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...she discharge the duties which she had under- taken; she kept her father’s mind at ease, followed out his views, managed the boys with discretion and ... ...idence may be laid by one who can enter into and direct the deeper flow of mind and feeling which lurks hid beneath the freaks and fancies of the earl... ... too 8 Scenes and Characters busy and too much preoccupied to have ear or mind for visionary trifles, though to trifles of real life she paid no smal... ...hem, in the strong sense of duty, the firmness of pur- pose, and energy of mind which both possessed, and which made Eleanor feel perfect reliance on ... ...’ ‘Hurrah! jolly! jolly!’ shouted Reginald, dancing on the ot- toman, ‘and mind there are lots of squibs.’ ‘ And that Master Reginald Mohun has a new ... ...nhappy!’ Some good-natured brothers would have told the little girl not to mind, and sent her out to enjoy herself, but Claude respected Phyllis’s hon... ...- ter if Lily would not make such a point of that one thing; but she never minds what else is cut short, and she never thinks of helping me. It never ... ...lking, and Lily spent the greater part of the visit in silence, though her mind was made up in the first ten minutes, as she told Emily on leaving the... ...ton’s manners, and the next time they met it was a determined thing in her mind that, as Claude would have said, they had sworn an eternal friendship....

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... cer tainly accorded with the event. I was turning over this riddle in my mind, and trying to catch its slippery purport by the tail, when the old ma... ...erous realities of any practicable scheme. They are not the rubbish of the mind. Whatever else I may repent of, there 8 The Blithedale Romance fore,... ...mbol of the cold, desolate, distrustful phantoms that invariably haunt the mind, on the eve of adventurous enterprises, to warn us back within the bou... ...melt the icicles out of her hair. Another conjecture likewise came into my mind. Recollecting Hollingsworth’s sphere of philan thropic action, I deem... ... wet slippers! And when the verses are written, and polished quite to your mind, I will favor you with my idea as to what the girl really is.” “Pray l... ...reply possible, and betake himself back into the solitude of his heart and mind. The poor fellow had contracted this ungracious habit from the intensi... ...art of it, I was in that vilest of states when a fixed idea remains in the mind, like the nail in Sisera’s brain, while innumerable other ideas go and... ...rth be at hand,—as most probably there will not,—he had better make up his mind to die alone. How many men, I wonder, does one meet with in a lifetime... ... matter of regret that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to it; for Hollingsworth would have gone with me to the hither verge o...

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... and manner of a stock-broker, and apparently endowed with a very ordinary mind. Hitherto I had scarcely noticed him, but now his face, possibly darke... ... Magnan continued awake. His thoughts unconsciously took an evil turn. His mind dwelt exclusively on the hundred thousand francs which lay beneath the... ...ight dur- ing the moments preceding sleep, an hour when images rise in our minds confusedly, and often, in the silence of the night, thought acquires ... ... felt that his heart was not inno- cent after committing that crime in his mind. “And yet, I am good!” he cried. “Oh, my poor mother! Perhaps at this ... ... which is seldom lacking to women when some action attracts them, or their minds are impelled by curiosity, my neighbor went up to the purveyor. “Were... ...es or ought to separate them. They observe each other unconsciously; their minds are preoccupied by themselves; through their looks, their gestures, a...

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...as Gustine I WA S not beloved of the villagers, But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed against me With plain remonstrance, hi... ...afraid. 40 Spoon River Anthology Hon. Henry Bennett IT never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death, with malice... ...enny, rosy Jenny full of the ardor of life. For all my wisdom and grace of mind Gave her no delight at all, in very truth, But ever and anon she spoke... ...herited, And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning His fathers mind against the rest of them. And we never had any peace with our treasure... ...d to books of science To care for him. That’s how the world of those whose minds are sick Became my work in life, and all my world. Poor ruined boy! Y... ...niwit, the Artist I LOST my patronage in Spoon River From trying to put my mind in the camera To catch the soul of the person. The very best picture I... ...For what service I was to the people! 61 Edgar Lee Masters Ernest Hyde MY mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mi... ...his is the birth of the soul in sorrow, A birth with gains and losses. The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one w... ...ng, ran for the legislature, Canvassed for books, with just the thought in mind: If I make money thus, I will divorce her. Mrs. Sibley THE secret of t...

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...al vigour with a melancholy vivacity. The remaining energies of Algernon’s mind were devoted to animadversions on swift bowling. He preached it over t... ...ceased be- fore the fulfilment of his prospects; and, casting about in her mind the future chances of her little daughter and sole child, Clare, she m... ...ustin Wentworth high. He did not live with his wife; and Sir Austin, whose mind was bent on the future of our species, reproached him with being barre... ... grimly. “Please to you, sir? Why, my chap, you looks as if ye didn’t much mind what come t’yer nose, I reckon. You looks an old poacher, you do. T al... ...hook his gun, hoarse with passion, “I’d have shot you, if I’d been loaded. Mind if I come across you when I’m loaded, you coward, I’ll fire!” The un-E... ... pleaded Ripton, with his eye on Farmer Blaize’s broad mark, and his whole mind drunken with a sudden revelation of the advantages of light troops in ... ... off and forsak- 19 George Meredith ing his friend never once crossed his mind, though his con- dition was desperate, and his friend’s behaviour that... ...als!” echoed the tinker. “You ask what I goes there for, mayhap? Never you mind. One sees a mort o’ life in my trade. Not for coals it isn’t. And I do... ...r more wine. “What, boy! Is it old Blaize has been putting you up!” “Never mind, uncle!” The boy nodded mysteriously. ‘Look there!’ Adrian read on Rip...

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... mar- row daily melted and refined for ages; until at length these clods that break below our footing, and to the eye appear but common earth, are tru... ... was still raw, it was no Marathon, and no Johannisberg; yet the stirring sunlight, and the growing vines, and the vats and bottles in the cavern, mad... ... keenly felt, while the abstract countryman is perfect – like a whiff of peats. And there was yet another. Upon him I came sud- denly, as he was calml... ...ke the roar of a cataract, but it was too changeful for the cataract; and then we would decide, speaking in sleepy voices, that it could be compared w... ... their way to see a gopher- hole. Boys, we felt to be their special danger; none oth- ers were of that exact pitch of cheerful irrelevancy to exercise... ...fessed. Stopping his trap in the moonlight, a little way out of Calistoga, he told me, in so many words, that he dare not show face therewith an empty... ... of the bags, and each more or less broken, the pow- der was spread widely on the floor. Had any of us ever seen giant powder? No, nobody had; and ins... ...cally by starvation. They are widely scat- tered, however, and easily recognized. Loutish, but not ill-looking, they will sit all day, swinging their ... ...horse along a beaten highway, and drawing inductions from a hair or a footprint, one of those somnolent, grinning Hodges will suddenly dis- play activ...

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...ow, and who would put down the one and suppress the other, until he made the minds of his fellow beings as besot ted and distorted as his own; — ne... .... She is evidently waiting for somebody, and though she may have made up her mind to go to church with him one of these mornings, I don’t think they h... ...easures, could feel the sinking of heart and soul, the wasting exhaustion of mind and body, the utter prostration of present strength and future hope,... ...ent, you offer no relief from listlessness, you provide nothing to amuse his mind, you afford him no means of exercising his body. Unwashed and unshav... ..., and sincerely religious under the influence of penalties, is worthy of the mind which could form such a mass of monstrous absurdity as this bill is ... ... traordinary to how few excesses it gave rise, even in that day, when men’s minds were not enlightened, or their pas sions moderated, by the influen...

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...ated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Laure. Let the brilliant mind that gave me the subject of this Scene have the honor of it. Her broth... ...f the Five Hundred, and accepted those legislative functions to divert his mind from his grief. After the 18th Brumaire, Monsieur de Serizy became, li... ...ess had the utmost re- spect for her husband. She even admired his turn of mind; she knew how to make him happy by approbation; she could do what she ... ...rise to his wife when he brought her to Presles, and with this idea in his mind, he had put some personal pride and self-love into the work. How came ... ... at a handsome advance. In order to secure the exorbitant sum on which his mind was set, the farmer had long endeavored to come to an under- standing ... ...een hundred a year salary.” “Well, I did think of it.” With these plans in mind, Moreau, as soon as he heard from the count that he was coming to Pres... ... have enough to do in this world to look after ourselves,” returned to his mind, and with it came that sentiment of obedience to what he called the “c... ... send any to the wash. And above all, remember Monsieur Moreau’s kindness; mind him as you would a father, and follow his advice.” As he got into the ... ...employed as much in mu- tual examination as in settling into their places. Minds need to get their equilibrium as much as bodies. When each per- son t...

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...and four little bits of moles around it, when he was na ked, and he said it minded him of Jubiter and his moons; and the children thought it was funn... ...ange? Why, Aunt Polly, he was always so good and kind and moony and ab sent minded and chuckle headed and lovable — why, he was just an angel! What ... ... a quarter.” The boy was plenty willing enough, if the head steward wouldn’t mind. Tom says that’s all right, he reckoned he could fix it with the hea... ...dn’t divide up two di’monds amongst three. If there’d been three — But never mind about that, there warn’t three. I loafed along the back streets stud... ...nd dollars, sure. That’s our money! Now we’ll trot in and see the folks. And mind you we don’t know anything about any murder, or any di’monds, or any... ... dog, and them blackberries, and the lantern, and the rest of that rot — and mind you talk as straight as a string — do you hear?” Tom he looked consi... ...and pleasant. But the old man he didn’t take any hand hardly, and was absent minded and restless, and done a considerable amount of sighing; and it wa... ...ted and pudd’n headed and good — and now look at him. If he hadn’t lost his mind he wasn’t muck short of it. That was what we allowed. It was a most ... ... poor things, they was so broke up and scared and knocked out of their right minds that they didn’t hardly know what they was about. With Tom it was a...

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...e their heads I saw The feudal warrior lady-clad; which brought My book to mind: and opening this I read Of old Sir Ralph a page or two that rang Wit... ...ummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind: Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more: And everywhere the broad a... ... That treats of whatsoever is, the state, The total chronicles of man, the mind, The morals, something of the frame, the rock, The star, the bird, the... ...aid themselves) inosculated; Consonant chords that shiver to one note; One mind in all things: yet my mother still 25 Tennyson Affirms your Psyche t... ... this A mere love-poem! O for such, my friend, We hold them slight: they mind us of the time When we made bricks in Egypt. Knaves are men, That lut... ...mother knew, Or Psyche, she affirmed not, or denied: From whence the Royal mind, familiar with her, Easily gathered either guilt. She sent For Psyche... ...n: we dismiss you: go. For this lost lamb (she pointed to the child) Our mind is changed: we take it to ourself.’ 38 The Princess Thereat the Lady... ...nge girl: and yet they say that still Y ou love her. Give us, then, your mind at large: How say you, war or not?’ ‘Not war,... ...t have it back: the child shall grow To prize the authentic mother of her mind. I took it for an hour in mine own bed This morning: there the tender...

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...rgain. My dear fellow, if you receive this letter in the morning, let your mind travel, as you lie in bed, fifty leagues or thereabouts from Paris, al... ...ccasion under his roof. How many ardent pas- sions, how many distinguished minds, how many fortunate circumstances have contributed to make this beaut... ...ewspapers brings you to. Here am I writ- ing a downright article. Does the mind have its ruts, like a road? I stop; for I rob the mail, and I rob myse... ...battle; but he has nothing more than the courage of a daring man; he lacks mind and breadth of view. Like other generals to whom mili- tary common-sen... ...trifes. The long letter of the young journalist must make most intelligent minds suppose that he had reached, morally and physically, that particular ... ...uns that crusaders delighted to make upon their names, and which brings to mind a fine political maxim, which, as we shall see later, was unfortunatel... ...he old man. “If you want to cross back again I’ll give you a hand. I don’t mind about getting wet; it saves washing!” “How about rheumatism?” “Rheumat... ...e English, in wine, and then, when he had put the poor deceased out of his mind, he found himself married, so the village maliciously declared, to a w... ...nd ill-treated her, with the customary revenge of the common people, whose minds take in only an effect and rarely look back to causes. Finding her fe...

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...vocal chords. Don’t talk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagi- nation. Mathematics commands all m... ...hich I could offer it to their shades. There could not be a question in my mind of anything else. It is quite possible that I am a bad economist; but ... ... memories and seek discourse with the shades, unless one has made up one’s mind to write only in order to reprove mankind for what it is, or praise it... ...fe’s way we consider dangers and joys with a tranquil 8 A Personal Record mind. So I proceed in peace to declare that I have always suspected in the ... ...cruples as regards ideas. Its hard, absolute opti- mism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one ... ...ghteousness awakens in me that scorn and danger from which a philosophical mind should be free… . I fear that trying to be conversational I have only ... .... They referred to a sunset in Malayan Isles and shaped them- selves in my mind, in a hallucinated vision of forests and rivers and seas, far removed ... ...remained behind through unfortunate accidents of transportation. I call to mind, for instance, a specially awkward turn of the Congo between 19 Josep... ...an the name. She did not shine so much by personal beauty and a cultivated mind in which your mother was far superior. It was her good sense, the admi...

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...vocal chords. Don’t talk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded per- son with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics 4 Some Remini... ...hich I could offer it to their shades. There could not be a question in my mind of anything else. It is quite possible that I 6 Some Reminiscences am... ... memories and seek discourse with the shades; unless one has made up one’s mind to write only in order to reprove mankind for what it is, or praise it... ...e middle turn of life’s way we consider dan- gers and joys with a tranquil mind. So I proceed in 9 Joseph Conrad peace to declare that I have always ... ... scruples as regards ideas. Its hard, absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one ... ...ighteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free… I fear that trying to be conversational I have only ma... .... They referred to a sunset in Malayan Isles and shaped them- selves in my mind, in a hallucinated vision of forests and rivers and seas, far removed ... ...remained behind through unfortunate accidents of transportation. I call to mind, for instance, a specially awkward turn of the Congo between Kinchassa... ...an the name. She did not shine so much by personal beauty and a cultivated mind, in which your mother was far superior. It was her good sense, the adm...

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...ry high rate of speed for that epoch of railroad travel, but to my anxious mind it was moving far too slowly. Minutes were hours, and hours were days ... ... came very near betraying me. He was a “hand” on the boat, but, instead of minding his business, he insisted upon knowing me, and asking me dangerous ... ...f so, Is not submission my duty? A contest had in fact been going on in my mind for a long time, between the clear con- sciousness of right and the pl... ...trol its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way, more deeply rooted in the minds of men of all sections of the country than perhaps any one other poli... ...,—society is instructed, or may be. Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thor- oughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that onl...

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...one day and exalted the next. She was just a good, sweet, natural, healthy-minded, healthy-bodied girl, honest, strong, self-reliant, and good-tempere... ...nd her father went to church. They were Episcopalians, and for time out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on Californi... ... lost interest in the clock. “Is that so? is that so?” he murmured absent- mindedly, seating himself at the table. Mr. Bessemer was murmuring: “That c... ...t does—and it’s shameful. But most of the girls—most of them don’t seem to mind.” Miss Bessemer stiffened a bit. “There are one or two girls that do,”... ...“as he could be and yet walk straight. As you say, most of the girls don’t mind. They say, ‘It’s only Johnnie Carter; what do you expect?’ But one of ... ...he matter drop. It would be more dignified, anyhow. Only I have made up my mind what I am going to do.” “What’s that?” “I’m not coming out. If that’s ... ...e kind of people who have made Jack Carter possible. The other girls don’t mind it, nor many men besides you, Condy; and I’m not going to be associate... ...k 18 Blix Carter affair alone!” she exclaimed; “the whole thing tires me. Mind, Condy,” she exclaimed, “I’m not go- ing to break with it because I ha... ...ingo! T ravis, I think I’m going to like you better than ever now.” “Never mind. Is it an agreement?” “What is?” “That we don’t pretend to love each o...

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...than himself. His habits were, in many respects, singular, and indicated a mind congenial to its uncouth tabernacle. A jealous, misanthropi- cal, and ... ...ere he had his hermitage, in which to take his last repose. He changed his mind, however, and was finally interred in the common burial-ground of Mano... ...nsidered him as a man of a powerful capacity and original ideas, but whose mind was thrown off its just bias by a predominant degree of self-love and ... ...n failed not to attend, both on account of the refreshment promised to the mind and to the body, although he is known to partake of the latter in a ve... ...l degeneracy of man- kind. All particulars of this legend Hobbie called to mind as he passed along the moor. He also remembered, that, since the catas... ...be beat to inspirit the doubtful courage of his soldiers. In this state of mind, he was very glad to hear a friendly voice shout in his rear, and prop... ...n.” “I dinna ken—if it had chanced amang our folk, we wad hae keepit it in mind mony a day till we got some mends for’t—but ye ken your ain ways best,... ...ak in the country, he’s likely to break out wi’ the first—and weel does he mind the auld quar- rels between ye, I’m surmizing he’ll be for a touch at ... ...d to advance. “We’ll aye hae time to pit ower a bit prayer (an I could but mind ane) afore she comes this length —God! she’s in nae hurry,” continued ...

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...al prospect; he had already a certain reputation as a poet; he made up his mind, therefore, to cast his lot with literature, and for a first venture c... ...y may be obtained from the scrutiny of Chapter VII, if the reader bears in mind that only a portion of the romances belonging to by far the largest gr... ...kind and the other, no doubt “Don Quixote” is a sad book; no doubt to some minds it is very sad that a man who had just uttered so beautiful a sentime... ...suffice to show that Cervantes had no deep design or elaborate plan in his mind when he began the book. When he wrote those lines in which “with a few... ...are told, “Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying whether he could call to mind any knight- errant taking with him an esquire mounted on ass-back; but... ...instinctive good taste and a great deal of shrewdness and origi- nality of mind. As to Sancho, it is plain, from the concluding words of the preface t... ...lry love is either a mere animalism or a fantastic idolatry. Only a coarse-minded man would care to make merry with the former, but to one of Cervante... ...t was just such an inn-yard as the one behind it that Cervantes had in his mind’s eye, and it was on just such a rude stone trough as that beside the ... ...of the romance kind. It is this that makes it, as one of the most judicial-minded of modern critics calls it, “the best novel in the world beyond all ...

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... against the misapprehensions of those who would read it with a prejudiced mind or be content to judge it by a hasty glance. My object in writing the ... ...sal, and have closed the last volume with a disagreeable impression on his mind, I humbly crave his pardon, for such was far from my intention; and I ... ...nsors to this suspicion, I make no effort to refute it, because, in my own mind, I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the se... ...inings, than all the sage reflections and good resolutions I had forced my mind to frame;—for I was young then, remember—only four-and- twenty—and had... ...nice, amusing little thing, when she is in a merry humour, and I shouldn’t mind calling her—‘ ‘Hush, hush, my dear! your brother has no such idea!’ wh... ... Poor thing! How lonely she must feel!’ ‘ And pray, be quick about it; and mind you bring me word how much sugar she puts in her tea, and what sort of... ...he thinks me an impudent puppy ,’ thought I. ‘Humph!— she shall change her mind before long, if I think it worth while.’ But then it flashed upon me t... ..., was anything but what it ought to be. Previous, however, to directing my mind to the service, I glanced round the church to see if any one had been ... ...d her daughter. The former was the widow of a substantial farmer, a narrow-minded, tattling old gossip, whose character is not worth describing. She h...

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