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...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

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...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...er mysteriously discredited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head... ...s’s wrath at being asked to con- template Mont Blanc instead of Rheims and Chartres. But Mary and Bill wanted mountain-climbing, and had already yawne...

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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, th... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ...e prince, every maneuver of her august husband. Raoul, impassible, and a little disengaged by the atten- tion of his hosts, looked from his place thro... ...ec- tions once made, he increased the speed of his horse. But, however perfect his horse Zephyr might be, it could not hold out at such a pace forever... ... the house of an old friend D’Artagnan had met with in an hotelier of that city. From that moment the musketeer travelled on post-horses. Thanks to th...

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...g the last half of the twelfth century, it received its great est impulse from Crestien de T roies, the most distinguished of the trouvères. The met... ...year of his birth or of his death, but we know that he lived approximately from 1100 to 1175. Practically all our information about his life is what h... ... study of letters; afterward I studied long in France. 1 When I came back from France, I dwelt long at Caen. I busied myself with making books in Ro ... ...ything, or see everything … God distributes differ ent gifts to different people. Each man should show his worth in that which God has given him.” He... ...sed Constantine to be slain. Great was the sorrow the lords and all honest people made above their king, for the realm had now no prince, save only th... ...at him in his father’s chair, though not with the voice and welcome of the people. The archbishop who should have anointed the king with oil was dead,... ...honour of Burgundy; Holden, Earl of Flanders; and Guerin, 87 Wace Earl of Chartres, having the twelve peers of France in his company, for the richer ... ...y said. The twelve peers of France, who were of the fellowship of Guenn of Chartres, promised every one to ride at Arthur’s need, each man with a hund... ...for fair and ready speech. These two lords were of high peerage. Guerin of Chartres was one, and the other was that Boso, Earl of Oxford, right learne...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ... her—leaving me heir of all her property. I bore the name of the Vidame de Chartres; and was edu- cated with great care and attention. My mother, who ... ...age to commence their first campaign; and, what piqued me most, the Duc de Chartres was there, too. I had been, as it were, educated with him. I was y... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...nd daughter of the King and of Madame de Montespan) to Monsieur the Duc de Chartres. The Duc de Chartres was the sole nephew of the King, and was much... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...r as Scripture;—ineffectual for the empty Na- tional Stomach. The Mayor of Chartres, like to be eaten himself, cries to the Convention: the Convention... ...ur secret Royalists again? Glimpses of Priests were discernible in this of Chartres,—to the eye of Patrio- tism. Or indeed may not ‘the root of it all... ...ow, if not the timewasted Or- leans Egalite, then perhaps the young unworn Chartres Egalite might rise to be a kind of King? Sheltered, if shelter it ...

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...e poetically, without sacrificing perspicuity to ornament, without wandering from the precision, or break ing the chain of reasoning. If any man can ... ... God to man. Say first, of God above, or man below , What can we reason, but from what we know? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which t... ...em into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What vary’d being peoples every star , May tell why heav’n has made us as we are. But of th... ... blest to–day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. Heav’n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib’d, t... ...ds: Mark how it mounts to man’s imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass: What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole’s ... ...orks and cities see; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people’s genius, policies, The ant’s republic, and the realm of bees: How... ...ravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres’ head reserve the hanging wall? But still this world (so fitted ...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...he blood, such as Monseigneur le Duc de Vendomois (father of the Vidame de Chartres), the Comte de Sainct- Pol, Messieurs de Montpensier and la Roche-... ... Vendome (the house from which that of the Bourbons sprang), and Vidame de Chartres, the name under which he is known in history. The secret hatred wh... ... (afterwards Duchesse d’Aumale) was offered on her behalf to the Vidame de Chartres, who was kept poor by the far-sighted policy of Francois I. In fac...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...sition, as French cathedrals go, for they are not all so nobly situated as Chartres and Laon. On the side on which I approached it (the south) it is t... ...up to places in the air from which it is slow to descend. Like Tours, like Chartres, like Bourges (apparently like all the French cathedrals, and unli...

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...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ...ed in the throat. He was remarkable as a child for his amiable temper; and from the sweetness of his voice, received the name of the Little Nightingal... ...of a man generally depends upon the first steps he makes in the world; and people will establish their opinion of us from what we do at that season wh... ...man so much good as ill-will does him harm. Then there is a third class of people, who make the largest part of mankind, those of ordinary or indiffer... ...e best company; and the freedom of saying as many careless things as other people, without being so severely remarked upon. I believe, if any one, ear... ...vitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres’ 92 head reserve the hanging wall? 130 V . But still t... ...thel:’ a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great friend of Pope’s. 92 ‘Chartres:’ Colonel, infamous for every vice—a fraudu- lent gambler, &c. &c.... ...s too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough, And something said of Chartres much too rough. The lines are weak, another’s pleased to say, Lord...

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...AS, Boissy d’, President, First of Prairial. ANGOULEME, Duchesse d’, parts from her father. ANGREMONT, Collenot d’, guillotined. ANTOINETTE, Marie, sp... ...er of Guards, courage of, Fifth October, at Versailles, shows her- self to people, and Louis at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous t... ... at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous to flight, flight from Tuileries, captured, and Barnave, Coblentz intrigues, and Lamotte’s Me... ...r of Assembly, one of a trio, Jacobin, duel with Cazales, escorts the King from Varennes, conciliates Queen, becomes Constitutional, retires to Grenob... ...arseillese at. CHARLES I., Trial of, sold in Paris. CHARLEVILLE Artillery. CHARTRES, grain-riot at. CHATEAUBRIANDS in French Revolution. CHATELET, Ach... ... to Convention, and Dumouriez, oaths by, in Convention, on suf- ferings of People, and Girondins, arrested, returns in triumph, fall of Girondins. MAR... ...is XV.’s sick-room. 22 Index ORLEANS, Philippe (Egalite), Duc d’, Duke de Chartres (till 1785), waits on Dauphin, Father, with Louis XV., not Admiral... ...T, Controller of France, on Corn-law, dismissed, death of. TYRANTS, French people rise against. UNITED STATES, declaration of Liberty, embassy to Loui...

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..., darling?” she said. Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He... ...him, poor child?” The monthly nurse tried to quiet her , and pres- ently , from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the oth... ... body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing. “ Was it... ... be fortified for the evening service. V PHILIP CAME gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it no... ...nd the little harbor were shabby streets in which lived fishermen and poor people; but since they went to chapel they were of no account. When Mrs. Ca... ...ften sang still when there was a tea-party at the vicarage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted alwa... ...e Bal Bullier; there were excursions; they would make trips to Versailles, Chartres, Fontainebleau. “It’ll cost a lot of money ,” she said. “Oh, damn ...

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...ine by line, with the Edinburgh edi- 4 The Lady of the Lake tion of 1821 (from the Harvard Library), with Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edi... ...izabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many “ parallelisms “ from Shakespeare and his contemporaries. I believe I have referred to my ed... ...deep-mouthed bloodhound’s heavy bay Resounded up the rocky way, And faint, from farther distance borne, Were heard the clanging hoof and horn. 7 Sir ... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...rrow and winding streets of a suburb, inhabited by the lowest order of the people, and an approaching thunder-shower de- termined him to ask a short r... ...e surprised the French, whom chance made acquainted with it. The Vidame of Chartres, when a hostage in England, during the reign of Edward VI., was pe...

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...h applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude Vignon are sketches of t... ...re ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen from states of splendor never men- tioned by historians, who are always mor... ...d customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native char- acter allows no forgetfulnes... ...crown or divided among many heirs, if the male line failed. Disinher- ited from active life, these heads became arms; and arms de- prived of nourishme... ...crossed to Ireland, faithful to the ancient Breton hatred for England. The people of Guerande feigned utter ignorance of the baron’s existence. In the... ..., death, confiscation, exile. The beauty of the character of these two old people (for the sister lived only for and by the brother) cannot be underst... ...ut,” said Calyste, “where can I go to see you?” “I am hidden in the rue de Chartres opposite the Parc de Monceaux, in a little house suitable to my me... ...journey of two thousand miles. He now went with a light step to the rue de Chartres, and recognized the house at once although he had never before see... ...esse. Thence Calyste, urg- ing his coachman to speed, rushed to the rue de Chartres in order to know how Beatrix had passed the rest of the night. He ...

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...olicy of Louis XI., by which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by ... ... peasantry, since the clergy and the nobles to all generations were exempt from taxation. The trade and all the resources of the country were taking s... ...he succession to their sons on the payment of a tariff called La Paulette, from the magistrate who invented it. In the next reign, however, an effort ... ...th their chatter, which I could hardly follow, for it was about things and people of which I knew nothing, so that I could not un- derstand their laug... ...de by any decision except my father’s, which I daily expected. I overheard people saying how much M. de Bellaise was improved by his marriage, and how... ...n, hung and draped with blue velvet, divided by lines of gold, was full of people ranged in a circle, listen- ing eagerly to the recital of poem by th... ...but Mademoi- selle was always popular, and we were quite safe. We slept at Chartres, and there met the Duke of Beaufort, who rode by the carriage-wind...

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...neaded by a hand more daring than able; but, at whatever distance I may be from the greatest of comic writers, I shall still be glad to have used thes... ...ment that I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it fo... ...was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “ A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present momen... ...constitution which the least toil wearied. She was truly a daughter of the people of Paris, where children, seldom handsome, and of no vigor, the prod... ...ceably too small and ending in a point like the nose of a mouse, made some people fear she would become, sooner or later, imbecile. Her eyes, which we... ...a new dynasty, a royalty of its own, and behold how it treats it! When the people allowed Napoleon to rise to power, it created with him a splendid an... ...accepting the proposal, and three hours later the trio were on the road to Chartres, Cerizet having advised Thuillier not to let la Peyrade know of hi...

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...on of traffic. Never can a composition of this sort have sprung straighter from a dropped grain of suggestion, and never can that grain, developed, ov... ... to shine, and that of “The Ambassadors,” I confess, wore this glow for me from beginning to end. Fortunately thus I am able to estimate this as, fran... ...d, I seem to make out, in this full and sound sense of the matter; it shed from any side I could turn it to the same golden glow. I rejoiced in the pr... ...dful little old tradition, one of the platitudes of the human comedy, that people’s moral scheme does break down in Paris; that nothing is more freque... ... a splendid particu- lar economy. Other persons in no small number were to people the scene, and each with his or her axe to grind, his or her situati... ...ere not too foolish, to colour his adventure with cool success. There were people on the ship with whom he had easily consorted—so far as ease could u... ...taken with Miss Gostrey, two or three taken with little Bilham: he went to Chartres and cultivated, before the front of the cathedral, a general easy ...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...er Pierre Marchand, Curate and Prior of Paray-le-Monial, in the diocese of Chartres, arrived in Paris and put up at the sign of the Three Chandeliers,... ...nciliation took place, by the king’s command, in the church of Our Lady at Chartres. The advocate of the Duke of Bur- gundy stated that Louis of Orlea...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...King’s ante-chamber; and, at the same time, send their brave sons (Duke de Chartres, Egalite that is to be; Duke de Bourbon, one day Conde too, and fa... ...val thunder is heard. In the course of which did our young Prince, Duke de Chartres, ‘hide in the hold;’ or did he materially, by active heroism, cont... ...f it be light as wind, how much easier the freightage! Non-Admiral Duke de Chartres (not yet d’Orleans or Egalite) flies to and fro across the Strait;...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...King’s ante-chamber; and, at the same time, send their brave sons (Duke de Chartres, Egalite that is to be; Duke de Bourbon, one day Conde too, and fa... ...val thunder is heard. In the course of which did our young Prince, Duke de Chartres, ‘hide in the hold;’ or did he materially, by active heroism, cont... ...f it be light as wind, how much easier the freightage! Non-Admiral Duke de Chartres (not yet d’Orleans or Egalite) flies to and fro across the Strait;...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ... omen of bad augury attached to his proper title. He was called the Duc de Chartres before the Revolution, whereas his proper title was Duc de Valois.... ...ans family, her son, the Regent, had assumed in his boyhood that of Duc de Chartres. His elder brother was dead, so that the superior title was open t...

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...y that was the mess hall. Chins down, chests out, legs twitching and tired from the afternoon’s drilling, the company stood at atten- tion. Each man s... ...s where violet arc lamps al- ready contested the faint afterglow, drooping from their iron stalks far above the recently planted saplings of the avenu... ...cky, they would have seen a liner come in through the Golden Gate, growing from a blur of light to a huge moving brilliance, like the front of a high-... ...od friend who’s a kike.” They were coming out of the movies in a stream of people in which the blackish clothes of factory-hands predominated. “I came... ...selli, “everything’s awful pretty-like. Picturesque, they call it. And the people wears peasant costumes … . I had an uncle who used to tell me about ... ...He had seen peoople make gestures like that in the movies, stout dignified people in evening suits. The president of the Company that owned the optica... ...“What fun!” cried Genevieve. “But anyway they couldn’t do anything to you. Chartres is so near. It’s at the gates of Paris.” They were alone in the co... ...his morning,” he said. “You see, I was so excited by the idea of coming to Chartres with you.” They laughed. “But my mother taught me to play the pian... ...lf and Genevieve standing shoulder to shoulder looking at the Cathedral at Chartres, which stood up nonchalantly, above the tumultuous roofs of the to...

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................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ...atue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exaggerated the “De- cline an... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ... in Taylor and the Book of Martyrs, Now drinking citron with his Grace and Chartres: Now conscience chills her, and now passion burns; And atheism and... ... Given to the fool, the mad, the vain, the evil, To Wa rd , 21 to Waters, Chartres, 22 and the devil. 20 B. What nature wants, commodious ... ...waking, found at last! What can they give? to dying Hopkins, 28 heirs; To Chartres, vigour; Japhet, 29 nose and ears? 43 The Poetical Works of Alex... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...rth, and o’er the watery main; Resign to Jove his empire of the skies, And people heaven with Roman deities. The time will come when a diviner flame S...

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...e broad awake. Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent ... ... hunting, shooting, fishing, flirting, eating, and drinking. The same nice people, the same utter futility. The nice people could read; some of them c... ...r any chance of sharing or influencing their activi- ties. But they shrank from that contact. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia... ...t. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their o... ...cs). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found la... ... incredible ignorance of modern thought and political science but upstarts from the counting-house, who had spent their lives furnishing their pockets... ...id. Its picture glass was glorious even to those who had seen the glass of Chartres. It was wonderful in its very gro- tesques: who would look at the ...

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...e Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every night. I have described the place elsewher... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ... Paris to return to London. Once, long after wards, I received a telegram from him which ran as follows: ‘Please send twenty five pounds at once. Mot... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...s lips broke into a smile, and it was so tender that his thin face, sallow from long exposure to subtropical suns, was transfigured. He no longer stru... ...riage now,’ he said. ‘I’m buying furniture already.’ ‘I think only English people could have behaved so oddly as you, in postponing your marriage with... ...directing his attention to other matters. ‘I was thinking of going down to Chartres for two days with Mrs Bloomfield,’ she said. ‘Won’t you come with ... ...d to argue, and from sheer weariness consented. Next day Susie took him to Chartres. Mrs Bloomfield was no trouble to them, and Susie induced him to l...

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...ing. He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker ... ...beard was neatly and closely trimmed. Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever o... ...er at the house. The main building was called “the house,” to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. T... ...over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet’s lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s t... ...it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet u... ...e, and you would be unfit to asso ciate with the wives and daughters of the people who trust you.” Madame Ratignolle had spoken what she believed to ... ...it was the middle of November. And she also knew where the Lebruns lived, on Chartres Street. Their home from the outside looked like a prison, with i...

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...emeanour as I meet on the Continent. It goes no deeper than the demeanour, people say. I can only answer that I have not found that shallowness in my ... ...ssed by me, as she did by my father, and seemed to receive as much emotion from one embrace as from the other. “He’ll go out by the packet of the 1st ... ... sail, and felt still very like a bale of goods. I had received one letter from her, in which she merely stated that her papa would have a room ready ... ...all the ordinary hospitalities. On the next day we returned to Puerto, and from thence getting across to St. Lucar and Bonanza, found ourselves on the... ...to make an Englishman understand them. One learns to know all this sort of people by being with them in the country, but one can’t explain.” “No; exac... ...d, with the sweet- est, prettiest smile, “we don’t do that here; only when people are married.” And she made this allusion to mar- ried life out, open... ...nd, the first in interest among churches. It has not the coloured glass of Chartres, or the marble glory of Milan, or such a forest of aisles as Antwe...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ...venth, exempting from suits in law the Reverend Miles d’Illiers, Bishop of Chartres, was by the said bishop most earnestly solicited to leave him some... ...e reason why the senior John Jacomo di Trivulcio, whilst he was a-dying at Chartres, called for his cutlass, and died with a drawn sword in his hand, ...