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...ck Hotel.? Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many persons are in the days of their prosperity, had thus solemnly recorded it over the hospitable gate of his hotel....

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...he duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many per- sons are in the days of thei... ...ttle bar, profusely orna- mented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, ... ...urs, much accustomed, one for the gentlemen of the shoulder-knot, who came from the houses of their employers hard by; an- other for some “gents who u... ...e did not encourage one more than another; but as far as accepting eau- de-Cologne and hair-combs from the perfumer—some opera tickets, a treat to Gre... ...gh the influence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter ... ... person were of that showy sort which is most popular in this world, where people are wont to admire most that which gives them the least trouble to s... ...” Two days after, as Mr. Eglantine, with white gloves and a case of eau-de-Cologne as a present in his pocket, arrived at the “Bootjack Hotel,” Little... ...irm is, I flatter my- self, a little more up in the market than some other people’s names.” “Do you mean to insult the name of Archibald Eglantine, si... ...mer in greater despair than ever. He had made his little present of eau-de-Cologne. “Oh fie!” says the Cap- tain, with a horse-laugh, “it smells of th...

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...ry- ing their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re- turning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sus- tained pause in the g... ...sar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream. She had seen her double. She had appea... ...nd the counter. She was asking alms of herself, and heard herself speaking from the doorway and also from her seat at the desk. She tried to grasp her... ... dreaming, my friend.” “I am not dreaming, my beautiful white doe. Listen. People should always do what their position in life demands. Gov- ernment h... ...l store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the la... ...tune. The poor Ragonines look to me half-starved of late.” “Bah! all those people want your money.” “But what people, my treasure? Is it your uncle Pi... ... he began, on equal shares, the manufacture of soaps, essences, and eau-de-cologne. His connection with this man lasted only six months, and ended by ... ...tion for the face offering superior results to those obtained from Eau- de-Cologne in the domain of the toilet, has been widely sought by both sexes i... ...hat many, out of gratitude, have called it the ‘Friend of Beauty.’ “Eau-de-Cologne is, purely and simply, a trivial perfume without special efficacy o...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...t no tourist ever TELLS them. So this little book fed me in a very hungry place; and I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little l... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ... jump up, as soon as one arrives at the transatlantic list: Paris, 27; Glasgow, 27; London, 28; Vienna, 28; Augsburg, 28; Braunschweig, 28; K:onigsber...

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...d diffidence contrasted with Ursula’s sensitive expectancy. The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun’s perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness o... ...ess of manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, a... ...he said. ‘Do you feel like that?’ asked Gudrun. ‘I get no feeling whatever from the thought of bearing children.’ Gudrun looked at Ursula with a maskl... ...run’s face. She did not want to be too definite. ‘When one thinks of other people’s children—’ said Ursula. Again Gudrun looked at her sister, almost ... ...ravened. She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp ... ... submit herself to it, the insufferable torture of these ugly, meaningless people, this defaced coun- tryside? She felt like a beetle toiling in the d... ...white dress, neat and elegant, even beautiful. There was a scent of eau-de-cologne in the room. The nurse went out of the room, Gerald was alone with ... ...owed very low. It was over. ‘Herr Loerke was giving us a recitation in the Cologne dia- lect,’ said the Professor. ‘He must forgive us for interruptin... ...controlled, mocking voice, giving an imitation of a quarrel between an old Cologne woman and a railway guard. His body was slight and unformed, like a...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...ess was thinning out. It was understood that the overture had begun. Other people who were waiting like Laura and her sister had been joined by their ... ...re; such drabs and gawks, all elbows and knees, who soaked themselves with cologne and made companions of the servants. They and the second girls were... ...ength she managed to say, in a faint, choked voice: “Will you bring me the cologne from my dressing-table, honey? My head aches so.” And, as Page ran ...

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...with which his friends have 5 Yo n g e kindly supplied me, portraying him from their point of view; so that I could really trust that little more was... ...ary judgment in connecting and selecting. Nor until the work is less fresh from my hand will it be possible to judge whether I have in any way been al... ... does not look back at least as far as the lives of the father and mother, from whom the disposition is sure to be in part inherited, and by whom it m... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...s of the ceremony. After all the boys had been confirmed about seven other people were confirmed, of whom two were quite as much as thirty, I should t... ...ter Fanny had given him some German lessons; and even on his first halt at Cologne, he received the compliment, ‘Sie sprechen Deutsch wohl’ and he fou...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...unity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first wri... ...ich belonged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, b... ...of the charac- ters. But Russ as he is, he never lets his scenery hide his people: he only uses it to enhance them. He is too great an artist to lose ... ... everything.” Paklin turned round on his heels. “That is the usual mistake people make about me, my dear Pemien! In the first place, I am not always l... ...ight years old. He had a great many acquaintances among students and young people, who liked him for his cynical wit, his harm- less, though biting, s... ...them pepper in an old pomade pot and 71 Turgenev vinegar in an old eau-de-cologne bottle), Nejdanov took his seat in the same carriage in which he ha...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ... What a gulf lay between her and that past life. She could look back to it from her present stand- ing-place, and contemplate, almost as another being... ... to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent ornamented tea. All people have their ways of express- ing kindness, and it seemed to Mrs. Sedl... ...ith men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The news... ...to be said that this soft and gentle creature took her opinions from those people who surrounded her, such fidelity being much too humble-minded to th... ...ecca said, putting her handker- chief to her eyes, and smelling the eau-de-cologne with which it was scented. “I have done you injustice: you have got...

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...f writers who forget to put on the title pages of their books: “Translated from the German.” THOUGHT AND ACT TOWARD THE END OF VENEMIAIRE, year VII., ... ...dernach, a small town standing on the left bank of the Rhine a few leagues from Coblentz. At that time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was man... ...ies invaded by our troops. At this period many sons of good families taken from 7 Balzac their medical studies by the recent conscription law due to ... ...ing the banks of the Rhine and the scenery of Suabia be- tween Mayenne and Cologne,—a strong, rich, vigorously varied nature, filled with feudal memor... ...I can litter them down in a corner of the courtyard. The stable is full of people. Do these gentlemen come from France?” he added after a slight pause... ...e morning.” “Oh! as to provisions,” said the innkeeper, nodding his head, “people come to the Red Inn for their wedding feast from thirty miles round....

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... scrapes with Phyllis, without trou- bling themselves to extract any moral from their proceed- ings; and to these the Mohun family would only apologis... ...nt and sympathetic ears. And then came the impulse to literature for young people given by the example of that memorable book the Fairy Bower, and fol... ...d learnt to know real anxiety and sorrow. Her mother, after suffering much from grief at the loss of her two brothers, fell into so alarm- ing a state... ...ousness about her in the midst of the even cheerfulness with which she had from the first supported her father’s spirits. Mr. Mohun, however, did not ... ...be like the old days, when every birthday of yours was a happy day for the people at Hetherington,’ said Emily. ‘ Ah! those were happy old days,’ said... ...x, my father’s godson! Was not Mrs. Aylmer badly off? I can- not bear that people should be forgotten!’ ‘It is not so very long that we have lost sigh... ...surly. ‘I am sure I should not mind travelling twice over the world to see Cologne Cathedral, or the field of Waterloo,’ said Lily. ‘Let me only show ... ...s of glaciers would be ru- ined by the reality; and he did not care to see Cologne Ca- thedral till it was finished. On this Lily set up an outcry of ... ...d now it stands for T uesday three weeks. Now we shall see what he says to Cologne, Lily.’ Claude sprung up, and began talking over arrangements and p...

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...as spared; the obtaining the girdle of strength; the recovery of the spoil from the three-fold enemy; the gaining of the fruit of life; immediately fo... ...d when he died under the final blow of the loss of my little brother Percy from measles. The dear old place—house with five gables on the garden front... ...ecame such democrats that they actually married the two daughters of a man from Cumberland named Lewthwayte, whom Lord Erymanth had turned out of one ... ...d so severely; besides, there was no doubt of their hav- ing harangued the people, and stirred them up, and they were seen, as well as Prometesky, at ... .... His form and colouring must have come from the Cumberland statesman, but people said his voice and expression had much of his father in them; and no... ...ed Mr. Prosser, but without meeting much sympa- thy. Mr. Prosser said many people’s minds had changed with regard to English or Irish demagogues, and ... ...esentable as they are.” “I shall wash them.” “Wash! As if oceans of Eau-de-Cologne would make them fit for society!” said Eustace, with infinite disgu...

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...RYSTE YSTE YSTE YSTE YSTE One single flash of glad surprise Just glanced from Isabel’s dark eyes, Then vanished in the blush of shame That as its ... ...t likely to dissent. Next they had to make their conquest available. Apart from Louis’s magnificent prognostications, at the lowest compu- tation, the... ...as no house provided, it mattered the less since there were five to choose from in the T errace, even if his grandmother had not wished that their hou... ... point abruptly. ‘In short, Isabel, my dear, what can you have done to set people saying that you have been corresponding with the young men at Ebbscr... ...y dear, you may mean, very rightly -I am sure you do, but you must not set people talking! It is not acting rightly by me, Isabel; but I would not car... ...an- not readily believe that I transgressed by setting the question before people in a right light. Only, whose fault soever it 20 Dynevor Terrace V ... ... ‘Isabel makes her twice as bad,’ exclaimed James; ‘to pet her with eau-de-Cologne is mere nonsense. Some day I shall throw a bucket of cold water ove... ...But, Charlotte, one thing is decided. Mrs. Frost can afford no more eau de Cologne. The first hysterics and you go!’ He passed upstairs, and found Isa...

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...hich the vicar was not slow to un- derstand. ‘I cannot say I expected much from your conversation, and perhaps we ought not to wish it. We are likely ... ...ou ever see any one so utterly broken down? She can hardly beguile a smile from him.’ ‘His melancholy is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be... ...er she will be to his poor children, I do not think we ought to grudge her from our own home.’ ‘You and she have so strong a feeling for motherless ch... ...r Albinia!’ ‘T wo years, my dear.’ ‘Pray explain to me, Maurice, why, when people become widowed in any unusually lamentable way, they always are 7 T... ... half century, and the lun- cheon-tray in the middle of all, ready for six people, for the two girls were there, and though Mr. Kendal stood up by the... ...eceive visits.’ ‘I suppose they must be!’ said Albinia. ‘You see, my dear, people would be most happy, but they do not know whether you have arrived. ... ...o- ing to faint and scream, and laid hold of the ink instead of the eau-de-cologne. There! I believe the ink would have be- trayed it without me. Now ...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...y ought to have the Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this bu... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...f the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the hands of all care- ful and thoughtful people, even among the poor, if they had a good parish priest, or had come ... ...retainers of Whitburn for their lady. He meant to visit the Three Kings at Cologne, and then to go on to St. Gall, and to the various nearer shrines i...

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...e firm of Greenleaf and Dutton manufactured umbrellas in large quantities, from the stout weather-proof family roof down to the daintiest fringed toy ... ...with a black poodle at his heels, as well shorn as his master, newly risen from lying outside the church door; a gentle, somewhat drooping lady in bla... ...eter voice, ‘or the Ufizzi.’ ‘Now, Mr. Dutton, that’s not what I want. Our people aren’t ready for that, but what they have let it be real. Miss Mary,... ...s Mary. ‘So it was with the last regime’, said the vicar; ‘but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very frien... ...e’, said the vicar; ‘but now the new people are come I expect great things from them. I hear they are very friendly.’ ‘I expect nothing from them,’ sa... ...ther did not approve of drawing from the life—models might be such strange people.”’ ‘My ears were not equally open to their profanities,’ said Miss M... ...if Nuttie had been a consenting party, no amount of cold water and eau- de-cologne would bring those bloodshot eyes, swollen lids, and mottled cheeks ...

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...y ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered fo...

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... elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a p... ...ingau, glistened in the roll of Gottlieb’s possessions; corn-acres be- low Cologne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of... ...German traders. He could have bought up every hawking crag, owner and all, from Hatto’s Tower to Rheineck. Lore-ley, combing her yellow locks against ... ...lieb’s rafts endlessly stealing on the moonlight through the iron pass she peoples above St. Goar. A wailful host were the wives of his raftsmen widow... ... of his raftsmen widowed there by her watery music! This worthy citizen of Cologne held vasty manuscript let- ters of the Kaiser addressed to him: ‘De... ...year, and so makes sure of good annual interest.’ 4 Farina Therefore when people asked Gottlieb how he had risen to such a pinnacle of fortune, the o... ...iled not to make the orbs and systems objects of ardent popular worship in Cologne, where the science was long since considered alchymic, and still ma... ...ous cut or crack was honourably won in fair field; on what occa- sion; and from whom; every member of the White Rose Club keeping his particular scrol... ... the chime, friend.’ 29 George Meredith ‘What interest do you take in the people of this house that you watch over them thus?’ asked Farina. The stra...

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...To Maria, may your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house....

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... of this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and g... ... tures now scarcely discernible, seem too weak to bear the brown clay pots from which springs the heart’s-ease or the rose-bush of some poor working-w... ...odfish and salt, a few bundles of sail-cloth, cordage, copper wire hanging from the joists above, iron hoops for casks ranged along the wall, or a few... ...tly took ineffable delight in gazing upon great masses of gold. Avaricious people gathered proof of this when they looked at the eyes of the good man,... ...ssion on the matter of vines, the talk fell upon Monsieur Grandet, knowing people said: “Le Pere Grandet? le Pere Grandet must have at least five or s... ...the remark. If some Parisian mentioned Rothschild or Monsieur Lafitte, the people of Saumur asked if he were as rich as Monsieur Grandet. When the Par... ...he boots to her nose. “Bless me! if they don’t smell like madame’s eau- de-cologne. Ah! how funny!” “Funny!” said her master. “Do you call it funny to...

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ...d Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from any one.” “Yes,” said Danglars, darting at Edmond a look gleaming with... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ... a good one! I could drink four more such bottles; they are no bigger than cologne flasks. Alexandre Dumas 27 Pere Pamphile, more wine!” and Caderous... ...le reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel th...

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...uld not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotte...

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...of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasur... ...especially of my mother, will not do them justice in the eyes of the young people of the present day, who are accustomed to a far more indulgent gover... ...aws against going into shops or buying dainties without express permission from mamma or nurse; but one day when Clarence had by some chance been sent... ...sed with a month’s wages, and poor Clarence underwent a strange punishment from my mother, who was getting about again by that time, namely, a drop of... ...e than Griffith, and thought he posed for admiration, for she used to tell people that no one could guess what a child he was for slyness; so that he ... ...larence, who had high fever, and very much delirium each night, talking to people whom he thought he saw, so as to make nurse regret her severity on t... ... in her healing and comforting powers, declaring that he would meet her at Cologne, and steer her through the difficulties of for- eign travel. Hesita...

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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 ... ...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,... ...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 ... ... word. He caused a war to grow out of the affair of the double election of Cologne, of the Prince of Bavaria, and of the Cardinal of Furstenberg; he c...