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...d out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with the abolition... ...one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strange... ...umanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strangest of all governments ... ...h the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable East India Company. Did that intrepid m... ... famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable East India Company. Did that intrepid monarch foresee the imp... ...uered history as a base for pirates, Bombay had grown into a prosperous commercial centre for the Honourable East India Company, which had leased it... ...Ali had succeeded in overthrowing his father and brother. The morning saw a siege train of heavy artillery being hauled by palace elephants and des... ...n constructing battery positions to bombard the walls. As many unfortunate sepoys were killed by artillery fire from the fort, their places were tak... ...rt. Some of the sepoys decided to storm the British defences and their slaughter from the fort’s artillery gave the British the first clue of the i...

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...ung man and woman, who contributed much to their family, friends…” “Phone Company.” Steven glances at Ali and smirks. “Chemists!” Ali thumps Steven i... ...not, I have no idea. She thinks if I don’t get my bum into gear, the only company I’ll have in old age, will be a set of false teeth and a battery d... ... him. “Steven, give her a break!” “Don’t tell me she’s already sick of his company.” Steven yells back and grins sarcastically. “I said give her a br... ...h the coloured ones.” Steven grins. “Ah, don’t worry, just take the heavy artillery. If anything, it will boost his ego that you at least thought he... ...n and it better be good to get my vote. “Sarah, I won’t lie to you. I’m an honourable man. Do you know anything about wool?” “No,” I reply. “Sheep ar... ...his wool is unique. I want to use them for breeding and as I said, I’m an honourable man and you should be paid what their worth.” “Well, as I said; ... ...worth.” “Well, as I said; sheep are sheep to me.” With cheque in hand, Mr Honourable, aka Lard arse, thanks me. They’ll make arrangement by phone to...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a ca...

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...s PREFACE A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any sus... ...hope, so over throws the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not ofte... ... than give occasion for the least impeach ment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truth ful, high spirited, intensely prejudiced, pe... ...ect of being tall. Not that she is so, but that “the most is made,” as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, “of all her point... ..., and saw him, comfortable as I thought, in the arm chair by the fire, and company with him. I hadn’t hardly got back here when I heard a shot go echo... ...hain. So now, half waking and all winking, he may recall the house full of company, the coach houses full of vehicles, the stables fall of horses, and... ...n Mr. Bagnet and young Woolwich opportunely come home. Mr. Bagnet is an ex artilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the ... ... old girl that brought out my musical abilities. I should have been in the artillery now but for the old girl. Six years I hammered at the fiddle. Ten... ...He is a most respectable man with a wife and family, formerly in the Royal Artillery—” “My friend, I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal A...

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...ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE (A By-Day)....................................................................................... 49 ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE (The Company at Table) ................................................................... 53 DOWN THE OISE (To Moy) ............................................................................................................ 58 D...

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................... 40 ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE (A By-Day) ....................................................................................... 49 ORIGNY... ... of long duration; and in five minutes you will not be surprised to learn that I had tied my sheet. I own I was a little struck by this circumstance m... ...reet; and another sanded parlour, darker and colder, with an empty bird-cage and a tricolour subscription box by way of sole adornment, where we made ... ...ere is not much of the trumpet note in them, perhaps, to stir a man’s heart in his bosom; they lack the lyrical elation, and move slowly; but they are... ...f it; even although it be in doubtful taste to repeat the state- ment too often in one evening. I should not admire it in a duke, of course; but as ti... ...e sat in front of the door, talking softly with 66 Robert Louis Stevenson Bazin. At the guard-house opposite, the guard was being for ever turned out... ... of wan- dering nations. There were hills in the distance upon either hand; and on one side, the river sometimes bordered on the wooded spurs of Coucy...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cas...

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...s PREFACE A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any sus... ...hope, so over throws the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not ofte... ... than give occasion for the least impeach ment of his integrity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truth ful, high spirited, intensely prejudiced, pe... ...ect of being tall. Not that she is so, but that “the most is made,” as the Honourable Bob Stables has frequently asserted upon oath, “of all her point... ..., and saw him, comfortable as I thought, in the arm chair by the fire, and company with him. I hadn’t hardly got back here when I heard a shot go echo... ...hain. So now, half waking and all winking, he may recall the house full of company, the coach houses full of vehicles, the stables fall of horses, and... ...n Mr. Bagnet and young Woolwich opportunely come home. Mr. Bagnet is an ex artilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the ... ... old girl that brought out my musical abilities. I should have been in the artillery now but for the old girl. Six years I hammered at the fiddle. Ten... ...He is a most respectable man with a wife and family, formerly in the Royal Artillery—” “My friend, I don’t care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal A...

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...s a note from Mrs. Major O’Dowd, requesting the pleasure of Mrs. Osborne’s company that very evening to a small friendly party. “Y ou must go,” George... ...assented to this as to every other proposition which was made generally in company. Major O’Dowd, who had served his sovereign in every quar- ter of t... ...e Mrs. O’Dowd was half an hour in Amelia’s (or in- deed in anybody else’s) company, this amiable lady told all her birth and pedigree to her new frien... ... of us danced the same evening with Miss Cutler, daughter of Cutler of the Artillery, and a devilish fine girl, at Dumdum.” The apparition of the grea... ...ough, to do George justice, she might have had one for the asking, and the Honourable Mrs. Tufto in England had an old instrument of her mother’s that... ...y had maintained all day, and spite of all: unscared by the thunder of the artillery, which hurled death from the English line—the dark rolling col- u... ...lf had met with the most savage ingratitude. Rawdon’s promo- tion, and the honourable mention made of his name in the Ga- zette, filled this good Chri... ...onial alliance with a late cook of Miss Crawley’s, who had subsisted in an honourable manner by the exercise of a mangle, and the keeping of a small g...

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...s proud to think that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced ... ...ey was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we w... ...l division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley W ollah, an honourable and lucrative post, as everybody knows: in order to know to what... ...“I recollect, sir, there was a girl at Dumdum, a daughter of Cutler of the Artillery, and afterwards married to Lance, the surgeon, who made a dead se... ...ate at Budgebudge, and sure to be in council in five years. Well, sir, the Artillery gave a ball, and Quintin, of the King’s 14th, said to me, ‘Sedley... ...t I used to meet at Dum- dum, only fairer. She’s married now to Lance, the Artillery Surgeon. Do you know, Ma’am, that once Quintin, of the 14th, bet ... ...bove-mentioned young woman in his arms, and to kiss her in the face of the company; and she looked at him for a moment, and if I should say that they ... ...y, Sir Pitt, Baronet, Great Gaunt Street, and Queen’s Crawley, Hants. This honourable name had figured constantly also in the Parliamentary list for m... ...the secrets of the family) that the mere payment of his creditors cost the honourable Baronet several hundreds yearly; but this was a delight he could...

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...dun Municipals, see no resistance possible. Has he not sixty thousand, and artillery without end? Retardation, Patrio- tism is good; but so likewise i... ...this manner died Beaurepaire, wept of France; buried in the Pantheon, with honourable pension to his Widow, and for Epitaph these words, He chose Deat... ...rliamentary delinquencies, in these Pris- ons. As for poor old Dusaulx and Company, they returned to the Salle de Manege, saying, “It was dark; and th... ...ame: Camille Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech; Manuel, Tallien and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mercier, Louvet of Faublas; Clootz Spea... ...wer of dripping rushes. Assassinating Peasants are hanged; Old-Constituent Honourable members, though of venerable age, ride in carts with their hands... ...escort of a hundred huzzars. He had placed some squadrons behind them, the artillery in front; he said to them: “As for you, for I will neither call y... ...enfans), you see before 52 The French Revolution - V olume Three you this artillery, behind you this cavalry. You have dishonoured yourselves by crim... ...uch like, for another thing. And in brief, build, O unspeakable Sieyes and Company, unwea- ried! Frequent perilous downrushing of scaffolding and rubb... ... headlong! The ‘voice of the ora- tor is covered with rumours;’ a hundred ‘honourable Mem- bers rush with menaces towards the Left side of the Hall;’ ...

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... should have been occupied by his right arm, bore evidence of his hard and honourable service. His weatherbeaten features, his grey hair tied in a thi... ...eans his original intention. He had risen to the rank of sergeant-major of artillery, by hard service in various quarters of the world, and was reck- ... ...ch shattered his arm in a peninsular cam- paign, at length procured him an honourable discharge. with an allowance from Chelsea, and a handsome gratui... ...upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks... ...to a friend’s house not three miles distant, whither, if you choose to ac- company me, you shall have good quarters for the night, and free permission... ...tty— Dugald Dalgetty, Ritt-master Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket, at your honourable service to command. It is a name you may have seen in Gallo Belg... ...o their inheritance. Sir, I was six years first private gentle- man of the company, and three years lance speisade; dis- daining to receive a halberd,... ...ls were nearly withdrawn from the table, that he gratified the rest of the company, who had watched him with some surprise, with an account of the rea... ...o the defences of the gate, and which was protected by two pieces of light artillery, was a small enclosure, where stood a huge block, on which lay an...

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...en of my own troop) seventeen field-pieces, killing the scoundrelly French artillerymen; on that day I had eleven elephants shot under me, and carried... ...cub. So I called one day at tiffin:—old Jowler was always happy to have my company at this meal; it amused him, he said, to see me drink Hodgson’s pal... ...n my ears, I did not care, at the close of the campaign, again to seek her company or to press my suit. We were eighteen months on service, marching a... ...g the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks: one of them, Perr... ...s and poisoned chevaux-de-frise, fourteen walls bristling with innumerable artillery and as smooth as looking- glasses, were in turn triumphantly pass... ...was owing to fright, or to the excessive smoke caused by so many pieces of artillery, arrive we did. On the platforms, too, our work was not quite so ... ...onel V andegobbleschroy. “Mrs. Major Macan and the four Misses Macan. “The Honourable Mrs. Burgoo, Mrs. Flix, Hicks, Wicks, and many more too numerous...

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...hese august names are transcribed by my pen, and I think in what brilliant company my dear Becky is mov- ing. She became a constant guest at the Frenc... ...age, over which they yawn much. To them enters one looking like Boots (the Honourable G . Ringwood), which character the young gentleman performed to ... ...ivests them of their lower coverings; and presently Chambermaid (the Right Honourable Lord Southdown) with two candlesticks, and a warming-pan. She as... ...round my gig,” cries another at the door. He chucks Chambermaid (the Right Honourable Lord Southdown) under the chin; she seems to deplore his absence... ...o dance with her if that amusement had been the custom of his country. The company made a circle round her and ap- plauded as wildly as if she had bee... ...self, whose carriage was always at her door, who passed hours daily in her company, and whose constant presence made the world talk about her. As the ... ... Saint Michael’s Fountain ran with uncommonly sour wine, while that in the Artillery Place frothed with beer. The great waters played; and poles were ...

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... ‘I am glad you had an agreeable escort, my dear.’ ‘I could not refuse his company.’ ‘Certainly not. And where did you ride?’ ‘To a beautiful valley; ... ...he interview he forbore to relate to his inquisitive daughter, with a very honourable discretion. CHAPTER IV ELIZABETH came riding home to breakfast f... ...members of her family. This idea refreshed him by suggesting the extremely honourable nature of Lady Camper’s uncomfortable confession. He himself had... ...riumphant constitution. He forbore to mention her age, for he was the most honourable of men, but a habit of tea-table talkativeness impelled him to s... ...ting them to hear him. ‘Meet,’ he tells them, ‘as often as you like, in my company, so long as you listen to me’; and the pathos of his aspect makes h... ... her excessive anxiousness, for Mr. Baerens had the manner and the look of artillery, and on this occasion carried a sur- charge of powder. The Genera...

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...necdotes which soften the features even of civil war; and as it is equally honourable to the memory of both parties, we have no hesitation to give the... ...House of Hanover; yet such was the confidence existing be- tween these two honourable men, though of different politi- cal principles, that while the ... ...ces and militia, furnished a vol- unteer brigade of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, to the amount of six thousand men and upwards, which was in read... ...oung men of his own rank and expectations, he felt an inferiority in their company, not so much from deficiency of information, as from the want of th... ... flaming bars of embroidered gold, which now fenced his breast, defied the artillery of Cecilia’s eyes; but every arrow was launched at him in vain. Y... ...and honour will permit, avoid danger—I mean unnecessary danger—and keep no company with rakes, gam- blers, and Whigs, of whom, it is to be feared, the... ...fast the prin- ciples of the Christian religion, and to eschew the profane company of scoffers and latitudinarians, too much abound- 40 Waverley ing ... ...oracious, lacerating, and devouring pos- ture. Now, sir, we hold this most honourable achievement by the wappen-brief, or concession of arms, of Frede... ...attery of Stirling, had apparently no wish to tempt the forbearance of the artillery of the Castle. He therefore left the direct road, and sweeping co...

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...ad become united in friendship with Comte de Coetquen, who was in the same company with myself. He was well instructed and full of wit; was exceedingl... ...s should return and the interview be bro- ken off if he arrived before the company had departed. The Marechale de Rochefort was in this way the friend... ...obes, married them, and said Mass. From the chapel all the 21 Saint-Simon company went to table: it was of horse-shoe shape. The Princes and Princess... ... long time, It was a pity he exposed himself to this defeat, for he was an honourable and brave man. Ash Wednesday put an end to all these sad rejoici... ... more than half that number. We took all their cannon, eight mortars, many artillery waggons, a quantity of standards, and some pairs of kettle-drums.... ...o considerable should have been able to disappear thus in an instant. This honourable and bold re- treat was attended by a sad accident. One of our of... ...inctions on his illegitimate children. M. du Maine, as grand-master of the artillery, had to be received at the Chambre des Comptes; and his place oug... ...prodigious penance. I cannot omit, however, the most touching and the most honourable mark of his friendship. Lying upon the ground, on straw and ashe... ...efile of Judoigne became so gorged with baggage and with the wrecks of the artillery we had been able to save, that everything was taken from us there...

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...building, kept him awake; but at last his thoughts drifted away to far, romantic lands, and he fell asleep in the company of jewelled and gilded princ... ...Thou’lt soon be well: ’tis but a passing fantasy. Fear thou not; thou’lt soon be well.” Then he turned toward the company: his gentle manner changed, ... ... Besides the rowers, these tenders carried each a number of men-at-arms in glossy helmet and breast- plate, and a company of musicians. The advance-gu... ... me, brought shame to none, nor loss, nor had in it any taint of crime or baseness, or what might not beseem mine honourable degree. “Yet did my broth... ...e and the Pauper thyself, and my stolen bride and goods are its fruit. There—now get thee gone, lest I shame mine honourable soldiership with the slay... ...ined of his ears, pay a fine of 5,000 pounds, be branded on both cheeks, and remain in prison for life. “These be honourable scars,” he said, and turn... ...rporations. Also in the procession, as a special guard of honour through the city, was the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company—an organisation al... ...e tense for convenience. The time drifted along—one hour—two hours—two hours and a half; then the deep booming of artillery told that the King and his...

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...s proud to think that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced ... ...ey was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of which we w... ...l division of the East India Register, as collector of Boggley W ollah, an honourable and lucrative post, as everybody knows: in order to know to what... ...“I recollect, sir, there was a girl at Dumdum, a daughter of Cutler of the Artillery, and afterwards married to Lance, the surgeon, who made a dead se... ...ate at Budgebudge, and sure to be in council in five years. Well, sir, the Artillery gave a ball, and Quintin, of the King’s 14th, said to me, ‘Sedley... ...t I used to meet at Dum- dum, only fairer. She’s married now to Lance, the Artillery Surgeon. Do you know, Ma’am, that once Quintin, of the 14th, bet ... ...bove-mentioned young woman in his arms, and to kiss her in the face of the company; and she looked at him for a moment, and if I should say that they ... ...y, Sir Pitt, Baronet, Great Gaunt Street, and Queen’s Crawley, Hants. This honourable name had figured constantly also in the Parliamentary list for m... ...the secrets of the family) that the mere payment of his creditors cost the honourable Baronet several hundreds yearly; but this was a delight he could...

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...emale Parliament too, with ‘screams from the Opposition benches,’ and ‘the honourable Member borne out in hysterics?’ To a Children’s Parliament would... ...e President himself, in the interim, presides standing. And so, while some honourable Member is discussing, say, the division of a Department, Ushers ... ...s announce: “His Majesty!” In person, with small suite, enter Majesty: the honourable Member stops short; the Assembly starts to its feet; the Twelve ... ...eration, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tidings of it all over... ... ask another literary Officer; not yet Captain; Sublieutenant only, in the Artillery Regiment La Fere: a young man of twenty-one; not unentitled to sp... ...have done it. Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in number; yet that having... ...he Son of Sixty Kings. An efferves- cence probably got up by d’Orleans and Company, for the overthrow of Throne and Altar: it is said her Majesty shal... ...ire-words, kin- dling heart and eyes; distributes twenty-five gold-louis a company:—Ride, Royal-Allemand, long-famed: no Tuileries Charge and Necker-O... ...l with his brethren and General Jourdan, determines on going to Church, in company with a friend or two: not to hear mass, which he values little; but...

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... opened her casement, Anglice the day began to break, when walked forth in company with the stranger, and mounted Mazard Hill; of which they had no so... .... The principal differ ence lay in two instances; for, first, the present company poured the liquor only down their throats; and, secondly, the serje... ...eve, the antient form, in swallowing much the largest draught of the whole company, and in being the only person present who contributed nothing towar... ...d by Ovid; or, as they are sometimes called in our own language, the whole artillery of love. Now Mrs. Waters and our heroe had no sooner sat down t... ...r heroe had no sooner sat down together than the former began to play this artillery upon the latter. But here, as we are about to attempt a descrip ... ...rom the misbehaviour of such a wretch as this, to reflect on so worthy and honourable a body of men as are the officers of our army in general. Thou w... ...d, if we were to leave them thus compared to one of the most important and honourable offices in the commonwealth, and, if we intended to apply to the... ...l lable low; a word which becomes the mouth of no critic who is not RIGHT HONOURABLE. Again, though there may be some faults justly assigned in the...

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..., likewise, after this fact, being a man formerly addicted to hospitality, company, mirth, and music, was afterwards observed to forsake all this, and... ... comely presence, and good-humour. Patronized by him the characters of the company were placed in ready contrast; 12 Kenilworth and they seldom faile... ...erently well filled, the sight of which produced a visible effect upon the company. Some shook their heads and whispered to each other, while one or t... ...ll you be sure you speak no more than is true. A man may have one of those honourable prefixes to his name, yet be born far from Saint Michael’s Mount... ... Mike; I did but try whether thou hadst parted with aught of thine old and honourable frankness, which your enviers and backbiters called saucy impude... ...- ter three Sabbaths past, and illustrated the same by the con- duct of an honourable person present, meaning me.” “I prithee peace, Foster,” said Lam... ...old may be transmuted into a copyhold. Thus, Alasco will leave your pewter artillery untransmigrated, and I, honest Anthony, will still have thee for ... ...enilworth. The whole mu- sic of the Castle sounded at once, and a round of artillery, with a salvo of small arms, was discharged from the battle- ment...

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...N TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, After a voyage, during which the captain ... ...able than that it was the occasion of making your friendship. If the noble Company in whose service you command (and whose fleet alone makes them a th... ...s friend Mr. James (now Sir James). These two asked Mr. Titmarsh to join company with them, and the conversation naturally fell upon the tour Mr. J... ...ompous monuments of Grand Masters. Beneath is a crypt, where more of these honourable and reverend warriors lie, in a state that a Simpson would admir... ... fight- ing, without in the least heeding the war-paint. Some of the huge artillery with which the place was defended still lies in the bastions; and... ...hich was narrated to us at Jerusalem, and carries a whole- some moral. The Honourable Hoggin Armer, who was lately travelling in the East, wore about ... ...gus?As I write this, and think, back comes Rhodes, with its old towers and artillery, and that wonderful atmosphere, and that astonishing blue sea whi...