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...sses of the wood, they form a sort of oases in the solemn obscurity of the virgin forests of America. The particular windrow of which we are writing l... ... which we are writing, Oswego was one of the extreme frontier posts of the British possessions on this conti- nent. It had not been long occupied, and... ...geant is about to embark with a party to relieve a post among the Thousand Islands; and as I heard him say he intended that Mabel should go along, you... ...ft your berth into a part of the world where they say there are a thousand islands.” “Pathfinder, this is some of your forgetfulness?” “Nay, nay, Serg... ...shortly for a post on the lake, though I do not say it is for the Thousand Islands, and I may have to go with it; in which case I intend to take Mabel... ...ve seen it verified by experience, that he who would follow the trail of a virgin’s good-will must not go shouting out his thoughts behind her. So, if... ...ualities, as it might be.” “A French master is but a poor instructor for a British sailor, notwithstanding.” “I beg your pardon, sir: Jasper Eau-douce... ...honor’s leave.” “It’s a d——d lingo, and never did any one good—at least no British subject; for I suppose the French themselves must talk together in ... ...t credit all that the Sergeant told him, it is true; but he began to think virgin coyness and ignorance of her own feel- ings might have induced Mabel...

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...-Royal was an Eldorado of love where the ingots melted away in coin; there virgin doubts were over; there curiosity was appeased. The Palais-Royal and... ...rizons as they fled confusedly away. If you would see nature beautiful and virgin as a bride, go there of a spring morning. If you would still the ble... ... my heart made me fancy without an equal. Imagine three mills placed among islands of graceful outline crowned with groves of trees and rising from a ... ...g-nets; the monoto- nous sing-song of a shepherd; ducks paddling among the islands or preening on the “jard,”—a name given to the coarse sand which th... ...ttentions which other women seek, she made men dream, letting them see her virginal nature of pure flame, her celestial visions, as we see the azure h... ...ince the Conquest, married to one of the most distinguished old men of the British peerage, it was nevertheless evident that these advan- tages were m... ...or look has reached them; to them, the people are as if they were not. The British present an image of their own island, where law rules everything, w... ...at the fall of its highest angel. Lady Dudley aban- doned her place in the British empyrean, gave up her wealth, and endeavored to eclipse by her sacr...

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...ateaux, terraces with gray balustrades, moss-grown walls draped in scarlet Virginia-creeper. You turn into the town again beside a great military barr... ...ttle suggestion, in the untended aspect of walk and lawns, of the vigilant British gardener. The manor of Azay, as seen to-day, dates from the early p... ...nder the mirror behind the comptoir, was a much more civilized spot than a British public-house, or a “commercial room,” with pipes and whiskey, or ev... ...gateway that is still impos- ing, and in which a clambering vine and a red Virginia- creeper were suspended to the rusty walls of brick stone. The mos... ...s of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado invented, British invalids travelled down through France in the post-chaise or the pu... ...ple of very ancient towers, brownish-yellow in hue, and mantled in scarlet Virginia-creeper. One of these towers, reputed to be of Saracenic origin, i... ...to their middle in the yellow liquidity; haystacks looked like dull little islands; windows and doors gaped open, without faces; and interruption and ...

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... PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito Ca... ...atches that marked the place of the household fires. On the other side the virgin forest bordered the path, coming close to it, as if to provoke impud... ...his grievances in a bitter meditation upon the unsanitary condition of the virgin forests on the left bank. Lingard took this opportunity to expel the... ...lem.” 149 Joseph Conrad “But, hang it all!” exclaimed Lingard—”Abdulla is British!” “Abdulla wasn’t there at all—did not go on shore that day. Yet Al...

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...in antiqui- ties, on account of its lovely sculptured niche in which was a Virgin, mutilated during the Revolution. All visitors with archaeological p... ... the sum they thought their fair share of the parish duties. The mutilated Virgin on their corner pillar never failed (after 1799) to be wreathed with... ...artists who are always seek- ing a noble ideal. She was called “the Little Virgin” and showed signs already of a fine figure and great delicacy of com... ...ion. France should adopt the only solution to these dif- ficulties, as the British have done in Scotland, where patient, heroic agriculture has change... ...re the valley widened Gerard had taken advantage of a few hillocks to make islands and plant them with trees of varied foliage. These vast operations ... ... Graslin’s birthday. He had built a little hermitage on the largest of the islands, rustic on the outside and elegantly arranged within. The old banke...

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...o say that Mr. Walter has gone off in a trading schooner on a round of the islands.” “Y es, master.” “No mistakes—mind!” “No, master.” Renouard walked... ...t correct himself … “has gone in a trading schooner on a short tour of the islands, to the westward.” This communication was received in profound sile... ...efs. Above the enormous and melancholy confusion, as of a fleet of wrecked islands, the restless myriads of sea-birds rolled and unrolled dark ribbons... ...t be- cause he was Cuban however; he was indeed the best type of a genuine British tar of that time, and a man-of-war’s man for years. He came by the ... ...anaged to do that trick in the wilderness, to loaf on the outskirts of the virgin forest. “He understood how to ingratiate himself with the natives. H...

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...and some men’s hearts beat quickly enough. To be or not to a member of the British Parliament is a question of very considerable moment in a man’s min... ...o be paid for; no 198 Dr Thorne carriages furnished; no ribbons supplied. British voters were to vote, if vote they would, for the love and respect t... ... taking infinite trouble to secure secrecy in the matter— three gallons of British brandy to be ordered and paid for 202 Dr Thorne as the best French... ...en with the most tender-hearted. Frank felt that he had hardly fleshed his virgin lash: he thought, almost with despair, that he had not yet at all su... ... Romer had not yet ceased to wonder at new worlds, as he skimmed among the islands of that south- ern ocean, before the edict had gone forth for his r...

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... Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 35 had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, fr... ... left, like their betters, to their own exertions. The most of King Arthur’s British nation were slaves, pure and simple, and bore that name, and wor... ... all rational measurement the one and only actually great man in that whole British world; and yet there and then, just as in the remote England of m... ... and come to be as anxious for me to hive those ogres and set those ripe old virgins loose as if it were themselves that had the contract. Well, they ... ...ow again. Even processions; even burnt offerings; even votive candles to the Virgin, did fail every each of them; and all in the land did marvel.” “Ho... ...ast was the success of it. Not right off, of course, for the native of those islands does not, as a rule, dissolve upon the early applications of a hu... ... Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 162 populations of the British Islands amounted to something less than 1,OOO,OOO. A mechanic’s average ... ... patient’s faith is strong in it. Up by Astolat there was a chapel where the Virgin had once appeared to a girl who used to herd geese around there —...

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... of the Algerian wars proposed to make a clean march to the capital of the British Empire at the head of ten thou- sand men; which seems a small quant... ... they flourished no trumpets, they positively guaranteed the safety of our virgins and coffers. Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for ... ...d not hear my knock at your door.’ Now, could he trust her? The widow of a British officer killed nobly fighting for his country in India, was a perso... ... and tenacious Romfrey blood, he hated the title of Norman. We are English—British, he said. A family resting its pride on mere ancestry provoked his ... ... latter to the former. In India they sacrifice the wid- ows, in France the virgins.’ Roland proceeded to relate his adventure. Nevil’s inatten- tion p... ...elt the sunlight nor understood why column and campanile rose, nor why the islands basked, and boats and people moved. All were as remote little bits ... ...de- lights in his honesty, like the babe in its nakedness, the beau- tiful virgin in her innocence. So he does; but he discovers it’s time for him to ... ...evisham, Nevil.’ He drew a visionary sketch of quays, embankments, bridged islands, public buildings, magical emanations of patriotic architecture, wi... ...o-day our salt- water lake is as fine as the Mediterranean.’ ‘Omitting the islands and the Mediterranean colour, it is. I have often told you how I lo...

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...literature, and illustrated by a plate. It occurs in a Dutch voyage to the islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that case as a woman who... ...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...th the English suitors, who were not the feeble voluptuaries of the Ionian Islands, that suffered themselves to be butchered as unresistingly as sheep... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...wing are the sole cases of questionable idiom throughout Milton:—1st, “Yet virgin of Proserpine from Jove;” and, in this case, the same thing might be... ... a worldly hope surviving, it was impossible for her to forget the V estal Virgins, the College of Augurs, or the indis- pensable office and the indef... ...he Archipelago,” was henceforth exiled (as respected Greece) to the Ionian Islands. In these contests, though Greece was the prize at issue, the child...

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...ays from Your Fathomless Deeps...........................................304 Virginia—The West..........................306 City of Ships................ ... Gray and Dim.....................................319 As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods...........................................320 Not the Pi... ...ic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian! O all and each well loved by me! my int... ...age, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having wander’d since, round the earth having wander’d, Now... ..., forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman singing... ...and lock’d in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, an... ...ay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The White sea, and the sea around Greenland. Leaves of Grass –W... ... of a sudden unlook’d for by defiles through the woods, gain’d at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns... ... he wrung his hands in anguish. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 310 Meanwhile the British manoeuvr’d to draw us out for a pitch’d battle, But we dared not ...

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...inus, Lundinium; by foreigners, Londra, and Londres; it is the seat of the British Empire, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient cit... ...late, to beware; But the unfortunate Actaeon always presses on. The chaste virgin naturally pitied: But the powerful goddess revenged the wrong. Let A... ... from the river Cam, which after washing the western side, playing through islands, turns to the east, and divides the town into two parts, which are ... ...as built by Julius Caesar; it is likely it might by the Romans, from those British bricks in the chapel which they made use of 46 in their foundation... ... and be brought back into the old re- 47 gal line and true current of the British blood, in the person of her renowned grandfather, King Henry VII., ...

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...National, or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in ... ... such title and vocation, it were perhaps uninteresting to say more. Let the British reader study and enjoy, in simplicity of heart, what is here pres... ...ded us to that joint stock vehicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it ... ...rise again, and see our haberdashery, would cross themselves, and invoke the Virgin. But happily no bygone German, or man, rises again; thus the Prese... ...actual horizon there is not a looming as of Land; a promise of new Fortunate Islands, perhaps whole undiscovered Americas, for such as have canvas to ... ...An author who treats it appeals, like the poet, to the young men end maddens—virginibus puerisque—and calls upon them, by all the motives which habitu...