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...his heart in his throat, that it bears and is positively being “used.” The building-up of Kate Croy’s consciousness to the ca- pacity for the load lit... ...ve constructed, for Drama essentially to take possession, the whole bright house of her exposure. These references, however, reflect too little of the... ..., in this view, offered scant relief from the vulgar little room; its main office was to suggest to her that the narrow black house-fronts, adjusted t... ...r little room; its main office was to suggest to her that the narrow black house-fronts, adjusted to a standard that would have been low even for back... ...ister’s, her own, that of her two lost brothers—the whole history of their house had the effect of some fine florid voluminous phrase, say even a musi... ...’s most so. I mean,” she ex- plained, “if it’s a question of what you call building on me.” He took it as if what she meant might be other than her de... ...ust mentioned had never been really in the note of the situation. The main office of this relative for the young Croys—apart from giving them their fi... ...duced into the cage of the lioness. The cage was Aunt Maud’s own room, her office, her counting-house, her battlefield, her especial scene, in fine, o... ...gh, goodness knew— for it was the moral of his plight—that he couldn’t af- ford; but what had had a charm for him if not the notion of living handsome...

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...kens Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by ... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume Two, Containing Chapters Thirty five through Sixty seven by ... ...e Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Bleak House – Volume Two 3 CHAPTER XXXV Esther’s Narrative I lay ill through sev... ...rite again, I got all the credit that ought to have been given to the post office and was invested with the merit of the whole system. Thus, what with... ...ere not expected. I was far from being incurious or uninterested about the building; on the contrary, I often sat in this place wondering how the room... ...words to say to the solicitor’s clerk who was sent to meet me at the coach office on the very day when I came to London and first saw you, my dear. No... ... as if Symond were a sparing man in his way and constructed his inn of old building materials which took kindly to the dry rot and to dirt and all thi... ...commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes. Mr. Vholes’s office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in... ... the earth. Now you cannot afford—I will say, the social system cannot af ford—to lose an order of men like Mr. Vholes. Diligent, persevering, steady...

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...of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier g... ... mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the Post Office with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulki... ...with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col- ore... ...g them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concrete br... ... man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights. His n... ...e was pierced by the familiar and irritating rattle of some one cranking a Ford: snap-ah-ah, snap-ah-ah, snap-ah-ah. Himself a pious motorist, Babbitt... ... and inescapable. Not till the rising voice of the motor told him that the Ford was moving was he released from the panting tension. He glanced once a... ...ertainly do know my own mind, and I do keep right on plugging along in the office and—Do you know the latest? Far as I can figure out, Ted’s new bee i... ... “Standardization is excellent, per se. When I buy an Ingersoll watch or a Ford, I get a better tool for less money, and I know precisely what I’m get...

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...derdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner....

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...t of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna’s saloon and bought a pit... ...was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner. Once in his office, or, as he called it on his signboard, “Dental Parlors,” he took off... ...er a travelling dentist visited the mine and put up his tent near the bunk-house. He was more or less of a charlatan, but he fired Mrs. McTeague’s amb... ...t one room. It was a corner room on the second floor over the branch post- office, and faced the street. McTeague made it do for a bedroom as well, sl... ...of white beans. At one end of the street McTeague could see the huge power-house of the cable line. Immediately opposite him was a great mar- ket; whi... ...t mar- ket; while farther on, over the chimney stacks of the in- tervening houses, the glass roof of some huge public baths glittered like crystal in ... ...Y TWO MONTHS Maria Macapa set the entire flat in commotion. She roamed the building from garret to cellar, searching each corner, ferreting through ev... ...liard-room. There were but two play- ers. Somewhere in another part of the building a mam- moth music-box was jangling out a quickstep. From out- side... ...ig gold teeth are beautiful, beautiful—only they cost so much, I can’t af- ford one just now.” “Oh, it’s raining,” suddenly exclaimed Trina, holding o...

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...n the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome a... ...ebrated reform- ers. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement- house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read... ...n her- self, had become a stranger to her even when they lived in the same house. From those early brown and silver days and from her independence of ... ...ment. In five days they would be in the cyclone of final examinations. The house of the president had been massed with palms suggestive of polite unde... ...h school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a thick tall man of... ... “Nothing like it. Keeps you out, and yet you have a chance to loaf in the office for a change.” “I don’t mean that way. I mean—it’s such an opportu- ... ...ess like this was fifty years ago. But already, why, they can hop into the Ford or the Overland and get in to the movies on Saturday evening quicker t... ...u asks me!” Contentedly Sam Clark drove off, in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Mirmiemashie House Free ‘Bus. “I shall like Mr. Clark…I can’t... ...arest people on earth. Uh, Carrie— Would you mind if I sneaked down to the office for an hour, just to see how things are?” “Why, no. Of course not. I...

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..., with whom he was not acquainted, and John Stewart, in Auchnacoan, in the house of the walk miller of Auchofragan, and went on with them to the house... ... Alan said, he had very good reason for it: that thereafter they left that house; and, after drinking a dram at another house, came to the deponent’s ... ...t work, I sat be- side him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish’ d Gentlewoman’s Companion. In the midst of receip... ...er his arm. “Well, Davie, lad,” said he, “I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way.” And we began to walk forward in silence. “Are... ...er; and I was glad to get my bundle on my staff’s end and set out over the ford and up the hill upon the farther side; till, just as I came on the gre... ...bly to say that I have not. Paid I am, and none too much, to be the second officer of this old tub, and you ken very well if I do my best to earn it. ... ... It was all fitted with lockers from top to bottom, so as to stow away the officers’ belongings and a part of the ship’s stores; there was a second st... ...d with a kind of frightened look; and then Hoseason walked up to his chief officer, took him by the shoulder, led him across to his bunk, and bade him... ...and wondered what to do, till it occurred to me that perhaps the creek was ford- able. Back I went to the narrowest point and waded in. But not three ...

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...olemn. Farms and gardens, convent towers, white villages and churches, and buildings that no doubt were hermitages once, upon the sharp peaks of the h... ...nd-still, at some three hundred yards from the little town, with its white houses clambering up a rock, defended by the superior mountain whereon the ... ...d. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but humbly in the providor’s boat; that officer going on shore to purchase fresh eggs, milk for tea (in place of th... ...ome steep rocky steps, through a little low gate, where, in a little guard-house and barrack, a few dirty little sentinels were keeping a dirty little... ...sentinels were keeping a dirty little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the ... ... they inhabited; the warriors were in ging- hams, cottons, and tinsel; the officers had huge epaulets of sham silver lace drooping over their bosoms, ... ...h was the fashion in Louis the Fifteenth’s time, at which unlucky period a building mania seems to have seized upon many of the monarchs of Europe, an... ...off, as we lay bumping up against the old hull of the Sanita boat; but the officers seemed to take a delight in keeping us there bumping, looked at us... ... my neighbours were any more enthusiastic than myself—Trinity College, Ox- ford, was busy with the cold ham: Downing Street was par- ticularly attenti...

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... Casciano, if I may take this analogy one step further, I too am an exile. Office and leading are closed to me. The political career that promised so ... ... wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with houses of pine and ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and c... ... there the busy exit from Charing Cross, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetuall... ...again at eventful dinners in those old dining-rooms like cellars below the House—dinners that ended with shrill division bells, I think of huge clubs ... ... already some crude inaccurate version of our story and why I did not take office, and have formed your partial judgement on me. And so it is I sit no... ...ring project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge every 11 H G Wells gap in... ... expressions of opinion entirely identical in import with those of the Ox- ford and Harvard Pragmatists, against whom he waged a fierce obscure war… .... ...ft in all obedience— Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford, Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By the ... ...with which she gave it out to me. My sleeping peer in the library at Stam- ford Court and Evesham talking luminously behind the Hartstein flowers embo...

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...y other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much like one another. Writin... ...ng so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house. Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen, appearances were mend... ...and baronets as delight in forc- ing young ladies away to some remote farm-house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart. Who would ... ...when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Ox- ford, Edward at Merchant T aylors’, and William at sea—and all of them more... ...r a strength- ened belief of there being a great deal of wine drunk in Ox- ford, and the same happy conviction of her brother’s com- parative sobriety... ...building was not only new, but declared itself to be so; intended only for offices, and enclosed behind by stable-yards, no uniformity of architecture... ...neral allowed it; but if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices; and as he was convinced that, to a mind like Miss Morland’s, a vie... ...nts continually appearing did not strike her less than the number of their offices. Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some ... ...sy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Ox- ford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding. Your kind offices will se...

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...and found it an interesting city. I would have liked to visit the birth- place of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memo- randum of the site ... ...ut it could not be done, as no memo- randum of the site of the house has been kept. So we spent an hour in the Goethe mansion instead. The city permit... ...thing for a guide, but none was to be had. Presently he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would ... ...ory or defeat was gained or avoided; and in order to commemorate the epi- sode, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, which he named Frankfo... ...rk against the lofty leafy ram- part at its back. This hotel had a feature which was a decided novelty, and one which might be adopted with advantage ... ...wn our backs—an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. Harris carried the little watch- like machine called a “pedometer,”... ... logs and relieved the pilot of his pole and his responsibility. We went tearing along in a most exhilarating way, and I performed the delicate duties... ... young girls sit pottering at some sort of ladylike sewing-work in your neighborhood and can’t seem to see you—polite as three-dollar clerks in gov- e... ...leasure tramp through the summer woods and hills—per- fect nuisance—chases the squirrels, barks at everything, goes a-capering and splattering around ...

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...er to a son of the bishop a very short time before his installation to the office of precentor. 4 The Warden Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had ... ...father became, a few months later, precentor of Barchester Cathedral, that office being, as is not usual, in the bishop’s gift. Now there are peculiar... ... had made money in the town as a wool-stapler, and in his will he left the house in which he died and certain meadows and closes near the town, still ... ...nd bred and spent their days in Barchester; he also appointed that an alms-house should be built for their abode, with a fitting residence for a warde... ...hn Hiram’s time, produced hay or fed cows, were now cov- ered with rows of houses; the value of the property had gradually increased from year to year... ...sque house attached to the hospital had been enlarged and adorned, and the office had become one of the most coveted of the snug clerical sinecures at... ...d was done. Hiram’s Hospital, as the retreat is called, is a pictur- esque building enough, and shows the correct taste with which the ecclesiastical ... ...o could be hard upon a dean while wandering round the sweet close of Here- ford, and owning that in that precinct, tone and colour, design and form, s... ...dear—Mr Bold can’t say that that sha’n’t be read by every clergyman at Ox- ford; nay, by every gentleman in the land’: and then he walked up and down ...

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...t the tyranny of time. Their names, the names of all mythology, became the household words of a coast that had never been ruled by the gods of Olympus... ... care their lives and prop- erty were safer on the water than in their own houses on shore. The O.S.N.’s superintendent in Sulaco for the whole Costag... ...ich was very often on his lips, “We never make mistakes.” To the Company’s officers it took the form of a severe injunction, “We must make no mistakes... ... local authori- ties of Sulaco had fled for refuge to the O.S.N. Company’s offices, a strong building near the shore 18 Nostromo end of the jetty, le... ... water. The repulsed mob devoted its energies to an attack upon the Custom House, a dreary, unfinished-looking structure with 20 Nostromo many window... ...ture with 20 Nostromo many windows two hundred yards away from the O.S.N. Offices, and the only other building near the harbour. Captain Mitchell, af... ... fa- mous siege of Montevideo, and died heroically with his negroes at the fording of the Boyana. He, Giorgio, had reached the rank of ensign-alferez-... ... the landau rolled slowly out of the light. “I will see them as far as the ford,” said Charles Gould to his wife. She stood on the edge of the side- w... ...he short stretch vaulted over by the branches meet- ing overhead. Near the ford of a shallow stream a roadside rancho of woven rushes and a roof of gr...

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...ool, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance, ruling his family and household on a principle felt through- out, making a conscience of all his ... ...grandparents lived at Heath’s Court, close to the church, and in the manor-house near at hand their third son, Francis George Coleridge, a solicitor, ... .... Cornish will begin to trust me again. Uncle Frank to-day had me into his house and told me to reflect upon what I had done. He also lectured me in t... ...When the com- pulsory period of study was at an end, his affection for Ox- ford and enjoyment of all that it afforded increased consid- erably, though... ...by the Patteson family, and Sir John had taken so much share in the church-building work as to be asked to be the layer of the corner-stone. The speec... ...eserved from putting trust in myself, and may know and forget myself in my office and work. I never could be fit for such work, I know that, and yet I... ... home, on behalf of the Samoan 103 Yo n g e teachers, and assisted in the building of a round chapel, smoothly floored, and plastered with coral lime... ...ross “ appeared yesterday morning in harbour, I was told by several of the officers and other residents that they feared we had put back from foul wea... ...Lifu; and as all my time out of school is spent in working in the printing office, I really have not a minute unoccupied. With one ex- ception, I have...

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...ce upon my home and heart. I live in a venerable suburb of London, in an old house which in bygone days was a famous resort for merry roysterers and p... ..., are all dear to me. The moth and spider are my constant tenants; for in my house the one basks in his long sleep, and the other plies his busy loom ... ...gee, a priest, a monster. Mothers caught up their infants and ran into their houses as I passed; men eyed me spitefully, and muttered threats and curs... ...length, and to crown all, stood next in rotation for the high and honourable office of Lord Mayor. He was a very substantial citizen indeed. His face ... ... days of his apprenticeship, the citizen had many a time trudged to the Post office to ask if there were any let ter from poor little Joe, and had go... ...riter was for gotten. It turned from white to yellow from lying in the Post office with nobody to claim it, and in course of time was torn up with fi... ...own the streets that night amazed at the number of churches and other public buildings, the splendour of the shops, the riches that were heaped up on ... ... much astonished when he approached the gallery again, to see a light in the building: still more so, on advancing hastily and looking round, to obser... ...d, and a peaceful wid ower,—having a great appetite, which, as he could af ford to gratify it, was a luxury and no inconvenience, and a power of goi...

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...pitiatory sacrifices to the gods, invited him and entertained him at their house, a kindness which, in all his journey hitherto, he had not met. On th... ... is the enclosed space in the Delphinium; for in that place stood Aegeus’s house, and the figure of Mer- cury on the east side of the temple is called... ...d were appointed to pay a tax to the temple for sacrifices to him. And the house of the Phytalidae had the overseeing of these sacrifices, Theseus doi... ... them who was at the exposing of the children, and was one employed in the office; he, seeing the trough and knowing it by its make and inscription, g... ...concerning their women, that they should be obliged to do no other servile offices to their husbands but what concerned spin- ning; it was customary, ... ...these, and the others earnestly pray- ing, a truce was made, and the chief officers came to a par- ley; the women, in the mean time, brought and prese... ...em pent up like cattle, to be overrun with infection from one another, af- fording them neither shift of quarters nor any refreshment. With the design... ...e intervention of the stream, some being already over, and others still to ford it, gave Demaretus command to fall in upon the Carthaginians with his ... ...laiming it as a right, to venture first and begin the onset; so that their fording was likely to be tumultuous and without order, a mere general strug...

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...r and pity’s sake; As when the Champion of the Lake Enters Morgana’s fated house, Or in the Chapel Perilous, Despising spells and demons’ force, Holds... ...meet that noble lord, Sir Hugh the Heron bold, Baron of T wisell and of Ford, And captain of the hold. He led Lord Marmion to the dais, Raise... ...heir own. 46 Marmion XIII. Then Whitby’s nuns exulting told, How to their house three barons bold Must menial service do; While horns blow out a n... ...ark-red walls and arches gleam. Hewn stones and cement were displayed, And building tools in order laid. 54 Marmion XXIV. These executioners were cho... ...imney arch projected wide; Above, around it, and beside, Were tools for housewives’ hand; Nor wanted, in that martial day, The implements of Scotti... ...princely boy against his king! Still in his conscience burns the sting. In offices as strict as Lent, King James’s June is ever spent. 105 Sir Walter... ... not for brake, and he stopped not for stone; He swam the Esk river, where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had co... ...rs wild and rude. On Derby hills the paths are steep; In Ouse and Tyne the fords are deep; And many a banner will be torn, And many a knight to earth ... ...in their distant comrades view: Sadly to Blount did Eustace say, “Unworthy office here to stay! No hope of gilded spurs to-day. But see! look up—on Fl...

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...ounted to a sum which to James appeared affluence; and though there was no house provided, it mattered the less since there were five to choose from i... ...se from in the T errace, even if his grandmother had not wished that their household should be still the same. With Miss Conway’s own fortune and the ... ... they must be prepared. She cannot have it transpire while she is in their house, and, in fact, is excessively afraid of Mr. Mansell, 8 Dynevor Terra... ... J. E. F . D.’ Having written this and deposited it in the Ebbscreek post- office, James bethought himself that his submissive cousin had thrown himse... ...hout Mary’s own serene atmosphere of sympathy and good sense, her precious offices of love, her clear steady eyes, even in babyhood his trustworthy co... ...ok leave, Walter gave his sister a great hug, but had no perception of his office of handing her downstairs; and it was Fitzjocelyn who gave her his a... ...l—she had rather go ten miles out of her way than even look at ‘that there Ford.’ But Charlotte explained her purpose, and implored, and put her in mi... ...ny, leaving the office at Lima in the charge of Madison and the new clerk, Ford; and Mr. Dynevor was promised something decisive and satisfactory on h... ...the engagements which must long have been distasteful. When I say that Mr. Ford has for some months been my colleague, you will know to what I allude,...

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................................................................. 123 Webster Ford ......................................................................... ...lackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech The court-house ever heard, and wrote A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese H... ...f will, lay broken, indifferent, Living with Nig in a room back of a dingy office. Under my Jaw-bone is snuggled the bony nose of Nig Our story is los... ... drove him away from home To live with his dog in a dingy room Back of his office. 18 Spoon River Anthology Reuben Pantier WELL, Emily Sparks, your p... ...public treasury any of the money he received For supporting candidates for office? Or for writing up the canning factory To get people to invest? Or f... ... of Caius Cestius Somewhere near Rome. Flossie Cabanis FROM Bindle’s opera house in the village To Broadway is a great step. But I tried to take it, m... ...leg. As they carried me to the home of widow Morris I could see the school-house in the valley To which I played truant to steal rides upon the trains... ...—swallow Made her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank There near Miller’s Ford. But no sooner were the young hatched Than a snake crawled up to the n... ...nd if you have ever lost your way at night, In the deep wood near Miller’s Ford, And dodged this way and now that, Wherever the light of the Milky Way...

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...g over the fields, nay, rushes into the very cellars and kitchens of the houses, with a lavish prodi gality that might well be dispensed with; bu... ...hey give you a very faint idea of Mudfog. There are a great many more public houses in Mudfog more than in Ratcliff High way and Limehouse put toge... ...fog more than in Ratcliff High way and Limehouse put together. The public buildings, too, are very imposing. We consider the town hall one of the f... ...in grave deliberation. Here they settle at what hour of the night the public houses shall be closed, at what hour of the morn ing they shall be permi... ...r, sometimes fills his pockets with gold. As he gradually performed one good office for Nicholas Tulrumble, he was obliging enough, not to omit the ot... ... the notion of un ceremoniously designating a gentleman who filled the high office of Mayor, as ‘Old Sniggs,’ ‘The late Mr. Sniggs, Mrs. Tulrumbl... ...ow townsmen with feelings of heartfelt delight; that he accepted the arduous office which their confidence had imposed upon him; that they would never... ...’s residence, passing through a beautiful expanse of country, with red brick buildings on either side, and stopping in the marketplace to observe the ... ... and the trifle, and the lobster salad were all exhausted, and could not af ford standing room for another solitary witticism, the keeper performed t...

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...t! Hector had coaxed and pleaded, pa- thetically talked of his great empty house at Maplewood, and declared that till he might take Blanche away, he w... ...insatiable. If Dr. May was so unnatural as to forbid him to hang about the house, why, he would take rooms at the Swan. In fact, as Dr. May observed, ... ...emptuously. ‘Scarlet fever in the most aggravated form. T wo deaths in one house, and I am much mistaken if there will not be another before morning.’... ...ade a most right answer when Mr. Axworthy offered to take Leonard into his office,’ proceeded the communicative Doc- tor, unable to help pouring himse... ...in deep mourn- ing, opined that she could be no other than the widow of an officer, who during his lingering illness had been often laid upon the beac... ...ad, and the tradesmen forgot their customers in the excitement of electing officers. Averil thought it very officious of Mrs. Pugh to collect a ro- ma... ...e lay in the possibility of some hindrance preventing the return of either Forder or Folliot; and in the meantime the Mays anxiously thought over Leon... ...t ending. How- ever, even if he would not be in your way, he could not af- ford to lose six months’ study before going into residence. ... ...ged was almost a joke, under Mordaunt Muller’s assurances that it was easy fording, though the splashes flew far and wide. Then there was what Philetu...