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...r been given. “Yes, yes,” said Mr. Pembroke, who did not want a brother-in-law out of Aristophanes. Nor had he got one, for Mr. Dawes would not have b... ...ct words to me?” “Who?” “Rickie’s mother.” “Did she really?” “My sister-in-law was a dear. You will have heard Rickie’s praises, but now you must hear... ...t seemed that only a short ladder lay between the preparation room and the Anglo-Saxon hege- mony of the globe. Then he paused, and in the si- lence c... ...“But mayn’t he come once, just once?” “May, my dear Jackson! My brother-in-law is not a baby. He decides for himself.” Rickie naturally refused. As so... ...gue had really been suggested to Mr. Failing by a talk with his brother-in-law. It also touched Ansell. He looked at the man who had thrown the clod, ... ... you—that a man like you wouldn’t risk making people unhappy. My sister-in-law—I don’t say this to stop you loving her; something else must do that—my...

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...it on the necessity for a complete mutual under- standing of the Latin and Anglo-Saxon races if victory was to be won. Again the rosette nodded with a... ...blished themselves on either side of the door, a process which woke up the Anglo-Saxon and caused a brief gap in the low talk of the women. Jolt—we we... ...veral empty cabs had gone by during the peroration of 39 e e cummings the law, and no more seemed to offer themselves. After some minutes, however, o... ... persons sent to it were held for a Commission, composed of an official, a law- yer, and a captain of gendarmes, which inspected the Camp and passed u... ...o the rest of us and to teach us a wholesome respect for (one must assume) law and order. One and all, they heartily agreed that it was worth it. Ever... ...ted from the husband by miles and by stone walls and by barbed wire and by Law. Or perhaps (there was a rumour to this effect) The Three Wise Men disc... ...au, s’il vous plaît” 174 The Enormous Room upon which the guardian of the law looked up suspiciously; pausing a moment as if to identify the scoundre...

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...aw two ladies going in who evidently be- longed to the large fraternity of Anglo-Saxon tourists, and one of whom was young and carried herself very we... ...wed his leaving college, had received the disci- pline of the study of the law. He had not made much of 17 Henry James the law; but he had made somet... ...apsed on Mrs. Vivian’s part was an undue appreciation of a possible son-in-law’s income! In this illuminating discovery everything else became clear. ... ...lained. “My poor sister writes from England, telling me that my brother-in-law is suddenly obliged to go home. She has decided not to remain behind, a... ...o you recommend?” “I recommend you to stay.” “My dear fellow, your word is law,” said Bernard. “I want you to take care of those ladies,” his friend w... ...ard himself as indispens- 163 Henry James able (in the capacity of son-in-law) to her happiness, she should now present to him the spectacle of a fel... ...ive exclamation which passes for a sign of greeting among gentlemen of the Anglo-Saxon race, in their moments of more acute self-consciousness. “Oh, a...

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... out teeye both. It’s not often I meet two such splendid speciments iv the Anglo-Saxon race. BROADBENT [chuckling] Wrong for once, Tim. My friend Mr D...

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... to interrupt his mordant wit. “The nar- rowness and superficiality of the Anglo-Saxon tour- ist is nothing less than a menace.” “Quite so. Now, the E... ...I repre- sent all that he despises. Why should he want me for a brother-in-law?” The Honeychurches were a worthy family, but he began to realize that ... ...fiance. Mrs. Honeychurch, amusing and portly, promised well as a mother-in-law. As for Lucy and Cecil, for whom the temple had been built, they also j...

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...nt to the heart of every man who heard him, that, if there had existed any law in this respect, Scott might not have sunk beneath the mighty pressure ... ...regarious in good citizenship as well as in other things, and that it is a law in nature that there must be a centre of attrac tion for particles to ... ...cted by patent, and that at that time the minor theatres were condemned by law to the representation of the most prepos terous nonsense, and some gen...

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.... ‘Supposing she was tender- hearted, and they came over her. Where’s your law for tying it up then?’ The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, ... ...he deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, was un- able to produce his law for tying such a knot as that. So, the turnkey thought about it all his... ..., ‘something ought to be done with him. Suppose I try and get him into the law?’ ‘That would be so good of you, Bob!’ The turnkey had now two points t... ...t him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker’s, into ... ...again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker’s, into the law again, into a coach office, into a waggon office, into the law again, i... ...les, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. It was in this stage of his progress, and in about the ...

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.... ‘Supposing she was tender- hearted, and they came over her. Where’s your law for tying it up then?’ The deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, ... ...he deepest character whom the turnkey sounded, was un- able to produce his law for tying such a knot as that. So, the turnkey thought about it all his... ..., ‘something ought to be done with him. Suppose I try and get him into the law?’ ‘That would be so good of you, Bob!’ The turnkey had now two points t... ...t him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker’s, into ... ...again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a stockbroker’s, into the law again, into a coach office, into a waggon office, into the law again, i... ...les, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue. It was in this stage of his progress, and in about the ...