless I go early, and beg for her; and then ... ...hes to hurt you,’ said James, smiling. ‘Ah! Jemmy, you didn’t know me as a county grandee,’ she said, with a bright sad look, ‘when your poor grandpap... ...ared, with a band in a music-gallery above, and all the et ceteras dear to county papers. Oliver himself handed in Lady Britton, his mother fell to th... ...conclusion to Oliver’s exertions that he should crown their union, and the county paper, which had likewise been forwarded, very nearly hinted as much... ...wed it up with potatoes apparently all bruises. Louis talked vigorously of Virginia and Louisa—secretly marvelling how his hosts had brought themselve... ...with some difficulty per- suaded him into trying the experiment of foreign baths, and in a few weeks’ time they were both established at the Hotel du ... ...musement; and in the latter object they had completely suc- ceeded. In her bathing-dress, full trousers, and a beautifully- embroidered blouse, belted...

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...RATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that count... ...pted to promote the comforts and conveniences of its inmates. A few rough, Virginia fence-rails, flung loosely over the rafters above, an- swered the ... ... the community in which he lives. Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, T albot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides ... ...g a slave, or 82 My Bondage and My Freedom any colored person, in T albot county, Maryland, is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the co... ...old and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters! The ... ...ting, I learned that there was some objection to the existence of the Sab- bath school; and, sure enough, we had scarcely got at work— good work, simp... ...e reader will not be surprised when I say, that the breaking up of my Sab- bath school, by these class-leaders, and professedly holy men, did not serv... ...ible. They are mere hucksters of the surplus slave produce of Maryland and Virginia coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies, whose very breathing is of ...

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... CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ... ...the last half of September, the very end of the dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Ce... ... Rancho de Los Muertos, leading on to Guadalajara, he came upon one of the county watering-tanks, a great, iron-hooped tower of wood, straddling clums... ...on church itself, plunging into the cool- ness of its atmosphere as into a bath. What he searched for he did not know, or, rather, did not define. He ... ...ker slippers, and shuffled across the office adjoining his bedroom, to the bathroom just be- yond, and stood under the icy shower a few minutes, his ... ... the dairy-house, pausing on the threshold, looking about him. Hilma stood bathed from head to foot in the torrent of sunlight that poured in upon her... ...s supper was over, the floor was cleared again. The guests clamoured for a Virginia reel. The last quarter of the evening, the time of the most riotou... ...can woman by the door and hustled her, all confused and giggling, into the Virginia reel, then at its height. Every one crowded around to see. Old Bro... ...ncers on the floor of the barn, frolicking through the last figures of the Virginia reel and the boisterous gathering of men in the harness room, down...