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...s a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was b...

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... the appearance that she would constitute for others (given her passionate yearn- ing to live while she might) a complication as great as any they mig... ...oceed from the one and when from the other. Preparatively and, as it were, yearningly—given the whole ground—one began, in the event, with the outer r... ...oduction we here discuss was (as “The Golden Bowl” was to be, two or three years later) born, not otherwise than a little bewilderedly, into a world o... ...d looked at the sallow prints on the walls and at the lonely maga- zine, a year old, that combined, with a small lamp in coloured glass and a knitted ... ...he feared. We don’t know how we lived. It all makes up about two hundred a year for Marian, and two for me, but I give up a hundred to Marian.” “Oh yo... ...ger of such a perch for a mere maiden; her liability to slip, to slide, to leap, to be precipitated by a single false movement, by a turn of the head—... ...rom the human predica- ment. It wouldn’t be for her a question of a flying leap and thereby of a quick escape. It would be a question of taking full i... ... les- son from them. They quivered, clearly, they hummed and drummed, they leaped and bounded in Mrs. Stringham’s typical organ- ism—this lady strikin...

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... till after the reign of the saints and the elect, designated in scripture, “a thousand years,” and among divines, “the millennium.” Having broken ... ...ripture by “the latter rain,” of which I deem the religious revivals of the last thirty years to be as the first droppings of the shower, and our rel... ...essiah in Glory and Majesty,” was, so far as I can learn, first printed in Spain in the year 1812, in three volumes, during the short period of the C... ...ility” to express the first of those three positions which have laid down above. In the year 1816, it came to England by the circuitous route of the... ...who had perused it, or become at all acquainted with its doctrines. About three or four years ago, a clergyman of the church of England, whose name, ... ...ointed to determine its being shall have taken their course; and there is no break, nor leap, nor start in its growth, which proceedeth by a slow, a... .... But upon this I would not at present reflect, my attention being called to the sudden leap which the interpreters make from the material to the spi... ...hat time, that captivity, that Zion; they would not have made so sudden and wonderful a leap from the material to the spiritual, from those times to...

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...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...nson Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert is... ...lieveolan and his sons to fight because of his removing the declarant last year from Glenduror.” On another page: “Duncan Campbell, change- keeper at ... ... another page: “Duncan Campbell, change- keeper at Annat, aged thirty-five years, married, witness cited, sworn, purged and examined ut supra, depones... ...ething with a great sound, and we heard voices singing out. My two masters leaped to their feet. “She’s struck!” said Mr. Riach. “No, sir,” said the c... ...ll he was encumbered with a frieze overcoat that came below his knees) had leaped up and caught hold of the brig’s bowsprit. It showed he had luck and... ...y, the light dark to my eyes; the thought of the numbers that were soon to leap in upon us kept my heart in a flutter: and the sea, which I heard wash... ...ment, the glass of the skylight was dashed in a thousand pieces, and a man leaped through and landed on the floor. Before he got his feet, I had clapp... ... But I had not time to be of help. The wrestler dropped at last; and Alan, leaping back to get his distance, ran upon the others like a bull, roaring ...

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...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and...

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...ME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the di... ...that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a s... ...e- sides a subject of conversation for Mme. Vauquer and her lodgers; every year the widow trembles for her vintage. 6 Father Goriot A straight path b... ... for the admiration of the board- ers, and has furnished jokes these forty years to the young men who show themselves superior to their position by ma... ...illed the place of mother. These two ladies paid eighteen hundred francs a year. The two sets of rooms on the second floor were respec- tively occupie... ... a part, and the Vicomtesse was eager to be deceived. “Instead of taking a leap heroically from the window, she is falling headlong down the staircase...

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..., the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comparative importance, so clearly discer...

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...an he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjectu... ...as married to his cousin, Elizabeth Lee, after a long engagement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit.... ..., 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daughter, Joanna Elizabeth. Four years later, on April 22, 1824, Mr. Patteson married Frances Duke Coleridge... ...half-sister already mentioned, another sister, Frances Sophia Coleridge, a year older than, and one brother, James Henry, nearly two years younger tha... ...ch, they watched their time, and through the surf which broke over it they leapt on it, and dashed ashore before the returning swell caught them. They... ...e, barefooted, till the boat could back in between the rollers; the Bishop leapt in at the first, and the boat made off at once, and till it could ret... ...ks, and church towers and Sunday bells, and the bright sparkling river and leaping trout: and the hedges with prim- rose and violet (I should like to ... ...ll house, but we could see no people. It was grand to see the great stones leaping and bounding down the sides of the cone, clearing 300 or 400 feet a... ... were seen while rowing back to the ship. One— about a third of a mile off—leapt several times fairly out of the water, and fell back on the sea ‘with...

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...f writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very little information on the subject....

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...is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very little inform... ...at 248 or 247 B.C. Apollonius must at that date have been at least twenty years old. Eratosthenes died 196 193 B.C. This would make Apollonius sevent... ...away if we assume with Ritschl that Eratosthenes resigned his office some years be fore his death, which allows us to put the birth of Apollonius at... ...es. No other had come superior to him, I ween, except Heracles, if for one year more he had tarried and been nurtured among the Aetolians. Yea, and hi... ... in a row, and pushed forward with chest and hand at once. And then Tiphys leapt on board to urge the youths to push at the right moment; and calling ... ...and return home from battle to his bridal chamber and bed. But Aeson’s son leapt upon him as he turned to face him, and smote him in the middle of the... ...ders. And Polydeuces slew huge Itymoneus and Mimas. The one, with a sudden leap, he smote beneath the breast with his swift foot and threw him in the ... ...ken them far off at the Floating Islands, had not swift Iris seen them and leapt down from the sky from heaven above, and cheeked them with these word... ...s again rushed together and crashed as they met face to face. And the foam leapt up in a mass like a cloud; awful was the thunder of the sea; and all ...

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...to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between the various stages of my life which had been really divided by years. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore....

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...ion between the various stages of my life which had been really divided by years. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have lef... ...court as suitors would not be vitally changed and depreciated within three years—within two—within one. How can we stand amazed at poor Rick? A young ... ... herself. I began by saying “You have attended on the Lord Chancellor many years, Miss Flite?” “Oh, many, many, many years, my dear. But I expect a ju... ...ing, too. T o the head. I find it so. But, my dear, I have been there many years, and I have noticed. It’s the mace and seal upon the table.” What cou... ...ar! First, our father was drawn—slowly . Home was drawn with him. In a few years he was a fierce, sour, angry bankrupt without a kind word or a kind l... ...ng in!” Mr. Guppy retreats behind a chair. “Small told me of her. She went leaping and bounding and tearing about that night like a dragon, and got ou... ...way betrays an instant’s misgiving that she may have it in her thoughts to leap over, and dashing against ledge and cornice, strike her life out upon ... .... Bagnet.” Mr. George produces his present, which is greeted with admiring leapings and clappings by the young family, and with a species of reverenti...

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...household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for more than half a century; but in the case of Scott I supposed that the text of Black?s so-called ?Author?s Edition? could be depended upon as accurate. Almost at...

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...as given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray’s poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for more than h... ...nconfessed. VI. Alone, among his young compeers, Was Brian from his infant years; A moody and heart-broken boy, Estranged from sympathy and joy Bearin... ...nd; The crag is high, the scaur is deep, Yet shrink not from the desperate leap: Parched are thy burning lips and brow, Yet by the fountain pause not ... ...id your blossoms in my bonnet wave, Emblem of hope and love through future years!’ Thus spoke young Norman, heir of Armandave, What time the sun aro... ...!’ she cried. ‘This hour of death has given me more Of reason’s power than years before; For, as these ebbing veins decay, My frenzied visions fade aw... ...boune for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, ‘T were worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array! XVI. ‘Their light-a... ...med that a number of swords that hung up in the hall of the mansion-house, leaped of them- selves out of the scabbard at the instant he was born. The ... ... he ob- served Lochiel pursuing, and seeing him unaccompanied with any, he leapt out and thought him his prey. They met one another with equal fury. T...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a bright Autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the wi...

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...I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I ON A BRIGHT AUTUMN DAY, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The... ...et, and in a few moments there bounded into the hall, a boy of about eight years old, his cheeks and large blue eyes bright with air and exercise, and... ... came one at whose sight Richard revived a little. It was a boy only a few years older than himself, perhaps about ten, with a pleasant brown face, bl... ...istory, part of which was already known to some of them. About five or six years before, Duke William had been hunting in the forest of Jumieges, when... ...enly come on the ruins of the Abbey, which had been wasted thirty or forty years previ- ously by the Sea-King, Hasting. T wo old monks, of the origi- ... ...yness went off. Richard showed his own pony, and Alberic asked if he could leap into the saddle without putting his foot in the stirrup. No, Richard c... ... and the birds sang sweetly. “Free! free!—this is freedom!” cried Richard, leaping up in the delicious cool evening breeze; “the Queen and Lothaire, a...

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...es are grey and bright, and quick in turning; My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow; My flesh is soft and plump, my narrow burning; My smooth moi... ...o a tree, Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he. Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds, And now his woven girths he breaks asunder; Th... ..., With gentle majesty and modest pride; Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps, As who should say, "Lo! thus my strength is tried; And this I do t... ...y last, their verdure still endure, T o drive infection from the dangerous year: That the star-gazers, having writ on death, May say, the plague i... ..." quoth he, "if any love you owe me, Measure my strangeness with my unripe years: Before I know myself, seek not to know me; No fisher but the ungrown... ...inking grieves." Even at this word she hears a merry horn, Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn, As Falcon to the lure, away she flies; The... ...is mutiny each part doth so surprise That from their dark beds once more leap her eyes; And, being open’d, threw unwilling light Upon the wide wound... ...h his locks: then would Adonis weep; And straight, in pity of his tender years, They both would stive who first should dry his tears. "T o see his...

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...forms took that of a pride in my capacity for affairs. I am young still in years, but the things that have happened to me have rubbed something of the... ...reckoned myself lucky in getting that little bungalow. I got it on a three years’ agreement. I put in a few sticks of furniture, and while the play wa... ...e destroyed a habit, and it disorganises my day. I’ve walked past here for years -years. No doubt I’ve hummed. … You’ve made all that impossible! “ I ... ...g like light or heat, or those Rontgen Rays there was so much talk about a year or so ago, or the electric waves of Marconi, or gravitation. All these... ...nstantly my coat tails were over my head, and I was pro- gressing in great leaps and bounds, and quite against my will, towards him. In the same momen... ...g air. I saw one of my chimney pots hit the ground within six yards of me, leap a score of feet, and so hurry in great strides to- wards the focus of ... ...them. I stared at Cavor’s rubicund face, and sud- denly my imagination was leaping and dancing. I stood up, I walked up and down; my tongue was unloos... ... anxious inactivity. I seemed perpetually to be getting out of his way. He leapt about the sphere from point to point with an agility that would have ... ...g expostulation, we began to roll down a slope, rolling faster and faster, leaping crevasses and rebound- ing from banks, faster and faster, westward ...

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...n the hill. Where is Old Fiddler Jones Who played with life all his ninety years, Braving the sleet with bared breast, Drinking, rioting, thinking nei... ...ay is a great step. But I tried to take it, my ambition fired When sixteen years of age, Seeing “East Lynne,” played here in the village By Ralph Barr... ...to one of the twelve jurymen And told him the whole secret story. Fourteen years were enough for killing me. 30 Spoon River Anthology Jack McGuire TH... ...nd wanted him to escape, And Kinsey offered to quit on Rhodes For fourteen years for me. And the bargain was made. I served my time And learned to rea... ...nuscript: “She is no respecter of persons.” Then a youth wearing a red cap Leaped to her side and snatched away the bandage. And lo, the lashes had be... ...a soul abroad. Out of the chimney of the court-house A gray-hound of smoke leapt and chased The northwest wind. I carried a ladder to the landing of t... ...ver their weaving. Stop for a moment, and if you see The thread of revenge leap out of the shuttle Then quickly snatch from Atropos The shears and cut... ... you, Making them sweet again—with tuning fork or without? Oh well! A harp leaps out of the ear of a man, you say, But whence the ear that orders the ... ...t knees, invincible but late, Shook to his weight. And quickly as the lion Leaps on its wounded prey, did Bengal Mike Smite with a rock the temple of ...

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........................................................... 172 DIRGE FOR THE YEAR. ........................................................................ ...ch a second and enlarged edition was published by Mrs. Shelley in the same year. A few made their first appear- ance in some fugitive publication—such... ...hilst thou alone, then not regarded, The … thou alone should be, T o spend years thus, and be rewarded, _15 As thou, sw... ...ay for better things. 23 Shelley In the scanty journals kept during those years I find a record of the books that Shelley read during several years. ... ...me In the wild woods, among the mountains lone, Where waterfalls around it leap for ever, Where woods and winds contend, and a vast river _10 ... ...flower;—the bound _90 With which from that detested trance they leap; 29 Shelley The works and ways of man, their death and birth, And tha... ... and on thy hair, like odour, it is yet, And from thy touch like fire doth leap. Even while I write, my burning cheeks are wet. Alas, that the torn he... ...y hair Like odour, it is [lingering] yet And from thy touch like fire doth leap— Even while I write, my burning cheeks are wet— _10 Alas, tha... ...extant in Mrs. Shelley’s hand. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. The billows on the beach are leaping around it, The bark is weak and frail, The sea looks black, and the...

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...ouring Princess: she to me Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf At eight years old; and still from time to time Came murmurs of her beauty from the ... ...here did a compact pass Long summers back, a kind of ceremony— I think the year in which our olives failed. 11 Tennyson I would you had her, Prince, ... ...gain with tears! For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave, O there above the little grave, We ... ...en an officer Rose up, and read the statutes, such as these: Not for three years to correspond with home; Not for three years to cross the liberties; ... ... follow. Deep, indeed, Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, Disyoke their necks from custom, and as... ...ry: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle;... ...m, such is he.’ Scarce had I ceased when from a tamarisk near Two Proctors leapt upon us, crying, ‘Names:’ He, standing still, was clutched; but I beg... ...ng splendours and the golden scale Of harness, issued in the sun, that now Leapt from the dewy shoulders of the Earth, And hit the Northern hills. He... ...ounding beauteous battle, comes With the air of the trumpet round him, and leaps in Among the women, snares them by the score Flattered and flustered,...

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...hat he may be ill. But if he were ill he would have waked me. For nineteen years that we have slept together in this bed, in this house, it has never ... ...an he be dead? Has he killed himself? Why?” she went on. “For the last two years, since they made him deputy- mayor, he is all-I-don’t-know-how. To pu... ... better than his own eyes; he would put them out for my sake. For nineteen years he has never said to me one word louder than another. His daughter is... ...en has paid his debt to his country by merely selling perfumery for twenty years to those who came to buy it. If the State demands the help of our int... ...he business, and let us go and live in your native place. Why! for fifteen years you have talked of noth- ing but buying Les T resorieres, that pretty... ...b- stacles in the path of his ambitious desires: but love gets on- ward by leaps of hope, and the more absurd they are the greater faith it has in the... ...hen they fall due,—a dangerous game. It is wiser to step back for a better leap. The affair does not suit us.” This sentence struck Birotteau as if th...

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... bran- dished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still... ...fied passenger stands or sits; nay, in any case, understood to be, of late years, a vehicle full to overflowing, and inexorably shut! Besides, to stat... ...as a Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a Hemlock-forest!) af- ter a thousand years. “He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable T... ...Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of trees; and, for half the year, have no victuals but pipe-clay, the whole country being under water? ... ... starvation, he must stand; or, in mad exasperation, must rush to and fro, leaping against sheer stone-walls, which he cannot leap over, which only la... ...ing current, into the ocean, here dashes itself over that terrific Lover’s Leap; and, as a mad-foaming cataract, flies wholly into tumul- tuous clouds... ...assionate readiness, as I often thought, would I have done it, had it been leaping into the infernal Fire. Thus, in spite of all Motive-grinders, and ... ...le one. His out- ward Biography, therefore, which, at the Blumine Lover’s- Leap, we saw churned utterly into spray-vapor, may hover in that condition,... ...ourse now more than formerly be straightforward, step by step, but at best leap by leap. Significant Indications stand out here and there; which for t...

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...AMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Bergen ONE DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had bee... ... told me so him- self. He was a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woods and mountains, a goo... ...: Baker’s Bluejay Yarn What Stumped the Blue Jays “WHEN I FIRST BEGUN to understand jay language correctly, there was a little incident happened here.... ...hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder in the states, that I hadn’t heard from in th... ...o pure, and so gracious, so sweet and so be- witching. For long hours I did mightily wish she would speak. And at last she did; the red lips parted, a... ...etch our weary limbs between the cool, damp sheets. And how we did sleep!—for there is no opiate like Alpine pedestrianism. In the morning we both awo... ...e, we should at all events see the celebrated wasserfall in grande perfection. Nor were we nappersocket in our expecta- tion; the water was roaring do... ...d away, and though there might perhaps have been some diffi- culty with mules, the gap was certainly not larger than a mmbglx might cross with a very ... ...es and winking dimly and fitfully through the drifting veil of vapor; and still up and up, at the superb Oltschiback and the other beautiful cas- cade...

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...t of the modern world. It is difficult to think we have left that—for many years if not for ever. In thought I walk once more in Palace Yard and hear ... ... Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several years and developed from small beginnings, incorporating now this suggestio... ...hich I derived concep- tions of foreign and domestic politics it has taken years of adult reflection to correct. And at home permanently we had Wood’s... ...resources were eked out by my mother’s income of nearly a hundred pounds a year, and by his inheritance of a terrace of three palatial but structurall... ...ragged flight, footballing my cap, my City Merchants’ cap, amongst them. I leapt to my feet in a passion of indignation and pursued them. But I did no... ...efield. And all that sort of thing.” Hatherleigh’s mind progressed by huge leaps, leaps that were usually wildly inaccurate, and for a time we engaged... ... that happens to a man of my class nowadays, and it has been convenient to leap a phase in my experience that I must now set out at length. I want to ... ...and my voice stung more than my words. Our eyes met; a real hatred in hers leaping up to meet mine. “Let’s play tennis,” I said, after a moment’s paus... ...mind. It is no use dealing with the intricate as though it were simple, to leap haphazard at the first course of action that presents itself; the whol...

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...cquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who has passed the last twenty- five years of her old life in a great metropolitan establishment, the workhouse,... ...house, namely, of the parish of Saint Lazarus. Stay — twenty-three or four years ago, she came out once, and thought to earn a little money by hop-pic... ...you ever so much as hear tell of his name? How many hundred or thousand of years had that toad lived who was in the coal at the defunct exhibition? — ... ...and yet he was not a bit better informed than toads seven or eight hundred years younger. “Don’t talk to me your nonsense about Exhibitions, and Princ... ...rstand you, my good Twoshoes, to say that your mother was seven-and-twenty years old when you were born, and that she married your esteemed father whe... ...ses: the winds howl awfully along the battlements: the waves come curling, leaping, foam- ing to shore. Hamlet’s umbrella is whirled away in the storm... ...airy Edith hereupon comes forward, and finds his body, which straight- way leaps up a live harlequin, whilst the Conqueror makes an excellent clown, a...