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...derdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner....

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...t of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna’s saloon and bought a pit... ...was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner. Once in his office, or, as he called it on his signboard, “Dental Parlors,” he took off... ...er a travelling dentist visited the mine and put up his tent near the bunk-house. He was more or less of a charlatan, but he fired Mrs. McTeague’s amb... ...t one room. It was a corner room on the second floor over the branch post- office, and faced the street. McTeague made it do for a bedroom as well, sl... ...of white beans. At one end of the street McTeague could see the huge power-house of the cable line. Immediately opposite him was a great mar- ket; whi... ...t mar- ket; while farther on, over the chimney stacks of the in- tervening houses, the glass roof of some huge public baths glittered like crystal in ... ...Y TWO MONTHS Maria Macapa set the entire flat in commotion. She roamed the building from garret to cellar, searching each corner, ferreting through ev... ...liard-room. There were but two play- ers. Somewhere in another part of the building a mam- moth music-box was jangling out a quickstep. From out- side... ...ig gold teeth are beautiful, beautiful—only they cost so much, I can’t af- ford one just now.” “Oh, it’s raining,” suddenly exclaimed Trina, holding o...

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...rtain of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house and make inspec- tion. This they did; and finding evident tokens of t... ...re, because in the last week in December 1664 another man died in the same house, and of the same distemper. And then we were easy again for about six... ...that, I think it was about the 12th of February, another died in an- other house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the peopl... ...ority was given to justices of the peace, mayors, bailiffs, and other head-officers to appoint within their several limits examiners, searchers, watch... ...ces infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the performance of their offices. And the same statute did also authorise the giving of other direct... ...g of infection of sickness (if it shall so please Almighty God) that these officers following be ap- pointed, and these orders hereafter duly observed... ...to a narrow way that turns out of the hither end of the town of Bow to Old Ford, avoided any inquiry there, and travelled to Old Ford. The constables ... ...rd this little fraud, they obtained so much favour of the constable at Old Ford as to give them a certificate of their passing from Essex through that... ...oiner, whose name was Richard, and one of their men, who said his name was Ford. Ford. And do you assure us that you are all sound men? Richard. Nay, ...

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...er’s thoughts as, standing on the verandah of his new but already decaying house—that last failure of his life— he looked on the broad river. There wa... ...y. One of those drifting trees grounded on the shelving shore, just by the house, and Almayer, neglecting his dream, watched it with languid interest.... ... a punkah on the other side of the green door, where the so-called private office was, and where old Hudig—the Master—sat enthroned, holding noisy rec... ...t confidentially to Vinck; perhaps send an order thundering down the ware- house, or spy a hesitating stranger and greet him with a friendly roar, “We... ...ved, would pause listening to the noise of a hot discussion in the private office, would hear the deep and mo- notonous growl of the Master, and the r... ...ed. In one of the side walls there was a doorway. Half obliterated words— ”Office: Lingard and Co.”—were still legible on the dusty door, which looked... ...stood already, having been landed by the steamer’s men. As soon as Captain Ford had his glass before him and his cheroot lighted, Almayer asked for th... ... Almayer asked for the ex- planation of his daughter’s unexpected arrival. Ford said little beyond generalising in vague but violent terms upon the fo... ...Nina. Especially for Nina! Under these vivifying impulses he asked Captain Ford to write to his friends in England making inquiries after Lingard. Was...

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...n the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome a... ...ebrated reform- ers. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement- house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read... ...n her- self, had become a stranger to her even when they lived in the same house. From those early brown and silver days and from her independence of ... ...ment. In five days they would be in the cyclone of final examinations. The house of the president had been massed with palms suggestive of polite unde... ...h school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a thick tall man of... ... “Nothing like it. Keeps you out, and yet you have a chance to loaf in the office for a change.” “I don’t mean that way. I mean—it’s such an opportu- ... ...ess like this was fifty years ago. But already, why, they can hop into the Ford or the Overland and get in to the movies on Saturday evening quicker t... ...u asks me!” Contentedly Sam Clark drove off, in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Mirmiemashie House Free ‘Bus. “I shall like Mr. Clark…I can’t... ...arest people on earth. Uh, Carrie— Would you mind if I sneaked down to the office for an hour, just to see how things are?” “Why, no. Of course not. I...

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..., with whom he was not acquainted, and John Stewart, in Auchnacoan, in the house of the walk miller of Auchofragan, and went on with them to the house... ... Alan said, he had very good reason for it: that thereafter they left that house; and, after drinking a dram at another house, came to the deponent’s ... ...t work, I sat be- side him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish’ d Gentlewoman’s Companion. In the midst of receip... ...er his arm. “Well, Davie, lad,” said he, “I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way.” And we began to walk forward in silence. “Are... ...er; and I was glad to get my bundle on my staff’s end and set out over the ford and up the hill upon the farther side; till, just as I came on the gre... ...bly to say that I have not. Paid I am, and none too much, to be the second officer of this old tub, and you ken very well if I do my best to earn it. ... ... It was all fitted with lockers from top to bottom, so as to stow away the officers’ belongings and a part of the ship’s stores; there was a second st... ...d with a kind of frightened look; and then Hoseason walked up to his chief officer, took him by the shoulder, led him across to his bunk, and bade him... ...and wondered what to do, till it occurred to me that perhaps the creek was ford- able. Back I went to the narrowest point and waded in. But not three ...

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...the wide ocean in an open boat, by order of Fletcher Christian, one of his officers, at this very minute. Another flash of my fire, and ‘Thursday Octo... ...ety for the preservation of his beloved daughters, and earnestly asked the officer if he could devise any method of saving them. On his answering with... ...g great part of the storm, now poured upon deck, where no exertions of the officers could keep them, while their assistance might have been useful. Th... ...is power, for the safety of the desponding crew, he returned to the round house, where, by this time, all the passengers and most of the officers had... ...rror of such a situation. ‘In addition to the company already in the round house, they had admitted three black women and two soldiers’ wives; who, wi... ...al wax candles in pieces, and stuck them up in various parts of the round house, and lighted up all the glass lanthorns he could find, took his seat,... ...ed out, the doors were billed across, the water spout was billed over. The building was shored up to prevent its tumbling into the street; and the ver... ...ing posters showed themselves, as if they were interminable. I thought the building could never even be pulled down, but in one adhesive heap of rotte... ...ght,’ and started after the Cove all down the Waterloo Road, through Stam ford Street, and round to the foot of Blackfriars Bridge, where the Cove ‘c...

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... author Wolcott Balestier, at that time connected with a London publishing house. A strong attachment grew between the two, and sev- eral months after... ...f land about three miles north of Brattleboro’, Vt., and on this erected a house at a cost of nearly $50,000, which he named “The Naulahka.” This was ... ...ong the Gloucester fisher- men with an acquaint-ance who had access to the house- hold gods of these people. He returned to England in August, 1896, a... ...se directions, I proceeded till I found a mighty street, full of sumptuous buildings four and five stories high, but paved with rude cobblestones, aft... ...reasonably 8 American Notes devote his whole attention to the job. Out of office hours he can take his coach and four and pervade society if he pleas... ...e agency of their flight, but once in awhile you shall pass a five-storied building humming with machinery that winds up an everlasting wire cable, an... ...nd that he’s quite English. Have you seen our cracker factories or the new offices of the ‘Examiner’?” He could not understand that to the outside wor... ...ote magazine ar- ticles instead of reading them hurriedly in the pauses of office-work, who painted pictures instead of contenting themselves with che... ...e road, ran on the two off- wheels mostly till we dipped head-first into a ford, climbed up a cliff, raced along down, dipped again, and pulled up dis...

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...olemn. Farms and gardens, convent towers, white villages and churches, and buildings that no doubt were hermitages once, upon the sharp peaks of the h... ...nd-still, at some three hundred yards from the little town, with its white houses clambering up a rock, defended by the superior mountain whereon the ... ...d. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but humbly in the providor’s boat; that officer going on shore to purchase fresh eggs, milk for tea (in place of th... ...ome steep rocky steps, through a little low gate, where, in a little guard-house and barrack, a few dirty little sentinels were keeping a dirty little... ...sentinels were keeping a dirty little guard; and by low-roofed whitewashed houses, with balco- nies, and women in them,—the very same women, with the ... ... they inhabited; the warriors were in ging- hams, cottons, and tinsel; the officers had huge epaulets of sham silver lace drooping over their bosoms, ... ...h was the fashion in Louis the Fifteenth’s time, at which unlucky period a building mania seems to have seized upon many of the monarchs of Europe, an... ...off, as we lay bumping up against the old hull of the Sanita boat; but the officers seemed to take a delight in keeping us there bumping, looked at us... ... my neighbours were any more enthusiastic than myself—Trinity College, Ox- ford, was busy with the cold ham: Downing Street was par- ticularly attenti...

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...to the very fountain where he lies.” 7 Wordsworth I’ll build a Pleasure-house upon this spot, And a small Arbour, made for rural joy; T will be... ...iving well; Three pillars of rude stone Sir Walter rear’d, And built a house of pleasure in the dell. And near the fountain, flowers of stature ... ...erential care For them the quiet creatures whom he loves. The Pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before, This, is no common waste, no common gloom;... ...hen, when elder boys perhaps Remain’d at home, go staggering through the fords Bearing his Brother on his back.—I’ve seen him, On windy days, in... ...et was delicate, And Leonard being always by his side Had done so many offices about him, That, though he was not of a timid nature, Yet still... ...l Ballads – Vol 2 You see yon precipice—it almost looks Like some vast building made of many crags, And in the midst is one particular rock Th... ...e) on the Island at Grasmere. Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seen Buildings, albeit rude, that have maintain’d Proportions more harmonious,... ... of the School, with the time at which they entered upon and quitted their office. Opposite one of those names the Author wrote the following lines. ... ...e Villagers in him Behold a record which together binds Past deeds and offices of charity Else unremember’d, and so keeps alive The kindly moo...

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..., embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars. I went crazy over outdoor work, and had at last to co... ...range thing that I mark is this: If I go out and make sixpence, bossing my labourers and ply- ing the cutlass or the spade, idiot conscience applauds ... ...—‘Tofa, soifua!’I put on Jack up the steep path, till he is all as white as shaving stick—Brown’s euxesis, wish I had some—past Tanugamanono, a bush v... ...nsulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney—just what I fled ... ...ircus. We occupied the first row in the reserved seats, and there in the row behind were all our friends—Captain Foss and his Captain-Lieu- tenant, th... ...was. ’Then it was decided that I was to be made a culprit against Germany; the German Captain—a delightful fellow and our constant visitor—wrote to sa... ...most the only Ger- man left to speak to us. Seventy labourers down with in- fluenza!It is a lovely ride, half-way down our mountain towards Apia, then... ...We went by a track I had never before followed down the hill to V aisigano, which flows here in a deep valley, and was unusually full, so that the hor... .... My boy Henry was enraptured with the manners of the Tawaitai Sili (chief lady). Among our other occupations, I did a bit of a supposed epic describi...

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...d at the battle of Preston with his clan, the Stewarts of Appin, he saw an officer of the opposite army standing alone by a bat- tery of four cannon, ... ...- nist, he employed it in parrying the blow of a Lochaber axe aimed at the officer by the Miller, one of his own followers, a grim-looking old Highlan... ... Allan Whitefoord, a gentleman of rank and consequence, as well as a brave officer, gave up his sword, and with it his purse and watch, which Invernah... ..., he visited Colonel 12 Chronicles of the Canongate Whitefoord at his own house, and spent two happy days with him and his Whig friends, without thin... ...g said something of his own and his family’s exertions in the cause of the House of Hanover, begged to resign his situation in their service, since he... ...of Invernahyle. The chieftain himself lay concealed in a cave near his own house, before which a small body of regular soldiers were encamped. He coul... ... and beds of gravel, inspiring a species of awe from the few and faithless fords which it presents, and the frequency of fatal accidents, now diminish... ...t the deer of Breadalbane in the forests of America, or will the ocean af- ford you the silver-scaled salmon of the Awe? Consider, then, what is your ... ... Harry Waakfelt, that 190 Chronicles of the Canongate drew you out of the fords of Frew, when you was drifting ower the plack rock, and every eel in ...

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...tly at the opening of the lattice,—I woke no one except a great brute of a house-dog, that yelled, and howled, and bounced so at me over the rails, th... ... and I got up on the roof without having seen Mary Smith. As we passed the house, it did seem as if the window cur- tain in her room was drawn aside j... ...ad sunk a sum of four hundred pounds in the purchase of an annuity at this office, which paid her no less than six-and-thirty pounds a year, when no o... ...wenty-four. The chairman of the directors was the great Mr. Brough, of the house of Brough and Hoff, Crutched Friars, Turkey Merchants. It was a new h... ...ociety patronised by those good people. He had nine clerks residing at his office in Crutched Friars; he would not take one without a certificate from... ...ng down at the shop, as we called it (it wasn’t a shop, but as splendid an office as any in Cornhill)—he was always talking about V estris and Miss Tr... ...red against the heads of the establishment—but over them I pass: I can af- ford, sir, to pass them by—no worldly conversation or foul jesting disturbe... ...ent well and handsomely dressed; but I know that their salaries cannot af- ford ornaments like those, and I grieve to see you with a thing of such val... ...rs old between us; and, for my part, I never found any harm come of castle-building, but a great deal of pleasure. Before I left London I had, to say ...

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... Casciano, if I may take this analogy one step further, I too am an exile. Office and leading are closed to me. The political career that promised so ... ... wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with houses of pine and ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and c... ... there the busy exit from Charing Cross, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetuall... ...again at eventful dinners in those old dining-rooms like cellars below the House—dinners that ended with shrill division bells, I think of huge clubs ... ... already some crude inaccurate version of our story and why I did not take office, and have formed your partial judgement on me. And so it is I sit no... ...ring project I could undertake. I could build whole towns with streets and houses and churches and citadels; I could bridge every 11 H G Wells gap in... ... expressions of opinion entirely identical in import with those of the Ox- ford and Harvard Pragmatists, against whom he waged a fierce obscure war… .... ...ft in all obedience— Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford, Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By the ... ...with which she gave it out to me. My sleeping peer in the library at Stam- ford Court and Evesham talking luminously behind the Hartstein flowers embo...

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...y other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much like one another. Writin... ...ng so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house. Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen, appearances were mend... ...and baronets as delight in forc- ing young ladies away to some remote farm-house, must, at such a moment, relieve the fulness of her heart. Who would ... ...when she related their different situations and views—that John was at Ox- ford, Edward at Merchant T aylors’, and William at sea—and all of them more... ...r a strength- ened belief of there being a great deal of wine drunk in Ox- ford, and the same happy conviction of her brother’s com- parative sobriety... ...building was not only new, but declared itself to be so; intended only for offices, and enclosed behind by stable-yards, no uniformity of architecture... ...neral allowed it; but if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices; and as he was convinced that, to a mind like Miss Morland’s, a vie... ...nts continually appearing did not strike her less than the number of their offices. Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some ... ...sy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Ox- ford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding. Your kind offices will se...

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...and found it an interesting city. I would have liked to visit the birth- place of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memo- randum of the site ... ...ut it could not be done, as no memo- randum of the site of the house has been kept. So we spent an hour in the Goethe mansion instead. The city permit... ...thing for a guide, but none was to be had. Presently he saw a deer, followed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would ... ...ory or defeat was gained or avoided; and in order to commemorate the epi- sode, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, which he named Frankfo... ...rk against the lofty leafy ram- part at its back. This hotel had a feature which was a decided novelty, and one which might be adopted with advantage ... ...wn our backs—an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. Harris carried the little watch- like machine called a “pedometer,”... ... logs and relieved the pilot of his pole and his responsibility. We went tearing along in a most exhilarating way, and I performed the delicate duties... ... young girls sit pottering at some sort of ladylike sewing-work in your neighborhood and can’t seem to see you—polite as three-dollar clerks in gov- e... ...leasure tramp through the summer woods and hills—per- fect nuisance—chases the squirrels, barks at everything, goes a-capering and splattering around ...

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... she shook her ears or her tail; and she looked so small under the bundle that my mind misgave me. We got across the ford without difficulty – there w... ...then proceeded to steer Modestine through the village. She tried, as was indeed her invariable habit, to enter every house and every courtyard in the ... ...r not in such or such a place; if there were forests; studies of manners; what, for example, I and the master of the house say to you; the beauties of... ... cess, the defects of the majority decide the type of beauty. ‘And where,’ said I, ‘is monsieur?’ ‘The master of the house is upstairs,’ she answered,... ...- wart father had made with his own two hands within the space of a year, came to a corner, and showed us some white buildings a little farther on bey... ...dy paths and beds of parti-coloured dahlias, and with a fountain and a black statue of the Virgin in the centre. The buildings stand around it four-sq... ...el, the chapter- room, or the refectory, all day long: every hour he has an 40 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne office to sing, a duty to perform... ...clusion. There were none of those circumstances which strike the Prot- estant as childish or as tawdry in the public offices of Rome. A stern simplici... ...ayer, and then the clear trenchant beating of the bell, breaking in to show 41 Robert Louis Stevenson that the last office was over and the hour of s...

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...er to a son of the bishop a very short time before his installation to the office of precentor. 4 The Warden Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had ... ...father became, a few months later, precentor of Barchester Cathedral, that office being, as is not usual, in the bishop’s gift. Now there are peculiar... ... had made money in the town as a wool-stapler, and in his will he left the house in which he died and certain meadows and closes near the town, still ... ...nd bred and spent their days in Barchester; he also appointed that an alms-house should be built for their abode, with a fitting residence for a warde... ...hn Hiram’s time, produced hay or fed cows, were now cov- ered with rows of houses; the value of the property had gradually increased from year to year... ...sque house attached to the hospital had been enlarged and adorned, and the office had become one of the most coveted of the snug clerical sinecures at... ...d was done. Hiram’s Hospital, as the retreat is called, is a pictur- esque building enough, and shows the correct taste with which the ecclesiastical ... ...o could be hard upon a dean while wandering round the sweet close of Here- ford, and owning that in that precinct, tone and colour, design and form, s... ...dear—Mr Bold can’t say that that sha’n’t be read by every clergyman at Ox- ford; nay, by every gentleman in the land’: and then he walked up and down ...

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...is bare feet in a pair of straw slippers, he wandered silently amongst the houses in daylight, almost as dumb as an animal and apparently much more ho... ...hade, breath- ing in the perfume of flowers in the small garden before his house. He fancied that nothing would be 8 An Outcast of the Islands change... ...g & Co. They were a numerous and an unclean crowd, living in ruined bamboo houses, surrounded by neglected com- pounds, on the outskirts of Macassar. ... ...board of his brig. The night was starry and clear; the little custom-house building was shut up, and as the gharry that brought him down disappeared u... ...rly to Mr. Vinck, who had his desk close to the little door of the private office, and march down the warehouse with an im- portant air. Mr. Vinck—ext... ...—where he had been tremulously listening to the loud voices in the private office—and buried his face in the big safe with nervous haste. For the last... ...collection the morning when he met again that fellow coming out of Hudig’s office, and how he was amused at the incongruous visit. And that morning wi... ... Palembang in our boats. I chartered her there, for six months. From young Ford, you know. Belongs to him. He wanted a spell ashore, so I took charge ... ...s to him. He wanted a spell ashore, so I took charge myself. Of course all Ford’s people on board. Strang- ers to me. I had to go to Singapore about t...

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...free nobles in course of being reduced from their lawless liberty, and the House of Austria beginning to acquire its preponderance over the other prin... ...middle and latter part of the fifteenth cen- tury. T o aid her aunt in all house-wifely arts, to prepare dainty food and varied liquors, and to spin, ... ...d Christina. “Then will our wagons be no longer set upon at the Debateable Ford by 13 Yo n g e Schlangenwald or Adlerstein; and our wares will come s... ... But what trampling do I hear?” There was indeed a sudden confusion in the house, and, before the uncle and niece could rise, the door was opened by a... ...ugh their well-lined doublets! Ulm knows of Adlerstein, and the Debateable Ford!” “It knows little to its credit,” said Gottfried, gravely; “and it kn... ... giving space for complaints, hurried her on. He must reach the Debateable Ford ere dark. It was, however, twi- light when they came to an open space,... ... “never in bondage to any man,” hold- ing their own, and owing no duty, no office; poorer, because unendowed by the royal authority, but holding thems... ...Eberhard, clearing his voice with difficulty; “I would but have him do his office. Art thou afraid, priest?” “Who needs my office?” demanded Father No... ...ock’s Pass; it is open now.” “Why should I baulk him? Why should I deny my office to the dying?” said Norbert. “Alas! holy father, thou art new to thi...

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...g man whom, four years previous, I had frequently met in a sailor boarding-house in Liverpool. I remembered parting with him at Prince’s Dock Gates, i... ...parting with him at Prince’s Dock Gates, in the midst of a swarm of police-officers, trackmen, stevedores, beggars, and the like. And here we were aga... ...n. He was quite a young man, pale and slender, more like a sickly counting-house clerk than a bluff sea-captain. Bid- ding me be seated, he ordered th... ...mned, however, about two years previous, she was purchased at auction by a house in Sydney, who, after some slight repairs, dispatched her on the pres... ...ight one day find his anchor down, and no crew to weigh it. With judicious officers the most unruly seamen can at sea be kept in some sort of subjecti... ... galley-slaves, they are only to be governed by scourges and chains. Their officers go among them with dirk and pistol—concealed, but ready at a grasp... ...o the royal abode, both artists and sitters. It was a famous time; and the buildings of the palace being “taboo” to all but the tattooers and chiefs, ... ...ble that they cause no inconvenience. The Pritchard residence—a fine large building—occupies a site on one side of the bay: a green lawn slopes off to... ...toga critically, re- minded its proprietor that there were many streams to ford, and precipices to scale, between Martair and Tamai; and if he travell...