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...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...emoiselle Marie-Jeanne- Brigitte Thuillier, a spinster of full age, stands about the middle of the rue Saint-Dominique d’Enfer, to the right as you en... ...rtain M. Metivier, jr., wholesale dealer in pa- per; that on the left to a bookseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; th... ...okseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; the bookseller occu- pying the first storey, and the paper-dealer the second st... ... a frequenter of the Thuillier salon; the other by the hero of this Scene, about whom we must content ourselves at the present moment by fixing the am... ...erome had borne it fairly well, she found him other cares and occupations (about which we shall hear later), all based upon the character of the man h... ...e arrondissement, appeared at the Thuilliers’, he compared him cleverly to Napoleon, finding him stout, fat, and blooming, having left him at the mini... ... said, “like Na- poleon before the 18th Brumaire, and I behold you now the Napoleon of the Empire.” Notwithstanding which flattery, Minard received Du... ...onstantine, of Lisbon, of Sainte- Jean d’Ulloa; they deplored the death of Napoleon and the fatal catastrophes of the Saint-Merri and the rue Transnon...

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...greeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the hi... ...ory of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at ... ...self and my readers, and departing for a moment from my old pursuits, I am about to resume them, joyfully, in Switzer land; where during another year... ...and that the head of the family purposed, in that space of time, to stroll about, wherever his restless humour carried him. And it would have been sma... ...now how many arches; towns where memorable wines are made; Vallence, where Napoleon studied; and the noble river, bringing at every winding turn, new ... ... and impossibility of perspective, they are not unlike the woodcuts in old books; but they were oil paintings, and the artist, like the painter of the... ...night, to see these Puppets act a play called ‘St. Helena, or the Death of Napoleon.’ It began by the dis closure of Napoleon, with an immense head, ... ...t you could have seen his regimentals!) was a perfect mammoth of a man, to Napoleon; hideously ugly, with a monstrously disproportionate face, and a g... ...iest; a young Jesuit, his companion—who carried their breviaries and other books, and who, in the 56 Pictures from Italy exertion of getting into the...

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... think of the brains of my poor dear Lirriper’s own flesh and blood flying about the new oilcloth however unworthy to be so assisted, that I went out ... ...d in his business were not agreeable. To collect is one thing, and to look about as if suspicious of the goods being gradu- ally removing in the dead ... ...im” says the Major and brings him in here. But on the way Mr. Buffle looks about him in his usual suspicious manner and the Major fires and asks him “... ... saw Mr. Buffle approaching with his 10 Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy Collecting-books in his hand. The Major likewise saw him approaching and hummed louder... ...into my head to say to him “Major I wish you’d go and look at some of your books and maps, and see where- abouts this same town of Sens is in France.”... ...to me, and I took notice that he had shaved his fore- head in imitation of Napoleon Bonaparte but not like. We wont out at the courtyard gate and past... ...ero” says Jemmy, copying as it seemed to me the style of some of his story-books, “was a worldly man who entertained ambitious views for his only son ...

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...berty to give way to a sensibility which is as tender as it is refreshing. About a question of marriage I have seen women who hate each other kiss and... ...ff his hat, however, with much condescension to Mr. Sedley, who asked news about his son-in-law, and about Jos’s carriage, and whether his horses had ... ...bout Jos’s carriage, and whether his horses had been down to Brighton, and about that infernal traitor Bonaparty, and the war; until the Irish maid-se... ... that she was yet in utter darkness, put into her hands three little penny books with pictures, viz., the “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of ... .... All looked as brilliant and harm- less as a Hyde Park review. Meanwhile, Napoleon screened behind his curtain of frontier-fortresses, was preparing ... ...as that more frantic enthusiasm with which at one time the French regarded Napoleon), the country seemed in so perfect a state of orderly defence, and... ...tion), have no doubt often thought to themselves what a specially bad time Napoleon took to come back from Elba, and to let loose his eagle from Gulf ... ...n always has such a share to give away. Her mamma ordered her dresses, her books, her bon- nets, and her ideas for her. She was made to take pony-ridi... ...y be- fore she rests this night. And Emily, my love, get ready a packet of books for Miss Crawley. Put up ‘A V oice from the Flames,’ ‘A Trumpet-warni...

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...mselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in history—childish at-... ... H G Wells trenches of Flanders, Mr. Noyes becomes discreetly indis- creet about what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches t... ...de is full of puzzled-looking men. I have seen thousands of poilus sitting about in cafes, by the roadside, in tents, in trenches, thoughtful. I have ... ...w military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Napoleon drove his straight, poplar-bordered highways through the land. M. ... ...s its failure to produce great and imposing personalities, mighty leaders, Napoleons, Caesars. I would indeed make that the essential thing in my reck... ...d and semi-divine personages which has included Cae- sar and Alexander and Napoleon the First—and Third. In the light of the new time we see the emper... ...ver, en- tirely un-posed. His talk reminded me somehow of Maurice Baring’s books; it had just the same quick, positive under- standing. And he had jus... ...nd to surprise the British military people, who are not accustomed to read books or talk shop, in the Boer war. In the thinly populated war region of ...

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...ing, cheating, fight- ing, dancing and fiddling; there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the loo... ... contemplative, not uncharitable frame of mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business. I have no other moral than this to tag to the prese... ...vereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when they were about to be married, and once, when poor Miss Birch died of the scarlet fev... ...and the plate and crockery, and the servants to superintend. But why speak about her? It is probable that we shall not hear of her again from this mom... ...ery room of the house, and everything in every one of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her neck- laces, brooches, l... ...of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of whic... ...nd personages, and hanging on to the skirts of history. When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where ... ... whirring and flapping of those mighty wings would pass unobserved there? “Napoleon has landed at Cannes.” Such news might create a panic at Vienna, a... ...weep you down, here, although cowering under the shelter of Holborn? Y es; Napoleon is flinging his last stake, and poor little Emmy Sedley’s happines...

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...o that no one without could watch him at his work. When Eve began to speak about the future, he looked un- easily at her, and cut her short at the fir... ...me, and David rec- ognized the man’s face at a review just as his time was about to expire. Kolb came to see David, and was smitten forth- with by the... ...manac of Liege, a ream (five hundred sheets) costing in the first instance about four francs; while the printed sheets sell at the rate of a halfpenny... ...s ‘sabots’ than yours with their cast-iron contrivances that turn out mass books all day long,” he would boast. “He is trying to find out a secret tha... ...look, and magpie eyes of no particular color. A magpie eye, ac- cording to Napoleon, is a sure sign of dishonesty. “Look at So-and-so,” he said to Las... ...e slip—” “I have my secret,” said David, with the simplicity of the man of books. “Well and good, your secret will be your plank of safety,” said Peti... ...twelve pounds to the ream. I am quite sure that I can lessen the weight of books by one-half. The envelope, the letter, and samples enclosed are all m... ... the be- ginning, we pay dear in the end. And by the by, did not the great Napoleon, who missed a voyage to the Indies for want of boots, say that, ‘I... ...al for a change of tactics in the Opposition camp; for, since the death of Napoleon, the liberals had ceased to resort to the dangerous expedient of c...

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...procession with her hus- band, accustomed by her to carry two large prayer-books, bound in black morocco. The second apprentice received no salary. As... ...er left a speck of dust, and with the old-world simplicity of all they saw about them. As their style of living compelled them to find the elements of... ...l life, accustomed to hear noth- ing but dreary arguments and calculations about trade, hav- 13 Balzac ing studied nothing but grammar, book-keeping,... ...he softest tones were sour, “Augustine, my treasure, what are you thinking about?” It is possible that two ro- mances discovered by Augustine in the c... ...” said Monsieur Guillaume to himself, as he read the first decree by which Napoleon drew in advance on the conscript classes. From that day the old me... ...y. Speculators and moneyed men would have cov- ered the canvas with double napoleons, but the artist obsti- 18 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket nate... ...alter her character, her manners, and her habits; but by dint of devouring books and learning un- dauntedly, she only succeeded in becoming less ignor...

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...idest, or the richest, or the best born, but “the best,”—in a word, people about whom there is no question— such as the great Lady Fitz-Willis, that P... ...rett and Burke) takes up a person, he or she is safe. There is no question about them any more. Not that my Lady Fitz-Willis is any better than anybod... ... fact was known all over London that night. People who had been crying fie about Mrs. Crawley were silent. Wenham, the wit and lawyer, Lord Steyne’s r... ...own in the study before the Baronet’s table, set out with the orderly blue books and the letters, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets,... ...s, the neatly docketed bills and symmetrical pamphlets, the locked account-books, desks, and dispatch boxes, the Bible, the Quarterly Review, and the ... ...richly gilt Louis Quatorze candlesticks, six gilt albums, keep- sakes, and Books of Beauty, a gold enamelled snuff-box which had once belonged to Mada... ... tell prodigious stories about himself and his exploits against tigers and Napoleon. He was great when he visited the Emperor’s tomb at Longwood, when... ... by, he described the whole battle of W aterloo and all but announced that Napoleon never would have gone to Saint Helena at all but for him, Jos Sedl... ...ks— muri Achaiois alge etheke—(Hom. Il. A. 2). The selfishness of the late Napoleon Bonaparte occasioned innumerable wars in Europe and caused him to ...

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...s; for them encyclopaedias of carnival frippery and a score of illustrated books are brought out every year, to say noth- ing of caricatures by the hu... ...e can at need talk as- phalt, Bal Mabille, polkas, literature, illustrated books, rail- ways, politics, parliament, and revolution; transplant him, ta... ...fault. Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice. At last, after about ten minutes the Prince was called in. He saw the two duchesses confro... ...mmortal analytical study, archaeologists might begin to puzzle their heads about him five hundred years hence, and set about writing quartos with plat... ...tos with plates (like M. Quatremere’s work on Olympian Jove) to prove that Napoleon was some- thing of a Sofi in the East before he became “Emperor of... ...u look at them, you ask yourself involuntarily, “What can they be thinking about?” Well, in the space of one second, a woman’s purse, wishes, intentio... ...t lined with satin. It is one of the shawls that Selim sent to the Emperor Napoleon. It is our Imperial Guard; it is brought to the front whenever the... ...t is one of seven shawls which Selim sent, before his fall, to the Emperor Napoleon. The Empress Josephine, a Cre- ole, as you know, my lady, and very...

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...meter smooths, saddens, or makes merry their coun- tenances, turn and turn about. From end to end of this street, formerly the Grand’Rue de Saumur, th... ...upplied with the ready money of his own fortune and his wife’s dot, in all about two thousand louis-d’or, Grandet went to the newly established “distr... ...ed still better pickings. Under the Empire he was called Monsieur Grandet. Napoleon, however, did not like republicans, and superseded Monsieur Grande... ...ties of life and commerce: “I don’t know; I cannot; I will not; I will see about it.” He never said yes, or no, and never committed himself to writ- i... ...ur, and means to ally himself with some ducal family,—ducal under favor of Napoleon.” In short, was there anything not said of an heiress who was talk... ...ar the wood-pile, where the logs were ranged with as much precision as the books in a library. The pavement of the court-yard showed the black stains ... ...e old miser, “you know what a napo- leon is? Well, it takes fifty thousand napoleons to make a million.” “Mamma, we must say a great many neuvaines fo... ...ormer period, money sways the laws and politics and morals. Institutions, books, men, and dogmas, all conspire to undermine belief in a fu- ture life... ... closed a list of their names, as correct as I can make it from memory. My books, my furniture, my pictures, my horses, etc., ought, I think, to pay m...

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...o promptly the one measure of the worth of a given subject, the ques- tion about it that, rightly answered, disposes of all oth- ers—is it valid, in a... ... his “moral” reference. All this is a long way round, however, for my word about my dim first move toward “The Portrait,” which was ex- actly my grasp... ...is it open to their destiny to be, at the most, that we should make an ado about it? The novel is of its very nature an “ado,” an ado about something,... ...shed, like a room, with cushioned seats, with rich-coloured rugs, with the books and papers that lay upon the grass. The river was at some distance; w... ...s were not reading people, she had uncon- trolled use of a library full of books with frontispieces, which she used to climb upon a chair to take down... ...rumour that Isabel was writ- ing a book—Mrs. Varian having a reverence for books, and averred that the girl would distinguish herself in print. Mrs. V... ...h as nine. What do you see now? It’s no use talking, the style’s all gone. Napoleon knew what the French people want, and there’ll be a dark cloud ove...

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...id Dantes, with a smile. “And what did he say to you?” “Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, a... ...enty-five or six, and held a piece of cloth, which, being a tailor, he was about to make into a coat-lining. “What, is it you, Edmond, back again?” sa... ...t seems M. Morrel has promised him the thing.” “So that he is quite elated about it?” The Count of Monte Cristo 16 “Why, yes, he is actually insolent... ... the subject, you are strongly sus- pected of regretting the abdication of Napoleon. I should have feared to injure both Edmond and yourself, had I di... ... or six thousand souls, — after hav- ing been accustomed to hear the “Vive Napoleons” of a hundred and twenty millions of human beings, uttered in ten... ...ched usurper his been, and ever will be, to them their evil genius, their ‘Napoleon the accursed.’ Am I not right, Villefort?” “I beg your pardon, mad... ...ven ask for it.” “What is allowed, then?” “Better fare, if you pay for it, books, and leave to walk about.” “I do not want books, I am satisfied with ... ...me amusement. He entreated to be allowed to walk about, to have fresh air, books, and writing materials. His requests were not granted, but he went on... ...the intimate friend of Cabanis.” “But for such a work you must have needed books — had you any?” “I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at ...

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...ny weakness in his cut by unstinted dimension and solidity. Mr Oak carried about him, by way of watch, what may be called a small silver clock; in oth... ... where the object of his contemplation now halted for the payment of toll. About twenty steps still remained between him and the gate, when he heard a... ...approximate pattern. The hut stood on little wheels, which raised its floor about a foot from the ground. Such shepherds’ huts are dragged into the fiel... ..., he saw the younger dog standing against the sky — dark and motionless as Napoleon at St. Helena. A horrible conviction darted through Oak. With a se... ...and possessing. He also thought of plans for fetching his few utensils and books from Nor combe. The Young Man’s Best Companion, The Farrier’s Sure G... ...be discovered sitting upon the floor, and sorting a complication of papers, books, bottles, and rubbish spread out thereon — remnants from the househol... ...h end,’ said Mr Clark. ‘Likewise looking glasses for the pretty, and lying books for the wicked.’ A firm loud tread was now heard stamping outside; the...

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... law of its make permits and compels it to do. There is nothing personal about it; it cannot choose. In this process of “working up to the matter” i... ...” is it your idea to work up to the proposition that man and a machine are about the same thing, and that there is no personal merit in the perfor ma... ... thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thought and feeling wh... ...ives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about to enter the horse car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching ... ...e trained? O.M. Yes. Y.M. Of course by parents, teachers, the pulpit, and books. O.M. Yes—they do their share; they do what they can. Y.M. And the re... ...you know the man’s religious complexion, you know what sort of reli gious books he reads when he wants some more light, and what sort of books he avo... ...uake and George III. the Declaration of Independence. Goethe, Shakespeare, Napoleon, Savonarola, Joan of Arc, the French Revolution, the Edict of Nant... ...nd bicycle champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier des peradoes, and Napoleons. Anything to get notoriety; any thing to set the village, or the... ...l of the great dead of the House of Habsburg, among them Maria Theresa and Napoleon’s son, the Duke of Reichstadt. Hereabouts was a Roman camp, once, ...

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...y croft is adorned with vines; which here, as in Italy, they train to grow about dwarf elm trees, whose leaves are stripped off to feed the cattle. Na... ...ts, budding pop- lars, and resinous pines. Here and there a wreath of mist about the heights some- times hid and sometimes gave glimpses of the gray c... ...a country across which the French armies had been drafted in the course of Napoleon’s wars, enjoyed the view before him without appearing to be surpri... ... be surprised by the many changes that swept across it. It would seem that Napoleon has extinguished in his soldiers the sensation of wonder; for an i... ... respected, although they have borne their part on every battlefield where Napoleon commanded. There had been nothing unusual in his life. He had foug... ...y the officers, yet no one knew this for a certainty. There was no prudery about him; he would not decline to join a pleasure party; he in no way offe... ...in he ought to continue his education. So from this time forth he read new books and romances with avidity, in this way gaining a half- knowledge, of ... ...carcely kept in the same condition as the adjoining apartment; a few dusty books lay strewn about over the no less dusty shelves, and from the rows of... ...he present year. Life, for him, was a business enterprise, and he kept the books after the most approved business methods. There was real worth in him...

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...he health, and he was quite capable of believing it; but he knew as little about tobacco as about homeopathy. He had a very well-formed head, with a s... ...y happily. Helas, oui!” “I suppose it would help me a great deal, knocking about Paris, to know the language.” “Ah, there are so many things monsieur ... ...ng to converse, you know, you must think of something cheerful to converse about.” “You are very good, sir; I am overcome!” said M. Nioche, throwing o... ...e choicest language. Newman laid down the money, and M. Nioche dropped the napoleons one by one, solemnly and lovingly, into an old leathern purse. “A... ...snuff be- tween finger and thumb. As a Frenchman—quite apart from Newman’s napoleons—M. Nioche loved conversation, and even in his decay his urbanity ... ...r- deaux, whose brain had been found to weigh sixty ounces— the brain of a Napoleon or a Washington! or that Madame P—, charcutiere in the Rue de Clic... ...he best way to tell you, I think, would be to send you my half dozen guide-books, with my pencil- marks in the margin. Wherever you find a scratch or ... ...Atheling as rep- 123 Henry James resented, forty years before, in several Books of Beauty. Madame de Cintre’s face had, to Newman’s eye, a range of e... ...So, you see, I don’t exactly know what to do with myself. I am not fond of books, as you are, sir, and I get tired of dining out and going to the oper...

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... Arcis portance as the canvas. Toward the end of the month of April, 1839, about ten o’clock in the morning, the salon of Madame Marion, widow of a fo... ...f domestic pre- monition concerning the result of the elections which were about to take place over the whole surface of France. Often things are as s... ... one end of the salon, four rows deep, leaving between the rows a space of about three feet. When this was done, each row presented a front of ten cha... ...s read by a department, and standing up before a meeting to make a speech. Napoleon himself failed there; at the 18th Brumaire he talked nothing but n... ...receiving the rank of major until 1814. His almost fanatical attachment to Napoleon forbade his taking service under the Bourbons after the first abdi... ... It is well known what a fancy all Europe had for the splendid troopers of Napoleon! In 1814, Madame Marion, half-ruined, returned to Arcis, her nativ... ... rippling current. Mademoiselle Antonia at first took a book with her; but books not being, as she says, in her line, she looked about for other ways ... ...eous collection of articles testifying to the colonel’s habits and tastes. Books, charts, and maps certainly justified the word “study”; but, as a fra... ...ed to torture themselves. In the first place, you have looked into medical books, which is the very height of im- prudence. I defy you to read a descr...

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...ry of the overswoln dropsical strong-box itself;—whereat in- deed the bold Bookseller runs risk of being hanged, and Ex-Constituent Buzot has to smugg... ...illotined when news had come that the Prussians were harrying and ravaging about Metz; in some four days more, one hears that Longwi, our first strong... ...nder,— south-westward, in remote, patriarchal La Vendee, that sour ferment about Nonjuring Priests, after long working, is ripe, and explodes: at the ... ...ongwi. Wayworn, dusty, disheartened, these poor men enter the Legislative, about sunset or after; give the most pathetic detail of the frightful pass ... ...ead, with a certain sickness of heart, items and entries not usual in Town Books: ‘To workers 42 The French Revolution - V olume Three employed in pr... ...re like a Student than a Senator: not four-and-twenty yet; who has written Books; a youth of slight stature, with mild mellow voice, enthusiast olive-... ... new-shaping her inorganic dust: very slowly, through cen- turies, through Napoleons, Louis Philippes, and other the like media and phases,—into a new... ...ts, though in small force; and with him an Artillery Major, of the name of—Napoleon Buonaparte. This Napoleon, to prove that the Marseillese have no c... ...g the guns, who has emerged several times in this History,—the name of him Napoleon Buonaparte. It is his humble opinion, for he has been gliding abou...

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... or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the bill; when I come home from my journeys, I never get any commi... ...rest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Co... ...n the flow, and had been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a ... .... I have seen as many such places as most travellers in my line, and I never saw one such, better kept. Among the bedridden there was great patience, ... ...erth. In every trap, somebody was sitting over a fire, waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in... ... about me in the carriage, like a collected traveller. I had two ample Imperials on the roof, other fitted storage for luggage in front, and other up ... ...gain left off writing, put his pen in his mouth, and went through actions with his right hand, like a man steadying piles of cash. Five-franc pieces, ... ...hat there is something wrong between us. Moreover, I felt that Pickford had no right to come rush- ing into Dullborough and deprive the town of a publ...