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... Kipling LISPETH Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go.... ...id me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tan... ..., the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease Than your cold Christ and tangled T rinities. ... ...f. We will nurse him, and when he is well, your husband shall marry him to me.” This was the first mention Lispeth had ever made of her matrimonial vi... ...t his coolies must have stolen his bag- gage and fled. He thought he would go back to Simla when he was a little stronger. He desired no more mountain... ...little stronger. He desired no more mountaineering. He made small haste to go away, and recovered his strength slowly. Lispeth objected to being advis... ...emper grew very bad. The Chaplain’s wife thought this a profitable time to let her know the real state of affairs—that the Englishman had only promise... ...o extreme grief simply from ignorance of the proper proportions of things. Let a puppy eat the soap in the bath-room or chew a newly- blacked boot. He... ...charpoy and the scrawled sheets in our hands. It was utterly impossible to let the letters go Home. They would have broken his Father’s heart and kill...

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...ble defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.” “Shocks you, my hus... ...with momentary anger, but then bursting into tears. “Then why did you take me from my mother’s side? You cannot love what shocks you!” T o explain thi... ...idea over his mind, and of the lengths which he might find in his heart to go for the sake of giving himself peace. “Aylmer,” resumed Georgiana, solem... ...Georgiana, solemnly, “I know not what may be the cost to both of us to rid me of this fatal birth 7 Hawthorne mark. Perhaps its removal may cause cu... ...oval.” “If there be the remotest possibility of it,” continued Georgiana, “let the attempt be made at whatever risk. Dan ger is nothing to me; for li... ...scover this long sought medium; “but,” he added, “a philosopher who should go deep enough to acquire the power would attain too lofty a wisdom to stoo... ...band; “this is merely su perficial. Your case demands a remedy that shall go deeper.” In his interviews with Georgiana, Aylmer generally made minute ... ...l lays a feverish thirst that had parched me for many days. Now, dearest, let me sleep. My earthly senses are closing over my spirit like the leaves ... ...ened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was al...

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...than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild freshness of morn- ing—Her smiles and her t... ...n to the fallacies connected with an im- perfect appreciation of facts? To me it is not so much a question of deciding whether I like Amelia less, and... ... have never been quite content to admit that bravery and bragga- docio can go together, that the man of honour may be a selfish pedant. People have be... ...thing, and a museum is but a mortuary. Fielding’s men and women, once more let it be said, are all alive. The palace of his work is the hall, not of E... ... but in the ill execution of them; but, with submis- sion, this appears to me to be no less an absurdity than to say of any machine that it is excelle... ...e most exquisite manner, yet put them so together that the clock could not go. In this case, surely, we might say that there was a small defect in the... ...For the sake of our squeamish reader, we shall not descend to particulars; let it suffice to say, nothing more ragged or more dirty was ever emptied o... ...er, flung her off at some distance, cursing her for a b—h, and bidding her let the gentleman alone. This person was not himself of the most inviting a... ...ation! I tremble even now from the reflection.—I must stop a moment. I can go no farther.” Booth attempted all in his power to soothe her; and she soo...

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...for no reason. This is not a marriage story. It wasn’t so bad as that with me. My action, rash as it was, had more the character of divorce— almost of... ...f these mo- ments, you know. The green sickness of late youth descended on me and carried me off. Carried me off that ship, I mean. We were only four ... ...o Malay petty officers. The Captain stared hard as if wondering what ailed me. But he was a sailor, and he, too, had been young at one time. Presently... ...ick iron-gray moustache, and he observed that, of course, if I felt I must go he couldn’t keep me by main force. And it was arranged that I should be ... ...peculiar wistful tone, that he hoped I would find what I was so anxious to go and look for. A soft, cryptic utterance which seemed to reach deeper tha... ...ptain, and I heard the latter answer good-humouredly: “No. He leaves us to go home.” “Oh!” the other exclaimed, nodding mournfully over my sad conditi... ... astounded: “But I thought it was Hamilton that you …” “Exactly. Don’t you let him. You do what I tell you. Y ou tackle that Steward. Y ou’ll make him... ...beginning at last to exercise its wellknown fascination. I felt I must not let the man talk to me any more. I got up, observing curtly that he was too... ...ur deputy- Neptune. It was addressing the head Shipping-Master who, having let me in, had, apparently, remained hovering in the middle distance ever s...

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...r the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a ... ...e stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a bloc... ...of the pitching of the boat. The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose nam... ... bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar’s proposal, and we hande... ...remember laugh- ing at that, and wondering why I laughed. The laugh caught me suddenly like a thing from without. 6 The Island of Dr. Moreau I lay ac... ...m and the radula of the snail, and all that. Lord! It’s ten years ago. But go on! go on! tell me about the boat.” He was evidently satisfied with the ... ...e you forward!” said Montgomery, in a menac- ing voice. “But I tell you to go!” He was on the brink of saying something further, then looked up at me ... ...aled to one and another of the three men,— first to the grey-haired man to let me land, and then to the drunken captain to keep me aboard. I even bawl... ...of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale. I prayed aloud for God to let me die. 21 H. G . Wells VI. VI. VI. VI. VI. THE E THE E THE E THE E TH...

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...in has fallen, free from the glare, bewilderment, and bustle of the Theatre. Let me recall one of these Romances of the real world. There is nothing t... ...as fallen, free from the glare, bewilderment, and bustle of the Theatre. Let me recall one of these Romances of the real world. There is nothing truer... .... How came I to be so deceived? Had I quite misread their faces? No. Believe me, my first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone... ...one, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to come nearer to me and explain themselves away. II. THE PARTITION WHICH SEPARATED MY ... ...the melancholy fact?’ (‘Humph!’ thought I, as I looked at him. ‘But I won’t go up the track, and I will go on the grass.’) ‘What reason have you he... ...l enough that he should.’ ‘Quite so, Mr. Sampson; but I never thought of it. Let me see. ’ He took the printed paper from his pocket. ‘How am I to ans... ...hat I constantly see the same invalid old gentleman at all times, wherever I go. I have mentioned it to my uncle, and he calls the gentleman my shadow... ...w for days and days; but it does oddly happen, occasionally, that wherever I go, for many days together, this gentleman goes. We have come together in... ...tted and had lost the game. ‘Listen to me, you villain,’ said Beckwith, ‘and let every word you hear me say be a stab in your wicked heart. When I too...

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... I am drawing towards the vortex. Presently—” “Yes?” “You have seen things go down an eddy? Out of the light of the day, out of this sweet world of sa... ...your head, heat, fag, solitude, all the day long, and then, I suppose, you go to bed and try very hard—eh?” Isbister stopped short and looked at the s... ...ept it, you rejoice in it. It warms and supports and delights you. And for me—” He turned his head and showed a ghastly face, bloodshot pallid eyes an... ...d Isbister with the air of an old friend. “Don’t worry yourself. T rust to me.” The man dropped his hand and turned again. They went over the brow in ... ...tand. At any rate, it don’t matter very much just at present about telling me, you know.” The sleepless man thrust his knuckles into his eyes and rubb... ... . What a fuss we had with him! My landlady wouldn’t take him in, wouldn’t let him stay—he looked so queer when he was rigid. We had to carry him in a... ... G Wells hair has stopped growing. Now with the proper dead, the hair will go on growing—” “I know,” said Warming, with a flash of pain in his expres-... ...h a gaunt stare on his face. “But why am I here? No! Don’t talk. Be quiet. Let me—” He sat silent, rubbed his eyes, and, uncovering them, found anothe... ...r room was set with rows of peculiar double cylinders inscribed with green let- tering on white that harmonized With the decorative scheme of the room...

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...die! Henry IV, Part II. INTRODUCTION—(1829) The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel... ...as deaf, poor man, as a peat-stack,’ answered the ready-witted domestic. —’Let him be sent for, directly.’ The real shepherd accordingly was brought f... ...e cricket cried in my very title-page? and could it have been possible for me, with a moderate attention to decorum, to introduce 8 Waverley any scen... ...T ale of the Times,’ wouldst thou not, gentle reader, have de- manded from me a dashing sketch of the fashionable world, a few anecdotes of private sc... ...lways heard, was the season for learning, and, no doubt, when his rage for let- ters was abated, and his head fully stocked with knowledge, his nephew... ...beyance. Y et it jarred severely upon his feelings, that his nephew should go into the army under the Brunswick dynasty; and the more so, as, in- depe... ...ch —why I would ven- ture something for the honour of the cloth. But come, let’s see the other. ‘Right Hereditary righted!’ ah, there’s some sense in ... ... but, Lord love you, what’s once a week, when a man does not know where to go the other six days?—Well, but I must show the manuscript to little T om ... ...ice had determined him against undertaking the work. ‘Not but what I would go to—(what was I going to say?) to the Plantations for the church with ple...

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...nature, society and humanity. Our traditional Chinese culture tells 15 me that they all come from the same original source. A crucial question a... ...osophies. However, he opens his mind to learn about Chinese cultures from me. Regarding religions, he can propose such a silly question as, “Can God... ...enty of examples recorded in Chinese heritage and many vivid facts around me. In February of this year (on the 9 th of the first lunar month), my wi... ... Exercises for readers: If China and Japan are in the Far East, why do we go West from the U.S.A. to get there? Are humans inhuman, because they hav... ... us.) It is necessary to introduce a measurement for the ideas' field. Let's denote by "IDON" [Latin < idoneus, (cap)able of] the smallest unit to... ...nstability in the moving essence of things and phenomena. (Changes cannot go beyond their nature; in other words, its nature never changes.) Of c... ...things leave behind them the Obscurity (out of which they have come), and go forward to embrace the Brightness 44 (into which they have emerged),... ... of them. (Again, this is too extreme; I cannot agree) Le Roi le veut. Let's cite the masters: Platon: panta chorei (all is moving); Diogene La... ...e single-minded, double-minded, triple-minded or none-minded? 52 FL: Let’s discuss them individually. First let’s discuss single-minded. He woul...

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...e home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living....

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...en escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and fe... ...to this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occu pations o... ...ngs, when I was arrested by an inquiry, the purport of which did not reach me, but which seemed The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 5 to be addressed t... ...e addressed to myself, and was preferred in a soft sweet voice that struck me very pleasantly. I turned hastily round and found at my elbow a pretty l... ...t not like that I should seem to doubt it by my question? Well, well then let us say I love thee dearly.’ ‘Indeed, indeed you do,’ replied the child ... ... Shop – Dickens 12 it wanted but a few minutes of midnight and I rose to go, which recalled him to himself. ‘One moment, sir,’ he said, ‘Now, Kit ... ..., for there’s work to do. Good night! There, bid him good night, Nell, and let him be gone!’ ‘Good night, Kit,’ said the child, her eyes lighting up w... ... fellow, ‘here I am and here I shall stop till such time as I think fit to go, unless you send for assistance to put me out which you won’t do, I kn... ... mysteries and secrets.’ ‘A few,’ replied Quilp, with equal dryness. ‘Then let me tell him once for all, through you, that I will come into and go out...

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...sands that marched nigh Wales. So ever the king had a custom that at the feast of Pentecost in especial, afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard or seen of a great marvel....

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...ast of Pentecost in especial, afore other feasts in the year, he would not go that day to meat until he had heard or seen of a great marvel. And for t... ... by a foot and an half. Then Sir Gawaine went unto the king and said, Sir, go to your 4 Sir Thomas Malory meat, for here at the hand come strange adv... ... the largest handed that ever man saw, but he fared as though he might not go nor bear himself but if he leaned upon their shoulders. Anon as Arthur s... .... And for this cause I am come hither, to pray you and require you to give me three gifts, and they shall not be unreasonably asked, but that ye may w... ...unreasonably asked, but that ye may worshipfully and honourably grant them me, and to you no great hurt nor loss. And the first don and gift I will as... ...ur asking. Now, sir, this is my petition for this feast, that ye will give me meat and drink sufficiently for this twelvemonth, and at that day I will... ...his mocking, for I dare lay my head he shall prove a man of great worship. Let be said Sir Kay, it may not be by no reason, for as he is, so he hath a... ...as for my lady’s name that shall not ye know for me as at this time, but I let you wit she is a lady of great worship and of great lands; and as for t... ...im I will be made knight and else of none. And when I am passed I pray you let him ride after me, and make me knight when I require him. All this shal...

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... Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, I’ll utter what my sorrows give me leave. In Syracusa was I born, and wed Unto a woman, happy but for me,... ...eave. In Syracusa was I born, and wed Unto a woman, happy but for me, And by me, had not our hap been bad. With her I lived in joy; our wealth increas... ...mnum; till my factor’s death And the great care of goods at random left Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse: From whom my absence was not six ... ...aking amain to us, Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this: But ere they came,—O, let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. DUKE SOLINUS :... ... the west. There is your money that I had to keep. ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE : Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host, And stay there, Dromio, till I ... ...thee away. DROMIO OF SYRACUSE : Many a man would take you at your word, And go indeed, having so good a mean. [Exit.] ANTIPHOLUS OF SYRACUSE : A tru... ...r with his merry jests. What, will you walk with me about the town, And then go to my inn and dine with me? First Merchant : I am invited, sir, to ce... ...h invited him, And from the mart he’s somewhere gone to dinner. Good sister, let us dine and never fret: A man is master of his liberty: Time is their... ...nce than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords: Then let your will attend on their accords. ADRIANA: This servitude makes you...

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...: You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely. ARCHIDAMUS: Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it ... ... be find up, my brother, with our thanks; And yet we should, for perpetuity, Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher, Yet standing in rich plac... ... s Tale, Act I, scene ii 6 With one ‘We thank you’ many thousands moe That go before it. LEONTES: Stay your thanks a while; And pay them wh... ...me between’s then; and in that I’ll no gainsaying. POLIXENES: Press me not, beseech you, so. There is no tongue that moves, none, none i’ the... ...is no tongue that moves, none, none i’ the world, So soon as yours could win me: so it should now, Were there necessity in your request, although ‘Twe... ...said, Hermione. HERMIONE: To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong: But let him say so then, and let him go; But let him swear so, and he shall n... ..., he longs to see his son, were strong: But let him say so then, and let him go; But let him swear so, and he shall not stay, We’ll thwack him hence w... ... of a week. When at Bohemia You take my lord, I’ll give him my commission To let him there a month behind the gest The Winter’ s Tale, Act I, scene i... ...ould her name were Grace! But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? Nay, let me have’t; I long. LEONTES: Why, that was when Three cra...

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... What, must our mouths be cold? GONZALO: The king and prince at prayers! let’s assist them, For our case is as theirs. SEBASTIAN: ... ...hildren!’— ‘Farewell, brother!’—’We split, we split, we split!’] ANTONIO: Let’s all sink with the king. SEBASTIAN: Let’s take leave of him. [Exeunt ... ...should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me. So: [Lays down his mantle .] Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; h... ...ther. MIRANDA: You have often Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp’d And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding... ...SPERO: By what? by any other house or person? Of any thing the image tell me that Hath kept with thy remembrance. Act I, scene ii 7 MIRANDA: ... ...ost preciously. ARIEL: Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, Which is not yet perform’d me... ...’s my noble master! What shall I do? say what; what shall I do? PROSPERO: Go make thyself like a nymph o’ the sea: be subject To no sight but thine a... ...e subject To no sight but thine and mine, invisible To every eyeball else. Go take this shape And hither come in’t: go, hence with diligence! [Exit AR... ...RIEL, invisible, playing solemn music .] SEBASTIAN: We would so, and then go a bat fowling. ANTONIO: Nay, good my lord, be not angry. GONZALO: No, ...

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...Preface: The preparation of this edition of Luther?s Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P. J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in March, 1937. The consultation had the twofold merit of definiteness and brevity. ?Luther is still the greatest name in Protestantism. We want you to help us publish som...

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...of this edition of Luther’s Commentary on Galatians was first suggested to me by Mr. P . J. Zondervan, of the firm of publishers, in March, 1937. The ... ...atians “There is one book that Luther himself likes better than any other. Let us begin with that: his Commentary on Galatians…” The undertaking, whic... ...troductory remarks: “The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do.” LUKE 2 Glory to Go... ... “by men,” I take it he means those whom neither God nor man sent, but who go wherever they like and speak for themselves. When Paul speaks of those c... ...n. The most they could claim is that they were sent by others. “But as for me I was called neither of men, nor by man, but directly by Jesus Christ. M... ...o raised him from the dead.” VERSE 2. And all the brethren which are with me. This should go far in shutting the mouths of the false apostles. Paul’s... ...m the dead.” VERSE 2. And all the brethren which are with me. This should go far in shutting the mouths of the false apostles. Paul’s intention is to... ...stles. The Anabaptists in our time imitate the false apostles. They do not go where the enemies of the Gos- pel predominate. They go where the Christi... ...Himself into death for my sins.” T o believe this is to have eternal life. Let us equip ourselves against the accusations of Satan with 16 Commentary...

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...ate goodness: He passes. Jeweller: I have a jewel here— Merchant: O, pray, let’s see’t: for the Lord Timon, sir? Jeweller: If he will touch the es... ...ication To the great lord. Poet: A thing slipp’d idly from me. Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes From whence ’tis nourish’d: the fi... ...r. When comes your book forth? Poet: Upon the heels of my presentment, sir. Let’s see your piece. Painter: ’Tis a good piece. Poe... ...e well express’d In our condition. Poet: Nay, sir, but hear me on. All those which were his fellows but of late, Some better than his... ...Which labor’d after him to the mountain’s top Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down, Not one accompanying his declining foot. Painter: ’Ti... ...ius! Well; I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me. I do know him A gentleman that well deserves a help: Which he shall h... ... long live your lord ship! TIMON: I thank you; you shall hear from me anon: Go not away. What have you there, my friend? Painter: A piece of paintin... ...ve them guide to us. [Exeunt some Attendants .] You must needs dine with me: go not you hence Till I have thank’d you: when dinner’s done, Show me thi... ...ame. They say, my lords, ‘ira furor brevis est;’ but yond man is ever angry. Go, let him have a table by himself, for he does neither affect company,...

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...the purest or most creditable order. Others have contended that it did not go further than the manners of the age sanctioned; and they say, “a much gr... ...so becomingly in an English coat, should have been so barbarously treated? Let the hand of Dennis or of your poetasters be cut off; yours is sacred.” ... ... but such a critic’s is to put them out of humour,—a design he could never go upon with- out both that and an ill temper. I think a good deal may be s... ...repossessing the reader in their favour. I would plead it as some merit in me, that the world has never been prepared 28 The Poetical Works of Alexan... ...or troubled with excuses. I confess it was want of consideration that made me an author; I writ because it amused me; I corrected because it was as pl... ...or; I writ because it amused me; I corrected because it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write; and I published because I was told I might pleas... ...eir works for posterity. If we can pretend to have used the same industry, let us expect the same immor- tality: though if we took the same care, we s... ... the undeserving or the insult of the unfortunate. If I have written well, let it be considered that ’tis what no man can do without good sense,—a qua... ...n coast, Blest Thames’s shores, &c. VER. 61-68 Originally thus in the MS.— Go, flowery wreath, and let my Sylvia know, Compared to thine how bright he...

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...nto a low whistle; but it presently broke out again with re- newed vigour— Let all thy converse be sincere, Thy conscience as the noonday clear. Such ... ...is work.’ Here, Jim, lend’s hould o’ th’ red pot.” “Nonsense!” said Adam. “Let it alone, Ben Cranage. Y ou’ll mayhap be making such a slip yourself so... ...rself some day; you’ll laugh o’ th’ other side o’ your mouth then.” “Catch me at it, Adam. It’ll be a good while afore my head’s full o’ th’ Methodies... ...is inscription, making, by way of preliminary, an imaginary S in the air. “Let it alone, will you?” Adam called out, laying down his tools, striding u... ...t be, Addy, let be. Ben will be joking. Why, he’s i’ the right to laugh at me—I canna help laughing at myself.” “I shan’t loose him till he promises t... ...oortin’ an’ the religion both together, as YE do, Seth; but ye wouldna ha’ me get con- verted an’ chop in atween ye an’ the pretty preacher, an’ carry... ...he’d never a bit o’ pride and delight in ‘s work. The very grindstone ‘ull go on turning a bit after you loose it.” “Bodderation, Adam!” exclaimed Wir... ...d looked wistfully at Adam, as if he expected him to say something. “Shalt go home before thee go’st to the preaching?” Adam asked, looking up. “Nay; ... ...there’s the pretty preacher woman! My eye, she’s got her bonnet off. I mun go a bit nearer.” 19 George Eliot Several of the men followed Ben’s lead, ...