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nothing better than the de paris in so far as food i a at forty is concerned it is as good a place to go for dinner as the city it me now when i think of how the ability of had been working through all this as the had been arranged in his mind i was to take the elder of the two ladies as my partner and he had reserved ...	43
be young beautiful or attractive and above all things possessed of temperament a woman can rise in the and world of paris quite as she can on the stage and she can easily from the and s to the stage though the path is on the other hand the stage freely to the atmosphere of s the and other of their kind a large number o...	43
in the morning when we finally left and i was very tired it was decided that we should meet for dinner and since it was almost daylight i was glad when we had seen our ladies to their apartment and returned to the hotel chapter xxii a morning in paris never forget my first morning in paris the morning that i woke up a...	43
to paris proper its most interesting features and i recall now with delight how fresh and and it all seemed paris has an air a presence from the poorest quarter of the district to the of the an j the region about the arc de it chanced that the day was bright and i saw the as bright as new buttons glimmering over the st...	43
one must ring and be admitted this gives this person a complete over the affairs of all the tenants mail guests purchases messages anything and everything if you have a charming it is well and good if not not the thought of an so offensive as a irritated me greatly and i found myself running forward in my mind picking...	43
noticed on my several subsequent visits were always sober but in excellent taste about this time of day the two rooms were a little dark the electric lights being reserved for the more crowded hours yet there were always a few people here this evening when we entered i noticed a half dozen men and three or four young w...	43
mad i have read of the authorities having imported a london policeman to teach paris police the art of traffic but if so the instruction has been wasted this night was a of and people a paris guide one of the tribe that the morbid stranger through scenes that are evil and that i know from observation to be utterly vain...	43
the bottom of my heart i pity you you are degrading your life and your soul come now to morrow is sunday the church bells will be ringing go to church reform your life make a new start do you will never regret it your old mother will be so glad and your sister oh say said the man walking off you don t want a guide yo...	43
one to another in an effort to a certain mile a girl who he had informed me when we first came to paris had been one of the most interesting figures of the stage four or five years before she had held at the much the same position now recently attained by who was just then paris in other words she was the sensation of...	43
effect that her career was her once lovely voice i shall find it again at the next comer she said and walked away some one should write a novel about a woman like that he explained she ought to be painted it is amazing the of soul that goes with that type there aren t many like her she could be the sensation again of p...	43
and standing up for all the world like a t every now and then a simple silvery stream would appear making its way through a perfectly level lane and set on either bank with tall single lines of the french landscape painters have used these over and over and they illustrate exactly the still lonely character of the coun...	43
calling chat chat chat and asking how do you talk to a cat in french there was an open carriage which came for us at one into which we threw our fur coats and blankets and then climbed by degrees mile after mile up an exquisite slope by the side of a valley that gradually became a and at the bottom of which and a mount...	43
something was done with the poorest specimens now those two young ladies he said waving his hand in the direction of two departing they are not much but look at them see how they are gotten up somebody will marry them they have been encouraged to buck up to believe that there is always hope and he adjusted his cheer...	43
the first luncheon at the was an excellent case in point being on the and being host to several was in the most of artistic moods he made up a of the most delicious of d which he insisted should never have been allowed to take the place of soup but which alas the custom of the time and the of which in this case was gr...	43
many other places where great pleasure loving that the difference between the person who has something and the person who has nothing is one of intense desire and what for a better phrase i will call a capacity to live the inner chambers of the were divided into two groups the outer being somewhat less decorated and th...	43
a bon bon ribbon about its box stood looking about as if she expected to meet some one look at her commented with that biting little ha ha of his which involved the greatest depths of critical sarcasm imaginable there she is she s lost her last louis and she s looking for some one to pay for her dinner i had to smile t...	43
what way have i shown myself i charged him with various crimes my lecture was interrupted by the arrival of rolls and coffee and we decided to take breakfast in the company of we knocked at his door there he was propped up in bed his face crowned by his black hair and set with those burning dark eyes a figure of almos...	43
its principal looked out over the sea and of the wonderful view i was never weary the room had an oriental touch o a at forty and the white tables and black accorded ill with this still it offered that of service which only the french possess was for waiting for who had not arrived i was for eating as i was hungry fina...	43
sir we would take tea at s we would not take tea at s we would dine at the we would not dine at the we would pay i forget how many louis and enter the chambers of the we would not do anything of the sort it was desired by that i should see the wonders of the sea walk with the waves the protecting wall it was desired b...	43
fellow she was with last year i thought she was living with this of a second individual my heaven how well she keeps up or this must be her first season here i have never seen her before two or three of these young would follow a woman all around the rooms watching her admiring her beauty quite as a might examine the...	43
promptly gave him a for his trouble my pocket was with italian silver and paper five and ten pieces which i had secured the day before finally my train rolled in and i took one last look at the sea in the fading light and entered sir gave me parting instructions as to simple that i would find at different places in ita...	43
difficulties presently a customs descended on me a large bearded individual who by signs made me understand that i had to go to the baggage car and open my trunk i went supplied the only light i felt as though i were in a s cave yet i came through well enough nothing was found i went back and sat down plunging into a ...	43
her husband remained to smoke he was not so very far removed from me but he came a little nearer and said the must have their striped churches and their wash lines or they wouldn t be happy it was some time before he volunteered another suggestion which was that the along this part of the coast had a poor region to far...	43
the and the outer walls are solid and decorated on the inside with those light colored of the pupils of the inner wall is full of arched pierced windows with many delicate columns through which you look to the green grass and the trees and the perfectly smooth ornamented dome at one end i have paid my tribute to the tr...	43
do it justice and it has neither the gray of nor the delicate hue of the buildings of it is and gray by turns as i drove nearer i realized that it was very large large and that by some of perspective and arrangement this was not easily i was eager to see its interior however and all exterior consideration until later...	43
from the silent rooms of s house where they had stood for centuries in all their perfection and the river god representative of the i was especially interested to see the vast number of portrait of roman known and unknown which gave me a face to face understanding of that people they came back now or arose vital befo...	43
you will like her she comes from america somewhere new york i think her husband is an author i believe i heard so she on in her genial talk making way i don t understand these american women they go about europe without their husbands in such a strange way now you know in england we would not think of doing anything o...	43
to mrs q and the family destroy the power of as a rival with the aid of the king of france louis xii he assistance to the latter who comes to and young now fearing for his life at the hands of his treacherous father in law deserts rome and and louis xii proceeds against falls and s wife as representative of the pope ag...	43
chicken merchant was a large woman very stout very fair very cautious of her thoughts and her conduct thoroughly sympathetic and well meaning before leaving her native town she told me she had a small library the funds for which she had helped collect occasionally she was buying of famous historic buildings such as th...	43
to take his whole course and followed along behind him listening to his interesting and during many delightful mornings and in the on the in the on the way and in the at and i shall never forget how clearly and the crude early and characteristics of christianity came home to me as i walked in the and saw the wretched l...	43
like gods and that the subject class should be held in like beasts he wanted to know if even a suspicion of such an attitude to day would not cause turmoil i tried out his philosophy by denying it but he was firm life was better to him not merely different as some might take it to be i gave a dinner at my hotel one eve...	43
though it were an object of great value i was interested to see how the supreme the of all the monuments viewed all this he looked but rather wearily down on each one though occasionally he turned his head away or slightly interested said something to the woman whose tears fell on his hands he said nothing with one o...	43
hard winding narrow stony affairs lined right to the a at forty by these bare looking houses no yards no gardens at least none visible from the streets but between walls and down street and between odd angles of buildings the loveliest of the valley below where were spread great of olive trees occasional small groups ...	43
interested me immensely because i knew by now that these were almost the beginning of italian and religious art and because from the evidences his work affords must have been such a and pleasant old soul i fairly laughed aloud as i stalked about this great of the upper church the was still below at some of the good o...	43
old and faded that they seemed almost of poverty my good priest was for praying before every shrine he would get down on his knees and cross himself praying four or five minutes while i stood in the background looking at him and wondering how long he would be he prayed before the tomb of st francis in the church before...	43
french i replied smiling at him he smiled and nodded we shook hands and parted after breakfast i called a little open carriage such as they use in paris and and was off for and he took an early and caught his train on this trip which had recommended as offering a splendid view of i was not disappointed about some villa...	43
or nearly the same time there was a dominant party which in with some wealthy known as the built what is now known as the or in what is now known as the which i think is perfect it is not a fortress like the or the at but it is a perfect thing the charm of which remains with me fresh and keen it is a beautiful structur...	43
whip above the back of a lazy horse passing the while the of maria striped with strange bands of white and gray or a pleasing effect for a church i could see at once that the of the middle ages was a much more than that which now out in various directions from the and the place of the cathedral the narrow streets were...	43
journey of the three kings to in the old palace then i was ready to believe that nothing could be finer than i realized now that of all the cities in europe that i saw was possessed of the most intense art atmosphere something that over your soul in a grim way and causes you to repeat over and over amazing men worked ...	43
suggestive of the influence and the patronage which gave it birth the influence of religion the wealth of the catholic church the power of individual families such as the and the of are all clearly indicated s adoration of the in the showing the proud children the head of and the company of men of letters and of the ti...	43
from our descendants life works about the same in all times only exterior aspects change in the particular period in which and all italy for that matter was so remarkable italy was alive with ambitious men strong remarkable capable characters they made the wonder of the life it was not the architecture that did it and...	43
company of that peculiarly american brand of not rich of no great dignity but comfortable and above all pleased with themselves i could never look at any of this tribe comfortably clothed very and without thinking what a far cry it is from the temperament which makes for art or great originality to the temperament whic...	43
i received while abroad was from this same friend who wanted me to go to not so long before i left rome he had arrived with his wife daughter and a young girl friend of his daughter whose first trip abroad they were at a luncheon they had given me the matter of seeing the pope had come up and i mentioned that i had bee...	43
about new york as we dined and though wine was proffered she drank little and true to her statement that she was not hungry ate little she confided to me in soft difficult german that she was trying not to get too stout that her mother was german and her father italian and that she had been visiting an uncle in who was...	43
to contend with i am wild about this place there is a sweetness in the hush of things which and yet it is not the hush of silence all is life here all movement a sweet musical gaiety i wonder if murder and robbery can a at forty flourish in any of these sweet streets the life here is like that of children playing i sw...	43
work of some one man or group of men to the last fragment you might as well there is nothing in it i sought church after church entering dark pleasant but not often imposing only to find a single religious representation of one kind or another hardly worth the trouble in the i found s famous of the family and a and in ...	43
great literary such as those of and but not in pictures the human eye can see so much and the human heart so swiftly that it is only by suggestion that anything is achieved in art art cannot give you the night in all its save as by suggestion it brings back the wonder of the reality which you have already felt and seen...	43
brightened considerably we compared travel notes italy france england i do not like the he observed in one place i think they are they do not tell the truth they probably held up your baggage at the station they did more than that to me i could never depend on them how do you like the i asked him a very wonderful peop...	43
come here we have too there is a whole flock of that comes here every winter i feed them right out here at the dock every day why where can they come from i asked this is a long way from the sea i know it he replied it is strange they come a at forty over the from the i suppose you will see them on the too if you go th...	43
give me a ticket to i ll book you to that s only thirty minutes away there s nothing of interest at not even a good hotel arrived at i decided not to send my trunks to the hotel as yet but to take one light bag leaving the remainder im and see what i could at i might want to stay all night wandering about my father s ...	43
one being a fair reward and then hurried into my train in a half hour we a at forty were at on the and in three quarters of an hour those lovely hills and which make the so picturesque had begun and they continued all the way to and below that to chapter a town after italy and the scenery of the seemed very mild and t...	43
could actually see the town my father had described a small walled city of now perhaps seven or eight thousand population with an old church in the containing a twisted spire a true castle or of ancient date on the high ground to the right a gate or two of that aspect so beloved of the painters of romance and a cluster...	43
roofs and towers of a gleam of sunlight broke through the mass of heavy clouds and touched the valley with one last lingering ray in here rests in god or here softly rests was too often the beginning i had made my way through the sixth or seventh row from the top pushing away grass at times from in front of faded rubbi...	43
for fifty thousand marks he is gone though now i think i don t know where he is my father s it was not an beginning and under the circumstances i thought it as well not to identify myself with this too closely i finished my meal and went out wondering how if at all i was to secure any additional information the rain ha...	43
one and evidently by i whether to accept this charming invitation as i strolled about at one comer of the district i came upon a music store in the window of which were displayed a number of photographs of musical a little to my surprise i noticed that the central place was occupied by a large photograph of madame a in...	43
vein not the thing he does best fingers lifted very and in the air some artist and his wife did not agree very surprising the was the weaker instrument in this case oh it was madame a talking now that is too oo ridiculous she must go places and he must go along as manager wrote me from that he would not have him aro...	43
temperament between the average german and myself i could yet admire them without wishing to be anything like them of all the i saw i should place the first for industry a hearty of sham a desire and a to make the best of a very difficult earthly condition in many respects they are not being gross physically heartily p...	43
wood and clean i tried all three classes and finally fixed on the third as good enough for me i wish all americans who at present suffer the of the american street railway and steam railway service could go to and see what that city has to teach them in this respect is much larger than it is certain soon to be a of fiv...	43
in without they know they have men at the door who are in this matter they want you to bring such women but you have to pay if such a woman comes alone she goes in free how s that once inside we surveyed a brilliant spectacle far more than the or the though by no means so paris is paris and is and the cannot do as do ...	43
that as yet we have no method of discovering why the horrible appears and no reason for saying that it should not yet one can actually become with beauty and art and take refuge in the and the one of the most characteristics is their attitude to the few the women to whom i was introduced i could scarcely talk as a matt...	43
addresses were taken by the policeman in so far as i could see no were made and finally both cut and bleeding as they were were allowed to enter separate cars and go their way that was to the life the air of the city of germany almost was ever with elements and emotions i should like to relate one more incident and con...	43
m at some small place in holland and told me that i would have to go out and open my trunk short for the man who cannot or will not tip i still i was not so downcast for one thing we were in holland actually and truly quaint little holland with its five million population crowded into cities so close tc that you could...	43
turning its arms in the distance it was like coming out of a russian steam bath into the cool marble on the way to holland of the plunge to be thus projected from germany into holland if you will believe me i was glad that i had no money in order that i might be driven out to see all this i had no trouble with trunks a...	43
is this your whether he the wide stretches of the ocean or remains at home near the sea has a seeming or of soul that no rush of ordinary life can disturb i have noted it of every port of the sea that the eager intensity of men so often away at the water s edge boats are not loaded with the hard that marks the of train...	43
round about from to the and delightful i by foot and by train passing by some thirty miles of colored flower beds in blocks of red white blue purple pink and yellow that lie between the several cities i stood in the old of st in the of st james in the both as bare of ornament as an s cell i wandered among the art tre...	43
from bad to worse and you have the spectacle of this other holland s color genius life town descending to an with a rather dull housekeeper losing his money having all his possessions sold to pay his debts and living out his last days in absolute at the inn in quite neglected for the local taste for art had changed an...	43
fitting she should have been i saw that you stopped at the national in that is one of the best hotels in europe i was glad to see that your taste in hotels was not falling off we began with some soup and a light wine i gave a rough summary of some things i had seen and then we came to the matter of my sailing date and ...	43
so there as here every jack does not consider himself regardless of appointed by god to tell his neighbor how he shall do and live but all this america and particularly new york has to me the most atmosphere of any the is like my library table it is so much of an intimate is the one show place neither the strand nor t...	43
a divine idea yet he was as events proved greatly distressed because of the perverse presence and of mortal thought he had concerning possible fires the usual terrors of the deep and one of the ship s company our deck steward told me that whenever there was a fog he was always on the bridge refusing to leave it and th...	43
the kiss of fair old haunts and old dreams bill and his brood in the belt the mystery of coincidence the folks at an village a sentimental and a of the spirit of after thirty seven years a egyptian land another old home hail fishing in the and a county fair the at a brother the of french a college town day and a memory...	43
blooming are the my heart remembers how i look and in a fence corner is a spider web with dew a great yellow spider somewhere on its surface is a strand at a window commanding the field a window in the kitchen is my mother my brother ed has not risen yet nor my sister the boy looks at the sky he loves the feel of the d...	43
my hand he seemed half half street car conductor half guide and friend sure he replied with a kind of childish smile that won a little girl smile really if there are any roads i can we can go anywhere the car ll go i liked him thoroughly all the time i was trying to think where i had seen speed before suddenly it came ...	43
at at but i anticipate as we hunted for a road across the meadows we got lost in a of shabby streets where dirty children were playing in the dust and as we picked our way over rough i began to fear that much of this would make a disagreeable trip but we would soon be out of it in all miles and miles away from the ho...	43
make the best of it ha ha ho ho i we are all crazy and he is crazy i ha ha ho ho or do i hear crying chapter iv the piety and eggs of but in addition to mills and the falls offered another subject of conversation only recently there had been completed there an revival by one sunday who had addressed from eight to twent...	43
to the river and here lies the record under dust and vines i the canal itself is now entirely although the state of new some little money to keep it clean it is rarely if ever used by boats it was designed originally to bring hard coal from that same region around and toward which we were a powerful railroad crept in ...	43
west of which is miles west and not even then new york is so all embracing it is supposed to be chiefly represented by island but the feel of it really extends to the water gap one hundred miles west as it does to the eastern end of long island one hundred miles east and to philadelphia one hundred miles south or one h...	43
were so dim and gloomy and sad still farther on as we the we came into a mountain country which seemed almost en devoted to cattle and the business it was not an prosperous land what mountain country is you can find it on the map if you choose lying between and the river something perhaps the approach of evening perh...	43
scenes like this do not move me as they once did i can well recall the time and that not so many years when this one would have set me left me yearning with a indescribable pain life does such queer things to one it takes one s utmost passions of five years ago and puts them out like a spent fire standing in this almo...	43
could hear her mother don t you have anything to do with him we re getting on and next summer we re going up to the you re sure to meet somebody there and so here they were dressed in the best that or or even new york could afford such silk trunks full of them no doubt her plump arms were quite bare shoulders partly ...	43
special kind of oil which evidently the more hotel could not or would not supply and i discussed the things we had heard and seen i think i drew a parallel between this hotel here and similar hotels at and nice where the prices would be no higher if so high it so happened that in the morning when i had been dressing th...	43
the farther east but the and houses and stock were so poor at another small town or we came to a wood so dense so deep so black and even purple in its shades that we exclaimed in surprise the sun was still shining in its way but in here was a wonder of rare and which seemed like the depths of some cathedral at nightfal...	43
beauties by this spectacle we were led to discuss for a few moments whether sex the tendency to greater freedom of relationship between men and was taking america or the world in an unsatisfactory direction there had been so much talk on the subject of late in the newspapers and elsewhere that i could not resist sound...	43
girls the peasant type of the plains crossed the with their immense of coal and with glimpses of distant the suggestion of an individual and working world anyhow we paused and applauded while got his board and i sauntered to find more if any attractive angles in the middle distance a tall white stood up a or a to a gre...	43
a country abroad in which you can ride by the distance that new york is from or a state as large as or let alone both together by comfortable lines in such a way that you can travel anywhere at almost any time of the night or day where but in america can you at random step into a comfortable and to any city even one ...	43
that a certain form of such poverty and work seems to be identified with yellow or so many of these cheap wooden were thus and then darkened or by grey many of the in these were to be seen upon their we ran through one long dreary street all these towns followed the shores of the river and had the interest of seeing ...	43
water front along the here is a stream that is quite wonderful to look at broad and deep years ago when st louis was small and river traffic was important all the stores were facing this river later came and the town built west today blocks and blocks of the most interesting property in the city is devoted to dead ali...	43
by the spectacle of life that it to be where others are doing here they were seven or eight of them leaning against handsome machines talking and information to all and sundry who would have it owing to the assertion of die proprietor s who was eager naturally enough to have the car here for the night as he would get a...	43
in these small towns and how as a boy i used to wish and wish for so many things the long trains going through the people who went to or or or i a place like a mere shabby coal town of three or four thousand population seemed something wonderful all the world was outside and i sitting on our porch front or back or on...	43
be any or pie chapter xi the magic of the road and some tales our particular breakfast consisted of a choice of several breakfast a hard chop an egg or two some german potatoes and all done as an american small town used to dealing with farmers and and hands would imagine they ought to be done where did the average ame...	43
warm golden oh happy and then tr r r r r but why go on it was all beautiful it was all so refreshing it was all like a song only tr r r r r a holiday and here comes another great wide spreading view which wishes to sketch he has a large of some peculiarly white paper on which he works and from which he tears the s...	43
man who couldn t run very well though he did his best and it was his dog he lit out though through the green and brush go home i go home i at every jump but old was just a bounding on along behind him and a his tail and a shaking the water off him what saved the old man was that at one place the dog stopped to shake th...	43
country hotel as i the door and was passing the mine host appeared and with a grace and tact which i have nowhere seen surpassed and in a voice which instantly all possibility of a dis j agreeable retort he presented me a coat which he had t taken from a hook and holding it ready said would you mind slipping into this ...	43
the seat and produced a small can of something which he now held aloft it s the finest thing in the way of a hand or machine soap that has ever been invented no he did not seem to know there were two is in the word good for man or woman won t soil the most delicate fabric or injure the hands i know now for i ve been wo...	43
money out of it i think it s the best soap and here as he thought of his invention once more his brow cleared and his enthusiasm rose the most all round useful article that has ever been put on the market you gentlemen ought really to take a thirty cent bottle he went back and produced a large one it will last you ...	43
mr johnson good bad or indifferent i agreed with myself to judgment a man who can build up a shoe business that will employ two thousand people and get the of a fair sized city or town tc it after him is doing pretty well i think he couldn t be a dick or a james not openly at least people don t towns after dick but soo...	43
the of former made roads and the of old of clay into or brick here in western new york for we left at for awhile they were all and in many places the state roads roads paid for by the money of the state and not of the county were invariably supposed to be the best all strolling villagers and would tell you so as a matt...	43
of horror have i not seen in the of trees every cottage seems to contain a lamp of wonder and to sing every garden suggests a of lovers a river if you follow one and the stars glow and sing they bend down like eyes all nature a harmony a splendid one of her indeed and tonight as we sped out of and i rested in the deep...	43
the hope which a youthful and people were feeling and believing expressed or attempted to express themselves in the home it was a place of great trees numerous a spacious lawn french windows a square all the romance of a youthful spirit crept into these things and still you can feel as you look at them how virtuous the...	43
on the high road between and at all but in some happy land that hadn t anything to do with a land of youth and affection suddenly i sat up wondering whether i had over toward and he had discovered that i had been asleep we don t have to spend the night in do we i ventured cautiously oh no said since it s so late the n...	43
another and my father began to think there was something in it in art you know if you want to call it that in at that time he paused still i can t tell you how much feeling i put in those things either the trees the birds flying the shocked corn i used to stop when i was or and stand and look at the sky and the tree...	43

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