women can hide their pain better than we men and bear it better too except when shame drops fire into the dreadful chalice


but poor rachel lake had more than that stoical hypocrisy which enables the tortured spirits of her sex to lift a pale face through the flames and smile


this transient spring and lighting up are beautiful a glamour beguiling our senses


there was something of sweetness and fondness in her tones and manner which was new to rachel and comforting and she returned the greeting as kindly and felt more like her former self


rachel's pale and sharpened features and dilated eye struck her with a painful surprise


you have been so ill my poor rachel


ill and troubled dear troubled in mind and miserably nervous


poor rachel her nature recoiled from deceit and she told at all events as much of the truth as she dared


she spoke with a sudden energy which partook of fear and passion and flushed her thin cheek and made her languid eyes flash


thank you rachel my cousin rachel my only friend


chelford had a note from mister wylder this morning another note his coming delayed and something of his having to see some person who is abroad continued dorcas after a little pause


yes something everything said rachel hurriedly looking frowningly at a flower which she was twirling in her fingers


yes said rachel


and the wan oracle having spoken she sate down in the same sort of abstraction again beside dorcas and she looked full in her cousin's eyes


of mark wylder i say this his name has been for years hateful to me and recently it has become frightful and you will promise me simply this that you will never ask me to speak again about him


it is an antipathy an antipathy i cannot get over dear dorcas you may think it a madness but don't blame me


i have very few to love me now and i thought you might love me as i have begun to love you


and she threw her arms round her cousin's neck and brave rachel at last burst into tears


dorcas in her strange way was moved


i like you still rachel i'm sure i'll always like you


you resemble me rachel you are fearless and inflexible and generous


yes rachel i do love you


thank you dorcas dear


you know captain lake


said lord chelford addressing me


he had his hand upon lake's shoulder


they are cousins you know we are all cousins


whatever lord chelford said miss brandon received it very graciously and even with a momentary smile


but her greeting to captain lake was more than usually haughty and frozen and her features i fancied particularly proud and pale


at dinner lake was easy and amusing


i'm glad you like it says wylder chuckling benignantly on it over his shoulder


i believe i have a little taste that way those are all real you know those jewels


and he placed it in that gentleman's fingers who now took his turn at the lamp and contemplated the little parallelogram with a gleam of sly amusement


i was thinking it's very like the ace of hearts answered the captain softly smiling on


whereupon lake laughed quietly still looking on the ace of hearts with his sly eyes


and wylder laughed too more suddenly and noisily than the humour of the joke seemed quite to call for and glanced a grim look from the corners of his eyes on lake but the gallant captain did not seem to perceive it and after a few seconds more he handed it very innocently back to missus dorothy only remarking


do you know lake oh i really can't tell but he'll soon tire of country life


he's not a man for country quarters


i had a horrid dream about him last night that


oh i know that's lorne brandon


all the time he was talking to me his angry little eyes were following lake


miss lake declined the carriage to night


and he added something still less complimentary


but don't these very wise things sometimes turn out very foolishly


in the meantime i had formed a new idea of her


by this time lord chelford and wylder returned and disgusted rather with myself i ruminated on my want of general ship


and he made a little dip of his cane towards brandon hall over his shoulder


yes so they said but that would i think have been worse


if a fellow's been a little bit wild he's beelzebub at once


bracton's a very good fellow i can assure you


i don't know and can't say how you fine gentlemen define wickedness only as an obscure female i speak according to my lights and he is generally thought the wickedest man in this county


well you know radie women like wicked fellows it is contrast i suppose but they do and i'm sure from what bracton has said to me i know him intimately that dorcas likes him and i can't conceive why they are not married


their walk continued silent for the greater part neither was quite satisfied with the other but rachel at last said


now that's impossible radie for i really don't think i once thought of him all this evening except just while we were talking


there was a bright moonlight broken by the shadows of overhanging boughs and withered leaves and the mottled lights and shadows glided oddly across his pale features


don't insult me stanley by talking again as you did this morning


what i say is altogether on your own account


mark my words you'll find him too strong for you aye and too deep


i am very uneasy about it whatever it is i can't help it


to my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds


the mystery of their origin their capacity for evolving latent faculties of crime and the steady vitality with which they survive the hearse and speak their deep mouthed malignities in every new born generation have associated them somehow in my mind with a spell of life exceeding and distinct from human and a special satanic action


the floor more than anything else showed the great age of the room


my bed was unexceptionably comfortable but in my then mood i could have wished it a great deal more modern


its curtains were of thick and faded tapestry


all the furniture belonged to other times


i shan't trouble you about my train of thoughts or fancies but i began to feel very like a gentleman in a ghost story watching experimentally in a haunted chamber


i did not even take the precaution of smoking up the chimney


i boldly lighted my cheroot


a cold bright moon was shining with clear sharp lights and shadows


the sombre old trees like gigantic hearse plumes black and awful


somehow i had grown nervous


a little bit of plaster tumbled down the chimney and startled me confoundedly


at the conclusion of the banquet which was served at five o'clock the king entered his cabinet where his tailors were awaiting him for the purpose of trying on the celebrated costume representing spring which was the result of so much imagination and had cost so many efforts of thought to the designers and ornament workers of the court


ah very well


let him come in then said the king and as if colbert had been listening at the door for the purpose of keeping himself au courant with the conversation he entered as soon as the king had pronounced his name to the two courtiers


gentlemen to your posts whereupon saint aignan and villeroy took their leave


certainly sire but i must have money to do that what


what do you mean inquired louis


he has given them with too much grace not to have others still to give if they are required which is the case at the present moment


it is necessary therefore that he should comply the king frowned


does your majesty then no longer believe the disloyal attempt


not at all you are on the contrary most agreeable to me


your majesty's plan then in this affair is


you will take them from my private treasure


the news circulated with the rapidity of lightning during its progress it kindled every variety of coquetry desire and wild ambition


the king had completed his toilette by nine o'clock he appeared in an open carriage decorated with branches of trees and flowers


the queens had taken their seats upon a magnificent dias or platform erected upon the borders of the lake in a theater of wonderful elegance of construction


suddenly for the purpose of restoring peace and order spring accompanied by his whole court made his appearance


the seasons allies of spring followed him closely to form a quadrille which after many words of more or less flattering import was the commencement of the dance


his legs the best shaped at court were displayed to great advantage in flesh colored silken hose of silk so fine and so transparent that it seemed almost like flesh itself


there was something in his carriage which resembled the buoyant movements of an immortal and he did not dance so much as seem to soar along


yes it is suppressed


far from it sire your majesty having given no directions about it the musicians have retained it


yes sire and ready dressed for the ballet


sire he said your majesty's most devoted servant approaches to perform a service on this occasion with similar zeal that he has already shown on the field of battle


the king seemed only pleased with every one present


monsieur was the only one who did not understand anything about the matter


the ballet began the effect was more than beautiful


when the music by its bursts of melody carried away these illustrious dancers when the simple untutored pantomime of that period only the more natural on account of the very indifferent acting of the august actors had reached its culminating point of triumph the theater shook with tumultuous applause


disdainful of a success of which madame showed no acknowledgement he thought of nothing but boldly regaining the marked preference of the princess


by degrees all his happiness all his brilliancy subsided into regret and uneasiness so that his limbs lost their power his arms hung heavily by his sides and his head drooped as though he was stupefied


the king who had from this moment become in reality the principal dancer in the quadrille cast a look upon his vanquished rival


every one could observe his agitation and prostration a prostration which was indeed the more remarkable since people were not accustomed to see him with his arms hanging listlessly by his side his head bewildered and his eyes with all their bright intelligence bedimmed


upon this madame deigned to turn her eyes languishingly towards the comte observing


do you think so she replied with indifference


yes the character which your royal highness assumed is in perfect harmony with your own


explain yourself


i allude to the goddess


the princess inquired no


she then rose humming the air to which she was presently going to dance


the arrow pierced his heart and wounded him mortally


a quarter of an hour afterwards he returned to the theater but it will be readily believed that it was only a powerful effort of reason over his great excitement that enabled him to go back or perhaps for love is thus strangely constituted he found it impossible even to remain much longer separated from the presence of one who had broken his heart


when she perceived the young man she rose like a woman surprised in the midst of ideas she was desirous of concealing from herself


remain i implore you the evening is most lovely


indeed ah


i remember now and i congratulate myself do you love any one


forgive me i hardly know what i am saying a thousand times forgive me madame was right quite right this brutal exile has completely turned my brain


there cannot be a doubt he received you kindly for in fact you returned without his permission


oh mademoiselle why have i not a devoted sister or a true friend such as yourself


what already here they said to her


i have been here this quarter of an hour replied la valliere


did not the dancing amuse you no


no more than the dancing


la valliere is quite a poetess said tonnay charente


i am a woman and there are few like me whoever loves me flatters me whoever flatters me pleases me and whoever pleases well said montalais you do not finish


it is too difficult replied mademoiselle de tonnay charente laughing loudly


look yonder do you not see the moon slowly rising silvering the topmost branches of the chestnuts and the oaks


exquisite soft turf of the woods the happiness which your friendship confers upon me


well said mademoiselle de tonnay charente i also think a good deal but i take care


to say nothing said montalais so that when mademoiselle de tonnay charente thinks athenais is the only one who knows it


quick quick then among the high reed grass said montalais stoop athenais you are so tall


the young girls had indeed made themselves small indeed invisible


she was here just now said the count


you are positive then


yes but perhaps i frightened her in what way


how is it la valliere said mademoiselle de tonnay charente that the vicomte de bragelonne spoke of you as louise


it seems the king will not consent to it


good gracious has the king any right to interfere in matters of that kind


i give my consent


oh i am speaking seriously replied montalais and my opinion in this case is quite as good as the king's i suppose is it not louise


let us run then said all three and gracefully lifting up the long skirts of their silk dresses they lightly ran across the open space between the lake and the thickest covert of the park


in fact the sound of madame's and the queen's carriages could be heard in the distance upon the hard dry ground of the roads followed by the mounted cavaliers


in this way the fete of the whole court was a fete also for the mysterious inhabitants of the forest for certainly the deer in the brake the pheasant on the branch the fox in its hole were all listening


the grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince who indulged their passions and promoted their interest


the edict of milan the great charter of toleration had confirmed to each individual of the roman world the privilege of choosing and professing his own religion


but this inestimable privilege was soon violated with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of christianity


constantine easily believed that the heretics who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation


some of the penal regulations were copied from the edicts of diocletian and this method of conversion was applauded by the same bishops who had felt the hand of oppression and pleaded for the rights of humanity


they asserted with confidence and almost with exultation that the apostolical succession was interrupted that all the bishops of europe and asia were infected by the contagion of guilt and schism and that the prerogatives of the catholic church were confined to the chosen portion of the african believers who alone had preserved inviolate the integrity of their faith and discipline


bishops virgins and even spotless infants were subjected to the disgrace of a public penance before they could be admitted to the communion of the donatists


proscribed by the civil and ecclesiastical powers of the empire the donatists still maintained in some provinces particularly in numidia their superior numbers and four hundred bishops acknowledged the jurisdiction of their primate


ojo examined this curious contrivance with wonder


margolotte had first made the girl's form from the patchwork quilt and then she had dressed it with a patchwork skirt and an apron with pockets in it using the same gay material throughout


the head of the patchwork girl was the most curious part of her


the hair was of brown yarn and hung down on her neck in several neat braids


gold is the most common metal in the land of oz and is used for many purposes because it is soft and pliable


no i forgot all about the brains exclaimed the woman


well that may be true agreed margolotte but on the contrary a servant with too much brains is sure to become independent and high and mighty and feel above her work


she poured into the dish a quantity from each of these bottles


i think that will do she continued for the other qualities are not needed in a servant


she ran to her husband's side at once and helped him lift the four kettles from the fire


their contents had all boiled away leaving in the bottom of each kettle a few grains of fine white powder


very carefully the magician removed this powder placing it all together in a golden dish where he mixed it with a golden spoon


no one saw him do this for all were looking at the powder of life but soon the woman remembered what she had been doing and came back to the cupboard


ojo became a bit uneasy at this for he had already put quite a lot of the cleverness powder in the dish but he dared not interfere and so he comforted himself with the thought that one cannot have too much cleverness


he selected a small gold bottle with a pepper box top so that the powder might be sprinkled on any object through the small holes


most people talk too much so it is a relief to find one who talks too little


i am not allowed to perform magic except for my own amusement he told his visitors as he lighted a pipe with a crooked stem and began to smoke


the wizard of oz who used to be a humbug and knew no magic at all has been taking lessons of glinda and i'm told he is getting to be a pretty good wizard but he is merely the assistant of the great sorceress


it truly is asserted the magician


i now use them as ornamental statuary in my garden


dear me what a chatterbox you're getting to be unc remarked the magician who was pleased with the compliment


asked the voice in scornful accents


he wore blue silk stockings blue knee pants with gold buckles a blue ruffled waist and a jacket of bright blue braided with gold


his hat had a peaked crown and a flat brim and around the brim was a row of tiny golden bells that tinkled when he moved


instead of shoes the old man wore boots with turnover tops and his blue coat had wide cuffs of gold braid


for a long time he had wished to explore the beautiful land of oz in which they lived


when they were outside unc simply latched the door and started up the path


no one would disturb their little house even if anyone came so far into the thick forest while they were gone


at the foot of the mountain that separated the country of the munchkins from the country of the gillikins the path divided


he knew it would take them to the house of the crooked magician whom he had never seen but who was their nearest neighbor


all the morning they trudged up the mountain path and at noon unc and ojo sat on a fallen tree trunk and ate the last of the bread which the old munchkin had placed in his pocket


then they started on again and two hours later came in sight of the house of doctor pipt


unc knocked at the door of the house and a chubby pleasant faced woman dressed all in blue opened it and greeted the visitors with a smile


i am my dear and all strangers are welcome to my home


we have come from a far lonelier place than this a lonelier place


and you must be ojo the unlucky she added


ojo had never eaten such a fine meal in all his life


we are traveling replied ojo and we stopped at your house just to rest and refresh ourselves


the woman seemed thoughtful


at one end stood a great fireplace in which a blue log was blazing with a blue flame and over the fire hung four kettles in a row all bubbling and steaming at a great rate


it takes me several years to make this magic powder but at this moment i am pleased to say it is nearly done you see i am making it for my good wife margolotte who wants to use some of it for a purpose of her own


you must know said margolotte when they were all seated together on the broad window seat that my husband foolishly gave away all the powder of life he first made to old mombi the witch who used to live in the country of the gillikins to the north of here


the first lot we tested on our glass cat which not only began to live but has lived ever since


i think the next glass cat the magician makes will have neither brains nor heart for then it will not object to catching mice and may prove of some use to us


i'm afraid i don't know much about the land of oz


you see i've lived all my life with unc nunkie the silent one and there was no one to tell me anything


that is one reason you are ojo the unlucky said the woman in a sympathetic tone


i think i must show you my patchwork girl said margolotte laughing at the boy's astonishment for she is rather difficult to explain


but first i will tell you that for many years i have longed for a servant to help me with the housework and to cook the meals and wash the dishes


yet that task was not so easy as you may suppose


a bed quilt made of patches of different kinds and colors of cloth all neatly sewed together


sometimes it is called a crazy quilt because the patches and colors are so mixed up


when i found it i said to myself that it would do nicely for my servant girl for when she was brought to life she would not be proud nor haughty as the glass cat is for such a dreadful mixture of colors would discourage her from trying to be as dignified as the blue munchkins are


at the emerald city where our princess ozma lives green is the popular color


i will show you what a good job i did and she went to a tall cupboard and threw open the doors


also a popular contrivance whereby love making may be suspended but not stopped during the picnic season


harangue the tiresome product of a tireless tongue


angor pain painful to hear


hay fever a heart trouble caused by falling in love with a grass widow


heaven a good place to be raised to


hedge a fence


heredity the cause of all our faults


horse sense a degree of wisdom that keeps one from betting on the races


hose man's excuse for wetting the walk


hotel a place where a guest often gives up good dollars for poor quarters


housecleaning a domestic upheaval that makes it easy for the government to enlist all the soldiers it needs


husband the next thing to a wife


hussy woman and bond tie


tied to a woman


hypocrite a horse dealer


it was this observation that drew from douglas not immediately but later in the evening a reply that had the interesting consequence to which i call attention


someone else told a story not particularly effective which i saw he was not following


cried one of the women he took no notice of her he looked at me but as if instead of me he saw what he spoke of


there was a unanimous groan at this and much reproach after which in his preoccupied way he explained


the story's written


i could write to my man and enclose the key he could send down the packet as he finds it


the others resented postponement but it was just his scruples that charmed me


to this his answer was prompt oh thank god no and is the record yours


he hung fire again a woman's


she has been dead these twenty years


she sent me the pages in question before she died


she was the most agreeable woman i've ever known in her position she would have been worthy of any whatever


it wasn't simply that she said so but that i knew she hadn't i was sure i could see


you'll easily judge why when you hear because the thing had been such a scare he continued to fix me


you are acute


he quitted the fire and dropped back into his chair


probably not till the second post


it was almost the tone of hope everybody will stay


cried the ladies whose departure had been fixed


missus griffin however expressed the need for a little more light


who was it she was in love with the story will tell i took upon myself to reply oh i can't wait for the story the story won't tell said douglas not in any literal vulgar way more's the pity then


won't you tell douglas


well if i don't know who she was in love with i know who he was


let me say here distinctly to have done with it that this narrative from an exact transcript of my own made much later is what i shall presently give


poor douglas before his death when it was in sight committed to me the manuscript that reached him on the third of these days and that on the same spot with immense effect he began to read to our hushed little circle on the night of the fourth


the departing ladies who had said they would stay didn't of course thank heaven stay they departed in consequence of arrangements made in a rage of curiosity as they professed produced by the touches with which he had already worked us up


the first of these touches conveyed that the written statement took up the tale at a point after it had in a manner begun


he had for his own town residence a big house filled with the spoils of travel and the trophies of the chase but it was to his country home an old family place in essex that he wished her immediately to proceed


the awkward thing was that they had practically no other relations and that his own affairs took up all his time


there were plenty of people to help but of course the young lady who should go down as governess would be in supreme authority


i don't anticipate


she was young untried nervous it was a vision of serious duties and little company of really great loneliness


yes but that's just the beauty of her passion


it was the beauty of it


it sounded dull it sounded strange and all the more so because of his main condition which was


she promised to do this and she mentioned to me that when for a moment disburdened delighted he held her hand thanking her for the sacrifice she already felt rewarded


but was that all her reward one of the ladies asked


you are my all the world and i must strive to know my shames and praises from your tongue none else to me nor i to none alive that my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong


o tis the first tis flattery in my seeing and my great mind most kingly drinks it up mine eye well knows what with his gust is greeing and to his palate doth prepare the cup if it be poison'd tis the lesser sin that mine eye loves it and doth first begin


but reckoning time whose million'd accidents creep in twixt vows and change decrees of kings tan sacred beauty blunt the sharp'st intents divert strong minds to the course of altering things alas why fearing of time's tyranny might i not then say now i love you best when i was certain o'er incertainty crowning the present doubting of the rest


love is a babe then might i not say so to give full growth to that which still doth grow


so i return rebuk'd to my content and gain by ill thrice more than i have spent


those pretty wrongs that liberty commits when i am sometime absent from thy heart thy beauty and thy years full well befits for still temptation follows where thou art


ay me


no matter then although my foot did stand upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee for nimble thought can jump both sea and land as soon as think the place where he would be but ah


thought kills me that i am not thought to leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone but that so much of earth and water wrought i must attend time's leisure with my moan receiving nought by elements so slow but heavy tears badges of either's woe


my heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie a closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes but the defendant doth that plea deny and says in him thy fair appearance lies


he could wait no longer


for a full hour he had paced up and down waiting but he could wait no longer


he set off abruptly for the bull walking rapidly lest his father's shrill whistle might call him back and in a few moments he had rounded the curve at the police barrack and was safe


the university


pride after satisfaction uplifted him like long slow waves


whose feet are as the feet of harts and underneath the everlasting arms


the pride of that dim image brought back to his mind the dignity of the office he had refused


soon the whole bridge was trembling and resounding


the uncouth faces passed him two by two stained yellow or red or livid by the sea and as he strove to look at them with ease and indifference a faint stain of personal shame and commiseration rose to his own face


angry with himself he tried to hide his face from their eyes by gazing down sideways into the shallow swirling water under the bridge but he still saw a reflection therein of their top heavy silk hats and humble tape like collars and loosely hanging clerical clothes brother hickey


brother mac ardle brother keogh


their piety would be like their names like their faces like their clothes and it was idle for him to tell himself that their humble and contrite hearts it might be paid a far richer tribute of devotion than his had ever been a gift tenfold more acceptable than his elaborate adoration


it was idle for him to move himself to be generous towards them to tell himself that if he ever came to their gates stripped of his pride beaten and in beggar's weeds that they would be generous towards him loving him as themselves


idle and embittering finally to argue against his own dispassionate certitude that the commandment of love bade us not to love our neighbour as ourselves with the same amount and intensity of love but to love him as ourselves with the same kind of love


the phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord


words was it their colours


they were voyaging across the deserts of the sky a host of nomads on the march voyaging high over ireland westward bound


the europe they had come from lay out there beyond the irish sea europe of strange tongues and valleyed and woodbegirt and citadelled and of entrenched and marshalled races


again again


a voice from beyond the world was calling


hello stephanos here comes the dedalus


their diving stone poised on its rude supports and rocking under their plunges and the rough hewn stones of the sloping breakwater over which they scrambled in their horseplay gleamed with cold wet lustre


he stood still in deference to their calls and parried their banter with easy words


it was a pain to see them and a sword like pain to see the signs of adolescence that made repellent their pitiable nakedness


stephanos dedalos


a moment before the ghost of the ancient kingdom of the danes had looked forth through the vesture of the hazewrapped city


he hoped there would be stew for dinner turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flour fattened sauce


stuff it into you his belly counselled him


after early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up here and there the squalid quarter of the brothels


hello bertie any good in your mind


number ten fresh nelly is waiting on you good night husband


the music came nearer and he recalled the words the words of shelley's fragment upon the moon wandering companionless pale for weariness


the dull light fell more faintly upon the page whereon another equation began to unfold itself slowly and to spread abroad its widening tail


a cold lucid indifference reigned in his soul


the chaos in which his ardour extinguished itself was a cold indifferent knowledge of himself


at most by an alms given to a beggar whose blessing he fled from he might hope wearily to win for himself some measure of actual grace


well now ennis i declare you have a head and so has my stick


on saturday mornings when the sodality met in the chapel to recite the little office his place was a cushioned kneeling desk at the right of the altar from which he led his wing of boys through the responses


her eyes seemed to regard him with mild pity her holiness a strange light glowing faintly upon her frail flesh did not humiliate the sinner who approached her


if ever he was impelled to cast sin from him and to repent the impulse that moved him was the wish to be her knight


he tried to think how it could be


but the dusk deepening in the schoolroom covered over his thoughts the bell rang


then you can ask him questions on the catechism dedalus


stephen leaning back and drawing idly on his scribbler listened to the talk about him which heron checked from time to time by saying


it was strange too that he found an arid pleasure in following up to the end the rigid lines of the doctrines of the church and penetrating into obscure silences only to hear and feel the more deeply his own condemnation


the sentence of saint james which says that he who offends against one commandment becomes guilty of all had seemed to him first a swollen phrase until he had begun to grope in the darkness of his own state


if a man had stolen a pound in his youth and had used that pound to amass a huge fortune how much was he obliged to give back the pound he had stolen only or the pound together with the compound interest accruing upon it or all his huge fortune


if a layman in giving baptism pour the water before saying the words is the child baptized


how comes it that while the first beatitude promises the kingdom of heaven to the poor of heart the second beatitude promises also to the meek that they shall possess the land


why was the sacrament of the eucharist instituted under the two species of bread and wine if jesus christ be present body and blood soul and divinity in the bread alone and in the wine alone


if the wine change into vinegar and the host crumble into corruption after they have been consecrated is jesus christ still present under their species as god and as man


a gentle kick from the tall boy in the bench behind urged stephen to ask a difficult question


the rector did not ask for a catechism to hear the lesson from


he clasped his hands on the desk and said


the retreat will begin on wednesday afternoon in honour of saint francis xavier whose feast day is saturday


on friday confession will be heard all the afternoon after beads


beware of making that mistake


stephen's heart began slowly to fold and fade with fear like a withering flower


he is called as you know the apostle of the indies


a great saint saint francis xavier


the rector paused and then shaking his clasped hands before him went on


he had the faith in him that moves mountains


in the silence their dark fire kindled the dusk into a tawny glow


but the more forgetfulness had then prevailed the more powerful was the force of remembrance when she awoke


miss milner's health is not good


said missus horton a few minutes after


so there is to me added sandford with a sarcastic sneer


and yet you must own her behaviour has warranted them has it not been in this particular incoherent and unaccountable


not that i know of not one more that i know of he replied with astonishment at what she had insinuated and yet with a perfect assurance that she was in the wrong


perhaps i am mistaken answered she


to ask any more questions of you i believe would be unfair


he seemed to wait for her reply but as she made none he proceeded


oh my lord cried miss woodley with a most forcible accent you are the last person on earth she would pardon me for entrusting


but in such a case miss milner's election of a husband shall not direct mine


if she does not know how to estimate her own value i do


independent of her fortune she has beauty to captivate the heart of any man and with all her follies she has a frankness in her manner an unaffected wisdom in her thoughts a vivacity in her conversation and withal a softness in her demeanour that might alone engage the affections of a man of the nicest sentiments and the strongest understanding


my lord miss milner's taste is not a depraved one it is but too refined


what can you mean by that miss woodley you talk mysteriously


is she not afraid that i will thwart her inclinations


again he searched his own thoughts nor ineffectually as before


miss woodley was too little versed in the subject to know this would have been not to love at all at least not to the extent of breaking through engagements and all the various obstacles that still militated against their union


to relieve her from both he laid his hand with force upon his heart and said do you believe me


i will make no unjust use of what i know he replied with firmness i believe you my lord


i have never yet however been vanquished by them and even upon this occasion my reason shall combat them to the last and my reason shall fail me before i do wrong


yes dead these four years an a good job for her too


well as i say it's an awful queer world they clap all the burglars into jail and the murderers and the wife beaters i've allers thought a gentle reproof would be enough punishment for a wife beater cause he probably has a lot o provocation that nobody knows and the firebugs can't think o the right name something like cendenaries an the breakers o the peace an what not an yet the law has nothin to say to a man like hen lord


grandfather was alexander carey l l d doctor of laws that is


mister popham laid down his brush


i swan to man he ejaculated if you don't work hard you can't keep up with the times doctor of laws


done he ain't done a thing he'd oughter sence he was born


he keeps the thou shalt not commandments first rate hen lord does


he give up his position and shut the family up in that tomb of a house so t he could study his books


mister popham exaggerated nothing but on the contrary left much unsaid in his narrative of the family at the house of lords


henry lord with the degree of ph d to his credit had been professor of zoology at a new england college but had resigned his post in order to write a series of scientific text books


always irritable cold indifferent he had grown rapidly more so as years went on


whatever appealed to her sense of beauty was straightway transferred to paper or canvas


she is wild to know how to do things


she makes effort after effort trembling with eagerness and when she fails to reproduce what she sees she works herself into a frenzy of grief and disappointment


when she could not make a rabbit or a bird look real on paper she searched in her father's books for pictures of its bones


cyril there must be some better way of doing i just draw the outline of an animal and then i put hairs or feathers on it they have no bodies


they couldn't run nor move they're just pasteboard


he wouldn't search so don't worry replied cyril quietly and the two looked at each other and knew that it was so


there in the cedar hollow then lived olive lord an angry resentful little creature weighed down by a fierce sense of injury


olive's mournful black eyes met nancy's sparkling brown ones


nancy's curly chestnut crop shone in the sun and olive's thick black plaits looked blacker by contrast


she's wonderful more wonderful than anybody we've ever seen anywhere and she draws better than the teacher in charlestown


she's older than i am but so tiny and sad and shy that she seems like a child


natty harmon tried the kitchen pump secretly several times during the evening for the water had to run up hill all the way from the well to the kitchen sink and he believed this to be a continual miracle that might give out at any moment


to night there was no need of extra heat and there were great ceremonies to be observed in lighting the fires on the hearthstones


they began with the one in the family sitting room colonel wheeler ralph thurston mister and missus bill harmon with natty and rufus mister and missus popham with digby and lallie joy all standing in admiring groups and thrilling with delight at the order of events


kathleen waved the torch to and fro as she recited some beautiful lines written for some such purpose as that which called them together to night


burn fire burn flicker flicker flame


next came olive's turn to help in the ceremonies


ralph thurston had found a line of latin for them in his beloved horace tibi splendet focus for you the hearth fire shines


olive had painted the motto on a long narrow panel of canvas and giving it to mister popham stood by the fireside while he deftly fitted it into the place prepared for it


olive has another lovely gift for the yellow house said mother carey rising and to carry out the next part of the programme we shall have to go in procession upstairs to my bedroom


exclaimed bill harmon to his wife as they went through the lighted hall


ain't they the greatest


mother carey poured coffee nancy chocolate and the others helped serve the sandwiches and cake doughnuts and tarts


at that moment the gentleman entered bearing a huge object concealed by a piece of green felt


approaching the dining table he carefully placed the article in the centre and removed the cloth


thinks i to myself i never seen anything osh popham couldn't mend if he took time enough and glue enough so i carried this little feller home in a bushel basket one night last month an i've spent eleven evenin's puttin him together


missus harmon thought he sang too much and told her husband privately that if he was a canary bird she should want to keep a table cover over his head most of the time but he was immensely popular with the rest of his audience


the face of the mahogany shone with delight and why not when it was doing everything almost everything within the scope of a piano and yet the family had enjoyed weeks of good nourishing meals on what had been saved by its exertions


we shut our eyes the flowers bloom on we murmur but the corn ears fill we choose the shadow but the sun that casts it shines behind us still


you'll never dig it out of the astor library


to the young american here or elsewhere the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open there is invitation in the air and success in all his wide horizon


he has no traditions to bind him or guide him and his impulse is to break away from the occupation his father has followed and make a new way for himself


the modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement it might be for a book or for the skillful management of some great newspaper or for some daring expedition like that of lieutenant strain or doctor kane


he was unable to decide exactly what it should be


sometimes he thought he would like to stand in a conspicuous pulpit and humbly preach the gospel of repentance and it even crossed his mind that it would be noble to give himself to a missionary life to some benighted region where the date palm grows and the nightingale's voice is in tune and the bul bul sings on the off nights


law seemed to him well enough as a science but he never could discover a practical case where it appeared to him worth while to go to law and all the clients who stopped with this new clerk in the ante room of the law office where he was writing philip invariably advised to settle no matter how but settle greatly to the disgust of his employer who knew that justice between man and man could only be attained by the recognized processes with the attendant fees


it is such a noble ambition that it is a pity it has usually such a shallow foundation


he wanted to begin at the top of the ladder


philip therefore read diligently in the astor library planned literary works that should compel attention and nursed his genius


he had no friend wise enough to tell him to step into the dorking convention then in session make a sketch of the men and women on the platform and take it to the editor of the daily grapevine and see what he could get a line for it


o very well said gringo turning away with a shade of contempt you'll find if you are going into literature and newspaper work that you can't afford a conscience like that


but philip did afford it and he wrote thanking his friends and declining because he said the political scheme would fail and ought to fail


and he went back to his books and to his waiting for an opening large enough for his dignified entrance into the literary world


well i'm going as an engineer you can go as one


you can begin by carrying a rod and putting down the figures


no its not too soon


i've been ready to go anywhere for six months


the two young men who were by this time full of the adventure went down to the wall street office of henry's uncle and had a talk with that wily operator


the night was spent in packing up and writing letters for philip would not take such an important step without informing his friends


why it's in missouri somewhere on the frontier i think we'll get a map


i was afraid it was nearer home


he knew his uncle would be glad to hear that he had at last turned his thoughts to a practical matter


he well knew the perils of the frontier the savage state of society the lurking indians and the dangers of fever


she was tired of other things


she tried this morning an air or two upon the piano sang a simple song in a sweet but slightly metallic voice and then seating herself by the open window read philip's letter


well mother said the young student looking up with a shade of impatience


i hope thee told the elders that father and i are responsible for the piano and that much as thee loves music thee is never in the room when it is played


i heard father tell cousin abner that he was whipped so often for whistling when he was a boy that he was determined to have what compensation he could get now


thy ways greatly try me ruth and all thy relations


is thy father willing thee should go away to a school of the world's people


i have not asked him ruth replied with a look that might imply that she was one of those determined little bodies who first made up her own mind and then compelled others to make up theirs in accordance with hers


mother i'm going to study medicine


margaret bolton almost lost for a moment her habitual placidity


thee study medicine


does thee think thee could stand it six months


and besides suppose thee does learn medicine


i will practice it


where thee and thy family are known


if i can get patients


ruth sat quite still for a time with face intent and flushed it was out now


the sight seers returned in high spirits from the city


ruth asked the enthusiasts if they would like to live in such a sounding mausoleum with its great halls and echoing rooms and no comfortable place in it for the accommodation of any body


and then there was broad street


there certainly was no end to it and even ruth was philadelphian enough to believe that a street ought not to have any end or architectural point upon which the weary eye could rest


but neither saint girard nor broad street neither wonders of the mint nor the glories of the hall where the ghosts of our fathers sit always signing the declaration impressed the visitors so much as the splendors of the chestnut street windows and the bargains on eighth street


is thee going to the yearly meeting ruth asked one of the girls


i have nothing to wear replied that demure person


it has occupied mother a long time to find at the shops the exact shade for her new bonnet


and thee won't go why should i


if i go to meeting at all i like best to sit in the quiet old house in germantown where the windows are all open and i can see the trees and hear the stir of the leaves


it's such a crush at the yearly meeting at arch street and then there's the row of sleek looking young men who line the curbstone and stare at us as we come out


he doesn't say but it's on the frontier and on the map everything beyond it is marked indians and desert and looks as desolate as a wednesday meeting humph it was time for him to do something


is he going to start a daily newspaper among the kick a poos


father thee's unjust to philip he's going into business


he doesn't say exactly what it is said ruth a little dubiously but it's something about land and railroads and thee knows father that fortunes are made nobody knows exactly how in a new country


but philip is honest and he has talent enough if he will stop scribbling to make his way


what a box women are put into measured for it and put in young if we go anywhere it's in a box veiled and pinioned and shut in by disabilities


why should i rust and be stupid and sit in inaction because i am a girl


and if i had a fortune would thee want me to lead a useless life


has thee consulted thy mother about a career i suppose it is a career thee wants


but that wise and placid woman understood the sweet rebel a great deal better than ruth understood herself


ruth was glad to hear that philip had made a push into the world and she was sure that his talent and courage would make a way for him


nature of the effect produced by early impressions


that is comparatively nothing


they are chiefly formed from combinations of the impressions made in childhood


vast importance and influence of this mental furnishing


without going to any such extreme as this we can easily see on reflection how vast an influence on the ideas and conceptions as well as on the principles of action in mature years must be exerted by the nature and character of the images which the period of infancy and childhood impresses upon the mind


the pain produced by an act of hasty and angry violence to which a father subjects his son may soon pass away but the memory of it does not pass away with the pain


but anders cared nothing about that


he made a bow so deep that his back came near breaking and he was dumbfounded i can tell you when he saw it was nobody but anders


he was such a big boy that he wore high boots and carried a jack knife


now this knife was a splendid one though half the blade was gone and the handle was a little cracked and anders knew that one is almost a man as soon as one has a jack knife


yes why not thought anders


seeing that i am so fine i may as well go and visit the king


i am going to the court ball answered anders


and she took anders hand and walked with him up the broad marble stairs where soldiers were posted at every third step and through the magnificent halls where courtiers in silk and velvet stood bowing wherever he went


for like as not they must have thought him a prince when they saw his fine cap


at the farther end of the largest hall a table was set with golden cups and golden plates in long rows


on huge silver platters were pyramids of tarts and cakes and red wine sparkled in glittering decanters


the princess sat down under a blue canopy with bouquets of roses and she let anders sit in a golden chair by her side


but you must not eat with your cap on your head she said and was going to take it off


the princess certainly was beautiful and he would have dearly liked to be kissed by her but the cap which his mother had made he would not give up on any condition


he only shook his head


well but now said the princess and she filled his pockets with cakes and put her own heavy gold chain around his neck and bent down and kissed him


that is a very fine cap you have he said


so it is said anders


and it is made of mother's best yarn and she knitted it herself and everybody wants to get it away from me


with one jump anders got out of his chair


he darted like an arrow through all the halls down all the stairs and across the yard


he still held on to it with both hands as he rushed into his mother's cottage


and all his brothers and sisters stood round and listened with their mouths open


but when his big brother heard that he had refused to give his cap for a king's golden crown he said that anders was a stupid


anders face grew red


but his mother hugged him close


no my little son she said


if you dressed in silk and gold from top to toe you could not look any nicer than in your little red cap


to such persons these indirect modes of training children in habits of subordination to their will or rather of yielding to their influence are specially useful


della had a young sister named maria and a cousin whose name was jane


now delia contrived to obtain a great influence and ascendency over the minds of the children by means of these dolls


to give an idea of these conversations i will report one of them in full


you have come andella andella was the name of jane's doll to make rosalie a visit


i am very glad


i expect you have been a very good girl andella since you were here last


then turning to jane she asked in a somewhat altered tone has she been a good girl jane


for instance one day the children had been playing upon the piazza with blocks and other playthings and finally had gone into the house leaving all the things on the floor of the piazza instead of putting them away in their places as they ought to have done


they were now playing with their dolls in the parlor


delia came to the parlor and with an air of great mystery beckoned the children aside and said to them in a whisper leave andella and rosalie here and don't say a word to them


so saying she led the way on tiptoe followed by the children out of the room and round by a circuitous route to the piazza there


said she pointing to the playthings see


put these playthings all away quick and carefully and we will not let them know any thing about your leaving them out


and this method of treating the case was much more effectual in making them disposed to avoid committing a similar fault another time than any direct rebukes or expressions of displeasure addressed personally to them would have been


the three modes of management


to suppose that the object of this work is to aid in effecting such a substitution as that is entirely to mistake its nature and design


by reason and affection


as the chaise drives away mary stands bewildered and perplexed on the door step her mind in a tumult of excitement in which hatred of the doctor distrust and suspicion of her mother disappointment vexation and ill humor surge and swell among those delicate organizations on which the structure and development of the soul so closely depend doing perhaps an irreparable injury


the mother as soon as the chaise is so far turned that mary can no longer watch the expression of her countenance goes away from the door with a smile of complacency and satisfaction upon her face at the ingenuity and success of her little artifice


so you will be a good girl i know and not make any trouble but will stay at home contentedly won't you


the mother in managing the case in this way relies partly on convincing the reason of the child and partly on an appeal to her affection


if you should not be a good girl but should show signs of making us any trouble i shall have to send you out somewhere to the back part of the house until we are gone


but this last supposition is almost always unnecessary for if mary has been habitually managed on this principle she will not make any trouble


it is indeed true that the importance of tact and skill in the training of the young and of cultivating their reason and securing their affection can not be overrated


i will endeavour in my statement to avoid such terms as would serve to limit the events to any particular place or give a clue as to the people concerned


i had always known him to be restless in his manner but on this particular occasion he was in such a state of uncontrollable agitation that it was clear something very unusual had occurred


my friend's temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of baker street


without his scrapbooks his chemicals and his homely untidiness he was an uncomfortable man


i had to read it over carefully as the text must be absolutely correct


i was absent rather more than an hour


the only duplicate which existed so far as i knew was that which belonged to my servant bannister a man who has looked after my room for ten years and whose honesty is absolutely above suspicion


the moment i looked at my table i was aware that someone had rummaged among my papers


the proof was in three long slips i had left them all together


the alternative was that someone passing had observed the key in the door had known that i was out and had entered to look at the papers


i gave him a little brandy and left him collapsed in a chair while i made a most careful examination of the room


a broken tip of lead was lying there also


not only this but on the table i found a small ball of black dough or clay with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it


above all things i desire to settle the matter quietly and discreetly


to the best of my belief they were rolled up


did anyone know that these proofs would be there no one save the printer


i was in such a hurry to come to you you left your door open


so it seems to me


now mister soames at your disposal


above were three students one on each story


then he approached it and standing on tiptoe with his neck craned he looked into the room


there is no opening except the one pane said our learned guide


i am afraid there are no signs here said he


one could hardly hope for any upon so dry a day


you left him in a chair you say which chair by the window there


the man entered and took the papers sheet by sheet from the central table


as a matter of fact he could not said soames for i entered by the side door


how long would it take him to do that using every possible contraction a quarter of an hour not less


then he tossed it down and seized the next


he was in the midst of that when your return caused him to make a very hurried retreat very hurried since he had not time to replace the papers which would tell you that he had been there


mister soames was somewhat overwhelmed by this flood of information


holmes held out a small chip with the letters n n and a space of clear wood after them you see


watson i have always done you an injustice there are others


i was hoping that if the paper on which he wrote was thin some trace of it might come through upon this polished surface no i see nothing


as holmes drew the curtain i was aware from some little rigidity and alertness of his attitude that he was prepared for an emergency


holmes turned away and stooped suddenly to the floor halloa what's this


holmes held it out on his open palm in the glare of the electric light


what could he do he caught up everything which would betray him and he rushed into your bedroom to conceal himself


i understand you to say that there are three students who use this stair and are in the habit of passing your door yes there are


and they are all in for this examination yes


one hardly likes to throw suspicion where there are no proofs


let us hear the suspicions i will look after the proofs


my scholar has been left very poor but he is hard working and industrious he will do well


the top floor belongs to miles mc laren


i dare not go so far as that but of the three he is perhaps the least unlikely


he was still suffering from this sudden disturbance of the quiet routine of his life


but i have occasionally done the same thing at other times


did you look at these papers on the table


how came you to leave the key in the door


anyone in the room could get out yes sir


i really don't think he knew much about it mister holmes


only for a minute or so


oh i would not venture to say sir


you haven't seen any of them no sir


it was the indian whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly upon his blind


he was pacing swiftly up and down his room


this set of rooms is quite the oldest in the college and it is not unusual for visitors to go over them


no names please said holmes as we knocked at gilchrist's door


of course he did not realize that it was i who was knocking but none the less his conduct was very uncourteous and indeed under the circumstances rather suspicious


that is very important said holmes


you don't seem to realize the position


to morrow is the examination


i cannot allow the examination to be held if one of the papers has been tampered with the situation must be faced


it is possible that i may be in a position then to indicate some course of action


i will take the black clay with me also the pencil cuttings good bye


when we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle we again looked up at the windows


the foul mouthed fellow at the top


he is the one with the worst record


why bannister the servant what's his game in the matter


he impressed me as being a perfectly honest man


my friend did not appear to be depressed by his failure but shrugged his shoulders in half humorous resignation


no good my dear watson


i think so you have formed a conclusion


yes my dear watson i have solved the mystery


look at that he held out his hand


on the palm were three little pyramids of black doughy clay


and one more this morning


in a few hours the examination would commence and he was still in the dilemma between making the facts public and allowing the culprit to compete for the valuable scholarship


he could hardly stand still so great was his mental agitation and he ran towards holmes with two eager hands outstretched thank heaven that you have come


you know him i think so


if this matter is not to become public we must give ourselves certain powers and resolve ourselves into a small private court martial


no sir certainly not


there was no man sir


his troubled blue eyes glanced at each of us and finally rested with an expression of blank dismay upon bannister in the farther corner


just close the door said holmes


we want to know mister gilchrist how you an honourable man ever came to commit such an action as that of yesterday


for a moment gilchrist with upraised hand tried to control his writhing features


come come said holmes kindly it is human to err and at least no one can accuse you of being a callous criminal


well well don't trouble to answer listen and see that i do you no injustice


he could examine the papers in his own office


the indian i also thought nothing of


when i approached your room i examined the window


no one less than that would have a chance


i entered and i took you into my confidence as to the suggestions of the side table


he returned carrying his jumping shoes which are provided as you are aware with several sharp spikes


no harm would have been done had it not been that as he passed your door he perceived the key which had been left by the carelessness of your servant


a sudden impulse came over him to enter and see if they were indeed the proofs


he put his shoes on the table


gloves said the young man


suddenly he heard him at the very door there was no possible escape


have i told the truth mister gilchrist


i have a letter here mister soames which i wrote to you early this morning in the middle of a restless night


it will be clear to you from what i have said that only you could have let this young man out since you were left in the room and must have locked the door when you went out


it was simple enough sir if you only had known but with all your cleverness it was impossible that you could know


if mister soames saw them the game was up


you will find me continually speaking of four men titian holbein turner and tintoret in almost the same terms


they unite every quality and sometimes you will find me referring to them as colorists sometimes as chiaroscurists


by being studious of color they are studious of division and while the chiaroscurist devotes himself to the representation of degrees of force in one thing unseparated light the colorists have for their function the attainment of beauty by arrangement of the divisions of light


my first and principal reason was that they enforced beyond all resistance on any student who might attempt to copy them this method of laying portions of distinct hue side by side


some of the touches indeed when the tint has been mixed with much water have been laid in little drops or ponds so that the pigment might crystallize hard at the edge


it is the head of a parrot with a little flower in his beak from a picture of carpaccio's one of his series of the life of saint george


then he comes to the beak of it


the brown ground beneath is left for the most part one touch of black is put for the hollow two delicate lines of dark gray define the outer curve and one little quivering touch of white draws the inner edge of the mandible


for believe me the final philosophy of art can only ratify their opinion that the beauty of a cock robin is to be red and of a grass plot to be green and the best skill of art is in instantly seizing on the manifold deliciousness of light which you can only seize by precision of instantaneous touch


now you will see in these studies that the moment the white is inclosed properly and harmonized with the other hues it becomes somehow more precious and pearly than the white paper and that i am not afraid to leave a whole field of untreated white paper all round it being sure that even the little diamonds in the round window will tell as jewels if they are gradated justly


but in this vignette copied from turner you have the two principles brought out perfectly


they are beyond all other works that i know existing dependent for their effect on low subdued tones their favorite choice in time of day being either dawn or twilight and even their brightest sunsets produced chiefly out of gray paper


it may be that a great colorist will use his utmost force of color as a singer his full power of voice but loud or low the virtue is in both cases always in refinement never in loudness


it must remember be one or the other


do not therefore think that the gothic school is an easy one


the law of that school is that everything shall be seen clearly or at least only in such mist or faintness as shall be delightful and i have no doubt that the best introduction to it would be the elementary practice of painting every study on a golden ground


this at once compels you to understand that the work is to be imaginative and decorative that it represents beautiful things in the clearest way but not under existing conditions and that in fact you are producing jeweler's work rather than pictures


that a style is restrained or severe does not mean that it is also erroneous


in all early gothic art indeed you will find failure of this kind especially distortion and rigidity which are in many respects painfully to be compared with the splendid repose of classic art


the large letter contains indeed entirely feeble and ill drawn figures that is merely childish and failing work of an inferior hand it is not characteristic of gothic or any other school


but observe you can only do this on one condition that of striving also to create in reality the beauty which you seek in imagination


it will be wholly impossible for you to retain the tranquillity of temper and felicity of faith necessary for noble purist painting unless you are actively engaged in promoting the felicity and peace of practical life


you must look at him in the face fight him conquer him with what scathe you may you need not think to keep out of the way of him


the colorist says first of all as my delicious paroquet was ruby so this nasty viper shall be black and then is the question can i round him off even though he is black and make him slimy and yet springy and close down clotted like a pool of black blood on the earth all the same


nothing will be more precious to you i think in the practical study of art than the conviction which will force itself on you more and more every hour of the way all things are bound together little and great in spirit and in matter


you know i have just been telling you how this school of materialism and clay involved itself at last in cloud and fire


here is an equally typical greek school landscape by wilson lost wholly in golden mist the trees so slightly drawn that you don't know if they are trees or towers and no care for color whatever perfectly deceptive and marvelous effect of sunshine through the mist apollo and the python


now here is raphael exactly between the two trees still drawn leaf by leaf wholly formal but beautiful mist coming gradually into the distance


well then last here is turner's greek school of the highest class and you define his art absolutely as first the displaying intensely and with the sternest intellect of natural form as it is and then the envelopment of it with cloud and fire


only there are two sorts of cloud and fire


he knows them both


there's one and there's another the dudley and the flint


it is only a pencil outline by edward burne jones in illustration of the story of psyche it is the introduction of psyche after all her troubles into heaven


every plant in the grass is set formally grows perfectly and may be realized completely


exquisite order and universal with eternal life and light this is the faith and effort of the schools of crystal and you may describe and complete their work quite literally by taking any verses of chaucer in his tender mood and observing how he insists on the clearness and brightness first and then on the order


thus in chaucer's dream


in both these high mythical subjects the surrounding nature though suffering is still dignified and beautiful


every line in which the master traces it even where seemingly negligent is lovely and set down with a meditative calmness which makes these two etchings capable of being placed beside the most tranquil work of holbein or duerer


but now here is a subject of which you will wonder at first why turner drew it at all


it has no beauty whatsoever no specialty of picturesqueness and all its lines are cramped and poor


the crampness and the poverty are all intended


it is a gleaner bringing down her one sheaf of corn to an old watermill itself mossy and rent scarcely able to get its stones to turn


the scene is absolutely arcadian


see that your lives be in nothing worse than a boy's climbing for his entangled kite


it will be well for you if you join not with those who instead of kites fly falcons who instead of obeying the last words of the great cloud shepherd to feed his sheep live the lives how much less than vanity of the war wolf and the gier eagle


the analysis of knowledge will occupy us until the end of the thirteenth lecture and is the most difficult part of our whole enterprise


what is called perception differs from sensation by the fact that the sensational ingredients bring up habitual associates images and expectations of their usual correlates all of which are subjectively indistinguishable from the sensation


whether or not this principle is liable to exceptions everyone would agree that is has a broad measure of truth though the word exactly might seem an overstatement and it might seem more correct to say that ideas approximately represent impressions


and what sort of evidence is logically possible


there is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago exactly as it then was with a population that remembered a wholly unreal past


all that i am doing is to use its logical tenability as a help in the analysis of what occurs when we remember


the behaviourist who attempts to make psychology a record of behaviour has to trust his memory in making the record


habit is a concept involving the occurrence of similar events at different times if the behaviourist feels confident that there is such a phenomenon as habit that can only be because he trusts his memory when it assures him that there have been other times


but i do not think such an inference is warranted


our confidence or lack of confidence in the accuracy of a memory image must in fundamental cases be based upon a characteristic of the image itself since we cannot evoke the past bodily and compare it with the present image


we sometimes have images that are by no means peculiarly vague which yet we do not trust for example under the influence of fatigue we may see a friend's face vividly and clearly but horribly distorted


some images like some sensations feel very familiar while others feel strange


familiarity is a feeling capable of degrees


in an image of a well known face for example some parts may feel more familiar than others when this happens we have more belief in the accuracy of the familiar parts than in that of the unfamiliar parts


i come now to the other characteristic which memory images must have in order to account for our knowledge of the past


they must have some characteristic which makes us regard them as referring to more or less remote portions of the past


in actual fact there are doubtless various factors that concur in giving us the feeling of greater or less remoteness in some remembered event


there may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of pastness especially where immediate memory is concerned


there is of course a difference between knowing the temporal relation of a remembered event to the present and knowing the time order of two remembered events


it would seem that only rather recent events can be placed at all accurately by means of feelings giving their temporal relation to the present but it is clear that such feelings must play an essential part in the process of dating remembered events


if we had retained the subject or act in knowledge the whole problem of memory would have been comparatively simple


remembering has to be a present occurrence in some way resembling or related to what is remembered


some points may be taken as fixed and such as any theory of memory must arrive at


in this case as in most others what may be taken as certain in advance is rather vague


the first of our vague but indubitable data is that there is knowledge of the past


we might provisionally though perhaps not quite correctly define memory as that way of knowing about the past which has no analogue in our knowledge of the future such a definition would at least serve to mark the problem with which we are concerned though some expectations may deserve to rank with memory as regards immediacy


this distinction is vital to the understanding of memory but it is not so easy to carry out in practice as it is to draw in theory


a gramophone by the help of suitable records might relate to us the incidents of its past and people are not so different from gramophones as they like to believe


i can set to work now to remember things i never remembered before such as what i had to eat for breakfast this morning and it can hardly be wholly habit that enables me to do this


the fact that a man can recite a poem does not show that he remembers any previous occasion on which he has recited or read it


semon's two books mentioned in an earlier lecture do not touch knowledge memory at all closely


they give laws according to which images of past occurrences come into our minds but do not discuss our belief that these images refer to past occurrences which is what constitutes knowledge memory


it is this that is of interest to theory of knowledge


it is by no means always reliable almost everybody has at some time experienced the well known illusion that all that is happening now happened before at some time


whenever the sense of familiarity occurs without a definite object it leads us to search the environment until we are satisfied that we have found the appropriate object which leads us to the judgment this is familiar


thus no knowledge as to the past is to be derived from the feeling of familiarity alone


a further stage is recognition


recognition in this sense does not necessarily involve more than a habit of association the kind of object we are seeing at the moment is associated with the word cat or with an auditory image of purring or whatever other characteristic we may happen to recognize in the cat of the moment


we are of course in fact able to judge when we recognize an object that we have seen it before but this judgment is something over and above recognition in this first sense and may very probably be impossible to animals that nevertheless have the experience of recognition in this first sense of the word


this knowledge is memory in one sense though in another it is not


there are however several points in which such an account of recognition is inadequate to begin with it might seem at first sight more correct to define recognition as i have seen this before than as this has existed before


the definition of my experience is difficult broadly speaking it is everything that is connected with what i am experiencing now by certain links of which the various forms of memory are among the most important


thus if i recognize a thing the occasion of its previous existence in virtue of which i recognize it forms part of my experience by definition recognition will be one of the marks by which my experience is singled out from the rest of the world


of course the words this has existed before are a very inadequate translation of what actually happens when we form a judgment of recognition but that is unavoidable words are framed to express a level of thought which is by no means primitive and are quite incapable of expressing such an elementary occurrence as recognition


chapter seven on the races of man


in determining whether two or more allied forms ought to be ranked as species or varieties naturalists are practically guided by the following considerations namely the amount of difference between them and whether such differences relate to few or many points of structure and whether they are of physiological importance but more especially whether they are constant


at another time harald asked


what is your country olaf have you always been a thrall the thrall's eyes flashed


two hundred warriors feasted in his hall and followed him to battle


the rest of you off a viking he had three ships


these he gave to three of my brothers


but i stayed that spring and built me a boat


i made her for only twenty oars because i thought few men would follow me for i was young fifteen years old


at the prow i carved the head with open mouth and forked tongue thrust out


i painted the eyes red for anger


there stand so i said and glare and hiss at my foes


in the stern i curved the tail up almost as high as the head


there she sat on the rollers as fair a ship as i ever saw


then i will get me a farm and will winter in that land now who will follow me


he is but a boy the men said


thirty men one after another raised their horns and said


as our boat flashed down the rollers into the water i made this song and sang it


so we harried the coast of norway


we ate at many men's tables uninvited


my dragon's belly is never full and on board went the gold


oh it is better to live on the sea and let other men raise your crops and cook your meals


a house smells of smoke a ship smells of frolic


up and down the water we went to get much wealth and much frolic


what of the farm olaf not yet i answered viking is better for summer


it was so dark that i could see nothing but a few sparks on the hearth


i stood with my back to the wall for i wanted no sword reaching out of the dark for me


come come i called when no one obeyed a fire


my men laughed yes a stingy host


he acts as though he had not expected us


on a bench in a far corner were a dozen people huddled together


bring in the table we are hungry


the thralls were bringing in a great pot of meat


they set up a crane over the fire and hung the pot upon it and we sat and watched it boil while we joked at last the supper began


the farmer sat gloomily on the bench and would not eat and you cannot wonder for he saw us putting potfuls of his good beef and basket loads of bread into our big mouths


you would not eat with us you cannot say no to half of my ale i drink this to your health


then i drank half of the hornful and sent the rest across the fire to the farmer he took it and smiled saying


did you ever have such a lordly guest before i went on


so i will give out this law that my men shall never leave you alone


hakon there shall be your constant companion friend farmer


he shall not leave you day or night whether you are working or playing or sleeping


i named nine others and said


and these shall follow your thralls in the same way


so i set guards over every one in that house


so no tales got out to the neighbors besides it was a lonely place and by good luck no one came that way


their eyes danced big thorleif stood up and stretched himself


i am stiff with long sitting he said i itch for a fight i turned to the farmer


this is our last feast with you i said


by the beard of odin i cried you have taken our joke like a man


my men pounded the table with their fists


by the hammer of thor shouted grim here is no stingy coward


here friend take it and he thrust it into the farmer's hand


may you drink heart's ease from it for many years


and with it i leave you a name sif the friendly i shall hope to drink with you sometime in valhalla


here is a ring for sif the friendly and here is a bracelet a sword would not be ashamed to hang at your side


i took five great bracelets of gold from our treasure chest and gave them to him


that is the best way to decide for the spear will always point somewhere and one thing is as good as another


that time it pointed us into your father's ships


here they said is a rascal who has been harrying our coasts


we sunk his ship and men but him we brought to you


a robber viking said the king and scowled at me


yes and with all your fingers it took you a year to catch me the king frowned more angrily


take him out thorkel and let him taste your sword


your mother the queen was standing by


now she put her hand on his arm and smiled and said


and would he not be a good gift for our baby


your father thought a moment then looked at your mother and smiled


soft heart he said gently to her then to thorkel well let him go thorkel


then he turned to me again frowning


but young sharp tongue now that we have caught you we will put you into a trap that you cannot get out of


so i lived and now am your tooth thrall well it is the luck of war


it is manifest that man is now subject to much variability


so it is with the lower animals


the variability of multiple parts


but this subject will be more properly discussed when we treat of the different races of mankind


effects of the increased use and disuse of parts


it was one of the masterly and charming stories of dumas the elder


in five minutes i was in a new world and my melancholy room was full of the liveliest french company


the sound of an imperative and uncompromising bell recalled me in due time to the regions of reality


ambrose met me at the bottom of the stairs and showed me the way to the supper room


she signed to me with a ghostly solemnity to take the vacant place on the left of her father


the door opened again while i was still studying the two brothers without i honestly confess being very favorably impressed by either of them


a new member of the family circle who instantly attracted my attention entered the room


a little cracked that in the popular phrase was my impression of the stranger who now made his appearance in the supper room


mister meadowcroft the elder having not spoken one word thus far himself introduced the newcomer to me with a side glance at his sons which had something like defiance in it a glance which as i was sorry to notice was returned with the defiance on their side by the two young men


philip lefrank this is my overlooker mister jago said the old man formally presenting us


he is not well he has come over the ocean for rest and change of scene


mister jago is an american philip


make acquaintance with mister jago sit together


they pointedly drew back from john jago as he approached the empty chair next to me and moved round to the opposite side of the table


a pretty girl and so far as i could judge by appearances a good girl too describing her generally i may say that she had a small head well carried and well set on her shoulders bright gray eyes that looked at you honestly and meant what they looked a trim slight little figure too slight for our english notions of beauty a strong american accent and a rare thing in america a pleasantly toned voice which made the accent agreeable to english ears


our first impressions of people are in nine cases out of ten the right impressions


for once in a way i proved a true prophet


the only cheerful conversation was the conversation across the table between naomi and me


he looked up at naomi doubtingly from his plate and looked down again slowly with a frown


when i addressed him he answered constrainedly


a more dreary and more disunited family party i never sat at the table with


envy hatred malice and uncharitableness are never so essentially detestable to my mind as when they are animated by a sense of propriety and work under the surface but for my interest in naomi and my other interest in the little love looks which i now and then surprised passing between her and ambrose i should never have sat through that supper


i wish you good night she laid her bony hands on the back of mister meadowcroft's invalid chair cut him short in his farewell salutation to me and wheeled him out to his bed as if she were wheeling him out to his grave


you were quite right to say no ambrose began never smoke with john jago his cigars will poison you


naomi shook her forefinger reproachfully at them as if the two sturdy young farmers had been two children


silas slunk away without a word of protest ambrose stood his ground evidently bent on making his peace with naomi before he left her seeing that i was in the way i walked aside toward a glass door at the lower end of the room


socrates begins the timaeus with a summary of the republic


and now he desires to see the ideal state set in motion he would like to know how she behaved in some great struggle


and therefore to you i turn timaeus citizen of locris who are at once a philosopher and a statesman and to you critias whom all athenians know to be similarly accomplished and to hermocrates who is also fitted by nature and education to share in our discourse


i will if timaeus approves i approve


listen then socrates to a tale of solon's who being the friend of dropidas my great grandfather told it to my grandfather critias and he told me


some poems of solon were recited by the boys


and what was the subject of the poem said the person who made the remark


the subject was a very noble one he described the most famous action in which the athenian people were ever engaged


but the memory of their exploits has passed away owing to the lapse of time and the extinction of the actors


tell us said the other the whole story and where solon heard the story


but in egypt the traditions of our own and other lands are by us registered for ever in our temples


the genealogies which you have recited to us out of your own annals solon are a mere children's story


for in the times before the great flood athens was the greatest and best of cities and did the noblest deeds and had the best constitution of any under the face of heaven


solon marvelled and desired to be informed of the particulars


nine thousand years have elapsed since she founded yours and eight thousand since she founded ours as our annals record


many laws exist among us which are the counterpart of yours as they were in the olden time


i will briefly describe them to you and you shall read the account of them at your leisure in the sacred registers


observe again what care the law took in the pursuit of wisdom searching out the deep things of the world and applying them to the use of man


the most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of atlantis


for at the peril of her own existence and when the other hellenes had deserted her she repelled the invader and of her own accord gave liberty to all the nations within the pillars


this is the explanation of the shallows which are found in that part of the atlantic ocean


but i would not speak at the time because i wanted to refresh my memory


then now let me explain to you the order of our entertainment first timaeus who is a natural philosopher will speak of the origin of the world going down to the creation of man and then i shall receive the men whom he has created and some of whom will have been educated by you and introduce them to you as the lost athenian citizens of whom the egyptian record spoke


he passes abruptly from persons to ideas and numbers and from ideas and numbers to persons from the heavens to man from astronomy to physiology he confuses or rather does not distinguish subject and object first and final causes and is dreaming of geometrical figures lost in a flux of sense


the influence with the timaeus has exercised upon posterity is due partly to a misunderstanding


in the supposed depths of this dialogue the neo platonists found hidden meanings and connections with the jewish and christian scriptures and out of them they elicited doctrines quite at variance with the spirit of plato


they were absorbed in his theology and were under the dominion of his name while that which was truly great and truly characteristic in him his effort to realize and connect abstractions was not understood by them at all


there is no danger of the modern commentators on the timaeus falling into the absurdities of the neo platonists


in the present day we are well aware that an ancient philosopher is to be interpreted from himself and by the contemporary history of thought


the fancies of the neo platonists are only interesting to us because they exhibit a phase of the human mind which prevailed widely in the first centuries of the christian era and is not wholly extinct in our own day


but they have nothing to do with the interpretation of plato and in spirit they are opposed to him


we do not know how plato would have arranged his own dialogues or whether the thought of arranging any of them besides the two trilogies which he has expressly connected was ever present to his mind


the dialogue is primarily concerned with the animal creation including under this term the heavenly bodies and with man only as one among the animals


but he has not as yet defined this intermediate territory which lies somewhere between medicine and mathematics and he would have felt that there was as great an impiety in ranking theories of physics first in the order of knowledge as in placing the body before the soul


with heracleitus he acknowledges the perpetual flux like anaxagoras he asserts the predominance of mind although admitting an element of necessity which reason is incapable of subduing like the pythagoreans he supposes the mystery of the world to be contained in number


many if not all the elements of the pre socratic philosophy are included in the timaeus


it is probable that the relation of the ideas to god or of god to the world was differently conceived by him at different times of his life


the ideas also remain but they have become types in nature forms of men animals birds fishes


the style and plan of the timaeus differ greatly from that of any other of the platonic dialogues


but plato has not the same mastery over his instrument which he exhibits in the phaedrus or symposium


nothing can exceed the beauty or art of the introduction in which he is using words after his accustomed manner


but in the rest of the work the power of language seems to fail him and the dramatic form is wholly given up


he could write in one style but not in another and the greek language had not as yet been fashioned by any poet or philosopher to describe physical phenomena


and hence we find the same sort of clumsiness in the timaeus of plato which characterizes the philosophical poem of lucretius


there is a want of flow and often a defect of rhythm the meaning is sometimes obscure and there is a greater use of apposition and more of repetition than occurs in plato's earlier writings


plato had not the command of his materials which would have enabled him to produce a perfect work of art


the stop at queenstown the tedious passage up the mersey were things that he noted dimly through his growing impatience


she blushed and smiled and fumbled his card in her confusion before she ran upstairs


alexander paced up and down the hallway buttoning and unbuttoning his overcoat until she returned and took him up to hilda's living room


the room was empty when he entered


alexander did not sit down


i felt it in my bones when i woke this morning that something splendid was going to turn up


i thought it might be sister kate or cousin mike would be happening along


she pushed him toward the big chair by the fire and sat down on a stool at the opposite side of the hearth her knees drawn up to her chin laughing like a happy little girl


when did you come bartley and how did it happen you haven't spoken a word


i got in about ten minutes ago


alexander leaned forward and warmed his hands before the blaze


bartley bent lower over the fire


she looked at his heavy shoulders and big determined head thrust forward like a catapult in leash


i'll do anything you wish me to bartley she said tremulously


i can't stand seeing you miserable


he pulled up a window as if the air were heavy


hilda watched him from her corner trembling and scarcely breathing dark shadows growing about her eyes it


but it's worse now it's unbearable


i get nothing but misery out of either


the world is all there just as it used to be but i can't get at it any more


it was myself i was defying hilda


hilda's face quivered but she whispered yes i think it must have been


but why didn't you tell me when you were here in the summer


alexander groaned i meant to but somehow i couldn't


she pressed his hand gently in gratitude


weren't you happy then at all


she closed her eyes and took a deep breath as if to draw in again the fragrance of those days


he moved uneasily and his chair creaked


yes yes she hurried pulling her hand gently away from him


please tell me one thing bartley at least tell me that you believe i thought i was making you happy


yes hilda i know that he said simply


i understand bartley i was wrong


but i didn't know you've only to tell me now


what i mean is that i want you to promise never to see me again no matter how often i come no matter how hard i beg


keep away if you wish when have i ever followed you


alexander rose and shook himself angrily yes i know i'm cowardly


he took her roughly in his arms do you know what i mean


oh bartley what am i to do


i will ask the least imaginable but i must have something


i must know about you


the sight of you bartley to see you living and happy and successful can i never make you understand what that means to me


you see loving some one as i love you makes the whole world different


and then you came back not caring very much but it made no difference


bartley bent over and took her in his arms kissing her mouth and her wet tired eyes


don't cry don't cry he whispered


we've tortured each other enough for tonight


hilda was very nice to him and he sat on the edge of his chair flushed with his conversational efforts and moving his chin about nervously over his high collar


they asked him to come to see them in chelsea and they spoke very tenderly of hilda


lamb wouldn't care a great deal about many of them i fancy


when bartley arrived at bedford square on sunday evening marie the pretty little french girl met him at the door and conducted him upstairs


i should never have asked you if molly had been here for i remember you don't like english cookery


i haven't had a chance yet to tell you what a jolly little place i think this is


they are all sketches made about the villa d'este you see


those fellows are all very loyal even mainhall


i've managed to save something every year and that with helping my three sisters now and then and tiding poor cousin mike over bad seasons


it's not particularly rare she said but some of it was my mother's


there was watercress soup and sole and a delightful omelette stuffed with mushrooms and truffles and two small rare ducklings and artichokes and a dry yellow rhone wine of which bartley had always been very fond


there is nothing else that looks so jolly


thank you but i don't like it so well as this


have you been in paris much these late years


there are few changes in the old quarter


don't i though i'm so sorry to hear it how did her son turn out


her hair is still like flax and her blue eyes are just like a baby's and she has the same three freckles on her little nose and talks about going back to her bains de mer


how jolly it was being young hilda


do you remember that first walk we took together in paris


come we'll have our coffee in the other room and you can smoke


i think we did she answered demurely


what she wanted from us was neither our flowers nor our francs but just our youth


they were both remembering what the woman had said when she took the money god give you a happy love


the strange woman and her passionate sentence that rang out so sharply had frightened them both


bartley started when hilda rang the little bell beside her dear me why did you do that


it was very jolly he murmured lazily as marie came in to take away the coffee


have i told you about my new play


when she finished alexander shook himself out of a reverie


nonsense of course i can't really sing except the way my mother and grandmother did before me


it's really too warm in this room to sing don't you feel it


alexander went over and opened the window for her


there just in front


he stood a little behind her and tried to steady himself as he said it's soft and misty see how white the stars are


for a long time neither hilda nor bartley spoke


he felt a tremor run through the slender yellow figure in front of him


bartley leaned over her shoulder without touching her and whispered in her ear you are giving me a chance yes


alexander unclenched the two hands at his sides


mainhall liked alexander because he was an engineer


he had preconceived ideas about everything and his idea about americans was that they should be engineers or mechanics


it's tremendously well put on too


it's been on only two weeks and i've been half a dozen times already


do you know alexander mainhall looked with perplexity up into the top of the hansom and rubbed his pink cheek with his gloved finger do you know i sometimes think of taking to criticism seriously myself


she saves her hand too she's at her best in the second act


he's been wanting to marry hilda these three years and more


she doesn't take up with anybody you know


irene burgoyne one of her family told me in confidence that there was a romance somewhere back in the beginning


mainhall vouched for her constancy with a loftiness that made alexander smile even while a kind of rapid excitement was tingling through him


he's another who's awfully keen about her let me introduce you


sir harry towne mister bartley alexander the american engineer


i say sir harry the little girl's going famously to night isn't she


do you know i thought the dance a bit conscious to night for the first time


westmere and i were back after the first act and we thought she seemed quite uncertain of herself