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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...R I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muer... ... the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from ... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...shoul- der—”I do not know by whom, small, a little thing to be held in the palm. But he fell in love with that, and marry her he would. The affair was... ... that had survived the dry sea- son of the last year. Nearly all the other springs had dried completely, while Mission Creek on Derrick’s ranch was no... ...l and excitement of Derrick’s campaign for governor, and Harran at Shingle Springs, in El Dorado County, six years later. But Magnus was in every sens... ...ing, sir,” she answered, looking up, resting for a moment on her outspread palms. “I hope you are better.” 68 The Octopus Her voice was low in pitch ...

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...s and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, --that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listeni...

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... vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section, — that is, he went to church,... ... Oak remedied by thumps and shakes, and he es caped any evil consequences from the other two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of... ...ount of the exertion, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well. But some thoughtful persons, who had seen him walking across o... ...farmer.’ ‘And the greatest of them is — well, what it is always.’ ‘Beating people down? ay, ’tis so.’ ‘O no.’ ‘What, then?’ Gabriel, perhaps a little ... ...s not to be taken as an example of the ill breeding of the rural world: it springs from a refined modesty, of which townspeople, with their cards and a... ...carried along the road at a rate rather considerable for a vehicle without springs, and under circumstances of physical uneasiness, his head being dan... ...ratefully. She extended her hand; Gabriel his. In feeling for each other’s palm in the gloom before the money could be passed, a minute incident occur... ...ilst the sample bag was pulled forth and a handful of corn poured into the palm, which, after criticism, was flung upon the floor, an issue of events pe... ...u going to do that for?’ ‘Well, I’ve thought it best,’ Oak stammered out. ‘California is the spot I’ve had in my mind to try.’ ‘But it is understood e...

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...riend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...bout three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of la... ...nghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at ... ...if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him. As for any ... ...r, you were pleased to an swer that you were afraid of giving offence; that people in power were very watchful over the press, and apt not only to in... ... humbly conceive to be writ ings, every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands. In the left there was a sort of engine, from the back ... ...but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands. “This is an exact inventory of what we found about th... ... Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of e... ...pinion I had of human wisdom and integrity, when I was truly informed of the springs Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 175 and motives of great enterprise... ... island. It is true, I sometimes made a shift to catch a rabbit, or bird, by springs made of Yahoo’s hairs; and I often gathered wholesome herbs, whi...

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...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

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...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...liar, Janey was subject to starts and aberrations of fancy welling up from springs of suppressed romance. Mother and daughter adored each other and re... ... ‘em out of it. When I built this house you’d have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor abo... ... large armchair between the open door and window, and perpetually waving a palm-leaf fan which the prodigious projection of her bosom kept so far from... ...cial mission,” Archer at length repeated. The young Frenchman, opening his palms, raised them slightly, and the two men continued to look at each othe...

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...small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...

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... Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ‘the man who came from nowhere,’ as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothi... ... this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty- four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had preceded him. He had already gained fame i... ...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ... pitched neck-and-crop from twenty days of the high seas into the whirl of California, deprived of any guid- ance, and left to draw my own conclusions... ... were not good on the way to Clackamas, and warned us against smashing the springs. “Portland,” who had watched the preparations, finally reckoned “He... ... the least like a turban), and at many, many other geysers, hot holes, and springs. Some of them rumbled, some hissed, some went off spasmodically, an... ... that it has anything to do with this coun- try. They told me to go to the Palmer House, which is over- much gilded and mirrored, and there I found a ... ...hat her head was not broken by the descending fruit, shinned up a cocoanut-palm. That hurt his legs, cut his breast, and made him breathe heavily, and...

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...3 Frank Norris Blix by Frank Norris 1899 Chapter I IT HAD JUST STRUCK NINE from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, wh... ...hen and dining-room, so that the latter room was at the rear of the house. From its window one could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Co... ...e out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on California Street, not far from Chinatown. By noon the family reassembled. ... ...miliar and inti- mate friends, to Conny. Asked as to his birthplace—for no Californian assumes that his neighbor is born in the State—Condy was wont t... ... in Chicago; “but,” he always added, “I couldn’t help that, you know.” His people had come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father... ...lored globe of the little brass chandelier. The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. A gold-and-... ... sort of blix?” he inquired anxiously. “Blix?” He smote the table with his palm. “Capital!” he cried; “sounds bully, and snappy, and crisp, and bright... ...s stood for the houses on either side. From the eu- calyptus trees and the palms the water dripped like rain. Far off oceanward, the fog-horn was lowi... ...n the instahnent plan, don’t you see? Reads the leading articles, and then springs ‘em on us. T o know things and talk about em, that’s her idea of be...

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...white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain that he was, in the extremest sense of the word, a stranger....

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...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...r. With business-like dispatch, having rattled down his shutters, and at a palm-tree angle set out in the iron fixture his little ornamental pole, and... ...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ...ty, perhaps sixty, but tall, rosy, between plump and portly, with a primy, palmy air, and for the time and place, not to hint of his years, dressed wi... ...speak of that China boy sent me by one who well knew my perplexities, from California; and that Lascar boy from Bombay. Thug! I found him sucking the ... ...ing from the same root with disbelief of reli- gion, is twin with that. It springs from the same root, I say; for, set aside materialism, and what is ...

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...his beer—very flat and stale by this time—and tak- ing down his concertina from the bookcase, where in week days it kept the company of seven volumes ... ... the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them. Then one day at San Francisco had come the news of his mother’s ... ...cheap restaurants crossed from one sidewalk to the other, balancing on one palm a tray covered with a napkin. Everywhere was the smell of coffee and o... ...the difference. Nearly all the stores were closed. No wagons passed. A few people hurried up and down the sidewalks, dressed in cheap Sunday finery. A... ...e father, a young man, and a young girl, and three children. The two older people held 9 Frank Norris empty lunch baskets in their laps, while the ba... ...her had been a veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California Street, and Marcus’s knowledge of the dis- eases of domestic ani... ...t of newspaper in his vest pocket. Often he took it out and held it in the palm of his immense, horny hand, seized with some strange elephantine senti... .... He wore an im- mense turned-down collar, and was continually doing hand- springs and wonderful back somersaults. The “act” devolved upon these three... ...ke to find Trina’s arms around his neck. She was trembling so that the bed-springs creaked. “Huh?” cried the dentist, sitting up in bed, raising his c...