...et the impact of this sane reminder settle. "This bus is bursting. The driver skipped a few stations on the way" – I remind them – "She is smack ami... ...he dead countenance of the introspective. We tiptoed around her and soothingly vilified her former husband to her face. At first, she clung to life... ...e spent most of her time, often napping, in between shifts, in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on a... ... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ...ng branches, hills vaporising into mist. I circumvented them, resting on soggy benches, the stations of my pilgrimage. The lake and road diverged a... ...be. I did it in elevators and on standpipes, around hedges, and in our pristine rooms – my former wife's and mine. Long ago, I passed urine in an ... ...d Mayer are always in the throes of some conspiracy and I stay in the room, deterred by the metropolitan expanse, leafing through an illustrated Fre... ...resced, abandoned boulevards, awash with rustling leaves. A car or two speeds by, the metro stations gargle. Madeleine's numb face is ravaged by the...

...view; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason with the sea, or a railway train, as in such a case with an editor; and, as it makes no differ... ...ive my vote (and, if I had a thousand votes, to give all my votes) for the former. Fresh from such a training as this, and at a time when his addition... ...” I settled that, henceforwards, it must go through the post office. In my former captures, there had been nothing special or worthy of commemoration ... ...at an abstract desire of kicking seized him always after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Q... ...osts in the neighborhood of Killala, and could be descried from el- evated stations in that town. Stories travelled simultaneously to Killala, every h... ...ndividual hotel, apparently far from being the most conspicuous, viz., the Metropolitan, reputed to have “more than twelve miles of water and gas pipe... ...r public exhibition, she made us both fully sensible of the very equitable stations which she assigned to us in her regard. She was neither very brill...

...h this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Profess... ...ely. “It might be Titanophorbia, you know. Food of Titans…. You prefer the former? “You’re quite sure you don’t think it a little too—” 8 The Food of... ...’t put- ting on weight… desperately anxious.—Winkles, a frightful duffer … former pupil of mine … no good…. Mrs. Red- wood—unmitigated confidence in W... ...iffness of his arm. He wished some of those confounded armchair critics of railway management could have seen it. IV IV IV IV IV By five o’clock that ... ...e most careful inquiries yield trustworthy evidence of only six within the Metropolitan area at that time. It would seem the stuff acted differently u... ...e Thursley Hanger he could get a glimpse of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, but ploughed fields and a suspicious hamlet pre- vented his nearer... ... little while he understood. He was often to be seen in those days, by the railway passengers, sitting, chin on knees, perched up on the Down hard by ... ...larger houses of the petty great, flower-grown railway banks, gar- den-set stations, and all the little things of the vanished nine- teenth century st...

...e I shall see her next week.” And Mrs. Touchett’s husband slowly resumed his former posture. “Before that,” said Miss Archer. “She’s coming down to di... ...ndeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her deep chagrin... ...ravelled from New York to Albany expressly to see her; having learned in the former city, where he was spending a few days and where he had hoped to fi... ...n an excellent linguist. He had good winters and poor winters, and while the former lasted he was sometimes the sport of a vision of virtual recovery.... ...these days spent in sounding, tourist fashion, the deeps and shallows of the metropolitan el ement. Isabel was full of premises, conclusions, emotion... ...th the Almanach de Gotha, with the best shops, the best hotels, the hours of railway trains. He could order a dinner almost as well as Mr. Luce, and i... ...contracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway carriages several that were among her most valued ties. Ralph was... ... under her cousin’s escort, and Ralph Touchett, though usually restive under railway discipline, thought very well of the successive hours passed in t... ...bright and fair. Her remarkably open eyes, lighted like great glazed railway stations, had put up no shutters; her attire had lost none of its crispne...

...et by the pursuing party face to face, upon the beach. He is alone. In his former journey he acquired an inappeasable relish for his dreadful food. He... ... of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character he received car riage money. This sport... ...essing on her dar ling son!’ Again at night he saw the star, and all that former com pany. Said his sister’s angel to the leader. ‘Is my brother com... ...scued and soothed. If friendless and unrescued, he is generally put into a railway omnibus and taken to Paris. But, our French watering place, when it... ...thought I smelt tobacco. The latter impression passed quickly from me; the former remained. Curious to know whether this prostrate figure was the one ... ... gas and elec tricity run to the very water’s edge, and the South Eastern Railway Company screech at us in the dead of night. But, the old little fis... ...heaves, hop gardens, reapers, glean ers, apple orchards, cherry orchards, Stations single and double barrelled, Ashford. Compact Enchantress (constan... ...UNDAY, I formed one of the congregation assembled in the chapel of a large metropolitan Workhouse. With the exception of the clergyman and clerk, and ... ...ng, and by a majority of nearly seven to one, to associate itself with any Metropolitan Cattle Market unless it be held in the midst of the City, it f...

...who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at th... ...or to abandon for a moment, under any motive of caution or fear, the great metropolitan castra stativa of gigantic crime, seated for ever on the Thame... ...ue it is, and disgraceful enough, that Pope (like modern contractors for a railway or a loan) let off to sub-contractors several por- tions of the und... ...GE GE GE EVERY THING IN OUR DAYS IS NEW. Roads, for instance, which, being formerly ‘of the earth earthy,’ and therefore perish- able, are now iron, a... ... become the overwhelming majority: the quantity has disturbed the quality. Formerly, out of every five readers, at least four were, in some degree, cl... ... however, to the nobility of our land, it should be remembered, that their stations in society, and their wealth, 104 The Note Book of an English Opi... ...s it happens that, amongst those who have not inherited but achieved their stations, many men of fine and powerful un- derstandings, accomplished in m... ...ore effective. The Coryphaeus himself seemed, to my eyes, no better than a railway laborer, fresh from tun- nelling or boring, and wearing a blouse to...

...ion held by Prince Kropotkin*, who says: “Chichikov may buy dead souls, or railway shares, or he may collect funds for some charitable institution, or... ...hik*, cheek by jowl with a samovar**— the latter so closely resembling the former in appearance that, but for the fact of the samovar possessing a pit... ...e latter a fellow of about thirty, clad in a worn, over-ample jacket which formerly had graced his master’s shoulders, and possessed of a nose and a p... ... in spite of the cir- cumstance that he is accustomed to cringe before the former. With us, however, things are different. In Russian society there ex... ... Moscow—more especially since my sons are always begging me to give them a metropolitan education.” “Oh, the fool, the fool!” reflected Chichikov. “He... ...ose men to remember the duty which confronts us, whatsoever our respective stations; I invite them to observe more closely their duty, and to keep mor...

... and only shut out by an accident; an accident which could not happen to a metropolitan journal, but which hap pens easily to a poor little village r... ... And a long drawn procession of formidable names it was! Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegra... ...i ness again; she had risked their whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, an... ...to this enchanting spot. Little did he think of witnessing a shadow of his former happiness, though no doubt he wished it might be so. He continued sa... ...to this enchanting spot. Little did he think of witnessing a shadow of his former happiness, though no doubt he wished it might be so. He continued sa... ...It cannot be you are the child of misfortune, speaking of the monuments of former ages, which were al lotted not for the reflection of the distressed... ...e wheel of an Ixion, until the stars of heaven should quit their brilliant stations. A. Oh, invincible God, save me! Oh, unsupportable mo ment! Oh, h... ...rly, unceasingly, unrestingly. It goes to ev ery well known merchant, and railway official, and manu facturer, and capitalist, and Mayor, and Congre...