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+2902_9008_000002_000000 On the left of the garden stretched the lofty eastern front of the Museum itself, with its picture galleries, halls of statuary, dining halls, and lecture rooms; one huge wing containing that famous library, founded by the father of Philadelphus, which hold in the time of Seneca, even after the destruction of a great part of it in Caesar's siege, four hundred thousand manuscripts.
+2902_9008_000048_000001 But out of the lecture room I prefer a practical expedient for instance, Cyril writes to me here-plague on him! he would not let me even have a week's hunting in peace that there is a plot on the part of the Jews to murder all the Christians.
+2902_9008_000032_000000 'To tell you the truth, he had some forty stout countrymen of his with him, who might have been troublesome to a perplexed prefect; not to mention that it is always as well to keep on good terms with these Goths.
+2902_9008_000039_000001 'Ah, that your excellency but saw the great duel which depends on you alone!
+2902_9008_000008_000005 I, to believe, against the authority of Porphyry himself, too, in evil eyes and magic!
+2902_9008_000013_000005 It spreads!
+2902_9008_000029_000000 'And to whom, pray?'
+2902_9008_000043_000002 Why not, among a people whose God is the crucified son of a carpenter?
+2902_9008_000008_000004 Foolish!--foolish of me, a philosopher.
+2902_9008_000006_000004 To show oneself superior to the herd, by seeing boundless depths of living glory in myths which have become dark and dead to them....
+2902_9008_000008_000001 I see her everywhere-till the last month at least-and here she is again!
+2902_9008_000013_000003 Six new pupils in the mathematical school this morning.
+2902_9008_000028_000001 I met that prettiest and naughtiest of humanities half-way between here and Thebes, transformed into a perfect Andromache of chaste affection.'
+2902_9008_000013_000001 'Well, I will eat, and be ashamed of eating.
+2902_9008_000005_000001 The statues there are broken.
+2902_9008_000024_000001 Well, there will be less loss to the empire if I have to crucify a dozen or two, as I positively will, the next riot.
+2902_9008_000024_000000 'And multiplying, I don't doubt.
+2902_9008_000005_000007 If the gods have deserted their oracles, they have not deserted the souls who aspire to them.
+2902_9008_000044_000001 I quite agree that there are very great practical inconveniences of this kind in the new-I mean the Catholic faith; but the world is full of inconveniences.
+2902_9008_000014_000004 That is my bitterest grief! to see those who have been pretending in the morning lecture room to worship every word of mine as an oracle, lounging in the afternoon round Pelagia's litter; and then at night-for I know that they do it-the dice, and the wine, and worse.
+2902_9008_000035_000000 'Justice.'
+2902_9008_000048_000004 But I must take some notice of the letter.'
+2902_9008_000010_000001 You have tasted no food yet this day.'
+2902_9008_000046_000000 'That it never will be, as long as Hypatia lives to illuminate the earth; and, as far as I am concerned, I promise you a clear stage and-a great deal of favour; as is proved by my visiting you publicly at this moment, before I have given audience to one of the four hundred bores, great and small, who are waiting in the tribunal to torment me.
+2902_9008_000050_000000 'Why, if anything did happen, after all, conceive the missives which would be sent flying off to Constantinople against me!'
+2902_9008_000042_000001 'I expect every time I ride, to have my brains knocked out by some mad monk.'
+2902_9008_000014_000002 Strange! that men should be content to grovel, and be men, when they might rise to the rank of gods!
+2902_9008_000011_000000 'What do I care for food!
+2902_9008_000052_000000 'Consciousness of innocence?
+2902_9008_000005_000000 'Yes.
+2902_9008_000018_000001 'And why should that disturb me?
+2902_9008_000024_000002 It is really a great comfort to a statesman that the masses are so well aware that they deserve hanging, and therefore so careful to prevent any danger of public justice depopulating the province.
+2902_9008_000012_000002 There is fruit, with lentils and rice, waiting for you in the next room; and bread, unless you despise it too much.'
+2902_9008_000058_000001 You philosophers, however raised above your own bodies you may be, must really not forget that we poor worldlings have bones to be broken.'
+2902_9008_000046_000002 What am I to do?'
+2902_9008_000009_000006 Did not you work the sum out once, Hypatia?'
+2902_9008_000054_000003 But now....'
+2902_9008_000018_000002 Let him enter.'
+2902_9008_000013_000002 Stay, did I tell you?
+2902_9008_000022_000000 'Ah, so they say-Your excellent father has vanished.
+2902_9008_000013_000006 We shall conquer yet!'
+2902_9008_000048_000003 For aught I know or care, the plot may be an exactly opposite one, and the Christians intend to murder all the Jews.
+2902_9008_000026_000001 I plead guilty myself.
+2902_9008_000054_000001 How the finances of the provinces would go on without their kind assistance, I dare not think.
+2902_9008_000009_000005 If there is faith in Pythagoras, the symbol should be an expanding series of the powers of three; and yet that accursed binary factor will introduce itself.
+2902_9008_000038_000000 'Well, my dear lady, and has not the villainous demagogue got the whole mob on his side?
+2902_9008_000043_000001 In an age when, as has been well and often said, emperors and consulars crawl to the tombs of a tent maker and a fisherman, and kiss the mouldy bones of the vilest slaves?
+2902_9008_000011_000002 How can he, whose sphere lies above the stars, stoop every moment to earth?
+2902_9008_000030_000001 What men those barbarians do breed!
+2902_9008_000032_000002 And as for the great brute himself, he has rank enough in his way,--boasts of his descent from some cannibal god or other,--really hardly deigned to speak to a paltry Roman governor, till his faithful and adoring bride interceded for me.
+2902_9008_000036_000000 'Ah, Fairest Wisdom, don't mention that horrid word out of the lecture room.
+2902_9008_000024_000003 But how go on the schools?'
+2902_9008_000054_000002 If those Christians would but lend me their money, instead of building alms houses and hospitals with it, they might burn the Jews' quarter to morrow, for aught I care.
+2902_9008_000048_000002 Here is the precious document-do look at it, in pity.
+2902_9008_000008_000003 Thank the gods, there she moves away!
+2902_9008_000032_000001 Really, after the sack of Rome, and Athens cleaned out like a beehive by wasps, things begin to look serious.
+2902_9008_000043_000000 'Why not?
+2902_9008_000001_000004 The place seemed fragrant with all the riches of Greek thought and song, since the days when Ptolemy Philadelphus walked there with Euclid and Theocritus, Callimachus and Lycophron.
+2902_9008_000008_000006 But there is my father, pacing up and down in the library.'
+2902_9008_000002_000001 There it towered up, the wonder of the world, its white roof bright against the rainless blue; and beyond it, among the ridges and pediments of noble buildings, a broad glimpse of the bright blue sea.
+2902_9008_000012_000001 But while we are in this prison house of matter, we must wear our chain; even wear it gracefully, if we have the good taste; and make the base necessities of this body of shame symbolic of the divine food of the reason.
+2902_9008_000005_000004 The oracles are dumb.
+2902_9008_000009_000002 He paced impatiently up and down the chamber, while his keen, glittering eyes and restless gestures betokened intense inward thought.... 'I have it....
+2902_9008_000055_000003 Does your excellency, or this proud bishop, govern Alexandria?'
+2902_9008_000004_000002 Listen!
+2902_9008_000030_000002 I was afraid of being crushed under the elephant's foot at every step I took with him!'
+2902_9008_000032_000004 However, I got rid of them; quoted all the geographical lies I had ever heard, and a great many more; quickened their appetite for their fool's errand notably, and started them off again.
+2902_9008_000057_000002 The consequence is clear.
+2902_9008_000011_000001 The inexpressible must be expressed, the work must be done if it cost me the squaring of the circle.
+2902_9008_000005_000003 The alcoves are silent.
+2902_9008_000005_000008 If they have ceased to guide nations, they have not ceased to speak to their own elect.
+2902_9008_000051_000000 'Let them go.
+2902_9008_000061_000000 'Recollect that you are a Christian,' answered Hypatia, half smiling.
+2902_9008_000017_000000 'His excellency, madam, the prefect!
+2902_9008_000026_000003 You must not be hard on us....
+2902_9008_000009_000001 He was a Greek, also, but of a more common, and, perhaps, lower type; dark and fiery, thin and graceful; his delicate figure and cheeks, wasted by meditation, harmonised well with the staid and simple philosophic cloak which he wore as a sign of his profession.
+2902_9008_000036_000001 In theory it is all very well; but in poor imperfect earthly practice, a governor must be content with doing very much what comes to hand.
+2902_9008_000013_000004 It grows!
+2902_9008_000008_000002 I will ask the prefect to find out who she is, and get rid of her, before she fascinates me with that evil eye.
+2902_9008_000001_000003 School after school, they had all walked, and taught, and sung there, beneath the spreading planes and chestnuts, figs and palm trees.
+2902_9006_000020_000001 Their vanguard, confined with difficulty for three centuries beyond the Eastern Alps, at the expense of sanguinary wars, had been adopted wherever it was practicable, into the service of the Empire; and the heart's core of the Roman legion was composed of Gothic officers and soldiers.
+2902_9006_000008_000000 A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread.
+2902_9006_000003_000000 HYPATIA
+2902_9006_000007_000000 PREFACE
+2902_9006_000000_000001 All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
+2902_9006_000025_000001 I can only say that I have laboured honestly and industriously to discover the truth, even in its minutest details, and to sketch the age, its manners and its literature, as I found them altogether artificial, slipshod, effete, resembling far more the times of Louis Quinze than those of Sophocles and Plato.
+2902_9006_000000_000000 This is a LibriVox recording.
+2902_9006_000010_000000 For a time had arrived, in which no teacher who did not put forth the most lofty pretensions to righteousness could expect a hearing.
+2902_9006_000008_000004 In the present case that disadvantage is doubled; for while the sins of the Church, however heinous, were still such as admit of being expressed in words, the sins of the heathen world, against which she fought, were utterly indescribable; and the Christian apologist is thus compelled, for the sake of decency, to state the Church's case far more weakly than the facts deserve.
+2902_9006_000020_000000 And their strength was felt at once.
+2902_9006_000011_000000 For somewhat more than four hundred years, the Roman Empire and the Christian Church, born into the world almost at the same moment, had been developing themselves side by side as two great rival powers, in deadly struggle for the possession of the human race.
+2902_9006_000014_000005 So thought many then, and, as I believe, not unwisely.
+2902_9006_000022_000002 That very peculiar turn of the Graeco Eastern mind, which made them the great thinkers of the then world, had the effect of drawing them away from practice to speculation; and the races of Egypt and Syria were effeminate, over civilised, exhausted by centuries during which no infusion of fresh blood had come to renew the stock.
+2902_9006_000008_000003 He dare not tell how evil people were; he will not be believed if he tells how good they were.
+2902_9006_000020_000006 The fifteen years before the time of this tale had decided the fate of Greece; the last four that of Rome itself.
+2902_9006_000014_000001 Here and there an abuse was lopped off; or an edict was passed for the visitation of prisons and for the welfare of prisoners; or a Theodosius was recalled to justice and humanity for a while by the stern rebukes of an Ambrose.
+2902_9006_000022_000000 The Egyptian and Syrian Churches, therefore, were destined to labour not for themselves, but for us.
+2902_9006_000023_000002 Monastic isolation from family and national duties especially fitted the fathers of that period for the task, by giving them leisure, if nothing else, to face questions with a lifelong earnestness impossible to the more social and practical Northern mind.
+2902_9006_000006_000000 By Charles Kingsley
+2902_9006_000008_000001 It has to represent a very hideous, though a very great, age; one of those critical and cardinal eras in the history of the human race, in which virtues and vices manifest themselves side by side-even, at times, in the same person-with the most startling openness and power.
+2902_9006_000020_000002 But now the main body had arrived.
+2902_9006_000017_000001 They brought before the minds of churchmen a thousand new questions which must be solved, unless the Church was to relinquish for ever her claims as the great teacher and satisfier of the human soul.
+2902_9006_000019_000000 And the new blood, at the era of this story, was at hand.
+2902_9006_000010_000003 And He who excited the craving, was also furnishing that which would satisfy it; and was teaching mankind, by a long and painful education, to distinguish the truth from its innumerable counterfeits, and to find, for the first time in the world's life, a good news not merely for the select few, but for all mankind without respect of rank or race.
+2902_9006_000020_000005 How iniquitous was the conduct of the sons of Theodosius, in refusing the usual bounty, by which the Goths were bribed not to attack the Empire!--The whole pent up deluge burst over the plains of Italy, and the Western Empire became from that day forth a dying idiot, while the new invaders divided Europe among themselves.
+3536_23268_000006_000000 She, however, flattered herself that what she had said might be excused as a mistake, the lapse of memory, or some other trifling fault, when he should know the truth.
+3536_23268_000006_000002 Her guardian looked astonished.
+3536_23268_000040_000002 Dorriforth read on, and seemed afraid of looking up, lest he should see what he could not have pardoned.
+3536_23268_000019_000000 "Miss Milner, you shall not leave the house this evening."
+3536_23268_000047_000001 She was going to reply, but found she could not, without accompanying her words with tears, therefore, after the first attempt, she desisted.
+3536_23268_000021_000000 "I command you to stay at home this evening." And he walked immediately out of the apartment by another door.
+3536_23268_000025_000000 "What could be worse, Madam?" cried Miss Milner; "am not I disappointed of the ball?"
+3536_23268_000013_000000 "I do."
+3536_23268_000041_000000 After a few minutes' pause, and some little embarrassment on the part of mrs Horton, at the disappointment she had to encounter from this unexpected dutiful conduct, she asked Miss Milner, "if she would now have any tea?"
+3536_23268_000008_000000 "I mistook-for I had before given my word that I should pass it abroad."
+3536_23268_000028_000000 "It is not the first time, I believe, you have acted contrary to that, Miss Milner," replied mrs Horton, and affected a tenderness of voice, to soften the harshness of her words.
+3536_8226_000016_000001 I don't believe a bit of his rights."
+3536_8226_000027_000002 He have been up all this month, sir."
+3536_8226_000020_000002 Drat 'em all; what is it they wants?
+3536_8226_000020_000003 They don't know what they wants.
+3536_8226_000021_000011 "Perhaps you could put on your coat, and walk out with me for a few minutes," said Trevelyan.
+3536_8226_000010_000004 It ain't the regular line of business, Bozzle; and there ain't no good to be got, never, by going off the regular line." Whereupon Bozzle scratched his head and again read the letter.
+3536_8226_000020_000000 "I'm not a taking of her part, b A woman as has a husband as finds her with her wittels regular, and with what's decent and comfortable beside, ought to be contented.
+3536_8226_000027_000000 "You mean the Colonel, sir.
+3536_8226_000021_000003 Then Bozzle came forward and introduced his wife.
+3536_8226_000029_000000 Bozzle paused a moment before he replied, and then smiled as he spoke.
+3536_8226_000017_000002 He'll get the child fast enough if he'll go before the court."
+3536_8226_000010_000003 We'd all be shewed up in the papers as that black, that they'd hoot us along the streets.
+3536_8226_000020_000006 But as for this here child, b--." At that moment there came a knock at the door.
+3536_8226_000019_000000 "It's love for her as has done it then," said Bozzle, shaking his head.
+3536_8226_000031_000000 "He's disturbed in his mind,--quite 'orrid," Bozzle said when he got back to his wife.
+3536_8226_000031_000001 "He cursed and swore as made even me feel bad."
+3536_8226_000024_000000 "Why not?" Trevelyan could perceive at once that the authority which he had once respected had gone from the man.
+3536_8226_000018_000002 "I'll tell you what it is, b," exclaimed mrs Bozzle, "it's my belief as he ain't quite right up here;" and mrs Bozzle touched her forehead.
+3536_8226_000021_000012 mrs Bozzle, who well understood that business was business, and that wives were not business, felt no anger at this, and handed her husband his best coat.
+3536_8226_000029_000004 I ain't got no evidence, mr Trevelyan.
+3536_8226_000026_000007 And all work had ceased with him.
+3536_8226_000008_000000 "Gammon, Bozzle."
+3536_8226_000013_000000 "It ain't to be done anyways;--not in my way of business.
+3536_8226_000024_000003 But he had been found with his coat off, and a baby in his arms, and he could not recover himself.
+3536_8226_000026_000006 As he went about, his eyes were ever cast downwards, and he walked with a quick shuffling gait, and he suspected others, feeling that he himself was suspected.
+3536_8226_000028_000000 "They haven't met?"
+3536_8226_000005_000008 But now, when a demand was made upon Bozzle to violate the sanctity of the clergyman's house, and withdraw the child by force or stratagem, she began to perceive that the palmy days of the Trevelyan affair were over for them, and that it would be wise on her husband's part gradually to back out of the gentleman's employment.
+3536_8226_000021_000013 The well brushed hat was fetched from a cupboard, and it was astonishing to see how easily and how quickly the outer respectability of Bozzle was restored.
+3536_8226_000013_000002 The paternal parent has a right to his infants, no doubt." That was Bozzle's law.
+3536_8226_000014_000000 "I don't believe it, b"
+3536_8226_000015_000000 "But he have, I tell you."
+3536_8226_000002_000000 mr
+3536_8226_000012_000000 "Of course it ain't," said mrs Bozzle.
+3536_8226_000020_000007 mrs Bozzle going into the passage, opened it herself, and saw a strange gentleman.
+3536_8226_000024_000001 Bozzle away from his own home, out on business, with his coat buttoned over his breast, and his best hat in his hand, was aware that he commanded respect,--and he could carry himself accordingly.
+3536_8226_000004_000003 With Hugh Stanbury, Trevelyan had had a direct quarrel.
+3536_8226_000026_000009 And he knew it all.
+3536_8226_000021_000009 mrs Bozzle had set a chair for him, but he had declined to sit down.
+3536_8226_000020_000008 Bozzle, who had stood at the inner door, saw that the gentleman was mr Trevelyan.
+3536_8226_000026_000012 He looked up for a moment at Bozzle, and then asked him a question.
+3536_8226_000011_000000 "It ain't to be done, you know," said Bozzle.
+1462_170142_000023_000000 "Could you-could you sit down and talk about it quietly, Bartley, as if I were a friend, and not some one who had to be defied?"
+1462_170142_000039_000000 "I can't," he said heavily.
+1462_170142_000046_000003 I must know about you.
+1462_170142_000009_000001 She looked at his heavy shoulders and big, determined head, thrust forward like a catapult in leash.
+1462_170142_000002_000009 I felt it in my bones when I woke this morning that something splendid was going to turn up.
+1462_170142_000004_000001 You haven't spoken a word."
+1462_170142_000021_000003 I get nothing but misery out of either.
+1462_170142_000042_000006 But, if you come to me, I'll do as I see fit.
+1462_170142_000046_000004 The sight of you, Bartley, to see you living and happy and successful-can I never make you understand what that means to me?" She pressed his shoulders gently.
+1462_170142_000001_000000 The last two days of the voyage Bartley found almost intolerable.
+1462_170142_000043_000004 It's getting the better of me.
+1462_170142_000006_000001 Hilda watched him with perplexity.
+1462_170142_000024_000000 He dropped back heavily into his chair by the fire.
+1462_170142_000044_000004 And I've got nobody but you.
+1462_170142_000046_000006 If I'd met you later, if I hadn't loved you so well-but that's all over, long ago.
+1462_170142_000042_000009 Do you understand?
+1462_170142_000007_000001 What is it?"
+1462_170142_000004_000000 "When did you come, Bartley, and how did it happen?
+1462_170142_000044_000006 I will ask the least imaginable, but I must have SOMETHING!"
+1462_170142_000042_000004 It's abominable of you to ask me.
+1462_170142_000038_000007 I can do that."
+1462_170142_000036_000002 I somehow believed that I could take all the bad consequences for you.
+1462_170142_000002_000008 "Oh, what a grand thing to happen on a raw day!
+1462_170142_000043_000002 I don't trust myself any more.
+1462_170142_000038_000006 "You want to tell me that you can only see me like this, as old friends do, or out in the world among people?
+1462_170142_000038_000003 You've only to tell me now.
+1462_170142_000019_000000 "Always.
+1462_170142_000043_000001 "Yes, I know I'm cowardly. I'm afraid of myself.
+1462_170142_000011_000000 He locked and unlocked his hands over the grate and spread his fingers close to the bluish flame, while the coals crackled and the clock ticked and a street vendor began to call under the window.
+1462_170142_000024_000002 I have thought about it until I am worn out."
+1462_170142_000026_000001 "When did you first begin to feel like this, Bartley?"
+1462_170142_000002_000003 The room was empty when he entered.
+1462_170142_000030_000000 "Yes, I was happy, wasn't I?" She pressed his hand gently in gratitude. "Weren't you happy then, at all?"
+1462_170142_000013_000000 Hilda was pale by this time, and her eyes were wide with fright.
+1462_170142_000001_000001 The stop at Queenstown, the tedious passage up the Mersey, were things that he noted dimly through his growing impatience.
+1462_170142_000027_000001 The first was-sort of in play, wasn't it?"
+1462_170142_000046_000007 Then came all those years without you, lonely and hurt and discouraged; those decent young fellows and poor Mac, and me never heeding-hard as a steel spring.
+1462_170142_000010_000000 "What about us, Bartley?" she asked in a thin voice.
+1462_170142_000021_000002 "Each life spoils the other.
+1462_170142_000040_000004 What I mean is that I want you to promise never to see me again, no matter how often I come, no matter how hard I beg."
+1462_170142_000040_000003 I can't see you at all, anywhere.
+1462_170142_000036_000000 "You see, my mistake was in wanting you to have everything.
+1462_170142_000042_000007 The shamefulness of your asking me to do that!
+1462_170142_000016_000001 He pulled up a window as if the air were heavy.
+1462_170142_000032_000002 But afterward. . ."
+1462_170142_000012_000000 "Everything!"
+1462_170142_000048_000001 "We've tortured each other enough for tonight.
+1462_170142_000007_000000 "There's something troubling you, Bartley.
+1462_170142_000043_000003 I carried it all lightly enough at first, but now I don't dare trifle with it.
+1462_170142_000002_000013 Come over to the fire; you're chilled through."
+1462_170142_000006_000000 Alexander leaned forward and warmed his hands before the blaze.
+1462_170142_000011_000001 At last Alexander brought out one word:--
+1462_170142_000021_000000 He ignored her question.
+1462_170142_000048_000002 Forget everything except that I am here."
+1462_170142_000025_000001 He put out his hand toward her as he looked away again into the fire.
+1462_170142_000008_000001 "It's the whole thing that troubles me, Hilda.
+1462_170142_000043_000005 It's different now.
+1462_170142_000041_000001 She stood over him with her hands clenched at her side, her body rigid.
+1462_170142_000040_000002 "It's got to be a clean break, Hilda.
+1462_170142_000047_000001 Bartley bent over and took her in his arms, kissing her mouth and her wet, tired eyes.
+1462_170142_000024_000001 "It was myself I was defying, Hilda.
+1462_170142_000044_000005 I will do anything you say-but that!
+1462_170142_000038_000001 I was wrong.
+1462_170142_000042_000002 Do you hear me, Bartley? It's too late.
+1462_170142_000044_000000 Hilda held her face back from him and began to cry bitterly.
+1462_170142_000040_000001 Bartley leaned his head in his hands and spoke through his teeth.
+1462_170142_000005_000001 I landed at Liverpool this morning and came down on the boat train."
+1462_170142_000017_000000 Hilda watched him from her corner, trembling and scarcely breathing, dark shadows growing about her eyes.
+1462_170142_000002_000012 But why do you let me chatter on like this?
+1462_170142_000002_000011 I never dreamed it would be you, Bartley.
+1462_170142_000019_000001 But it's worse now.
+1462_170142_000042_000008 If you come to me, I'll do as I see fit.
+1462_170142_000042_000001 "It's too late to ask that.
+1462_170142_000022_000001 She bit her lip and looked down at her hands, which were clasped tightly in front of her.
+1462_170142_000047_000000 She slid to the floor beside him, as if she were too tired to sit up any longer.
+1462_170142_000031_000001 Something of their troubling sweetness came back to Alexander, too.
+1462_170142_000033_000001 "Please tell me one thing, Bartley.
+1462_170142_000015_000000 "I can't live with myself any longer," he answered roughly.
+1462_170142_000022_000000 At that word "deception," spoken with such self contempt, the color flashed back into Hilda's face as suddenly as if she had been struck by a whiplash.
+1462_170142_000046_000001 I must have you to think of through the months and months of loneliness.
+1462_170142_000046_000000 "Just something Bartley.
+1462_170142_000036_000003 I wanted you always to be happy and handsome and successful-to have all the things that a great man ought to have, and, once in a way, the careless holidays that great men are not permitted."
+1462_170142_000026_000000 She crept across to him, drawing her stool after her.
+1462_170142_000002_000010 I thought it might be Sister Kate or Cousin Mike would be happening along.
+1462_170142_000029_000000 Alexander groaned.
+1462_170142_000002_000004 A coal fire was crackling in the grate and the lamps were lit, for it was already beginning to grow dark outside.
+1462_170142_000029_000001 "I meant to, but somehow I couldn't.
+1462_170142_000019_000003 It tortures me every minute."
+1462_170142_000044_000003 You ask me to stay away from you because you want me!
+1462_170142_000016_000000 He rose and pushed the chair behind him and began to walk miserably about the room, seeming to find it too small for him.
+1462_170142_000033_000002 At least, tell me that you believe I thought I was making you happy."
+1462_170142_000038_000000 "I understand, Bartley.
+1462_170142_000038_000004 What must I do that I've not done, or what must I not do?" She listened intently, but she heard nothing but the creaking of his chair.
+1462_170142_000001_000002 He had planned to stop in Liverpool; but, instead, he took the boat train for London.
+1462_170142_000002_000005 Alexander did not sit down.
+1462_170142_000002_000000 Emerging at Euston at half past three o'clock in the afternoon, Alexander had his luggage sent to the Savoy and drove at once to Bedford Square.
+1462_170142_000031_000002 He moved uneasily and his chair creaked.
+1462_170142_000009_000000 Hilda took a quick, soft breath.
+1462_170142_000021_000005 There is this deception between me and everything."
+1462_170142_000043_000006 I'm growing older, and you've got my young self here with you.
+1462_170142_000021_000001 "I am not a man who can live two lives," he went on feverishly.
+1462_170142_000002_000001 When Marie met him at the door, even her strong sense of the proprieties could not restrain her surprise and delight.
+1462_170142_000025_000000 He looked at her and his haggard face softened.
+1462_170142_000042_000005 Keep away if you wish; when have I ever followed you?
+1462_170142_000035_000000 She leaned her head against his arm and spoke softly:--
+1462_170142_000027_000000 "After the very first.
+1462_170142_000037_000000 Bartley gave a bitter little laugh, and Hilda looked up and read in the deepening lines of his face that youth and Bartley would not much longer struggle together.
+1462_170142_000028_000000 Hilda's face quivered, but she whispered: "Yes, I think it must have been.
+1462_170142_000048_000000 "Don't cry, don't cry," he whispered.
+1462_170142_000031_000000 She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, as if to draw in again the fragrance of those days.
+1462_170142_000046_000008 And then you came back, not caring very much, but it made no difference."
+1462_170142_000008_000000 Bartley bent lower over the fire.
+1462_170142_000033_000000 "Yes, yes," she hurried, pulling her hand gently away from him. Presently it stole back to his coat sleeve.
+1462_170142_000041_000000 Hilda sprang up like a flame.
+1462_170142_000042_000003 I won't promise.
+1462_170142_000013_000001 She looked about desperately from Bartley to the door, then to the windows, and back again to Bartley.
+1462_170145_000003_000002 Besides his sleeping room and bath, there was a large room, formerly a painter's studio, which he used as a study and office.
+1462_170145_000009_000000 Hilda hid her face in her hands.
+1462_170145_000004_000005 He stood for a moment in awkward constraint, his pipe in his hand.
+1462_170145_000010_000001 "Is this the way you mean to answer it, Hilda?" he asked unsteadily.
+1462_170145_000025_000000 Alexander flushed angrily.
+1462_170145_000024_000003 It's because they can't be at the mercy of the man they love any longer."
+1462_170145_000027_000002 He heard Hilda moving about behind him.
+1462_170145_000012_000000 Alexander sat down on the arm of her chair.
+1462_170145_000009_000003 I've been through this a hundred times to day.
+1462_170145_000029_000000 She tied the knot of the last lacing and put her boot heel down firmly. "No; I'm telling you what I've made up my mind to do.
+1462_170145_000009_000007 But you won't let me write to you, and I had to see you after that letter, that terrible letter you wrote me when you got home."
+1462_170145_000030_000001 When Hilda rose he sat down on the arm of her chair and drew her back into it.
+1462_170145_000009_000001 "I was afraid to take a cab.
+1462_170145_000013_000004 Then I wouldn't have come."
+1462_170145_000013_000000 Hilda smiled up at him beautifully and put her hand on his sleeve.
+1462_170145_000028_000000 "Hilda you'd better think a while longer before you do that.
+1462_170145_000035_000000 She looked up into his eyes, and hid her face in her hands.
+1462_170145_000027_000001 He got up and went over to the window, threw it open, and leaned out.
+1462_170145_000008_000000 Alexander hurried toward her and took her gently by the arm.
+1462_170145_000017_000003 "What am I to do, Hilda?"
+1462_170145_000006_000002 There was something about him that made Hilda wish herself at her hotel again, in the street below, anywhere but where she was.
+1462_170145_000018_000000 "That's what I wanted to see you about, Bartley.
+1462_170145_000006_000000 He was standing behind the table, turning over a pile of blueprints nervously.
+1462_170145_000018_000002 Only I'll do it more completely.
+1462_170145_000009_000004 Don't be any more angry than you can help.
+1462_170145_000021_000000 Alexander moved restlessly.
+1462_170145_000031_000004 "You see, you are different, Hilda.
+1462_170145_000020_000002 Only not Mac.
+1462_170145_000020_000000 "Oh, it doesn't matter much!
+1462_170145_000014_000003 I've jumped up if the fire crackled.
+1462_170145_000005_000001 He pointed to a chair by the fire and went back to his worktable.
+1462_170145_000021_000001 "Are you joking, Hilda?"
+1462_170145_000007_000004 Good night; I'm going now." She turned and her hand closed on the door knob.
+1462_170145_000004_000002 It was after nine o'clock and he was lighting a second pipe, when he thought he heard a sound at his door. He started and listened, holding the burning match in his hand; again he heard the same sound, like a firm, light tap.
+1462_170145_000031_000002 You are not that kind of woman.
+1462_170145_000034_000001 Try him once again."
+1462_170145_000026_000000 "Under such circumstances, infinitely!"
+1462_170145_000017_000002 Then, when your manager added two more weeks, I was already committed." He dropped upon the stool in front of her and sat with his hands hanging between his knees.
+1462_170145_000012_000007 Marks on paper mean something to you." He paused.
+1462_170145_000011_000005 Give me my things, please." She put her hand out toward the fender.
+1462_170145_000014_000001 "I didn't know it before, Hilda, on my honor I didn't, but I believe it was because, deep down in me somewhere, I was hoping I might drive you to do just this.
+1462_170145_000003_000003 It was furnished with the cast off possessions of his bachelor days and with odd things which he sheltered for friends of his who followed itinerant and more or less artistic callings.
+1462_170145_000014_000002 I've watched that door all day.
+1462_170145_000011_000000 She was afraid to look up at him.
+1462_170145_000015_000001 But when I came, I thought I had been mistaken."
+1462_170145_000012_000001 "Did you think I had forgotten you were in town, Hilda?
+1462_170145_000020_000001 One of them.
+1462_170145_000011_000003 "I came to tell you that I'm willing to do as you asked me.
+1462_170145_000011_000004 But it's no use talking about that now.
+1462_170145_000013_000002 Did you write to me?
+1462_170145_000016_000000 Alexander started up and began to walk up and down the room.
+1462_170145_000032_000003 Only one.
+1462_170145_000001_000000 CHAPTER nine
+1462_170145_000030_000000 Alexander started to speak, but caught himself.
+1462_170145_000008_000001 "Sit down, Hilda; you're wet through.
+1462_170145_000007_000002 I saw that interview in the paper yesterday, telling where you were, and I thought I had to see you.
+1462_170145_000006_000001 The yellow light from the student's lamp fell on his hands and the purple sleeves of his velvet smoking jacket, but his flushed face and big, hard head were in the shadow.
+1462_170145_000004_000001 When Alexander came back from dinner he put more wood on his fire, made himself comfortable, and settled down at his desk, where he began checking over estimate sheets.
+1462_170145_000012_000006 I told myself that if I were really thinking of you, and not of myself, a letter would be better than nothing.
+1462_170145_000008_000003 "Here, put your feet on this stool. You don't mean to say you walked down-and without overshoes!"
+1462_170145_000019_000000 "Who?"
+1462_170145_000025_000001 "So it's better to be at the mercy of a man you don't love?"
+1462_170145_000012_000003 There is a letter for you there, in my desk drawer.
+1462_170145_000009_000002 Can't you see, Bartley, that I'm terribly frightened?
+1462_170145_000032_000001 She closed her eyes; her lips and eyelids trembled.
+1462_170145_000022_000000 "Indeed I'm not."
+1462_170145_000012_000004 It was to have reached you on the steamer.
+1462_170145_000033_000000 She felt the strength leap in the arms that held her so lightly.
+1462_170145_000020_000003 I'm too fond of him."
+1462_170145_000032_000004 And he threw it back at me a second time."
+1462_170145_000014_000004 I think I have felt that you were coming." He bent his face over her hair.
+1462_170145_000015_000000 "And I," she whispered,--"I felt that you were feeling that.
+1462_170145_000005_000002 "Won't you sit down?"
+1462_170145_000004_000003 He rose and crossed the room quickly.
+1462_170145_000005_000000 "Come in," he said to Hilda at last, and closed the door behind her.
+1462_170145_000007_000001 But we sail on Tuesday.
+1462_170145_000018_000003 I'm going to marry."
+1462_170145_000028_000001 I don't know what I ought to say, but I don't believe you'd be happy; truly I don't.
+1462_170145_000003_000005 Alexander's big work table stood in front of one of the three windows, and above the couch hung the one picture in the room, a big canvas of charming color and spirit, a study of the Luxembourg Gardens in early spring, painted in his youth by a man who had since become a portrait painter of international renown.
+1462_170145_000007_000000 "Of course I know, Bartley," she said at last, "that after this you won't owe me the least consideration.
+1462_170145_000034_000000 "Try him again, Hilda.
+1462_170145_000003_000001 His business often called him to New York, and he had kept an apartment there for years, subletting it when he went abroad for any length of time.
+1462_170145_000009_000006 If you'd sent me a note, or telephoned me, or anything!
+1462_170145_000029_000001 I suppose I would better do it without telling you.
+1462_170145_000003_000004 Over the fireplace there was a large old-fashioned gilt mirror.
+1462_170145_000017_000001 I've been up in Canada with my bridge, and I arranged not to come to New York until after you had gone.
+1462_170145_000012_000008 "They never did to me."
+1462_170145_000029_000002 But afterward I shan't have an opportunity to explain, for I shan't be seeing you again."
+1462_170145_000009_000005 I was all right until I knew you were in town.
+1462_170145_000002_000000 On the last Saturday in April, the New York "Times" published an account of the strike complications which were delaying Alexander's New Jersey bridge, and stated that the engineer himself was in town and at his office on West Tenth Street.
+1462_170145_000028_000002 Aren't you trying to frighten me?"
+1462_170145_000008_000002 Let me take off your coat-and your boots; they're oozing water." He knelt down and began to unlace her shoes, while Hilda shrank into the chair.
+1462_170145_000007_000003 That's all.
+1462_170145_000027_000003 When he looked over his shoulder she was lacing her boots.
+1462_170145_000031_000001 Don't do anything like that rashly." His face grew troubled. "You wouldn't be happy.
+1462_170138_000005_000005 Do you know, Alexander,"--Mainhall looked with perplexity up into the top of the hansom and rubbed his pink cheek with his gloved finger,--"do you know, I sometimes think of taking to criticism seriously myself.
+1462_170138_000005_000003 Myself, I always knew she had it in her.
+1462_170138_000023_000005 Sometimes a little jolt like that does one good.
+1462_170138_000001_000001 The nephew of one of the standard Victorian novelists, Mainhall bobbed about among the various literary cliques of London and its outlying suburbs, careful to lose touch with none of them.
+1462_170138_000010_000005 A man writes to the top of his bent only once."
+1462_170138_000004_000000 "Hilda Burgoyne!" Alexander exclaimed mildly.
+1462_170138_000013_000000 MacConnell grunted.
+1462_170138_000015_000011 Sir Harry Towne, mr Bartley Alexander, the American engineer."
+1462_170138_000006_000004 She doubtless hasn't thought of me for years." He felt the enthusiasm of the house at once, and in a few moments he was caught up by the current of MacConnell's irresistible comedy.
+1462_170138_000003_000006 The ones who have any imagination do."
+1462_170138_000003_000005 She's apt to grow a bit stale after a time.
+1462_170138_000023_000011 I shouldn't wonder- But they've probably spoiled her, so that she'd be tiresome if one met her again."
+1462_170138_000003_000001 "It's tremendously well put on, too.
+1462_170138_000023_000009 It was youth and poverty and proximity, and everything was young and kindly.
+1462_170138_000003_000004 There's everything in seeing Hilda while she's fresh in a part.
+1462_170138_000005_000000 Mainhall laughed.
+1462_170138_000016_000000 Sir Harry Towne bowed and said that he had met mr Alexander and his wife in Tokyo.
+1462_170138_000022_000012 He had been in London more or less, but he had never happened to hear of her.
+1462_170138_000024_000000 Bartley smiled and yawned and went to bed.
+1462_170138_000015_000007 Blinking up at the lights, Mainhall added in his luxurious, worldly way: "She's an elegant little person, and quite capable of an extravagant bit of sentiment like that.
+1462_170138_000022_000013 "All the same," he lifted his glass, "here's to you, little Hilda.
+1462_170138_000018_000000 "I say, Sir Harry, the little girl's going famously to night, isn't she?"
+1462_170138_000011_000001 "And have I done anything so fool as that, now?" he asked.
+1462_170138_000015_000003 She doesn't take up with anybody, you know.
+1462_170138_000006_000001 When they entered the stage box on the left the first act was well under way, the scene being the interior of a cabin in the south of Ireland.
+1462_170138_000007_000006 She's really MacConnell's poetic motif, you see; makes the whole thing a fairy tale."
+1462_170138_000006_000003 Miss Burgoyne and her donkey were thrusting their heads in at the half door. "After all," he reflected, "there's small probability of her recognizing me.
+1462_170138_000021_000003 In the half light he looked about at the stalls and boxes and smiled a little consciously, recalling with amusement Sir Harry's judicial frown.
+1462_170138_000001_000004 He spoke with an extreme Oxford accent, and when he was talking well, his face sometimes wore the rapt expression of a very emotional man listening to music.
+1462_170138_000023_000010 I shouldn't wonder if she could laugh about it with me now.
+1462_170138_000019_000004 A little attack of nerves, possibly."
+1462_170138_000019_000000 Sir Harry wrinkled his brows judiciously.
+1462_170138_000015_000009 He's another who's awfully keen about her.
+1462_170138_000023_000001 But I never thought she'd do anything.
+1462_170138_000007_000005 She's at her best in the second act.
+1462_170138_000011_000000 The playwright gave Mainhall a curious look out of his deep set faded eyes and made a wry face.
+1462_170138_000008_000003 When she began to dance, by way of showing the gossoons what she had seen in the fairy rings at night, the house broke into a prolonged uproar.
+1462_170138_000010_000001 I say!
+1462_170138_000022_000001 He had not thought of Hilda Burgoyne for years; indeed, he had almost forgotten her.
+1462_170138_000022_000006 After he met Winifred Pemberton he seemed to himself like a different man.
+1462_170138_000023_000004 Perhaps she has me to thank for something, after all.
+1462_170138_000015_000008 Here comes Sir Harry Towne.
+1462_170138_000014_000000 He nodded curtly and made for the door, dodging acquaintances as he went.
+1462_170138_000001_000007 He hated them when they presumed to be anything else.
+1462_170138_000010_000003 And what an audience!
+1462_170138_000012_000002 Dear me, Mac, the girl couldn't possibly be better, you know."
+1462_170138_000015_000000 "Poor old Hugh," Mainhall murmured.
+1462_170138_000023_000003 She must care about the theatre a great deal more than she used to.
+1462_170138_000022_000014 You've made things come your way, and I never thought you'd do it.
+1462_170138_000005_000002 It's only lately, since MacConnell and his set have got hold of her, that she's come up.
+1462_170138_000005_000004 If we had one real critic in London-but what can one expect?
+1462_170138_000019_000002 The fact is, she's feeling rather seedy, poor child.
+1462_170138_000022_000004 He felt guilty and unhappy about her for a time, but after Winifred promised to marry him he really forgot Hilda altogether.
+1462_170138_000006_000000 Just then they drove up to the Duke of York's, so Alexander did not commit himself, but followed Mainhall into the theatre.
+1462_170138_000023_000002 She hadn't much ambition then, and she was too fond of trifles.
+1462_170138_000004_000001 "Why, I haven't heard of her for-years."
+1462_170138_000009_000001 They met a good many acquaintances; Mainhall, indeed, knew almost every one, and he babbled on incontinently, screwing his small head about over his high collar.
+1462_170138_000021_000000 When they reached their box the house was darkened and the orchestra was playing "The Cloak of Old Gaul." In a moment Peggy was on the stage again, and Alexander applauded vigorously with the rest.
+1462_170138_000005_000001 "Then you can't have heard much at all, my dear Alexander.
+1462_170138_000015_000010 Let me introduce you.
+1462_170138_000022_000010 I should torture myself-I couldn't help it." After that it was easy to forget, actually to forget.
+1462_170138_000006_000002 As they sat down, a burst of applause drew Alexander's attention to the stage.
+1462_170138_000001_000006 He had preconceived ideas about everything, and his idea about Americans was that they should be engineers or mechanics.
+1462_170138_000015_000006 I dare say it's quite true that there's never been any one else." Mainhall vouched for her constancy with a loftiness that made Alexander smile, even while a kind of rapid excitement was tingling through him.
+1462_170138_000001_000005 Mainhall liked Alexander because he was an engineer.
+1462_170138_000021_000002 For some reason he felt pleased and flattered by the enthusiasm of the audience.
+1462_170138_000012_000000 "That's what I was saying," Mainhall lounged a little nearer and dropped into a tone even more conspicuously confidential.
+1462_170138_000023_000008 After all, we were awfully young.
+1462_170138_000007_000003 That laugh, now, when she doubles over at the hips-who ever heard it out of Galway?
+1462_170138_000022_000009 You see, one can't be jealous about things in general; but about particular, definite, personal things,"--here she had thrown her hands up to his shoulders with a quick, impulsive gesture-"oh, about those I should be very jealous.
+1462_170138_000012_000001 "And you'll never bring Hilda out like this again.
+1462_170138_000015_000005 One of your countrymen, Alexander, by the way; an American student whom she met in Paris, I believe.
+1462_170138_000010_000000 "MacConnell, let me introduce mr Bartley Alexander.
+1462_170138_000010_000002 It's going famously to night, Mac.
+1462_170138_000015_000001 "He's hit terribly hard.
+1462_170138_000007_000004 She saves her hand, too.
+1462_170138_000008_000004 After her dance she withdrew from the dialogue and retreated to the ditch wall back of Philly's burrow, where she sat singing "The Rising of the Moon" and making a wreath of primroses for her donkey.
+1462_170138_000017_000000 Mainhall cut in impatiently.
+1462_170138_000007_000000 "You see," he murmured in Alexander's ear, as the curtain fell on the first act, "one almost never sees a part like that done without smartness or mawkishness.
+1462_170138_000020_000000 He bowed as the warning bell rang, and Mainhall whispered: "You know Lord Westmere, of course,--the stooped man with the long gray mustache, talking to Lady Dowle.
+1462_170138_000020_000001 Lady Westmere is very fond of Hilda."
+1462_170138_000022_000003 Hilda had never replied to his letter.
+1462_170138_000007_000001 Of course, Hilda is Irish,--the Burgoynes have been stage people for generations,--and she has the Irish voice.
+1462_170138_000010_000004 You'll never do anything like this again, mark me.
+3081_166546_000071_000005 What do you make of it, Gryce?"
+3081_166546_000097_000000 "But the blood?
+3081_166546_000096_000000 "Yes."
+3081_166546_000070_000000 "So they tell me."
+3081_166546_000101_000001 The weapon must still have been there.
+3081_166546_000028_000002 How quickly he disappeared!"
+3081_166546_000049_000005 Perhaps you can.
+251_136532_000009_000000 "Hey, Martha!
+251_136532_000018_000001 Von Ohlmhorst had noticed them at once, and was poking into one of them with his flashlight.
+251_136532_000015_000000 She slammed the phone back on its hook, rushing away ahead of them.
+251_136532_000016_000005 Another had fallen forward onto the table, arms extended, the emerald set of a ring twinkling dully on one finger.
+251_136532_000021_000000 "Not that I'm interested in all this, for myself," he disclaimed, after listening to the telecast from Terra two days after his discovery.
+251_136532_000016_000002 The center of the room was filled by a long table; in armchairs around it sat the eighteen men and women who had occupied the room for the last fifty millennia.
+251_136532_000007_000002 It was Tony Lattimer who brought archaeology back into the activities of the expedition and the news at home.
+251_136532_000023_000001 "I'd hoped it would be you; your voice would carry the most weight.
+251_136532_000018_000000 Braziers, made of perforated two gallon odd metal cans, the white walls smudged with smoke above them.
+251_136532_000026_000001 Let the infantry do the slogging through the mud; the brass hats got the medals.
+251_136532_000024_000002 Degrees, honors; the deference of the learned, and the adulation of the lay public.
+251_136532_000000_000003 Fitzgerald was still trying to find out how the germ had been transmitted.
+251_136532_000009_000001 dr von Ohlmhorst!" he was shouting.
+251_136532_000007_000001 The discovery of the University had focused attention on the dead past of Mars; now the public was interested in Mars as a possible home for humanity.
+251_136532_000014_000001 Well, of course they're dead.
+251_136532_000020_000002 Maybe an even better thing; it had been only sixty odd years since the Orson Welles invasion scare.
+251_136532_000014_000004 No, I do not know what they died of.
+251_136532_000022_000000 "In nineteen twenty three?
+251_136532_000019_000006 So they just came in here and lit the charcoal, and sat drinking together till they all fell asleep.
+251_136532_000020_000000 Sid and Gloria made the most of it.
+251_136532_000011_000000 "Where?" they asked together.
+251_136532_000019_000002 That's why you had so much trouble breaking in; they'd sealed the room on the inside." He straightened and went around the room, until he found a ventilator, and peered into it.
+251_136532_000002_000003 He and Ivan Fitzgerald skinned and mounted it, and then dissected the carcass almost tissue by tissue.
+251_136532_000002_000004 About seven eighths of its body capacity was lungs; it certainly breathed air containing at least half enough oxygen to support human life, or five times as much as the air around Kukan.
+251_136532_000017_000000 "Isn't this something!" Lattimer was exulting.
+251_136532_000012_000003 That's where they are.
+251_136532_000023_000002 But I think it's important that one of us go back, to present the story of our work, and what we have accomplished and what we hope to accomplish, to the public and to the universities and the learned societies, and to the Federation Government.
+251_136532_000001_000002 Immediately, Sid Chamberlain and Gloria Standish began giving their telecasts a Kukan dateline, and Hubert Penrose used the name in his official reports.
+251_136532_000000_000001 Shortly afterward, the malady turned into a mild fever, from which she recovered.
+251_136532_000024_000000 Lectures.
+251_136532_000022_000004 And, for a while, it was easier to get financial support for new excavations.
+251_136532_000012_000000 "Over on the north side." The lieutenant took hold of himself and spoke more deliberately.
+251_136532_000023_000005 So, I believe I shall go back at least for a while, and see what I can do-"
+251_136532_000002_000002 At least, it was a something with wings and what were almost but not quite feathers, though it was more reptilian than avian in general characteristics.
+251_136532_000024_000004 Sweet are the uses of publicity.
+251_136532_000024_000003 Positions, with impressive titles and salaries.
+251_136532_000008_000000 Martha and Selim were working in the museum on the second floor, scrubbing the grime from the glass cases, noting contents, and grease penciling numbers; Lattimer and a couple of Space Force officers were going through what had been the administrative offices on the other side.
+251_136532_000025_000000 She crushed out her cigarette and got to her feet.
+251_136532_000017_000002 Notice what's in the corners?"
+251_136532_000000_000002 Nobody else seemed to have caught it.
+251_136532_000024_000001 The organization of a Society of Martian Archaeology, with Anthony Lattimer, p h d, the logical candidate for the chair.
+251_136532_000006_000000 The high point came when one party, at thirty thousand feet below the level of Kukan, found breathable air.
+251_136532_000002_000001 Four hundred miles from Kukan, and at fifteen thousand feet lower altitude, he shot a bird.
+251_136532_000008_000001 It was one of these, a young second lieutenant, who came hurrying in from the mezzanine, almost bursting with excitement.
+251_136532_000005_000000 Sometimes Sachiko dropped in; most of the time she was busy helping Ivan Fitzgerald dissect specimens.
+251_136532_000023_000004 We must not allow the other scientific fields and the so-called practical interests to monopolize public and academic support.
+251_136532_000001_000001 They located the city, and learned that its name had been Kukan-or something with a similar vowel consonant ratio.
+251_136532_000014_000003 They look like skeletons covered with leather.
+251_136532_000014_000006 Sid, don't you get it?
+251_136532_000004_000001 The civilian specialists in other fields, and the Space Force people who had been holding tape lines and making sketches and snapping cameras, were all flying to lower Syrtis to find out how much oxygen there was and what kind of life it supported.
+251_136532_000016_000006 Skeletons covered with leather, Gloria Standish had called them, and so they were-faces like skulls, arms and legs like sticks, the flesh shrunken onto the bones under it.
+251_136532_000014_000005 Well, forget it; I don't care if Bill Chandler's found a three headed hippopotamus.
+251_136532_000013_000000 Gloria Standish, who had dropped in for lunch, was on the mezzanine, fairly screaming into a radiophone extension:
+251_136532_000014_000000 " ... Dozen and a half of them!
+251_136532_000007_000000 The daily newscasts from Terra showed a corresponding shift in interest at home.
+251_136532_000016_000000 Martha remembered the closed door; on the first survey, they hadn't attempted opening it.
+251_136532_000012_000004 Eighteen of them, around a long table-"
+251_136532_000019_000004 They must have been all that were left, here.
+251_136532_000017_000001 "Mass suicide, that's what it was.
+251_136532_000010_000000 Selim dropped his rag back in the bucket; she laid her clipboard on top of the case beside her.
+251_136532_000020_000004 Without question, he had become, overnight, the most widely known archaeologist in history.
+251_136532_000012_000001 "Little room, back of one of the old faculty offices-conference room.
+251_136532_000016_000001 Now it was burned away at both sides and lay, still hot along the edges, on the floor of the big office room in front. A floodlight was on in the room inside, and Lattimer was going around looking at things while a Space Force officer stood by the door.
+251_136532_000020_000001 The Terran public wanted to hear about Martians, and if live Martians couldn't be found, a room full of dead ones was the next best thing.
+251_136532_000003_000000 That took the center of interest away from archaeology, and started a new burst of activity.
+251_136532_000014_000002 What a question!
+251_136532_000019_000000 "Yes; charcoal.
+251_136532_000021_000002 Bring it to the public attention; dramatize it.
+251_137823_000005_000001 Inside, a secret rocket telemetering device was mounted on its test stand.
+251_137823_000053_000000 mrs Swift, a slender, petite woman, tried not to show concern when she saw the boys, bruised and disheveled.
+251_137823_000037_000000 "Good thing the main shift of workers knocked off before this happened," Bud observed with a shudder.
+251_137823_000040_000001 "Come on, Bud!
+251_137823_000003_000000 The eighteen year old inventor accepted the challenge with a smile. "I'll be glad to try, sir," he replied.
+251_137823_000064_000001 "Wow!" Bud gasped.
+251_137823_000013_000000 Electronic equipment cascaded from the wall shelves, and a heavy duty chain hoist came loose from its overhead track, plunging to the floor with a terrifying crash.
+251_137823_000012_000001 Another engineer rushed toward the door to see what was happening outside.
+251_137823_000051_000000 "Don't worry, Sis.
+251_137823_000035_000000 "Right!" Bud responded.
+251_137823_000042_000002 It's only a few miles away, isn't it?"
+251_137823_000049_000000 From a pay telephone, he called Swift Enterprises in Shopton.
+251_137823_000017_000000 Bud threw up his arms to protect himself, but too late!
+251_137823_000025_000001 Or grazed, at least," Tom added thankfully.
+251_137823_000055_000002 "Why, one of the ambulance doctors checked us out."
+251_137823_000044_000002 Got a job for us?"
+251_137823_000023_000000 "Are you all right?" Tom asked fearfully.
+251_137823_000028_000001 He had heard about the great San Francisco earthquake from his grandfather, and had no doubt about the nature of the tremors.
+251_137823_000050_000000 "What a relief!" Sandy gasped.
+251_137823_000061_000000 Tom nodded unhappily.
+251_137823_000055_000001 "We're not stretcher cases," he said.
+251_137823_000048_000000 "The center of the quake was right under Faber Electronics," Tom remarked.
+251_137823_000030_000000 "mr Faber!" he gasped.
+251_137823_000026_000001 "We grow 'em tough out in California where I come from!" he joked.
+251_137823_000017_000001 A falling beam caught him on the back of the head and the young flier blacked out.
+251_137823_000042_000000 "mr Faber is badly injured," Tom said.
+251_137823_000061_000001 Sandy, to take her brother's mind off the disaster, said, "Dad, tell Tom and Bud about the visitor who's coming."
+251_137823_000004_000000 Bud Barclay, a dark haired young flier and Tom Swift Jr's closest friend, chuckled.
+251_137823_000011_000000 "Look out!
+251_137823_000014_000000 "An earthquake!" Tom gasped.
+251_137823_000057_000001 "I tried to assure them that you and Bud can take care of yourselves in any crisis." He smiled guiltily as he added, "But I must admit I was more than a little concerned myself."
+251_137823_000047_000001 The town had suffered some damage, though only slight compared to the destruction at the plant.
+251_137823_000064_000002 "Male or female? Human or animal?"
+251_137823_000063_000000 "From another planet," mr Swift revealed.
+251_137823_000056_000002 "I was all set for Sandy's cool soothing touch on my fevered brow!"
+251_137823_000005_000000 The two boys followed mr Faber and his engineers to a wooden building which was tightly guarded.
+251_137823_000045_000001 Within minutes, Tom was in charge of clearing away rubble and extricating anyone who might be trapped inside the buildings. Bud organized a fire fighting crew to keep the blaze in the shed from spreading.
+251_137823_000038_000001 "Right where we landed our Whirling Duck!"
+251_137823_000006_000000 "As you know, Tom," mr Faber began, "the usual conditions of rocket flight will be-"
+251_137823_000051_000001 Tell Mother and Dad that we're okay," Tom said. "We'll be home in a jiffy-with big appetites!"
+251_137823_000018_000000 For minutes, no one stirred among the wreckage.
+251_137823_000027_000000 Somewhat shakily, Bud got to his feet with Tom's assistance.
+251_137823_000024_000000 The answer came in a groan.
+251_137823_000004_000001 "If anyone can get the bugs out of your new invention, genius boy here will do it!"
+251_137823_000060_000002 He's a great scientist."
+251_137823_000031_000001 Bud seized a slender, steel I beam and managed to pry up the wreckage while Tom carefully extricated mr Faber.
+251_137823_000033_000000 Of the four other company engineers, two were now stirring and partly conscious.
+251_137823_000011_000001 The test stand's breaking loose!" Tom warned.
+251_137823_000040_000002 Let's see about getting help for mr Faber!"
+251_137823_000037_000001 "There would've been a lot more casualties."
+251_137823_000033_000001 The boys found a first aid cabinet and gave what help they could to them and the other two men.
+251_137823_000060_000000 "Mark Faber is not expected to live," the elder inventor reported.
+251_137823_000055_000000 Tom laughed.
+251_137823_000039_000000 The boys exchanged rueful glances as they realized that the craft which had brought them to Faber Electronics-one of Tom's unique helijets-had been swallowed up in the gaping chasm.
+251_137823_000019_000000 "Good night!" Tom's eyes focused in horror on the wreckage enveloped by still billowing dust.
+251_137823_000064_000000 Both boys were amazed and excited.
+251_137823_000065_000000 mr Swift's eyes twinkled.
+251_137823_000022_000002 His friend's eyelids flickered.
+251_137823_000007_000000 He broke off with a gasp of astonishment as the whole building suddenly began to shake.
+251_137823_000008_000000 "Good grief!" Bud exclaimed.
+251_137823_000012_000002 Before he reached it, another shock knocked all of them off their feet.
+251_137823_000044_000000 "Tough break," Tom sympathized.
+251_137823_000038_000000 "Look!" Tom pointed to a huge crevasse.
+251_137823_000065_000001 "None of those," he replied as the boys stared, mystified.
+251_137823_000002_000001 "Hope you can find out what's wrong."
+251_137823_000036_000001 The main plant building of Faber Electronics had been partially demolished by the quake.
+251_137823_000041_000000 Despite the chaotic confusion, the boys managed to locate the plant superintendent-a harried, middle aged man named Simkins-who was doing his best to restore order.
+251_137823_000036_000000 They picked their way through the wreckage and emerged on a scene of frightful destruction.
+251_137823_000020_000001 Only two thirds of the walls were still standing.
+251_137823_000024_000002 Wow!...
+251_137823_000018_000001 Then Tom, who had been stunned by some falling debris, raised himself to a sitting position.
+251_137823_000031_000000 The two boys scrambled through the clutter of debris toward the spot where the test stand had been erected.
+251_137823_000025_000002 "If that beam had landed square on your noggin, even a rock head like you couldn't have survived!"
+251_137823_000002_000000 "Tom, we're having a problem with the gyro stabilizer," said Mark Faber, gray haired president of the Faber Electronics Company.
+251_137823_000059_000000 After the two boys had showered and changed their clothes, mrs Swift served them a delicious, hot meal.
+251_137823_000054_000001 Phyl, a pretty, dark haired girl, was the daughter of mr Swift's long-time friend and business associate, "Uncle Ned" Newton.
+251_137823_000022_000001 With a desperate heave, he shoved the beam away, then cradled Bud's head in his arm.
+251_137823_000025_000000 "You got conked by a falling timber.
+251_137823_000042_000001 "Why not send a car?
+251_137823_000052_000000 The helicopter arrived within twenty minutes at the place Tom had named. After landing at Enterprises, the boys drove to the pleasant, tree shaded Swift home on the outskirts of town.
+251_137823_000053_000001 "I'm so thankful you're both safe!" she murmured.
+251_137823_000024_000003 What hit me?"
+251_137823_000044_000001 "Anyhow, we want to help.
+251_137823_000046_000000 The telephone line was soon repaired and a steady stream of rescue vehicles began arriving from Harkness-fire trucks, three ambulances, and private cars driven by volunteers.
+251_137823_000022_000000 Disregarding his own injuries, Tom hastily freed himself from the debris and groped his way to Bud's side.
+251_137823_000021_000000 Suddenly Tom stiffened in fear.
+251_137823_000062_000000 "A visitor?" Tom looked at his father.
+251_137823_000049_000002 Tom asked the operator to send a helicopter immediately to pick them up.
+251_137823_000015_000002 "The roof! It's caving in!" he heard someone scream.
+251_137823_000054_000002 The two girls were as much upset as Tom's mother.
+251_137823_000032_000001 "We'd better not try to move him," Tom decided.
+251_137823_000047_000000 Two hours later there was nothing more Tom and Bud could do at the disaster scene and they hitched a ride into Harkness.
+251_137823_000008_000001 "This isn't part of your testing routine, is it?"
+251_137823_000009_000001 The walls and roof were shuddering and creaking, and the concrete floor was heaving under their feet.
+251_137823_000060_000001 "A pity.
+251_137823_000059_000001 While they ate, mr Swift managed after some difficulty to get a call through to the Harkness Hospital. His face was grave as he hung up.
+251_137823_000040_000000 "No use fussing about it now," Tom said.
+251_137823_000050_000001 "We heard a bulletin about the quake over the radio!"
+251_137823_000056_000001 "Why did you have to go and spoil it?" he complained jokingly.
+251_137823_000034_000000 "Let's see if we can find a telephone and call the local hospital," Tom said.
+251_137823_000049_000003 He also called home and spoke to his sister, Sandra.
+251_137823_000032_000000 The scientist seemed to be badly injured.
+251_137823_000036_000002 Power lines were down and an outlying storage shed was ablaze.
+251_137823_000033_000002 Then Tom taped a bandage on Bud's scalp wound.
+251_137823_000036_000003 Dazed and panic stricken survivors were wandering around aimlessly or rushing about to assist the injured.
+251_118436_000019_000000 The first speaker favored him with a long, searching stare.
+251_118436_000006_000001 Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared.
+251_118436_000020_000001 If they have slain the king now, why could they not have slain him months ago?'
+251_118436_000021_000004 'The slant of the moon presaged evil for the king of Vendhya; the stars are in turmoil, the Serpent in the House of the Elephant.
+251_118436_000014_000000 Her voice died at the utter vacancy of his face.
+251_118436_000023_000001 All discarded portions of the human body still remain part of it, attached to it by intangible connections.
+251_118436_000017_000001 This man was clad in a brown camel hair robe and sandals, and a green turban was on his head. His expression was tranquil, his gaze impersonal.
+251_118436_000021_000000 'Even the arts you call sorcery are governed by cosmic laws,' answered the man in the green turban.
+251_118436_000030_000001 All the noble born fighting men of Ayodhya were gathered in the great palace or about it, and at each broad arched gate and door fifty archers stood on guard, with bows in their hands.
+251_118436_000035_000002 I have been on a far journey and I understand.
+251_118436_000011_000001 But his voice rose in an eery call, indistinct and far away, as if called to her from beyond vast, wind blown gulfs.
+251_118436_000021_000001 'The stars direct these actions, as in other affairs.
+251_118436_000026_000000 The nobleman studied him curiously.
+251_118436_000035_000007 My soul clings to my body, but its hold weakens.
+251_118436_000012_000002 My sister, where are you?
+251_118436_000021_000006 A path is opened in the unseen realms, and once a point of contact was established, mighty powers were put in play along that path.'
+251_118436_000034_000000 'Brother!' she sobbed.
+251_118436_000006_000004 He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.
+251_118436_000027_000003 There at least I have no doubts; for I serve King Yezdigerd of Turan.'
+251_118436_000032_000007 Their fingers sear me like fire!
+251_118436_000035_000001 'I know now what brings me to the pyre.
+251_118436_000038_000000 Sobbing wildly, Yasmina plucked a jeweled dagger from her girdle and plunged it to the hilt in his breast.
+251_118436_000015_000001 A long drawn wailing rose from the multitude.
+251_118436_000022_000001 'Do you mean that lock of Bhunda Chand's hair?'
+251_118436_000027_000001 I, whom the Kshatriyas know as Kerim Shah, a prince from Iranistan, am no greater a masquerader than most men.
+251_118436_000014_000002 The slave girls at the foot of the dais whimpered with fear, and Yasmina beat her breast in anguish.
+251_118436_000023_000005 Then the genuine lock travelled by camel caravan up the long, long road to Peshkhauri, thence up the Zhaibar Pass, until it reached the hands of those for whom it was intended.'
+251_118436_000032_000001 'Aid me!
+251_118436_000010_000002 Five skulls bleaching on the Tower of the Kites can testify to attempts which were made-and which failed.
+251_118436_000012_000003 I can not find you.
+251_118436_000029_000000 Outside, the moan of the tortured thousands shuddered up to the stars which crusted the sweating Vendhyan night, and the conchs bellowed like oxen in pain.
+251_118436_000002_000000 THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE
+251_118436_000006_000003 Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold worked fabric beneath him.
+251_118436_000032_000002 I am far from my mortal house!
+251_118436_000017_000000 'The king is not yet dead, but the dirge is sounded,' he said to another man who sat cross legged on a mat in a corner.
+251_118436_000035_000008 Quick-kill me, before they can trap my soul for ever!'
+251_118436_000031_000000 On the dais under the golden dome the king cried out again, racked by awful paroxysms.
+251_118436_000016_000000 The man shrugged his broad shoulders and turned back into the arabesque chamber.
+251_118436_000035_000006 Your cry and the grip of your fingers brought me back, but I am going fast.
+251_118436_000018_000000 'The people know he will never see another dawn,' this man answered.
+251_118436_000037_000000 'Swiftly, I command you!' There was the old imperious note in his failing whisper.
+251_118436_000023_000000 'Yes.
+251_118436_000021_000003 Not until the heavens were in the proper order could they perform this necromancy.' With a long, stained fingernail he mapped the constellations on the marble tiled floor.
+251_118436_000007_000000 She threw up her head in a gusty gesture of wrath and despair as the thunder of the distant drums reached her ears.
+251_118436_000038_000001 He stiffened and then went limp, a grim smile curving his dead lips.
+251_118436_000021_000002 Not even my masters can alter the stars.
+251_118436_000037_000002 Haste, lest you damn me to spend eternity as a filthy gaunt of darkness.
+251_118436_000023_000002 The priests of Asura have a dim inkling of this truth, and so all nail trimmings, hair and other waste products of the persons of the royal family are carefully reduced to ashes and the ashes hidden.
+251_118436_000010_000000 'I tell you it is not poison!' she cried.
+251_118436_000027_000000 'I do not know if you are a man or a demon, Khemsa,' he said at last. 'Few of us are what we seem.
+251_118436_000010_000001 'Since his birth he has been guarded so closely that the cleverest poisoners of the East could not reach him.
+251_118436_000015_000000 In another part of the city a man stood in a latticed balcony overlooking a long street in which torches tossed luridly, smokily revealing upturned dark faces and the whites of gleaming eyes.
+251_118436_000013_000000 'Brother!' cried Yasmina, catching his limp hand in a convulsive grasp. 'I am here!
+251_118436_000011_000000 She ceased as the king spoke; his livid lips did not move, and there was no recognition in his glassy eyes.
+251_118436_000028_000000 'And I the Black Seers of Yimsha,' said Khemsa; 'and my masters are greater than yours, for they have accomplished by their arts what Yezdigerd could not with a hundred thousand swords.'
+251_118436_000037_000001 'You have never disobeyed me-obey my last command! Send my soul clean to Asura!
+251_118436_000036_000000 'I cannot!' she wailed, smiting her naked breasts.
+251_118436_000008_000003 He is dying now-and I stand here helpless, who would burn the whole city and spill the blood of thousands to save him.'
+251_118436_000008_000000 'The priests and their clamor!' she exclaimed.
+251_118436_000022_000000 'Point of contact?' inquired the other.
+251_118436_000005_000000 one Death Strikes a King
+251_118436_000035_000004 There they strove to break the silver cord of life, and thrust my soul into the body of a foul night weird their sorcery summoned up from hell.
+251_118436_000014_000001 A low confused moan waned from his mouth.
+251_118436_000012_000004 All is darkness, and the roaring of great winds!'
+251_118436_000016_000001 He was a tall man, compactly built, and richly clad.
+251_118436_000008_000002 Nay, he dies and none can say why.
+251_118436_000035_000000 'Swift!' he gasped, and his weakening voice was rational.
+251_118436_000033_000002 But the glassy blankness passed from his eyes like smoke blown from a fire, and he looked up at his sister with recognition.
+251_118436_000032_000004 They seek to snap the silver cord that binds me to my dying body.
+251_118436_000035_000005 Ah! I feel their pull upon me now!
+251_118436_000025_000000 'By which a soul is drawn from its body and across gulfs of echoing space,' returned the man on the mat.
+251_118436_000013_000001 Do you not know me-'
+251_118436_000024_000000 'Only a lock of hair,' murmured the nobleman.
+251_118436_000037_000003 Strike, I command you!
+251_118436_000023_000004 When my masters decided upon his doom, the lock, in its golden, jewel encrusted case, was stolen from under her pillow while she slept, and another substituted, so like the first that she never knew the difference.
+2086_149214_000004_000003 If he think fit, also, he may so manage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture.
+2086_149214_000007_000001 If permitted by the historical connection,--which, though slight, was essential to his plan,--the author would very willingly have avoided anything of this nature.
+2086_149214_000006_000002 In good faith, however, he is not sufficiently imaginative to flatter himself with the slightest hope of this kind.
+2086_149214_000004_000004 He will be wise, no doubt, to make a very moderate use of the privileges here stated, and, especially, to mingle the Marvelous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent flavor, than as any portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public.
+2086_149214_000006_000003 When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtile process than the ostensible one.
+2086_149214_000006_000004 The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod,--or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly,--thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.
+2086_149214_000004_000000 WHEN a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.
+2086_149214_000004_000005 He can hardly be said, however, to commit a literary crime even if he disregard this caution.
+2086_149214_000006_000000 Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.
+2086_149214_000006_000005 A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any more evident, at the last page than at the first.
+2086_149214_000007_000000 The reader may perhaps choose to assign an actual locality to the imaginary events of this narrative.
+2086_149214_000005_000001 The point of view in which this tale comes under the Romantic definition lies in the attempt to connect a bygone time with the very present that is flitting away from us.
+2086_149214_000004_000002 The former-while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truth of the human heart-has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation.
+2086_149214_000005_000003 The narrative, it may be, is woven of so humble a texture as to require this advantage, and, at the same time, to render it the more difficult of attainment.
+2086_149214_000005_000002 It is a legend prolonging itself, from an epoch now gray in the distance, down into our own broad daylight, and bringing along with it some of its legendary mist, which the reader, according to his pleasure, may either disregard, or allow it to float almost imperceptibly about the characters and events for the sake of a picturesque effect.
+2086_149220_000035_000000 "Oh," rejoined the daguerreotypist, "because, like an old lady's cup of tea, it is water bewitched!"
+2086_149220_000006_000017 They kept themselves alive, unquestionably, and laid now and then an egg, and hatched a chicken; not for any pleasure of their own, but that the world might not absolutely lose what had once been so admirable a breed of fowls.
+2086_149220_000040_000001 "These matches just glimmer, and go out."
+2086_149220_000038_000002 My eyes are weak; and I can seldom bear the lamplight on them."
+2086_149220_000003_000002 Three of the seven gables either fronted or looked sideways, with a dark solemnity of aspect, down into the garden.
+2086_149220_000016_000005 But would you like to see a specimen of my productions?"
+2086_149220_000007_000003 So wise, as well as antique, was their aspect, as to give color to the idea, not merely that they were the descendants of a time honored race, but that they had existed, in their individual capacity, ever since the House of the Seven Gables was founded, and were somehow mixed up with its destiny.
+2086_149220_000024_000000 "There never was a sweeter one," said Phoebe.
+2086_149220_000004_000006 Summer squashes almost in their golden blossom; cucumbers, now evincing a tendency to spread away from the main stock, and ramble far and wide; two or three rows of string beans and as many more that were about to festoon themselves on poles; tomatoes, occupying a site so sheltered and sunny that the plants were already gigantic, and promised an early and abundant harvest.
+2086_149220_000027_000004 I have a proposition to make you."
+2086_149220_000022_000003 If the original is still in the world, I think he might defy the sun to make him look stern and hard."
+2086_149220_000023_000000 "You have seen that picture, then!" exclaimed the artist, with an expression of much interest.
+2086_149220_000018_000008 It would gratify me to have your judgment on this character."
+2086_149220_000016_000004 It is like a bandage over one's eyes, to come into it.
+2086_149220_000036_000000 He vanished; and Phoebe, lingering a moment, saw a glimmering light, and then the steady beam of a lamp, in a chamber of the gable.
+2086_149220_000023_000001 "I never did, but have a great curiosity to do so.
+2086_149220_000021_000006 At that mouth!
+2086_149220_000047_000000 "Phoebe, my dear little girl," said Hepzibah, after a moment's pause, "you were up betimes, and have been busy all day.
+2086_149220_000046_000000 "My dear cousin," asked she, overcoming an indefinable reluctance, "is there not some one in the room with us?"
+2086_149220_000023_000002 And you judge favorably of the face?"
+2086_149220_000006_000006 There was one other object in the garden which Nature might fairly claim as her inalienable property, in spite of whatever man could do to render it his own.
+2086_149220_000019_000001 Phoebe merely glanced at it, and gave it back.
+2086_149220_000047_000002 I will sit in the parlor awhile, and collect my thoughts.
+2086_149220_000025_000002 Could you not conceive the original to have been guilty of a great crime?"
+2086_149220_000016_000002 My sober occupation, so far as I have any, is with a lighter material.
+2086_149220_000016_000000 "Yes," said Holgrave, "I dig, and hoe, and weed, in this black old earth, for the sake of refreshing myself with what little nature and simplicity may be left in it, after men have so long sown and reaped here.
+2086_149220_000006_000008 The play and slight agitation of the water, in its upward gush, wrought magically with these variegated pebbles, and made a continually shifting apparition of quaint figures, vanishing too suddenly to be definable.
+2086_149220_000006_000018 The distinguishing mark of the hens was a crest of lamentably scanty growth, in these latter days, but so oddly and wickedly analogous to Hepzibah's turban, that Phoebe-to the poignant distress of her conscience, but inevitably-was led to fancy a general resemblance betwixt these forlorn bipeds and her respectable relative.
+2086_149220_000026_000002 A crime, indeed!
+2086_149220_000033_000000 "Be careful not to drink at Maule's well!" said he.
+2086_149220_000004_000002 Phoebe saw, however, that their growth must have been checked by a degree of careful labor, bestowed daily and systematically on the garden.
+2086_149220_000029_000001 Coming fresh from country air and occupations, you will soon feel the need of some such out of door employment.
+2086_149220_000047_000001 Pray go to bed; for I am sure you must need rest.
+2086_149220_000049_000000 She retired to her chamber, but did not soon fall asleep, nor then very profoundly.
+2086_149220_000010_000000 "That little fowl pays you a high compliment!" said a voice behind Phoebe.
+2086_149220_000018_000006 Now, here is a likeness which I have taken over and over again, and still with no better result.
+2086_149220_000019_000000 He exhibited a daguerreotype miniature in a morocco case.
+2086_149220_000041_000002 So vague was it, that its impression or echo in Phoebe's mind was that of unreality.
+2086_149220_000005_000000 Phoebe wondered whose care and toil it could have been that had planted these vegetables, and kept the soil so clean and orderly.
+2086_149220_000009_000000 The chicken, hereupon, though almost as venerable in appearance as its mother-possessing, indeed, the whole antiquity of its progenitors in miniature,--mustered vivacity enough to flutter upward and alight on Phoebe's shoulder.
+2086_149220_000004_000000 The black, rich soil had fed itself with the decay of a long period of time; such as fallen leaves, the petals of flowers, and the stalks and seed-vessels of vagrant and lawless plants, more useful after their death than ever while flaunting in the sun
+2086_149220_000015_000001 "I did not know that my cousin Hepzibah's garden was under another person's care."
+2086_149220_000026_000000 "It is nonsense," said Phoebe a little impatiently, "for us to talk about a picture which you have never seen.
+2086_149220_000006_000009 Thence, swelling over the rim of moss grown stones, the water stole away under the fence, through what we regret to call a gutter, rather than a channel.
+2086_149220_000030_000001 She did not altogether like him.
+2086_149220_000005_000001 Not surely her cousin Hepzibah's, who had no taste nor spirits for the lady like employment of cultivating flowers, and-with her recluse habits, and tendency to shelter herself within the dismal shadow of the house-would hardly have come forth under the speck of open sky to weed and hoe among the fraternity of beans and squashes.
+2086_149220_000039_000000 What an instrument is the human voice!
+2086_149220_000018_000002 Most of my likenesses do look unamiable; but the very sufficient reason, I fancy, is, because the originals are so.
+2086_149220_000007_000001 Returning, she gave a peculiar call, which they seemed to recognize.
+2086_149220_000026_000003 Since you are a friend of my cousin Hepzibah's, you should ask her to show you the picture."
+2086_149220_000021_000003 Here we have the man, sly, subtle, hard, imperious, and, withal, cold as ice.
+2086_149220_000021_000005 Would you like to be at its mercy?
+2086_149220_000018_000007 Yet the original wears, to common eyes, a very different expression.
+2086_149220_000007_000004 They were a species of tutelary sprite, or Banshee; although winged and feathered differently from most other guardian angels.
+2086_149220_000022_000002 But my cousin Hepzibah has another picture,--a miniature.
+2086_149220_000034_000000 "Maule's well!" answered Phoebe.
+2086_149220_000045_000001 There was a tremor in it, too, that-as all strong feeling is electric-partly communicated itself to Phoebe.
+2086_149220_000012_000001 "Those venerable personages in the coop, too, seem very affably disposed.
+2086_149220_000028_000001 There was an odd kind of authority, too, in what he now proceeded to say, rather as if the garden were his own than a place to which he was admitted merely by Hepzibah's courtesy.
+2086_149220_000017_000001 "I don't much like pictures of that sort,--they are so hard and stern; besides dodging away from the eye, and trying to escape altogether.
+2086_149220_000006_000014 Be that as it might, the hens were now scarcely larger than pigeons, and had a queer, rusty, withered aspect, and a gouty kind of movement, and a sleepy and melancholy tone throughout all the variations of their clucking and cackling.
+2086_149220_000047_000003 It has been my custom for more years, child, than you have lived!" While thus dismissing her, the maiden lady stept forward, kissed Phoebe, and pressed her to her heart, which beat against the girl's bosom with a strong, high, and tumultuous swell. How came there to be so much love in this desolate old heart, that it could afford to well over thus abundantly?
+2086_149220_000006_000002 The spot acquired a somewhat wilder grace, and yet a very gentle one, from the fact that a pair of robins had built their nest in the pear tree, and were making themselves exceedingly busy and happy in the dark intricacy of its boughs.
+2086_149220_000036_000001 On returning into Hepzibah's apartment of the house, she found the low studded parlor so dim and dusky that her eyes could not penetrate the interior.
+2086_149220_000012_000003 They have known me much longer, but never honor me with any familiarity, though hardly a day passes without my bringing them food. Miss Hepzibah, I suppose, will interweave the fact with her other traditions, and set it down that the fowls know you to be a Pyncheon!"
+2086_149220_000011_000001 He held a hoe in his hand, and, while Phoebe was gone in quest of the crumbs, had begun to busy himself with drawing up fresh earth about the roots of the tomatoes.
+2086_149220_000018_000000 "If you would permit me," said the artist, looking at Phoebe, "I should like to try whether the daguerreotype can bring out disagreeable traits on a perfectly amiable face.
+2086_149220_000012_000002 You are lucky to be in their good graces so soon!
+2086_149220_000032_000001 That last stroke of the hoe has cut off a beanstalk.
+2086_149220_000006_000012 All of them were pure specimens of a breed which had been transmitted down as an heirloom in the Pyncheon family, and were said, while in their prime, to have attained almost the size of turkeys, and, on the score of delicate flesh, to be fit for a prince's table.
+2086_149220_000029_000004 So we will be fellow laborers, somewhat on the community system."
+2086_149220_000030_000002 His character perplexed the little country girl, as it might a more practised observer; for, while the tone of his conversation had generally been playful, the impression left on her mind was that of gravity, and, except as his youth modified it, almost sternness.
+2086_149220_000018_000001 But there certainly is truth in what you have said.
+2086_149220_000038_000001 "But put it on the table in the corner of the passage.
+2086_149220_000021_000008 And yet, if you could only see the benign smile of the original!
+2086_149220_000042_000000 She set the lighted lamp in the passage, and again entered the parlor. Hepzibah's form, though its sable outline mingled with the dusk, was now less imperfectly visible.
+2086_149220_000045_000003 But soon, her senses being very acute, she became conscious of an irregular respiration in an obscure corner of the room. Her physical organization, moreover, being at once delicate and healthy, gave her a perception, operating with almost the effect of a spiritual medium, that somebody was near at hand.
+2086_149220_000020_000003 I don't think him improved by your alterations."
+2086_149220_000013_000000 "The secret is," said Phoebe, smiling, "that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens."
+2086_149220_000043_000000 "Cousin," said Phoebe, "did you speak to me just now?"
+2086_149220_000027_000002 But, stay!
+2086_149220_000029_000002 My own sphere does not so much lie among flowers.
+2086_149220_000006_000015 It was evident that the race had degenerated, like many a noble race besides, in consequence of too strict a watchfulness to keep it pure.
+2086_149220_000033_000001 "Neither drink nor bathe your face in it!"
+2086_149220_000025_000001 "Is there nothing dark or sinister anywhere?
+2086_149220_000028_000000 Phoebe was on the point of retreating, but turned back, with some hesitation; for she did not exactly comprehend his manner, although, on better observation, its feature seemed rather to be lack of ceremony than any approach to offensive rudeness.
+2086_149220_000030_000000 Silently, and rather surprised at her own compliance, Phoebe accordingly betook herself to weeding a flower bed, but busied herself still more with cogitations respecting this young man, with whom she so unexpectedly found herself on terms approaching to familiarity.
+2086_149220_000041_000001 It was strangely indistinct, however, and less like articulate words than an unshaped sound, such as would be the utterance of feeling and sympathy, rather than of the intellect.
+2086_149220_000006_000005 Yet, late as it now was, there still arose a pleasant hum out of one or two of the squash blossoms, in the depths of which these bees were plying their golden labor.
+2086_149220_000011_000000 Turning quickly, she was surprised at sight of a young man, who had found access into the garden by a door opening out of another gable than that whence she had emerged.
+2086_149220_000021_000002 The sun, as you see, tells quite another story, and will not be coaxed out of it, after half a dozen patient attempts on my part.
+2086_149220_000029_000000 "If agreeable to you," he observed, "it would give me pleasure to turn over these flowers, and those ancient and respectable fowls, to your care.
+2086_149220_000018_000005 There is, at least, no flattery in my humble line of art.
+2086_149220_000021_000001 "I can assure you that this is a modern face, and one which you will very probably meet. Now, the remarkable point is, that the original wears, to the world's eye,--and, for aught I know, to his most intimate friends,--an exceedingly pleasant countenance, indicative of benevolence, openness of heart, sunny good humor, and other praiseworthy qualities of that cast.
+2086_149220_000041_000000 But, instead of a response from Hepzibah, she seemed to hear the murmur of an unknown voice.
+2086_149220_000021_000007 Could it ever smile?
+2086_149220_000048_000001 "If you begin to love me, I am glad!"
+2086_149220_000030_000003 She rebelled, as it were, against a certain magnetic element in the artist's nature, which he exercised towards her, possibly without being conscious of it.
+2086_149220_000020_000001 It is my Puritan ancestor, who hangs yonder in the parlor.
+2086_149220_000044_000000 "No, child!" replied Hepzibah.
+2086_149220_000021_000009 It is so much the more unfortunate, as he is a public character of some eminence, and the likeness was intended to be engraved."
+2086_149220_000021_000004 Look at that eye!
+2086_149220_000027_000000 "It will suit my purpose still better to see the original," replied the daguerreotypist coolly.
+2086_149220_000006_000004 How many aerial voyages might they have made, in quest of honey, or honey laden, betwixt dawn and sunset!
+2086_149220_000027_000001 "As to his character, we need not discuss its points; they have already been settled by a competent tribunal, or one which called itself competent.
+2086_149220_000003_000001 A hop vine, springing from last year's root, was beginning to clamber over it, but would be long in covering the roof with its green mantle.
+2086_149220_000027_000003 Do not go yet, if you please!
+2086_149220_000020_000002 To be sure, you have found some way of copying the portrait without its black velvet cap and gray beard, and have given him a modern coat and satin cravat, instead of his cloak and band.
+2086_149220_000037_000000 "Shall I light a lamp, Cousin Hepzibah?" she asked.
+2086_149220_000022_000000 "Well, I don't wish to see it any more," observed Phoebe, turning away her eyes.
+2086_149220_000007_000000 The girl ran into the house to get some crumbs of bread, cold potatoes, and other such scraps as were suitable to the accommodating appetite of fowls.
+2086_149220_000006_000013 In proof of the authenticity of this legendary renown, Hepzibah could have exhibited the shell of a great egg, which an ostrich need hardly have been ashamed of.
+2086_149220_000015_000000 "My name is Phoebe Pyncheon," said the girl, with a manner of some reserve; for she was aware that her new acquaintance could be no other than the daguerreotypist, of whose lawless propensities the old maid had given her a disagreeable idea.
+2086_149220_000036_000002 She was indistinctly aware, however, that the gaunt figure of the old gentlewoman was sitting in one of the straight backed chairs, a little withdrawn from the window, the faint gleam of which showed the blanched paleness of her cheek, turned sideways towards a corner.
+2086_149220_000014_000002 For you are a Pyncheon?"
+2086_149220_000045_000000 Fewer words than before, but with the same mysterious music in them! Mellow, melancholy, yet not mournful, the tone seemed to gush up out of the deep well of Hepzibah's heart, all steeped in its profoundest emotion.
+2086_149220_000026_000001 You mistake it for some other.
+2086_149220_000006_000011 It now contained only Chanticleer, his two wives, and a solitary chicken.
+2086_149220_000041_000003 She concluded that she must have mistaken some other sound for that of the human voice; or else that it was altogether in her fancy.
+2086_149220_000017_000002 They are conscious of looking very unamiable, I suppose, and therefore hate to be seen."
+2086_149220_000022_000001 "It is certainly very like the old portrait.
+2086_149220_000017_000000 "A daguerreotype likeness, do you mean?" asked Phoebe with less reserve; for, in spite of prejudice, her own youthfulness sprang forward to meet his.
+2086_149220_000029_000003 You can trim and tend them, therefore, as you please; and I will ask only the least trifle of a blossom, now and then, in exchange for all the good, honest kitchen vegetables with which I propose to enrich Miss Hepzibah's table.
+2086_149220_000018_000003 There is a wonderful insight in Heaven's broad and simple sunshine.
+2086_149220_000016_000003 In short, I make pictures out of sunshine; and, not to be too much dazzled with my own trade, I have prevailed with Miss Hepzibah to let me lodge in one of these dusky gables.
+2086_149220_000014_000001 I prefer to think-and so would Miss Hepzibah-that they recognize the family tone.
+2086_149220_000042_000001 In the remoter parts of the room, however, its walls being so ill adapted to reflect light, there was nearly the same obscurity as before.
+2086_149220_000048_000000 "Goodnight, cousin," said Phoebe, strangely affected by Hepzibah's manner.
+2086_149220_000020_000000 "I know the face," she replied; "for its stern eye has been following me about all day.
+2086_149220_000024_000001 "It is almost too soft and gentle for a man's."
+2086_149220_000038_000000 "Do, if you please, my dear child," answered Hepzibah.
+2086_149220_000014_000000 "Ah, but these hens," answered the young man,--"these hens of aristocratic lineage would scorn to understand the vulgar language of a barn yard fowl.
+2086_149220_000004_000005 The remainder of the garden presented a well selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.
+2086_149220_000021_000000 "You would have seen other differences had you looked a little longer," said Holgrave, laughing, yet apparently much struck.
+2086_149220_000040_000000 "In a moment, cousin!" answered the girl.
+2086_149220_000006_000003 Bees, too,--strange to say,--had thought it worth their while to come hither, possibly from the range of hives beside some farm house miles away.
+2086_149220_000045_000002 The girl sat silently for a moment.
+2086_149220_000039_000001 How wonderfully responsive to every emotion of the human soul!
+652_130737_000030_000000 Deidesheimer: Similar to Brauneberger.
+652_130737_000035_000000 Lacrima Christi Spumanti: The finest Italian champagne.
+652_130737_000032_000000 Johannisberger Schloss: One of the best of the German wines.
+652_130737_000031_000001 Good aroma.
+652_130737_000021_000000 Chateau Lafitte: Has beautiful color and delicate flavor.
+652_130737_000031_000000 Graffenberg: Light and pleasant.
+652_130737_000042_000000 Barsac: Rich and good.
+652_130737_000012_000000 Amontillado, Montilo and Olorosa sherries.
+652_130737_000029_000000 Dreimanner: Similar to Brauneberger.
+652_129742_000010_000003 Use only the white inner stalks, serve with a cream dressing.
+6241_61943_000018_000003 After some hours we came in sight of a solitary rock in the ocean, forming a mighty vault, through which the foaming waves poured with intense fury.
+6241_61943_000011_000003 As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of the work.
+6241_61943_000023_000000 Then without further remark, he put his finger to his lips, frowned darkly, and descended into the small boat which awaited us.
+6241_61943_000039_000004 I saw but few inhabitants during my excursion, but I met a crowd on the beach, drying, salting and loading codfish, the principal article of exportation.
+6241_61943_000033_000001 "What for me is curious in this island, is not what is above the surface, but what is below."
+6241_61943_000002_000000 CHAPTER six
+6241_61943_000038_000005 Upon an eminence close at hand was the national school, in which were taught Hebrew, English, French, and Danish.
+6241_61943_000037_000000 I had soon seen all I wanted of these weary and dismal thoroughfares. Here and there was a strip of discolored turf, like an old worn out bit of woolen carpet; and now and then a bit of kitchen garden, in which grew potatoes, cabbage, and lettuce, almost diminutive enough to suggest the idea of Lilliput.
+6241_61943_000031_000000 "That is the least part of the business, and does not in any way trouble me.
+6241_61943_000040_000000 Sometimes they gave vent to a convulsive laugh, but by no chance did they smile.
+6241_61943_000020_000000 My uncle came out of his cabin pale, haggard, thin, but full of enthusiasm, his eyes dilated with pleasure and satisfaction.
+6241_61943_000035_000002 A vast field of lava skirts it on one side, falling away in terraces towards the sea.
+6241_61943_000011_000000 The castle of Kronborg soon disappeared in the murky atmosphere, as well as the tower of Helsinborg, which raises its head on the Swedish Bank. And here the schooner began to feel in earnest the breezes of the Kattegat.
+6241_61943_000029_000001 Here we are in Iceland.
+6241_61943_000015_000001 At all events, we shall get there some day."
+6241_61943_000030_000001 We have only to go down-but, as far as I am concerned, that is not the question.
+6241_61943_000009_000001 You might perhaps even follow us to the centre of the earth, there to resolve your eternal doubts."
+6241_61943_000004_000000 The hour of departure came at last.
+6241_61943_000028_000000 "How the worse difficulty over?" I cried in fresh amazement.
+6241_61943_000008_000000 A few minutes afterwards, the schooner started before the wind, under all the canvas she could carry, and entered the channel.
+6241_61943_000024_000001 He was, however, but a civil servant, a magistrate, the governor of the island-Baron Trampe.
+6241_61943_000030_000000 "Well, sir, to a certain extent you are right.
+6241_61943_000031_000004 I shall be glad to consult them."
+6241_61943_000010_000001 The fact is, the castle is much later than the time of the heroic prince of Denmark.
+6241_61943_000008_000002 My uncle was delighted; for myself, moody and dissatisfied, I appeared almost to expect a glimpse of the ghost of Hamlet.
+6241_61943_000032_000000 "In the meanwhile," I replied, "I will take a walk through the town. Will you not likewise do so?"
+6241_61943_000031_000002 I am about to visit the public library.
+6241_61943_000018_000000 On the eleventh day we sighted Cape Portland, over which towered Mount Myrdals Yokul, which, the weather being clear, we made out very readily. The cape itself is nothing but a huge mount of granite standing naked and alone to meet the Atlantic waves.
+6241_61943_000011_000002 Her cargo was coal, furniture, pottery, woolen clothing, and a load of corn.
+6241_61943_000040_000001 Their costume consists of a coarse capote of black wool, known in Scandinavian countries as the "vadmel," a broad brimmed hat, trousers of red serge, and a piece of leather tied with strings for a shoe-a coarse kind of moccasin.
+6241_61943_000036_000002 The other street, situated more to the west, runs toward a little lake between the residences of the bishop and the other personages not engaged in commerce.
+6241_61943_000035_000001 The town lies on a flat and marshy plain, between two hills.
+6241_61943_000038_000001 Though not very large, it appeared not likely to be filled for centuries.
+6241_61943_000018_000005 From that moment the schooner was steered to the westward in order to round Cape Reykjanes, the western point of Iceland.
+6241_61943_000038_000000 In the centre of the new commercial street, I found the public cemetery, enclosed by an earthen wall.
+6241_61943_000039_000002 No trees, no vegetation, so to speak-on all sides volcanic peaks-the huts of turf and earth-more like roofs than houses.
+6241_61943_000003_000000 Our Voyage to Iceland
+6241_61943_000034_000000 I bowed by way of reply, put on my hat and furred cloak, and went out.
+6241_61943_000017_000001 I bore it very well, but my uncle to his great annoyance, and even shame, was remarkably seasick!
+6241_61943_000039_000000 In three hours my tour was complete.
+6241_61943_000035_000005 They were now, however, absent on duty.
+6241_61943_000020_000001 Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land.
+6241_61943_000038_000004 I have not the slightest doubt that in high winds its red tiles were blown out, to the great annoyance of the pastor and congregation.
+6241_61943_000009_000000 "Sublime madman," thought I, "you doubtless would approve our proceedings.
+6241_61943_000017_000000 The voyage offered no incident worthy of record.
+6241_61943_000012_000000 "How long will the voyage last?" asked my uncle.
+6241_61943_000026_000000 Out of three rooms of which his house was composed, two were placed at our service, and in a few hours we were installed with all our baggage, the amount of which rather astonished the simple inhabitants of Reykjavik.
+6241_61943_000030_000002 I want to know how we are to get up again."
+6241_61943_000006_000000 "Well, and have we a fair wind?" cried my uncle, in his most mellifluous accents.
+6241_61943_000039_000005 The men appeared robust but heavy; fair haired like Germans, but of pensive mien-exiles of a higher scale in the ladder of humanity than the Eskimos, but, I thought, much more unhappy, since with superior perceptions they are compelled to live within the limits of the Polar Circle.
+6241_66616_000017_000002 The passing of each day became a painful task to him.
+6241_66616_000022_000006 We have everything here."
+6241_66616_000008_000002 If there is such a thing as love at first sight, it sprang into existence the moment john Newsome's eyes fell upon this lovely princess.
+6241_66616_000019_000000 There were now few lonely hours for the two boys.
+6241_66616_000022_000003 The country is alive with them, and the government gives a bounty of fifteen dollars for every scalp taken. Two winters ago I killed forty and I did not make a business of it at that.
+6241_66616_000009_000001 Minnetaki herself replied to this ultimatum.
+6241_66616_000012_000001 Those who were left moved to the vicinity of the Post.
+6241_66616_000024_000001 On the tenth of October he would meet Rod at Sprucewood, on the Black Sturgeon River.
+6241_66616_000008_000004 From the beginning Minnetaki returned the young factor's affections, but a most potent reason prevented their marriage.
+6241_66616_000004_000000 CHAPTER two
+6241_66616_000023_000004 In the end they came to an understanding.
+6241_66616_000021_000001 It was accompanied by one from the factor himself, another from the princess mother, and by a tiny note from Minnetaki, who pleaded with the others that Roderick and mrs Drew might spend the winter with them at Wabinosh House.
+6241_66616_000022_000002 We will hunt wolves.
+6241_66616_000006_000000 Had the young hunters the power of looking into the future, their camp fire that night on the frozen Ombabika might have been one of their last, and a few days later would have seen them back on the edges of civilization.
+6241_66616_000012_000004 The feud still existed.
+6241_66616_000006_000002 But this power of discernment was denied them, and only in after years, with the loved ones of their own firesides close about them, was the whole picture revealed.
+6241_66616_000024_000004 Not until the eleventh did he arrive at Sprucewood.
+6241_61946_000012_000001 It contains thirty thousand square miles of surface, and has about seventy thousand inhabitants.
+6241_61946_000025_000000 Hans stopped here one half hour.
+6241_61946_000022_000002 In reality, the great volcanic movement of the island, and all its attendant phenomena, are concentrated in the interior of the island; there, horizontal layers or strata of rocks, piled one upon the other, eruptions of basaltic origin, and streams of lava, have given this country a kind of supernatural reputation.
+6241_61946_000018_000003 Besides, if he were to complain of weariness, he could have the loan of my horse.
+6241_61946_000018_000002 He moves so little that it is impossible for him to become fatigued.
+6241_61946_000036_000003 At length the sturdy little pony, spreading out his legs, in a stiff and ludicrous attitude, got from under the Professor's legs, and left him standing, with both feet on a separate stone, like the Colossus of Rhodes.
+6241_61946_000040_000000 "Der," answered Hans, pointing to where lay the boat in question-"there."
+6241_61946_000029_000000 He was about to make some energetic observation to the guide, but Hans, without taking the slightest notice of him, went in front of the horses, and walked ahead with the same imperturbable phlegm he had always exhibited.
+6241_61946_000015_000001 Our horses, however, appeared not only well acquainted with the country, but by a kind of instinct, knew which was the best road.
+6241_61946_000013_000002 They very rarely succeed in a good show of yellow.
+6241_61946_000024_000001 It consists simply of a few houses-not what in England or Germany we should call a hamlet.
+6241_61946_000021_000001 What, then, must we expect when we come to the upheaved regions-to the districts broken and roughened from volcanic eruptions and subterraneous commotions?
+6241_61946_000030_000000 Three hours later, still traveling over those apparently interminable and sandy prairies, we were compelled to go round the Kollafjord, an easier and shorter cut than crossing the gulfs.
+6241_61946_000014_000000 The rugged summits of the rocky hills were dimly visible on the edge of the horizon, through the misty fogs; every now and then some heavy flakes of snow showed conspicuous in the morning light, while certain lofty and pointed rocks were first lost in the grey low clouds, their summits clearly visible above, like jagged reefs rising from a troublous sea.
+6241_61946_000021_000000 A few stray cows and sheep were only seen occasionally.
+6241_61946_000007_000001 The truth is, that my spirits rose so rapidly, that I began to be indifferent to what had once appeared to be a terrible journey.
+6241_61946_000011_000000 Hans, our extraordinary guide, went first, walking with a steady, rapid, unvarying step.
+6241_61946_000022_000000 We were to learn this all in good time.
+6241_61946_000007_000000 I began to enjoy the exhilarating delight of traveling, a life of desire, gratification and liberty.
+6241_61946_000012_000002 Geographers have divided it into four parts, and we had to cross the southwest quarter which in the vernacular is called Sudvestr Fjordungr.
+6241_61946_000050_000000 I thoroughly understood and appreciated the necessity for waiting, before crossing the fjord, for that moment when the sea at its highest point is in a state of slack water.
+6241_61946_000034_000001 In any case, I shall trust rather to my own intelligence than theirs."
+6241_61946_000045_000000 "He says tide," replied my uncle, translating the Danish word for my information.
+6241_61946_000023_000000 Little did I expect, however, the spectacle which awaited us when we reached the peninsula of Sneffels, where agglomerations of nature's ruins form a kind of terrible chaos.
+6241_61946_000039_000000 "What, a ferry boat!"
+6241_61946_000009_000002 All, then, that may be required of me I will do cheerfully, and will create no difficulty.
+6241_61946_000016_000003 He is brave; he is sober; he is safe; he never makes a false step; never glides or slips from his path.
+6241_61946_000044_000000 "What does he say?" I asked, considerably puzzled by the delay and the dialogue.
+6241_61946_000009_000000 There could be no doubt that this was all this terrible Saknussemm had done.
+6241_61946_000035_000002 His horse went to the very edge of the water, sniffed at the approaching wave and retreated.
+6241_61946_000015_000000 Every now and then a spur of rock came down through the arid ground, leaving us scarcely room to pass.
+6241_61946_000051_000001 Then my uncle, myself, and guide, two boatmen and the four horses got into a very awkward flat bottom boat.
+6241_61946_000051_000000 The favorable moment did not come until six o'clock in the evening.
+6241_61946_000004_000000 OUR START-WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY
+6241_61946_000011_000001 Our two horses with the luggage followed of their own accord, without requiring whip or spur.
+6241_61946_000042_000000 "Why did you not say so before," cried my uncle; "why not start at once?"
+6241_61946_000051_000002 Accustomed as I had been to the steam ferry boats of the Elbe, I found the long oars of the boatmen but sorry means of locomotion.
+6241_61946_000005_000001 We had neither to fear fatiguing heat nor drenching rain.
+6241_61946_000033_000003 To ride over salt water upon the back of a little horse seemed to me absurd.
+6241_61946_000016_000005 We must not, however, attempt to hurry him; we must allow him to have his own way, and I will undertake to say that between us we shall do our ten leagues a day."
+6241_61946_000033_000002 Now, whatever may have been the intelligence of our horses, I had not the slightest reliance upon them, as a means of crossing a stormy arm of the sea.
+6241_61946_000015_000002 My uncle had not even the satisfaction of urging forward his steed by whip, spur, or voice.
+6241_61946_000049_000000 My uncle frowned, stamped his feet and then followed the horses to where the boat lay.
+6241_61946_000018_000005 My arms are right-but my legs are getting a little stiff."
+6241_61946_000019_000003 In this country there are no roads, paths are nearly unknown, and vegetation, poor as it was, slowly as it reached perfection, soon obliterated all traces of the few travelers who passed from place to place.
+6241_61946_000034_000000 "If they are really intelligent," I said to myself, "they will certainly not make the attempt.
+6241_61946_000035_000000 But my uncle was in no humor to wait.
+6241_61946_000003_000000 CHAPTER nine
+6241_61946_000047_000000 "For bida?" asked my uncle.
+6241_61946_000010_000000 It was just before we left Reykjavik that I came to this decision.
+6241_61946_000017_000000 "We may do so," was my reply, "but what about our worthy guide?"
+6241_61946_000046_000000 "Of course I understand-we must wait till the tide serves."
+6241_61946_000013_000001 We took our way through poor and sparse meadows, which made a desperate effort every year to show a little green.
+6241_61946_000005_000002 It was, in fact, real tourist weather.
+6241_61946_000006_000000 As there was nothing I liked better than horse exercise, the pleasure of riding through an unknown country caused the early part of our enterprise to be particularly agreeable to me.
+6241_61946_000011_000002 My uncle and I came behind, cutting a very tolerable figure upon our small but vigorous animals.
+6241_61946_000013_000000 Hans, on taking his departure from Reykjavik, had followed the line of the sea.
+6241_61946_000005_000000 The weather was overcast but settled, when we commenced our adventurous and perilous journey.
+6241_61946_000018_000004 I should have a violent attack of the cramp if I were not to have some sort of exercise.
+6241_61946_000019_000001 The country we had reached was already nearly a desert.
+6241_61946_000027_000001 I pointed this out to my uncle, who made a very energetic grimace.
+6241_61946_000030_000002 These sacred edifices are, however, very much like these people, who do without watches-and never miss them.
+6241_61946_000043_000000 "Tidvatten," said the guide.
+6241_61946_000020_000001 What, then, must be the state of the less known and more distant parts of the island?
+6241_61946_000018_000001 Look at Hans.
+6241_61946_000019_000000 All this while we were advancing at a rapid pace.
+6241_61946_000035_000001 He dug his heels into the sides of his steed, and made for the shore.
+6241_61946_000016_000002 Snow, tempest, impracticable roads, rocks, icebergs-nothing stops him.
+6241_61946_000033_000001 The sweeping and broken waves came rolling in upon the pointed rocks; the gulf was surrounded by rocky walls-a mighty cliff, three thousand feet in height, remarkable for its brown strata, separated here and there by beds of tufa of a reddish hue.
+6241_61946_000025_000001 He shared our frugal breakfast, answered Yes, and No to my uncle's questions as to the nature of the road, and at last when asked where we were to pass the night was as laconic as usual.
+6241_61946_000016_000000 "Good beast, good beast," he would cry.
+6313_66129_000053_000000 At their urgent request, Professor Zepplin told the boys to go ahead and enjoy themselves.
+6313_66129_000061_000000 Up to within a moment of the finish of the second heat the two ponies were racing neck and neck.
+6313_66129_000058_000000 To this all agreed.
+6313_66129_000069_000000 Galloping into camp the boy fetched his sombrero, which he carried well out into the field and tossed away.
+6313_66129_000004_000003 The fire would be ready and thus no time would be lost in preparing the first meal of the day, which, in this case, would be breakfast, dinner and supper all in one.
+6313_66129_000025_000000 "Yes; wild plum jam," answered the guide.
+6313_66129_000057_000002 We'll race the length of the field and back.
+6313_66129_000019_000000 Chunky reached the table first, greedily surveying what had been placed on it.
+6313_66129_000016_000002 A stout club for mine."
+6313_66129_000040_000000 "Yes, the country is full of caves.
+6313_66129_000038_000000 "I reckon there are," smiled the guide.
+6313_66129_000045_000003 But I know an old settler who will lend us his dog, if it is not out.
+6313_66129_000055_000000 They assured him that nothing was further from their intention, and quickly casting aside guns and cartridge belts, they threw themselves into their saddles again for a jolly romp.
+6313_66129_000052_000001 A temporary camp was quickly pitched.
+6313_66129_000060_000001 This time the battle lay between Tad Butler and Ned Rector.
+6313_66129_000035_000000 "It's good, anyway."
+6313_66129_000016_000000 "You'll see when you get to camp," answered Chunky.
+6313_66129_000022_000000 "Found a bee tree on my way back, and cut it down.
+6313_66129_000027_000001 "I am free to admit that I am hungry, too.
+6313_66129_000085_000000 "Why don't you move the pony?
+6313_66129_000071_000000 All at once he dropped to the saddle and slipped the left foot from the stirrup.
+6313_66129_000047_000000 Supper having been finished, the party gathered about the camp fire for their evening chat, after which, admonishing Stacy to keep within his tent and not to go borrowing trouble, the boys turned in for a sound sleep.
+6313_66129_000064_000001 All agreed that Tad's superior horsemanship, alone, had won the race for him.
+6313_66129_000031_000000 Chunky did even better than that.
+6313_66129_000009_000000 With a shout, the boys dashed pell mell to meet the pack train, and, falling in behind the slow moving burros, urged them on with derisive shouts and sundry resounding slaps on the animals' flanks.
+6313_66129_000011_000001 "Cold water is the most nourishing thing we've touched since last night."
+6313_66129_000039_000000 "A cave?" interrupted Tad.
+6313_66129_000074_000000 "Huh!
+6313_66129_000071_000001 Grasping the pommel with the left hand, he appeared to dive head first toward the ground.
+6313_66129_000074_000003 "I've seen them do that in the wild west shows too many times not to know how myself."
+6313_66129_000051_000001 The little animals were becoming more sure footed every day, and Ned said that, before the trip was finished, "Jimmie" would be able to walk a slack rope.
+6313_66129_000064_000002 Ned took his defeat good naturedly.
+6313_66129_000065_000001 Even Stacy Brown, though he did not sit his saddle with the same grace that marked the riding of Tad Butler and Ned Rector, more practiced horsemen, was nevertheless no mean rider.
+6313_66129_000080_000000 Stacy, his face flushed, determination plainly showing in his eyes, stretched forth his hand for the sombrero.
+6313_66129_000077_000000 "I will," replied Chunky, confidently.
+6313_66129_000021_000000 "Honey?
+6313_66129_000002_000000 ROUGH RIDERS IN THE SADDLE
+6313_66129_000040_000002 Besides this, there are many abandoned mines up the range further.
+6313_66129_000037_000001 "Are there bears up here?"
+6313_66129_000013_000001 It must have come to life some time during the night and dug its way out," laughed Tad.
+6313_66129_000056_000000 The great, green field, surrounded on all sides by tall trees, made the place an ideal one for their purpose.
+6313_66129_000001_000000 CHAPTER twelve
+6313_66129_000062_000000 Tad hitched in his saddle a little, throwing the greater part of his weight on the stirrups.
+6313_66129_000064_000000 The third heat was merely a repetition of the second.
+6313_66129_000012_000001 Didn't you find it?"
+6313_66129_000090_000000 Then Chunky essayed the feat.
+6313_66129_000033_000000 "Remember, sir, that a certain amount of dignity befits the office of president of the Pony Riders Club," he said.
+6313_66129_000074_000001 That's nothing.
+6313_66129_000038_000001 "We are in the bear country now.
+6313_66129_000079_000000 "Don't you worry about me, Ned Rector.
+6313_66129_000027_000003 We sometimes had jam when I was with the German----"
+6313_66129_000078_000001 "If you haven't I would advise you to go easy.
+6313_66129_000029_000000 "Yes."
+6313_66129_000045_000000 "That depends.
+6313_66129_000043_000000 This announcement filled the boys with excitement.
+6313_66129_000021_000001 Why, mr Thomas, where did you get honey?" asked Walter.
+6313_66129_000031_000001 He buried his biscuit under a layer of jam, over which he spread a thick coating of honey.
+6313_66129_000075_000000 Walter smiled, with a twinkle in his eyes.
+6313_66129_000034_000000 Chunky colored.
+6313_66129_000023_000000 "We'll take all chances," advised Ned.
+6313_66129_000059_000001 Walter Perkins won the heat.
+6313_66129_000093_000000 "Are you hurt?" asked Tad apprehensively.
+6313_66129_000080_000001 Riding bravely out into the field, he tossed it to the ground.
+6313_66129_000016_000001 "I don't need guns to hunt with.
+6313_66129_000074_000002 I can do that myself," he grunted.
+6313_66129_000045_000004 Of course, dogs can't follow the trail of an animal as well, now, as they could with snow on the ground.
+6313_66129_000078_000000 "Got your life insured?" asked Ned.
+6313_66129_000036_000000 "Then, I think I'll try some myself," announced Ned, helping himself liberally to the honey and jam.
+6313_66129_000062_000001 He slapped Texas sharply on the flank with the flat of his hand.
+6313_66129_000057_000001 "Suppose we start with a race?
+6313_66129_000042_000000 "All you want.
+6313_66129_000049_000000 The guide said that, by making a detour in their journey that day, they would cross table lands several acres in extent and covered with grass.
+6313_66129_000045_000001 Perhaps Tuesday.
+6313_66129_000045_000002 We shall need a dog.
+6313_66129_000060_000000 The next two heats were different.
+6313_66129_000076_000000 "Why not show us, then?" he said.
+6313_66129_000028_000000 "Army," added Ned.
+6313_66129_000065_000000 By this time, the boys had come to feel fully as much at home in the saddle as they formerly had been out of it.
+6313_66129_000081_000000 Stacy dismounted and removed the hat carefully to one side.
+6313_66129_000052_000000 An early start was made, so that the party reached the promised table lands shortly before ten o'clock in the forenoon.
+6313_66129_000063_000000 Texas seemed to leap clear of the ground, planting himself on all fours just over the line, the winner by a neck.
+6313_66129_000050_000002 The trail is so plainly marked that he can't miss it."
+6313_66129_000023_000002 It looks like jam."
+6313_66129_000045_000005 But this dog, you will find, is a wonder.
+6313_66129_000036_000002 I offer you my humble apologies.
+6313_66129_000048_000000 As yet, they had been unable to attempt any fancy riding with their ponies, owing to the rugged nature of the country through which they had been journeying.
+6313_66129_000032_000000 Ned fixed him with a stern eye.
+6313_66129_000012_000000 "But I left you a rabbit.
+6313_66129_000060_000002 It was a beautiful race, the little Indian ponies seeming to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the contest, stretching themselves out to their full lengths, and, with heads on a level with their backs, fairly flew across the great plot of green.
+6313_66129_000088_000000 "Be careful, Chunky," warned Walter.
+6313_66129_000057_000003 We'll do it three times, and the one who wins two times out of three will be it."
+6313_66129_000044_000000 "What I want to know, is, when do we go hunting?" asked Ned.
+6313_66129_000089_000000 "He's got to learn," declared Tad.
+6313_66129_000008_000000 "Now you may go," he nodded.
+6313_66129_000051_000000 The boys were now all anxiety to start, while the ponies, after their Sunday rest, were almost as full of life as were their owners.
+6313_66129_000004_000002 He no doubt would bring food of some kind with him.
+6313_66129_000007_000000 It was a gladsome sound to this band of hungry boys, whose ordinarily healthy appetites, under the bracing mountain air and the long fast, had taken on what the Professor described as a "razor edge."
+6313_66129_000010_000000 "Had anything to eat!" asked the guide.
+6313_66129_000092_000002 Chunky turned a double somersault, lay still for a moment, then struggled up, rubbing his body gingerly, as the rest of the party came hurrying up to him.
+6313_66129_000068_000000 "I'll show you," promised Tad.
+6313_66129_000027_000000 "Now, fall to, young gentlemen," directed the Professor.
+6313_66129_000083_000001 I couldn't get it," explained Chunky.
+6313_66129_000020_000000 "Hooray, fellows!" he shouted.
+6313_66129_000005_000000 The boys awaited the guide's approach with impatience, some pacing back and forth, while others coaxed the fire into a roaring blaze, at the same time confiding to each other how hungry they were.
+6313_66129_000079_000002 Let me have that hat, Tad," he demanded as the latter came trotting up to the group.
+6313_66129_000046_000000 "I think I'll ride my own pony and let the dog walk," announced Ned.
+6313_66129_000092_000001 Fortunately, his right foot freed itself from the stirrup at the same time, or there might have been a different ending.
+6313_66129_000013_000000 "We did not.
+6313_66129_000027_000002 I think I shall help myself to some of that wild plum jam and biscuit, first It reminds me of old times.
+6313_66129_000079_000001 Guess I know how to ride.
+6313_66129_000014_000000 "And we've got a surprise for you," announced Stacy, swelling with pride.
+6313_66129_000092_000000 As a result, instead of stopping when he reached the hat, the boy kept on going.
+6313_66129_000020_000002 What do you think of that?"
+6313_66129_000011_000000 "Not enough to give us indigestion," answered Ned.
+6313_66129_000054_000001 "I guess I had better go along to see that you do not."
+6313_66129_000038_000003 I came near losing my life too, and----"
+6313_66129_000091_000000 At the moment when he freed his left foot from the stirrup, he threw his body sharply to the right, reaching for the hat without taking the precaution to grasp the pommel.
+6313_66129_000036_000004 Next thing we know you'll be providing us with bear steak."
+6313_66129_000085_000001 You don't have to move the hat, you ninny."
+6313_66129_000036_000001 "I'd lose my dignity for a mouthful of that, any day," he decided after having sampled the combination. "President Brown, I withdraw my criticism.
+6313_66129_000023_000001 "But what's this!
+6313_66129_000018_000000 By the time the meal was ready the tents had been pitched and the boys had returned from the spring, rubbing their faces with their coarse towels, their cheeks glowing and their eyes sparkling in anticipation of the feast.
+6313_76958_000038_000002 There's the pony ready for you.
+6313_76958_000054_000000 "Does it make any difference?"
+6313_76958_000018_000000 "More than most tenderfeet would have done," growled Big foot.
+6313_76958_000052_000000 He shook the lad violently.
+6313_76958_000032_000000 In spite of their hard couches the Pony Riders slept soundly, even Professor Zepplin himself never waking the whole night through.
+6313_76958_000097_000001 "We had better start the drive this morning.
+6313_76958_000084_000000 "I think you will find them all there, Master Tad, if you will consult the big book," said the Professor.
+6313_76958_000045_000000 Lumpy Bates came running toward him, not daring to call out for fear of waking the camp.
+6313_76958_000030_000000 This effectually quieted the boy for the night, and the camp settled down to silence and to sleep.
+6313_76958_000001_000000 CHAPTER four
+6313_76958_000075_000000 "And you, mr Professor?"
+6313_76958_000045_000001 The cowman was swinging his arms and seeking to attract the lad's attention.
+6313_76958_000036_000004 If you make a racket there, Pong will dump a pot of boiling water over you.
+6313_76958_000045_000002 Chunky, however, was too sleepy to see anything so small as a cowman swinging his arms a rod away.
+6313_76958_000073_000002 Take your time.
+6313_76958_000037_000000 "What do you want?" demanded the boy.
+6313_76958_000038_000001 Get a move on you and keep still.
+6313_76958_000020_000001 "None of you will be fit for duty to morrow.
+6313_76958_000025_000000 "You will find your stuff rolled up under the chuck wagon, boys," said Stallings.
+6313_76958_000082_000003 Sometimes he does it in the middle of the night when the thunder and lightning are smashing about him like all possessed, and the cattle are on the rampage.
+6313_76958_000020_000002 We've got a hard drive before us, and every man must be fit as a fiddle.
+6313_76958_000096_000000 "I guess we are pretty sure of having real food to eat, then," laughed Tad, as the boys rose from the table ready for the active work of the day.
+6313_76958_000017_000001 "I just gave him his head, and that's all there was to it."
+6313_76958_000048_000000 His warning came too late.
+6313_76958_000014_000000 "When you get to be half as good a man on cows as your friend the Pinto, here, you'll be a full grown man," added Big foot.
+6313_76958_000022_000000 The cowboy did this very thing, but within an hour he found himself alone, the others having turned in one by one.
+6313_76958_000064_000000 Out on the plains the fourth guard were drowsily crooning the lullaby about the bull that "came down the hillside, long time ago."
+6313_76958_000032_000002 With Stacy Brown, however, severe measures were necessary when one of the returning guard routed him out at half past three in the morning.
+6313_76958_000059_000000 The rest of the fourth guard had already gone out, Chunky meeting the returning members of the third coming in.
+6313_76958_000043_000000 The lad caught the pony that stood moping in the corral, not appearing to be aware that his rider was preparing him for the range, Chunky all the time muttering to himself.
+6313_76958_000089_000000 "Pong, tell the young gentlemen what would become of you if you were to serve bad meals to this outfit of cowpunchers."
+6313_76958_000031_000002 Besides holding the untrustworthy horses, it afforded a temporary corral for catching a change of mounts.
+6313_76958_000082_000000 "Oh, no, this kind of a wrangler isn't," laughed the foreman.
+6313_76958_000014_000001 "The Pinto rounded up a bunch of stray cows to night as well as I could do it myself, and he didn't go about it with a brass band either."
+6313_76958_000069_000000 It was the Chinaman, Pong, sounding his call for breakfast, in accordance with the usage of the plains.
+6313_76958_000024_000001 "Anywhere-everywhere.
+6313_76958_000088_000000 "What do you mean?" asked Ned Rector.
+6313_76958_000049_000000 Stacy shot up into the air as if he had been propelled from a bow gun. He struck the soft sand several feet in advance of the pony, his face and head ploughing a little furrow as he drove along on his nose.
+6313_76958_000051_000001 "Don't you know any more than to try to get onto a broncho from the off side?
+6313_76958_000013_000000 A loud laugh followed at Chunky's expense.
+6313_76958_000036_000000 "Keep still, you baby!" growled the cowman.
+6313_76958_000029_000000 Instantly there was a chorus of yells and snarls from the disturbed cowpunchers, accompanied by dire threats as to what they would do to the gopher did he ever disturb their rest in that way again.
+6313_76958_000081_000000 "He's a fellow who's all the time making trouble, isn't he?" asked Stacy innocently.
+6313_76958_000024_000002 Our beds, on the plains, are wherever we happen to pull our boots off."
+6313_76958_000009_000000 "I don't call that much of a song," sniffed Chunky contemptuously after a moment of silence on the part of the group.
+6313_76958_000071_000000 By the time the cowmen and Pony Riders had refreshed themselves at the spring near which the outfit had camped, a steaming hot breakfast had been spread on the ground, with a slicker for a table cloth.
+6313_76958_000080_000000 "A wrangler's a wrangler," answered Big foot stolidly.
+6313_76958_000038_000000 "It's your trick.
+6313_76958_000040_000001 "You're lucky to be alive in this outfit, let alone filling yourself with grub.
+6313_76958_000079_000000 "Wrangler?
+6313_76958_000002_000000 THE FIRST NIGHT IN CAMP
+6313_76958_000039_000000 "Is breakfast ready?" asked the boy, tightening his belt and jamming his sombrero down over his head.
+6313_76958_000061_000000 "Where are they?" asked the boy.
+6313_76958_000004_000000 In a few moments the sound of singing was borne to the ears of the campers.
+6313_76958_000041_000000 Stacy ruefully, and still half asleep, made a wide circle around the sleeping cowmen that he might not make the mistake of again stepping on any of them.
+6313_76958_000010_000000 "Better not try it out on the range," smiled the foreman.
+6313_76958_000047_000000 "Hi, there!" hissed Lumpy, filled with indignation that anyone should attempt to mount a pony from the right side.
+6313_76958_000028_000000 In floundering about, making up his bunk, the lad had fallen over two cowboys and stepped full on the face of a third.
+6313_76958_000008_000000 "Little black bull came down the hillside, Down the hillside, down the hillside, Little black bull came down the hillside, Long time ago."
+6313_76958_000092_000000 "How?" asked Tad.
+6313_76958_000090_000000 The Chinaman showed two rows of white teeth in his expansive grin.
+6313_76958_000073_000000 "You boys don't have to swallow your food whole," smiled the foreman, observing that the Pony Riders seemed to think they were expected to hurry through their meal as well.
+6313_76958_000021_000001 "I'll give it as a horseback opinion that the only way to enjoy such a night as this, is to sit up until you fall asleep with your boots on.
+6313_76958_000036_000005 You won't be so fast to wake up hard working cowboys after that, I reckon."
+6313_76958_000016_000000 Tad's eyes were sparkling from the experiences of the evening, as well as from the praise bestowed upon him by the big cowpuncher.
+6313_76958_000094_000000 "Oh, you mean they would shoot you?" asked Walter.
+6313_76958_000063_000000 In a few moments they, too, had turned their ponies adrift and had thrown themselves down beside their companions, pulling their blankets well about them, for the night had grown chill.
+6313_76958_000082_000004 He's a trouble curer, not a troublemaker, except for himself."
+6313_76958_000026_000001 These they spread out on the ground, using boots wrapped in coats for pillows.
+6313_76958_000066_000001 Roll out!" he roared, bringing the sleepy cowpunchers grumbling to their feet.
+6313_76958_000073_000003 The fourth guard has to eat yet, so there is plenty of time. How did you all sleep?"
+6313_76958_000019_000000 Walter had gone out with the second guard, and the others had gathered around the camp fire for their nightly story telling.
+6313_76958_000020_000003 You can enjoy yourselves sleeping just as well as sitting up."
+6313_76958_000021_000002 That's the way I'm going to do it, to night."
+6313_76958_000060_000000 "Better hurry up, kid," they chuckled.
+6313_76958_000077_000000 "Who is the wrangler this morning?" asked the foreman, glancing about at his men.
+6313_76958_000060_000001 "The cows'll sleep themselves out of sight before you get there, if you don't get a move on."
+6313_76958_000024_000000 "Beds?" grunted Big foot.
+6313_76958_000012_000000 "Bob thinks it might stampede the herd," spoke up Big foot Sanders.
+6313_76958_000036_000001 "Do you want to wake up the whole outfit?
+6313_76958_000094_000001 "I hardly think they would do that, Pong."
+6313_76958_000006_000000 "It's the 'Cowboy's Lament,'" laughed Bob Stallings.
+6313_76958_000011_000001 Why not?" demanded the boy.
+6313_76958_000048_000001 Stacy Brown's left leg swung over the saddle. No sooner had the pony felt the leather over him than he raised his back straight up, his head going down almost to the ground.
+6313_76958_000078_000000 "I am," spoke up Shorty Savage promptly.
+6313_76958_000067_000000 Almost before the echoes of his voice had died away, a shrill voice piped up from the tail end of the chuck wagon.
+6313_76958_000097_000000 "We will now get to work on the herd," announced the foreman.
+6313_76958_000034_000000 The guard chanced to be Lumpy Bates, and he administered, what to him, was a gentle kick, to hurry the boy along.
+6313_76958_000051_000002 Say, don't you?"
+6313_76958_000015_000000 The foreman nodded, with an approving glance at Tad.
+6313_76958_000082_000002 The horse wrangler is the fellow who goes out and rounds up the ponies.
+6313_76958_000011_000000 "Not on the range?
+6313_76958_000027_000000 Stacy Brown proved the only grumbler in the lot, declaring that he could not sleep a wink on such a bed as that.
+6313_76958_000036_000003 If you can't keep shut, the boss'll be for making you sleep under the chuck wagon.
+6313_76958_000083_000000 "I guess there are some words that aren't in the dictionary," laughed Tad.
+6313_76958_000036_000002 There'll be a lively muss about the time you do, I reckon, and you'll wish you hadn't.
+6313_76958_000040_000000 "Breakfast?" jeered Lumpy.
+6313_76958_000058_000000 At first the pony began to buck; then, evidently thinking the effort was not worth while, settled down to a rough trot which soon shook the boy up and thoroughly awakened him.
+6313_76958_000086_000000 "A very fine breakfast, sir," announced the Professor, looking up at the Chinaman.
+6313_76958_000006_000001 "Listen."
+6313_76958_000007_000000 Off on the plain they heard a rich tenor voice raised in the song of the cowman.
+6313_76958_000003_000000 The camp fire was burning brightly when the first guard, having completed its tour of duty, came galloping in.
+6313_76958_000056_000001 The boss said the first man he heard using language while you tenderfeet were with us, would get fired on the spot."
+6313_76958_000076_000000 "Surprisingly well.
+6313_76958_000020_000000 "Now, I don't want you fellows sitting up all night," objected the foreman.
+6313_76958_000091_000000 "Allee same likee this," he explained.
+6313_76958_000079_000001 What's a wrangler?" demanded Stacy, delaying the progress of a large slice of bacon, which hung suspended from the fork half-way between plate and mouth.
+6313_76958_000073_000001 "Those fellows have to go out.
+6313_76958_000038_000003 I wouldn't have saddled it but the boss said I must.
+6313_76958_000076_000001 It is astonishing with how little a man can get along when he has to."
+6313_76958_000065_000000 It seemed as if scarcely a minute had passed since the boys turned in before they were awakened by the strident tones of the foreman.
+6313_76958_000033_000000 Stacy grumbled, turned over and went to sleep again.
+6313_76958_000085_000000 The meal was soon finished, Pong having stood rubbing his palms, a happy smile on his face, during the time they were eating.
+6313_76958_000093_000000 Pong, going through the motions of drawing a gun from his belt, and puffing out his cheeks, uttered an explosive "pouf!"
+6313_76958_000066_000000 "Roll out!
+6313_76958_000017_000000 "The pony did most of it," admitted the lad.
+6313_76958_000009_000001 "Even if I can't sing, I can beat that."
+6313_76958_000074_000000 "Fine," chorused the boys.
+6313_76958_000023_000000 "Where are your beds?" asked Stacy after the foreman had urged the boys to get to sleep.
+6313_76958_000042_000000 Lumpy watched him with disapproving eyes.
+6313_66125_000037_000001 We've got to get Walt up here, even if I have to jump over after him," said Tad firmly.
+6313_66125_000082_000002 He can talk now," was the answer that carried with it such a note of gladness that Ned and Stacy were unable to resist a shout of joy.
+6313_66125_000047_000002 You are----"
+6313_66125_000007_000003 I'm going back for a torch," he commanded, leaping by them on his way to the camp fire.
+6313_66125_000010_000000 "I know-I know-but----"
+6313_66125_000019_000004 "All right, old man.
+6313_66125_000036_000003 Ain't no use to expect him to hook himself onto the line, even if he does wake up," decided the guide with emphasis, beginning to haul up the lariat, which he coiled neatly on the rock in front of him.
+6313_66125_000011_000002 Walt's alive!
+6313_66125_000068_000002 Will it be all right for me to swing myself?"
+6313_66125_000028_000001 Let me know when the rope reaches you.
+6313_66125_000078_000002 The boy's doing the best he can.
+6313_66125_000064_000002 Keep your eyes shut till I tell you to open them."
+6313_66125_000039_000000 "What would you suggest!"
+6313_66125_000019_000002 Hey, Walter!
+6313_66125_000062_000000 He tilted his head to look up.
+6313_66125_000084_000000 "Sure thing!" answered the boy.
+6313_66125_000043_000000 "Let me go, mr Thomas," interrupted Ned Rector, stepping forward, with almost a challenge in his eyes.
+6313_66125_000020_000001 Lie perfectly still," warned the guide.
+6313_66125_000052_000000 "I understand."
+6313_66125_000006_000000 "What is it?" demanded the Professor breathlessly.
+6313_66125_000078_000001 Don't bother him.
+6313_66125_000064_000001 "Better lie down so you, too, don't take a notion to fall off.
+6313_66125_000051_000000 "Now, be very careful.
+6313_66125_000017_000001 All I can see is rocks and shadows.
+6313_66125_000007_000000 "It's Master Walt," snapped the guide.
+6313_66125_000045_000001 "It will be better for him to go, if he will----"
+6313_66125_000061_000000 "Good!" approved Lige encouragingly, beginning to let the rawhide slip slowly around the trunk of the tree.
+6313_66125_000021_000000 To this question Walter made some reply that was unintelligible to them.
+6313_66125_000050_000000 The guide, without further delay, and giving no heed to Professor Zepplin's nervous protests, slipped the noose over Tad's shoulders, and, drawing it down and up under his arms, secured the knot so that the loop might not tighten under the weight of the boy's body.
+6313_66125_000016_000002 Can you make it out?"
+6313_66125_000035_000000 "What do you think has happened to him?" asked Tad in a troubled voice.
+6313_66125_000013_000001 What are we going to do, Thomas-how are we to rescue the boy?"
+6313_66125_000053_000000 "Are you ready?"
+6313_66125_000022_000000 "Now, what are we going to do, I'd like to know?" asked Ned.
+6313_66125_000051_000002 And, if you meet with anything unlooked for, let me know at once.
+6313_66125_000020_000000 "Don't move around.
+6313_66125_000090_000000 The boy could not repress a shudder.
+6313_66125_000038_000001 But talking won't do it.
+6313_66125_000070_000001 But he doesn't answer me."
+6313_66125_000016_000000 "Looks like a clump of bushes down there.
+6313_66125_000040_000000 "One of us must go down there," was the guide's startling announcement.
+6313_66125_000011_000000 "I heard him call.
+6313_66125_000074_000000 The creaking of the rawhide told them that Tad Butler was swaying from side to side, fifty feet below them, at the end of a slender line.
+6313_66125_000012_000000 The shout of joy that had framed itself on the lips of Ned Rector and Stacy Brown died out in an indistinct murmur.
+6313_66125_000003_000000 A moment more and he too caught the plaintive cry for help from below.
+6313_66125_000027_000000 The mountaineer quickly formed a loop in one end of the rope, making it large enough to permit of its slipping over the shoulders of a man.
+6313_66125_000036_000001 He ain't very strong, you know.
+6313_66125_000070_000000 "Lodged in the branches of a pinyon tree, I think it is.
+6313_66125_000028_000002 Can you slip it over your shoulders and under your arms?" called the guide.
+6313_66125_000025_000002 Hurry!"
+6313_66125_000008_000000 "Where-is-he?" stammered the Professor, not observing that the guide had left them.
+6313_66125_000068_000000 "I see him," called Tad, his voice sounding hollow and unnatural to those above.
+6313_66125_000023_000001 "It's a tough job.
+6313_66125_000069_000000 "Where is he?"
+6313_66125_000007_000001 "Stand still.
+6313_66125_000029_000000 There was no response.
+6313_66125_000085_000000 Very slowly, restraining their inclination to haul the rope in with all speed only because the warning eyes of the guide were upon them, the two boys, assisted by Professor Zepplin, began hoisting Walter Perkins toward the top.
+6313_66125_000034_000003 But I don't dare try it.
+6313_66125_000062_000001 The movement sent his body swaying giddily from side to side.
+6313_66125_000034_000005 I don't dare try any experiments."
+6313_66125_000051_000007 Be sure to fasten him securely to the loop before you give the signal to haul up," warned the guide.
+6313_66125_000082_000000 "Yes; haul away.
+6313_66125_000067_000000 "Yes?
+6313_66125_000020_000002 "Are you hurt?"
+6313_66125_000051_000008 "Here, put my gun in your pocket."
+6313_66125_000064_000000 "Hold a torch over the edge of the cliff, Master Ned," directed the guide.
+6313_66125_000009_000000 "Down there, sir," explained Tad, pointing to the ledge of rock over which Walter had fallen.
+6313_66125_000058_000000 It was a trying moment for all of them, and naturally more so for the boy who was about to descend into the unknown depths of the mountain canyou.
+6313_66125_000046_000000 "And he most certainly will," interrupted Tad, advancing a step.
+6313_66125_000042_000000 "In that case, you will have to go yourself, Thomas," decided the Professor sharply.
+6313_66125_000073_000001 Now try it."
+6313_66125_000048_000000 "I am needed right here, sir," replied the guide, shortly.
+6313_66125_000016_000001 But I ain't sure.
+6313_66125_000076_000000 Then followed a long period of suspense.
+6313_66125_000090_000001 Closing his eyes, he clung to the slender support with grim courage until a hail from above told him that the rawhide loop was rapidly squirming down toward him.
+6313_66125_000005_000000 "Keep back!
+6313_66125_000061_000001 As he did so, Tad felt himself gradually sinking into the sombre depths.
+6313_66125_000073_000000 "All right.
+6313_66125_000065_000001 After what seemed to them hours, a sharp call from the depths reached their ears.
+6313_66125_000007_000002 Don't move an inch.
+6313_66125_000019_000006 We'll have you out of that in no time."
+6313_66125_000036_000002 And that tumble's enough to knock the sense out of a full grown man.
+6313_66125_000017_000000 "no
+6313_66125_000047_000000 "I protest!" shouted the Professor.
+6313_66125_000015_000000 "See anything?" asked Tad tremulously, creeping to his side.
+6313_66125_000011_000003 But I don't know how we are going to get him."
+6313_66125_000024_000000 "Why not get a rope and let it down to him," suggested Tad.
+6313_66125_000005_000002 "You'll all be over if you don't have a care.
+6313_66125_000087_000000 Walter had fully regained consciousness by this time, and a brief examination showed that he had sustained no serious injury, he having struck on the yielding branches of the pinyon, which broke his fall and saved his life.
+6313_66125_000002_000001 Running to the edge of the cliff, he leaned over and listened intently.
+6313_66125_000044_000001 "I am the one to go after Walt, if anyone has to.
+6313_66125_000036_000000 "Fainted, probably.
+6313_66125_000071_000000 "Wait a minute," cautioned the mountaineer.
+6313_66125_000057_000001 After winding the end tightly about his own arm, he handed a lighted torch to Tad.
+6313_66125_000019_000005 Stick tight and don't get scared.
+6313_66125_000051_000005 If you find the support too weak to bear your weight, let me know.
+6313_66125_000067_000001 Got him?" he answered, leaning over the cliff.
+6313_66125_000063_000000 Cautiously placing a hand against the rocks to steady himself, Tad wisely concluded that hereafter it would not pay to be too curious.
+6313_66125_000005_000001 Keep back!" he shouted, as the boys and Professor Zepplin began crowding near the masked edge of the cliff.
+6313_66125_000059_000000 "Right!" announced the guide in a reassuring voice.
+6313_66125_000033_000000 "Has-he---gone?" asked the Professor weakly.
+6313_66125_000051_000006 I'll send down another rope to which you can tie yourself until we get Master Walter to the top.
+6313_66125_000017_000002 Where is it that you think you see bushes?"
+6313_66125_000078_000000 "Keep still!
+6313_66125_000083_000001 "Are you all safe down there, Tad?"
+6313_66125_000038_000000 "Right you are, young man.
+6313_66125_000082_000001 Tell them Walt's all right.
+6313_66125_000038_000002 Something else besides saying you're going to will be necessary."
+6313_66125_000068_000001 "He's so far to the right of me that I can't reach him.
+6313_66125_000048_000001 "You'd have both of us at the bottom if I left it to you to take care of this end."
+6313_66125_000032_000001 They gazed at each other in perplexity.
+6313_66125_000025_000000 "Yes, that's the only way we can do it.
+6313_66125_000034_000000 "no
+6313_66125_000018_000000 "Over there to the right, just near the edge of the light space made by the torch light," answered the guide.
+6313_66125_000076_000001 But from the cautious movements of the light far below them, the guide understood that the lad was at work carrying out his part of the task of rescue to the best of his ability.
+6313_66125_000025_000001 Run over to the cook tent and tell Jose to give you those rawhide lariats that he will find behind his bunk.
+6313_66125_000019_000000 "Yes," agreed Tad, "that does look like bushes.
+6313_66125_000037_000000 "Then what are we going to do?
+6313_66125_000013_000000 "Is it possible!
+6313_66125_000054_000000 "Yes."
+6313_66125_000044_000002 I'll go down, mr Thomas."
+6313_66125_000051_000004 But, before removing the rope from your own body, make sure that you are safe.
+6313_66125_000028_000000 "Hello, down there!
+6313_66125_000001_000000 A DARING RESCUE
+6313_66125_000045_000000 "Master Tad is right," decided the guide, gazing at the two boys approvingly.
+3000_15664_000003_000005 Berries and plums abound in season, and quail and grouse and deer-the magnificent shaggy mule deer as well as the common species.
+3000_15664_000029_000002 Thus the Shasta River issues from a large lake like spring in Shasta Valley, and about two thirds of the volume of the McCloud gushes forth in a grand spring on the east side of the mountain, a few miles back from its immediate base.
+3000_15664_000012_000000 The gorge through which the glacier is drained is raw looking, deep and narrow, and indescribably jagged.
+3000_15664_000023_000001 Other castles scarcely less strong are connected with this by subterranean passages known only to the Indians, while the unnatural blackness of the rock out of which Nature has constructed these defenses, and the weird, inhuman physiognomy of the whole region are well calculated to inspire terror.
+3000_15664_000016_000002 Large flocks dwell here from year to year, winter and summer, descending occasionally into the adjacent sage plains and lava beds to feed, but ever ready to take refuge in the jagged crags of their mountain at every alarm.
+3000_15664_000035_000000 Fall River is a very remarkable stream.
+3000_15664_000006_000001 Slight rainstorms are likely to be encountered in a trip round the mountain, but one may easily find shelter beneath well thatched trees that shed the rain like a roof.
+3000_15664_000035_000004 They cover the mountains and all the lower slopes that border the wide, open valleys which abound there, pressing forward in imposing ranks, seemingly the hardiest and most firmly established of all the northern coniferae.
+3000_15664_000009_000002 In approaching it, its suspicious looking yellow spotted hood and watchful attitude will be likely to make you go cautiously through the bog where it stands, as if you were approaching a dangerous snake.
+3000_15664_000011_000002 It is three or four miles long and terminates at an elevation of about nine thousand five hundred feet above sea level, in moraine sprinkled ice cliffs sixty feet high.
+3000_15664_000020_000006 Here you trace yawning fissures, there clusters of somber pits; now you mark where the lava is bent and corrugated in swelling ridges and domes, again where it breaks into a rough mass of loose blocks.
+3000_15664_000015_000003 The way lies by Mount Bremer, over stretches of gray sage plains, interrupted by rough lava slopes timbered with juniper and yellow pine, and with here and there a green meadow and a stream.
+3000_15664_000032_000003 The temperature is about forty five degrees, and the height of the river above the sea is here about three thousand feet.
+3000_15664_000032_000002 That any kind of plant can hold on and grow beneath the wear of so boisterous a current seems truly wonderful, even after taking into consideration the freedom of the water from cutting drift, and the constance of its volume and temperature throughout the year.
+3000_15664_000038_000000 The "Big Meadows" lie near the foot of Lassen's Butte, a beautiful spacious basin set in the heart of the richly forested mountains, scarcely surpassed in the grandeur of its surroundings by Tahoe.
+3000_15664_000016_000001 Mount Bremer is the most noted stronghold of the sheep in the whole Shasta region.
+3000_15664_000039_000002 Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried.
+3000_15664_000021_000004 This is where General Canby was slain while seeking to make peace with the treacherous Modocs.
+3000_15664_000013_000001 Here you strike the old emigrant road, which leads over the low divide to the eastern slopes of the mountain.
+3000_15664_000038_000001 During the Glacial Period it was a mer de glace, then a lake, and now a level meadow shining with bountiful springs and streams.
+3000_15664_000028_000000 The rivers of the granite south half of the Sierra are outspread on the peaks in a shining network of small branches, that divide again and again into small dribbling, purling, oozing threads drawing their sources from the snow and ice of the surface.
+3000_15664_000031_000000 Under certain conditions you may hear the roar of the water rushing from the rock at a distance of half a mile, or even more; or you may not hear it until within a few rods.
+3000_15664_000025_000002 The floor is littered with the bones of the animals slaughtered for food during the war.
+3000_15664_000003_000004 Only a little food will be required.
+3000_15664_000006_000002 Then the shining of the wet leaves is delightful, and the steamy fragrance, and the burst of bird song from a multitude of thrushes and finches and warblers that have nests in the chaparral.
+3000_15664_000034_000000 Tracing rivers to their fountains makes the most charming of travels. As the life blood of the landscapes, the best of the wilderness comes to their banks, and not one dull passage is found in all their eventful histories.
+3000_15664_000014_000001 It is a mass of lava presenting to the gray sage plain of Shasta Valley a bold craggy front two thousand feet high.
+3000_15664_000038_000002 In the number and size of its big spring fountains it excels even Shasta.
+3000_15664_000039_000000 The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed.
+3000_15664_000035_000003 Nowhere within the limits of California are the forests of yellow pine so extensive and exclusive as on the headwaters of the Pitt.
+3000_15664_000004_000000 As you sweep around so grand a center, the mountain itself seems to turn, displaying its riches like the revolving pyramids in jewelers' windows.
+3000_15664_000007_000003 The neighboring trees look into the charmed circle as if the noon of another day had come, familiar flowers and grasses that chance to be near seem far more beautiful and impressive than by day, and as the dead trees give forth their light all the other riches of their lives seem to be set free and with the rejoicing flames rise again to the sky.
+3000_15664_000002_000005 Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.
+3000_15664_000025_000004 The sun shines freely into its mouth, and graceful bunches of grass and eriogonums and sage grow about it, doing what they can toward its redemption from degrading associations and making it beautiful.
+3000_15664_000013_000004 These volcanic caves are not wanting in interest, and it is well to light a pitch pine torch and take a walk in these dark ways of the underworld whenever opportunity offers, if for no other reason to see with new appreciation on returning to the sunshine the beauties that lie so thick about us.
+3000_15664_000020_000004 But neither the glorified woods on the one hand, nor the lake on the other, could at first hold the eye.
+3000_15664_000022_000003 Yosemite was not held for a single day against the pursuing troops; but the Modocs held their fort for months, until, weary of being hemmed in, they chose to withdraw.
+3000_15664_000026_000002 The ducks, less wary, kept their places, merely swimming in and out through openings in the rushes, rippling the glassy water, and raising spangles in their wake.
+3000_15664_000030_000001 Should the volume of the stream where you strike it seem small, then you will know that you are above the spring; if large, nearly equal to its volume at its confluence with the Pitt River, then you are below it; and in either case have only to follow the river up or down until you come to it.
+3000_15664_000038_000003 One of the largest that I measured forms a lakelet nearly a hundred yards in diameter, and, in the generous flood it sends forth offers one of the most telling symbols of Nature's affluence to be found in the mountains.
+3000_15664_000014_000000 Sheep Rock is about twenty miles from Sisson's, and is one of the principal winter pasture grounds of the wild sheep, from which it takes its name.
+3000_15664_000002_000002 Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself.
+3000_15664_000036_000001 Miles of its flanks are dotted with hot springs, many of them so sulphurous and boisterous and noisy in their boiling that they seem inclined to become geysers like those of the Yellowstone.
+3000_15664_000032_000000 The vivid green of the boulders beneath the water is very striking, and colors the entire stream with the exception of the portions broken into foam.
+3000_15664_000012_000004 But look well to your footing, for the way will test the skill of the most cautious mountaineers.
+3000_15664_000017_000002 Only half a dozen sheep were shot as they passed the hunters stationed near their paths circling round the rugged summit.
+3000_15664_000040_000000 The Shasta region is still a fresh unspoiled wilderness, accessible and available for travelers of every kind and degree.
+3000_15664_000003_000001 But it is far better to go afoot.
+3000_15664_000024_000000 Deadly was the task of storming such a place.
+3000_15664_000026_000004 From year to year in the kindly weather the beds are thus gathering beauty-beauty for ashes.
+3000_15664_000015_000001 They are a portion of a flow of dense black vesicular lava, dipping northeastward at a low angle, but little changed as yet by the weather, and about as destitute of soil as a glacial pavement.
+3000_15664_000005_000002 But Shasta is always at home to those who love her, and is ever in a thrill of enthusiastic activity-burning fires within, grinding glaciers without, and fountains ever flowing.
+3000_15664_000009_000001 Here, too, you may find the curious but unlovable darlingtonia, a carnivorous plant that devours bumblebees, grasshoppers, ants, moths, and other insects, with insatiable appetite.
+3000_15664_000011_000001 The view obtained of the Whitney Glacier should tempt you to visit it, since it is the largest of the Shasta glaciers and its lower portion abounds in beautiful and interesting cascades and crevasses.
+3000_15664_000017_000001 On smooth spots, level or ascending, the hounds gained on the sheep, but on descending ground, and over rough masses of angular rocks they fell hopelessly behind.
+3000_15664_000022_000000 Two or three miles farther on is the main stronghold of the Modocs, held by them so long and defiantly against all the soldiers that could be brought to the attack.
+3000_15664_000019_000001 Here you are looking southeastward, and the Modoc landscape, which at once takes possession of you, lies revealed in front.
+3000_15664_000018_000002 One large buck that I measured stood three feet and seven inches high at the shoulders, and when the ears were extended horizontally the distance across from tip to tip was two feet and one inch.
+3000_15664_000035_000001 It is only about ten miles long, and is composed of springs, rapids, and falls-springs beautifully shaded at one end of it, a showy fall one hundred and eighty feet high at the other, and a rush of crystal rapids between.
+3000_15664_000017_000003 The full grown bucks weigh nearly three hundred and fifty pounds.
+3000_15664_000009_000000 This is one of the few places in California where the charming linnaea is found, though it is common to the northward through Oregon and Washington.
+3000_15664_000003_000003 One blanket will be enough to carry, or you may forego the pleasure and burden altogether, as wood for fires is everywhere abundant.
+3000_15664_000024_000005 When, therefore, they were crawling stealthily in the gloomy caverns, unkempt and begrimed and with the glare of war in their eyes, they must have seemed very demons of the volcanic pit.
+3000_15664_000005_000004 And the wandering winds, how busy they are, and what a breadth of sound and motion they make, glinting and bubbling about the crags of the summit, sifting through the woods, feeling their way from grove to grove, ruffling the loose hair on the shoulders of the bears, fanning and rocking young birds in their cradles, making a trumpet of every corolla, and carrying their fragrance around the world.
+3000_15664_000018_000001 Their long, massive ears give them a very striking appearance.
+3000_15664_000026_000001 On our return, keeping close along shore, we caused a noisy plashing and beating of wings among cranes and geese.
+3000_15664_000020_000007 Tufts of grass grow far apart here and there and small bushes of hardy sage, but they have a singed appearance and can do little to hide the blackness.
+3000_15664_000029_000000 Only a very small portion of the water derived from the melting ice and snow of Shasta flows down its flanks on the surface.
+3000_15664_000011_000005 This may be done by keeping well down on the base until fronting the glacier before beginning the ascent.
+3000_15664_000010_000001 It is lined with emerald algae and mosses, and shaded with alder, willow, and thorn bushes, which give it a fine setting.
+3000_15664_000029_000001 Probably ninety nine per cent of it is at once absorbed and drained away beneath the porous lava folds of the mountain to gush forth, filtered and pure, in the form of immense springs, so large, some of them, that they give birth to rivers that start on their journey beneath the sun, full grown and perfect without any childhood.
+3000_15664_000024_000004 To judge from the few I have seen, Modocs are not very amiable looking people at best.
+3000_15664_000008_000000 "...beneath dim aisles, in odorous beds, The slight Linnaea hang its twin born heads, And [bless] the monument of the man of flowers, Which breathes his sweet fame through the northern bowers."
+3000_15664_000007_000000 The nights, too, are delightful, watching with Shasta beneath the great starry dome.
+3000_15664_000020_000000 When I first stood there, one bright day before sundown, the lake was fairly blooming in purple light, and was so responsive to the sky in both calmness and color it seemed itself a sky.
+3000_15664_000011_000003 The long gray slopes leading up to the glacier seem remarkably smooth and unbroken.
+3000_15664_000021_000000 Next morning the crisp, sunshiny air made even the Modoc landscape less hopeless, and we ventured down the bluff to the edge of the Lava Beds. Just at the foot of the bluff we came to a square enclosed by a stone wall.
+3000_15664_000005_000000 Yet, strange to say, there are days even here somewhat dull looking, when the mountain seems uncommunicative, sending out no appreciable invitation, as if not at home.
+3000_15664_000036_000000 The volcanic region about Lassen's Butte I have already in part described.
+3000_15664_000022_000001 Indians usually choose to hide in tall grass and bush and behind trees, where they can crouch and glide like panthers, without casting up defenses that would betray their positions; but the Modoc castle is in the rock.
+3000_15664_000024_000002 They were familiar with byways both over and under ground, and could at any time sink suddenly out of sight like squirrels among the loose boulders.
+3000_15664_000035_000002 The banks are fringed with rubus, rose, plum cherry, spiraea, azalea, honeysuckle, hawthorn, ash, alder, elder, aster, goldenrod, beautiful grasses, sedges, rushes, mosses, and ferns with fronds as large as the leaves of palms-all in the midst of a richly forested landscape.
+3000_15664_000020_000003 The forest also was flooded with sun purple, not a spire moving, and Mount Shasta was seen towering above it rejoicing in the ineffable beauty of the alpenglow.
+3000_15664_000013_000003 Far the most beautiful and richly furnished of the mountain caves of California occur in a thick belt of metamorphic limestone that is pretty generally developed along the western flank of the Sierra from the McCloud River to the Kaweah, a distance of nearly four hundred miles.
+3000_15664_000039_000001 How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess.
+3000_15664_000032_000001 The color is chiefly due to a species of algae which seems common in springs of this sort.
+3000_15664_000007_000002 And how grandly do the great logs and branches of your campfire give forth the heat and light that during their long century lives they have so slowly gathered from the sun, storing it away in beautiful dotted cells and beads of amber gum!
+3000_15664_000016_000003 While traveling with a company of hunters I saw about fifty in one flock.
+3000_15664_000002_000003 Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
+3000_15664_000040_000001 Would it not then be a fine thing to set it apart like the Yellowstone and Yosemite as a National Park for the welfare and benefit of all mankind, preserving its fountains and forests and all its glad life in primeval beauty? Very little of the region can ever be more valuable for any other use-certainly not for gold nor for grain.
+3000_15664_000012_000001 The walls in many places overhang; in others they are beveled, loose, and shifting where the channel has been eroded by cinders, ashes, strata of firm lavas, and glacial drift, telling of many a change from frost to fire and their attendant floods of mud and water.
+3000_15664_000015_000002 The surface, though smooth in a general way as seen from a distance, is dotted with hillocks and rough crater like pits, and traversed by a network of yawning fissures, forming a combination of topographical conditions of very striking character.
+3000_15664_000025_000000 Captain Jack's cave is one of the many somber cells of the castle.
+3000_15664_000011_000000 Muir's Peak, a few miles to the north of the spring, rises about three thousand feet above the plain on which it stands, and is easily climbed. The view is very fine and well repays the slight walk to its summit, from which much of your way about the mountain may be studied and chosen.
+3000_15664_000031_000001 It comes in a grand, eager gush from a horizontal seam in the face of the wall of the river gorge in the form of a partially interrupted sheet nearly seventy five yards in width, and at a height above the riverbed of about forty feet, as nearly as I could make out without the means of exact measurement.
+3000_15664_000018_000000 The mule deer are nearly as heavy.
+3000_15664_000004_000001 One glacier after another comes into view, and the outlines of the mountain are ever changing, though all the way around, from whatever point of view, the form is maintained of a grand, simple cone with a gently sloping base and rugged, crumbling ridges separating the glaciers and the snowfields more or less completely.
+3000_15664_000025_000001 It measures twenty five or thirty feet in diameter at the entrance, and extends but a short distance in a horizontal direction.
+3000_15664_000027_000001 These, with a few others as yet nameless, are lingering remnants of once great glaciers that occupied the canyons now taken by the rivers, and in a few centuries will, under present conditions, vanish altogether.
+3000_15664_000002_000001 The distance is about a hundred miles, and will take some of the time we hear so much about-a week or two-but the benefits will compensate for any number of weeks.
+3000_15664_000002_000000 Arctic beauty and desolation, with their blessings and dangers, all may be found here, to test the endurance and skill of adventurous climbers; but far better than climbing the mountain is going around its warm, fertile base, enjoying its bounties like a bee circling around a bank of flowers.
+3000_15664_000012_000003 Tracing this wild changing channel gorge, gully, or canyon, the sections will show Mount Shasta as a huge palimpsest, containing the records, layer upon layer, of strangely contrasted events in its fiery icy history.
+3000_15664_000020_000010 Then fell the gloaming, making everything still more forbidding and mysterious.
+3000_15664_000020_000002 It lies wide open for many a mile, veiled in no mystery but the mystery of light.
+3000_15664_000037_000002 The lofty, icy Shasta, towering high above all, seems but an hour's walk from you, though the distance in an air line is about sixty miles.
+3000_15664_000016_000000 This is a famous game region, and you will be likely to meet small bands of antelope, mule deer, and wild sheep.
+3000_15664_000020_000001 No mountain shore hides its loveliness.
+3000_15664_000020_000011 Then, darkness like death.
+3000_15664_000003_000002 Then you are free to make wide waverings and zigzags away from the roads to visit the great fountain streams of the rivers, the glaciers also, and the wildest retreats in the primeval forests, where the best plants and animals dwell, and where many a flower bell will ring against your knees, and friendly trees will reach out their fronded branches and touch you as you pass.
+3000_15664_000010_000002 Its waters, apparently unaffected by flood or drouth, heat or cold, fall at once into white rapids with a rush and dash, as if glad to escape from the darkness to begin their wild course down the canyon to the plain.
+3000_15664_000034_000002 Food may be had at moderate intervals, and the whole circuit forms one ever deepening, broadening stream of enjoyment.
+3000_15664_000020_000005 That dark mysterious lava plain between them compelled attention.
+3000_15664_000039_000003 Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.
+3000_15664_000021_000001 This is a graveyard where lie buried thirty soldiers, most of whom met their fate out in the Lava Beds, as we learn by the boards marking the graves-a gloomy place to die in, and deadly looking even without Modocs.
+3000_15664_000007_000001 A thousand thousand voices are heard, but so finely blended they seem a part of the night itself, and make a deeper silence.
+3000_15664_000021_000002 The poor fellows that lie here deserve far more pity than they have ever received.
+3853_163249_000130_000000 "David sends you these, dear.
+3853_163249_000120_000000 "Nothing can part us any more, not even death; for love like ours will last for ever."
+3853_163249_000077_000000 "David Sterlin' has enlisted!"
+3853_163249_000036_000002 I, too, have prepared for it, and even spoken to mrs Amory.
+3853_163249_000098_000000 "He's a comin', Ma!" called Gusty, presently.
+3853_163249_000145_000000 "Then I'm satisfied."
+3853_163249_000060_000000 When mr Power presently came in, followed by the others, they found their soldier standing very erect in his old place on the rug, with the firelight gleaming on his bright buttons, and Bran staring at him with a perplexed aspect; for the uniform, shorn hair, trimmed beard, and a certain lofty carriage of the head so changed his master that the sagacious beast was disturbed.
+3853_163249_000061_000001 But Christie stood aloof, looking at her lover with something more than admiration in the face that kindled beautifully as she exclaimed:
+3853_163249_000171_000000 "I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more."
+3853_163249_000146_000000 "mr
+3853_163249_000139_000000 "Go dear, I'll come directly.
+3853_163249_000091_000000 "Lisha, ain't you got no heart?
+3853_163249_000101_000000 Before mrs Wilkins could reply to these conflicting rumors her husband walked in, looking as martial as his hollow chest and thin legs permitted, and, turning his cap nervously in his hands, said half proudly, half reproachfully:
+3853_163249_000064_000000 When the deed was once done, it was astonishing what satisfaction they all took in it, how soon they got accustomed to the change, and what pride they felt in "our soldier." The loyal frenzy fell upon the three quiet women, and they could not do too much for their country.
+3853_163249_000128_000000 He went, and Christie vanished to make ready for her wedding, conscious, in spite of her exalted state of mind, that every thing was very hurried, sad, and strange, and very different from the happy day she had so often planned.
+3853_163249_000155_000000 A very simple little marriage feast, but more love, good will, and tender wishes adorned the plain table than is often found at wedding breakfasts; and better than any speech or song was Letty's broken whisper, as she folded her arms round David's empty chair when no one saw her, "Heaven bless and keep and bring him back to us."
+3853_163249_000095_000000 "I thought that would fetch him!"
+3853_163249_000116_000000 "This;" and he held out his hand with a little paper in it.
+3853_163249_000124_000004 Can you bear it, love?"
+3853_163249_000052_000000 "Yes, David."
+3853_163249_000070_000000 Which threat she carried out with such skill and force that Lisha was effectually waked up, for he was "partial to good vittles," and Cynthy was a capital cook.
+3853_163249_000139_000001 But first"--and Christie held her friend close a moment, kissed her tenderly, and whispered in a broken voice: "Remember, I don't take his heart from you, I only share it with my sister and my mother."
+3853_163249_000061_000000 Letty smiled at him approvingly, then went to comfort her mother who could not recover her tranquillity so soon.
+3853_163249_000032_000000 "Yes, David," sister and sweetheart answered, bravely forgetting in the fervor of the moment what heavy consequences God might see fit to send.
+3853_163249_000105_000000 "I'm glad I done it; for it will make a man of Lisha; and, if I've sent him to his death, God knows he'll be fitter to die than if he stayed here idlin' his life away."
+3853_163249_000049_000000 She put her arm in his, and answered quickly:
+3853_163249_000124_000002 Now it's all so hurried, sorrowful, and strange.
+3853_163249_000125_000003 Surely I shall if I give you and myself to the cause; and I do it gladly, though I know that my heart has got to ache as it never has ached yet, when my courage fails, as it will by and by, and my selfish soul counts the cost of my offering after the excitement is over.
+3853_163249_000140_000000 "I'm glad to give him to you, Christie; for now I feel as if I had partly paid the great debt I've owed so long," answered Letty through her tears.
+3853_163249_000153_000000 David and Christie went smiling away together, and if they shed any tears over the brief happiness no one saw them but the flowers, and they loyally kept the secret folded up in their tender hearts.
+3853_163249_000043_000002 She never had yet, and now resolved to ask nothing, but to earn her blessing by doing her share in the great work.
+3853_163249_000143_000001 Isn't it fitter for a soldier's wife than lace and silk at such a time as this?"
+3853_163249_000119_000000 She understood, put both arms about his neck as if to keep him safe, and whispered fervently:
+3853_163249_000111_000000 "Ready, my General."
+3853_163249_000102_000000 "Now, Cynthy, be you satisfied?"
+3853_163249_000131_000000 "I thought he'd give me violets," and a shadow came over Christie's face.
+3853_163249_000122_000000 "Glad and proud to do it." "With no doubt, no fear, to mar your consent." "Not one, David." "That's true love, Christie!"
+3853_163249_000065_000000 David meantime was in camp, getting his first taste of martial life, and not liking it any better than he thought he should; but no one heard a complaint, and he never regretted his "love among the roses," for he was one of the men who had a "principle as well as a weapon," and meant to do good service with both.
+3853_163249_000035_000000 "You mean it?"
+3853_163249_000054_000000 "I go too."
+3853_163249_000070_000001 Poor rations did not suit him, and he demanded why his favorite dishes were not forthcoming.
+3853_163249_000137_000000 "No, I will be married in my uniform as David is," she answered with a look Letty long remembered.
+3853_163249_000125_000000 "Have no fear for me: I feel as if I could bear any thing just now; for I've got into a heroic mood and I mean to keep so as long as I can.
+3853_163249_000058_000000 "I've done it, mother: tell me you're not sorry."
+3853_163249_000079_000000 "Of course he has! any man with the spirit of a muskeeter would."
+3853_163249_000015_000002 What shall you choose, Davy?"
+3853_163249_000159_000000 "Give the last kiss to mother," added Letty, following her example, and in another minute David was gone.
+3853_163249_000033_000004 He's a kind, neighborly man, and his boy will take my place about the house and protect you faithfully.
+3853_163249_000048_000000 "Come and walk a little in the lane."
+3853_163249_000114_000000 "Keep your promise, dear," he answered, while the warlike expression changed to one of infinite tenderness.
+3853_163249_000147_000000 "Quite ready."
+3853_163249_000169_000001 Once all was wild enthusiasm and glad uproar; now men's lips were set, and women's smileless even as they cheered; fewer handkerchiefs whitened the air, for wet eyes needed them; and sudden lulls, almost solemn in their stillness, followed the acclamations of the crowd.
+3853_163249_000062_000003 Here he is, my knight without reproach or fear, going out to take his part in the grandest battle ever fought.
+3853_163249_000121_000000 "Then you are quite willing to try the third great experiment?"
+3853_163249_000138_000001 Power has come," she said softly a few minutes later, with an anxious glance at the clock.
+3853_163249_000062_000002 Yes, mr Power, I've found my hero at last!
+3853_163249_000166_000000 Wash had heard drums every five minutes since he arrived, but this time he was right, and began to cheer the instant a red cockade appeared at the other end of the long street.
+3853_163249_000103_000001 I be, I be!" and the inconsistent woman fell upon his buttony breast weeping copiously.
+3853_163249_000024_000000 "How terrible!
+3853_163249_000132_000000 "But they are mourning flowers, you know."
+3853_163249_000110_000001 mrs Sterling clasped her hands and bowed her head.
+3853_163249_000142_000000 "No bridal white, dear?" said David, going to her.
+3853_163249_000107_000000 "Another great battle!" screamed the excited news boys in the streets.
+3853_163249_000075_000001 Nature abhors a vacuum, and when food fell short patriotism had a chance to fill the aching void.
+3853_163249_000117_000000 "I'll keep it, David."
+3853_163249_000044_000000 "I shall remember that," was all David answered to that last promise of hers, and three months later he took her at her word.
+3853_163249_000146_000001 Power is waiting: are you ready, love?"
+3853_163249_000056_000000 That was all: she did not offer to detain him now; he did not deny her right to follow.
+3853_163249_000064_000001 mrs Sterling cut up her treasured old linen without a murmur; Letty made "comfort bags" by the dozen, put up jelly, and sewed on blue jackets with tireless industry; while Christie proclaimed that if she had twenty lovers she would send them all; and then made preparations enough to nurse the entire party.
+3853_163249_000050_000000 "You've something to tell me: I see it in your face."
+3853_163249_000115_000000 "What promise?"
+3853_163249_000055_000000 "Yes, Christie."
+3853_163249_000161_000000 Christie was going to town to see the regiment off, and soon followed with mr Power.
+3853_163249_000134_000000 "My dearest Christie, don't be superstitious: all brides wear roses, and Davy thought you'd like them," said Letty, troubled at her words.
+3853_163249_000109_000000 "My precious people, I've got something to tell you: are you ready?"
+3853_163249_000051_000000 "Dear, I must go."
+3853_163249_000093_000001 Ah! but it was that old mother worked and waited for so long: blind now, and deaf; childish, and half dead with many hardships, but safe and free at last; and Hepsey's black face was full of a pride, a peace, and happiness more eloquent and touching than any speech or sermon ever uttered.
+3853_163249_000036_000000 "I mean it as honestly as you do.
+3853_163249_000152_000000 "THEN THEY WERE MARRIED."
+3853_163249_000067_000001 Finding that Lisha showed little enthusiasm on the subject, she tried to rouse him by patriotic appeals of various sorts.
+3853_163249_000156_000000 How time went that day!
+3853_163249_000127_000001 We leave them behind, and they must be comforted."
+3853_163249_000160_000000 At the turn of the lane, he looked back and swung his cap; all waved their hands to him; and then he marched away to the great work before him, leaving those loving hearts to ask the unanswerable question: "How will he come home?"
+3853_163249_000112_000002 Now, let's be brave and enjoy every minute of it."
+3853_163249_000076_000002 This was a favorite dish of Lisha's, and she had prepared it as a bait for this cautious fish. To say that the fish rose at once and swallowed the bait, hook and all, but feebly expresses the justice done to the cakes by that long suffering man.
+3853_163249_000143_000000 "Only this," and she touched the flowers, adding with her hand on the blue coat sleeve that embraced her: "I want to consecrate my uniform as you do yours by being married in it.
+3853_163249_000157_000000 "I must go!" cried David with a sort of desperation, as Letty clung to one arm, Christie to the other.
+3853_163249_000127_000000 "I'll try," was all his answer to her appeal; then proved that he meant it by adding, with his lips against her cheek: "I must go to mother and Letty.
+3853_163249_000125_000004 Help me to be brave and strong, David: don't let me complain or regret, but show me what lies beyond, and teach me to believe that simply doing the right is reward and happiness enough."
+3853_163249_000135_000001 But I think few brides dress with a braver, happier heart than mine, though I do choose a sober wedding gown," answered Christie, smiling again, as she took from a half packed trunk her new hospital suit of soft, gray, woollen stuff.
+3853_163249_000169_000000 Even the lookers on were different.
+3853_163249_000112_000000 "We are ordered off at once, and go at four this afternoon.
+3853_163249_000066_000001 He accepted all that came, and furnished forth those of his company who were less favored. Among these was Elisha Wilkins, and how he got there should be told.
+3853_163249_000126_000000 Christie was lifted out of herself for the moment, and looked inspired by the high mood which was but the beginning of a nobler life for her.
+3853_163249_000074_000000 He said no more but fell a thinking.
+3853_163249_000068_000000 But nothing seemed to rouse the supine Elisha, who chewed his quid like a placid beast of the field, and showed no sign of a proper spirit.
+3853_163249_000062_000000 "O David, you are splendid!
+3853_163249_000091_000003 Lisha Wilkins, look at that, and say no e f you darst!"
+3853_163249_000033_000000 "Good!
+3853_163249_000170_000000 As the inspiring music, the grand tramp drew near, Christie felt the old thrill and longed to fall in and follow the flag anywhere.
+3853_163249_000125_000001 I've always wanted to live in stirring times, to have a part in great deeds, to sacrifice and suffer something for a principle or a person; and now I have my wish.
+3853_163249_000123_000000 Then they stood quite still for a time, and in the silence the two hearts talked together in the sweet language no tongue can utter. Presently David said regretfully:
+3853_163249_000088_000000 Imagine her dismay, when, having consumed the bait, her fish gave signs of breaking the line, and escaping after all; for mr Wilkins pushed back his chair, and said slowly, as he filled his pipe:
+5895_34622_000037_000002 This exposed the stage, which was thus enlarged by the platform in front.
+5895_34622_000005_000002 In Gwynplaine evil thoughts never ripened, and he had therefore no remorse.
+5895_34622_000017_000001 Unknown people had worked upon his face; he, on the other hand, had worked on his mind, and behind this well executed mask he had placed all that he could of thought.
+5895_34622_000004_000000 NOT ONLY HAPPINESS, BUT PROSPERITY.
+5895_34622_000011_000007 In front, on a ledge fastened to the van, with the window for a door, behind the horses and by the side of an old man who held the reins and directed the team, two gipsy women, dressed as goddesses, sounded their trumpets.
+5895_34622_000042_000001 "Citizens and townsmen, the Gregorian form of worship, this great progress, is opposed in Italy to the Ambrosial ritual, and in Spain to the Mozarabic ceremonial, and has achieved its triumph over them with difficulty."
+5895_34622_000017_000002 So soon as the growth of the child had rendered him fitted for it, he had brought him out on the stage-that is, he had produced him in front of the van.
+5895_34622_000034_000000 "Father, you look like a sorcerer!"
+5895_34622_000039_000000 For all that Thespis has lasted much longer than is generally believed. The travelling theatre is still in existence.
+5895_34622_000031_000002 A piece of stuff fell over them, and answered the purpose of concealment.
+5895_34622_000038_000001 It was, perhaps, for some such pious invention that Solon kicked out Thespis.
+5895_34622_000019_000000 "What a good turn they did you there, my boy!" said Ursus.
+5895_34622_000020_000000 This "fortune" had allowed Ursus, who was the administrator of Gwynplaine's success, to have the chariot of his dreams constructed-that is to say, a caravan large enough to carry a theatre, and to sow science and art in the highways.
+5895_34622_000040_000000 The chariot, of the colour of hope, which carried Ursus, Gwynplaine, and their fortunes, and in front of which Fibi and Vinos trumpeted like figures of Fame, played its part of this grand Bohemian and literary brotherhood.
+5895_34622_000028_000000 The eye which could penetrate within this structure and its internal arrangements might have perceived in a corner, fastened to the planks, and immovable on its four wheels, the old hut of Ursus, placed on half pay, allowed to rust, and from thenceforth dispensed the labour of rolling as Ursus was relieved from the labour of drawing it.
+5895_34622_000014_000000 From this-Gwynplaine had become famous.
+5895_34622_000026_000003 He took charge of the horses.
+5895_34622_000003_000000 CHAPTER eight.
+5895_34622_000044_000001 The curtain, which we call drop nowadays, was a checked silk, with squares of contrasted colours.
+5895_34622_000031_000003 The compartment behind belonged to the men, the compartment in front to the women; the compartment in the middle, separating the two sexes, was the stage.
+5895_34622_000012_000002 This was Homo. The old coachman who drove the horses was the philosopher himself.
+5895_34622_000029_000002 In the opposite corner was the kitchen.
+5895_34622_000022_000000 These two gipsies, picked up by the philosopher from amongst the vagabondage of cities and suburbs, were ugly and young, and were called, by order of Ursus, the one Phoebe, and the other Venus.
+5895_34622_000029_000001 It now contained two beds.
+5895_34622_000017_000000 Ursus, it may be remembered, had made Gwynplaine his pupil.
+5895_34622_000045_000003 Ursus was in everything-in the piece, in the company, in the kitchen, in the orchestra.
+5895_34622_000045_000007 Often when they appeared side by side on the stage-Ursus in his tightly laced bear's skin, Homo with his wolf's skin fitting still better-no one could tell which was the beast.
+5895_34622_000026_000004 Ursus and Homo took charge of each other.
+5895_34622_000031_000005 A loft under the arch of the roof contained the scenes, and on opening a trap door lamps appeared, producing wonders of light.
+5895_34622_000031_000000 The caravan was divided into three compartments, partitioned from each other.
+5895_34622_000037_000001 As it dropped it set at liberty three legs on hinges, which supported the panel when let down, and which placed themselves straight on the ground like the legs of a table, and supported it above the earth like a platform.
+5895_34622_000024_000000 Phoebe cooked; Venus scrubbed the temple.
+5895_34622_000038_000000 This opening looked for all the world like a "mouth of hell," in the words of the itinerant Puritan preachers, who turned away from it with horror.
+5895_34622_000012_000000 This was the old establishment of Ursus, its proportions augmented by success, and improved from a wretched booth into a theatre.
+5895_34622_000036_000000 "Then I look, perhaps, like what I am."
+5895_34622_000026_000002 Gwynplaine had, besides, for his work and for his feats of strength, round his neck and over his shoulders, an esclavine of leather.
+5895_34622_000005_000003 Sometimes he felt regret.
+5895_34622_000018_000001 The passers by were immediately struck with wonder.
+5895_34622_000018_000005 The curiosity of one place exhausted, they passed on to another.
+5895_34622_000011_000003 This green colour had succeeded in drawing attention to the carriage, which was known in all the fair grounds as The Green Box.
+5895_34622_000011_000004 The Green Box had but two windows, one at each extremity, and at the back a door with steps to let down.
+5895_34622_000044_000000 The scene of the Green Box represented a landscape painted by Ursus; and as he did not know how to paint, it represented a cavern just as well as a landscape.
+5895_34622_000045_000000 The public stood without, in the street, in the fair, forming a semicircle round the stage, exposed to the sun and the showers; an arrangement which made rain less desirable for theatres in those days than now.
+5895_34615_000011_000000 Two slits for eyes, a hiatus for a mouth, a snub protuberance with two holes for nostrils, a flattened face, all having for the result an appearance of laughter; it is certain that nature never produces such perfection single handed.
+5895_34615_000027_000000 This led to the presumption that Gwynplaine was rather a creation of art than a work of nature.
+5895_34615_000019_000002 The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone.
+5895_34615_000019_000006 It was automatic, and the more irresistible because it seemed petrified.
+5895_34615_000017_000003 Hypochondriacs were cured by the sight of him alone.
+5895_34615_000013_000004 A Hottentot profile cannot be changed into a Roman outline, but out of a Grecian nose you may make a Calmuck's.
+5895_34615_000023_000003 We do not admit that it can ever be utterly powerless.
+5895_34615_000017_000001 He showed himself on the platform.
+5895_34615_000019_000010 All his emotions, whatever they might have been, augmented his strange face of joy, or to speak more correctly, aggravated it.
+5895_34615_000030_000002 By means of it he gained his living.
+5895_34615_000013_000010 According to all appearance, industrious manipulators of children had worked upon his face.
+5895_34615_000017_000007 He was removed from sadness as is pole from pole. Spleen at the one; Gwynplaine at the other.
+5895_34615_000014_000000 Man is not born thus.
+5895_34615_000029_000005 His hair having probably been dyed with some corrosive preparation, had left it woolly and rough to the touch.
+5895_34615_000012_000000 But is laughter a synonym of joy?
+5895_34615_000020_000003 It laughed and occasioned laughter, but remained pensive.
+5895_34615_000016_000001 Is there a providence of demons as well as of God? We put the question without answering it.
+5895_34615_000009_000001 She had bestowed on him a mouth opening to his ears, ears folding over to his eyes, a shapeless nose to support the spectacles of the grimace maker, and a face that no one could look upon without laughing.
+5895_34615_000029_000002 In appropriating him to the profession of mountebank nothing had been neglected.
+5895_34615_000029_000006 Its yellow bristles, rather a mane than a head of hair, covered and concealed a lofty brow, evidently made to contain thought.
+5895_34615_000020_000000 It was like a head of Medusa, but Medusa hilarious.
+5895_34615_000020_000006 One corner of the mouth was raised, in mockery of the human race; the other side, in blasphemy of the gods.
+5895_34615_000020_000002 Antique art formerly placed on the outsides of the Greek theatre a joyous brazen face, called comedy.
+5895_34615_000029_000004 Gwynplaine had yellow hair.
+5895_34615_000027_000001 Gwynplaine, beautiful in figure, had probably been beautiful in face.
+5895_34615_000020_000001 All feeling or thought in the mind of the spectator was suddenly put to flight by the unexpected apparition, and laughter was inevitable.
+5895_34615_000028_000004 Surgical sculpture of the kind could never have succeeded except on a very young child, and consequently on one having little consciousness of what happened to him, and who might easily take a wound for a sickness.
+5895_34615_000029_000007 The operation, whatever it had been, which had deprived his features of harmony, and put all their flesh into disorder, had had no effect on the bony structure of his head.
+5895_34615_000019_000011 Any astonishment which might seize him, any suffering which he might feel, any anger which might take possession of him, any pity which might move him, would only increase this hilarity of his muscles.
+5895_34615_000030_000001 He could do nothing with it, so he turned it to account.
+5895_34615_000026_000005 Besides, when once the novelty of the laugh had passed over, Gwynplaine was intolerable for a woman to see, and impossible to contemplate.
+5895_34615_000013_000011 It seemed evident that a mysterious and probably occult science, which was to surgery what alchemy was to chemistry, had chiselled his flesh, evidently at a very tender age, and manufactured his countenance with premeditation.
+5895_34615_000021_000001 That infernal head of implacable hilarity he supported on his neck.
+5895_34615_000029_000000 Besides this face, those who had brought him up had given him the resources of a gymnast and an athlete.
+5895_34615_000015_000001 Gwynplaine was a gift of Providence to dispel the sadness of man.
+5895_34615_000023_000002 So also of the will.
+5895_34615_000026_000000 On seeing Gwynplaine, all laughed.
+5895_34615_000019_000005 It had been stamped for ever on his face.
+5895_34615_000023_000005 For Gwynplaine the postscript was this: by the force of his will, and by concentrating all his attention, and on condition that no emotion should come to distract and turn away the fixedness of his effort, he could manage to suspend the everlasting rictus of his face, and to throw over it a kind of tragic veil, and then the spectator laughed no longer; he shuddered.
+5895_34615_000013_000007 Had Gwynplaine when a child been so worthy of attention that his face had been subjected to transmutation?
+5895_34615_000030_000000 However, his laugh was to Gwynplaine quite a talent.
+5895_34615_000023_000004 The whole of existence resembles a letter modified in the postscript.
+5895_34615_000026_000004 The joyous convulsion of laughter was as a tribute paid; they submitted to it gladly, but almost mechanically.
+5895_34615_000013_000003 Man can do nothing to create beauty, but everything to produce ugliness.
+5895_34615_000017_000005 One day the executioner came, and Gwynplaine made him laugh.
+5895_34615_000029_000009 Behind his laugh there was a soul, dreaming, as all our souls dream.
+5895_34615_000026_000003 The man was frightful.
+5895_34615_000013_000000 If, in the presence of this mountebank-for he was one-the first impression of gaiety wore off, and the man were observed with attention, traces of art were to be recognized.
+5895_34615_000013_000005 It only requires to obliterate the root of the nose and to flatten the nostrils.
+5895_34615_000027_000003 They had left the body intact, and retouched only the face.
+5895_34615_000020_000007 Men confronted that model of the ideal sarcasm and exemplification of the irony which each one possesses within him; and the crowd, continually renewed round its fixed laugh, died away with delight before its sepulchral immobility of mirth.
+5895_34615_000023_000001 The Manichaeans believed the absolute occasionally gives way, and that God Himself sometimes abdicates for a time.
+5895_34615_000018_000000 Thus he rose rapidly in the fair ground and at the cross roads to the very satisfactory renown of a horrible man.
+5895_34615_000028_000002 The death's head retains them.
+5895_34615_000013_000001 Such a face could never have been created by chance; it must have resulted from intention.
+5895_34615_000019_000004 The laugh which he had not placed, himself, on his brow, on his eyelids, on his mouth, he could not remove.
+5895_34615_000026_000002 Women especially shrank from him with horror.
+5895_34615_000010_000001 But was it nature?
+5895_34615_000029_000008 The facial angle was powerful and surprisingly grand.
+5895_34615_000022_000000 An everlasting laugh!
+5895_34615_000028_000000 Gwynplaine had been made to order-at least, that was probable.
+5895_34615_000019_000000 It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself.
+5895_34615_000019_000008 Two convulsions of the face are infectious; laughing and yawning.
+5895_34615_000009_000000 Nature had been prodigal of her kindness to Gwynplaine.
+5895_34615_000017_000004 He was avoided by folks in mourning, because they were compelled to laugh when they saw him, without regard to their decent gravity.
+5895_34615_000024_000002 Moreover, it happened that on the slightest distraction, or the slightest emotion, the laugh, driven back for a moment, returned like a tide with an impulse which was irresistible in proportion to the force of the adverse emotion.
+5895_34615_000013_000008 Why not?
+5895_34615_000017_000006 Every one who saw Gwynplaine held his sides; he spoke, and they rolled on the ground.
+5895_34615_000026_000006 But he was tall, well made, and agile, and no way deformed, excepting in his face.
+5895_34615_000013_000002 Such perfect completeness is not in nature.
+5895_34615_000017_000002 No such effect had ever before been produced.
+5895_34615_000017_000000 Gwynplaine was a mountebank.
+5895_34615_000029_000001 His articulations usefully displaced and fashioned to bending the wrong way, had received the education of a clown, and could, like the hinges of a door, move backwards and forwards.
+5895_34615_000020_000004 All parody which borders on folly, all irony which borders on wisdom, were condensed and amalgamated in that face.
+5895_34615_000028_000005 Besides, we must remember that they had in those times means of putting patients to sleep, and of suppressing all suffering; only then it was called magic, while now it is called anaesthesia.
+5895_34615_000021_000000 One might almost have said that Gwynplaine was that dark, dead mask of ancient comedy adjusted to the body of a living man.
+5895_34615_000024_000001 It was a terrible effort, and an insupportable tension.
+5895_34615_000023_000000 Let us understand each other; we will explain.
+5895_34615_000019_000009 By virtue of the mysterious operation to which Gwynplaine had probably been subjected in his infancy, every part of his face contributed to that rictus; his whole physiognomy led to that result, as a wheel centres in the nave.
+5895_34615_000015_000000 However it may have been, the manipulation of Gwynplaine had succeeded admirably.
+5895_34615_000021_000002 What a weight for the shoulders of a man-an everlasting laugh!
+5895_34615_000010_000002 Had she not been assisted?
+5895_34615_000019_000003 Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it. The outside did not depend on the interior.
+5895_34615_000016_000000 Of what providence?
+5895_34615_000025_000000 With this exception, Gwynplaine's laugh was everlasting.
+5895_34629_000007_000000 A cathedral is a sign.
+5895_34629_000046_000000 "What a pity that he should not be a lord.
+5895_34629_000012_000001 The sitting room of the tavern had, as we have seen, an inside door which opened into the court.
+5895_34629_000021_000000 "'Chaos Vanquished' is 'Chaos Victor,'" said Ursus, appropriating half Gwynplaine's success, and taking the wind out of his sails, as they say at sea.
+5895_34629_000012_000004 Pay and pass in. Under the placard announcing the Laughing Man was a piece of wood, painted white, hung on two nails, on which was written in charcoal in large letters the title of Ursus's grand piece, "Chaos Vanquished."
+5895_34629_000051_000001 Of Dea-of nothing-of everything-of the depths.
+5895_34629_000018_000000 Besides the small fry, the swallowers of swords and the grimace makers, real performances took place on the green.
+5895_34629_000020_000002 Nothing was thought of but the Green Box.
+5895_34629_000036_000000 They had a great friend in this unknown visitor.
+5895_34629_000025_000001 He imitated every cry which occurred in the audience-a song, a cry, enough to startle, so exact the imitation, the singer or the crier himself; and now and then he copied the hubbub of the public, and whistled as if there were a crowd of people within him.
+5895_34629_000042_000000 "A sailor."
+5895_34629_000028_000000 "They are the ancient Trinobantes," he said.
+5895_34629_000051_000000 Of what was he thinking?
+5895_34629_000004_000002 Ursus had been tempted by the bowling green, which had one great recommendation, that it was always fair day there, even in winter.
+5895_34629_000034_000000 This connoisseur was suddenly fascinated, and had adopted the Laughing Man.
+5895_34629_000021_000001 That success was prodigious.
+5895_34629_000006_000004 He entered heaven only by the artists' door.
+5895_34629_000009_000005 The windows of the ground floor made boxes, the pavement of the court the pit, and the balcony the gallery. The Green Box, reared against the wall, was thus in front of a theatre. It was very like the Globe, where they played "Othello," "King Lear," and "The Tempest."
+5895_34629_000013_000000 In the centre of the balcony, precisely opposite the Green Box, and in a compartment having for entrance a window reaching to the ground, there had been partitioned off a space "for the nobility."
+5895_34629_000018_000001 There was a circus of women, ringing from morning till night with a magnificent peal of all sorts of instruments-psalteries, drums, rebecks, micamons, timbrels, reeds, dulcimers, gongs, chevrettes, bagpipes, German horns, English eschaqueils, pipes, flutes, and flageolets.
+5895_34629_000044_000000 "Tom Jim Jack," replied the inn keeper.
+5895_34629_000025_000002 These were remarkable talents.
+5895_34629_000002_000000 CHAPTER three.
+5895_34629_000022_000001 It was not great enough yet to re echo throughout the city.
+5895_34629_000047_000001 Except a few words exchanged now and then with the tavern keeper, they held no communication with any of those who were living, either permanently or temporarily, in the inn; and continued to keep to themselves.
+5895_34629_000039_000000 "Do you know that man?"
+5895_34629_000010_000000 In a corner behind the Green Box was a stable.
+5895_34629_000034_000001 He did not come every evening, but when he came he led the public-applause grew into acclamation-success rose not to the roof, for there was none, but to the clouds, for there were plenty of them. Which clouds (seeing that there was no roof) sometimes wept over the masterpiece of Ursus.
+5895_34629_000003_000000 WHERE THE PASSER BY REAPPEARS.
+5895_34629_000049_000000 A certain vagrancy in our spirits impels us to take walks at night, and to saunter under the stars.
+5895_34629_000006_000000 London, take it all in all, has some good in it.
+5895_34629_000016_000001 The crowd immediately flocked to them, but the compartment for the nobility remained empty.
+5895_34629_000025_000000 Between the acts Ursus exhibited his power as an engastrimist, and executed marvels of ventriloquism.
+5895_34629_000021_000002 Still it remained local.
+5895_34629_000022_000000 The glory of Gwynplaine had not passed London Bridge.
+5895_34629_000011_000000 Ursus had made his arrangements with the tavern keeper, Master Nicless, who, owing to his respect for the law, would not admit the wolf without charging him extra.
+5895_34629_000006_000001 It was a brave thing to dedicate a cathedral to saint Paul.
+5895_34629_000021_000005 The sea is a wall; and if Voltaire-a thing which he very much regretted when it was too late-had not thrown a bridge over to Shakespeare, Shakespeare might still be in England, on the other side of the wall, a captive in insular glory.
+5895_34629_000029_000000 Then he added, "I must not mistake them, for delicacy of taste, for the Atrobates, who people Berkshire, or the Belgians, who inhabited Somersetshire, nor for the Parisians, who founded York."
+5895_34629_000012_000003 This was managed much as at present.
+5895_34629_000009_000004 A large wooden balcony, roofed over, and supported on posts, on which the rooms of the first story opened, ran round the three fronts of the interior facade of the house, making two right angles.
+5895_34629_000013_000001 It was large enough to hold, in two rows, ten spectators.
+5895_34629_000030_000003 All these flowed from the street into the theatre, and poured back from the theatre into the tap.
+5895_34629_000012_000002 By the side of the door was constructed off hand, by means of an empty barrel, a box for the money taker, who was sometimes Fibi and sometimes Vinos.
+5895_34629_000050_000001 The empty taverns were shut up, and the lower room in the Tadcaster Inn was dark, except where, in some corner, a solitary candle lighted a last reveller. An indistinct glow gleamed through the window shutters of the half closed tavern, as Gwynplaine, pensive, content, and dreaming, happy in a haze of divine joy, passed backwards and forwards in front of the half open door.
+5895_34629_000046_000001 He would make a famous scoundrel."
+5895_34629_000030_000000 At every performance the yard of the inn, transformed into a pit, was filled with a ragged and enthusiastic audience.
+5895_34629_000016_000000 They began their performances.
+5895_34629_000023_000000 "The money bag grows palpably bigger."
+5895_34629_000049_000001 There is a mysterious expectation in youth. Therefore it is that we are prone to wander out in the night, without an object.
+5895_34629_000045_000000 Then as he redescended the steps at the back of the Green Box, to enter the inn, Master Nicless let fall this profound reflection, so deep as to be unintelligible,--
+5895_34629_000019_000002 Even this comedian of jaws and claws was eclipsed in success.
+5895_34629_000014_000001 "We must be prepared for the gentry."
+5895_34629_000016_000002 With that exception their success became so great that no mountebank memory could recall its parallel.
+5895_34629_000019_000001 There was a travelling menagerie, where was to be seen a performing tiger, who, lashed by the keeper, snapped at the whip and tried to swallow the lash.
+5895_34629_000040_000000 "Of course I do."
+5895_34629_000022_000002 At least not at first.
+5895_34629_000030_000001 It was composed of watermen, chairmen, coachmen, and bargemen, and sailors, just ashore, spending their wages in feasting and women.
+5895_34629_000007_000001 saint Peter is the sign of Rome, the city of the dogma; saint Paul that of London, the city of schism.
+5895_34629_000047_000000 Otherwise, although established in the tavern, the group in the Green Box had in no way altered their manner of living, and held to their isolated habits.
+5895_34629_000020_000000 Curiosity, applause, receipts, crowds, the Laughing Man monopolized everything.
+5895_34629_000052_000001 A few steps away from it was far enough for him.
+6295_64301_000012_000002 Letty, too, was overcome-more than ever she had been by music.
+6295_64301_000002_000001 It was the afternoon of a holiday, and she had closed early.
+6295_64301_000001_000000 A CATASTROPHE.
+6295_64301_000016_000008 His violin was broken, but his being was made whole! his treasure taken-type of his self, and a woman given him instead!
+6295_64301_000016_000001 It broke the enchantment in which Joseph was bound.
+6295_64301_000005_000000 When he reached the suburbs, the light of homes was shining through curtains of all colors.
+6295_64301_000017_000000 "It's just like him!" he murmured.
+6295_64301_000015_000004 He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?
+6295_64301_000007_000000 When he reached Mary's shop, he turned into the court to the kitchen door.
+6295_64301_000010_000001 Letty, finding herself not quite equal to the emergency, came in her turn to call Mary: she went as quietly as if she were leaving a tiresome visitor.
+6295_64301_000007_000003 O my God-through the mud of me, up to thy righteousness!"
+6295_64301_000016_000002 That enchantment had possessed him, usurping as it were the throne of his life, and displacing it; when it ceased, he was not his own master.
+6295_64301_000013_000003 Thus, in a garment of mood whose color and texture was music, did the soul of Joseph Jasper that evening, like a homeless ghost, come knocking at the door of Mary Marston.
+6295_64301_000009_000001 Mary came half-way to meet him.
+6295_64301_000002_000000 One winter evening, as soon as his work was over for the day, Joseph locked the door of his smithy, washed himself well, put on clean clothes, and, taking his violin, set out for Testbridge: Mary was expecting him to tea.
+6295_64301_000012_000001 A little longer and she was compelled to yield, and the silent tears flowed freely.
+6295_64301_000012_000000 Mary had not listened long before she found herself strangely moved. Her heart seemed to swell up into her throat, and it was all she could do to keep from weeping.
+6295_64301_000016_000005 How it happened he never could tell, but he brought down his violin with a crash against the piano, then somehow stumbled and all but fell.
+6295_64301_000009_000003 He stepped across the floor, still, stately, and free.
+6295_64301_000013_000006 It prayed, it wept, it implored.
+6295_64301_000013_000007 It cried aloud that eternity was very long, and like a great palace without a quiet room.
+6295_64301_000007_000001 "Through the kitchen to the parlor!" he said.
+6295_64301_000004_000001 Earth was gone, and heaven was all.
+6295_64301_000013_000000 A mood had taken shape in the mind of the blacksmith, and wandered from its home, seeking another country.
+6295_64301_000003_000002 His being was like an all sided lens concentrating all joys in the one heart of his consciousness.
+6295_64301_000014_000003 On the bough of an apple tree, in the fair moonlight, sat a nightingale, swaying to and fro like one mad with the wine of his own music, singing as if he wanted to break his heart and have done, for the delight was too much for mortal creature to endure.
+6295_64301_000010_000002 The music was broken, and Joseph left alone with the dumb instruments.
+6295_244435_000034_000000 "If you've got pistols, just you think once before you shoot," said Collins.
+6295_244435_000009_000001 He was watching the boats.
+6295_244435_000030_000000 "Look out for what?"
+6295_244435_000027_000001 People were cooler here and they were more prone to look at the two sides of a question.
+6295_244435_000038_000003 This was not the fashion of a year ago, when they exchanged a friendly word or two, but Harry knew its cause.
+6295_244435_000007_000000 Boats put out both from the fort and the shore.
+6295_244435_000039_000001 But he saw nothing that moved there.
+6295_244435_000032_000000 "I will," replied Harry, with vivid recollection of his ride from Pendleton to Winton.
+6295_244435_000026_000002 All the winds blew in the same direction in South Carolina and they sang one song of triumph, but in Kentucky they were variable and conflicting, and their voices were many.
+6295_244435_000028_000000 It was afternoon when he reached the little station of Winton and left the train, a tall, sturdy boy, the superior of many a man in size, strength and agility.
+6295_244435_000029_000002 You were at the bombardment of Fort Sumter, they tell me! It's made a mighty stir in these parts!
+6295_244435_000023_000003 His manner was much more considered and grave.
+6295_244435_000015_000001 "Colonel Kenton writes wisely.
+6295_244435_000004_000000 CHAPTER seven
+6295_244435_000024_000002 The very triumph and joy of living penetrated his soul. Youth swept aside the terrors of war.
+6295_244435_000015_000000 "This is your discharge from the Palmetto Guards," he said.
+6295_244435_000037_000001 He had little fear.
+6295_244435_000014_000000 Harry's heart and judgment alike responded to the call.
+6295_244435_000017_000001 I shall look for you there."
+84_121550_000115_000000 And one of them, as if by Heaven commissioned, Singing, "Veni, sponsa, de Libano" Shouted three times, and all the others after.
+84_121550_000235_000000 Therefore I pass to what time I awoke, And say a splendour rent from me the veil Of slumber, and a calling: "Rise, what dost thou?"
+84_121550_000243_000000 Alone she sat upon the very earth, Left there as guardian of the chariot Which I had seen the biform monster fasten.
+84_121550_000130_000000 "Dante, because Virgilius has departed Do not weep yet, do not weep yet awhile; For by another sword thou need'st must weep."
+84_121550_000091_000000 Reader! to trace their forms no more I waste My rhymes; for other spendings press me so, That I in this cannot be prodigal.
+84_121550_000221_000000 The lady fair who drew me through the ford Followed with Statius and myself the wheel Which made its orbit with the lesser arc.
+84_121550_000294_000000 But wherefore so beyond my power of sight Soars your desirable discourse, that aye The more I strive, so much the more I lose it?"
+84_121550_000122_000000 Over her snow white veil with olive cinct Appeared a lady under a green mantle, Vested in colour of the living flame.
+84_121550_000207_000000 In grace do us the grace that thou unveil Thy face to him, so that he may discern The second beauty which thou dost conceal."
+84_121550_000075_000000 The faculty that lends discourse to reason Did apprehend that they were candlesticks, And in the voices of the song "Hosanna!"
+84_121550_000245_000000 "Short while shalt thou be here a forester, And thou shalt be with me for evermore A citizen of that Rome where Christ is Roman.
+84_121550_000238_000000 And saw their school diminished by the loss Not only of Elias, but of Moses, And the apparel of their Master changed;
+84_121550_000300_000000 Truly from this time forward shall my words Be naked, so far as it is befitting To lay them open unto thy rude gaze."
+84_121550_000074_000000 But when I had approached so near to them The common object, which the sense deceives, Lost not by distance any of its marks,
+84_121550_000044_000000 And so much power the stricken plant possesses That with its virtue it impregns the air, And this, revolving, scatters it around;
+84_121550_000033_000000 "Ye are new comers; and because I smile," Began she, "peradventure, in this place Elect to human nature for its nest,
+84_121550_000125_000000 As soon as on my vision smote the power Sublime, that had already pierced me through Ere from my boyhood I had yet come forth,
+84_121550_000096_000000 So high they rose that they were lost to sight; His limbs were gold, so far as he was bird, And white the others with vermilion mingled.
+84_121550_000220_000000 Then to the wheels the maidens turned themselves, And the Griffin moved his burden benedight, But so that not a feather of him fluttered.
+84_121550_000046_000000 It should not seem a marvel then on earth, This being heard, whenever any plant Without seed manifest there taketh root.
+84_121550_000286_000000 Whoever pillages or shatters it, With blasphemy of deed offendeth God, Who made it holy for his use alone.
+84_121550_000019_000000 With feet I stayed, and with mine eyes I passed Beyond the rivulet, to look upon The great variety of the fresh may.
+84_121550_000183_000000 Even as children silent in their shame Stand listening with their eyes upon the ground, And conscious of their fault, and penitent;
+84_121550_000214_000000 When forcibly my sight was turned away Towards my left hand by those goddesses, Because I heard from them a "Too intently!"
+84_121550_000268_000000 And Beatrice, compassionate and sighing, Listened to them with such a countenance, That scarce more changed was Mary at the cross.
+84_121550_000189_000000 Beneath her veil, beyond the margent green, She seemed to me far more her ancient self To excel, than others here, when she was here.
+84_121550_000227_000000 After this fashion round the tree robust The others shouted; and the twofold creature: "Thus is preserved the seed of all the just."
+84_121550_000118_000000 They all were saying, "Benedictus qui venis," And, scattering flowers above and round about, "Manibus o date lilia plenis."
+84_121550_000079_000000 The lady chid me: "Why dost thou burn only So with affection for the living lights, And dost not look at what comes after them?"
+84_121550_000106_000000 Thereafter four I saw of humble aspect, And behind all an aged man alone Walking in sleep with countenance acute.
+84_121550_000153_000000 As soon as ever of my second age I was upon the threshold and changed life, Himself from me he took and gave to others.
+84_121550_000281_000000 Within which a Five hundred, Ten, and Five, One sent from God, shall slay the thievish woman And that same giant who is sinning with her.
+84_121550_000173_000000 Weeping I said: "The things that present were With their false pleasure turned aside my steps, Soon as your countenance concealed itself."
+84_121550_000145_000000 She, on the right-hand border of the car Still firmly standing, to those holy beings Thus her discourse directed afterwards:
+84_121550_000237_000000 peter and john and james conducted were, And, overcome, recovered at the word By which still greater slumbers have been broken,
+84_121550_000143_000000 But when I heard in their sweet melodies Compassion for me, more than had they said, "O wherefore, lady, dost thou thus upbraid him?"
+84_121550_000049_000000 But issues from a fountain safe and certain, Which by the will of God as much regains As it discharges, open on two sides.
+84_121550_000031_000000 Apart three paces did the river make us; But Hellespont, where Xerxes passed across, (A curb still to all human arrogance,)
+84_121550_000099_000000 Three maidens at the right wheel in a circle Came onward dancing; one so very red That in the fire she hardly had been noted.
+84_121550_000151_000000 But so much more malignant and more savage Becomes the land untilled and with bad seed, The more good earthly vigour it possesses.
+84_121550_000184_000000 So was I standing; and she said: "If thou In hearing sufferest pain, lift up thy beard And thou shalt feel a greater pain in seeing."
+84_121550_000078_000000 Then back I turned my face to those high things, Which moved themselves towards us so sedately, They had been distanced by new wedded brides.
+84_121550_000239_000000 So I revived, and saw that piteous one Above me standing, who had been conductress Aforetime of my steps beside the river,
+84_121550_000164_000000 My faculties were in so great confusion, That the voice moved, but sooner was extinct Than by its organs it was set at large.
+84_121550_000065_000000 But since the lightning ceases as it comes, And that continuing brightened more and more, Within my thought I said, "What thing is this?"
+84_121550_000071_000000 O Virgins sacrosanct! if ever hunger, Vigils, or cold for you I have endured, The occasion spurs me their reward to claim!
+84_121550_000299_000000 And if from smoke a fire may be inferred, Such an oblivion clearly demonstrates Some error in thy will elsewhere intent.
+84_121550_000120_000000 And the sun's face, uprising, overshadowed So that by tempering influence of vapours For a long interval the eye sustained it;
+84_121550_000136_000000 "Look at me well; in sooth I'm Beatrice! How didst thou deign to come unto the Mountain? Didst thou not know that man is happy here?"
+84_121550_000168_000000 So I gave way beneath that heavy burden, Outpouring in a torrent tears and sighs, And the voice flagged upon its passage forth.
+84_121550_000094_000000 The interval between these four contained A chariot triumphal on two wheels, Which by a Griffin's neck came drawn along;
+84_121550_000034_000000 Some apprehension keeps you marvelling; But the psalm 'Delectasti' giveth light Which has the power to uncloud your intellect.
+84_121550_000152_000000 Some time did I sustain him with my look; Revealing unto him my youthful eyes, I led him with me turned in the right way.
+84_121550_000089_000000 Even as in heaven star followeth after star, There came close after them four animals, Incoronate each one with verdant leaf.
+84_121550_000058_000000 Purgatorio: Canto twenty nine
+84_121550_000211_000000 Purgatorio: Canto thirty two
+84_121550_000193_000000 Up to my throat she in the stream had drawn me, And, dragging me behind her, she was moving Upon the water lightly as a shuttle.
+84_121550_000304_000000 In front of them the Tigris and Euphrates Methought I saw forth issue from one fountain, And slowly part, like friends, from one another.
+84_121550_000224_000000 I heard them murmur altogether, "Adam!" Then circled they about a tree despoiled Of blooms and other leafage on each bough.
+84_121550_000084_000000 So that it overhead remained distinct With sevenfold lists, all of them of the colours Whence the sun's bow is made, and Delia's girdle.
+84_121550_000253_000000 Then by the way that it before had come, Into the chariot's chest I saw the Eagle Descend, and leave it feathered with his plumes.
+84_121550_000114_000000 Motionless halted, the veracious people, That came at first between it and the Griffin, Turned themselves to the car, as to their peace.
+84_121550_000133_000000 I saw the Lady, who erewhile appeared Veiled underneath the angelic festival, Direct her eyes to me across the river.
+84_121550_000276_000000 It me befell, that without perfect sound Began I: "My necessity, Madonna, You know, and that which thereunto is good."
+84_121550_000155_000000 And into ways untrue he turned his steps, Pursuing the false images of good, That never any promises fulfil;
+84_121550_000194_000000 When I was near unto the blessed shore, "Asperges me," I heard so sweetly sung, Remember it I cannot, much less write it.
+84_121550_000271_000000 Then all the seven in front of her she placed; And after her, by beckoning only, moved Me and the lady and the sage who stayed.
+84_121550_000242_000000 And if her speech were more diffuse I know not, Because already in my sight was she Who from the hearing of aught else had shut me.
+84_121550_000158_000000 For this I visited the gates of death, And unto him, who so far up has led him, My intercessions were with weeping borne.
+84_121550_000015_000000 Already my slow steps had carried me Into the ancient wood so far, that I Could not perceive where I had entered it.
+84_121550_000137_000000 Mine eyes fell downward into the clear fountain, But, seeing myself therein, I sought the grass, So great a shame did weigh my forehead down.
+84_121550_000177_000000 Cast down the seed of weeping and attend; So shalt thou hear, how in an opposite way My buried flesh should have directed thee.
+84_121550_000226_000000 "Blessed art thou, O Griffin, who dost not Pluck with thy beak these branches sweet to taste, Since appetite by this was turned to evil."
+84_121550_000109_000000 And when the car was opposite to me Thunder was heard; and all that folk august Seemed to have further progress interdicted,
+84_121550_000007_000000 Purgatorio: Canto twenty eight
+84_121550_000013_000000 But with full ravishment the hours of prime, Singing, received they in the midst of leaves, That ever bore a burden to their rhymes,
+84_121550_000095_000000 And upward he extended both his wings Between the middle list and three and three, So that he injured none by cleaving it.
+84_121550_000126_000000 To the left hand I turned with that reliance With which the little child runs to his mother, When he has fear, or when he is afflicted,
+84_121550_000274_000000 As soon as I was with her as I should be, She said to me: "Why, brother, dost thou not Venture to question now, in coming with me?"
+84_121550_000219_000000 That soldiery of the celestial kingdom Which marched in the advance had wholly passed us Before the chariot had turned its pole.
+84_121550_000162_000000 "O thou who art beyond the sacred river," Turning to me the point of her discourse, That edgewise even had seemed to me so keen,
+84_121550_000010_000000 A softly breathing air, that no mutation Had in itself, upon the forehead smote me No heavier blow than of a gentle wind,
+84_121550_000234_000000 Even as a painter who from model paints I would portray how I was lulled asleep; He may, who well can picture drowsihood.
+84_121550_000063_000000 Nor even thus our way continued far Before the lady wholly turned herself Unto me, saying, "Brother, look and listen!"
+84_121550_000272_000000 So she moved onward; and I do not think That her tenth step was placed upon the ground, When with her eyes upon mine eyes she smote,
+84_121550_000187_000000 And as my countenance was lifted up, Mine eye perceived those creatures beautiful Had rested from the strewing of the flowers;
+84_121550_000064_000000 And lo! a sudden lustre ran across On every side athwart the spacious forest, Such that it made me doubt if it were lightning.
+84_121550_000292_000000 I will too, if not written, at least painted, Thou bear it back within thee, for the reason That cinct with palm the pilgrim's staff is borne."
+84_121550_000039_000000 By his default short while he sojourned here; By his default to weeping and to toil He changed his innocent laughter and sweet play.
+84_121550_000090_000000 Plumed with six wings was every one of them, The plumage full of eyes; the eyes of Argus If they were living would be such as these.
+84_121550_000186_000000 Than I upraised at her command my chin; And when she by the beard the face demanded, Well I perceived the venom of her meaning.
+84_121550_000251_000000 Thereafter saw I leap into the body Of the triumphal vehicle a Fox, That seemed unfed with any wholesome food.
+84_121550_000217_000000 I saw upon its right wing wheeled about The glorious host returning with the sun And with the sevenfold flames upon their faces.
+84_121550_000083_000000 And I beheld the flamelets onward go, Leaving behind themselves the air depicted, And they of trailing pennons had the semblance,
+84_121550_000093_000000 And such as thou shalt find them in his pages, Such were they here; saving that in their plumage john is with me, and differeth from him.
+84_121550_000199_000000 Thus singing they began; and afterwards Unto the Griffin's breast they led me with them, Where Beatrice was standing, turned towards us.
+84_121550_000150_000000 Such had this man become in his new life Potentially, that every righteous habit Would have made admirable proof in him;
+84_121550_000123_000000 And my own spirit, that already now So long a time had been, that in her presence Trembling with awe it had not stood abashed,
+84_121550_000263_000000 But because she her wanton, roving eye Turned upon me, her angry paramour Did scourge her from her head unto her feet.
+84_121550_000167_000000 Even as a cross bow breaks, when 'tis discharged Too tensely drawn the bowstring and the bow, And with less force the arrow hits the mark,
+84_121550_000260_000000 The first were horned like oxen; but the four Had but a single horn upon the forehead; A monster such had never yet been seen!
+84_121550_000024_000000 Thou makest me remember where and what Proserpina that moment was when lost Her mother her, and she herself the Spring."
+84_121550_000028_000000 As soon as she was where the grasses are. Bathed by the waters of the beauteous river, To lift her eyes she granted me the boon.
+84_121550_000196_000000 Then forth she drew me, and all dripping brought Into the dance of the four beautiful, And each one with her arm did cover me.
+84_121550_000156_000000 Nor prayer for inspiration me availed, By means of which in dreams and otherwise I called him back, so little did he heed them.
+84_121550_000204_000000 While with amazement filled and jubilant, My soul was tasting of the food, that while It satisfies us makes us hunger for it,
+84_121550_000231_000000 Less than of rose and more than violet A hue disclosing, was renewed the tree That had erewhile its boughs so desolate.
+84_121550_000203_000000 Think, Reader, if within myself I marvelled, When I beheld the thing itself stand still, And in its image it transformed itself.
+84_121550_000182_000000 The callow birdlet waits for two or three, But to the eyes of those already fledged, In vain the net is spread or shaft is shot."
+84_121550_000116_000000 Even as the Blessed at the final summons Shall rise up quickened each one from his cavern, Uplifting light the reinvested flesh,
+84_121550_000103_000000 In rear of all the group here treated of Two old men I beheld, unlike in habit, But like in gait, each dignified and grave.
+84_121550_000190_000000 So pricked me then the thorn of penitence, That of all other things the one which turned me Most to its love became the most my foe.
+84_121550_000147_000000 Therefore my answer is with greater care, That he may hear me who is weeping yonder, So that the sin and dole be of one measure.
+84_121550_000056_000000 Then backward did I turn me wholly round Unto my Poets, and saw that with a smile They had been listening to these closing words;
+84_121550_000290_000000 Thou by so many circumstances only The justice of the interdict of God Morally in the tree wouldst recognize.
+84_121550_000195_000000 The beautiful lady opened wide her arms, Embraced my head, and plunged me underneath, Where I was forced to swallow of the water.
+84_121550_000306_000000 For such a prayer, 'twas said unto me, "Pray Matilda that she tell thee;" and here answered, As one does who doth free himself from blame,
+84_121550_000092_000000 But read ezekiel, who depicteth them As he beheld them from the region cold Coming with cloud, with whirlwind, and with fire;
+84_121550_000029_000000 I do not think there shone so great a light Under the lids of Venus, when transfixed By her own son, beyond his usual custom!
+84_121550_000036_000000 "The water," said I, "and the forest's sound, Are combating within me my new faith In something which I heard opposed to this."
+84_121550_000062_000000 Between her steps and mine were not a hundred, When equally the margins gave a turn, In such a way, that to the East I faced.
+84_121550_000020_000000 And there appeared to me (even as appears Suddenly something that doth turn aside Through very wonder every other thought)
+84_121550_000308_000000 And Beatrice: "Perhaps a greater care, Which oftentimes our memory takes away, Has made the vision of his mind obscure.
+84_121550_000256_000000 And as a wasp that draweth back its sting, Drawing unto himself his tail malign, Drew out the floor, and went his way rejoicing.
+84_121550_000284_000000 Note thou; and even as by me are uttered These words, so teach them unto those who live That life which is a running unto death;
+84_121550_000305_000000 "O light, O glory of the human race! What stream is this which here unfolds itself From out one source, and from itself withdraws?"
+84_121550_000246_000000 Therefore, for that world's good which liveth ill, Fix on the car thine eyes, and what thou seest, Having returned to earth, take heed thou write."
+84_121550_000303_000000 The ladies seven at a dark shadow's edge, Such as, beneath green leaves and branches black, The Alp upon its frigid border wears.
+84_121550_000241_000000 Behold the company that circles her; The rest behind the Griffin are ascending With more melodious song, and more profound."
+84_121550_000023_000000 May the desire come unto thee to draw Near to this river's bank," I said to her, "So much that I might hear what thou art singing.
+84_121550_000149_000000 But by the largess of celestial graces, Which have such lofty vapours for their rain That near to them our sight approaches not,
+84_121550_000191_000000 Such self conviction stung me at the heart O'erpowered I fell, and what I then became She knoweth who had furnished me the cause.
+84_121550_000176_000000 But still, that thou mayst feel a greater shame For thy transgression, and another time Hearing the Sirens thou mayst be more strong,
+84_121550_000161_000000 Purgatorio: Canto thirty one
+84_121550_000012_000000 Yet not from their upright direction swayed, So that the little birds upon their tops Should leave the practice of each art of theirs;
+84_121550_000247_000000 Thus Beatrice; and I, who at the feet Of her commandments all devoted was, My mind and eyes directed where she willed.
+84_121550_000128_000000 But us Virgilius of himself deprived Had left, Virgilius, sweetest of all fathers, Virgilius, to whom I for safety gave me:
+84_121550_000297_000000 Whence her I answered: "I do not remember That ever I estranged myself from you, Nor have I conscience of it that reproves me."
+84_121550_000030_000000 Erect upon the other bank she smiled, Bearing full many colours in her hands, Which that high land produces without seed.
+84_121550_000293_000000 And I: "As by a signet is the wax Which does not change the figure stamped upon it, My brain is now imprinted by yourself.
+84_121550_000225_000000 Its tresses, which so much the more dilate As higher they ascend, had been by Indians Among their forests marvelled at for height.
+84_121550_000166_000000 Confusion and dismay together mingled Forced such a Yes! from out my mouth, that sight Was needful to the understanding of it.
+84_121550_000068_000000 Underneath which had she devoutly stayed, I sooner should have tasted those delights Ineffable, and for a longer time.
+84_121550_000144_000000 The ice, that was about my heart congealed, To air and water changed, and in my anguish Through mouth and eyes came gushing from my breast.
+84_121550_000192_000000 Then, when the heart restored my outward sense, The lady I had found alone, above me I saw, and she was saying, "Hold me, hold me."
+84_121550_000038_000000 The Good Supreme, sole in itself delighting, Created man good, and this goodly place Gave him as hansel of eternal peace.
+84_121550_000097_000000 Not only Rome with no such splendid car E'er gladdened Africanus, or Augustus, But poor to it that of the Sun would be,--
+84_121550_000311_000000 Even so, when she had taken hold of me, The beautiful lady moved, and unto Statius Said, in her womanly manner, "Come with him."
+84_121550_000032_000000 More hatred from Leander did not suffer For rolling between Sestos and Abydos, Than that from me, because it oped not then.
+84_121550_000101_000000 And now they seemed conducted by the white, Now by the red, and from the song of her The others took their step, or slow or swift.
+84_121550_000228_000000 And turning to the pole which he had dragged, He drew it close beneath the widowed bough, And what was of it unto it left bound.
+84_121550_000072_000000 Now Helicon must needs pour forth for me, And with her choir Urania must assist me, To put in verse things difficult to think.
+84_121550_000154_000000 When from the flesh to spirit I ascended, And beauty and virtue were in me increased, I was to him less dear and less delightful;
+84_121123_000067_000000 "I know it, sir; the servants who fled from the house informed me.
+84_121123_000011_000000 "Sir," cried Morrel, seizing the moist hand of the paralytic, "they ask me who I am, and what right I have to be here.
+84_121123_000062_000003 For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.
+84_121123_000019_000001 I am stricken by fate.
+84_121123_000038_000000 "no"
+84_121123_000015_000000 "I tell you, sir, that two persons exist in you; the father has mourned sufficiently, now let the procureur fulfil his office."
+84_121123_000021_000000 "Oh, you rave, sir," exclaimed Villefort, in vain endeavoring to escape the net in which he was taken.
+84_121123_000050_000003 Is it not so, father?"
+84_121123_000012_000007 Take a last farewell, sir, of her sad remains; take the hand you expected to possess once more within your own, and then separate yourself from her forever.
+84_121123_000068_000000 "Thank you, sir," said d'Avrigny; "since you have commenced your sacred office, deign to continue it.
+84_121123_000063_000000 "Ah," said the priest, in a marked Italian accent; "yes, I have heard that death is in that house."
+84_121123_000029_000000 "Do you wish me to leave?" said Morrel, sadly.
+84_121123_000008_000000 Villefort rose, half ashamed of being surprised in such a paroxysm of grief.
+84_121123_000045_000003 "You can come," he said, and led them back to Noirtier. Morrel looked attentively on Villefort.
+84_121123_000050_000005 Villefort continued: "He knows me, and I have pledged my word to him.
+84_121123_000011_000007 Tell them-oh, tell them, that corpse belongs to me!"
+84_121123_000008_000003 "Who are you, sir," he asked, "that forget that this is not the manner to enter a house stricken with death? Go, sir, go!" But Morrel remained motionless; he could not detach his eyes from that disordered bed, and the pale corpse of the young girl who was lying on it.
+84_121123_000036_000000 "no"
+84_121123_000062_000004 As the doctors entered the street, they saw a man in a cassock standing on the threshold of the next door.
+84_121123_000031_000000 "Alas, alas, sir, have pity on me!"
+84_121123_000045_000000 "Oh," said Villefort, inexpressibly delighted to think that the inquiries were to be made by him alone,--"oh, be satisfied, I can understand my father." D'Avrigny took the young man's arm, and led him out of the room.
+84_121123_000008_000002 His glance, at first wandering, fixed itself upon Morrel.
+84_121123_000062_000006 D'Avrigny accosted the priest.
+84_121123_000030_000000 "Yes," replied Noirtier.
+84_121123_000010_000002 And the cry issued from his pores, if we may thus speak-a cry frightful in its silence. D'Avrigny rushed towards the old man and made him inhale a powerful restorative.
+84_121123_000054_000003 But he stopped on the landing; he had not the courage to again visit the death chamber.
+84_121123_000012_000006 But you see that the angel whom you hoped for has left this earth-she has nothing more to do with the adoration of men.
+84_121123_000056_000002 He therefore approached the bed, and while his companion was dipping the fingers with which he had touched the lips of the corpse in chloride of lime, he uncovered the calm and pale face, which looked like that of a sleeping angel.
+84_121123_000049_000001 "My father has revealed the culprit's name; my father thirsts for revenge as much as you do, yet even he conjures you as I do to keep this secret.
+84_121123_000008_000004 "Go!--do you hear?" said Villefort, while d'Avrigny advanced to lead Morrel out.
+84_121123_000066_000000 "It is a young girl."
+84_121123_000020_000002 "And I say that murders are committed here," said Morrel, whose voice, though lower in tone, lost none of its terrible distinctness: "I tell you that this is the fourth victim within the last four months.
+84_121123_000039_000000 "The doctor?"
+84_121123_000057_000000 "Is there any particular priest you wish to pray with Valentine?" asked d'Avrigny.
+84_121123_000054_000000 It was something terrible to witness the silent agony, the mute despair of Noirtier, whose tears silently rolled down his cheeks.
+84_121123_000017_000000 "Gentlemen," said Morrel, reading all that passed through the minds of the witnesses to the scene, "I know what I am saying, and you know as well as I do what I am about to say-Valentine has been assassinated!" Villefort hung his head, d'Avrigny approached nearer, and Noirtier said "Yes" with his eyes.
+84_121123_000054_000005 Noirtier was near the bed, pale, motionless, and silent as the corpse.
+84_121123_000028_000000 "And will you direct us?" exclaimed the young man.
+84_121123_000027_000000 "Yes," replied Noirtier.
+84_121123_000069_000000 "I am going, sir; and I do not hesitate to say that no prayers will be more fervent than mine." D'Avrigny took the priest's hand, and without meeting Villefort, who was engaged in his study, they reached Valentine's room, which on the following night was to be occupied by the undertakers.
+84_121123_000043_000000 "But can he understand you?"
+84_121123_000048_000000 "But," said Morrel, "the culprit-the murderer-the assassin."
+84_121123_000053_000001 We have before stated that all the servants had fled.
+84_121123_000052_000000 "Yes," replied Noirtier with an expression of sinister joy.
+84_121123_000016_000000 The eyes of Noirtier glistened, and d'Avrigny approached.
+84_121123_000012_000008 Valentine now requires only the ministrations of the priest."
+84_121123_000061_000000 "Do you wish to see him?"
+84_121123_000017_000004 "Yes," indicated the old man.
+84_121123_000054_000006 The district doctor approached with the indifference of a man accustomed to spend half his time amongst the dead; he then lifted the sheet which was placed over the face, and just unclosed the lips.
+84_121123_000007_000001 Maximilian.
+84_121123_000056_000005 Villefort met them at the door of his study; having in a few words thanked the district doctor, he turned to d'Avrigny, and said,--"And now the priest."
+84_121123_000046_000000 "Gentlemen," he said in a hoarse voice, "give me your word of honor that this horrible secret shall forever remain buried amongst ourselves!" The two men drew back.
+84_121123_000042_000000 "Yes."
+84_121123_000065_000000 "I was about to offer myself, sir," said the priest; "it is our mission to forestall our duties."
+84_121123_000056_000004 The doctor of the dead then laid his permit on the corner of the table, and having fulfilled his duty, was conducted out by d'Avrigny.
+84_121123_000010_000000 Villefort drew back and looked with astonishment on the young man, who, almost a stranger to him, called Noirtier his father.
+84_121123_000045_000002 At the end of a quarter of an hour a faltering footstep was heard, and Villefort appeared at the door of the apartment where d'Avrigny and Morrel had been staying, one absorbed in meditation, the other in grief.
+84_121123_000009_000008 "See, my father, see!"
+84_121123_000017_000002 mr Procureur," said Morrel with increasing vehemence, "no mercy is allowed; I denounce the crime; it is your place to seek the assassin." The young man's implacable eyes interrogated Villefort, who, on his side, glanced from Noirtier to d'Avrigny.
+84_121123_000024_000002 Noirtier wishes to speak."
+84_121123_000049_000002 Do you not, father?"
+84_121123_000034_000000 "Yes."
+84_121123_000054_000004 The two doctors, therefore, entered the room alone.
+84_121123_000022_000002 "Yes, yes," continued Morrel; "recall the scene, for the words you thought were only given to silence and solitude fell into my ears.
+84_121123_000020_000004 I tell you that the dose has been double, the poison changed, and that this time it has succeeded.
+84_121123_000062_000000 "I only wish to be alone.
+84_121123_000008_000001 The terrible office he had held for twenty five years had succeeded in making him more or less than man.
+84_121123_000037_000001 The procureur?"
+84_121123_000050_000001 Morrel suffered an exclamation of horror and surprise to escape him.
+84_121123_000009_000007 "See what they have done!" cried Morrel, with one hand leaning on the back of the chair, and the other extended towards Valentine.
+84_121123_000019_000000 "Sir," said Villefort, striving to struggle against this triple force and his own emotion,--"sir, you are deceived; no one commits crimes here.
+84_121123_000055_000000 "Alas," said d'Avrigny, "she is indeed dead, poor child!"
+84_121123_000011_000003 One could have thought that he was undergoing the agonies preceding death.
+84_121123_000058_000000 "no" said Villefort; "fetch the nearest."
+84_121123_000049_000000 "Do not alarm yourself, sir; justice will be done," said Villefort.
+84_121123_000044_000000 "Yes."
+84_121123_000062_000001 You will excuse me, will you not?
+84_121123_000009_000000 But in less than five minutes the staircase groaned beneath an extraordinary weight.
+84_121123_000011_000004 At length, happier than the young man, who sobbed without weeping, tears glistened in the eyes of Noirtier.
+84_121123_000062_000007 "Sir," he said, "are you disposed to confer a great obligation on an unhappy father who has just lost his daughter?
+5338_284437_000018_000001 She smiled-a little sadly-at Trot, seemed to approve Button Bright's open, frank face and was quite surprised because Cap'n Bill was so much bigger than her own people.
+5338_284437_000044_000000 "But what can you do here?" asked Tourmaline.
+5338_284437_000017_000001 They tell a queer story of an escape from the Blueskins, so I decided to bring them to you, that you may determine their fate."
+5338_284437_000054_000002 But, if there is no other way, I may be obliged to call upon Rosalie for help.
+5338_284437_000054_000003 I'll look in the Great Book first.
+5338_284437_000036_000002 It is much more desirable to be a private citizen, happy and care free.
+5338_284437_000032_000004 If I lived as luxuriously as my people do, and had servants and costly gowns, the good Pinkies would say that their Queen had more than they themselves-and it would be true.
+5338_284437_000036_000000 "I did not choose to be the Queen," answered Tourmaline, simply.
+5338_284437_000014_000000 So they followed her through the low archway, and in a room beyond, very simply furnished, sat a young girl engaged in darning a pair of pink stockings.
+5338_284437_000018_000000 The Queen gazed upon our friends with evident interest.
+5338_284437_000041_000001 Pretty wet Was the journey, you can bet!"
+5338_284437_000046_000002 We do not hate you, as you say the Blueskins do, nor are we savage or cruel; but we do not want you here and I am really puzzled what to do with you."
+5338_284437_000049_000001 It is your duty."
+5338_284437_000014_000001 She was a beautiful girl of about seventeen years of age, not fat like all the rest of the Pinkies, but slender and well formed according to our own ideas of beauty.
+5338_284437_000034_000002 That is my reward."
+5338_284437_000054_000005 To morrow morning come to me again and then I will decree your fate."
+5338_284437_000025_000000 "What shall I call her, then?" inquired Cap'n Bill.
+5338_284437_000015_000000 As they entered, the girl sighed and laid down her work.
+5338_284437_000013_000000 "Come!" commanded the woman who led the party; "you three must follow me to the presence of Tourmaline.
+5338_284437_000054_000004 Meantime you will go home with Coralie, who will feed you and give you entertainment.
+5338_284437_000013_000001 The people must wait outside, for there is no room for them in the palace."
+5338_284437_000024_000000 "By no means," was the prompt reply.
+5338_284437_000006_000000 "Here," said one of their guides, as the procession halted before the little stone building, "is the palace of Tourmaline, who is our Queen."
+5338_284437_000031_000000 "In that case," said Button Bright, "you're entitled to the best there is, to pay for your trouble.
+5338_284437_000033_000000 "What pays you, then, for all your bother?" asked Trot.
+5338_284437_000026_000000 "Just Tourmaline.
+5338_284437_000031_000001 A powerful ruler ought to be rich and to live in a splendid palace.
+5338_284437_000053_000000 "How about witches?" asked Button Bright.
+5338_284437_000020_000000 "No, your Majesty," he replied; "I'm only ----"
+5338_284437_000046_000001 In all our history you are the first people from outside our borders who have ever stepped a foot in our land.
+5338_284437_000026_000001 That is her name, and it is sufficient," said the woman.
+5338_284437_000005_000001 It had no ornamentation, being exceedingly plain in appearance.
+5338_284437_000021_000000 "Majesty!" she exclaimed, flushing a deeper pink.
+5338_284437_000027_000000 "The Ruler of a country ought to be treated with great respec'," declared Trot, a little indignantly, for she thought the pretty little queen was not being properly deferred to.
+5338_284437_000030_000002 I even decree death, when such a punishment is merited.
+5338_284437_000009_000001 "All the palaces I've seen were splendid."
+5338_284437_000032_000005 No; our way is best.
+5338_284437_000031_000002 Your folks ought to treat you with great respect, as Trot says."
+5338_284437_000010_000000 "A splendid palace!" exclaimed one of the Pinkies, and then they looked at one another in amazement and seemed to doubt that their ears had heard aright.
+5338_284437_000042_000000 declared the parrot, in conclusion.
+5338_284437_000023_000001 "There is nothing majestic about me, as you know very well.
+5338_284437_000040_000000 Cap'n Bill finished the story by telling of their escape through the Fog Bank.
+5338_284437_000045_000001 Your Sky Island ain't very big, so when we couldn't stay in the Blue Country, where ever'body hated us, or in the Fog Bank, which ain't healthy an' is too wet for humans to live in for long, we nat'rally were forced to enter the Pink Country, where we expected to find nice people."
+5338_284437_000051_000000 "Thank you," said Trot.
+5338_284437_000016_000000 "What is it, Coralie?" she asked the woman.
+5338_284437_000054_000000 "I know of one witch," said Tourmaline, thoughtfully, "but she is not very obliging.
+5338_284437_000004_000000 The open space which they entered was paved with pink marble and around it were two rows of large pink statues, at least life-size and beautifully sculptured.
+5338_284437_000036_000001 "A misfortune of birth placed me here and I cannot escape my fate.
+5338_284437_000034_000000 "I have one great privilege.
+5338_284437_000012_000000 "They seem very ignorant, poor things!" said another, in reply.
+5338_284437_000011_000000 "These intruders are very peculiar people," remarked a man in the crowd.
+5338_284437_000008_000001 Did you suppose a palace would be like one of our handsome residences?" asked the woman, evidently surprised.
+5338_284437_000015_000001 Her expression was patient and resigned as she faced her audience.
+5338_284437_000008_000000 "Of course.
+5338_284437_000007_000000 "What! that little cabin?" exclaimed Trot.
+5338_284437_000009_000000 "I thought it would be better," said the girl.
+5338_284437_000002_000000 TOURMALINE THE POVERTY QUEEN
+5338_284437_000051_000001 "We wish so, too.
+5338_284437_000014_000004 It was her badge of office, and seemed very incongruous when compared with her poor raiment and simple surroundings.
+5338_284437_000047_000000 "Isn't there a law to cover this case?" asked Coralie.
+5338_284437_000023_000000 "Perhaps you are trying to ridicule me," she continued, regarding the sailor's face closely.
+5338_284437_000052_000000 "Oh, there are fairies, of course, as there are everywhere," answered Tourmaline; "but none that we can call to our assistance, or command to do our bidding."
+5338_284437_000028_000000 "Why?" asked Tourmaline, curiously.
+5338_284437_000037_000001 Button Bright told this, and then Trot related their adventures among the Blueskins and how the Boolooroo had stolen the umbrella and prevented them from going home again.
+5338_284437_000023_000002 Coralie, do you consider 'majesty' a proper word to use when addressing a Queen?" she added, appealing to the Pinky woman.
+5338_284437_000032_000006 The Ruler, be it king or queen, has absolute power to rule, but no riches-no high station-no false adulation.
+5338_284437_000032_000002 If, with my great power, conferred upon me by the people, I also possessed great wealth, I might be tempted to be cruel and overbearing.
+5338_284437_000054_000001 She says it makes her head ache to perform witchcraft and so she seldom indulges in it.
+5338_284437_000041_000000 "Pretty wet!
+5338_284437_000049_000000 "If not," said the woman, "you must make a law.
+5338_284437_000032_000000 "Oh, no," responded Tourmaline quickly; "that would indeed be very wrong.
+5338_284437_000050_000000 "I know," answered Tourmaline; "but I hope such a responsibility will not fall upon my shoulders.
+5338_284437_000037_000000 Between them they told the story of how the Magic Umbrella had taken them to Sky Island, which they did not know, when they started, was anywhere in existence.
+5338_284437_000005_000002 No banners floated from it; no flowers grew near it.
+5338_284437_000032_000003 In that case my subjects would justly grow envious of my superior station.
+5338_284437_000044_000001 "You are not like my people, the Pinkies, and there is no place for you in our country."
+5338_24615_000006_000006 [Footnote: See Note seven.]
+5338_24615_000006_000004 Everything around appeared solitary, and would have been silent, but for the continued plashing of the fountain; and the whole scene still maintained the monastic illusion which the fancy of Waverley had conjured up.
+5338_24615_000003_000001 In the centre of the exterior barrier was the upper gate of the avenue, opening under an archway, battlemented on the top, and adorned with two large weather beaten mutilated masses of upright stone, which, if the tradition of the hamlet could be trusted, had once represented, at least had been once designed to represent, two rampant Bears, the supporters of the family of Bradwardine.
+5338_24615_000004_000004 The windows were numberless, but very small; the roof had some nondescript kind of projections, called bartizans, and displayed at each frequent angle a small turret, rather resembling a pepper box than a Gothic watchtower.
+5338_24615_000004_000007 Stables and other offices occupied another side of the square.
+5338_24615_000006_000003 The court was spacious, well paved, and perfectly clean, there being probably another entrance behind the stables for removing the litter.
+5338_24615_000001_000003 The whole scene was depressing; for it argued, at the first glance, at least a stagnation of industry, and perhaps of intellect.
+5338_24615_000005_000000 Nor was the court without its ornaments.
+5338_24615_000004_000002 The house, which seemed to consist of two or three high, narrow, and steep roofed buildings, projecting from each other at right angles, formed one side of the inclosure.
+5338_24615_000004_000005 Neither did the front indicate absolute security from danger.
+5338_24615_000004_000009 Two battlemented walls, one of which faced the avenue, and the other divided the court from the garden, completed the inclosure.
+5338_24615_000000_000005 The evil and remedy (such as it is) still exist.--But this is remote from our present purpose, and is only thrown out for consideration of the collectors under mr Dent's Dog Bill.
+5338_24615_000001_000001 Three or four village girls, returning from the well or brook with pitchers and pails upon their heads, formed more pleasing objects, and, with their thin short gowns and single petticoats, bare arms, legs, and feet, uncovered heads and braided hair, somewhat resembled Italian forms of landscape.
+5338_24615_000005_000002 This dove cot, or columbarium, as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the contributions levied upon the farms by these light foragers, and the conscriptions exacted from the latter for the benefit of the table.
+5338_24615_000003_000007 It was one of those effects which a painter loves to represent, and mingled well with the struggling light which found its way between the boughs of the shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
+5338_24615_000002_000002 In a few favoured instances, there appeared behind the cottages a miserable wigwam, compiled of earth, loose stones, and turf, where the wealthy might perhaps shelter a starved cow or sorely galled horse.
+5338_24615_000004_000001 The opening into the paved court yard corresponded with the rest of the scene.
+5338_24615_000006_000001 This work of art was the wonder of the country ten miles round.
+5338_24615_000000_000002 They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
+5338_24615_000002_000003 But almost every hut was fenced in front by a huge black stack of turf on one side of the door, while on the other the family dunghill ascended in noble emulation.
+5338_24615_000001_000007 The children also, whose skins were burnt black, and whose hair was bleached white, by the influence of the sun, had a look and manner of life and interest. It seemed, upon the whole, as if poverty, and indolence, its too frequent companion, were combining to depress the natural genius and acquired information of a hardy, intelligent, and reflecting peasantry.
+5338_24615_000004_000003 It had been built at a period when castles were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence.
+5338_24615_000003_000005 This nether portal, like the former, opened in front of a wall ornamented with some rude sculpture, with battlements on the top, over which were seen, half hidden by the trees of the avenue, the high steep roofs and narrow gables of the mansion, with lines indented into steps, and corners decorated with small turrets.
+5338_24640_000014_000002 This person, whom they call Gifted Gilfillan, has been long a leader among them, and now heads a small party, which will pass here to day or to morrow on their march towards Stirling, under whose escort Major Melville proposes you shall travel.
+5338_24640_000012_000001 They take their name from their leader, Richard Cameron.'
+3170_137482_000022_000005 The said lady having been handsomely entertained by the eight masked men, had been escorted to her house, where she had been politely requested to excuse the joke perpetrated upon her husband.
+3170_137482_000061_000002 I certainly did not act towards them with a true sense of honesty, but if the reader to whom I confess myself is acquainted with the world and with the spirit of society, I entreat him to think before judging me, and perhaps I may meet with some indulgence at his hands.
+3170_137482_000013_000001 We took our three prisoners to a large boat.
+3170_137482_000003_000008 Our scandalous proceedings often exposed us to the greatest danger.
+3170_137482_000029_000001 I knocked as hard as I could; the door was at last opened, and I made the surgeon follow me in his dressing gown as far as the gondola, which was waiting; he bled the senator while I was tearing my shirt to make the compress and the bandage.
+3170_137482_000059_000001 But a prejudiced mind cannot reason well, and the faculty of reasoning is the most important of all. I often laughed when I heard them talk on religious matters; they would ridicule those whose intellectual faculties were so limited that they could not understand the mysteries of religion.
+3170_137482_000019_000002 We soon manage to reconcile her to her fate by the gallantry of our proceedings; encouraged by a good supper and by the stimulus of wine, prepared by our compliments and by a few kisses, she realizes what is in store for her, and does not seem to have any unconquerable objection.
+3170_137482_000042_000000 "Doctor, the person who has delivered me from your mercury, which was killing me, is a more skilful physician than you;" and, saying these words, he pointed to me.
+3170_137482_000035_000000 "And I, sir," I said, "will remain near his bed in this arm chair, for if I went away the patient would die, and he will live as long as I am near him."
+3170_137482_000008_000000 The city was alive with complaints, and we laughed at the useless search made by the police to find out those who disturbed the peace of the inhabitants.
+3170_137482_000040_000001 I examined him closely, and found him hardly able to breathe.
+3170_137482_000055_000002 If the question was so obscure that I could not make out the sense of it, it was natural that I should not understand the answer.
+3170_137482_000022_000002 They joined together to address a complaint to the Council of Ten.
+3170_137482_000059_000002 The incarnation of the Word, they would say, was a trifle for God, and therefore easy to understand, and the resurrection was so comprehensible that it did not appear to them wonderful, because, as God cannot die, Jesus Christ was naturally certain to rise again.
+3170_137482_000027_000000 On the third day, towards the end of the dancing, an hour before day break, feeling tired, I left the orchestra abruptly; and as I was going down the stairs I observed a senator, wearing his red robes, on the point of getting into a gondola.
+3170_137482_000059_000003 As for the Eucharist, transubstantiation, the real presence, it was all no mystery to them, but palpable evidence, and yet they were not Jesuits.
+3170_137482_000058_000008 They were not only good Christians and faithful to the Church, but even real devotees and full of scruples.
+3170_137482_000010_000004 The nobility, the merchants, even workmen in good circumstances, are never seen in the 'magazzino', for cleanliness is not exactly worshipped in such places.
+3170_137482_000014_000001 After this, the boatman is ordered to take us to Saint Genevieve, where we land, after paying for the boat.
+3170_137482_000027_000006 A few minutes afterwards he asked me to rub his left arm, which, he said, was so benumbed that he could not feel it.
+3170_137482_000068_000000 I threw myself at his feet to assure him of my gratitude, and embraced him calling him my father.
+3170_137482_000022_000006 The three plaintiffs had not been able to leave the island of Saint George until day break, and the husband, on reaching his house, had found his wife quietly asleep in her bed.
+3170_137482_000058_000007 But, although believing fully in my oracles, they were too kind hearted to think them the work of the devil, and it suited their natural goodness better to believe my answers inspired by some heavenly spirit.
+3170_137482_000037_000003 He had gambled and lost a great deal, and his brother was his most bitter enemy, because he was infatuated with the idea that he had tried to poison him.
+3170_137482_000002_000001 I was compelled by poverty to become a member of a musical band, in which I could expect neither esteem nor consideration, and I was well aware that I should be the laughing stock of the persons who had known me as a doctor in divinity, as an ecclesiastic, and as an officer in the army, and had welcomed me in the highest society.
+3170_137482_000063_000002 An invincible self love would have prevented me from declaring myself unworthy of their friendship either by my ignorance or by my pride; and I should have been guilty of great rudeness if I had ceased to visit them.
+3170_137482_000027_000003 He received it with many thanks, and enquired where I lived.
+3170_137482_000045_000001 Their infatuation encouraging me, I spoke like a learned physician, I dogmatized, I quoted authors whom I had never read.
+3170_137482_000036_000000 This sententious answer struck them with astonishment, as I expected it would, and they looked at each other in great surprise.
+3170_137482_000043_000000 It would be hard to say who was the more astonished: the doctor, when he saw an unknown young man, whom he must have taken for an impostor, declared more learned than himself; or I, when I saw myself transformed into a physician, at a moment's notice.
+3170_137482_000003_000004 By scraping my violin I earned enough to keep myself without requiring anybody's assistance, and I have always thought that the man who can support himself is happy.
+3170_137482_000019_000003 Our chief, as a matter of right, claims the privilege of opening the ball; and by dint of sweet words he overcomes the very natural repugnance she feels at consummating the sacrifice in so numerous company.
+3170_137482_000027_000007 I rubbed it with all my strength, but he told me in a sort of indistinct whisper that the numbness was spreading all along the left side, and that he was dying.
+3170_137482_000067_000002 God had evidently instructed your guardian angel to bring you to me.
+3170_137482_000012_000000 Our chief, a noble Venetian belonging to the Balbi family, said to us, "It would be a good joke to carry off those three blockheads, and to keep the pretty woman in our possession." He immediately explained his plan, and under cover of our masks we entered their room, Balbi at the head of us.
+3170_137482_000004_000000 We would very often spend the whole night rambling about the city, inventing and carrying into execution the most impertinent, practical jokes.
+3170_137482_000058_000009 They were not married, and, after having renounced all commerce with women, they had become the enemies of the female sex; perhaps a strong proof of the weakness of their minds.
+3170_137482_000037_000002 He had been very extravagant with women, and more than one of them had committed many follies for him.
+3170_137482_000025_000001 He did not tell me whether any one of the band had betrayed the secret, and I did not care to know; but I could clearly see the characteristic spirit of the aristocracy, for which the 'solo mihi' is the supreme law.
+3170_137482_000003_000002 I felt that in my first profession, as I was not blessed with the vocation necessary to it, I should have succeeded only by dint of hypocrisy, and I should have been despicable in my own estimation, even if I had seen the purple mantle on my shoulders, for the greatest dignities cannot silence a man's own conscience.
+3170_137482_000019_000001 We take off our masks, and the sight of eight young, healthy faces seems to please the beauty we had so unceremoniously carried off.
+3170_137482_000024_000000 The offer of that reward would have made us tremble if our leader, precisely the one who alone had no interest in turning informer, had not been a patrician.
+3170_137482_000001_000000 I Turn Out A Worthless Fellow-My Good Fortune-I Become A Rich Nobleman
+3170_137482_000062_000000 I might be told that if I had wished to follow the rules of pure morality I ought either to have declined intimate intercourse with them or to have undeceived them.
+3170_137482_000022_000000 Two days afterwards, our nocturnal orgy began to be talked of.
+3170_137482_000025_000000 Three or four months afterwards the chevalier Nicolas Iron, then one of the inquisitors, astonished me greatly by telling me the whole story, giving the names of all the actors.
+3170_137482_000029_000000 I jumped out of the gondola, and found myself on the very spot where three years before I had taught Razetta such a forcible lesson; I enquired for a surgeon at the first coffee house, and ran to the house that was pointed out to me.
+3170_137482_000043_000001 I kept silent, looking very modest, but hardly able to control my mirth, whilst the doctor was staring at me with a mixture of astonishment and of spite, evidently thinking me some bold quack who had tried to supplant him.
+3170_137482_000067_000003 I know you and appreciate you.
+3170_137482_000007_000000 Whenever we could contrive to get into a church tower we thought it great fun to frighten all the parish by ringing the alarm bell, as if some fire had broken out; but that was not all, we always cut the bell ropes, so that in the morning the churchwardens had no means of summoning the faithful to early mass.
+3170_137482_000033_000001 All visitors were sent away by my advice, and the two noblemen and myself were the only persons in the sick man's room.
+3170_137482_000027_000005 I accepted gratefully, and sat down near him.
+3170_137482_000067_000007 You need not think of the future; think only of enjoying yourself, and take me as your adviser in everything that may happen to you, in everything you may wish to undertake, and you may be certain of always finding me your friend."
+3170_137482_000014_000000 He sails all along the canal, gets out of it, takes several turnings, and in a quarter of an hour, we reach Saint George where Balbi lands our prisoners, who are delighted to find themselves at liberty.
+3170_137482_000047_000001 Unwilling to hurt his vanity by telling him that he was mistaken, I took the wild resolution of informing him, in the presence of his two friends, that I possessed a certain numeral calculus which gave answers (also in numbers), to any questions I liked to put.
+3170_137482_000067_000000 "Whoever you may be, I am indebted to you for my life.
+3170_137482_000065_000000 Through the friendship of those three men, I was certain of obtaining consideration and influence in my own country.
+3170_137482_000028_000001 I understood that he was seized with an apoplectic stroke, and called out to the gondoliers to land me at once, in order to procure a surgeon to bleed the patient.
+3170_137482_000024_000001 The rank of Balbi quieted my anxiety at once, because I knew that, even supposing one of us were vile enough to betray our secret for the sake of the reward, the tribunal would have done nothing in order not to implicate a patrician.
+3170_137482_000016_000000 "Do not weep, my beauty," says Balbi to her, "we will not hurt you.
+3170_137482_000032_000001 They were in despair; they had enquired about the accident from the gondoliers, and having been told that I knew more than they did, they loaded me with questions which I answered.
+3170_137482_000018_000000 "Never fear; you shall see him again to morrow."
+3170_137482_000013_000003 Not one of us knew where Balbi wanted to take the three poor devils.
+3170_137482_000037_000001 He was celebrated in Venice not only for his eloquence and his great talents as a statesman, but also for the gallantries of his youth.
+3170_137482_000010_000005 Yet there are a few private rooms which contain a table surrounded with benches, in which a respectable family or a few friends can enjoy themselves in a decent way.
+3170_137482_000022_000003 The complaint was candidly written and contained nothing but the truth, but the criminal portion of the truth was veiled by a circumstance which must have brought a smile on the grave countenances of the judges, and highly amused the public at large: the complaint setting forth that the eight masked men had not rendered themselves guilty of any act disagreeable to the wife.
+3170_137482_000054_000000 The three friends were astounded.
+3170_137482_000043_000004 I must confess that I was very glad of it, and I told my patient that a proper diet was all he needed, and that nature, assisted by the approaching fine season, would do the rest.
+3170_137482_000003_000006 When the play was over, I went with them to the drinking booth, which we often left intoxicated to spend the night in houses of ill fame.
+3170_137482_000026_000001 I played the violin in one of the numerous bands engaged for the balls which were given for three consecutive days in the Soranzo Palace.
+3170_137482_000052_000000 "How so?"
+3170_137482_000055_000000 I declared myself quite willing, for it was necessary to brazen it out, after having ventured as far as I had done.
+3170_137482_000027_000001 In taking his handkerchief out of his pocket he let a letter drop on the ground.
+3170_137482_000059_000000 With all these oddities, the three friends were truly intelligent and even witty, and, at the beginning of my acquaintance with them, I could not reconcile these antagonistic points.
+3170_137482_000024_000002 There was no cowardly traitor amongst us, although we were all poor; but fear had its effect, and our nocturnal pranks were not renewed.
+3170_137482_000058_000004 But what I could not, and probably never shall, understand, was the reason for which the Fathers, who were not so simple or so ignorant as our Evangelists, did not feel able to deny the divinity of oracles, and, in order to get out of the difficulty, ascribed them to the devil.
+3170_137482_000063_000001 There is also another consideration, dear reader, and as I love you I will tell you what it is.
+3170_137482_000061_000001 I confess candidly that I deceived them, as the Papa Deldimopulo used to deceive the Greeks who applied to him for the oracles of the Virgin.
+3170_137482_000032_000000 An hour later, two noblemen, friends of the senator, came in, one a few minutes after the other.
+3170_137482_000004_000003 We did the same with physicians, whom we often sent half dressed to some nobleman who was enjoying excellent health.
+3170_137482_000067_000001 Your first protectors wanted to make you a priest, a doctor, an advocate, a soldier, and ended by making a fiddler of you; those persons did not know you.
+3170_137482_000003_000005 I grant that my profession was not a brilliant one, but I did not mind it, and, calling prejudices all the feelings which rose in my breast against myself, I was not long in sharing all the habits of my degraded comrades.
+3170_137482_000019_000004 She, doubtless, thinks the offering agreeable, for, when I present myself as the priest appointed to sacrifice a second time to the god of love, she receives me almost with gratitude, and she cannot conceal her joy when she finds out that she is destined to make us all happy.
+3170_137482_000002_000000 With an education which ought to have ensured me an honourable standing in the world, with some intelligence, wit, good literary and scientific knowledge, and endowed with those accidental physical qualities which are such a good passport into society, I found myself, at the age of twenty, the mean follower of a sublime art, in which, if great talent is rightly admired, mediocrity is as rightly despised.
+3170_137482_000027_000004 I told him, and he insisted upon my coming with him in the gondola saying that he would leave me at my house.
+3170_137482_000034_000000 In the evening one of the two friends told me that if I had any business to attend to I could go, because they would both pass the night on a mattress near the patient.
+3170_137482_000067_000005 Your apartment is ready, you may send your clothes: you shall have a servant, a gondola at your orders, my own table, and ten sequins a month.
+3170_137482_000047_000000 What extraordinary things will sometimes occur from mere chance, or from the force of circumstances!
+3170_137482_000013_000000 The waiter of the magazzino came to be paid, and our chief gave him what was due, enjoining silence under penalty of death.
+3170_137482_000050_000000 "The hermit," remarked the senator, "has without informing you of it, linked an invisible spirit to the calculus he has taught you, for simple numbers can not have the power of reason.
+3170_137482_000021_000000 My readers may imagine whether we felt inclined to laugh when the charming creature bade us good night, thanking us all with perfect good faith!
+3170_137482_000010_000000 In every one of the seventy two parishes of the city of Venice, there is a large public house called 'magazzino'.
+3170_137482_000010_000002 People can likewise eat in the 'magazzino', but they must obtain what they want from the pork butcher near by, who has the exclusive sale of eatables, and likewise keeps his shop open throughout the night.
+3170_137482_000058_000002 I saw how easy it must have been for the ancient heathen priests to impose upon ignorant, and therefore credulous mankind.
+3170_137482_000050_000001 You possess a real treasure, and you may derive great advantages from it."
+3170_137482_000067_000006 It is the sum I used to receive from my father when I was your age.
+3170_137482_000019_000005 My brother Francois alone exempted himself from paying the tribute, saying that he was ill, the only excuse which could render his refusal valid, for we had established as a law that every member of our society was bound to do whatever was done by the others.
+3170_137482_000008_000001 We took good care to be careful, for if we had been discovered we stood a very fair chance of being sent to practice rowing at the expense of the Council of Ten.
+3170_137482_000031_000000 Taking everything upon myself, I ordered a servant to hurry out for a physician, who came in a short time, and ordered the patient to be bled again, thus approving the first bleeding prescribed by me.
+3170_137482_000016_000001 We intend only to take some refreshment at the Rialto, and then we will take you home in safety."
+3170_137482_000058_000000 After they had assured themselves of the reality of my cabalistic science by questions respecting the past, they decided to turn it to some use by consulting it upon the present and upon the future.
+3170_137482_000022_000001 The young woman's husband was a weaver by trade, and so were his two friends.
+3170_137482_000046_000001 He entreated me to tell him the truth.
+3170_137482_000032_000002 They did not know who I was, and did not like to ask me; whilst I thought it better to preserve a modest silence.
+3170_137482_000011_000000 It was during the Carnival of seventeen forty five, after midnight; we were, all the eight of us, rambling about together with our masks on, in quest of some new sort of mischief to amuse us, and we went into the magazzino of the parish of the Holy Cross to get something to drink.
+3170_137482_000055_000001 He wrote the question, and gave it to me; I read it, I could not understand either the subject or the meaning of the words, but it did not matter, I had to give an answer.
+3170_137482_000017_000000 "Where is my husband?"
+3170_137482_000028_000000 I was greatly frightened; I opened the curtain, took the lantern, and found him almost insensible, and the mouth drawn on one side.
+7976_105575_000014_000007 Suddenly we heard something, almost like a distant whirlwind.
+7976_105575_000011_000008 Before the hour came, however, the move was decided to be too dangerous, and we changed our position to one nearer the forts.
+7976_105575_000014_000006 We looked for it against our own division, as we lay in the grass waiting.
+7976_105575_000007_000008 One daring Rebel was shot down and bayoneted clear behind the line of Company B, where he had broken through to seize the flag of my regiment.
+7976_105575_000004_000003 The bugles played occasionally as the men hurried along, but not a shot was fired.
+7976_105575_000017_000006 His head was shot off by a cannonball just as his regiment was charging at the bridge.
+7976_105575_000018_000007 At Corinth he was forty miles away, and now, when we had the enemy almost within our grasp, he suddenly called us back.
+7976_105575_000006_000001 My own regiment was in the advance.
+7976_105575_000015_000001 My canteen was full of water and I pressed it to the lips of many a dying enemy-enemy no longer.
+7976_105575_000013_000004 Had He done so, all would have been killed on the morrow.
+7976_105575_000008_000001 With a few lanterns our men then went about and tried to gather up the wounded; the dead were left till morning.
+7976_105575_000014_000012 These recklessly advanced on the forts, climbing over the fallen trees and bending their heads against the awful storm of grape and canister from all our cannon.
+7976_105575_000018_000008 Rosecrans protested.
+7976_105575_000008_000002 There were seven hundred eighty two Union men lying there in their blood that long night, six hundred eight of them out of a single small brigade.
+7976_105575_000014_000002 There were simply bushels of them, and the floor was running blood.
+7976_105575_000018_000004 We reflected that at Shiloh he was miles away from the battlefield at the critical moment.
+7976_105575_000009_000000 The burying party the next morning found nineteen dead Rebels lying together at one place.
+7976_105575_000014_000010 It was the storming of Fort Robinett.
+7976_105575_000022_000003 Brick was scarce, and in a few instances the men used the stone slabs from a graveyard close at hand.
+7976_105575_000007_000007 Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, could show nothing like it. Only the setting sun put an end to what was part of the time a hand to hand conflict.
+7976_105575_000015_000006 Another had taken his fine gold watch.
+7976_105575_000011_000012 Yet it looked very bad for us.
+7976_105575_000002_000000 All that summer, after taking Corinth, we chased up and down the State of Mississippi, trying to get fair battle with the Rebel army.
+7976_105575_000022_000002 It was getting cooler now, and little fireplaces were built in the huts and tents.
+7976_105575_000009_000001 At another spot one hundred eighty two Rebel corpses lay in a row covered by tarpaulins.
+7976_105575_000015_000003 They lay in heaps of dozens, even close up to the works.
+7976_105575_000011_000013 Every house in town was full of our wounded and our dead lay everywhere.
+7976_105575_000014_000014 Even a foe could feel pity to see brave men so cruelly slaughtered.
+7976_105575_000022_000001 Many of the soldiers made huts for themselves.
+7976_105575_000017_000005 It was Lieutenant William Dodd, a classmate in school.
+7976_105575_000011_000009 All the night we lay there under the brightest moonlight I ever saw.
+7976_105575_000003_000001 It was fought by a handful of the troops of General Rosecrans against half the army of General Price.
+7976_105575_000018_000003 Indeed, we of the rank and file had little confidence in Grant in those days.
+7976_105575_000014_000008 My regiment rose to its feet, fired a few moments at scattering Rebels in our front, and were amazed to see a great black column, ten thousand strong, moving like a mighty storm cloud out of the woods and attacking the forts and troops at our left.
+7976_105575_000002_000001 At last the chance came, and for my regiment it was an awful one-the battle of Iuka.
+7976_105575_000011_000007 That evening an order came for us-Hamilton's Division-to assault the enemy's left flank at midnight.
+7976_105575_000022_000000 We now camped on the edge of the town and went on building still other and greater forts.
+7976_105575_000007_000001 There were no breastworks, yet that one little brigade of Hamilton's division stood there in the open and repulsed assault after assault.
+7976_105575_000008_000000 That night the enemy slipped away, leaving hundreds and hundreds of his dead and wounded on the field.
+7976_105575_000012_000000 Once in the night I slipped away from the bivouac and hurried to the old Tishimingo Hotel, to see a lieutenant of my company, who had been shot through the breast.
+7976_105575_000010_000001 And so it was that within two weeks my regiment was placed outside the breastworks at Corinth, to wait and receive another awful assault.
+7976_105575_000018_000011 It required months, and great events, to make Grant the hero of the army which he afterward became.
+7976_105575_000014_000001 In one of the rooms I saw the floors, tables, and chairs covered with amputated limbs, some white and some broken and bleeding.
+7976_105575_000015_000000 When the assault had failed and the noise of battle was stilled, I hurried down in front of Robinett.
+7976_105575_000007_000003 Not Balaklava, nor the Alma, saw such fighting.
+7976_105575_000001_000000 Iuka, the fiercest battle of the war, two hundred seventeen men out of four hundred eighty two of my regiment are shot-The awful Rebel charge at Corinth-Moonlight on the battlefield-Bushels of arms and legs-Tombstones for fireplaces-One of Grant's mistakes.
+7976_105575_000011_000010 Under the same quiet moonlight, and only six hundred yards away from us, also lay the victorious Rebel army.
+7976_105575_000017_000000 Our regiment now pursued the flying Rebels with great vigor.
+7976_105575_000018_000000 The pursuit of the enemy was being pushed with vigor when the army was ordered to desist and return to camp.
+7976_105575_000011_000006 Our own division, though fighting some, had lost but few men.
+7976_105575_000004_000000 One morning before daylight while camped in the woods near Jacinto half expecting to be attacked, we heard that Price's army was in Iuka, some eighteen miles away, and that if we would hurry there and attack from one side, General Grant, with Ord's troops, would attack from another side.
+7976_105575_000012_000001 Never will I forget the horrible scenes of that night.
+7976_105575_000011_000005 The Rebels were charging works that they themselves had built when they held the town during Halleck's siege. General Haccelman and many other of our officers had fallen.
+7976_105575_000012_000005 It was too late, for he was dying.
+7976_105575_000005_000000 There were only four hundred eighty two of my little regiment now marching there, hoping, almost praying, the enemy might only wait.
+7976_105575_000018_000006 At Iuka, Grant, though commander, did not even know a battle was going on.
+7976_105575_000018_000002 That order was one of the mistakes of Grant's earlier days as a commander.
+7976_105575_000018_000005 Sherman had saved the Union army from destruction there.
+7976_105575_000014_000009 Instantly we changed direction a little and, without further firing, witnessed one of the greatest assaults of any war.
+7976_105575_000008_000007 The enemy lost more than one thousand men in trying to destroy that single brigade and its Ohio battery.
+7976_105575_000007_000002 It was the Iowa, the Missouri, and the Ohio boys against the boys of Alabama and Mississippi, and the grass and leaves were covered with the bodies in blue and gray.
+7976_105575_000014_000000 It was soon full day.
+7976_105575_000007_000000 Charge after charge was made upon our little line, and the Eleventh Ohio Battery, which the regiment was protecting, was taken and retaken three times.
+7976_105575_000013_000000 It was a relief to me to get back into the moonlight and out of the horror, yet out there lay thousands of others in line, only waiting the daylight to be also mangled and torn like these.
+7976_105575_000016_000001 Our own loss had been two thousand two hundred dead and wounded.
+7976_105575_000020_000002 On inquiry for certain ones I learned that they were dead and lying out in the improvised graveyard near by.
+7976_105575_000011_000004 When morning came the firing opened, and for all that day the battle raged fiercely at the left and center left, we getting the worst of it, too.
+7976_105575_000006_000003 Our brigade was fearfully outnumbered. Rosecrans, had ten thousand soldiers within five miles of the battlefield, yet let three or four small regiments and a battery do all the fighting.
+7976_105575_000008_000006 Fifteen officers of our little half regiment were dead or wounded.
+7976_105575_000012_000002 The town seemed full of the groans of dying men.
+7976_105575_000013_000006 As I entered the building a cannonball from the enemy crashed through the house and killed four soldiers by the stairway.
+7976_105575_000015_000002 Our grape shot had torn whole companies of men to pieces.
+7976_105575_000014_000005 Nine o'clock came, and now we knew that the great assault was to be made.
+7976_105575_000015_000004 General Rogers, who had led a brigade into the hopeless pit, lay on his back, dead, with his flag in his hand.
+7976_105575_000016_000003 Many of the wounded, even, had not yet been gathered up.
+7976_105575_000013_000003 God could not answer the prayers of the men in both armies that night.
+7976_105575_000008_000004 Five of my eight messmates of the day before were shot.
+7976_105575_000021_000000 For some reason the dead at Hatchie Bridge were not buried.
+7976_105575_000017_000004 Possibly the best friend I had in the world, save my kin, was killed at that bridge.
+7976_105575_000018_000010 The order, more imperative than before, was repeated.
+7976_105575_000011_000000 The night before the battle of Corinth the Fifth Iowa Regiment lay across the Purdy road, in the bright moonlight.
+7976_105575_000014_000004 Yes, it was "hell." I hastened back to the lines.
+7976_105575_000005_000001 How little anyone dreamed that before the sun set two hundred seventeen of that little command would be stretched dead or dying among the autumn leaves!
+7976_105575_000016_000002 That night I stood guard under an oak tree on the battlefield among the unburied dead.
+7976_105575_000009_000002 The enemy had not had time to bury them.
+7976_105575_000019_000001 Rosecrans is at present the hero of this army, and, with him leading it, the boys would storm Hades."
+7976_105575_000011_000002 Poor Jimmy King! he survived the war only to be murdered later on a plantation in Mississippi.
+7976_105575_000014_000013 A perfect blaze of close range musketry, too, mowed them down like grass.
+7976_105575_000004_000001 How eagerly the regiment made the forward march on that beautiful autumn day!
+7976_105575_000008_000003 While mothers and sisters at home were praying for the safety of these dear ones at the front, their spirits that night were leaving their torn bodies in the dark and ascending heavenward.
+7976_105575_000014_000003 It was a strange, horrible sight,--but it was war.
+7976_105575_000006_000004 Ten miles away, in another direction, lay General Grant and General Ord, with many other thousands, as silent as if paralyzed. An unlucky wind blew, they said, and the sound of our cannon, that was to have been the signal for them to attack also, was unheard by them.
+7976_105575_000013_000007 My friend, with many others, was being carried out to die elsewhere.
+7976_105575_000004_000002 The woods were in their fairest foliage, and it seemed too lovely a day for war and bloodshed.
+7976_105575_000013_000001 The moon shone so brightly the men in the lines, tired though they were, could scarcely sleep.
+7976_105575_000004_000005 They had time for reflection as they marched, and they knew now they were going to battle.
+7976_105575_000006_000000 It was just two o'clock when the regiment ran on to the army of the enemy, lying in line right across the road close to Iuka.
+7976_105575_000012_000006 "Go back to the regiment," he said, smiling, "all will be needed."
+7976_105575_000014_000011 The cloud of Rebels we had seen divided itself into three columns.
+7976_105575_000018_000001 It was an astounding order, as it was in our power to destroy the defeated and flying columns.
+7976_110523_000016_000005 They knocked at the door, and when the wife opened it, and saw Hansel and Grethel, she exclaimed, "You wicked children!
+7976_110523_000005_000000 HANSEL AND GRETHEL
+7976_110523_000012_000003 Take care, and remember your legs."
+7976_110523_000028_000002 "Dear good God, help us now!" she prayed.
+7976_110523_000027_000002 Will they not be sweet?" So Hansel reached up and broke a piece off the roof, in order to see how it tasted; while Grethel stepped up to the window and began to bite it.
+7976_110523_000026_000001 As soon as it was noon they saw a beautiful, snow white bird sitting upon a bough, singing so sweetly that they stood still and listened to it.
+7976_110523_000010_000001 Grethel wept bitterly, and said to Hansel, "What will become of us?"
+7976_110523_000032_000001 And now, as there was nothing to fear, they went back to the witch's house, where in every corner were caskets full of pearls and precious stones.
+7976_110523_000031_000000 Now she ran to Hansel, and, opening the door, called out, "Hansel we are saved; the old witch is dead?"
+7976_110523_000029_000006 Oh! how horribly the witch howled; but Grethel ran away, and left her to burn to ashes.
+7976_110523_000027_000001 I will eat a piece of the roof, and you can eat the window.
+7976_110523_000014_000000 "You simpleton!" said the wife, "that is not a cat; it is only the sun shining on the white chimney." But in reality Hansel was not looking at a cat; but every time he stopped, he dropped a pebble out of his pocket upon the path.
+7976_110523_000021_000000 The children, however, had heard the conversation as they lay awake, and as soon as their parents went to sleep Hansel got up, intending to pick up some pebbles as before; but the wife had locked the door, so that he could not get out.
+7976_110523_000027_000004 Hansel thought the roof tasted very nice, and so he tore off a great piece; while Grethel broke a large round pane out of the window, and sat down quite contentedly.
+7976_110523_000029_000004 See, I could even get in myself!" and she got up, and put her head into the oven.
+7976_110523_000032_000002 "These are better than pebbles," said Hansel, putting as many into his pocket as it would hold; while Grethel thought, "I will take some home too," and filled her apron full.
+7976_110523_000019_000000 But her husband felt heavy at heart, and thought, "It were better to share the last crust with the children." His wife, however, would listen to nothing that he said, and scolded and reproached him without end.
+7976_110523_000022_000000 Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece.
+7976_110523_000016_000002 When they awoke, it was quite dark, and Grethel began to cry.
+7976_110523_000021_000001 Nevertheless he comforted Grethel, saying, "Do not weep; sleep in quiet; the good God will not forsake us."
+7976_110523_000024_000000 When noon came, Grethel shared her bread with Hansel, who had strewn his on the path.
+7976_110523_000020_000000 He who says A must say B too; and he who consents the first time must also the second.
+7976_110523_000027_000012 So a nice meal was cooked for Hansel, but Grethel got nothing else but a crab's claw.
+7976_110523_000035_000000 "Little Duck, good little Duck, Grethel and Hansel, together we stand; There is neither stile nor bridge, Take us on your back to land."
+7976_110523_000016_000000 Hansel and Grethel sat down by the fire, and when it was noon, each ate the piece of bread; and because they could hear the blows of an axe they thought their father was near; but it was not an axe, but a branch which he had bound to an old tree, so as to be blown to and fro by the wind.
+7976_110523_000027_000000 "We will go in here," said Hansel, "and have a glorious feast.
+7976_110523_000011_000000 "Be quiet, Grethel," said he; "do not cry-I will help you." And as soon as their parents had gone to sleep, he got up, put on his coat, and, unbarring the back door, went out.
+7976_110523_000009_000000 "Oh, you simpleton!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger; you had better plane the coffins for us." But she left him no peace till he consented, saying, "Ah, but I shall miss the poor children."
+7976_110523_000027_000007 Come in and stop with me, and no harm shall come to you;" and so saying she took them both by the hand, and led them into her cottage.
+7976_110523_000032_000000 So he sprang out, like a bird from his cage when the door was opened; and they were so glad that they fell upon each other's neck, and kissed each other over and over again.
+7976_110523_000029_000001 "First, we will bake, however," said the old woman; "I have already heated the oven and kneaded the dough;" and so saying, she pushed poor Grethel up to the oven, out of which the flames were burning fiercely.
+7976_110523_000027_000008 A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples and nuts, was spread on the table, and in the back room were two nice little beds, covered with white, where Hansel and Grethel laid themselves down, and were happy as could be.
+7976_110523_000027_000010 Witches have red eyes, and cannot see very far; but they have a fine sense of smelling, like wild beasts, so that they know when children approach them.
+7976_110523_000036_000002 This the good little bird did, and when both were happily arrived on the other side, and had gone a little way, they came to a well-known wood, which they knew the better every step they went, and at last they perceived their father's house.
+7976_110523_000023_000001 We are going into the forest to hew wood, and in the evening, when we are ready, we will come and fetch you again."
+7976_110523_000029_000005 Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and shutting the iron door bolted it.
+7976_110523_000033_000000 "We must be off now," said Hansel, "and get out of this enchanted forest;" but when they had walked for two hours they came to a large piece of water.
+7976_110523_000016_000001 They waited so long, that at last their eyes closed from weariness, and they fell fast asleep.
+7976_110523_000027_000006 Hansel and Grethel were so much frightened that they let fall what they had in their hands; but the old woman nodding her head, said, "Ah, you dear children, what has brought you here?
+7976_110523_000016_000007 We thought you were never coming home again." But their father was extremely glad, for it had grieved his heart to leave them all alone.
+7976_110523_000013_000000 "Ah, father," said Hansel, "I am looking at my white cat sitting upon the roof of the house, and trying to say good bye."
+7976_110523_000029_000000 So early in the morning Grethel was compelled to go out and fill the kettle, and make a fire.
+7976_110523_000022_000001 On the way Hansel broke his in his pocket, and stopping every now and then, dropped a crumb upon the path.
+7976_110523_000006_000000 Once upon a time there dwelt near a large wood a poor wood cutter, with his wife, and two children by his former marriage, a little boy called Hansel, and a girl named Grethel.
+7976_110523_000036_000003 Then they began to run, and rushing into the house, they fell upon their father's neck.
+7976_110523_000016_000006 Why did you sleep so long in the wood?
+7976_110523_000012_000002 When they had gone a little distance, Hansel stood still, and peeped back at the house; and this he repeated several times, till his father said, "Hansel, what are you looking at, and why do you lag behind?
+7976_110523_000006_000001 He had little enough to break or bite; and once, when there was a great famine in the land, he could hardly procure even his daily bread; and as he lay thinking in his bed one night, he sighed, and said to his wife, "What will become of us? How can we feed our children, when we have no more than we can eat ourselves?"
+7976_110523_000012_000000 The next morning, before the sun arose, the wife went and awoke the two children.
+7976_110523_000008_000000 "No, wife," replied he, "that I can never do; how can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the wood; for the wild beasts will soon come and tear them to pieces?"
+7976_110523_000022_000002 "Hansel, why do you stop and look about?" said the father, "keep in the path." "I am looking at my little dove," answered Hansel, "nodding a good bye to me." "Simpleton!" said the wife, "that is no dove, but only the sun shining on the chimney." But Hansel kept still dropping crumbs as he went along.
+7976_110523_000036_000001 "No," replied Grethel, "that will be too much for the Duck, she shall take us over one at a time."
+7976_110523_000027_000005 Just then the door opened, and a very old woman, walking upon crutches, came out.
+7976_110523_000028_000003 "Had we only been eaten by the wild beasts in the wood, then we should have died together." But the old witch called out, "Leave off that noise; it will not help you a bit."
+7976_110523_000024_000003 Soon they were so tired that they could not drag themselves along, then they lay down under a tree and again went to sleep.
+7976_110523_000016_000004 All night long they walked on, and as day broke they came to their father's house.
+7976_110523_000026_000000 It was now the third morning since they had left their father's house, and they still walked on; but they only got deeper, and deeper, and deeper into the wood, and Hansel felt that if help did not come very soon they must die of hunger.
+7976_110523_000036_000000 So the Duck came to them, and Hansel sat himself on, and bade his sister sit beside him.
+7976_110523_000034_000000 "We cannot get over," said Hansel; "I can see no bridge at all." "And there is no boat either," said Grethel, "but there swims a white duck, I will ask her to help us over;" and she sang,
+7976_110523_000024_000002 Hansel kept saying to Grethel, "We will soon find the way;" but they did not, and they walked the whole night long and the next day, but still they did not come out of the wood; and they got very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but the berries which they found upon the bushes.
+7976_110523_000015_000002 Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, whilst we go into the forest and chop more wood; when we are ready we will come and call you."
+7976_110523_000028_000000 Every morning the old witch came to the cage and said, "Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel whether you are getting fat." But Hansel used to stretch out a bone, and the old woman, having very bad sight, thought it was his finger, and wondered very much why he did not get fat.
+7976_110124_000038_000000 "He'll find it difficult to get into our house again," she said to herself as she waited to see if the robber returned.
+7976_110124_000020_000000 The eldest daughter frowned.
+7976_110124_000036_000003 They were big and heavy, but her great fear gave her strength.
+7976_110124_000062_000000 The eldest daughter blushed and hung her head.
+7976_110124_000017_000000 The second daughter peeped out of the window at the beggar.
+7976_110124_000013_000000 They gave him their promise and he started on his journey. Nevertheless, he went with an anxious heart.
+7976_110124_000032_000002 The youngest one pretended that she, too, was asleep.
+7976_110124_000032_000003 The man went to the bed of the eldest sister and stuck a pin into her foot to see if she were completely unconscious.
+7976_110124_000039_000000 Soon she heard footsteps outside.
+7976_110124_000031_000001 The youngest one was so frightened that she could not sleep a single wink.
+7976_110124_000053_000001 They tried in vain to break down the great doors.
+7976_110124_000033_000001 She saw to her surprise that he had laid aside the heavy ragged old coat which he had kept wrapped about him even while he ate. Underneath he was dressed like a robber with a sword, pistols and dagger.
+7976_110124_000052_000002 She struck it with all her might with the great sword and cut it off.
+7976_110124_000042_000001 "She may not be so wise as she appears.
+7976_110124_000021_000000 The second daughter added.
+7976_110124_000009_000000 "Do not be afraid to leave us, dear father," said his daughters. "Nothing will harm us while you are away."
+7976_110124_000033_000000 The youngest sister peeped through her long heavy eyelashes and watched the beggar.
+7976_110124_000014_000002 He knocked at the door.
+7976_110124_000030_000000 While they were talking, the beggar had taken the apples which the girls were to eat for dessert and had sprinkled a sleeping powder over them.
+7976_110124_000060_000000 When at last the merchant returned from the distant city where he had been to collect money he was delighted to find his house and his three daughters safe.
+7976_110124_000021_000001 "We two are older and wiser than you are. It is for us to determine what shall be done.
+7976_110124_000054_000000 In the morning the effect of the sleeping powder wore off and the two elder sisters awoke.
+7976_110124_000032_000001 The beggar entered the room.
+7976_110124_000033_000002 She was so terribly frightened that it was all she could do to keep her teeth from chattering.
+7976_110124_000043_000000 The leader of the band of thieves went up close to the keyhole and whispered: "Kind lady of the house, have pity on me."
+7976_110124_000053_000003 At last it was daylight and the band of thieves had to flee.
+7976_110124_000006_000001 "My heart is filled with fear lest some evil may befall you during my absence."
+7976_110124_000046_000001 "You shall not come into my father's house."
+7976_110124_000032_000007 It hurt terribly when he stuck the pin into the foot of the youngest, but she did not stir.
+7976_110124_000014_000000 Now, outside this city there was a band of bold robbers.
+7976_110124_000023_000003 They gave him his supper in the kitchen and then they ate their own.
+7976_110124_000052_000000 She quickly ran upstairs and got the robber's sword which he had left on a chair in the dining room.
+7976_110124_000014_000001 The captain of the band had watched the merchant's departure, and when he was safely away the thief dressed himself in the disguise of an old beggar. When it was evening he led his band into a nearby street and in his disguise approached the merchant's house.
+7976_110124_000034_000001 Then she heard him go down the stairway and unbolt the heavy doors which led into the store.
+7976_110124_000046_000000 "I do not trust your promises," replied the little maid.
+7976_110124_000030_000002 She threw the apple away.
+7976_110124_000023_000000 However, in spite of all she could say, the elder sisters opened the door and admitted the beggar.
+7976_110124_000031_000000 As soon as they had eaten, the girls went to their room, and the two eldest were overcome with sleep almost before they had time to get into bed.
+7976_110124_000047_000000 "Pass the charm out to me, then," said the robber.
+7976_110124_000055_000001 "You are making it up."
+7976_110124_000005_000000 Long ago there lived a merchant who had three daughters.
+7976_110124_000026_000000 "I am thinking that our dear father would be anxious if he knew that we had broken our promise so easily," said the youngest sister.
+7976_110124_000005_000002 His wife and daughters remained at home, and all went well until one sad day the wife died.
+7976_110124_000057_000000 It was not until their little sister had shown them the robber's hand and the great sword that they were convinced that she had told them the truth.
+7976_110124_000016_000000 "It's surely a terrible storm outside," said the merchant's eldest daughter, as the wind rattled the tiles of the roof and the rain beat in torrents against the doors and windows.
+7976_110124_000005_000001 Every year at a certain day of a certain month he went away to a distant city to collect money on an account.
+7976_110124_000006_000000 "I cannot bear to go away," he said to them.
+7976_110124_000030_000001 The two eldest ate their apples, but the youngest could not eat that night.
+7976_110124_000005_000003 That year the merchant looked forward to his journey with dread for he would have to leave his daughters alone.
+7976_110124_000053_000000 The cries and curses of the robbers filled the air.
+7976_110124_000051_000000 "Put your hand through the hole in the door," replied the little maid. "Then I'll give you your charm."
+7976_110124_000048_000000 "It's in the fire," replied the girl.
+7976_110124_000059_000000 "Oh, why didn't we keep our promise to our father!" cried the middle one.
+7976_110124_000021_000002 If we decide to show mercy to this poor beggar it is not for you to oppose it."
+7976_110124_000032_000005 Then he went to the bed of the second sister and did the same.
+7976_110124_000032_000000 Soon she heard footsteps.
+7976_110124_000044_000000 The merchant's daughter at first did not answer; but, as he kept on calling to her, she finally asked him what it was that he wanted.
+7976_110124_000007_000000 He worried about the matter night and day.
+7976_110124_000019_000000 "Remember our promise to our father!" cried the youngest one.
+7976_110124_000027_000000 "For shame!" cried the eldest.
+7976_110124_000050_000000 Now it happened that there was a little hole in the door just large enough for a man's hand to enter.
+7976_110124_000061_000000 "I see that no harm befell you in my absence," he said as he embraced them fondly.
+7976_110124_000024_000000 "It is a fearful night to send away a beggar," said the eldest sister while they were eating.
+7976_110124_000010_000001 "I am older and wiser than you are and I know that there are many evils which might come upon you. There are many bold thieves in this city, for instance, who would be only too ready to take advantage of my absence and rob my home of all I possess."
+7976_110124_000008_000000 However, the question of leaving three such pretty girls unprotected was a thing not to be regarded lightly.
+7976_110124_000061_000001 "All my worries about you were foolish."
+7976_110124_000015_000002 Let me enter, I pray you, to pass the night under your roof."
+7976_110124_000023_000001 They led him into the kitchen to dry his clothes.
+7976_110124_000039_000001 She knew that the thief had brought back others with him.
+7976_110124_000018_000001 "Our father has always taught us to show mercy and kindness to the aged."
+7976_110124_000018_000000 "He is old as well as poor," she said.
+7976_110124_000049_000001 "Then you can pull my charm out in safety."
+7976_110124_000012_000000 "Be sure that you admit no one," commanded the merchant.
+7976_110124_000045_000001 "Pray let me enter to get it. I promise you I will do you no harm."
+7976_110124_000054_000001 When they heard their sister's story they were filled with amazement.
+7976_110124_000015_000000 "Have pity upon a poor unfortunate one!" he called out.
+7976_110124_000011_000000 "We can lock ourselves securely in the house and not let any one enter," said the three daughters.
+7976_110124_000062_000001 "Great danger threatened us while you were away," she said.
+7976_110124_000010_000000 "How do you know?" asked their father.
+7976_110124_000019_000002 We can give this poor beggar some alms and send him away with a blessing."
+7976_110124_000045_000000 "I have left my charm behind!" he cried.
+7976_110124_000041_000000 "It was the youngest one who deceived me!" cried the robber chieftain. "I knew all the time that she did not want to let me in.
+7976_110124_000053_000002 The doors were strong and held securely.
+7976_110124_000055_000000 "I don't believe a word of it!" cried the oldest.
+7976_110124_000063_000000 "Our little sister was wiser than we were," said the middle daughter.
+7976_110124_000064_000000 When the merchant had heard the whole story, he said: "After this we must all give ear to the wisdom of this little maid.
+7976_110124_000049_000000 "Go throw vinegar on the fire and put it out," said the captain of the thieves.
+7976_110124_000041_000001 I was suspicious of her from the first."
+7976_110124_000056_000001 "I had such a nightmare myself that I have a headache this morning."
+7976_110124_000032_000004 She did not stir and he knew that the sleeping powder had thoroughly done its work.
+7976_110124_000062_000002 "Thanks to our youngest sister, we are safe."
+7976_110124_000036_000002 The little girl flew down the stairs and closed the doors of the store securely.
+7976_110124_000032_000008 The robber thought that she was as completely overcome by the sleeping powder as the others.
+7976_110124_000020_000001 "It is not for the youngest and most childish one of us to make the plans," she said.
+7976_110124_000032_000006 She was as completely unconscious as her sister.
+1673_143396_000015_000000 With the moderate Docetes, he revered Mary as the spiritual, rather than as the carnal, mother of Christ, whose body either came from heaven, impassible and incorruptible, or was absorbed, and as it were transformed, into the essence of the Deity.
+1673_143396_000010_000006 It was alleged, that when Jesus was nailed to the cross, he was endowed with a miraculous apathy of mind and body, which rendered him insensible of his apparent sufferings. It was affirmed, that these momentary, though real, pangs would be abundantly repaid by the temporal reign of a thousand years reserved for the Messiah in his kingdom of the new Jerusalem.
+1673_143396_000014_000008 The worthy friend of Athanasius, the worthy antagonist of Julian, he bravely wrestled with the Arians and Polytheists, and though he affected the rigor of geometrical demonstration, his commentaries revealed the literal and allegorical sense of the Scriptures.
+1673_143396_000014_000004 But when his pure and proper divinity had been established on the ruins of Arianism, the faith of the Catholics trembled on the edge of a precipice where it was impossible to recede, dangerous to stand, dreadful to fall and the manifold inconveniences of their creed were aggravated by the sublime character of their theology.
+1673_143396_000017_000010 To purge themselves from the guilt or reproach of damnable error, they disavowed their consequences, explained their principles, excused their indiscretions, and unanimously pronounced the sounds of concord and faith.
+1673_143396_000019_000002 Under the tuition of the abbot Serapion, he applied himself to ecclesiastical studies, with such indefatigable ardor, that in the course of one sleepless night, he has perused the four Gospels, the Catholic Epistles, and the Epistle to the romans.
+1673_143396_000017_000004 Yet a secret and incurable discord was cherished, between those who were most apprehensive of confounding, and those who were most fearful of separating, the divinity, and the humanity, of Christ. Impelled by religious frenzy, they fled with adverse haste from the error which they mutually deemed most destructive of truth and salvation.
+1673_143396_000017_000003 On all sides, it was confessed, that the mode of their coexistence could neither be represented by our ideas, nor expressed by our language.
+1673_143396_000014_000010 He taught that the Godhead was united or mingled with the body of a man; and that the Logos, the eternal wisdom, supplied in the flesh the place and office of a human soul.
+1673_143396_000014_000003 In the age of religious freedom, which was determined by the council of Nice, the dignity of Christ was measured by private judgment according to the indefinite rule of Scripture, or reason, or tradition.
+1673_143396_000014_000009 A mystery, which had long floated in the looseness of popular belief, was defined by his perverse diligence in a technical form; and he first proclaimed the memorable words, "One incarnate nature of Christ," which are still reechoed with hostile clamors in the churches of Asia, Egypt, and Aethiopia.
+1673_143396_000014_000007 The son of a learned grammarian, he was skilled in all the sciences of Greece; eloquence, erudition, and philosophy, conspicuous in the volumes of Apollinaris, were humbly devoted to the service of religion.
+1673_143396_000019_000005 With the approbation of his uncle, he assumed the office, and acquired the fame, of a popular preacher.
+1673_143396_000014_000002 A similar union is not inconsistent with a much higher, or even with the highest, degree of mental faculties; and the incarnation of an aeon or archangel, the most perfect of created spirits, does not involve any positive contradiction or absurdity.
+1673_143396_000017_000009 As soon as they beheld the twilight of sense and heresy, they started, measured back their steps, and were again involved in the gloom of impenetrable orthodoxy.
+1673_143396_000019_000001 In the house of his uncle, the archbishop Theophilus, he imbibed the orthodox lessons of zeal and dominion, and five years of his youth were profitably spent in the adjacent monasteries of Nitria.
+1673_143396_000017_000002 In the beginning of the fifth century, the unity of the two natures was the prevailing doctrine of the church.
+1673_143396_000015_000001 The system of Apollinaris was strenuously encountered by the Asiatic and Syrian divines whose schools are honored by the names of Basil, Gregory and Chrysostom, and tainted by those of Diodorus, Theodore, and Nestorius.
+1673_143396_000015_000003 Her judgment at length inclined in their favor; the heresy of Apollinaris was condemned, and the separate congregations of his disciples were proscribed by the Imperial laws.
+1673_143396_000014_000012 He acquiesced in the old distinction of the Greek philosophers between the rational and sensitive soul of man; that he might reserve the Logos for intellectual functions, and employ the subordinate human principle in the meaner actions of animal life.
+1673_143396_000019_000007 The death of Theophilus expanded and realized the hopes of his nephew.
+1673_143397_000025_000010 Nestorius, who depended on the near approach of his Eastern friends, persisted, like his predecessor Chrysostom, to disclaim the jurisdiction, and to disobey the summons, of his enemies: they hastened his trial, and his accuser presided in the seat of judgment.
+1673_143397_000004_000000 Such crimes would have deserved the animadversion of the magistrate; but in this promiscuous outrage, the innocent were confounded with the guilty, and Alexandria was impoverished by the loss of a wealthy and industrious colony.
+1673_143397_000031_000006 During a busy period of three months, the emperor tried every method, except the most effectual means of indifference and contempt, to reconcile this theological quarrel.
+1673_143397_000031_000008 But the Orientals refused to yield, and the Catholics, proud of their numbers and of their Latin allies, rejected all terms of union or toleration.
+1673_143397_000025_000011 Sixty eight bishops, twenty two of metropolitan rank, defended his cause by a modest and temperate protest: they were excluded from the councils of their brethren.
+1673_143397_000031_000005 Ephesus, the city of the Virgin, was defiled with rage and clamor, with sedition and blood; the rival synods darted anathemas and excommunications from their spiritual engines; and the court of Theodosius was perplexed by the adverse and contradictory narratives of the Syrian and Egyptian factions.
+1673_143397_000025_000012 Candidian, in the emperor's name, requested a delay of four days; the profane magistrate was driven with outrage and insult from the assembly of the saints.
+1673_143397_000003_000007 Perhaps he might plead the insolence of their prosperity, and their deadly hatred of the Christians, whose blood they had recently shed in a malicious or accidental tumult.
+1673_143397_000016_000002 At these blasphemous sounds, the pillars of the sanctuary were shaken.
+1673_143397_000031_000001 In a chamber of the inn, before he had wiped the dust from his shoes, john of Antioch gave audience to Candidian, the Imperial minister; who related his ineffectual efforts to prevent or to annul the hasty violence of the Egyptian.
+1673_143397_000003_000003 The interdiction of their religious worship appeared in his eyes a just and meritorious act; and he confiscated their holy vessels, without apprehending the guilt of sacrilege.
+1673_143397_000009_000004 After the short and troubled reign of Sisinnius, bishop of Constantinople, the factions of the clergy and people were appeased by the choice of the emperor, who, on this occasion, consulted the voice of fame, and invited the merit of a stranger.
+1673_143397_000016_000008 But the Vatican received with open arms the messengers of Egypt.
+1673_143397_000031_000007 He attempted to remove or intimidate the leaders by a common sentence, of acquittal or condemnation; he invested his representatives at Ephesus with ample power and military force; he summoned from either party eight chosen deputies to a free and candid conference in the neighborhood of the capital, far from the contagion of popular frenzy.
+1673_143397_000025_000013 The whole of this momentous transaction was crowded into the compass of a summer's day: the bishops delivered their separate opinions; but the uniformity of style reveals the influence or the hand of a master, who has been accused of corrupting the public evidence of their acts and subscriptions.
+1673_143397_000009_000001 When the memory of Chrysostom was restored and consecrated, the nephew of Theophilus, at the head of a dying faction, still maintained the justice of his sentence; nor was it till after a tedious delay and an obstinate resistance, that he yielded to the consent of the Catholic world.
+1673_143397_000031_000012 Return to your provinces, and may your private virtues repair the mischief and scandal of your meeting." They returned to their provinces; but the same passions which had distracted the synod of Ephesus were diffused over the Eastern world.
+1673_143397_000031_000009 The patience of the meek Theodosius was provoked; and he dissolved in anger this episcopal tumult, which at the distance of thirteen centuries assumes the venerable aspect of the third oecumenical council.
+1673_143397_000003_000001 At a distance from the court, and at the head of an immense capital, the patriarch, as he was now styled, of Alexandria had gradually usurped the state and authority of a civil magistrate.
+1673_143397_000004_000005 Such honors might incite the faithful to combat and die under the banners of the saint; and he soon prompted, or accepted, the sacrifice of a virgin, who professed the religion of the Greeks, and cultivated the friendship of Orestes.
+1673_143397_000003_000006 Unarmed and unprepared, the Jews were incapable of resistance; their houses of prayer were levelled with the ground, and the episcopal warrior, after rewarding his troops with the plunder of their goods, expelled from the city the remnant of the unbelieving nation.
+1673_143397_000031_000000 On the fifth day, the triumph was clouded by the arrival and indignation of the Eastern bishops.
+1673_143397_000016_000003 The unsuccessful competitors of Nestorius indulged their pious or personal resentment, the Byzantine clergy was secretly displeased with the intrusion of a stranger: whatever is superstitious or absurd, might claim the protection of the monks; and the people were interested in the glory of their virgin patroness.
+1673_143397_000010_000003 On either side of the Hellespont his episcopal vigor imposed a rigid formulary of faith and discipline; a chronological error concerning the festival of Easter was punished as an offence against the church and state.
+1673_143397_000003_000000 The prize was not unworthy of his ambition.
+1673_143397_000031_000011 His providence will discern and punish the guilty.
+1673_143397_000016_000007 From the East, more especially from Antioch, he obtained the ambiguous counsels of toleration and silence, which were addressed to both parties while they favored the cause of Nestorius.
+1673_143397_000031_000004 The troops, under the command of Candidian, advanced to the assault; the outguards were routed and put to the sword, but the place was impregnable: the besiegers retired; their retreat was pursued by a vigorous sally; they lost their horses, and many of their soldiers were dangerously wounded with clubs and stones.
+1673_143397_000010_000001 "Give me, O Caesar!" he exclaimed, "give me the earth purged of heretics, and I will give you in exchange the kingdom of heaven.
+1673_143397_000003_000004 The toleration, and even the privileges of the Jews, who had multiplied to the number of forty thousand, were secured by the laws of the Caesars and Ptolemies, and a long prescription of seven hundred years since the foundation of Alexandria.
+1919_142785_000100_000003 As we have stated before, no one flavour should predominate greatly, and the forcemeat should be of sufficient body to cut with a knife, and yet not dry and heavy.
+1919_142785_000135_000003 Continue in this manner till the border is completed, arranging the sippets a pale and a dark one alternately.
+1919_142785_000020_000003 Let them remain for two days, changing the water twice each day, to draw out the salt.
+1919_142785_000059_000000 EPICUREAN SAUCE FOR STEAKS, CHOPS, GRAVIES, o r FISH.
+1919_142785_000073_000001 Simmer for a minute or two, and serve in a tureen.
+1919_142785_000123_000008 For brown or white ragouts they should be firm, and when the quenelles are used very small, extreme delicacy will be necessary in their preparation.
+1919_142785_000083_000000 FORCEMEAT BALLS FOR FISH SOUPS.
+1919_142785_000047_000002 In Jamaica it flowers about August or September, fading about the end of the year.
+1919_142785_000120_000002 They are made of iron, and, in that material, can be bought cheap; but as these are not available, for all purposes, we should recommend, as more economical in the end, those made of Wedgwood, although these are considerably more expensive than the former.
+1919_142785_000007_000000 four hundred.
+1919_142785_000061_000001 Strain, and bottle off for use.
+1919_142785_000005_000004 The long pepper is less aromatic than the black, but its oil is more pungent.
+1919_142785_000048_000000 EGG BALLS FOR SOUPS AND MADE DISHES.
+1919_142785_000118_000003 That portion which passes through the strainer is one of the three ingredients of which French forcemeats are generally composed; but many cooks substitute butter for this, being a less troublesome and more expeditious mode of preparation.
+1919_142785_000020_000001 If they are not a fine green, change the water again, cover them as before, and make them hot.
+1919_142785_000092_000000 MARJORAM.--Although there are several species of marjoram, that which is known as the sweet or knotted marjoram, is the one usually preferred in cookery.
+1919_142785_000003_000001 The next day, drain them well for six hours, put them into a jar, pour boiling vinegar over them, and keep them in a warm place.
+1919_142785_000103_000001 Boil for five minutes, mince it very small, and mix it with the other ingredients.
+1919_142785_000089_000003 If the pie is not to be eaten immediately, omit the herbs and parsley, as these would prevent it from keeping.
+1919_142785_000133_000002 Fry them in the same manner as the bread crumbs, in clear boiling lard, or clarified dripping, and drain them until thoroughly crisp before the fire.
+1919_142785_000119_000000 [Illustration: PESTLE AND MORTAR.]
+1919_142785_000003_000003 Tie them down with bladder, and in a few days they will be fit for use.
+1919_142785_000130_000000 FRIED BREAD CRUMBS.
+1919_142785_000067_000003 Strain and skim off every particle of fat, and when required for use, thicken with butter and flour, or with a little roux.
+1919_142785_000116_000002 Let this again dry up by stirring over the fire; then add the yolks of two eggs, mix well, put the panada to cool on a clean plate, and use it when required.
+1919_142785_000016_000000 [Illustration: THE CUCUMBER.]
+1919_142785_000089_000004 Mushrooms or truffles may be added.
+1919_142785_000064_000001 It is a bulbous root, and when full grown, its leaves wither in July.
+1919_142785_000095_000001 Oysters or anchovies may be added to this forcemeat, and will be found a great improvement.
+1919_142785_000053_000000 EGG SAUCE FOR SALT FISH.
+1919_142785_000131_000003 When quite crisp, they are ready for use.
+1919_142785_000055_000001 Strip off the shells, chop the eggs into small pieces, not, however, too fine.
+1919_142785_000089_000002 Work the whole well together, and the forcemeat will be ready for use.
+1919_142785_000103_000002 If it should be in an unsound state, it must be on no account made use of.
+1919_142785_000031_000003 Tarragon vinegar may be used instead of plain, and, by many, is considered far preferable.
+1919_142785_000089_000001 Pound well, and bind with one or two eggs which have been previously beaten and strained.
+1919_142785_000063_000000 [Illustration: SHALOT.]
+1919_142785_000050_000002 Boil them before they are put into the soup or other dish they may be intended for.
+1919_142785_000064_000003 It is called by old authors the "barren onion," and is used in sauces and pickles, soups and made dishes, and as an accompaniment to chops and steaks.
+1919_142785_000023_000003 We here give an engraving of a salt mine at Northwich, Cheshire, where both salt mines and brine springs are exceedingly productive, and are believed to have been wrought so far back as during the occupation of Britain by the romans.
+1919_142785_000118_000001 Put the udder into a stewpan with sufficient water to cover it; let it stew gently till quite done, when take it out to cool.
+1919_142785_000093_000000 FORCEMEAT FOR PIKE, CARP, HADDOCK, AND VARIOUS KINDS OF FISH.
+1919_142785_000047_000003 The fleshy creeping roots, which form the ginger of commerce, are in a proper state to be dug when the stalks are entirely withered.
+1919_142785_000135_000002 When quite crisp, dip one side of the sippet into the beaten white of an egg mixed with a little flour, and place it on the edge of the dish.
+1919_142785_000120_000000 PESTLE AND MORTAR.--No cookery can be perfectly performed without the aid of the useful instruments shown in the engraving.
+1919_142785_000038_000001 Make a green colouring by pounding some parsley in a mortar, and squeezing all the juice from it.
+1919_142785_000085_000002 Warm the butter till it is in a liquid state; well whisk the eggs, and work these up with the pounded lobster meat.
+1919_142785_000133_000003 When variety is desired, fry some of a pale colour, and others of a darker hue.
+1919_142785_000104_000000 [Illustration: BASIL.]
+1919_142785_000117_000000 Boiled Calf's Udder for French Forcemeats.
+1919_142785_000100_000001 Now beat and strain the eggs, work these up with the other ingredients, and the forcemeat will be ready for use.
+1919_142785_000005_000002 Originally, the most valuable of these were found in the Spice Islands, or Moluccas, of the Indian Ocean, and were highly prized by the nations of antiquity.
+1919_142785_000114_000000 PANADA.
+1919_142785_000047_000001 It grows somewhat like the lily of the valley, but its height is about three feet.
+1919_142785_000012_000001 Let it stand four or five days, boil it all up, and when cold, strain the liquor through a piece of muslin, and store it away in small bottles well sealed.
+1919_142785_000003_000002 In a short time, boil up the vinegar again, add pepper and ginger in the above proportion, and instantly cover them up.
+1919_142785_000004_000000 [Illustration: LONG PEPPER.]
+1919_142785_000065_000000 ESPAGNOLE, o r BROWN SPANISH SAUCE.
+1919_142785_000131_000002 Put some lard, or clarified dripping, into a frying pan; bring it to the boiling point, throw in the crumbs, and fry them very quickly. Directly they are done, lift them out with a slice, and drain them before the fire from all greasy moisture.
+1919_142785_000026_000001 Beat the eggs, stir to them the milk and pounded sugar, and put the mixture into a jug.
+1919_142785_000071_000000 FENNEL SAUCE FOR MACKEREL.
+1919_142785_000123_000003 When the three ingredients are properly prepared, pound them altogether in a mortar for some time; for the more quenelles are pounded, the more delicate they are.
+1919_142785_000020_000002 When they are a good colour, take them off the fire and let them cool; cut them in quarters, take out the seeds and pulp, and put them into cold water.
+1919_142785_000134_000000 FRIED BREAD FOR BORDERS.
+1919_142785_000126_000001 Any one with the slightest pretensions to refined cookery, must, in this particular, implicitly follow the example of our friends across the Channel.
+1919_142785_000123_000005 When the whole is well blended together, mould it into balls, or whatever shape is intended, roll them in flour, and poach in boiling water, to which a little salt should have been added.
+1919_142785_000079_000000 FISH SAUCE.
+1919_142785_000085_000001 Continue pounding till the whole is nicely amalgamated.
+1919_142785_000092_000002 The winter sweet marjoram used for the same purposes, is a native of Greece, and the pot marjoram is another variety brought from Sicily.
+1919_142785_000078_000001 It is very generally cultivated in gardens, and has much improved on its original form.
+1919_142785_000070_000001 This sauce or gravy is used for many dishes, and with most people is a general favourite.
+1919_142785_000005_000003 The romans indulged in them to a most extravagant degree.
+1919_142785_000113_000001 It will be well to state, in the beginning of this recipe, that French forcemeat, or quenelles, consist of the blending of three separate processes; namely, panada, udder, and whatever meat you intend using.
+1919_142785_000031_000001 When it is sufficiently thick, take it off, as it should not boil.
+1919_142785_000078_000002 Various dishes are frequently ornamented and garnished with its graceful leaves, and these are sometimes boiled in soups, although it is more usually confined, in English cookery, to the mackerel sauce as here given.
+1919_142785_000014_000001 INGREDIENTS.--Cucumbers, salt.
+1919_142785_000135_000001 Proceed as above, by frying some slices of bread cut in any fanciful shape.
+1919_142785_000036_000000 GREEN DUTCH SAUCE, or HOLLANDAISE VERTE.
+1919_142785_000123_000007 In the preparation of this recipe, it would be well to bear in mind that the ingredients are to be well pounded and seasoned, and must be made hard or soft according to the dishes they are intended for.
+1919_142785_000116_000001 When done, moisten with two teacupfuls of white stock, boil for twenty minutes, and strain the whole through a sieve over the panada in the other stewpan. Place it over the fire, keep constantly stirring, to prevent its burning, and when quite dry, put in a small piece of butter.
+1919_142785_000121_000000 Veal Quenelles.
+1919_142785_000131_000001 Cut the bread into thin slices, place them in a cool oven overnight, and when thoroughly dry and crisp, roll them down into fine crumbs.
+1919_142785_000067_000004 Add the wine, and, if necessary, a seasoning of cayenne; when it will be ready to serve.
+1919_142785_000033_000001 Excellent salads may be made of hard eggs, or the remains of salt fish flaked nicely from the bone, by pouring over a little of the above mixture when hot, and allowing it to cool.
+1919_142785_000023_000000 COMMON SALT.--By this we mean salt used for cooking purposes, which is found in great abundance both on land and in the waters of the ocean.
+1919_142785_000035_000004 Some also come from saint Helena; but those from Spain are esteemed the best.
+1919_142785_000092_000001 It is a native of Portugal, and when its leaves are used as a seasoning herb, they have an agreeable aromatic flavour.
+1919_142785_000026_000002 Place the jug in a saucepan of boiling water; keep stirring well until it thickens, but do not allow it to boil, or it will curdle. Serve the sauce in a tureen, stir in the brandy, and grate a little nutmeg over the top.
+1919_142785_000015_000001 Now wash them well in fresh water, and dress as usual with pepper, vinegar, and oil.
+1919_142785_000035_000003 The kind commonly sold, however, is imported from Portugal, Spain, and the Azores.
+1919_142785_000020_000005 Boil the syrup once in two or three days for three weeks; strengthen it if required, and let it be quite cold before the cucumbers are put in.
+1919_142785_000035_000002 The lemon was first cultivated in England in the beginning of the seventeenth century, and is now often to be found in our green houses.
+1919_142785_000020_000006 Great attention must be paid to the directions in the commencement of this recipe, as, if these are not properly carried out, the result will be far from satisfactory.
+1919_142785_000050_000001 Beat the yolks of the other two eggs; add them, with a little flour and salt, to those pounded; mix all well together, and roll into balls.
+1919_142785_000029_000000 DUTCH SAUCE FOR FISH.
+1919_142785_000035_000001 It is hardier than the orange, and, as one of the citron tribe, was brought into Europe by the Arabians.
+1919_142785_000099_000002 of bread crumbs, two eggs.
+1919_142785_000106_000000 FORCEMEAT FOR BAKED PIKE.
+1919_142785_000006_000000 CUCUMBER SAUCE, WHITE.
+1919_142785_000033_000000 Note.--This sauce may be poured hot over salad, and left to get quite cold, when it should be thick, smooth, and somewhat stiff.
+1919_142785_000001_000000 PICKLED CUCUMBERS.
+1919_142785_000123_000006 If the quenelles are not firm enough, add the yolk of another egg, but omit the white, which only makes them hollow and puffy inside.
+1919_142785_000055_000003 Lemon juice may be added at pleasure.
+1919_142785_000127_000000 FORCEMEAT, or QUENELLES, FOR TURTLE SOUP.
+7850_281318_000010_000001 And they all promised that they would.
+7850_281318_000007_000000 Then all the other birds chirped eagerly, "Yes, yes!
+7850_281318_000004_000001 "Ha, ha!
+7850_281318_000011_000000 She made them perch about her in a great circle, some on the lower branches of the trees, some on the bushes, and some on the ground among the grass and flowers.
+7850_281318_000005_000000 But presently a sharp eyed Sparrow spied Mother Magpie sitting in her nest.
+7850_281318_000006_000003 Let us ask her to teach us."
+7850_281318_000027_000000 "We all know that-anything more?" chirped the chorus of birds, trying to conceal how anxious they were to know what came next, for the nests were only half finished.
+7850_281318_000002_000001 In that lovely garden where they lived the birds went fluttering about trying their new wings, so interested in this wonderful game of flying that they forgot all about preparing a home for the baby birds who were to come.
+7850_281318_000024_000000 Mother Magpie hopped up and down on one leg, so angry she could hardly croak.
+7850_281318_000017_000001 "I knew that came next. That is what I told the Parrot but a moment since."
+7850_281318_000032_000000 And the queerest part of all is that the birds blamed the Magpie for the whole matter, and have never liked her since.
+7850_281318_000004_000000 "What silly birds they are!" she croaked.
+7850_281318_000003_000003 She was indeed a clever bird!
+7850_281318_000015_000000 "Oh yes, oh yes!" croaked old Daddy Crow, interrupting her rudely.
+7850_281318_000001_000002 But others are clumsy, and carelessly fastened to the bough, most unsafe cradles for the feathered baby on the treetop.
+7850_281318_000001_000003 Sometimes after a heavy wind you find on the ground under the nest poor little broken eggs which rolled out and lost their chance of turning into birds with safe, safe wings of their own.
+7850_281318_000001_000001 Some are wonderfully wrought, pretty little homes for birdikins.
+7850_281318_000012_000000 She began to show them how to weave the bits of things together into nests, as they should be made.
+7850_281318_000009_000000 "O wise Mother Magpie, dear Mother Magpie," they cried, "teach us how to build our nests like yours, for it is growing night, and we are tired and sleepy."
+7850_281318_000001_000000 Did you ever notice how different are the nests which the birds build in springtime, in tree or bush or sandy bank or hidden in the grass?
+7850_281318_000030_000003 Some do better than others, but none build like Mother Magpie.
+7850_281318_000029_000002 Much luck may you have!" And away she flew to her own cosy nest in the elm tree, where she was soon fast asleep, forgetting all about the matter.
+7850_281318_000012_000001 And some of the birds, who were attentive and careful, soon saw how it was done, and started nice homes for themselves.
+7850_281318_000002_000004 I don't know anything about housekeeping." And the poor silly things ruffled up their feathers and looked miserable as only a little bird can look when it is unhappy.
+7850_281318_000001_000007 And there is an old story about this, which I shall tell you.
+7850_281318_000013_000001 So, as she went on bit by bit, the silly things pretended that they had known all about it from the first-which was very unpleasant for their teacher.
+7850_281318_000012_000002 You have seen what wonderful swinging baskets the Oriole makes for his baby cradle?
+7850_281318_000003_000007 She popped into her new house and sat there comfortably, peering out through the window slits with her sharp little eyes.
+7850_281318_000030_000002 The lesson was but half finished, and most of them had not the slightest idea what to do next. That is why to this day many of the birds have never learned to build a perfect nest.
+7850_281318_000019_000001 Of course, of course!
+7850_281318_000006_000002 "Mother Magpie has found a way.
+7850_281318_000012_000004 But some of the birds were not like him, nor like the patient little Wren.
+7850_281318_000010_000000 The Magpie said she would teach them if they would be a patient, diligent, obedient class of little birds.
+7850_281318_000011_000004 It was like a great big kindergarten of birds playing at a new building game, with Mother Magpie for the teacher.
+7850_281318_000003_000004 She gathered turf and sticks, and with clay bound them firmly together in a stout elm tree.
+7850_281318_000019_000002 Tell us something new."
+7850_281318_000001_000005 The clumsiest nest of all is that which the Wood Pigeon tries to build.
+7850_281318_000029_000001 You say you know all about it,--then go on and finish your nests by yourselves.
+7850_281318_000003_000001 She was not the best-oh, no!--but she was the cleverest and wisest of all the birds; it seemed as if she knew everything that a bird could know.
+7850_281318_000006_000000 "Oho!
+7850_281318_000015_000001 "I thought that was the way to begin."
+7850_281318_000011_000003 When these things were all piled up before her she told every bird to do just as she did.
+7850_281318_000007_000001 Let us ask her to teach us!"
+7850_281318_000003_000002 Already she had found out a way, and was busily building a famous nest for herself.
+7850_281318_000001_000006 Indeed, it is not a nest at all, only the beginning of one.
+7850_281318_000025_000001 You are spoiling your nest.
+7850_281318_000002_000000 In the early springtime of the world, when birds were first made, none of them-except Mother Magpie-knew how to build a nest.
+7850_281318_000023_000000 "Criss cross, criss cross, so," interrupted the Wood Pigeon.
+7850_281318_000000_000000 MOTHER MAGPIE'S KINDERGARTEN
+7850_281318_000030_000000 But oh!
+7850_281318_000003_000000 All except Mother Magpie!
+7850_281318_000008_000000 So, in a great company, they came fluttering, hopping, twittering up to the elm tree where Mother Magpie nestled comfortably in her new house.
+7850_281318_000002_000002 When the time came to lay their eggs the parents knew not what to do.
+7850_281318_000028_000000 But Mother Magpie was thoroughly disgusted, and refused to go on with the lesson which had been so rudely interrupted by her pupils.
+7850_281318_000021_000001 She turned toward the Wood Pigeon, who was a rattle pated young thing, and who was not having any success with the sticks which she was trying to place.
+7850_281318_000017_000000 "Certainly, of course," screamed the Jackdaw.
+7850_281318_000014_000000 Mother Magpie took two sticks in her beak and began like this: "First of all, my friends, you must lay two sticks crosswise for a foundation, thus," and she placed them carefully on the branch before her.
+7850_281318_000003_000005 About her house she built a fence of thorns to keep away the burglar birds who had already begun mischief among their peaceful neighbors.
+7850_281318_000030_000001 What a pickle the other birds were in!
+7850_281318_000016_000000 Mother Magpie snapped her eyes at him and went on, "Next you must lay a feather on a bit of moss, to start the walls."
+7850_281318_000001_000004 Now such sad things as this happen because in their youth the lazy father and mother birds did not learn their lesson when Mother Magpie had her class in nest making.
+7850_281318_000012_000003 Well, it was the Magpie who taught him how, and he was the prize pupil, to be sure.
+7850_281318_000031_000000 But the Wood Pigeon was in the worst case of them all.
+7850_281318_000006_000001 Look there!" he cried.
+7850_281318_000012_000005 Some of them were lazy and stupid and envious of Mother Magpie's cosy nest, which was already finished, while theirs was yet to do.
+7850_281318_000004_000002 What would they not give for a nest like mine!"
+7850_73752_000009_000000 In exactly ten minutes it is in the power of every man to free himself from all the tumult of the world; the pangs of love, the throbs of ambition, the wear and tear of play, the recriminating boudoir, the conspiring club, the rattling hell; and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude superior to the cedars of Lebanon, and inferior only in extent to the chestnut forests of Anatolia.
+7850_73752_000008_000000 So Ferdinand entered Kensington Gardens, and walked in those rich glades and stately avenues.
+7850_73752_000007_000001 He was resolved to avoid any explanations until he heard from Lord Montfort.
+7850_73752_000010_000000 About the time that Ferdinand directed his steps from these green retreats towards Berkeley Square, a servant summoned Miss Temple to her father.
+7850_73752_000006_000009 He might be enchanted, but that was the talisman.
+7850_73752_000007_000004 Count Mirabel was the only person to whom he could abandon his soul, and Count Mirabel was still in his first sleep.
+7850_73752_000003_000016 His constancy to her was now rewarded. As for his friends, the future must prove his gratitude to them.'
+7850_73752_000009_000003 But here is the fitting and convenient locality to brood over our thoughts; to project the great and to achieve the happy.
+7850_73752_000003_000000 It was one of those soft summer mornings which are so delightful in a great city.
+7850_73752_000011_000000 'Is papa alone?' enquired Miss Temple.
+7850_73752_000006_000005 And now all had ended so happily!
+7850_73752_000009_000002 What a pity, that instead of a princess in distress we meet only a nurserymaid!
+7850_73752_000004_000000 Ferdinand Armine had great tenderness of disposition, and somewhat of a meditative mind; schooled by adversity, there was little doubt that his coming career would justify his favourable destiny.
+7850_73752_000003_000002 Ferdinand felt his freedom as well as his happiness.
+7850_73752_000008_000001 It seems to the writer of this history that the inhabitants of London are scarcely sufficiently sensible of the beauty of its environs.
+7850_73752_000003_000012 What man in the world had friends like Ferdinand Armine?
+7850_73752_000006_000006 Oh! could it indeed be true?
+7850_73752_000003_000006 How many incidents, how many characters, how many feelings flitted over his memory!
+7850_73752_000002_000000 IN MOMENTS of deep feeling, alike sudden bursts of prosperity as in darker hours, man must be alone.
+7850_73752_000008_000002 On every side the most charming retreats open to them, nor is there a metropolis in the world surrounded by so many rural villages, picturesque parks, and elegant casinos.
+7850_73752_000005_000001 Everything that had occurred previously seemed of another life; all his experience was concentrated in that wonderful drama that had commenced at Bath, the last scene of which was now approaching; the characters, his parents, Glastonbury, Katherine, Henrietta, Lord Montfort, Count Mirabel, himself, and mr Temple!
+7850_73752_000003_000013 Ferdinand Armine, who, two days back, deemed himself alone in the world!
+7850_73752_000006_000003 What a Neapolitan ball was his career then!
+7850_73752_000009_000001 Kensington Gardens is almost the only place that has realised his idea of the forests of Spenser and Ariosto.
+7850_73752_000012_000000 'Only my lord with him,' was the reply.
+7850_73752_000003_000009 A beautiful bride awaited him, whom he had loved with intense passion, and who he had thought but an hour ago was another's.
+7850_73752_000002_000001 It requires some self communion to prepare ourselves for good fortune, as well as to encounter difficulty, and danger, and disgrace.
+7850_73752_000003_000015 He could not flatter himself that he indeed merited such singular blessings; and yet with all his faults, which with him were but the consequences of his fiery youth, Ferdinand had been faithful, to Henrietta.
+7850_73752_000006_000007 Was it not all a dream of his own creation, while his eye had been fixed in abstraction on that bright and flowing river?
+7850_73752_000006_000002 That was a mad life.
+7850_73752_000003_000010 A noble fortune, which would permit him to redeem his inheritance, and rank him among the richest commoners of the realm, was to be controlled by one a few hours back a prisoner for desperate debts.
+7850_73752_000009_000004 It is here that we should get our speeches by heart, invent our impromptus; muse over the caprices of our mistresses, destroy a cabinet, and save a nation.
+7850_73752_000005_000000 It was barely a year since he had returned from Malta, but what an eventful twelvemonth!
+7850_73752_000003_000003 He seated himself on a bench and thought of Henrietta Temple! he took out her note, and read it over and over again.
+7850_73752_000006_000008 But then there was Henrietta's letter.
+7850_73752_000007_000000 In the present unsettled, though hopeful state of affairs, Ferdinand would not go home.
+7850_73752_000007_000003 As for Henrietta, it seemed to him that he never could have heart to meet her again, unless they were alone.
+7850_73752_000008_000003 With the exception of Constantinople, there is no city in the world that can for a moment enter into competition with it.
+7850_73752_000006_000000 Ah! that was a name that a little disturbed him; and yet he felt confidence now in Mirabel's prescience; he could not but believe that with time even mr Temple might be reconciled!
+7850_73752_000003_000005 Restless with impending joy, he sauntered to the bridge, and leant over the balustrade, gazing on the waters in charmed and charming vacancy.
+7850_111771_000007_000004 Indeed, if ever a General deserved honor, Grant had won it; he had opened the Mississippi to navigation, and had captured nearly one hundred thousand prisoners and arms."
+7850_111771_000005_000004 His first great victory was the capture of Fort Donelson with fifteen thousand prisoners.
+7850_111771_000007_000003 Resolutions of thanks were passed in Ohio and New York, and Congress created Grant a Lieutenant General, a commission which had been held by no one since General Scott resigned.
+7850_111771_000009_000004 Time wore away, and on the ninth of April, eighteen sixty five, Grant captured the Confederate army under Lee, thus virtually ending the war.
+7850_111771_000006_000000 Pittsburgh Landing followed and then Grant determined to take Vicksburg. All his generals declared the plan he proposed unmilitary and impossible, but after several unsuccessful attempts the Gibraltar of the Mississippi was captured, and this time twenty seven thousand prisoners taken.
+7850_111771_000010_000000 On july twenty fifth eighteen sixty six, he was made general of the United States army; the rank having been created for him, he was the first to hold it.
+7850_111771_000013_000000 General Grant proved to be a writer of no low order, and his autobiography is a very readable book.
+7850_111771_000007_000000 "Considering the strength of the rebel position, and the difficulty of storming his intrenchments, the battle of Chattanooga must be considered the most remarkable in history.
+7850_111771_000003_000002 Personally, at this early age, he detested war and was opposed to accepting the opportunity, but his father persuaded him to go, and his name was blunderingly registered as u s, instead of h u, hence he was ever after known as u s Grant.
+7850_111771_000006_000002 General Halleck in speaking of this battle said:
+7850_111771_000004_000004 After the war he was stationed at Detroit, and Sacketts Harbor, but this kind of inactivity was ill suited to the restless nature of Grant; he therefore resigned.
+7850_111771_000004_000002 At this time Grant was not taken with war, and probably evinced little interest in army tactics.
+7850_111771_000008_000000 He was now commander of all the Federal forces.
+7850_111771_000012_000001 The scenes of his later days were clouded with the intrigues of a stock gambler, but the stain that the Grant Ward failure seemed likely to throw on the spotless reputation of General Grant was wiped away when the facts were brought to light, and a new lustre was added to his fame by the self sacrifice shown in the final settlement.
+7850_111771_000007_000002 After Grant had turned the Confederate right flank, Sherman was intercepted between Longstreet and Bragg, thus cutting Longstreet entirely out, and preventing another junction being possible.
+7850_111771_000008_000001 He at once inaugurated two campaigns to be carried on at once.
+7850_111771_000005_000000 Having married a Miss Dent, of saint Louis, he accordingly moved onto a farm near that city.
+7850_111771_000003_000001 Thomas l Hamer he was admitted at West Point in eighteen thirty nine.
+7850_111771_000011_000000 When his public services were finished he started in company with his wife, son Jesse, and a few friends.
+7850_111771_000002_000000 No other excuse can be assigned for the slander and vituperation which has from time to time been heaped upon the fair reputation of General u s Grant.
+7850_111771_000011_000003 On this trip the Grant party were the guests of nearly all the crowned heads of those foreign countries, everywhere receiving the most exalted honors it has ever been the pleasure of an American to enjoy, and on his return to the United States they were the recipients of an ovation in many of the principal cities of this country.
+7850_111771_000001_000000 When a man is energetic and determines to be somebody in the world-which is praiseworthy so long as that energy is guided by propriety and a just conception of right-there are always scores, hundreds, perhaps thousands of people who endeavor to depreciate that man's reward.
+7850_111771_000013_000001 On july twenty third eighteen eighty five, the General surrendered to a loathsome cancer, and the testimonials of devotion shown the honored dead; and the bereaved family throughout the civilized world, indicated the stronghold upon the hearts of the people held by the dead General.
+7850_111771_000008_000002 One under Sherman, against Atlanta commanded by the skillful rebel General Johnson; the other under Meade, directed against Lee and the Confederate capitol.
+7850_111771_000010_000001 At the next Republican Convention, Grant was nominated for President on the first ballot, and was elected over Seymour, and was re-elected a second term by an increased majority.
+7850_111771_000009_000000 The capture of Lee was a far more difficult undertaking.
+7850_111771_000005_000006 I propose to move upon your works at once." The fall of Fort Donelson and the capture of its garrison being the first substantial victory that had crowned the Union cause, together with the above described answer to General Buckner, brought the name of General Grant prominently before the country.
+7850_111771_000011_000002 They visited nearly all the countries of Europe, and part of those of Africa and Asia.
+7850_111771_000005_000002 When the news of the fall of Fort Sumter reached Galena he immediately raised a company and marched to Springfield where they tendered their services to the governor.
+7850_111771_000000_000000 ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT.
+7850_111771_000004_000001 It will be remembered that Lee and McClellan each ranked second when they graduated.
+7850_111771_000004_000000 In eighteen forty three he graduated, ranking twenty first in a class of thirty nine.
+7850_111771_000009_000001 After various flanking movements and costly assaults, the problem of taking Lee narrowed itself down to a siege of Petersburg.
+7850_111771_000006_000001 Now came the battle of Chattanooga.
+7850_111771_000004_000003 The Mexican war came on and Grant here distinguished himself, rising to the rank of captain.
+7850_111771_000009_000002 Grant perceived that his only hope lie in literally starving the Confederate army out by cutting off all resources as far as practicable.
+7850_111771_000005_000003 Grant acted as mustering officer until, being commissioned colonel of the Twenty first Illinois Volunteers, he took the field.
+7850_111771_000009_000003 Lee attempted to draw off attention toward Washington, but General Sheridan drove Early out of the Shenandoah Valley, devastating the country to such an extent that it was impossible to forage an army there should Lee attempt such a maneuver again.
+7850_111771_000012_000000 His success seems to have been the outgrowth of hard study and ability to perform the most exhaustive labor without fatigue.
+7850_286674_000016_000000 "Oh, look!" cried a Nymph.
+7850_286674_000018_000003 They thought he might run away when they did this.
+7850_286674_000009_000000 "Well, you can't," said a Nymph, turning towards him so suddenly that he leaped.
+7850_286674_000013_000005 Most of the time, the Dragon Fly child keeps the joint bent, and so holds his lip up to his face like a mask.
+7850_286674_000004_000001 They had been short and plump, and now they were longer and more slender, and there were little bunches on their shoulders where the wings were growing under their skin.
+7850_286674_000006_000005 When they wanted to hurry, they breathed this water out so suddenly that it sent them quickly ahead.
+7850_286674_000002_000000 The Stickleback Mothers said that it was all the fault of the Dragon Fly Mothers.
+7850_286674_000006_000000 They were always slow children.
+7850_286674_000002_000003 Just flew around in the sunshine and visited with her friends, and once in a while flew low enough to touch the water and drop one in.
+7850_286674_000006_000003 Of course they breathed water like their neighbors, the fishes and the Tadpoles.
+7850_286674_000013_000004 Indeed, the lower lip of a Dragon Fly child might well frighten people, for it is fastened on a long, jointed, arm like thing, and has pincers on it with which it catches and holds its food.
+7850_286674_000006_000001 You would think that, with six legs apiece and three joints in each leg, they might walk quite fast, yet they never did.
+7850_286674_000006_000002 When they had to, they hurried in another way by taking a long leap through the water.
+7850_286674_000005_000000 Like most growing children, the Dragon Fly larvae and Nymphs had to eat a great deal.
+7850_286674_000004_000000 Now most of the larvae were turning into Nymphs, which are half grown Dragon Flies.
+7850_286674_000018_000000 Sure enough, there he came through the shallow water, his wet back shell partly out of it and shining in the sunlight.
+7850_286674_000005_000001 Their stomachs were as long as their bodies, and they were never really happy unless their stomachs were full.
+7850_286674_000008_000000 "Horrid old thing!" said one larva.
+7850_286674_000001_000005 Indeed, the Stickleback Father once told the little Sticklebacks that they should not stir out of the nest, unless they would promise to keep away from the young Dragon Flies.
+7850_286674_000001_000001 Not the same ones that are there now, of course, but the great great great grandfathers of these.
+7850_286674_000015_000002 Who's afraid," answered he.
+7850_286674_000005_000003 They had breakfast from the time they awakened in the morning until the sun was high in the sky, then they had dinner until the sun was low in the sky, and supper from that time until it grew dark and they went to sleep: but never a mouthful between meals, no matter how hungry they might be.
+7850_286674_000018_000001 He came straight toward the Dragon Fly children, and they were glad to see that he did not look hungry.
+7850_286674_000016_000002 Just you wait until I change my skin once more, and then won't I have a good time!
+7850_286674_000014_000001 "Aren't you scared?" whispered one larva to another.
+7850_286674_000007_000001 They all put their queer little three cornered heads together, and there was an ugly look in their great staring eyes.
+7850_286674_000002_000002 I saw a Dragon Fly Mother laying some only yesterday, and how do you suppose she did it?
+7850_286674_000000_000000 THE DRAGON FLY CHILDREN AND THE SNAPPING TURTLE
+7850_286674_000012_000000 "Well, our lower lips anyway," answered the Nymph.
+7850_286674_000002_000004 It is disgraceful!"
+7850_286674_000014_000000 When they reached the shallow water, the Dragon Fly children stood close together, with the larvae in the middle and the Nymphs all around them. The Snapping Turtle was nowhere to be seen, so they had to wait.
+7850_286674_000001_000000 The Dragon Flies have always lived near the pond.
+7850_286674_000009_000002 She was often impatient, and said she could never go anywhere without one of the larvae tagging along.
+7850_286674_000012_000001 "Our upper lips are so small they don't matter."
+7850_286674_000001_000004 Even when they are only larvae, or babies, they are not good playmates, for they have such a bad habit of putting everything into their mouths.
+7850_286674_000006_000004 They did not breathe it into their mouths, or through gills, but took it in through some openings in the back part of their bodies.
+7850_286674_000004_000002 They had outgrown their old skins a great many times, and had to wriggle out of them to be at all comfortable.
+7850_286674_000002_000001 "What can you expect," exclaimed one of them, "when Dragon Fly eggs are so carelessly laid?
+7850_286674_000010_000001 "Let's all go together to the shallow water where he suns himself, and let's all stand close to each other, and then, when he comes along, let's stick out our lips at him!"
+7850_286674_000013_000000 "We'll do it," exclaimed all the Dragon Fly children, and they started together to walk on the pond bottom to the shallow water.
+7850_286674_000015_000001 Dah!
+7850_286674_000013_000001 They thought it would scare the Snapping Turtle dreadfully.
+7850_286674_000015_000000 "Scared?
+7850_286674_000003_000000 The Minnow Mothers did not think it was so much in the way the eggs were laid, "although," said one, "I always lay mine close together, instead of scattering them over the whole pond." They thought the trouble came from bad bringing up or no bringing up at all.
+7850_286674_000001_000003 The Dragon Flies may be very good people-and even the Snapping Turtle says that they are-still, they are so peculiar that many of their neighbors do not like them at all.
+7850_286674_000018_000002 They thought he might be going to take a nap after his dinner. Then they all stood even closer together and stuck out their lower lips at him.
+7850_286674_000013_000002 They knew that whenever they stuck out their lower lips at the small fishes and bugs, they swam away as fast as they could.
+7850_286674_000005_000002 They always ate plain food and plenty of it, and they never ate between meals.
+7850_286674_000013_000006 But sometimes he straightens the joint and holds his lip out before him, and then its pincers catch hold of things.
+7850_286674_000010_000000 "I tell you what let's do," said another Nymph.
+7850_286674_000001_000002 A person would think that, after a family had lived so long in a place, all the neighbors would be fond of them, yet it is not so.
+7850_286674_000013_000003 The Giant Water Bug (Belostoma), was the only bug who was not afraid of them when they made faces.
+7850_286674_000008_000001 "I wish I could sting him."
+174_168635_000024_000002 Like all children, who resemble young shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; she had not succeeded.
+174_168635_000035_000000 Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak.
+174_168635_000031_000001 This being the only window in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the way or at the side.
+174_168635_000025_000000 The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she thought Jean Valjean handsome, just as she thought the hovel pretty.
+174_168635_000031_000000 The chamber with a dressing room, which he occupied with Cosette, was the one whose window opened on the boulevard.
+174_168635_000033_000001 He had represented himself to her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who was coming there to live with his little daughter.
+174_168635_000037_000002 She had emerged from misery, and she was entering into life.
+174_168635_000027_000005 At the mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely.
+174_168635_000023_000000 The early days passed in this dazzled state.
+174_168635_000038_000000 Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read.
+174_168635_000042_000002 He saw a whole future stretching out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light.
+174_168635_000022_000001 The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
+174_168635_000040_000000 To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly the whole of Jean Valjean's existence.
+174_168635_000024_000005 It is a sad thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of age, her heart was cold.
+174_168635_000017_000000 Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty five years he had been alone in the world.
+174_168635_000026_000002 Nothing is so charming as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret.
+174_168635_000026_000001 The novelty of the earth and of life counts for something here.
+174_168635_000040_000001 And then he talked of her mother, and he made her pray.
+174_168635_000021_000000 Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together into a sort of ineffable light.
+174_168635_000027_000002 One, in fact, completed the other.
+174_168635_000033_000000 It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.
+174_168635_000026_000003 We all have in our past a delightful garret.
+174_168635_000016_000000 Some new thing had come into his soul.
+174_168635_000039_000001 Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones.
+174_168635_000030_000001 There he seemed perfectly secure.
+174_168635_000036_000001 The poor child, who was used to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in confusion.
+174_168635_000024_000004 She had loved the dog, and he had died, after which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her.
+174_168635_000036_000000 It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all cracked with chilblains, and kissed it.
+174_168635_000032_000002 The first story contained, as we have said, numerous chambers and several attics, only one of which was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited.
+174_168635_000020_000000 Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart!
+174_168635_000043_000005 Thanks to him, she could walk through life; thanks to her, he could continue in virtue.
+174_168635_000027_000000 Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf.
+174_168635_000024_000007 Thus, from the very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind man.
+174_168635_000038_000001 Sometimes, as he made the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil that he had learned to read in prison.
+174_168635_000035_000001 Children have their morning song as well as birds.
+174_168635_000018_000000 When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her off, and delivered her, he felt his heart moved within him.
+174_168635_000041_000000 She called him father, and knew no other name for him.
+174_168635_000033_000003 It was this good woman who had lighted the fire in the stove, and prepared everything on the evening of their arrival.
+174_168635_000042_000003 The best of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts.
+174_168635_000042_000001 Life, henceforth, appeared to him to be full of interest; men seemed to him good and just; he no longer reproached any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very old man, now that this child loved him.
+174_168635_000042_000004 At times, he reflected with a sort of joy that she would be ugly.
+174_168635_000037_000001 Cosette was no longer in rags; she was in mourning.
+174_168635_000014_000000 CHAPTER three-TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE
+174_168635_000043_000004 He protected her, and she strengthened him.
+174_168635_000024_000001 She was so little when her mother left her, that she no longer remembered her.
+174_168635_000029_000001 The entrance of that man into the destiny of that child had been the advent of God.
+174_168635_000037_000000 At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown.
+174_168635_000027_000004 To meet was to find each other.
+174_168635_000024_000000 Cosette, on her side, had also, unknown to herself, become another being, poor little thing!
+174_168635_000038_000002 This idea had ended in teaching a child to read.
+174_168635_000019_000001 He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with joy.
+174_168635_000030_000000 Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well.
+174_168635_000043_000006 He was that child's stay, and she was his prop.
+174_168635_000043_000001 He had just viewed the malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect-incomplete aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as personified in Javert.
+174_168635_000029_000000 And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality.
+174_168635_000027_000001 Destiny suddenly united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow.
+174_84280_000014_000008 She might have become one of those poor neuters, an independent woman....
+174_84280_000007_000001 For it became necessary for me to see Justin in order that we should stamp out the whispers against her that followed her death.
+174_84280_000005_000007 Through all her life this brave and fine and beautiful being was for the most part of her possibilities, wasted in a splendid setting, magnificently wasted if you will, but wasted.
+174_84280_000005_000005 I begin to see that it is the reality of her existence and not the accidents of her end that matter most.
+174_84280_000004_000005 But it is manifest I still live, I live and work and feel and share beauty....
+174_84280_000008_000000 We had come to our parting, we had done our business with an affectation of emotional aloofness, and then suddenly he gripped me by the arm.
+174_84280_000014_000001 In Mary, it seems to me, I found both womanhood and fellowship, I found what many have dreamt of, love and friendship freely given, and I could do nothing but clutch at her to make her my possession.
+174_84280_000014_000004 And she was owned, she was mastered, she was forced into concealment.
+174_84280_000010_000002 One gets angry-like an animal."
+174_84280_000012_000002 We killed her....
+174_84280_000004_000000 Life is so much fuller than any book can be.
+174_84280_000014_000007 She might perhaps have kept her freedom by some ill paid work and at the price of every other impulse in her swift and eager nature.
+174_84280_000003_000003 It gives, at most, certain acute points, certain salient aspects.
+174_84280_000016_000000 I will not be content with that compromise of jealousies which is the established life of humanity to day.
+174_84280_000007_000003 There had been talk on the part of clerks and possible witnesses.
+174_84280_000011_000001 "You were wrong in all that," I said.
+174_84280_000008_000001 "Stratton," he said, "we two---- We killed her.
+174_84280_000005_000006 It signifies less that she should have flung out of life when it seemed that her living could only have meant disaster to herself and to all she loved, than that all her life should have been hampered and restricted.
+174_84280_000014_000010 She was destroyed, not merely by the unconsidered, undisciplined passions of her husband and her lover, but by the vast tradition that sustains and enforces the subjugation of her sex.
+174_84280_000016_000001 I give myself, and if I can I will give you, to the destruction of jealousy and of the forms and shelters and instruments of jealousy, both in my own self and in the thought and laws and usage of the world.
+174_84280_000004_000003 Nevertheless she was not all my life, nor the form of all my life.
+174_84280_000014_000009 Life was made impossible for her and she was forced to die, according to the fate of all untimely things.
+174_84280_000003_000002 I had meant it to be the story of my life, but how little of my life is in it!
+174_84280_000005_000000 It seems to me more and more as I live longer, that most poetry and most literature and particularly the literature of the past is discordant with the vastness and variety, the reserves and resources and recuperations of life as we live it to day.
+174_84280_000010_000001 "It's so damned silly.
+174_84280_000011_000002 "She kept her faith with you.
+174_84280_000010_000000 "We tore her to pieces," he repeated.
+174_84280_000015_000000 And perhaps in this story I have said enough for you to understand why Mary has identified herself with something world-wide, has added to herself a symbolical value, and why it is I find in the whole crowded spectacle of mankind, a quality that is also hers, a sense of fine things entangled and stifled and unable to free themselves from the ancient limiting jealousies which law and custom embody.
+174_84280_000011_000003 We never planned to meet and when we met----.
+174_84280_000005_000002 We range wider, last longer, and escape more and more from intensity towards understanding.
+174_84280_000011_000005 Indeed there was nothing."
+174_84280_000011_000000 I became grotesquely anxious to assure him that, indeed, she and I had been, as they say, innocent throughout our last day together.
+174_84280_000003_000005 How we must simplify!
+174_84280_000015_000001 For I know that a growing multitude of men and women outwear the ancient ways.
+174_84280_000000_000000 CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
+174_84280_000001_000000 THE ARRAIGNMENT OF JEALOUSY
+174_84280_000005_000004 For a time the death of Mary obscured her life for me, but now her living presence is more in my mind again.
+174_84280_000011_000004 If we had been brother and sister----.
+174_84280_000012_000000 "I suppose," he said, "I ought to be glad of that.
+174_84280_000014_000011 What I had from her, and what she was, is but a mere intimation of all that she and I might have made of each other and the world.
+174_84280_000015_000002 The blood stained organized jealousies of religious intolerance, the delusions of nationality and cult and race, that black hatred which simple people and young people and common people cherish against all that is not in the likeness of themselves, cease to be the undisputed ruling forces of our collective life.
+174_84280_000008_000002 We tore her to pieces between us...."
+174_84280_000005_000003 And already this astounding blow begins to take its place among other events, as a thing strange and terrible indeed, but related to all the strangeness and mystery of life, part of the universal mysteries of despair and futility and death that have troubled my consciousness since childhood.
+174_84280_000003_000001 I look out upon the neat French garden that I have watched the summer round, and before me is the pile of manuscript that has grown here, the story of my friendship and love for Mary and of its tragic end, and of all the changes of my beliefs and purposes that have arisen out of that.
+174_84280_000003_000008 She who was so abundantly living, who could love like a burst of sunshine and give herself as God gives the world, is she here at all in this pile of industrious inexpert writing?
+174_84280_000014_000006 What alternative is there for any woman?
+174_84280_000014_000005 What alternative was there for her?
+174_84280_000003_000007 Even Mary, of whom I have labored to tell you, seems not so much expressed as hidden beneath these corrected sheets.
+174_84280_000012_000001 But now it doesn't seem to matter very much.
+174_50561_000033_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000041_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000023_000001 The Emperor's Daughter is not yet released, for the key of her tower is understood to be still in the keeping of the dancing children.
+174_50561_000023_000000 The Singer then drops a second flower into the lap of the child in the middle, and goes away, and this ends the first part of the game.
+174_50561_000024_000000 (The Ladies, in gowns of white and rose color, stand around The Emperor's Daughter, weeping in her Tower.
+174_50561_000058_000001 They have the end of the game to themselves.)
+174_50561_000027_000000 THE LADIES
+174_50561_000061_000000 "Bed time, children!"
+174_50561_000035_000000 THE LADIES
+174_50561_000029_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000031_000000 THE LADIES
+174_50561_000063_000000 You see the treatment is a trifle fanciful.
+174_50561_000001_000002 Of these things, and such as these, they ask no questions.
+174_50561_000001_000008 On this adventure he was about the business of young Robin Rue.
+174_50561_000024_000001 To them once more comes The Wandering Singer with his lute.)
+174_50561_000028_000000 You may not come into our orchard, singer, Lest you bear a word to the Emperor's Daughter From one who was sent to banishment Away a thousand leagues over the water, Singer, singer, Wandering singer, O my honey sweet singer!
+174_50561_000023_000003 But if time is still to spare, the second part of the game is played like this.
+174_50561_000063_000002 And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now-some say a year old, some say even two.
+174_50561_000019_000000 THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER
+174_50561_000043_000000 The third part of the game is seldom played.
+174_50561_000013_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000009_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000047_000000 THE LADIES
+174_50561_000000_000000 INTRODUCTION
+174_50561_000001_000006 But this is a fallacy.
+174_50561_000007_000000 THE LADIES
+174_50561_000045_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000046_000000 Lady, lady, my apple gold lady, May I come into your orchard, lady? For the fruit is now on the apple bough, And the moon is up and the lawn is shady, Lady, lady, My fair lady, O my apple gold lady!
+174_50561_000058_000000 (Once more The Singer plays and The Ladies dance; but one by one they fall asleep to the drowsy music, and then The Singer steps into the ring and unlocks the Tower and kisses The Emperor's Daughter.
+174_50561_000023_000005 They will indicate these changes perhaps by colored ribbons, or by any flower in its season, or by imagining themselves first in green and then in rose, which is really the best way of all.
+174_50561_000001_000004 Forgotten, too, the name of Gillian, the lovely captive.
+174_50561_000004_000001 Around her, with their backs to her, stand six maids in a ring, with joined hands.
+174_50561_000022_000000 O dry your eyes, you shall have this other When yours is a thousand leagues over the water, Daughter, daughter, My sweet daughter! Love is not far, my daughter!
+174_50561_000044_000000 (The Ladies, in yellow dresses, stand again in a ring about The Emperor's Daughter, and are for the last time accosted by The Singer with his lute.)
+174_50561_000048_000000 You may not come into our orchard, singer, In case you set free the Emperor's Daughter Who pines apart to follow her heart That's flown a thousand leagues over the water, Singer, singer, Wandering singer, O my honey sweet singer!
+174_50561_000049_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000053_000000 THE WANDERING SINGER
+174_50561_000016_000000 (They give him the flower from the hair of the Emperor's Daughter, and sing-)
+174_50561_000038_000000 As before, The Singer plays and The Ladies dance; and through the broken circle The Singer comes behind The Emperor's Daughter, who uncovers her face to sing-)
+174_50561_000043_000002 But I did once have the luck to hear and see The Lady played in entirety-the children had been granted leave to play "just one more game" before bed time, and of course they chose the longest and played it without missing a syllable.
+174_50561_000015_000000 THE LADIES
+174_50561_000040_000000 Mother, mother, my fair dead mother, They've stolen the ring from your heart sick daughter.
+174_50561_000060_000001 I don't know what becomes of The Ladies.)
+174_50561_000062_000000 In they go.
+174_50561_000023_000004 The dancers once more encircle their weeping comrade, and now they are gowned in white and pink.
+8842_302196_000014_000006 The task of the translator (and with all humility be it spoken) is one of some self denial.
+8842_302203_000010_000002 Just then you woke me, of your complaisaunce."
+8842_302203_000002_000005 Then my heart that was so full of love said unto me: "It is true that our lady lieth dead;" and it seemed to me that I went to look upon the body wherein that blessed and most noble spirit had had its abiding place.
+8842_302203_000011_000001 In the first, speaking to a person undefined, I tell how I was aroused from a vain phantasy by certain ladies, and how I promised them to tell what it was.
+8842_302203_000020_000003 The second part begins here, "Saying, 'Be now;'" the third here, "Then, while it was his pleasure." The third part divides into two.
+8842_302203_000004_000004 Whereof I wrote this poem:--
+8842_302203_000013_000000 A short while after these words which my heart spoke to me with the tongue of Love, I saw coming towards me a certain lady who was very famous for her beauty, and of whom that friend whom I have already called the first among my friends had long been enamoured.
+8842_302203_000003_000000 And as I said these words, with a painful anguish of sobbing and another prayer unto Death, a young and gentle lady, who had been standing beside me where I lay, conceiving that I wept and cried out because of the pain of mine infirmity, was taken with trembling and began to shed tears.
+8842_302203_000010_000000 "And I became so humble in my grief, Seeing in her such deep humility, That I said: 'Death, I hold thee passing good Henceforth, and a most gentle sweet relief, Since my dear love has chosen to dwell with thee: Pity, not hate, is thine, well understood. Lo!
+8842_302203_000004_000003 Also, after I had recovered from my sickness, I bethought me to write these things in rhyme; deeming it a lovely thing to be known.
+8842_302203_000002_000007 Wherefore come now unto me who do greatly desire thee: seest thou not that I wear thy colour already?" And when I had seen all those offices performed that are fitting to be done unto the dead, it seemed to me that I went back unto mine own chamber, and looked up towards Heaven.
+8842_302203_000002_000003 She that was thine excellent lady hath been taken out of life." Then I began to weep very piteously; and not only in mine imagination, but with mine eyes, which were wet with tears.
+8842_302203_000001_000000 A few days after this, my body became afflicted with a painful infirmity, whereby I suffered bitter anguish for many days, which at last brought me unto such weakness that I could no longer move.
+8842_302203_000011_000006 In the first, I tell, in order, this imagination.
+8842_302203_000020_000002 The third tells how, after he had in such wise been with me a space, I saw and heard certain things.
+8842_302203_000011_000005 In the second, I tell what these ladies said to me after I had left off this wandering: and it begins here, "But uttered in a voice." Then, when I say, "I was a thinking," I say how I told them this my imagination; and concerning this I have two parts.
+8842_302203_000002_000008 And so strong was my phantasy, that I wept again in very truth, and said with my true voice: "O excellent soul! how blessed is he that now looketh upon thee!"
+8842_302203_000010_000001 I do so desire to see thy face That I am like as one who nears the tomb; My soul entreats thee, Come.' Then I departed, having made my moan; And when I was alone I said, and cast my eyes to the High Place: 'Blessed is he, fair soul, who meets thy glance!' ...
+8842_302203_000012_000000 After this empty imagining, it happened on a day, as I sat thoughtful, that I was taken with such a strong trembling at the heart, that it could not have been otherwise in the presence of my lady.
+8842_302203_000001_000001 And I remember that on the ninth day, being overcome with intolerable pain, a thought came into my mind concerning my lady: but when it had a little nourished this thought, my mind returned to its brooding over mine enfeebled body.
+8842_302203_000020_000001 The second says how it appeared to me that Love spake within my heart, and what was his aspect.
+8842_302203_000011_000002 In the second, I say how I told them.
+8842_302203_000011_000003 The second part begins here, "I was a thinking." The first part divides into two.
+8842_302203_000003_000001 Whereby other ladies, who were about the room, becoming aware of my discomfort by reason of the moan that she made, (who indeed was of my very near kindred,) led her away from where I was, and then set themselves to awaken me, thinking that I dreamed, and saying: "Sleep no longer, and be not disquieted."
+8842_302201_000006_000002 And for that the occasion of what I then wrote may be found pleasant in the hearing, I will relate it as briefly as I may.
+8842_302201_000014_000002 The second is the matter treated of.
+8842_302201_000014_000013 And that every vicious thought may be discarded herefrom, let the reader remember that it is above written that the greeting of this lady, which was an act of her mouth, was the goal of my desires, while I could receive it.
+8842_302201_000014_000004 The second begins here, "An Angel;" the third here, "Dear Song, I know." The first part is divided into four.
+8842_302201_000007_000000 Through the sore change in mine aspect, the secret of my heart was now understood of many.
+8842_302201_000014_000009 The second begins here, "And I declare;" the third here, "Wherefore I will not speak;" the fourth here, "With you alone." Then, when I say "An Angel," I begin treating of this lady: and this part is divided into two.
+8842_302201_000003_000002 And I said these four things in a sonnet, which is this:--
+8842_302201_000014_000003 The third is, as it were, a handmaid to the preceding words.
+8842_302201_000006_000001 But albeit I spake not to her again, yet it behoved me afterward to write of another matter, more noble than the foregoing.
+8842_302201_000007_000002 And as I was going that way by chance, (but I think rather by the will of fortune,) I heard one of them call unto me, and she that called was a lady of very sweet speech.
+8842_302201_000014_000007 In the third, I say what it is I purpose to speak so as not to be impeded by faintheartedness.
+8842_302201_000003_000000 Thereafter, this sonnet bred in me desire to write down in verse four other things touching my condition, the which things it seemed to me that I had not yet made manifest.
+8842_302201_000014_000001 The first part is a proem to the words following.
+8842_302201_000008_000000 Then I, being almost put to shame because of her answer, went out from among them; and as I walked, I said within myself: "Seeing that there is so much beatitude in those words which do praise my lady, wherefore hath my speech of her been different?" And then I resolved that thenceforward I would choose for the theme of my writings only the praise of this most gracious being.
+8842_302201_000014_000014 Then, when I say, "Dear Song, I know," I add a stanza as it were handmaid to the others, wherein I say what I desire from this my poem.
+8842_302201_000014_000010 In the first, I tell what is understood of her in heaven.
+8842_302201_000014_000005 In the first, I say to whom I mean to speak of my lady, and wherefore I will so speak.
+8842_302201_000008_000005 The poem begins here:--
+8842_302201_000007_000005 But when I still spake not, one of them, who before had been talking with another, addressed me by my name, saying, "To what end lovest thou this lady, seeing that thou canst not support her presence?
+8842_302201_000007_000003 And when I had come close up with them, and perceived that they had not among them mine excellent lady, I was reassured; and saluted them, asking of their pleasure.
+8842_302201_000008_000003 Whereupon I declare that my tongue spake as though by its own impulse, and said, "Ladies that have intelligence in love." These words I laid up in my mind with great gladness, conceiving to take them as my commencement.
+8842_304647_000005_000000 seventeen.
+8842_304647_000013_000000 nineteen.
+8842_304647_000034_000001 But my bell hath broke Her silence.
+8842_304647_000017_000001 These things gave you birth: So have they mind and God.
+8842_304647_000039_000000 twenty five.
+8842_304647_000046_000000 All crime is its own torment, bearing woe To mind or body or decrease of fame; If not at once, still step by step our name Or blood or friends or fortune it brings low. But if our will do not resent the blow, We have not sinned.
+8842_304647_000051_000000 twenty eight.
+8842_304647_000034_000002 Yield, thou deaf, blind, tainted beast, To the wise fervour of a blameless mind!
+8842_304647_000043_000000 twenty six.
+8842_304647_000009_000000 eighteen.
+8842_304647_000031_000000 twenty three.
+8842_304647_000012_000001 The choice of arms was thine; Yet art thou scoffed at by the crucified! He lives-thy loss.
+8842_304647_000017_000002 Repent; be wise! Man fights but ill with Him who rules the skies.
+8842_304647_000050_000000 Organ of rut, not reason, is the lord Who from the body politic doth drain Lust for himself, instead of toil and pain, Leaving us lean as crickets on dry sward. Well too if he like Love would filch our hoard With pleasure to ourselves, sluicing our vein And vigour to perpetuate the strain Of life by spilth of life within us stored! Love's cheat yields joy and profit.
+2277_149874_000023_000000 "At about twenty minutes of five."
+2277_149874_000012_000002 A pleasant side to his nature came out here. He was patient.
+2277_149874_000015_000000 Carrie noticed that Hanson had said nothing to this.
+2277_149874_000007_000005 His one observation to the point was concerning the chances of work in Chicago.
+2277_149874_000007_000002 He was a silent man, American born, of a Swede father, and now employed as a cleaner of refrigerator cars at the stock yards.
+2277_149874_000030_000006 Anything was good enough so long as it paid-say, five dollars a week to begin with.
+2277_149874_000028_000000 "I cannot have you call on me here.
+2277_149874_000026_000000 "No," she said to herself, "he can't come here."
+2277_149874_000007_000001 Her husband asked a few questions and sat down to read the evening paper.
+2277_149874_000025_000001 He could not come here.
+2277_149874_000006_000001 It was on the third floor, the front windows looking down into the street, where, at night, the lights of grocery stores were shining and children were playing.
+2277_149874_000012_000001 Then she walked and sang to it, until Hanson, disturbed in his reading, came and took it.
+2277_149874_000030_000008 She would get in one of the great shops and do well enough until-well, until something happened. Neither of them knew exactly what.
+2277_149874_000014_000001 "Well, we'll go out Sunday and see Lincoln Park."
+2277_149874_000015_000001 He seemed to be thinking of something else.
+2277_149874_000020_000000 "I've got to get up early in the morning, so I'll go to bed," and off he went, disappearing into the dark little bedroom off the hall, for the night.
+2277_149874_000010_000000 In the interval which marked the preparation of the meal Carrie found time to study the flat.
+2277_149874_000005_000000 WHAT POVERTY THREATENED: OF GRANITE AND BRASS
+2277_149874_000010_000001 She had some slight gift of observation and that sense, so rich in every woman-intuition.
+2277_149874_000033_000003 These vast buildings, what were they?
+2277_149874_000033_000004 These strange energies and huge interests, for what purposes were they there?
+2277_149874_000025_000002 She read from the manner of Hanson, in the subdued air of Minnie, and, indeed, the whole atmosphere of the flat, a settled opposition to anything save a conservative round of toil.
+2277_149874_000030_000005 She was pleased to see her in a way, but reflected her husband's point of view in the matter of work.
+2277_149874_000030_000009 They did not figure on promotion. They did not exactly count on marriage.
+2277_149874_000034_000004 What they dealt in, how they laboured, to what end it all came, she had only the vaguest conception.
+2277_149874_000030_000007 A shop girl was the destiny prefigured for the newcomer.
+2277_149874_000025_000003 If Hanson sat every evening in the front room and read his paper, if he went to bed at nine, and Minnie a little later, what would they expect of her?
+2277_149874_000016_000000 "Well," she said, "I think I'll look around to morrow.
+2277_149874_000004_000000 CHAPTER two
+2277_149874_000029_000000 She troubled herself over what else to put in the letter.
+2277_149874_000018_000002 "You'd better look in those big manufacturing houses along Franklin Street and just the other side of the river," he concluded. "Lots of girls work there.
+2277_149874_000018_000004 It isn't very far."
+2277_149874_000008_000000 "It's a big place," he said.
+2277_149897_000014_000000 "Yes, sir."
+2277_149897_000023_000000 "Well?" said Hurstwood.
+2277_149897_000019_000000 "I guess not."
+2277_149897_000043_000000 Nevertheless, his rousing availed him nothing.
+2277_149897_000046_000003 He stayed at his desk long after all others had gone, and only quitted it when the night watchman on his round pulled at the front door to see if it was safely locked.
+2277_149897_000020_000005 He could see her meeting the boy at the door and smiling sardonically.
+2277_149897_000007_000004 He saw that in the excitement of recent events he had not formulated a plan upon that score.
+2277_149897_000018_000000 "Any answer?"
+2277_149897_000045_000001 This sent a pang through his heart.
+2277_149897_000013_000000 "If she isn't there bring it back."
+2277_149897_000040_000001 He was quite certain now that she knew he was married and was angered at his perfidy.
+2277_149897_000037_000000 He read it through carefully several times, and then merely shook his head.
+2277_149897_000052_000001 If he didn't go and see them they would sue him promptly.
+2277_149897_000020_000004 But, oh, the wretchedness of being forced this way!
+2277_149897_000042_000001 It was too much to think of and sit still.
+2277_149897_000040_000009 He would go to her and tell her all his family complications. He would explain to her just where he stood and how much he needed her. Surely she couldn't go back on him now?
+2277_149897_000022_000001 He had evidently delivered the package, for, as he came up, he made no sign of taking anything out of his pocket.
+2277_149897_000007_000000 Meanwhile he gave a thought now and then to Carrie.
+2277_149897_000040_000005 He had loved her earnestly enough, but now that the possibility of losing her stared him in the face she seemed much more attractive.
+2277_149897_000008_000000 He strolled up and down the polished floor of the resort, his hands in his pockets, his brow wrinkled, his mouth set.
+2277_149897_000006_000001 Lord, Lord, he thought, what had he got into?
+2277_149897_000007_000002 No letter had come, no word of any kind, and yet here it was late in the evening and she had agreed to meet him that morning.
+2277_149897_000015_000000 "You've seen my wife?" he asked as a precautionary measure as the boy turned to go.
+2277_149897_000045_000000 One of the galling incidents of this visit was that he came back on a Randolph Street car, and without noticing arrived almost opposite the building of the concern with which his son was connected.
+2277_149897_000020_000002 There was no use speculating over that.
+2277_149897_000030_000000 There was no more to be done upon that score that night.
+2277_149897_000038_000000 "Well!" he said after a time, quite audibly, "I don't know."
+2277_149897_000007_000007 It would be just like this to happen as things were going now. Meanwhile he had not sent the money.
+2277_149897_000040_000008 Come what might, he would adjust this matter, and soon.
+2277_149897_000033_000001 How about that now?
+2277_149897_000042_000000 He was forced to take his feet.
+2277_149897_000033_000005 He must get some speedier method-but how?
+2277_149897_000026_000000 "Yes, sir."
+2277_149897_000033_000003 He decided to write her care of the West Side Post office and ask for an explanation, as well as to have her meet him.
+2277_149897_000009_000001 It was with great opposition, after two or three hours of the most urgent mental affirmation and denial, that at last he got an envelope, placed in it the requested amount, and slowly sealed it up.
+2277_149897_000007_000001 What could be the trouble in that quarter?
+2277_149897_000040_000007 He did not propose to lose her, whatever she might think.
+2277_149897_000040_000003 He thought he would go out and insist on seeing her if she did not send him word of some sort soon.
+2277_149897_000006_000004 It seemed a monstrous, unnatural, unwarranted condition which had suddenly descended upon him without his let or hindrance.
+2277_149897_000052_000002 If he did, he would be offered terms that would make his blood boil.
+2277_149897_000052_000000 So here it was spread out clear before him, and now he knew what to expect.
+2277_149897_000031_000001 No word from Carrie.
+2277_149897_000041_000000 Suddenly he thought: "Supposing she isn't out there-suppose she has gone?"
+2277_149897_000008_000005 He was altogether a fine example of great mental perturbation.
+2277_149897_000012_000000 "Yes, sir," said the boy.
+2277_149897_000006_000003 He could hardly realise how it had all come about.
+2277_149897_000031_000000 Next day he went again to the office and opened his mail, suspicious and hopeful of its contents.
+2277_149897_000030_000002 He wondered what the morning would bring forth, and slept anything but soundly upon it.
+2277_149897_000022_000000 In about an hour and three quarters the boy returned.
+2277_149897_000045_000004 Well, well, fortune plays a man queer tricks.
+2277_149897_000040_000011 He would plead until her anger would melt-until she would forgive him.
+2277_149897_000011_000000 "You take this to this address," he said, handing him the envelope, "and give it to mrs Hurstwood."
+2277_149897_000035_000004 It was the worst Sunday he had spent in his life.
+2277_149897_000017_000000 "All right, now.
+2277_149897_000035_000000 The hours slipped by, and with them the possibility of the union he had contemplated.
+2277_149897_000046_000000 That night he dined at Rector's and returned at once to his office.
+2277_149897_000044_000002 He did not go within a block of the house.
+2277_149897_000016_000001 I know her."
+2277_149897_000045_000003 His absence did not seem to be noticed by either of his children.
+2277_149897_000032_000001 He fancied, as he sat at his desk, that nothing would be done for a week or two.
+2277_149897_000020_000008 He breathed heavily and wiped the moisture from his face.
+2277_149897_000028_000000 "She said it was high time."
+2277_149897_000017_000001 Hurry right back."
+2277_149897_000047_000001 It read:
+2277_149897_000020_000001 Now he had done it.
+2277_149897_000006_000002 How could things have taken such a violent turn, and so quickly?
+2277_149897_000008_000002 Every once in a while he would clinch his fingers and tap his foot-signs of the stirring mental process he was undergoing.
+2277_149897_000039_000000 Then he folded it up and put it in his pocket.
+2277_149897_000040_000010 It wasn't possible.
+2277_149897_000008_000001 He was getting some vague comfort out of a good cigar, but it was no panacea for the ill which affected him.
+2277_149897_000044_000001 He did manage to bring himself into the mood to go out to Carrie, but when he got in Ogden Place he thought he saw a man watching him and went away.
+2277_149897_000009_000000 For all his study nothing came of the evening except this-he sent the money.
+2277_149897_000008_000004 He drank more brandy and soda than he had any evening in months.
+2277_149897_000004_000000 CHAPTER twenty five
+2277_149897_000046_000002 He troubled over many little details and talked perfunctorily to everybody.
+2277_149897_000007_000005 He was desperately in love, and would have taken great chances to win her under ordinary circumstances, but now-now what? Supposing she had found out something?
+2277_149897_000032_000002 Meanwhile, he would have time to think.
+2277_149897_000020_000000 The boy hastened away and the manager fell to his musings.
+2277_149897_000035_000002 Three o'clock came, four, five, six, and no letter.
+2277_149897_000046_000001 In the bustle and show of the latter was his only relief.
+2277_149897_000052_000003 He folded the letter and put it with the other one.
+2277_149897_000045_000005 He got back to his office and joined in a conversation with friends.
+2277_149897_000050_000000 "Compromise!" exclaimed Hurstwood bitterly.
+2277_149897_000049_000000 "Very truly yours, etc"
+2277_149897_000020_000003 He was beaten for to night and he might just as well make the best of it.
+2277_149897_000031_000002 Nothing from his wife, which was pleasant.
+2277_149897_000033_000004 The thought that this letter would probably not reach her until Monday chafed him exceedingly.
+2277_149897_000032_000000 The fact that he had sent the money and that she had received it worked to the ease of his mind, for, as the thought that he had done it receded, his chagrin at it grew less and his hope of peace more.
+2277_149897_000005_000000 ASHES OF TINDER: THE LOOSING OF STAYS
+2277_149897_000047_000000 On Wednesday he received another polite note from McGregor, james and Hay.
+2277_149897_000027_000000 "Any answer?"
+2277_149897_000025_000000 "My wife?"
+2277_149897_000006_000000 When Hurstwood got back to his office again he was in a greater quandary than ever.
+2277_149897_000021_000001 He tried to get the interest of things about him, but it was not to be.
+2277_149897_000020_000006 She would take the envelope and know that she had triumphed.
+2277_149897_000040_000006 He really pined for a word, and looked out upon her with his mind's eye in the most wistful manner.
+2277_149897_000040_000004 He was really affected most miserably of all by this desertion.
+2277_149897_000024_000000 "I gave it to her."
+2277_149897_000040_000000 To add to his misery there was no word from Carrie.
+2277_149897_000037_000001 It seemed as if his family troubles were just beginning.
+2277_149897_000016_000000 "Oh, yes, sir.
+2277_149897_000029_000000 Hurstwood scowled fiercely.
+2277_149896_000008_000004 If he could only get plenty of time to think, perhaps something would turn up.
+2277_149896_000006_000000 Many little wrinkles gathered between his eyes as he contemplated this, and his brow moistened.
+2277_149896_000025_000008 He jangled it fiercely several times in succession, but without avail.
+2277_149896_000015_000005 So don't delay, but send it by the boy."
+2277_149896_000025_000002 He pulled out his key and tried to insert it, but another key was on the inside.
+2277_149896_000004_000002 "What a fool trick that was.
+2277_149896_000016_000010 These were his first thoughts.
+2277_149896_000011_000002 He walked the floor again, pretending to be in an ordinary mood, but secretly troubled beyond the expression of words.
+2277_149896_000021_000001 He'd take it to her-he would go up there and have a talk with her, and that at once.
+2277_149896_000019_000004 The street looked like a sea of round black cloth roofs, twisting, bobbing, moving.
+2277_149896_000007_000006 He saw only her pretty face and neat figure and wondered why life was not arranged so that such joy as he found with her could be steadily maintained.
+2277_149896_000009_000003 Could she have been reached by his wife?
+2277_149896_000014_000001 He tore it open and read without a show of feeling.
+2277_149896_000004_000003 Curse it!
+2277_149896_000007_000007 How much more pleasant it would be.
+2277_149896_000002_000001 He was in a fevered state of mind, owing to the blight his wife's action threatened to cast upon his entire future.
+2277_149896_000002_000005 He walked the floor of his little office, and later that of his room, putting one thing and another together to no avail.
+2277_149896_000001_000000 ASHES OF TINDER: A FACE AT THE WINDOW
+2277_149896_000028_000000 "I saw a young girl up in that winder," returned the cabby.
+2277_149896_000023_000001 On the way his temper cooled as he thought of the details of the case.
+2277_149896_000002_000003 She was determined, and had worsted him in a very important contest.
+2277_149896_000029_000000 Hurstwood looked, but there was no face there now.
+2277_149896_000007_000003 He could arrange that satisfactorily, for Carrie would be glad to wait, if necessary.
+2277_149896_000024_000001 Perhaps he could do it up here.
+2277_149896_000024_000000 He began to wish that he had compromised in some way or other-that he had sent the money.
+2277_149896_000007_000008 Then he would take up his wife's threat again, and the wrinkles and moisture would return.
+2277_149896_000007_000002 It was the one pleasing thing in this whole rout of trouble.
+2277_149896_000019_000000 He arose from his chair and went and looked out into the street.
+2277_149896_000012_000001 He looked at the little chap with a feeling of doubt.
+2277_149896_000018_000000 "Damn her!" he said softly, with his teeth firmly set, "I'll make it hot for her if she causes me trouble.
+2277_149896_000013_000000 "I'm to bring an answer," said the boy.
+2277_149896_000019_000002 Pedestrians had turned up collars, and trousers at the bottom.
+2277_149896_000016_000002 It roused his ire also-the deepest element of revolt in him.
+2277_149896_000003_000002 He would have to pay her the money which she would now regularly demand or there would be trouble.
+2277_149896_000015_000001 I need it to carry out my plans.
+2277_149896_000017_000000 Later, however, his old discretion asserted itself.
+2277_149896_000024_000003 He would have no row.
+2277_149896_000009_000000 His spirits fell, however, when, upon reaching the park, he waited and waited and Carrie did not come.
+2277_149896_000006_000001 He saw no solution of anything-not a loophole left.
+2277_149896_000022_000000 He put on his hat and looked around for his umbrella.
+2277_149896_000003_000006 She would find out at once just what advantages she could gain.
+2277_149896_000026_000003 Finally, seeing that no one was coming, he turned and went back to his cab.
+2277_149896_000018_000001 I'll make her change her tone if I have to use force to do it!"
+2277_149896_000016_000001 The audacity of the thing took his breath.
+2277_149896_000016_000005 What would she do about that?
+2277_149896_000016_000003 His first impulse was to write but four words in reply-"Go to the devil!"--but he compromised by telling the boy that there would be no reply.
+2277_149896_000011_000000 He went in and examined his letters, but there was nothing from Carrie. Fortunately, there was nothing from his wife either.
+2277_149896_000014_000000 Hurstwood recognised his wife's writing.
+2277_149896_000010_000000 After a time he gave up waiting and drearily headed for the Madison car. To add to his distress, the bright blue sky became overcast with little fleecy clouds which shut out the sun
+2277_149896_000019_000003 Hands were hidden in the pockets of the umbrellaless; umbrellas were up.
+2277_149896_000002_000000 That night Hurstwood remained down town entirely, going to the Palmer House for a bed after his work was through.
+2277_149896_000005_000003 My friends, too!" He grew more angry as he thought of the talk any action on her part would create.
+2277_149896_000019_000006 He scarcely noticed the picture.
+2277_149896_000004_000004 What a fool move that was."
+2277_149896_000015_000002 You can stay away if you want to.
+2277_149896_000026_000001 What could it mean?
+2277_149896_000016_000009 She was carrying things with too high a hand.
+2277_149896_000025_000006 He rang again-this time harder.
+2277_149896_000016_000004 Then he sat down in his chair and gazed without seeing, contemplating the result of his work.
+2277_149896_000026_000002 He rang the bell and then waited.
+2277_149896_000025_000005 No answer.
+2277_149896_000009_000002 Could something have happened out there to keep her away?
+2277_149896_000011_000001 He thanked his stars that he did not have to confront that proposition just now when he needed to think so much.
+2277_149896_000030_000001 Shut him out and make him pay.
+2277_149896_000004_000000 Hurstwood walked the floor, mentally arranging the chief points of his situation.
+2277_149896_000025_000001 He alighted and went up the steps to the front door, but it was with a nervous palpitation of the heart.
+2277_149896_000025_000000 By the time he reached his own street he was keenly alive to the difficulties of his situation and wished over and over that some solution would offer itself, that he could see his way out.
+2277_149896_000016_000006 The confounded wretch!
+2277_149896_000009_000007 She had not been able to get away this morning.
+2277_149896_000025_000003 He shook at the knob, but the door was locked.
+2277_149896_000002_000002 While he was not sure how much significance might be attached to the threat she had made, he was sure that her attitude, if long continued, would cause him no end of trouble.
+2277_149896_000016_000008 He would go up there and have it out with her, that's what he would do.
+2277_149896_000003_000001 Now that she had practically cowed him, she would follow up her work with demands, the acknowledgment of which would make her word law in the future.
+2277_149896_000005_000005 He would have to explain and deny and make a general mark of himself.
+2277_149896_000005_000000 He also thought of his managerial position.
+2277_149896_000030_000000 So this was the game, was it?
+2277_149896_000008_000002 He began to feel the appetite that had been wanting before he had reached the office, and decided before going out to the park to meet Carrie to drop in at the Grand Pacific and have a pot of coffee and some rolls.
+2277_149896_000017_000003 He knew her well enough to know that when she had decided upon a plan she would follow it up.
+6345_93306_000022_000000 She looked at him and spoke for the first time.
+6345_93306_000008_000004 Then there was silence-then a sigh, and the sound of light moving feet on the gravel.
+6345_93306_000019_000000 "Here-I say, you know-don't-" he said.
+6345_93306_000051_000002 Then it was taken away.
+6345_93306_000009_000000 "Here!" he called to the figure that moved slowly towards the gate.
+6345_93306_000044_000000 "But don't you know anyone in London?" he asked in a sensible postscript.
+6345_93306_000010_000000 "Won't you sing again?" he asked.
+6345_93306_000023_000005 I am sure you meant to be kind." And then she began to cry again.
+6345_93306_000024_000003 Do drink this, and then tell me.
+6345_93306_000042_000001 I will catch the night train, and bring my mother up to morrow.
+6345_93306_000056_000000 She held out a pair of little patent leather shoes, very worn and dusty-the slender silken web of a black stocking, brown with dust, hung from her hand.
+6345_93306_000018_000000 Again that strange hesitation-then quite suddenly the girl put her hands up to her face and began to cry.
+6345_93306_000019_000005 I was thinking of French.
+6345_93306_000023_000001 "I don't understand a single word you say!
+6345_93306_000011_000000 She hesitated, then struck a chord or two and began another of those little tuneful Italian songs, all stars and flowers and hearts of gold. And again he listened with a quiet pleasure.
+6345_93306_000004_000001 There had been five organs since dinner-and seven in the afternoon-one and all urgently thumping their heavy melodies into his brain, to the confusion of the thoughts that waited there, eager to marshal themselves, orderly and firm, into the phalanx of an article on "The Decadence of Criticism."
+6345_93306_000030_000001 Why, that's nothing.
+6345_93306_000023_000000 "It serves me right," she said in excellent, yet unfamiliar, English.
+6345_93306_000048_000000 "American heiresses are expected to marry English dukes," he said, with a distinct physical pain at his heart.
+6345_93306_000056_000001 He answered nothing.
+6345_93306_000014_000001 "Wouldn't you like to sit down and rest? There is a seat in the garden at the side of the house."
+6345_93306_000024_000004 Perhaps I can help you."
+6345_93306_000020_000001 She rose.
+6345_93306_000025_000000 She drank obediently.
+6345_93306_000017_000000 "I have brought you some wine-will you have it?"
+6345_93306_000015_000001 Then she turned towards the quarter indicated and disappeared round the laurel bushes.
+6345_93306_000049_000000 "It wasn't I who said that," said the girl, smiling; "but that's so, anyhow." And then she sighed.
+6345_93306_000008_000005 He threw back the curtain and leaned out of the window.
+6345_93306_000026_000001 He had no time to think, but he was aware that this was the most exciting adventure that had ever happened to him.
+6345_93306_000028_000001 Her eyes filled again with tears.
+6345_93306_000024_000000 "Look here," he said, "this is all nonsense, you know.
+6345_93306_000036_000003 The hotel folks let her go-I can't think how people can be so silly.
+6345_93306_000042_000000 "I shall lock up all the doors and windows in the house-and then I shall give you my latch key, and you can let yourself in and stay the night here-there is no one in the house.
+6345_93306_000030_000002 I'm poor, too."
+6345_93306_000039_000003 And I've been at it since five o'clock-and I've only got one shilling and seven pence.
+6345_93306_000043_000000 The only excuse for this rash young man is to be found in the fact that while he was feeding his strange guest with cake and wine she was feeding, with her beauty, the first fire of his first love.
+6345_93306_000039_000005 I feel as if I had been beaten."
+6345_93306_000054_000001 I told you so!" said his mother at once-and the young man sat down at his study table and looked at the title of his article on "The Decadence of Criticism." It was surely a very long time ago that he had written that.
+6345_93306_000024_000002 What is it?
+6345_93306_000035_000000 Her little foot tapped the gravel impatiently.
+6345_93306_000029_000000 "You don't know how horrid everyone has been.
+6345_93306_000051_000001 He did not kiss it then, only took it in his, and felt how small and cold it was.
+6345_93306_000036_000001 "Of course he didn't.
+6345_93306_000008_000001 The performer was evidently singing "under her voice," but the effect was charming.
+6345_93306_000023_000003 It would have turned out all right with them.
+6345_93306_000013_000000 Never had any act seemed so impossible.
+6345_93306_000038_000000 "Go on," he said, "tell me all about it."
+6345_93306_000042_000002 Then we will see what can be done."
+6345_93306_000009_000001 She turned quickly, and came back two steps.
+6345_93306_000043_000001 Love at first sight is all nonsense, we know-we who have come to forty year-but at twenty one one does not somehow recognise it for the nonsense it is.
+6345_93306_000054_000000 "An adventuress!
+6345_93306_000016_000001 He went into the dining room, dark with mahogany and damask, found wine and cake in the sideboard cupboard, put them on a tray, and took them out through the garden door and round to the corner where, almost sheltered by laburnums and hawthorns from the view of the people next door, the singer and her guitar rested on the iron seat.
+6345_93306_000004_000000 The young man drew a deep breath of relief, and lighted the wax candles in the solid silver candlesticks on his writing table, for now the late summer dusk was falling, and that organ, please Heaven, made full the measure of the day's appointed torture.
+6345_93306_000040_000000 "Let me think," he said.
+6345_93306_000019_000006 Oh, Lord!"
+6345_93306_000041_000000 He reflected a moment.
+6345_93306_000014_000000 "Aren't you tired?" he said.
+6345_93306_000050_000000 "So it's your destiny to marry a duke, is it?" the young man spoke slowly.
+6345_93306_000019_000004 Here, signorina, ecco, prendi-vino-gatto-No, gatto's a cat.
+6345_93306_000005_000000 He filled his pipe, drew paper towards him, dipped his pen, and wrote his title on the blank page.
+6345_93306_000003_000000 THE last strains of the ill treated, ill fated "Intermezzo" had died away, and after them had died away also the rumbling of the wheels of the murderous barrel organ that had so gaily executed that, along with the nine other tunes of its repertory, to the admiration of the housemaid at the window of the house opposite, and the crowing delight of the two babies next door.
+6345_93306_000006_000001 He sprang to his feet-this was, indeed, too much!
+6345_93306_000039_000000 "Well, then, I went into lodgings; that wicked woman had left me one street suit-and to day they turned me out because my money was all gone.
+6345_93306_000023_000002 I might have known I couldn't do it, though it's just what girls in books would do.
+6345_93306_000015_000000 Again she hesitated.
+6345_93306_000008_000000 and so forth.
+6345_93306_000032_000001 You've quarrelled with your friends, and-Ah, tell me-and let me try to help you."
+6345_93306_000008_000002 He stood with his hand on the curtain, listening-and with a pleasure that astonished him.
+6345_93306_000031_000000 She laughed.
+6345_93306_000026_000000 He hurriedly cut cake and pressed it upon her.
+6345_93306_000046_000003 You see, papa's so very rich, and at home they expect me to-to get acquainted with dukes and things-and-"
+6345_93306_000023_000004 Let me go-thank you very much.
+6345_93306_000050_000001 "All the same," he added irrelevantly, "you shall have the latch key."
+6345_93306_000057_000004 It was plain that his castanet girl-his mother and sister took a pleasure in crediting her daily with some fresh and unpleasing instrument-could have had neither taste, money, nor honesty to such a point as this.
+6345_93306_000056_000002 She spent the rest of that day in searching the house for further losses, but all things were in their place, except the silver handled button hook-and that, as even his sister owned, had been missing for months.
+6345_93306_000009_000002 She wore the dress of a Contadina, a very smart dress indeed, and her hands looked small and white.
+6345_93306_000054_000002 And he sat there thinking, till his mother's voice roused him.
+6345_93306_000057_000002 The half dozen pairs of embroidered silk stockings and the dainty French silver buckled shoes, which arrived a month later addressed to Miss ----, Hill View Villa, only confirmed their distrust.
+6345_93306_000005_000002 After all, it was a "quiet neighbourhood" as the advertisement had said-at any rate, in the evening: and in the evening a man's best efforts-
+6345_93306_000036_000000 "I'm coming to that," she said.
+6345_93306_000037_000000 She stopped short, and looked at him through the dusk.
+6345_93302_000069_000001 And it's good bye for ever. No-it's only painful for both of us.
+6345_93302_000046_000006 Well, it was not too late.
+6345_93302_000043_000003 How warm it would have been in the orchard!
+6345_93302_000066_000000 "Do you think I'm not sorry now?"
+6345_93302_000075_000013 Yet perhaps, after all, that is not because of the literary sense. It may be because she loved him.
+6345_93302_000063_000001 Her tears were falling hot and fast between face and veil, for she had talked till she was very sorry indeed for herself.
+6345_93302_000042_000002 She could have snapped off a blossoming branch and-and made play with it somehow.
+6345_93302_000070_000000 He stood up suddenly.
+6345_93302_000070_000001 "Do you mean it?" he said, and his tone should have warned her.
+6345_93302_000049_000003 I can't bear to see you looking so miserable," and there was another silence.
+6345_93302_000053_000000 It was on the tip of her tongue to say that she would stand by him whatever he had done; but if he had married someone else this would be improper, so she only said, "Well?" and she said it coldly.
+6345_93302_000036_000002 She would have liked to meet him in some green, cool orchard, where daffodils swung in the long grass, and primroses stood on frail stiff little pink stalks in the wet, scented moss of the hedgerow.
+6345_93302_000065_000002 "You've deceived me once-you'd do it again!
+6345_93302_000075_000005 But how could he go back to say, "We are parting for ever; but still, I must insist on the sad pleasure of paying for our tea-for the last time"?
+6345_93302_000069_000002 There's no more to be said; you've betrayed me.
+6345_93302_000046_000011 When she did her words did not fit the mouth of the girl in the orchard-but then it would have been May there, and this was January.
+6345_93302_000057_000007 He himself was evidently a prey to the most rending remorse.
+6345_93302_000063_000000 He could not say, "And so I am, on the whole," which was what he thought.
+6345_93302_000043_000001 He had never been like this before.
+6345_93302_000067_000001 At home she could at least have buried her face in the sofa cushions and resisted all his pleading,--at last, perhaps, letting him take one cold passive hand and shower frantic kisses upon it.
+6345_93302_000006_000000 BY e NESBIT
+6345_93302_000075_000001 "Then good bye," he said, "and may God forgive you as I do!" And he strode down between the marble tables and out by the swing door.
+6345_93302_000042_000001 She had done the proper thing; she had awaited these with dignified reserve, and now she was involved in the meshes of a silence that she could not break. How easy it would have been in the orchard!
+6345_93302_000070_000002 "Are you really going to throw me over for a thing like this?"
+6345_93302_000075_000011 Because Destiny is almost without the literary sense, and Destiny carelessly decreed that he should die of enteric in a wretched hut, without so much as hearing a gun fired.
+6345_93302_000046_000007 She could begin now.
+6345_93302_000075_000000 He stood up suddenly.
+6345_93302_000062_000000 "Couldn't help it?
+6345_93302_000074_000000 "Yes.
+6345_93302_000057_000010 How should she know that he had only told her because he feared that she would anyhow hear it through the indiscretion of the girl in pink, or of that other girl in blue who had seen and smiled?
+6345_93302_000046_000001 Some great sorrow had come to him.
+6345_93302_000036_000004 She herself should have been a poem-a lyric in a white gown and green scarf, coming to him through the long grass under the blossomed boughs.
+6345_93302_000075_000002 It was a very good exit.
+6345_93302_000046_000003 The girl in the orchard would have known at a glance.
+6345_93302_000037_000002 She only wished for May and the orchard, instead of January and the dingy, dusty waiting room, the plain faced, preoccupied travellers, the dim, desolate weather.
+6345_93302_000057_000006 What opinion would he form of the purity of her mind, the innocence of her soul, if an incident like this failed to shock her deeply?
+6345_93302_000045_000000 "Of course, if you like," he said uncomfortably; yet she could see he was glad that she had broken that desolate silence.
+6345_93302_000075_000006 He checked the silly impulse.
+6345_93302_000037_000001 And, curiously enough, she was hardly curious at all about what he might have to say.
+6345_93302_000039_000002 So she said-
+6345_93302_000037_000007 He came towards her; he was five minutes late.
+6345_93302_000057_000009 As the confession of a crime she must receive it.
+6345_93302_000037_000000 He had asked her to meet him at Cannon Street; he had something to say to her, and at home it was difficult to get a quiet half hour because of her little sisters.
+6345_93302_000036_000003 The time should have been May.
+6345_93302_000043_000002 She stole a glance at him, and for the first time it occurred to her that his "something to say" was not a mere excuse for being alone with her. He had something to say-something that was trying to get itself said. The keen wind thrust itself even inside the high collar of her jacket. Her hands and feet were aching with cold.
+6345_93302_000038_000000 "Let's go out," he said.
+6345_93302_000046_000005 She would have shared his sorrow, and shown herself "half wife, half angel from heaven" in this dark hour.
+6345_93302_000057_000004 She almost said, "Never mind, dear.
+6345_93302_000042_000000 He had been late: he had offered no excuse, no explanation.
+6345_93302_000046_000010 Yet she must speak.
+6345_93302_000042_000005 And how common and mean that would be compared with the blossoming bough; and besides, the shops they were passing had nothing in the windows except cheap pastry and models of steam engines.
+6345_93302_000047_000000 "How frightfully cold it is!"
+6345_93302_000039_000000 It was bitterly cold, but the Embankment was more romantic than a railway carriage.
+6345_93302_000058_000000 Following the tingle of relief came a sharp, sickening pinch of jealousy and mortification.
+6345_93302_000057_000011 How could she guess that he had tuned his confession to the key of what he believed would be an innocent girl's estimate of his misconduct?
+6345_93302_000062_000001 Then how can I ever trust you?
+6345_93302_000052_000000 This preamble sent a shiver of dread down her spine.
+6345_93302_000075_000003 At the corner he remembered that he had gone away without paying for the tea, and his natural impulse was to go back and remedy that error.
+6345_93302_000052_000001 What had he done-a murder-a bank robbery-married someone else?
+6345_93302_000000_000002 For more information, or to volunteer, please visit librivox dot org.
+6345_93302_000071_000000 The anger in his eyes frightened her, and the misery of his face wrung her heart; but how could she say-
+6345_93302_000039_000001 He ought to insist on the railway carriage: he probably would.
+6345_93302_000037_000006 He would hardly have known her in green and white muslin and an orchard, for their love had been born and bred in town-Highbury New Park, to be exact.
+6345_93302_000054_000002 Oh, Ethel, do try to forgive me!
+6345_93302_000000_000000 This is a LibriVox recording.
+6345_93302_000037_000008 She had grown anxious, as the one who waits always does, and she was extremely glad to see him, but she knew that a late lover should be treated with a provoking coldness (one can relent prettily later on), so she gave him a limp hand and no greeting.
+6345_93302_000059_000001 "You don't love me-you've never loved me-I was an idiot to believe you did."
+6345_93302_000055_000000 "Well?" she said.
+6345_93302_000037_000003 The setting of the scene seemed to her all important.
+6345_93302_000041_000000 They did not speak again till they had gone through the little back streets, past the police station and the mustard factory, and were on the broad pavement of Queen Victoria Street.
+6345_93302_000072_000001 I'm only talking as I know good girls ought to talk"?
+6345_93302_000069_000003 I didn't think a decent man could do such things." She was pulling on her gloves.
+6345_93302_000046_000008 But how?
+6345_93302_000065_000001 "Never," she said, her eyes flashing through her tears.
+6345_93302_000060_000000 "You know I do," he said; "it was hateful of me-but I couldn't help it."
+6345_93302_000057_000008 He had told her of the thing as one tells of a crime.
+6345_93302_000069_000000 "Good bye," she said; "I'm going home.
+6345_93302_000036_000007 She had, to the full limit allowed of her reading and her environment, the literary sense.
+6345_93302_000036_000006 You see that she knew exactly how a tryst is conducted in the pages of the standard poets and of the cheaper weekly journals.
+6345_93302_000046_000002 And she had been sulking!
+6345_93302_000054_000003 I haven't answered her letter."
+6345_93302_000050_000001 As soon as the two were alone again he leaned his elbows on the marble and spoke.
+6345_93302_000048_000000 "Yes, isn't it?" he said.
+6345_93302_000073_000000 So she said-
+6345_93302_000065_000003 No, it's all over-you've broken my heart and destroyed my faith in human nature. I hope I shall never see you again.
+6345_93302_000057_000000 She drew a deep breath.
+6345_93302_000062_000003 No-it's no use-I can never, never forgive you-and it's all over.
+6345_93302_000037_000004 Her dress was brown, her jacket black, and her hat was home trimmed.
+6345_93302_000038_000001 "Shall we walk along the Embankment, or go somewhere on the Underground?"
+6345_93302_000065_000000 Then she rose to the occasion.
+6345_93302_000040_000000 "Oh, the Embankment, please!" and felt a sting of annoyance and disappointment when he acquiesced.
+6345_93302_000058_000001 These inspired her.
+6345_93302_000062_000002 Even if we were married I could never be sure you weren't kissing some horrid girl or other.
+6345_93302_000061_000000 Those four true words wounded her more than all the rest.
+6345_93302_000074_000001 Good bye!"
+6345_93302_000069_000006 This really was a master stroke of nobility.
+6345_93302_000036_000001 And the fact that she was to meet him at Cannon Street Station would almost, she feared, make the meeting itself banal, sordid.
+6345_93302_000046_000000 Seated at a marble table-the place was nearly empty-she furtively watched his face in the glass, and what she saw there thrilled her.
+6345_93302_000042_000004 But here-the only thing that occurred to her was to stop and look in one of the shops till he should ask her what she was looking at.
+6345_93302_000069_000004 "Go home and gloat over it all!
+6345_93302_000049_000000 The fine tact of a noble woman seemed to have deserted her.
+6345_93302_000000_000001 All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
+6345_93302_000064_000000 "Forgive me, dear," he said.
+6345_93302_000075_000008 So she waited for him in vain, and at last paid for the tea herself, and went home to wait there-and there, too, in vain, for he never came back to her.
+6345_93302_000042_000003 Then he would have had to say something.
+6345_93302_000036_000000 SHE was going to meet her lover.
+6345_93302_000050_000000 The waitress brought the two thick cups of tea, and looked at him with a tepid curiosity.
+6345_93302_000057_000003 What was it, compared with her fears?
+6345_93302_000068_000000 He would come to morrow, however, and then- At present the thing to compass was a dignified parting.
+6345_93302_000043_000000 Why on earth didn't he speak?
+6345_93302_000044_000000 "I'm freezing," she said suddenly; "let's go and have some tea."
+6345_93302_000075_000009 He loved her with all his heart, and he, also, had what she had never suspected in him-the literary sense.
+6345_93302_000036_000005 Her hands should have been full of bluebells, and she should have held them up to his face in maidenly defence as he sprang forward to take her in his arms.
+6345_93302_000051_000000 "Look here, darling, I've got something to tell you, and I hope to God you'll forgive me and stand by me, and try to understand that I love you just the same, and whatever happens I shall always love you."
+6345_64257_000009_000012 I know it, and there is no waking.
+6345_64257_000005_000001 Death was a fact.
+6345_64257_000010_000003 If I speak to her, she is not there.
+6345_64257_000009_000015 Her only life was, that she was lost.
+6345_64257_000008_000008 It was all deadness.
+6345_64257_000010_000005 Oh, cold creatures, ye are not what ye seem, and I will none of you!"
+6345_64257_000014_000002 But she neither loved the light nor mourned the shadow.
+6345_64257_000009_000011 Everything is an empty dream of loss.
+6345_64257_000004_000000 That night was the first herald of the coming winter, and blew a cold blast from his horn.
+6345_64257_000007_000002 At the end of it she was in a place of tombs.
+6345_64257_000014_000001 She was like a fish in a sea of light.
+6345_64257_000005_000005 At last she fell asleep, and in a moment was dreaming diligently.
+6345_64257_000011_000004 The universe was sunk in one of the dreams that haunt the sleep of death; and, if these were ghosts at all, they were ghosts walking in their sleep.
+6345_64257_000009_000008 It is nothing.
+6345_64257_000006_000004 Every now and then she came on a little group, or met a party of the guests, as she walked, but none spoke to her, or seemed to see her, and she spoke to none.
+6345_64257_000007_000004 But for a long time she sought the house in vain; she could not reach it; the avenue seemed interminable to her feet returning.
+6345_64257_000009_000005 "He is dead.
+6345_64257_000009_000016 Her whole consciousness was merest, all but abstract, loss.
+6345_64257_000012_000000 But the dead, one of them seized one of her hands, and another the other.
+6345_64257_000005_000003 How could she? She had not seen Christ rise; she had never looked upon one of the dead; never heard a voice from the other bank; had received no certain testimony.
+6345_64257_000012_000003 Through the moonlight they led her from the city, and over fields, and through valleys, and across rivers and seas-a long journey; nor did she grow weary, for there was not life enough in her to be made weary.
+6345_64257_000001_000000 CHAPTER twelve.
+6345_64257_000009_000014 The old time was but a thicker dream, and this is truer because more shadowy." And, the form still standing by her, she felt it was ages away; she was divided from it by a gulf of very nothingness.
+6345_64257_000016_000002 And the voice said, "Poor child! something has closed the valve between her heart and mine." With that came a pang of intense pain.
+6345_64257_000012_000004 The dead never spoke to her, and she never spoke to them.
+6345_64257_000012_000002 Thus was she borne away captive of her dead, neither willing nor unwilling, of life and death equally careless.
+6345_64257_000006_000000 She was one of a large company at a house where she had never been before-a beautiful house with a large garden behind.
+6345_64257_000007_000000 She found herself at length in an avenue of dark trees, the end of which was far off.
+6345_64257_000010_000002 "She is nothing to me.
+6345_64257_000011_000002 Even if he were alive, her heart was past being moved.
+6345_64257_000003_000000 That night, and every night until the dust was laid to the dust, Mary slept well; and through the days she had great composure; but, when the funeral was over, came a collapse and a change.
+6345_64257_000009_000009 I am nothing.
+6345_64257_000004_000006 If for a moment a thing looked the same as before, she wondered vaguely, unconsciously, how it could be.
+6345_64257_000005_000002 The loss, the evanishment, the ceasing, were incontrovertible-the only incontrovertible things: she was sure of them: could she be sure of anything else?
+6345_64257_000009_000002 But not a throb went through her heart.
+6345_64257_000007_000003 Terror and a dismay indescribable seized her; she turned and fled back to the company of her kind.
+6345_64257_000007_000009 She was out of place, and much unwelcome.
+6345_64257_000004_000004 The smell of the linen, of the blue cloth, and of the brown paper-things no longer to be handled by those tender, faithful hands-was dismal and strange, and haunted her like things that intruded, things which she had done with, and which yet would not go away.
+6345_64257_000014_000000 Of a sudden a great splendor burst upon her, and through her eyelids she was struck blind-blind with light and not with darkness, for all was radiance about her.
+6345_64257_000009_000003 He came to her side, and she gave him no greeting.
+6345_64257_000008_000001 No carriage rolled along the center, no footfarer walked on the side.
+6345_64257_000010_000000 Then came the form of her mother, and bent over that of her brother from behind.
+6345_64257_000004_000001 All day the wind had been out.
+6345_64257_000008_000004 She knew nothing of the place, had nowhere to go, nowhere she wanted to go, had not a thought to tell her what question to ask, if she met a living soul.
+1993_147149_000005_000002 The board, not so formidable as she had imagined, had inquired into her case; and, instead of sending her to Stoke Claypole, her husband's Buckinghamshire parish, as she had dreaded, had agreed to pay her rent.
+1993_147149_000054_000006 Well, when I'm mrs Harry Carson, may happen I can put some good fortune in Jem's way.
+1993_147149_000047_000001 But as he turned to catch a look at her sweet face, he saw that it expressed unfeigned distress, almost amounting to vexation; a dread of him, that he thought was almost repugnance.
+1993_147149_000042_000000 "Oh, Jem, don't give way so; I cannot bear to see you."
+1993_147149_000054_000005 And I'm as good as engaged to be married to another; and another far handsomer than Jem; only I think I like Jem's face best for all that; liking's liking, and there's no help for it.
+1993_147149_000012_000001 Over the child, which yet breathed, the father bent, watching anxiously for some ground of hope, where hope there was none.
+1993_147149_000051_000002 So leaving kind messages to George and Jane Wilson, and hesitating whether she might dare to send a few kind words to Jem, and deciding that she had better not, she stepped out into the bright morning light, so fresh a contrast to the darkened room where death had been.
+1993_147149_000025_000000 She bent down, and fondly, oh! with what passionate fondness, kissed her child, and then gave him up to Alice, who took him with tender care.
+1993_147149_000018_000001 He cannot die while she's wishing him."
+1993_147149_000041_000004 Mary's heart melted within her as she witnessed Jem's sorrow, and she stepped gently up to the corner where he stood, with his back turned to them, and putting her hand softly on his arm, said,
+1993_147149_000043_000000 Jem felt a strange leap of joy in his heart, and knew the power she had of comforting him.
+1993_147149_000034_000004 He had stolen out during the half hour allowed at the works for tea, to buy them an orange or two, which now puffed out his jacket pocket.
+1993_147149_000007_000001 They were like many a pair of twins, and seemed to have but one life divided between them.
+1993_147149_000037_000000 "Dead!"
+1993_147149_000029_000000 "Where is he?" asked Mary.
+1993_147149_000038_000001 They took worse about two o'clock.
+1993_147149_000036_000000 "They're both gone," said she.
+1993_147149_000050_000000 Partly to relieve her from his presence, and partly from natural desire, and partly, perhaps, from a penitent wish to share to the utmost his parents' sorrow, he soon went up stairs to the chamber of death.
+1993_147149_000053_000000 Mary lay down on her bed in her clothes; and whether it was this, or the broad daylight that poured in through the sky window, or whether it was over excitement, it was long before she could catch a wink of sleep.
+1993_147149_000034_000002 But just now he hardly saw her; he went straight up to Alice, and asked how the little chaps were.
+1993_147149_000022_000002 Alice and Mary stood by with eyes fixed on the poor child, whose struggles seemed to increase, till at last his mother said with a choking voice,
+1993_147149_000041_000000 Jem went to the cupboard, and quietly extricated from his pocket the oranges he had bought.
+1993_147149_000009_000000 But when the twins, after ailing many days, and caring little for their meat, fell sick on the same afternoon, with the same heavy stupor of suffering, the three hearts that loved them so, each felt, though none acknowledged to the other, that they had little chance for life.
+1993_147149_000005_000000 The ghoul like fever was not to be braved with impunity, and baulked of its prey.
+1993_147149_000057_000006 How she would surround him with every comfort she could devise (of course, he was to live with them), till he should acknowledge riches to be very pleasant things, and bless his lady daughter!
+1993_147149_000053_000001 Her thoughts ran on Jem's manner and words; not but what she had known the tale they told for many a day; but still she wished he had not put it so plainly.
+1993_147149_000041_000003 They cried afresh in company.
+1993_147149_000018_000000 "We mun get him away from his mother.
+1993_147149_000016_000002 But earnest as the father was in watching the yet living, he had eyes and ears for all that concerned the dead, and sprang gently up, and took his dead son on his hard couch in his arms with tender strength, and carried him upstairs as if afraid of wakening him.
+1993_147149_000051_000000 Mary mechanically helped Alice in all the duties she performed through the remainder of that long night, but she did not see Jem again.
+1993_147149_000026_000002 Again Alice laid out the dead, Mary helping with reverent fear.
+1993_147149_000054_000004 I think I cannot go right, for I either check myself till I'm downright cross to him, or else I speak just natural, and that's too kind and tender by half.
+1993_147149_000044_000000 "Don't, Jem, please don't," whispered she again, believing that his silence was only another form of grief.
+1993_147149_000045_000000 He could not contain himself.
+1993_147149_000005_000003 So food for four mouths was all she was now required to find; only for three she would have said; for herself and the unweaned child were but reckoned as one in her calculation.
+1993_147149_000006_000002 Her plan of living was so far arranged, when she heard, with keen sorrow, that Wilson's twin lads were ill of the fever.
+1993_147149_000025_000001 Nature's struggles were soon exhausted, and he breathed his little life away in peace.
+1993_147965_000001_000007 He had the gift of simple and moving expression.
+1993_147965_000006_000001 He needed little urging.
+1993_147965_000003_000000 At about four o'clock a visitor appeared: mr Shimerda, wearing his rabbit skin cap and collar, and new mittens his wife had knitted.
+1993_147965_000001_000003 He read the chapters from saint Matthew about the birth of Christ, and as we listened it all seemed like something that had happened lately, and near at hand.
+1993_147965_000002_000005 All afternoon he sat in the dining room.
+1993_147965_000003_000003 This feeling seemed completely to take possession of mr Shimerda.
+1993_147965_000001_000009 His prayers reflected what he was thinking about at the time, and it was chiefly through them that we got to know his feelings and his views about things.
+1993_147965_000007_000003 As we turned back to the sitting room, grandfather looked at me searchingly.
+1993_147965_000001_000001 Jake and Otto shouted "Merry Christmas"! to me, and winked at each other when they saw the waffle irons on the stove. Grandfather came down, wearing a white shirt and his Sunday coat.
+1993_147965_000001_000004 In his prayer he thanked the Lord for the first Christmas, and for all that it had meant to the world ever since.
+1993_147965_000007_000004 "The prayers of all good people are good," he said quietly.
+1993_147965_000003_000005 He sat still and passive, his head resting against the back of the wooden rocking chair, his hands relaxed upon the arms.
+1993_147965_000002_000002 There were always odd jobs to be done about the barn on holidays, and the men were busy until afternoon.
+1993_147965_000001_000005 He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.
+1993_147965_000007_000000 At nine o'clock mr Shimerda lighted one of our lanterns and put on his overcoat and fur collar.
+1993_147965_000001_000008 Because he talked so little, his words had a peculiar force; they were not worn dull from constant use.
+1993_147965_000002_000000 After we sat down to our waffles and sausage, Jake told us how pleased the Shimerdas had been with their presents; even Ambrosch was friendly and went to the creek with him to cut the Christmas tree.
+1993_147965_000002_000004 He always wrote to her on Christmas Day, he said, no matter where he was, and no matter how long it had been since his last letter.
+1993_147965_000006_000003 When his deep seeing eyes rested on me, I felt as if he were looking far ahead into the future for me, down the road I would have to travel.
+1993_147965_000002_000001 It was a soft gray day outside, with heavy clouds working across the sky, and occasional squalls of snow.
+1993_147965_000001_000002 Morning prayers were longer than usual.
+1993_147965_000005_000001 When the candle ends sent up their conical yellow flames, all the colored figures from Austria stood out clear and full of meaning against the green boughs.
+1993_147965_000005_000003 His long body formed a letter "S." I saw grandmother look apprehensively at grandfather. He was rather narrow in religious matters, and sometimes spoke out and hurt people's feelings.
+1993_147965_000003_000008 He said almost nothing, and smiled rarely; but as he rested there we all had a sense of his utter content.
+1993_147965_000002_000003 Then Jake and I played dominoes, while Otto wrote a long letter home to his mother.
+1993_147965_000007_000001 He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us.
+1993_147965_000003_000006 His face had a look of weariness and pleasure, like that of sick people when they feel relief from pain.
+1993_147965_000003_000007 Grandmother insisted on his drinking a glass of Virginia apple brandy after his long walk in the cold, and when a faint flush came up in his cheeks, his features might have been cut out of a shell, they were so transparent.
+1993_147965_000003_000001 He had come to thank us for the presents, and for all grandmother's kindness to his family.
+1993_147965_000003_000004 I suppose, in the crowded clutter of their cave, the old man had come to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the old world he had left so far behind.
+1993_147965_000006_000002 As we sat down to the table, it occurred to me that he liked to look at us, and that our faces were open books to him.
+1993_147965_000006_000000 We persuaded our guest to stay for supper with us.
+1993_147965_000001_000006 Grandfather's prayers were often very interesting.
+1993_147965_000005_000000 As it grew dark, I asked whether I might light the Christmas tree before the lamp was brought.
+1993_147964_000005_000003 She cut squares of cotton cloth and we sewed them together into a book.
+1993_147964_000003_000003 The cold was not severe, but the storm was quiet and resistless.
+1993_147964_000006_000003 I put on my cap and ran out to meet Jake.
+1993_147964_000007_000004 Its real splendors, however, came from the most unlikely place in the world-from Otto's cowboy trunk.
+1993_147964_000008_000001 As I remember them, what unprotected faces they were; their very roughness and violence made them defenseless.
+1993_147964_000003_000005 They sat about the house most of the day as if it were Sunday; greasing their boots, mending their suspenders, plaiting whiplashes.
+1993_147964_000004_000001 Jake was sure he could get through on horseback, and bring home our things in saddle bags; but grandfather told him the roads would be obliterated, and a newcomer in the country would be lost ten times over.
+1993_147964_000005_000000 We decided to have a country Christmas, without any help from town.
+1993_147964_000005_000009 Grandmother hunted up her fancy cake cutters and baked gingerbread men and roosters, which we decorated with burnt sugar and red cinnamon drops.
+1993_147964_000006_000000 On the day before Christmas, Jake packed the things we were sending to the Shimerdas in his saddle bags and set off on grandfather's gray gelding. When he mounted his horse at the door, I saw that he had a hatchet slung to his belt, and he gave grandmother a meaning look which told me he was planning a surprise for me.
+1993_147964_000003_000002 The snow did not stop falling all day, or during the night that followed.
+1993_147964_000007_000002 The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.
+1993_147964_000005_000006 We had files of those good old family magazines which used to publish colored lithographs of popular paintings, and I was allowed to use some of these.
+1993_147964_000008_000000 I can see them now, exactly as they looked, working about the table in the lamplight: Jake with his heavy features, so rudely moulded that his face seemed, somehow, unfinished; Otto with his half ear and the savage scar that made his upper lip curl so ferociously under his twisted mustache.
+1993_147964_000007_000009 Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
+1993_147964_000005_000001 I had wanted to get some picture books for Yulka and Antonia; even Yulka was able to read a little now.
+1993_147964_000003_000004 The men could not go farther than the barns and corral.
+1993_147964_000005_000004 We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a circus.
+1993_147964_000005_000008 On the white pages I grouped Sunday School cards and advertising cards which I had brought from my "old country." Fuchs got out the old candle moulds and made tallow candles.
+1993_147964_000006_000004 When I got to the pond I could see that he was bringing in a little cedar tree across his pommel.
+1993_147964_000005_000007 I took "Napoleon Announcing the Divorce to Josephine" for my frontispiece.
+1993_147964_000006_000005 He used to help my father cut Christmas trees for me in Virginia, and he had not forgotten how much I liked them.
+1993_147964_000005_000005 For two days I sat at the dining room table, pasting this book full of pictures for Yulka.
+1993_147964_000003_000001 The flakes came down so thickly that from the sitting room windows I could not see beyond the windmill-its frame looked dim and gray, unsubstantial like a shadow.
+1993_147964_000007_000011 We put sheets of cotton wool under it for a snow field, and Jake's pocket mirror for a frozen lake.
+1993_147966_000007_000004 When I beg him for play, he shake his head no
+1993_147966_000007_000005 Some days he take his violin out of his box and make with his fingers on the strings, like this, but never he make the music.
+1993_147966_000009_000004 But my mama, she want Ambrosch for be rich, with many cattle."
+1993_147966_000006_000001 I was so annoyed that I felt coldly even toward Antonia and listened unsympathetically when she told me her father was not well.
+1993_147966_000008_000001 "We don't make them come here."
+1993_147966_000014_000000 Grandmother chuckled and drove her bright needle across a hole in Otto's sock.
+1993_147966_000007_000003 At home he play violin all the time; for weddings and for dance. Here never.
+1993_147966_000004_000002 In the kitchen she caught up an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove and said: "You got many, Shimerdas no got." I thought it weak minded of grandmother to give the pot to her.
+1993_147966_000005_000001 If I got all things like you, I make much better."
+1993_147966_000012_000003 Though Antonia loved her father more than she did any one else, she stood in awe of her elder brother.
+1993_147966_000015_000007 Clearly, the affair had to be stopped.
+1993_147966_000018_000001 The snow did not fall this time, it simply spilled out of heaven, like thousands of feather beds being emptied.
+1993_147966_000015_000004 Each withdrew to a far corner of his own corral, and then they made for each other at a gallop. Thud, thud, we could hear the impact of their great heads, and their bellowing shook the pans on the kitchen shelves.
+1993_147966_000011_000004 For Ambrosch my mama come here."
+1993_147966_000015_000003 They bellowed and pawed up the soft earth with their hoofs, rolling their eyes and tossing their heads.
+1993_147966_000011_000003 He is very smart boy.
+1993_147966_000019_000004 "This'll take the bile out of 'em!" Fuchs remarked gleefully.
+1993_147966_000015_000002 One morning the two big bulls, Gladstone and Brigham Young, thought spring had come, and they began to tease and butt at each other across the barbed wire that separated them. Soon they got angry.
+1993_147966_000016_000001 When I went down to breakfast that morning, Jake and Otto came in white as snow men, beating their hands and stamping their feet.
+1993_147966_000020_000000 At noon that day the hens had not been heard from.
+1993_147966_000007_000002 He never make music any more.
+1993_147966_000015_000000 We had three weeks of this mild, open weather.
+1993_147966_000014_000005 Now read me a chapter in 'The Prince of the House of David.' Let's forget the Bohemians."
+1993_147966_000020_000001 After dinner Jake and Otto, their damp clothes now dried on them, stretched their stiff arms and plunged again into the drifts.
+1993_147966_000015_000005 Had they not been dehorned, they would have torn each other to pieces.
+1993_147966_000017_000000 "You've got a birthday present this time, Jim, and no mistake.
+1993_147966_000007_000001 He not look good.
+1993_147966_000005_000000 After dinner, when she was helping to wash the dishes, she said, tossing her head: "You got many things for cook.
+1993_147966_000011_000002 Ambrosch be rich, too, after while, and he pay back.
+1993_147966_000011_000000 "Your grandfather is rich," she retorted fiercely.
+1993_147966_000020_000007 By five o'clock the chores were done-just when it was time to begin them all over again!
+1993_147966_000003_000001 The soft black earth stood out in patches along the roadsides.
+1993_147966_000015_000001 The cattle in the corral ate corn almost as fast as the men could shell it for them, and we hoped they would be ready for an early market.
+1993_147966_000020_000003 We found the chickens asleep; perhaps they thought night had come to stay.
+1993_147966_000002_000000 thirteen
+1993_147966_000019_000003 We could not so much as see the corrals, but we knew the steers were over there, huddled together under the north bank. Our ferocious bulls, subdued enough by this time, were probably warming each other's backs.
+2803_154320_000019_000000 "You, my Lord?"
+2803_154320_000005_000002 He could not stay in one place.
+2803_154320_000015_000000 "Your Lordship forgets our position.
+2803_154320_000013_000000 "God keep us from such a meeting!"
+2803_154320_000010_000001 "I am not looking for the land."
+2803_154320_000001_000003 The heavy, lumpy sea strained her cordage, her timbers creaked, and she labored painfully in the trough of the sea.
+2803_154320_000007_000001 We ought to have seen the lights of Auckland thirty six hours ago."
+2803_154320_000021_000000 "Keep up your heart, my Lord," said the young captain.
+2803_154320_000004_000003 Much as they had been interested in his dissertation on the Pampas, or Australia, his lectures on New Zealand fell on cold and indifferent ears.
+2803_154320_000021_000003 Will Halley is a brute, but I am keeping my eyes open, and if the coast looks dangerous, I will put the ship's head to sea again. So that, on that score, there is little or no danger.
+2803_154320_000005_000012 john came up to him and said, "Your Lordship is looking out for land?"
+2803_154320_000014_000000 "Why, john?"
+2803_154320_000017_000002 Our lives would be worth little.
+2803_154320_000006_000000 Glenarvan shook his head in dissent.
+2803_154320_000003_000002 Then they returned to the narrow space, fitter for stowing cargo than accommodating passengers, especially ladies.
+2803_154320_000010_000000 "Why, john?" replied Glenarvan.
+2803_154320_000012_000000 "My yacht! the DUNCAN," said Glenarvan, hotly.
+2803_154320_000022_000002 There was every reason to fear such an engagement in these narrow seas, in which pirates could ply their trade without risk.
+2803_154320_000004_000002 Their minds were so distracted at this change of route as to be quite unhinged.
+2803_154320_000011_000000 "What then, my Lord?"
+2803_154320_000017_000001 We should be taken, delivered up to the mercy of those wretches, and Ben Joyce has shown us that he does not stop at a crime!
+2803_154320_000008_000001 He still looked, and for a moment his glass was pointed toward the horizon to windward.
+2803_154320_000021_000001 "We must not look out for troubles.
+2803_154320_000004_000000 Their friends did their best to amuse them.
+2803_154320_000022_000003 However, for that day at least, the yacht did not appear, and the sixth night from their departure from Twofold Bay came, without the fears of john Mangles being realized.
+2803_154320_000009_000001 "Look more to starboard."
+2803_154320_000017_000004 Think of Lady Glenarvan; think of Mary Grant!"
+2803_154320_000012_000001 "It must be here on these coasts, skimming these very waves, playing the vile part of a pirate! It is here, john; I am certain of it, on the track of vessels between Australia and New Zealand; and I have a presentiment that we shall fall in with her."
+2803_154320_000007_000000 "And yet," said the young captain, "you must be longing to quit this vessel.
+2803_154320_000016_000000 "Fly, john?"
+2803_154320_000018_000000 "Poor girls!" murmured Glenarvan.
+2803_154320_000018_000001 "john, my heart is broken; and sometimes despair nearly masters me.
+2803_154320_000003_000001 They often braved the weather, and went on the poop till driven down again by the force of a sudden squall.
+2803_154320_000021_000004 But as to getting alongside the DUNCAN!
+2803_154320_000021_000006 And if your Lordship is bent on looking out for her, let it be in order to give her a wide berth."
+2803_154320_000020_000000 "Not for myself, john, but for those I love-whom you love, also."
+2803_154320_000001_000002 The wind was fair, nevertheless, and blew steadily from the southwest; but the currents were against the ship's course, and she scarcely made any way.
+2803_154320_000017_000000 "Yes, my Lord; we should try in vain!
+2803_154320_000001_000000 STILL this wearisome voyage dragged on.
+2803_154320_000004_000004 Besides, they were going to this new and ill reputed country without enthusiasm, without conviction, not even of their own free will, but solely at the bidding of destiny.
+2803_154320_000021_000005 God forbid!
+2803_154320_000017_000003 We would fight to the death, of course, but after that!
+2803_154328_000027_000000 "Animal or man," answered the Major, "I will soon find out!"
+2803_154328_000083_000000 Another half an hour and the glorious sun would rise out of the mists of the horizon.
+2803_154328_000007_000005 But death here, means not death only, it means torture, insult, perhaps, and here are two ladies-"
+2803_154328_000062_000001 "I discovered a deep hollow at the foot of the slope where those who come down can conceal themselves and wait for the rest."
+2803_154328_000071_000000 Glenarvan, holding with one hand to a tuft of tetragonia, with the other holding his wife, waited with breathless anxiety.
+2803_154328_000008_000000 Glenarvan's voice, firm till now, faltered.
+2803_154328_000028_000000 Wilson and Olbinett joined their companions, and all united to dig through the wall-john with his dagger, the others with stones taken from the ground, or with their nails, while Mulrady, stretched along the ground, watched the native guard through a crevice of the matting.
+2803_154328_000034_000002 It was evidently the cue of both sides to be silent.
+2803_154328_000032_000000 Some minutes more passed, and the Major withdrew his hand from the stroke of a sharp blade.
+2803_154328_000059_000000 The next thing was to descend the vertical wall to the slope below, and this would have been impracticable, but that Robert had brought the flax rope, which was now unrolled and fixed to a projecting point of rock, the end hanging over.
+2803_154328_000075_000000 john signaled to Glenarvan to resume his descent.
+2803_154328_000011_000000 "Yes, john; but we are unarmed."
+2803_154328_000019_000001 Thick darkness had settled on the mountain.
+2803_154328_000083_000002 Paganel was not there to take the lead.
+2803_154328_000088_000000 While they looked they were seen.
+2803_154328_000080_000003 Where chance led them, but at any rate they were free.
+2803_154328_000073_000000 One of the warriors on guard, startled by an unusual sound, rose and drew nearer to the Ware Atoua.
+2803_154328_000055_000000 "Well, lose no more time," said the Major.
+2803_154328_000067_000001 Then Glenarvan going first and supporting his wife, began to descend backward.
+2803_154328_000014_000000 "I did not speak for ourselves," said Glenarvan.
+2803_154328_000015_000002 But they all kept watchful guard on the hut confided to their care.
+2803_154328_000009_000000 "john, you have promised Mary what I promised Lady Helena.
+2803_154328_000064_000000 Robert disappeared through the opening out of the grotto.
+2803_154328_000052_000000 "No, Robert!" answered Mary Grant.
+2803_154328_000066_000001 She felt stronger and commenced her perilous descent.
+2803_154328_000006_000005 Sleep, which keeps all sorrow in abeyance, soon weighed down their eyelids; they slept in each other's arms, overcome by exhaustion and prolonged watching.
+2803_154328_000081_000001 The misty summits began to pierce the morning mists.
+2803_154328_000085_000002 Besides, a thick veil of fog, which, spread at his feet, prevented any distinct view of the valleys below.
+2803_154328_000007_000000 Then Glenarvan, taking his friends aside, said: "My dear friends, our lives and the lives of these poor women are in God's hands.
+2803_154328_000016_000001 The jailer may forget that he is on guard; the prisoner never forgets that he is guarded.
+2803_154328_000047_000000 "Let us be off!" said he, in a decided tone.
+2803_154328_000037_000000 "My darling Robert," said she, never doubting, "it is you! it is you!"
+2803_154328_000045_000001 I stole this knife and rope out of the desert hut.
+2803_154328_000086_000001 Had they been seen?
+2803_154328_000019_000002 Neither moon nor stars pierced the gloom.
+2803_154328_000006_000001 Lady Helena repeated the evening prayer aloud, her companions, bare headed, repeated it after her.
+2803_154328_000030_000001 It soon became evident that a man, or men, clinging to the sides of the "pah," were cutting a passage into its exterior wall.
+2803_154328_000019_000000 The hours of this night, wretched as they were, slipped away.
+2803_154328_000058_000000 The escape was commenced, and every precaution was taken.
+2803_154328_000084_000000 At last the sun appeared and sent his first rays on their path.
+2803_154328_000061_000001 Lord and Lady Glenarvan first; when they arrive at the bottom, three pulls at the rope will be a signal to us to follow."
+2803_154328_000054_000000 "No, my Lord!" said Robert, taken aback by the disappearance of his friend Paganel.
+2803_154328_000051_000000 "No, my Lord; but is he not here?" inquired Robert.
+2803_154328_000063_000000 "Go, my boy," said Glenarvan, pressing Robert's hand.
+2803_154328_000025_000000 Glenarvan struck his forehead.
+2803_154328_000048_000000 "Is Paganel below?" asked Glenarvan.
+2803_154328_000081_000000 Toward five o'clock, the day began to dawn, bluish clouds marbled the upper stratum of clouds.
+2803_154328_000022_000000 "Listen," said he, motioning them to stoop.
+2803_154328_000067_000000 Glenarvan first, then Lady Helena, let themselves down along the rope, till they came to the spot where the perpendicular wall met the top of the slope.
+2803_154328_000053_000002 Did you not get away together?"
+2803_154328_000007_000002 God, who reads our hearts, knows that we had a noble end in view.
+2803_154328_000039_000000 "Brave lad!" repeated Glenarvan.
+2803_154328_000058_000002 john Mangles, before leaving the hut, disposed of all the evidences of their work, and in his turn slipped through the opening and let down over it the mats of the house, so that the entrance to the gallery was quite concealed.
+2803_154328_000055_000001 "Wherever Paganel is, he cannot be in worse plight than ourselves.
+2803_154328_000030_000000 The soil was light and friable, and below lay a bed of silicious tufa; therefore, even without tools, the aperture deepened quickly.
+2803_154328_000010_000000 "I believe," said john, "that in the sight of God I have a right to fulfill that promise."
+2803_154328_000008_000001 He was silent a moment, and having overcome his emotion, he said, addressing the young captain:
+2803_154328_000013_000002 I am not an advocate of irremediable measures."
+2803_154328_000006_000003 This done, the prisoners embraced each other.
+2803_154328_000044_000000 "My child, my child," murmured Lady Helena, "the savages did not kill you!"
+2803_154328_000061_000000 "This rope," said he, "will only bear the weight of two persons; therefore let us go in rotation.
+2803_154328_000005_000001 We must show these savages how Europeans can die."
+2803_154328_000068_000001 Some birds, suddenly awakened, flew away, uttering feeble cries, and the fugitives trembled when a stone loosened from its bed rolled to the foot of the mountain.
+2803_154328_000080_000000 They walked quickly, trying to avoid the points where they might be seen from the pah.
+2803_154328_000065_000000 Glenarvan and Lady Helena immediately ventured out of the grotto.
+2803_154328_000073_000003 Then shaking his head like one who sees he is mistaken, he went back to his companions, took an armful of dead wood, and threw it into the smouldering fire, which immediately revived.
+2803_154328_000023_000000 The scratching became more and more audible; they could hear the little stones grate on a hard body and roll away.
+2803_154328_000004_000000 They had one night in which to prepare for death.
+2803_154328_000062_000000 "I will go first," said Robert.
+2803_154328_000006_000000 The meal ended.
+2803_154328_000083_000006 Dim outlines of hills and mountains rose behind one another; but Glenarvan only thought how best to get lost among them. Time enough by and by to see about escaping from the labyrinth.
+2803_154328_000007_000001 If it is decreed that we die to morrow, let us die bravely, like Christian men, ready to appear without terror before the Supreme Judge.
+2803_154328_000016_000002 The captive thinks oftener of escaping than the jailer of preventing his flight, and hence we hear of frequent and wonderful escapes.
+2803_154328_000014_000001 "Be it as it may, we can face death!
+2803_154328_000002_000000 CHAPTER twelve STRANGELY LIBERATED
+2803_154328_000033_000000 john Mangles, inserting the blade of his poniard, avoided the knife which now protruded above the soil, but seized the hand that wielded it.
+2803_154328_000069_000000 They had reached half-way down the slope, when a voice was heard from the opening of the grotto.
+2803_154328_000056_000001 They had to fly.
+2803_154328_000085_000000 Suddenly a terrific yell from a hundred throats rent the air.
+2803_154328_000015_000000 At this moment john raised the mat, and counted twenty five natives keeping guard on the Ware Atoua.
+2803_154328_000018_000004 All escape was thus hopeless, and Glenarvan having tried the walls for the twentieth time, was compelled to acknowledge that it was so.
+2803_154328_000006_000002 Who does not turn his thoughts toward God in the hour of death?
+2803_154328_000040_000000 "Watch the savages outside," said Robert.
+2803_154328_000013_000000 After these words were said, a profound silence ensued.
+2803_154328_000035_000000 "Is it Robert?" whispered Glenarvan.
+2803_154328_000004_000001 Overcome as they were with horror and fatigue, they took their last meal together.
+2803_154328_000060_000000 john Mangles, before his friends trusted themselves to this flax rope, tried it; he did not think it very strong; and it was of importance not to risk themselves imprudently, as a fall would be fatal.
+2803_154328_000007_000004 Stern as the decree may seem, I will not repine.
+2803_154328_000034_000000 It was the hand of a woman or child, a European!
+2803_154328_000043_000001 Round his body was rolled a long coil of flax rope.
+2803_154328_000085_000001 It came from the pah, whose direction Glenarvan did not know.
+2803_154328_000083_000003 He was now the object of their anxiety, and whose absence was a black shadow between them and their happiness.
+2803_154328_000086_000000 But the fugitives could not doubt that their escape had been discovered; and now the question was, would they be able to elude pursuit?
+2803_154328_000055_000002 Let us go."
+2803_154328_000083_000005 Soon they had reached a height of five hundred feet above Lake Taupo, and the cold of the morning, increased by the altitude, was very keen.
+2803_154328_000014_000003 Let us attack these wretches!' But with these poor girls-"
+2803_154328_000038_000000 "Yes, little sister," said he, "it is I am here to save you all; but be very silent."
+2803_154328_000042_000001 "There are only four awake; the rest are asleep."
+2803_154328_000031_000000 The prisoners redoubled their efforts.
+2803_154328_000012_000002 My Lord, whichever of us survives the other will fulfill the wish of Lady Helena and Mary Grant."
+2803_154328_000036_000000 But softly as the name was breathed, Mary Grant, already awakened by the sounds in the hut, slipped over toward Glenarvan, and seizing the hand, all stained with earth, she covered it with kisses.
+2803_154328_000077_000000 The rope was shaken three times, and in his turn john Mangles, preceding Mary Grant, followed in the dangerous route.
+2803_161169_000011_000008 This served for a hint to curious men, to make them ask "What is this?" and "What is it good for?" and so at last, following their questions, to find their way to the secret stores, and make an open doorway, and let the world in.
+2803_161169_000010_000002 Here are mosses and little leaves, and sometimes an odd looking little body that is not unlike some of the sea creatures we found at the beach last summer; and every thing is made of coal, nothing but coal.
+2803_161169_000009_000003 Do you see the delicate tracery of ferns, more beautiful than the fairest drawing.
+2803_161169_000004_000004 The sweetest perfumes floated through the air, while thousands of birds answered the music of fountains with their songs.
+2803_161169_000008_000008 All about we see men like our guide, working by the light of their little lamps.
+2803_161169_000004_000000 Once there was a father who thought he would build for his children a beautiful home, putting into it every thing they could need or desire throughout their lives.
+2803_161169_000005_000003 Why did he give that so odd a shape, or so strange a covering?
+2803_161169_000011_000013 The thought came to them that it might be prepared from coal, and conducted through pipes to our houses to take the place of lamps or candles, which until that time had been the only light.
+2803_161169_000014_000001 If she does, you are indebted again to the coal oil, for of that it is partly made.
+2803_161169_000008_000005 But you will find that they are really pulled and pushed by an engine that stands outside the doorway and reaches them by long chains.
+2803_161169_000008_000007 So this great green hill, upon which you might run or play, is inside like what I think some of those large anthills must be,--traversed by galleries, and full of rooms and long passages.
+2803_161169_000005_000008 The least they could do would be to try to use every thing for the purposes intended, and not to destroy or injure any of the precious gifts prepared so lovingly for their use.
+2803_161169_000008_000002 The entrance is light, because it opens so wide; but we can see that the floor slopes downward, and the way looks dark and narrow before us.
+2803_161169_000010_000004 Ferns and palms, mosses and trees and animals, all perfect, all beautiful, and yet all hidden away under this hill, and turned into shining black coal.
+2803_161169_000011_000019 What do you think of that from the coal tar.
+2803_161169_000013_000002 As it floated on the surface of the water (for oil and water will not mix, you know), the boys, for mischief, set fire to it, and a stream of fire rolled along down the river; proving to everybody who saw it, that a new light, as good as gas, had come from the coal.
+2803_161169_000009_000002 Look a little closer, while our guide lets the light of his lamp fall upon the black wall at your side.
+2803_161169_000008_000000 The doorway of this storehouse lies in the side of a hill.
+2803_161169_000011_000017 Don't you see how many uses we have found for this refuse coal tar?
+2803_161169_000011_000021 Besides the dyes, we shall also have left naphtha, useful in making varnish, and various oils that are used in more ways than I can stop to tell you, or you would care now to hear.
+2803_161169_000006_000001 It is this earth on which we live.
+2803_161169_000010_000001 Let us look at them; for perhaps we can examine them more closely than we can the roof, and the sides of these halls.
+2803_161169_000011_000016 And so it began to be used to cover roofs of buildings, and, mixed with some other substances, made a pavement for streets; and being spread over iron work it protected it from rust.
+2803_161169_000005_000005 But do you imagine that sensible children, after one such discovery, would rest satisfied?
+2803_161169_000005_000000 At first, you know, they will only play.
+2803_161169_000004_000003 The floors were carpeted with velvet, and the whole was lighted with lamps that shone like stars from above.
+2803_161169_000012_000000 But here is another surprise of a different kind.
+2803_161169_000008_000003 We shall need a guide; and here comes one,--a rough looking man, with smutty clothes, and an odd little lamp covered with wire gauze, fastened to the front of his cap.
+2803_161169_000011_000005 These forests were of trees, different in some ways from those we have now, great ferns as tall as this house, and mosses as high as little trees, and palm leaves of enormous size.
+2803_161169_000007_000000 If you have not, perhaps you would like to go with me to examine one that was opened a good many years ago, but contains such valuable things that the uses of all of them have not yet been found out, and their beauty is just beginning to be known.
+2803_161169_000005_000007 And then how could they show their gratitude to the dear father who had taken such pains to prepare this wonderful house for them?
+2803_161169_000009_000005 Here is something different, rounded like a nut shell; you can split off one side, and behold there is the nut lying snugly as does any chestnut in its bur!
+2803_161169_000010_000000 Did you notice the great pillars of coal that are left to uphold the roof?
+2803_161169_000015_000001 I have only told you enough to teach you how to look for yourselves; a peep, you know, is all I promised you.
+2803_161169_000011_000002 What should we have done, if everybody had kept on burning wood to this day?
+2803_161169_000005_000006 Of course they would explore and explore; try every panel, and press every spring, until, one by one, all the closets should be opened, and all the treasures brought out.
+2803_161169_000011_000000 Now, I can very well remember when I first saw a coal fire, and how odd it looked to see what seemed to be burning stones.
+2803_161169_000003_000000 A PEEP INTO ONE OF GOD'S STOREHOUSES
+2803_161169_000014_000000 When your hands or lips are cracked and rough from the cold, does your mother ever put on glycerin to heal them?
+2803_161169_000009_000004 See, beneath your feet is the marking of great tree trunks lying aslant across the floor, and the forms of gigantic palm leaves strewed among them.
+2803_161169_000010_000003 How did it happen, and what does it mean?
+2803_161169_000005_000004 And so through many questions, and many experiments, they learn at last how to use the contents of this one storehouse.
+2078_142845_000046_000000 HOT ROLLS.
+2078_142845_000044_000001 Put the flour into a pan, stir in the above ingredients, and let the dough rise, covered in a warm place. Knead it well, make it into rolls, let them rise again for a few minutes, and bake in a quick oven.
+2078_142845_000085_000000 seventeen thirty three.
+2078_142845_000010_000000 seventeen seventeen.
+2078_142845_000085_000003 They should be kept in a closed tin canister in a dry place, to preserve their crispness.
+2078_142845_000020_000000 [Illustration: ITALIAN MILLET.]
+2078_142845_000037_000001 INGREDIENTS.--To every two pounds. of flour allow one teaspoonful of tartaric acid, one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, two breakfast cupfuls of cold milk.
+2078_142845_000050_000000 TO MAKE HOT BUTTERED TOAST.
+2078_142845_000016_000000 seventeen eighteen.
+2078_142845_000019_000010 If baked in tins or pans, rub them with a tiny piece of butter laid on a piece of clean paper, to prevent the dough from sticking to them.
+2078_142845_000084_000000 ITALIAN RUSKS.
+2078_142845_000019_000002 Pour the yeast into the hole made in the flour, and stir into it as much of that which lies round it as will make a thick batter, in which there must be no lumps.
+2078_142845_000043_000000 [Illustration: ROLLS.]
+2078_142845_000058_000000 CRUMPETS.
+2078_142845_000059_000000 [Illustration: CRUMPETS.]
+2078_142845_000004_000000 TO MAKE YEAST FOR BREAD.
+2078_142845_000049_000000 seventeen twenty five.
+2078_142845_000019_000004 Look at it from time to time: when it has been laid for nearly an hour, and when the yeast has risen and broken through the flour, so that bubbles appear in it, you will know that it is ready to be made up into dough.
+2078_142845_000018_000000 [Illustration: TIN BREAD.]
+2078_142845_000087_000003 The nations who make use of it grind it, in the primitive manner, between two stones, and make it into a diet which, cannot be properly called bread, but rather a kind of soft thin cake half baked.
+2078_142845_000033_000000 [Illustration: MAIZE PLANT.]
+2078_142845_000019_000008 In three quarters hour look at it, and should it have swollen very much, and begin to crack, it will be light enough to bake.
+2078_142845_000005_000000 seventeen sixteen.
+2078_142845_000028_000000 RICE BREAD.
+2078_142845_000052_000000 MUFFINS.
+2078_142845_000019_000003 Strew plenty of flour on the top; throw a thick clean cloth over, and set it where the air is warm; but do not place it upon the kitchen fender, for it will become too much heated there.
+2078_142845_000019_000005 Then place the pan on a strong chair, or dresser, or table, of convenient height; pour into the sponge the remainder of the warm milk and water; stir into it as much of the flour as you can with the spoon; then wipe it out clean with your fingers, and lay it aside.
+2078_142845_000076_000001 Mix all these ingredients well together; make a hole in the middle of the flour, and pour in the milk, mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten; mix quickly, and set the dough, with a fork, on baking tins, and bake the buns for about twenty minutes.
+2078_142845_000048_000000 TO MAKE DRY TOAST.
+2078_142845_000002_000000 RECIPES.
+2078_142845_000079_000000 VICTORIA BUNS.
+2078_142845_000036_000000 SODA BREAD.
+2078_142845_000054_000000 [Illustration: MUFFINS.]
+6319_275224_000008_000004 She runs along and climbs about, just as the whim takes her.
+6319_275224_000014_000002 Why not allow the healthy Rose Tree its free and glorious growth?
+6319_275224_000016_000001 He really grieved to see it!
+6319_275224_000012_000000 And the Carnation began to think so, too; and her colour turned deeper as a feeling of indignation arose within her at the childish treatment to which she had been subjected.
+6319_275224_000015_000000 And so she did, and a new light seemed to dawn upon her as she recollected the spring and autumnal prunings she regularly underwent, and the quantities of little branches that were yearly cut from her sides, and carried away in a wheel barrow.
+6319_275224_000008_000007 I quite feel for you!
+6319_275224_000021_000001 Making a sort of eddying circuit round the garden, he knocked over the Convolvulus pole, tore the strips from the stick that held up the white Lily, loosed all the Carnation flowers from their fastenings, broke the Rose Tree down, and levelled the Sweet Peas to the ground.
+6319_275224_000022_000005 The Convolvulus fared still worse.
+6319_275224_000022_000001 The Wind was scarcely gone before a sudden and heavy rain followed, so that all was confusion for some time.
+6319_275224_000006_000000 "What a fuss is made about you, my dear little friends!" murmured the Wind, one day, to the flowers in a pretty villa garden.
+6319_275224_000022_000000 Meanwhile, how fared it with the flowers?
+6319_275224_000011_000003 Why must every single flower betied up by its delicate neck to a stick, the moment it begins to open?
+6319_275224_000026_000000 "I am not thinking about the garden, mamma," replied the young girl, without lifting up her face; "we can plant new flowers, and tie up even some of these afresh.
+6319_275224_000021_000000 He managed the affair very cleverly, it must be confessed.
+6319_275224_000022_000007 She felt the muddy weight as it soaked into her beautiful velvet bells, and could have cried for grief: she could never free herself from this nuisance.
+6319_275224_000017_000003 He murmured among them all-laughed the trim cut Box edges to scorn-maliciously hoped the Sweet Peas enjoyed growing in a circle, and running up a quantity of crooked sticks-and told the flowers, generally, that he should report their unheard of submission and meek obedience wherever he went.
+6319_275224_000024_000001 She came bounding towards the well-known spot with a song of joyous delight; but, on reaching it, suddenly stopped short, and in a minute after burst into a flood of tears!
+6319_275224_000004_000000 THE WIND AND THE FLOWERS
+6319_275224_000008_000005 Sometimes she takes a turn upon the ground; sometimes she enters a hedge, and plays at bo peep with the birds in the thorn and nut trees-twisting here, curling there, and at last, perhaps, coming out at the top, and overhanging the edge with a canopy of green leaves and pretty white flowers.
+6319_275224_000021_000002 In short, in one half hour he desolated the pretty garden; and when his work was accomplished, he flew off.
+6319_275224_000022_000002 But towards the evening the weather cleared up, and our friends began to look around them.
+6319_275224_000014_000001 And what is the matter with the beautiful straggling branches, that they are to be cut off as fast as they appear?
+6319_275224_000023_000000 Before the day closed, the gardener came whistling from his farm work, to look over his pretty charges.
+6319_275224_000008_000000 "I smile at your question," was the answer of the Wind.
+6319_275224_000005_000000 By mrs Alfred Gatty
+6319_275224_000008_000001 "You surely cannot suppose that in a natural state you would be forced to climb regularly up one tall bare stick such as I see you upon now.
+6319_275224_000016_000004 "Perhaps I am prejudiced; but as to be deprived of freedom would be to me absolute death, so my soul revolts from every shape and phase of slavery!"
+6319_275224_000025_000000 "This is a sad sight, indeed, my darling," said her mother's voice.
+6319_275224_000018_000001 They only submitted to these degrading restraints because they could not help themselves; but if he would lend them his powerful aid, they might free themselves from at least a part of the unnatural bonds which enthralled them.
+6319_275224_000011_000004 Really, with your natural grace and beauty, I think you might be trusted to yourself a little more!"
+6319_275224_000024_000002 Presently, with sorrowing steps, she bent her way round the flower beds, weeping afresh at every one she looked at; and then she sat down upon the lawn, and hid her face in her hands. In this position she remained, until a gentle hand was laid upon her shoulder.
+6319_275224_000022_000008 Oh that she were once more climbing up the friendly fir pole!
+6319_275224_000009_000000 Now the Convolvulus was quite abashed by the words of the Wind, for she was conscious of feeling very conceited that morning, in consequence of having heard the gardener say something very flattering about her beauty; so she hung down her rich bell flowers rather lower than usual, and made no reply.
+6319_275224_000018_000000 Then the white Lily called out to him in great wrath, and told him he mistook their characters altogether.
+6319_275224_000016_000003 "Always this tying up and restraint!" pursued the Wind, with an angry puff.
+6319_275224_000022_000009 The Honeysuckle escaped no better; and the Carnation was ready to die of vexation, at finding that her coveted freedom had levelled her to the dirt.
+6319_275224_000006_000002 I have been watching your friend the gardener for some time to day; and now that he is gone at last, I am quite curious to hear what you think and feel about your unnatural bringing up."
+6319_275224_000017_000000 "Not more than mine does!" cried the proud white Lily, leaning as heavily as she could against the strip of matting that tied her to her stick.
+6319_275224_000024_000000 At length, one day before the fortnight was over, the house dog was heard to bark his noisy welcome, and servants bustled to and fro. The mistress had returned; and the young lady was with her, and hurried at once to her favourite garden.
+6319_275224_000014_000005 Oh, Rose Tree, you know your own surpassing merits too well to make you think this possible!"
+6319_275224_000013_000001 What a difference in size, in colour and in fragrance!
+6319_275224_000016_000002 Did that lovely creature suppose that Nature, who had done so much for her that the fame of her beauty extended throughout the world, had yet left her so weak and feeble that she could not support herself in the position most calculated to give her ease and pleasure?
+6319_275224_000011_000002 Why not allow your silver tufts to luxuriate in a natural manner?
+6319_275224_000026_000003 But I cannot say so, now I see the result.
+6319_275224_000010_000001 I am not aware that I have any poor relations in this country, and I myself certainly require all the care that is bestowed upon me. This climate is both too cold and too damp for me.
+6319_275224_000023_000002 But for the sight that awaited him he was not prepared at all. Struck dumb with astonishment, he never spoke at first, but kept lifting up the heads of the trailing, dirtied flowers in succession.
+6319_275224_000022_000006 The garden beds sloped towards the south; and when our friend was laid on the earth-her pole having fallen-her lovely flowers were choked up by the wet soil which drained towards her.
+6319_275224_000023_000005 Alas! what he said was true; and before many days had passed, the shattered Carnations were rotted with lying in the wet and dirt on the ground.
+6319_275224_000016_000000 Then the Wind took another frolic round the garden, and made up to the large white Lily, into whose refined ear he whispered a doubt as to the necessity or advantage of her thick powerful stem being propped up against a stupid, ugly stick!
+6319_275224_000012_000001 "With my natural grace and beauty," repeated she to herself, "they might certainly trust me to myself a little more!"
+6319_275224_000023_000007 Weeds meanwhile sprang up, and a dreary confusion reigned in the once orderly and brilliant little garden.
+6319_275224_000023_000004 It's all over with them, I fear;" and the gardener went his way.
+6319_275224_000017_000002 Indeed, not a flower escaped his mischievous suggestions.
+6319_275224_000022_000003 The white Lily still stood somewhat upright, though no friendly pole supported her juicy stem; but, alas! it was only by a painful effort she could hold herself in that position.
+6319_275224_000019_000000 To which the wicked Wind, seeing that his temptations had succeeded, replied, in great glee, that he would do his best; and so he went away, chuckling at the discontent he had caused.
+6319_275224_000010_000002 My young plants require heat, or they would not live; and the pots we are kept in protect us from those cruel wire worms who delight to destroy our roots."
+6319_57405_000016_000000 "Surely I do not know," said Deucalion.
+6319_57405_000011_000002 While they were talking and trying to think what they should do, they heard a voice behind them.
+6319_57405_000018_000000 "Perhaps he meant the stones of the earth," said Pyrrha.
+6319_57405_000012_000000 "Is there anything that you wish?" he asked.
+6319_57405_000005_000001 When they were good and happy, we felt afraid lest they should become greater than ourselves; and now they are so terribly wicked that we are in worse danger than before.
+6319_57405_000016_000001 "But let us think a moment.
+6319_57405_000007_000001 Once every year he had gone to the land of the Caucasus to talk with his father, who was hanging chained to the mountain peak.
+6319_57405_000016_000003 And yet what could he mean by the bones of our mother?"
+6319_57405_000019_000000 "It is rather a silly thing to do," said Deucalion; "and yet there can be no harm in it, and we shall see what will happen."
+6319_57405_000018_000001 "Let us go on down the mountain, and as we go, let us pick up the stones in our path and throw them over our shoulders behind us."
+6319_57405_000005_000000 "These men," he said to his mighty company, "are nothing but a source of trouble.
+6319_57405_000008_000001 Be sure that you are ready for it, my son."
+6319_57405_000016_000002 Who is our mother, if it is not the Earth, from whom all living things have sprung?
+6319_64726_000011_000005 She touched the governesses, maids of honour, women of the bedchamber, gentlemen, officers, stewards, cooks, scullions, boys, guards, porters, pages, footmen; she touched the horses in the stable with their grooms, the great mastiffs in the court yard, and even little Pouste, the tiny lap dog of the princess that was on the bed beside her.
+6319_64726_000011_000002 The good fairy was very wise and saw that the princess when she woke would find herself all alone in that great castle and everything about her would be strange.
+6319_64726_000017_000003 They passed into a hall of mirrors, where they supped, attended by the officers of the princess. The violins and haut boys played old but excellent pieces of music, and after supper, to lose no time, the grand almoner married the royal lovers in the chapel of the castle.
+6319_64726_000011_000007 Even the spits before the fire, laden with partridges and pheasants, went to sleep, and the fire itself went to sleep also.
+6319_64726_000005_000003 The sleep will last a hundred years, and at the end of that time a king's son will come to wake her."
+6319_64726_000005_000000 "Be of good cheer, king and queen; your daughter shall not so die.
+6319_64726_000015_000008 The men had plainly fallen asleep.
+6319_64726_000016_000002 The prince was overjoyed at the words, and at the tender voice and look, and scarcely knew how to speak.
+6319_64726_000015_000000 The young prince at these words felt himself on fire.
+6319_64726_000015_000014 Her hand lay upon her breast, and he touched his lips to it.
+6319_64726_000002_000002 He asked all the fairies in the land-there were seven all told-to stand godmothers to the little princess, hoping that each might give her a gift, and so she should have all imaginable perfections.
+6319_64726_000009_000000 "I am spinning, my fair child," said the old woman, who did not know her.
+6319_64726_000015_000007 But the faces of the men were rosy, and the goblets by them had a few drops of wine left.
+6319_64726_000018_000001 They marched down the long avenue, and the wood opened again to let them pass.
+6319_64726_000015_000011 He passed through one apartment after another, where were ladies and gentlemen asleep in their chairs or standing.
+6319_64726_000017_000002 Then the prince took the princess by the hand; she was dressed in great splendour, but he did not hint that she looked as he had seen pictures of his great grandmother look; he thought her all the more charming for that.
+6319_64726_000010_000002 Give it to me that I may see if I can do it." She had no sooner taken up the spindle, than, being hasty and careless, she pierced her hand with the point of it, and fainted away.
+6319_64726_000003_000001 Before each was set a magnificent plate, with a gold knife and a gold fork studded with diamonds and rubies.
+6319_64726_000002_000000 Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who grieved sorely that they had no children.
+6319_64726_000013_000001 The son of the king was hunting one day when he discovered the towers of the castle above the tops of the trees, and asked what castle that was.
+6319_64726_000005_000002 The princess will pierce her hand with a spindle, but, instead of dying, she will only fall into a deep sleep.
+6319_64726_000015_000003 He walked toward the castle, which appeared now at the end of a long avenue, but when he turned to, look for his followers not one was to be seen; the woods had closed instantly upon him as he had passed through.
+6319_64726_000010_000001 "How do you do it?
+6319_64726_000004_000003 The turn of the old fairy had now come, and she declared, while her head shook with malice, that the princess should pierce her hand with a spindle and die of the wound. This dreadful fate threw all the company into tears of dismay, when the young fairy who had hidden herself came forward and said:
+6319_64726_000016_000003 But he managed to assure her of his love, and they soon forgot all else as they talked and talked.
+6319_64726_000006_000000 The king, in hopes of preventing what the old fairy had foretold, immediately issued an edict by which he forbade all persons in his dominion from spinning or even having spindles in their houses under pain of instant death.
+6319_64726_000004_000001 The fairies now began to endow the princess.
+6319_64726_000005_000001 It is true I cannot entirely undo what my elder has done.
+6319_64726_000015_000001 He had not a moment's doubt that he was destined to this great adventure, and full of ardour he determined at once to set out for the castle.
+6319_64726_000010_000006 The king looked sorrowfully upon her.
+6319_64726_000016_000000 "Have you come, my prince?
+6319_64726_000010_000004 People came running in from all sides; they threw water in the princess's face and did all they could to restore her, but nothing would bring her to.
+6319_64726_000011_000001 The king came forward to receive her and showed his grief.
+6319_64726_000013_000002 All manner of answers were given to him.
+6319_64726_000010_000000 "How pretty it is!" exclaimed the princess.
+6319_64726_000011_000003 So this is what she did.
+6319_64726_000013_000004 The prince did not know what to believe, when finally an old peasant said:
+6319_64726_000004_000002 The youngest, for her gift, decreed that she should be the most beautiful person in the world; the next that she should have the mind of an angel; the third that she should be perfectly graceful; the fourth that she should dance admirably well; the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale; the sixth, that she should play charmingly upon every musical instrument.
+6319_64726_000010_000007 He knew that she would not awake for a hundred years.
+6319_64726_000015_000009 His steps resounded as he passed over the marble pavement and up the marble staircase.
+6319_64726_000011_000000 The good fairy who had saved her life and turned her death into sleep was in the kingdom of Mataquin, twelve thousand leagues away, when this happened, but she learned of it from a dwarf who had a pair of seven league boots, and instantly set out for the castle, where she arrived in an hour, drawn by dragons in a fiery chariot.
+6319_64726_000012_000001 The king and queen kissed their daughter farewell and left the castle, issuing a proclamation that no person whatsoever was to approach it.
+6319_64726_000015_000010 He entered the guard room; there the guards stood drawn up in line with carbines at their shoulders, but they were sound asleep.
+6319_64726_000011_000004 She touched with her wand everybody that was in the castle, except the king and queen.
+6319_64726_000008_000000 "What are you doing?" asked the princess.
+6319_64726_000015_000015 At that moment, the enchantment being ended, the princess awoke, and, looking drowsily and tenderly at the young man, said:
+6319_64726_000012_000000 It was the work of a moment.
+6319_64726_000013_000000 A hundred years went by, and the kingdom was in the hands of another royal family.
+6319_64726_000018_000002 Outside they met the prince's followers, who were overjoyed to see their master. He turned to show them the castle, but behold! there was no castle to be seen, and no wood; castle and wood had vanished, but the prince and princess went gayly away, and when the old king and queen died they reigned in their stead.
+6319_64726_000012_000002 That was needless, for in a quarter of an hour there had grown up about it a wood so thick and filled with thorns that nothing could get at the castle, and the castle top itself could only be seen from a great distance.
+6319_64726_000015_000013 He drew near, trembling and wondering, and knelt beside her.
+6319_64726_000017_000001 The lady in waiting became very impatient, and at length announced to the princess that they all waited for her.
+6319_64726_000002_000001 When at last the queen gave birth to a daughter the king was so overjoyed that he gave a great christening feast, the like of which had never before been known.
+6319_64726_000018_000000 When they left the castle the next day to return to the prince's home, they were followed by all the retinue of the princess.
+1272_128104_000005_000000 About artists and their work mr Quilter has, of course, a great deal to say.
+1272_128104_000005_000013 And then the picture he draws of the ideal home, where everything, though ugly, is hallowed by domestic memories, and where beauty appeals not to the heartless eye but the family affections; 'baby's chair there, and the mother's work basket . . . near the fire, and the ornaments Fred brought home from India on the mantel board'!
+1272_128104_000005_000014 It is really impossible not to be touched by so charming a description.
+1272_128104_000003_000000 There is a healthy bank holiday atmosphere about this book which is extremely pleasant.
+1272_128104_000001_000000 A 'JOLLY' ART CRITIC
+1272_128104_000005_000006 That there is a difference between colour and colours, that an artist, be he portrait painter or dramatist, always reveals himself in his manner, are ideas that can hardly be said to occur to him; but mr Quilter really does his best and bravely faces every difficulty in modern art, with the exception of mr Whistler.
+1272_128104_000005_000009 As for etchings, they are of two kinds-British and foreign.
+1272_128104_000003_000002 He rollicks through art with the recklessness of the tourist and describes its beauties with the enthusiasm of the auctioneer.
+1272_128104_000003_000005 After listening so long to the Don Quixote of art, to listen once to Sancho Panza is both salutary and refreshing.
+1272_128104_000005_000007 Painting, he tells us, is 'of a different quality to mathematics,' and finish in art is 'adding more fact'!
+1272_128104_000006_000003 Far from it.
+1272_128104_000007_000000 Sententiae: Artis: First Principles of Art for Painters and Picture Lovers.
+1272_128104_000007_000001 By Harry Quilter, m a (Isbister.)
+1272_128104_000003_000001 mr Quilter is entirely free from affectation of any kind.
+1272_128104_000005_000008 Portrait painting is a bad pursuit for an emotional artist as it destroys his personality and his sympathy; however, even for the emotional artist there is hope, as a portrait can be converted into a picture 'by adding to the likeness of the sitter some dramatic interest or some picturesque adjunct'!
+1272_128104_000005_000001 Sculpture he regards as 'Painting's poor relation'; so, with the exception of a jaunty allusion to the 'rough modelling' of Tanagra figurines he hardly refers at all to the plastic arts; but on painters he writes with much vigour and joviality.
+1272_128104_000006_000008 On the whole, the book will not do.
+1272_128104_000003_000003 To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
+1272_128104_000006_000009 We fully admit that it is extremely amusing and, no doubt, mr Quilter is quite earnest in his endeavours to elevate art to the dignity of manual labour, but the extraordinary vulgarity of the style alone will always be sufficient to prevent these Sententiae Artis from being anything more than curiosities of literature. mr Quilter has missed his chance; for he has failed even to make himself the Tupper of Painting.
+1272_135031_000045_000002 All the trees are gold and silver and the ground is strewn with precious stones, so it is a sort of treasury."
+1272_135031_000052_000000 "Oh, no; I'm quite sure he didn't.
+1272_135031_000047_000000 Kaliko hesitated.
+1272_135031_000063_000000 "Of course not," said he, jumping up from the throne, where he had seated himself.
+1272_135031_000060_000001 "So I think I will assemble the chief nomes of my kingdom in this throne room and tell them that I am their new King. Then I can ask them to assist us in searching for the secret passages.
+1272_135031_000052_000001 They fell into the big pit in the passage, and we put the cover on to keep them there; but when the executioners went to look for them they had all disappeared from the pit and we could find no trace of them."
+1272_135031_000030_000000 "Of course," said Kaliko.
+1272_135031_000039_000000 "He doesn't work at all.
+1272_135031_000032_000000 "Hooray!" cried Betsy; "I'm glad of that.
+1272_135031_000051_000000 "Do you suppose Ruggedo destroyed them?"
+1272_135031_000035_000001 Very willingly," replied Kaliko.
+1272_135031_000053_000000 "That's funny," remarked Betsy thoughtfully.
+1272_135031_000058_000000 Betsy laughed and Shaggy seemed rather hurt; but Polychrome relieved his embarrassment by saying softly: "One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition."
+1272_135031_000036_000002 But is my dear brother well?" he added anxiously.
+1272_135031_000028_000000 "Me?" stammered the Chamberlain, greatly surprised by the question. "Well, I couldn't be a worse King, I'm sure."
+1272_135031_000041_000000 "Not exactly," returned Kaliko.
+1272_135031_000035_000000 "The Ugly One?
+1272_135031_000005_000000 "Don't worry," replied Quox.
+1272_135031_000038_000000 "I hope he doesn't work too hard," said Shaggy.
+1272_135031_000060_000000 "True," agreed Kaliko.
+1272_135031_000007_000001 Next instant Shaggy was himself again and Quox said to him grumblingly:
+1272_135031_000053_000002 But to disappear like that seems like magic; now, doesn't it?"
+1272_135031_000044_000000 "Where is that?"
+1272_135031_000055_000000 "However," said Shaggy, "they are gone, that is certain, so we cannot help them or be helped by them.
+1272_135031_000054_000000 They agreed that it did, but no one could explain the mystery.
+1272_135031_000026_000002 Quox did not have much to say until the conversation was ended, but then he turned to Kaliko and asked:
+1272_135031_000008_000000 "Please get off my left toe, Shaggy Man, and be more particular where you step."
+1272_135031_000043_000000 "In the Metal Forest."
+1272_135031_000002_000000 King Kaliko
+1272_141231_000011_000006 The nagging memory of the previous night loomed up then, and he turned it over and over in his mind, examining it from all sides.
+1272_141231_000030_000000 With each passing second the power drew at the basic reserves of life, draining it from his body.
+1272_141231_000014_000001 Of course not.
+1272_141231_000018_000001 He must have drawn his gun, because the intruder said quickly, "Put that away.
+1272_141231_000027_000003 Berserkers and juramentados continue to fight and kill though carved by scores of mortal wounds.
+1272_141231_000036_000002 No, not walking, falling.
+1272_141231_000013_000002 Someone spoke his name.
+1272_141231_000027_000008 Working with this as a clue, Brion had developed a self hypnotic technique that allowed him to tap this reservoir of unknown strength-the source of "second wind," the survival strength that made the difference between life and death.
+1272_141231_000032_000001 He didn't attempt to attack, just let Brion wear himself out against the firm shield of his defense.
+1272_141231_000034_000000 Thrust-thrust-and each time the parrying sword a little slower to return.
+1272_141231_000029_000002 He could feel with acute sensitivity, hear, and see clearly when he opened his eyes.
+1272_141231_000033_000001 Brion wasn't tiring.
+1272_141231_000021_000002 The month of continuous mental and physical combat had taken its toll.
+1272_141231_000026_000007 Self hypnosis was an accepted tool.
+1272_141231_000012_000001 The contestants in the Twenties needed undisturbed rest, therefore nights in the dormitories were as quiet as death.
+1272_141231_000011_000003 Only his heart and lungs worked on at a strong, measured rate.
+1272_141231_000027_000005 Death seemed an inescapable part of this kind of strength. But there was another type that could easily be brought about in any deep trance-hypnotic rigidity.
+1272_141231_000023_000000 "Four four.
+1272_141231_000034_000001 Then the powerful twist that thrust it aside.
+1272_141231_000024_000003 That was really all that counted now.
+1272_141231_000036_000003 At last.
+1272_141231_000027_000007 This is physically impossible when conscious.
+1272_141231_000022_000000 "How do we stand?" he asked the handler who was kneading his aching muscles.
+1272_141231_000024_000000 "That's all he needs too," Brion grunted, opening his eyes to look at the wiry length of the man at the other end of the long mat.
+1272_141231_000011_000000 Brion had carefully conditioned the reflex in himself.
+1272_141231_000019_000000 "Out!" was the single snarled word of the response.
+1272_141231_000028_000002 Others had died before during the Twenties, and death during the last round was in some ways easier than defeat.
+1272_141231_000006_000000 STEPHEN CRANE
+1272_141231_000007_000003 And when he attacked, it was always there to beat him aside.
+1272_141231_000014_000002 Whoever said you could was making a big mistake and there is going to be trouble-"
+1272_141231_000018_000002 You're being a fool!"
+1272_141231_000033_000002 If anything, he was pressing the attack.
+1272_141231_000027_000001 Common as the phenomenon seemed to be in the textbooks, it proved impossible to duplicate.
+1272_141231_000021_000001 He was unhappily conscious of his total exhaustion.
+1272_141231_000011_000004 His eyes closed and he was only distantly aware of his handlers catching him as he fell, carrying him to his bench. While they massaged his limp body and cleansed the wound, all of his attention was turned inward.
+1272_141231_000024_000002 A red haired mountain of a man, with an apparently inexhaustible store of energy.
+1272_141231_000033_000000 Brion saw something close to panic on his opponent's face when the man finally recognized his error.
+1272_141231_000002_000000 For my Mother and Father-
+1272_141231_000011_000002 The buzzer's whirr triggered his muscles into complete relaxation.
+1272_141231_000010_000000 "One minute," a voice said, and the time buzzer sounded.
+1272_141231_000026_000003 He had a standing order with off planet agents for archaic chess books, the older the better.
+1272_141231_000026_000000 Every man who entered the Twenties had his own training tricks. Brion had a few individual ones that had helped him so far.
+1272_141231_000021_000003 It would be hard to stay on his feet, much less summon the strength and skill to fight and win a touch.
+1272_141231_000015_000003 Now stand aside!"
+1272_141231_000034_000003 The slap of the button on flesh and the arc of steel that reached out and ended on Irolg's chest over his heart.
+1272_141231_000031_000000 When the buzzer sounded he pulled his foil from his second's startled grasp, and ran forward.
+1272_141231_000013_000001 The words were whispered but clear-two voices, just outside the thin metal of his door.
+1272_141231_000036_000001 Walking on his knees.
+1272_141231_000023_000001 All you need is a touch to win!"
+1272_141231_000015_000000 "Don't talk like an idiot!"
+1272_141231_000019_000001 There was silence then and, still wondering, Brion was once more asleep.
+1272_141231_000020_000000 "Ten seconds."
+1272_141231_000036_000000 Except that something was wrong and it was like walking through warm glue.
+1272_141231_000034_000002 In and under the guard.
+1272_141231_000015_000001 The other voice snapped with a harsh urgency, clearly used to command.
+1272_141231_000012_000003 But as soon as the scores began to mount and eliminations cut into their ranks, there was complete silence after dark.
+1272_141231_000008_000001 He reacted-but his blade just met air.
+1272_141231_000026_000005 This was allowed.
+1272_141231_000024_000005 Just thrust and parry, and victory to the stronger.
+1272_141231_000031_000002 The force of his rush was so great that the guards on their weapons locked, and their bodies crashed together.
+1272_141231_000012_000004 Particularly so on this last night, when only two of the little cubicles were occupied, the thousands of others standing with dark, empty doors.
+1988_24833_000066_000002 Pop brings out the champagne, and the cork blows and hits the ceiling.
+1988_24833_000026_000001 Pop and I can go along real smooth and easy for a while, and I think: Well, he really isn't a bad guy, and I'm growing up, we can see eye to eye-all that stuff.
+1988_24833_000045_000000 Pop says "Hmm" this time, and we both stand and simmer down.
+1988_24833_000049_000000 "Goodness, who could that be so late?" says Mom.
+1988_24833_000036_000001 "You're getting altogether too upset about these programs.
+1988_24833_000046_000002 I say, "Well, o k
+1988_24833_000028_000001 The story starts off with some nature shots of a farm and mountains in the background and this little kid playing with his grandfather.
+1988_24833_000037_000001 Mop it up yourself!" I'm too mad now to care what I say. I charge down the hall to my room and slam the door.
+1988_24833_000021_000001 It makes me think.
+1988_24833_000055_000001 Tom stirs his coffee vigorously and takes one sip and puts the cup down.
+1988_24833_000035_000003 It's not a western."
+1988_24833_000046_000001 It's a quarter to eleven.
+1988_24833_000057_000001 "Congratulations!" he says.
+1988_24833_000054_000001 He looks at her, puts his head back and goes on sleeping.
+1988_24833_000067_000001 "Here's to you-a long, happy life!"
+1988_24833_000062_000000 "No, not if I enlist in the Army.
+1988_24833_000039_000001 So o k, go ahead, you can finish it."
+1988_24833_000040_000000 "Yeah, it's about over by now." I'm still sore, and besides Pop's still standing in my door, so I figure there's a hitch in this somewhere.
+1988_24833_000050_000002 I turn off the television set-I've lost track of what's happening, and it doesn't seem to be the grandfather who's the spook after all.
+1988_24833_000018_000001 Sometimes schools do let kids take a lot of soft courses, and then they're out on a limb later."
+1988_24833_000006_000001 He scales his hat at the lot of them and roars down the hall to me, "Hey, Davey!
+1988_24833_000052_000000 "I told Tom we shouldn't come so late," says Hilda.
+1988_24833_000066_000000 I go and retrieve my spilled bottle of soda.
+1988_24833_000060_000002 So that's what we've been talking about all evening.
+1988_24833_000024_000000 "Sure.
+1988_24833_000058_000001 Really.
+1988_24833_000005_000002 She sneaks the kittens saucers of cream and bits of real hamburger when no one's looking, and she likes talking to them in the kitchen.
+1988_24833_000054_000000 Hilda sits on the sofa, where Cat is curled up.
+1988_24833_000025_000001 I go home, wondering if I really am at all like pop
+1988_24833_000036_000002 Stop it and behave yourself.
+1988_24833_000004_000001 Somehow or other Cat has taught them that he's in charge here, and he just chases them for fun now and again, when he's not busy sleeping.
+1988_24833_000011_000002 Do it on your own time!"
+1988_24833_000015_000001 He does, and for once I win a round-I keep music for this semester.
+1988_24833_000028_000000 I get the pillows comfortably arranged on the floor, with a big bottle of soda and a bag of popcorn within easy reach.
+1988_24833_000009_000002 The second semester I switch to a music course.
+1988_24833_000034_000001 "Do you good to listen to a real program for a change.
+1988_24833_000008_000001 So we both try to do a little better, and a lot of things we used to argue and fight about, like my jazz records, we just kid each other about now.
+1988_24833_000020_000000 "So-he cares."
+1988_24833_000057_000000 Pop doesn't look as surprised as I do.
+1988_24833_000060_000004 You know, I'd get drafted in a year or two, anyway.
+1988_24833_000016_000000 I go down to the flower shop to grouse to Tom.
+1988_24833_000063_000000 Pop says, "You sound like the recruiting officer himself.
+1988_24833_000066_000001 There's still enough left for one big glass.
+1988_24833_000030_000000 "Here, Davey old boy, we can do better than that tonight.
+1988_24833_000034_000002 There'll be another western on tomorrow night."
+1988_24833_000005_000003 She doesn't pick them up, but just having them in the room sure doesn't give her asthma.
+1988_24833_000011_000001 "That's recreation, not a course.
+1988_24833_000046_000004 Sorry I got sore."
+1988_24833_000033_000000 I jump up, tipping over the bottle of soda on the way.
+1988_24833_000027_000000 We get a holiday Washington's Birthday, which is good because there's a t v program on Tuesday, the night before the holiday, that I hardly ever get to watch.
+1988_24833_000036_000003 Go get a sponge to mop up the soda."
+1988_24833_000003_000000 "HERE'S TO CAT!"
+1988_24833_000019_000001 He just likes to boss everything I do."
+1988_24833_000041_000000 "But anyway, you shouldn't get so sore about an old television program that you shout 'Mop it up yourself' at me."
+1988_24833_000011_000000 "Music!" he snorts.
+1988_24833_000062_000003 In that I can also choose what metropolitan area I want to be stationed in.
+1988_24833_000068_000001 "Here's to Cat!
+1988_24833_000024_000002 As long as there's a bone on the floor, the two of you worry it."
+1988_24833_000060_000000 "Well, it's not just the pay.
+1988_24833_000038_000002 Knocks-that's something.
+1988_24833_000006_000003 I'm not fixing to start an annex to Kate's cat home!"
+1988_24833_000044_000000 "Well, I don't think you should turn a guy's t v program off in the middle without even finding out about it."
+1988_24833_000006_000002 When are you getting rid of these cats?
+1988_24833_000038_000003 Usually he just barges in.
+1988_24833_000012_000000 "Pop, it's a course.
+1988_24833_000012_000001 You think the school signs me up for an hour of home record playing?"
+1988_24833_000060_000005 I've decided to enlist in the Army."
+1988_24833_000047_000000 Pop moves out of the doorway.
+1988_24833_000013_000001 "You're not going to loaf your way through school if I have anything to say about it."
+1988_24833_000067_000000 Pop fills little glasses for them and raises his to Tom and Hilda.
+1988_24833_000024_000001 You're both impatient and curious, got to poke into everything.
+1988_24833_000058_000000 Tom says, "Thanks" and looks at Hilda, and she blushes.
+1988_24833_000032_000000 He switches the channel.
+1988_24833_000008_000000 In fact, one thing this cat business seems to have established is that me and Pop fighting is the main cause of Mom's asthma.
+1988_24833_000059_000000 "Doesn't pay enough?" Pop asks.
+1988_24833_000013_000000 "They might," he grunts.
+1988_24833_000022_000000 "Besides," says Tom, "half the reason you and your father are always bickering is that you're so much alike."
+1988_24833_000051_000000 "Hilda came to the beach with us," I say.
+1988_24833_000037_000000 "It's your fault!
+1988_24833_000014_000000 "Loaf!" I yelp.
+1988_24833_000019_000000 "Huh.
+1988_24833_000035_000001 I shout, "See?
+1988_24833_000065_000001 "Well, shove back the coffee cups, and I'll break out that bottle of champagne that's been sitting in the icebox since Christmas."
+1988_24833_000017_000000 "Why does Pop have to come butting into my business at school?
+1988_24833_000053_000001 Come in and sit down."
+1988_24833_000048_000000 Just as I get the t v on and settle down, the doorbell rings.
+1988_24833_000033_000001 "Pop, that's not fair!
+1988_24833_000047_000001 He says, "Hereafter I will only turn off your t v programs before they start, not in the middle."
+1988_24833_000050_000003 It's the first time Hilda has been to our house, and Tom introduces her around.
+1988_24833_000030_000001 The Governor and the Mayor are on a t v debate about New York City school reorganization."
+1988_24833_000036_000000 Pop looks at me prissily.
+1988_24833_000005_000001 For one thing, Mom really likes them.
+1988_24833_000026_000003 I hardly know what starts it, but a fight boils up, and we're both breathing fire like dragons on the loose.
+1988_24833_000064_000000 "I'll have to check some more," says Tom.
+1988_24833_000028_000003 He's taking the kid for a walk when a thunderstorm blows up.
+1988_24833_000050_000001 It's Tom, and Hilda is with him.
+1988_24833_000009_000001 It's a real lemon-just a lot of preaching about government and citizenship.
+1988_24833_000009_000004 Right away when I bring home my new program, he says, "How come you're taking one less course this half?"
+1988_24833_000027_000003 The program goes on till eleven o'clock, and Mom won't let me watch it on school nights.
+1988_24833_000035_000000 That's the last straw.
+1988_24833_000050_000004 Then there's one of those moments of complete silence, with everyone looking embarrassed, before we all start to speak at once.
+1988_24833_000042_000000 "Hmm."
+1988_24833_000016_000001 It's after Valentine's Day, and business is slack and the boss is out.
+1988_24833_000005_000000 As for keeping cats in my room, that's pretty well forgotten.
+1988_24833_000058_000002 Tom drinks a little more coffee and then he goes on: "The trouble is, I can't get married on this flower shop job."
+1988_24833_000026_000000 It's funny about fights.
+1988_24833_000068_000002 Tom wouldn't even be standing here if it wasn't for Cat."
+1988_24833_000060_000001 The job isn't getting me anywhere I want to go.
+1988_24833_000050_000000 Pop goes to the door.
+1988_24833_000004_000000 The two stray kittens gradually make themselves at home.
+1988_24833_000056_000001 We want to get married."
+1988_24833_000015_000003 I'll be lucky if I have time to breathe.
+1988_24833_000064_000001 "The recruiting officer, as a matter of fact, tried to persuade me to shoot for officers' training and go into the Army as a career.
+1988_24833_000062_000001 That's for three years.
+1988_24833_000038_000000 I hear the t v going for a few minutes, then Pop turns it off and goes in the kitchen to talk to Mom.
+1988_24833_000009_000003 This is o k with the school-but not with pop
+1988_24833_000006_000000 The only time we have any trouble from the cats is one evening when Pop comes home and the two kittens skid down the hall between his legs, with Cat after them.
+1988_24833_000023_000000 "Me?
+1988_24833_000025_000000 mr Palumbo comes back to the shop then, and Tom gets busy with the plants.
+1988_148538_000003_000000 I thought that the English constituted the most serious nation on the face of the earth, but I have since seen the Americans and have changed my opinion.
+1988_148538_000014_000004 When an aristocracy carries on the public affairs, its national pride naturally assumes this reserved, indifferent, and haughty form, which is imitated by all the other classes of the nation.
+1988_148538_000004_000001 This is more especially the case amongst those free nations which form democratic communities.
+1988_148538_000015_000000 When, on the contrary, social conditions differ but little, the slightest privileges are of some importance; as every man sees around himself a million of people enjoying precisely similar or analogous advantages, his pride becomes craving and jealous, he clings to mere trifles, and doggedly defends them.
+1988_148538_000007_000001 This is explained by what goes before.
+1988_148538_000004_000003 Amongst such a people a serious demeanor ceases to be peculiar to certain men, and becomes a habit of the nation.
+1988_148538_000014_000003 They stand unmoved in their solitary greatness, well assured that they are seen of all the world without any effort to show themselves off, and that no one will attempt to drive them from that position.
+1988_148538_000005_000004 Life would have no relish for them if they were delivered from the anxieties which harass them, and they show more attachment to their cares than aristocratic nations to their pleasures.
+1988_148538_000006_000004 In despotic States men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.
+1988_148538_000002_000002 They want something productive and substantial in their pleasures; they want to mix actual fruition with their joy.
+1988_148538_000004_000002 Then there are in all classes a very large number of men constantly occupied with the serious affairs of the government; and those whose thoughts are not engaged in the direction of the commonwealth are wholly engrossed by the acquisition of a private fortune.
+1988_148538_000002_000001 Nor have they a greater inclination for the intellectual and refined amusements of the aristocratic classes.
+1988_148538_000011_000000 All free nations are vainglorious, but national pride is not displayed by all in the same manner.
+1988_148538_000015_000005 An aristocratic class always differs greatly from the other classes of the nation, by the extent and perpetuity of its privileges; but it often happens that the only differences between the members who belong to it consist in small transient advantages, which may any day be lost or acquired.
+1988_148538_000006_000003 There is one sort of ignorance which originates in extreme publicity.
+1988_148538_000015_000002 As at any instant these same advantages may be lost, their possessors are constantly on the alert, and make a point of showing that they still retain them.
+1988_148538_000008_000000 In democracies men are never stationary; a thousand chances waft them to and fro, and their life is always the sport of unforeseen or (so to speak) extemporaneous circumstances.
+1988_148538_000013_000001 An Englishman calmly enjoys the real or imaginary advantages which in his opinion his country possesses. If he grants nothing to other nations, neither does he solicit anything for his own.
+1988_148538_000006_000005 The former do not know-the latter forget; and the chief features of each picture are lost to them in a bewilderment of details.
+1988_148538_000011_000002 The most slender eulogium is acceptable to them; the most exalted seldom contents them; they unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves.
+1988_148538_000015_000007 These persons then displayed towards each other precisely the same puerile jealousies which animate the men of democracies, the same eagerness to snatch the smallest advantages which their equals contested, and the same desire to parade ostentatiously those of which they were in possession.
+1988_148538_000011_000003 It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes.
+1988_148538_000002_000005 An American, instead of going in a leisure hour to dance merrily at some place of public resort, as the fellows of his calling continue to do throughout the greater part of Europe, shuts himself up at home to drink.
+1988_148538_000002_000000 Men who live in democratic countries do not value the simple, turbulent, or coarse diversions in which the people indulge in aristocratic communities: such diversions are thought by them to be puerile or insipid.
+1988_148538_000003_000002 I believe the seriousness of the Americans arises partly from their pride.
+1988_148538_000007_000000 It is astonishing what imprudent language a public man may sometimes use in free countries, and especially in democratic States, without being compromised; whereas in absolute monarchies a few words dropped by accident are enough to unmask him forever, and ruin him without hope of redemption.
+1988_148538_000001_000000 Chapter fifteen: Of The Gravity Of The Americans, And Why It Does Not Prevent Them From Often Committing Inconsiderate Actions
+1988_148538_000013_000003 It is remarkable that two nations, so recently sprung from the same stock, should be so opposite to one another in their manner of feeling and conversing.
+1988_148538_000002_000004 They prefer to these frivolous delights those more serious and silent amusements which are like business, and which do not drive business wholly from their minds.
+1988_148538_000005_000003 No men are fonder of their own condition.
+1988_148538_000013_000000 Such is not the case with the English.
+1988_148538_000009_000004 The habit of inattention must be considered as the greatest bane of the democratic character.
+1988_148538_000003_000003 In democratic countries even poor men entertain a lofty notion of their personal importance: they look upon themselves with complacency, and are apt to suppose that others are looking at them, too.
+1988_148538_000015_000003 Men living in democracies love their country just as they love themselves, and they transfer the habits of their private vanity to their vanity as a nation.
+1988_148538_000014_000001 As these privileges came to them by inheritance, they regard them in some sort as a portion of themselves, or at least as a natural right inherent in their own persons.
+1988_148538_000005_000002 But it must not be supposed that, in the midst of all their toils, the people who live in democracies think themselves to be pitied; the contrary is remarked to be the case.
+1988_147956_000019_000001 Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper.
+1988_147956_000021_000007 I did n't want her ring, and I felt there was something reckless and extravagant about her wishing to give it away to a boy she had never seen before.
+1988_147956_000009_000008 Her face was alert and lively, with a sharp chin and shrewd little eyes.
+1988_147956_000009_000004 The door stood open, and a woman and a girl of fourteen ran out and looked up at us hopefully.
+1988_147956_000016_000000 At that moment the father came out of the hole in the bank.
+1988_147956_000019_000004 I told her, and she repeated the word, making it sound like "ice." She pointed up to the sky, then to my eyes, then back to the sky, with movements so quick and impulsive that she distracted me, and I had no idea what she wanted.
+1988_147956_000001_000000 ON Sunday morning Otto Fuchs was to drive us over to make the acquaintance of our new Bohemian neighbors.
+1988_147956_000009_000007 She was not old, but she was certainly not young.
+1988_147956_000016_000009 He was neatly dressed.
+1988_147956_000002_000003 They made a gold ribbon across the prairie.
+1988_147956_000017_000001 We raced off toward Squaw Creek and did not stop until the ground itself stopped-fell away before us so abruptly that the next step would have been out into the tree tops.
+1988_147956_000010_000001 Immediately she pointed to the bank out of which she had emerged and said, "House no good, house no good!"
+1988_147956_000016_000012 In a moment we were running up the steep drawside together, Yulka trotting after us.
+1988_147956_000005_000001 I'd have interfered about the horses-the old man can understand some German-if I'd 'a' thought it would do any good.
+1988_147956_000012_000000 My grandmother always spoke in a very loud tone to foreigners, as if they were deaf.
+1988_147956_000021_000002 She was quick, and very eager.
+1988_147956_000010_000000 "Very glad, very glad!" she ejaculated.
+1988_147956_000016_000007 His face was ruggedly formed, but it looked like ashes-like something from which all the warmth and light had died out.
+1988_147956_000013_000002 His hazel eyes were little and shrewd, like his mother's, but more sly and suspicious; they fairly snapped at the food.
+1988_147956_000007_000001 "Well, ma'm, it's politics.
+1988_147956_000022_000001 "Tatinek, Tatinek!" she shouted, and we ran to meet the old man who was coming toward us.
+1988_147956_000004_000000 "If they're nice people, I hate to think of them spending the winter in that cave of Krajiek's," said grandmother.
+1988_147956_000013_000001 He was nineteen years old, short and broad backed, with a close cropped, flat head, and a wide, flat face.
+1988_147956_000009_000001 Presently, against one of those banks, I saw a sort of shed, thatched with the same wine colored grass that grew everywhere.
+1988_147956_000021_000006 When she coaxed and insisted, I repulsed her quite sternly.
+1988_147956_000016_000001 He wore no hat, and his thick, iron gray hair was brushed straight back from his forehead.
+1988_147956_000015_000003 Ambrosch, he make good farmer." He struck Ambrosch on the back, and the boy smiled knowingly.
+1988_147956_000017_000005 She looked at me, her eyes fairly blazing with things she could not say.
+1988_147956_000003_000004 They could not speak enough English to ask for advice, or even to make their most pressing wants known.
+1988_147956_000006_000000 Grandmother looked interested.
+1988_147956_000015_000001 He was born like that.
+1988_147956_000003_000001 Their agreement with him was made before they left the old country, through a cousin of his, who was also a relative of mrs Shimerda.
+1988_147956_000019_000000 We sat down and made a nest in the long red grass.
+1988_147956_000014_000009 As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck's foot.
+1988_147956_000001_000003 We clambered up to the front seat and jolted off past the little pond and along the road that climbed to the big cornfield.
+1988_147956_000019_000002 Antonia pointed up to the sky and questioned me with her glance.
+1988_147956_000016_000006 They looked calm, somehow, and skilled. His eyes were melancholy, and were set back deep under his brow.
+1988_147956_000022_000002 Antonia reached him first, took his hand and kissed it.
+1988_147956_000007_000002 It would take me a long while to explain."
+1988_147956_000011_000000 Grandmother nodded consolingly.
+1988_147956_000014_000008 Even from a distance one could see that there was something strange about this boy.
+1988_147956_000002_000004 Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with his teeth a plant full of blossoms, and walk along munching it, the flowers nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.
+1988_147956_000008_000000 The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.
+1988_147956_000018_000003 She pointed into the gold cottonwood tree behind whose top we stood and said again, "What name?"
+1988_147956_000015_000002 The others are smart.
+1988_147956_000006_000001 "Now, why is that, Otto?"
+1988_147956_000009_000003 We drove up to this skeleton to tie our horses, and then I saw a door and window sunk deep in the draw bank.
+1988_147956_000002_000001 The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing them where they were wide and shallow.
+1988_147956_000009_000009 She shook grandmother's hand energetically.
+1988_147956_000004_000001 "It's no better than a badger hole; no proper dugout at all.
+1988_147956_000013_000000 The oldest son, Ambroz,--they called it Ambrosch,--came out of the cave and stood beside his mother.
+1988_147956_000012_000001 She made mrs Shimerda understand the friendly intention of our visit, and the Bohemian woman handled the loaves of bread and even smelled them, and examined the pies with lively curiosity, exclaiming, "Much good, much thank!"--and again she wrung grandmother's hand.
+1988_147956_000003_000005 One son, Fuchs said, was well grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
+1988_147956_000001_000001 We were taking them some provisions, as they had come to live on a wild place where there was no garden or chicken house, and very little broken land.
+1988_147956_000002_000000 I could hardly wait to see what lay beyond that cornfield; but there was only red grass like ours, and nothing else, though from the high wagon seat one could look off a long way.
+1988_147956_000018_000000 "Name?
+3752_4944_000027_000001 A romantic story, Captain Burgess.
+3752_4944_000086_000000 "Then, Captain Burgess," cried North, his pale face flushing, "I tell you the boy's blood will be on your head.
+3752_4944_000003_000001 "It has made me heartsick."
+3752_4944_000038_000000 "No, no, it will pass.
+3752_4944_000047_000000 "I must also be thinking of repose," said Meekin; "the journey-though most enjoyable-has fatigued me."
+3752_4944_000053_000000 "That young butler fellow of his." "What, Kirkland?" cried North.
+3752_4944_000036_000000 Here attention was called by the strange behaviour of mr North.
+3752_4944_000044_000001 "mr Meekin-dr
+3752_4944_000059_000000 "He was put into the long dormitory," said North; "you know what sort of a place that is.
+3752_4944_000070_000002 "Ah! Doctor, we all have our crosses, have we not?
+3752_4944_000008_000000 mr North sighed again.
+3752_4944_000009_000002 "There were a few matters I noticed in Hobart Town that did not quite please me-the frequent use of profane language for instance-but on the whole I was delighted with the scheme.
+3752_4944_000062_000000 "If the boy has anything to complain of, why don't he complain?
+3752_4944_000013_000000 "Or like Sancho Panza's island," said North.
+3752_4944_000033_000000 "Oh! there's no fear of him," said Burgess cheerily; "if he grows uproarious, we'll soon give him a touch of the cat."
+3752_4944_000069_000000 "There is something wrong about him, but I can't make out what it is.
+3752_4944_000046_000000 "Confound it-another of my best men," grumbled Burgess.
+3752_4944_000027_000002 He saved her life, you know."
+3752_4944_000074_000000 "Captain Burgess, Macklewain tells me you are going to flog Kirkland."
+3752_4944_000096_000001 "Oh, God, give me strength!
+3752_4944_000083_000000 "Then don't you interfere with me, sir."
+3752_4944_000008_000002 I doubt-forgive me for expressing myself so freely-if you quite know of our convict system."
+3752_4944_000008_000001 "You have not been long in the colony, mr Meekin.
+3752_4944_000014_000002 "Pray help yourself to wine."
+3752_4944_000098_000000 "I must keep my wits for to morrow.
+3752_4944_000051_000002 "Up at daylight, I suppose, again."
+3752_4944_000070_000001 dear me, how dreadful!" says Meekin.
+3752_4944_000064_000002 I can't help it.
+3752_4944_000086_000001 I am a minister of God, sir, and I forbid you to commit this crime."
+3752_4944_000028_000001 "We've got the fellows here, you know."
+3752_4944_000011_000002 The dinner went off successfully.
+3752_4944_000034_000000 "I suppose severity is necessary," returned Meekin; "though to my ears a flogging sounds a little distasteful.
+3752_4944_000088_000001 North knew well that he would never dare to attempt any such act of violence, but the insult stung him like the cut of a whip.
+3752_4944_000082_000000 "Captain Burgess, you have no right to mock at my office."
+3752_4944_000058_000001 "A nice example to set.
+3752_4944_000061_000000 "If Burgess flogs him I'll report it to the Governor," cries North, in great heat.
+3752_4944_000097_000004 He mixed a teaspoonful of this in a pannikin of water and drank it.
+3752_4944_000063_000002 Besides, he's not the sort of creature to complain.
+3752_4944_000031_000001 He seems to me to be truly penitent for his offences-a misguided, but not a hypocritical man, if my knowledge of human nature goes for anything."
+3752_4944_000005_000001 How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon that bank!
+3752_4944_000080_000000 "Captain Burgess," protested North, "I assure you that he does not deserve punishment.
+3752_4944_000070_000005 Good night."
+3752_4944_000076_000002 He attempted suicide to day-unhappy creature."
+3752_4944_000072_000001 Good night, once more."
+3752_4944_000095_000008 "Fool that I am."
+3752_4944_000070_000004 This seems a very pleasant place, and I think I shall enjoy myself very much.
+3752_4944_000100_000001 He reached it at length, and opening the cupboard, pulled out what he sought.
+3752_4944_000019_000000 "Do you know Captain Frere?"
+3752_4944_000056_000000 "Perhaps you'll have the goodness to allow me to be the best judge of that," returned Macklewain, drawing up his little body to its least insignificant stature.
+3752_4944_000079_000000 "That's Macklewain's business."
+3752_4944_000091_000000 Burgess, white with rage, rang the bell that summoned his convict servant.
+3752_4944_000010_000001 "Yes, it is very complete," he said; "almost too complete.
+3752_4944_000099_000003 It was as though he had reached the crisis of a disease which had been for days gathering force. "I must have a teaspoonful," he said, "to allay the craving."
+3752_4944_000030_000000 "A great rascal," put in North.
+3752_4944_000065_000001 "mr Meekin, here's the gate, and your room is on the right hand.
+3752_4944_000011_000000 "If you please," said Meekin gravely.
+3752_4944_000100_000006 The taste of the liquor maddened him for more.
+3752_4944_000063_000000 "Complain!
+3752_4944_000066_000003 I shall find my portmanteau in my room, you said."
+3752_4944_000044_000000 "Well, how's Forrest?" cried Burgess.
+3752_4944_000042_000001 The Reverend mr North, in this cool atmosphere, seemed to recover himself, and conversation progressed with some sprightliness.
+3752_4944_000065_000000 "I'll go back and see Burgess," said North.
+3752_4944_000009_000000 "An admirable one!
+3752_4944_000064_000003 The boy's made his bed, and he must lie on it."
+3752_4944_000054_000001 "Fifty lashes."
+3752_4944_000015_000000 "Thank you, none," said North, filling a tumbler with water.
+3752_4944_000015_000001 "I have a headache." His manner of speech and action was so awkward that a silence fell upon the party, caused by each one wondering why mr North should grow confused, and drum his fingers on the table, and stare everywhere but at the decanter.
+3752_4944_000076_000001 The lad has been cruelly punished already.
+3752_4944_000088_000000 This, of course, was mere bravado on the part of the Commandant.
+3752_4944_000057_000000 "My dear sir," replied North, alive to the importance of conciliating the surgeon, "you haven't seen him lately.
+3752_4944_000034_000001 It is a brutal punishment."
+3752_4944_000023_000001 They are going to Sydney, where Captain Frere has some interest, and Frere thinks of taking Port Arthur on his way down."
+3752_4944_000065_000002 I'll be back shortly."
+3752_4944_000081_000000 "Look here, mr North, I don't interfere with what you do to the prisoner's souls; don't you interfere with what I do to their bodies."
+3752_4944_000100_000008 He saw its amber fluid sparkle. He heard it gurgle as he poured it out.
+3752_4944_000053_000001 "You don't mean to say he's going to flog Kirkland?"
+3752_4944_000042_000000 So they went on to the verandah, and looked down upon the lights of the prison, and listened to the sea lapping the shore.
+3752_4944_000011_000003 Burgess-desirous, perhaps, of favourably impressing the chaplain whom the Bishop delighted to honour-shut off his blasphemy for a while, and was urbane enough.
+3752_4944_000087_000001 "You're a dismissed officer of the Government, sir.
+3752_4944_000096_000004 I struggle, but I am weak.
+3752_4944_000100_000015 In the midst of his arguments he found himself at the cupboard, with the bottle at his lips, in an attitude that was at once ludicrous and horrible.
+3752_4944_000058_000000 mr Meekin expressed some alarm; but dr Macklewain re assured him. "That sort of nonsense must be stopped," said he.
+3752_4944_000071_000000 "Good night, sir.
+3752_4944_000062_000001 We can't do anything without evidence."
+3752_4944_000078_000001 He's too weak."
+3752_4944_000099_000000 He went into his bedroom and flung himself on the bed, but only to toss from side to side.
+3752_4944_000087_000000 "Damn your impertinence, sir!" burst out Burgess.
+3752_4944_000077_000000 "Well, that's just what I'm flogging him for.
+3752_4944_000009_000003 It is so complete."
+3752_4944_000037_000000 "Nothing," said North, recovering himself with an effort.
+3752_4944_000021_000001 He is just married, you know."
+3752_4944_000020_000000 "Frere!
+3752_4944_000052_000000 "Whom is he going to flog now?"
+3752_4944_000029_000000 "I saw them tried at Hobart Town," said Meekin.
+3752_4944_000016_000000 "Very few.
+3752_4944_000002_000000 CHAPTER fourteen.
+3752_4944_000031_000000 "Well now!" said Meekin, with asperity, "I don't agree with you. Everybody seems to be against that poor fellow-Captain Frere tried to make me think that his letters contained a hidden meaning, but I don't believe they did.
+3752_4944_000061_000001 "The condition of those dormitories is infamous."
+3752_4944_000101_000000 He had no cancer.
+3752_4944_000095_000000 North returned home in great agitation.
+3752_4944_000055_000000 "Oh, this must be stopped," cried North, in great alarm.
+3752_4944_000027_000000 "So Captain Frere thinks.
+3752_4944_000010_000000 North pursed up his lips.
+3752_4944_000095_000001 "They shall not flog that boy," he said.
+3752_4944_000098_000002 Meekin, too, will suspect.
+3752_4944_000097_000002 There lurked something that fascinated him.
+3752_4944_000088_000002 He made a stride towards the Commandant, as though to seize him by the throat, but, checking himself in time, stood still, with clenched hands, flashing eyes, and beard that bristled.
+3752_4944_000022_000002 I heard something about it, too."
+3752_4944_000011_000004 "You'll find us rough, mr Meekin," he said, "but you'll find us 'all there' when we're wanted. This is a little kingdom in itself."
+3752_4944_000066_000000 "Pray, don't hurry," said Meekin politely.
+3752_4944_000080_000001 I have seen him, and his condition of mind is pitiable."
+3752_4944_000100_000003 He raised it to his lips and eagerly drank.
+3752_4944_000020_000002 "I was quartered with him at Sarah Island.
+3752_4944_000070_000000 "Cancer in the stomach!
+3752_4944_000004_000001 "Captain Frere says that the scenery is delightful." "So it is," returned North, looking askance, "but the prisoners are not delightful."
+3752_4944_000036_000002 "Hullo, North! what's the matter?"
+3752_4944_000023_000000 "Miss Vickers, a charming young person.
+3752_4944_000057_000001 He tried to drown himself this morning."
+3752_4944_000055_000001 "He can't stand it.
+3752_4944_000058_000002 I wonder Burgess didn't give him a hundred."
+3752_4944_000025_000000 "Captain Frere takes a deep interest in all relating to convict discipline," went on Meekin, unheeding the interruption, "and is anxious that mrs Frere should see this place."
+3752_4944_000072_000000 "And let us hope poor mr North will succeed in his labour of love," said Meekin, shutting the little gate, "and save the unfortunate Kirkland.
+3752_4944_000014_000000 "Not at this moment, sir," said Burgess, with dignity.
+3752_4944_000050_000003 Macklewain, I want to speak with you a moment."
+3752_4944_000050_000002 Good night.
+3752_4944_000093_000000 "I'll report this to the Government," said North, aghast.
+3752_4944_000099_000002 Sleep would not come to him.
+3752_4944_000077_000001 I'll teach my prisoners to attempt suicide!"
+3752_4944_000022_000001 "The devil he is!
+3752_4944_000035_000000 "It's a punishment for brutes," said Burgess, and laughed, pleased with the nearest approach to an epigram he ever made in his life.
+3752_4944_000002_000001 mr NORTH'S DISPOSITION.
+3752_4944_000073_000000 Captain Burgess was shutting his verandah window when North hurried up.
+3752_4944_000100_000005 Still he could not sleep.
+3752_4944_000032_000001 "I wouldn't trust him."
+3752_4944_000016_000001 Sometimes a party comes over with a recommendation from the Governor, and I show them over the place; but, as a rule, we see no one but ourselves."
+3752_4944_000097_000000 To see him rolling on the sofa in agony, to see his white face, his parched lips, and his contracted brow, to hear his moans and muttered prayers, one would have thought him suffering from the pangs of some terrible disease.
+3752_4944_000063_000003 He'd rather kill himself."
+3752_4944_000100_000011 He wept, he prayed, he fought with his desire as with a madness.
+3752_4944_000049_000000 "You won't have a nip of brandy before you start?" asked Burgess.
+3752_4944_000093_000001 "This is murderous."
+3752_4944_000040_000000 "Ha!" said North, looking wildly round upon them.
+3752_4944_000037_000001 "A spasm.
+3752_4944_000100_000013 That, at all times debasing, at this particular time it was infamous; that a vice, unworthy of any man, was doubly sinful in a man of education and a minister of God.
+3752_4944_000096_000003 Help me!
+3752_4944_000006_000000 "Abandoned, indeed, by God and man-almost."
+3752_4944_000075_000000 "Well, sir, what of that?" said Burgess.
+3752_4944_000067_000000 "Yes, yes.
+3752_4944_000020_000001 I should say so!" returned Burgess, with a laugh, modelled upon Maurice Frere's own.
+3752_4944_000071_000001 I hope you will be comfortable."
+3752_4944_000097_000003 He got up at length, went into the kitchen, and found a packet of red pepper.
+3752_4944_000004_000000 "I thought it was a little paradise," said Meekin.
+3752_4944_000069_000001 He has the strangest fits at times.
+3752_4944_000050_000000 "No?
+3752_4944_000070_000003 How delightful the grass smells!
+3752_4944_000007_000002 His staff, you know, mr North.
+3752_4944_000096_000000 Then he began to walk up and down, to fling himself on the sofa, to read, to pray.
+3752_4944_000095_000003 I'll report this to the Government.
+3752_4944_000100_000007 He saw in the darkness the brandy bottle-vulgar and terrible apparition!
+3752_4944_000099_000001 In vain he repeated texts of Scripture and scraps of verse; in vain counted imaginary sheep, or listened to imaginary clock tickings.
+3752_4944_000039_000001 The Reverend Meekin was not accustomed to clergymen who wore black neckties, smoked clay pipes, chewed tobacco, and drank neat brandy out of tumblers.
+3752_4944_000046_000001 "Macklewain, have a glass of wine." But Macklewain was tired, and wanted to get home.
+3752_4944_000039_000000 The Reverend Meekin eyed his clerical brother with horror.
+3752_4944_000100_000000 Twice he paused on the way to the sitting room, and twice was he driven on by a power stronger than his will.
+3752_4944_000069_000002 Unless it's a cancer in the stomach, I don't know what it can be."
+3752_4944_000060_000000 "Well, he'll be put into the hospital for a week or so to morrow," said Macklewain, "and that'll give him a spell."
+3752_4944_000094_000000 "The Government may go to----, and you, too!" roared Burgess.
+3752_4944_000084_000000 "Do you persist in having this boy flogged?"
+3752_4944_000040_000001 "That's better."
+3752_4944_000097_000001 He opened the book again, and forced himself to read, but his eyes wandered to the cupboard.
+3752_4944_000015_000002 Meekin-ever softly at his ease-was the first to speak.
+3752_4944_000066_000002 Everything must give way to that.
+3752_4944_000068_000001 Macklewain shook his head seriously.
+3752_4944_000038_000001 No, I say.
+3752_4944_000089_000000 The two men looked at each other, and presently Burgess's eyes fell before those of the chaplain.
+3752_4944_000032_000000 "I hope he is," said North.
+3752_4944_000097_000005 It relieved him for a while.
+3752_4943_000028_000000 "But, my good sir," protested North, restraining his impulse to overstep the bounds of modesty in his language to his superior officer, "you know the character of the men in that ward.
+3752_4943_000028_000001 You can guess what that unhappy boy has suffered."
+3752_4943_000009_000001 Get in." So Kirkland, aged twenty two, and the son of Methodist parents, went in.
+3752_4943_000033_000001 His face was of a greenish tint, and wore an expression of bewildered horror.
+3752_4943_000054_000002 Troke reported the ex bank clerk that night to Burgess, and Burgess, who was about to go to dinner with the new chaplain, disposed of his case out of hand.
+3752_4943_000043_000000 Rufus Dawes nodded.
+3752_4943_000027_000000 The Commandant, roused from slumber, told mr North that Kirkland might stop where he was, and that he'd thank the chaplain not to wake him up in the middle of the night because a blank prisoner set up a blank howling.
+3752_4943_000061_000000 Kirkland was put into a separate cell that night; and Troke, by way of assuring him a good night's rest, told him that he was to have "fifty" in the morning.
+3752_4943_000040_000000 "Silence!" cried Troke.
+3752_4943_000009_000000 "Stow your gaff," says Troke, with another oath, and impatiently striking the lad with his thong-"I can't argue here all night.
+3752_4943_000010_000000 Rufus Dawes, among whose sinister memories this yard was numbered, sighed.
+3752_4943_000005_000000 The toil was severe, and the companionship uncouth, but despite his blistered hands and aching back, he had not experienced anything so very terrible after all.
+3752_4943_000016_000002 Oh, mr North!
+3752_4943_000003_000007 Kirkland belonged to a Methodist family and owned a piety utterly out of place in that region.
+3752_4943_000056_000002 His flogging wouldn't have killed a flea."
+3752_4943_000006_000000 "I'm not to go in there?" says the ex bank clerk, drawing back in dismay from the cloud of foul faces which lowered upon him.
+3752_4943_000053_000001 "Your blessed hide'll feel for this, see if it don't."
+3752_4943_000037_000000 "Thank God!" said Kirkland.
+3752_4943_000003_000010 "You blank blank, is that your blank game?
+3752_4943_000051_000001 "You'll see if you won't remember this day."
+3752_4943_000034_000001 "It's no good being in the mopes, you know."
+3752_4943_000050_000001 But Kirkland kept steadily on for the river.
+3752_4943_000010_000001 So fierce was the glamour of the place, however, that when locked into his cell, he felt ashamed for that sigh, and strove to erase the memory of it.
+3752_4943_000014_000001 mr North!" cried a voice, "for the love of God, let me out of this place!"
+3752_4943_000045_000001 What does he care?"
+3752_4943_000054_000000 Kirkland only breathed harder, and looked round for mr North, but mr North had gone.
+3752_4943_000029_000001 "Do him good, curse him!
+3752_4943_000003_000011 I'll blank soon cure you of that!" and forthwith ordered him to the chain gang for "insubordination".
+3752_4943_000019_000000 "Let him out, watchman!" said North.
+3752_4943_000018_000001 For God's sake, mr North!" and beat on the bars with white and sweating hands.
+3752_4943_000056_000000 "Troke-pick out some likely man, will you?
+3752_4943_000042_000000 "Have you ever been in that-that place I was in last night?" asked Kirkland.
+3752_4943_000003_000003 He had been a clerk in a banking house, and was transported for embezzlement, though, by some, grave doubts as to his guilt were entertained.
+3752_4943_000012_000000 "What's the matter here?" he asked.
+3752_4943_000015_000000 Kirkland, ghastly pale, bleeding, with his woollen shirt torn, and his blue eyes wide open with terror, was clinging to the bars.
+3752_4943_000022_000003 mr North!
+3752_4943_000014_000000 "mr North!
+3752_4943_000008_000000 "But, mr Troke-"
+3752_4943_000022_000001 North!" screamed Kirkland.
+3752_4943_000046_000002 Hold up, my lad.
+3752_4943_000002_000000 CHAPTER thirteen.
+3752_4943_000059_000003 I'll be down in the morning myself if I can."
+3752_4943_000032_000001 "Poor young chap!
+3752_4943_000029_000000 "Impertinent young beggar!" said Burgess.
+3752_4943_000055_000001 "Good evening, sir."
+3752_4943_000048_000000 "Hold on to me, Miss Nancy," said the giant, "I'm big enough to carry double."
+3752_4943_000018_000000 But Kirkland could do nothing but cry,--"Oh, mr North!
+3752_4943_000034_000000 "Cheer up, man!" said Dawes, touched with momentary pity.
+3752_4943_000055_000000 "Yes, sir," said Troke.
+3752_4943_000050_000000 "Halt! you young fool," roared Troke, raising his carbine.
+3752_4943_000054_000003 "Tried to bolt, eh!
+3752_4943_000029_000002 mr North, I'm sorry you should have had the trouble to come here, but will you let me go to sleep?"
+3752_4943_000022_000004 Oh, you ministers of Christ-wolves in sheep's clothing-you shall be judged for this!"
+3752_4943_000040_000002 March!"
+3752_4943_000021_000000 "I order you, sir!" North cried, indignant.
+3752_4943_000017_000000 "What, Kirkland!" cried North, who was ignorant of the vengeance of the Commandant.
+3752_4943_000041_000002 "What have you been doing to get into this scrape?"
+3752_4943_000041_000000 The work of the gang that afternoon was the carrying of some heavy logs to the water side, and Rufus Dawes observed that Kirkland was exhausted long before the task was accomplished.
+3752_4943_000036_000000 "Kill you," returned Dawes, in a tone of surprise at so preposterous a question.
+3752_4943_000020_000000 "Can't sir, without an order from the Commandant."
+3752_4943_000003_000002 His name was Kirkland, and he belonged to what were known as the "educated" prisoners.
+3752_4943_000033_000000 In the morning, Rufus Dawes, coming to his place on the chain gang, was struck by the altered appearance of Kirkland.
+3752_4943_000016_000003 Oh, for God's sake, mr North!"
+3752_4943_000024_000001 "I can't.
+3752_4943_000013_000000 "A prisoner refractory, your reverence," said the watchman.
+3752_4943_000011_000000 About dawn the next morning, mr North-who, amongst other vagaries not approved of by his bishop, had a habit of prowling about the prison at unofficial hours-was attracted by a dispute at the door of the dormitory.
+3752_4943_000051_000000 "You young vermin-you shall pay for this," cries Troke.
+3752_4943_000050_000003 Kirkland jumped for the jetty, missed his footing, and fell into the arms of the chaplain.
+3752_4943_000038_000000 "Now then, Miss Nancy," said one of the men, "what's the matter with you!" Kirkland shuddered, and his pale face grew crimson.
+3752_4943_000045_000000 "I suppose so.
+3752_4943_000054_000005 Fifty lashes, Troke.
+3752_4943_000052_000000 "Oh, mr North," says Kirkland, "why did you stop me?
+3752_4943_000025_000000 North rushed away to the Commandant, and the instant his back was turned, Hailes, the watchman, flung open the door, and darted into the dormitory.
+3752_4943_000026_000001 "There's more trouble with you bloody aristocrats than enough.
+3752_4943_000058_000000 "They won't do it."
+3752_4943_000030_000000 North returned to the prison disconsolately, found the dutiful Hailes at his post, and all quiet.
+3752_4943_000013_000001 "Wants to come out."
+3752_4943_000003_000005 So, doubtless, it was, and might have been, had not an untoward accident occurred.
+3752_4943_000035_000000 "What do they do if you try to bolt?" whispered Kirkland.
+3752_4943_000050_000002 Just as he reached it, however, the figure of mr North rose from behind a pile of stones.
+3752_4943_000056_000001 That last fellow you had ought to have been tied up himself.
+3752_4943_000054_000004 Must stop that.
+3752_4943_000022_000000 "Very sorry, your reverence; but your reverence knows that I daren't do such a thing." "mr
+3752_4943_000023_000000 "Let him out!" cried North again, stamping his foot.
+3752_4943_000039_000000 "Oh," he said, "that such a wretch as I should live!"
+3752_4943_000031_000000 "What's become of Kirkland?" he asked.
+3752_4943_000024_000002 If he was dying, I can't."
+3752_4943_000059_000002 If the scourger won't do his duty, tie him up, and give him five and twenty for himself.
+3752_4943_000054_000006 Tell Macklewain to be ready-or stay, I'll tell him myself-I'll break the young devil's spirit, blank him."
+3752_4943_000032_000000 "Fretted hisself to sleep, yer reverence," said Hailes, in accents of parental concern.
+3752_4943_000026_000002 Lie quiet!"
+3752_4943_000016_000000 "Oh, mr North!
+3752_4943_000022_000002 "Would you see me perish, body and soul, in this place?
+3752_4943_000059_000001 I won't have my men knocked up with flogging these rascals.
+3752_4943_000047_000000 He had hardly uttered the words, when the boy flung himself beneath the log.
+3752_4943_000046_000003 If you fall, we must fall over you, and then you're done for."
+422_122949_000001_000000 CHAPTER nine.
+422_122949_000009_000007 Be natural!
+422_122949_000013_000010 One must appeal to immense opposing forces, in order to thwart this natural, all too natural PROGRESSUS IN SIMILE, the evolution of man to the similar, the ordinary, the average, the gregarious-to the IGNOBLE-!
+5536_43359_000002_000001 Early Religious Teaching.
+5536_43359_000014_000003 The betrothal might or might not be discussed and approved by the parents, but in either case it was customary for the young pair to disappear into the wilderness, there to pass some days or weeks in perfect seclusion and dual solitude, afterward returning to the village as man and wife.
+5536_43359_000017_000004 Modesty was her chief adornment; hence the younger women were usually silent and retiring: but a woman who had attained to ripeness of years and wisdom, or who had displayed notable courage in some emergency, was sometimes invited to a seat in the council.
+5536_43359_000021_000003 Here he throws handfuls of clear, cold water into his face, or plunges in bodily.
+5536_43359_000015_000000 The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.
+5536_43359_000004_000000 The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.
+5536_43359_000001_000001 THE FAMILY ALTAR
+5536_43359_000009_000000 In the old days, our mothers were single eyed to the trust imposed upon them; and as a noted chief of our people was wont to say: "Men may slay one another, but they can never overcome the woman, for in the quietude of her lap lies the child!
+5536_43359_000011_000001 If a girl, she is from this time much under the guardianship of her grandmother, who is considered the most dignified protector for the maiden.
+5536_43359_000025_000001 Yet, if an enemy should honor us with a call, his trust will not be misplaced, and he will go away convinced that he has met with a royal host!
+5536_43359_000002_000000 Pre natal Influence.
+5536_43359_000017_000003 All of the family property was held by her, descent was traced in the maternal line, and the honor of the house was in her hands.
+5536_43359_000015_000003 The remoter degrees of kinship were fully recognized, and that not as a matter of form only: first cousins were known as brothers and sisters; the name of "cousin" constituted a binding claim, and our rigid morality forbade marriage between cousins in any known degree, or in other words within the clan.
+5536_43359_000023_000000 Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
+5536_43359_000005_000002 The ordeal is best met alone, where no curious or pitying eyes embarrass her; where all nature says to her spirit: "'tis love!
+5536_43359_000021_000005 His mate may precede or follow him in his devotions, but never accompanies him.
+5536_43359_000012_000004 A soft, low voice was considered an excellent thing in man, as well as in woman!
+5536_43359_000006_000000 Presently she returns to the camp, carrying the mysterious, the holy, the dearest bundle!
+5536_43359_000026_000000 Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
+5536_43359_000021_000002 He wakes at daybreak, puts on his moccasins and steps down to the water's edge.
+5536_43359_000005_000000 And when the day of days in her life dawns-the day in which there is to be a new life, the miracle of whose making has been intrusted to her, she seeks no human aid.
+5536_43359_000010_000002 In due time the child takes of his own accord the attitude of prayer, and speaks reverently of the Powers.
+5536_43359_000011_000000 At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.
+5536_43359_000020_000000 Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
+5536_43359_000004_000002 Silence and isolation are the rule of life for the expectant mother.
+5536_43359_000017_000001 In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
+5536_43359_000018_000001 When she fell, the whole race fell with her.
+5536_43359_000003_000002 There was no priest to assume responsibility for another's soul.
+5536_43359_000017_000000 It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure.
+5536_43359_000024_000002 He cuts off the choicest morsel of the meat and casts it into the fire-the purest and most ethereal element.
+5536_43359_000006_000001 She feels the endearing warmth of it and hears its soft breathing.
+5536_43359_000003_000003 That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
+5536_43359_000012_000001 Advancing years brought with them much freedom, not only from the burden of laborious and dangerous tasks, but from those restrictions of custom and etiquette which were religiously observed by all others.
+5536_43359_000007_000000 She continues her spiritual teaching, at first silently-a mere pointing of the index finger to nature; then in whispered songs, bird like, at morning and evening.
+5536_43359_000015_000002 The very name of our tribe, Dakota, means Allied People.
+5536_43359_000023_000002 His respect for the immortal part of the animal, his brother, often leads him so far as to lay out the body of his game in state and decorate the head with symbolic paint or feathers.
+5536_43363_000018_000002 There was a well-known Sioux war prophet who lived in the middle of the last century, so that he is still remembered by the old men of his band. After he had reached middle age, he declared that he had a spirit brother among the Ojibways, the ancestral enemies of the Sioux.
+5536_43363_000001_000001 The Sacred Lock of Hair. Reincarnation and the Converse of Spirits.
+5536_43363_000004_000004 Finally, the wailing for the dead is continued night and day to the point of utter voicelessness; a musical, weird, and heart piercing sound, which has been compared to the "keening" of the Celtic mourner.
+5536_43363_000002_000001 Death has no terrors for him; he meets it with simplicity and perfect calm, seeking only an honorable end as his last gift to his family and descendants.
+5536_43363_000015_000002 Some of us seemed to have a peculiar intuition for the locality of a grave, which they explained by saying that they had received a communication from the spirit of the departed.
+5536_43363_000013_000000 This child lived to become great among us, as was intimated to the superstitious by the circumstances of his birth.
+5536_43363_000011_000002 This was carried out to the letter.
+5536_43363_000017_000000 At another time, when I was fourteen years old, we had just left Fort Ellis on the Assiniboine River, and my youngest uncle had selected a fine spot for our night camp.
+5536_43363_000010_000000 A Sioux prophet predicted the coming of the white man fully fifty years before the event, and even described accurately his garments and weapons.
+5536_43363_000004_000000 The outward signs of mourning for the dead are far more spontaneous and convincing than is the correct and well ordered black of civilization. Both men and women among us loosen their hair and cut it according to the degree of relationship or of devotion.
+5536_43363_000021_000000 They sent out scouts, who soon returned with news of the approaching party.
+5536_43363_000014_000000 The father of Little Crow, the chief who led the "Minnesota massacre" of eighteen sixty two, was another prophet of some note.
+5536_43363_000024_000001 The prophet asked his twin brother to sing one of his sacred songs, and behold! it was the very song that he himself was wont to sing.
+5536_43363_000015_000000 There are many trustworthy men, and men of Christian faith, to vouch for these and similar events occurring as foretold.
+5536_43363_000000_000001 ON THE BORDER LAND OF SPIRITS
+5536_43363_000024_000000 It was quickly agreed by both parties that they should camp together for several days, and one evening the Sioux made a "warriors' feast" to which they invited many of the Ojibways.
+5536_43363_000001_000002 Occult and Psychic Powers.
+5536_43363_000002_000003 If one be dying at home, it is customary to carry his bed out of doors as the end approaches, that his spirit may pass under the open sky.
+5536_43363_000010_000002 No doubt, many predictions have been colored to suit the new age, and unquestionably false prophets, fakirs, and conjurers have become the pest of the tribes during the transition period.
+5536_43363_000002_000000 The attitude of the Indian toward death, the test and background of life, is entirely consistent with his character and philosophy.
+5536_43363_000007_000004 At the end of a year from the time of death, the relatives made a public feast and gave away the clothing and other gifts, while the lock of hair was interred with appropriate ceremonies.
+5536_43363_000001_000003 The Gift of Prophecy.
+5536_43363_000017_000004 This incident made a great impression upon our people.
+5536_43363_000003_000001 His family affections are strong, and he grieves intensely for the lost, even though he has unbounded faith in a spiritual companionship.
+5536_43363_000015_000004 Of course, the outward signs of burial had been long since obliterated.
+5536_43363_000001_000000 Death and Funeral Customs.
+5536_43363_000008_000000 Certainly the Indian never doubted the immortal nature of the spirit or soul of man, but neither did he care to speculate upon its probable state or condition in a future life.
+5536_43363_000022_000000 The response came in like manner, and they entered the camp, with the peace pipe in the hands of the prophet.
+5536_43363_000014_000001 One of his characteristic prophecies was made only a few years before he died, when he had declared that, although already an old man, he would go once more upon the war path.
+5536_43358_000026_000002 Not only did they not profess it, but they stooped so low as to insult their God with profane and sacrilegious speech!
+5536_43358_000009_000001 The Savage Philosopher.
+5536_43358_000028_000001 But it was not so easy to overlook or to excuse national bad faith.
+5536_43358_000017_000002 All who have lived much out of doors know that there is a magnetic and nervous force that accumulates in solitude and that is quickly dissipated by life in a crowd; and even his enemies have recognized the fact that for a certain innate power and self poise, wholly independent of circumstances, the American Indian is unsurpassed among men.
+5536_43358_000016_000000 The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
+5536_43358_000018_000002 In this type of prayer there was no beseeching of favor or help.
+5536_43358_000009_000000 Solitary Worship.
+5536_43358_000011_000003 None might exhort or confess or in any way meddle with the religious experience of another.
+5536_43358_000011_000004 Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
+5536_43358_000027_000003 The lust for money, power, and conquest so characteristic of the Anglo Saxon race did not escape moral condemnation at the hands of his untutored judge, nor did he fail to contrast this conspicuous trait of the dominant race with the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus.
+5536_43358_000023_000003 We have still to face the ultimate miracle,--the origin and principle of life!
+5536_43358_000011_000005 Our faith might not be formulated in creeds, nor forced upon any who were unwilling to receive it; hence there was no preaching, proselyting, nor persecution, neither were there any scoffers or atheists.
+5536_43358_000020_000000 The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
+5536_43358_000019_000001 From the Sun, as the universal father, proceeds the quickening principle in nature, and in the patient and fruitful womb of our mother, the Earth, are hidden embryos of plants and men.
+5536_43358_000011_000000 The worship of the "Great Mystery" was silent, solitary, free from all self seeking.
+5536_43358_000021_000000 The Indian loved to come into sympathy and spiritual communion with his brothers of the animal kingdom, whose inarticulate souls had for him something of the sinless purity that we attribute to the innocent and irresponsible child.
+5536_43358_000016_000002 To him, as to other single minded men in every age and race, from Diogenes to the brothers of Saint Francis, from the Montanists to the Shakers, the love of possessions has appeared a snare, and the burdens of a complex society a source of needless peril and temptation.
+5536_43358_000022_000001 The Indian was a logical and clear thinker upon matters within the scope of his understanding, but he had not yet charted the vast field of nature or expressed her wonders in terms of science.
+5536_43358_000023_000000 Who may condemn his superstition?
+5536_43358_000014_000003 At the solemn hour of sunrise or sunset he took up his position, overlooking the glories of earth and facing the "Great Mystery," and there he remained, naked, erect, silent, and motionless, exposed to the elements and forces of His arming, for a night and a day to two days and nights, but rarely longer.
+5536_43358_000011_000002 It was solitary, because they believed that He is nearer to us in solitude, and there were no priests authorized to come between a man and his Maker.
+5536_43358_000024_000001 In his own thought he rose superior to them!
+5536_43358_000026_000001 To him, it appeared shocking and almost incredible that there were among this people who claimed superiority many irreligious, who did not even pretend to profess the national faith.
+5536_43358_000009_000003 The Paradox of "Christian Civilization."
+5536_43358_000019_000003 This is the material or physical prayer.
+5536_43358_000023_000001 Surely not the devout Catholic, or even Protestant missionary, who teaches Bible miracles as literal fact! The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the hebrews of old.
+5536_43358_000027_000001 They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.
+5536_43358_000012_000001 Being a natural man, the Indian was intensely poetical.
+5536_43358_000028_000000 He might in time come to recognize that the drunkards and licentious among white men, with whom he too frequently came in contact, were condemned by the white man's religion as well, and must not be held to discredit it.
+5536_43358_000017_000000 It was not, then, wholly from ignorance or improvidence that he failed to establish permanent towns and to develop a material civilization. To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical.
+5536_43358_000015_000001 Of the vision or sign vouchsafed to him he did not speak, unless it had included some commission which must be publicly fulfilled. Sometimes an old man, standing upon the brink of eternity, might reveal to a chosen few the oracle of his long past youth.
+5536_43358_000018_000001 The first is pure spirit, concerned only with the essence of things, and it was this he sought to strengthen by spiritual prayer, during which the body is subdued by fasting and hardship.
+5536_43358_000021_000001 He had faith in their instincts, as in a mysterious wisdom given from above; and while he humbly accepted the supposedly voluntary sacrifice of their bodies to preserve his own, he paid homage to their spirits in prescribed prayers and offerings.
+5536_43358_000014_000001 Having first prepared himself by means of the purifying vapor bath, and cast off as far as possible all human or fleshly influences, the young man sought out the noblest height, the most commanding summit in all the surrounding region.
+5536_43358_000020_000002 The tree, the waterfall, the grizzly bear, each is an embodied Force, and as such an object of reverence.
+5536_43358_000010_000000 The original attitude of the American Indian toward the Eternal, the "Great Mystery" that surrounds and embraces us, was as simple as it was exalted.
+5536_43358_000024_000003 It was clear to him that virtue and happiness are independent of these things, if not incompatible with them.
+5536_43358_000020_000001 We believed that the spirit pervades all creation and that every creature possesses a soul in some degree, though not necessarily a soul conscious of itself.
+5536_43358_000025_000001 Yet the religion that is preached in our churches and practiced by our congregations, with its element of display and self aggrandizement, its active proselytism, and its open contempt of all religions but its own, was for a long time extremely repellent.
+5536_43358_000022_000002 With his limited knowledge of cause and effect, he saw miracles on every hand,--the miracle of life in seed and egg, the miracle of death in lightning flash and in the swelling deep! Nothing of the marvelous could astonish him; as that a beast should speak, or the sun stand still.
+5536_43358_000011_000001 It was silent, because all speech is of necessity feeble and imperfect; therefore the souls of my ancestors ascended to God in wordless adoration.
+5536_43358_000010_000001 To him it was the supreme conception, bringing with it the fullest measure of joy and satisfaction possible in this life.
+2412_153947_000014_000000 The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short-thus, E re whon.
+2412_153947_000023_000000 june ninth eighteen seventy two
+2412_153947_000017_000006 Then I had much pleasure in reading it, but was indeed surprised at the many little points of similarity between the two books, in spite of their entire independence to one another.
+2412_153947_000030_000000 I also wrote about this time the substance of what ultimately became the Musical Banks, and the trial of a man for being in a consumption.
+2412_153947_000017_000005 On my return, I purposely avoided looking into it until I had sent back my last revises to the printer.
+2412_153947_000029_000000 The next part of "Erewhon" that I wrote was the "World of the Unborn," a preliminary form of which was sent to mr Holyoake's paper, but as I cannot find it among those copies of the Reasoner that are in the British Museum, I conclude that it was not accepted.
+2412_153947_000034_000000 Having now, I fear, at too great length done what I was asked to do, I should like to add a few words on my own account.
+2412_153947_000020_000004 I have also parted with the word "infortuniam" (though not without regret), but have not dared to meddle with other similar inaccuracies.
+2412_153947_000017_000001 This is a mistake, though a perfectly natural one.
+2412_153948_000015_000004 This would be the highest triumph that I could wish for; but it was too much to think of yet.
+2412_153948_000008_000002 The climate was temperate, and very healthy; there were no wild animals, nor were the natives dangerous, being few in number and of an intelligent tractable disposition.
+2412_153948_000015_000001 Ah! who could say?
+2412_153948_000013_000006 Alas! they are both mistaken; the ewe is not the lamb's ewe, they are neither kin nor kind to one another, and part in coldness.
+2412_153948_000015_000005 I would try the nearer range, and see how far I could go.
+2412_153948_000013_000005 Aha! they see, and rush towards each other.
+2412_153948_000012_000004 I knew that there was a range still farther back; but except from one place near the very top of my own mountain, no part of it was visible: from this point, however, I saw, whenever there were no clouds, a single snow clad peak, many miles away, and I should think about as high as any mountain in the world.
+2412_153948_000015_000006 Even if I did not find country, might I not find gold, or diamonds, or copper, or silver?
+2412_153948_000007_000001 The colony was one which had not been opened up even to the most adventurous settlers for more than eight or nine years, having been previously uninhabited, save by a few tribes of savages who frequented the seaboard.
+2412_153948_000013_000002 wonderful!
+2412_153948_000003_000001 Suffice it, that when I left home it was with the intention of going to some new colony, and either finding, or even perhaps purchasing, waste crown land suitable for cattle or sheep farming, by which means I thought that I could better my fortunes more rapidly than in England.
+2412_153948_000009_000003 Men pushed farther and farther into the mountains, and found a very considerable tract inside the front range, between it and another which was loftier still, though even this was not the highest, the great snowy one which could be seen from out upon the plains.
+2412_153948_000011_000003 I had a telescope and a dog, and would take bread and meat and tobacco with me. Starting with early dawn, it would be night before I could complete my round; for the mountain over which I had to go was very high.
+2412_153948_000015_000003 Could I hope to cross it?
+2412_153954_000005_000002 The children were infinite in number, and exceedingly merry; I need hardly say that they came in for their full share of the prevailing beauty.
+2412_153954_000006_000001 The country was highly cultivated, every ledge being planted with chestnuts, walnuts, and apple trees from which the apples were now gathering.
+2412_153954_000009_000001 When I had shown them what I did with it, they were astonished but not displeased, and seemed to like the smell.
+2412_153954_000005_000000 The men were as handsome as the women beautiful.
+2412_153954_000006_000002 Goats were abundant; also a kind of small black cattle, in the marshes near the river, which was now fast widening, and running between larger flats from which the hills receded more and more.
+2412_153954_000008_000010 This gave me little uneasiness, for I had no money with me, nor anything which they were at all likely to want, or which I cared about losing.
+2412_153954_000011_000001 He spoke to me solemnly and sternly for two or three minutes.
+2412_153954_000001_000000 CHAPTER seven: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
+2412_153954_000008_000009 As soon as it was ended, they proceeded to overhaul my swag and the contents of my pockets.
+2412_153954_000007_000001 I will spare the reader any description of the town, and would only bid him think of Domodossola or Faido.
+2412_153954_000002_000006 But it was not so.
+2412_153954_000013_000001 Here the magistrate stopped, and opening the case began comparing my watch with the others.
+2412_153954_000008_000003 He appeared more and more puzzled, and then retired, returning with two others much like himself.
+2412_153954_000007_000000 In about four hours of walking from the time we started, and after passing two or three more villages, we came upon a considerable town, and my guides made many attempts to make me understand something, but I gathered no inkling of their meaning, except that I need be under no apprehension of danger.
+2412_153954_000002_000002 Sometimes we went through forests of pine, or rather yew trees, though they looked like pine; and I remember that now and again we passed a little wayside shrine, wherein there would be a statue of great beauty, representing some figure, male or female, in the very heyday of youth, strength, and beauty, or of the most dignified maturity and old age.
+2412_153954_000008_000002 He at length asked me a single short question, which I supposed meant "Who are you?" I answered in English quite composedly as though he would understand me, and endeavoured to be my very most natural self as well as I could.
+2412_153954_000013_000000 We passed many cases, and at last came to one in which there were several clocks and two or three old watches.
+2412_153954_000002_000001 The morning was cold and somewhat foggy, for the autumn had made great strides latterly.
+2412_153954_000002_000000 We followed an Alpine path for some four miles, now hundreds of feet above a brawling stream which descended from the glaciers, and now nearly alongside it.
+2412_153954_000002_000004 However, I showed no sign of wonder or disapproval; for I remembered that to be all things to all men was one of the injunctions of the Gentile Apostle, which for the present I should do well to heed.
+2412_153954_000004_000002 Their colour was equal to that of the finest Italian paintings; being of the clearest olive, and yet ruddy with a glow of perfect health.
+2412_153954_000004_000005 Even in middle age they were still comely, and the old grey haired women at their cottage doors had a dignity, not to say majesty, of their own.
+2412_153954_000005_000001 I have always delighted in and reverenced beauty; but I felt simply abashed in the presence of such a splendid type-a compound of all that is best in Egyptian, Greek and Italian.
+2412_153954_000007_000003 In fact, one of them was plainly very much out of health, and coughed violently from time to time in spite of manifest efforts to suppress it.
+2412_153954_000003_000004 Glass was plentiful in the better houses.
+2412_153954_000013_000002 The design was different, but the thing was clearly the same.
+2412_153954_000003_000000 The village was just like the one we had left, only rather larger.
+2412_153954_000007_000006 These two were first called out; and in about a quarter of an hour I was made to follow them, which I did in some fear, and with much curiosity.
+2412_153954_000007_000005 Both of them appeared astonished at seeing one who was evidently a stranger, but they were too ill to come up to me, and form conclusions concerning me.
+2412_153954_000005_000005 I could fill many pages with a description of their dress and the ornaments which they wore, and a hundred details which struck me with all the force of novelty; but I must not stay to do so.
+2412_153954_000004_000000 Lastly, I should say that the people were of a physical beauty which was simply amazing.
+2412_153954_000012_000001 The larger specimens had a case to themselves, and tickets with writing on them in a character which I could not understand.
+2412_153954_000012_000005 As I said before, all were marred and broken.
+2412_153954_000002_000003 My hosts always bowed their heads as they passed one of these shrines, and it shocked me to see statues that had no apparent object, beyond the chronicling of some unusual individual excellence or beauty, receive so serious a homage.
+2412_153954_000010_000000 I remember that when they first found it I had thought of Paley, and how he tells us that a savage on seeing a watch would at once conclude that it was designed.
+2412_153954_000003_000003 It was here as hitherto: all things were generically the same as in Europe, the differences being of species only; and I was amused at seeing in a window some bottles with barley sugar and sweetmeats for children, as at home; but the barley sugar was in plates, not in twisted sticks, and was coloured blue.
+2412_153954_000008_000001 He looked me all over for about five minutes, letting his eyes wander from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, up and down, and down and up; neither did his mind seem in the least clearer when he had done looking than when he began.
+2412_153954_000006_000003 I saw a few sheep with rounded noses and enormous tails. Dogs were there in plenty, and very English; but I saw no cats, nor indeed are these creatures known, their place being supplied by a sort of small terrier.
+2412_153954_000008_000005 They felt my pulse, they looked at my tongue, they listened at my chest, they felt all my muscles; and at the end of each operation they looked at the chief and nodded, and said something in a tone quite pleasant, as though I were all right.
+2412_153954_000006_000000 When we had got past the village the fog rose, and revealed magnificent views of the snowy mountains and their nearer abutments, while in front I could now and again catch glimpses of the great plains which I had surveyed on the preceding evening.
+2412_153954_000009_000003 They seemed concerned and uneasy as soon as they got hold of it.
+2412_153954_000004_000001 I never saw anything in the least comparable to them. The women were vigorous, and had a most majestic gait, their heads being set upon their shoulders with a grace beyond all power of expression. Each feature was finished, eyelids, eyelashes, and ears being almost invariably perfect.
+2412_153954_000002_000009 I may as well say at once what my after experience taught me-namely, that with all their faults and extraordinary obliquity of mental vision upon many subjects, they are the very best bred people that I ever fell in with.
+2412_153954_000004_000004 I was dazzled as I saw one after the other, of whom I could only feel that each was the loveliest I had ever seen.
+2412_153954_000002_000007 My guides spoke to many in passing, and those spoken to showed much amazement.
+2412_153954_000005_000003 I expressed by signs my admiration and pleasure to my guides, and they were greatly pleased.
+2412_153954_000009_000002 But by and by they came to my watch, which I had hidden away in the inmost pocket that I had, and had forgotten when they began their search.
+2412_153954_000004_000003 Their expression was divine; and as they glanced at me timidly but with parted lips in great bewilderment, I forgot all thoughts of their conversion in feelings that were far more earthly.
+2412_153954_000007_000004 The other looked pale and ill but he was marvellously self-contained, and it was impossible to say what was the matter with him.
+2412_153954_000008_000006 They even pulled down my eyelids, and looked, I suppose, to see if they were bloodshot; but it was not so.
+2412_153954_000008_000011 At least I fancied so, but I soon found my mistake.
+8297_275156_000013_000001 "If Catherine does think of marrying again," he said, "the man will have to reckon first with me. But that is not the point.
+8297_275156_000009_000002 If it had driven me out of mind, I shouldn't have been surprised."
+8297_275156_000000_000001 Make the Best of It.
+8297_275156_000007_000000 He snatched a newspaper out of his pocket as he spoke-tore it in half-and threw it away.
+8297_275156_000019_000005 But that she would receive the same unremitting attention, while he was courting Catherine, which would have been offered to her under other circumstances, was not to be hoped.
+8297_275156_000020_000000 Even this apparently simple proceeding required examination in its different bearings, before he could begin his letter.
+8297_275156_000010_000001 Supposing the report had been true-?"
+8297_275156_000021_000001 Considerations of delicacy seemed to forbid taking this liberty, even with an intimate friend.
+8297_275156_000013_000000 Herbert became more unreasonable than ever.
+8297_275156_000021_000004 What happier future could await her-especially if she justified Randal's past experience of all that was candid and truthful in her character-than to become his friend's wife?
+8297_275156_000002_000002 "You have been to the hotel?" he burst out; "you have seen Catherine?"
+8297_275156_000024_000000 He added Sydney's address in a postscript, and dispatched his letter that evening.
+8297_275156_000006_000002 The devil take the thing, and the people who write in it!"
+8297_275156_000006_000001 "Do you know, Randal, I was almost afraid that Catherine was the woman.
+8297_275156_000002_000001 Suspicion overclouded his face as he put the question.
+8297_275156_000023_000002 Without entering into particulars which may be mercifully dismissed from notice, let me only assure you that I answer for Sydney Westerfield as being worthy of the fatherly interest which you feel in her.
+8297_275156_000019_000002 Under the exasperating influence of a disappointment for which she was not prepared, it was hard to say what act of imprudence Sydney might not commit.
+8297_275156_000018_000000 If Randal shrank from the prospect which thus presented itself to him, in his relations with his brother, and if his thoughts reverted to Sydney Westerfield, other reasons for apprehension found their way into his mind.
+8297_275156_000017_000002 If he followed his inclinations, in the near neighborhood of the hotel, who could say what disasters might not ensue, in his brother's present frame of mind?
+8297_275156_000003_000002 "In all my remembrance of you," he said, "you have never told me a lie.
+8297_275156_000016_000000 "Leave that to me," was the one reply which Randal could venture to make at the moment.
+8297_275156_000023_000001 Your old friend's daughter has abandoned her sinful way of life, and has made sacrifices which prove the sincerity of her repentance.
+8297_275156_000013_000003 The bare doubt that my divorced wife might be the woman was bad enough-but what I wanted to find out was how she had passed off her false pretense on our child.
+8297_275156_000008_000000 Not satisfied with gossip in private, the greedy public appetite devours gossip in print, and wants more of it than any one editor can supply. Randal picked up the torn newspaper.
+8297_275156_000003_000004 That's it, isn't it?"
+8297_275156_000021_000003 Besides, looking to Catherine's interest-and not forgetting how she had suffered-had Randal any right to regard with other than friendly feelings a second marriage, which united her to a man morally and intellectually the superior of her first husband?
+8297_275156_000025_000000 On the afternoon of the next day two letters were delivered to Randal, bearing the Sydenham postmark.
+8297_275156_000017_000000 The serious embarrassments that surrounded him were thickening fast.
+8297_275156_000009_000001 It drove me out of the house and into the railway.
+8297_275156_000017_000006 Randal's loyalty to Catherine hesitated to decide that serious question against the woman whom he had known, trusted, and admired for so many years.
+8297_275156_000017_000003 If he made the disclosure on their return to the house, he would be only running the same risk of consequences, after an interval of delay; and, if he remained silent, the march of events might, at any moment, lead to the discovery of what he had concealed.
+8297_275156_000008_000001 It was not the newspaper which he had bought at the station.
+8297_275156_000003_000000 Randal could deny that he had seen Catherine, with perfect truth-and did deny it in the plainest terms.
+8297_275156_000017_000009 In the meantime, after what mrs Presty had confessed, the cruel falsehood which had checked poor Kitty's natural inquiries raised an insuperable obstacle to a meeting between father and child.
+8297_275156_000002_000000 "What are you doing here?" he asked.
+8297_275156_000027_000002 No explanation of the cause of this delay followed.
+8297_275156_000019_000004 That the Captain would welcome his friend's daughter as affectionately as if she had been his own child, was not to be doubted for a moment.
+8297_275156_000027_000003 But it might, perhaps, be excusable to infer that the marriage had not yet been decided on, and that the Captain's proposals were still waiting for Catherine's reply.
+8297_275156_000007_000001 "Malcolm meant well, poor fellow," he said, referring to the old servant, "but he made a miserable man of me for all that."
+8297_275156_000017_000008 It would sooner or later come to Herbert's ears.
+8297_275156_000023_000000 "I have news for you which I am sure you will be glad to hear.
+8297_275156_000027_000001 He would not be able (he wrote) to leave Sydenham for a day or two.
+8297_275156_000022_000000 Written under the modifying influence of these conclusions, his letter contained the few words that follow:
+8297_275156_000006_000000 "She's not Catherine, at any rate; I, for one, shall go home with a lighter heart." He took his brother's arm, to return to the other platform.
+8297_275156_000027_000000 The next letter was from Bennydeck, written in the kindest terms, but containing no allusion to any contemplated change in his life.
+8297_275156_000013_000005 No more of it now.
+8297_275156_000003_000001 Herbert was satisfied.
+8297_275156_000026_000000 The first which he happened to take up was addressed to him in mrs Presty's handwriting.
+8297_275156_000023_000004 I don't doubt that I am free already to do this; but it will encourage the poor girl, if I can speak with your authority."
+8297_275156_000011_000000 "After what you have told me, why should I suppose anything of the sort?"
+8297_275156_000008_000002 Herbert had been reading a rival journal, devoted to the interests of Society-in which the report of mrs Norman's marriage was repeated, with this difference, that it boldly alluded to Captain Bennydeck by name.
+8297_275156_000015_000000 "I suppose she is as handsome as ever.
+8297_275156_000021_000002 It was for the Captain to confirm what mrs Presty had said of him, if he thought it desirable to touch on the subject in his reply.
+8297_275156_000019_000001 To perform that promise appeared to be now simply impossible.
+8297_275156_000010_000000 "Gently, Herbert!
+8297_275156_000008_000003 "Did Malcolm give you this?" Randal asked.
+8297_275156_000013_000002 You seem to have forgotten that the woman at Buck's Hotel is described as a Widow.
+8297_275156_000019_000006 Be the results, however, what they might, Randal could see but one plain course before him now.
+8297_275156_000012_000000 "Don't be angry; and do pray remember that the Divorce allows you and Catherine to marry again, if you like."
+8297_275156_000017_000005 Having allowed herself to be entrapped into the deception proposed by her mother, and having thus far persevered in that deception, were the chances in favor of her revealing her true position-especially if she was disposed to encourage Bennydeck's suit?
+8297_275156_000023_000003 Shall I say that she may expect an early visit from you, when I see her to morrow?
+8297_275156_000017_000001 His natural frank nature urged him to undeceive Herbert.
+8297_275156_000017_000007 In any event, her second marriage would lead to one disastrous result.
+8297_275156_000026_000001 His opinion of this correspondent was expressed in prompt action-he threw the letter, unopened, into the waste paper basket.
+8297_275156_000021_000000 Would he be justified in alluding to the report which associated Bennydeck with Catherine?
+8297_275156_000015_000001 When will you ask her to let me see Kitty?"
+8297_275156_000013_000006 Have you seen Catherine lately?"
+8297_275156_000019_000007 He decided on hastening Sydney's introduction to Bennydeck, and on writing at once to prepare the Captain for that event.
+8297_275156_000017_000004 Add to this, that his confidence in Catherine had been rudely shaken.
+8297_275156_000014_000000 "Not lately."
+8297_275156_000005_000000 "no"
+8297_275156_000019_000000 He had promised to do his best toward persuading Catherine to grant Sydney an interview.
+8297_275156_000001_000000 For a moment the two men looked at each other without speaking. Herbert's wondering eyes accurately reflected his brother's astonishment.
+8297_275156_000003_000003 We have both seen the same newspaper, of course-and you have been the first to clear the thing up.
+8297_275155_000040_000000 Randal asked if his friend was then at the hotel.
+8297_275155_000020_000000 Randal drew back a step.
+8297_275155_000007_000001 mrs Presty was at home; she was reported to be in the garden of the hotel.
+8297_275155_000003_000002 No one knew on what errand he was bent, when he left the house.
+8297_275155_000028_000002 If I had set him right, what would have become of my daughter's reputation?
+8297_275155_000021_000000 "Sit down," said mrs Presty.
+8297_275155_000008_000004 "You don't mean to say that you are going to spoil our pleasant little dinner by bringing bad news!" she added, looking at him suspiciously.
+8297_275155_000015_000000 "You are to understand that Catherine is a widow.
+8297_275155_000010_000000 "How very complimentary to a poor useless old woman!
+8297_275155_000010_000003 Out with it!"
+8297_275155_000047_000000 Arrived at the station, Randal found that he must wait for the train. While he was walking up and down the platform with a mind doubly distressed by anxiety about his brother and anxiety about Sydney, the train from London came in.
+8297_275155_000010_000001 Don't be mysterious, my dear.
+8297_275155_000039_000002 "Your sour face would spoil the best dinner that ever was put on the table.
+8297_275155_000037_000000 "Say thoroughly worthy of the course forced upon me and my daughter by your brother's infamous conduct-and you will be nearer the mark!"
+8297_275155_000011_000000 Randal handed his paper to her, open at the right place.
+8297_275155_000034_000000 The very question which Randal had promised to ask in his brother's interests!
+8297_275155_000013_000000 "I am indeed sorry to spoil your dramatic effect," she said.
+8297_275155_000034_000001 "And how did Catherine answer you?" he inquired.
+8297_275155_000025_000000 "I should have told the truth."
+8297_275155_000028_000000 "Exactly what I did!
+8297_275155_000013_000002 The report is premature, my good friend.
+8297_275155_000047_000001 He stood, looking absently at the passengers leaving the carriage on the opposite side of the platform.
+8297_275155_000046_000001 One moment before you go!
+8297_275155_000028_000004 No! no! I have made the best of a miserable situation; I have consulted the tranquillity of a cruelly injured woman and an innocent child-with this inevitable result; I have been obliged to treat your brother like a character in a novel.
+8297_275155_000003_000005 Randal bought it.
+8297_275155_000006_000000 The allusion to Bennydeck was too plain to be mistaken.
+8297_275155_000035_000000 "Honestly.
+8297_275155_000033_000002 I said, 'Will you let Kitty see her father again?'"
+8297_275155_000029_000000 Randal decided on leaving her.
+8297_275155_000021_000001 "If you are determined to make a serious business of it-if you insist on my justifying myself-you are to be pitied for not possessing a sense of humor, but you shall have your own way.
+8297_275155_000006_000002 "The charming widow!" Was it possible that this last word referred to Catherine?
+8297_275155_000003_000001 His prospects of success, in pleading for a favorable reception of his brother's message, were so uncertain that he refrained-in fear of raising hopes which he might not be able to justify-from taking Herbert into his confidence.
+8297_275155_000016_000000 "If this is one of your jokes, ma'am-"
+8297_275155_000042_000000 "Where is he?"
+8297_275155_000039_000001 "A very wise decision," she remarked.
+8297_275155_000046_000000 "Good by, dear Randal.
+8297_275155_000032_000000 For the first time mrs Presty became serious.
+8297_275155_000020_000002 "Is this woman mad?" he said to himself.
+8297_275155_000033_000001 "Before I consented to answer the child's inquiries, I came to an understanding with her mother.
+8297_275155_000019_000000 "Oh, don't talk of your brother!
+8297_275155_000028_000007 Worse stories have been printed; I do assure you, worse stories have been printed."
+8297_275155_000041_000001 "Not at the hotel, just now."
+8297_275155_000005_000001 It is whispered that the lady is to be shortly united to a retired naval officer of Arctic fame; now better known, perhaps, as one of our leading philanthropists."
+8297_275155_000013_000005 The author only says, 'It's whispered.' How delicate of him!
+8297_275155_000003_000004 The new number of a popular weekly journal had that day been published.
+8297_275155_000004_000000 After reading one or two of the political articles, he arrived at the columns specially devoted to "Fashionable Intelligence." Caring nothing for that sort of news, he was turning over the pages in search of the literary and dramatic articles, when a name not unfamiliar to him caught his eye.
+8297_275155_000020_000001 mrs Presty's audacity was something more than he could understand.
+8297_275155_000021_000004 You shall hear how my divorced daughter and my poor little grandchild were treated at Sandyseal, after you left us."
+8297_275155_000022_000002 "And would you have seen your child made to suffer as well as yourself?"
+8297_275155_000039_000000 mrs Presty recovered all her audacity.
+8297_275155_000015_000001 I say it with pride, a widow of my making!"
+8297_275155_000030_000000 "Catherine submits to circumstances, like a sensible woman."
+8297_275155_000028_000005 I have ship wrecked Herbert as the shortest way of answering inconvenient questions.
+8297_275155_000041_000000 mrs Presty smiled significantly.
+8297_275155_000014_000000 "Am I really to understand, mrs Presty, that Catherine-"
+8297_275155_000033_000000 "Wait a minute," she answered.
+8297_275155_000022_000000 Having related the circumstances, she suggested that Randal should put himself in Catherine's place, before he ventured on expressing an opinion.
+8297_275155_000021_000003 Very well.
+8297_275155_000038_000001 "Be so good," he said, "as to tell Catherine that I try to make every possible allowance for her, but that I cannot consent to sit at her dinner table, and that I dare not face my poor little niece, after what I have heard."
+8297_275155_000024_000005 When he and I happened to be left together he naturally wondered, after having seen the beautiful wife, where the lucky husband might be.
+8297_275155_000002_000000 Chapter forty.
+8297_275155_000013_000004 Besides, if it isn't true now, it will be true next week.
+8297_275155_000036_000000 "That will do, mrs Presty.
+8297_275155_000031_000000 "Does she submit to your telling Kitty that her father is dead?"
+8297_275155_000044_000000 It was a relief to Randal-in the present state of Catherine's relations toward Bennydeck-to return to London without having seen his friend.
+8297_275155_000028_000003 If I had told the truth at this hotel, when everybody wanted to know what mrs Norman, that handsome lady, was-what would the consequences have been to Catherine and her little girl?
+8297_275155_000024_000004 He was introduced to mrs Norman, and to mrs Norman's little girl, and we were all charmed with him.
+8297_275155_000008_000000 Randal found her comfortably established in a summerhouse, with her knitting in her hands, and a newspaper on her lap.
+8297_275155_000008_000003 Her keen penetration discovered something in his face which checked the gayety of her welcome.
+8297_275155_000035_000001 She said: 'I daren't!' After that, I had her mother's authority for telling Kitty that she would never see her father again. She asked directly if her father was dead-"
+8297_275155_000045_000001 That incorrigible old woman treated him with affectionate familiarity in return.
+8297_275155_000024_000002 You would have seen her pining for the company of other children, and would have had no mercy on her?
+8297_275155_000024_000001 And you would have condemned your poor little daughter to solitude?
+8297_275155_000021_000002 I am put on my defense.
+8297_275155_000046_000002 Will it be of any use if we invite you to the marriage?"
+8297_275155_000039_000003 Have you any message for Captain Bennydeck?"
+8297_275155_000006_000004 With his own suspicions steadily contradicting him, he arrived at the hotel, obstinately believing that "the charming widow" would prove to be a stranger.
+8297_275155_000027_000000 "Yes."
+8297_275155_000045_000000 He took leave of mrs Presty with the formality due to a stranger-he merely bowed.
+8297_275155_000028_000006 Vessel found bottom upward in the middle of the Atlantic, and everybody on board drowned, of course.
+8297_275155_000006_000001 Randal looked again at the first words in the paragraph.
+8297_275155_000008_000001 She advanced to meet him, all smiles and amiability.
+8297_275155_000029_000001 "Have you done all this with Catherine's consent?" he asked as he got up from his chair.
+8297_275155_000028_000001 And the Captain of course concluded (after having been introduced to Kitty) that mrs Norman was a widow.
+8297_275155_000043_000000 "Where he is every day, about this time-out driving with Catherine and Kitty."
+8297_275155_000038_000000 Randal passed this over without notice.
+8297_275155_000018_000000 "Are you aware, mrs Presty, that my brother-"
+8297_275155_000003_000003 As he took his place in the carriage, the newspaper boy appeared at the window as usual.
+8297_275155_000002_000001 Keep Your Temper.
+8297_275155_000023_000000 "I should have kept in retirement for the future," he answered, "and not have trusted my child and myself among strangers in hotels."
+8297_275155_000011_000001 "There is my news," he said.
+8297_275155_000024_000006 If he had asked you about mr Norman, how would you have answered him?"
+8297_275155_000013_000006 What a perfect gentleman!"
+8297_275155_000024_000000 "Ah, indeed?
+8297_275155_000004_000001 He read the paragraph in which it appeared.
+8297_275155_000009_000000 "It depends on you to decide that," Randal replied.
+8297_275155_000036_000001 Your defense is thoroughly worthy of your conduct in all other respects."
+8297_275155_000008_000002 "How nice of you to come so soon!" she began.
+8297_275155_000019_000001 He's an obstacle in our way, and we have been compelled to get rid of him."
+8297_275155_000022_000001 "Would you have exposed yourself to be humiliated again in the same way?" she asked.
+8297_275154_000024_000009 He astonished his brother by a new entreaty-the last imaginable entreaty that Randal expected to hear.
+8297_275154_000022_000004 You don't know what it is to be used to seeing a pretty creature, always nicely dressed, always about the room-thinking so much of you, and so little of herself-and then to be left alone as I am left, out in the dark.
+8297_275154_000013_000000 "Do you feel better, Herbert?"
+8297_275154_000005_000000 These lines set Randal thinking seriously.
+8297_275154_000020_000000 He spoke sternly-with his heart aching for his brother all the time. He was right.
+8297_275154_000009_000000 "I seem to frighten you," he said.
+8297_275154_000000_000001 Listen to Reason.
+8297_275154_000023_000000 He laid his head wearily on the back of his chair.
+8297_275154_000014_000000 He put down the empty glass, taking no notice of his brother's question. "Randal," he said, "you know where Sydney is."
+8297_275154_000001_000000 Not having heard from Captain Bennydeck for some little time, Randal thought it desirable in Sydney's interests to make inquiries at his club.
+8297_275154_000003_000002 The sailing master announced that he had orders to take the vessel back to her port-with no other explanation than that the cruise was over.
+8297_275154_000002_000000 The landlord's reply a little surprised him.
+8297_275154_000032_000000 His tone touched Randal to the quick.
+8297_275154_000022_000005 I haven't got my wife; she has thrown me over, and taken my child away from me.
+8297_275154_000022_000002 I'm not like you; I'm not accustomed to live alone.
+8297_275154_000006_000000 To represent Bennydeck as being "tired of the sea," and as being willing to try, in place of the breezy Channel, the air of a suburb of London, was to make excuses too perfectly futile and absurd to deceive any one who knew the Captain.
+8297_275154_000012_000001 Whatever reviving effect it might otherwise have produced on him, it made no change in the threatening gloom of his manner.
+8297_275154_000003_000001 Captain Bennydeck had landed, to all appearance in fairly good health; and had left by an early train for London.
+8297_275154_000019_000005 Try to understand them.
+8297_275154_000018_000001 and you won't give it?"
+8297_275154_000020_000001 The one way is the positive way, when a man who suffers trouble is degraded by it.
+8297_275154_000001_000001 Nothing was known of the Captain's movements there.
+8297_275154_000033_000000 "As soon as possible?"
+8297_275154_000015_000000 Randal admitted it.
+8297_275154_000030_000001 When he said his next words he was almost like his old self again.
+8297_275154_000036_000002 "And now rest," he said, "and let me put this cushion under your head."
+8297_275154_000021_000000 The poor wretch sank under Randal's firm voice and steady eye.
+8297_275154_000003_000004 He called at his friend's private residence, only to hear from the servants that they had seen nothing of their master.
+8297_275154_000011_000001 I've been walking-I don't know where.
+8297_275154_000008_000002 He could only point to a seat.
+8297_275154_000008_000000 Was this man-haggard, pallid, shabby, looking at him piteously with bloodshot eyes-the handsome, pleasant, prosperous brother whom he remembered?
+8297_275154_000019_000006 And, once again, sit down."
+8297_275154_000022_000007 I'm alone.
+8297_275154_000036_000000 Randal refused to let him go at all.
+8297_275154_000024_000003 No! I'm not faint.
+8297_275154_000024_000002 I tried it yesterday; it set my brains on fire; I'm feeling that glass I took just now.
+8297_275154_000019_000000 "I will do neither the one nor the other.
+8297_275154_000035_000001 No, no; of course you won't forget." He tried to rise, and fell back again into his chair.
+8297_275154_000004_000002 Captain Bennydeck has got tired of the sea.
+8297_275154_000029_000000 "Let me hear what it is first."
+8297_275154_000006_000004 Was she aware of the interest that he felt in her? and was it secretly understood and returned?
+8297_275154_000028_000001 Will you give her a message?"
+8297_275154_000035_000000 "And you won't forget?
+8297_275154_000019_000001 Go back to your chair; fierce looks and clinched fists don't frighten me.
+8297_275154_000036_000001 "You will stay here with me; and if I happen to be away, there will be somebody in the house, who is almost as fond of you as I am." He mentioned the name of one of the old servants at Mount Morven, who had attached himself to Randal after the breakup of the family.
+8297_275154_000006_000002 Her residence at the sea side, helped by the lapse of time, had restored to her personal attractions almost all they had lost under the deteriorating influences of care and grief; and her change of name must have protected her from a discovery of the Divorce which would have shocked a man so sincerely religious as Bennydeck.
+8297_275154_000022_000012 I haven't courage enough to do it for myself.
+8297_275154_000016_000001 My mind's in such a state I can't remember it; write it down."
+8297_275154_000022_000009 Alone!
+8297_275154_000019_000003 And you are quite wrong in wishing to go back to her.
+8297_275154_000034_000000 "Yes-as soon as possible."
+8297_275154_000007_000001 After months of separation, he received a visit from Herbert.
+8297_275154_000011_000000 "Give me a glass of wine.
+8297_275154_000024_000010 "Dear old fellow, I want you to do me a favor.
+8297_275154_000032_000002 "She shall have your message; all that I can do to persuade her shall be done."
+8297_275154_000006_000003 Had her beauty fascinated him?
+8297_275154_000019_000002 Miss Westerfield is quite right in separating herself from you.
+8297_275154_000012_000000 He drank the wine greedily.
+8297_275154_000011_000002 A long distance; I'm dead beat."
+8297_275154_000024_000007 I didn't know how fond I was of Sydney till I lost her; I didn't know how fond I was of my wife till I left her." He paused, and put his hand to his fevered head.
+8297_275154_000024_000008 Was his mind wandering into some other train of thought?
+8297_275154_000006_000005 Randal wrote to accept the invitation; determining to present himself before the appointed hour, and to question Catherine privately, without giving her the advantage over him of preparing herself for the interview.
+8297_275154_000012_000002 In a man morally weak, calamity (suffered without resisting power) breaks its way through the surface which exhibits a gentleman, and shows the naked nature which claims kindred with our ancestor the savage.
+8297_275154_000024_000004 It eases my head when I rest like this.
+8297_275154_000008_000004 And yet he spoke roughly; he looked like an angry man brought to bay.
+8297_275154_000035_000002 "Let me rest a little," he pleaded, "if I'm not in the way.
+8297_275154_000037_000000 Herbert answered: "It's like being at home again"--and composed himself to rest.
+8297_275154_000006_000001 In spite of the appearance of innocence which pervaded Catherine's letter, the true motive for breaking off his cruise might be found, as Randal concluded, in Catherine herself.
+8297_275154_000026_000001 I have something to say to her."
+8297_275154_000022_000008 Do you hear that?
+8297_275154_000022_000011 Give me back Sydney, or knock out my brains.
+8297_275154_000007_000000 In the short time that passed before the day of the dinner, distressing circumstances strengthened his resolution.
+8297_275154_000010_000000 "You distress me, Herbert, more than words can say."
+8297_275154_000027_000000 "You can't do it."
+8297_275154_000024_000005 Shake hands, Randal; we have never had any unfriendly words; we mustn't begin now.
+8297_275154_000032_000001 "I feel for you, Herbert," he said, warmly.
+8297_275154_000035_000003 I'm not fit company for you, I know; I'll go when you tell me."
+8297_275154_000024_000006 There's something perverse about me.
+8297_275154_000016_000000 "Give me her address.
+8297_275154_000003_000000 Some days since, the yacht had again appeared in the bay.
+8297_275154_000022_000014 I was so happy, Randal, with Catherine and little Kitty."
+8297_275154_000018_000000 "You won't write it?
+8297_275154_000030_000000 Herbert lifted his head, and laid his hand earnestly on his brother's arm.
+8297_275154_000024_000011 Tell me where my wife is living now?"
+8297_275154_000004_000001 Her letter concluded in these words: "You will only meet one person besides ourselves-your friend, and (since we last met) our friend too.
+8297_275154_000003_000003 This alternative in the Captain's plans (terminating the voyage a month earlier than his arrangements had contemplated) puzzled Randal.
+8297_275154_000022_000013 Oh, why did I engage that governess!
+8297_275154_000022_000000 "Don't be hard on me," he said.
+8297_275154_000001_000002 On the chance of getting the information that he wanted, Randal wrote to the hotel at Sandyseal.
+8297_275154_000022_000006 And, now, Sydney's taken away from me next.
+8297_275154_000022_000001 "I think a man in my situation is to be pitied-especially by his brother.
+3576_138058_000044_000001 And if you have any desire to shorten the journey and put yourself easily in the way of salvation, come with me, and I will show you how to become a knight errant, a calling wherein so many hardships and mishaps are encountered that if they be taken as penances they will lodge you in heaven in a trice."
+3576_138058_000024_000001 Give me my horse and arms, and wait for me here; I will go in quest of this knight, and dead or alive I will make him keep his word plighted to so great beauty."
+3576_138058_000033_000000 "What are you talking about, man?" said one of the bystanders; "I have got them, and they are not worth three reals."
+3576_138058_000051_000000 One of the squires observed in his mixture of Gascon and Catalan, "This captain of ours would make a better friar than highwayman; if he wants to be so generous another time, let it be with his own property and not ours."
+3576_138058_000048_000000 "So then," said Roque Guinart, "we have got here nine hundred crowns and sixty reals; my soldiers must number some sixty; see how much there falls to each, for I am a bad arithmetician." As soon as the robbers heard this they raised a shout of "Long life to Roque Guinart, in spite of the lladres that seek his ruin!"
+3576_138058_000010_000001 Who is touching me and untrussing me?"
+3576_138058_000019_000002 He saw that his squires (for so they call those who follow that trade) were about to rifle Sancho Panza, but he ordered them to desist and was at once obeyed, so the girdle escaped.
+3576_138058_000018_000001 He trembled with fear and made for another tree, where the very same thing happened to him, and he fell a shouting, calling upon Don Quixote to come and protect him.
+3576_138058_000042_000000 "Well then, away with you all," said Roque, "and bring them here to me at once without letting one of them escape."
+3576_138058_000013_000000 "It will not do to leave it to thy courtesy, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for thou art hard of heart and, though a clown, tender of flesh;" and at the same time he strove and struggled to untie him.
+3576_138058_000018_000002 Don Quixote did so, and asked him what had happened to him, and what he was afraid of.
+3576_138058_000019_000003 He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the shield on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and dejected, with the saddest and most melancholy face that sadness itself could produce; and going up to him he said, "Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not fallen into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but into Roque Guinart's, which are more merciful than cruel."
+3576_138058_000046_000000 And now the squires despatched to make the prize came up, bringing with them two gentlemen on horseback, two pilgrims on foot, and a coach full of women with some six servants on foot and on horseback in attendance on them, and a couple of muleteers whom the gentlemen had with them.
+3576_138058_000037_000000 Upon this Sancho remarked, "From what I have seen here, justice is such a good thing that there is no doing without it, even among the thieves themselves."
+3576_138058_000039_000000 At this instant one or two of those squires who were posted as sentinels on the roads, to watch who came along them and report what passed to their chief, came up and said, "Senor, there is a great troop of people not far off coming along the road to Barcelona."
+2428_83705_000034_000002 "And what," inquired mrs Macpherson, "has Mary Ann given you?"
+2428_83705_000026_000001 She drew up a plan on which we were to lay it out.
+2428_83705_000038_000008 And they know it!
+2428_83705_000006_000004 It is true that I have dropped in to dinner now and then, or to spend the evening, or for an afternoon call, or for an hour or two in the morning; but that has been simply and solely because the Snelling family have evinced so marked a desire for my society.
+2428_83705_000006_000000 And it is all the result of an accident.
+2428_83705_000030_000004 I have no intention of being presented with an endless collection of duplicates, or a lot of useless rubbish which I don't know what to do with.
+2428_83705_000020_000001 The members of the family looked at one another.
+2428_83705_000002_000002 Her father is a most remarkable person, to say the least.
+2428_83705_000033_000002 The fact of having given Mary Ann a wedding present seems to fill them with a feeling of rancorous acidity which, to me, is inexplicable.
+2428_83705_000038_000007 As it is, unless I am mistaken, some of the rending will be on our side.
+2428_83705_000010_000002 And as you don't appear to know what is the proper thing to do in a case of this kind, and don't understand that the ring ought to be bought straight away, we've bought it for you."
+2428_83705_000028_000000 "I shall make papa give me five hundred pounds, at least.
+2428_83705_000018_000002 There she owns a cottage, or it may be a pigstye for all I know.
+2428_83705_000036_000002 But that is not the only society the world contains.
+2428_83705_000009_000003 It was Frederick Augustus; if the thing is possible he is, if anything, more direct even than the rest of his family.
+2428_83705_000015_000001 A handsome price it was.
+2428_83705_000024_000000 "You want someone who can look after you; and you could not, by any chance, have chosen a person who will look after you better than I shall."
+2428_83705_000030_000003 Of course there are some people with whom you can't be perfectly plain, but I shall be as plain as I can; there's a way and a manner of doing that kind of thing.
+2428_83705_000037_000002 But Mary Ann does not seem to think that that matters, so why should I? Her youngest sister, Clara Louisa, has quite gratuitously informed me that she has had them by her for some considerable time, and that, not to put too fine a point on it, they were originally designed for another individual altogether-a mr Pilbeam.
+2428_83705_000037_000001 It is true that they are a trifle large for me, and that I shall never be able to keep them on my feet except when I am sitting still.
+2428_83705_000027_000001 And, of course, I had my expectations, and she had hers.
+2428_83705_000032_000003 She has a knack of getting people to do what she wishes and to give her what she wants, which is a little short of miraculous.
+2428_83705_000000_000000 mr
+2428_83705_000015_000004 I did not want any unpleasantness; and I am quite sure there would have been unpleasantness had I demurred.
+2428_83705_000003_000001 I do not know what he meant, and would rather not attempt to imagine.
+2428_83705_000015_000002 I was persuaded that somebody besides that cousin got a profit out of Mary Ann's engagement ring.
+2428_83705_000007_000000 The accident in question occurred upon the Sunday evening.
+2428_83705_000001_000000 I did not mean to kiss her; it was a pure accident.
+2428_83705_000018_000004 The matter was talked about at dinner.
+2428_83705_000001_000005 Her manner was not at all the sort of thing I care for. The result is that I am engaged to Mary Ann Snelling without being conscious of having entertained any intention of the kind.
+2428_83705_000020_000000 This observation was followed by perfect silence.
+2428_83705_000032_000000 But I am bound to admit that so far my success has been as nothing compared with hers.
+2428_83705_000022_000000 "Do you know that in marrying me you are doing the best thing for yourself that you ever did in all your life?"
+2428_83705_000036_000000 Someone sniggered.
+2428_83705_000015_000000 They produced the ring, and told me what I had to pay for it.
+2428_83705_000019_000000 "Don't trouble yourselves to discuss Aunt Brady's proposal.
+2428_83705_000039_000001 It is to take place on Tuesday fortnight.
+2428_83705_000031_000001 At least I drew up a list of people who ought to meet the occasion, and I tried in more than one instance to drop a hint of what, as I felt, they ought to meet it with.
+2428_83705_000021_000000 After dinner I took advantage of an opportunity which offered to thank Mary Ann for her action in the matter, because, of course, I had no wish to spend my honeymoon in a place of which I knew nothing, to oblige an aunt of whom I knew still less.
+2428_83705_000039_000004 He has given us free passes all the way to the end of our journey, and all the way back again; and coupons for free board and lodging at the hotel.
+2428_83705_000039_000005 It's a wedding present.
+2428_83705_000006_000005 The alteration which has taken place in their demeanour since my accident with Mary Ann is, therefore, all the more amazing.
+2428_83705_000010_000000 "Look here, Whiting, how about Mary Ann's ring?
+2428_83705_000027_000000 It turned out that she had a little money of her own; about a hundred and thirty pounds a year.
+2428_83705_000007_000003 Certainly not.
+2428_83705_000007_000002 I did not go and purchase the engagement ring the first thing on the Monday morning, I own it.
+2428_83705_000001_000001 Her face was close to mine, or my face was close to hers, and then her lips came into contact with my lips, or my lips came into contact with her lips-I don't know which it was-and then at that moment her mother came into the room, and she said, "mr
+2428_83705_000000_000001 WHITING AND MARY ANN.
+2428_83705_000023_000000 I endeavoured to explain to her that I felt sure of it; but I fear that my explanation was a little stumbling.
+2428_83705_000011_000000 I gasped-positively gasped.
+2428_83705_000007_000004 Nor did I take any steps in that direction during the whole of that week.
+2428_83705_000016_000002 Still I noticed that the ring fitted her perfectly, and I could not but wonder if she had tried it on before.
+2428_83705_000001_000004 Only I found it difficult to explain, and when I did explain she would not understand.
+2428_83705_000019_000001 I shall do nothing of the kind."
+2428_83705_000033_000005 But why, on that account, they should pity me, I altogether fail to understand.
+2428_83705_000028_000001 'A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush'--and it will be something to have by us."
+2428_83705_000026_000003 I had never had one, but I saw clearly that in that way the money would go twice as far.
+2428_83705_000007_000005 I was not pressed for time.
+2428_83705_000032_000002 It is certain that we have a large collection of really valuable property about the house-the wedding presents to Mary Ann.
+2428_83705_000005_000001 All, apparently, that is left for me to do, is to pay for everything.
+2428_83705_000013_000000 "That's it; on your account.
+2428_83705_000023_000001 But she went on with the most perfect fluency.
+2428_83705_000005_000003 It might just as well be some one else's wedding, so unimportant is the part which I am set to play in it.
+2428_83705_000006_000002 Nothing of the kind.
+2428_83705_000039_000002 We are going for our honeymoon to Italy and the South of France.
+2428_83705_000023_000002 There were no signs of faltering about her flow of language.
+2428_83705_000010_000001 The girl is fretting, but you don't seem to notice it.
+2428_83705_000014_000000 I never saw people like the Snellings for possessing relatives in all sorts of "lines." No matter what you want, or do not want, and never will want, they are sure to have some relative who has dealt in it, his or her whole life long.
+2428_83705_000002_000000 Not that I have a word to say against Mary Ann, except that I never knew a girl with quite so many relations.
+2428_83705_000009_000000 There was William Henry, john Frank, Ferdinand Augustus, and Stephen Arthur.
+2428_83705_000002_000001 To begin with she had six brothers and five sisters, and she is the eldest of the batch, and there's not one of the brothers whom I feel drawn to.
+2428_83705_000027_000003 Delightfully, in fact.
+2428_83705_000007_000001 I had been with Mary Ann to church, and had seen her home, and had had a little supper, and it was after supper that it happened.
+2428_83705_000006_000001 I deny that for the last six months I have been using mr Snelling's home as if it were a boarding house.
+2428_83705_000036_000001 I cannot pretend to explain why, except on the supposition that romance is dead; at least in that circle of society in which the Snellings move.
+2428_83705_000001_000002 Whiting, may I ask what is the meaning of this?" I said it meant nothing-nothing!
+2428_83705_000032_000001 Hers has been prodigious.
+2428_83705_000026_000000 I told her exactly what my income was; and the source from which it came, and all about it.
+2428_83705_000018_000000 The Snellings have an aunt who lives in an out of the way hole at the other end of nowhere.
+2428_83705_000020_000002 But, after a very considerable pause, her mother said, with quite unusual mildness, "Very well, my dear. Then, it's settled."
+2428_83705_000025_000001 We had a long confidential chat on matters of business.
+2428_83705_000034_000001 I have given Mary Ann two or three trifles, and I said so.
+2428_83705_000027_000002 It was plain that together we should manage most comfortably.
+2428_83705_000039_000007 Besides which we can always sell the coupons and railway passes which we don't use.
+2428_83705_000001_000003 Absolutely nothing!
+2428_83705_000025_000000 Such an assurance was most satisfactory.
+2428_83705_000005_000002 It is most delightful.
+2428_83705_000008_000001 But that was no reason why, the Monday week following, four of her brothers should have called on me on their way to the office, when I was scarcely out of bed, and actually breakfasting, and assailed me in the way in which they did.
+2428_83705_000031_000000 I endeavoured to.
+2428_83705_000006_000003 The mere suggestion is absurd.
+2428_83705_000038_000001 It is true that there are times when I am a little disposed to wish that she were not quite so good a manager; now and then every man likes to call his soul his own.
+2428_83705_000035_000000 "Her love."
+2428_83705_000033_000003 My belief is that they have been induced to spend at least twice as much as they intended, and that they resent it.
+2428_83705_000040_000000 Nothing could be more delightful.
+2428_83705_000017_000002 It is from her action in that matter that my suspicion springs.
+2428_83705_000026_000002 It was an admirable plan.
+2428_83705_000039_000006 So that, as Mary Ann says, our honeymoon need cost us practically nothing.
+2428_83705_000038_000003 She will keep them at bay.
+2428_83705_000018_000001 The woman's name is Brady.
+2428_83705_000030_000001 I will take care that my relations do their duty.
+2428_83705_000038_000002 On the other hand, she is well qualified to protect me from the rest of the family.
+2428_83705_000009_000002 There is no circumlocution about them. They go straight at what they want; and were scarcely inside my door before they blurted out the purport of their coming.
+2428_83705_000008_000000 Besides, I was turning things over in my mind.
+2428_83705_000018_000005 Mary Ann was silent for some time; then she quietly remarked:
+2428_83705_000021_000001 Mary Ann beamed at me, and she said, "You dear old man!" Presently she continued:
+2428_83705_000039_000003 A second cousin of Mary Ann's is in the Cook's Tours line.
+2428_83705_000038_000005 Which is just as well.
+2428_83705_000039_000000 p s--The cards are out for the wedding.
+2428_83705_000018_000003 When she heard of my engagement with Mary Ann, she wrote and suggested that we should spend our honeymoon in her cottage, or pigstye, and that I should pay her rent for it.
+2428_83705_000025_000002 I found that as a woman of business she was beyond all my expectations.
+2428_83705_000013_000001 From a cousin of ours who's in that line."
+2428_83705_000034_000000 "We have all been giving Mary Ann presents, and I suppose you, mr Whiting, have been giving her something too." That was what mrs Macpherson said to me only the other day.
+2428_83705_000016_000001 Her head dropped on my shoulder, and she kissed me under the chin, observing, "You dear old Sam." The moments when I am alone with Mary Ann are alleviations for those more frequent moments when I am not alone with Mary Ann.
+2428_83705_000038_000006 If she had been like me they would have rent us limb from limb.
+2428_83705_000009_000001 Each of them twice my size and all of them frightfully ignorant and wholly regardless of the sensitive little points of those with whom they came in contact.
+2428_83705_000030_000002 I have drawn up a list of all the people who ought to give us a present, and I shall tell them what they ought to give-it won't be my fault if I don't get it.
+2428_83699_000017_000004 Never shall I forget the drive, in that miserable cart, through the storm and those pitch black country lanes.
+2428_83699_000008_000000 So I wrote to the advertiser.
+2428_83699_000022_000000 "Why do you ask?"
+2428_83699_000006_000000 "An old-fashioned Christmas.--A lively family will accept a gentleman as paying guest to join them in spending an old-fashioned Christmas in the heart of the country."
+2428_83699_000050_000000 "Have you any luggage?" I admitted that I had.
+2428_83699_000011_000000 On Christmas Eve the weather was abominable.
+2428_83699_000036_000000 The information was greeted with what sounded uncommonly like a chorus of laughter.
+2428_83699_000007_000000 That was the advertisement.
+2428_83699_000024_000002 I was beyond it.
+2428_83699_000043_000000 "I drove him over from the station, Miss.
+2428_83699_000029_000002 I heard it tinkle in the distance.
+2428_83699_000048_000000 "I think I had."
+2428_83699_000008_000005 The whole thing was a trifle odd.
+2428_83699_000008_000004 I might arrive, it seemed, on Christmas Eve, but there was no hint as to when I was to go, if ever.
+2428_83699_000009_000000 Now it is a remarkable thing that I have always had an extraordinary predilection for the name Madge.
+2428_83699_000025_000000 We passed through a gate, which I had to get down to open, along some sort of avenue.
+2428_83699_000016_000000 When the train did start, some forty minutes after scheduled time, it jolted along in a laborious fashion at the rate of about six miles an hour, stopping at every roadside hovel.
+2428_83699_000013_000000 I knew nothing of the people I was going to.
+2428_83699_000028_000002 If they have, there's a bell on your right, if it isn't broken."
+2428_83699_000039_000004 After a few seconds' interval the pit pat of what was obviously one pair of feet came towards the door.
+2428_83699_000015_000004 His wrangling and jangling so upset me, that I went past the station at which I ought to have changed.
+2428_83699_000035_000000 "mr Christopher, from London."
+2428_83699_000009_000003 And yet, from my boyhood upward, I have desired to meet one. Here was an opportunity offered.
+2428_83699_000031_000001 I rang again, and again with all the force I could.
+2428_83699_000039_000001 My temper was rising.
+2428_83699_000021_000000 There was something in the tone of his "Ah!" which whetted my curiosity, near the end of my tether though I was.
+2428_83699_000030_000000 "Better ring again," suggested the driver.
+2428_83699_000049_000000 I went inside; it was time.
+2428_83699_000040_000001 I'm expected.
+2428_83699_000009_000004 She was apparently the careworn mother of a "lively family." Under such circumstances she was hardly likely to be "lively" herself, but her name was Madge, and it was the accident of her Christian name which decided me to go.
+2428_83699_000030_000002 Maybe they're up to some of their games, and wants rousing."
+2428_83699_000039_000003 I tolled the bell again.
+2428_83699_000012_000001 I had not given a Christmas present for years-there had been no one to give them to.
+2428_83699_000042_000000 That was all she said.
+2428_83699_000014_000003 Of course, I knew that I had no right to do anything of the kind, and was aware that the chances were a hundred to one against my ever presuming to hint at its existence.
+2428_83699_000014_000002 I even bought something for Madge-I mean mrs Wilson.
+2428_83699_000029_000000 There appeared to be no knocker, though whether it had been "twisted" off was more than I could say.
+2428_83699_000033_000003 If they know you're coming perhaps they hear and don't choose to answer.
+2428_83699_000045_000000 "I can't say rightly as how I should, Miss.
+2428_83699_000007_000005 She and her husband, who suffers from melancholia, and all the other complaints which flesh is heir to, and I, dragging through what I call a patent medicine dinner, and talking of everybody who is dead and gone, or else going, and of nothing else.
+2428_83699_000034_000000 I sounded another peal.
+2428_83699_000017_000001 Finally the hulking lad was dispatched.
+2428_83699_000013_000004 That is a fact.
+2428_83699_000011_000002 In the morning it began to freeze.
+2428_83699_000031_000000 Was there a chuckle in the fellow's voice?
+2428_83699_000012_000003 I am no dealer in poisons.
+2428_83699_000045_000002 Be it all right?"
+2428_83699_000047_000000 "Perhaps you had better come inside."
+2428_83699_000043_000001 There be a lot of luggage. He do say he's come to stay with you."
+2428_83699_000024_000001 I did not ask.
+2428_83699_000003_000000 AN old-fashioned CHRISTMAS.
+2428_83699_000012_000000 I had been idiot enough to load myself with a lot of Christmas presents, without the faintest notion why.
+2428_83699_000015_000000 It was a horrible journey.
+2428_83699_000027_000003 The whereabouts of this, however, the driver presently made clear.
+2428_83699_000010_000004 As for the "pills" and "drops" with which her husband doses himself between the courses, it makes me ill even to think of them.
+2428_83699_000033_000004 Better ring again."
+2428_83699_000031_000002 The bell reverberated through what seemed like an empty house.
+2428_83699_000014_000006 I would not give him pills.
+2428_83699_000011_000001 All night it had been blowing and raining.
+2428_83699_000044_000001 I'm afraid I can offer you nothing to drink.
+2428_83699_000042_000002 The driver's voice came from the background.
+2428_83699_000008_000006 There was nothing said about the sort of accommodation which would be provided, nothing about the kind of establishment which was maintained, or the table which was kept.
+2428_83699_000011_000006 I said I would go, and I meant to go.
+2428_83699_000039_000007 After a vast amount of unfastening, the door was opened, and on the threshold there stood a girl, with a lighted candle in her hand.
+2428_83699_000027_000000 That might be so.
+2428_83699_000004_000000 CHAPTER one
+2428_83699_000026_000000 "Here we be."
+2428_83699_000045_000001 Next time will do.
+2428_83699_000038_000000 "Well-thereabouts."
+2428_83699_000027_000001 It was a pity he did not add where "here" was.
+2428_83699_000039_000005 Again a light gleamed through the pane.
+2428_83699_000007_000002 I was not sure what, in this case, an old-fashioned Christmas might happen to mean.
+2428_83699_000053_000000 "The mare, she'll stand still enough.
+2428_83699_000032_000000 "Is there no one in the place?"
+2428_83699_000034_000002 A voice inquired: "Who's there?"
+2428_83699_000027_000002 There was a great shadow, which possibly did duty for a house, but, if so, there was not a light in any of the windows, and there was nothing visible in the shape of a door.
+2428_83699_000034_000001 Presently feet were heard advancing along the passage-several pairs it seemed-and a light gleamed through the window over the door.
+2428_83699_000029_000003 No answer; though I allowed a more than decent interval.
+2428_83699_000042_000001 I looked at her; she at me.
+2428_83699_000015_000002 I pointed out to him that the rack was specially constructed for light luggage, that a hat box was light luggage, and that if the train jolted, he ought to blame the company, not me.
+2428_83699_000005_000000 THE PROMISE.
+2428_83699_000014_000005 I hoped to goodness that he would not prove to be a hypochondriac, like Lucy's husband.
+2428_83699_000039_000002 I had not come all that way, and subjected myself to so much discomfort, to be played tricks with.
+2428_83699_000018_000000 "Be you going to stop with they Wilsons?"
+2428_83699_000039_000000 Once more I suspected the driver of a chuckle.
+2428_83699_000015_000001 The trains were late, and, of course, overcrowded; there was enough luggage in our compartment to have filled it, and still there was one more passenger than there ought to have been; an ill conditioned old fellow who wanted my hat box put into the van because it happened to tumble off the rack on to his head.
+2428_83699_000036_000001 There was a rush of retreating feet, an expostulating voice, then darkness again, and silence.
+2428_83699_000013_000003 Still, if you have not tried your hand at that kind of thing for ever so long, the mere act of purchasing is a pleasure.
+2428_83699_000044_000002 We've lost the key of the cellar, and there's nothing out, except water, and I don't think you'd care for that."
+2428_83699_000007_000004 Yes!
+2428_83699_000014_000001 I felt quite lively myself as I mingled with the Christmas crowd, looking for things which might not turn out to be absolutely preposterous.
+2428_83699_000016_000001 I counted seven in a distance, I am convinced, of less than twenty miles.
+2428_83699_000011_000004 And it kept on snowing; that turned out to be quite a record in the way of snow storms.
+2428_83699_000025_000001 Suddenly the cart pulled up.
+2428_83699_000052_000000 "Do you think that you could manage, Tidy?"
+2428_83699_000024_000003 I was chilled to the bone, wet, tired, hungry.
+2428_83699_000037_000001 Are the people mad?"
+2428_83699_000011_000003 By the time the streets were like so many skating rinks it commenced to snow.
+2428_83699_000008_000007 No references were offered or asked for.
+2428_83699_000016_000002 When at last I reached Crofton, my journey's end, it turned out that the station staff consisted of a half witted individual, who was stationmaster, porter, and clerk combined, and a hulking lad who did whatever else there was to do.
+2428_83699_000039_000008 The storm rushed in; she put up her hand to shield the light from danger.
+2428_83699_000010_000002 I did not expect a princely entertainment.
+2428_83699_000007_000001 It had its points.
+2428_83699_000008_000001 The reply was written in a sprawling feminine hand.
+2428_83699_000017_000000 There was a trap at the "Boy and Blunderbuss," but that required fetching.
+2428_83699_000014_000008 No doubt they would set him down as a lunatic right away.
+2428_83699_000015_000003 He was impervious to reason.
+2428_83699_000024_000004 I had long been wishing that an old-fashioned Christmas had been completely extinct before I had thought of adventuring in quest of one.
+2428_83699_000023_000000 "It be about time as someone were to stay with them as were a bit capable like."
+2428_83699_000013_000001 The youngest member of the family might be twenty, or the oldest ten.
+2428_83699_000015_000007 It is some satisfaction for me to be able to reflect that I made it warm for the officials, however cold I might have been myself.
+2428_83699_000015_000006 So I had to cool my heels for two hours and a half in a wretched cowshed amidst a bitter, whirling snowstorm.
+2428_83699_000033_000001 Where's another thing.
+2428_83699_000040_000000 "Can I see mrs Wilson?
+2428_83699_000008_000003 It appeared that the terms would be five guineas; but there was no mention of the length of time which that fee would cover.
+2428_83699_000015_000005 Then I had to wait three quarters of an hour for a train to take me back again, only to find that I had missed the one I intended to catch.
+2428_83699_000019_000000 "I am."
+2428_83699_000030_000001 "Hard.
+2428_83699_000010_000003 Still I felt that it could hardly be worse than a chop or cousin Lucy; the subjects of her conversation I never cared about when they were alive, and I certainly do not want to talk about them now they are dead.
+2428_83699_000050_000001 "Perhaps it had better be brought in."
+2428_83699_000011_000005 Hardly the sort of weather to start for an unknown destination "in the heart of the country." But, at the last moment, I did not like to back out.
+2428_83699_000010_000001 No doubt the five guineas were badly wanted; even a "lively family" would be hardly likely to advertise for a perfect stranger to spend Christmas with them if they were not.
+2428_83699_000014_000007 What the "lively family" would think of a perfect stranger arriving burdened with rubbish, as if he had known them all their lives, I did not dare to think.
+777_126732_000072_000000 "He isn't fit to hear what's said here.
+777_126732_000076_000001 He gets a red face poring over them.
+777_126732_000075_000000 Mr Verloc made no comment.
+777_126732_000076_000012 But what's the use of printing things like that?
+777_126732_000074_000003 It isn't his fault.
+777_126732_000072_000001 He believes it's all true.
+777_126732_000076_000002 We don't get rid of a dozen numbers in a month.
+777_126732_000076_000005 I wouldn't give a halfpenny for the whole lot.
+777_126732_000074_000001 He can't help being excitable.
+777_126732_000076_000006 It's silly reading-that's what it is.
+777_126732_000076_000000 "I wish he had never been to school," Mrs Verloc began again brusquely. "He's always taking away those newspapers from the window to read.
+777_126732_000076_000009 The brute!
+777_126732_000076_000010 I couldn't do anything with Stevie that afternoon.
+777_126732_000076_000011 The story was enough, too, to make one's blood boil.
+777_126732_000076_000007 There's no sale for it.
+777_126732_000076_000013 We aren't German slaves here, thank God.
+777_126732_000074_000000 "He glared at me, as if he didn't know who I was, when I went downstairs. His heart was going like a hammer.
+777_126732_000072_000003 He gets into his passions over it."
+777_126732_000076_000004 And Mr Ossipon brings every week a pile of these f p tracts to sell at a halfpenny each.
+777_126732_000076_000008 The other day Stevie got hold of one, and there was a story in it of a German soldier officer tearing half off the ear of a recruit, and nothing was done to him for it.
+5694_64029_000005_000001 Our advanced outpost was established at Lavergne.
+5694_64029_000006_000005 I read it, and looked up to hand it back to him, when I discovered that he had a pistol cocked and leveled in my face, and says he, "Drop that gun; you are my prisoner." I saw there was no use in fooling about it.
+5694_64029_000005_000004 At the time mentioned, I was standing about two hundred yards off the road, the main body of the pickets being on the Nashville and Murfreesboro turnpike, and commanded by Lieutenant Hardy Murfree, of the Rutherford Rifles.
+5694_64029_000028_000001 I do not know to what regiment he belonged, but I remember of first noticing that his left arm was entirely gone.
+5694_64029_000003_000000 From Chattanooga, Bragg's army went to Murfreesboro.
+5694_64029_000009_000000 And I had made up my mind to think likewise.
+5694_64029_000009_000001 There I was, a prisoner sure, and no mistake about it.
+5694_64029_000022_000001 They fell back and re-formed.
+5694_64029_000006_000002 I halted him, and told him to go down to the main picket on the road and pass, but he seemed so smiling that I thought he knew me, or had a good joke to tell me.
+5694_64029_000002_000001 We remained several months, but soon we were on the tramp again.
+5694_64029_000010_000000 His pistol was leveled, and I was ordered to march.
+5694_64029_000016_000005 They couldn't tell our own men from Yankees.
+5694_64029_000020_000000 Captain james, of Cheatham's staff, was sent forward and killed in his own yard.
+5694_64029_000016_000009 We marched plumb into the Yankee lines, with their flags flying.
+5694_64029_000013_000011 But they continued to advance upon us, we firing and retreating slowly.
+5694_64029_000012_000001 March, I say."
+5694_64029_000030_000005 He was stone dead, but I dropped that foot quick.
+5694_64029_000013_000002 My gun was at my feet, and one step would get it.
+5694_64029_000014_000000 BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO
+5694_64029_000013_000007 Major Allen, of the Twenty seventh Tennessee Regiment, took the saddle and bridle, and gave me the blanket.
+5694_64029_000026_000000 The spectacle was grand.
+5694_64029_000008_000000 The Yankee picket lines were not a half mile off.
+5694_64029_000027_000001 I said, "O, O, I'm wounded," and at the same time I grabbed my arm.
+5694_64029_000019_000000 We were ordered forward to the attack.
+5694_64029_000016_000003 They couldn't see straight.
+5694_64029_000001_000000 MURFREESBORO
+5694_64029_000028_000002 His face was as white as a sheet.
+5694_64029_000019_000001 We were right upon the Yankee line on the Wilkerson turnpike.
+5694_64029_000011_000000 Finally says I, "Let's play quits.
+5694_64029_000016_000008 I was on the skirmish line.
+5694_64029_000011_000004 Is it a bargain?"
+5694_64029_000005_000000 Our army stopped at Murfreesboro.
+5694_64029_000006_000001 In fact, no one was expected to pass at this point, but while standing at my post, a horseman rode up behind me.
+5694_64029_000030_000000 In passing over the battlefield, I came across a dead Yankee colonel. He had on the finest clothes I ever saw, a red sash and fine sword. I particularly noticed his boots.
+5694_64029_000030_000002 But I could not bear the thought of wearing dead men's shoes.
+5694_64029_000012_000000 Says he, "I would not trust a Secesh on his word, oath, or bond.
+5694_64029_000008_000001 I was perfectly willing to let the spy go on his way rejoicing-for such he was-but he wanted to capture a Rebel.
+5694_64029_000018_000000 The Yankees marched over the hill out of sight.
+5694_64029_000013_000004 He divined my motive, and fired.
+5694_64029_000013_000013 I remember that they had to cross an open field in our front, and we were lying behind a fence, and as they advanced, we kept up firing, and would run them back every time, until they brought up a regiment that whooped, and yelled, and charged our skirmish line, and then we fell back again.
+5694_64029_000028_000004 I looked at it pretty close, and I said "Great God!" for I could see his heart throb, and the respiration of his lungs. I was filled with wonder and horror at the sight.
+5694_64029_000024_000002 The ground was literally covered with blue coats dead; and, if I remember correctly, there were eighty dead horses.
+5694_64029_000022_000002 General Cheatham came up and advanced.
+5694_64029_000025_000000 By this time our command had re-formed, and charged the blazing crest.
+5694_64029_000031_000003 We ran forward, expecting that our men would recognize us, but they opened fire upon us.
+5694_64029_000013_000000 I soon found out that he had caught sight of the relief on the road, and was afraid to shoot.
+5694_64029_000016_000001 john Barleycorn was general in chief.
+5694_64029_000030_000006 It was my first and last attempt to rob a dead Yankee.
+5694_64029_000022_000004 General Cheatham, all the time, was calling on the men to go forward, saying, "Come on, boys, and follow me."
+5694_64029_000016_000007 But here they were-the Yankees-a battle had to be fought. We were ordered forward.
+5694_64029_000028_000005 He was walking along, when all at once he dropped down and died without a struggle or a groan. I could tell of hundreds of such incidents of the battlefield, but tell only this one, because I remember it so distinctly.
+5694_64029_000015_000001 Soon they came in sight of our picket.
+5694_64029_000028_000000 As I went back to the field hospital, I overtook another man walking along.
+5694_64029_000010_000001 I was afraid to halloo to the relief, and you may be sure I was in a bad fix.
+5694_64029_000013_000006 He put spurs to his horse, but I pulled down on him, and almost tore the fore shoulder of his horse entirely off, but I did not capture the spy, though I captured the horse, bridle and saddle.
+5694_64029_000023_000001 I saw either victory or death written on his face.
+5694_64029_000011_000002 I am a videt; you know the responsibility resting on me.
+5694_64029_000017_000000 I called Lieutenant Colonel Frierson's attention to the Yankees, and he remarked, "Well, I don't know whether they are Yankees or not, but if they are, they will come out of there mighty quick."
+5694_64029_000030_000003 I took hold of the foot and raised it up and made one trial at the boot to get it off.
+5694_64029_000006_000004 It was an order from General Leonidas Polk to allow the bearer to pass.
+5694_64029_000028_000003 The breast and sleeve of his coat had been torn away, and I could see the frazzled end of his shirt sleeve, which appeared to be sucked into the wound.
+5694_64029_000016_000004 It was said to be buckeye whisky.
+5694_64029_000005_000003 I was on picket at the time the advance was made by Rosecrans.
+5694_64029_000016_000000 It was Christmas.
+5694_64029_000006_000007 I dropped the gun.
+5694_64029_000005_000002 From time to time different regiments were sent forward to do picket duty.
+5694_64029_000019_000003 A universal cry was raised, "You are firing on your own men." "Cease firing, cease firing," I hallooed; in fact, the whole skirmish line hallooed, and kept on telling them that they were Yankees, and to shoot; but the order was to cease firing, you are firing on your own men.
+5694_64029_000004_000000 The Federal army was concentrating at Nashville.
+5694_64029_000004_000001 There was no rest for the weary.
+5694_64029_000013_000012 We had several pretty sharp brushes with them that day.
+5694_64029_000022_000000 The crest occupied by the Yankees was belching loud with fire and smoke, and the Rebels were falling like leaves of autumn in a hurricane. The leaden hail storm swept them off the field.
+5694_64029_000031_000002 Our pickets had run in and reported a night attack.
+5694_64029_000015_000002 We kept falling back and firing all day, and were relieved by another regiment about dark.
+5694_64029_000006_000000 I had orders to allow no one to pass.
+5694_64029_000011_000001 I think you are a soldier; you look like a gentleman.
+5694_64029_000011_000003 You go your way, and leave me here.
+5694_64029_000016_000002 Our generals, and colonels, and captains, had kissed john a little too often.
+5694_64029_000013_000001 I quickly made up my mind.
+5694_64029_000027_000002 I thought it had been torn from my shoulder.
+5694_64029_000029_000000 ROBBING A DEAD YANKEE
+5694_64029_000013_000005 The ball missed its aim.
+5694_64029_000015_000000 The next day, the Yankees were found out to be advancing.
+5694_64029_000002_000000 We came from Knoxville to Chattanooga, and seemed destined to make a permanent stay here.
+5694_64029_000027_000004 This I do know to be a fact.
+5694_64029_000022_000003 I did not fall back, but continued to load and shoot, until a fragment of a shell struck me on the arm, and then a minnie ball passed through the same paralyzing my arm, and wounded and disabled me.
+5694_64029_000030_000004 I happened to look up, and the colonel had his eyes wide open, and seemed to be looking at me.
+5694_64038_000024_000024 He didn't see anything to run from, but the other soldiers began to run, and Jim run, too.
+5694_64038_000024_000023 He loaded and fired the second time, when they were ordered to retreat.
+5694_64038_000024_000003 Hood's army was taking up every able bodied man and conscripting him into the army.
+5694_64038_000008_000003 The soldiers were in good spirits, but it was the spirit of innocence and peace, not war and victory.
+5694_64038_000011_000001 We saw the United States flag flying from the ramparts, and thought that Yank would probably be asleep or catching lice, or maybe engaged in a game of seven up.
+5694_64038_000024_000019 It was Jim's regiment.
+5694_64038_000005_000000 Johnny says, "We are flanking."
+5694_64038_000013_000003 The old place looked natural like, only it seemed to have a sort of graveyard loneliness about it.
+5694_64038_000011_000005 We marched the black rascals out.
+5694_64038_000012_000000 But there were some Yankee soldiers in a block house at Ringgold Gap, who thought they would act big.
+5694_64038_000011_000003 He walked up and says, "Hello, boys!"
+5694_64038_000024_000002 Jim had dodged about, and had escaped being conscripted until "Hood's raid," he called it.
+5694_64038_000003_000001 We flanked it.
+5694_64038_000024_000015 Jim was soon in line, and was tramping to the music of the march.
+5694_64038_000024_000018 A regiment was sent to the attack.
+5694_64038_000024_000000 I was simply one of hundreds of thousands in the same fix.
+5694_64038_000022_000000 How every pulse did beat and leap, and how every heart did throb with emotions of joy, which seemed nearly akin to heaven, when we received the glad intelligence of our onward march toward the land of promise, and of our loved ones.
+5694_64038_000024_000021 The regiment was ordered to fire.
+5694_64038_000024_000001 The tale is the same that every soldier would tell, except Jim Whitler.
+5694_64038_000015_000000 On leaving Dalton, after a day's march, we had stopped for the night. Our guns were stacked, and I started off with a comrade to get some wood to cook supper with.
+5694_64038_000017_000002 We looked all around, and thought that the coast was clear.
+5694_64038_000013_000001 They persuaded effectually-those feelers did.
+5694_64038_000007_000001 It took us four months in the first instance, and but little longer than as many days in the second, to get back to Dalton, our starting point.
+5694_64038_000015_000010 But I was determined to find him, so I kept on hallooing and he answering.
+5694_64038_000007_000002 On our way up there, the Yankee cavalry followed us to see how we were getting along with the flanking business.
+5694_64038_000004_000000 Yank says, "What you doing, Johnny?"
+5694_64038_000017_000003 We jumped over the fence, and commenced grabbling for the sweet potatoes.
+5694_64038_000017_000005 We broke and run like quarter horses, and the guard pulled down on us just as we jumped the fence.
+5694_64038_000024_000010 He didn't know B from a bull's foot in the spelling book.
+5694_64038_000017_000000 We arrived and remained at Tuscumbia several days, awaiting the laying of the pontoons across the Tennessee river at Florence, Alabama, and then we all crossed over.
+5694_64038_000024_000007 Jim tried to beg off, but all entreaty was in vain. He wanted to go by home and tell his wife and children good bye, and to get his clothes.
+5694_64038_000015_000012 I was walking along rather thoughtlessly and carelessly, when one inch more and I would have disappeared also.
+5694_64038_000008_000000 We passed all those glorious battlefields, that have been made classic in history, frequently coming across the skull of some poor fellow sitting on top of a stump, grinning a ghastly smile; also the bones of horses along the road, and fences burned and destroyed, and occasionally the charred remains of a once fine dwelling house.
+5694_64038_000007_000003 We had pontoons made for the purpose of crossing streams.
+5694_64038_000022_000001 The cold November winds coming off the mountains of the northwest were blowing right in our faces, and nearly cutting us in two.
+5694_64038_000007_000004 When we would get to a stream, the pontoons would be thrown across, and Hood's army would cross.
+5694_64038_000015_000014 But how to get him out was the unsolved problem.
+5694_64038_000024_000025 Jim had not learned the word "halt!" and just kept on running.
+5694_64038_000015_000004 The earth seemed to have opened and swallowed him.
+5694_64038_000013_000000 They persuaded eloquently.
+5694_64038_000011_000008 Reader, you should have seen how that old railroad did flop over, and how the darkies did sweat, and how the perfume did fill the atmosphere.
+5694_64038_000016_000000 TUSCUMBIA
+5694_64038_000014_000000 A MAN IN THE WELL
+5694_64038_000003_000000 After remaining a good long time at Jonesboro, the news came that we were going to flank Atlanta.
+5694_64038_000011_000000 When we arrived at Dalton, we had a desire to see how the old place looked; not that we cared anything about it, but we just wanted to take a last farewell look at the old place.
+5694_64038_000008_000002 The country looked like it did at first. Citizens came out, and seemed glad to see us, and would divide their onions, garlic, and leek with us.
+5694_64038_000024_000008 It was no go.
+5694_64038_000021_000000 "And nightly we pitch our moving tent A day's march nearer home."
+5694_64038_000015_000003 I looked everywhere.
+5694_64038_000024_000016 He stayed with the company two days.
+5694_64038_000012_000001 They said that Sherman had told them not to come out of that block house, any how.
+5694_64038_000024_000005 The army had been passing a given point, and Jim was sitting quietly on the fence looking at the soldiers.
+5694_64038_000010_000000 WE CAPTURE DALTON
+5694_64038_000015_000011 I went to the place where the voice appeared to come out of the earth.
+5694_64038_000003_000002 A flank means "a go around."
+5694_64038_000015_000002 I could not imagine what had become of him.
+5694_64038_000018_000001 Here the pontoon bridges were nicely and beautifully stretched across the river.
+5694_64038_000017_000001 While at Tuscumbia, john Branch and I saw a nice sweet potato patch, that looked very tempting to a hungry Rebel.
+5694_64038_000015_000001 We were walking along, he a little in the rear, when he suddenly disappeared.
+5694_64038_000018_000002 We walked over this floating bridge, and soon found ourselves on the Tennessee side of Tennessee river.
+5694_64038_000006_000000 Yank says, "Bully for you!"
+5694_64038_000024_000017 The third day it was reported that the Yankees had taken position on the Murfreesboro pike.
+5694_64038_000023_000000 We were inured to privations and hardships; had been upon every march, in every battle, in every skirmish, in every advance, in every retreat, in every victory, in every defeat.
+5694_64038_000009_000001 But we always flanked these little affairs.
+5694_64038_000015_000007 Going back to camp, I procured a light, and after whooping and hallooing for a long time, I heard another groan, this time much louder than before.
+5694_64038_000015_000009 There was no tree or house to be seen; and then again the voice seemed to answer from under the ground, in a hollow, sepulchral tone, but I could not tell where he was.
+5694_64038_000015_000005 I called, and called, but could get no answer.
+5694_64038_000001_000000 ADVANCE INTO TENNESSEE
+5694_64038_000018_000000 We marched from Decatur to Florence.
+5694_64038_000015_000008 The voice appeared to be overhead.
+5694_64025_000022_000002 He was wise in his own conceit.
+5694_64025_000022_000014 The rope, however, was stronger than the mule's "no," and he was finally prevailed upon by the strength of the rope to cross the creek.
+5694_64025_000022_000016 He seemed to be in deep meditation.
+5694_64025_000022_000001 He was not a fast mule, and I soon found out that he thought he knew as much as I did.
+5694_64025_000022_000003 He had a propensity to take every hog path he came to.
+5694_64025_000005_000003 The air was full of balls and deadly missiles. The litter corps was carrying off the dying and wounded.
+5694_64025_000022_000012 The mule was loath to take to the water.
+5694_64025_000006_000002 He said to us, "Give 'em goss, boys. That's right, my brave First Tennessee.
+5694_64025_000018_000002 Our regiment was the advance outpost, and we saw the skirmish line of the Federals advancing and then their main line and then their artillery.
+5694_64025_000008_000002 It all seemed to me a dream; I seemed to be in a sort of haze, when siz, siz, siz, the minnie balls from the Yankee line began to whistle around our ears, and I thought of the Irishman when he said, "Sure enough, those fellows are shooting bullets!"
+5694_64025_000010_000001 Sidney Johnson killed, General Gladden killed, and a host of generals and other brave men killed, and the whole Yankee army in full retreat.
+5694_64025_000014_000001 The boys were in clover.
+5694_64025_000017_000002 Flushed with their victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson and the capture of Nashville, and the whole State of Tennessee having fallen into their hands, victory was again to perch upon their banners, for Buell's army, by forced marches, had come to Grant's assistance at the eleventh hour.
+5694_64025_000009_000001 I had been feeling mean all the morning as if I had stolen a sheep, but when the order to charge was given, I got happy.
+5694_64025_000019_000005 His pistol had missed its aim.
+5694_64025_000015_000000 This was Sunday.
+5694_64025_000018_000005 Should you desire to find out more about the battle, I refer you to history.
+5694_64025_000007_000000 About noon a courier dashed up and ordered us to go forward and support General Bragg's center.
+5694_64025_000003_000000 SHILOH
+5694_64025_000006_000005 The fact was kept from the troops.
+5694_64025_000017_000001 But they didn't.
+5694_64025_000022_000017 I got on him again, when all of a sudden he lifted his head, pricked up his ears, began to champ his bit, gave a little squeal, got a little faster, and finally into a gallop and then a run.
+5694_64025_000009_000010 Officers could not curb the men to keep in line.
+5694_64025_000019_000002 w h rushed forward and grabbed his horse by the bridle, telling him at the same time to surrender.
+5694_64025_000009_000008 They retreat in wild confusion.
+5694_64025_000004_000006 Our regiment was the advance guard on Saturday evening, and did a little skirmishing; but General Gladden's brigade passed us and assumed a position in our immediate front.
+5694_64025_000019_000000 One incident I recollect very well.
+5694_64025_000004_000009 I do not know what it was, but I heard Gladden say, "Tell General Bragg that I have as keen a scent for Yankees as General Chalmers has."
+5694_64025_000018_000000 Gunboats and transports were busily crossing Buell's army all of Sunday night.
+5694_64025_000005_000004 We could hear the shout of the charge and the incessant roar of the guns, the rattle of the musketry, and knew that the contending forces were engaged in a breast to breast struggle.
+5694_64025_000004_000002 I was but a private soldier, and if I happened to look to see if I could find out anything, "Eyes right, guide center," was the order.
+5694_64025_000010_000000 When in the very midst of our victory, here comes an order to halt. What! halt after today's victory?
+5694_64025_000004_000001 I do not pretend to tell of what command distinguished itself; of heroes; of blood and wounds; of shrieks and groans; of brilliant charges; of cannon captured, etc
+5694_64025_000013_000000 The harvest was great and the laborers were not few.
+5694_64025_000004_000005 I remember a man by the name of Smith stepping deliberately out of the ranks and shooting his finger off to keep out of the fight; of another poor fellow who was accidentally shot and killed by the discharge of another person's gun, and of others suddenly taken sick with colic.
+5694_64025_000006_000001 Martin.
+5694_64025_000022_000005 If blood makes speed, I do not suppose he had a drop of any kind in him.
+5694_64025_000009_000009 We were jubilant; we were triumphant.
+5694_64025_000022_000013 He was no Baptist, and did not believe in immersion, and had his views about crossing streams, but the rope began to tighten, the mule to squeal out his protestations against such villainous proceedings.
+2035_147961_000033_000001 During the auction he went about with his head down, and never lifted his eyes. He seemed not to care about anything.
+2035_147961_000004_000005 She asked peter to wait a moment, and when she came back from the kitchen she brought a bag of sandwiches and doughnuts for us.
+2035_147961_000034_000002 For Antonia and me, the story of the wedding party was never at an end.
+2035_147961_000002_000004 He only knew that he had first borrowed two hundred dollars, then another hundred, then fifty-that each time a bonus was added to the principal, and the debt grew faster than any crop he planted.
+2035_147961_000032_000001 peter sold off everything, and left the country-went to be cook in a railway construction camp where gangs of Russians were employed.
+2035_147961_000012_000000 "It's wolves, Jimmy," Antonia whispered.
+2035_147961_000025_000002 Beside a frozen pond something happened to the other sledge; peter saw it plainly.
+2035_147961_000033_000002 The Black Hawk money lender who held mortgages on Peter's live stock was there, and he bought in the sale notes at about fifty cents on the dollar.
+2035_147961_000014_000000 Gradually, relief came to all of us.
+2035_147961_000013_000000 The sick man raged and shook his fist.
+2035_147961_000017_000000 After the ceremony at the church, the party went to a dinner given by the parents of the bride.
+2035_147961_000030_000007 peter, crouching in the front seat, saw nothing.
+2035_147961_000013_000010 His spine and shoulder blades stood out like the bones under the hide of a dead steer left in the fields.
+2035_147961_000018_000000 The wolves were bad that winter, and every one knew it, yet when they heard the first wolf cry, the drivers were not much alarmed.
+2035_147961_000022_000000 "And the wolves?" Pavel asked.
+2035_147961_000017_000007 All the drivers were more or less the worse for merry making, and the groom was absorbed in his bride.
+2035_147961_000031_000000 Pavel and peter drove into the village alone, and they had been alone ever since.
+2035_147961_000024_000004 He sprang up as if he meant to jump, but the girl shrieked and held him back.
+2035_147961_000004_000000 One afternoon Antonia and her father came over to our house to get buttermilk, and lingered, as they usually did, until the sun was low.
+2035_147961_000034_000000 The loss of his two friends had a depressing effect upon old mr Shimerda. When he was out hunting, he used to go into the empty log house and sit there, brooding.
+2035_147961_000018_000005 The wolves ran like streaks of shadow; they looked no bigger than dogs, but there were hundreds of them.
+2035_147961_000013_000002 mr Shimerda caught him by the shoulders, but could hardly hold him in bed.
+2035_147961_000007_000009 Presently, in one of those sobbing intervals between the blasts, the coyotes tuned up with their whining howl; one, two, three, then all together-to tell us that winter was coming.
+2035_147961_000004_000002 Pavel was very bad, he said, and wanted to talk to mr Shimerda and his daughter; he had come to fetch them.
+2035_147961_000013_000007 He lay patiently fighting for breath, like a child with croup.
+2035_147961_000007_000003 The firelight flickered on the hewn logs that supported the thatch overhead.
+2035_147961_000014_000004 We sat and watched the long bowed back under the blue sheet, scarcely daring to breathe.
+2035_147961_000027_000000 "Yes."
+2035_147961_000018_000002 The first howls were taken up and echoed and with quickening repetitions.
+2035_147961_000015_000000 On the way home, when we were lying in the straw, under the jolting and rattling Antonia told me as much of the story as she could.
+2035_147961_000011_000000 Presently Pavel began to talk to mr Shimerda, scarcely above a whisper. He was telling a long story, and as he went on, Antonia took my hand under the table and held it tight.
+2035_147961_000030_000004 Pavel tried to drag her away. In the struggle, the groom rose.
+2035_147961_000005_000003 We burrowed down in the straw and curled up close together, watching the angry red die out of the west and the stars begin to shine in the clear, windy sky.
+2035_147961_000010_000001 His eyes followed peter about the room with a contemptuous, unfriendly expression.
+2035_147961_000029_000000 "Twenty, thirty-enough."
+2035_147961_000013_000005 Quickly it was covered with bright red spots-I thought I had never seen any blood so bright.
+2035_147961_000002_000001 peter told his troubles to mr Shimerda: he was unable to meet a note which fell due on the first of November; had to pay an exorbitant bonus on renewing it, and to give a mortgage on his pigs and horses and even his milk cow.
+2035_147961_000009_000002 He began to cough.
+2035_147961_000030_000003 The young man cursed him and held her tighter.
+2035_147961_000011_000002 He grew more and more excited, and kept pointing all around his bed, as if there were things there and he wanted mr Shimerda to see them.
+2035_147961_000005_000000 mr Shimerda and peter were on the front seat; Antonia and I sat in the straw behind and ate our lunch as we bumped along.
+2035_147961_000020_000006 It was only necessary to be calm and to guide them carefully.
+2035_147961_000033_000000 At his sale we bought Peter's wheelbarrow and some of his harness.
+2035_147961_000016_000000 When Pavel and peter were young men, living at home in Russia, they were asked to be groomsmen for a friend who was to marry the belle of another village.
+2035_147961_000007_000012 He was sitting on the floor by the kitchen stove.
+2035_147961_000018_000003 The wolves were coming together. There was no moon, but the starlight was clear on the snow.
+2035_147961_000014_000001 Whatever it was, the worst was over. mr Shimerda signed to us that Pavel was asleep.
+2035_147961_000005_000009 Perhaps Russian peter, come from farther away than any of us, had brought from his land, too, some such belief.
+2035_147961_000016_000001 It was in the dead of winter and the groom's party went over to the wedding in sledges.
+2035_147961_000019_000004 The groom had the best team and his sledge was lightest-all the others carried from six to a dozen people.
+2035_147961_000033_000004 I did not see him do it, but this I know: after all his furniture and his cook stove and pots and pans had been hauled off by the purchasers, when his house was stripped and bare, he sat down on the floor with his clasp knife and ate all the melons that he had put away for winter.
+2035_147961_000007_000014 Pavel called for something and struggled up on his elbow.
+2035_147961_000030_000005 Pavel knocked him over the side of the sledge and threw the girl after him.
+2035_147961_000004_000001 Just as they were leaving, Russian peter drove up.
+2035_147961_000019_000002 The shrieks that followed made everybody sober.
+2035_147961_000024_000000 Pavel reached the brow of the hill, but only two sledges followed him down the other side.
+2035_147961_000018_000004 A black drove came up over the hill behind the wedding party.
+2035_147961_000013_000008 Antonia's father uncovered one of his long bony legs and rubbed it rhythmically.
+2035_147961_000018_000001 They had too much good food and drink inside them.
+2035_147961_000030_000002 He called to the groom that they must lighten-and pointed to the bride.
+2035_147961_000031_000003 They went away to strange towns, but when people learned where they came from, they were always asked if they knew the two men who had fed the bride to the wolves.
+2035_147961_000005_000008 Though we had come from such different parts of the world, in both of us there was some dusky superstition that those shining groups have their influence upon what is and what is not to be.
+2035_147961_000030_000000 Now his middle horse was being almost dragged by the other two.
+2035_147961_000024_000003 He saw his father's sledge overturned, with his mother and sisters.
+2035_147961_000012_000001 "It's awful, what he says!"
+2035_147961_000002_000005 Now everything was plastered with mortgages.
+2035_147961_000007_000013 The coyotes broke out again; yap, yap, yap-then the high whine.
+2035_147961_000020_000004 Pavel sat still and watched his horses.
+2035_147961_000007_000006 The wind shook the doors and windows impatiently, then swept on again, singing through the big spaces.
+2035_147961_000007_000007 Each gust, as it bore down, rattled the panes, and swelled off like the others.
+2035_147961_000024_000002 Presently the groom screamed.
+2035_147961_000002_000003 peter could give no very clear account of his transactions with Cutter.
+2035_147961_000013_000009 From our bench we could see what a hollow case his body was.
+2035_147961_000026_000001 "They still come?" he asked peter.
+2035_147961_000025_000004 They tried to jump over each other, got tangled up in the harness, and overturned the sledge.
+2035_147961_000024_000007 But the groom's movement had given Pavel an idea.
+2035_147961_000032_000000 Pavel died a few days after he unburdened his mind to mr Shimerda, and was buried in the Norwegian graveyard.
+2035_147961_000025_000003 Three big wolves got abreast of the horses, and the horses went crazy.
+2035_147961_000017_000003 At midnight the parents of the bride said good bye to her and blessed her.
+2035_147961_000031_000005 It took them five years to save money enough to come to America. They worked in Chicago, Des Moines, Fort Wayne, but they were always unfortunate.
+2035_147961_000005_000006 We lay still and did not talk.
+2035_147961_000009_000000 I could not take my eyes off the man in the bed.
+2035_147961_000005_000004 peter kept sighing and groaning.
+2035_147961_000005_000001 After the sun sank, a cold wind sprang up and moaned over the prairie.
+2035_147961_000020_000000 Another driver lost control.
+2035_147961_000030_000001 Pavel gave peter the reins and stepped carefully into the back of the sledge.
+2035_147961_000017_000005 He sprang in beside her, and Pavel and peter (our Pavel and peter!) took the front seat.
+2035_147961_000003_000001 Misfortune seemed to settle like an evil bird on the roof of the log house, and to flap its wings there, warning human beings away.
+2035_147961_000019_000003 The drivers stood up and lashed their horses.
+2035_147961_000020_000005 The road was clear and white, and the groom's three blacks went like the wind.
+2035_147961_000017_000001 The dinner lasted all afternoon; then it became a supper and continued far into the night.
+2035_147961_000013_000011 That sharp backbone must have hurt him when he lay on it.
+2035_147961_000002_000000 WHILE the autumn color was growing pale on the grass and cornfields, things went badly with our friends the Russians.
+2035_147961_000009_000001 His shirt was hanging open, and his emaciated chest, covered with yellow bristle, rose and fell horribly.
+2035_147961_000005_000005 Tony whispered to me that he was afraid Pavel would never get well.
+2035_147961_000031_000004 Wherever they went, the story followed them.
+2035_147961_000017_000002 There was much dancing and drinking.
+2035_147961_000006_000001 The ruddy windows guided us-the light from the kitchen stove, for there was no lamp burning.
+2035_147961_000004_000004 My plan must have seemed very foolish to her, but she was often large minded about humoring the desires of other people.
+2035_147961_000007_000000 We entered softly.
+2035_147961_000023_000001 Enough for all of us."
+2035_147961_000003_000002 The Russians had such bad luck that people were afraid of them and liked to put them out of mind.
+2035_147961_000025_000000 They were within a few miles of their village now.
+2035_147961_000003_000000 Soon after peter renewed his note, Pavel strained himself lifting timbers for a new barn, and fell over among the shavings with such a gush of blood from the lungs that his fellow workmen thought he would die on the spot. They hauled him home and put him into his bed, and there he lay, very ill indeed.
+2035_147961_000021_000001 "There are only three sledges left," he whispered.
+2035_147961_000005_000007 Up there the stars grew magnificently bright.
+2035_147961_000007_000008 They made me think of defeated armies, retreating; or of ghosts who were trying desperately to get in for shelter, and then went moaning on.
+2035_147961_000034_000001 This cabin was his hermitage until the winter snows penned him in his cave.
+2035_147961_000006_000000 The little house on the hillside was so much the color of the night that we could not see it as we came up the draw.
+2035_147961_000007_000004 Pavel made a rasping sound when he breathed, and he kept moaning.
+2035_147961_000009_000003 peter shuffled to his feet, caught up the tea kettle and mixed him some hot water and whiskey.
+2035_147961_000024_000006 The black ground shadows were already crowding over the heap in the road, and one horse ran out across the fields, his harness hanging to him, wolves at his heels.
+2035_147961_000014_000002 Without a word peter got up and lit his lantern.
+2035_147961_000015_000001 What she did not tell me then, she told later; we talked of nothing else for days afterward.
+2035_147961_000010_000000 Pavel snatched the cup and drank, then made peter give him the bottle and slipped it under his pillow, grinning disagreeably, as if he had outwitted some one.
+2035_147961_000013_000003 At last he was shut off by a coughing fit which fairly choked him.
+2035_147961_000021_000000 At length, as they breasted a long hill, peter rose cautiously and looked back.
+2035_147961_000009_000004 The sharp smell of spirits went through the room.
+2035_152373_000009_000003 The Kingdom of Northumbria, as the name implies, embraced nearly all the country from the Humber to the Pictish border.
+2035_152373_000010_000008 In the same spirit Adamnan voluntarily undertook a journey to York, where Aldfrid (a Prince educated in Ireland, and whose "Itinerary" of Ireland we still have) now reigned. The Abbot of Iona succeeded in his humane mission, and crossing over to his native land, he restored sixty of the captives to their homes and kindred.
+2035_152373_000007_000006 The Munster King, and many of the chieftain class shared the common lot.
+2035_152373_000008_000002 As leading to the mention of other interesting events, we must set this inroad clearly before the reader.
+2035_152373_000009_000001 Britain had been divided by the Saxon leaders into eight separate kingdoms, the people and princes of several of which were converted to Christianity in the fifth, sixth, and seventh century, though some of them did not receive the Gospel before the beginning of the eighth.
+2035_152373_000011_000003 The abolition, he contended, should not be simply a suspension, but final and for ever.
+2035_152373_000006_000004 Congal had recruited numerous bands of Saxons, Britons, Picts and Argyle Scots, who poured into the Larbours of Down for months, and were marshalled on the banks of the Lagan, to sustain his cause.
+2035_152373_000012_000004 Nothing could be more natural than such an assembly in such a place, at such a period.
+2035_152373_000011_000006 Abolished it was, and though its re-enactment was often attempted, the authority of Saint Moling's solemn settlement, prevented it from being re enforced for any length of time, except as a political or military infliction.
+2035_152373_000009_000008 The piety of an after age saw in the retribution which overtook Egfrid the following year, when he was slain by the Picts and Scots, the judgment of Heaven, avenging the unprovoked wrongs of the Irish. His Scottish conquerors, returning good for evil, carried his body to Iona, where it was interred with all due honour.
+2035_152373_000001_000000 CHAPTER six.
+2035_152373_000007_000001 Like the two kings of Sparta they reigned jointly, dividing between them the labours and cares of State.
+2035_152373_000009_000000 The Saxons had now been for four centuries in Britain, the older inhabitants of which-Celts like the Gauls and Irish-they had cruelly harassed, just as the Milesian Irish oppressed their Belgic predecessors, and as the Normans, in turn, will be found oppressing both Celt and Saxon in England and Ireland.
+2035_152373_000012_000000 Finnacta fell in battle in the twentieth year of his long and glorious reign; and is commemorated as a saint in the Irish calendar.
+2035_152373_000010_000001 The barren rock, about three miles in length, was covered with monastic buildings, and its cemetery was already adorned with the tombs of saints and kings.
+2035_152373_000010_000012 So slow and patient is the process by which Christianity infuses itself into the social life of a converted people!
+2035_152373_000010_000004 Adamnan regarded the fate of Egfrid, we may be sure, in the light of a judgment on him for his misdeeds, as Bede and British Christians very generally did.
+2035_152373_000008_000000 The only conflicts that occurred on Irish soil with a Pictish or an Anglo Saxon force-if we except those who formed a contingent of Congal's army at Moira-occurred in the time of the hospitable Finnacta.
+2035_152373_000010_000006 Now every missionary that ever went out from Iona, had taught that to reduce Christians to slavery was wholly inconsistent with a belief in the doctrines of the Gospel.
+2035_152373_000011_000002 In the early part of his reign Finnacta seems not to have been disposed to collect this invidious tax by force; but, yielding to other motives, he afterwards took a different view of his duty, and marched into Leinster to compel its payment. Here the holy Prelate of Ferns met him, and related a Vision in which he had been instructed to demand the abolition of the impost.
+2035_152373_000011_000001 The all powerful intercessor in this case was Saint Moling, of the royal house of Leinster, and Bishop of Fernamore (now Ferns).
+2035_152373_000006_000002 It is pretty clear also that the last rally of Druidism against Christianity took place behind his banner, on the plain of Moira.
+2035_152373_000012_000005 In every recorded instance the power of the clergy had been omnipotent in politics for above a century.
+2035_152373_000009_000005 This Prince, Egfrid by name, was constantly engaged in wars with his Saxon cotemporaries, or the Picts and Scots.
+2035_152373_000007_000007 Lastly, the royal brothers fell themselves victims to the epidemic, which so sadly signalizes their reign.
+2035_152373_000006_000007 King Donald was accompanied by his Bard, who described to him, as they came in sight, the several standards of Congal's host, and who served under them.
+2035_152373_000010_000005 He learned, too, that there were in Northumbria several Christian captives, carried off in Beort's expedition and probably sold into slavery.
+2035_152373_000007_000003 To heighten the awful sense of inevitable doom, an eclipse of the sun occurred concurrently with the appearance of the pestilence on the first Sunday in May.
+2035_152373_000011_000004 The tribute was, at this period, enormous; fifteen thousand head of cattle annually.
+2035_152373_000004_000001 The last armed struggle of Druidism, and the only invasion of Ireland by the Anglo Saxons, are also events of the civil history of the seventh century.
+2035_152373_000010_000007 saint Aidan, the Apostle of Northumbria, had refused the late Egfrid's father absolution, on one occasion, until he solemnly promised to restore their freedom to certain captives of this description.
+2035_152373_000009_000002 The Saxons of Kent and the Southern Kingdoms generally were converted by missionaries from France or Rome, or native preachers of the first or second Christian generation; those of Northumbria recognise as their Apostles saint Aidan and saint Cuthbert, two Fathers from Iona.
+2035_152373_000010_000002 Five successors of Columbkill slept in peace around their holy Founder, and a sixth, equal in learning and sanctity to any who preceded him, received the remains of King Egfrid from the hands of his conquerors.
+2035_152373_000009_000004 York was its capital, and the seat of its ecclesiastical primacy, where, at the time we speak of, the illustrious Wilfrid was maintaining, with a wilful and unscrupulous king, a struggle not unlike that which Becket maintained with Henry the second.
+2035_152373_000006_000000 The cause of the battle was the pretension of the petty Prince of Ulidia, which comprised little more than the present county of Down, to be recognised as Prince of all Ulster.
+2035_147960_000009_000002 A faint, fetid smell came from him, and a thread of green liquid oozed from his crushed head.
+2035_147960_000017_000000 "We'd been up to Russian Peter's, to borrow a spade for Ambrosch."
+2035_147960_000009_000001 Cautiously we went back to the snake; he was still groping with his tail, turning up his ugly belly in the light.
+2035_147960_000022_000005 I had been adequately armed by Russian peter; the snake was old and lazy; and I had Antonia beside me, to appreciate and admire.
+2035_147960_000012_000002 I followed with the spade over my shoulder, dragging my snake.
+2035_147960_000012_000000 We decided that Antonia should ride Dude home, and I would walk.
+2035_147960_000005_000019 Antonia came after me, crying, "O Jimmy, he not bite you?
+2035_147960_000004_000007 Before the mouths of the holes were little patches of sand and gravel, scratched up, we supposed, from a long way below the surface.
+2035_147960_000012_000005 If the red grass were full of rattlers, I was equal to them all. Nevertheless, I stole furtive glances behind me now and then to see that no avenging mate, older and bigger than my quarry, was racing up from the rear.
+2035_147960_000023_000002 She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a supercilious air with me again.
+2035_147960_000005_000015 Antonia, barefooted as she was, ran up behind me.
+2035_147960_000004_000005 The dogs were out, as usual, dozens of them, sitting up on their hind legs over the doors of their houses.
+2035_147960_000013_000003 Antonia called him to come quick and look.
+2035_147960_000023_000003 I had killed a big snake-I was now a big fellow.
+2035_147960_000005_000013 I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops.
+2035_147960_000009_000000 She went on in this strain until I began to think that I had longed for this opportunity, and had hailed it with joy.
+2035_147960_000001_000001 She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner.
+2035_147960_000018_000006 Did he fight hard?"
+2035_147960_000002_000003 Within a week all the blooming roads had been despoiled-hundreds of miles of yellow sunflowers had been transformed into brown, rattling, burry stalks.
+2035_147960_000011_000003 As I turned him over I began to feel proud of him, to have a kind of respect for his age and size.
+2035_147960_000020_000000 Otto winked at me.
+2035_147960_000008_000003 Now we take that snake home and show everybody.
+2035_147960_000011_000005 When we dragged him down into the draw, Dude sprang off to the end of his tether and shivered all over-would n't let us come near him.
+2035_147960_000005_000017 I walked away and turned my back.
+2035_147960_000005_000011 I did n't run because I did n't think of it-if my back had been against a stone wall I could n't have felt more cornered.
+2035_147960_000004_000002 The holes were several yards apart, and were disposed with a good deal of regularity, almost as if the town had been laid out in streets and avenues.
+2035_147960_000005_000018 I felt seasick.
+2035_147960_000005_000012 I saw his coils tighten-now he would spring, spring his length, I remembered.
+2035_147960_000019_000001 He is all over Jimmy's boots. I scream for him to run, but he just hit and hit that snake like he was crazy."
+2035_147960_000023_000000 That snake hung on our corral fence for several days; some of the neighbors came to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts.
+2035_147960_000005_000002 I was walking backward, in a crouching position, when I heard Antonia scream.
+2035_147960_000005_000009 He was as thick as my leg, and looked as if millstones could n't crush the disgusting vitality out of him.
+2035_147960_000018_000002 "Gosh!
+2035_147960_000018_000001 "It was just luck you had a tool," he said cautiously.
+2035_147960_000013_000001 Otto Fuchs was the first one we met.
+2035_147960_000023_000001 This was enough for Antonia.
+2035_147960_000002_000002 There had been another black frost the night before, and the air was clear and heady as wine.
+2035_147960_000019_000000 Antonia broke in: "He fight something awful!
+2035_147960_000005_000006 When I turned he was lying in long loose waves, like a letter "W." He twitched and began to coil slowly.
+2035_147960_000011_000002 I explained to Antonia how this meant that he was twenty four years old, that he must have been there when white men first came, left on from buffalo and Indian times.
+2035_147960_000005_000016 Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and winding, doubling and falling back on itself.
+2035_147960_000007_000001 I suppose I looked as sick as I felt.
+2035_147960_000006_000001 You might have told me there was a snake behind me!" I said petulantly.
+2035_147960_000012_000003 Her exultation was contagious.
+2035_147960_000003_000004 We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snake skins.
+2035_147960_000011_000004 He seemed like the ancient, eldest Evil. Certainly his kind have left horrible unconscious memories in all warm blooded life.
+2035_147960_000004_000006 As we approached, they barked, shook their tails at us, and scurried underground.
+2035_147960_000005_000014 I struck now from hate.
+2035_147960_000004_000009 It was on one of these gravel beds that I met my adventure.
+2035_147960_000010_000000 "Look, Tony, that's his poison," I said.
+2035_147960_000013_000004 He did not say anything for a minute, but scratched his head and turned the snake over with his boot.
+2035_147960_000002_000001 I offered to take her on the pony, and she got up behind me.
+2035_147960_000003_000002 As we rode away with the spade, Antonia suggested that we stop at the prairie dog town and dig into one of the holes.
+2035_147960_000015_000000 "Up at the dog town," I answered laconically.
+2035_147960_000022_000000 Subsequent experiences with rattlesnakes taught me that my first encounter was fortunate in circumstance.
+2035_147960_000004_000000 The dog town was spread out over perhaps ten acres.