But the more forgetfulness had then prevailed, the more powerful was the force of remembrance when she awoke.

exclaimed Bill Harmon to his wife as they went through the lighted hall.


So there is to me"! added Sandford, with a sarcastic sneer.


And yet you must own her behaviour has warranted them has it not been in this particular incoherent and unaccountable"?

Is she not afraid that I will thwart her inclinations"?


To ask any more questions of you, I believe, would be unfair.


He seemed to wait for her reply; but as she made none, he proceeded-


Oh! my Lord," cried Miss Woodley, with a most forcible accent, " You are the last person on earth she would pardon me for entrusting".

They couldn't run nor move; they're just pasteboard".


But in such a case, Miss Milner's election of a husband shall not direct mine.

Done? He ain't done a thing he'd oughter sence he was born.


If she does not know how to estimate her own value, I do.


My Lord, Miss Milner's taste is not a depraved one; it is but too refined".

Burn, fire, burn! Flicker, flicker, flame!


What can you mean by that, Miss Woodley? You talk mysteriously.


Again he searched his own thoughts; nor ineffectually as before.


To relieve her from both, he laid his hand with force upon his heart, and said, "Do you believe me"?

To ask any more questions of you, I believe, would be unfair.


I will make no unjust use of what I know," he replied with firmness. "I believe you, my Lord".

Again he searched his own thoughts; nor ineffectually as before.


Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree.


But this was what the Tree could not bear to hear.


In autumn the wood cutters always came and felled some of the largest trees.

Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree.


I would fain know if I am destined for so glorious a career," cried the Tree, rejoicing.


I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year! Oh!


Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!

cried the young ladies, and they quickly put out the fire.


Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?

And he leaned against the wall lost in reverie.


Something better, something still grander must follow - but what?

In the morning the servant and the housemaid came in.


Rejoice in our presence"! said the Air and the Sunlight.


Rejoice in thy own fresh youth"!


But the Tree did not rejoice at all; he grew and grew, and was green both winter and summer.


and towards Christmas he was one of the first that was cut down.


He well knew that he should never see his dear old comrades, the little bushes and flowers around him, anymore; perhaps not even the birds!


The departure was not at all agreeable.


The servants, as well as the young ladies, decorated it.


Perhaps the other trees from the forest will come to look at me!

Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!


cried the young ladies, and they quickly put out the fire.


A story"! cried the children, drawing a little fat man towards the Tree.


Humpy Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he married the princess!


thought the Fir Tree, and believed it all, because the man who told the story was so good looking. "Well, well!


I won't tremble tomorrow"! thought the Fir Tree.

What's the meaning of this"? thought the Tree.


And the whole night the Tree stood still and in deep thought.


Tis now winter out of doors"! thought the Tree.


If it only were not so dark here, and so terribly lonely!


They snuffed about the Fir Tree, and rustled among the branches.


I am by no means old," said the Fir Tree.


There's many a one considerably older than I am".


I know no such place," said the Tree.


And then he told all about his youth; and the little Mice had never heard the like before; and they listened and said,


said the Fir Tree, thinking over what he had himself related.


Yes, in reality those were happy times".


Who is Humpy Dumpy"? asked the Mice.


Don't you know one about bacon and tallow candles? Can't you tell any larder stories"?


Why, one morning there came a quantity of people and set to work in the loft.

and towards Christmas he was one of the first that was cut down.


but it was not the Fir Tree that they meant.

Rejoice in thy growth"! said the Sunbeams.


It was in a corner that he lay, among weeds and nettles.


The golden star of tinsel was still on the top of the Tree, and glittered in the sunshine.


In the court yard some of the merry children were playing who had danced at Christmas round the Fir Tree, and were so glad at the sight of him.


And the gardener's boy chopped the Tree into small pieces; there was a whole heap lying there.


The wood flamed up splendidly under the large brewing copper, and it sighed so deeply!


However, that was over now - the Tree gone, the story at an end.


The influence with the Timaeus has exercised upon posterity is due partly to a misunderstanding.

Some poems of Solon were recited by the boys.


There is no danger of the modern commentators on the Timaeus falling into the absurdities of the Neo Platonists.


But they have nothing to do with the interpretation of Plato, and in spirit they are opposed to him.


Many, if not all the elements of the Pre Socratic philosophy are included in the Timaeus.


The ideas also remain, but they have become types in nature, forms of men, animals, birds, fishes.


The style and plan of the Timaeus differ greatly from that of any other of the Platonic dialogues.


But Plato has not the same mastery over his instrument which he exhibits in the Phaedrus or Symposium.


Nothing can exceed the beauty or art of the introduction, in which he is using words after his accustomed manner.


But in the rest of the work the power of language seems to fail him, and the dramatic form is wholly given up.


And hence we find the same sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes the philosophical poem of Lucretius.


Plato had not the command of his materials which would have enabled him to produce a perfect work of art.


His conduct and presence of mind in this emergence appeared conspicuous.


It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!

Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world.


She screamed and shouted, too, with a terrific volume of sound, which, doubtless, caused the hearts of the fugitives to quake within them.

If spoken to, she would not speak again.


Yea, his honourable worship is within. But he hath a godly minister or two with him, and likewise a leech.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them"!


Pearl, seeing the rose bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified.

In truth, she seemed absolutely hidden behind it.


In short he becomes a "prominent figure in London Society" - and, if he is not careful, somebody will say so.

In despair he hurled himself downward too soon.


But suppose you said, "I'm fond of writing; my people always say my letters home are good enough for Punch.

Anyhow it's jolly exciting, and I can do the dialogue all right.


I've got a little idea for a play about a man and a woman and another woman, and - but perhaps I'd better keep the plot a secret for the moment.

Lady Larkspur starts suddenly and turns towards him.


Lend me your ear for ten minutes, and you shall learn just what stagecraft is".

The great hawk followed hurriedly, to retrieve his prey from the ground.


And I should begin with a short homily on Soliloquy.


And so on, till you get to the end, when Ophelia might say, "Ah, yes," or something non committal of that sort.

Straightway the hawk glided from his perch and darted after him.


This would be an easy way of doing it, but it would not be the best way, for the reason that it is too easy to call attention to itself.

It might have seemed that a trout of this size was a fairly substantial meal.


In the old badly made play it was frequently necessary for one of the characters to take the audience into his confidence.


In the modern well constructed play he simply rings up an imaginary confederate and tells him what he is going to do. Could anything be more natural?


Double nine two three, Elsinore.... Double- nine, yes.... Hallo, is that you, Horatio? Hamlet speaking.


To be or not to be, that is the question; whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows - What? No, Hamlet speaking.


You gave me double- five, I want double- nine.... Hallo, is that you, Horatio? Hamlet speaking.

But even the unsuccessful dramatist has his moments.


To be or not to be, that is the question; whether 'tis nobler

Enter Hamlet with his favourite boar hound.


In novels the hero has often "pushed his meals away untasted," but no stage hero would do anything so unnatural as this.


But it is the cigarette which chiefly has brought the modern drama to its present state of perfection.


Its origin was small - a germ, an insignificant seed, hardly to be thought of as likely to arouse opposition.

But a word further concerning the expedition in general.


Instead of but six regularly affiliated members, and at most two score of adherents, the organization numbers today many hundred thousand souls.


To the fervent Latter day Saint, a temple is not simply a church building, a house for religious assembly.

Their sufferings have never yet been fitly chronicled by human scribe.


Their sufferings have never yet been fitly chronicled by human scribe.

Who began the quarrel? Was it the "Mormons"?


Oh, what a record to read; what a picture to gaze upon; how awful the fact!


The poor little things"! cried Cynthia. "Think of them having been turned to the wall all these years!

Voltaire picked up something from the ground and looked at it.


But Joyce had not been listening. All at once she put down her candle on the table and faced her companion.

Do you suppose the miniature was a copy of the same thing"?


The twin brother did something she didn't like, and she turned his picture to the wall.


Hers happened to be in the same frame too, but she evidently didn't care about that.

They were certainly no nearer the solution of their problem.


I thought we were 'stumped' again when I first saw that picture, but it's been of some use, after all.

Hers happened to be in the same frame too, but she evidently didn't care about that.


They worry me terribly. And, besides, I'd like to see what this lovely furniture looks like without such quantities of dust all over it". "Good scheme, CYN"!

Isn't he the greatest for getting into odd corners"!


We'll come in here this afternoon with old clothes on, and have a regular house cleaning!


It can't hurt anything, I'm sure, for we won't disturb things at all.

What in the world is that"? queried Joyce.


This thought, however, did not enter the heads of the enthusiastic pair.

Now what have you to say, Cynthia Sprague"?


The lure proved too much for him, and he came sporting after it, as friskily as a young kitten, much to Cynthia's delight when she caught sight of him.

Now let's dust the furniture and pictures".


Oh, let him come along"! she urged. "I do love to see him about that old house.

I remember saying. "Have we been together"?


Yet, little as it was, it had already made a vast difference in the aspect of the room.

Why, it's Goliath as usual"! they both cried, peering in.


Surface dust at least had been removed, and the fine old furniture gave a hint of its real elegance and polish.


And my pocket money is getting low again, and you haven't any left, as usual.

It can't hurt anything, I'm sure, for we won't disturb things at all.


They say illumination by candle light is the prettiest in the world.


Why, it's Goliath as usual"! they both cried, peering in.

said another voice, which I recognized as Voltaire's. "Kaffar?


Forgetting all their weariness, they seized their candles and scurried through the house, finding an occasional paper tucked away in some odd corner.


Well, I'm convinced that the Boarded up House mystery happened not earlier than april sixteenth, eighteen sixty one, and probably not much later.


The story of its evil influence came back to me, and in my bewildered condition I wondered whether there was not some truth in what had been said.


What then? A human hand, large and shapely, appeared distinctly on the surface of the pond.

Concord returned to its place amidst the tents.


Nothing more, not even the wrist to which it might be attached.

I am convinced of what I say," said the count.


It did not beckon, or indeed move at all; it was as still as the hand of death.


A feeling of freedom, and I was awake! Where?


said another voice, which I recognized as Voltaire's. "Kaffar?


I had scarcely known what I had been saying or doing up to this time, but as he spoke I looked at my hand.

Nothing more, not even the wrist to which it might be attached.


In the light of the moon I saw a knife red with blood, and my hand, too, was also discoloured.

You will be frank with me"? "I always am".


I say you do know what this means, and you must tell us".


I had again been acting under the influence of this man's power.

For some time after that I remembered nothing distinctly.


Perchance, too, Kaffar's death might serve him in good stead.

A terrible thought flashed into my mind.


My tongue refused to articulate; my power of speech left me.


Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension.

If spoken to, she would not speak again.


This outward mutability indicated, and did not more than fairly express, the various properties of her inner life.


Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.

Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world.


Pearl saw, and gazed intently, but never sought to make acquaintance.

In truth, she seemed absolutely hidden behind it.


So you will be a good girl, I know, and not make any trouble, but will stay at home contentedly - won't you?

said she, pointing to the playthings; "see!


This reality begins to explain the dark power and otherworldly fascination of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

A route slightly less direct, that's all.


Nemo builds a fabulous futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, then conducts an underwater campaign of vengeance against his imperialist oppressor.

of starting. I didn't know the way to come.


Other subtleties occur inside each episode, the textures sparkling with wit, information, and insight.

It is hardly necessary to say more of them here.


And in this last action he falls into the classic sin of Pride.


The Nautilus nearly perishes in the Antarctic and Nemo sinks into a growing depression.

I never knew of but one man who could ever please him.


I will endeavour, in my statement, to avoid such terms as would serve to limit the events to any particular place, or give a clue as to the people concerned.

There is no opening except the one pane," said our learned guide.


My friend's temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of Baker Street.

Well, well, don't trouble to answer. Listen, and see that I do you no injustice.


Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man.

One could hardly hope for any upon so dry a day.


I had to read it over carefully, as the text must be absolutely correct.

No names, please"! said Holmes, as we knocked at Gilchrist's door.


The moment I looked at my table, I was aware that someone had rummaged among my papers.

Suddenly he heard him at the very door. There was no possible escape.


The proof was in three long slips. I had left them all together.

A broken tip of lead was lying there also.


The alternative was that someone passing had observed the key in the door, had known that I was out, and had entered to look at the papers.

mister Soames was somewhat overwhelmed by this flood of information.


I gave him a little brandy and left him collapsed in a chair, while I made a most careful examination of the room.


Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it.

I really don't think he knew much about it, mister Holmes.


Above all things, I desire to settle the matter quietly and discreetly".

Above were three students, one on each story.


Did anyone know that these proofs would be there"? "No one save the printer".

How came you to leave the key in the door"?


I was in such a hurry to come to you". "You left your door open"?

On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay.


Then he approached it, and, standing on tiptoe with his neck craned, he looked into the room.

Holmes held it out on his open palm in the glare of the electric light.


You left him in a chair, you say. Which chair"? "By the window there".

If mister Soames saw them, the game was up.


As a matter of fact, he could not," said Soames, "for I entered by the side door".

When I approached your room, I examined the window.


How long would it take him to do that, using every possible contraction? A quarter of an hour, not less.


Holmes held out a small chip with the letters NN and a space of clear wood after them. "You see"?


Watson, I have always done you an injustice. There are others.


I was hoping that if the paper on which he wrote was thin, some trace of it might come through upon this polished surface. No, I see nothing.


As Holmes drew the curtain I was aware, from some little rigidity and alertness of his attitude, that he was prepared for an emergency.

The man entered and took the papers, sheet by sheet, from the central table.


Holmes turned away, and stooped suddenly to the floor. "Hello! What's this"?


What could he do? He caught up everything which would betray him, and he rushed into your bedroom to conceal himself".


I understand you to say that there are three students who use this stair, and are in the habit of passing your door"? "Yes, there are".


My scholar has been left very poor, but he is hard working and industrious. He will do well.

You left him in a chair, you say. Which chair"? "By the window there".


I dare not go so far as that. But, of the three, he is perhaps the least unlikely".

Why, Bannister, the servant. What's his game in the matter"?


He was still suffering from this sudden disturbance of the quiet routine of his life.


You haven't seen any of them"? "No, sir".


Yes, dead these four years, an' a good job for her, too.


Grandfather was Alexander Carey, L L. D., - Doctor of Laws, that is".


I swan to man"! he ejaculated. "If you don't work hard you can't keep up with the times! Doctor of Laws!

Again he searched his own thoughts; nor ineffectually as before.


He keeps the thou shalt not commandments first rate, Hen Lord does!

Is she not afraid that I will thwart her inclinations"?


He give up his position and shut the family up in that tomb of a house so 't he could study his books.


mister Popham exaggerated nothing, but on the contrary left much unsaid in his narrative of the family at the House of Lords.


Always irritable, cold, indifferent, he had grown rapidly more so as years went on.


Whatever appealed to her sense of beauty was straightway transferred to paper or canvas.

They couldn't run nor move; they're just pasteboard".


She makes effort after effort, trembling with eagerness, and when she fails to reproduce what she sees, she works herself into a frenzy of grief and disappointment".

exclaimed Bill Harmon to his wife as they went through the lighted hall.


When she could not make a rabbit or a bird look "real" on paper, she searched in her father's books for pictures of its bones.


Cyril, there must be some better way of doing; I just draw the outline of an animal and then I put hairs or feathers on it. They have no bodies.


He wouldn't search, so don't worry," replied Cyril quietly, and the two looked at each other and knew that it was so.

If she does not know how to estimate her own value, I do.


There, in the cedar hollow, then, lived Olive Lord, an angry, resentful, little creature weighed down by a fierce sense of injury.


Olive's mournful black eyes met Nancy's sparkling brown ones.


Nancy's curly chestnut crop shone in the sun, and Olive's thick black plaits looked blacker by contrast.


She's wonderful! More wonderful than anybody we've ever seen anywhere, and she draws better than the teacher in Charlestown!

To ask any more questions of you, I believe, would be unfair.


She's older than I am, but so tiny and sad and shy that she seems like a child.


We want you to help us publish some leading work of Luther's for the general American market. Will you do it"?

They said to the Galatians: "You have no right to think highly of Paul.


Let us begin with that: his Commentary on Galatians..".

This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.


The undertaking, which seemed so attractive when viewed as a literary task, proved a most difficult one, and at times became oppressive.

Was it not enough to say, "from God the Father"?


A word should now be said about the origin of Luther's Commentary on Galatians.

The most they could claim is that they were sent by others.


In other words, these three men took down the lectures which Luther addressed to his students in the course of Galatians, and Roerer prepared the manuscript for the printer.

He mentions the apostles first because they were appointed directly by God.


It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone.


The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do". LUKE two


But the windows are patched with wooden panes, and the door, I think, is like the gate it is never opened.

Cold, is it, my darling? Bless your sweet face"!


Several clothes horses, a pillion, a spinning wheel, and an old box wide open and stuffed full of coloured rags.


That's the way with you that's the road you'd all like to go, headlongs to ruin.

Oh, I've no doubt it's in capital order.


And there's linen in the house as I could well spare you, for I've got lots o' sheeting and table clothing, and towelling, as isn't made up.

Who taught you to scrub a floor, I should like to know?


Nay, dear aunt, you never heard me say that all people are called to forsake their work and their families.

She's going to put the ironing things away".


I've strong assurance that no evil will happen to you and my uncle and the children from anything I've done.

That's what you'd like to be doing, is it?


By this time the two gentlemen had reached the palings and had got down from their horses: it was plain they meant to come in.


said Captain Donnithorne, seating himself where he could see along the short passage to the open dairy door.

I often heard her talk of you in the same sort of way.


No, sir, he isn't; he's gone to Rosseter to see mister West, the factor, about the wool.


No, thank you; I'll just look at the whelps and leave a message about them with your shepherd.


I must come another day and see your husband; I want to have a consultation with him about horses.


At last the Cotton Combine was to all appearances an assured fact and he was slated for the Senate.

The lagoon had been level with the dykes a week ago; and now?


She was not herself a notably intelligent woman; she greatly admired intelligence or whatever looked to her like intelligence in others.

The squares of cotton, sharp edged, heavy, were just about to burst to bolls!


She was therefore most agreeably surprised to hear mister Cresswell express himself so cordially as approving of Negro education.


I believe in the training of people to their highest capacity". The Englishman here heartily seconded him.

She was so strange and human a creature.


But," Cresswell added significantly, "capacity differs enormously between races".

He knew the Silver Fleece - his and Zora's - must be ruined.


Positively heroic," added Cresswell, avoiding his sister's eyes.

Might learn something useful down there".


Fortunately," said mister Vanderpool, "Northerners and Southerners are arriving at a better mutual understanding on most of these matters".

Up in the sick room Zora lay on the little white bed.


Somehow, of all the days when the home feeling was the strongest, this day it seemed as if she could bear it no longer.

she asked impulsively, "I didn't believe you could persuade her, father".


Oh, she's always at the piano," said Van. "She must be there now, somewhere," and then somebody laughed.

At last he came out of them, and wiped his face vigorously.


At this, the bundle opened suddenly, and - out popped Phronsie!

Oh no, Jasper; I must go by my very own self".


But Polly couldn't speak; and if Jasper hadn't caught her just in time, she would have tumbled over backward from the stool, Phronsie and all!


Oh, you are the dearest and best mister King I ever saw! but how did you make mammy let her come"?


Isn't he splendid"! cried Jasper in intense pride, swelling up. "Father knew how to do it".

Now you'll stay," cried Van; "say, Polly, won't you".


There, there," he said soothingly, patting her brown, fuzzy head.

Don't mind it, Polly," whispered Jasper; "twasn't her fault".


I know," gasped Polly, controlling her sobs; "I won't - only - I can't thank you"!


asked Phronsie in intense interest slipping down out of Polly's arms, and crowding up close to Jasper's side.


Yes, all alone by himself," asserted Jasper, vehemently, and winking furiously to the others to stop their laughing; "he did now, truly, Phronsie".


Oh no, Jasper; I must go by my very own self".


There Jap, you've caught it," laughed Percy; while the others screamed at the sight of Jasper's face.


Don't mind it, Polly," whispered Jasper; "twasn't her fault".

asked Phronsie, with her little face close to Polly's own.


Dear me"! ejaculated the old gentleman, in the utmost amazement; "and such a time as I've had to get her here too"!


she asked impulsively, "I didn't believe you could persuade her, father".


I didn't have any fears, if I worked it rightly," said the old gentleman complacently.


he cried in high dudgeon; just as if he owned the whole of the Peppers, and could dispose of them all to suit his fancy!


And the old gentleman was so delighted with his success, that he had to burst out into a series of short, happy bits of laughter, that occupied quite a space of time.


She has a son, theft, and a daughter, hunger.


We have never understood this sort of objections.


Why should one not explore everything, and study everything?

Since when has malady banished medicine?


Now, when has horror ever excluded study?


Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang.


To meet the needs of this conflict, wretchedness has invented a language of combat, which is slang.


Do we really know the mountain well when we are not acquainted with the cavern?

And you belong to that small class who are happy!


True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.


Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.


There it clothes itself in word masks, in metaphor rags.


It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.


Each day has its own great grief or its little care.


This without reckoning in the pains of the heart. And so it goes on.


There is hardly one day out of a hundred which is wholly joyous and sunny.


In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, there are no fortunate.


The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady.


To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,-that is the object.

We have never understood this sort of objections.


That is why we cry: Education! science!


To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.


However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy.


People suffer in the light; excess burns.


To burn without ceasing to fly, therein lies the marvel of genius.


Then he rushed down stairs into the courtyard, shouting loudly for his soldiers and threatening to patch everybody in his dominions if the sailorman was not recaptured.

The goat's warlike spirit was roused by this successful attack.


Hold him fast, my men, and as soon as I've had my coffee and oatmeal I'll take him to the Room of the Great Knife and patch him".

But Captain Bill made no such attempt, knowing it would be useless.


I wouldn't mind a cup of coffee myself," said Captain Bill. "I've had considerable exercise this morning and I'm all ready for breakfast".

I had a notion it was you, mate, as saved me from the knife.


But Captain Bill made no such attempt, knowing it would be useless.

Mornin', girls; hope ye feel as well as ye look".


As soon as they entered the Room of the Great Knife the Boolooroo gave a yell of disappointment.


The Room of the Great Knife was high and big, and around it ran rows of benches for the spectators to sit upon.


Therefore her Majesty paid no attention to anyone and no one paid any attention to her.


Rich jewels of blue stones glittered upon their persons and the royal ladies were fully as gorgeous as they were haughty and overbearing.


Why, you said to fetch the first living creature we met, and that was this billygoat," replied the Captain, panting hard as he held fast to one of the goat's horns.


The idea of patching Captain Bill to a goat was vastly amusing to him, and the more he thought of it the more he roared with laughter.


At once the goat gave a leap, escaped from the soldiers and with bowed head rushed upon the Boolooroo.


The goat's warlike spirit was roused by this successful attack.


I couldn't shiver much, bein' bound so tight, but when I'm loose I mean to have jus' one good shiver to relieve my feelin's".


Come and get the Boolooroo," she said, going toward the benches.

That was but rustling of dripping plants in the dark.


The analysis of knowledge will occupy us until the end of the thirteenth lecture, and is the most difficult part of our whole enterprise.

And what sort of evidence is logically possible?


All that I am doing is to use its logical tenability as a help in the analysis of what occurs when we remember.

It is this that is of interest to theory of knowledge.


The behaviourist, who attempts to make psychology a record of behaviour, has to trust his memory in making the record.


Some images, like some sensations, feel very familiar, while others feel strange.

But I do not think such an inference is warranted.


I come now to the other characteristic which memory images must have in order to account for our knowledge of the past.


They must have some characteristic which makes us regard them as referring to more or less remote portions of the past.


There may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of "pastness," especially where immediate memory is concerned.


If we had retained the "subject" or "act" in knowledge, the whole problem of memory would have been comparatively simple.


Remembering has to be a present occurrence in some way resembling, or related to, what is remembered.


Some points may be taken as fixed, and such as any theory of memory must arrive at.

Familiarity is a feeling capable of degrees.


In this case, as in most others, what may be taken as certain in advance is rather vague.


The first of our vague but indubitable data is that there is knowledge of the past.


This distinction is vital to the understanding of memory. But it is not so easy to carry out in practice as it is to draw in theory.


The fact that a man can recite a poem does not show that he remembers any previous occasion on which he has recited or read it.


Semon's two books, mentioned in an earlier lecture, do not touch knowledge memory at all closely.


Thus no knowledge as to the past is to be derived from the feeling of familiarity alone.


This knowledge is memory in one sense, though in another it is not.


Della had a young sister named Maria, and a cousin whose name was Jane.


Now Delia contrived to obtain a great influence and ascendency over the minds of the children by means of these dolls.

With one jump Anders got out of his chair.


To give an idea of these conversations I will report one of them in full.

They were now playing with their dolls in the parlor.


You have come, Andella (Andella was the name of Jane's doll), to make Rosalie a visit.

said she, pointing to the playthings; "see!


I expect you have been a very good girl, Andella, since you were here last".


Then, turning to Jane, she asked, in a somewhat altered tone, "Has she been a good girl, Jane"?


Put these playthings all away quick, and carefully, and we will not let them know any thing about your leaving them out".


He began a confused complaint against the wizard, who had vanished behind the curtain on the left.

We will go out together to the bower; there is a way down to the court from my window.


He was like unto my father, in a way, and yet was not my father.


This was so sweet a lady, sir, and in some manner I do think she died.

Tis late; and I go myself within a short space.


Like as not, young master, though I am an old man".


Forthwith all ran to the opening of the tent to see what might be amiss; but Master Will, who peeped out first, needed no more than one glance.

Truly such a horse should be worth much in Nottingham Fair!


He gave way to the others very readily and retreated unperceived by the Squire and Mistress Fitzooth to the rear of the tent.


Before them fled the stroller and his three sons, capless and terrified.

At last all was quiet and black in the courtyard of Gamewell.


What is the tumult and rioting"? cried out the Squire, authoritatively, and he blew twice on a silver whistle which hung at his belt.

But then the picture was gone as quickly as it came".


Nay, we refused their request most politely, most noble," said the little stroller.

George Montfichet will never forget this day.


I could not see my boy injured, excellence, for but doing his duty as one of Cumberland's sons.

He was in deep converse with the clerk, and entered the hall holding him by the arm.


It is enough," said George Gamewell, sharply, and he turned upon the crowd.

Be not so foolish, friend," said Fitzooth, crossly.


Shame on you, citizens," cried he; "I blush for my fellows of Nottingham.

Come to me, men, here, here"! He raised his voice still louder.


Tis fine for you to talk, old man," answered the lean, sullen apprentice.

And Henry might return to England at any moment.


But I wrestled with this fellow and do know that he played unfairly in the second bout.


spoke the Squire, losing all patience; "and it was to you that I gave another purse in consolation!

enquired Robin, with his suspicions still upon him.


Come to me, men, here, here"! He raised his voice still louder.

If, for a whim, you beggar yourself, I cannot stay you.


The strollers took their part in it with hearty zest now that they had some chance of beating off their foes.

They regained their apartment, apparently without disturbing the household of Gamewell.


Robin and the little tumbler between them tried to force the Squire to stand back, and very valiantly did these two comport themselves.


Now, be silent, on your lives," he began; but the captured apprentice set up an instant shout.

Nottingham Castle was reached, and admittance was demanded.


He felt for and found the wizard's black cloth. The Squire was quite out of breath.

The Squire helped to thrust them all in and entered swiftly himself.


Thrusting open the proper entrance of the tent, Robin suddenly rushed forth with his burden, with a great shout.


Taking advantage of this, the Squire's few men redoubled their efforts, and, encouraged by Robin's and the little stroller's cries, fought their way to him.


What is your name, lording"? asked the little stroller, presently.


I like you, Will; you are the second Will that I have met and liked within two days; is there a sign in that"?

Robin entered the hut, dragging the unwilling esquire after him.


Friends," said Montfichet, faintly, to the wrestlers, "bear us escort so far as the Sheriff's house.

He was like unto my father, in a way, and yet was not my father.


Master Monceux, the Sheriff of Nottingham, was mightily put about when told of the rioting.

There was no chance to alter his sleeping room to one nearer to Gamewell's chamber.


Have your will, child, if the boy also wills it," Montfichet answered, feeling too ill to oppose anything very strongly just then.


He made an effort to hide his condition from them all, and Robin felt his fingers tighten upon his arm.

Montfichet called out for Robin to give him an arm.


He is my esquire, excellency," returned Robin, with dignity.

Save me, masters, but you startled me rarely"!


Mistress Fitzooth had been carried off by the Sheriff's daughter and her maids as soon as they had entered the house, so that Robin alone had the care of Montfichet.


These escapades are not for old Gamewell, lad; his day has come to twilight.


You are a worthy leech, Will," presently whispered Robin. "The wine has worked a marvel.


They informed the English parliament of this unexpected incident, and assured them that they had entered into no private treaty with the king.


Another preacher, after reproaching him to his face with his misgovernment, ordered this psalm to be sung:


The king stood up, and called for that psalm which begins with these words,


Have mercy, Lord, on me, I pray; For men would me devour".


The parliament and the Scots laid their proposals before the king.


His death, in this conjuncture, was a public misfortune.


It was a serious crime indeed, mister Watson told them, and Tom Gates bade fair to serve a lengthy term in state's prison as a consequence of his rash act.

Will you leave me alone in my own room, or must I go away to escape you"?


It was a deliberate theft from his employers to protect a girl he loved.

You're foolish. Why should you do all this"?


But they could not have proven a case against Lucy, if she was innocent, and all their threats of arresting her were probably mere bluff.

But under the circumstances I doubt if such an arrangement could be made".


He was soft hearted and impetuous," said Beth; "and, being in love, he didn't stop to count the cost".

It has cost me twice sixty dollars in annoyance".


If the prosecution were withdrawn and the case settled with the victim of the forged check, then the young man would be allowed his freedom.

We have heard something of your story," said Kenneth, "and are interested in it.


They were received in the little office by a man named Markham, who was the jailer.


I'm running for Representative on the Republican ticket," said Kenneth, quietly.

It was a deliberate theft from his employers to protect a girl he loved.


Oh, say! that's different," observed Markham, altering his demeanor.

He looked up rather ungraciously, but motioned them to be seated.


Sometimes I'm that yearning for a smoke I'm nearly crazy, an' I don't know which is worst, dying one way or another.


He unlocked the door, and called: "Here's visitors, Tom".


Sit down, please," said Gates, in a cheerful and pleasant voice. "There's a bench here".

She even seemed mildly amused at the attention she attracted.


A fresh, wholesome looking boy, was Tom Gates, with steady gray eyes, an intelligent forehead, but a sensitive, rather weak mouth.

I can't see it in that light," said the old lawyer.


We have heard something of your story," said Kenneth, "and are interested in it.

They were received in the little office by a man named Markham, who was the jailer.


I didn't stop to think whether it was foolish or not. I did it; and I'm glad I did".


Then Rogers wouldn't do anything but lead her around, and wait upon her, and the place went to rack and ruin".


He spoke simply, but paced up and down the narrow cell in front of them.

There was a grim smile of amusement on his shrewd face.


I was bookkeeper, so it was easy to get a blank check and forge the signature.

Oh, say! that's different," observed Markham, altering his demeanor.


As regards my robbing the company, I'll say that I saved them a heavy loss one day.


I discovered and put out a fire that would have destroyed the whole plant. But Marshall never even thanked me.


It was better for him to think the girl unfeeling than to know the truth.

Sorry we haven't any reception room in the jail.


I'm going to see mister Marshall," said Kenneth, "and discover what I can do to assist you". "Thank you, sir.


They left him then, for the jailer arrived to unlock the door, and escort them to the office.


He looked up rather ungraciously, but motioned them to be seated.

Worse, Tom; worse 'n ever," replied the jailer, gloomily.


Some girl has been here twice to interview my men and I have refused to admit her.


He detested the grasping disposition that would endeavor to take advantage of his evident desire to help young Gates.


He might have had that forged check for the face of it, if he'd been sharp.

We wish to talk with him," answered Kenneth. "Talk!


And to think we can save all that misery and despair by the payment of a hundred and fifty dollars!


But this subject will be more properly discussed when we treat of the different races of mankind.

As our boat flashed down the rollers into the water I made this song and sang it:


Other circumstances permitting, that instinct disposes men to look with favor upon productive efficiency and on whatever is of human use.

But the general distinction is not on that account to be overlooked.


The salient features of this development of domestic service have already been indicated.

There is a more or less elaborate system of rank and grades.


As used in the speech of everyday life the word carries an undertone of deprecation.


The use of the word "waste" as a technical term, therefore, implies no deprecation of the motives or of the ends sought by the consumer under this canon of conspicuous waste.


But it is, on other grounds, worth noting that the term "waste" in the language of everyday life implies deprecation of what is characterized as wasteful.

As used in the speech of everyday life the word carries an undertone of deprecation.


In strict accuracy nothing should be included under the head of conspicuous waste but such expenditure as is incurred on the ground of an invidious pecuniary comparison.


An article may be useful and wasteful both, and its utility to the consumer may be made up of use and waste in the most varying proportions.


Do you suppose that God for the sake of a few Lutheran heretics would disown His entire Church?

The world brands this a pernicious doctrine.


Against these boasting, false apostles, Paul boldly defends his apostolic authority and ministry.

We think that by some little work or merit we can dismiss sin.


Paul takes pride in his ministry, not to his own praise but to the praise of God.

Was it not enough to say, "from God the Father"?


Either He calls ministers through the agency of men, or He calls them directly as He called the prophets and apostles.

This should go far in shutting the mouths of the false apostles.


Paul declares that the false apostles were called or sent neither by men, nor by man.


He mentions the apostles first because they were appointed directly by God.


I knew nothing of the doctrine of faith because we were taught sophistry instead of certainty, and nobody understood spiritual boasting.

When I was a young man I thought Paul was making too much of his call.


These perverters of the righteousness of Christ resist the Father and the Son, and the works of them both.

and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.


By His resurrection Christ won the victory over law, sin, flesh, world, devil, death, hell, and every evil.

This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.


Although the brethren with me are not apostles like myself, yet they are all of one mind with me, think, write, and teach as I do".


They do not go where the enemies of the Gospel predominate. They go where the Christians are.

In every way they sought to undermine the authority of Saint Paul.


Why do they not invade the Catholic provinces and preach their doctrine to godless princes, bishops, and doctors, as we have done by the help of God?


We look for that reward which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man".


Wherever the means of grace are found, there is the Holy Church, even though Antichrist reigns there.


So much for the title of the epistle. Now follows the greeting of the apostle. VERSE three.


Grace be to you, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.


The terms of grace and peace are common terms with Paul and are now pretty well understood.


Grace involves the remission of sins, peace, and a happy conscience.

How may we obtain remission of our sins?


To do so is to lose God altogether because God becomes intolerable when we seek to measure and to comprehend His infinite majesty.

In this whole epistle Paul treats of the resurrection of Christ.


Did not Christ Himself say: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me"?


When you argue about the nature of God apart from the question of justification, you may be as profound as you like.

They said to the Galatians: "You have no right to think highly of Paul.


We are to hear Christ, who has been appointed by the Father as our divine Teacher.


At the same time, Paul confirms our creed, "that Christ is very God".


To bestow peace and grace lies in the province of God, who alone can create these blessings. The angels cannot.


Otherwise Paul should have written: "Grace from God the Father, and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ".

He never loses sight of the purpose of his epistle.


The Arians took Christ for a noble and perfect creature, superior even to the angels, because by Him God created heaven and earth.

The greeting of the Apostle is refreshing.


Not gold, or silver, or paschal lambs, or an angel, but Himself. What for?

The Word of our God shall stand forever.


Not for a crown, or a kingdom, or our goodness, but for our sins.


Underscore these words, for they are full of comfort for sore consciences.

Men Should Not Speculate About the Nature of God


Paul answers: "The man who is named Jesus Christ and the Son of God gave himself for our sins".


Since Christ was given for our sins it stands to reason that they cannot be put away by our own efforts.


This sentence also defines our sins as great, so great, in fact, that the whole world could not make amends for a single sin.


The greatness of the ransom, Christ, the Son of God, indicates this.


The vicious character of sin is brought out by the words "who gave himself for our sins".


This passage, then, bears out the fact that all men are sold under sin.


This attitude is universal and particularly developed in those who consider themselves better than others.


But the real significance and comfort of the words "for our sins" is lost upon them.


On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair.


Length of service: Fourteen years, three months, and five days.

Another circumstance was most remarkable.


He seemed born to please without being conscious of the power he possessed.

You will take me on board, count, will you not"?


It must be owned, and no one was more ready to confess it than himself, that his literary attainments were by no means of a high order.


Once, in action, he was leading a detachment of infantry through an intrenchment.

He seemed born to please without being conscious of the power he possessed.


No cathedral - not even Burgos itself - could vie with the church at Montmartre.

Steam up and canvas spread, the schooner started eastwards.


Socrates begins the Timaeus with a summary of the Republic.

Some poems of Solon were recited by the boys.


And now he desires to see the ideal State set in motion; he would like to know how she behaved in some great struggle.


I will, if Timaeus approves'. 'I approve.


And what was the subject of the poem'? said the person who made the remark.


The subject was a very noble one; he described the most famous action in which the Athenian people were ever engaged.


But the memory of their exploits has passed away owing to the lapse of time and the extinction of the actors.


Tell us,' said the other, 'the whole story, and where Solon heard the story.


But in Egypt the traditions of our own and other lands are by us registered for ever in our temples.


The genealogies which you have recited to us out of your own annals, Solon, are a mere children's story.


Solon marvelled, and desired to be informed of the particulars.


Nine thousand years have elapsed since she founded yours, and eight thousand since she founded ours, as our annals record.


Many laws exist among us which are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time.


I will briefly describe them to you, and you shall read the account of them at your leisure in the sacred registers.


Observe again, what care the law took in the pursuit of wisdom, searching out the deep things of the world, and applying them to the use of man.


The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis.


This is the explanation of the shallows which are found in that part of the Atlantic ocean.


But I would not speak at the time, because I wanted to refresh my memory.


It was the first great sorrow of his life; it was not so much the loss of the cotton itself - but the fantasy, the hopes, the dreams built around it.

The squares of cotton, sharp edged, heavy, were just about to burst to bolls!


The revelation of his love lighted and brightened slowly till it flamed like a sunrise over him and left him in burning wonder.


He panted to know if she, too, knew, or knew and cared not, or cared and knew not.


Then of a sudden, at midday, the sun shot out, hot and still; no breath of air stirred; the sky was like blue steel; the earth steamed.

She was so strange and human a creature.


He splashed and stamped along, farther and farther onward until he neared the rampart of the clearing, and put foot upon the tree bridge.

The lagoon had been level with the dykes a week ago; and now?


For one long moment he paused, stupid, agape with utter amazement, then leaned dizzily against a tree.

Better go," he had counselled, sententiously.


He sat down weak, bewildered, and one thought was uppermost - Zora!

Then he looked down. The lagoon was dry.


For a while she lay in her chair, in happy, dreamy pleasure at sun and bird and tree.

But you believe in some education"? asked Mary Taylor.


She rose with a fleeting glance, gathered the shawl round her, then gliding forward, wavering, tremulous, slipped across the road and into the swamp.


She had been born within its borders; within its borders she had lived and grown, and within its borders she had met her love.

The hope and dream of harvest was upon the land.


On she hurried until, sweeping down to the lagoon and the island, lo! the cotton lay before her!


He darted through the trees and paused, a tall man strongly but slimly made.

Some time you'll tell me, please, won't you"?


Rodolfo and his companions, with their faces muffled in their cloaks, stared rudely and insolently at the mother, the daughter, and the servant maid.

It is the only amends I ask of you for the wrong you have done me".


Finally, the one party went off exulting, and the other was left in desolation and woe.


Rodolfo arrived at his own house without any impediment, and Leocadia's parents reached theirs heart broken and despairing.


Meanwhile Rodolfo had Leocadia safe in his custody, and in his own apartment.


It is the only amends I ask of you for the wrong you have done me".

She found the door, but it was locked outside.


She succeeded in opening the window; and the moonlight shone in so brightly, that she could distinguish the colour of some damask hangings in the room.


She saw that the bed was gilded, and so rich, that it seemed that of a prince rather than of a private gentleman.


Among other things on which she cast her eyes was a small crucifix of solid silver, standing on a cabinet near the window.


On the contrary, he resolved to tell them, that repenting of his violence, and moved by her tears, he had only carried her half way towards his house, and then let her go.


Choking with emotion, Leocadi made a sign to her parents that she wished to be alone with them.


Thus did this humane and right minded father comfort his unhappy daughter; and her mother embracing her again did all she could to soothe her feelings.


One day, when the boy was sent by his grandfather with a message to a relation, he passed along a street in which there was a great concourse of horsemen.


The bed she too well remembered was there; and, above all, the cabinet, on which had stood the image she had taken away, was still on the same spot.


This truth which I have learned from her lips is confirmed by his face, in which we have both beheld that of our son".


Her bearing was graceful and animated; she led her son by the hand, and before her walked two maids with wax lights and silver candlesticks.


How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws"!

Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting"!


No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here!


It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying 'Come up again, dear!

At noon the violence of the storm redoubles.


I wish I hadn't cried so much"! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.

Two hours afterwards a terrible shock awoke me.


I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!

There's a whale, a whale"! cried the Professor.


cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended.

Those clouds seem as if they were going to crush the sea".


We won't talk about her any more if you'd rather not". "We indeed"!

I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse"!


The Paris plant, like that at the Crystal Palace, was a temporary exhibit.

There seems no good reason for believing that it will change.


Why, if we erect a station at the falls, it is a great economy to get it up to the city.

mister Edison was a leader far ahead of the time.


There seems no good reason for believing that it will change.

We had meters in which there were two bottles of liquid.


Everything he has done has been aimed at the conservation of energy, the contraction of space, the intensification of culture.


For some years it was not found feasible to operate motors on alternating current circuits, and that reason was often urged against it seriously.


He obtained the desired speed and load with a friction brake; also regulator of speed; but waited for an indicator to verify it.


But the plant ran, and it was the first three wire station in this country".


Edison held that the electricity sold must be measured just like gas or water, and he proceeded to develop a meter.


Hence the Edison electrolytic meter is no longer used, despite its excellent qualities.


The principle employed in the Edison electrolytic meter is that which exemplifies the power of electricity to decompose a chemical substance.


the others having been in operation too short a time to show definite results, although they also went quickly to a dividend basis.


He weighed and reweighed the meter plates, and pursued every line of investigation imaginable, but all in vain.


He felt he was up against it, and that perhaps another kind of a job would suit him better.


We were more interested in the technical condition of the station than in the commercial part.


I did not wrong myself so, but I placed A wrong on thee.


When called before, I told how hastily I dropped my flowers or brake off from a game.

And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more.


Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.


Open thy heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

But thou art not such A lover, my Beloved!


Could it mean To last, a love set pendulous between Sorrow and sorrow?


And, though I have grown serene And strong since then, I think that God has willed A still renewable fear...

Why a Tongue impressed with honey from every wind?


if he, to keep one oath, Must lose one joy, by his life's star foretold.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.


Slow to world greetings, quick with its "O, list," When the angels speak.


A ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight, Than that first kiss.


Dearest, teach me so To pour out gratitude, as thou dost, good!


Mussulmans and Giaours Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth For any weeping.


thou canst wait Through sorrow and sickness, to bring souls to touch, And think it soon when others cry "Too late".


I thank all who have loved me in their hearts, With thanks and love from mine.

And why it scatters its bright beauty thro the humid air.


I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.


I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.


To night there was no need of extra heat, and there were great ceremonies to be observed in lighting the fires on the hearthstones.

They couldn't run nor move; they're just pasteboard".


Kathleen waved the torch to and fro as she recited some beautiful lines written for some such purpose as that which called them together to night.


exclaimed Bill Harmon to his wife as they went through the lighted hall.


Mother Carey poured coffee, Nancy chocolate, and the others helped serve the sandwiches and cake, doughnuts and tarts.

To ask any more questions of you, I believe, would be unfair.


At that moment the gentleman entered, bearing a huge object concealed by a piece of green felt.

Again he searched his own thoughts; nor ineffectually as before.


Approaching the dining table, he carefully placed the article in the centre and removed the cloth.


He was such a big boy that he wore high boots and carried a jack knife.


Seeing that I am so fine, I may as well go and visit the King".

I am going to the court ball," answered Anders.


For, like as not, they must have thought him a prince when they saw his fine cap.


At the farther end of the largest hall a table was set with golden cups and golden plates in long rows.


On huge silver platters were pyramids of tarts and cakes, and red wine sparkled in glittering decanters.

With one jump Anders got out of his chair.


The Princess sat down under a blue canopy with bouquets of roses; and she let Anders sit in a golden chair by her side.

said she, pointing to the playthings; "see!


But you must not eat with your cap on your head," she said, and was going to take it off.

They were now playing with their dolls in the parlor.


That is a very fine cap you have," he said.


And it is made of mother's best yarn, and she knitted it herself, and everybody wants to get it away from me".


He darted like an arrow through all the halls, down all the stairs, and across the yard.


He still held on to it with both hands as he rushed into his mother's cottage.


And all his brothers and sisters stood round and listened with their mouths open.


But when his big brother heard that he had refused to give his cap for a King's golden crown, he said that Anders was a stupid.


If you dressed in silk and gold from top to toe, you could not look any nicer than in your little red cap".


The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince who indulged their passions and promoted their interest.

She poured into the dish a quantity from each of these bottles.


Well, mother," said the young student, looking up, with a shade of impatience.

Does thee think thee could stand it six months?


I heard father tell cousin Abner that he was whipped so often for whistling when he was a boy that he was determined to have what compensation he could get now".

Is thy father willing thee should go away to a school of the world's people"?


Thy ways greatly try me, Ruth, and all thy relations.


Is thy father willing thee should go away to a school of the world's people"?

You can begin by carrying a rod, and putting down the figures.


Margaret Bolton almost lost for a moment her habitual placidity.


And, besides, suppose thee does learn medicine"?


Ruth sat quite still for a time, with face intent and flushed. It was out now.


Is thee going to the Yearly Meeting, Ruth"? asked one of the girls.


It has occupied mother a long time, to find at the shops the exact shade for her new bonnet.

You'll never dig it out of the Astor Library".


It's such a crush at the Yearly Meeting at Arch Street, and then there's the row of sleek looking young men who line the curbstone and stare at us as we come out.

I've been ready to go anywhere for six months.


Father, thee's unjust to Philip. He's going into business".

He wanted to begin at the top of the ladder.


But Philip is honest, and he has talent enough, if he will stop scribbling, to make his way.

The sight seers returned in high spirits from the city.


Why should I rust, and be stupid, and sit in inaction because I am a girl?


And if I had a fortune, would thee want me to lead a useless life"?


Has thee consulted thy mother about a career, I suppose it is a career thee wants"?


But that wise and placid woman understood the sweet rebel a great deal better than Ruth understood herself.


Ruth was glad to hear that Philip had made a push into the world, and she was sure that his talent and courage would make a way for him.


It was this observation that drew from Douglas not immediately, but later in the evening a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention.

Yes, but that's just the beauty of her passion".


Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following.

cried the ladies whose departure had been fixed.


cried one of the women. He took no notice of her; he looked at me, but as if, instead of me, he saw what he spoke of.


There was a unanimous groan at this, and much reproach; after which, in his preoccupied way, he explained.

But was that all her reward"? one of the ladies asked.


I could write to my man and enclose the key; he could send down the packet as he finds it".


The others resented postponement, but it was just his scruples that charmed me.


To this his answer was prompt. "Oh, thank God, no"! "And is the record yours?


She was the most agreeable woman I've ever known in her position; she would have been worthy of any whatever.

She sent me the pages in question before she died".


It wasn't simply that she said so, but that I knew she hadn't. I was sure; I could see.


You'll easily judge why when you hear". "Because the thing had been such a scare"? He continued to fix me.


Well, if I don't know who she was in love with, I know who he was".


The first of these touches conveyed that the written statement took up the tale at a point after it had, in a manner, begun.


The awkward thing was that they had practically no other relations and that his own affairs took up all his time.


There were plenty of people to help, but of course the young lady who should go down as governess would be in supreme authority.

He quitted the fire and dropped back into his chair.


It sounded dull it sounded strange; and all the more so because of his main condition". "Which was-"?


But was that all her reward"? one of the ladies asked.


Saturday, august fifteenth. - The sea unbroken all round. No land in sight.


All my danger and sufferings were needed to strike a spark of human feeling out of him; but now that I am well his nature has resumed its sway.


You seem anxious, my uncle," I said, seeing him continually with his glass to his eye. "Anxious!

And yesterday things went on just as usual.


I am not complaining that the rate is slow, but that the sea is so wide".

There's a whale, a whale"! cried the Professor.


We are losing time, and the fact is, I have not come all this way to take a little sail upon a pond on a raft".

At noon the violence of the storm redoubles.


He called this sea a pond, and our long voyage, taking a little sail!


I take this as my answer, and I leave the Professor to bite his lips with impatience.

Two hours afterwards a terrible shock awoke me.


Nothing new. Weather unchanged. The wind freshens.


The shadow of the raft was clearly outlined upon the surface of the waves.


It must be as wide as the Mediterranean or the Atlantic - and why not?

I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse"!


These thoughts agitated me all day, and my imagination scarcely calmed down after several hours' sleep.


I saw at the Hamburg museum the skeleton of one of these creatures thirty feet in length.

I wonder if I've been changed in the night?


The raft was heaved up on a watery mountain and pitched down again, at a distance of twenty fathoms.

Those clouds seem as if they were going to crush the sea".


Flight was out of the question now. The reptiles rose; they wheeled around our little raft with a rapidity greater than that of express trains.


Two monsters only were creating all this commotion; and before my eyes are two reptiles of the primitive world.

Each of us is lashed to some part of the raft.


I can distinguish the eye of the ichthyosaurus glowing like a red hot coal, and as large as a man's head.


Those huge creatures attacked each other with the greatest animosity.


Suddenly the ichthyosaurus and the plesiosaurus disappear below, leaving a whirlpool eddying in the water.


As for the ichthyosaurus - has he returned to his submarine cavern?

They seem to be 'We are lost'; but I am not sure.


And often has my mother said, While on her lap I laid my head, She feared for time I was not made, But for Eternity.

On august twenty seventh, eighteen thirty seven, she writes:


Surely, it must be because we are in danger of loving each other too well - of losing sight of the Creator in idolatry of the creature.

Come, come. I am getting really tired of your absence.


She, a Tory and clergyman's daughter, was always in a minority of one in our house of violent Dissent and Radicalism.

This decision was communicated to the girls.


Her feeble health gave her her yielding manner, for she could never oppose any one without gathering up all her strength for the struggle.

She had another weight on her mind this Christmas.


He spoke French perfectly, I have been told, when need was; but delighted usually in talking the broadest Yorkshire.


I am not depreciating it when I say that in these times it is not rare.


But it is not with a view to distinction that you should cultivate this talent, if you consult your own happiness.


You will say that a woman has no need of such a caution; there can be no peril in it for her.


The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.


To those duties you have not yet been called, and when you are you will be less eager for celebrity.


I had not ventured to hope for such a reply; so considerate in its tone, so noble in its spirit.

We used to dispute about politics and religion.


I know the first letter I wrote to you was all senseless trash from beginning to end; but I am not altogether the idle dreaming being it would seem to denote.

I doubt whether Branwell was maintaining himself at this time.


I thought it therefore my duty, when I left school, to become a governess.


In the evenings, I confess, I do think, but I never trouble any one else with my thoughts.


I carefully avoid any appearance of preoccupation and eccentricity, which might lead those I live amongst to suspect the nature of my pursuits.


Again I thank you. This incident, I suppose, will be renewed no more; if I live to be an old woman, I shall remember it thirty years hence as a bright dream.

in this monotonous life of mine, that was a pleasant event.


I cannot deny myself the gratification of inserting Southey's reply:


Your letter has given me great pleasure, and I should not forgive myself if I did not tell you so.


Of this second letter, also, she spoke, and told me that it contained an invitation for her to go and see the poet if ever she visited the Lakes.


Saturday after Saturday comes round, and I can have no hope of hearing your knock at the door, and then being told that 'Miss E. is come'. Oh, dear!

I thought it therefore my duty, when I left school, to become a governess.


I wish it would recur again; but it will take two or three interviews before the stiffness - the estrangement of this long separation - will wear away".


Indeed, there were only one or two strangers who could be admitted among the sisters without producing the same result.


After this disappointment, I never dare reckon with certainty on the enjoyment of a pleasure again; it seems as if some fatality stood between you and me.


I am not good enough for you, and you must be kept from the contamination of too intimate society.

Why are we to be denied each other's society?


Tabby had lived with them for ten or twelve years, and was, as Charlotte expressed it, "one of the family".


He refused at first to listen to the careful advice; it was repugnant to his liberal nature.


Tabby had tended them in their childhood; they, and none other, should tend her in her infirmity and age.


At tea time, they were sad and silent, and the meal went away untouched by any of the three.


Stung by anxiety for this little sister, she upbraided Miss W -- for her fancied indifference to Anne's state of health.


It is such a noble ambition, that it is a pity it has usually such a shallow foundation.

He wanted to begin at the top of the ladder.


Philip therefore read diligently in the Astor library, planned literary works that should compel attention, and nursed his genius.

Does thee think thee could stand it six months?


But Philip did afford it, and he wrote, thanking his friends, and declining because he said the political scheme would fail, and ought to fail.

I've been ready to go anywhere for six months.


And he went back to his books and to his waiting for an opening large enough for his dignified entrance into the literary world.


Well, I'm going as an engineer. You can go as one".


The two young men who were by this time full of the adventure, went down to the Wall street office of Henry's uncle and had a talk with that wily operator.


The night was spent in packing up and writing letters, for Philip would not take such an important step without informing his friends.

You can begin by carrying a rod, and putting down the figures.


Why, it's in Missouri somewhere, on the frontier I think. We'll get a map".

He was unable to decide exactly what it should be.


He knew his uncle would be glad to hear that he had at last turned his thoughts to a practical matter.


He well knew the perils of the frontier, the savage state of society, the lurking Indians and the dangers of fever.


He wore blue silk stockings, blue knee pants with gold buckles, a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue braided with gold.

I now use them as ornamental statuary in my garden.


His hat had a peaked crown and a flat brim, and around the brim was a row of tiny golden bells that tinkled when he moved.

She poured into the dish a quantity from each of these bottles.


Instead of shoes, the old man wore boots with turnover tops and his blue coat had wide cuffs of gold braid.


For a long time he had wished to explore the beautiful Land of Oz in which they lived.

When they were outside, Unc simply latched the door and started up the path.


When they were outside, Unc simply latched the door and started up the path.

Ojo had never eaten such a fine meal in all his life.


No one would disturb their little house, even if anyone came so far into the thick forest while they were gone.

The head of the Patchwork Girl was the most curious part of her.


At the foot of the mountain that separated the Country of the Munchkins from the Country of the Gillikins, the path divided.


He knew it would take them to the house of the Crooked Magician, whom he had never seen but who was their nearest neighbor.


Then they started on again and two hours later came in sight of the house of doctor Pipt.


Unc knocked at the door of the house and a chubby, pleasant faced woman, dressed all in blue, opened it and greeted the visitors with a smile.


I am, my dear, and all strangers are welcome to my home".


We have come from a far lonelier place than this". "A lonelier place!

I am, my dear, and all strangers are welcome to my home".


We are traveling," replied Ojo, "and we stopped at your house just to rest and refresh ourselves.

I'm afraid I don't know much about the Land of Oz.


The first lot we tested on our Glass Cat, which not only began to live but has lived ever since.


I think the next Glass Cat the Magician makes will have neither brains nor heart, for then it will not object to catching mice and may prove of some use to us".


You see, I've lived all my life with Unc Nunkie, the Silent One, and there was no one to tell me anything".


That is one reason you are Ojo the Unlucky," said the woman, in a sympathetic tone.


I think I must show you my Patchwork Girl," said Margolotte, laughing at the boy's astonishment, "for she is rather difficult to explain.


But first I will tell you that for many years I have longed for a servant to help me with the housework and to cook the meals and wash the dishes.


A bed quilt made of patches of different kinds and colors of cloth, all neatly sewed together.


Sometimes it is called a 'crazy quilt,' because the patches and colors are so mixed up.


At the Emerald City, where our Princess Ozma lives, green is the popular color.


I will show you what a good job I did," and she went to a tall cupboard and threw open the doors.


The utility of consumption as an evidence of wealth is to be classed as a derivative growth.

The livery becomes obnoxious to nearly all who are required to wear it.


In the nature of things, luxuries and the comforts of life belong to the leisure class.


Under the tabu, certain victuals, and more particularly certain beverages, are strictly reserved for the use of the superior class.


The consumption of luxuries, in the true sense, is a consumption directed to the comfort of the consumer himself, and is, therefore, a mark of the master.


This differentiation is furthered by the inheritance of wealth and the consequent inheritance of gentility.

There is a more or less elaborate system of rank and grades.


So many of them, however, as make up the retainer and hangers on of the patron may be classed as vicarious consumer without qualification.


The wearing of uniforms or liveries implies a considerable degree of dependence, and may even be said to be a mark of servitude, real or ostensible.

But the general distinction is not on that account to be overlooked.


The wearers of uniforms and liveries may be roughly divided into two classes the free and the servile, or the noble and the ignoble.


The livery becomes obnoxious to nearly all who are required to wear it.


THREE SECONDS before the arrival of JB Hobson's letter, I no more dreamed of chasing the unicorn than of trying for the Northwest Passage.

He worked me very hard; he wanted to be beating me all the time".


Even so, I had just returned from an arduous journey, exhausted and badly needing a rest.

of starting. I didn't know the way to come.


I wanted nothing more than to see my country again, my friends, my modest quarters by the Botanical Gardens, my dearly beloved collections!

A route slightly less direct, that's all.


From rubbing shoulders with scientists in our little universe by the Botanical Gardens, the boy had come to know a thing or two.

We have a commander who's game for anything"!


Not once did he comment on the length or the hardships of a journey.


Never did he object to buckling up his suitcase for any country whatever, China or the Congo, no matter how far off it was.

I never knew of but one man who could ever please him.


Please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting I had turned forty.

He went here, there, and everywhere in perfect contentment.


He was a fanatic on formality, and he only addressed me in the third person to the point where it got tiresome.

As usual nothing was done in the way of punishment".


There was good reason to stop and think, even for the world's most emotionless man.


Conseil"! I called a third time. Conseil appeared.


Pack as much into my trunk as you can, my traveling kit, my suits, shirts, and socks, don't bother counting, just squeeze it all in and hurry"!


Anyhow, we'll leave instructions to ship the whole menagerie to France".

But much of the novel's brooding power comes from Captain Nemo.


Yes, we are... certainly...," I replied evasively, "but after we make a detour".

It is hardly necessary to say more of them here.


You see, my friend, it's an issue of the monster, the notorious narwhale.


I left instructions for shipping my containers of stuffed animals and dried plants to Paris, France.


I opened a line of credit sufficient to cover the babirusa and, Conseil at my heels, I jumped into a carriage.

We'll be quite comfortable here," I told Conseil.


Our baggage was immediately carried to the deck of the frigate. I rushed aboard.


One of the sailors led me to the afterdeck, where I stood in the presence of a smart looking officer who extended his hand to me.


In person. Welcome aboard, professor. Your cabin is waiting for you".


I was well satisfied with my cabin, which was located in the stern and opened into the officers' mess.


The wharves of Brooklyn, and every part of New York bordering the East River, were crowded with curiosity seekers.

Not once did he comment on the length or the hardships of a journey.


Upon this Madame deigned to turn her eyes languishingly towards the comte, observing.

The arrow pierced his heart and wounded him mortally.


Yes; the character which your royal highness assumed is in perfect harmony with your own".

Do you think so"? she replied with indifference.


She then rose, humming the air to which she was presently going to dance.

The ballet began; the effect was more than beautiful.


The arrow pierced his heart and wounded him mortally.


When she perceived the young man, she rose, like a woman surprised in the midst of ideas she was desirous of concealing from herself.


I remember now, and I congratulate myself. Do you love any one"?


There cannot be a doubt he received you kindly, for, in fact, you returned without his permission".

I have been here this quarter of an hour," replied La Valliere.


Oh! mademoiselle, why have I not a devoted sister, or a true friend, such as yourself"?

Your majesty's plan, then, in this affair, is


Look yonder, do you not see the moon slowly rising, silvering the topmost branches of the chestnuts and the oaks.


exquisite soft turf of the woods, the happiness which your friendship confers upon me!


Quick, quick, then, among the high reed grass," said Montalais; "stoop, Athenais, you are so tall".


The young girls had, indeed, made themselves small - indeed invisible.


Yes; but perhaps I frightened her". "In what way"?


Good gracious! has the king any right to interfere in matters of that kind?


Oh! I am speaking seriously," replied Montalais, "and my opinion in this case is quite as good as the king's, I suppose; is it not, Louise"?


So I return rebuked to my content, And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.


Like the doves voice, like transient day, like music in the air: Ah!

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.


And gentle sleep the sleep of death, and gently hear the voice Of him that walketh in the garden in the evening time.

Why should the mistress of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.


Why should the mistress of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.

Why a Tongue impressed with honey from every wind?


She ceasd and smiled in tears, then sat down in her silver shrine.

But thou art not such A lover, my Beloved!


And why it scatters its bright beauty thro the humid air.

And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more.


Descend O little cloud and hover before the eyes of Thel.


I pass away, yet I complain, and no one hears my voice.


The Cloud then shewd his golden head and his bright form emerged.

And why it scatters its bright beauty thro the humid air.


And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more.


Till we arise linked in a golden band and never part: But walk united bearing food to all our tender flowers.


Come forth worm and the silent valley, to thy pensive queen.


The helpless worm arose and sat upon the Lillys leaf, And the bright Cloud saild on, to find his partner in the vale.


I see they lay helpless and naked: weeping And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.


And says; Thou mother of my children, I have loved thee And I have given thee a crown that none can take away.


And lay me down in thy cold bed, and leave my shining lot.


Or an Eye of gifts and graces showring fruits and coined gold!


Why an Ear, a whirlpool fierce to draw creations in?


He had preconceived ideas about everything, and his idea about Americans was that they should be engineers or mechanics.

It's been on only two weeks, and I've been half a dozen times already.


Irene Burgoyne, one of her family, told me in confidence that there was a romance somewhere back in the beginning.

I felt it in my bones when I woke this morning that something splendid was going to turn up.


Mainhall vouched for her constancy with a loftiness that made Alexander smile, even while a kind of rapid excitement was tingling through him.

She saves her hand, too. She's at her best in the second act.


Do you know, I thought the dance a bit conscious to night, for the first time.

It's not particularly rare," she said, "but some of it was my mother's.


Westmere and I were back after the first act, and we thought she seemed quite uncertain of herself.

Lamb wouldn't care a great deal about many of them, I fancy".


She considered a moment and then said "No, I think not, though I am glad you ask me.

For a long time neither Hilda nor Bartley spoke.


Of course," he reflected, "she always had that combination of something homely and sensible, and something utterly wild and daft.

We've tortured each other enough for tonight.


Hilda was very nice to him, and he sat on the edge of his chair, flushed with his conversational efforts and moving his chin about nervously over his high collar.


They asked him to come to see them in Chelsea, and they spoke very tenderly of Hilda.


When Bartley arrived at Bedford Square on Sunday evening, Marie, the pretty little French girl, met him at the door and conducted him upstairs.


I should never have asked you if Molly had been here, for I remember you don't like English cookery".

But why didn't you tell me when you were here in the summer"?


I haven't had a chance yet to tell you what a jolly little place I think this is.

He felt a tremor run through the slender yellow figure in front of him.


I've managed to save something every year, and that with helping my three sisters now and then, and tiding poor Cousin Mike over bad seasons.


It's not particularly rare," she said, "but some of it was my mother's.

Do you know, I thought the dance a bit conscious to night, for the first time.


Don't I, though! I'm so sorry to hear it. How did her son turn out?

Mainhall liked Alexander because he was an engineer.


Her hair is still like flax, and her blue eyes are just like a baby's, and she has the same three freckles on her little nose, and talks about going back to her bains de mer".


What she wanted from us was neither our flowers nor our francs, but just our youth.

He pulled up a window as if the air were heavy.


They were both remembering what the woman had said when she took the money: "God give you a happy love"!


The strange woman, and her passionate sentence that rang out so sharply, had frightened them both.

Thank you. But I don't like it so well as this".


Bartley started when Hilda rang the little bell beside her. "Dear me, why did you do that?

I shouldn't wonder if she could laugh about it with me now.


It was very jolly," he murmured lazily, as Marie came in to take away the coffee.

Sir Harry Towne, mister Bartley Alexander, the American engineer".


Nonsense. Of course I can't really sing, except the way my mother and grandmother did before me.


He stood a little behind her, and tried to steady himself as he said: "It's soft and misty. See how white the stars are".

There is nothing else that looks so jolly".


Bartley leaned over her shoulder, without touching her, and whispered in her ear: "You are giving me a chance"? "Yes.

I say, Sir Harry, the little girl's going famously to night, isn't she"?


They unite every quality; and sometimes you will find me referring to them as colorists, sometimes as chiaroscurists.


It is the head of a parrot with a little flower in his beak from a picture of Carpaccio's, one of his series of the Life of Saint George.

There's one, and there's another - the "Dudley" and the "Flint".


But in this vignette, copied from Turner, you have the two principles brought out perfectly.


Do not, therefore, think that the Gothic school is an easy one.

The crampness and the poverty are all intended.


That a style is restrained or severe does not mean that it is also erroneous.


You must look at him in the face - fight him - conquer him with what scathe you may: you need not think to keep out of the way of him.

Do not, therefore, think that the Gothic school is an easy one.


You know I have just been telling you how this school of materialism and clay involved itself at last in cloud and fire.


There's one, and there's another - the "Dudley" and the "Flint".


Every plant in the grass is set formally, grows perfectly, and may be realized completely.


In both these high mythical subjects the surrounding nature, though suffering, is still dignified and beautiful.


But now here is a subject of which you will wonder at first why Turner drew it at all.


It has no beauty whatsoever, no specialty of picturesqueness; and all its lines are cramped and poor.


See that your lives be in nothing worse than a boy's climbing for his entangled kite.


That summer's emigration, however, being mainly from the free States, greatly changed the relative strength of the two parties.

The bogus Legislature numbered thirty six members.


This was a formidable array of advantages; slavery was playing with loaded dice.

To their sorrow they were soon undeceived.


Of the lynchings, the mobs, and the murders, it would be impossible, except in a very extended work, to note the frequent and atrocious details.

It was, in fact, the best weapon of its day.


Several hundred free State men promptly responded to the summons.


The leaders of the conspiracy became distrustful of their power to crush the town.


But the affair was magnified as a crowning proof that the free State men were insurrectionists and outlaws.

This was at the March election, eighteen fifty five.


Their distinctive characters, however, display one broad and unfailing difference.


Their assumed character changed with their changing opportunities or necessities.


Private persons who had leased the Free State Hotel vainly besought the various authorities to prevent the destruction of their property.


Ten days were consumed in these negotiations; but the spirit of vengeance refused to yield.


He summoned half a dozen citizens to join his posse, who followed, obeyed, and assisted him.


He continued his pretended search and, to give color to his errand, made two arrests.


As he had promised to protect the hotel, the reassured citizens began to laugh at their own fears.


The military force, partly rabble, partly organized, had meanwhile moved into the town.


He planted a company before the hotel, and demanded a surrender of the arms belonging to the free- State military companies.

Several hundred free State men promptly responded to the summons.


Atchison, who had been haranguing the mob, planted his two guns before the building and trained them upon it.


The inmates being removed, at the appointed hour a few cannon balls were fired through the stone walls.


Captain Martin said: 'I shall give you a pistol to help protect yourself if worse comes to worst!


In a general way, though not wholly nor consistently, these two groups coincide.

The livery becomes obnoxious to nearly all who are required to wear it.


But as we descend the social scale, the point is presently reached where the duties of vicarious leisure and consumption devolve upon the wife alone.

There is a more or less elaborate system of rank and grades.


In the communities of the Western culture, this point is at present found among the lower middle class.


Very much of squalor and discomfort will be endured before the last trinket or the last pretense of pecuniary decency is put away.

But the general distinction is not on that account to be overlooked.


There is no class and no country that has yielded so abjectly before the pressure of physical want as to deny themselves all gratification of this higher or spiritual need.


The question is, which of the two methods will most effectively reach the persons whose convictions it is desired to affect.


Each will therefore serve about equally well during the earlier stages of social growth.


The modern organization of industry works in the same direction also by another line.


It is evident, therefore, that the present trend of the development is in the direction of heightening the utility of conspicuous consumption as compared with leisure.

As used in the speech of everyday life the word carries an undertone of deprecation.


Consumption becomes a larger element in the standard of living in the city than in the country.


The result is a great mobility of the labor employed in printing; perhaps greater than in any other equally well defined and considerable body of workmen.


The weather - if we may use that term - will change before long.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know.


The atmosphere is charged with vapours, pervaded with the electricity generated by the evaporation of saline waters.

Each of us is lashed to some part of the raft.


The electric light can scarcely penetrate through the dense curtain which has dropped over the theatre on which the battle of the elements is about to be waged.

Those clouds seem as if they were going to crush the sea".


The air is heavy; the sea is calm.


The atmosphere is evidently charged and surcharged with electricity.

And yesterday things went on just as usual.


There's a heavy storm coming on," I cried, pointing towards the horizon.


But if we have now ceased to advance why do we yet leave that sail loose, which at the first shock of the tempest may capsize us in a moment?

I wonder if I've been changed in the night?


I refer to the thermometer; it indicates... (the figure is obliterated).

At noon the violence of the storm redoubles.


Is the atmospheric condition, having once reached this density, to become final?


A suffocating smell of nitrogen fills the air, it enters the throat, it fills the lungs.


I remained there alone for many hours, but I must acknowledge that before I left the chambers I had gradually brought myself to look at the matter in another light.

When do you intend that the John Bright shall start"?


On arriving at home at my own residence, I found that our salon was filled with a brilliant company.

And the death of which I dreamt could not, alas!


We have our little struggles here as elsewhere, and all things cannot be done by rose water.


We are quite satisfied now, Captain Battleax," said my wife.


No doubt, in process of time the ladies will follow

Lieutenant Crosstrees is a very gallant officer.


I did not mean," said Captain Battleax, "to touch upon public subjects at such a moment as this.

What could I do now but just lay myself down and die?


Jack had been standing in the far corner of the room talking to Eva, and was now reduced to silence by his praises.

One of us always remains on board while the other is on shore.


Sir Kennington Oval is a very fine player," said my wife.


I and my wife and son, and the two Craswellers, and three or four others, agreed to dine on board the ship on the next.

Sir Kennington Oval is a very fine player," said my wife.


My wife, on the spur of the moment, managed to give the gentlemen a very good dinner.


This, she said, was true hospitality; and I am not sure that I did not agree with her.


Then there were three or four leading men of the community, with their wives, who were for the most part the fathers and mothers of the young ladies.


We sat with the officers some little time after dinner, and then went ashore.


How much of evil, - of real accomplished evil, - had there not occurred to me during the last few days!

But what is the delicate mission"? I asked.


Jack would become Eva's happy husband, and would remain amidst the hurried duties of the eager world.


You have received us with all that courtesy and hospitality for which your character in England stands so high.


But your power is so superior to any that I can advance, as to make us here feel that there is no disgrace in yielding to it.


Not a doubt but had your force been only double or treble our own, I should have found it my duty to struggle with you.


You have come to us threatening us with absolute destruction.


I can assure you he has not even allowed me to see the trigger since I have been on board.


Then," said Sir Ferdinando, "there is nothing for it but that he must take you with him".


There came upon me a sudden shock when I heard these words, which exceeded anything which I had yet felt.


I was to be taken away and carried to England or elsewhere, - or drowned upon the voyage, it mattered not which.


You may be quite sure it's there," said Captain Battleax, "and that I can so use it as to half obliterate your town within two minutes of my return on board".


Lieutenant Crosstrees is a very gallant officer.


You will allow me to suggest," said he, "that that is a matter of opinion.

What would become of your gun were I to kidnap you"?


Were I to comply with your orders without expressing my own opinion, I should seem to have done so willingly hereafter.


SIR, - I have it in command to inform your Excellency that you have been appointed Governor of the Crown colony which is called Britannula.


The peculiar circumstances of the colony are within your Excellency's knowledge.


It is founded on the acknowledged weakness of those who survive that period of life at which men cease to work.


But it is surmised that you will find difficulties in the way of your entering at once upon your government.

And I have no one ready to whom I can give up the archives of the Government".


The John Bright is armed with a weapon of great power, against which it is impossible that the people of Britannula should prevail.


If you will give us your promise to meet Captain Battleaxe here at this time tomorrow, we will stretch a point and delay the departure of the John Bright for twenty four hours".


And this plan was adopted, too, in order to extract from me a promise that I would depart in peace.


The "weak kneed" contingency must be strengthened and fortified, and a couple of hundred votes in one way or another secured from the opposition.

And he deserves a term in state's prison".


The Democratic Committee figured out a way to do this.

He unlocked the door, and called: "Here's visitors, Tom".


Under ordinary conditions Reynolds was sure to be elected, but the Committee proposed to sacrifice him in order to elect Hopkins.

They followed the jailer along a succession of passages.


The only thing necessary was to "fix" Seth Reynolds, and this Hopkins arranged personally.


And this was why Kenneth and Beth discovered him conversing with the young woman in the buggy.

Oh, say! that's different," observed Markham, altering his demeanor.


These women were flattered by the attention of the young lady and had promised to assist in electing mister Forbes.

He looked up rather ungraciously, but motioned them to be seated.


The Fairview band was engaged to discourse as much harmony as it could produce, and the resources of the great house were taxed to entertain the guests.

There was a grim smile of amusement on his shrewd face.


Tables were spread on the lawn and a dainty but substantial repast was to be served.


We ought to have more attendants, Beth," said Louise, approaching her cousin.

He is supposed to sign all the checks of the concern.


Won't you run into the house and see if Martha can't spare one or two more maids"?

It was better for him to think the girl unfeeling than to know the truth.


She was very fond of the young ladies, whom she had known when Aunt Jane was the mistress here, and Beth was her especial favorite.

It won't be much, but I'm grateful to find a friend.


For a moment Beth stood staring, while the new maid regarded her with composure and a slight smile upon her beautiful face.


She was dressed in the regulation costume of the maids at Elmhurst, a plain black gown with white apron and cap.


Then she gave a little laugh, and replied: "No, Miss Beth. I'm Elizabeth Parsons".

I attend to the household mending, you know, and care for the linen.


You speak like an educated person," said Beth, wonderingly. "Where is your home"?


For the first time the maid seemed a little confused, and her gaze wandered from the face of her visitor.

Will you leave me alone in my own room, or must I go away to escape you"?


She sat down in a rocking chair, and clasping her hands in her lap, rocked slowly back and forth. "I'm sorry," said Beth.


They - they excite me, in some way, and I - I can't bear them. You must excuse me".


Beth was a beautiful girl - the handsomest of the three cousins, by far; yet Eliza surpassed her in natural charm, and seemed well aware of the fact.


Her manner was neither independent nor assertive, but rather one of well bred composure and calm reliance.

It was a deliberate theft from his employers to protect a girl he loved.


However her features and form might repress any evidence of nervousness, these hands told a different story.

I can't see it in that light," said the old lawyer.


She rose quickly to her feet, with an impetuous gesture that made her visitor catch her breath.

I wish I knew myself," she cried, fiercely.