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...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...be seen as Ulysses surveyed and noted in ten years. Malta, Athens, Smyrna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo were to be visited, and everybody was to b... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...ers to embark forthwith in the “Tagus,” which was to early us to Malta and Constantinople. So we took leave of this famous Rock—this great blunderbuss... ... on board one of the Peninsular and Oriental vessels, and try one dip into Constantinople or Smyrna. Walk into the bazaar, and the East is unveiled to...

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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...fferent sort or class of boy there, for adult students, for reference, for people expert in mathematics, for people unused to the scientific method, a... ...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ...n Bulgarian Macedonia plead in the Supreme Court? Could the Arme- nians in Constantinople, or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or t... ... Berlin as they are to a reasonable man in Paris or London or Petrograd or Constantinople. There are to be no conquests, no domina- tion of recalcitra...

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...asons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in the manner of the passing traveller; or after residence among them, ?soberly, advisedly,? and with all the vain precautions enjoined in another grave contingency....

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...ly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impression istically, in the manner of the passin... ...e dissemblances, or, if he probes below the surface, he will find them sprung from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own... ...ng from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own people. A period of confusion must follow, in which he will waver between... ...harp outlines will become blurred with what the painters call “repentances.” From this twilight it is hardly possible for any foreigner’s judgment to ... ...ost 2 PREFACE instructive that any attempt to catch the likeness of another people by painting ourselves is never quite successful. Indeed, once the ... ...nk spirits and those who drink wine, between those whose social polity dates from the Forum, and those who still feel and legislate in terms of the pr... ...s. Barbarism...now threatened the world. It had levied a shameful tribute on Constantinople; it now threatened the farthest FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEA...

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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... ...all, he added, it didn’t matter; for when you’d seen Athens and Smyrna and Constantinople, what else was there? And Mrs. Merry said she could never be... ...nd a little girl who inherited her beauty. He was subsequently heard of in Constantinople, then in Russia; and a dozen years later American travellers...

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...Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he conte...

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...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...nguage of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, ... ...ge the hyperbolic title of your bud- get. You will never finish it.” These people are neither mis- anthropes nor cannibals; whether they are ruffians ... ...and in the hour of extreme unction, all their worth will be known. If such people would only keep these sad kindnesses; but they will not. When their ... ...e their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from seizure, seventy droll stories, in that reservoir of nature, his brain... ...ncient usage, as it appears in the profane histories of Narsez, general of Constantinople, and others. On the morrow after mass has appeared before us...

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...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

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...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but ... ...d his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brilliant colours. He disposed of... ... privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they continued to stroll. One of them, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the e... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ...ated sublime. Lord Warburton walked beside her and talked of Saint Sophia of Constantinople; she feared for instance that he would end by calling atte... ...hat she herself had always been consumed with the desire to visit Athens and Constantinople. The two ladies accordingly embarked on this expedition, a...

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...attern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-cent... ...antinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-century. From such grades of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until th... ...ter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it is poss... ...tes are too short; he foretold, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is stil... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...Peace Move- ment is quite amateurish. It is so amateurish that the bulk of people do not even realise the very first implication of the peace of the w... ...of the value of kingship, of nationality, of the destiny of such cities as Constantinople, which from their very beginning have never had any sort of ... ...s not too afraid of the precedent of Sarajevo, may make a great entry into Constantinople, with an effect of conquering what is after all only a tempo...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...zarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow: This is the road that leads to Constantinople. 70 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc met from the hos...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has be...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...mbassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Provi- dence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ... Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer; it is the Almighty God’s! Atheistic sci- ence babbles poorly... ...know not what:— the notes being all false, and no gold to be had for them, people take to crying in their despair that there is no gold, that there ne... ... guai, and that he himself should see it, than we doubt that we should see Constantinople if we went thither. Dante’s heart, long filled with this, br...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could accoun...

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...ess, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite another train of affairs....

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...n equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Chaperon by Henry James From the 1893 Macmillan and Co. edition. CHAPTER I A n old lady, in a high ... ...r lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she w... ...the old lady, getting up as her maid came in. This attendant took her work from her, gave her an arm and helped her out of the room, while Rose Tramor... ...bly be small. Eric’s attitude was eminently simple; he didn’t care to know people who didn’t know his people. If his mother should ever get back into ... ...t discuss my mother with you.” “You’ll have to discuss her with some other people!” Miss Tramore proclaimed, going out of the room. Rose wondered whet... ..., lean and high-shouldered. He looked every inch a soldier, yet there were people who considered that he had missed his vocation in not becoming a par... ... met the Bob Veseys, who had taken Lord Whiteroy’s yacht and were going to Constantinople. His mother and the girls, poor things, were at the Grand Ho... ..., in July, the door of his friends had been closed to him. He was going to Constantinople, but he didn’t care—if they were going anywhere; meanwhile h...

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...Introduction: This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866,1 from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. Thi...

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...l. I (Soc. Bibl. Belges., Mons., 1866). INTRODUCTION This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal ; edit... ...edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866, 1 from the MS. num bered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at... ...istory issued by the Benedictines of the Congregation of St Maur. Selections from the poems it contains are given in Sinner’s Extraits de Poesie du X... ...esent state, the “Chronicle” comes to an end with a notice of the capture of Constantinople by the French in 1204, and it has been hastily assumed tha... ... day that He was put on rood and crucified in order that He might redeem His people from the pains of hell. Josephus set it in remembrance by annuncia... ... appeared would ask not, whereof have many mischances sithence befallen much people.” III. W ith that, they left of talking, and the hermit led Messir... ... us, for he saith of remembrance that by envy was Adam betrayed, and all the people that were after him and the people that 88 The High History of th...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ... the great wreck of 1453. They take it for granted that, concurrently with Constantinople, and the districts adjacent, these provinces passed at that ... ...f 204 Memorials, and Other Papers these Sultans, Mahomet II., by storming Constantinople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he pla... ...musketry it was that Selim the Ferocious (grandson of that Sultan who took Constantinople) was indebted for his victories in Syria and Egypt. Under So...

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...ersonal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling....

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...k or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The writer will... ...ted mental habits. It is well to warn him at the outset that the departure from accepted beliefs is here no vague scepticism, but a quite sharply defi... ...reventing the religious life of man- kind. After this warning such readers from among the vari- ous Christian churches and sects as are accessible to ... ...er, and falling mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and that people slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of ideas and s... ...atherhood and Sonship. But the trouble is that it seems impossible to most people to continue to regard the relations of the Father to the Son as bein... ...s thought and leave nothing but the essentials of the religious life. Many people, whom one would class as rather liberal Chris- tians of an Arian or ... ...l, either in numbers or accuracy of information, the present population of Constantinople. To these conditions we owe the claim that the Christian God...

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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... ...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... ...they have scarcely any. Will you be ambassador, Albert? I will send you to Constantinople.” “No, lest on the first demonstration I make in favor of Me... ... maccaroni at Naples, polenta at Milan, olla podrida at Valencia, pilau at Constantinople, karrick in India, and swallows’ nests in China. I eat every... ...esses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Varietes; I purchased mine at Constantinople; it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.” “But you forg...

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...h of the two knights was vividly depicted in sleep; and, though without local habitation or name, the scene was most likely to have been a reflection from the wild scenes so lately read of....

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...al habitation or name, the scene was most likely to have been a reflection from the wild scenes so lately read of. In fact, waking thoughts decided th... ... their greatest splendour, the last free nobles in course of being reduced from their lawless liberty, and the House of Austria beginning to acquire i... ...ctice he found insuper- able. At home Maximilian raised the Imperial power from a mere cipher to considerable weight. We judge him as if he had been b... ...f assassination, of poison, in single combat, or in battle; tumults of the people beset him; he is imprisoned as at Ghent. But finally Neidelhard is b... ...eneral belief that Freiherren lived there to do what they chose with other people, and that the House of Adlerstein was the freest and noblest in exis... ...ery hill around Ulm. Loud shouts were greeting the uprising flame, and the people gathering thicker and thicker on the slope. The friar undid the door... ...Nest prudent course, since the Genoese had dealings both at T ri- poli and Constantinople; and, moreover, the transfer was not impossible, since the t... ...ions. The fif- teen nobles, who had been offered for ransom, were taken to Constantinople, to await its arrival, and they had promised Sir Eberhard to...

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... to save the face of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggr... ...d confuse and divide the enemy, but to get a real under- standing with the peoples and spirits of a number of differ- ent nations, an understanding th... ...rease and become a fruitful and permanent understanding between the allied peoples. Neither the English, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, t... ...what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches things from Mr. Stephen Gra- ham in the Dark Forest of Russia. All this is quite o... ...olved that Italy shall not feel neglected by the refusal of the invitation from the Comando Supremo by anyone who from the perspective of Italy may se... ...ld is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts of people, this desire to exhibit the business, to get something in the way of... ...the right thing to do, and it was done abominably. It should have given us Constantinople and brought Bulgaria to our side; it gave us a tragic histor...

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...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...plain, were on the capitals, or, at least, earnestly seeking sight of them from behind intervening coats; but as for their fingers, they were envelope... ...ereabouts built up on both sides with shop-like windowed spaces, were some Constantinople arcade or bazaar, where more than one trade is plied, this r... ...the elbows and toes of the crowd, he concluded his opera- tions by bidding people stand still more aside, when, jumping on a stool, he hung over his d... ...eece and good-natured, honest black face rubbing against the upper part of people’s thighs as he made shift to shuffle about, making music, such as it... ...lephant for tossed apples at a menagerie; when, making a space before him, people would have a bout at a strange sort of pitch-penny game, the cripple...

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...Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and se...

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...ge, while casting a reflected radi- ance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which ha... ...ed at my too prolific pen, as though it could rival in fertility the world from which I draw my models! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if the f... ...ng on like this, you will say, but tell me rather how you made your escape from the convent where you were to take your vows. Well, dear, I don’t know... ...ht to have been removed. Their presence showed the carelessness with which people, busy with the affairs of state, may treat their own, and also the l... ...d me on the forehead most affectionately. “Dear child,” she said, “we have people coming to dinner to-day. Perhaps you will agree with me that it is b... ...have shown to me. In Paris, my dear, it is a miracle of virtue to love the people who live with you, for you see little enough of them; as for the abs... ...arying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is ...