Split (2)

train · 42.9k rows

text stringlengths 1.96k 5.76k	author int64 1 50
future will no doubt seem very beautiful i m sure of it and yet i kept saying to myself that notwithstanding all this all i could sum up against america even it was actually better than europe and why well because of a certain either of hope or courage or youth or vigor or illusion what you will but the average americ...	43
left on another branch of the same trail i saw my beloved new york what s the matter with the road up through here i asked putting my finger on it well i ll tell you he said there it is mostly dirt and there are no good dirt roads as you know if you ve much a man called up here this morning and wanted to know if there ...	43
they had something to do and some place to go i always suspect them of chicken and eating their meals in some wagon back of some store a cold brought along for the occasion or asking the privilege of adding a few things out of a basket to the provided say by a glass of ice cream oh the lovely roads by which they came ...	43
very wide that s all i ve ever her called ain t that so he he ho ho ha ha yes that s what they call er the and duck she s but just a poor old drunken fool like many another in this here o bath he he ho ho ha ha a holiday but then she ain t the only funny thing in bath neither there s a they re up over there he cont...	43
been threatening to bring suit for physical as well as material injury it was this threat to sue for physical injuries which brought about a compromise in s favor for it is against the law to threaten anyone particularly by mail as in this instance and so by threatening in return was able to escape be that as it may th...	43
was near and not on our route it was off to the left or south and we were headed north ward if our car turned north at the critical juncture of the dividing roads would they miss us if we did not follow them a holiday and turn back or was it not our duty to get the lead and show them which way we were going or failing ...	43
man who wanted to ride and who told such a queer story of being robbed of his while assisting another man to repair his machine that we began to suspect he was a little crazy or that he had some scheme in mind of us just which we could not determine but in with him and him by suggesting we were going back into the vil...	43
end of the world would certainly take place and that all those not or saved by that date would be damned on the night before the fatal morning on which the earth was to be consumed by fire or water or both speed suddenly awoke to the fact that he was not saved and that he could not get a train out of to where his mothe...	43
valleys which might have been attractive or impressive if they had been properly the car was always in the everything he had selected dull scenes of cars in procession the same cars always in the same procession only in different order and never before any different scene as a matter of fact as i looked at these photo...	43
her he was a pretty shrewd business man i guess even if he wore his hair long i saw him once he around here and everywhere else i suppose i think he was a little too radical for most people out this way he looked as though he had his right to a seat among the i stared at him curiously america is so brisk and well info...	43
xxi old and new we had now between six and seven hundred miles and but for a short half mile between and new we could scarcely say that we had seen any bad roads seriously ones to be sure we had sought only the best ones in most cases not always and there were those patches of state road cut up by heavy which we had t...	43
holiday was president and mark was an unknown business man in the great struggles of the the coal companies the gas companies the oil companies were still in or just beginning the had arrived it is true but not the giants were fighting dreaming on every hand and in this city as in every other american city i then visit...	43
was even worse when we try to be luxurious in america how luxurious we can really be the of our and the thickness of our carpets the air of and vigor and old and new cost without very much taste it is without that individuality which so often architecture and we are so fine and yet we are not a sort of raw showing lik...	43
effort without so many great dreams to stir us departing from not stopping to the falls or those immense or indeed any other thing we encountered some men who knew speed and who were starting a new factory they wanted him to come and work for them so well known was he as a test man and expert driver then we came to a s...	43
that his children and his children s children need never to turn a hand whereas it is he only who is deserving and not his children wealth to aristocracy and your strong man comes almost inevitably to the conclusion that not only he but all that relates to him is of superior this may be and sometimes is true no doubt b...	43
and look at them well there s anyhow i commented we can t lose that fire sign yes but look what s ahead of us sighed speed as it developed that fire sign had nothing to do with proper but was stuck off on some windy beach or marsh no doubt miles from the city to the west of it a considerable distance was a faint glow i...	43
a sorry sight we learned that people had been killed and many others injured the of a storm another was that aside from this greek like tragedy it looked like the native town of my pet heroine though i wrote that she was born in a place i have never visited in my life that reminds me that a book once remarked that it ...	43
development here having first seen the profit and convenience of bringing ore from the mines in northern south by water to the mills of and incidentally returning in the same coal to all parts of the great lakes and elsewhere a man that won t some american kindly sing of him as one of the great wonders of the world and...	43
asked myself why not is such a slow thing that it can only detect its through long slow formal movements i knew this was not true but also i knew that there was no here of any kind merely a shallow butterfly contact these two seemed so very that i had to smile they re nice genial people are they i put in do you suppos...	43
irritable person with no doubt many troubles of his own approached and i turned to him and when i looked again my beggar was gone i often wish that i had more means and a wherewith to serve difficult struggling youth i could not help noticing that the whole region as well as this seemed new and the gay life of the lake...	43
all directions in their very pronounced that if sex were not freely indulged in here the beholding of it with the eyes and the of it in thought and appearance were great in the daily life and charm of the place there are ways and ways for the natural tendency of the world to show itself the of desire in its various asp...	43
as to whether one was in a fit condition to live eighty years and also whether one had ever been a true farmer and speed leaped over the with ease s coat skirts flying out behind in a most bird like manner and speed s legs and arms taking most peculiar angles when it came my turn to do it i miserably actually i failed ...	43
it or me he commented once that my work was too lofty in tone that i loved to too much i know he was right nevertheless the second city afterwards like the others from which i had just come st louis and liked me passing well but my ambition did not run to a permanent position in anyhow just the same and what was of in...	43
other function that has been or will be again an hotel like this is little more than a mere lounging place to the to the comforts of which as a representative of the press he is entitled if not awe or mystery then certainly nervous anticipation to the movements and personality of nearly all at least it does in my case ...	43
ground a and bathing place which was probably by the villagers it suggested all sorts of sweet simple summer then came into view with a meeting announced as coming soon and a with a and pretty and at anchor speed announced that if we were going to idle here as usual he stop at the first and get oil and effect certain a...	43
parts of the country protested and contributed money for a new trial the case was appealed to the supreme court but without result local or state sentiment was too strong it was charged by the friends of the condemned man that the trial had been unfair and that southern opposition to all manner of sex was so and peculi...	43
seven miles along a road which exactly the white sand of the beach and allows you to enjoy the cool lake winds and even the spray of the waves when the wind is high it is backed by marsh land some of which has been drained and is now offered as an ideal and exclusive residence park but the trip was worth the long twelv...	43
on the days we have four or five hundred in bathing haven t you been here in the day time yet well just ought to be here when it s very hot and the sun is bright crowds course i haven t been to atlantic city or any of them swell eastern places but people that have tell me that this is one of the finest anywhere style y...	43
manager but he remained shocked went off to get a cigar and then helped speed carry out the bags being scarce meanwhile i hung around hoping that glaring and offering to fight would produce some result not at all do you think i got back our three dollars or that i ever saw the manager never the car was ready was wait ...	43
having lingered three days to secure suitable roads the distance was miles we drove over that was the time i saw the gas wells it was a better place than grand but the price of the paper when we reached there was much more than we could pay i think we figured between us that we could put down two hundred dollars and ...	43
i could use a man who would have nerve enough to ride round on the cars which the company is attempting to run and report how things are but i ll tell you frankly it s dangerous you may be shot or hit with a brick yes i said smiling and thinking of my need of experience and cash just how many days work would you me if ...	43
call our youth here as at the railroad station of an older day was hidden away in a side street where possibly six trains a day may have stopped at we had the village which took passengers to the one hotel here they had a ford by i none o your cheap for us any more and in the plain red brick business street was this an...	43
i hate greedy commercial people things were drifting in a slow romantic way actually i said to and he will bear witness to it that now we were in the exact atmosphere which was most grateful to me i looked on all the simple little streets the one and a half story houses with sloping roofs the rows of good trees and and...	43
back on they were not so the country lunch room which we encountered amused us all from one point of view and another it was so your male of rural life with all the wits and of the community and for miles around here raw and noisy were eating playing cards pool and indulging in rural wit and we heard all the standard o...	43
scarcely any impression upon me now that i was back in and a few miles from my native heath as it were i expected or perhaps i only half imagined that i might gain impressions and sensations with my but i didn t this was the city or town as it was then to which my parents had originally after their marriage in and wher...	43
change it was was so beautiful or seemed to me so at the time a love of a place with a river or small stream and several lakes and all the atmosphere of a prosperous and yet and home loving resort my mother and father and sisters and brothers were so interesting to me in those days as in the poem of s the sounding citi...	43
they stalked or or stood about talking in a mechanical manner they and i had to smile and yet if the least breath of the blood mood of sixteen were to return one would cry and then came the younger generations i i wish those who are so sure that is a great success and never to be upset by the cunning and self of and m...	43
ten of us living we would at last none of it the majority by some trick of which produces unheard of in the strangest manner though he and to a much less extent my mother were minded were caught fast by the material aspect of things they were one and all mastered by the pagan life stream which flows fresh and clean und...	43
a little farther on though it into something that i did know there were houses that looked as though they might have endured all of forty years and been the same ones i had known as the houses of some of my youthful companions i tried to find the home of brown for instance who was killed a few years later in a wreck in...	43
as we had known to exist here where do the boys meet now i asked myself and what boys i should like to see why this was the very and of all youthful joy and life in my day there is a kind of of generations which together the youths of one season those of a season or two elder and a season or two younger at this corner ...	43
foliage of a later spring had married a lawyer from some other town so my gossip believed but later talking to another old resident and one who remembered me i was told that she had run away and turned up married to leave again and live in another place as for another beauty of my day it was said that she had been see...	43
used to i near at hand was the old grant house in which we had lived before we moved into this one and it was still there only it had been moved over closer to the school and another house crowded in beside it on what was once our somewhat spacious lawn the old school lawn which once led down to the street that passed ...	43
hurried away through the dark a little fearful of the silent streets and presently he came and at the of some people i always think of old dr as being one of the kindest old doctors that ever was but now this room instead of being a happy a holiday tion of bed room and study was a kitchen dining room and living room co...	43
there was always such a fine morning light here yes there is she replied as i stood here a host of memories crowded upon me i might as well have been surrounded by spirits of day dreams an older day suggesting former things there sat my father by that window reading in the morning when he was not working the lives of t...	43
smiled what can i do for you you live in the rear rooms upstairs i believe my family used to live here years ago i wonder if you would mind my looking in for a moment i merely want to see for old time s sake his face warmed come right up neighbor he volunteered i ll be only too glad to let you see you ll have to excus...	43
feeling which i had here today passed over this last it concerned only the particular days in which i was here the days of a new birth and freedom from restraint the weight of the lapse of time never before i think certainly not since my mother s death was i so impressed by the lapse of time the of things i was here ye...	43
who was the story of his son s death by a short dusty rather haired man who announced that he was the owner of the property which had formerly sheltered me and who by virtue of having cut down all the trees and built the two abominable houses in front seemed to think that ti a holiday he was entitled to my friendship a...	43
and he had no absolutely compelling work to do he would hunt in winter or or or go fishing or go down to the saloon to fiddle and sing or to a dance he was always driving off to some dance where he earned a few cents as a it was his great excuse and then coming home at two or three in the morning slightly and genial to...	43
my time a typical mid western and american procession the mother a not woman of forty was clothed in a grey print with a to match and without shoes the children were all and ragged but as brown and healthy and fresh looking as young animals should be it so t central a farm and bill and his brood chanced that speed ha...	43
ends and her brood was large so here he had come had been reasonably well received by this stern pair and had finally become so much of a favorite that they wanted to adopt him incidentally he became very vigorous physically a perfect little giant with swelling and and a desire to exhibit his strength by lifting every...	43
the belt is a literal material thing to him it s like this church building and its grass the closer he can identify himself with that here the nearer he will come to walking into his heaven there i ve noticed at home that the more prosperous and well to do farmers are usually the leaders in the church they apply the sa...	43
fire which threatened to burn the car they detected it in time by smelling burning rubber incidentally it had started to rain and they had to go back to the local for i bet it rains tomorrow speed had observed as he heard s story why i asked there s a ring around the moon that always means rain does it i he did not ans...	43
for himself that there was nothing the matter with the perfect idea of this car as it existed before it was built or in other words its unity and hence that there couldn t be anything wrong with this right rear wheel you see after that once this had been clearly realized by him there had been no more trouble of any kin...	43
and which was at the time we were there nearly three thousand men and turning out over two thousand cars a year nearly a car apiece for every man and woman in the place i saw no children employed the history of this man as to me beforehand by and speed was most interesting years before he had been a using a light in th...	43
in a way that he had made use of two and then toward the end of the interview when remarked you know of course that the idea of was worked out some time before the year built his first car he replied you have to give those fellows credit for a great deal a very indefinite answer as you see but to me the man was fascin...	43
fox or chickens are so stupid presently we came into in the night and rain but there being few lights i could not make out anything the car turned into a yard somewhere and stopped at a side door or porch we got out and a little woman grey and small cheerful and affectionate as became a mother came out and greeted us k...	43
in you may cry the power which rules me is a devil but you are not a devil nor does it necessarily follow that the thing that makes you is one you really could not help that particular if you would so over us may be this which is as helpless in regard to us as we are in regard to our it is a product of something else s...	43
to run the car puzzled me s father had already expressed himself to me as opposed to the idea i can t understand what he sees in that fellow he said to me early this morning he s a reckless little devil and i don t think he really knows anything about machinery frank will stick to him though if it were my machine i wou...	43
paradise there was a warm south wind i went out on the lawn and played ball with missing three of all throws and nearly breaking my thumb i sat on the porch and looked over the an village ing paper watching the of many natives go spinning by and feeling my share in that thrill and which comes over the world on a warm s...	43
not to be come at by any series of or measures we pocket our unfair losses or gains and smile at our luck curiously in and commercial affairs men understand this and accept it as a not altogether bad game it has the element in it which they recognize as sport when it comes to sex the feeling becomes somewhat more serio...	43
some time later when i entered the house she was sitting alone in the great hall in the sort of dusk that pervaded it i somehow felt that the house opposed her that it was her enemy i don t know i may be wrong it was only an impression i have s description as near as i can of course i was interested to go it promised a...	43
not tell and after a very few years had been taken out again and never after that saw it any more and that during that time many strange and curious things happened things so strange and curious that though you lived many years afterward and wandered here and there and to and fro upon the earth still the things that h...	43
two years trying to maintain ourselves as best we could thence to where my brother paul having established himself rather comfortably we remained two more thence to where we remained three years and where i received my only intelligent thence out into the world for the three youngest of us at least to become as chance ...	43
time a seeking boy like any of those we now saw pouring up and down this well lighted street up and down up and down day after day like those poor we see about the lamp was in the habit of coming and as my father described it in his best suit of clothes and his best shoes a in his mouth standing in or near the doorwa...	43
are different oh you who dismiss them all so lightly not so fast pray i do not lean too heavily upon the significance of your present state tonight tomorrow may begin the fierce that will sweep away the last of what was strength or pride or beauty or power or understanding even now the winds of disaster may be under y...	43
tower that used to get turned over and wouldn t ring until some one of us boys climbed up and turned it back a great treat i remember on a small muddy pool on boards and getting my feet very wet and almost falling in and a serious sore throat afterwards i remember a band the first i ever heard s band as my father af...	43
the same who can tell or what matter really the difference was to me we think of life as a definite enduring thing some of us but what a thin shadow or it must be really when the past and your youth and all connected with it goes glimmering thus like smoke i always think of that passage in job xiv man that is born of a...	43
so that this boy and his brother who had been such good friends to my father had been compelled to abandon their properties entirely and adam had gone into the electric lighting business and had helped i understand to the local electric light plant here and for a while anyhow was its first and after that i heard nothin...	43
that then i got into this business it isn t much but it s a living one he said to the boy who put the money on the desk and went out yes indeed i knew your father he was a fine man he worked for us off and on for pretty near fifteen year after his own mill went up this was no country for manufacture though we couldn t ...	43
about were wild wild trees a host of things which we could gather free if either ed or i had had the least turn of ingenuity we might have or shot enough wild animals to have kept us in meat possibly even in funds so numerous were various forms of small game in summer we could have picked unlimited quantities of and ...	43
over every a holiday thing leaves the for and the distance a sort of mystery this it has always seemed to me is bound to produce in certain types of mind a kind of in such light hanging high above you or flying over the woods are no longer merely the things that they are but become the of a spiritual if i may use the w...	43
french spirit which has resulted in all these things we have been discussing you surely don t believe that i questioned well i don t know certainly is different inquisitive the characteristics which have most distinguished the french and by the way he added returning to and his car for a hail moment a short time befo...	43
the shed how many tons of coal they would take out in a day oh about four hundred he said any men ever killed here yes occasionally recently well there was an explosion two years ago many men killed eight were there any before that two about three years before he wiped his forehead with a hand wouldn t like to go down ...	43
have to cross the white river on a we sped on the road became sandy and soft now and then it broke into muddy stretches where we had to go slow from straggling we gathered characteristic and sometimes amusing directions go up here about four miles to ed place it s the big white store on the corner can t miss it then t...	43
i am an take this thing back an forth i m sick on it i t got to do it i know observed but we re very anxious to get across tonight we have to be in by morning anyhow well i don t know about that all i know is everybody s in a all fired hurry to across well that s all right now doctor i soothed we ll fix this up on the ...	43
fragrant a product of a rich soil we ate in silence and when his was consumed he observed me i believe i could stand another one i exclaimed reproachfully a holiday yes i could he insisted they re great don t you think so as good as ever i have eaten better even that settles it i m going to have one more he brought it...	43
position of and end man as the mood prompted him and where nightly he was supposed to execute a humorous incidentally he was singing his own songs also incidentally he was conducting a humorous column in a local paper the the fences and of the city to his comparative a brother for a large red and yellow single sheet pr...	43
had been led on divers occasions by a stout german catholic priest or three or four of them giving an annual or the fact that the land rises at this section was probably what attracted the first here and gives to this creek and the heart of the city a picturesque and somewhat character not far from the of the city in a...	43
da s what it is you mean to say you can t get me a single feebly a distinct note of reproach in his voice he even glanced my way sorry if to be had we d have um dis is de place we t um da s it turned upon me coldly that s what comes of not eating all that i wanted to when i wanted to hang it all i said i am stricken ...	43
had been more or less of a torture to me though not quite so much so here the reverend i a holiday am not his name was supreme and here i made my first confession no real sins at all really to my mother was the worst and received my first communion it was not a very striking church but then with its gilt the candles t...	43
and me in my youth because she looked at me curiously i bowed and then explained once i went to school here over thirty years ago i could see she assumed i was still a good catholic i went on i sat in this seat here it was the third row from the wall about six seats back a holiday a mr was my teacher here then and a f...	43
above the window whereas now the touched my middle chest it was almost too good to be true and there up main street quite plainly was the railroad station we entered the night we came from and whence we departed two years later for and only it had been it was a a affair a union station no less then we had slipped in ...	43
and french we passed nothing but and some few not very good cars and now the landscape changed rapidly i had always heard that brown county east of the seat of our state university was the and most picturesque in the state containing a hill the highest in of over five hundred feet as a student i had walked there with a...	43
good night to you george good night and he went out grinning i may seem to be but i say it in all seriousness these enormous american watering place hotels with their armies of servants heavy serious faced guests solemn state miles of halls and the like more or less frighten me they are so enormous their guests are so ...	43
all i remember one brisk youth telling me that in addition to law which he was studying he was taking up politics and the like as i wondered of what possible use those things could be to him and how much superior his mind must be to mine since he could grasp them and i no doubt could not again the professors there were...	43
has carried culture with a large c into all the women s clubs and intellectual movements of one kind and another from ocean to ocean was occupying an assistant in literature there was von called to the chair of history at the university of and so on a quite interesting and of minds the student body of which i was such...	43
store away only to get them out on there i felt myself a here i was a free intellectual it or go as i chose i could even attend nut as i chose study was something i must y if or there was no one present to urge a various youths as i have said at once gathered v c lawyers doctors j t in walked by my side or sat v c the ...	43
her windows the lighted lamp inside communicating a pale to them i was miserably painfully unhappy and sad but i never spoke the very last day of my stay but one in the evening i went again just to see what better tribute could i pay to beauty in youth i chapter day and a memory entering this afternoon the memories of...	43
admired him only in this instance loyalty to her friend and indifference on his part made any expression of it a little difficult i was a poor substitute a lay figure of which she was perfectly willing to make use on the way on the train we sat in the same seat and i took her hand a little later i gallantly compelled...	43
all their time people who never had any existence these impossible society are most of our successful short story writers too lazy to find out something about life itself the occasional flashes of wonder and strangeness in life it is apparent they are either they are too lazy or they are afraid of life tremble before...	43
buried out of sight in the cellar of a house for some ten fears i believe and might have been there yet but for the fighting impulses of our critics our and some woman a relative perhaps of some member of the firm had decided the book was and today one reads with wonder seeking in vain for the and only made glad by its...	43
the least strain it has the most she is just at that point where as i may say things are in the balance a day or two or three or four at the most ought to show which way things will go but as i have said before i do not wish to alarm you we are not nearly at the end of our we haven t tried blood yet and there are sever...	43
him to think it seemed as free though he could not really sleep soundly any more so stirred and was he he was not so much tired or physically worn as m bored or disappointed life liad treated him so badly he kept thinking to self over and over he had never had the woman he really wanted though he had been married so l...	43
entire or evening or both had wanted to come and take charge of the apartment entirely during her mother s illness only mrs who was still able to direct and fond of doing so would not hear of it she was not so ill but that she could still speak and in this way could inquire and direct besides mrs el was as good as mrs ...	43
something that was still at a fever heat the thing it once was still believing that he found pleasure and happiness in being with her a part of the home which together they had built up these children they had reared comfort in knowing that it would endure to the end to the end during all these years she had gone on h...	43
to any one scarcely to it was not wise not fit thoughts like this would tend to social in his circle or rather hers for had she not made the circle and here was the rub with mr at least that h no t v y h tl and private mental complaint s he w ere not ev en now guilty of a t moral crime in s o th not true that men an ...	43
yes so little had fled as a shadow and in his own deep sorrow at the time he had come to feel the first and only sad deep sympathy for that he had ever felt since marriage and that because she had suffered so much had lain in his arms after the funeral and cried so bitterly it was terrible her sorrow terrible mother ...	43
it was always bringing such queer people close to one and for the sake of one s profession sometimes particularly in the case of the young one had to be nice to them later it was the kind of school they should attend free he had half imagined at first that it would be the public school because they both had begun as s...	43
have enough to allow to run in so called fast society of a second or third rate and even at that she was not faithful to him or so believed there were so many strange evidences and yet felt that he did not care to interfere now how could he was tired of and that was all there was to it she was looking elsewhere he was...	43
ideal wife for him making every dollar go as far as it would every enjoyment yield the last drop for them all every move seeming to have been made to their general advantage yes that was true there was a pathos about it wasn t there but as for the actual results the next morning the second after his with free doctor st...	43

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.