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...600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the document prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous sig... ...ought. When Sir Terence left, Helen rushed to find Rosita. She knew that at this time of day the Spanish woman would be sitting by the kitchen range... ... news. THE CURSE OF KALI 7 ‘So you have accepted, queridisima,’ said Rosita in her inimitable Spanish accent, which she had never lost despite he... ... wife’s untimely demise and welcomed Rosita’s love and care for his motherless, little girl. The Spanish woman remembered clearly the day when seven... ...er, neglected his daughter’s education and by the time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in s... ...eat highway is as ancient as India, itself, and has for centuries been used by conquering armies, merchants and pilgrims, not to forget the great re... ...hat foreign land’. Then Rosita joined them and Gavin hugged her and teased her about her striking Spanish looks. “Rosita, you are as beautiful as ev... ... rain and the Nawab had made a good profit selling the bountiful produce of his valley to Indian merchants. Gavin had pointed out to Mohammed Hassan... ...tored in the cellars. The fort was crowded, not only with soldiers, but with British civilians, merchants, women and children and other Europeans, ...

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...was agreed that a party of us should land for half-an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanish ground. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but hu... ...er and storey to another, till we arrived at that apartment where the real Spanish chocolate was finally to be served out. All these rooms were as cle... ...s scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finished articles of furni... ...-general (Pooch, they told us, was his name:I know not how ’tis written in Spanish)—was well got up, with a smart hat, a real feather, huge stars glit... ...s all in our dreams. In fact we were but half-an-hour in this little queer Spanish 10 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo town; and it ap... ...ve lost one by one all our jovial company. There were the five Oporto wine-merchants—all hearty English gentle- men—gone to their wine-butts, and thei... ...e smugglers, and run tobaccos and cotton into Catalonia; all the respected merchants of the place are smugglers. The other day a Spanish revenue vess... ...among this race, somehow I felt as if they were all friends. There sat the merchants in their little shops, quiet and solemn, but with friendly looks.... ...ildren abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, and many wandering merchants were there selling figs (in the name of the Prophet, doubtless) f...

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... war with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred from the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder chil... ...t of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder children to join him at a Spanish port. This arrangement was so strange that I can only account for i... ...can only account for it by supposing that as this was the date of a feeble Spanish attempt on behalf of the Jacobites in Scotland, Comte de Bourke may... ...for it also shattered the French transports and interfered with Berwick’ s Spanish campaign. The circumstances of the wreck have been closely followed... ...e for that? We are all the better prey for them! I have heard histories of Spanish cruelty and lawlessness that would make you shudder! You cannot gue... ...was un- bounded that any female creature should wield a pen. Marabouts and merchants were known to read the Koran, but if one of the goats had begun t... ...nd Minorca to enforce a like treaty. There was a little colony of European merchants—English, French, and Dutch—in the lower town, near the harbour, a... ... He found there was great interest excited, not only among the Chris- tian merchants, but among T urks, Moors, and Jews, so hor- rible was the idea of...

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...THIRD THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Joseph Conrad NOSTROMO CHAPTER ONE IN THE TIME OF SPANISH RULE, and for many years after- wards, the town of Sulaco—the luxur... ...from the shutters. The party he led were babbling excitedly in Italian and Spanish, inciting each other to the pur- suit. He put himself at their head... ... ship. Everybody of note in Sulaco had been invited—the one or two foreign merchants, all the representatives of the old Spanish families then in town... ...vited—the one or two foreign merchants, all the representatives of the old Spanish families then in town, the great owners of estates on the plain, gr... ... of mind of the owners of its fertile territory—all these aristocratic old Spanish families, all those Don Ambrosios this and Don Fernandos that, who ... ...trator of the San Tome silver mine had an immense influence over all these Spanish Dons. He had also one of the best 43 Joseph Conrad houses in Sulac... ...ible in all these ancestral Goulds—liberators, explorers, coffee planters, merchants, revolutionists—of 48 Nostromo Costaguana, that he, the only rep... ...ound. The father of Charles Gould, for a long time one of the most wealthy merchants of Costaguana, had al- ready lost a considerable part of his fort... ...oads far into the country, to Rincon and other villages, where the foreign merchants and the Ricos generally have their modern villas, and a vast rail...

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...d, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while ... ...nds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, entered ... ...touch of his finger, make the in comprehensible as clear as daylight. The merchants valued him not less than we, his esoteric friends. His integrity ... ... will only choose to give himself the trouble. My fellow officers, and the merchants and sea captains with whom my official duties brought me into any... ...irrespon sibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days’ time would sail for Bristol. Hester Pr... ...thy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wicked... ...ly be claimed by some mariners—a part of the crew of the ves sel from the Spanish Main—who had come ashore to see the humours of Election Day. They w... ...otherhood, had been guilty, as we should phrase it, of depredations on the Spanish commerce, such as would have perilled all their necks in a modern c... ... as there is a lot of apothecary’s stuff aboard, which I traded for with a Spanish vessel.” “What mean you?” inquired Hester, startled more than she p...

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... a giver of holy water; “perhaps you can tell me why con- ductors and wine-merchants are so fond of it?” 27 Balzac Blondet, a master of irony, alread... ...privileges exist which are obtained and preserved with as much care as the merchants of a city dis- play in getting theirs. Mademoiselle Laguerre was ... ... me out of the kitchen the remains of the breakfast and a bottle or two of Spanish wine, I’ll tell you something which will save you from a ‘foul.’” “... ... A few thousand a year more or less, the indemni- ties exacted by the wood-merchants for the damages commit- ted by the peasants,—what were they to a ... ...,—which were intrusted, like those of Gaubertin, to the commissary of wine-merchants of the department in Paris, a certain Leclercq, a native of Soula... ...ved thorough- bred nose, with a maidenly air in spite of a certain swaying Spanish manner of carrying herself, possessed all the points that a young g... ...isse! if your wife were only here we’d be young to- gether. Don’t tell me! Spanish wine is worth a dozen of boiled wine. Let’s have a revolution if it... ...s, he is twice as full of deviltry; he has his own and that of the wine—” “Spanish wine, and that trebles it!” cried Fourchon, laugh- ing like a satyr... ...ubbed sides with those of Bordeaux, Champagne, Roussillon, not to speak of Spanish and Rhine wines, all bought ten years in advance of use and bottled...

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...as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself m... ... just as often very loose. He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never 4 Don Quixote – Part I see... ...on of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable, or that the untranslatable word... ...erseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. Th... ...escribed as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has entirely evapo- rated under the manipulation of the sev... ...s plan was to purchase, by the aid of a Spanish renegade and two Valencian merchants resident in Algiers, an armed vessel in which he and about sixty ... ... was held, moved this man to compass his destruction by a cruel death. The merchants finding that the Dey knew all, and fearing that Cervantes under t...

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...e Madre Matilda de Borgia, a relation of Pope Calixtus, very noble, and of Spanish birth, as the Commissioner assured the nuns; but they had never hea... ...eady raised a considerable gift in silver merks to be sent through Lombard merchants to their new Abbess, and this requisition was a fresh blow. Prese... ...hich Grisell had reckoned for the winter needs, were pledged to Sunderland merchants for armour and weapons; the colts running wild on the moors were ... ...nce. He was, however, far from being a rich man, on a level with the great merchants, though he had succeeded to a modest, not unprosperous trade in s... ...re was a broad stone stair, leading to a large apartment hung with stamped Spanish leather, representing the history 137 Charlotte M. Young of King D... ...r was over, old Anton had purveyed a loose blue gown from the neighbouring merchants, with gold lace seams and girdle, peaked boots, and the hideous b...

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...ncing covertly at the head of Antinous. Among them, like the “jocoso” of a Spanish play, full of wit and epigrammatic sallies, another girl was watchi... ...e first group of girls, who were the daugh- ters of bankers, notaries, and merchants, —all rich, but aware of the imperceptible though cutting slights...

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...nelius. CHAPTER II THE TORCONNIER CORNELIUS H OOGWORST, one of the richest merchants in Ghent, having drawn upon himself the enmity of Charles, Duke o... ...ons attributed to Cornelius that fatal influence which Italian, 19 Balzac Spanish, and Asiatic superstition has called the “evil eye.” Without the te...

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...r!’ began a stout figure, coming forward from the waggon. ‘We be peaceable merchants and this is a holy dame, the—’ ‘The Prioress Selby of Greystone,’... ...t cravens, as it seems, we thought it well to join company with these same merchants, and thus we be- came a bait for the outlaws of the Border.’ ‘Lad... ...stened by the pointing of pikes and levelling of arrows at them. While the merchants, diving into their pack- ages, produced horns of ale which a youn... ...ir tasting the good sherris sack that had been sent with his last cargo of Spanish leather. ‘I would I could send a flask to our good Prioress,’ he sa...

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... designed to attract notice; here a cap from the Pays de Caux, and there a Spanish mantilla; the hair crimped and curled like a poodle’s, or smoothed ... ...rds all round the room. A dresser was putting the finish- ing touches to a Spanish costume; for Florine was to take the part of a countess in an imbro... ...ingly pretty and graceful, wear very short skirts, 125 Balzac and dance a Spanish dance, and possibly they may carry off the piece with the public. T... ...ty, worthy of an Eastern poet, was brought into relief by the conventional Spanish costume of the stage. Coralie was the delight of the pit; all eyes ... ...e chatting. The Duke was there and the Minister, the four women, the three merchants, the manager, and Finot. A printer’s devil, with a paper cap on h... ...lause when he finished; the actresses embraced the neo- phyte; and the two merchants, following suit, half choked the breath out of him. There were te... ...ere.’” A burst of laughter followed the sally, but it pleased Coralie. The merchants meanwhile ate and drank and listened. “What a nation this is! You... ...or the sake of appear- ances, and vogue le galere!” She began to dance her Spanish dance, with an excited eagerness that revealed the strength of the ...

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...n their apo plectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown faced, broad girthed Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the g... ...its own act. But there they were, in the heart of it; on Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pocke...

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...icago. Norwegians and Germans owned stores. The social leaders were common merchants. Sell- ing nails was considered as sacred as banking. These up- s... ...’t worth fulfilling. Shopping was a delight of brisk conferences. The very merchants whose droning she found the dullest at the two or three parties w... ...e people liked her. She had gone to the women at afternoon-coffees, to the merchants in their stores, with so many outpouring comments and whimsies th... ...ch a pretty little car. ’ She thinks it’s an enormous car! And some of the merchants say you’re too flip when you talk to them in the store and—” “Poo... ... me you’re the swellest girl they ever saw.” “Well, I’ve just fancied— The merchants probably think I’m too fussy about shopping. I’m afraid I bore Mr... ...allies in the Grand Scrap. Yes, sir, there’d be two million fully equipped Spanish soldiers fighting with us in France in one month now. Some surprise... ...t to chuck every stitch I own. Black hair and pale cheeks—they’d go with a Spanish dancer’s costume— rose behind my ear, scarlet mantilla over one sho...

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...and intimate neighbor. It is a haven of shelter and re- freshment for our merchants, fishermen, seamen, and other citizens, when on their lawful occa... ...s been paid in full by the Government of Chile. Civil war continues in the Spanish part of San Domingo, apparently without prospect of an early close.... ... and Pensacola have been opened by proclamation. It is hoped that foreign merchants will now consider whether it is not safer and more profitable to ...

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... in an undertone; and as for the Mariposa, the dancer, she had nothing but Spanish and bad French, she looked all right, and it wasn’t very likely she... ...forget. “See in this world,” he said, turning to the globe, “while Chinese merchants and T urkish troopers, school-board boys and Norwegian fishermen,... ...next volume. This was a life of Saint T eresa, that energetic organizer of Spanish nunneries. The third dealt with Madame Guyon. It was difficult not ...

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...and velvets sparkled in his dark shop and darker private closet, than at any merchants in the city. In those times no less than in the present it woul... ...ation, in which her Majesty, strongly censuring the practice of wearing long Spanish rapiers of preposterous length (as being a bullying and swaggerin...

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...a quarrel was carried down between two families from father to son, like a Spanish game at chess, and a mur- der or two committed in every generation,... ...f, ad- venturers doing business for the house of James and Com- pany, late merchants in London, now in Dunkirk, I think it right to send you this earl...

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...o there was now no more means of purchasing foreign goods and small wares; merchants sent no shiploads into Laconian ports; no rhetoric-master, no iti... ...ion of friendship with their kings, and a great source of experience. Some merchants have built great cities, as Protis, the founder of Massilia, to w... ...lieves, in these verses,— Thy tomb is fairly placed upon the strand, Where merchants still shall greet it with the land; Still in and out ‘twill see t... ...embroiderers, turners; those again that conveyed them to the town for use, merchants and mariners and ship- masters by sea, and by land, cartwrights, ... ...nly in his consulship was esteemed the chief in courage and conduct in the Spanish war, but even whilst he was only serving as tribune at Thermopylae,... ... Plataea. Nor indeed is Antiochus, nor the destruction of the walls of the Spanish towns, to be compared with Xerxes, and the de- struction by sea and... ...of af- fairs. He first cut off the provision ships, and plundering all the merchants, made himself master of the supplies of corn; then bringing his n... ...of Pompey in Spain fretted him, as, with the re- nown he got there, if the Spanish war were finished in time, he was likely to be chosen general befor...

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...t stuck at her belt. And I maintain that she had no sense at all of acting Spanish prince disguised as page. Nor had she an idea that she was making h... ... 194 Sandra Belloni months ago that man was one of our most respected City merchants. Now he’s a bankrupt, and can’t show his head. It was all rotten.... ...ow breath. “Cornelia imagines that—that we—he is perhaps in—in want of it. Merchants are, sometimes.” “Did Sir T wickenham say he would call to-morrow... ...d, unless to be without principle is to be mad.” “Mad, or graduating for a Spanish comedie d’intrigue,” said Merthyr. “What on earth can he mean by it... ...fought no battle. He had been dead-beaten from his boy- hood. Like the old Spanish Governor, the walls of whose fortress had been thrown down by an ea...