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... against Cummings and intimating that he would speedily be released. ii. A little later a second cable advising that Edward Estlin Cummings had sailed... ...consider too dirty a task for their own hands) we proceeded in search of a little water for personal use. B. speedily finished his ablutions. I was st... ...guished gentleman who has been so good as to take my friend and me on this little promenade?”—to which, between lurches of the groaning F .I.A.T ., t-... ...our wake. I jumped to my feet as the F .I.A.T . came to a sudden stop, and started for the ground—then checked my flight in mid-air and landed on the ... ...is daily lectures on cleanliness, de- portment, etc.! In spite of myself I started to sing. The driver interrupted: “I heard you asking the tin lid so... ...eted my v-f-g with that affection which is peculiar to gendarmes. On me he stared cynically, then sneered frankly. With a little tooty shriek the funn... ... made them dance and they put me in prison. The soot-people hopped; and to twinkle like sparks on a chimney-back and I made eighty francs every dimanc...

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...d then let them ask them- selves whether they would speak of her so if her little hand could move. Well, and so the tale of her swim across the Shanno... ...crowned courtiers in frogged uniforms and moustachioed like sea- horses, a little before dinner time, when Kirby passed her, and the Emperor made a re... ...ble; and Countess Fanny (she had the name from the ballad ‘I am the star of Prince and Czar, My light is shed on many, But I wa... ...old Buccaneer To rescue Countess Fanny!’ and it goes on: ‘O little lass, at play on the grass, 11 George Meredith Come earn a ... ...sung by the poor coachman and labourers at the village ale-house before he starts to capture his wife from the clutches of her seducer and meets his f... ...sson. Those men might as well not believe in the steadfastness of the very stars because one or two are reported lost out of the firmament, and now an... ...ll of the face, or the flesh of the spirit. Occasionally she looked, for a twinkle or two, the creature or vision she had been, as if to mock by remin...

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...hem to heap honors on him. Of the later generations of phoneticians I know little. Among them towers the Poet Laureate, to whom per- haps Higgins may ... ...ic Art, there is still too much sham golfing English on our stage, and too little of the noble English of Forbes Robertson. ACT I Covent Garden at 11.... ...rson. She is perhaps eighteen, per- haps twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and... ... sir, is there any sign of its stopping? THE GENTLEMAN. I’m afraid not. It started worse than ever about two minutes ago. [He goes to the plinth besid... ...the flower girl, but deprecating her excessive sensibility. Cries of Don’t start hollerin. Who’s hurting you? Nobody’s going to touch you. What’s the ... ... her hop it. [She gets in and pulls the door to with a slam as the taxicab starts]. FREDDY. Well, I’m dashed! 18 Pygmalion ACT II Next day at 11 a.m.... ...snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief] Have some chocolates, Eliza. LIZA [halting, tempted]...

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...ew a child- ish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arrang... ...ed in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine – who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly e... ...nning to cry, was Pip. “Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep sti... ...up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!” A fearful man, all in coarse grey ,... ... your name!” said the man. “Quick!” “Pip, sir.” “Once more,” said the man, staring at me. “Give it mouth!” “Pip. Pip, sir.” “Show us where you live,” ... ...okee here!” said the man. “Where’ s your mother?” “There, sir!” said I. He started, made a short run, and stopped and looked over his shoulder. “There... ...th soap-suds, I could at first see no stars from the chaise-cart. But they twinkled out one by one, with- out throwing any light on the questions why ... ...re the fire and taking no share in the proceedings, Mike’s eye happened to twinkle with a tear. “What are you about?” demanded Wemmick, with the ut- m...

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...should proceed separately to church. By some accident the bridegroom was a little less punctual than the widow and her bridal attendants; with whose a... ... between her fair young bridemaids. But her heroism was admirable. She had started with an irrepressible shudder, as if the stroke of the bell had fal... ... way to the tomb. 15 Hawthorne “My young friends here have their nerves a little shaken,” said the widow, with a smile, to the clergyman at the altar... ...full in sight. Many turned away their faces; others kept a fixed and rigid stare; and a young girl giggled hysterically, and fainted with the laughter... ...g slowly his meditative way towards the meetinghouse. With one accord they started, expressing more wonder than if some strange minister were coming t... ...rds the door; many stood upright, and turned directly about; while several little boys clambered upon the seats, and came down again with a terrible r... ... of Marlborough. His nose had a rubi- cund tinge, which, together with the twinkle of his eye, might have marked him as a lover of the wine cup and go...

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...make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starbuck likens conversion to normal moral ripen- ing— Leuba’s ideas— Seemi... ... he will. My thanks for help in writing these lectures are due to Edwin D. Starbuck, of Stanford University, who made over to me his large collection ... ...his fact distinctly may breed confusion, I wish to insist upon the point a little before we enter into the docu- ments and materials to which I have r... ...ake a working use of the dis- tinction, and who may therefore feel first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the f... ...orking use of the dis- tinction, and who may therefore feel first a little startled at the purely existential point of view from which in the followin... ...ned to fixed forms by imitation, and retained by habit. It would profit us little to study this second-hand religious life. We must make search rather... ...re is in the living act of perception always some- thing that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late. N...

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...na Karenina tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too,” he remembered. ... ... table, and they were women, too,” he remembered. Stepan Arkadyevitch’s eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. “Yes, it was nice, very nic... ...needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was s... ...ng, and dropped it. “I told you not to sit passengers on the roof,” said the little girl in English; “there, pick them up!” “Everything’s in confusion... ...p with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was ... ... is he? Do you know?” Levin got up from his chair, as though on the point of starting off at once. 26 Anna Karenina “I am sorry I told you,” said Ser... ...drink?” “What you like, only not too much. Champagne,” said Levin. “What! to start with? You’re right though, I dare say. Do you like the white seal?”... ...t light low down in the west behind the birch trees, and high up in the east twinkled the red lights of Arcturus. Over his head Levin made out the sta... ...feet not to her satisfaction. “To do good, probably,” said the prince with a twinkle in his eye. “That is not for us to judge,” said Madame Stahl, per...

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...ink, of my travelling companion; they bore refer- ence to a supposititious little boy who had been left with a widowed mother who didn’t know what to ... ...e snow, to the inn where I was staying. It was after dinner; and he needed little persuasion to sit down by the fire in a warrn corner, and take his s... ...other; that was a’ a matther of opinion”; and fell to looking at the fire, staring round the room, and whistling a little. On my reverting to some oth... ...; and fell to looking at the fire, staring round the room, and whistling a little. On my reverting to some other topic that we had been discussing, he... ... a round game; the players see little or noth- ing of their cards at first starting; gains may be great—and so may losses. The run of luck went agains... ...ness. ‘Pretty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and ... ...lady would not object,’ said the president with great respect, and a merry twinkle in his eye. ‘Some little Ital- ian thing out of the last opera brou...

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...her, anxiously. “It is very considerate of her,” said Grace, “with so many little children. You would find them too much for you, dear 7 Yo n g e mot... ...es, and she has been very ill; she always is, I believe, but there is very little about it. Fanny never could write letters; she only just says: ‘I ha... ...ust says: ‘I have not been able to attempt a letter sooner, though my dear little girl is five weeks old to-day. Think of the daughter coming at last,... ... work.” “Just like a little mauve book!” muttered Rachel. Fanny absolutely stared. “You go, don’t you, Rachel? How we used to wish for it!” “You have ... ...ers were that no hur- ried message might be sent to her, lest she might be startled 32 The Clever Woman of the Family and injured by the attempt to c... ... good little boy . Did you or he touch the nest?” “Y es.” Then, as Conrade started, and looked fiercely at him, “Yes you did, Con, you touched the ins... ...sisted. 121 Yo n g e However, in four days’ time there was a very comical twinkle in his eye, as he informed her that the new number of the “Travelle... ...the surface. He knew the effect of that,” looking in his sleepy eyes for a twinkle of response. “No; his very reserve said, I am going to take her to ... ...ght encumbrances?” “Oh, they are your charge,” returned Lord Keith, with a twinkle in his eye. “Besides, most of them are lads, and what with school, ...

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...March 30, 1850 THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO “THE SCARLET LETTER” I T IS A LITTLE remarkable, that — though disinclined to talk overmuch of my se... ... This, in fact — a desire to put myself in my true position as editor, or very little more, of the most prolix among the tales THE CUSTOM HOUSE 3 tha... ...eking a passport to the hospital. Nor must we forget the captains of the rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces; a rough... ...gether superior to the sluggish and dependent mode of life on which their evil stars had cast them. THE CUSTOM HOUSE 11 Then, moreover, the white loc... ...like a sick man’s gown, dropping the staff of age to seize a battle sword, and starting up once more a warrior. And, in so intense a moment his demean... ...he tenderness of sentiment, but retained all the rigidity of dead corpses, and stared me in the face with a fixed and ghastly grin of contemptuous defia... ...; and neither THE CUSTOM HOUSE 25 of them was of one whit more avail than the twinkle of a tallow candle. An entire class of susceptibilities, and a ...

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...ough she was only just up after her confinement (she had an- other baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anx... ... I tell you not to?” said her mother. Chapter 3 When she went into Kitty’s little room, a pretty, pink little room, full of knick-knacks in vieux saxe... ...se I could help know- ing? I know all about it. And believe me, it’s of so little consequence.... We’ve all been through it.” Kitty did not speak, And... ... Nilsson?” he asked. “Oh, how can you steal upon anyone like that! How you startled me!” she responded. “Please don’t talk to me about the opera; you ... ...it is not well for man to be alone. He remem- 43 Tolstoy bered how before starting for Moscow he had once said to his cowman Nikolay, a simple-hearte... ...o each foot; and getting off his horse, he took the sieve from Vassily and started sowing himself. “Where did you stop?” Vassily pointed to the mark w... ...light low down in the west behind the birch trees, and high up in the east twinkled the red lights of Arcturus. Over his head Levin made out the stars... ...et not to her satisfaction. “To do good, probably,” said the prince with a twinkle in his eye. “That is not for us to judge,” said Madame Stahl, per- ...

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...l, neglected peasant, sunk in matter, insolent, gross and servile, makes a startling contrast with our own long-legged, long-headed, thoughtful, Bible... ... the streets where he has been wandering fancy- free. His college life has little of restraint, and nothing of necessary gentility. He will find no qu... ...d, again, which alone the Scottish boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous. It is not s... ...ss away swiftly enough on the high seas of life; more swiftly still in the little bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a sc... ...le bubbling back-water of the quadrangle; so that we see there, on a scale startlingly diminished, the flight of time and the succession of men. I loo... ...in, nor to learn charity and modesty and justice from the sight; but still stared at them externally from the prison windows of my affectation. Once I... ...e both Roberts; and as we took our places at table, he addressed me with a twinkle: “We are just what you would call two bob.” He offered me port, I r...

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...ink, of my travelling companion; they bore refer- ence to a supposititious little boy who had been left with a widowed mother who didn’t know what to ... ...e snow, to the inn where I was staying. It was after dinner; and he needed little persuasion to sit down by the fire in a warrn corner, and take his s... ...other; that was a’ a matther of opinion”; and fell to looking at the fire, staring round the room, and whistling a little. On my reverting to some oth... ...; and fell to looking at the fire, staring round the room, and whistling a little. On my reverting to some other topic that we had been discussing, he... ... a round game; the players see little or noth- ing of their cards at first starting; gains may be great—and so may losses. The run of luck went agains... ...ness. ‘Pretty well!’ echoed Mr Bonney. ‘It’s the finest idea that was ever started. “United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muf- fin and Crumpet Baking and ... ...lady would not object,’ said the president with great respect, and a merry twinkle in his eye. ‘Some little Ital- ian thing out of the last opera brou...

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... family of inconspicuous maltsters in what was then the clean and handsome little city on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But th... ...son were or- phaned in one month. Thus, from a few scraps of paper bearing little beyond dates, we construct the outlines of the tragedy that shadowed... ...dinburgh of the name of Thomas Smith. The Smith pedigree has been traced a little more particularly than the Stevensons’, with a similar 13 Records o... .... James Lawrie. The text was “Examine and see that ye be in the faith.”’ A twinkle of humour lights up this evocation of the dis- tant scene – the hum... ...5 Records of a Family of Engineers to inquire after your health, how was I startled to hear that dear James was gone! Ah, what is this? My dear benefa... ...erene and still, the sky presented the most beautiful appearance of bright stars, and the morning was ushered in with the song of many little birds.’ ... ...ndecipher- able by me; in all a distance of 2500 miles. In 1806 I find him starting ‘on a tour round the south coast of England, from the Humber to th...