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...ould have been chiefly to notice how little he was noticeable. He wore the black morning coat, the black tie, and the speckled grey nether parts (desc... ... of draper’s as- sistant, a ruddy, red-haired lad in a very short tailless black coat and a very high collar, who is deliberately unfolding and refold... ...round a fitful glow of light, was saying. “ And clean the chain daily with black-lead. You mind just a few little things like that—” “Lord love us!” s... ...you please, call none Sir or Madame, have a lappel free of pins, doff your black morning coat, and wear the colour of your heart, and be a Man. You gr... ...going back, of being put in the cage again for another twelve months, lies blacker and blacker across the sunlight. But on the first morning of the te... ... was evidently some- thing dark and mysterious. Doctor Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, and Alexander Dumas were well within Mr. Hoopdriver’s range of readin...

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...strong criss-cross beams, with solid material between, coated with plaster. The beams were painted red or blue or black, according to the owner’s tast... ...in that day prevailed among serving-men and ‘prentices*— that is to say, each had on the crown of his head a flat black cap about the size of a saucer... ...ected procession now appeared in the great gateway, a troop of halberdiers. ‘They were dressed in striped hose of black and tawny, velvet caps graced ... ...the French ambas- sador, and were followed by twelve cavaliers of the suite of the Spanish ambassador, clothed in black velvet, unrelieved by any orna... ... the King would have assaulted him, but Canty—or Hobbs, as he now called himself—prevented him, and said— “Peace, Hugo, vex him not; his mind is astra... ... and thy ways fret him. Sit thee down, Jack, and quiet thyself; thou shalt have a morsel to eat, anon.” Hobbs and Hugo fell to talking together, in lo... ...silent, some were irritable and petulant, none were gentle- humoured, all were thirsty. The Ruffler put ‘Jack’ in Hugo’s charge, with some brief instr... ...e, with some brief instructions, and commanded John Canty to keep away from him and let him alone; he also warned Hugo not to be too rough with the la... ...ed themselves abroad to enter the vil- lage at different points to ply their various trades— ’Jack’ was sent with Hugo. They wandered hither and thith...

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...stively costumed Princes and Knights. All seemed pleasure, joy, and roguish gaiety, only one of the numerous guests had a gloomy exte- rior; but exact... ...open his Vizier. He opened it, and none of the high ladies and knights knew him. But from the crowded spectators, 2 offi- cials advanced, who recogniz... ... for grace for your offense now kneels before me, rise as knight; knavish you have acted, and Knave of Bergen shall you be called henceforth, and glad... ...maids and retouched the sidewalk, and afterward wiped the marble steps with damp cloths and fin- ished by dusting them off with feather brushes. Now a... ...stage of the proceedings, a narrow bright red car- pet was unrolled and stretched from the top of the marble steps to the curbstone, along the center ... ...columns, carved apparently from the living rock; and what is more, they are written all over with thou- sands of names; some of them—like Byron’s and ...

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...A. Martin Secker, 1917. *“Karl Strickland: sein Leben und seine Kunst,” by Hugo Weitbrecht-Rotholz, Ph.D. Schwingel und Hanisch. Leipzig, 1914. 6 The... ...of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straigh... ...me to go,” I said to the Colonel, getting up. “I suppose you’ve heard that blackguard has deserted her,” he cried explosively . I hesitated. “ Y ou kn... ...on’t know who the woman is, you know , ” he said. “All we know is that the blackguard’s gone to Paris.” “I thought they got on so well.” “So they did.... ... I could go and see her that evening after dinner . I found her alone. Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her be- reaved condition, and I... ...oach.” “She can go to hell.” “ You don’t care if people think you an utter blackguard? Y ou don’t care if she and your chil- dren have to beg their br...

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... glazed eyes of Necessity are always fixed upon you; fly away as you will, black Care sits behind you, and with his ceaseless gloomy croaking drowns t... ... for wheels, under which unhappy millions are crushed to death. An immense black cloud of desolation covers over the country through which the gin mon... ... gimcracks and trumpery. He has drawn a perfectly English scene—the little blackguard boys are playing pranks round about the men, and shouting, “Head... ... the “Life in Paris” before mentioned. He has also made designs for Victor Hugo’s “Hans of Iceland.” Strange, wild etchings were those, on a strange, ... ...t, and will stow it, without any creases or crumples, along with the other black garments that lie in that immense pocket of his. Cruikshank has desig... ...ery often outwitted. There is, for instance, the case of “The Gentleman in Black,” which has been illustrated by our artist. A young French gentle- ma...

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...e place of their habitation. Strange coincidence! If I had been Mr. Victor Hugo, my dear, or a poet of any note, I would, in a few hours, have made an... ...y a time have they patted the cheek of poor Josephine, and played with the black ringlets of her hair. She is dead now, and cold, poor creature; and s... ...s of thousands of eyes upon it, from houses and housetops, from balconies, black, purple, and tricolor, from tops of leafless trees, from behind long ... ... of pale funereal urns, of discharging odors amidst huge volumes of pitch- black smoke, THE GREAT IMPERIAL CHARIOT ROLLS MAJESTICALLY ON. The cords of... ...ors. Some of these sheds were hung with 38 The Second Funeral of Napoleon black, such as one sees before churches in funerals; some were robed in vio... ... the first lines of architec- ture, was hung with violet; beyond this with black. We saw N’s, eagles, bees, laurel wreaths, and other such imperial em...

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.... Balzac began with an odd but not unintelligible compound, something like Hugo’s, of Napoleonism and Royalism. In 1824, when he was still in the shad... ...ts for some of the most interesting figures of the Comedie. He knew Victor Hugo, but certainly not at this time intimately; for as late as 1839 the le... ...this time intimately; for as late as 1839 the letter in which he writes to Hugo to come and breakfast with him at Les Jardies (with interesting and mi... ... his Eve in the Rue Fortunee—a name too pro- vocative of Nemesis—by Victor Hugo, the chief maker in verse as he himself was the chief maker in prose o... ...Tours Un Menage de Garcon A Bachelor’s Establishment The T wo Brothers The Black Sheep 36 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix Les Parisiens en...

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...ders. He was dressed in dark-blue serge, and had peculiarly thick, coarse, black hair. I heard the unseen dogs growl furiously , and forthwith he duck... ... from myself. He turned with animal swiftness. In some indefinable way the black face thus flashed upon me shocked me profoundly. It was a singularly ... ...d you!” said Montgomery. “Why the devil don’t you get out of the way?” The black-faced man started aside without a word. I went on up the companion, s... ...ere, you know,” he said in a deliberate tone. “Your place is forward.” The black-faced man cowered. “They—won’t have me for- ward.” He spoke slowly, w... ...ng back, still astonished beyond measure at the grotesque ugliness of this black-faced creature. I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary... ... preliminary manipulation of the young mountebank or contortionist. Victor Hugo gives an account of them in `L ’Homme qui Rit.’—But perhaps my meaning...

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...f polished tin (it may have been that or oilskin), hand- somely laced with black worsted, and ornamented with a shin- ing gold cord. A little squat bo... ...rniture; and, finally, an air of extremely respectable pov- erty. A jolly, black-eyed, yellow-shawled Dulcinea conducted us through the apartment, and... ..., with strong Jewish physiognomies. There was one, a solemn lean fellow in black, with his collars extremely turned over, and holding before him a lon... ... the sun-burnt city and go HOME. Y onder in the steamer was home, with its black funnel and gilt portraiture of “Lady Mary W ood” at the bows; and eve... ...d we met scores of women tripping towards them with pretty feet, and smart black mantillas, from which looked out fine dark eyes and handsome pale fac... ...idleness is the best, and I shall never enjoy such in Europe again. Victor Hugo, in his famous travels on the Rhine, visiting Co- logne, gives a learn...

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... greater height, and very slight; his large keen eyes, hair and moustache, black as jet; and his complexion dark brown, with a well-formed aquiline no... ... and make encroachments on their privileges and possessions. Thus when Sir Hugo Lynwood, the old Crusader, was made prisoner by Simon de Montfort’s pa... ...to a confidential whisper, “I like not that outlandish Squire, so tall and black. Men say he is a Moor—a worshipper of Mahound.” Eustace laughed heart... ...nard was not satisfied. “Had ever man born in Christian land such flashing black eyes and white teeth? And is not he horribly fierce and strict?” “Nev... ...r, and I have heard strange tales of his father, Beranger d’Aubricour, the Black Wolf of the Pyrenees, as he was called, one of the robber noblesse of... ...or the bright sun of Gascony; Ralph Penrose held his master’s horse, and a black powerful charger was prepared for Eustace, but still the broth- ers t...

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...of Belgravia. After all these years, each leaving its evi- dence of slowly blackened pages, I can honestly say that it is a sentiment akin to piety wh... ...till, out of the waste of a white earth joining a bestarred sky, surged up black shapes, the clumps of trees about a village of the Ukrainian plain. A... ...ssion of a member of the fam- ily; and beyond the village in the limitless blackness of a winter’s night there lay the great unfenced fields—not a fla... ... a kindly bread-giving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber nestling in the hollows. The road by which I had co... ...ained windows stood a tall bony man with a bald head set off by a bunch of black hair above each ear and with a long black beard. He glanced up from t... ...r aware of learning to read. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ro- mantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, vo... ..., not being very well at the time, the proofs of his translation of Victor Hugo’s “Toilers of the Sea.” Such was my title to consideration, I believe,...

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...all these years, each leaving 16 A Personal Record its evidence of slowly blackened pages, I can honestly say that it is a sentiment akin to pity whi... ...till, out of the waste of a white earth joining a bestarred sky, surged up black shapes, the clumps of trees about a village of the Ukrainian plain. A... ...ssion of a member of the family; and beyond the village in the limit- less blackness of a winter’s night there lay the great unfenced fields—not a fla... ... a kindly bread-giving land of low rounded ridges, all white now, with the black patches of timber nestling in the hollows. The road by which I had co... ...ined windows stood a tall, bony man with a bald head set off by a bunch of black hair above each ear, and with a long, black beard. He glanced up from... ...r aware of learning to read. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voya... ..., not being very well at the time, the proofs of his translation of Victor Hugo’s “Toilers of the Sea.” Such was my title to consideration, I believe,...

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...rehead, by his casque worn bare, His thick moustache, and curly hair, Coal-black, and grizzled here and there, But more through toil than age; His ... ...towering falcon seemed to soar. Last, twenty yeomen, two and two, In hosen black, and jerkins blue, With falcons broidered on each breast, Attended on... ...he summoned Palmer came in place; His sable cowl o’erhung his face; In his black mantle was he clad, With Peter’s keys, in cloth of red, On his bro... ...isplease; He loves to drown his bosom’s jar Amid the elemental war: And my black Palmer’s choice had been Some ruder and more savage scene, Like that ... ... scream from isle to shore; Down all the rocks the torrents roar; O’er the black waves incessant driven, Dark mists infect the summer heaven; Through ... ...narch of that warlike name, And eke the time when here he came To seek Sir Hugo, then our lord; A braver never drew a sword; A wiser never, at the hou... ...ild clamour and affray Of those dread artisans of hell, Who laboured under Hugo’s spell, Sounded as loud as ocean’s war Among the caverns of Dunbar. ...

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...the forehead. An observer taking note of this excellent Norman, clothed in black and mounted on his two legs like a beetle on a couple of pins, and kn... ...steppes of Desire. Modeste had christened this grotesque little being her “Black Dwarf.” The nickname sent him to the pages of Walter Scott’s novel, a... ...as painted in a style that suggested the beauties of Chinese lac- quer. On black panels edged with gold, birds of every color, foliage of impossible g... ...house in Paris. This young man with a livid face—a blonde of the type with black eyes, whose immovable glance has an indescrib- able fascination, sobe... ... an indescrib- able fascination, sober in speech as in conduct, dressed in black, lean as a consumptive, but nevertheless vigorously framed—visited th... ...hand); “she seemed to me all but crazy with admiration for that Mon- sieur Hugo. I’m sure I don’t know where such people” (Vic- tor Hugo, Lamartine, B... ..., English, French, and German. Lord Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Walter Scott, Hugo, Lamartine, Crabbe, Moore, the great works of the 17th and 18th centur... ...oat, and the unfathomable brow which ev- ery bard ought to possess. Victor Hugo’s forehead will make more persons shave their heads than the number of... ... alexandrines to express one idea. Of all the poets of our day only three, Hugo, Theophile Gautier, and De Vigny, have been able to win the double glo...

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... first seen walking on the Mall in a blue velvet dress, with her mother in black velvet, there was quite an excitement in Sancerre. This dress confirm... ...ountenance set off by terrible eyes in 16 The Muse of the Department deep black circles, under enormous eyebrows; and his elo- quence, very unlike hi... ...d through a diamond ring, while the law- yer never dressed in anything but black—coat, trousers, and waistcoat alike, and those often shabby. These fo... ...thank any one who warned him of this little mishap. He wore knee-breeches, black silk stockings, and a white waistcoat till 1824. After his marriage h... ...in the same little bottle-green coat with large white-metal buttons, and a black stock that accentuated his cold stingy face, lighted up by gray-blue ... ...ne from Rossini, six bars written by Meyerbeer, the four lines that Victor Hugo writes in every album, a verse from Lamartine, a few words from Berang... ...aldo crossing the stage in the back- ground like a figure in one of Victor Hugo’s plays.” 80 The Muse of the Department “He, perhaps, is the husband,...

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...turally strong and powerfully expressive, had been burnt almost into Negro blackness by constant exposure to the tropical sun, and might, in their ord... ...eins of the forehead, the readiness with which the upper lip and its thick black moustaches quivered upon the slightest emotion, plainly intimated tha... ...pression of a mild blue eye, do not 20 Ivanhoe chase from your memory the black-tressed girls of Palestine, ay, or the houris of old Mahound’s paradi... ...; “Here is some one either asleep, or lying dead at the foot of this cross—Hugo, stir him with the but-end of thy lance.” This was no sooner done than... ...ed the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. On the sides of the apartment hung implements of war... ... eight-pointed cross of his order was cut on the shoulder of his mantle in black velvet. The high cap no longer invested his brows, which were only sh...

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...xquisite arabesques. The little boy and girl lie side by side on a slab of black marble, and a pair of small kneeling angels, both at their head and a... ...t behind him, shows a glimpse of a sunny garden, where you may fancy other black young figures strolling up and down. Mademoiselle Gamard’s house, whe... .... I passed a couple of timber and plaster churches, which looked very old, black, and crooked, and had lumpish wooden porches and galleries encircling... ..., rugged vessel of the church overhung me in very much the same way as the black hull of a ship at sea would overhang a solitary swimmer. It seemed co... ...served this gentleman with a horrible little portfolio, covered with shiny black cloth and accompanied with two sheets of thin paper, three wafers, an... ...n by day it has the air of a vignette of Gustave Dore, a couplet of Victor Hugo. It is almost too perfect,—as if it were an enormous model, placed on ...

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... that she threw it out: “Well, there’s Lyng, in Dorsetshire. It belongs to Hugo’s cous- ins, and you can get it for a song.” The reasons she gave for ... ...thick December dusk, by just such a wide-hooded fireplace, under just such black oak rafters, with the sense that beyond the mullioned panes the downs... ..., circling softly, interminably before her, now darkened to a uniform blue-blackness, the hue of a summer night without stars. And into this darkness ... ...med beggars or having their pockets picked by slippery- looking fellows in black—the whole with such an air of ease and good-humour that one felt the ... ... and feathered hats. One nobleman wore a ruff and doctor’s gown, another a black velvet tunic slashed with rose-colour; while the President of the dre... ...age her dress from the tip of his scabbard. She wore one of the voluminous black hoods which the V enetian ladies affected, and under its projecting e...

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...sed in the very pose of his hands, of his body, tightly clothed in a short black coat, and of his long legs with their knees raised, like the hind-leg... ... path, slightly swaying her slender figure at each step, and with a pretty black-mittened little hand pushing her long soft curls back from her face. ... ...unning, some one was overtaking him; he heard panting, and suddenly from a black circle of shadow cast by a huge tree Shubin sprang out before him, qu... ...saw a nice-looking, rather broad but fresh face, with merry brown eyes and black eyebrows. ‘Annushka!’ re- peated Shubin. The girl saw him, looked sca... ...unknown words, stared intently at Katya and everything about her—her quick black, almost animal eyes, her sun-burnt hands, her hoarse voice, even her ... ...eep that Boustrapa! If you like I will lend you Les Chatiments de Vic- tor Hugo—it’s marvellous—L ’avenir, le gendarme de Dieu— rather boldly written,...

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... it in 1840. Mutton cutlets and fillet of beef at Flicoteaux’s repre- sent black game and fillet of sturgeon at Very’s; they are not on the regular bi... ... in the flames of heady punch, or by the generous warmth of a small cup of black coffee glori- fied by a dash of something hotter and stronger. Lucien... ... queer characters of the trade in the days of the Empire. Doguereau wore a black coat with vast square skirts, when fashion required swallow-tail coat... ...ey attached to it, hung from his fob and dangled down over a roomy pair of black nether gar- ments. The booksellers’ watch must have been the size of ... ...Pale-faced and slight and thin, with a fine forehead hid- den by masses of black, tolerably unkempt hair, there was something about him that attracted... ...seemed to me that a volume of sonnets would be something quite new. Victor Hugo has appropriated the old, Canalis writes lighter verse, Beranger has m... ...ve no idea, gentlemen, of the amount of harm that Byron, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne, Canalis, and Beranger have done by their success. ... ...ere are only four poets—Beranger, Casimir Delavigne, Lamartine, and Victor Hugo; as for Cana- lis—he is a poet made by sheer force of writing him up.”... ...children nowadays,” said Blondet. “Since M. de Chateaubriand called Victor Hugo a ‘sublime child,’ I can only tell you quite simply that you have spir...