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...s had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses w...

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...ly September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had ap... ...he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport s... ...ght see what was happening in the street. Mrs. Peniston was the owner of a country-place in New Jersey, but she had never lived there since her husban... ...lds. “Let us sit here,” Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily drop... ... the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb. 60 House of Mirth She sat quiet, her li... ...clasping his hands be- hind his head, which rested against the side of the rock. He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a... ...een this year and last, except that the women have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through...

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...st in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really do exist....

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... themselves whether there has been any thing in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its ... ... No. I have many friends in America, and feel a grateful in terest in the country. To represent me as viewing it with ill nature, animosity, or parti... ... them selves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country since, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and ... ..., wrestling, leap ing, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, some times by turns, and s... ...y of the engine room, comparing notes in whispers. After throwing up a few rockets and firing signal guns in the hope of being hailed from the land, o... ...rror on the pilot’s part, were the cause. We were surrounded by banks, and rocks, and shoals of all kinds, but had American Notes – Dickens 24 happi... ... the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already sat in the pulpi...

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...t, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country....

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... essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. T ruth, in the midst of conflicting rumours and in the dearth of p... ...tors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are pri... ... ministry, lost but a single student; the rest, in the bosom of a bleeding country, and deaf to the voices of vanity and honour, peacefully pursued th... ...s wise as Mataafa, and to conceive that etiquette and morals differ in one country and another. We shall be the less surprised to find Samoan war defa... ...to Germany, he had great delight to see the cliffs of England. He saw “the rocks shining in the sun, and three hours later was surprised to find them ... ...om Mulinuu, he would sit on his own poop and confound them with gratuitous rockets. He was at the pains to write a letter and address it to “the High ... ...e next. The two white visitors passed with- out and between the lines to a rocky point upon the beach. The person of Moors was well known; the purpose...

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...Introduction: This tale, of which I have not consciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons h...

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...son THE SONG OF RAHERO A LEGEND OF TAHITI TO ORI A ORI Ori, my brother in the island mode, In every tongue and meaning much my friend, This story of y... ...a. INTRODUCTION. – This tale, of which I have not con- sciously changed a single feature, I received from tradition. It is highly popular through all ... ...nd woe to him that comes short, and woe to him that delayed!” So spoke on the beach the mother, and counselled the wiser thing. For Rahero stirred in ... ...r there were the empty baskets, but who was to furnish the meat? For here was the nation assembled, and there were the ovens anigh, And out of a thous... ...ow in thin perennial rain. Dark in the staring noon, dark was Rua’s ravine, Damp and cold was the air, and the face of the cliffs was green. Here, in ... ...r, Rua sat and was cold. “V alley of mid-day shadows, valley of silent falls, Rua sang, and his voice went hollow about the walls, “V alley of shadow ... ...a cried in his grief, “a sorrowful sound to me, Mounting far and faint from the resonant shore of the sea! Woe in the song! for the grave breathes in ... ...as Rua sat in the valley of silent falls, He heard a calling of doves from high on the cliffy walls. Fire had fashioned of yore, and time had broken, ...

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... Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it into 18th cent...

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...found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are th... ...ck of golden wool from a ram feeding in a valley closed in by inaccessible rocks; but this was procured for her by an eagle; and lastly, Venus, de- cl... ...ster?” said Harriet. “It was through the dancing of three minuets, and the country dance had long been begun.” “I was too busy to heed the time,” said... ... If you fall in, I will pull you out. Young maids should not run about the country without a gentleman to take care of them. Should they, sister?” cri... ...ster’s safety, and hailing as a kind of hopeful augury this verse from the singers— “At home, abroad, in peace, in war Thy God shal...

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...ple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arr...

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...ements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid sum... ...he best order, so that, if necessary, he might have taken it back to his own country with perfect confidence. At present, obviously, nevertheless, he w... ...was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit to her own country; but this last had been longer than any of its predecessors. She ... ...whose acquain tance I had made upon the steamer; a lovely group from Little Rock, Arkansas. In spite of that I felt cramped—I felt something pressing... ...hey drew near the choir on the left of the entrance the voices of the Pope’s singers were borne to them over the heads of the large number of persons ... ...nterested was lost. He drifted about the house like a rudderless vessel in a rocky stream, or sat in the garden of the palace on a great cane chair, h... ...so easy? I’m yours for ever—for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. What have you to care about? You’ve no children; that perhaps would...

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...el, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly ... ... patient work of countless ages. O.M. You could make the engine out of the rocks them selves? Y.M. Yes, a brittle one and not valuable. O.M. You woul... ... the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built—but along with a ... ...at proposi tion. O.M. For instance? Y.M. Take that noble passion, love of country, patrio tism. A man who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pl... ...lf to saving imperiled souls. He became a missionary. He landed in a pagan country ill and helpless. A native widow took him into her humble home and ... ...s always been cheerless, hopeless, despondent. As young fellows both tried country journalism—and failed. Burgess didn’t seem to mind it; Adams couldn... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...oon till ten at night. Nearly all the labor falls upon the half dozen head singers, and apparently they are required to furnish all the noise they can...

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...r five children, and two hired men were crushed under the weight of earth, rocks, and trees. In the Sketches from Memory Hawthorne gives an inti mati... ...layfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at... ...gi gantic visage, and could discern only a heap of ponderous and gigantic rocks, piled in chaotic ruin one upon another. Retracing his steps, however... ...erdant boughs, with the laurel profusely intermixed, and surmounted by his country’s banner, beneath which he had won his victories. Our friend Ernest... ...orld, even as a voice crying from shore to shore—it finally per suaded his countrymen to select him for the Presidency. Before this time indeed, as s... ...so 16 TheGreatStone Face much were they struck by it, that throughout the country this distinguished gentleman was known by the name of Old Stony Phi... ...of a song, which resounded, in broken notes, between the cliffs, while the singers hesitated whether to continue their journey or put up here for the ...

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...ers the other half, as they sat on the big table. Carnehan continued: “The country isn’t half worked out because they that governs it won’t let you to... ...their blessed time in governing it, and you can’t lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that, without all the Govern- men... ...he Border,” I said. “You have to travel through Afghanistan to get to that country. It’s one mass of mountains and peaks and glaciers, and no Englishm... ... more mad we would be more pleased. We have come to you to know about this country, to read a book about it, and to be shown maps. We want you to tell... ...les at the twenty men, and drops one of them at two hundred yards from the rock where he was sitting. The other men began to run, but Carnehan and Dra... ...ff we two goes to see what was to be done in the next valley. That was all rock, and there was a little village there, and Carnehan says, ‘Send ‘em to... ...ide, his hat in his hand, quavering dolorously after the fashion of street-singers at Home. There was not a soul in sight, and he was out of all possi...

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...operly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficu... ... and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gav... ...Mengwe and Maqua in a less degree. The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first oc- cupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.... ...ou might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling ov... ...out, who approached or re- ceded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowl... ...r situation more minutely. The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested. As thes... ...oftener felt the storms of heaven than any testimonials of weak- ness. The singers were dwelling on one of those low, dying chords, which the ear devo...

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...ount Aros as my home. Thus it was that I came to spend my vacations in that part of the country, so far from all society and comfort, between the codf... ... beautiful to my eyes; for when the sun struck upon the hill sides, there were many wet rocks and watercourses that shone like jewels even as far as A... ...ld have found them from the track. A large part of the Ross is covered with big granite rocks, some of them larger than a two- roomed house, one besid... ... Ben Kyaw. On all this part of the coast, and especially near Aros, these great granite rocks that I have spoken of go down together in troops into th... ... out to sea, for there must be ten sea miles of open water sown with them as thick as a country place with houses, some standing thirty feet above the... ...the headlands and buoys along the channels of our iron-bound, inhospitable islands. The country people had many a story about Aros, as I used to hear ... ...once before he died! to move with a jocund spirit in a golden land! to hear the trained singers and sweet church bells, and see the holiday gardens! ‘...

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...oon one realizes here is another land, a strange religion. It is a strange country, remote, out of contact. Perhaps it belongs to the forgotten, imper... ...oods, the crucifixes seem to create a new atmosphere over the whole of the countryside, a darkness, a weight in the air that is so unnaturally bright ... ...went beside the river, that was seething with snowy ice-bubbles, under the rocks and the high, wolf-like pine-trees, between the pinkish shoals. The a... ..., in the dank gorge where it is always half-night. The road runs under the rock and the trees, half-way up the one side of the pass. Below, the stream... ...aselessly, embroiled among great stones, making an endless loud noise. The rock face opposite rises high overhead, with the sky far up. So that one is... ... great mass of London, and the black, fuming, laborious Midlands and north-country. It seemed horrible. And yet, it was better than the padrone, this ... ...-respectable cafe. These young men are all free-think- ers, great dancers, singers, players of the guitar. They are im- moral and slightly cynical. Th...

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... wears, in parody, her metro- politan trappings. Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances ... ...he very midst stands one of the most satisfactory crags in nature – a Bass Rock upon dry land, rooted in a garden shaken by passing trains, carrying a... ... crannies of the crag; the same atmosphere and daylight clothe the eternal rock and yesterday’s imitation portico; and as the soft northern sun- shine... ...e; that this profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock, is not a drop-scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of every-da... ...he city lying in waves around it, those mad and dismal fanatics, the Sweet Singers, haggard from long expo- sure on the moors, sat day and night with ... ...les on every side; and people on the decks of ships, or ploughing in quiet country places over in Fife, can see the banner on the Castle battlements, ... ...tlements, and the smoke of the Old T own blowing abroad over the subjacent country. A city that is set upon a hill. It was, I suppose, from this dista... ...ight, inclines a poet to the praise of strong waters. In Scotland, all our singers have a stave or two for blazing fires and stout potations:- to get ...

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...el on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar—a precipice which is so sumptu- ously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse ... ...on the verdict. One never tires of poking about in the dense woods that clothe all these lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm ... ...ish me to act as his second, and he said, “Of course.” I said I must be allowed to act under a French name, so that I might be shielded from oblo- quy... ...wished to proceed to a choice of his “last words.” He wanted to know how the following words, as a dying excla- mation, struck me: “I die for my God, ... ...res- sion; yet at times the pain was so exquisite that I could hardly keep the tears back. At those times, as the howlings and wailings and shrieking ... ..., once, and in Mannheim once, and in Munich (through my authorized agent) once, and this large experience had nearly persuaded me that the Germans pre... ... refresh my own memory, too, for I have never read it before. 69 A Tramp Abroad THE LEGEND LORE (TWO SYLLABLES) was a water nymph who used to sit on ... ...venings, with his Zither and “Express his Longing in low Singing,” as Garnham says. On one of these occasions, “suddenly there hovered around the top ...

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...given, we are told, in former days, by the good house wives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propen sity of their husbands to linger abo... ...stic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighbor ing country. A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to p... ...chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson. Certain it is, the plac... ... magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together. In addition to ... ...s, to take his station in front of the church gallery, with a band of chosen singers; where, in his own mind, he completely carried away the palm from... ...arts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down ... ...ion was made also of the woman in white, that haunted the dark glen at Raven Rock, and was often heard to shriek on winter nights before a storm, havi...

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...se and blood, and carved with Chinese symbols; then a litter of mementoes, rock-crystals, and shells and scraps of seaweed. A stranger, entering, felt... ... in his impatience, wild in anticipation. The curtain came down, the great singers bowed, and Siegmund felt the spattering roar of applause quicken hi... ...lay curled up asleep at the core of the glamour, like the moon; on the sea rocking backwards and forwards till it rocked her island as she slept. She ... ...ning sunlight pierced vividly through the slits of the blind. Beatrice lay rocking herself, breathing hard, her finger-nails pressing into her palm. T... ... Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 THE WAY HOME lay across country, through deep little lanes where the late foxgloves sat seriously, ... ...I discuss reasons for and against? We cannot. She goes to a cottage in the country. Already I have spoken of it to her. I allow her all I can of my mo... ... myself?’ Siegmund leaned with his head against the window, watch- ing the country whirl past, but seeing nothing. He thought imaginatively, and his i...

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...on Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but lit... ...e ex amination into the government or misgovernment of any portion of the country. No visitor of that beautiful land can fail to have a strong convic... ...them occasion to regret their free courtesy, either to myself or any of my countrymen. There is, probably, not a famous Picture or Statue in all Italy... ...of elegant models; their excessive whiteness, as contrasted with the brown rocks, or the sombre, deep, dull, heavy green of the olive tree; and the pu... ...o hot to have a hand laid on them comfortably. We went, first of all, up a rocky height, to the cathedral: where Mass was performing to an auditory ve... ...om into crisp blue fire. The air was so very clear, that distant hills and rocky points appeared within an hour’s walk; while the town im mediately a... ...ecessary), and stood there at my ease, during the performance of Mass. The singers were in a crib of wire work (like a large meat safe or bird cage) ... ...e they lie half suffo cated with mud and dust. Exhibitors of Punch, buffo singers with guitars, reciters of poetry, reciters of stories, a row of che...

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...over lingers and sings And the maid remembers. XV In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair... ...their fate! Y ou to the blinding palace-yard shall call The prefect of the singers, and to him, Listening devout, your valedictory verse Deliver; he, ... ...rol my fold; Breathe war on wolves and rival flocks, A pious outlaw on the rocks Of God and morning; and when time Shall bow, or rivals break me, clim... ...And all the sinews of hell slumber in summer air; And the face of God is a rock, but the face of the rock is fair. Beneficent streams of tears flow at...

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...large leather flask. The main cargo consisted of two entire changes of warm clothing – besides my travelling wear of country velveteen, pilot-coat, an... ... peasant, perhaps forty years of age, of an ironical snuffy counte- nance, and arrayed in the green tail-coat of the country. He overtook us hand over... ...sound of the priest’s chanting came forth out of the dim interior. It gave me a home feeling on the spot; for I am a countryman of the Sabbath, so to ... ...mour I came down the hill to where Goudet stands in a green end of a valley, with Chateau Beau- fort opposite upon a rocky steep, and the stream, as c... ...amiable stripling of a river, which it seems absurd to call the Loire. On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot- paths, practicable at... ...f the Allier, and away from the ploughing oxen, and such-like sights of the country. Moor, heathery marsh, tracts of rock and pines, woods of birch al... ...eading the insolence of a conventicle below his very windows, he ordered forth his soldiers to report. But the psalm-singers were already at his door,...

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...as far as I could see, within reach of any signal. A green, open, undulating country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of... ...; it smelt of woods, rivers, and the delved earth. These, though in so far a country, were airs from home. I stood on the platform by the hour; and as... ...s eating; and with every word, look, and gesture marched me farther into the country of surprise. He was indeed strik- ingly unlike the negroes of Mrs... ...pictured it. We were now on those great plains which stretch unbroken to the Rocky Mountains. The country was flat like Holland, but far from being du... ...ugh these sad mountains, or 24 Across the Plains over the main ridge of the Rockies, which is a fair match to them for misery of aspect. Hour after h... ...to admit the moonshine direct, and only a diffused glimmer whitened the tall rocks and relieved the blackness of the pines. A hoarse clamour filled th... ...ver seen faces more viv- idly lit up with joy than the faces of these Indian singers. It was to them not only the worship of God, nor an act by which ... ...ant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbizon; and ...