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...ls of Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE IT WA S IN THE YEAR of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and... ...was occupied by a very small English colony. It had been given the name of Silver-Store. The reason of its being so called, was, that the English colo... ...on of its being so called, was, that the English colony owned and worked a silver-mine over on the mainland, in Honduras, and used this Island as a sa... ...nduras, and used this Island as a safe and convenient place to store their silver in, until it was annually fetched away by the sloop. It was brought ... ...ndly Indians and guarded by white men; from thence it was conveyed over to Silver-Store, when the weather was fair, in the canoes of that country; fro... ...lver-Store, when the weather was fair, in the canoes of that country; from Silver-Store, it was carried to Jamaica by the armed sloop once a-year, as ... ...t officer’s name was Linderwood—had been told off at Belize, to proceed to Silver-Store, in aid of boats and seamen stationed there for the chase of t... ...e out there with her sister, who was mar- ried to one of the owners of the silver-mine, and who had three children with her. It was easy to see that s... ... Perils of Certain English Prisoners magazine, “That’s where they keep the silver you see;” and Charker had said to me, after thinking it over, “And s...

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...Majority”: “Split the lark and you ’ll find the music— Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled, Scantily dealt to the Summer morning, Saved for your ears wh... ...ed heart, That sat it down to rest, Nor noticed that the ebbing day Flowed silver to the west, Nor noticed night did soft descend Nor constellation bu... ...I MUSICIANS wrestle everywhere: All day, among the crowded air, I hear the silver strife; And—waking long before the dawn— Such transport breaks upon ... ...lls in steeples stand. Till, swollen with the sky, They leap upon their silver feet In frantic melody! 57 XCIV IF the foolish ca... ...ed, less Than I reviled myself For entertaining plated wares Upon my silver shelf. CXIX TO lose one’s faith surpasses The loss of... ...ous melody. At half-past four, experiment Had subjugated test, And lo! her silver principle Supplanted all the rest. At half-past seven, element Nor i... ...leeve— And then I started too. And he—he followed close behind; I felt his silver heel Upon my ankle,—then my shoes Would overflow with pearl. 93 Unt... ...native coast, And peace was Paradise! 95 XXII AN everywhere of silver, With ropes of sand To keep it from effacing The track called land. ... ...ed his feathers And rowed him softer home Than oars divide the ocean, T oo silver for a seam, Or butterflies, off banks of noon, Leap, plashless, as t...

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...glories of its landscape-painted sides were somewhat dimmed, the green and silver of the fittings a little tarnished to a critical eye; yet it was a s... ...ering over harebells. There were blue silk shoes, likewise home-made, with silver buckles, and the long mittens and deep lace ruffles were of Betty’s ... ...his stockings were of ribbed silk, theirs of black worsted; his buckles of silver, theirs of steel; and the line of demarcation was as strongly marked... ...u think there will be a great smoke, and that folk will see it?” Aurelia’s silvery peal of laughter fell sadly upon Betty’s ears in front, and her fat... ...and he, when he ought to have been in his bed, dressed in rose- colour and silver, with a bow and arrows, and gauze wings on his shoulders!” “What wil... ...as said their papa would love them very much. He had given them each a new silver shilling, and Amoret had in return presented him with her doll’s bea... ...ally something dazzlingly grand and beautiful in feathers, light blue, and silver. Aurelia made her reverence, and so did the little triad; the great ... ..., and well shown by the light blue habit laced richly and embroidered with silver. A small round hat with a cluster of white ostrich feathers was plac... ... a tea-service. She thought of porcelain, but Mr. Belamour’s views were of silver, and it ended in the lady giving the cups and saucers, and the gentl...

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...jubilee; but on the twenty-fifth an- niversary they have credit only for a silver jubilee. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V I AM INTR... ...from amongst us. Something of the same kind has happened in the history of silver forks. Forks of any kind, as is well known, were first introduced in... ...him, stop him! that man’s going to commit suicide.” This anec- dote argues silver forks as existing much more than a cen- tury back, else the squire h... ...ood defence. Since then, in fact, about the time of the French revolution, silver forks have been recognized as not less indispensable appendages to a... ...ized as not less indispensable appendages to any elegant dinner table than silver spoons; and, along with silver forks, came in the explosion of that ... ...own obscene modes of feeding prevailed every where, got up the name of the Silver-fork School, (which should have indicated the school of decency,) as... ...stic or ultra refinement. At length, however, when cheap counter- feits of silver have made the decent four-pronged fork cheaper than the two-pronged ... ...longer to banter it. There is, therefore, this strict analogy between “the silver fork” reproach and “the blue- stocking” reproach—that in both cases ... ... a most 303 Autobiographic Sketches appropriate female ornament; and upon silver forks, on the other, as an element of social decorum. * * ...

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... asked. ‘Devil a bit; passed away like a lamb,’ said he. He looked on me a little, and I saw his hand go to his fob. ‘Here, take that! no sense in fre... ... she. ‘And I trust, madam, not less,’ said I. ‘Well,’ said she, ‘at this rate the matter may be feasible. I will cash one of these five-guinea bills, ... ...igh time for you to be taking the road. But first of all let me give the change of your five-guinea bill. Here are four pounds of it in British Linen ... ... side of which we en- camped at night; infinite perspectives of heather, infinite quantities of moorfowl; here and there, by a stream side, small and ... ...man, and won’t fight? But I’ll stand no more of this! I leave this place, where I’ve been insulted! Here! what’s to pay? Pay yourself!’ I went on, off... ...t the postmaster no great authority, I was bound to agree with him so far. The body was painted a dark claret, and the wheels an invisible green. The ...

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...right with gems that they eclipsed the glories of the ex-votos of gold and silver hung up by sailors of the port on the columns in the nave. But all t... ...ging as a prima donna’s in the chorus of a finale. It was like a golden or silver thread in dark frieze. It was she! There could be no mistake. Parisi... ...ion; I am expected to de- lude myself, to be willing to give gold coin for silver to the end. If you can so easily dispense with my visits; if you can...

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...d over six heads at once, and then the struggle back to the pew, while the silver- pokered apparitor looked grim at us, as though the maimed and halt ... ...et people of a cer- tain grade were as sure to keep their chariot as their silver tea-pot; indeed we knew one young couple who started in life with no... ...air entertained of hearing the sweet cot- tage bonnet reading a tract in a silvery voice through the hovel window, that he fairly teased and shamed Cl... ...s, how glorious a sight our brother had been, riding there in his glancing silver, bearing down all before him with his good sword, like the Captal de... ...Hillside, dispersed by the splendid prowess of Griffith, the champion with silver helm and flashing sword, was pre- cious to her as a renewal of the d... ...in the details of his tidings, as he stood before the fire, shining in his silver lace, and relating the tragedy and the comedy of the scene. It was c...

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...wall came up (American consul) and proposed to take me on a malaga, which I accepted. Monday I rode down to Apia, was nearly all day fighting about dr... ...s in a very dreary, marshy part among dilapidated trees that you see through holes in the trunks of; and if any kind of beast or elf or devil had come... ... from the left or western side—the 78 Robert Louis Stevenson whole plateau having a smartish inclination to the east; one of the tributaries in a han... ... VI. I make a fault in honour. VII. The Bravo. VIII. The Heather on Fire. 90 Robert Louis Stevenson IX. I begin to be haunted with a red-headed m... ...URDAY, 22. Still all for the best; but I am having a heart-breaking time over David. I have nearly all corrected. But have to con- sider The Heather o... ...last of the series. Travels and Excursions, vol. II. Should it not include a paper on S. F. from the Mag. of Art? The A. E. , the New Pacific capi...

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...est you as soon as ye may, and reward your good knights with gold and with silver, for they have well deserved it; there may no riches be too dear for...

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...med to bespeak an irritable temper and violent passions. His hair, already silvered, and carefully dressed, seemed to furrow his head with streaks of ... ...ittle Pompadour drawing-room, at ten that evening. The fine head, with its silver hair thrown into relief by the entirely black dress, and the divinel...

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...ous I call it, for, by some refinement of malice, it spoke in as sweet and silvery tones as if it had been inviting one to a party); its tones have no... ...t end! Fabric it seem’d of diamond, and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted; here, seren... ...own the virtues of opium. To my architecture succeeded dreams of lakes and silvery expanses of water: these haunted me so much that I feared (though p...

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...r the less temperate and virtuous for knowing that he made use of gold and silver vessels, when the condition of his fortune allowed him so to do; I h... ...! “Totus et argento conflatus, totus et auro;” [“Wholly made up of silver and gold.”—Tibullus, i. 2, 70.] does he not forget his palaces and g... ...is, that they should never ride mule or mulet, upon pen- alty of a mark of silver; this I had lately out of Guevara’s Letters. Whoever gave these the ...

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...ters. “Not bad,” he said, stripping the oysters from the pearly shell with a silver fork, and swallowing them one after another. “Not bad,” he repeate... ... worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing ... ...d a brightly lighted table, gleaming with the light of candles, white cloth, silver samovar, and transparent china tea things. The hostess sat down at... ...vin two, of which one was not found. It began to get dark. Venus, bright and silvery, shone with her soft light low down in the west behind the birch ... ...uick as they can,” he said to the servant, who handed him the steak on a hot silver dish, and moving the dish up he began eating. From the billiard ro... .... Putting a cup before Anna, she took out a cigarette, and, fitting it into a silver holder, she lighted it. “It’s like this, you see: I’m in a fortuna... ...laid with six sorts of spirits and as many kinds of cheese, some with little silver spades and some with out, caviar herrings, preserves of various k... ...ound of the holy picture stand, and the gilt relief on the pictures, and the silver of the lusters and candlesticks, and the stones of the floor, and t... ... the candles. The little old priest in his ecclesiastical cap, with his long silvery gray locks of hair parted behind his ears, was fumbling with some...

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...r Villaumes, mother and daughter, Milliners in the Rue St.-Martin, give ‘a silver thimble, and a coin of fifteen sous (sevenpence halfpenny),’ with ot... ...ger has only ‘three sous a day:’ the very Emigrants, it is said, will take silver-plate,—by way of re- venge. Clermont, Sainte-Menehould, Varennes esp... ... the elegant carriages of the Emigrants, many-coloured, lackered, gilt and silvered, evi- dently by the best builders, caught your eye. (See Hermann a... ...ngpot, to make cannon. Censers and all sacred vessels are beaten broad; of silver, they are fit for the poverty-stricken Mint; of pewter, let them bec... ...s their heaped plunder,—ciboriums, suns, can- delabras, plates of gold and silver.’ (Mercier, iv. 134. See Moniteur, Seance du 10 Novembre.) The Addre... ...awn-brokers’ shops;’ all manner of furniture, apparel, vessels of gold and silver accumulate themselves there: bread is precious. The Farmer’s rent is... ...ky-blue coat, made for the occasion; white silk waist- coat broidered with silver, black silk breeches, white stock- ings, shoe-buckles of gold. He is... ... Meek continual Twilight streaming up, which will be Dawn and a To-morrow, silvers the Northern hem of Night; it wends and wends there, that meek brig... ...t February, 1796: at the Bourse of Paris, the gold louis,’ of 20 francs in silver, ‘costs 5,300 francs in assignats.’ Montgaillard, iv. 419).) Pressur...

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...fiery tongue, which sate in guard before a palace of gold, with a floor of silver; and upon the wall there hung a shield of shining brass with this le... ...carcass from out of the way before him, and approached valorously over the silver pavement of the castle to where the shield was upon the wall; which ... ... sooth tarried not for his full coming, but fell down at his feet upon the silver floor, with a mighty great and terrible ... ... shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet ...

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...? Despite the taper light, the clamor of the senses, the gleam of gold and silver, the fumes of wine, and the exquisite beauty of the women, there may... ...lack archways, the shafts and capitals, the recessed chapels with gold and silver gleaming in their depths, the galleries, the Arab traceries, all the... ...e high altar like a splendid dawn. All the glories of the golden lamps and silver candlesticks, of banners and tassels, of the shrines of the saints a... ...mperial state among his clergy in the choir. Rows of impassive aged faces, silver-haired old men clad in fine linen albs, were grouped about him, as t...

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... A shepherd’s boy (he seeks no better name) Led forth his flocks along the silver Thame, Where dancing sunbeams on the waters play’d, And verdant alde... ...A faithful swain, whom Love had taught to sing, Bewail’d his fate beside a silver spring; Where gentle Thames his winding waters leads Through verdant... ...ne’s fate, and Daphne’s praise! THYRSIS. Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, Their beauty wither’d, and their verdure lost. ... ...refuse their verdant food, The thirsty heifers shun the gliding flood, The silver swans her hapless fate bemoan, In notes more sad than when they sing... ...es; The trembling trees, in every plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the silver flood; The silver flood, so lately calm, appears Swell’d with new pa... ...! No more the rising sun shall gild the morn, Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn; 100 But lost, dissolved in thy superior ... ...the bell, the slipper knock’d the ground, And the press’d watch return’d a silver sound. Belinda still her downy pillow press’d, Her guardian Sylph 29... ...ve taught; 30 Of airy elves by moonlight shadows seen, The silver token, and the circled green, Or virgins visited by angel-powers, Wi... ... 120 And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, Each silver vase in mystic order laid. First, robed in white, the nymph intent a...

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...ht as it were a summer light; and the women kneeled down afore an altar of silver with four pillars, and as it had been a bishop kneeled down afore th... ...four pillars, and as it had been a bishop kneeled down afore that table of silver. And as Sir Bors looked over his head he saw a sword like silver, na...

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...th its want of longitude, formed a fantastic piece of drapery. He had thin silver bracelets upon his arms, and on his neck a collar of the same metal ... ...d whose bridle, ac- cording to the fashion of the day, was ornamented with silver bells. In his seat he had nothing of the awkwardness of the convent,... ...sh; the dress of his squires was gorgeous, and his Eastern attendants wore silver collars round their throats, and bracelets of the same metal upon th... ...ood fellow,” said he to Wamba, and seconded his speech by a small piece of silver coin, “the way to Cedric the Saxon’s; you cannot be ignorant of it, ... ...arly to his cupbearer, who offered him from time to time, as a sedative, a silver goblet filled with wine—“Why tarries the Lady Rowena?” “She is but c... ...a portion as he pleased. Beside each person of rank was placed a goblet of silver; the lower board was accommodated with large drinking horns. Whe... ...I warrant thee store of shekels in thy Jewish scrap.” “Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling—so help me the God of Abraham!” said the Jew, ... ...ered hangings, on which different-coloured silks, interwoven with gold and silver threads, had been employed with all the art of which the age was cap... ...commodated with a footstool of ivory, curiously carved. No fewer than four silver candelabras, holding great waxen torches, served to illuminate this ...

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...ave you marked their still degrees Of ebbing melody, like the strings Of a silver harp swept by a spirit’s hand In some strange glimmering land, ‘Mid ... ...the awaiting woods. Long waited there, for aspens frail That tinkle with a silver bell, T o warn the Zephyr of their love, When danger is at hand, and... ...t the moon was seated, And down the valley glens the shades retreated, And silver light was on the open stream. And thus in me, and thus in me, they s... ...ng like some burnished eagle Hovering o’er a fluttered bird; Not unseen of silver Naiad, And of wistful Dryad heard! Many a morn the naked beauty Saw ... ...the dawn, Watched by every forest creature, Fleet-foot Oread, frolic Faun. Silver-sandalled Arethusa Not more swiftly fled the sands, Fled the plains ... ...the hills, And with its latest gleam the river Sinks in their embrace. And silverly the river runs, And many a graceful wind he makes, 60 By fields w... ...ts barren griefs; and aye Like aspens in the faintest breeze T urn all its silver sides and tremble into song. 63 V Now from the meadow floods the wi... ...nt car Of Artemis advanced, and on the waves Sparkled like arrows from her silver bow The keenness of her pure and tender gaze. Then, slowly, one by o... ...by a yellow rick Curled lazily under a hill. No fly shook the round of the silver net; No insect the swift bird chased; Only two travellers moved and ...