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...ALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Sir Terence French informed Helen of the family’s wish that she should marry his son Gavin. ... ...ieve he is making much effort in that direction. You know, of course, about the conditions of the family inheritance. It is all explained in this let... ...g with Wellington’s army on the Peninsular. After his death, she had found work with the doctor’s family as housekeeper and nursemaid to their young... ...ile ago. Gavin French, her cousin from the big house: she had seen him on one or two occasions at family gatherings in the Hall and had thought how ... ..., I want to study medicine, if Father will agree.’ Gavin left for India a few days later and the family heard no more from him directly, except tha... ... as Helen, on Sir James’ arm, THE CURSE OF KALI 95 walked slowly up the aisle to the strain of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. She heard the gasps a...

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...ndred and seven, do hereby extend our heartfelt sym- l)athy to him and his family in thoir boro»vemont; and. further, bo it Resolved, That a copy of t... ...r, bo it Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions bo sent to him and his family, and (hat a cojiy of the same bo ijublisiied in The Will- iams Recor... ... he claimed to be the source and cause of most of man's degradation and of family distress. He employed his utmost endeav- ors to induce those who fre... ...y to peace, resulting in increased prosperity, the intro- duction of a new family life and the building of chnrohes; fur- thermore, former virtues, th... ...ndred and eight, do hereby extend our most sincere sympathy to him and his family in their bereovement; and, fur- ther, he it Resolved, That n copy of... ...eiisc siir «n thOine do Hnndol, Unilmnnt Allegretto from theB flat Sonata, Mendelssohn Caprice in B flat, Gnilmant Prelude, Rachmnninoff Pnstornle fro... ...zzo in D flat by W. Wolstenholme Overtnre to Midsummer Night's Dream by F. Mendelssohn Recitative and Air— The Soft Sonthem Breeze by J, Barnby Snng b... ...ace. Mr. Arthur H. Turner, baritone, of Springfield, will sing an Air from Mendelssohn. COLLEGE NOTES C. Brown and Perkins '01* are in the Infirmary. ...

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...zing propensities, by striking a second blow, and ac- complishing a second family extermination. Somewhat light- ened was the provincial panic by this... ...ad of the stairs—directing her to go out and purchase some oysters for the family supper. Upon what slender accidents hang oftentimes solemn lifelong ... ...stance of her own absence for an hour; her belief that Mr. and Mrs. Marr’s family had all been mur- dered in the interval; and that at this very momen... ... a soldier been called upon to face so complex a danger. For if the entire family of his neighbor Marr had been extermi- nated, were this indeed true,... ...ped out at one ear, as it entered the other, which, with submission to Mr. Mendelssohn, is a proof that it must be horribly bad; for, if ever there li... ...undantly significant, if expounded by impassioned music. But that music of Mendelssohn!— like it I cannot. Say not that Mendelssohn is a great com- po... ...not do. Let experiments be tried upon worth- less subjects; and if this of Mendelssohn’s be Greek music, the sooner it takes itself off the better. So... ...n some thirty years ago, must remem- ber the noise made at that time about Mendelssohn, the Pla- tonic philosopher. And why? Was there any thing parti... ...losely perused by worms. But the key to all the popularity of the Platonic Mendelssohn, is to be sought in the whimsical nature of German liberality, ...

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... through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more con- venient “Brown coupe” To com... ...ys represented on fashionable nights by some of the younger members of the family. On this occasion, the front of the box was filled by her daughter-i... ...he old man had to say; for old Mr. Jack- son was as great an authority on “family” as Lawrence Lefferts was on “form.” He knew all the ramifications o... ... knew … but then her mother was a Rushworth. In addition to this forest of family trees, Mr. Sillerton Jack- son carried between his narrow hollow tem... ...oung woman was May W elland’s cousin, the cousin always referred to in the family as “poor Ellen Olenska.” Archer knew that she had suddenly arrived f... ... and the organ was showing preliminary symp- toms of breaking out into the Mendelssohn March, without which no newly-wedded couple had ever emerged up... ...nd his wife were pacing slowly down the nave, carried forward on the light Mendelssohn ripples, the spring 130 The Age of Innocence day beckoning to ...

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...on, no occasion. All right, Mr. Bintrey. And one and all forming a kind of family! Y ou see, Mr. Bintrey, I was 13 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins... ...asked Bintrey. “Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Kent, Purcell, Doctor Arne, Greene, Mendelssohn. I know the choruses to those anthems by heart. Foundling Chape... ... a share in Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Kent, Purcell, Doctor Arne, Greene, and Mendelssohn? “I hope so.” “I wish them all well out of it,” returned Bintre... ... two ‘prentices, and the odd men?” “Y es. I hope we shall all be an united family, Joey.” “Ah!” said Joey. “I hope they may be.” “They? Rather say we,... ...dstraw. Mrs. Goldstraw. My husband has been dead many years, and we had no family.” Half-a-dozen questions had scarcely extracted as much to the purpo... ...o live with all the persons in my employment as if they were members of my family. Until that time comes, you will only have me, and the new partner w... ... could be English! But I am born. And you? Though descended from so fine a family, you have had the condescension to come into trade? Stop though. Win...

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...d up a complete idea of the man as he was. Many letters relate to home and family matters, such as it would be useless and impertinent to divulge; and... ...ere record my obligations for materials—I need hardly say to the immediate family and relations—for, in truth, I act chiefly as their amanuensis; but ... ... of the subject of the present memoir, was son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated... ...Colonel of the South Devon Vol- unteers. He was the eldest of the numerous family of the Rev. John Coleridge, Master of Ottery St. Mary School, and th... ...at Dresden. Patteson’s chief delight was the Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s music. He had a tuneful baritone voice and a correct ear for ... ...him to cultivate his voice, and join me in taking lessons, he sang some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder very pleasingly, and knew most of the bass music from ... ... it is not possible to work at home. If I could go on just as well as with Mendelssohn ringing in my ears, it would be different, but I can’t. You rem... ...ic, painting, and art in general. He would flow on to willing listeners of Mendelssohn and other great composers, and when he found that we hoped to v... ... few families, drop in and set the young ladies down to play Beethoven and Mendelssohn, and it is a nice change, and refreshes me.’ From Sydney the Bi...

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...y poor girl suffers! She ‘s a saint at the stake. Chiefly on behalf of her family. Fenellan, you may have a sort of guess at my fortune: I’ll own to l... ...ps. She would come out of it glorified. She would be recon- ciled with her family. With her story of her devotion to the man loving her, the world wou... ...ear upon the half—of her term of years. If it came to consideration of her family and the family’s opinion of her conduct, her judgement did not side ... ...ce … at an altar we’ve stood before, in spirit … one of the ladies of your family to support you:—why not? Not even then?’ ‘No, Victor; they have cast... ...id Fenellan, ‘here’s the case. Miss Natalia Dreighton, of a good Yorkshire family—a large one, reads an advertisement for the post of companion to a l... ...m! O— Durandarte: Air Basque, variations—his own. Again, Senor Durandarte, Mendelssohn. Encore him, and he plays you a national piece. A dark little c...

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...tes in one cover,’ said Gertrude. ‘Papa says they are to be laid up in the family archives, and labelled “The Infants’ Honeymoon.”’ ‘Papa is very happ... ...them come in riding double again?’ The recent wedding was the third in the family; the first after a five years’ respite. It ensued upon an attachment... ... had taken place shortly after Easter; and im- mediately after, the Rivers family had departed for London, and T om May had returned to Cambridge, lea... ...t impossible in the drawing-room; but Aubrey was a rival pet, and with the family characteristics of aquiline features, dark gray eyes, and beautiful ... ...little of the good-humoured raillery and teasing that treated Ethel as the family butt, while she was really the family authority. ‘All gone, Ethel,’ ... ...ecrated by illumination?’ Mrs. Pugh came to insist on that ‘sweet thing of Mendelssohn’s’ from her dear Miss Ward; and Averil obeyed, not so glad to e...

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...widow ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which A... ...iterature at home. It was a cheerful, irre- sponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and flattened purple, and the girls went o... ...wed himself to think of it) 11 H. G . Wells that the promptitude of their family was a little indelicate of her, and in a sense an intrusion. He had,... .... She had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family, had escaped. She carried herself well, whereas her brother slouched... ...about her that she had acquired through her long engagement to a curate of family, a scion of the Wiltshire Edmondshaws. He had died before they marri... ...e might be down in the chancel, that excellent wind instrument was, in its Mendelssohnian way, as glad as ever it could be. “Pump, pump, per-um-pump, ... .... Let us walk about. Tum, tum, tirray, tum, tum, tum, te-tum—that thing of Mendelssohn’s! If 219 H. G . Wells making one human being absolutely happy...

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.... Basil Ransom had lived, but she knew he had lived to see bitter hours. His family was ruined; they had lost their slaves, their property, their frie... ... the greatest change the world had seen; it would be a new era for the human family, and the names of those who had helped to show the way and lead th... ...ared to have made up her mind, af ter her first hesitation, that the Tarrant family were fantastical and compromising. She had bent an eye of coldness... ...er foothold. Mrs. Tarrant, in other words, incurred the displea sure of her family, who gave her husband to understand that, much as they desired to ... ...llor despised vulgarity, had a scent for it which she followed up in her own family, so that often, with a rising flush, she detected the taint even in... ...grance from the burning logs, which mingled with the perfume of Schubert and Mendelssohn; the covered lamps made a glow here and there, and the cabine... ...the big, terrible, cruel world—sit there and listen for ever to Schubert and Mendelssohn. They didn’t care anything about female suffrage! And I didn’...

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...ently passed her examination as a midwife. Coming from a poor aristocratic family, she had left her home in the south of Russia about two years before... ...e usually got the best of an argument by appealing to the authorities. His family had once been simple gardeners. His great- grandfather was called Ko... ...iana sat down at the piano and played, rather in- differently , several of Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words.” Charmant! Charmant! quel touché! Kollo... ...t use the diminutive of the boy’s name), of the duty he owed, first to his family; secondly to his class, to society; thirdly to the people—” Yes, my ... ...fall among strangers, she began questioning him about his youth, about his family... But guessing from his curt replies that she had made a mistake, V... ...bows, and “The Kiss” by Moller. In spite of the fact that Golushkin had no family, there were a great many menials and hangers-on collected under his ...

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...eautiful girl but penniless, an orphan with no near relations, but of good family; and there was an array of fine friends at the wedding. The parson, ... ...ister, Dr. Wigram and his wife. After tea Miss Graves played one or two of Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, and Mrs. Carey sang When the Swallows Ho... ...man Bondage Shakespeare. Frau Professor Erlin called her es- tablishment a family and not a pension; but it would have required the subtlety of a meta... ...re he held his nose and whistled through his teeth. It was the ruin of the family , the uprooting of morals, the destruction of Ger- many . “Aber , Ad... ...house, and the same evening at supper he saw a new face. For some days the family had lived in a state of excitement. First, as the result of heaven k... ...as in England; and in England as well in a Wesleyan, Baptist, or Methodist family as in one that fortunately belonged to the church by law established...

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...lize the pride of this event contributed to the ultimate disruption of his family. It left so few initia- tives within the home to his wife. He had be... ...quite what she liked upon impulse, and nobody ever thought ill of her. Her family were the Mantons of Blent, quite good west- country people. She had ... ...l and herself a Madonna surrounded by a troupe of Blessed Boys—all of good family, some of quite the best. For a time she had kept it up even more tha... ... looking for the breakfast-room or wait for a gong? Would Sir Godfrey read Family Prayers? And afterwards did one go out or hang about to be entertain... ...d rather tiring walk to Drayton—they had been talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lor... ...rld owe Israel nothing for Philo, Aron ben Asher, Solomon Gabriol, Halevy, Mendelssohn, Heine, Meyerbeer, Rubinstein, Joachim, Zangwill? Does Britain ...

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...of those to leave an “abandoned” New England farm behind him, and with his family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in I... ... her two nieces. Pending the installation Laura and Page lived at a little family hotel in the same neighbourhood. The Cresslers’ invitation to join t... ... trunk and putting her clothes away. Her fox terrier, whom the 44 The Pit family, for obscure reasons, called the Pig, arrived in the middle of the a... ...t the Dearborns’ home, she sent her footman in to tell the “girl” that the family would not be home that night. The Cresslers lived hard by on the sam... ...’ve known Curtis Jadwin now for fifteen years—nobody better. He’s as old a family friend as Charlie and I have. I know him like a book. And I tell you... ...ey were the only things that moved in the room, and the chords and bars of Mendelssohn’s “Consolation” 195 Frank Norris seemed, as he played, to flow...

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... be assumed without argument that unions for the purpose of establishing a family will continue to be registered and regulated by the State. Such regi... ...ndemn the system that produced us. The corner stone of that system was the family and the institution of marriage as we have it to-day in England. HEA... ...its sacrifice of the boy’s future by setting him to earn money to help the family when he should be in training for his adult life (remember the boy D... ... people who talk and write as if the highest attainable state is that of a family stewing in love continuously from the cradle to the grave, can hardl... ...press treaty on an unsentimental footing. Unfortunately this mitigation of family sentimentality is much more characteristic of large families than sm... ...he organ. He asked me particularly to tell you, my lord, that he held back Mendelssohn till the very last; but when that was gone he thought he might ...

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... others do not take advantage of her. They are the very happiest, jolliest family that you can imagine. I do really feel that we are making friends. T... ... truth was that she had fallen in love, not with an individual, but with a family. Before Paul arrived she had, as it were, been tuned up into his key... ... tory, and naturalised himself in England. The more earnest members of his family never forgave him, and knew that his children, though scarcely Engli... ...one mustn’t talk.” For the Andante had begun—very beautiful, but bearing a family likeness to all the other beautiful Andantes that Beethoven had writ... ... female of the encouraging type. “I don’t like the Brahms, though, nor the Mendelssohn that came first and ugh! I don’t like this Elgar that’s coming.... ...et dictionary, her map of London, and her money. “Oh, what a bother—what a family we are! Fr— frieda!” “Hush!” said all those who thought the music fi...

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... entertainers. He became a kind of harmless, well-meaning spy, sent by one family into another; but he gained no credit with those for whom he trudged... ...ame for Pons now. So far from seek- ing the society of the parasite, every family accepted him much as they accepted the taxes; they valued nothing th... ...at Pons could do for them; real services from Pons counted for nought. The family circles in which the worthy artist revolved had no re- spect for art... ...r pianists, was a German. A Ger- man, like the eminent Liszt and the great Mendelssohn, and Steibelt, and Dussek, and Meyer, and Mozart, and Doelher, ... ...s of the first flute, a young fellow from Strasbourg, who came of a German family at Kehl. Gradually under the flute’s tuition Schmucke’s childlike im... ...s dined was naturally much restricted; reduced to move round and round the family circle, he had used the word family in far too wide a sense, as will...

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... of his life. His cure proceeded slowly , and he had several relapses. His family relations were not pleas- ant. His father showed but little sympathy... ...ne of the officials of the order, by name Buff, an honest man with a large family of children. The second daughter, Lotte, blue-eyed, fair and just tw... ...his passion seemed to be of a more lasting nature than the others. Neither family approved of the engagement between the youthful couple. Goethe tore ... ...on my love, and occupied and diverted themselves with me in many ways. Our family liked to tell of all sorts of waggeries to which I was enticed by th... ...from our hearts forever. Her departure was of still more importance to our family, as it drew after it a complete change in our condition. As long as ... ... found 255 Goethe themselves compelled to write clearly and intelligibly. Mendelssohn and Garve appeared, and excited universal in- terest and admira...

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...ar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Family Congo only 3s. 9d,” was from the country of Confutzee—that heap of d... ...he world—in all the cities of mankind there is One Home whither men of one family may resort. Over the entire world spreads a vast brotherhood, suffer... ...e, or were hearing Jenny Lind. “Lind is the name of the Hebrew race; so is Mendelssohn, the son of Almonds; so is Rosenthal, the V alley of the Roses:... ...- happy Josephine by her former marriage with a French gentle- man of good family. Having a smack of the old blood in him, Eugene’s manners were much ... ...t to parental command, is that earthly angel, a well-bred woman of genteel family! Instead of indulging in splenetic refusals or vain regrets for her ... ...rshal, his father, married another sister. I believe he was footman in the family, before Napoleon princified him.” “No, no, he was second coachman,” ...

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... international rela- tions diplomacy has been a boyishly lawless affair of family intrigues, commercial and territorial brigandage, torpors of pseudo-... ...the front. Immediately he would throw up his work and take up the war as a family blood feud against the Germans. Sometimes it was comic. A wounded ma... ...gs, were read aloud; where the sensuous and sentimental music of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Gounod, and Brahms was more popular than severe music by great... ...THE GENTLEMAN. Fancy Hesione’s feelings! May I ask are you a member of the family? MANGAN. No. THE GENTLEMAN. I am. At least a connection. Mrs Hushaby... ...k to Ellie: she has marked you for her own. HECTOR. She has the diabolical family fascination. I be- gan making love to her automatically. What am I t... ...us to be dragged through the horrors of a criminal court, and have all our family affairs in the papers! If you were a native, and Hastings could orde...

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...fection of an old guest, and to be at once on such intimate terms with the family as to have a homely, genuine interest in its every member—it is, I s... ...ene in the great man’s life, when he lay upon his couch, surrounded by his family, and listened, for the last time, to the rippling of the river he ha... ...schel or a Faraday? It is with all these things as with the great music of Mendelssohn, or a lecture upon art—if we had the good fortune to listen to ... ...e had been so kindly presented, should be retained as an heir loom in his family; and he assured them that he should ever be faithful to his death to... ...ective of a miscella neous dessert to see, as in a black dose darkly, the family doctor looming in the distance. We know, I have no doubt we all know... ...ney pieces. In the airy wards into which the old state drawing rooms and family bedchambers of that house are now con verted are such little patien...