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...d to have Albinia for a neighbour.’ ‘Does she know nothing of the Meadows’ family?’ ‘Nothing but that old Mrs. Meadows lives in the town with one unma... ...r. Ferrars, perfectly clerical though they were, he belonged to a military family. His father had been a distinguished Peninsular officer, and his bro... ...ind home in their house in Mayfair, until Maurice had been ordained to the family liv- ing of Fairmead, and his sister had gone to live with him there... ...r infants! how many hopes laid here! All the English- born children of the family had died in their cradles, and not only did compassion for the past ... ...ng some occupation, though that was apparently the great want of the whole family on Sunday. Lucy’s first confidence was that Gilbert had not been out... ...ng he had a stranger to encounter in the person of Winifred’s sister, Mary Reid. That was not a long day. It was only too short, though Mr. and Mrs. K... ...stayed three hours longer than on the last occasion. Mr. Kendal faced Mary Reid without flinching, and she, having been previously informed that Albin... ...her acquaintance with the Sunday-school, and a leisurable gossip with Mrs. Reid and the two Miss Reids, collectively and individually; but the best of...

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...its contents: three kegs, a tin biscuit-box, an iron saucepan, several co- coa-shell cups, a lantern, and three bottles, probably con- taining oil; wh... ...and had found it hard to borrow one; coming thus solitary (as indeed we always saw him), because he was a stranger in the land, and the dreariest of c... ...ceptions. But the house, the grave, and even the body of the dead, have been always particularly honoured by Marquesans. Until recently the corpse was... ...e labour and refrain, not for the rewards of any single life, but with a timid eye upon the lives and memories of our successors; and where no one is ... ...nture was made in changed conditions. Passage was taken for myself, my wife, Mr. Osbourne, and my China boy, Ah Fu, on a pigmy trading schooner, the E... ...dful of Taahauku, Mr. Rick, Mr. Osbourne, and Mrs. Stevenson held an assault of arms on the public highway, and fired at bottles to the admiration of ... ...the decks holy-stoned, all the cabin washed, the trade-room overhauled. In all our cruising we never saw the Equator so smart as she was made for Temb... ...s the means (having a considerable influence ever since the bag) of patching up the dispute. Even on the day of our arrival there was like to have bee... ... Now the last case sold by the Equator was found to contain a different and I would fondly fancy a superior distillation; and the conversation opened ...

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... that had darkened from fair, and a slightly arched nose of an old country family. They were a beautiful couple. The house was Winifred’s. Her father ... ...and good little out-of-the-way things to be munching. Well then, into this family came Egbert. He was made of quite a different paste. The girls and t... ...g to grips with life. He had no ambition whatsoever. He came from a decent family, from a pleasant country home, from delightful sur- roundings. He sh... ...y. Egbert didn’t mind being patronized and paid for. Only when he felt the family was a little too condescending, on account of money, he began to get... ... the child. It was the first exquisite blonde thing that had come into the family, a little mite with the white, slim, beautiful limbs of its father, ... ..., which destroyed them both? She sighed with fear. But at this time Bertie Reid wrote to Isabel. He was her old friend, a second or third cousin, a Sc... ...friendship with Bertie. She wrote to the barrister to this effect. Bertram Reid simply replied that in this, as in all other matters, he must obey her... ... support of another. And this very dependence enraged him. He hated Bertie Reid, and at the same time he knew the hatred was nonsense, he knew it was ... ...ought you were taller,’ he said, starting. Then he laid his hand on Bertie Reid’s head, closing the dome of the skull in a soft, firm grasp, gathering...

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...ere here, and how hungry were other lands by comparison. The ascent of this lovely lane of my dry stream filled me with delight. I could not but be re... ...lane of my dry stream filled me with delight. I could not but be reminded of old Mayne Reid, as I have been more than once since I came to the tropics... ... would come truer still; and the war- conch will sound in the hills, and my home will be inclosed in camps, before the year is ended. And all at once—... ... in the boarding-house, played on my pipe; went out and did some of my messages; dined at a French restaurant, and returned to play draughts, whist, o... ...S. of this will occupy me, at the most favourable opin- ion, till the middle of next year; really five years were want- ing, when I could have made a... ...vance; one chapter and a part drafted. The whole promises well Chapter I. Domes- tic Annals. Chapter II. The Northern Lights. Chapter III. The Bell R... ...I. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a... ... your fishing. And you saw the ‘Pharos,’ thrice fortunate man; I wish I dared go home, I would ask the Commissioners to take me round for old sake’s s...

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...ides as he now stands before me in memory. 5 Charlotte M. Yonge Our family history is a strange one. I, Lucy Alison, never even saw my twin bro... ...ially, the whole of the ricks and build- ings being burnt down, though the family of the occupant was saved, partly by Prometesky’s exertions. When th... ...at his farm that made Lord Erymanth refuse to renew the lease and turn the family out so harshly, and with as little notice as possible. The cruelty, ... ...at Gov- ernment House, and thus was viewed as the polished mem- ber of the family, though, if he had come as master, I should 13 Charlotte M. Y... ...im; being, in fact, an unprosperous tutor and hanger-on on some nobleman’s family, finally sent out by his patrons in despair, to keep school in Sydne... ...ve, and with the imperious power of recovery used to keep me reading Mayne Reid’s storybooks to her incessantly, or else playing at backgam- mon. I ha... ...g on day after day with Dora’s little meals, the backgammon, and the Mayne Reid, till sometimes it felt as if it had always been thus with us from all... ...e, and could not make enough of “Little Missy.” I had a respite from Mayne Reid, and could wander as far as I pleased alone on the shingle, or sit and...

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...e the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Sp... ...sion that he is hereditary and absolute. Hereditary he is; born of a great family, he must always be a man of mark; but yet his office is elective and... ...g of beauty. Song is almost ceaseless. The boat- man sings at the oar, the family at evening worship, the girls at night in the guest-house, sometimes... ...in the midst of chartered marauders. What property exists is vested in the family, not in the individual; and of the loose communism in which a family... ...the following senses: to deal leniently with, as in helping oneself from a family plantation; to give away without con- sulting other members of the f... ...of this typical sea-officer. A tiny schoo- ner, the Equator, Captain Edwin Reid, dear to myself from the memories of a six months’ cruise, lived out u...

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... inherently rhythmical strain 13 The Art of Writing of the English language, that the bad writer – and must I take for example that admired friend of... ...t writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspira- tion; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my... ...t a publisher – had, in fact, been charged by my old friend, Mr. Henderson, to unearth new writers for young folks. Even the ruthlessness 45 The Art ... ...mornings, a good deal pleased with what I had done, and more appalled than I can depict to you in words at what remained for me to do. I was thirty-on... ...have been better so. I am not of that mind. The tale seems to have given much pleasure, and it brought (or, was the means of bringing) fire and food a... ...This trenched upon the Christian picture, and was dismissed. If the idea, then, was to be of any use at all for me, I had to create a kind of evil gen...

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...w my deed, ‘t were best not know myself.” 103. Cambusmore. The estate of a family named Buchanan, whom Scott frequently visited in his younger days. I... ...d chieftains, to a late pe- riod, retained in their service the bard, as a family officer, admits of very easy proof. The author of the Letters from t... .... The Graeme. Scott has the following note here: “The ancient and powerful family of Graham (which, for metrical reasons, is here smelled after the Sc... ...f the Bleeding Heart. The bleeding heart was the cognizance of the Douglas family. Robert Bruce, on his death-bed, bequeathed his heart to his friend,... ...191 below. 216. A Lennox foray. That is, a raid in the lands of the Lennox family, bordering on the southern end of Loch Lomond. On the island of Inch... ...omen to their masters, as ap- pears from a case reported by Fountainhall: ‘Reid the moun- tebank pursues Scot of Harden and his lady for stealing away...

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...—” “Aggravating,” said Henrietta, supplying one of the nu- merous stock of family slang words. “Yes, aggravating,” said he with a smile, “to be placed... ...first grief of her loss, and there was a general impression throughout the family that now was the time for her to come amongst them again. For hersel... ...ver girl and her mother’s con- stant companion, occupied a position in the family which amounted to something more than prime minister. Some one perso... ...were fixed the most ardent hopes of her brother, and the wishes of all the family. Their present abode was, as she often said to herself, not the one ... ...hen, perhaps, an old acquaintance or distant connexion of some part of the family came for a month or six weeks, and a few calls were exchanged, and i... ...“I’ll tell you what will do best of all!” cried Queen Bee. “You go to Dame Reid’s, and buy us sixpennyworth of the gingerbread papa calls the extreme ... ..., and a pair of round, hard, red, solid-looking cheeks; no other than Dame Reid’s grandson. “Thank you,” said she. “Did Master Alexander give you this...

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... friend must please to look at baby. ‘Ah! You will know the friend of your family better, T ootleums,’ says Mr V eneering, nodding emotionally at that... ...loomy Eugene, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a barrister in the family. We have got a precious one.’ ‘It was forced upon me,’ said Mortimer... ...aid Mortimer, ‘because it was understood that we wanted a solicitor in the family. And we have got a precious one.’ ‘There are four of us, with our na... ...f slack water it got out to sea and drifted away . Chapter 4 THE R. WILFER FAMILY REGINALD WILFER IS A NAME with rather a grand sound, sug- gesting on... ... no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. But, the Reginald Wilfer family were of such common- place extraction and pursuits that their forefa... ...d Mr Boffin. ‘It can’t have been a petrefaction.’ ‘Memoirs of General John Reid, commonly called The W alking Rushlight, sir? With portrait?’ ‘No, nor...

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...e rejoice. Y ou will not have been long there, and not known some of our friends or family?” “I lived with a very honest, kind man called Duncan Dhu M... ...to be spoken with. “It’s been always my opinion that I would hang in a tow for this family of mine,” he cried, “and, dod! I believe the day’s come now... ...d can see for yourself how I come to be so much mingled up with the affairs of your family and friends, which (for all of our sakes) I wish had been p... ...nd what can I do? I’m a Stewart, ye see, and must fend for my clan 17 Catriona and family. Then no later by than yesterday there was one of our Stewa... ...ropose you should write to his lord- ship, that I am a young man of reasonable good family and of good means: both of which I believe to be the case.”... ...c but the skirling of the solans. And the lassies were bits o’ young things wi’ the reid life dinnling and stending in their members; and this was a m...

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... disposition. Now those around me were for the most part quiet, orderly, obedient citizens, family men broken by adversity, elderly youths who had fai... ...And since I am here on the chapter of the children, I must mention one little fellow, whose family belonged to Steerage No. 4 and 5, and who, wherever... ...was to meet a little triumph of the human species. Even when his mother and the rest of his family lay sick and prostrate around him, he sat upright i... ...thing equivocal in his air and bearing. He might have been, I thought, the son of some good family who had fallen early into dissipa- tion and run fro... ...tes of junk and duff; and every now and again find them- selves better paid than by a whole family of cabin passen- gers. Not long ago, for instance, ... ...rance. Robinson Crusoe; some of the books of that cheerful, ingenious, romantic soul, Mayne Reid; and a work rather gruesome and bloody for a child, b...

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... he went about his personal affairs, saw homely neighbours, dealt with his family, gave vent to everyday pas- sions. He would sit in the shop of Donat... ...for himself and me from the Bromstead Institute, Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of the Russo-Turkish war and one of Nap... ... railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities of the Royal Family . Most of the books at home were my father’s, and I do not think she... ...d have my private dreams, partly because I was a little antagonised by the family traditions 59 H G Wells that ran through the school. I was made to ... ...a secret art of theological caricature. Britten’s father had delighted his family by reading aloud from Dr. Richard Garnett’s T wilight of the Gods, a... ...sness of the mag- nificence, as it seemed to me, of such a proceeding. The family occupied a large villa in Newcastle, with big lawns before it and be...

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...y and summarily cut off, and reinstated, and cut off again, that the whole family, down to the remotest cousin, is kept in a perpetual fever. At lengt... ... style. She is kind enough to receive my visits, and to permit my wife and family to reside here; for which it is hardly necessary to say, we are much... ...il, and healthy. Once a week they have a ball, in which the Doctor and his family, with all the nurses and attendants, take an active part. Dances and... ... condition will ad mit of; are appealed to, as members of the great human family, however afflicted, indigent, or fallen; are ruled by the strong Hea... ... re sides under the same roof; and were the patients mem bers of his own family, they could not be better cared for, or attended with greater gentle... ...sustained by five gentlemen (which moved vertically, strictly carrying out Reid’s Theory of the Law of Storms), I was fain the next morn ing to lay i...

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...tevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penns... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ................................... 57 4 Robert Louis Stevenson RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS by Robert Louis Stevenson INTRODUCTION THE SURNAME OF S... ...nson (co. Lanark) swore fealty to Ed- ward I in 1296, and the last of that family died after the Restoration. Stevensons of Hirdmanshiels, in Midlothi... ...e Gaelic which in olden days may have been sometimes reversed. Roy becomes Reid; Gow, Smith. A great Highland clan uses the name of Robertson; a sept ... ...rkable, especially to those who were strangers to the operations. Mr. John Reid, principal lightkeeper, who also acted as master of the floating light... ... the pointing the joints of the walls with cement was intrusted to William Reid and William Kennedy, who stood upon a scaffold suspended over the wall... ...ourse of things, he would, in all prob- ability, have accompanied Mr. John Reid, the principal lightkeeper of the floating light, to the Bell Rock Lig... ... prevent the exhibition of the light in the course of the winter, Mr. John Reid, formerly of the float- ing light, was now put in charge of the lighth...

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... here presented to those who have already made acquain- tance with the May family, and may be willing to see more of them. It would beg to be consider... ...e of them. It would beg to be considered merely as what it calls itself, a Family Chronicle—a domestic record of home events, large and small, during ... ...t too, disregarding a tumultuous skirmish going on in that division of the family collectively termed “the boys,” namely, Harry, Mary, and Tom, until ... ... the Saturday’s reading and catechising. It was pleasant to see that large family in the hush and reverence of such teaching, the mother’s gentle powe... ...r weekly holiday there on Saturday—the happiest day in the week to the May family, when alone, they had the company at dinner of Norman and Harry, oth... ...ldren enter into it very nicely, Margaret. Did I tell you how nicely Ellen Reid answered about the hymn, ‘From Greenland’s icy mountains’? She did not...

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...e of personal jealousies, old grudges, thorny nicknames, prickly memories, family curses, Judas betrayals and sacred pledges, a horrible rubbish thick... ... contrived that they should pay their rent partly or entirely per stone of family annually produced. And he has also proposed that “diplomas” should b... ... reader of Doctor Nordau will add “sanity.” And the reader of Mr. Archdall Reid will round up the list with “immunity” from dipsoma- nia and all conta... ...are simple, specific and transmis- sible. Those who have read Mr. Archdall Reid’s Alcoholism, for example, will know that he deals constantly with wha... ... divorce to include this ugly and disastrous habit. I am not averse to Mr. Reid’s remedies because I think of the wife and the home, but I would not g... ...mpt to whittle down the “in- herited craving” to a habit does not meet Mr. Reid’s argu- ment from the gradual increase of resisting power in races sub... ...ervening six or seven generations, and it is also a difficult fact for Mr. Reid that drunkenness has increased in France. In most of the cases cited b... ...e popular belief in ruthless suppression whenever there is “madness in the family” will not stand an intelligent scrutiny. The man in the street think... ...s, and let us tell them plainly, “It is time a lunatic mar- ried into your family.” Let no one run away from this with the statement that I propose su...

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...ee other regular customers, Bob Glamour, William Will- iams, and Jonathan (family name of the latter, if any, un- known to man-kind), who are quite en... ...rated the occa- 32 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 3 sion in the bosom of their family. Not that these celebrations ever resulted in anything particularly ... ...celebrations ever resulted in anything particularly agreeable, or that the family was ever disappointed by that circumstance on account of having look... ...lla arrived in the Boffin chariot to assist at the celebration. It was the family custom when the day re- curred, to sacrifice a pair of fowls on the ... ...laining, if I am silently con- tented with my lot, let that suffice for my family.’ ‘Well, Ma,’ returned Lavvy, ‘since you will force it out of me, I ... ...d Mr Boffin. ‘It can’t have been a petrefaction.’ ‘Memoirs of General John Reid, commonly called The W alking Rushlight, sir? With portrait?’ ‘No, nor...

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... bodies so closely resembled in gen- eral appearance certain nulliporae (a family of hard calcareous sea-plants), that in lately looking hastily over ... ...tile climate the labour of two days is sufficient to support a man and his family for the whole week. April 14th. — Leaving Socego, we rode to another... ...s were or- namented by the Cabbage Palm — one of the most beautiful of its family. With a stem so narrow that it might be clasped with the two hands, ... ...l the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridae (in which family the English glow- worm is included), and the greater number of speci... ...g away the body. But I stopped both tyrant and prey.* The genus, or rather family, of Epeira, is here char- acterized by many singular forms; some spe... ...nd blind. A specimen which I pre- served in spirits was in this state; Mr. Reid consid- ers it to be the effect of inflammation in the nictitat- ing m...

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...ly attested, that there was an ancient and secret enmity between the whole family of the gods and the human race. This is confessed by Herodotus as a ... ...ny rate, are the facts of the case: A lady (by birth a Cowper, of the whig family, and cousin to the poet Cowper; and, equally with him, related to Dr... ...t was a tradition which circulated at Rome down to the days of the Flavian family, that the indulgence conceded to Judea by the imperial policy from A... ...e issue of the debate—and eventually proved worth a throne to the Herodian family; for the honor of Rome seemed to be concerned in supporting the man ... ...h has called the twelve apostles, when celebrating the paschal feast, ‘the family of Christ.’* This early essay of the church to harmonize the difficu... ...he present by a decision of a court, (which con- *The ludicrous blunder of Reid (as first published by Lord Kames in his Sketches), and of countless o...

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...n silver or golden fish! It is curious, also, to reflect how they make one family, from the largest to the smallest. The least minnow that lies on the... ... and the same translated suffice for all. All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.... ... al phabet of heaven and can count three? Do you know the number of God’s family? Can you put mysteries into words? Do you presume to fable of the in... ...ory of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad. Yet we have a sort of family history of our God,—so have the T ahi tians of theirs,—and some old... ...d to read how Ben Jonson engaged, that the dull masks with which the royal family and nobility were to be enter tained should be “grounded upon antiq... ...s by King William, for their bravery in that memorable siege.”—Col. George Reid and Capt. David M’Clary, also citizens of Londonderry, were “distingui...

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...man has an advan- tage, not to be estimated, who is born, as I was, into a family where the religion is simple and rational; who is trained in the the... ...ay I commenced accordingly to take a little of every food provided for the family, constantly saying to myself: ‘The Power that created the stomach mu... ...in which I was about to float, I turned with them towards my childhood, my family, my country, all that was dear and sacred to me: the inflexible curr... ...sacred to me: the inflexible current of my thought was too strong—parents, family, memory, beliefs, it forced me to let go of everything. The investig... ...God was praying in, with, and for me. About this time my father called the family to attend prayers; I attended, but paid no regard to what he said in... ... anyhow absolutely complete? In the middle of the century just past, Mayne Reid was the great writer of books of out-of-door adventure. He was forever... ...es of Religious Experience naturalists of the deity, even in Captain Mayne Reid’s sense. What is their deduction of metaphysical at- tributes but a sh...