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...D CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.........................................................................................

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...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...nthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University,... ............................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ........................................................................ ............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...................................................................... 318 4 North America V ol. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER ... ................................................................ 318 4 North America V ol. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 1 WASH... ... Tucking your trowsers up to your knees you will wade through the bogs, 6 North America V ol. 2 you will lose yourself among rude hillocks, you will ...

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...ints off my starboard bow. By his stern lights I judged he was bearing about northeast and by north half east. W ell, it was so near my course that I ... ...ou know what it was like? It was like a gnat closing up on the continent of America. I forged along. By and by I had sailed along his coast for a lit... ... large, don’t you understand?” “Oh, now I get your idea,” I says. “I’m from America, — the United States of America.” Peters, do you know I had him ... ...a militia shoot ing match. He turned to an under clerk and says — “Where is America? What is America?” The under clerk answered up prompt and says —... ...t. Colum bus discovered it; I reckon likely you’ve heard of him, any way. America — why, sir, America —” “Silence!” says the head clerk. “Once for ... ... is that?” “Well, you will find it the same in any State or Territory of the American corner of heaven you choose to go to. I have shot along, a whole...

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...f extended beneficence, remember the distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being counted our “ne... ...-five vowels. This is the proportion found in south- ern languages, whilst northern tongues are much richer in consonants; therefore this is in a sout... ...was in the same language that that personage directed him to the Museum of Northern Antiquities. The curator of this curious establishment, in which w... ... white sails, like sea-gulls’ wings; and in the misty east and away to the north- east lay outstretched the faintly-shadowed shores of Sweden. 44 A J... ... there in very good time.” At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Nor... ... sick as they were, recognised the justice of the claim, and he discovered America. I am the Columbus of this nether world, and I only ask for one mor... ...waters which were carrying us away exceeded that of the swiftest rapids in American rivers. Its surface seemed com- posed of a sheaf of arrows hurled ... ...latitude only the imper- fectly known volcanoes of the north-east coast of America. To the east there was only one in the 80th degree of north latitud...

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... yet to be always unfortunate at sea. Con- trary winds first put us to the northward, and we were obliged to put in at Galway, in Ireland, where we la... ...hem though we had gone away to Virginia, or any other part of the coast of America, to have supplied ourselves; but there was no necessity for that. B... ... could; but that they belonged to the Isle de T rinidad, which lay farther north, in the latitude of 10 and 11 degrees. Thus coasting from one island ... ...lication would make them live comfortably, they pitched their tents on the north shore of the island, but a little more to the west, to be out of dang... ...nd arrows to fight them, they durst not go on, shore, but sailed on to the northward six or seven hours, till they came to a great opening, by which t... ...entering that opening of the sea they saw another island on the right hand north, and several more west; and being re- solved to land somewhere, they ... ...time, and in his own way? Certainly, I would rejoice if all the savages in America were brought, like this poor woman, to pray to God, though they wer... ...es south of the line, being the north-easternmost land of all that part of America. We kept on S. by E., in sight of the shore four days, when we made... ...atives here were not so easily frightened with guns as the savages were in America, where I had to do with them. All this while, I knew not what was t...

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...erence so strongly marked, unless it has been in the Val d’Ajou, where the northern side is peopled by a tribe of idi- ots, and the southern by an int... ...dely known in France. La Fosseuse was, in fact, very like these men of the North. Her nose turned up at the end, and was sunk in her face, her mouth w... ...t the hearts of the faithful, and he becomes once more the mis- sionary of America, he takes the rank of an apostle, he has all things under his feet.... ...ncommonly likely to lay a hand on France. We must let him loose on Asia or America, and that, perhaps, will keep him quiet. “The same thing was decree... ... within their own borders, so that they should not gobble us up, for those Northern folk have a strong liking for eating up the men of the South, it i... ...ented a sailor to him, a Lieutenant Doret, who had a scheme for reach- ing America to lay before him. As a matter of fact, a brig from the States and ...

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...tal designs glowed and shimmered. The dining-room was entirely sheathed in Northern woods carved and cut in open-work like the beautiful Russian chale... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ...t of nearly four hundred thousand francs, intending to seek his fortune in America, and aban- don his own country where persecution was beginning to l... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...e artless visions of a fleeting spring-time too early blighted by the keen north wind of desertion; yet all their tears, regrets and memories were alw... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo... ...e heart by Modeste’s words. “Good-bye, wife,” said the Breton, kissing the American. “Take care of the mother; I go to save the daughter.” He made his... ...mplicity. Charming phrase! so often used in the world of society,— how the north wind blows through it. “Why so?” asked Modeste of the pretty young gi... ...ces of purest blue, and would surely be swept clear before mid- day by the northwest wind, which was already playing with the fleecy cloudlets. As the...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... indeed, I am afraid you would never come down among us again.” This young American girl was an example of the freedom of life which it is possible fo... ...on, in this softer climate, is less abrupt than the inhabitant of the cold North is accustomed to observe. Beginning earlier, —even in February,—Sprin... ...t English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American. Nowhere else but in Rome, and as an artist, could she hold a plac...

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...ch that, in this country, is by no means affluent. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any com- mendable d... ...wn local authorities. But representation forms no part of the machinery of American policy . It is supposed that man is too intellectual and philosoph... ...k, we ventured to predict the great fortunes that were in reserve for this American mart, giving some of the reasons that then occurred to us that had... ...xtravagant, and was regarded as a con- sequence of European rather than of American rea- soning. If the same opinion were uttered to-day , it would me... ...rers from Europe was to form a material part of the domestic policy of the Northern States. Now the negro is a human being, as well as an apprentice o... ...ter all, is the really sore point in controversy between the South and the North. The fugitive slave has been, and will be given up to the legal claim... ...e legal claims of his master; and, in a vast majority of the people of the North, there is no disposition to disturb the legislative compromise that h... ...islative compromise that has been made of this matter. It is true that the North still owes the South a great deal more, though it may be questioned i... ...eir ben- efit. This, then, is the actual state of things, as be- tween the North and the South; and we will take a hasty view of its probable conseque...

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...hen they entered together the rue Massilon, which is opposite to the small north portal of the cathedral, and turned together into the rue Chanoinesse... ...the Cite, crowded between the flank of Notre-Dame and the river, faces the north, and is always in the shadow of the cathedral. The east winds swirl t... ...ever be that my childhood’s comrade and the friend of my youth left me for America under the feeling that I was angry with him.’ Mongenod kissed me, w... ... to buy a house; and I mean to open a banking busi- ness between Paris and North America, so as to leave it to this fellow here,’ he added, showing me... ...y a house; and I mean to open a banking busi- ness between Paris and North America, so as to leave it to this fellow here,’ he added, showing me his e... ... all the sums we need. Frederic (his father 61 Balzac gave him my name in America),—Frederic Mongenod is, at thirty-seven years of age, one of the ab...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...wn country, Stamford Bridge was, in like manner, guarded by a single brave Northman, after the battle fought A.D. 1066, when Earl Tostig, the son of G... ...mbers of which he thrust up his spear, and thus was able to hurl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of hi... ...vender.’ We have seen how the sturdy Roman fought for his city, the fierce Northman died to guard his comrades’ rush to their ships after the lost bat... ... name, Euboea. It looks like a piece broken off from the coast, and to the north is shaped like the head of a bird, with the beak running into a gulf,... ...ough Sparta was safe below the Isthmus, had no intention of abandoning his northern allies, and kept the other Peloponnesians to their posts, only sen... .... Pierre. The City of Palmyra, in Tennessee, one of the Southern States of America, had been occupied by a Federal army. An officer of this army was a...

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...ore bidding, but away Was suddein vanished out of his sight: The Northerne wind his wings did broad display At his commaund, and reared... ...take repast, For their sharpe wounds, and noyous iniuries, Till the fierce Northerne wind with blustring blast Doth blow them quite away, and in the O... ...y fathers and great Grandfathers of old, Whose noble deedes aboue the Northerne starre Immortall fame for euer hath enrold; As in that ... ... Locrine was left the soueraine Lord of all; But Albanact had all the Northrene part, Which of himselfe Albania he did call; And Camber... ...s land inuaded with like violence, And did themselues through all the North display: Vntill that Locrine for his Realmes defence, Did h... ... scepter swayd, Was Elfin; him all India obayd, And all that now America men call: Next him was noble Elfinan, who layd Cleopolis ...

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...el himself justified in having any more to do with them.’ ‘ Ah! he went to America,’ said Guy; ‘I don’t know any more about him except that he came to... ...know his name is Sebastian. It cannot be any one else. You know he went to America. How curious it is! I suppose there is no fear of his being gone be... ...”. It is what in English we call a watering-place, on the mountains to the north, where the Vicentini do go in summer for “fraicheur”, but they have a...

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... in the evening?s performance, it was too short to suffice by itself. I therefore took advantage of four days continuous rain during a holiday in the north of Scotland to write How He Lied To Her Husband for Mr. Daly. In his hands, it served its turn very effectively....

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...refore took advantage of four days continuous rain during a holiday in the north of Scotland to write How He Lied To Her Husband for Mr Daly. In his h... ...amed the newspapers which sup- port a tariff to keep up the price of every American com- modity except American manhood and womanhood. Unfortunately, ... ...ccepted engagements to appear for a season in the vaudeville theatres [the American equivalent of our music halls], where he played How He Lied to Her... ...able sins. POSTSCRIPT. Since the above was written news has ar- rived from America that a leading New York newspaper, which was among the most abusive...

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...o his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic cousins”, he said. ... ...a word, a turn of the pen, or a word unsaid, offered the picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an ... ... to much good himself, or do much good to the country. Vernon’s dancing in America was capitally described by Willoughby. “Adieu to our cousins!” the ... ...y Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. His ... ... to-morrow, Laetitia Dale could reconstruct it and put those aspens on the north of the lake in number and situation correctly where you have them now... ...ned her understanding upon a subject far from her as the ice-fields of the North a short while before; and the prospect offered to her courage if she ... ...rigid.” Dr. Middleton summed the attributes of the cellar on quitting it. “North side and South. No musty damp. A pure air. Ev- erything requisite. On... ...ss-current; morally, they are repentance, penance; imagerially, the frozen North on the young brown buds burst- ing to green. What know they of a crit... ...is bride from the Houses of Parliament up the Thames to the Severn on into North W ales. They shot some pretty weirs and rapids.” “That was nice.” “Th...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...e of your beastly rich old ruffianly republicans—spent part of his time in America, I dare say. Put two and two together.’ But as Harrington desired p... ...e babbling of the water was of Rose, and wind- ing in and out, to East, to North, it wound to embowered hopes in the lover’s mind, to tender dreams; a... ...rrent, with her imperturb- able metallic voice, and face like a cold clear northern sky. ‘Things done in secret throw on the outsiders the onus of rai...

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............................106 SKETCHES ..................................................................................................129 THE GREAT NORTH ROAD ......................................................................141 THE YOUNG CHEVALIER ........................................................................176 HEATHERCAT.....................................

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................................................................129 THE GREAT NORTH ROAD ................................................................... ...urface of the path, and all the time, perhaps, with his mind engaged about America, or the dog-star, or the attributes of God– what am I to say, or ho... ...Molokai Ahina,’ the ‘grey,’ lofty, and most desolate island– along all its northern side plunges a front of precipice into a sea of unusual profundity... ... them were openly vi- cious. They … were indeed the dreg and refuse of the north- ern parts. Those of them who arose above contempt or scan- dal were ... ...he people to revolt. He displayed some documents purporting to be from the northern Covenanters, and stating that they were prepared to join in any en... ...mour. But the excuse is merely local; it cannot apply to similar bodies in America and France; and what are we to say of these? President Cleveland’s ... ...ct bodies fly – Where T ruth in person does appear Like words congealed in northern air.’ But none of them seem to find any relish for their studies– ...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...yny, who objects. Thus, it was not the women of Salt Lake City nor even of America who at- tacked Mormon polygyny. It was the men. And very natu- rall... ...en and women in the East do not marry anyone they fancy, as in England and America. Women are secluded and marriages are arranged. In Salt Lake City t... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...ite to have his cooking done there. The windows, high up in the wall, look north and south. The north window is the largest; and if we look into the k... ... THE GENERAL. No, dont go, old chap. Not from Edith’s wedding. MRS. BRIDGE-NORTH. Oh, do stay, Benjjy. I shall really be hurt if you desert us. LESBIA...

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... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...the ruler of France, taking out his watch, “’tis time that the Minister of America should be here.” “Your Majesty should know the time,” replied Marie... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...in; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi... ...t all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi- can ... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ... I got from that exlent line, which injuiced me to ingage him. “Besides my North British Plate and Breakfast equipidge— I have two handsom suvvices fo... ...Bluenose, Prince Towrowski, the great Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestone from the North, and a skoar of the fust of the fashn. I was in my gloary—the dear Co...

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...r principal Trading being upon the Coast, from the Latitude of 15 Degrees, North even to the Line it self. I was now set up for a Guiney Trader; and m... ...d the like. The same Day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the Northward upon our own Coast, with Design to stretch over for the African C... ...retch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, which it seems was the manner of their Course in those D... ... about 12 days time, and were by our last Observation in 7 Degrees 22 Min. Northern Latitude, when a violent Tournado or Hurricane took us quite out o... ...uite out of our Knowledge; it began from the South East, came about to the North West, and then settled into the North West, from whence it blew in su... ...s positively against that, and looking over the Charts of the Sea Coast of America with him, we concluded there was no inhabited Country for us to hav... ... of the World this might be, otherwise than that I know it must be Part of America, and as I concluded by all my Observations, must be near the Spanis... ...justify the Conduct of the Spaniards in all their Barbarities practis’d in America, and where they destroy’d Millions of these People, who however the... ... bound from the Buenos Ayres, or the Rio de la Plata, in the South Part of America, beyond the Brasils, to the Ha vana, in the Gulph of Mexico, and s...

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...t midway between Aldgate Church and Whitechappel Bars, on the left hand or north side of the street; and as the distemper had not reached to that side... ...r chance trade, but among the merchants trading to the English colonies in America, so my effects lay very much in the hands of such. I was a single m... ... strait as to a place where to go, having several friends and relations in Northamptonshire, whence our family first came from; and particularly , I h... ...e- fourth part to the suburbs in the county of Middlesex, and the east and north parts of the city. But this latter I only speak of as a report. Certa... ...e went quite away to sea, and put into such harbours and safe roads on the north coast as they could best come at. But it was also true that all the p... ... beginning of July; and though the plague was come forward in the west and north parts of the town, yet all Wapping, as I have observed before, and Re...