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..., gentlemen, take your places!” called Pons, look- ing round at his little army, as the stage manager’s bell rang for the overture. The piece was a dr... ...day she dressed Cecile herself, taking as much pains as the admiral of the British fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty... ...e no mysteries for us. The Egyptian ancestors of that mysterious people of Indian ori- gin, the gypsies of the present day, simply used to drug their ... ...d, just as I myself am a portress. Why do they have silk epaulettes in the army? Let everybody keep their place. Look here, do you want me to tell you... ...lican papers. Magistrates, councillors, jurisconsults, judges, barristers, officers for the crown, bailiffs, attorneys, clerks of the court, procurato... ...itelot had turned the Three Glorious Days— “les trois glorieuses”—into the Army, Finance, and the Family, and sent in the design for the sepulchre of ...

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...e effects of the climate, but, owing to sickness and death among the other officers, he had suffered much fatigue and pressure of mind and body. Immed... ...t. “It will be very pleasant if he can go with you. How he would enjoy the British Mu- seum, if there was time for him to see it! Have you said any- t... ...e Dr. May went to transact some business, Norman had been with Alan at the British Mu- seum, and though he had intended to see half London be- sides, ... ...hool-fellow, and shook hands with him, as if able, in the plenitude of his officership, to afford plenty of good-humoured superiority. T om had mean- ... ...st it was a call to take leave.” “No, he thinks he shall sell out, for the army is a great nuisance.” “You seem to have got into his confidence.” “Yes... ...gings in London, near the old hospital, per- haps—and go and turn over the British Museum library.” “Look you here, Spencer, I have a much better plan... ...to him. It was a great step when his packages arrived, and his beau- tiful Indian curiosities were arranged, making his drawing- room as pretty a room... ...oing to put conceit in that lion head of yours, but you were as good as an Indian prince to my party. Do you know to whom you have been talking so coo... ...hey were savages,” said the vicar. “And yourself—you will tell them of the Indian missions.” 654 The Daisy Chain “With all my heart,” said Dr. Spence...

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...alking, with immovable complacency. 119 Charles Dickens ‘What a number of officers you seem to paint!’ said Kate, availing herself of a pause in the ... ...ontemplate the boundless pros- pect of conquest and possession—achieved by British perse- verance and British valour—which is outspread before me, I c... ...andished 287 Charles Dickens a walking-stick. ‘They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘... ...played the irascible old men—those funny fellows who have neph- ews in the army and perpetually run about with thick sticks to compel them to marry he... ...and ‘went on’ chattering his teeth and brandishing his tin tomahawk as the Indian Savage. ‘So these are some of the stories they invent about us, and ...

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...id, in the pier-glass opposite. “There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses.” Celia ... ...o you do?” in the nick of time. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl, it was plain that 46 Middlemarch the lodge-keeper regarded h... ...rehand:—one must trust a little to Providence and be generous. It’s a good British feeling to try and raise your family a little: in my opinion, it’s ... ... evening when the important guest was gone to Loamford to see some brother officers stationed there. “Y ou really look so absent sometimes—you seem to... ...ale’s wholesome corrections. “Oh, he has not the style of a captain in the army, or that sort of carriage as if everybody was beneath him, or that sho... ...you have your own way in taking to medicine. Y ou might have gone into the army or the Church. Y our money would have held out for that, and there wou... ... stay a long while there in spite of professional accom- plishment. In the British climate there is no incompatibility be- tween scientific insight an...

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...alking, with immovable complacency. 119 Charles Dickens ‘What a number of officers you seem to paint!’ said Kate, availing herself of a pause in the ... ...ontemplate the boundless pros- pect of conquest and possession—achieved by British perse- verance and British valour—which is outspread before me, I c... ...andished 287 Charles Dickens a walking-stick. ‘They are going through the Indian Savage and the Maiden,’ said Mrs Crummles. ‘Oh!’ said the manager, ‘... ...played the irascible old men—those funny fellows who have neph- ews in the army and perpetually run about with thick sticks to compel them to marry he... ...and ‘went on’ chattering his teeth and brandishing his tin tomahawk as the Indian Savage. ‘So these are some of the stories they invent about us, and ...