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...d second, not to say a dumb, fiddle, regarding McT urk as one from another world. The two glasses of strong home-brewed had brought a melancholy upon ... ...hey’d like a change.” “Well, it can’t last forever,” said Stalky. “Heffy’s bankin’ up like a thunder-cloud, an’ King goes rubbin’ his beastly hands, a... ... with him, as the bedropped pages showed. He removed himself from all that world, drifting at large with wondrous Men and Women, till McTurk ham- mere... ...r Little by Little,’” said McTurk; “so we gave him ‘St. Winifred’s, or the World of School.’ They spent all their spare time stealing at St. Winifred’... ...ne of breakers falling nine-deep along the Pebbleridge. Far down the steep-banked Devonshire lane he heard the husky hoot of the carrier’s horn. There... ... innocent boys like us! Wonder what they’d say at ‘St. Winifred’s, or the World of School.’—By gum! That reminds me we owe the Lower Third one for as... ...When they returned from the baths, damp-headed, languid, at peace with the world, Beetle’s forecast came only too true. They were met in the corridor ... ...ind her,” said Stalky. “A cat may look at a king.” McT urk rolled down the bank at his own jest. “Pussy, you don’t know how useful you’re goin’ to be ... ...true metal. Recreants who, failing for the Army, had gone into business or banks were received for old sake’s sake, but in no way made too much of. B...

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...roud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such force no w... ... Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and ma... ...h feelings pure, They will not, cannot, long endure; Condemned to stem the world’s rude tide, You may not linger by the side; For Fate shall thrust yo... ...y rest, 34 Marmion Deep in each gentler heart impressed. ’Tis silent amid worldly toils, And stifled soon by mental broils; But, in a bosom thus prep... ...l adjust her veil, Disordered by the summer gale, Perchance lest some more worldly eye Her dedicated charms might spy; Perchance, because such action ... ...try shrouds again: And mountain dark, and flooded mead, Bid us forsake the banks of T weed. Earlier than wont along the sky, Mixed with the rack, the ... ...t length up that wild dale they wind, Where Crichtoun Castle crowns the bank; For there the Lion’s care assigned A lodging meet for Marmion’s ra... ...s of Braid, They passed the glen and scanty rill, And climbed the opposing bank, until They gained the top of Blackford Hill. XXIV. Blackford! on w... ...o light to the saddle before her he sprung. “She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur; They’ll have fleet steeds that follow,” quoth young ...

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...they reached the broad ditch which bordered the road, they scaled the high bank on the other side, braving the fire of the Republicans, which was suff... ... least.” “Three hundred crowns of six francs each!” chorussed the luckless banker, Pille-Miche, and Coupiau, in three differ- ent tones. “ Alas, my go... ...ur Republic get out of you?” “A thousand crowns, my dear man,” replied the banker, with a piteous air, hoping for a reduction. “If your Republic gets ... ...m and miracle that were absolutely startling. His voice echoed through the world like the voice of a prophet, for none of his proclamations had, as ye... ...oil of which, being constantly thrown out upon the fields, has formed high banks covered with furze,— the name given throughout the West to this prick... ...seen the tip-end of the nose of the young lady, and I’ll declare the whole world needn’t be ashamed to feel an itch, as I do, to revolve round that ca... ...inexpressible charm in the question of an unknown traveller, if a woman,—a world of adventure is in every word; but if the woman asks for assistance o... ...ing of love and danger which tempted me. I cannot bear to leave this empty world without at least attempting to gather the flowers that it owes me,—wh... ...civilization!” he added. “Alas!” he sighed, “there is but one Paris in the world; what a pity it is I can’t transport it to sea! Heavens! spoil-sauce!...

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...d of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer’s own nat... ...orecastle to the cabin, spent a tempestuous manhood, and returned from his world wanderings, to grow old, and die, and mingle his dust with the natal ... ... their country’s ser vice—as I verily believe it was—withdrew to a better world. It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interfer ence, a s... ...w’s dinner, than of the shipwreck of forty or fifty years ago, and all the world’s won ders which they had witnessed with their youthful eyes. The fa... ...o has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world’s dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the 23 Hawthorne n... ...t was a little dell where they had seated them selves, with a leaf strewn bank rising gently on either side, and a brook flowing through the midst, o...

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...mory of the rescue of certain distressed travellers effected by him in the world’s great storm of theyear 1914. AUTHOR’S NOTE OF THE THREE LONG NOVELS... ...s. It seemed to me that it would be a base thing for me to slip out of the world leaving it out there all alone, waiting for its fate—that would never... ...nturers who began that struggle have left no descendants. The ideas of the world changed too quickly for that. But even far into the present cen- tury... ...muttered “Dicky, poor Dick—” and fell back into the immense silence of the world. His eyes closed, his head hung low over the hot brass of the binnacl... ...r nothing living but the brig. To him she was as full of life as the great world. He felt her live in every motion, in every roll, in ev- ery sway of ... ...enabled the brig to fetch the southern limit of discoloured water over the bank on which the yacht had stranded. On the very edge of the muddy patch s... ...ld be made out; and then the brig, having reached the western limit of the bank, began to move diagonally away, increasing her distance from the yacht... ... the taffrail so as to keep him longer in sight. When about a mile off the bank and nearly in line with the stern of the yacht the brig’s topsails flu... ...t on shoulder and match in cock, guarded timber blockhouses built upon the banks of rivers that command good trade? You, who, wearied with the toil of...

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...rk Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Bergen ONE DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years sin... ...he place where the following incident oc- curred. Charlemagne, while chasing the Saxons (as he said), or being chased by them (as they said), arrived ... ...ty of all this fairy spectacle blinked and glowed a massed multitude of gas-jets which seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds ... ...of branches to a point about twenty- five feet above-ground, and from there upward so thick with boughs that not a ray of sunlight could pierce throug... ...holesale One day in the interest of science my agent obtained permis- sion to bring me to the students’ dueling-place. We crossed the river and drove ... ...t these lads hacked and slashed with the same tremendous spirit, after they were covered with streaming wounds, which they had shown in the begin- nin... ...ve yards—without a rest? But why ask? Since murder was that man’s intention, why should he palter with small details? But mark you one thing: in my fa... ...tly swift at that point. I used to sit for hours in my glass cage, watching the long, narrow rafts slip along through the central channel, grazing the... ... deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads! We went slipping silently along, between the green and fr...

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...nticed him; it may have been resentment of return from this fine, bold man-world to a restricted region of wives and stenographers, and of suggestions... ...plift and flipflop and settlement- work and recreation is nothing in God’s world but the entering wedge for socialism. The sooner a man learns he isn’... ...he Great Scholar of the neighbor- hood; the authority on everything in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blod... ...eling much calmer, and much happier about the way things were going in the world. “Well, it’s been nice to stop and parleyvoo a second. Guess I’ll hav... ...ust the other night— it’s a fellow’s duty to share the good things of this world with his neighbors, and it gets my goat when a fellow gets stuck on h... ... outlying factory suburbs; of the Chaloosa River with its strangely eroded banks; of the orchard-dappled Tonawanda Hills to the North, and all the fat... ... speculator. He was a ner- vous speculator. Before he gambled he consulted bankers, lawyers, architects, contracting builders, and all of their clerks... ...rs—idiot—plumb forgot—going t’ cut down my fool smoking.” He looked at his bank, the Min- ers’ and Drovers’ National, and considered how clever and so... ... ers’ and Drovers’ National, and considered how clever and solid he was to bank with so marbled an establishment. His high moment came in the clash of...

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...ere, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can neve... ...ve been successfully conducted. The enactment by Congress of a na- tional banking law has proved a valuable support of the public credit, and the gen... ...mmander to sentinel, who compose them, and to whom more than to others the world must stand indebted for the home of freedom disenthralled, regenerate... ...llegiance, discharge him and send him to you. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL N. P. BANKS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, December 29, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL BAN... ...t if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were ap- plied to the women of America, it would n... ...in their lives, were hired laborers. The prudent penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or ... ...ty is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and, he... ...o perceive is the military necessity for forcibly interposing to prevent a bank from loaning its own 218 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ... ...tory condition and conduct of the operations of the Treasury. The national banking system is proving to be acceptable to capitalists and to the people...

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...tion which says that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treaties, and otherwise to strengthen their... ...he hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga. The whole country was then a wilder- ness, and it was ... ...great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty feet high the remainder of its margin bei... ...d points. The outlet, or the Susquehanna, flows through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet. This gorg... ...n; but as he has—in intention, at least—done his full share in amusing the world, he trusts to its good-nature for overlooking this attempt to please ... ...the veteran had soon a free indul- gence of his wishes. Whatever views the world might enter- tain of this act of the Major, to himself and to his chi... ...n the family union, seems ever unwilling to abandon them en- tirely to the world. But either his success, or the frequency of the transgression in oth... ...isciple of Aesculapius, who, for a novelty, brought more subjects into the world than he sent out of it. In the midst of this incongruous group of dwe... ...cal has not laid claim, or some one else [or him. This is a damned envious world that we live in—people are always for dividing the credit at a thing,...

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...d age in happy and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the bank of her new country, and was already looking anxiously back to- wards t... ... campaign that the old gentleman must give in to him. And if not? Bah! the world was before him. His luck might change at cards, and there was a deal ... ...iderable liveliness and credit on this her first appearance in the genteel world of London. George meanwhile, with his hat on one side, his elbows squ... ...d asked Captain Osborne whether he would take the sum in a cheque upon the bankers, or whether he should direct the latter to purchase stock to that a... ...ace was over a ledger, at which sate a demure clerk, happened to be in the banking-room when George entered. His yellow face turned to a more deadly c... ...pany. Major O’Dowd, who had served his sovereign in every quar- ter of the world, and had paid for every step in his profession by some more than equi... ...lied to the Malonys, whom she believed to be the most famous family in the world. Having tried nine seasons at Dublin and two at Bath and Cheltenham, ... ...n the other hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. T... ...she should show her love for him; as if these were the great topics of the world. Those who like to lay down the History-book, and to specu- late upon...

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...d be got there, water rats might be chased, there were strawberries on the banks which he gathered and threaded on stalks of grass for his sisters, Pa... ...ing up. “So he was willing for me to go, and I thought I’d like to see the world, but I’d fain be at home again.” “So would not I,” muttered the other... ...him go and fight for the good Cause. “Aye, aye,” said Kenton, “against the world, the flesh, and the devil, and welcome, my son.” “Then I’ll go and en... ...ums and fifes playing a joyous tune. Kenton drew the old mare be- hind the bank of a high hedge, and the boys watched eagerly through the hawthorns. P... ...ng folks had been allowed to know exactly where it was kept. There were no banks in those days, and careful people had no choice but either to hoard a... ... through the hazel and mountain-ash bushes that clothed the steep opposite bank of the glen and gave him a feeling of security. The brook rippled alon... ...against the tree, and he repeated “Come along, I wouldn’t hurt you for the world. Who is your father? Where shall we find him?” “My father is Serjeant... ... had been much enliv- ened by the little fairy who had seen so much of the world, and had much more playfulness than the hard-worked little woodland m... ...lared that it was a shame to hide her there—such charms were meant for the world. The only way of getting into the world that occurred to her was goin...

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...f the shore, and we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple water... ...re more or less large and splen- did, the palaces pretty spacious, all the world over; and that there is scarcely a capital city in this Europe but ha... ...s and towers, and for many miles you see the magnificent Tagus, rolling by banks crowned with trees and towers. But to arrive at this enormous buildin... ...ed might make of this arid hill one of the most magnificent gardens in the world; and the palace seems to me to excel for situation any Royal edifice ... ...and never take their places by the side of their breth- ren in yonder tall bankrupt galleries. The air of this pure sky has little effect upon the edi... ...correspond with the other furniture. Of all the undignified objects in the world, a palace out at elbows is surely the meanest. Such places ought not ... ...ing and noble resignation. There’s a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment,—who excels in it,—and whose luckless tri- umphs in... ...d can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pulling and tugging at me, away fro... ...s we sat and looked at it, was a great row of plane-trees; on the opposite bank, a deep wood of tall cypresses—in the midst of which rose up innumerab...

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...t the High School.’ ‘They don’t want to trust their Little Bear out in the world.’ ‘I think it is more than that,’ said the girl. ‘I can’t help thinki... ...ent thought it the wisest way to laugh and say: ‘You, of all people in the world, to want to make out a con- 10 Nuttie’s Father nection with the aris... ...far like her to be provided for, so far as that she need not go out in the world to earn her own livelihood. But no! better be as we are than accept a... ...t has not spoilt mother for being the dearest, sweetest, best thing in the world, and, besides, they had neither of them any fathers or mothers to dis... ... the capture were great, for the nearest plant flourished too far from the bank to be reached with comfort, and besides, the sharp-pointed leaves to w... ...d in the weeds.’ ‘Behold!’ exclaimed Mary, who had been prowling about the banks, and now held up in triumph one of the poles with a bill-hook at the ... ...d to him just as if he had been the most faithful, loving hus- band in the world. She is believing every word he says.’ ‘It is very happy for her that... ...l of eagerness and curiosity at the new cousin, whom Blanche set down on a bank, and proceeded to instruct in the mysteries of the all-important game ... ... be- lieved in him to any extent. ‘Which way did you come?’ she asked. ‘By Bankside Lane,’ said the Canoness. ‘Over Bluepost Bridge! There, Janet,’ sa...

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...nd daughter traversed the bridge and entered the grow- ing suburb known as Bankside, where wretched cottages be- longing to needy, grasping proprietor... ...y’s smooth open brow, ‘Very well then, go and do whatever comes to hand at Bankside, my dear. I do really want to stay at home, both on Aubrey’s accou... ...isfied in her obedience, and set off with her father. Just as they reached Bankside, a gig drove up contain- ing the fattest old man she had ever behe... ...on, was, though perfectly lady like, always re- garded by the Stoneborough world as something on the borders of presumption on the part of the entire ... ...w he won’t let me go back to Leonard.’ ‘But, Averil, the best nurse in the world can’t hold out for ever. People must sleep, and make themselves fit t... ... satisfied, and that he could not press. He thought the estab- lishment at Bankside too expensive, and counselled Henry to remove into the town, and l... ...hat poor girl,’ were Ethel’s first words outside. ‘Am I? I wouldn’t be for worlds, Ethel. But somehow she always puts me in a rage. I wish I knew she ... ...ck of her after all her devotion! Leonard, the being she loved best in the world! And Leonard, distressed and hurt at the reception of his natural exp... ...want of his mother’s ever-ready sympathy and soothing, and as if the whole world, here, there, and everywhere, would be an equally dreary waste. His m...

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...r engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. What a dream for a writer! Because written words have their accent, ... ...s shouted, and fails to be heard, perhaps, and goes down-wind, leaving the world unmoved? Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a sage and s... ...velist lives in his work. He stands there, the only reality in an invented world, among imagi- nary things, happenings, and people. Writing about them... ...say that through the blind force of circumstances the sea was to be all my world and the merchant service my only home for a long succession of years.... ... with an almost filial regard to render the vibration of life in the great world of waters, in the hearts of the simple men who have for ages traverse... ...ifference. I would not like to be left standing as a mere spectator on the bank of the great stream carrying onward so many lives. I would fain claim ... ...e town, and he was shot at from houses and chased all the way to the river-bank by a disorderly mob of Austrian Dragoons and Prussian Hussars. The bri... ... bridge, shivered visibly. The forests above and below and on the opposite bank looked black and dank; wet dripped from the rigging upon the tightly s... ...North Sea (I suppose) and provided me with a lee shore with outlying sand- banks—the Dutch coast, presumably. Distance, eight miles. The evidence of s...

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...ay French fashions. It was not so in Humfrey Harwood’s time, when— But the world has gone after the French now! Sir Reginald has brought home as many ... ...t I must take service with some honourable Knight, and see somewhat of the world. He spoke long of the Lord de Clarenham, because his favour would be ... ...ings more welcome than these to the half- famished army, encamped upon the banks of the Ebro, on the same ground on which, in after years, English val... ...leared of the enemy, when Sir Reginald drew his rein at the top of a steep bank clothed with brushwood, sloping towards the stream of the Zadorra, thr... ... to the water.” And he pointed over the low shrubs to a level space on the bank of the river, where several fugitives, on foot and horseback, were cro... ...en, both Sir Reginald and Eustace were already beginning to hurry down the bank. Gaston rose to his full height in his stirrups, and, looking over the... ...ng him, dispirited by Chandos’s reproach, and feeling all the cares of the world on his shoulders, had serious thoughts of going to the Prince, and re... ...ow you can be thus gay spirited?” “A light heart finds its way through the world the easiest,” said Gaston, smiling. “I have nothing to lose, and no s... ..., I should be by this time a reckless freebooter, with- out a hope in this world or the next; if it had not been for you, these bones of mine would lo...

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...t which is carrying the Parisian population to the heights along the right bank of the Seine had long injured the sale of property in what is called t... ... of finance, which was then in the rue Vivienne, and also not far from the Bank of France, then, and now, in the rue de la Vrilliere. There she bravel... ... patrons of her father. It con- sisted in making bags to hold coin for the Bank, the Trea- sury, and the great financial houses. At the end of three y... ...e, and found, almost beside her, a suitable match. The oldest usher at the Bank, a man named Lemprun, had an only daughter, called Celeste. Mademoisel... ...es the reason of some of those apostasies which have, at times, amazed the world and horrified it. If guilty, women of that age fall into one of sever... ...lfilling painful and costly duties, the rewards for which were not in this world. All the same, however, she was conscious of another clamoring voice;... ...om your motives—which, in- deed, I have no right to do—and my part in this world is certainly not to mingle with earthly powers; but please par- don m... ...ville to be in the secret.” While la Peyrade played the part of man of the world with Colleville, and allowed himself various witty sarcasms when expl... ...lle and la Peyrade returned from the gar- den the very best friends in the world. “Messieurs,” said Brigitte, “the soup and the King must never be kep...

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...r all the sportsmen will be coming home, and my aunt would not for all the world that Mr. Mansell caught you on the forbidden ground.’ ‘How can you gi... ...te even so authorized.’ ‘I never asked for any such thing! I would not for worlds see her led to do anything underhand.’ ‘She will honour you! That’s ... ...ow to say! How much it felt as if the only shelter or rest in the desolate world was in the light of the blue eyes whose tender sunshine had 17 Yo n ... ...hich her heart had so long yearned, in spite of her efforts, and as if the world had nothing more to offer of peace or joy. ‘Oh, Mary , how I have wan... ...ssing to ‘our dear James’ as if he had been the most welcome suitor in the world; and she often sincerely congratulated herself on the acquisition of ... ...t her practice had not gone far. She always meant to put into the savings’ bank; but hir- ing books, and daintiness, though not finery, in dress, had ...

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...o the head of this chapter. For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of... ...y gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter. No... ...use—the humble, half starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world—despised by all, and pitied by none. Oliver cried lustily. If he coul... ...hich cases, the miserable little being was usually summoned into an other world, and there gathered to the fathers it had never known in this. Occasi... ...friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world, sank into the child’s heart for the first time. Mr. Bumble walked on... ...I won’t be ten minutes, sir,’ said Oliver, eagerly. Having buttoned up the bank note in his jacket pocket, and placed the books carefully under his ar... ...ght on, until they were close upon the bridge; then turned suddenly down a bank upon the left. ‘The water!’ thought Oliver, turning sick with fear. ‘H... ...of Mr. Chickweed, licensed witler, appeared in the Gazette among the other bankrupts; and all manner of ben efits and subscriptions, and I don’t know... ...e months. Sending the plate, which had so excited Fagin’s cupidity, to the banker’s; and leaving Giles and another servant in care of the house, they ...

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... which dispute the administration, instigated by the abutters on the river banks, had meddled. The removal of the dam threatened the existence of Gazo... ...ou don’t know that the great school of dancing in Paris supplies the whole world with male and female danc- ers. Thus a rat who becomes a marcheuse,—t... ...pera-girl.’ Carabine is a power; at this mo- ment she governs du Tillet, a banker who is very influential in the Chamber of Deputies.” “And above thes... ...emselves with ridicule; hence a lot of living caricatures quite new to the world.” “If everybody gets glory, who can be famous?” said Gazonal. “Fame! ... ...then enter the domain of fancy, would increase tenfold. The markets of the world should belong to France; Paris will forever give the tone to women’s ... ... modern retail commerce. This shop had a front painted in 1820, which some bankrupt had doubtless left in a dilapidated condition. The color had disap... ...ay but one she appeared at an ambassador’s ball, dressed to please all the world and some one in particular. That day I said to myself: ‘I’ve got a ca... ....” “Ravenouillet is sound,” said Vauvinet. “He puts money into the savings-bank; he is good security.” “Better than you,” interposed Leon, “for he doe... ... pupils, has created, he says, the leading school of hair- dressing in the world. “I’ve seen, in coming through France,” said Gazonal, “a great many s...