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...ate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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...un- day morning’s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time. As the family still hesitated to appear, she went to the bay w... ... to dance with a drunken man. I won’t have to humiliate myself like that a second time.” “But I presume you will still continue to go out some- where,... ...wer of the press,” whispered Condy to Travis as the two gained the deck. A second sailor directed them to the mate, whom they found in the chart-room,... ...ation; and isn’t study- ing medicine, Condy, better than piano-playing, or French courses, or literary classes and Browning circles? Oh, I’ve no patie... ...great days. Get down there around the line in those little, out-o’-the-way republics along the South American coast, and things happen to you. Y ou ho...

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...istence of slavery might be used by the master against the slave, and prevent the future escape of any who might adopt the same means that I did. The second reason was, if possible, still more binding to silence: the publication of details would certainly have put in peril the persons and property of those who assisted....

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...nt the future escape of any who might adopt the same means that I did. The second reason was, if possible, still more binding to silence: the pub- lic... ...ly, and would cer- tainly have recognized me had he looked at me but for a second. Fortunately, in the hurry of the moment, he did not see me; and the... ... then my repulse was emphatic and decisive. It so happened that Mr. Rodney French, a wealthy and en- terprising citizen, distinguished as an anti-slav... ...oppering to be done. I had some skill in both branches, and applied to Mr. French for work. He, generous man that he was, told me he would employ me, ... ... not get two dollars, I was glad to get one; and so I went to work for Mr. French as a common laborer. The con- sciousness that I was free—no longer a... ...STRUCTION First appeared in Atlantic Monthly (1866) T HE ASSEMBLING of the Second Session of the Thirty- ninth Congress may very properly be made the ... ... the highly instructive disclosure it made of the true source of danger to republican government. Whatever may be tolerated in monarchical and despoti... ...ent. Whatever may be tolerated in monarchical and despotic governments, no republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its... ...er we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic. At any rate, to this grand work of national regeneration and enti...

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...book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after the reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagn... ...e diagnosis of the essentials of the matter. One happy hit (in Chapter the Second, Section 2), on which the writer may congratulate himself, is the fo... ... the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to ... ...ank and honourable gathering of leading men, Englishman meeting German and Frenchman Russian, brothers in their offences and in their disaster, upon t... ... were great religious and moral changes throughout the period, empires and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment in slavery,... ...does only a minute frac- tion of the radium disintegrate in any particular second? Why does it dole itself out so slowly and so exactly? Why does not ... ...nd he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them with an uncon... ...s to be a conference without a name. Nine monarchs, the presidents of four republics, a 88 The World Set Free number of ministers and ambassadors, po... ...tested Firmin. ‘This man Leblanc is right. The whole world has got to be a Republic, one and indivisible. You know that, and my duty is to make that e...

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...he great terrace and the park. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE SECOND – THE THE THE TH... ...r was different. Princhester made one think that recently there had been a second and much more serious Fall. Princhester was industrial and unashamed... ...ital patients, on his way through the industry-scarred countryside to this second conversation. 21 H G Wells The countryside had never seemed so scar... ...med that the church should hold back its curates from enlistment while the French priests were wearing their uni- forms in the trenches; the expeditio... ...thing rather jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their h... ...; and as for the Mariposa, the dancer, she had nothing but Spanish and bad French, she looked all right, and it wasn’t very likely she would go out of... ... us dream twenty-five years ago that here in China we should live to see a republic? The age of the republics draws near, when men in every country of... ...d oppressors, and the Justice of God, the Kingdom of God set high over the republics of mankind, has brought peace for ever to the world. It is to thi... ...of men, their debts and claims and possessions, must give way to the world republic under God the king. For five troubled years he had been staring re...

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...others who were safely up the field. He had walked to the fence, risking a second charge by his deliberation. Then he had sat on the fence and declare... ...chool, and Benham, after some self-examination, professed an atheisti- cal republicanism rather in the manner of Shelley. This brought him into open c... ...s strength, his father was to join him and take him mountain- eering, that second-rate mountaineering which is so dear to dons and schoolmasters. When... ...further side. “Don’t be afraid!” cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficien... ...nd. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his pub- lic-school French. “Pas de peur,” he said. “Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n’a pas l’habit... ... both strapped, and I got my feet against the side and clung to the locked second wheel. “The sensation was as though something like an intermit- tent... ... insisted upon regarding Socialism as a proposal to reinaugurate the first French Revolution, as an inversion of society so that it would be bottom up... ...y had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingd... ...Democracy dies five miles from the parish pump. It will be an aristocratic republic of all the capable men in the world….” “Of course,” he added, pipe...

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...porary phase and ex- pected to find many arguments against it in the great Republic. In regard to these things it was a pleasure to him to feel that, ... ..., very short skirts and stockings of every tint—was going home, in elegant French clothes, to re- sume an interrupted education. Pandora overlooked an... ...n and had scarcely looked at him. She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms 14 Pandora of t... ... made the observation in other capitals, that the first year, and even the second, is the time for prudence. One was ignorant of proportions and value... ...ociety had yielded considerable fruit. When, however, in April, during the second year of his residence, he presented himself at a large party given b... ... with, the self-made girl’s a new feature. That, however, you know. In the second place she isn’t self-made at all. We all help to make her— we take s... ...convinced of what he had already suspected, that conversation in the great Republic was more yearn- ingly, not to say gropingly, psychological than el...

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...—if by chance any of those birds of ponder- ous flight still linger in the second-hand carriage-shops— might be made, as to its structure and arrangem... ...it down with the bourgeois. His clothing, like that of all coachmen of the second class, consisted of stout boots, heavy with nails, made at Isle-Adam... ...are English springs for those called “swan-necks,” and other old-fashioned French contrivances. But these hard and distrustful manufacturers would onl... ...n that enforced it, had the effect, coming from a man who stood as high as second 16 A Start in Life valet to the Comte de Serizy, of cooling the ard... ...She was dressed in a black-silk gown that was dyed, a brown bonnet, an old French cashmere shawl, raw-silk stockings, and low shoes; and in her hand s... ...efer- ences, Pierrotin, it isn’t right.” “Coucous and the Charter make all Frenchmen equals,” said Georges. “Oh! be easy,” said Pere Leger; “we are su... ... the rank of captain in 1832. When the amateur of the best of all possible republics was removed from the command of the National guard, Oscar Husson,...

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... more dexterous and excellent dancer. But also by the grace of his manner, and fine conversation he knew to win the Queen, and she graciously accorded... ...has been clandestinely inspecting him in his privacy and mentally commenting upon him. I eyed the raven, and the raven eyed me. Nothing was said durin... ... strength enough to crawl up on to the comb and lean his back agin the chimbly, and then he collected his impressions and begun to free his mind. I se... ...e next chapter, will show the reader that duels between boys, for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The... ... tions of our day. Since it is always fought in the open air, the combatants are nearly sure to catch cold. M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most inveterate ... ...nd draughts cannot intrude—he will eventually endanger his life. This ought to moderate the talk of those people who are so stubborn in maintaining th... ... them.” “This is divine. Go on—it is not possible that you forgot to inquire into her politics?” “No, I thought of that. She is a democrat, her husban... ...aring along in the opposite direction. This is lucky! You are Mr. Riley, ain’t you?” Riley was the most self-possessed and solemnly deliberate person ... ...dden on a rail to the confines of the canton, and banished forever. The severest penalties are omitted in your case—not as a grace to you, but to that...

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...00 prisoners reported by General Sedgwick include the 400 taken by General French, or do the Whole amount to 1900? A. LINCOLN. ORDER CONCERNING THE EX... ...res that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasi... ...from the United States of Colombia, and have accredited a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced ... ...arged navigation becomes a palpable need to the great road. I transmit the second annual report of the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture, ... ...obligation of the United States to guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government and to protect the State in the cases stated ... ...igher duties of tonnage and im- post have been imposed or levied since the second day of August, 1838, in the ports of Nicaragua, upon vessels wholly ... ...ilian, and another pointing out to me what will secure his release! On the second day of January last, I wrote to General Curtis in relation to Mr. Di... ...A. LINCOLN. ORDER IN REGARD TO THE EXPORTATION OF TOBACCO BELONGING TO THE FRENCH GOV- ERNMENT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, March 7, 1864. Whereas... ...ember last permission was given to export certain tobacco belonging to the French government from insurgent territory, which tobacco was supposed to h...

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...h a dirty head- gear of red flannel, not unlike the Phrygian cap which the Republic had lately adopted as an emblem of liberty. Each man carried over ... ...their cos- tume as the peasants themselves. About a dozen of them wore the republican jacket known by the name of “la carmagnole.” Others, well-to-do ... ...ould easily have distinguished the few in- dividuals on whose fidelity the Republic might count among these groups, almost entirely made up of men who... ... gloomy apparition, with an accent which proved his difficulty in speaking French, “there Maine begins” (pointing with his huge, rough hand towards Er... ...“ga” is a relic of the Celtic language. It has passed from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient associa- tions ... ...ght to naught. Ha! we soldiers have a double mission,—not merely to defend French territory, but to preserve the national soul, the generous principle... ...re levelled at him, but, like a figure in a pantomime, he disappeared in a second among the tufts of gorse. These events, which have taken so many wor... ...ldiers, and they advanced in silence upon the Chouans. At the end of a few seconds each side fired, with the loss of several men. At this moment the t... ...obtained some notice at the West, where the inhabitants, observant of this second uprising, noticed on this occasion a great change in the manner in w...

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...dow-curtains, the comfortless polished floor, the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse for wear. Some people no longer look the sam... ..., an affliction with which any Parisian family may be visited. And, in the second, when her cousin had spoken to her of her dress with manifest misgiv... ...uise felt humbled through her love, one of the sharpest of all pangs for a Frenchwoman, a mortification for which she cannot forgive her lover. In the... ...this personage his importance was at once evident to Mme. de Bargeton. The second comer was a Vandenesse, the cause of the scan- dal in which Lady Dud... ...is directly affected by the caprices of the season and the vicissitudes of French agricul- ture. By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux’s you learn a ho... ...ather and good or bad seasons. He knows when it is a good year for peas or French beans, and the kind of salad stuff that is plentiful; when the Great... ... Catholics were supporters of absolute monarchy, and the Protestants for a republic.” “M. Vidal!” shouted an assistant. Vidal fled. “I don’t say, sir,... ...e and their genius, stands 65 Balzac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small sh... ...ra- tion scheme was more dangerous to the aristocracy of Eu- rope than the Republican propaganda; it was more feasible and less extravagant than the h...

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... Tom Thrupp, as kind a fellow as ever ran a Mahratta through the body, was second Major. We were on the eve of that remarkable war which was speedily ... ... four men of my own troop) seventeen field-pieces, killing the scoundrelly French artillerymen; on that day I had eleven elephants shot under me, and ... ...cuddy should have stuck to sword’s play, and he might have come off in his second duel as well as in his first; as it was, the civilian placed a ball ... ...s myself; he wore a steel cap and a shirt of mail, and carried a beautiful French carbine, which had already done execution upon two of my men. I saw ... ...st an instant. With my first blow I cut off his sword-arm at the wrist; my second I levelled at his head. I said that he wore a steel cap, with a gilt... ... its en- emies by the ears, by no means interfered in the contest. But the French Revolution broke out, and a host of starving sans- culottes appeared... ... Company would 24 Major Gahagan have established my Empire (bah! it was a republic then!) in the East—but that the man before us, Lieutenant Goliah G...

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...KS: Russian Life in the interior: or, the Experiences of a Sportsman, from French version, by J. D. Meiklejohn, 1855; Annals of a Sportsman, from Fren... ...om the Russian, by E. Schuyler, 1867, 1883; Smoke: or, Life at Baden, from French version, 1868, by W . F . West, 1872, 1883; Liza: or, a Nest of Nobl... ...ve, a tale, from the Russian, by C. E. Turner, 1871; Dimitri Roudine, from French and German versions, 1873, 1883; Spring Floods, from the Russian, by... ... and even if I were, that is no reason why you should not trust me. In the second, I have been flattered with your confi- dence on more than one occas... ...surroundings he had come to of his own accord, and repeated his question a second time. Nejdanov started. “Of course,” he began hurriedly, “I should l... ...ense. “Oh, nothing. Goodbye. It’s nothing.” She squeezed Nejdanov’s hand a second time and went out. “There is not a soul in St. Petersburg who is so ... ...naged to educate her at the Smolny Con- vent, where, although considered a republican, she was al- ways in the foreground and very well treated on acc... ...derstand each other! Je ne suis pas une encroutee. I was even considered a republican as a girl . . no less than you. Listen, I won’t pretend that I e... ...standing behind the barricades waving a flag and shouting, ‘Hurrah for the republic!’ Besides, that is not a woman’s work. Now, today you will begin t...

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...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ..., the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution o... ... Granville reached the period of their marriage—the first at eighteen, the second at twenty years of age—without ever leaving the domestic zone where ... ...y lives. Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Paesiello, Cimarosa, Haydn, and certain secondary geniuses, developed in their souls a passionate emotion which nev... ... exclusive aristocrat had noth- ing to fear in coming in contact with this second-class soci- ety. The loftiest pretensions were there respected. Duri... ...l of others. At this particular time he was going from Saint-Simonism into republicanism, to return, very likely, to ministerialism. He looked for a b... ...ine me- teor. Fashion accepted his ways and his appearance. His bor- rowed republicanism gave him, for the time being, that Jansenist harshness assume... ...ed at the combination of an eclectic under-secretary of State, a ferocious republican, and a political atheist. “Suppose we sup at the expense of the ...

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...and your lady’s-maid (yes, Madame, you are to have one!) will sleep on the second floor. On the third will be the kitchen and rooms of the cook and th... ...ing the Revolution, and led the wandering life of priests not sworn by the Republic, hunted like wild beasts and guil- lotined at the first chance. At... ...’s stay he went back to T ours resolving never to revisit the capital. The second son of the vine-dresser, Jean Birotteau, was drafted into the militi... ... clean sweep in the shop of citizen Ragon, Cesar Birotteau, promoted to be second clerk, profited by the occasion to obtain a salary of fifty francs a... ...elt’s on the piano, and singing a ballad; or when he found her writing the French language correctly, or reading Racine, father and son, and explainin... ... Astronomers lived on spiders. These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will... ...e eau-de-cologne. The names of these places were shams, invented to please French- men who could not endure the things of their own country. A French ... ... he never in- sulted his adversaries, he dreaded courtiers and believed in republican virtues; he thought Manuel a pure man, General Foy a great one, ... ...holy-water first caught the eye. This profession of faith in a stoical old republican was strangely moving to the heart of a spectator. An old woman c...

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...ffy little shop-walker would have come into view, looked at the bill for a second, very hard (showing you a parting down the middle of his head mean- ... ...etal. Decidedly it was a machine with a past. Mr. Hoopdriver had bought it second-hand from Hare’s in Putney, and Hare said it had had several owners.... ...econd-hand from Hare’s in Putney, and Hare said it had had several owners. Second- hand was scarcely the word for it, and Elare was mildly puzzled tha... ...o the nature of her nether costume. He had heard of such things of course. French, perhaps. Her handles glittered; a jet of sunlight splashed off her ... ...nce for foolishness. She had begun with a few experiments. He did not know French except ‘sivver play,’ a phrase he seemed to regard as a very good li... ...and had further given her a volume of Emerson’s Essays and Motley’s “Dutch Republic,” to help her through the rapids of adolescence. Jessie’s feelings... ... I wasn’t so backward. I did algebra, and Latin up to auxiliary verbs, and French genders. I got a kind of grounding.” “And now you mean, should you g...

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...d with all the eagerness of a girl who had lived for twenty-two years in a second-class town of central Mas- sachusetts, was in great distress. She ha... ...sical type that includes Lincoln— the type of the Middle West—was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls. In Massachusetts, thirty ye... ... harvest of wheat somewhere in the world for every month in the year; and, second, because the smart man who runs the corner has every other smart man... ... pointed beard, and a mus- tache that he brushed away from his lips like a French- man. By profession he was an artist, devoting himself more 16 The ... ... chest. Though the others sang in Italian, the tenor, a Parisian, used the French book con- tinually, and now villified the baritone, crying out: 25 ... ... than to enforce her application. She soon acquired a reading knowledge of French, and knew her Racine in the origi- nal almost as well as her Shakesp... ...ers saw season after season of good crops. They were good in the Argentine Republic, and on the Russian steppes. In India, on the little farms of Burm... ... provinces of Rus- sia. That left only the United States and the Argentine Republic to feed pretty much the whole world. Of course that would make whe... ... the poor, and battened in the luxury wrung from the toiling millions. The Republican papers spoke solemnly of the new era of prosperity upon which th...

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...Casciano as he lived in retirement upon his property after the fall of the Republic, perhaps with a twinge of the torture that pun- ished his conspira... ...ow that stir and whirl of human thought one calls by way of embodiment the French Revolution, has altered absolutely the approach to such a question. ... ...t to the socially constructive passion—in any man… . There is, moreover, a second great difference in kind be- tween my world and Machiavelli’s. We ar... ... ever. 10 The New Machiavelli CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND THE SECOND BR BR BR BR BROMSTEAD AN... ... legs and sent them by pin hooks along 14 The New Machiavelli a wire to a second slaughterman with a chipped foot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I re... ...lying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic massacre. It was the French Revolution of that cold tyranny, the vindictive overthrow of the pam... ...istic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducking for it—and a huge French May-day poster displaying a splendid proletarian in red and black on... ...iated masses, the proletarians, Labour. Change Conservative and Liberal to Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the Un... .... If the King backs the Lords—and I don’t see why he shouldn’t—you have no Republican move- ment whatever to fall back upon. You lost it during the Er...

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...k shrilly crew, And morning dawned on Benvenue. 23 Sir Walter Scott CANTO SECOND. The Island. I. At morn the black-cock trims his jetty wing, ‘T i... ...e starting tear Speak woe he might not stop to cheer: Then, trusting not a second look, In haste he sped hind up the brook, Nor backward glanced till ... ...st, my mountain-guide, Though deep perchance the villain lied.’ ‘Yet why a second venture try?’ ‘A warrior thou, and ask me why!— Moves our free cours... ...despised the soil That paid so ill the labourer’s toil; Their rolls showed French and German name; And merry England’s exiles came, T o share, with il... ...any other argu- ment, whereof their rhymes intreat. They speak the ancient French language, altered a little.”[FN#6] ‘The harp and chairschoes are now... ...oth so much worn in Scotland. Curiously enough, the name is not Gaelic but French. See Jamieson or Wb. Brave. Fine, beautiful; the same word as the Sc... ...d his constant incursions rendered him a very unpleas- ant neighbor to the republican garrison at Inverlochy, now Fort William. The governor of the fo... ...mwell’s soldiers during their inroad into this country, in the time of the republic. These invaders, not venturing to ascend by the ladders along the ...

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...ntly, the last election of Francois Keller had been dis- turbed by certain republicans, whose red caps and long beards had not, however, seriously ala... ...e Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cygnes, or even, the King of the French. The numerous partisans of old Gondreville, the king of the departme... ... Grevin’s brother-in-law, a miller named Laurent Goussard, the head of the republicans of Arcis, the two assistant mayors, the printer and publisher o... ...me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that many sufferings—” At t... ...ave conquered the unfertile portion of those departments, and industry has seconded capital on the Champagne chalk, the prosperity of that region will... ...ren were inscribed on the civil registers under the fantastic names of the Republican calendar. In 1814, hosiery, a stable business with few risks in ... ...nning of 1814, Phileas had emptied his warerooms. The prospect of a war on French soil, the hard- ships of which were likely to press chiefly on Champ... ... a pair, and cambric shirts were objects of luxury. Manufacturers from the second class, the principal work- men, reckoning on the genius of Napoleon,... ...on made of the famous saying of Louis XVIII.: “Union and Oblivion.” On the second return of the Bourbons, Grevin’s father-in- law, old Doctor Varlet, ...