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...SE OF DAVIDSON?S EYES...............................59 THE LORD OF THE DYNAMOS.................................................................69 THE MOTH....................................................................................................77 THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM...........................................94 UNDER THE KNIFE .........................

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...MOS.................................................................69 THE MOTH.......................................................................... ...air service after evensong on Sundays. Young Cupids were wont to flit like moths round the paraffin flare of that centre of High Church hymn-singing. ... ...y afternoons, and have tea with him in the kitchen;” for my Euphemia has a motherly conception of her duty towards her maid-servants. And pres- ently ... ...ght not to wear rings. But my wife looked it up in Enquire Within and Mrs. Motherly’s Book of Household Management, and found no prohibition. So Jane ... ...e home dusty, ex- cited, and with her heart hot within her. The milliner’s mother, the milliner, and William had made a party to the Art Museum at Sou... ...e,” William being pulled away into the four-wheeler by his future wife and mother-in-law from the reluctant hands of our discarded Jane. There were th... ...ims. Here he would take the husband from the wife, here the child from its mother, here the statesman from his duty, and here the toiler from his trou... ...e whole structure of an ordinary orchid flower was contrived in order that moths might carry the pollen from plant to plant. Well, it seems that there... ... beggar! But sweet it was, as if it was new laid, not even smelly, and its mother dead these four hundred years, perhaps. Said a centipede had bit him...

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... curate. HOLOFERNES: a schoolmaster. DULL: a constable. COSTARD: a clown. MOTH: page to Armado. A Forester. The PRINCESS of France: (PRINCESS:) ... ...own, sorrow! [Exeunt.] SCENE II: The same. [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH .] DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : Boy, what sign is it when a man of great... ...ARMADO : Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy? MOTH: A great sign, sir, that he will look sad. DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : ... ... ADRIANO DE ARMADO : Why, sadness is one and the self same thing, dear imp. MOTH: No, no; O Lord, sir, no. DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : How canst thou p... ... ARMADO : How canst thou part sad ness and melancholy, my tender juvenal? MOTH: By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior. DON A... ...y tough senior. DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : Why tough senior? why tough senior? MOTH: Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal? DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : I... ...ove’ s Labours Lost Act I, Scene ii 11 days, which we may nominate tender. MOTH: And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, whi... ...old time, which we may name tough. DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : Pretty and apt. MOTH: How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or I apt, and my s... ...and my saying pretty? DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO : Thou pretty, because little. MOTH: Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt? DON ADRIANO DE ARMAD...

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...OG ............................................................................................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE ...................................................................................................................................................... 52 THE BEES AND THE FLIES .......................................

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.......................................................................51 THE MOTHER HIVE .................................................................. ... year with my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—th... ... burning that felt like tears. When she opened them she was looking at her mother’s maiden name, fairly carved on a blue flagstone on the pew floor: E... ...jerky nods, the women with remnants of a curtsey. Only Iggulden’s son, his mother on his arm, lifted his hat as Sophie passed. “Your people,” said the... ...at child looks as if it were coming down with mumps. You ought to tell the mother she shouldn’t have brought it to church.” “I can’t leave ‘er behind,... ...trange-minded folk over yonder with you! Have you thought to send for your mother? She dead? My dear, my dear! Never mind! She’ll be happy where she k... ...ther— George stared at his wife. “Go on,” she twinkled, from the pillows. —mother’s brother, sold his place to Walter’s family. We seem to have acquir... ... at the English at last. Can’t you see that she thought that we thought my mother’s being a Lashmar was one of those things we’d expect the English to... ...hould we give our hearts to a dog to tear? THE MO THE MO THE MO THE MO THE MOTHER HIVE THER HIVE THER HIVE THER HIVE THER HIVE I F THE STOCK had not b...

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...oke of him secretly as if he were a kind of Melchizedek, without father or mother of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and sta... ... cries aloud, and staggers and swaggers in his rank dens of shame; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cra... ... and pendent flames (Flammen), that is, sparkling hair-drops: but of their mother’s head-gear who shall speak? Neither in love of grace is comfort for... ...): in the centre a slit is effected eighteen inches long; through this the mother-naked Trooper introduces his head and neck; and so rides shielded fr... ...s; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anointed Presence itself, every mother’s son of them, stand straddling there, not a shirt on them; and I kn... ...me again: all which to any one that has once fairly pictured out the grand mother-idea, Society in a state of Nakedness, will spontaneously suggest it... ...r, and emitted it to the light of day. Had Teufelsdrockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel-bibs, and live on spoon- meat? Did... ... her fretting, watched over him and hovered round him as only a true house-mother can: assiduously she cooked and sewed and scoured for him; so that n... ...and for a time suckled and pap-fed thee there, whom thou namest Father and Mother; these were, like mine, but thy nursing-father and nursing-mother: t...

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...id, and, as he held his plate out, sighed audibly, “Ah! she’s not like her mother.” Helen was just too late in thumping her tumbler on the table to pr... ...de, she might be interesting though never exactly pretty. She was like her mother, as the image in a pool on a still summer’s day is like the vivid fl... ...her hand above it, which was a state of things that Mrs. Vinrace, Rachel’s mother, would never have dreamt of inflicting—Mrs. Vinrace, who knew every ... ...ild and had never been bullied and laughed at by brothers and sisters. Her mother having died when she was eleven, two aunts, the sisters of her fathe... ...on seen the little hall at Rich- mond laden with flowers on the day of her mother’s fu- neral, smelling so strong that now any flower-scent brought ba... ...wished. “But you know I care for you, don’t you, dear, because you’re your mother’s daughter, if for no other reason, and there _are_ plenty of other ... ...rest—be sym- bols,—featureless but dignified, symbols of age, of youth, of motherhood, of learning, and beautiful often as people upon the stage are b... ...pans!” said Mrs. Dalloway, looking with more interest at Helen, a probable mother. “I’d much rather be a cook than a nurse,” said Helen. “Nothing woul... ...nurse,” said Helen. “Nothing would induce me to take charge of children.” “Mothers always exaggerate,” said Ridley. “A well-bred child is no responsib...

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...erse of destiny. This world is the nurse of all we know, This world is the mother of all we feel, And the coming of death is a fearful blow ... ...nks till the brain is wild; Softest grave of a thousand fears, Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child, Is laid asleep in flowers. ... ...hee, darkest crest Of that foul, knotted, many-headed worm Which rends our Mother’s bosom—Priestly Pest! Masked Resurrection of a buried Form! 2. 2. 2... .... 3. Come thou, beloved as thou art; Another sleepeth still Near thy sweet mother’s anxious heart, Which thou with joy shalt fill, ... ... _35 There, sit between us two, thou dearest— Me and thy mother—well we know The storm at which thou tremblest so, With all its dark... ...on shall dwell by the azure sea Of serene and golden Italy, Or Greece, the Mother of the free; _45 And I will teach ... ...235 Padua, thou within whose walls Those mute guests at festivals, Son and Mother, Death and Sin, Played at dice for Ezzelin, Till Death cried, “I win... ...ts rugged cave, And every bird lulled on its mossy bough, And every silver moth fresh from the grave Which is its cradle—ever from below ... ...inds to sleep—or weeping oft Fast showers of aereal water-drops Into their mother’s bosom, sweet and soft, Nature’s pure tears which have no bitternes...

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...in fact he was secretly married in his old age to a certain Cesarine,— the mother of a child which had had the impertinence to come into the world wit... ...nchology, let us say,—beings who will give themselves infinite pains about moths, butterflies, or the concha Veneris. Not only did the chevalier have ... ...us, it seems to me.” “Why, Monsieur le chevalier, ought I to wait until my mother beats me and Madame Lardot turns me off? If I don’t get away soon to... ... You now know my situation. You must see that I cannot stay in Alencon: my mother would beat me, and Madame Lardot rides a hobby of principles; she’ll... ...Brillante or the Sarthe. But isn’t it better that I should go to Paris? My mother could find an excuse to send me there,—an uncle who wants me, or a d... ...f the house, added six hundred francs to the income of his poor 29 Balzac mother, by the salary of a little place which the influence of his relation... ... the stern and upright morals of the provinces. At this moment the son and mother were together in the dining-room, where they were breakfasting with ... ...dame Granson intelligible, we must explain certain secret interests of the mother and son. Athanase Granson was a thin and pale young man, of me- dium... ...aterial happiness, by the hope, long indulged, of gilding with comfort his mother’s last years, by eager longing for the ease of life so needful to me...

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...then landed, but found nothing living thereon except certain curious white moths, some hogs and rabbits, and some rather peculiar rats. So that this n... ... of the tropics was already fading out of the east- ern sky, and a pioneer moth fluttered silently by my head. Unless I would spend the night among th...

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... The school began to brood, like air deadening on oven-heat. Winter is hen-mother to the idea of love in schools, if the idea has fairly entered. V ar... ...self: “I had a reason, too.” “One wonders!” “It would have impoverished my mother’s income to put aside a small allowance for me for years. She would ... ...erstandings!—not with his countess. You see, a resident aunt is translated mother-in-law by husbands; though I spare them pretty fre- quently; I go to... ...not alone; it is the unpardonable offence both to the Graces and the Great Mother for man to valse alone. She twirled on his arm, uninvited; accepted,... ...wears thick boots. Is this fellow for starting a mixed sexes school? Funny mothers!’ ‘I suppose—’ Aminta said, and checked the supposition. ‘The mothe... ...ad a subscription we are making to circulate for the support of their sick mother, who has fallen ill. We think her a good woman. Gentlemen and ladies... ...st, we think we shall make a good subscription. Names:— ‘Martha Mary Coop, mother. ‘Robert Coop. ‘Jane Coop, the girl, aged six. ‘If we are not taking... ... dear boys tied her to her girlhood, and netted her fleeting youth for the moth-box. She pressed to hear more and more of them, and of the school-laun... .... Altogether, Cuper’s boys were justified in promoting a subscription, the mother be- 120 Lord Ormont and His Aminta ing helpless. ‘Modest little wom...

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... face, for she put Chapter 1 8 the rosary round my neck and said, “For your mother’s sake,” and went out of the room. I am writing up this part of ... ...aw something like them in Hamp ton Court, but they were worn and frayed and moth Chapter 2 25 eaten. But still in none of the rooms is there a mirr... ...ut there was nothing to see in them except old furniture, dusty with age and moth eaten. At last, however, I found one door at the top of the stairway... ...t which lay over all and disguised in some mea sure the ravages of time and moth. My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, b... ...to do with the abbey. I shall go home too. Lucy went out, visiting with her mother, and as they were only duty calls, I did not go. 1 August.—I came ... ...falling from the rocks at Kettleness. This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son.‘He was the only son of his mother, and ... ...don’t see aught funny! Ha ha! But that’s because ye don’t gawm the sorrowin’mother was a hell cat that hated him because he was acrewk’d, a regular l... ...tion, I’ve often heard him say masel’ that he hoped he’d go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she’d be sure to go to heaven, an’ he didn’t wan... ... is so well, has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep. Her mother has spoken to me about it, and we have de cided that I am to lock...

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...ANIA: queen of the fairies. PUCK: or Robin Goodfellow. PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED : fairies. Other fairies attending their King and Queen... ...LING: Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE: Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby’s mother. Tom Snout, the tinker. SNOUT: Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE: You, ... ...shriek; and that were enough to hang us all. ALL: That would hang us, every mother’s son. BOTTOM: I grant you, friends, if that you should fright th... ... Set your heart at rest: The fairy land buys not the child of me. His mother was a votaress of my order: And, in the spiced Indian air, by nigh... ...by whisper. QUINCE: If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down, every mother’s son, and rehearse your parts. A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Act I... ...l grossness so That thou shalt like an airy spirit go. Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed! [Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED... ... COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED .] PEASEBLOSSOM: Ready. COBWEB: And I. MOTH: And I. MUSTARDSEED: And I. ALL: ... ...t’s Dream , Act III, scene i 28 PEASEBLOSSOM: Hail, mortal! COBWEB: Hail! MOTH: Hail! MUSTARDSEED: Hail! BOTTOM: I cry your worship’s mercy, hea... ...SOM: Peaseblossom. BOTTOM: I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good Master Peaseblossom, I s...

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...lena, rushing through the miles of morning sunshine. ‘God strike her dead! Mother of God, strike her down!’ she said aloud, in a low tone. She hated H... ...’ she said aloud, in a low tone. She hated Helena. Irene, who lay with her mother, woke up and began to question her. 17 D. H. Lawrence Chapter 3 Cha... ...ever I have or haven’t from now,’ he continued, ‘the darkness is a sort of mother, and the moon a sister, and the stars children, and sometimes the se... ... theatre; two boys, then a little girl, the father, another girl, then the mother. Last of all trotted the dog, warily, sus- picious of the descent. T... ...looking up at her some other consciousness inside him murmured; ‘Hawwa—Eve—Mother!’ She stood compassionate over him. Without touching him she seemed ... ...e over him. Without touching him she seemed to be yearning over him like a mother. Her compassion, her benignity, seemed so dif- ferent from his littl... ...e, immortal, not a fragile human being, but a personification of the great motherhood of women. ‘I am her child, too,’ he dreamed, as a child murmurs ... ...which he felt was—and here he chose the French word— ‘_l’agonie_’. But his mother had seen and had cried aloud, which suddenly caused him to struggle ... ...green salad. ‘Mrs Curtiss,’ she said, in rather reedy tone, ‘has been very motherly to me this morning; oh, very motherly!’ Siegmund, who was in a war...

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...riticism” – Pope 5 Some on the Leaves of ancient Authors prey, Nor Time nor Moths e’er spoil’d so much as they: Some dryly plain, without Invention’s...

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...nd vntill then sit downe 310 sorrow. Exit. 311 Enter Armado and Moth his Page. 312 Arma. Boy, What signe is it when a man of great... ...arrying gates. I am in loue too. Who was Sampsons 382 loue my deare Moth? 383 Boy. A Woman, Master. 384 Brag. Of what complex... ..., define, well educated infant. 399 Boy. My fathers witte, and my mothers tongue assist 400 mee. 401 Brag. Sweet inuocation of ... ... Boy. What shall some see? 465 Clow. Nay nothing, Master Moth, but what they 466 looke vpon. It is not for prisoners to be sile... ...me. 700 Long. Pray you sir, whose daughter? 701 Boy. Her Mothers, I haue heard. 702 Long. Gods blessing a your beard. 703 ... ...learnes news 761 of him. 762 Lad.2. Then was Venus like her mother, for her fa-ther 763 is but grim. - 17 - Loues Labour’s lost S... .... I will tell you sencibly. 880 Clow. Thou hast no feeling of it Moth, 881 I will speake that Lenuoy. 882 I Costard running out,... ...n, for the best ward of mine honours 898 is rewarding my dependants. Moth, follow. - 20 - Loues Labour’s lost Shakespeare: First Folio 899 ... ...1497 All three of you, to be thus much ore’shot? 1498 You found his Moth, the King your Moth did see: 1499 But I a Beame doe finde in each ...

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...ile idea, Mr. Radnor found repose in thoughts of his daughter and her dear mother. They had begged him to put on an overcoat this day of bitter wind, ... ... a merry duet with his daugh- ter Nesta Victoria: a glorious trio when her mother Natalia, sweet lily that she was, shook the rainwater from her cup a... ...e in the sun. He had a secret for them. Nesta’s promising soprano, and her mother’s contralto, and his baritone —a true baritone, not so well trained ... ...e went humming and trilling into his dressing-room. Nesta signalled at her mother’s door for permission to en- ter. She slipped in, saw that the maid ... ...s absent, and said: ‘Yes, mama; and prepare, I feared it; I was sure.’ Her mother breathed a little moan: ‘Not a cottage?’ ‘He has not mentioned it to... ...he scene to-come, necessarily to come, dreaded much more than death by her mother. But if it might be postponed till the girl was nearer to an age of ... ...sons, three daughters, one married, with a baby. So we are grandfather and mother, and have never regretted the first step, I may say for both of us.’... ...er in the renewing of the engagement overhead!— well. But put a by-word to Mother Nature about the state of sin. Where, do you imagine, she would lay ... ...dnor. 59 George Meredith CHAPTER VIII SOME FAMILIAR GUESTS NESTA READ her mother’s face when Mrs. Victor entered the drawing-room to receive the gues...

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...o the sunrise, smiles _380 To see a babe before his mother’s door, Share with the green and golden basilisk That comes to lick ... ...s: Thus human things are perfected, and earth, Even as a child beneath its mother’s love, Is strengthened in all excellence, and grows Fairer and nobl... ...DE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. Earth, Ocean, Air, beloved brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel Your love, an... ...d brethren, and withdraw 41 Shelley No portion of your wonted favour now! Mother of this unfathomable world! Favour my solemn song, for I have loved ... ... paused In its career: the infant would conceal His troubled visage in his mother’s robe In terror at the glare of those wild eyes, T o remember their... ...d scorn, from groans of crowds made pale 82 V olume One By famine, from a mother’s desolate wail O’er her polluted child, from innocent blood Poured ... ...nd yet another, I did fondly deem, Felt that we all were sons of one great mother; And the cold truth such sad reverse did seem As to awake in grief f... ...0 And still that aged man, so grand and mild, Tended me, even as some sick mother seems To hang in hope over a dying child, Till in the azure East dar... ... were strown, And rarest sea-shells, which the eternal flood, Slave to the mother of the months, had thrown _1420 Within the walls of tha...

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...ur in spinning) Narrating somewhat of Don Juan’s father, And also of his mother, if you ‘d rather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, ... ...who begot our hero, who Begot— but that ‘s to come — Well, to renew: His mother was a learned lady, famed For every branch of every science kn... ... And answer’d but to nature’s just demands; An only son left with an only mother Is brought up much more wisely than another. Sagest of women, ... ...turn their optics to the text and pray, Is more than I know—But Don Juan’s mother Kept this herself, and gave her son another. Sermons he read, ... ...s days were pass’d at church, the other Between his tutors, confessor, and mother. At six, I said, he was a charming child, At twelve he was a... ...s natural spirit not in vain they toil’d, At least it seem’d so; and his mother’s joy Was to declare how sage, and still, and steady, Her youn... ...em’d Active, though not so sprightly, as a page; And everybody but his mother deem’d Him almost man; but she flew in a rage And bit her li... ...he vow’d she never would see Juan more, And next day paid a visit to his mother, And look’d extremely at the opening door, Which, by the Vir... ...e has blighted The plan of twenty years, and all is over; And then the mother cries, the father swears, And wonders why the devil he got heirs...

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...e brook’s another; But, oh, the little hill they took,— I think I am its mother! The moon that saw Gethsemane, I watch it rise and set: It has so ... ...an any other, Grieves still the hill that I call mine,— I think I am its mother! DOUB DOUB DOUB DOUB DOUBT NO MORE T NO MORE T NO MORE T NO MORE T N... ...lthough a child of his, (Not yours, not yours; to you she owes not breath, Mother of Song, being sown of Zeus upon a dream of Death). Fearing to pass ... ...ere, nor any sign of you at all Swells fungous from the rotten bough, grey mother of Pieria! Only her shadow once upon a stone I saw,—and, lo, the sha... ...haking to earth green fruits, impatient after The launching of the colored moths of Love. Love’s proper myrtle and his mother’s zone We bound about ou...

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...s lifted in the astonishment of emotion, in a glory of abasement. Her eyes mothered the world. Stewart Snyder peered at her. He rammed his large red f... ...en earnestly repeating A-And, And- Aus, Aus-Bis, Bis-Cal, Cal-Cha. Carol’s mother died when she was nine. Her father re- tired from the judiciary when... ...ad; apparently they do not think. They wait. An early- wrinkled, young-old mother, moving as though her joints were dry, opens a suit-case in which ar... ... was ready for her new home. Kennicott had told her that, with his widowed mother as housekeeper, he had occupied an old house, “but nice and roomy, a... ... and roomy, and well-heated, best furnace I could find on the market.” His mother had left Carol her love, and gone back to Lac-qui-Meurt. It would be... ... I hate it!” she panted. “Why did I ever—” She remembered that Kennicott’s mother had brought these family relics from the old home in Lac-qui-Meurt. ... ...hairs with brass cuspidors between, a writing- desk with advertisements in mother-of-pearl letters upon the glass-covered back. The dining-room beyond... ...e for the present at the Doctor’s home on Poplar Street which his charming mother has been keeping for him who has now returned to her own home at Lac... ...to help it.” Kennicott had never thought of giving her an allow- ance. His mother had never had one! As a wage-earning spinster Carol had asserted to ...

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...very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother’s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and in- clined rather to th... ...on and, perhaps, to pining after home. John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not... ...n Reed’s violent tyrannies, all his sisters’ proud in- difference, all his mother’s aversion, all the servants’ partiality, turned up in my disturbed ... ... broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother “old girl,” too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to... ...ng dread. I could not remember him; but I knew that he was my own uncle—my mother’s brother—that he had taken me when a parentless infant to his house... ...ugh, as far as it went, true response. “For one thing, I have no father or mother, brothers or sisters.” “Y ou have a kind aunt and cousins.” Again I ... ...ommunications to Bessie, that my father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends, who considered th... ...ated at her disobedience, he cut her off without a shilling; that after my mother and father had been married a year, the latter caught the typhus fev... ...is curacy was situated, and where that disease was then prevalent: that my mother took the infec- tion from him, and both died within a month of each ...