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... soles, who proffered the viands in special porce- lain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost mould, contained his sherry, his port, and... ...d clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the years. At exactly half-past eleven Mr. Fogg would, accordin... ...at the world has grown smaller. So, be- cause you can go round it in three months—” “In eighty days,” interrupted Phileas Fogg. “That is true, gentlem... ...at the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily T elegraph... ...Here is the estimate made by the Daily T elegraph: From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days Fr... ...ut that doesn’t take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on.” “All included,” returned Phileas Fogg, conti... ...und the World in 80 Days showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways. He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly r... ... There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, colli- sions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow—were not all these... ...are no mountains; yet its appearance is not without attrac- tions. It is a park checkered by pleasant highways and av- enues. A handsome carriage, dra...

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...st. In the course of his wanderings that Ameri- can sailor worked for some months on board a schoo- ner, the master and owner of which was the thief o... ...cer- tain pride of ancestry from which my Nostromo is free; for Nostromo’s lineage had to be more ancient still. He is a man with the weight of countl... ...ow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for the time at least.... ...the protec- tion of the Company’s property. That and the prop- erty of the railway were preserved by the European residents; that is, by Captain Mitch... ...e harm the mob managed to achieve was to set fire to one—only one—stack of railway-sleepers, which, being creosoted, burned well. The main attack on t... ... he had deserted from a ship trading to La Plata, to enlist in the navy of Montevideo, then under the command of Garibaldi. Afterwards, in the Italian... ...he commanded a negro company under Garibaldi, during the fa- mous siege of Montevideo, and died heroically with his negroes at the fording of the Boya... ...d it- self, with green young crops, plains, woodland, and gleams of water, park-like, from the blue vapour of the distant sierra to an immense quiveri... ...return by way of the United States through Cali- fornia, visit Yellowstone Park, see Chicago, Niagara, have a look at Canada, perhaps make a short sta...

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...editionary Force were all justified before the book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after th... ...here was strength to borrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron stea... ...at down at a little table outside the County Council house of Golders Hill Park and sent one of the waiters to the Bull and Bush for a couple of bottl... ... an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the delivery of atomic tr... ...e Steel Trust is scrapping the whole of its plant,’ he shouted. ‘The State Railways are going to scrap all their en- gines. Everything’s going to be s... ...y flew over the Channel Isles and Touraine, he mentions, and circled about Mont Blanc—’These new helicopters, we found,’ he notes, ‘had abolished all ... ...e been confused, but it is highly probable that the formation of an aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industr... .... Something tapped the machine. It was time to act. The broad avenues, the park, the pal- aces below rushed widening out nearer and nearer to them. ‘R... ... spinning furiously and maintaining an erup- tion that lasted for years or months or weeks according to the size of the bomb employed and the chances ...

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...bation with which the Queen danced still once with the Knave of Bergen.” CHAPTER II: Heidelberg Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg WE STOPPED AT A HOTEL ... ...h seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds in the world had been spread out there. I did not know before, that a half-mile of se... ...her colors had volunteered to meet them. The students fight duels in the room which I have described, two days in every week duringseven and a half or... ...tatement of the case. This requires about four hundred and eighty or five hundred du- elists a year—for in summer the college term is about three and ... ... it, therefore his cham- pionship ceased. A rule which forbids social intercourse between members of different corps is strict. In the dueling-house, ... ...glory, till the miracle was complete. How different is this marvel observed from a raft, from what it is when one observes it through the dingy window... ...irty mules can do it in two, it is believed that the old- fashioned towing industry is on its death-bed. A second steam- boat began work in the Neckar... ...ot equal to imagining a Girdlestone; it was all I could do to even realize him, while looking straight at him at short range. I would rather face whol... ...hat were alarming, for size, and parlor to match. It was well the weather required no fire in the parlor, for I think one might as well have tried to ...

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... tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...nuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would ... ...n, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architec- ture. Sam Clark’s annu... ...ad crossed a thousand miles of wheat- lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of... ...planning, she was now roused to being brisk and efficient herself. IV In a month Carol’s ambition had clouded. Her hesitancy about becoming a teacher ... ...n she never saw Stewart Snyder again. She wrote to him once a week—for one month. VI A year Carol spent in Chicago. Her study of library-cata- loguing... ...in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a thick tal... ...se in a small parched lawn. 32 Main Street IV A concrete sidewalk with a “parking” of grass and mud. A square smug brown house, rather damp. A narrow... ...ould not hold. At best the trees resembled a thinned woodlot. There was no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the cou... ...Street was a black swamp from curb to curb; on residence streets the grass parking beside the walks oozed gray water. It was prickly hot, yet the town...

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... being trifled with by the profane crowd. He left James at the gate of the park, prowling about like a panther to try for a glimpse of Isabel’s window... ... the right to call her so has always been my fondest wish. And, Louis, the months I have spent with her have not diminished my regard. My Mary! she wi... ... word to disturb the unwonted tranquillity, the rest so precious after her months of sea-voyage, her journey, her agitations. But Louis wanted her sea... ...d in what a world of upholstery did not the dear old lady spend the autumn months! How surpassingly happy was Jane, and how communicative about Chevel... ...Mary on board the Valdivia; and, in spite of all Miss Ponsonby’s horror of railways, he persuaded her to trust herself under his care to Liverpool. Sh... ...o objection to going with her to Ormersfield, where she wandered about the park, visited old scenes with Louis, and went over all his improvements. Hi... ...said to be savage and disaf- fected, and the quarter of a mile between the park and the village is subject to miners going home. They did once holloa ... ...bliss are over the ‘Money- market and City intelligence,’ or in discussing railway shares with Sir Andrew. All the rest is an obstinate and dismal all... ...ly sit quiet in a corner,’ said Clara. ‘So you will, in many a corner of a railway carriage.’ She smiled a little. ‘The truth is,’ she said, ‘that poo...

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... Chatelet told her that her rooms would only cost six hun- dred francs per month. “A mere trifle,” added he, seeing that Nais was startled. “For five ... ...ifle,” added he, seeing that Nais was startled. “For five hundred francs a month you can have a carriage from a livery stable; fifty louis in all. You... ... de Bargeton to herself when Lucien was included in the invitation. In the month of June ministers are often puzzled to know what to do with boxes at ... ...-feathered chasseur. “I was just going round to you, sir, madame gave me a line for you,” said Gentil, ignorant of Parisian forms of respect, and accu... ...lapped each other, the buttons were red- dened, and there were fatal white lines along the seams. Then his waistcoat was too short, and so grotesquely... ...istcoat, and a pair of trousers should be forthcoming. Lucien then ordered linen and pocket-hand- kerchiefs, a little outfit, in short, of a linen-dra... ... mistress of the house, then a young and pretty woman, went to walk in her park with the illustrious visitor. The head-clerk of the firm, a cool, stea... ... journalists, and as they chatted they walked on into the woods beyond the park. In among the thickets the German thought he caught a glimpse of his h... ...asphalt in stony soil, or bitu- men in marshes, and speculate in projected railways. The stupidity of the Paris commercial world is conspicuous in the...

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... the sister of Monsieur Thuillier. This house, bought during the first six months which fol- lowed the revolution of July by Mademoiselle Marie-Jeanne... ...sents a facade of rough stone covered with plaster, cracked by weather and lined by the mason’s instrument into a semblance of blocks of cut stone. Th... ...f the salon are so effaced that nothing remains of the gilding but reddish lines, while the white enamelling is yellow, cracked, and peeling off. Neve... ... of a “beau” wearied him to the point of aging him; his face, covered with lines like that of an old coquette, looked a dozen years older than the reg... ..., from the first, by allowing her brother five 19 Balzac hundred francs a month, and by sailing the household boat at the rate of five thousand franc... ...ve thousand francs a year. She granted to her sister-in-law fifty francs a month, explaining to her carefully that she herself was satisfied with fort... ... again met Thuillier, he was director of one of those numer- ous projected railways, the construction of which is always delayed by either parliamenta... ...u an avowal, which I beg you not to take in ill part: I do not believe in ‘railways,’ as the English call them.” “That’s an opinion to which you have ... ...t time I had in the environs of Ville d’Avray a very beautiful place, with park and coverts and a stream for fishing; but as I was alone I found it du...

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...ndred men sitting on divans along a great marble-paved corridor, with their legs stretched out, together with several dozen more standing in a queue, ... ...came out to speak to them more instantly than they could have expected; he had evidently jumped up from his work. He was a tall, lean personage and wa... ... very high in the air. “I say it’s cooler,” pursued their host, “but everything is rela- tive. How do you stand the heat?” “I can’t say we like it,” s... ...ing to business—” said Mr. Westgate. “Oh, you see I’m by way of being a barrister,” Percy Beaumont answered. “I know some people that think of bringin... ... Also in those of her sister, who is staying with her. She is very fond of Englishmen. She thinks there is nothing like them.” “Mrs. Westgate or—a— he... ...n, you know, you have to pass an examina- tion at the city limits; and when you come away they give you a kind of degree.” Lord Lambeth stared, blushi... ...s and flowering hedgerows, as she looked at them from the window of the train; with the spires of the rural churches peeping above the rook-haunted tr... ...ill understand after Lord Lambeth has come,” said Mrs. Westgate with a little laugh. The two ladies had arranged that on this afternoon Willie Woodley... ...d. “It must be a great advantage to you here in London. I suppose that if I myself had a little more naivete, I should enjoy it more. I should be cont...

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... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...nd iron rusted, and even these objects did no violence to the prevail- ing air the whole scene wore, of having been exactly the same for years and yea... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ... down, so I took the Postman back, with his leathern wallet, walking-stick, bugle, and terrier dog. Many a heart-broken letter had he brought to the R... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ...’ CHAPTER IV TWO VIEWS OF A CHEAP THEATRE A S I SHUT THE DOOR of my lodging behind me, and came out into the streets at six on a drizzling Satur day e... ...what a pleasant privilege to give a voice to the dumb cottage-clock, and set it talking to the cottage family again! Likewise we foresee great interes... ...rk plantations, under the overhanging boughs (hares, rabbits, partridges, and pheasants, scudding like mad across and across the chequered ground befo... ...in three-quarters of an hour. This, however, was not the most curious feature of those chambers; that, consisted in the profound conviction entertaine...

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...over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away you scarcely kno... ...n exiled pretender. I drove along a straight avenue, through a disfeatured park,—the park of Chambord has twenty- one miles of circumference,—a very s... ... windows, you look over the wide, flat country and the tangled, melancholy park, with the rotation of its straight avenues. Then you walk about the ro... ...stle; what I owe to exactitude compels me to add that it is crossed by the railway-line. The place is so arranged, however, that the chateau need know... ... the buffet, and to observe the proceedings of a family who had entered my railway carriage at Tours and had conversed unreserv- edly, for my benefit,... ... and it was my daily fate to sit oppo- site to him at tables d’hote and in railway trains. He may be known by two infallible signs,—his hands are fat,... ...inded me of Balzac’s “illustre Gaudissart;” and indeed, in the course of a month’s jour- ney through a large part of France, I heard so little desul- ... ...en herself in a small but loyal house at Nantes, where, at the end of five months of seclusion, she was betrayed, for gold, to the austere M. Guizot, ... ...e the strong, salt breath of the Bay of Biscay. La Rochelle serves, in the months of July and August, as a station de bains 88 A Little Tour in Franc...

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...rock-coat in the afternoon) in an inaccessible wilderness near the Central Park. Old Mrs. Mingott’s foreign daughters had become a leg- end. They neve... ...e champion’s face fell. “It didn’t last long, though: I heard of her a few months later living alone in V enice. I believe Lovell Mingott went out to ... ..., and bringing with her a new husband or an adopted child; but after a few months she invariably parted from her husband or quarrelled with her ward, ... ...hed with the Wellands, hoping afterward to carry off May for a walk in the Park. He wanted to have her to himself, to tell her how enchanting she had ... ...t they would. X. THE NEXT DAY he persuaded May to escape for a walk in the Park after luncheon. As was the custom in old-fashioned Epis- copalian New ... ...lay was “The Shaughraun,” with Dion Boucicault in the title role and Harry Montague and Ada Dyas as the lovers. The popularity of the admirable Englis... ...xchanged a word with a “foreigner” other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations. Their own compatriots—save those previously known or prop... ... but in Wall Street. Some people said he had specu- lated unfortunately in railways, others that he was being bled by one of the most insatiable membe... ... be a tunnel under the Hudson through which the trains of the Pennsylvania railway would run straight into New Y ork. They were of the brother- hood o...

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...re Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas [Père] Volume Two Chapter 58 M. Noirtier de... ...est in the pursuit of some whim as you do, M. Danglars, in promoting a new railway line; you, M. de Villefort, in condemning a culprit to death; you, ... ...ne into the garden, and was talking with Major Cavalcanti on the projected railway from Leghorn to Flo- rence. Monte Cristo seemed in despair. He took... ...; that was your business. In March there was a question about a grant to a railway. Three com- panies presented themselves, each offering equal securi... ...nation in eight hours. At midnight they arrived at the gate of a beautiful park. The porter was in attendance; 255 Alexandre Dumas he had been appris... ...ich opened on a terrace, having the sea in front, and at the back a pretty park bounded by a small forest. In a creek lay a little sloop, with a narro... ...ses in which Monte Cristo ex- celled. They killed a dozen pheasants in the park, as many trout in the stream, dined in a summer-house overlooking the ...

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...gave this boy white cotton gloves and his washing, and thirty-six francs a month to keep himself—a sum that seemed enormous to the grisettes of Besanc... ...ke them three times renewed, cravats costing ten francs, and lasting three months, four waistcoats at twenty- five francs, and trousers fitting close ... ... which a man can buy for fifteen louis, and get his hair curled and a fine linen shirt into the bargain? If this unhappy youth should seem to you to h... ...which parts the two classes of society. With the exception of the Clermont-Mont-Saint-Jean, the Beauffremont, the de Scey, 10 Albert Savarus and the ... ...hat he had been a tool in the hands of the real culprits. Not only did his line of defence succeed, but it led to the arrest of two of the witnesses, ... ...ing-room—which he has had painted like old oak, and which I found entirely lined with law-books, ar- ranged on shelves also painted as old oak. The pa... ... the order of the day at Besancon. At Besancon—as in the matter of the two railways to Versailles—as for every standing abuse—there were private inter... ...t to les Rouxey, which is very picturesquely situated. The chateau and the park were, in fact, created by the famous Watteville, who in his active old... ...one of the Rouxey hills to join the highroad. The estate belonging to this park and house was extensive, but badly cultivated; there were chalets on b...

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...her great desire to be even with him in all his studies, and though eleven months younger, she had never yet fallen behind him. On Saturday, he showed... ...at Oxford, the object of ambition of the Stoneborough boys, every eighteen months. There were about sixty or seventy boarders, and the town boys slept... ...e and July, given them because their elder brother had begun the series of months as May. Some two hundred years back, a Dr. Thomas May had been headm... ...akes Mr. Rivers think it our pet scheme; so, what does he do but offer his park, and so we are to have a regular fancy fair, and Cocksmoor School will... ... said it was nearly a year since there had come into his parish a troop of railwaymen and their families. For the most part, they were completely wild... ...y fagged, mind and body, she threw herself back in the armchair, took up a railway novel that Hector had brought home, and which they had hidden from ... ...did, that the Duchess Sarah was his model woman; for as they walked in the park in search of Phoebe Mayflower’s well, he gathered a fern leaf, to show... ... going in, Meta asked, “Do you think it would be wrong for me to cross the park to see that little burned girl, as Mr. Wilmot is away to-day, and she ... ...hall I do with all this money?” 657 Yo n g e “Keep it in the bank, or buy railway shares!” said Dr. May. looking arch. “Thank you. That’s a question ...

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...fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-hacks and hunters, promising babies to carry on the renown of England ... ...lar taste to descant on the vivify- ing virtues of war; even as, after ten months of money-mon- 30 Beauchamp’s Career gering in smoky London, the cit... ...mber, say October; he is still some distance removed from the plump Spring month. And we in our family have wits and passions. In fine, a bud of a ros... ...s your marquise!”— “I knew I should have her at last,” says Nevil, calm as Mont Blanc on a reduced scale.’ The secret of Captain Baskelett’s art would... ... sir, she is not a Radical. Do you take me?’ Rosamund Culling drove to the railway station on her way to Bevisham within an hour after Mr. Romfrey’s e... ...e elegant vessel as she glided swan-like to her moorings off Mount Laurels park through dusky merchant craft, colliers, and trawlers, loosely shaking ... ...ay morn- ing, Miss Halkett saw Beauchamp strolling across the grass of the park. She dressed hurriedly and went out to greet him, smiling and thanking... ...the public debt and remit taxa- tion, by originally retaining the lines of railway, and fasten- ing on the valuable land adjoining stations. Hundreds ... ... enjoyed the aristocratic privilege of being twelve miles from the nearest railway station. Alighting here on an evening of clear sky, Beauchamp found...

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...le, the sides opposite the equal angles bulging outward with the contour of the ship. It is lined with eight pens of sixteen bunks apiece, four bunks ... ...eal had resulted in a cramp. He had determined to live henceforth on biscuit; and when, two months later, he should return to England, to make the pas... ...hat affected me in the most lively manner was the wealth of this day-labourer, paying a two months’ pleasure visit to the States, and preparing to ret... ...sses.’ Situation after situation failed him; then followed the depression of trade, and for months he had hung round with other idlers, playing marble... ...de, and for months he had hung round with other idlers, playing marbles all day in the West Park, and going home at night to tell his landlady how he ... ...so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men... ...justify my pleasures. If I prefer tame scenery to grand, a little hot sunshine over lowland parks and woodlands to the war of the elements round the s... ...e has not surrendered his will and con- tracted for the next hundred miles, like a man on a railway. He may change his mind at every finger-post, and,... ...to sing the same air myself in a more diffident manner. T ring was reached, and then T ring railway-station; for the two are not very near, the good p...

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...outs to a lamentable condition, and, during the dry season of the past few months, the layer of dust had 4 The Octopus deepened and thickened to such... ...tral Califor- nia, was bone dry, parched, and baked and crisped after four months of cloudless weather, when the day seemed always at noon, and the su... ...ived himself. He had, on such occasions, been only brooding. Some eighteen months before this time, he had been 8 The Octopus threatened with consump... ...ity Hall, the usual loafers sat, chewing tobacco, swapping stories. In the park were the inevitable array of nursemaids, skylarking couples, and ragge... ..., friend and acquaintance of every man and woman in the town, stood by the park entrance, leaning an el- bow on the fence post, twirling his club. But... ...d for some time studying it thoughtfully. It was a commissioner’s official railway map of the State of California, completed to March 30th of that yea... ...of California, completed to March 30th of that year. Upon it the different railways of the State were accurately plot- ted in various colours, blue, g... ... up the business left over by the old board and in the comple- tion of the railway map. But now, the decks were cleared. It was about to address itsel... ... We want active furnaces. We don’t want public statues, and fountains, and park extensions and gingerbread fetes. We want business enterprise. Isn’t i...

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...held a posi- tion in the world through his connection with the Comtesse de Montcornet. “Has an uncle left you a fortune?” said Finot, laughing at him.... ...hom we have seen crushed by a word at the opera ball had been for the last month or two living in the Rue de Langlade, in a very poor-looking house. T... ...kel forks—the plate of the Paris poor; a basket full of potatoes and dirty linen, with a smart gauze cap on the top; a rickety wardrobe, with a glass ... ...attempted suicide.” “My story is very simple, Father,” replied she. “Three months ago I was living the evil life to which I was born. I was the lowest... ...ucien, who, in a magnificent dressing-gown thrown open over a fine Holland linen shirt and red trousers, with a fez on his head, beneath which his fai... ... awoke from his nap. At first he fancied that he was still in his friend’s park; then he was startled by a celestial vision, which found him un- armed... ...the Bois or the Champs-Elysees. On the day after Esther was shut up in the park-keeper’s house, the being who was to her so enigmatic and terrible, wh... ... her beauty was now their capital. When the time came for them to quit the park-keeper’s lodge, he took Lucien and the poor girl to a place on the roa... ...w and the public seek a thou- sand causes for the terrible catastrophes on railways caused by the rupture of an iron rail, that of Bellevue being a fa...

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...f it stuck to me; but I have forgotten!” “How much French can I learn in a month?” “What does he say?” asked Mademoiselle Noemie. M. Nioche explained.... ...to take it easily. I feel deliciously lazy, and I should like to spend six months as I am now, sitting under a tree and listening to a band. There’s o... ...che a while, in silence, and at last he made answer. “One day, a couple of months ago, something very curious happened to me. I had come on to New Yor... ...at a paradise she finds it. She walks about in it as if it were a blooming park, a Garden of Eden; and when she sees ‘This is genteel, ’ or ‘This is i... ...nd transport them to a distance, to have special convey- ances, to charter railway-carriages and steamboats, har- monized with his relish for bold pro... ...merican experience were certain transcendent sagacities in the handling of railway stock. And then his zeal was quick- ened by his personal kindness f... ...having brought his portmanteau, so that he might ad- journ directly to the railway. M. Stanislas Kapp had posi- tively declined to make excuses, and h... ...just beyond there,” said the landlord, and pointed to the tree-tops of the park, above the opposite houses. Newman followed the first cross-road to th... ...eat gate, they passed round by a winding lane to a door in the wall of the park, of which she had the key, and which would enable her to enter the cha...