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Excerpt: Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, translated by R. S. Townsend.

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.... S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pen... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend IN... ...enough for it, to interpret mod- ern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which m... ...a, both expressed in what M. Haumand terms his “Hamletisme.” But in Virgin Soil he is easy and almost negligent master of his instrument, and though h... ... dom, but cannot achieve it. It is one of a series of portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studies of the Russian dreamers and i... ...finely revealed .and brought to a rare point of characterisation in Virgin Soil, is the prophetic intention he had of the woman’s part in the new orde... ...895; A Lear of the Steppe, from the French, by W . H. Browne, 1874; Virgin Soil, from the French, by T . S. Perry, 1877, 1883, by A. W . Dilke, 1878; ... ...oyd, T wo Russian Reformers: Ivan T urgenev, Leo T olstoy, 1910. 6 Virgin Soil VIRGIN SOIL “T o turn over virgin soil it is necessary to use a deep p...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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... Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publicati... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedicat... ...t indefatigable mole, that ro- dent which undermines and disintegrates the soil, par- cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 So... ... cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 Sons of the Soil ever spurred on to his banquet by the lower middle classes who make hi... ...g my greatest consolations in misfortune. De Balzac. 5 Balzac SONS OF THE SOIL PART I Whoso land hath, contention hath. CHAPTER I THE CHATEAU Les Aig... ...tracks can be seen along its double width of way. The great 6 Sons of the Soil age of the trees, the breadth of the avenue, the venerable constructio... ...landscape on such free lines covers a great deal of ground. 8 Sons of the Soil Nothing is smoothed off; rakes are unknown, ruts and ditches are full ... ...tears, and all are clearly defined on the dark-blue ether. Above the ruddy soil of the terraces flames that joyous natural punch which intoxicates the...

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...den, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he could not get the path straight, there was a pleat between his brows. He had set up his sticks, and taken the sights between the big pine trees, but for some reason everything seemed w...

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...he common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was wor- ried because he could not get the path straight,... ...ward with the spade, would see a curious coiled brownish pile on the black soil, which suddenly would start up, hiss, and dazzle rapidly away, hissing... ... to make, the water to fetch and attend to, and then the slope of the deep-soiled, neglected garden to level, to terrace with little terraces and path... ...behind, and would not need many years to rot through and break and let the soil slither all down again in a heap towards the stream-bed. But there you...

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...r frighted peace to pant, And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children?s blood; Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields, Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes, Which, like the meteors of a trouble...

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... be commenced in strands afar remote. No more the thirsty entrance of this soil Shall daub her lips with her own children’s blood; Nor more shall tren... ...lter Blunt, new lighted from his horse. Stain’d with the variation of each soil Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours; And he hath brought us sm...

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...f the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fortress, the walls of which were about one hundred and twenty cubits high, having numerous angles and ornamental towers that stood out like jewels in thi...

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... the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fort...

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...mplaint stifled by restrictions on the press; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monar...

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...- awed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that fi... ... But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader’s step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England’s... ...e over New England’s rugged hills, and scatter flower seeds throughout the soil. Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire. Midsummer eve had co... ...nd walked somewhat fearfully across the field. Though now so desolate, its soil was pressed down and trampled by the thousand footsteps of those who h... ...country blooming like roses, and like roses they had perished in a foreign soil. Those expounders of the ways of Providence, who had thus judged their... ...own conviction that the child’s feet might tread heaven’s pavement and not soil it, had induced the two Quakers to remove. Ilbrahim then closed his ey... ...leave him and return. But just when Ilbrahim’s feet were press- ing on the soil of Paradise he heard a voice behind him, and it recalled him a few, fe... ...n enemy’s fleet been hovering on the coast, or his armies trampling on our soil, the people would probably have committed their defence to that same d... ...ior’s death left him a claim to the narrow territory of a grave within the soil which the King had given him to defend. With an ominous perception tha...

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...life which falls to the lot of many who have to eat their bread on distant soils. We are all apt to think that a life in strange countries will be a l... ...por- tance. It is in the middle of the coffee district, surrounded by rich soil on which the sugar-cane is produced, is blessed with a climate only mo...

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...all of the foreigner; being 5,000 miles in circuit, and of rare fertility of soil, in the greatest part thereof; and find ing also the shipping of th... ...iety, and some of them more fine. We also have great variety of composts and soils, for the making of the earth fruitful. “We have high towers, the ... ...d gardens, wherein we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs, and some very spacious, where tr...

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...d of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand cracks lay on the soil itself, which was damp in places, and would have tripped up those who ... ...bitants of this region Nature is cruel, savage, and without resources. The soil of these great gray plains is thank- less. The vicinity of a capital t... ...nown to botanists, covered by mineral refuse, round pebbles, and a sterile soil, cast defiance to civi- lization. France should adopt the only solutio... ...n acres of waste land, certain parts of which, especially in Berry, have a soil from seven to eight feet deep. Many of these plains which might be cov... ...ll these useless, unproductive lands is written the word “Incapacity.” All soils have some special fertility of their own. Arms and wills are ready; t... ...sential for production. The mists which ought to fertilize the gray , dead soil by discharging oxygen upon it, sweep across it rapidly, driven by the ... ...h- ing, the inhabitants often suffered from hunger during the winters. The soil not being suitable for wheat, and the unfor- tunate peasantry having n... ...no horses. The door, which was nearly always open, had a plank laid on the soil for its threshold, to protect the stable floor, which was lower than t... ...Franks under Charles Martel. The heights are barren. A hot, baked, reddish soil shows a region where chestnuts flourish. The springs, carefully applie...

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...less describing a square, which was open to all comers. The surface of the soil thus held in conjoint ownership was hard and carefully swept, but inte... ...mentable condition of the country with the pleasant cli- mate, the fertile soil, and the natural productiveness that had impressed me so much. “At tha... ...y the side of the torrent. Every year the floods deposited a rich alluvial soil on this spot, where there should be no difficulty in grow- ing osiers.... ...and a man who feeds himself thinks. I had made a very careful study of the soil, for I foresaw a time when it would be necessary to grow wheat. I was ... ...e country admirably are fatal in another—men’s minds are as various as the soils of the globe. If we have so often been ill governed, it is because a ... ... cultivated; but there had been no previous errors in agriculture, and the soil was good to begin with, so that it has been easy to introduce the five... ... must be taken into consideration, and a careful study must be made of the soil, of the people themselves, and of many other things; and no one should... ...ed village lies, they find it impossible to use wheeled plows, because the soil is not deep enough. Now if the mayor of the commune were to take it in... ...ible sides. The gray crest of the summit towers above the ledge of fertile soil which lies around it, a domain sometimes narrower, sometimes wider, an...

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... a romancer might have strayed into a region of old poetry, where the rich soil, so long uncultivated and untrodden, had lapsed into nearly its primev... ...d nurseries of early art, where the flower of beauty sprang out of a rocky soil, and in a high, keen atmosphere, when the richest and most sheltered g... ...fe in the chinks of the stones; for it had no earth, and nothing more like soil than the crumbling mortar, which had been crammed into the crevices in... ... a virgin’s breast, even after the spring is well advanced. In such alpine soils, the summer will not be anticipated; we seek vainly for passionate fl... ...depth, like roots drawn out of the substance of the soul, with some of the soil clinging to them. There is always a something inscrutable, instead of ... ...l not be appeased by the myri- ads of dead hopes that lie crushed into the soil of Rome. How wonderful that this our narrow foothold of the Present sh... ... had time begun to crumble the supplemental struc- ture, and cover it with soil, by means of wayside dust) grew trees, bushes, and thick festoons of i... ...to be wholly or partly under ground. A spade can scarcely be put into that soil, so rich in lost and forgot- ten things, without hitting upon some dis... ...relieve the anxious tedium of his situ- ation, he cleared away some of the soil, which seemed to have fallen very recently, and discovered a headless ...

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...t is easy to mistake it. Just as when walking through forest-lands certain soils give forth under our feet a sound which enables us to guess whether t... ... from time to time in dells or ravines according to the forma- tion of the soil, but like a sharpshooter who is being watched, who wants to hide himse... ...; I worked frantically, like a man whom nothing can divert, turning up the soil of the market-garden, and appropriating the ground to the culture of f... ...oting coat, a peaked cap on my head, a ragged bandana round my neck, hands soiled with mould, and a dibble in my hand. “ ‘Madame,’ said the housekeepe...

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...alities of the coral collect all floating bodies; forming, after a time, a soil, in which the seeds carried thither by birds germinate, and cover the ... ...her islands, there extends nearly all round Tahiti a belt of low, alluvial soil, teeming with the richest vegetation. Here, chiefly, the natives dwell... ...too that struck my fancy; and I registered a vow to plant my foot upon its soil, notwithstanding an old bareheaded sentry menaced me in the moonlight ... ...Upon one occasion, I observed a group of young girls, in tunics of course, soiled sheeting, disdainfully pointing at a damsel in a flaming red one. “O... ...the sugar-cane, a plant indigenous to the island; peculiarly fitted to the soil and climate, and of so excellent a quality that Bligh took slips of it... ...ut, with this intention, they, at last, came to Martair; and, thinking the soil would suit, set themselves to work. They began by finding out the owne... ...avy, flat mass of iron. The cutlery part—especially adapted to a primitive soil— was an importation from Sydney; the handles must have been of domesti... ... to his knowledge, had ever been used in any part of Polynesia. As for the soil of Martair, so obstructed was it with roots, cross- ing and recrossing... ...e Yankee in a little further friendly chat concerning the nature of virgin soils in general, and that of the valley of Martair in particular. So maste...

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... so pleasant to feel them lifted, their heavy earthly feet from the actual soil of life. The world had been set afloat, as it were, for a moment, and ... ...ea—what a needless labor—to construct artificial ruins in Rome, the native soil of ruin! But even these sportive imitations, wrought by man in emulati... ... pets of nature dreaded him no more in his buoyant life than if a mound of soil and grass and flowers had long since cov- ered his dead body, converti... ...blood recklessly poured out, and deaths of myriads, have corrupted all the soil, creating an influence that makes the air deadly to human lungs. “You ... ... to fill them to the brim; who reared up the immemorial obelisk out of the soil that had long hidden it; who placed pedestals along the borders of the... ...is only because we find it built over its grave. A depth of thirty feet of soil has covered up the Rome of ancient days, so that it lies like the dead... ...strew upon his tables. They were principally such bits of antiquity as the soil of Rome and its neighborhood are still rich in; seals, gems, small fig... ... might vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Thus, by the spell of a creased, soiled, and discolored scrap of paper, you were enabled to steal close to a... ... now! It is as if he were trying to wash off’ the time- stains and earthly soil of a thousand years!” Dipping his hands into the capacious washbowl be...

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...e important, even in a statistical view; certain weeds mark poverty in the soil, fairies mark its solitude. As surely as the wolf retires before citie... ...ar grandeur of the Thames in the length of its course, or in the extent of soil which it drains: yet, if he had been so absurd, the American might hav... ...best compliments, that he has planted his throne for ever upon that virgin soil: henceforward claiming the jus dominii to the top of the at- mosphere ... ...ing, either aloft in the atmosphere, or in the shafts, or squatting on the soil, will be treated as trespassers—that is, decapitated by their very fai... ...t still keep himself warm; where slight shelter might serve; and where the soil, if not absolutely richer in reversionary wealth, was more easily cult... ...brings after itself no need of washing the hands.” No; moonshine as little soils the hands as it op- presses the stomach. Reader! we, as well as Pliny... ... to our former explanation) Providence has relieved the continuity of arid soil, which else disfigures that long dreary level. This happens to all; bu...

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...ast as they reproduce themselves under local distemperatures of climate or soil. It is interesting to pursue the same ignoble superstition, which, in ... ... to the inheritance of their birth—rights which a bar- barian of a foreign soil, an anti-christian tyrant, issuing from the depths of Asia, seized upo... ...his present distin- guished expression of its regard, to invite you to the soil of Greece, a soil united by such tender memorials with your- self; con... ...till remains true, as a general principle, that raw materials won from the soil are constantly tending to grow dearer, whilst these same materials as ... ...he inferior method is resigned forever. But in the industry applied to the soil this is other- wise. Doubtless the farmer does not, with his eyes open... ...pulation expands, he is con- tinually forced into descending upon inferior soils; and the product of these inferior soils it is which gives the ruling... ...which gives the ruling price for the whole aggregate of products. Say that soils Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, had been hitherto sufficient for a nation, where the... ...y), the price upon this last, No. 5, regulates the price upon all the five soils. And thus it happens that, whilst al- ways progressive, rural industr... ... be cheaper; but when the cost of No. 5 (and so on forever as to the fresh soils required to meet a growing population) is combined with that of the s...

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...utify. If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only b... ...ce enjoy’d Hence then; to Argos shall the maid retire, Far from her native soil and weeping sire.” The trembling priest along the shore return’d, And ... ...esounding main, And walls of rocks, secure my native reign, Whose fruitful soil luxuriant harvests grace, Rich in her fruits, and in her martial race.... ... still they mourn’d their ancient leader lost. The men who Glaphyra’s fair soil partake, Where hills incircle Boebe’s lowly lake, Where Phære hears th... ...oo early expert in the martial toil, In sable ships they left their native soil, To avenge Atrides: now, untimely slain, They fell with glory on the P... ... sent, Through Amphius’ belt and heaving belly went; Amphius Apæsus’ happy soil possess’d, With herds abounding, and with treasure bless’d; But fate r... ...fers graze, and labouring oxen toil; Bold are the men, and generous is the soil; There shall he reign, with power and justice crown’d, And rule the tr... ...fers graze, and labouring oxen toil; Bold are the men, and generous is the soil. There shalt thou reign, with power and justice crown’d, And rule the ... ...them on the plain: Vain was their youth, their glittering armour vain: Now soil’d with dust, and naked to the sky, Their snowy limbs and beauteous bod...

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...t he seemed already to have come from a very long distance. Though neither soiled nor slovenly, his cream-colored suit had a tossed look, almost linty... ...otion, that science can play farmer to the flesh, making there what living soil it pleases, seems not so strange as that other conceit—that science is... ...t. Some one had planted a bunch of violets on the mound, but it was a poor soil (always choose the poorest soils for grave- yards), and they were all ... ...n the waters.” “But have you no confidence that by a reverse shifting that soil will come back after many days?—ah, here is my vener- able friend,” ob... ...ght-seer, will leave London at last without once being lost in its fog, or soiled by its mud. Redolent from the barber’s shop, as any bridegroom trip-...

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...ls and grooves out the bark from top to bottom, ere run- ning off into the soil, leaving the tree still greenly alive, but branded. Whether that mark ... ...! low veiled, high palmed Tahiti! I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid! I saw thee woven in the wood, my mat! green the first day I ... ...hake! Pines are the hardest sort of tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helms- man!... ...knowing them to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil; even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species... ...s, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain of soil; her crew having seen no man but floating seamen like themselves. So t... ... though at times found on the sea-coast, is also dug up in some far inland soils, whereas ambergris is never found except upon the sea. Besides, amber... ...ntent on spying out more whales, which, if caught, infalli- bly will again soil the old oaken furniture, and drop at least one small grease-spot somew... ...eacon and a hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to che... ...d to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is int...

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...on which I know will swell into immeasurable dimensions when it has got there; or, I must extort from an iron-bound quarry, with a fork, as if I were ... ...erters on my rail- road would by-and-by become a phenomenon. In this agreeable frame of mind I entered the workhouse of Liverpool.—For, the cultivatio... ...drunkard, the thin-armed, puff-faced, leaden- lipped gin-drinker, and encountered a rarer specimen of a more decent appearance, fifty to one but that ... ...of the bridge of my nose in a blunt pair of pincers,—these are the personal sensations by which I know we are off, and by which I shall continue to kn... ... tice. For, there I saw, surely, the poorest superannuated post- chaise left on earth. It was a post-chaise taken off its axletree and wheels, and plu... ...station they had been sitting about, in their threadbare homespun blue garments, with their poor little bundles under their arms, covered with dust an...