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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I lo...

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...les Dickens CHAPTER 1 NIGHT IS GENERALLY MY TIME FOR WALKING. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and l... ...he easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over powering ev... ... and Miss Jane the youngest. Miss Melissa might have seen five and thirty summers or thereabouts, and verged on the autumnal; Miss Sophy was a fresh,... ... peace, and a life of tranquil happiness. Sun, and stream, and meadow, and summer days, shone brightly in her view, and there was no dark tint in all ... ...until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of... ... were the birds singing, as the sun only shines and the birds only sing on holidays and half holidays; there were the trees waving to all free boys t... ...he governess; no deferential servant to at tend and bear her home for the holidays; nothing gen teel to talk about, and nothing to display. But why ... ...rrily home together. CHAPTER 40 FULL OF THAT VAGUE kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning, Kit turned out at sunrise, and, with his fait... ...pockets, but free from any very great oppression notwithstanding. Oh these holidays! why will they leave us some re gret? why cannot we push them bac...

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...OOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON, 103 -- BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT?LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO -- LOVE OF MAN, 125 -- BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN ...

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... 19 BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 BOOK FOURTH SUMMER V ACATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 BOOK FIFTH BOOKS . . ... ...g Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. The design and occasion of the work are described by the ... ...In a small mill race severed from his stream, 290 Made one long bathing of a summer’s day; Basked in the sun, and plunged and basked again Alternate, ... ...mmer’s day; Basked in the sun, and plunged and basked again Alternate, all a summer’s day, or scoured The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves O... ..., as best might suit her aim. INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 11 One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree W... ... And languidly pursued. When summer came, 55 Our pastime was, on bright half holidays, To sweep along the plain of Windermere With rival oars; and the... ...artered year In penniless poverty. But now to school 85 From the half yearly holidays returned, We came with weightier purses, that sufficed To furnish... ...re we ever masters of our wish. And when thereafter to my father’s house The holidays returned me, there to find That golden store of books which I had... ...another Of these memorials:— One Christmas time, On the glad eve of its dear holidays, Feverish, and tired, and restless, I went forth 290 Into the fie...

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...mplements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, th...

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...nglish country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was lef... ...d rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were... ...r with a laugh, “you can leave Isabel alone to water it! She is as good as a summer rain, any day.” “Do you mean she’s a gifted being?” “I don’t know ... ...r, is very fond of Gardencourt and would be quite capable of living there—in summer—with a maid of all work and a gardener’s boy. There’s one remarkab... ...otel and wandered all over the place. It was lovely weather—a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We just lived in that park. Oh yes; you can’t t... ... help me to decide whether my daughter shall return to you at the end of the holidays.” “I hope you’ll decide in our favour, madame,” the sister in sp... ...k, for I’ve been so much away from him. Papa has always been principally for holidays. I miss Madame Catherine almost more; but you must not tell him ...

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...uction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence i...

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... Residence at Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Book Fourth Summer Vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Book Fifth... ..., 295 A little Mill race sever’d from his stream, Made one long bathing of a summer’s day, Bask’d in the sun, and plunged, and bask’d again Alternate ... ...mmer’s day, Bask’d in the sun, and plunged, and bask’d again Alternate all a summer’s day, or cours’d Over the sandy fields, leaping through groves 300... ...ransplanted. Well I call to mind (’Twas at an early age, ere I had seen Nine summers) when upon the mountain slope The frost and breath of frosty wind... ...le Wherein I was a Stranger, thither come 380 A School boy Traveller, at the Holidays. Forth rambled from the Village Inn alone No sooner had I sight ... ...made A lonely scene more lonesome; among woods At noon, and ’mid the calm of summer nights, When, by the margin of the trembling Lake, 450 Beneath the... ...r 85 In pennyless poverty. But now, to School Return’d, from the half yearly holidays, We came with purses more profusely fill’d, Allowance which abund... ...ers of our wish. And afterwards, when, to my father’s house Returning at the holidays, I found That golden store of books which I had left Open to my ... ...nts, 345 With which we will conclude. One Christmas time, The day before the holidays began, Feverish, and tired, and restless, I went forth Into the ...

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...Excerpt: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling water, like the voices of the s...

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... PLASHWATER WEIR MILL LOCK looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and pa... ...ing forward to lay his hand upon the Lock-keeper’s shoulder. ‘These are my holidays.’ ‘Are they, by George!’ muttered Riderhood, with his eyes on the ... ...sion-wasted face. ‘Y our working days must be stiff ‘uns, if these is your holidays.’ ‘And I have never left him,’ pursued Bradley, waving the interru... ...ne subject living in the world for every sharp destructive instrument that summer evening. So, Riderhood looking af- ter him as he went, and he with h... ... Behold Bella tripping along the streets, the dearest girl afoot under the summer sun! Behold Pa waiting for Bella behind a 38 Our Mutual Friend – V ... ...oth the prettiest of little breakfasts. In waiting, too, like an attendant summer breeze, a fluttering young dam- sel, all pink and ribbons, blushing ... ...nes of red and yellow were flickering out, in favour of the calm blue of a summer night. He was still by the river- side. T urning suddenly , he met a...

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...Men do not sham convulsion Nor simulate a throe.” As light after darkness, Summer following Winter, she is inevitable, unequivocal. Evasion of fact sh... ...l find the music— Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled, Scantily dealt to the Summer morning, Saved for your ears when lutes are old.” But in what vernac... ...hol! Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue. When landlords turn the drunken bee ... ...ining rampant squirrel Or too impetuous bird. How fair her conversation, A summer afternoon,— Her household, her assembly; And when the sun goes down ... ... VII FROM cocoon forth a butterfly As lady from her door Emerged—a summer afternoon— Repairing everywhere, Without design, that I could trace,... ..., and spools of thread, And trudging feet from school. 210 Playmates, and holidays, and nuts, And visions vast and small. Strange that the feet so pr...

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...ack into the old groove. He had once or twice run across the man whom Anna Summers had preferred to him, and since he had met her again he had been ex... ...nged so quickly. A moment since it had danced like a field of daisies in a summer breeze; now, under the pallid oscillating light of the lamp over- he... ...ion to reality than a pale decorative design to the confused richness of a summer landscape. He no longer understood the violent impulses and dreamy p... ... had swept away all but the outline of their story, and the memory of Anna Summers had made the image of the young girl sacred, but the class unintere... ...sh twilight. As he sank back into his seat he thought how differently Anna Summers—or even Anna Leath—would have behaved. She would not have talked to... ...own her how much she had still to learn about the slight fair boy whom the holidays periodically restored to Givre. Owen, even then, both physically a...

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...e, They are now starved for want of exercise: Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, Must have inventions to delight the taste, Would now be ... ...re me, a handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and we’ll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting days, and moreo’er puddings and flap jacks, a... ...ss. SIMONIDES: And she is fair too, is she not? PERICLES: As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. SIMONIDES: Sir, my daughter thinks very well of y... ... purple violets, and marigolds, Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave, While summer days do last. Ay me! poor maid, Born in a tempest, when my mother ...

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... old groom that her pony was to belong exclusively to Master Harry for the holidays, and now Harry told her that still waters ran deep. She had been d... ... guardian- ship of Major Garrow, and, as he had always spent his Christmas holidays with his guardian, this, perhaps, had given rise to the practice. ... ... father and mother said to each other. But the young people had met in the summer, and one joyful letter had come from the girl home to her mother. “I... ...n get to bed. It’ll be two, I suppose. I’ve got to mug uncommon hard these holidays. I have only one more half, you know, and then—” “Don’t overdo it,... ...ill be forty hours a week, and will give me just two hundred hours for the holidays. I have got it all down here on a table. That will be a hundred an... ...t will be pretty well; won’t it?” “But, Frank, you have come home for your holidays,— to enjoy yourself?” “But a fellow must work now-a-days.” “Don’t ...

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...nd old, and with other such fragrant tokens of the freshness and wealth of summer. The window through which the 5 Charles Dickens landlord had concen... ...avily dropped and rotted. The frosts and damps of winter, and the heats of summer, had warped what wreck remained, so that not a post or a board retai... ...ed that he was. “Nor going,” Mr. Traveller replied: “I design to pass this summer day here.” “How dare you come, sir, upon my promises—” the Hermit wa... ...et pipe and began to fill it. “Now, that a man,” he said, appealing to the summer sky as he did so, “that a man—even behind bars, in a blanket and ske... ...oth be the better for my pipe. It is my intention to sit here through this summer day, until that blessed summer sun sinks low in the west, and to sho... ...Miss Linx, when she once went to Tunbridge Wells with Miss Pupford for the holidays, reported on her return (privately and confidentially) to have see... ...e occasion when he was behind his time. The approach of the last Midsummer holidays had a particular interest for the pupil-mind, by reason of its kno... ...on of its knowing that Miss Pupford was bidden, on the second day of those holidays, to the nuptials of a former pupil. As it was impossible to concea... ...e bonnet. The extensive preparations being completed on the day before the holidays, an unanimous entreaty was preferred to Miss Pupford by the pupil-...

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...thers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the shore! Seven summers by the shore!) ‘Mid two hundred brothers. There we met with famous... ...ueth Broad and deep continueth Great beyond their knowing! “IN AMBUSH” IN SUMMER all right-minded boys built huts in the furze-hill behind the Colleg... ... since they were strictly forbidden, palaces of delight. And for the fifth summer in succession, Stalky, McT urk, and Beetle (this was before they rea... ...n the short, springy turf between the drone of the sea below and the light summer wind among the inland trees. They were looking into a combe half ful... ... again the barren purple moun- tains of the rainy West coast, where in his holidays he was viceroy of four thousand naked acres, only son of a three- ... ...if he thought we got tight.” “I never got squiffy but once—that was in the holidays,” said Stalky, reflectively; “an’ it made me horrid sick. ‘Pon my ... ...unned ‘em all along under the ‘ang of the heaves, like. Runned ‘em in last holidays. I can’t rache the turncock.” “Let me try,” said Stalky, diving in... ...der—I cashed it at Keyte’s—for five bob; but he’ll pay me back before the holidays. We didn’t know there was anything wrong in it.” They waded throug... ...’t you?” “Oh, no, sir,” said Stalky cheerfully; for a week’s gating in the summer term is serious. “Ve-ry good. Then we will do what we can. I wish yo...

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...eadily and sweetly across this hurly-burly of the winds and waters as ever at home upon the summer woods. The engine pounded, the screw tossed out of ... ...towaway will often make a good profit out of his adventure. Four engineers stowed away last summer on the same ship, the Circassia; and before two day... ... struggle. And the workman early begins on his career of toil. He has never had his fill of holidays in the past, and his prospect of holidays in the ... ... was no stir of insects in the grass. The sunshine was more golden, and gave less heat than summer sunshine; and the shadows under the hedge were some... ...and cauliflowers that had been spoiled by caterpillars. She had been so much pleased in the summer- time, she said, to see the garden all hovered over... ...vivid yellow. But the au- tumn had scarce advanced beyond the outworks; it was still almost summer in the heart of the wood; and as soon as I had scra...

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...ed away from him: Bute also, with its shaggy mountains, moaning woods, and summer and winter seas, had been wholly a dissolving-view for him, and had ... ...glory such as did that crowded school-room the week before the Christ- mas holidays. But these were the splendors of life. The truest and the stronges... ...sually approaching cow; the field close beside it, where I rolled about in summer among the hay; the brook in which, despite of maid and mother, I wad... ...ian notabilities (all of them except Madame de Stael forgot- ten now), all summer, diligently surveying his ground;— returned for his family, who were... ... all. No- where, of its kind, could you see a grander prospect on a bright summer day, with the set of the air going south- ward,—southward, and so dr... ...for the world) to extricate the New from the falling ruins of the Old, the summer and autumn of 1830. From Gibraltar and Torrijos the tidings were vag...

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...heir confused dull way, ever get mental glimpses among the motes in the sun- light, of healthy people and healthy things? Whether this young woman, br... ...etors, which has sud- denly sprung up in the back outskirts of any place we like to name, and where we look out of our palatial windows at little back... ... evening when air is pleasant, and though the rain had The Uncommercial Traveller 67 brought into the town that vague refreshing smell of grass which... ...on were made to churches. Not that I have any curiosity to hear powerful preachers. Time was, when I was dragged by the hair of my head, as one may sa... ...hen the birds are very musi- cal indeed, farmers’ boys patter out over the stone pavement, and the clerk steps out from his desk after them, and is di... ...o do with it. The porters of the Vintners’ Company, the draymen, and the butchers, are about the only people who wear distinctive dresses; and even th...

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...ghbourhood. The Judges’ families often accompanied them, especially at the summer assize, and thus there grew up close associations between their chil... ...amend it, if the birching did not do, he should not let me go home for the holidays; but I will not catch the birching... —‘So believe me your dear So... ...838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. AFTER the Christmas holidays of 1837-8, when Coley Patteson was nearly eleven years old, he was... ...from home severely, and seldom failed to write a mournful letter after the holidays. There is one, quite pa- thetic in its simplicity, telling his mot... ...sisters climbed the rocks, boated, fished, and ran exquisitely wild in the summer holi- days. Christmas was spent with the Judge’s mother at Ipswich, ... ... it, I do not know whether there will be another Sacrament here before the holidays, or whether I shall receive it with you at Feniton next time.’ 23... ...mily (except the yet unconfirmed younger brother) did so receive it in the summer holidays, the last that were to be spent in the full joy of an unbro... ...coming up.’ The sprain prevented his playing in the matches at Lord’s that summer, though he was well enough to be reckoned on as a substitute in case... ...energies. This failure evidently made him take himself to task, for in the summer he writes to his father:— There are things which have occurred durin...

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... a capital collection of damaged goods, among which the flies of countless summers ‘have been roaming.’ We are great in obsolete seals, and in faded p... ...nceforth separate our French water ing place from our own landlord of two summers, M. Loyal Devasseur, citizen and town councillor. Permit us to have... ...ighted. Five and thirty soldiers had M. Loyal billeted on him this present summer, and they all got fat and red faced in two days. It became a legend ... ... are most beholden, are the Soci ety of Welldoing, who are active all the summer, and give the proceeds of their good works to the poor. Some of the ... ...e to me at another time, I make that journey, as I really did, on the same summer day, with the same happy party—ah! two since dead, I grieve to think... ...titution, and we have a Working Men’s Institu tion—may it hold many gipsy holidays in summer fields, with the kettle boiling, the band of music playi... ... am a good workman. Not a Teetotaller; but never drunk. When the Christmas holidays were over, I went up to London by the Parliamentary T rain, and hi... ...extraordinary sounds when he sometimes tried to play it of an evening. His holidays never began (on account of the bills) until long after ours; but, ...

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...o myself, lurked within my sighs; and, as bells heard from a distance on a summer evening seem charged at times with an articulate form of words, some... ...Jane’s absence. But still in my heart I trusted that she would come again. Summer and winter came again—crocuses and roses; why not little Jane? Thus ... ...th, other conditions remaining the same, is more profoundly affect- ing in summer than in other parts of the year—so far, at least, as it is liable to... ...ggested, lies in the antagonism between the tropical redundancy of life in summer and the frozen sterilities of the grave. The summer we see, the gra... ... stronger relief. But, in my case, there was even a subtler reason why the summer had this intense power of vivifying the spectacle or the thoughts of... ...ng storms, suddenly dawned upon me; and not as any casual intercalation of holidays that would come to an end, but, for any thing that appeared to the... ...ntleman, the son of a wealthy banker, had to return home for the Christmas holidays to a town in Lincolnshire, distant from the public school where he...

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...ng to his entire satisfaction, and leaving Antigua be- fore the end of the summer. Such was the state of affairs in the month of July; and Fanny had j... ... my honoured uncle, bought a cottage at Twickenham for us all to spend our summers in; and my aunt and I went down to it quite in raptures; but it bei... ... and opening on a little lawn, surrounded by shrubs in the rich foliage of summer, was enough to catch any man’s heart. The season, the scene, the air... ... shall ever see Sotherton again with so much pleasure as I do now. Another summer will hardly improve it to me.” After a moment’s embarrassment the la... ...m sure, my name was Norval, every evening of my life through one Christmas holidays.” “It was a very different thing. You must see the differ- ence yo... ...blic place was new to Maria, and Brighton is almost as gay in winter as in summer. When the novelty of amusement there was over, it would be time for ... ...t, must already have seen him, and be seeing him perhaps daily, his direct holidays might with justice be instantly given to the sister, who had been ... ...ould come to at any time, a little homestall at his command, where all the holidays of his year might be spent, and he might find himself continuing, ... ...nts cut up, as to shut their eyes to the truth. I suppose Mrs. R.’s Easter holidays will not last much longer; no doubt they are thorough holidays to ...

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...ucted himself, that though she was at this present 8 Persuasion time (the summer of 1814) wearing black ribbons for his wife, she could not admit him... ...Domingo, and not immediately employed, had come into Somersetshire, in the summer of 1806; and having no parent living, found a home for half a year a... ... of which had been gradu- ally growing shabby, under the influence of four summers and two children; and, on Anne’ s appearing, greeted her with— “So,... ...ld not get out. I do not think she has been in this house three times this summer.” Anne said what was proper, and enquired after her husband. “Oh! Ch... ...ess. He felt it all, so much for her sake. I wished for him again the next summer, when I had still the same luck in the Mediterranean.” “And I am sur... ... must return in time to re- ceive their younger children for the Christmas holidays, had hardly a hope of being allowed to bring her with them. They h... ...were reseated in the carriage, “not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays.” Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other mat- ter... ... dull Christmas; Mr and Mrs Musgrove have not had one dinner party all the holidays. I do not reckon the Hayters as anybody. The holidays, however, ar...

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... in our neighbourhood. You have heard about her? No! Why, she went out one summer evening at twilight, when she was a beautiful girl, just seventeen y... ... which have long arisen from us to show 23 Charles Dickens faintly, after summer rain, in the palest edges of the rainbow! That was the time for the ... ...d the merri- est games that ever were played. They rowed upon the river in summer, and skated on the ice in winter; they were active afoot, and active... ...der, and more sports than I can think of; nobody could beat them. They had holidays too, and Twelfth cakes, and parties where they danced till midnigh... ...m—and that was the most he remembered about it. He never went home for the holidays. His accounts (he never learnt any extras) were sent to a Bank, an... ...o boots at twelve. They were always too big for him, too. In the Midsummer holidays, some of our fellows who lived within walking distance, used to co... ...nding it was a treat. And saved the butcher. So Old Cheeseman went on. The holidays brought him into other trouble besides the loneliness; be- cause w... ...s raised for him; and, to keep up his spirits, he was presented before the holidays with two white mice, a rabbit, a pigeon, and a beautiful puppy. Ol...