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pg45 | CHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is Out | WITH the end of Junecame the close of the term and the close of Miss Stacy’s rule in Avonleaschool. Anne and Diana walked home that evening feeling very sober indeed. Redeyes and damp handkerchiefs bore convincing testimony to the fact that MissStacy’s farewell words must have been quite as touching as Mr.Phillips’s ha... |
pg45 | CHAPTER XXXIII. The Hotel Concert | PUT on your whiteorgandy, by all means, Anne,” advised Diana decidedly.
They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was onlytwilight—a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudlesssky. A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnishedsilver, hung over the Haunted Wood; ... |
pg45 | CHAPTER XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl | THE next three weekswere busy ones at Green Gables, for Anne was getting ready to go toQueen’s, and there was much sewing to be done, and many things to betalked over and arranged. Anne’s outfit was ample and pretty, for Matthewsaw to that, and Marilla for once made no objections whatever to anything hepurchased or sug... |
pg45 | CHAPTER XXXV. The Winter at Queen’s | ANNE’Shomesickness wore off, greatly helped in the wearing by her weekend visitshome. As long as the open weather lasted the Avonlea students went out toCarmody on the new branch railway every Friday night. Diana and several otherAvonlea young folks were generally on hand to meet them and they all walkedover to Avonlea... |
pg45 | CHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream | ON the morning when thefinal results of all the examinations were to be posted on the bulletin boardat Queen’s, Anne and Jane walked down the street together. Jane wassmiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she hadmade a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she ... |
pg45 | CHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death | MATTHEW—Matthew—what is the matter? Matthew, are yousick?”
It was Marilla who spoke, alarm in every jerky word. Anne came through thehall, her hands full of white narcissus,—it was long before Anne couldlove the sight or odor of white narcissus again,—in time to hear her andto see Matthew standing in the porch doorway,... |
pg45 | CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the Road | MARILLA went to town thenext day and returned in the evening. Anne had gone over to Orchard Slope withDiana and came back to find Marilla in the kitchen, sitting by the table withher head leaning on her hand. Something in her dejected attitude struck a chillto Anne’s heart. She had never seen Marilla sit limply inert l... |
pg16389 | Chapter 1 | It began in a Woman’s Club in London on a February afternoon—an uncomfortableclub, and a miserable afternoon—when Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down fromHampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times fromthe table in the smoking-room, and running her listless eye down the AgonyColumn saw this:
To Those w... |
pg16389 | Chapter 2 | Of course Mrs. Arbuthnot was not miserable—how could she be, she asked herself,when God was taking care of her?—but she let that pass for the momentunrepudiated, because of her conviction that here was another fellow-creaturein urgent need of her help; and not just boots and blankets and better sanitaryarrangements thi... |
pg16389 | Chapter 3 | The owner of the mediaeval castle was an Englishman, a Mr. Briggs, who was inLondon at the moment and wrote that it had beds enough for eight people,exclusive of servants, three sitting-rooms, battlements, dungeons, and electriclight. The rent was £60 for the month, the servants’ wages were extra, and hewanted referenc... |
pg16389 | Chapter 4 | It had been arranged that Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins, travelling together,should arrive at San Salvatore on the evening of March 31st—the owner, who toldthem how to get there, appreciated their disinclination to begin their time init on April 1st—and Lady Caroline and Mrs. Fisher, as yet unacquainted andtherefore ... |
pg16389 | Chapter 5 | It was cloudy in Italy, which surprised them. They had expected brilliantsunshine. But never mind: it was Italy, and the very clouds looked fat. Neitherof them had ever been there before. Both gazed out of the windows with raptfaces. The hours flew as long as it was daylight, and after that there was theexcitement of g... |
pg16389 | Chapter 6 | When Mrs. Wilkins woke next morning she lay in bed a few minutes before gettingup and opening the shutters. What would she see out of her window? A shiningworld, or a world of rain? But it would be beautiful; whatever it was would bebeautiful.
She was in a little bedroom with bare white walls and a stone floor and spar... |
pg16389 | Chapter 7 | Their eyes followed her admiringly. They had no idea they had been snubbed. Itwas a disappointment, of course, to find she had forestalled them and that theywere not to have the happiness of preparing for her, of watching her face whenshe arrived and first saw everything, but there was still Mrs. Fisher. Theywould conc... |
pg16389 | Chapter 8 | Presently, when Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot, unhampered by any duties,wandered out and down the worn stone steps and under the pergola into the lowergarden, Mrs. Wilkins said to Mrs. Arbuthnot, who seemed pensive, “Don’t you seethat if somebody else does the ordering it frees us?”
Mrs. Arbuthnot said she did see, b... |
pg16389 | Chapter 9 | That one of the two sitting-rooms which Mrs. Fisher had taken for her own was aroom of charm and character. She surveyed it with satisfaction on going into itafter breakfast, and was glad it was hers. It had a tiled floor, and walls thecolour of pale honey, and inlaid furniture the colour of amber, and mellowbooks, man... |
pg16389 | Chapter 10 | There was no way of getting into or out of the top garden at San Salvatoreexcept through the two glass doors, unfortunately side by side, of thedining-room and the hall. A person in the garden who wished to escape unseencould not, for the person to be escaped from would be met on the way. It was asmall, oblong garden, ... |
pg16389 | Chapter 11 | The sweet smells that were everywhere in San Salvatore were alone enough toproduce concord. They came into the sitting-room from the flowers on thebattlements, and met the ones from the flowers inside the room, and almost,thought Mrs. Wilkins, could be seen greeting each other with a holy kiss. Whocould be angry in the... |
pg16389 | Chapter 12 | At the evening meal, which was the first time the whole four sat round thedining-room table together, Scrap appeared.
She appeared quite punctually, and in one of those wrappers or tea-gowns whichare sometimes described as ravishing. This one really was ravishing. Itcertainly ravished Mrs. Wilkins, who could not take h... |
pg16389 | Chapter 13 | The uneventful days—only outwardly uneventful—slipped by in floods of sunshine,and the servants, watching the four ladies, came to the conclusion there wasvery little life in them.
To the servants San Salvatore seemed asleep. No one came to tea, nor did theladies go anywhere to tea. Other tenants in other springs had b... |
pg16389 | Chapter 14 | That first week the wistaria began to fade, and the flowers of the Judas-treeand peach-trees fell off and carpeted the ground with rose-colour. Then all thefreesias disappeared, and the irises grew scarce. And then, while these wereclearing themselves away, the double banksia roses came out, and the big summerroses sud... |
pg16389 | Chapter 15 | The strange effect of this incident was that when they met that evening atdinner both Mrs. Fisher and Lady Caroline had a singular feeling of secretunderstanding with Mr. Wilkins. He could not be to them as other men. He couldnot be to them as he would have been if they had met him in his clothes. Therewas a sense of b... |
pg16389 | Chapter 16 | And so the second week began, and all was harmony. The arrival of Mr. Wilkins,instead of, as three of the party had feared and the fourth had only beenprotected from fearing by her burning faith in the effect on him of SanSalvatore, disturbing such harmony as there was, increased it. He fitted in. Hewas determined to p... |
pg16389 | Chapter 17 | On the first day of the third week Rose wrote to Frederick.
In case she should again hesitate and not post the letter, she gave it toDomenico to post; for if she did not write now there would be no time left atall. Half the month at San Salvatore was over. Even if Frederick starteddirectly he got the letter, which of c... |
pg16389 | Chapter 18 | They had a very pleasant walk, with a great deal of sitting down in warm,thyme-fragrant corners, and if anything could have helped Rose to recover fromthe bitter disappointment of the morning it would have been the company andconversation of Mr. Briggs. He did help her to recover, and the same processtook place as that... |
pg16389 | Chapter 19 | And then when she spoke . . . what chance was there for poor Briggs? He wasundone. All Scrap said was, “How do you do,” on Mr. Wilkins presenting him, butit was enough; it undid Briggs.
From a cheerful, chatty, happy young man, overflowing with life andfriendliness, he became silent, solemn, and with little beads on hi... |
pg16389 | Chapter 20 | Scrap wanted to know so much about her mother that Arundel had presently toinvent. He would talk about anything she wished if only he might be with herfor a while and see her and hear her, but he knew very little of theDroitwiches and their friends really—beyond meeting them at those biggerfunctions where literature is... |
pg16389 | Chapter 21 | Now Frederick was not the man to hurt anything if he could help it; besides, hewas completely bewildered. Not only was his wife here—here, of all places inthe world—but she was clinging to him as she had not clung for years, andmurmuring love, and welcoming him. If she welcomed him she must have beenexpecting him. Stra... |
pg16389 | Chapter 22 | That evening was the evening of the full moon. The garden was an enchantedplace where all the flowers seemed white. The lilies, the daphnes, theorange-blossom, the white stocks, the white pinks, the white roses—you couldsee these as plainly as in the day-time; but the coloured flowers existed onlyas fragrance.
The thre... |
pg2000 | El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha | Yo, Juan Gallo de Andrada, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor, delos que residen en su Consejo, certifico y doy fe que, habiendo visto porlos señores dél un libro intitulado El ingenioso hidalgo de la Mancha,compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, tasaron cada pliego del dicholibro a tres maravedís y medio; ... |
pg2000 | Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha | Yo, Hernando de Vallejo, escribano de Cámara del Rey nuestro señor, de losque residen en su Consejo, doy fe que, habiéndose visto por los señores délun libro que compuso Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, intitulado Don Quijotede la Mancha, Segunda parte, que con licencia de Su Majestad fue impreso,le tasaron a cuatro marav... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE FIRST. | My design leads me to speak of formschanged into new bodies.1 Ye Gods, (for you it was who changed them,)favor my attempts,2 and bring down the lengthened narrative from the verybeginning of the world, even to my own times.3God reduces Chaos into order. Heseparates the four elements, and disposes the several bodies, of... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE SECOND. | Phaëton, insulted by Epaphus, goes tothe Palace of Apollo, to beseech him to give some token that he is hisson. Apollo, having sworn, by the river Styx, to refuse him nothing thathe should desire, he immediately asks to guide his chariot for one day.He is unsuccessful in the attempt, and, the horses running away, thewo... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE THIRD. | Jupiter, having carried away Europa,her father, Agenor, commands his son Cadmus to go immediately in searchof her, and either to bring back his sister with him, or never to returnto Phœnicia. Cadmus, wearied with his toils and fruitless inquiries,goes to consult the oracle at Delphi, which bids him observe the spotwher... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE FOURTH. | The daughters of Minyas, instead ofcelebrating the festival of Bacchus, apply themselves to other pursuitsduring the ceremonies; and among several narratives which they relate topass away the time, they divert themselves with the story of theadventures of Pyramus and Thisbe. These lovers having made anappointment to me... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE FIFTH. | While Perseus is continuing therelation of the adventures of Medusa, Phineus, to whom Andromeda hasbeen previously promised in marriage, rushes into the palace, with hisadherents, and attacks his rival. A furious combat is theconsequence, in which Perseus gives signal proofs of his valor. Atlength, perceiving himself l... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE SIXTH. | Arachne, vain-glorious of heringenuity, challenges Minerva to a contest of skill in her art. TheGoddess accepts the challenge, and, being enraged to see herselfoutdone, strikes her rival with her shuttle; upon which, Arachne, in herdistress, hangs herself. Minerva, touched with compassion, transformsher into a spider.T... |
pg21765 | BOOK THE SEVENTH. | Jason, after having met with variousadventures, arrives with the Argonauts in Colchis, and demands theGolden Fleece. Medea falls in love with Jason, and by the power of herenchantments preserves him from the dangers he has to encounter inobtaining it. He obtains the prize, and carrying off Medea, returns intriumph to T... |
pg26184 | 1. INTRODUCTION | The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline itspossible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.
Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that requiredetailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerablesimple acts which the o... |
pg26184 | 2. POSSIBLE EFFECTS | Acts of simple sabotage are occurring throughout Europe. An effort should bemade to add to their efficiency, lessen their detectability, and increase theirnumber. Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen-saboteurs,can be an effective weapon against the enemy. Slashing tires, draining fueltanks, start... |
pg26184 | 3. MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR | To incite the citizen to the active practice of simple sabotage and to keep himpracticing that sabotage over sustained periods is a special problem.
Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his owninitiative and inclination. Acts of destruction do not bring him any personalgain and may be... |
pg26184 | 4. TOOLS, TARGETS, AND TIMING | The citizen-saboteur cannot be closely controlled. Nor is it reasonable toexpect that simple sabotage can be precisely concentrated on specific types oftarget according to the requirements of a concrete military situation. Attemptsto control simple sabotage according to developing military factors, moreover,might provi... |
pg26184 | 5. SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE | It will not be possible to evaluate the desirability of simple sabotage in anarea without having in mind rather specifically what individual acts andresults are embraced by the definition of simple sabotage.
A listing of specific acts follows, classified according to types of target.This list is presented as a growing ... |
pg12345 | Chapter I. | “Friday, the 13th; I thought as much. If Bob has started, there will behell, but I will see what I can do.”The sound of my voice, as I dropped the receiver, seemed to part the mistsof five years and usher me into the world of Then as though it had neverpassed on.I had been sitting in my office, letting the tape slide t... |
pg12345 | Chapter II. | The following week saw Miss Sands, of Virginia, private secretary to thehead of Randolph & Randolph, established in a little office between mineand Bob’s. She had not been there a day before we knew she was a worker.She spent the hours going over reports and analysing financial statements,showing a sagacity extraordina... |
pg12345 | Chapter III. | He Listened a moment, then answered, “Stand on it at 80 for 12,000 shares.I will be there in a second.” He dropped the receiver. “Jim, we havestruck a snag. Arthur Perkins, whom I left on guard at the pole, saysBarry Conant has just jumped in and supplied all the bids. He has it downto 81 and is offering it in 5,000 bl... |
pg12345 | Chapter IV. | The following week Bob returned to the office. He had not changed, and yethe had changed greatly. Rest had apparently done much for him. His colourwas good, his step elastic as of old, and his head was thrown back as ifhe were buckled up for the fray and wanted all to know it. Yet there wassomething in the eye, in the ... |
pg12345 | Chapter V. | Thursday, November 12th, was a memorable day in Wall Street. As the gongpealed its the-game’s-closed-till-another-day, the myriad of torturedsouls that are supposed to haunt the treacherous bogs and quicksands ofthe great Exchange, where lie their earthly hopes, must have prayed withrenewed earnestness for its destruct... |
pg12345 | Chapter VI. | As I passed through my office a few minutes later I heard Bob’s voice inBeulah Sands’s office. It was raised in passionate eloquence.“Yes, Beulah, I have done it single-handed. I have crucified Camemeyer,‘Standard Oil,’ and the ‘System’ that spiked me to the cross a few weeksago. You have three millions, and I have sev... |
pg12345 | Chapter VII. | An old gambler, whose life had been spent listening to the rattle of thedrop-in-bound-out little roulette ball, was told by a fellow victim, ashis last dollar went to the relentless tiger’s maw, that the keeper’s footwas upon an electric button which enabled him to make the ball drop wherehis stake was not. He simply s... |
pg12345 | Chapter VIII. | A number of times during the following year, and finally on theanniversary of the Sands tragedy, Bob carried the Exchange to the verge ofpanic, only to turn the market and save “the Street” in the end. Hisprofits were fabulous. Already his fortune was estimated to be between twoand three hundred millions, one of the la... |
pg12345 | Chapter IX. | The Governing Committee was holding a meeting in its room. Bob rushed inunceremoniously.“One word, gentlemen,” he called. “I have more trades outstanding, bothbuys and sells, than any other member or house. Before deciding whether toadjourn in an attempt to save ‘the Street’, I ask your consideration ofthis proposition... |
pg12345 | Chapter X. | The instant after the gong sounded Bob Brownley was alone on the floor atthe foot of the president’s desk. His form was swaying like a reed on theedge of the cyclone’s path. I jumped to his side. His brother, who hadduring Bob’s harangue been vainly endeavouring to beat his way through thecrowd, was there first. “For G... |
pg12345 | Publisher’s Note | The following are fac-similes of a few of the letters received by theauthor during the serial publication of “Friday, the Thirteenth.”RESIDENCE OFTHE PAULIST FATHERS2158 PINE STREET
San Francisco, CA 21 October 1906
My Dear Mr. Lawson Kindly allow one of your countless admirers to express his extremegratification wi... |
pg7370 | PREFACE | Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerninggovernment; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should havefilled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while totell thee. These, which remain, I hope are sufficient to establish the throneof our great restor... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. I. | Sect. 1. It having been shewn in the foregoing discourse,
(1). That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or bypositive donation from God, any such authority over his children, or dominionover the world, as is pretended:
(2). That if he had, his heirs, yet, had no right to it:
(3). That if his heirs had,... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. II. | Sect. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original,we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state ofperfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions andpersons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, withoutasking leave,... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. III. | Sect. 16. THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction: and thereforedeclaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate settleddesign upon another man’s life, puts him in a state of war with himagainst whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exposed his life tothe other’s power to... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. IV. | Sect. 22. THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power onearth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but tohave only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man, in society, is tobe under no other legislative power, but that established, by consent, in thecommonwealth... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. V. | Sect. 25. Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, beingonce born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat anddrink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence: orrevelation, which gives us an account of those grants God made of the world toAdam, and to Noah,... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. VI. | Sect. 52. IT may perhaps be censured as an impertinent criticism, in adiscourse of this nature, to find fault with words and names, that haveobtained in the world: and yet possibly it may not be amiss to offer new ones,when the old are apt to lead men into mistakes, as this of paternal powerprobably has done, which see... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. VII. | Sect. 77. GOD having made man such a creature, that in his own judgment, it wasnot good for him to be alone, put him under strong obligations of necessity,convenience, and inclination to drive him into society, as well as fitted himwith understanding and language to continue and enjoy it. The first society wasbetween m... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. VIII. | Sect. 95. MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, andindependent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to thepolitical power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby anyone divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civilsociety, is by agreeing with... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. IX. | Sect. 123. IF man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he beabsolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, andsubject to no body, why will he part with his freedom? why will he give up thisempire, and subject himself to the dominion and controul of any other power? Towhich it... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. X. | Sect. 132. THE majority having, as has been shewed, upon men’s firstuniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally in them, mayemploy all that power in making laws for the community from time to time, andexecuting those laws by officers of their own appointing; and then the form ofthe government is a ... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XI. | Sect. 134. THE great end of men’s entering into society, being theenjoyment of their properties in peace and safety, and the great instrument andmeans of that being the laws established in that society; the first andfundamental positive law of all commonwealths is the establishing of thelegislative power; as the first ... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XII. | Sect. 143. THE legislative power is that, which has a right to direct how theforce of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community andthe members of it. But because those laws which are constantly to be executed,and whose force is always to continue, may be made in a little time; thereforethere is no... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XIII. | Sect. 149. THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis,and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation ofthe community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, towhich all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being onlya fiduc... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XIV. | Sect. 159. WHERE the legislative and executive power are in distinct hands, (asthey are in all moderated monarchies, and well-framed governments) there thegood of the society requires, that several things should be left to thediscretion of him that has the executive power: for the legislators not beingable to foresee, ... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XV. | Sect. 169. THOUGH I have had occasion to speak of these separately before, yetthe great mistakes of late about government, having, as I suppose, arisen fromconfounding these distinct powers one with another, it may not, perhaps, beamiss to consider them here together.
Sect. 170. First, then, Paternal or parental power ... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XVI. | Sect. 175. THOUGH governments can originally have no other rise than thatbefore mentioned, nor polities be founded on any thing but the consent of thepeople; yet such have been the disorders ambition has filled the world with,that in the noise of war, which makes so great a part of the history ofmankind, this consent i... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XVII. | Sect. 197. AS conquest may be called a foreign usurpation, so usurpation is akind of domestic conquest, with this difference, that an usurper can never haveright on his side, it being no usurpation, but where one is got into thepossession of what another has right to. This, so far as it is usurpation, is achange only o... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XVIII. | Sect. 199. AS usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a rightto; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have aright to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not forthe good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage.When th... |
pg7370 | CHAPTER. XIX. | Sect. 211. HE that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution ofgovernment, ought in the first place to distinguish between the dissolution ofthe society and the dissolution of the government. That which makes thecommunity, and brings men out of the loose state of nature, into one politicsociety, is the agreement... |
pg43 | STORY OF THE DOOR | Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was neverlighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward insentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendlymeetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently humanbeaconed from his eye; somethi... |
pg43 | SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE | That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits andsat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of a Sunday, when thismeal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on hisreading desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour oftwelve, when... |
pg43 | DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE | A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of hispleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputablemen and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remainedbehind after the others had departed. This was no new arrangement, but a thingthat had befall... |
pg43 | THE CAREW MURDER CASE | Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled bya crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the highposition of the victim. The details were few and startling. A maid servantliving alone in a house not far from the river, had gone upstairs to bed abouteleven. Although a fo... |
pg43 | INCIDENT OF THE LETTER | It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr.Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried downby the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to thebuilding which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms.The doctor had bought the h... |
pg43 | INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON | Time ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of SirDanvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde had disappeared out ofthe ken of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past wasunearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man’scruelty, at once so callo... |
pg43 | INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW | It chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr. Enfield,that their way lay once again through the by-street; and that when they came infront of the door, both stopped to gaze on it.
“Well,” said Enfield, “that story’s at an end at least.We shall never see more of Mr. Hyde.”
“I hope not,” said Utt... |
pg43 | THE LAST NIGHT | Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he wassurprised to receive a visit from Poole.
“Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?” he cried; and then takinga second look at him, “What ails you?” he added; “is thedoctor ill?”
“Mr. Utterson,” said the man, “there is somethingwrong.”
“Take a s... |
pg43 | DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE | On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening deliverya registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old schoolcompanion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good deal surprised by this; for we were by nomeans in the habit of correspondence; I had seen the man, dined with him,indeed, the nig... |
pg43 | HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE | I was born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides withexcellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of thewise and good among my fellowmen, and thus, as might have been supposed, withevery guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future. And indeed the worstof my faults was a cer... |
pg21700 | DEDICATION | Bob Southey! You’re a poet, poet laureate, And representative of all the race.Although ’tis true that you turned out a Tory at Last, yours has lately been a common case.And now my epic renegade, what are ye at With all the lakers, in and out of place?A nest of tuneful persons, to my eyeLike four and twenty bla... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE FIRST | I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one,Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one;Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I’ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan—We all have seen him, in the pantomime,Sent to the d... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE SECOND. | O ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain:The best of mothers and of educations In Juan’s case were but employ’d in vain,Since, in a way that ’s rather of the oddest, heBecame di... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE THIRD. | Hail, Muse! et cetera.—We left Juan sleeping, Pillow’d upon a fair and happy breast,And watch’d by eyes that never yet knew weeping, And loved by a young heart, too deeply blestTo feel the poison through her spirit creeping, Or know who rested there, a foe to rest,Had soil’d the current of her sinless years,An... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE FOURTH. | Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end;For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend,Like Lucifer when hurl’d from heaven for sinning; Our sin the same, and hard as his to mend,Being pride, which leads the mind to soar too far,Till our own... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE FIFTH. | When amatory poets sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland,And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is in hand;The greater their success the worse it proves, As Ovid’s verse may give to understand;Even Petrarch’s self, if judged with due severity,Is the Plato... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE SIXTH. | ‘There is a tide in the affairs of men Which,—taken at the flood,’—you know the rest,And most of us have found it now and then; At least we think so, though but few have guess’dThe moment, till too late to come again. But no doubt every thing is for the best—Of which the surest sign is in the end:When th... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE SEVENTH. | O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly Around us ever, rarely to alight?There’s not a meteor in the polar sky Of such transcendent and more fleeting flight.Chill, and chain’d to cold earth, we lift on high Our eyes in search of either lovely light;A thousand and a thousand colours theyAssume, then leave us on ou... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE EIGHTH. | O blood and thunder! and oh blood and wounds! These are but vulgar oaths, as you may deem,Too gentle reader! and most shocking sounds: And so they are; yet thus is Glory’s dreamUnriddled, and as my true Muse expounds At present such things, since they are her theme,So be they her inspirers! Call them Mars,Bell... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE NINTH. | O, Wellington! (or ‘Villainton’—for Fame Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;France could not even conquer your great name, But punn’d it down to this facetious phrase—Beating or beaten she will laugh the same), You have obtain’d great pensions and much praise:Glory like yours should any dare gainsay,Humanit... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE TENTH. | When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation—’Tis said (for I’ll not answer above ground For any sage’s creed or calculation)—A mode of proving that the earth turn’d round In a most natural whirl, called ‘gravitation;’And this is the sole mortal who could grapple,Since ... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE ELEVENTH. | When Bishop Berkeley said ‘there was no matter,’ And proved it—’twas no matter what he said:They say his system ’tis in vain to batter, Too subtle for the airiest human head;And yet who can believe it? I would shatter Gladly all matters down to stone or lead,Or adamant, to find the world a spirit,And wear my h... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE TWELFTH. | Of all the barbarous middle ages, that Which is most barbarous is the middle ageOf man; it is—I really scarce know what; But when we hover between fool and sage,And don’t know justly what we would be at— A period something like a printed page,Black letter upon foolscap, while our hairGrows grizzled, and we are... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE THIRTEENTH. | I now mean to be serious;—it is time, Since laughter now-a-days is deem’d too serious.A jest at Vice by Virtue ’s call’d a crime, And critically held as deleterious:Besides, the sad ’s a source of the sublime, Although when long a little apt to weary us;And therefore shall my lay soar high and solemn,As an old... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE FOURTEENTH. | If from great nature’s or our own abyss Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss— But then ’twould spoil much good philosophy.One system eats another up, and this Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;For when his pious consort gave him stonesIn lieu of sons, of the... |
pg21700 | CANTO THE FIFTEENTH. | Ah!—What should follow slips from my reflection; Whatever follows ne’ertheless may beAs à propos of hope or retrospection, As though the lurking thought had follow’d free.All present life is but an interjection, An ‘Oh!’ or ‘Ah!’ of joy or misery,Or a ‘Ha! ha!’ or ‘Bah!’—a yawn, or ‘Pooh!’Of which perhaps the ... |
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