001982_1551_000000 whether he dealt secretly with them or whether they as they declared lost sight of him whilst plundering his tent i cannot say but when harald demanded him of them he was gone gone is this what you call having the king prisoner
001982_1551_000001 indeed osmond was once heard to say it was a pity the boy was not to be a hostage for life to which sir eric replied so long as we have not the training of him
001982_1551_000002 the duke crept softly away to beg to be allowed to go to lothaire he entered the room already dark with a pine torch in his hand that so flickered in the wind that he could at first see nothing but presently beheld a dark lump on the floor
001982_1551_000003 a choice place for game sir eric said and richard as he saw a herd of deer dash down a forest glade exclaimed that they must come here to stay for some autumn sport
001982_1551_000004 prince lothaire he said here is lothaire cut him short get away he said if it is your turn now it will be mine by and by i wish my mother had kept her word and put your eyes out
001982_1551_000005 richard was an unusually strong boy for ten years old upright and broad-chested and growing very fast while carloman seemed to dwindle stooped forward from weakness had thin pinched features and sallow cheeks looking like a plant kept in the dark
001982_1551_000006 after nearly a year's captivity the king engaged to pay a ransom and until the terms could be arranged his two sons were to be placed as hostages in the hands of the normans whilst he returned to his own
001982_1551_000007 there are no danes here you are my guest my friend my brother look up here is my own fru astrida but my mother said the northmen would kill us for keeping you captive she wept and raved and the cruel men dragged us away by force oh let's go back
001982_1551_000008 you shall hear he rode four leagues and met one of the baser sort of rouennais whom he bribed to hide him in the isle of willow however bernard made close inquiries
001982_1551_000009 little carloman meanwhile recovered from his fears of all the inmates of the castle excepting hardigras at whose approach he always shrank and trembled he renewed his friendship with osmond no longer started at the entrance of sir eric
001982_1551_000010 sir eric said richard you told me there was a parliament to be held in falaise between count bernard and the king of denmark i mean to attend it will you come with me or shall osmond go and you remain in charge of the prince
001982_1551_000011 i cannot do that said richard for you are the king of denmark's captives not mine but i will love you and you shall have all that is mine if you will only not cry dear carloman oh fru astrida what shall i do you comfort him as the poor boy clung sobbing to him
001982_1551_000012 the old baron said that hardy healthy habits would restore puny children and lothaire improved in health and therewith in temper but his little brother had not strength enough to bear the seasoning
001982_1551_000013 and their eyes were constantly on the heath where he had disappeared but days passed and they grow weary of the watch and betook themselves to games in the castle court
001982_1551_000014 richard's eyes and cheeks glowed with excitement and he pushed his brisk little pony on faster and faster unheeding that the heavier men and horses of his suite were not keeping pace with him on the rough ground and through the tangled boughs
001982_1551_000015 he pined and drooped more each day and as the autumn came on and the wind was chilly he grew worse and was scarcely ever off the lap of the kind lady
001982_1551_000016 one day alberic in the character of a dragon was lying on his back panting hard so as to be supposed to cast out volumes of flame and smoke at richard the knight who with a stick for a lance and a wooden sword was waging fierce war
001982_1551_000017 when suddenly the dragon paused sat up and pointed towards the warder on the tower his horn was at his lips and in another moment the blast rang out through the castle
001982_1551_000018 it was not a settled sickness but he grew weaker and wasted away they made up a little couch for him by the fire with the high settle between it and the door to keep off the draughts
001982_1551_000019 presently a strange sound of growling and snarling was heard close at hand his pony swerved aside and could not be made to advance so richard dismounting dashed through some briars and there on an open space beneath a precipice of dark ivy-covered rock that rose like a wall he beheld a huge grey wolf
001982_1551_000020 and there he used patiently to lie hour after hour speaking feebly or smiling and seeming pleased when any one of those he loved approached he liked father lucas to come and say prayers with him
001982_1551_000021 a large dog in mortal combat it was as if they had fallen or rolled down the precipice together not heeding it in their fury
001982_1551_000022 with a loud shout both boys rushed headlong up the turret stairs and came to the top so breathless that they could not even ask the warder what he saw he pointed and the keen-eyed alberic exclaimed i see look my lord a speck there on the heath
001982_1551_000023 richard tried to repress his anger at this very uncivil way of speaking and answered that he thought there was none but there was plenty of norman cider
001982_1551_000024 but not a thought of fear passed through his breast to save the dog was richard's only idea in one moment he had drawn the dagger he wore at his girdle ran to the two struggling animals and with all his force plunged it into the throat of the wolf which happily was still held by the teeth of the hound
001982_1551_000025 softening his step and lowering his voice as he entered the hall lest carloman should be asleep richard is it you said the little boy as the young figure came round and settle in the darkening twilight yes how do you feel now carloman are you better
001982_1551_000026 as if i would taste your mean peasant drinks i bade them bring my supper why does it not come because you are not master here trembled on richard's lips but he forced it back and answered that it would soon be ready and carloman looked imploringly at his brother and said
001982_1551_000027 both were bleeding and the eyes of both glared like red fiery glass in the dark shadow of the rock the dog lay undermost almost overpowered making but a feeble resistance and the wolf would in another moment be at liberty to spring on the lonely child
001982_1551_000028 a little anxiously looking into the warder's face for he was a borderer and tales of terror of the inroad of the vicomte du contentin were rife on the marches of the epte
001982_1551_000029 i do not see where oh where he is behind the hillock now but oh there again how fast he comes it's like the flight of a bird said richard fast fast if only it be not flight in earnest said
001982_1551_000030 and he never failed to have a glad look when his dear little duke came to talk to him in his cheerful voice about his rides and his hunting and hawking adventures richard's sick guest took up much of his thoughts and he never willingly spent many hours at a distance from him
001982_1551_000031 how now my brave hound he said in the northern tongue though not quite with the accent richard was accustomed to hear art hurt much torn i fear richard called out as the faithful creature wagged his tail and strove to rise and meet his master
001982_1551_000032 no young sir said the warder no fear of that i know how men ride when they flee from the battle no indeed there is no discomfiture in the pace of that steed said sir eric who had by this time joined them
001982_1551_000033 a banner or a pennon said the warden methinks he rides like the young baron he does my brave boy he has done good service exclaimed sir eric as the figure became more developed the danes have seen how we train our young men
001982_1551_000034 oh do not say so you will indeed you will when spring comes i feel as if i should die said the little boy i think i shall but do not grieve richard i do not feel much afraid you said it was happier there than here and i know it now
001982_1551_000035 the struggles relaxed the wolf rolled heavily aside dead the dog lay panting and bleeding and richard feared he was cruelly torn poor fellow noble dog what shall i do to help you and he gently smoothed the dark brindled head
001982_1551_000036 he is too brave not to be gentle said osmond and indeed the high-spirited impetuous boy was as soft and kind as a maiden with that feeble timid child
001982_1551_000037 no better thanks dear richard and the little wasted fingers are put into his has the pain come again no i have been lying still musing richard i shall never be better
001982_1551_000038 where my blessed father is said richard thoughtfully but oh carloman you are so young to die i do not want to live this is a fighting hard world full of cruel people and it is peace there you are strong and brave and will make them better but i am weak and fearful i could only sigh and grieve
001982_1551_000039 if i do not take order with that boy my name is not eric muttered the baron what must he not have made our poor child suffer returned fru astrida but the little one moves my heart how small and weakly he is but it is worth anything to see our little duke so tender to him
001982_1551_000040 i see him clearer i see the horse cried richard dancing with eagerness so that sir eric caught hold of him exclaiming you will be over the battlements hold still better hear of a battle lost than that he bears somewhat in his hand said alberic
001982_1551_000041 it's mine said richard i found your dog nearly spent and i made in to the rescue you did well done i would not have lost vige for all the plunder of italy
001982_1551_000042 he coaxed him to eat consoled him and instead of laughing at his fears kept between him and the great bloodhound hardigras and drove it off when it came too near
001982_1551_000043 found the fellow had been seen in speech with a french horseman pounced on his wife and children and threatened they should die if he did not disclose the secret so the king was forced to come out of his hiding place and is now fast guarded in rollo's tower
001982_1551_000044 oh carloman carloman i cannot spare you i love you like my own brother you must not die you must live to see your father and mother again
001982_1551_000045 oh no lord richard you were not wont to love a parliament i have something to say replied richard the baron made no objection only telling his mother that the duke was a marvelous wise child and that he would soon be fit to take the government himself
001982_1551_000046 but the danes father the danes said osmond blows will be passing now i may join the host and win my spurs with all my heart returned the baron
001982_1551_000047 take that dog away said lothaire imperiously no one moved to obey him and the dog in seeking for scraps again came towards him take it away he repeated and struck it with his foot the dog growled and richard started up in indignation
001982_1551_000048 stood gathered in the court in rode the warrior with the winged helm bearing in his hand a drooping banner lowering it as he entered it unfolded and displayed trailing on the ground at the feet of the little duke of normandy the golden lilies of france
001982_1551_000049 the princes were to be sent to bayeux whither richard had returned under the charge of the centevilles and was now allowed to ride and walk abroad freely provided he was accompanied by a guard
001982_1551_000050 ah lad what art you exclaimed the hunter amazed at seeing the boy between the dead wolf and wounded dog you look like one of those frenchified norman gentilesse with your smooth locks and gilded baldrick yet your words are norse by the hammer of thor that is a dagger in the wolf's throat
001982_1551_000051 commend me to them said carloman i am going to my father in heaven i am glad i am here richard i never was so happy before i should have been afraid indeed to die if father lucas had not taught me how my sins are pardoned now i think saints and angels are waiting for me
001982_1551_000052 richard's temper did not serve for such a reply it's a foul shame of you to speak so when i only came out of kindness to you so i shall leave you here all night and not ask sir eric to let you out
001982_1551_000053 prince lothaire he said i care not what else you do but my dogs and my people you shall not maltreat i tell you i am prince i do what i will ha who laughs there cried the passionate boy stamping on the floor
001982_1551_000054 i am beholden to you my brave young lad said the stranger all the time examining and caressing the who what's your name you cannot be southern bred
001982_1551_000055 a shout of amazement arose and all gathered round him asking hurried questions a great victory the king a prisoner montreuil slain richard would not be denied holding his hand and leading him to the hall and there sitting around him they heard his tidings
001982_1551_000056 but he did not awake at night they carried him to his bed and he was roused into a half conscious state moaning at being disturbed fru astrida would not leave him and father lucas shared her watch
001982_1551_000057 his father's first question was what he thought of their kinsmen the danes rude comrades father i must own said osmond smiling and shaking his head i could not pledge them in a skull goblet set in gold though it were
001982_1551_000058 it 's not so easy for french princes to scourge free born normans here said the rough voice of walter the huntsman there is a reckoning for the stripe my lord duke bore for me
001982_1551_000059 as he spoke more shouts came near and the baron de centeville rushed through the trees holding richard's pony by the bridle my lord my lord oh thank heaven i see you safe at the same moment a party of hunters also approached by the path and at the head of them bernard the dane
001982_1551_000060 was braver for being a savage but he held his peace and richard impatiently begged to hear how the battle had gone and where it had been fought on the bank of the dive said osmond ah father you might well call old harcourt wary
001982_1551_000061 i came hither to attend your council replied richard i have a boon to ask of the king of denmark any boon the king of denmark has in his power will be yours
001982_1551_000062 none the worse warriors said sir eric ay ay and you were dainty and brooked not the hearty old fashion of tearing the whole sheep to pieces you must needs cut your portion with the fine french knife at your girdle osmond could not see that a man
001982_1551_000063 agreed with bernard the dane that he would be more secure beyond the limits of his own duchy which was likely soon to be the scene of war and sorely against his will he was sent in secret under a strong escort first to the castle of coucy and afterwards to senlis
001982_1551_000064 the little duke by charlotte m yonge chapter nine montemar was too near the frontier to be a safe abode for the little duke and his uncle count hubert of senlis
001982_1551_000065 at midnight all were wakened by the slow notes falling one by one on the ear of the solemn passing bell calling them to waken that their prayers might speed a soul on its way richard and lothaire were soon at the bedside carloman lay still asleep his hands folded on his breast
001982_1551_000066 but his breath came in long gasps father lucas was praying over him and candles were placed on each side of the bed all was still the boys not daring to speak or move
001982_1551_000067 ha exclaimed he what do i see my young lord what brought you here and with a hasty obeisance bernard took richard's outstretched hand
001982_1551_000068 hush hush walter began richard but lothaire had caught up a footstool and was aiming it at the huntsman when his arm was caught osmond who knew him well enough to be prepared for such outbreaks held him fast by both hands
001982_1551_000069 in spite of his passionate screams and struggles which were like those of one frantic sir eric meanwhile thundered forth in his norman patois
001982_1551_000070 his name might better have been fox heart than bear heart he had sent the franks a message of distress that the danes were on him in full force and to pray them to come to his aid
001982_1551_000071 he must go home richard stood by the bed large silent tears rolling down his cheeks and his chest heaving with suppressed sobs fru astrida led them from the room back to their beds lothaire soon cried himself to sleep richard lay awake sorrowful
001982_1551_000072 let him alone for the present said sir eric putting the duke aside when he knows his master we shall have peace here richard had to turn to reassure carloman who had taken refuge in a dark corner and there shook like an aspen leaf crying bitterly and starting with fright
001982_1551_000073 there came a longer breathe then they heard no more he was indeed gone to a happier home a truer royalty than ever had been his on earth then the boy's grief burst out lothaire screamed for his mother and sobbed out that he should die too
001982_1551_000074 either lothaire did not hear or did not believe and fought more furiously in osmond's arms but he had little chance with the stalwart young warrior and in spite of richard's remonstrances he was carried from the hall roaring and kicking and locked up alone in an empty room
001982_1551_000075 i would have you to know young sir prince though you be you are our prisoner and shall taste of a dungeon and bread and water unless you behave yourself
001982_1551_000076 and his guardians would fain have had it supposed that the castle did not contain any such guest osmond did not give him so much of his company as usual but was always at work in the armourer's forge a low vaulted chamber opening into the castle court
001982_1551_000077 and in deep thought while that scene in st mary's at rouen returned before his eyes and though it had passed nearly two years ago its meaning and its teaching had sunk deep into his mind and now stood before him more completely
001982_1551_000078 i trust there was no treachery no foul dealing shall be wrought in my name exclaimed richard with such dignity of tone and manner as made all feel he was indeed their duke and forget his tender years no or should i tell the tale with joy like this said osmond
001982_1551_000079 indeed the baron would hardly bear that he should be out of  sight and he was still so carefully watched that it was almost like a captivity never even in the summer days was he allowed to go beyond the castle walls
001982_1551_000080 said the dog's master slapping his hand on the little duke's shoulder with a rude hearty familiarity that took him by surprise and he looked up with a shade of offense till on a sudden flash of perception he took off his cap exclaiming king harald himself pardon me sir king
001982_1551_000081 richart what would you have me pardon your saving the life of vige here no french politeness for me tell me your boon and it is yours shall i take you a voyage and harry the fat monks of ireland
001982_1551_000082 richard recoiled a little from his new friend oh ha i forgot they have made a christian of you mores the pity you have the northern spirit so strong i had forgotten it come walk by my side and let me hear what you would ask
001982_1551_000083 the danes were encamped on the dive and so soon as the french came in sight bluetooth sent a messenger to louis to summon him to quit neustria and leave it to you its lawful owner
001982_1551_000084 i shall rejoice to have carloman and make him happy said richard but i wish lothaire were not coming perhaps said good father lucas he comes that you may have a first trial in your father's last lesson and abbot martin's and return good for evil
001982_1551_000085 holla you sweyn carry vige up to the castle and look to his wounds now for it young jarl my boon is that you would set free prince lothaire what the young frank why they kept you captive burnt your face and would have made an end of you but for your clever bonder
001982_1551_000086 and he swung back the heavy door with a resounding clang but his heart smote him when he told his beads and remembered what he had said to carloman he knew he could not sleep in his warm bed when lothaire was in that cold gusty room
001982_1551_000087 where shall i go when i come to die if i have not returned good for evil and a resolution was taken in the mind of the little duke morning came and brought back the sense that his gentle little companion was gone from him
001982_1551_000088 when richard touched him oh do not put me in the dungeon i cannot bear the dark richard again tried to comfort him but he did not seem to hear or heed oh they said you would beat and hurt us for what we did to you but indeed it was not i that burnt your cheek
001982_1551_000089 a dane with a battle axe on his shoulder keeping guard at every turn on the stairs ha ha cried richard i wonder how he likes it i wonder if he remembers holding me up to the window and vowing that he meant me only good when you believed him my lord said osmond slyly
001982_1551_000090 lothaire lamented the more when he found that richard was going away his presence seemed to him a protection and he fancied now carloman was dead that his former injuries were about to be revenged the duke assured him repeatedly that he meant him nothing but kindness adding
002398_1970_000000 she isn't offended with you is she asked the lady not that i know of answered the old servant but she seems to want to give trouble such person don't deserve to be treated well said the other
002398_1970_000001 and was on the point of leaving with it when wang's wife stopped him and with tears entreated him to bring her husband to life
002398_1970_000002 looking closely at her he observed that she had a beautiful complexion and feet as small as bamboo shoots being altogether much prettier now that he came to see her by daylight
002398_1970_000003 for some time she did not speak at length asking ning if he studied at night or not for said she when i was little i used to repeat the lengyen sutra
002398_1970_000004 sleep in the same room with mr yen replied she what asked yen cannot the spirits trouble yen
002398_1970_000005 there is now nothing left in this temple to slaw and i fear that imps will be employed to kill you ning was very frightened at this and ask her what he should do
002398_1970_000006 she joyfully acquiesced and wang taking up her bundle led the way to his house finding no one there she asked wang where his family were to which he replied that that was only the library
002398_1970_000007 answered she loved money and they sold me as concubine into a rich family where the wife was very jealous and beat and abused me morning night
002398_1970_000008 i hsiachien whose family name is nieh died when only eighteen and was buried alongside of this temple a devil then took possession of me and employed me to bewitch people by my beauty contrary to my inclination
002398_1970_000009 overcome with rage and shame wang's wife went home where she mourned bitterly over her dead husband grievously repenting the steps she had taken and wishing only to die she then bethought herself of preparing the corpse
002398_1970_000010 so hsiao chien went to the library and was just catering when suddenly she fell back a few steps and began walking hurriedly back forth and forwards in front of the door ning seeing this called out and asked her what it meant
002398_1970_000011 and she had hardly uttered these words when up came a young girl of seventeen or eighteen and very nice looking the old servant laughed and said ah don't talk of people behind their backs
002398_1970_000012 near which none of the servants would venture and set to work closing up the frightful wound of which he died while thus employed interrupted from time to time by her sobs she felt a rising lump in her throat
002398_1970_000013 to which she replied the presence of that sword frightens me and that is why i could not accompany you on your way home ning at once understood her and hang up the sword-case in another place whereupon she entered lighted a candle and sat down
002398_1970_000014 the priest said he was unable to do that but wang's wife flung herself at his feet and with loud lamentations implored his assistance
002398_1970_000015 i am about to sink into the great sea with no friendly shore at hand but your sense of duty is boundless and you can save me
002398_1970_000016 he is a strange man she answered and they didn't like going near him ning then inquired how the spirits worked
002398_1970_000017 either method is used according to circumstances ning thanked her and asked when he ought to be prepared to which she replied tomorrow night at parting she wept and said
002398_1970_000018 morning and night she waited on ning's mother bringing water for her to wash in occupying herself with household matters and endeavouring to please her in every way
002398_1970_000019 which by and by came out with a pop and fell straight into the dead man's wound looking closely at it she saw it was a human heart and then it began as it were to throb emitting a warm vapour like smoke
002398_1970_000020 but the old gentleman replied only to his wife saying when i died i did not expect to come back however by the time i had got a few miles on my way
002398_1970_000021 but now i have forgotten more than half and therefore i should like to borrow a copy and when you are at leisure in the evening you might hear me
002398_1970_000022 i have met nothing replied wang why said the priest you are bewitched what do you mean by not having met anything but wang insisted that it was so
002398_1970_000023 in the evening before she went to bed she would always go in and repeat a little of the sutra and leave as soon as she thought ning was getting sleepy
002398_1970_000024 wang promised he would not divulge her secret and so she remained there for some days without anyone knowing anything about it he then told his wife and she fearing the girl might belong to some influential family advised him to send her away
002398_1970_000025 i bewitched people said hsiao chien and then they bore a hole in the foot which renders the victim senseless and proceed to draw off the blood which the devils drink
002398_1970_000026 now the illness of ning's wife had give his mother a great deal of extra trouble more in fact than she was equal to but ever since hsiao chiens arrival all this was changed
002398_1970_000027 and the priest walked away saying that fool some people don't seem to know when death is at hand this startled wang
002398_1970_000028 his family at once proceeded to put on their morning robes when suddenly they heard the dead man cry out rushing up to the coffin they found that he had come to life again and began full of joy to ask him all about it
002398_1970_000029 this however he would not consent to do when one day going into the town he met a taoist priest who looked at him in astonishment and asked him what he had met
002398_1970_000030 and by next morning her husband was alive again though disturbed in mind as if awaken from a dream and feeling a pain in his heart where he had been wounded there was a cicatrix about as big as a cash which soon after disappeared
002398_1970_000031 another method is to tempt people by false gold the bones of some horrid demon and if they receive it their hearts and livers will be torn out
002398_1970_000032 i thought of the poor old body i was leaving behind me dependent for everything on others and with no more enjoyment of life so i made up my mind to return and take you away with me
002398_1970_000033 at first thought of the girl but then he reflected that a pretty young thing as she was couldn't well be a witch and began to suspect that the priest merely wanted to make a stroke of business
002398_1970_000034 accordingly she didn't make her leave the house at night and hsiao chien whom being a devil had not tasted meat or drink since her arrival now began at the end of six month to take a little thin gruel mother and son alike become very fond of her
002398_1970_000035 replied she and passing out of the door disappeared the next day ning was afraid that yen might be going away somewhere and went over early to invite him across
002398_1970_000036 softly creeping up he looked through the window and saw a hideous devil with a green face and a jagged tooth like a saw spreading a human skin upon the bed and painting it with a paintbrush the devil then threw aside the brush
002398_1970_000037 and ning's mother felt kindly disposed to the girl in consequence gradually growing to regard her almost as her own child and forgetting quite that she was a spirit
002398_1970_000038 if you will collect my bones and bury them in some quiet spot i shall not again be subject to these misfortunes ning said he would do so and of which she lay buried at the foot of the aspen tree on which there is a bird's nest
002398_1970_000039 we were just mentioning you as you came without our hearing you but fortunately we were saying nothing bad about you and as far as that goes added she if i am a young fellow why i should certainly fall in love with you
002398_1970_000040 it is extremely simple replied her husband you go and pack up everything ready the old lady laughed and did nothing upon which mr chu urged her again to prepare
002398_1970_000041 and then his wife said it's all very well but you have only just come to life how can you go and die again directly
002398_1970_000042 now ning's wife had been ill for long time and his mother advised him not to say a word about it to her for fear of frightening her in the middle of which in rushed hsiao-ch'ien and
002398_1970_000043 and henceforth never mentioned what she really was neither were strangers able to detect the fact by-and-by ning's wife died and his mother secretly wished him to espouse hsiao-chien
002398_1970_000044 and then she left the house in a short time she returned and pretended that she had done what he wanted then you had better dress said he
002398_1970_000045 so he hung up the brush at the bedroom door and before long heard a sound of footsteps outside not daring to move he made his wife peep out and she saw the girl standing looking at the brush afraid to pass it
002398_1970_000046 but ning wouldn't hear any excuses and carried all yen's things to his own room so that he had no alternative but to consent however he warned ning saying
002398_1970_000047 and giving the skin a shake out just like you would a coat threw it over its shoulders when low it was the girl
002398_1970_000048 to appropriate themselves to the vitality of some human being who as it were exchanges places with the so-called devil
002398_1970_000049 and cannot be increased or diminished reminding one in a way of the great modern doctrine of the conservation of energy this curious belief has an important bearing that will be brought out in a subsequent story
002398_1970_000050 when something flew out of the boxes like a string of white silk and dashing against the windowsill returned at once to the box disappearing very much like lightning
002398_1970_000051 the devil does not however reappear as the mortal whose life it has become possessed of but is merely born again into the world the idea being that the amour life on earth is a constant quantity
002398_1970_000052 ning's mother knew that she meant no evil but hesitated to put the family's hopes of posterity into jeopardy hsiao chien however reassured her by saying that ning would have three sons and that line would not be interrupted by his marrying her
002398_1970_000053 i have been with you for more than a year and you ought to know something of my disposition because i was unwilling to injure travelers i followed your son hither
002398_1970_000054 i know you are a gentleman and a man of honour if you see anything you don't quite understand i pray you not to be too inquisitive
002398_1970_000055 terrified at this wang hurried away with his head down in search for the priest who had gone he knew not whither subsequently finding him in the fields where he threw himself on his knees and begged the priest to save him
002398_1970_000056 though she rather dreaded any unfortunate consequences that might arise this hsiao chien perceived and seizing an opportunity said to ning's mother
002398_1970_000057 upon which the various member of the family seeing the old gentleman was in a rage begged she to gratify his whim
002398_1970_000058 but mrs chu did not move until he pressed her again and again after which she did not like to cross him and by-and-by came out all fully equipped the other ladies in the family were laughing on the sly
002398_1970_000059 as to driving her away said the priest the creature must be in great distress to be seeking a substitute for herself besides i could hardly endure to injure a living thing
002398_1970_000060 ning himself could not sleep and after some time he saw a figure moving stealthily outside at length approaching the window to peep through its eyes flashed like lightning and ning in a terrible fright was just upon the point of calling yen
002398_1970_000061 there was no other motive and as your son has shewn himself one of the best of men i would now remain with him for three years in order that he may obtain for me some mark of imperial approbation which will do me honour in the realms below
002398_1970_000062 on the strength of this the marriage was arranged to the great joy of ning a feast prepared and friends and relatives invited
002398_1970_000063 this recalls the celebrated story of the fisherman in the arabian nights end of
002398_1970_000064 and these hsiao chien returned by gifts of paintings of flowers done by herself in which she was very skillful the receivers being extremely proud of such marks of her friendship
002398_1970_000065 upon which he went back to bed but ning who was lost in astonishment arose and asked him what it all meant telling at the same time what he himself had seen
002398_1970_000066 it was dazzlingly white like crystal and about two inches in length by the width of an onion leaf in breadth he then wrapped it up carefully and put it back in the broken box saying a bold-faced devil that to dare there to break my box
002398_1970_000067 for a long time not a sound was heard as if she was fast asleep and when some of those present approached to touch her they found she was as cold as ice and no longer breathing
002398_1970_000068 happening to go to chinhua he took shelter in a temple to the north of the city very nice as far as ornamentation went but overgrown with grass taller than a man's head and evidently not so much frequented
002398_1970_000069 as you and i are good friends replied yen i won't make any secret of it the fact is i am a taoist priest but for the window-sill the devil would have been killed as it is he is badly wounded
002398_1970_000070 and next day she sent wang's brother to see the priest the latter got into a great rage and cried out was it for this that i had compassion on you devil that you are
002398_1970_000071 yen heard the noise and got up ning all the time pretend to be asleep in order to watch what happened the former then opened the box and took out something which he smelt and examined by the light of the moon
002398_1970_000072 she then ground her teeth and went away but in a little while came back and began cursing saying you priest you don't frighten me do you think i am going to give up what's already in my grip
002398_1970_000073 wang's wife screamed out and the servant came in with a light but wang was already dead and presented a most miserable spectacle his wife who was in an agony of fright hardly dared cry for fear of making a noise
002398_1970_000074 thereupon she tore the brush into pieces and bursting open the door walked straight up to the bed where she ripped open wang and tore his heart with which she went away
002398_1970_000075 after this numbers of congratulatory presents were given by the various female members of the family who vied with one another in making her acquaintance
002398_1970_000076 the buddhist laity in china who do not hesitate to take life for the purpose of food salve their conscience from time to time by buying birds fishes et cetera and letting them go
002398_1970_000077 you don't praise me replied the girl i'm sure i don't know who will and then the lady and the girl said something together and mr ning thinking they were the family next door turned around to sleep without paying further attention to them
002398_1970_000078 wang's brother was horribly frightened and said he did not think so and then the priest asked him if any stranger had been to the house
002398_1970_000079 wang's wife asked the priest who it was to which he replied there is a maniac in the town who passes his time grovelling in the dirt go prostrate yourself before him and beg him to help you if he insults you
002398_1970_000080 to this he answered that he had been out to the chung tian temple and could not possibly say but he went off to inquire and in a little while came back and reported that an old woman had sought service with them as a maid-of-all-work and had been engaged by his wife
002398_1970_000081 and there among a number of graves he discovered the aspen tree with the bird's nest at its summit he then fulfill his promise and prepared to go home
002398_1970_000082 on either side were the priest apartments the doors of which were ajar with the exception of small room on the south side where the lock had a new appearance
002398_1970_000083 in the east corner he espied a group of bamboos growing over a large pool of water lilies in flower and being much pleased with the quiet of the place determined to remain more especially as the grand examiner being in the town
002398_1970_000084 and from that time ning held his friend in higher esteem than ever next day he found traces of blood outside the window which led around to the north of the temple
002398_1970_000085 all lodgings had gone up in price so he roamed about waiting till the priests should return and in the evening a gentleman came and opened the door on the south side ning quickly made up to him and with a bow informed him of his design
002398_1970_000086 yen giving him a farewell banquet and presenting him with an old leather case which he said contained a sword and would keep at a distance from him all devils and bogies
002398_1970_000087 i wondered how many were slain before it gets old and worn out as it is now even now when i look at it my flesh creeps the case was then hung up and next day removed to over the door
002398_1970_000088 there is no one here whose permission you need to ask replied the stranger i am only lodging here and if you don't object to the loneliness i shall be very pleased to have the benefit of your society
002398_1970_000089 why so asked ning for the last three days explained she i have been much agitated in mind
002398_1970_000090 ning was delighted and made himself a straw bed and put up a board for a table as if he intended to remain some time and that night by the beams of the clear bright moon they sat together in the verandah and talked
003263_2745_000000 the knights of this order were called the knights hospitalers and sometimes knights of st john the institution continued to grow and finally the seat of it was transferred to acre
003263_2745_000001 which was a much more convenient place for giving succor to the pilgrims and also for fighting the saracens who were the great enemies that the pilgrims had to fear from this time the institution was called st john of acre
003263_2745_000002 in hopes of carrying it by storm before their enemies on the mountains could attack them of course the crusaders were extremely anxious to have richard arrive for they knew that he was bringing with him an immense re-enforcement
003263_2745_000003 at first richard and his men wondered what ship it could be it was soon evident that whatever she was she was endeavoring to escape richard ordered his galleys to press on
003263_2745_000004 and in meantime his position and that of the other crusaders in the camp was becoming very critical on account of the immense numbers of saracens in the mountains behind them who were gradually advancing their posts and threatening to surround the christians entirely
003263_2745_000005 in the meantime richard having sailed from cyprus was coming on though he was delayed on his way by an occurrence which he greatly gloried in deeming it doubtless a very brilliant exploit the case was this in sailing along with his squadron between cyprus and the mainland he suddenly fell in with a ship of a very large size
003263_2745_000006 philip the french king had already arrived and he exerted himself to the utmost to take the town before richard should come but he could not succeed the town resisted all the attempts he could make to storm
003263_2745_000007 and he soon found that the strange ship was full of saracens he immediately ordered his men to advance and board her and he declared to his seamen that if they allowed her to escape he would crucify them
003263_2745_000008 the saracens seeing that there was no possibility of escape and having no hope of mercy if they fell into richard's hand determined to scuttle the ship and to sink themselves and the vessel together they accordingly cut holes through the bottom as well as they could with hatchets and the water began to pour in
003263_2745_000009 in the meantime richard's galleys had surrounded the vessel and a dreadful combat ensued both parties fought like tigers the crusaders were furious to get on board before the ship should go down and the saracens
003263_2745_000010 as it was before saint john of jerusalem and finally its power and influence became so predominant in the town that the town itself was generally designated by the name of the institution and it has been called saint jean d'acre to this day
003263_2745_000011 though they had no expectation of finally defending themselves against their enemies still hoped to keep them back until it should be too late for them to obtain any advantage from their victory
003263_2745_000012 for a time they were quite successful in their resistance chiefly by means of what was called greek fire this greek fire was a celebrated means of warfare in those days and was very terrible in its nature and effects
003263_2745_000013 and besides the heat and burning that it produced it threw out great volumes of poisonous and stifling vapors which suffocated all that came near the men threw it sometimes in balls or sometimes on the ends of darts and arrows
003263_2745_000014 great numbers of richard's men were killed by it but the superiority of numbers on richard's side was too great and after a time the saracens were subdued before the ship had admitted water enough through the scuttlings to carry her down
003263_2745_000015 where it was enveloped in flax or tow to keep it in its place it burned fiercely and furiously wherever it fell even water did not extinguish it and it was said that in this combat the sea all around the saracens ship seemed on fire and the decks of the galleys that attacked them were blazing with it in every direction
003263_2745_000016 it is not known precisely what it was or how it was made it was an exceedingly combustible substance and was to be thrown on fire on the enemy and such was its nature that when once in flames nothing could extinguish it
003263_2745_000017 and there let them loose near the crusaders camp to bite the soldiers and that men who could resort to so barbarous a mode of warfare as this deserved no quarter however this may be the poor saracens received no quarter it might be supposed that richard deserved some credit for his humanity in saving the thirty-five
003263_2745_000018 richard's men poured in on board of her in great numbers they immediately proceeded to massacre or throw overboard the men as fast as possible and to seize the stores and transfer them to their own ships
003263_2745_000019 they also did all they could to stop the leaks so as to delay the sinking of the ship as long as possible they had time to transfer to their own vessels nearly all the valuable part of the cargo and to kill and drown all the men out of twelve or fifteen hundred only about thirty-five were spared
003263_2745_000020 but his object in saving these was not to show mercy but to gain ransom money these thirty-five were the emirs or other officers of the saracens or persons who looked as if they might be rich or have rich friends
003263_2745_000021 when afterward public sentiment seemed inclined to condemn this terrible and inexcusable massacre richard defended himself by saying that he found on board the vessel a number of jars containing certain poisonous reptiles which he alleged the saracens were going to take to acre
003263_2745_000022 the order became at last very numerous great numbers of person joined it from all the nations of europe they organized a regular government they held fortresses and towns and other territorial possessions of considerable value they had a fleet and an army and a rich treasury
003263_2745_000023 when they reached the shore richard fixed upon a certain sum of money for each of them and allowed them to send word to their friends that if they would raise the money and send it to richard he would set them at liberty
003263_2745_000024 a great proportion of them were thus afterward ransomed and richard realized from this source quite a large sum when richard's soldiers found that the time for the captured ship to sink was drawing nigh they abandoned her leaving on board everything that they had not been able to save and withdrawing to a safe distance
003263_2745_000025 a company of pious merchants from naples who went to jerusalem took pity while they were there on the pilgrims who came there to visit the holy sepulchre and who being poor and very insufficiently provided for the journey
003263_2745_000026 it received this name from a famous military order that was founded in the holy land in the middle ages called the knights of st john the origin of the order was as follows about a hundred years before the time of richard's crusade
003263_2745_000027 they named the establishment the monastery of saint john and the monks themselves were called hospitalers their business being to receive and show hospitality to the pilgrims
003263_2745_000028 chaplains these were the priests and monks they conducted worship and attended in general to all the duties of devotion they were the scholars too and acted as secretaries and readers whenever such duties were required
003263_2745_000029 so the monks were sometimes designated as the hospitalers and sometimes the brothers of st john other travelers who came to jerusalem from time to time seeing this monastery and observing the good which it was the means of effecting for the poor pilgrims became interested in its welfare and made grants and donations to it
003263_2745_000030 in a word they became as it were a government and a nation the persons belonging to the order were divided into three classes knights these were the armed men they fought the battles defended the pilgrims managed the government and performed all other similar functions
003263_2745_000031 by which in the course of fifty years it became much enlarged at length in process of time a military order was connected with it the pilgrims needed protection in going to and fro as well as food shelter and rest at the end of their journey and the military order was formed to furnish this protection
003263_2745_000032 servitors the duty of the servitors was as their name imports to take charge of the buildings and grounds belonging to the order to wait upon the sick and accompany pilgrims and to perform in general all other duties pertaining to their station the ramparts of acre
003263_2745_000033 the town of acre stood on the shore of the sea and was very strongly fortified the walls and ramparts were very massive altogether too thick and high to be demolished or scaled by any means of attack known in those days the place had been in possession of the knights of saint john
003263_2745_000034 but in the course of the wars between the saracens and the crusaders that had prevailed before richard came it had fallen into the hands of the saracens and now the crusaders were besieging it in hopes to recover possession
003263_2745_000035 they were encamped in thousands on a plain outside the town in a beautiful situation overlooking the sea still farther back among the mountains were immense hordes of saracens watching an opportunity to come down upon the plain and overwhelm the christian armies while they on the other hand were making continued assaults upon the town
004627_4783_000000 i am tired of taking orders from you she said hastily i see now that it is impossible to have faith in you i see now that it is useless to expect any return from you for all i have done i want no more of you
004627_4783_000001 i heard queer noises last night as if something were creeping up the walls and splashing gently in the water and there was a rattling at your window and the bats in the alley flew about as if frightened until long after midnight
004627_4783_000002 when she had brought him the supper he asked for late in the day was too much abashed by the gravity of his expression to chatter as was her want oh mother she exclaimed as she returned to the staircase
004627_4783_000003 he could not forget that they threw his wife and child into the prison under the lead roofs but for god's sake not a word of this she looked about in the room and shivered then she continued in a whisper
004627_4783_000004 i don't want to go into his room again he has eyes like the martyr in the picture in the chapel i can't laugh when he looks at me like that but little marietta would have been very much surprised if she could have seen the guest several hours later
004627_4783_000005 i need you no longer i am only sorry he interrupted that we still need you you will understand leonora that it will not be possible for us to allow you who know so many secrets of the republic to travel in foreign parts
004627_4783_000006 the widow looked at her guest in curiosity he seemed so blind to everything about him even to the young beauty of her marietta but in spite of his gray hair and the illness of which he had spoken
004627_4783_000007 he died quietly in his bed and no one could have imagined that he drank death here in your house or have you heard any rumors she trembled and looked down
004627_4783_000008 you may say what you like here said the maid there are few windows looking out on the canal and the rooms are empty at this hour on your side there is nothing but a blank wall
004627_4783_000009 she started violently and changed color by all the saints she exclaimed do not mention that again give the rest of the money to the church that they may read masses for his soul and for mine whenever i hear that name it sounds in my ears like the trumpets of the judgment day
004627_4783_000010 but i've seen them here at the card table and i can assure you that they're just like the rest of us that may be my child he answered but they have the power and it is not wise for a poor citizen like myself to utter such speeches at an open window
004627_4783_000011 he sprang up onto the window sill looked down at the black water below with a calm eye and with a single step had crossed the space she caught him in her arms as he sprang down on the other side and her lips touched his cheek
004627_4783_000012 andrea put out the light bolted the door of his room listened for a moment and then went to the window smeraldina had her improvised bridge ready and stood beckoning to him
004627_4783_000013 you are a child said the other the responsibility for that supper falls on us not on you young candiano was guilty of treason but his connections and his high rank compelled us to punish him in secret
004627_4783_000014 we promise you will not have to wait long then she stood up and paced the room andrea could see her when she passed within the area commanded by the crack at which he sat her large dark eyes glancing upward rested on his hiding place
004627_4783_000015 but will you not come over for an hour and drink a glass of wine with me i have a board here which will make a bridge between our two windows are you easily dizzy no indeed fair friend patience for a moment and then i am ready to come to you
004627_4783_000016 he started involuntarily as if discovered the man in the armchair stood up also but seemed to be blind to her beauty for he continued to talk in a businesslike tone and one more thing leonora the sum which we still owe you for the supper you gave candiano
004627_4783_000017 he staggered down from the balcony and followed the maiden without a word her room was light again the wine and cards stood ready on the table but the man's face was darkened by heavy shadows so black that it frightened even smeraldina's careless nature
004627_4783_000018 rest well that the sun of your beauty may shine cloudless over the just and the unjust good night leonora he bowed to her lightly and walked toward the door for a fleeting moment andrea could see his cold features it was a face without a soul and without passion
004627_4783_000019 now trying to earn a livelihood by their own labor andrea seemed quite satisfied with the result of his morning's work and entered the nearest inn a haunt of poorer classes to take his dinner
004627_4783_000020 the little door of a palace was immediately under the window at which he stood and between the boats lying chained there and the wall opposite there was only just room for a second gondola to pass i could not have arranged it better myself he murmured
004627_4783_000021 you must conquer them there is no one left who has the right to inquire into his death his elder brother and his sister perished as you know by the burning of their home the money is waiting for you whenever you wish to send for it good night countess i will not keep you awake any longer
004627_4783_000022 several hours passed in a vain search for work in spite of the recommendation he had brought from brescia and in spite of the modesty of his manner there was a certain look of pride in his carriage which seemed to say that he considered the work he sought beneath his dignity
004627_4783_000023 his step was quick and firm his chest was deep and the color of his face was clear and youthful many a woman looked after him as he passed through the streets although he did not seem to notice them in return
004627_4783_000024 see how annoyances i haven't an hour to myself but be patient for a few moments i will return as quick as i can left alone andrea went to the window and looked carefully at the space of wall between his own window and the canal
004627_4783_000025 although andrea had been so careful in asking directions from madame giovanna when once out of his own street he threaded the net of alleys and canals as if quite at home there
004627_4783_000026 but he assumed a modest demeanor as if awed by the respect due his friend in her own home the girl drew in the plank brought cards and wine from a cupboard and the two sat down to lively chatter
004627_4783_000027 illumined only by the expression of a mighty will he put on a mask and threw a black cloak over his shoulder then left the room a moment later andrea heard the girl's voice calling him softly like a man who has received a heavy blow
004627_4783_000028 no she said but in the night i awake with a start and some voice seems to call to me you should not have done that not that it is your nerves leonora
004627_4783_000029 smeraldina had just poured herself the second glass of wine and was gently scolding her guest for not drinking more when a bell shrilled out from somewhere in the house the girl threw down her cards angrily and rose from her chair
004627_4783_000030 finally he found a position with a very low salary in the office of a little notary in a side street the haste with which he consented to take the position made the owner of the office think that his new clerk was probably one of the many impoverished noblemen
004627_4783_000031 i know what it was he came after he had done it he came to greet us because we had never said goodbye to him andrea's head was bowed as he said that he had slept so soundly that he had heard nothing in the night
004627_4783_000032 and you are likely to receive your wages very soon but they spoke so softly that i heard little and i am very tired from kneeling on the hard boards i will be better able to appreciate your kindness another time tonight i must sleep he sprang upon the board which she had laid across the window
004627_4783_000033 the listener at the window drew back but he could see a man step from the boat and he heard three heavy blows of knocker beneath from within the house a voice asked who it was that demanded entrance open in the name of the mighty council of the ten was the answer
004627_4783_000034 you might fall a victim to the disease of the times the desire to write memoirs venice and you are still inseparable and you should by this time understand that it will not take us long to reconcile you i want no reconciliation
004627_4783_000035 he sat in a corner near the door and ate the simple food without complaint although he did not seem to care for the wine after he had tasted it he was about to pay for his food when his neighbor whom he had not noticed hitherto spoke to him
004627_4783_000036 and when he reached his own room he looked down into the canal at the end of which the light of the disappearing gondola shone dimly he called a good night over to the opposite window
004627_4783_000037 under cover of the night he stood at his window in lively conversation with the maid opposite fair smeraldina he said i could scarce await the hour when i should see you again
004627_4783_000038 the door was opened and closed again behind the nightly visitor a few moments later smeraldina hurried back into her room in great excitement did you hear it she whispered
004627_4783_000039 while his linen was far from clean and his clothes was unbrushed you do not seem to like the wine sir he said in a low tone turning to andrea you have probably come here by mistake they are not accustomed to serving guests of rank in this house i beg your pardon sir
004627_4783_000040 as he looked down thoughtfully at the dark waters flowing between the blank walls in the distance a pale light appeared moving nearer and in a little while the noise of oars floated up to him a gondola came slowly down the stream and halted at the door below
004627_4783_000041 this was a man of about thirty years old with curly blond hair wearing the usual venetian costume of quiet black a garb which did not at once betray his jewish descent he wore heavy golden rings in his ears and jeweled buckles on his shoes
004627_4783_000042 you look as if you had seen a ghost she said take a glass of wine and tell me what you have heard it passed off better than we expected oh yes he said with forced calm the ten are favorably disposed toward your mistress
004627_4783_000043 and listened carelessly to her chattering comments on her mistress and the society in which she moved from them he learned that for last few days the secretary of the austrian embassy had spent long hours with the countess
004627_4783_000044 i have known better days although i am the son of a small merchant and have studied law without any great success but my father became bankrupt and a poor scribe and lawyer's apprentice has no right to expect anything better than he can find in such a place as this
004627_4783_000045 and then disappeared into the darkness of his room while smeraldina endeavored in vain to explain to herself the strange contrasts in the behavior of her new friend
004627_4783_000046 a week passed and yet she had made very little advance in the conquest of her new neighbor one evening after having won the favor of the doorkeeper she let him in at the front door led him through the house to a little portal over the canal and entered the gondola with him
004627_4783_000047 i am a stranger here and it would interest me greatly the girl thought a moment then she said i could do it easily the hiding place is a good one but suppose it should be discovered
004627_4783_000048 oh they have come to take our countess away they will kill her and who will pay me the six months wages that she owes me be calm dear child
004627_4783_000049 he answered you will find good friends who will not forsake you but i will be very grateful to you if you could hide me somewhere where i might hear what the mighty council has to say to your mistress
004627_4783_000050 a scholar has always a right to demand respect said the other with a polite smile i should be very glad to be of service to you if i could i have always desired the company of gentlemen of learning
004627_4783_000051 but if all goes well you shall see that i am willing to divide the little i have with such a kind friend she slipped the money into her pocket opened the door and looked out into the blackness of the corridor take off your shoes she whispered
004627_4783_000052 andrea looked at him sharply then a sudden thought seemed to change his mood and impel him to meet the other with more friendliness you are a good judge of men he said
004627_4783_000053 might i suggest that you drink a glass of better wine with me i cannot afford better wine said the other indifferently i would look upon it as an honor to be allowed to show you our venetian hospitality
004627_4783_000054 he handled the oars himself rowing slowly through the dark labyrinth of water streets until they reached the grand canal but in spite of the tete-a-tete with smeraldina he did not seem to be in a very loving mood
004627_4783_000055 i will take it all upon myself my dear and no one shall know who let me into the house here is the money in case i may not be able to show my gratitude to you later
004627_4783_000056 the lady was in a better humor and showered presents on her handmaiden andrea listened so inattentively that the girl did not object when he turned the boat and took the shortest way home
004627_4783_000057 replied andrea quietly what do you know of my rank i can see by the way you eat that you do not belong to the class of those who come here daily said the jew
004627_4783_000058 he drove the narrow gondola up to the steps threw the chain around the post and asked for the key which locked it the girl was already in the doorway when her companion called out to her that he had unfortunately dropped the little key into the water
004627_4783_000059 he said also that it was best for her to repeat nothing of what she had told him since it was a dangerous thing to have any knowledge of such a crime even if committed by a ghost then he left the house and went out into the tumult on the street
004627_4783_000060 this seemed to annoy her but with her customary carelessness she comforted him with the assurance that there was a second key somewhere in the house as she let him out of the front door of the palace an hour later he touched her cheek in a hasty kiss as he said good-bye
004627_4783_000061 his landlady sang his praises to all her neighbors as a model lodger on the morning of the second sunday after andrea's advent in the widow's house the little woman enter his room in a great excitement she was dressed in her best clothes as if just returning from church
004627_4783_000062 i have to endure his presence to avoid trouble but i can at least warn you andrea thanked him returned to his place and said to the officious neighbor
004627_4783_000063 she cried passionately with tears in her eyes what would it mean to me i want nothing i know nothing but the one thought that i have lost my poor
004627_4783_000064 as i passed the goldsmith's shop i thought of you and bought you this brooch it is not fine enough for you but at least it is more real than this clasp on your turban open the window and i will throw it over in the hope of going the same way myself soon
004627_4783_000065 the next morning he explained to his landlady that there was so much work in his new master's office that he had been obliged to spend the night there this was the only time that he had asked for a key of the house usually he came home at twilight ate a light supper and retired early
004627_4783_000066 she left him alone and he mounted the few steps and felt along the wall until he came to the crack the neighboring room was separated from the great hall by a wooden partition only as in early days the two had been one andrea knelt down and put his eye to the crack in the wall through which a ray of light fell
004627_4783_000067 i will go with you sir if you desire then in a lower tone i can see that they take you for a spy here let us continue our conversation elsewhere the jew's face pout
004627_4783_000068 they passed through several dark rooms then entered a large dancing hall dimly lighted by a pale glimmer falling through the three high windows
004627_4783_000069 then give me your hand and follow wherever i may lead you everyone in the house is asleep except the doorkeeper she extinguished her lamp and slipped through the corridor drawing him after her
004627_4783_000070 with the excuse that he must first pay his account he left his chair and walked to the table where sat the landlord the old man whispered to him oh sir be careful that is a dangerous man the inquisitors paid him for prying out the secrets of all the strangers who come here
004627_4783_000071 on one side a staircase led up to a balcony for the musicians have a care warned the girl the steps creak i will leave you alone now you will find a crack in the wall up there through which you can look down into the countess reception room but do not move from your place until i come for you
004627_4783_000072 andrea was about to put an end to the conversation when he noticed the landlord beckoning to him from the back of the room he noticed also that the other guests seemed much interested in his conversation with the jew
004627_4783_000073 your confidence honors me said the jew thoughtfully but the gentlemen do not like to take strangers into their service until they have gone through with a trial apprenticeship if my purse can be of any service to you during this time i ask but very low rates of interest from my friends
004627_4783_000074 but her face was drawn in emotion he sat at his table reading his face paler than usual but his eye calm and quiet
004627_4783_000075 he sat motionless listening quietly to the angry words of the beauty woman i am astonished said the countess in a bitter tone i am astonished that you dare to show yourself here
004627_4783_000076 her rich red blond hair was caught up carelessly her eyes although reddened with weeping still shone brilliantly the man who sat opposite her in an armchair turning his back to andrea seemed to be watching her sharply
004627_4783_000077 by god he said they wrong me my business leads me in and out of many houses but what do i care for the secrets that may be hidden there however i cannot blame these people for their watchfulness the bloodhounds of the signoria are in every street
004627_4783_000078 uncomfortable as his position was there were many who would have been glad to change with him a large silver candelabrum stood on the table beside the divan upon which the countess lay she was clad in a loose gown which showed that she had not expected visitors at this hour
004627_4783_000079 but the most terrible thing about it is that on the dagger which they found in the wound were the words death to all inquisitors that is no private revenge that is a political murder so my neighbor says and it means conspiracy and revolution
004627_4783_000080 and whom you promised to spare no matter what happened was there no other that you could find if your prisons are empty give him back to me or i will break off all relations with you i will leave venice and follow my lover in his exile
004627_4783_000081 the jew stood still and caught at the other's arm why did i not recognize you at once since when you are in the service i since day after tomorrow are you mocking me sir
004627_4783_000082 now that you have so shamefully broken all your solemn promises to me is it for this that i have done you so many services what have you done with him with my poor friend the only one i cared for
004627_4783_000083 but in my opinion sir but what is your name samuele in my opinion sir samuele you think too hardly of those who are working for the good of the state in that they discover all conspiracies against the republic and frustrate them before they become dangerous
004627_4783_000084 most assured not it is my serious intention to take service in those ranks i am very poor as i told you and the employment i have been able to obtain is miserably paid i wish to better my condition
004627_4783_000085 was murdered on the doorstep of his own house was this an old man asked andrea calmly misericordia you talk as if he had died in his bed you are no venetian and you cannot understand what it means when an inquisitor is murdered
004627_4783_000086 you are sitting here so quietly sir she exclaimed and all venice in excitement holy jesus to think that this should happen and i thought that nothing more could occur here that would surprise me
004627_4783_000087 of what are you speaking good woman he asked in an indifferent tone she threw herself in a chair breathless would you believe it last night between eleven o'clock and midnight the noble lord lorenzo venier the highest of our three grand inquisitors
004627_4783_000088 and she was much worried that he would not return to the streets bright with sunshine and enjoy the concert in the neighboring square even little marietta
004627_4783_000089 andrea could not mount the stairs to reach his room without passing his little landlady who of course was most anxious to know what he had done she was far more discontented than he seemed to be at the position he had found
005939_5055_000000 even those who had been the instruments of the revolution were desirous it should be relished which is difficult to compass without good laws hence it is that ancient institutions generally tend to reform the people's manners and those of modern date to corrupt them
005939_5055_000001 the civil law which authorizes a division of goods among men cannot be thought to rank among such goods a part of the men who were to make this division
005939_5055_000002 but the plan of this constitution is opposite to that of our modern monarchies the three powers were there distributed in such a manner that the people were the legislature and the king had the executive together with the judiciary power
005939_5055_000003 on the other hand the plebeians also contrary to the spirit of the same law pretended that none but their body were empowered to be his judges and accordingly they pronounced sentence upon him
005939_5055_000004 this law was given to the jews after the like distribution plato who grounds his laws on this division made the fame regulation which had been received as a law by the athenians
005939_5055_000005 as they do not mention in what this disrespect consists everything may furnish a pretext to take away a man's life and to exterminate any family whatsoever
005939_5055_000006 on the contrary the people of india are mild tender and compassionate hence their legislators repose great confidence in them
005939_5055_000007 and as each citizen is like a slave who has run away from his master that which was a maxim of equity he calls rigour that which was a rule of action he stiles constraint and to precaution he gives the name of fear
005939_5055_000008 such a man would feel nothing in himself at first but impotency and weakness his fears and apprehensions would be excessive as appears from instances were there any necessity of proving it of savages found in forests trembling at the motion of a leaf and flying from every shadow
005939_5055_000009 but to have a proper confidence in these they should have the choosing of the members whether the election be made by themselves as at athens or by some magistrate deputed for that purpose as on certain occasions was customary at rome
005939_5055_000010 let us not then compare the morals of china with those of europe everyone in china is obliged to be attentive to what will be for his advantage if the cheat has been watchful over his own interest he who is the dupe ought to be attentive to his
005939_5055_000011 in what manner the distribution of the three powers began to change after the expulsion of the kings there were four things that greatly prejudiced the liberty of rome
005939_5055_000012 three if he has neither brother nor sister the sister of his mother shall succeed him for if his mother has no sister the sister of his father shall succeed him
005939_5055_000013 and yet he had only ordained that it should be paid by the feller instead of the purchaser this regulation which left the impost entire seemed nevertheless to suppress it
005939_5055_000014 no not in italy gaul spain or germany they were all petty states or republics even africa itself was subject to a great commonwealth and asia minor was occupied by greek colonies
005939_5055_000015 now in monarchies where though there were no such thing as a regular sale of public offices still the indigence and avidity of the courtier would equally prompt him to expose them to sale chance will furnish better subjects than the prince's choice
005939_5055_000016 because as the distinction of rank calls them to court there they assume a spirit of liberty which is almost the only one tolerated in that place
005939_5055_000017 one of the most tyrannical proceedings of tiberius was the abuse he made of the ancient laws when he wanted to extend the punishment of a roman lady beyond that inflicted by the julian law he revived the domestic tribunal
005939_5055_000018 this care is therefore committed to the eunuchs whom they entrust with their keys and the management of their families in persia says sir john chardin
005939_5055_000019 this love is peculiar to democracies in these alone the government is entrusted to private citizens now a government is like everything else to preserve it we must love it has it ever been known that kings were not fond of a monarchy or that despotic princes hated arbitrary power
005939_5055_000020 and where an old prince grown every day more infirm is the first prisoner of the palace after what has been said one would imagine that human nature should perpetually rise up against despotism but notwithstanding the love of liberty so natural to mankind
005939_5055_000021 the reason is this when the ancients would cite a people that had the strongest affection for their country they were sure to mention the inhabitants of crete
005939_5055_000022 two of these were especially remarkable one by which the legislative power of the people was established and the other by which it was limited
005939_5055_000023 these regulations in respect to women concerned only senatorial families and not the common people pretences were wanted to accuse the great which were constantly furnished by the dissolute behaviour of the ladies
005939_5055_000024 chapter three in what governments and in what cases the judges ought to determine according to the express letter of the law
005939_5055_000025 would fain have given a boundless reward to services performed with an unlimited courage and fidelity chapter eleven of the excellence of a monarchical government
005939_5055_000026 they adore the sun and if their chief had not imagined that he was the brother of this glorious luminary they would have thought him a wretch like themselves
005939_5055_000027 from the very nature of things a bad administration is here immediately punished the want of subsistence in so populous a country produces sudden disorders
005939_5055_000028 his successor will not ratify them and indeed as he is the law the state and the prince when he is no longer a prince he is nothing were he not therefore deemed to be deceased the state would be subverted
005939_5055_000029 this law insured their liberty but should not there have been some care also taken to preserve their lives
005939_5055_000030 chapter fourteen of the eastern manner of domestic government wives have changed so often in the east that they cannot have the power of domestic government
005939_5055_000031 one thing which chiefly determined the turks to conclude a separate peace with peter i was the muscovites telling the vizier that in sweden another prince had been placed upon the throne
005939_5055_000032 the political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety in order to have this liberty it is a requisite that government be constituted as one man need not be afraid of another
005939_5055_000033 they are then obliged to submit and when they have once submitted the spirit of liberty cannot return the wealth of the country is a pledge of their fidelity
005939_5055_000034 but as it regards the subject manners customs or received examples may give rise to it and particular civil laws may encourage it as we shall presently observe
005939_5055_000035 chapter ten of population in the relation it bears to the manner of procuring subsistence let us see in what proportion countries are peopled where the inhabitants do not cultivate the earth
005939_5055_000036 the people grow desperate between the necessity of paying for fear of exactions and the danger of paying for the fear of new burdens
005939_5055_000037 in such a state there are always persons distinguished by their birth riches or honors but were they to be confounded with the common people and to have only the weight of a single vote like the rest the common liberty would be their slavery
005939_5055_000038 women who in this respect have a natural restraint because they are always on the defensive have therefore the advantage of reason over them
005939_5055_000039 for we do nothing so well as when we act with freedom and follow the bent of our natural genius if an air of pedantry be given to a nation that is naturally gay the state will gain no advantage from it
005939_5055_000040 they were kings priests and judges this was one of the five species of monarchy mentioned by aristotle and the only one that can give us any idea of the monarchical constitution
005939_5055_000041 the chief reason of this is that the petty state can hardly have any such thing as industry arts or manufacturers because of its being subject to a thousand restraints from the great state by which it is environed
005939_5055_000042 associations formed by the terror of her arms that enabled the barbarians to resist her hence it proceeds that holland germany and the swiss cantons are confidered in europe as perpetual republics
005939_5055_000043 luxury is also in proportion to the populousness of the towns and especially of the capital so that it is in a compound proportion to the riches of the state to the inequality of private fortunes and to the number of people settled in particular places
005939_5055_000044 it was the spirit of the greek republics to be as contented with their territories as with their laws athens was first fired with ambition and gave it to lacedaemon
005939_5055_000045 not that i pretend to diminish the just indignation of the public against those who presume to stain the glory of their sovereign what i mean is that if despotic princes are willing to moderate their power
005939_5055_000046 frugality and not the thirst of gain now passes for avarice formerly the wealth of individuals constituted the public treasure but now this has become the patrimony of private persons
005939_5055_000047 should this nation on some occasions become the centre of the negotiations of europe probity and good faith would be carried to a greater height than in other places
005939_5055_000048 the nobles would be like the princes of despotic governments who confiscate whatever estate they please soon would the profits hence arising be considered as a patrimony which avarice would enlarge at pleasure
005939_5055_000049 such as imprisonment exile and other like chastisements proper for reclaiming turbulent spirits and obliging them to conform to the established order
005939_5055_000050 an empire over the women cannot amongst them be so well exerted and where the climate demands this empire it is most agreeable to a monarchical government this  one of the reasons why it has ever been difficult to establish a popular government in the east
005939_5055_000051 my answer would be that the usual practice of good princes is not to employ them when a man obeys the laws he has discharged his duty to his prince
005939_5055_000052 the principle of despotic government which neither grants nor receives any pardon deprives it of these advantages chapter seventeen of the rack
005939_5055_000053 this is the true and rational origin of that mild law of slavery which obtains in some countries and mild it ought to be
005939_5055_000054 a slave appointed by his master to tyrannize over other wretches of the same condition uncertain of enjoying tomorrow the blessings of today has no other felicity than that of glutting the pride the passions and voluptuousness of the present moment
005939_5055_000055 such was the force of this probity that the legislator had frequently no further occasion than to point out the right road and they were sure to follow it one would imagine that instead of precepts it was sufficient to give them counsels
005939_5055_000056 this virtue may be defined as the love of the laws and of our country as such love requires a constant preference of public to private interest it is the source of all private virtues for they are nothing more than this very preference itself
005939_5055_000057 but in mountainous districts as they have but little they may preserve what they have the liberty they enjoy or in other words the government that they are under is the only blessing worthy of their defence
005939_5055_000058 in that case they maintain their ground strengthen their party form themselves into a military body march up to the capital and place their leader on the throne
005939_5055_000059 as it is the business of legislators to watch over the health of the citizens it would have been a wise part in them to have stopped this communication by laws made on the plan of those of moses
005939_5055_000060 the multitude of slaves has different effects in different governments it is no grievance in a despotic state where the political servitude of the whole body takes away the sense of civil slavery
005939_5055_000061 marseilles never experienced those great transitions from lowness to grandeur this was owing to the prudent conduct  that republic which always preserved her principles
005939_5055_000062 they confounded their religion laws manners and customs all these were morality all these were virtue the precepts relating to these four points were what they called rites
005939_5055_000063 in proportion to the populousness of towns the inhabitants are filled with notions of vanity and actuated by an ambition of distinguishing themselves by trifles
005939_5055_000064 the plague is a disease whose infectious progress is much more rapid egypt is its principal seat once it spreads over the whole globe
005939_5055_000065 thus it is here necessary that a prince or a legislator should less oppose the manners and custom of the people than in any other country upon earth
005939_5055_000066 the associations of cities were formerly more necessary than in our times a weak defenseless town was exposed to greater danger by conquest it was deprived not only of the executive and legislative power as at present but moreover of all human property
005939_5055_000067 they found therefore employment for them in gymnic and military exercises and none else were allowed by their institution hence the greeks must be considered as a society of wrestlers and boxers now these exercises having a natural tendency to render people hardy and fierce
005939_5055_000068 at his death the very family he is cast from the throne is all in tears these were the most glorious passages in his life and such as history cannot produce an instance of in any other conqueror
005939_5055_000069 it is pretended that these provinces are not sufficiently taxed because through the goodness of their government they are able to be taxed higher hence the ministers seem constantly to aim at depriving them of this very government from whence a diffusive blessing is derived
005939_5055_000070 each courtier avails himself of their charms and passions in order to advance his fortune and as their weakness admits not of pride but of vanity luxury constantly attends them
005939_5055_000071 it is the disposition only of the laws and even of the fundamental laws that constitutes liberty in relation to the constitution
005939_5055_000072 there are two states in europe where the imposts are very heavy upon liquors in one the brewer alone pays the duty in the other it is levied indiscriminately upon all the consumers
005939_5055_000073 the long duration of the republic of sparta was owing to her having continued in the same extent of territory after all her wars the sole aim of sparta was liberty and the sole advantage of her liberty glory
005939_5055_000074 there was therefore no instance of deputies of towns or assemblies of the states one must have gone as far as persia to find a monarchy
005939_5055_000075 this was supposed to be done in consequence of the law one would have imagined that an institution of this nature which established sedition to hinder the abuse of power would have subverted any republic whatsoever and yet it did not subvert that of crate
005939_5055_000076 it does not forbid adulation save when separated from the idea of a large fortune and connected only with the sense of our mean condition with regard to morals i have observed that the education of monarchies ought to admit of a certain frankness and open carriage
005939_5055_000077 tacitus says that they gave their kings or chiefs a very moderate degree of power and caesar adds further that in times of peace they had no common magistrates but their princes administered justice in each village
005939_5055_000078 but in a despotic government where there is neither honor nor virtue people cannot be determined to act but through hope of the conveniences of life it is in conformity with republican ideas that plato
005939_5055_000079 it was this humanity which made him show so great a respect for the wife and mother of darius and this that made him so continent what a conqueror he is lamented by all nations he has subdued what a usurper
005939_5055_000080 at athens there was a law whose spirit in my opinion has not been hitherto rightly understood it was lawful to marry a sister only by the father's side
005939_5055_000081 what would have become of the finest monarchy in the world if the magistrates by their delays their complaints and entreaties had not checked the rapidity even of their princes' virtues when these monarchs consulting only the generous impulse of their mind
005939_5055_000082 it allows of cunning and craft when joined with the notion of greatness of soul or importance of affairs as for instance in politics with finesses of which it is far from being offended
005939_5055_000083 the laws ought to provide that care be taken of them in sickness and old age claudius decreed that the slaves who in sickness had been abandoned by their masters should in case they recovered be emancipated
005939_5055_000084 true it is that philosophically speaking it is a false honor which moves all the parts of the government but even this false honor is as useful to the public as true honor could possibly be to private persons
005939_5055_000085 they do not therefore so often change their manners and behaviour fixed and established customs have a near resemblance to laws
005939_5055_000086 and they would have no interest in supporting it as most of the popular resolutions would be against them the share they have therefore in the legislature ought to be proportioned to their other advantages in the state
005939_5055_000087 i confine those crimes that injure the public tranquility to things which imply a bare offense against the police for as to those which by disturbing the public peace attack at the same time the security of the subject
005939_5055_000088 it is the same with such a monarchy as with our planet fire at the center verdure on the surface and between both a dry cold and barren earth
005939_5055_000089 chapter nineteen of the liberty of the arabs and the servitude of the tartars the arabs and tartars are nations of herdsmen and shepherds
005939_5055_000090 equal they are also in despotic governments in the former because they are everything and in the latter because they are nothing
005939_5055_000091 he did not fall into disgrace with the people for repudiating his wife this was an affair that did not at all concern them but carivilius had taken an oath to the censors
006047_5412_000000 he works in grace remarkable conversions are still met with on all hands yet the ungodly refuse to see the operations of the lord where angels wonder carnal men despise
006047_5412_000001 has gone forth for the empire's overthrow the all seeing god preserves the poorest of his people when they are alone and friendless but ten thousand armed men cannot ensure safety to him whom god leaves to destruction
006047_5412_000002 no jewel more ornamental to a holy face than sacred praise praise is not comely from unpardoned professional singers it is like a jewel of gold in a swine's snout
006047_5412_000003 may not the text also refer to the clouds and the magazines of hail and snow and rain those treasuries of merciful wealth for the fields of earth
006047_5412_000004 crooked hearts make crooked music but the upright are the lord's delight praise is the dress of saints in heaven it is meet that they should fit it on below
006047_5412_000005 what a word is this this was the wondering inquiry of old and it may be ours to this day he commanded and it stood fast out of nothing creation stood forth and was confirmed in existence
006047_5412_000006 humble hope shall have its share as well as courageous faith say my soul is not this an encouragement to thee dost thou not hope in the mercy of god in christ jesus then the father's eye is as much upon thee as upon the elder born of the family
006047_5412_000007 these gentle words like soft bread are meant for babes in grace who need infants' food nineteen to deliver their soul from death the lord's hand goes with his eye he sovereignly preserves those whom he graciously observes
006047_5412_000008 we ought to make every hymn of praise a new song to keep up the freshness of worship is a great thing and in private it is indispensable let us not present old worn-out praise
006047_5412_000009 they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will they must go further and obtain actual replies from heaven or they cannot rest and those replies they long to receive at once if possible they dread even a little of god's silence
006047_5412_000010 these aqueous masses are not piled away as in lumber rooms but in storehouses for future beneficial use abundant tenderness is seen in the foresight of our heavenly joseph whose granaries are already filled against earth's time of need
006047_5412_000011 a mighty man is not delivered by much strength so far from guarding others the valiant veteran is not able to deliver himself when his time comes to die neither the force of his arms nor the speed of his legs can save him
006047_5412_000012 god condescends to teach and man refuses to learn he shall destroy them he will make them behold and wonder and perish if they would not see the hand of judgment upon others they shall feel it upon themselves
006047_5412_000013 because he hath heard the voice of my supplication real praise is established upon sufficient and constraining reasons it is not irrational emotion but rises like a pure spring from the deeps of experience
006047_5412_000014 answered prayers should be acknowledged do we not often fail in this duty would it not greatly encourage others and strengthen ourselves if we faithfully recorded divine goodness and made a point of extolling it with our tongue
006047_5412_000015 the sweetest tunes and the sweetest voices with the sweetest words are all too little for the lord our god let us not offer him limping rhymes set to harsh tunes and growled out by discordant voices
006047_5412_000016 deprived of the god who answers prayer we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell
006047_5412_000017 not only the folly of the heathen but their wisdom too shall yield to the power of the cross of jesus what a comfort is this to those who have to labour where sophistry and philosophy falsely so called are set in opposition to the truth as it is in jesus
006047_5412_000018 believer wait upon thy god in temporals his eye is upon thee and his hand will not long delay verse twenty our soul waiteth for the lord he is our help and our shield verse twenty-one for our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name
006047_5412_000019 with a loud noise hardiness should be conspicuous in divine worship well-bred whispers are disreputable here it is not that the lord cannot hear us but that it is natural for great exaltation to express itself in the loudest manner
006047_5412_000020 it is wretched to hear god praised in a slovenly manner he deserves the best that we have every christian should endeavour to sing according to the rules of the art so that he may keep time and tune with the congregation
006047_5412_000021 men shout at the sight of their kings shall we offer no loud hosannahs to the son of david verse four for the word of the lord is right and all his works are done in truth
006047_5412_000022 the preserver of men will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish power in human hands is outmatched by famine but god is good at a pinch and proves his bounty under the most straitened circumstances
006047_5412_000023 the psalmist by an act of appropriating faith takes the omnipotence of jehovah to be his own dependence upon the invisible god gives great independence of spirit inspiring us with confidence more than human
006047_5412_000024 happy is the man who has learned to lean his all upon the sure word of him who built the skies ten the lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to not while his own will is done he takes care to anticipate the willfulness of his enemies
006047_5412_000025 god's mercy is not such an inconsiderable thing that we may safely venture to receive it without so much as thanks we should shine in gratitude and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love
006047_5412_000026 rescues and restorations hedge about the lives of the saints death cannot touch them till the king signs his warrant and gives him leave and even then his touch is not so much mortal as immortal
006047_5412_000027 seven here is david's declaration and confession of faith coupled with a testimony from his experience the lord is my strength the lord employs his power on our behalf and moreover infuses strength into us in our weakness
006047_5412_000028 he doth not so much kill us as kill our mortality and to keep them alive in famine gaunt famine knows its master god has meal and oil for his elijahs somewhere verily thou shalt be fed is a divine provision for the man of faith
006047_5412_000029 and my shield thus david found both sword and shield in his god the lord preserves his people from unnumbered ills and the christian warrior sheltered behind his god is far more safe than the hero when covered with his shield of brass or triple steel
006047_5412_000030 for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief he will not long deny us a hearing what a dreadful case should we be in if the lord should become forever silent to our prayers
006047_5412_000031 this thought suggested itself to david and he turned it into a plea thus teaching us to argue and reason with god in our prayers lest if thou be silent to me i become like them that go down into the pit
006047_5412_000032 before they come to action he vanquishes them in the council chamber and when well armed with craft they march to the assault he frustrates their knaveries and makes their promising plots to end in nothing
006047_5412_000033 we must have answers to prayer ours is an urgent case of dire necessity surely the lord will speak peace to our agitated minds for he never can find it in his heart to permit his own elect to perish
006047_5412_000034 about which spiritual men are far more concerned than for their outward and audible utterances a silent prayer may have a louder voice than the cries of those priests who sought to awaken baal with their shouts
006047_5412_000035 but the undisturbed mind of god moves on in unbroken serenity producing ordained results with unerring certainty no man can expect his will or plan to be carried out from ago to age the wisdom of one period is the folly of another
006047_5412_000036 and with my song will i praise him the heart is mentioned twice to show the truth of his faith and his joy observe the adverb greatly we need not be afraid of being too full of rejoicing at the remembrance of grace received we serve a great god let us greatly rejoice in him
006047_5412_000037 when we look at his word of promise and remember its faithfulness what reasons have we for joy and thankfulness and all his works are done in truth
006047_5412_000038 the cause of god is never in danger infernal craft is outwitted by infinite wisdom and satanic malice held in check by boundless power eleven the council of the lord standeth forever
006047_5412_000039 every day the believer may say i am helped for the divine assistance is vouch saved us every moment or we should go back unto perdition when more manifest help is needed we have but to put faith into exercise and it will be given us therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth
006047_5412_000040 his work is the outflow of his word and it is true to it he neither doeth nor sayeth anything ill in deed and speech he agrees with himself and the purest truth
006047_5412_000041 two this is much the same effect as the first verse only that it refers to future as well as present pleadings hear me hear me hear the voice of my supplications this is the burden of both verses
006047_5412_000042 the word supplications in the plural shows the number continuance and variety of a good man's prayers while the expression hear the voice seems to hint that there is an inner meaning or heart voice
006047_5412_000043 the duty commended and commanded in the first verse is here presented to the lord we who trust cannot be of a glad heart our inmost nature must triumph in our faithful god
006047_5412_000044 we can not be put off with a refusal when we are in the spirit of prayer we labor use importunity and agonize in supplications until a hearing is granted us
006047_5412_000045 verse five he loveth righteousness and judgment the earth is full of the goodness of the lord four for the word of the lord is right his ordinances both natural moral and spiritual are right and especially his incarnate word who is the lord our righteousness
006047_5412_000046 note the three hours in the text these holdfast words are precious personal possession makes the christian man all else is mere talk twenty-one for our hearts shall rejoice in him
006047_5412_000047 men's purposes are blown to and fro like the thread of the gosamer or the down of the thistle but the eternal purposes are firmer than the earth the thoughts of his heart to all generations men come and go sons follow their sires to the grave
006047_5412_000048 our soul our life must hang upon god we are not to trust him with a few gewgaws but with all we have and are he is our help and our shield our help in labour our shield in danger the lord answereth all things to his people he is their all in all
006047_5412_000049 twenty our soul waiteth for the lord here the godly avow their reliance upon him whom the psalm extols to wait is a great lesson to be quiet in expectation patient in hope single in confidence is one of the bright attainments of a christian
006047_5412_000050 he changes not his purpose his decree is not frustrated his designs are accomplished god has a predestination according to the counsel of his will and none of the devices of his foes can thwart his decree for a moment
006047_5412_000051 whatever god has ordained must be good and just and excellent there are no anomalies in god's universe except what sin has made his word of command made all things good
006047_5412_000052 my heart trusted in him and i am helped heart work is sure work heart trust is never disappointed faith must come before help but help will never be long behindhand
006047_5412_000053 let not children of god ever yield their principles in practice any more than in heart what a god we serve the more we know of him the more our better natures approve his surpassing excellence even his afflicting works are according to his truthful word
006047_5412_000054 there is no lie in god's word and no sham in his works in creation providence and revelation unalloyed truth abounds to act truth as well as to utter it is divine
006047_5412_000055 but the lord's wisdom is always wise and his designs run on from century to century his power to fulfill his purposes is by no means diminished by the lapse of years
006047_5412_000056 these stores might have been as once they were the ammunition of vengeance they are now a part of the commissariat of mercy verse eight let all the earth fear the lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him
006047_5412_000057 both soul and body shall be overwhelmed with utter destruction for ever and ever and not build them up god's curse is positive and negative his sword has two edges and cuts right and left
006047_5412_000058 he who was absolute over pharaoh in egypt is not one with the less today the ring of kings and lord of lords still do his chariot wheels roll onward in imperial grandeur none being for a moment able to resist his eternal will
006047_5412_000059 when i lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle which holy place was the type of our lord jesus and if we would gain acceptance we must turn ourselves evermore to the blood besprinkled mercy seat of his atonement
006047_5412_000060 the weakest believer dwells safely under the shadow of jehovah's throne while the most mighty sinner is in peril every hour why do we talk so much of our armies and our heroes the lord alone has strength and let him alone have praise
006047_5412_000061 they need the same aid and they shall have it for they are loved with the same love written in the same book of life and one with the same anointed head
006047_5412_000062 two praise the lord with harp men need all the help they can get to stir them up to praise this is the lesson to be gathered from the use of musical instruments under the old dispensation israel was at school and used childish things to help her to learn
006047_5412_000063 eight the lord is their strength the heavenly experience of one believer is a pattern of the life of all to all the militant church without exception jehovah is the same as he was to his servant david the least of them shall be as david
006047_5412_000064 uplifted hands have ever been a form of devout posture and are intended to signify a reaching upward towards god a readiness an eagerness to receive the blessing sought after
006047_5412_000065 verse twelve blessed is the nation whose god is the lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance twelve blessed is the nation whose god is the lord
006047_5412_000066 oh that whenever we use devout gestures we may possess contrite hearts and so speed well with god first three draw me not away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity which speak peace to their neighbours but mischief is in their hearts
006047_5412_000067 it is an appeal for mercy which even joyful believers need and it is sought for in a proportion on which the lord has sanctioned according to your faith be it unto you is the master's word and he will not full short of the scale which he has himself selected
006047_5412_000068 why should i complain of want or distress affliction or pain he told me no less the heirs of salvation i know from his word through much tribulation must follow their lord
006047_5412_000069 the character of god is a sea every drop of which should become a wellhead of praise for his people the righteousness of jesus is peculiarly dear to the father and for its sake he takes pleasure in those to whom it is imputed
006047_5412_000070 all who confide in the lord are blessed in the largest and deepest sense and none can reverse the blessing and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance
006047_5412_000071 glory be unto the god and father of our lord jesus christ who has magnified the power of his grace in his only begotten son whom he has anointed to be a prince and a saviour unto his people
006047_5412_000072 and he is the saving strength of his anointed here behold king david as the type of our lord jesus our covenant head our anointed prince through whom all blessings come to us he has achieved full salvation for us
006047_5412_000073 god writes with a pen that never blots speaks with a tongue that never slips acts with a hand which never fails bless his name
006047_5412_000074 first nine save thy people and bless thine inheritance feed them also and lift them up forever nine this is a prayer for the church militant written in short words but full of weighty meaning we must pray for the whole church and not for ourselves alone
006047_5412_000075 five he loveth righteousness and judgment the theory and the practice of right he intensely loves he doth not only approve the true and the just but his inmost soul delights therein
006047_5412_000076 israel was happy in the worship of the only true god it was the blessedness of the chosen nation to have received a revelation from jehovah while others groveled before their idols the chosen people were elevated by a spiritual religion which introduced them to the invisible god and led them to trust in him
006047_5412_000077 verse five because they regard not the works of the lord nor the operation of his hands he shall destroy them and not build them up three draw me not away with the wicked
006047_5412_000078 election is at the bottom of it all the divine choice rules the day none take jehovah to be their god till he takes them to be his people what an ennobling choice this is
006047_5412_000079 we stretch out empty hands for we are beggars we lift them up for we seek heavenly supplies we lift them towards the merry seat of jesus for there our expectation dwells
006047_5412_000080 and we desire saving strength from him and as we share in the unction which is so largely shed upon him we expect to partake in his salvation
006047_5412_000081 they shall be dragged off to hell like felons of old drawn on a hurdle to tyburn like logs drawn to the fire like fagots to the oven david fears lest he should be bound up in their bundle drawn to their doom and the fear is an appropriate one for every godly man
006047_5412_000082 verse thirteen the lord looketh from heaven he beholdeth all the sons of men verse fourteen from the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth
006047_5412_000083 we are selected to no mean estate and for no ignoble purpose we are made the peculiar domain and delight of the lord our god being so blessed let us rejoice in our portion and show the world by our lives that we serve a glorious master
006047_5412_000084 from the midge in the sunbeam to leviathan in the ocean all creatures own the bounty of the creator even the pathless desert blazes with some undiscovered mercy and the caverns of ocean conceal the treasures of love
006047_5412_000085 and with the workers of iniquity these are overtly sinful and their judgment will be sure lord do not make us to drink of their cup activity is found with the wicked even if it be lacking to the righteous oh to be workers for the lord
006047_5412_000086 save thy people deliver them from their enemies preserve them from their sins succour them under their troubles rescue them from their temptations and ward off from them every ill
006047_5412_000087 which speak peace to their neighbors but mischief is in their hearts they have learned the manners of the place to which they are going the doom of liars is their portion forever and lying is their conversation on the road
006047_5412_000088 there is a plea hidden in tho expression thy people for it may be safely concluded that god's interest in the church as his own portion will lead him to guard it from destruction
006047_5412_000089 be a shepherd to thy flock let their bodily and spiritual wants be plentifully supplied by thy word and ordinances direct rule sustain and satisfy those who are the sheep of thy hand
006047_5412_000090 sin on the other hand is infinitely abhorrent to the lord and woe unto those who die in it if he sees no righteousness in them he will deal righteously with them and judgment stern and final will be the result
006047_5412_000091 the best of the wicked are dangerous company in time and would make terrible companions for eternity we must avoid them in their pleasures if we would not be confounded with them in their miseries
007010_6430_000000 false of heart light of ear bloody of hand hog in sloth fox in stealth wolf in greediness dog in madness lion in prey let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman
007010_6430_000001 repose you there whilst i to this hard house more harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised which even but now demanding after you denied me to come in return and force their scanted courtesy
007010_6430_000002 arms sword fire corruption in the place false justicer why hast thou let her scape bless thy five wits oh pity
007010_6430_000003 i have locked the letter in my closet these injuries the king now bears will be revenged home there's part of a power already footed we must incline to the king
007010_6430_000004 if thou shouldst dally half an hour his life with thine and all that offer to defend him stand in assured loss take up take up and follow me that will to some provision give thee quick conduct oppressed nature sleeps
007010_6430_000005 but mice and rats and such small deer have been tom's food for seven long year beware my follower peace smulkin peace thou fiend what hath your grace no better company the prince of darkness is a gentleman
007010_6430_000006 most savage and unnatural go to say you nothing there is division between the dukes and a worse matter than that i have received a letter this night 'tis dangerous to be spoken
007010_6430_000007 sir where is the patience now that you so oft have boasted to retain aside my tears begin to take his part so much they'll mar my counterfeiting
007010_6430_000008 keep thy foot out of brothel thy hand out of placket thy pen from lender's book and defy the foul fiend still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind says suum mun nonny dolphin my boy
007010_6430_000009 this rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews which if convenience will not allow stand in hard cure come help to bear thy master to the full thou must not stay behind come come away
007010_6430_000010 oh oh dark and comfortless where's my son edmund edmund enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act
007010_6430_000011 my wits begin to turn come on my boy how dost my boy art cold i am cold myself where is this straw my fellow
007010_6430_000012 i know you where's the king contending with the fretful elements bids the wind blow the earth into the sea or swell the curled waters bove the main that things might change or cease tears his white hair
007010_6430_000013 post speedily to my lord your husband show him this letter the army of france is landed seek out the traitor gloucester exeunt some of the servants hang him instantly pluck out his eyes
007010_6430_000014 this night wherein the cub drawn bear would couch the lion and the belly-pinched wolf keep their fur dry unbonneted he runs and bids what will take all but who is with him
007010_6430_000015 i will seek him and privily relieve him go you and maintain talk with the duke that my charity be not of him perceived
007010_6430_000016 exit scene four a part of the heath with a hovel storm continues enter lear kent and fool
007010_6430_000017 yet have i ventured to come seek you out and bring you where both fire and food is ready first let me talk with this philosopher
007010_6430_000018 if he ask for me i am ill and gone to bed if i die for it as no less is threatened me the king my old master must be relieved
007010_6430_000019 but then the mind much sufferance doth overskip when grief hath mates and bearing fellowship how light and portable my pain seems now when that which makes me bend makes the king bow he childed as i fathered tom away
007010_6430_000020 this seems a fair deserving and must draw me that which my father loses no less than all the younger rises when the old doth fall
007010_6430_000021 there is some strange thing toward edmund pray you be careful exit this courtesy forbid thee shall the duke instantly know and of that letter too
007010_6430_000022 which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage catch in their fury and make nothing of strives in his little world of man to outscorn the to and fro conflicting wind and rain
007010_6430_000023 canst thou blame him his daughters seek his death ah that good kent he said it would be thus poor banished man
007010_6430_000024 none but the fool who labours to outjest his heart-struck injuries sir i do know you and dare upon the warrant of my note commend a dear thing to you
007010_6430_000025 what is the cause of thunder good my lord take his offer go into the house  i'll talk a word with this same learned theban
007010_6430_000026 my duty cannot suffer to obey in all your daughters' hard commands though their injunction be to bar my doors and let this tyrannous night take hold upon you
007010_6430_000027 act three scene one a heath a storm with thunder and lightning enter kent and a gentleman meeting who's there besides foul weather one minded like the weather most unquietly
007010_6430_000028 mark the high noises and thyself bewray when false opinion whose wrong thought defiles thee in thy just proof repeals and reconciles thee what will hap more tonight safe scape the king
007010_6430_000029 what is your study how to prevent the fiend and to kill vermin let me ask you one word in private importune him once more to go my lord his wits begin to unsettle
007010_6430_000030 leave him to my displeasure edmund keep you our sister company the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding
007010_6430_000031 farewell dear sister farewell my lord of gloucester enter oswald how now where's the king my lord of gloucester hath conveyed him hence some five or six and thirty of his knights
007010_6430_000032 what hath been seen either in snuffs and packings of the dukes or the hard rein which both of them have borne against the old king or something deeper whereof perchance these are but furnishings
007010_6430_000033 but true it is from france there comes a power into this scattered kingdom who already wise in our negligence have secret feet in some of our best ports and are at point to show their open banner
007010_6430_000034 what a night this i do beseech your grace oh cry you mercy sir noble philosopher your company tom's a cold in fellow there into the hovel keep thee warm
007010_6430_000035 there is division although as yet the face of it be covered with mutual cunning and twixt albany and cornwall who have as who have not that their great stars thrown and set high servants who seem no less which are to france the spies and speculations intelligent of our state
007010_6430_000036 thou say'st the king grows mad i'll tell thee friend i am almost mad myself i had a son now outlaw'd from my blood he sought my life but lately very late i lov'd him friend
007010_6430_000037 advise the duke where you are going to a most festinate preparation we are bound to the like our posts shall be swift and intelligent betwixt us
007010_6430_000038 but if thy flight lay toward the raging sea thou'dst meet the bear in the mouth when the mind's free the body's delicate
007010_6430_000039 good my lord enter thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm invades us to the skin so 'tis to thee but where the greater malady is fixed the lesser is scarce felt thou'dst shun a bear
007010_6430_000040 here is the place my lord good my lord enter the tyranny of the open night's too rough for nature to endure let me alone good my lord enter here wilt break my heart i had rather break mine own
007010_6430_000041 boy sessa let him trot by storm still continues why thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies
007010_6430_000042 the art of our necessities is strange that can make vile things precious come your hovel poor fool and knave i have one part in my heart that's sorry yet for thee
007010_6430_000043 who's there the traitor reenter servants with gloucester  ingrateful fox 'tis he bind fast his corky arms what mean your grace is good my friends consider you are my guests
007010_6430_000044 but i will punish home no i'll weep no more in such a night to shut me out
007010_6430_000045 edmund farewell exeunt goneril edmund and oswald go seek the traitor gloucester pinion him like a thief bring him before us exeunt other servants
007010_6430_000046 the little dogs and all tray blanch and sweetheart see they bark at me tom will throw his head at them avaunt you curs
007010_6430_000047 i will go seek the king give me your hand have you no more to say few words but to effect more than all yet that when we have found the king in which your pain that way i'll this he that first lights on him holla the other exeunt severally
007010_6430_000048 i am a gentleman of blood and breeding and from some knowledge and assurance offer this office to you i will talk further with you no do not for confirmation that i am much more than my out wall open this purse and take what it contains
007010_6430_000049 now to you if on my credit you dare build so far to make your speed to dover you shall find some that will thank you making just report of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow the king hath cause to plain
007010_6430_000050 pour on i will endure on such a night as this oh regan goneril your old kind father whose frank heart gave all
007010_6430_000051 host questrists after him met him at a gate who with some other of the lord's dependents are gone with him towards dover where they boast to have well-armed friends get horses for your mistress farewell sweet lord and sister
007010_6430_000052 oh that way madness lies let me shun that no more of that good my lord enter here prithee go in thyself seek thine own ease this tempest will not give me leave to ponder on things would hurt me more
007010_6430_000053 take him you on sirrah come on go along with us come good athenian no words no words hush
007010_6430_000054 out treacherous villain thou call'st on him that hates thee it was he that made the overture of thy treasons to us who is too good to pity thee o my follies
007010_6430_000055 though well we may not pass upon his life without the form of justice yet our power shall do a courtesy to our wrath which men may blame but not control
007010_6430_000056 the tempest in my mind doth from my senses take all feeling else save what beats there filial ingratitude is it not as this mouth should tear this hand for lifting food to it
007010_6430_000057 if you shall see cordelia as fear not but you shall show her this ring and she will tell you who your fellow is that yet you do not know fie on this storm
007010_6430_000058 come let's in all this way my lord with him i will keep still with my philosopher good my lord soothe him let him take the fellow
007010_6430_000059 child rowland to the dark tower came his word was still fie foh and fum i smell the blood of a british man exeunt
007010_6430_000060 to this chair bind him villain thou shalt find regan plucks his beard by the kind gods 'tis most ignobly done to pluck me by the beard so white and such a traitor
007010_6430_000061 you sulph'rous and thought-executing fires vaunt-couriers to oak cleaving thunderbolts singe my white head
007010_6430_000062 i will persever in my course of loyalty though the conflict be sore between that and my blood  i will lay trust upon thee and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love excellent
007010_6430_000063 scene two another part of the heath storm continues enter lear and fool
007010_6430_000064 expose thyself to feel what wretches feel that thou mayst shake the superflux to them and show the heavens more just within fathom and half fathom and half poor tom
007010_6430_000065 your loop'd and window'd raggedness defend you from seasons such as these o i have ta'en too little care of this take physic pomp
007010_6430_000066 what will you do come sir what letters had you late from france be simple answered for we know the truth
007010_6430_000067 o nuncle court holy water in a dry house is better than this rain water out o door good nuncle in and ask thy daughters blessing here's a night
007010_6430_000068 and thou all shaking thunder strike flat the thick rotundity o the world crack nature's moulds all germains spill at once that make ingrateful man
007010_6430_000069 this is the letter he spoke of which approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of france oh heavens that this treason were not or not i the detector go with me to the duchess if the matter of this paper be certain you have mighty business in hand
007010_6430_000070 and what confederacy have you with the traitors late footed in the kingdom to whose hands have you sent the lunatic king speak i have a letter guessingly set down which came from one that's of a neutral heart and not from one opposed
007010_6430_000071 naughty lady these hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin will quicken and accuse thee i am your host with robber's hands my hospitable favours you should not ruffle thus
007010_6430_000072 i now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death but a provoking merit set awork by a reproveable badness in himself how malicious is my fortune that i must repent to be just
007010_6430_000073 poor naked wretches wheresoe'er you are that bide the pelting of this pitiless storm how shall your houseless heads and unfed sides
007010_6430_000074 true or false it hath made thee earl of gloucester seek out where thy father is that he may be ready for our apprehension aside if i find him comforting the king it will stuff his suspicion more fully
007010_6430_000075 and crack your cheeks rage blow you cataracts and hurricanoes spout till you have drenched our steeples drowned the cocks
007010_6430_000076 go to thy cold bed and warm thee didst thou given all to thy two daughters and art thou come to this who gives anything to poor tom
007010_6430_000077 i am tied to the stake and i must stand the course wherefore to dover sir because i would not see thy cruel nails pluck out his poor old eyes
007010_6430_000078 i tax not you you elements with unkindness i never gave you kingdom called you children you owe me no subscription then let fall your horrible pleasure here i stand your slave
007010_6430_000079 disguised as a madman away the foul fiend follows me through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind
007010_6430_000080 is man no more than this consider him well thou ow'st the worm no silk the beast no hide the sheep no wool the cat no perfume
007010_6430_000081 cunning and false where hast thou sent the king to dover wherefore to dover wast thou not charged at peril wherefore to dover let him first answer that
007010_6430_000082 then edgar was abused kind gods forgive me that and prosper him go thrust him out at gates and let him smell his way to dover how is it my lord how look you
007010_6430_000083 here is better than the open air take it thankfully i will piece out the comfort with what addition i can i will not be long from you all the power of his wits have given way to his impatience the gods reward your kindness
007010_6430_000084 prithee nuncle tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a yeoman a king a king no he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman before him
007010_6430_000085 come o'er the bourn bessy to me her boat hath a leak and she must not speak why she dares not come over to thee the foul fiend haunts poor tom in the voice of a nightingale hope dance cries in tom's belly for two white herring croak not black angel
007010_6430_000086 he that will think to live till he be old give me some help oh cruel
007010_6430_000087 whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame through ford and whirlpool over bog and quagmire that hath laid knives under his pillow and halters in his pew
007010_6430_000088 yet poor old heart he holp the heavens to rain if wolves had at thy gate howled that stern time thou shouldst have said good porter turn the key
007010_6430_000089 for there was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass no i will be the pattern of all patience i will say nothing enter kent who's there marry here's grace and a codpiece that's a wise man and a fool
007010_6430_000090 nor thy fierce sister in his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs the sea with such a storm as his bare head in hell-black night endured would have buoyed up and quenched the steeled fires
007010_6430_000091 do poor tom some charity whom the foul fiend vexes there could i have him now and there and there again and there storm continues what have his daughters brought him to this pass couldst thou save nothing didst thou give them all
007366_6641_000000 they fell silent the steamer's engines were slowed and she floated leisurely down upon the barque and when within easy hail she was stopped the derelict if such she were was a very visible object now
007366_6641_000001 since no man's hands made up that there fire and put the hen on to bile somebody else musta done it who else inquired the second mate the fellow gazed at him stupidly for a minute and then said well a ghost
007366_6641_000002 well it's a blazing mystery certainly exclaimed the captain of the guide but you'll find i'm right there are people loafing somewhere aboard though why they shouldn't show themselves let him tell us who can find out
007366_6641_000003 she seems to have all her boats said the captain i can't be certain answered the mate looks to me as if her starboard davits were empty but her spanker's in the road of my sight
007366_6641_000004 moreover the second mate helped them yet by bidding them fix their minds on the money they were bound to take up when the salvage claim had been settled yet for all that they hung together two kept the deck whilst the others lay down and the whilst one of the two on duty stood at the wheel the other kept close beside him
007366_6641_000005 they divided themselves into watches and used the cabin to lie in they broached a rum cask in the lazaretto and made themselves a cheerful bowl and the drink did their imaginations good
007366_6641_000006 what's a ghost billy asked one of the other men something you can't catch ahold of nor be able to sit upon if so be as you was to get him down answered the trimmer defiantly
007366_6641_000007 but it's an unintelligible job if ever there was one haul taut on your nerve tackles sir there may be an ugly sight to greet ye a boat was got over and four men rowed the chief officer to the barque
007366_6641_000008 she's sound as a bell and as dry as the inside of a chimney and no hint to be found as to what's become of her people ne'er a hint sir barring those empty starboard davits
007366_6641_000009 nothing alive but some cocks and hens she's the ocean star of hull and here he acquainted the captain with the contents of the ship's papers and she should be worth as she stands a tidy lump of money
007366_6641_000010 her name was also visible written in bold letters on her stern ocean star better go aboard and see what's the matter mr williams said the captain pity some wind don't come along and blow those clouds away the crew may be hidden in one of them as you say
007366_6641_000011 and after staying aloft ten minutes during which time everybody on deck stared his hardest too he cried out there's nothing in sight sir and came down
007366_6641_000012 that he had lighted the forecastle lamp and left it burning and that the ill luck of the ship pursuing him he must have fallen overboard probably whilst springing on to the rail to watch the steamer
007366_6641_000013 there was a long swell from the westward which came along in slopes of liquid violet so polished that the glory of the sunshine slipped from one deeply dark-blue brow to another
007366_6641_000014 will you take charge of that barque mr matthews and carry her to rio it isn't far off yes sir answered the second mate promptly
007366_6641_000015 a boat hook cleverly caught a mizenchannel plate and in a trice mr williams followed by a couple of hands gained the deck the captain's hint had prepared the mate's mind
007366_6641_000016 in the morning watch a light air came along right over the stern they squared the yards and the ocean star began to move again the sun rose and the day broke in glory the sea a surface of wrinkled sapphire the heavens lifting from pale blue at the horizon to violet at the zenith
007366_6641_000017 providing you don't search the supernatural first said the trimmer the second mate called a sea blessing upon the fool's head and fell a whistling for wind
007366_6641_000018 answered mr matthews a single corpse would have made the matter intelligible but to find a galley fire burning the fowl cooking and the folks' lamp alight with no one aboard and no boat in sight no there's nothing to be made of it by thinking it'll have to be a riddle without an answer
007366_6641_000019 the men tugging at the oars were instantly looking past their shoulders so confounded were they by the sight of the smoke going straight up out of the galley chimney and by the absence of life which the spectacle of the smoke accentuated to their dull unlettered understandings
007366_6641_000020 nevertheless these fogbanks hung about the deep in many directions some curved like great pinions some in rolls low-lying like to the english channel in the hush of a summer's day some like vast sheets of sateen shot with the lustrous colourings you notice in cobwebs or the inside of oyster shells
007366_6641_000021 as though indeed it were a substantial gushing of fiery gold sliding over the heads of rolling hills of glass the oddness of the weather lay in peculiar appearances of snow-white vapour low down upon the sea the atmosphere was brilliantly clear the sky a hard pale blue
007366_6641_000022 but let that be as it will it won't do to let that fine vessel knock about here and perhaps go to the bottom in the next gale of wind he called the second officer a man named matthews onto the bridge
007366_6641_000023 aye aye sir i expect you'll find a man or two skulking there's a fowl boiling and mr williams had to put the forecastle lamp out this is the age of steam engines and and there's no witchcraft left so look for the people for whom that fowl's cooking they'll strengthen your crew
007366_6641_000024 brightening into the needle-like scintillations of new tin as it swept out of a bald brassy dye round about the sun to the sheer white dazzle of the luminary and where the line of the horizon was visible the rim of the waving circle was as sharp and defined as tinted crystal against the airy softness of the heavens
007366_6641_000025 the truth is none of them could feel certain that the ship was empty of all but themselves spite of their repeated search and this mere notion was enough to breed uneasiness to render the movement of a shadow startling to keep their eyes traveling along the decks and up aloft
007366_6641_000026 coils of halliards which had been lifted off the pins and thrown down and let go in a hurry and left to lie as much of them as remained when the yards were down
007366_6641_000027 what's a worritting me's this sir said the trimmer here's a job as may never be splained well i can't fit any sense to it for one
007366_6641_000028 said mr matthews it's a job to tassel your pocket handkerchief with dollars and the mate reports a big harness cask and two scuttlebutts overhaul her for stores when you get aboard and let me know before we proceed
007366_6641_000029 as if in truth the vessel were manned by viewless mariners who watched their approach phantom-like from the bulwark rail in oars
007366_6641_000030 and he gazed about him for something horrible there was nothing at all however in that way to be seen indeed there was no further confusion than ends of ropes lying about
007366_6641_000031 was in latitude twelve degrees north and in longitude thirty-one degrees west the weather during the last twenty-four hours had been curious the north-east trade wind had two days earlier fined down into a faint draught and then for a spell all the breeze that the vessel found she made for herself
007366_6641_000032 the second mate followed and a couple of the steamer's men rowed them aboard the barque before touching a rope they went to work to search the ship they lifted the hatches and found the hold full of cargo
007366_6641_000033 it might have passed for some topmost sail of a ship hull down behind the sea line trembling in the swimming hot refraction that hove it up as a thing apart but the keen eye of the sailor knew better
007366_6641_000034 whenever the steamer swept into one of them her quarter deck and the white boats amidships and the glass of her skylights and all the brass work about her abaft her funnel would be in splendour whilst forward she had disappeared as completely as if she had been sawn in twain
007366_6641_000035 here and there a cloud shining like a wind gall and the small breeze fiery the second mate glancing about him spied something white shine gleaming over the starboard bow he fetched the glass and looked
007366_6641_000036 nothing wrong above-board anyhow said the mates if there's anything in the creeping line it'll be below there were some cocks and hens in a coop forward gaping with thirst
007366_6641_000037 her forecastle scarce visible from the bridge the smoke from her funnel following like a shadow of thundercloud in the glistening void and regularly as she drove into these spacious seemingly motionless bodies the blasts of her steam horn fled ahead like yells startled out
007366_6641_000038 then perhaps for the space of twenty minutes she would be in a sort of eclipse a deeper silence upon the white air as though the steam-like smother held a stillness of its own
007366_6641_000039 her wheel standing nakedly revolved to right or left with the swaying of the rudder to the blows of the swell an element of solemnity was imparted the flapping noises of the canvas and the grinding and creaking sounds
007366_6641_000040 the mates dropped the dipper into the scuttle-butt and filled their trough and the creatures drank with extraordinary demonstrations of pious thanksgiving in their manner of looking aloft to let the water drain down there had been a pig under the long-boat but he was gone there was nothing alive but the cocks and hens
007366_6641_000041 one was a trimmer and the others sailors they were not perfectly happy in their minds but the seaman's love for change coupled with the prospect of salvage money was too strong for superstition in a few minutes they pitched their bags into the boat
007366_6641_000042 muster the men mr williams and ask for volunteers whilst mr matthews gets his duds together this was done several men offered and three likely fellows were chosen
007366_6641_000043 what he saw was not a ship's sail and without a word he mounted to the upper main topsail yard and there made out the object to be a boat with apparently a shirt or two lifted as a signal or a sail
007366_6641_000044 she was a snug clean vessel decks of a good colour paintwork fresh brasswork bright flush fore and aft and the furniture such as the binnacles pumps capstan skylights companions and so forth excellent in their kind
007366_6641_000045 for the coals were spitting out gas flames and burned as fresh as coals do there was a large saucepan boiling on the fire and on lifting the lid and looking in they spied a fowl clumsily plucked the mate started and stared at the others
007366_6641_000046 the second mate as fearless a sailor as ever jockeyed a yardarm crawled about with a lantern but unearthed nothing mortal they searched the forepeak and afterwards the lazaretto in which they met with abundance of stores beef pork peas flour lime juice rum and the like
007366_6641_000047 the second mate looked from the boat upon the water to the port-quarter boat hanging griped at the davits and exclaimed i'm a dutchman if those men there are not the barque's crew
007366_6641_000048 right no signs of the crew anywhere we've crawled into every hole and there's nothing alive aboard the ocean star excepting ourselves and the chickens
007366_6641_000049 so weak was the wind that a long hour went by before the boat could be seen clearly with the eye but ere this the telescope had detected the presence of several men in her and the wet sparkle of oars and the disappearance of what had served for a sail showed them to be rowing towards the barque
007366_6641_000050 the boat approached the men pulled in their oars and fell to gesticulating making many piteous motions of entreaty and pointing to their mouths
007366_6641_000051 the mate looked about him for the sounding rod and finding it sounded the well and found the barque as free as the steamer was he made the tour of the deck followed by the men
007366_6641_000052 the propeller revolved and the steamer gathered way and the slender crew of the ocean star were left to shift for themselves the light breeze hung steady and there floated up from alongside the laughing fountainlike music of rippling waters
007366_6641_000053 the others peered and agreed for both boats were alike white of a whaling pattern and a couple of black disks painted on the bows the barque was headed directly for the poor fellows and a man stood ready to heave a line to them
007366_6641_000054 but the decks were as free of the dead as the living he looked into the galley and found a good fire burning so good that both he and the others agreed that it must have been made up afresh within the time the guide had first sighted the vessel
007366_6641_000055 yes sir and i hope if there are others about they'll be as easy to see he brought a glass from the boat house and levelled it he worked away for some time without speaking and then handing the telescope to the chief mate he said mr williams there's something wrong with that vessel
007366_6641_000056 she lay some five miles distant in a wide and shining channel betwixt two great bodies of vapour and resembled a piece of ivory work in the searching light the mate directed the captain's attention to her
007366_6641_000057 then having rummaged with the pertinacity of customs officers they went on deck grimy with sweat and dirt and the second mate hailed the steamer hello plenty of stores and fresh water sir right cargo almost flush with the main hatch sir
007366_6641_000058 one of whom smothered the tongue of the bell with some yarns peering eagerly as he went never knowing but that the next step would bring him to a dead man in the wake of a mast or concealed by a bulwark stanchion and the gear about it
007366_6641_000059 right shouted the captain for the third time he flourished a farewell with his arm the mate waved his hand and there was a graceful salutation of several sorts of caps over the rail forward
007366_6641_000060 and though the engines were never slowed the ears upon the bridge were held strained until the steamer had leaped on a sudden out of the white twilight into the golden day again
007366_6641_000061 it was about eleven o'clock in the forenoon the whole length of the guide had barely steamed out clear from one of the largest of the low clouds when the chief officer sighted a sail four points on the port bow
007366_6641_000062 her sentience by terror of the swift transformations of the splendour of the tropical day into the moonlike blindness of the fog for certainly it was impossible to know but that in one or another of the banks the ship lay stagnated
007366_6641_000063 the laboured languid movement of the oars sufficiently marked their condition it was like the action of the antennae of some dying insect and more pathetic than a cry of suffering
007366_6641_000064 the others followed mr williams was a stout-hearted man nevertheless he entered the cabin with extreme caution stepping very slowly with his eyes starting from his head
007366_6641_000065 a handsome silver-plated lamp over the table a few hanging shelves with book and other such matters there were four small cabins abaft which the mate entered and in the sternmost one presumably the captain's he found besides chronometers
007366_6641_000066 thus seeing nothing to account for the mystery of this barque's situation astonished and dismayed him more than he had encountered a terribly tragic solution of the riddle the cabin was a pleasant clean sunny apartment with a table amidships lockers stuffed with hair on either hand
007366_6641_000067 nor had the fowl been dressed to a hair is it conceivable that their imaginations would have suffered them to put their lips to it the truth is the more they turned the matter over the more mystifying it grew
007366_6641_000068 it was some hours before any one of them was fit to tell the story of their disaster and then this was the substance of the relation of the oldest of the four who had rallied sooner than his mates their ship was the barque that mr matthews was now in charge of
007366_6641_000069 indeed it scarcely needed a sailor's eye to suspect something amiss she was a small barque apparently between three hundred and fifty and four hundred tons
007366_6641_000070 now what on earth can that muddle signify exclaimed the captain with his face full of curiosity you'd imagine there was a heavy squall coming down upon her that her skipper had sung out to let go everything and that the crew after doing so had gone to dinner
007366_6641_000071 they want water exclaimed the mate breathlessly the coil of line was thrown one in the bows caught it with trembling hands and took a turn round a thwart with it and then stumbled nor did he seem able to rise though he held to the line with the tenacity of a dying grip
007366_6641_000072 will you search the ship said one of the men certainly stand by sir there may be some blooming roose in this business follow or stay as you please said the mate i have my orders with which he walked to the companion hatch and descended the steps
007366_6641_000073 they had sailed from hull two months previously and whilst windbound in the downs two of the men sneaked ashore in a galley punt and ran away and the vessel put to sea short-handed to that extent
007366_6641_000074 and nothing else done upper topsail topgallant in short all yards which travelled were down but no sail was clewed up the foresail the lower topsails mainsail and spanker were set
007366_6641_000075 she had a main skysail mast and all her spars were aloft and everthing right in that way but the appearance of her canvas suggested disorder and confusion halliards fore and aft seemed to have been let go on a sudden
007366_6641_000076 and presently the barque with a little silver curl under either bow and the shadow of one sail lying in a dainty curve in the hollow of another and a flashing as of musketry breaking from the glass and brass upon her as she leaned with the swell to the sun
007366_6641_000077 sweet to the ear as an ice-cold draught to the palate after the sickly silence of a long spell of tropical calm the men seized hold of the halliards and hoisted the yards
007366_6641_000078 no we must have seen them and why should they have wanted to make off what was there to frighten them overboard in the sighting of our steamer depend upon it that they're aboard below in hiding but great thunder what for
007366_6641_000079 was sliding quietly southwards with the steamer already toy like in the distance and the fogbanks lifting into the haze no one had thought of removing the saucepan in the galley and when they examined it they found the fowl boiled into soup this they threw overboard
007366_6641_000080 water as they sank down upon the hot deck with lips as white as planks and froth like sea foam oozing from the comers of their mouths
007366_6641_000081 one after another crowning the white and graceful superstructure by the tiny main skysail that gleamed like a star under the blue a glance at the chart gave mr matthews his course
007366_6641_000082 there were four of them and they were so weak that they had to be lifted over the side coleridge speaks of thirst making a man grin the torment in these poor creatures had wrought an uglier distortion of countenance even than the simulation of mirth in anguish and their sole gasp was
007366_6641_000083 there must be somebody aboard exclaimed the captain fowls aren't such fools as to pluck and boil themselves no sir there's a man or men aboard
007366_6641_000084 this left five men to carry on the ship's work the number would certainly have sufficed but three days before the guide sighted the barque the second mate who was hanging over the stern to get a view of the rudder fell
007366_6641_000085 but they first looked down the scuttle and spied the light ha cried mr williams they are here then he put his head into the hatch and sang out below there no answer below there
007366_6641_000086 and the slush lamp in the forecastle flaming this meant very recent work the slush lamp to be sure might have been alight for some hours but the freshly fed appearance of the fire and the saucepan
007366_6641_000087 another man not long after was disabled by slipping of the forecastle capstan and in less than a week his mates gave him the sailor's last toss over the side
007366_6641_000088 there was nobody here nothing living or dead though the two foremost cabins exhibited signs of having quite recently been occupied the mate accompanied by his two men went on deck again walked forward and entered the forecastle
007366_6641_000089 or if it isn't that then it'll be sickness hold chock-a-block with green coffee perhaps and the folks full of fever or suppose reckon it's blindness sir i've heard of such a thing as a whole ship's company losing their sight well let's go and have a look at her
007366_6641_000090 see anything like a colour flying mr williams the mate looked and answered no appears to me like a mutiny sir he continued
007366_6641_000091 she was rolling to the run of the swell and the swinging of the canvas flung a hurry of shadowing over her the quiet vaporous shapes on either hand like islands clad in mist
007366_6641_000092 said the captain no use speculating on objects at sea if there'd been a little more shifting of courses there'd be fewer marine wonders i'll allow he spoke to the helmsman and the steamer's head was put for the barque
007579_6809_000000 the common woodcock of europe scolopax rusticola inhabits lofty mountains during the summer and descends into the woods about the middle of october
007579_6809_000001 and amongst the latter is the common crane which is more than four feet high and which is celebrated for the migrations it makes every autumn from north to south and every spring in a contrary direction in numerous and well conducted troops
007579_6809_000002 religiosa latin religious remiges the strong feathers of the wings reticulated in the form of the meshes of a net made of network retractile having the quality of being drawn back
007579_6809_000003 the back breast and belly are covered with black mingled with white and gray feathers and those of the wings and tail are white
007579_6809_000004 struthio from the greek struthidn an ostrich systematic name of the ostrich sturnus latin a starling
007579_6809_000005 the emevj or crested cassowary struthio casvarius is almost as large as the ostrich of the eastern continent but not so tall
007579_6809_000006 the crab eater is a species of heron of small size which is found in the mountainous district of france it frequents the vicinity of ponds
007579_6809_000007 the whooping crane grouse americana is white primaries black and with black shafts the whole crown and cheeks bald
007579_6809_000008 some of them the jacanas for example have the wings armed with a spur others are destitute of this kind of spur they are distinguished into rails and coots according as the front is feathered or furnished with a horny shield
007579_6809_000009 somateria systematic name of the ider sterna systematic name of the terns or sea swallows sternum the breast bone strix latin an owl
007579_6809_000010 the feathers of the body are black and for the most part double it runs almost as rapidly as the ostrich it inhabits the indian archipelago
007579_6809_000011 it is remarkable on account of the azure blue and red skin that covers the head and part of the neck for its pendent caruncles like those of a turkey and for a sort of helmet or crest formed by a bony prominence covered with horn which surmounts the head
007579_6809_000012 yunx from the greek xunx the wryneck generic name of the wrynecks zoological belonging or relating to zoology
007579_6809_000013 the rails rallus have the front feathered the beak compressed and nearly straight the head small the toes destitute of lateral festoons and the wings concave
007579_6809_000014 rifsa specific name of an ostrich rhtnchops from the greek rug ehes beak a snout the systematic name of the skimmers rodentia from the latin rodere to gnaw the systematic name of an order of mammals
007579_6809_000015 and it can soar to an immense height its depredations on the fishes of european rivers render it highly prejudicial it is celebrated on account of the sport which the wealthy in former times derived from hunting it with falcons
007579_6809_000016 the name of egrets is given to certain herons the feathers of which on the lower part of the back at a certain period are long and fringed the most beautiful species the feathers of which are used for ornamental purposes are the great and the little egret
007579_6809_000017 they ordinarily keep concealed beneath the grass during the day and seek their food in the morning and evening amidst the rushes and herbs of marshes and prairies
007579_6809_000018 their light and broad mandibles by striking against each other produce a peculiar clash their legs are reticulated and not very muscular
007579_6809_000019 zoological characters habits division into eight families family of brevipennes ostrich organization habits cassowaries
007579_6809_000020 their beak is of moderate length and sufficiently strong to dig the earth in search for worms their wings are sometimes short but can always be used in flight
007579_6809_000021 the pressirostres like the brevipennes and many of the longirostres are high on their legs and without a thumb or the thumb is too short to touch the ground
007579_6809_000022 the crex or landrail rallus crex is vulgarly called the king of the quails because from the circumstance of arriving and departing with them and keeping on the same grounds it was believed that he led them
007579_6809_000023 phalacrocorax from the greek phalakrot bald and koraxh a raven the systematic name of the cormorants which later name is a corruption of the french words carbo
007579_6809_000024 the last that which is immediately next to the last percnopterl the plural of percnopterus percnopterus from the greek perknos spotted and pteron wing systematic name of certain vultures
007579_6809_000025 the white stork ardea ciconia appears in france and germany in the spring and passes the winter in africa it is a large white bird with the primaries of the wings black and the beak and feet red
007579_6809_000026 abounds in the middle and southern states it is very numerous on the extensive salt marshes of new jersey where they are intersected by numerous tidewater ditches it winters near to or within the southern boundaries of the union
007579_6809_000027 syrnium from the greek syrnium an owl a systematic name of the hooting owls tachypetes from the greek tachys swift and petomai to fly systematic name of the frigate bird talon the claw of a bird of prey
007579_6809_000028 the water rail of europe rallus aquaticus is fawn coloured brown spotted with blackish above bluish ash-colour beneath and striped black and white on the flanks its flesh has a marshy odour it is common along rivulets and ponds
007579_6809_000029 styloid from the greek stulos a style a peg a pin and eidos resemblance shape shaped like a peg or pin
007579_6809_000030 their plumage is entirely white and they are met with in europe the bitterns and night herons also belong to this tribe the tribe of storks is characterized by a larger and smoother beak than the preceding
007579_6809_000031 sea crow phalanges the plural of phalanx phalanx from the greek phalanx a file of soldiers the bones composing the fingers and toes they are named first second and third phalanges
007579_6809_000032 their movements are slow and their steps long and measured in their powerful and sustained flight they carry their head stiffly in advance and their legs extended behind serve them for a rudder
007579_6809_000033 the cassowary of new holland casuarius novaehollandiae is of a brownish gray and almost the whole head as well as the neck is covered with fringed feathers
007579_6809_000034 sula from the greek sula plunder booty generic name of the boobies sylvia generic name of certain warblers
007579_6809_000035 petros from the greek petra a rock a stone a part of the temporal bone which contains the internal organs of hearing is so called from resembling a stone in hardness phaeton from the greek phaethon brilliant generic name of the tropic bird
007579_6809_000036 differs from the european species in the temperature of the climates selected for its residence it is met with in summer between the river saint lawrence and the limits of the middle states and in the winter retires to or beyond the boundary of the union
007579_6809_000037 family of flamingos common flamingo habits order of grallatoriae the order of grallatoriae is composed of birds that have the lower part of the leg naked like the tarsus
007579_6809_000038 zoology from the greek rdofi an animal andros a discourse that part of natural history which treats of animals zygodactylie from the greek zugoe a balance and daktulos a toe systematic name of the order of climbers
007579_6809_000039 and venture only upon the surface of the waters at night their flight during which their legs are pendent is neither lofty sustained nor rapid
007579_6809_000040 it is essentially herbivorous but it is so voracious that it indiscriminately devours everything that falls within its reach until its stomach is filled
007579_6809_000041 the sole of the foot the posterior part of the foot which in man consists of seven bones and forms the heel and instep tectiform from the latin tectum roof of a house and forma form roof shaped
007579_6809_000042 family of longirostris genus of curlews ibis sacred ibis snipe woodcock common snipe the avosets family of macrodactyli rails water hens
007579_6809_000043 this stately crane the largest of all the feathered tiribes in the united states is met with in almost every part of north america dwelling amidst marshes and dark and desolate swamps it retires to the west indies to pass the winter
007579_6809_000044 almost all these birds are remarkable for the length of their legs and appear as if they are mounted on stilts their feet most generally have a small palmate membrane betwixt the external toes and they sometimes are without a thumb
007579_6809_000045 the great bustard otis tarda which is of a bright fawn color crossed with numerous black streaks on the back and grayish on the rest of the body attains to more than three feet in length
007579_6809_000046 a pheasant so called from the river phasis in colchis near the black sea the systematic name of the pheasants phoenicopterus from the greek phoenix red and pteron wing red-winged the generic name of the flamingo
007579_6809_000047 their food consists of grains herbs worms and insects two species are found in europe namely the great bustard and the little bustard
007579_6809_000048 this genus comprises the waterhens gauittula which are characterized by their very long toes furnished with a narrow border in general they live singly or in couples
007579_6809_000049 without at the same time doing the smallest injury among the ancients this veneration was carried to such an extent that it was made a crime to kill one of these birds in thessaly it was even punishable by death
007579_6809_000050 and in having the upper mandible slightly vaulted their wings are short and they fly but little most commonly like the ostriches they employ them only to accelerate their speed when running
007579_6809_000051 they live in pairs and return every year to lay in the same nest there is no bird which has received from different nations more universal protection than this which is in fact everywhere useful in ridding the soil of prejudicial animals
007579_6809_000052 from the greek phulaina a moth of the kind that flutter about lamps systematic name of a family of insects phasianus from the greek phasianos
007579_6809_000053 sometimes in small troops of three or four on stagnant waters they swim and dive readily during a great part of the day they keep concealed amongst reeds and rushes
007579_6809_000054 like the ibis the stork was an object of worship amongst the egyptians and its instinctive qualities have no doubt contributed to increase this respect which is perpetuated among the orientals and still observed in switzerland and holland
007579_6809_000055 a small number of them feed on grains and herbage and these only live remote from water and almost all these birds have very long wings
007579_6809_000056 the generic name of the spoonbills plotus from greek pluo i swim the generic name of the darters plover from the latin pluvia rain a bird so called from making its appearance in the rainy season
007579_6809_000057 grallatoriae is composed of a single genus which is very remarkable for the singular structure of its beak and the disproportionate length of the legs and neck
007579_6809_000058 pinion the joint of the wing remotest from the body pinnate foot having the edges of the toes scalloped or notched as in the coots pintado spanish mottled generic name of the guinea fowl
007579_6809_000059 is one species widely spread in europe the american coots resemble those of europe family of flamingoes this division of the order of grallatoriae
007579_6809_000060 and longitudinally hollowed into a semi cylindrical canal the edges of both mandibles are furnished with very delicate little transverse plates like those of ducks and their tongue is thick and fleshy
007579_6809_000061 it has so much affection for its young that it does not quit them in the greatest danger it is recorded in history that the stork of delft which was uselessly urged to carry away her young remained and perished with them in the conflagration of that city
007579_6809_000062 the tender attentions which these birds pay to their parents in old age are not less remarkable and it is for this reason that the greeks have their name to the law which obliges children to furnish aliment to their parents when they are in want
007579_6809_000063 arteria an artery which is formed from aria air and terrain to keep the canal which conveys the air to the lungs the windpipe
007579_6809_000064 some species of storks have on the middle of the neck an appendage which resembles a large sausage on account of which they are called pouched storks the feathers from beneath their wings form those light plumes which are called by the french maraboo
007579_6809_000065 they emigrate every year in more or less numerous troops and it is chiefly in the autumn during the rains that they are seen in greatest numbers from this circumstance they have obtained their name
007579_6809_000066 family of longirostris the longirostris have a long slender and feeble beak which is only suitable for rooting in the mud
007579_6809_000067 the most common species is spread over the eastern continent as far as the fortieth degree of north latitude numerous troops are seen every year on the southern shores of france and sometimes they ascend as far as the river rhine
007579_6809_000068 their form is ordinarily lank and their neck is very long their beak varies in its shape but is also in general very long
007579_6809_000069 they fly well and extend their legs behind them when they fly whereas other birds on the contrary fold them under the belly the grallatoriae which build their nests on trees and in elevated situations are monogamous and feed their young until they are able to fly
007579_6809_000070 it nests in fields of grain and often unites in bands of from fifty to sixty individuals the little bustard otis tetrax is more than one half smaller than the preceding
007579_6809_000071 it is brown dotted with black above and whitish beneath it is less frequently met with than the great bustard the plovers charadriidae like the preceding have no thumb
007579_6809_000072 but their moderate beak is compressed and swelled at the end their wings are moderate and they fly well they habitually frequent sea-coasts the mouths of rivers
007579_6809_000073 most of the grallatoriae which are also called waders or beach birds frequent watery places and wade in shallow waters to seek their food
007579_6809_000074 plumaqb from the latin pluma a soft feather the feathery coat of a bird plumb feather of a bird podicbps the generic name of the grebes
007579_6809_000075 with some exceptions they all feed on animal substances and seek fishes reptiles or worms and insects according as their beak is strong or weak
007579_6809_000076 polygamous from the greek poilus many and gamos marriage when animals do not live in pairs but on the contrary an individual is united to several of the opposite sex they are said to be polygamous
007579_6809_000077 one species is found in senegal and another in india the spoonbills platalea resemble the storks in their whole structure but their beak from which they derive their name is flat and widened at the end into a round disk like a spatula
007579_6809_000078 thoracic belonging to the thorax tibia latin a flute the largest bone of the leg is so called tichodroma systematic name of certain creepers
007579_6809_000079 maritime marshes and feed chiefly on worms which they induce to crawl out of the ground by striking their feet upon it some species live solitary and others in small troops
007579_6809_000080 they live on shellfish insects and the eggs of fishes which they obtain by means of their long neck and by bending down the head to use the hook of the upper mandible to advantage
007579_6809_000081 it even swallows stones fragments of metal pieces of wood and animal as well as the vegetable substances upon which it feeds the strength of its stomach is enormous
007579_6809_000082 trenchant cutting tristis latin sad sorrowful trochilus systematic name of the hummingbirds troglodytes from the greek trogl cavern or hole and dowel i enter systematic name of the wrens
007579_6809_000083 a family of brevipennes the brevipennes are very large birds that are entirely incapable of flying and have rudimentary wings only but they are remarkable for the strength of their posterior extremities which renders them excellent runners
007579_6809_000084 trunk the body without including the head or extremities the pro boscis of an elephant truncated cut short cut abruptly or square off tubercle from the latin tuber and knot a small knot or projection
007579_6809_000085 the red flamingo phoenicopterus ruber is from three to four feet high of a purple red on the back and rose coloured wings
007579_6809_000086 in search of worms and small insects these grallatoriae form two tribes snipes in which the beak is straight or curved downwards and the avosets in which the beak is curved upwards
007579_6809_000087 to be comprised in the preceding divisions and may therefore be considered as forming so many separate families the five principal families which are characterized according to the form of the beak are the
007579_6809_000088 it revisits pennsylvania early in march the sensibility of the end of the beak as in the snipe is sufficiently acute to enable it to collect its food by the sense of touch without using the eyes
007579_6809_000089 its habits are very remarkable these birds are always in troops and they form a line for the purpose of fishing and this disposition to be in file remains even when they repose on the shore
007579_6809_000090 pancreas from the greek pan all and kreaa flesh that is quite fleshy a gland deeply seated in the abdomen which resembles the salivary glands in its structure and has been called the abdominal salivary gland
007875_6806_000000 most of the religions which took a purely monotheistic standpoint have become more or less polytheistic in the course of time modern statistics assure us that of one billion five hundred million men who people the earth the great majority are monotheists of these nominally about six hundred million are brahma
007875_6806_000001 we see that today even externally in its form of prayer and preaching and in the architecture and adornment of its mosques when i visited the east for the first time in eighteen seventy-three and admired the noble mosques of cairo smyrna brussa and constantinople
007875_6806_000002 with the eternal fires of hell it was very natural that every good christian should be anxious to avoid the suspicion of atheism unfortunately the idea still prevails very widely the
007875_6806_000003 i was inspired with a feeling of real devotion by the simple and tasteful decoration of the interior and the lofty and beautiful architectural work of the exterior how noble and inspiring do these mosques appear in
007875_6806_000004 atheistic scientist who devotes his strength and life to the search for truth is freely credited with all that is evil the theistic church-goer who thoughtlessly follows the empty ceremonies of catholic worship is at once assumed to be a good citizen and his morality is deplorable
007875_6806_000005 or polytheists and the same must be said of islam and mosaism as well as other monotheistic religions everywhere we find associated with the original idea of a sole and triune god later beliefs
007875_6806_000006 as a matter of fact the sun worshippers attained thousands of years ago a higher intellectual and moral standard than most of the other theists when i was in bombay in eighteen eighty-one i watched with the greatest sympathy the elevating rites of the pious parsis
007875_6806_000007 indeed it may be said that no other idea has had so many metamorphoses for no other idea affects in so high a degree the chief objects of the mind and of rational science as well as the deepest interests of the emotion and poetic fancy of the believer
007875_6806_000008 buddhists five hundred millions are called christians two hundred millions are heathens of various types one hundred and eighty millions are mohammedans ten millions are jews and ten millions have no religion at all
007875_6806_000009 in a number of subordinate deities angels devils saints et cetera a picturesque assortment of the most diverse theistic forms all of the above forms of theism in the proper sense of the word whether the belief assumes a naturalistic or an
007875_6806_000010 who standing on the seashore or kneeling on it their prayer rugs offered their devotion to the sun as its rise and setting moon worship lunarism and selenotheism
007875_6806_000011 a comparative criticism of the many different forms of the idea of god would be extremely interesting and instructive but we have not space for it in the present work we must be content with a passing glance at the most important forms of the belief
007875_6806_000012 is of much less importance than sun worship there are a few uncivilized races that have adored the moon as their only deity but it has generally been associated with a worship of the stars and of the sun
007875_6806_000013 form represent god to be an extramundane or a supernatural being he is always opposed to the world or nature as an independent being generally as its creator sustainer and ruler in most religions he has the additional character of personality or to put it more definitely still god as a person is likened to man
007875_6806_000014 the humanization of god or the idea that the supreme being feels thinks and acts like a man though in a higher degree has played a most important part as an anthropomorphic monotheism in the history of civilization the most prominent in this respect
007875_6806_000015 in his gods man paints himself this anthropomorphic conception of god as one who thinks feels and acts like man prevails with the great majority of theists sometimes in a cruder and more naive form sometimes in a more refined and abstract degree
007875_6806_000016 when we pass over the finer shades and the variegated clothing of the god-idea and confine our attention to its chief element we can distribute all the different presentations of it into two groups the theistic and pantheistic group
007875_6806_000017 are the three great religions of the mediterranean peoples the old mosaic religion the intermediate christian religion and the younger mohammedism these three great mediterranean religions
007875_6806_000018 in any case the form of theosophy which we have described is sure to affirm that god the supreme being is infinite in perfection and therefore far removed from the imperfection of humanity yet when we examine closely we always find the same psychic or mental activity in the two
007875_6806_000019 the latter is closely connected with the monistic or rational view of things and the former is associated with dualism and mysticism one theism
007875_6806_000020 god feels thinks and acts as man does although it to be in an infinitely more perfect form the personal anthropism of god has become so natural to the majority of believers that they experience no shock when they find god personified in human form in pictures and statues and in the varied images of the poet
007875_6806_000021 just as christianity borrowed a good deal of its mythology directly from ancient judaism so islam has inherited much from both of its predecessors
007875_6806_000022 this anthropomorphic god polyphyletically evolved by the different races assumes an infinity of shapes in their imagination from fetishism to the refined monotheistic religions of the present day the chief forms of theism are polytheism triplotheism
007875_6806_000023 in which god takes human form that is is changed into a vertebrate in some myths even god takes the form of other mammals an ape lion bull et cetera and more rarely of a bird eagle dove or stork and of some lower vertebrate
007875_6806_000024 all three arriving on the east coast of the most interesting of all seas and originating in an imaginative enthusiast of the semantic race are intimately connected not only by this external circumstance of an analogous origin but by many common features of their internal contents
007875_6806_000025 in this view god is distinct from and opposed to the world as its creator sustainer and ruler he is always conceived in a more or less human form as an organism which thinks and acts like a man only on a much higher scale
007875_6806_000026 serpent crocodile dragon et cetera in the higher and more abstract forms of religion this idea of bodily appearance is entirely abandoned and god is adored as a pure spirit without body god is a spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
007875_6806_000027 two pantheism pantheism teaches that god and the world are one the idea of god is identical with that of nature or of substance this pantheistic view is sharply opposed in principle to all the systems we have described
007875_6806_000028 demonism sees gods in the living organisms of every species trees animals and men this kind of polytheism is found in innumerable forms even in the lowest tribes it reaches the highest stage in hellenic polytheism in the myths of ancient greece which still furnish the finest images to the modern poet and artist
007875_6806_000029 nevertheless the psychic activity of this pure spirit remains just the same as the anthropomorphic god in reality even in this immaterial spirit is not conceived to be incorporeal but merely invisible gaseous we thus arrive at the paradoxical conception of god as a gaseous vertebrate
007875_6806_000030 as the three were originally monotheistic all three were subsequently overlaid with a great variety of polytheistic features in proportion as they extended first along the coast in the mediterranean in its heterogeneous population and eventually into every part of the world
007875_6806_000031 the hebrew monotheism as it was founded by moses about sixteen hundred b c is usually regarded as the most ancient faith which has been of great importance in the ethical and religious development of humanity
007875_6806_000032 this high historical appreciation is certainly valid in the sense that the two other world conquering mediterranean religions issued from it christ was just as truly a pupil of moses as mohammed was afterwards of christ
007875_6806_000033 amphitheism and monotheism the polytheist peoples the world with a variety of gods and goddesses which enter into its machinery more or less independently
007875_6806_000034 this error will only be destroyed when in the twentieth century the prevalent superstition gives place to rational knowledge and to monistic conception of the unity of god and the world
007875_6806_000035 so also the new testament which has become the foundation of the belief of the highest civilized nations in the short space of nineteen hundred years rests on the venerable basis of the old testament the bible which the two compose
007875_6806_000036 at a much lower stage we have catholic polytheism in which innumerable saints many of them have very equivocal repute are venerated as subordinate divinities and prayed to to exert their mediation with the supreme divinity
007875_6806_000037 a great influence and a wider circulation than any other book in the world even today the bible in spite of its curious mingling of the best and the worst elements is in a certain sense the book of books
007875_6806_000038 and to all possible forms of theism although there have been many attempts made from both sides to bridge over the deep chasm that separates the two there is always this fundamental contradiction between them
007875_6806_000039 comparison with the majority of catholic churches which are covered internally with gaudy pictures and gilt and are outwardly disfigured by an immoderate crowd of human and animal figures
007875_6806_000040 that in theism god is opposed to nature as an extramundane being as creating and sustaining the world and acting upon it from without while in pantheism god as an intramundane being is everywhere identical with nature itself and is operative within the world as force or energy
007875_6806_000041 the dogma of the trinity which still compromises three of the chief articles of faith in the creed of christian peoples culminates in the notion that the one god of christianity is really made up of three different persons one god the father the omnipotent creator of heaven and earth
007875_6806_000042 this untenable myth was refuted long ago by scientific cosmogony astronomy and geology two jesus christ and three the holy ghost a mystical being over whose incomprehensible relation to the father and the son
007875_6806_000043 the latter view alone is compatible with our supreme law the law of substance it follows necessarily that pantheism is the world system of the modern scientist there are it is true still a few men of science who contest this and think it possible to reconcile the old theistic theory of human nature
007875_6806_000044 yet when we make an impartial and unprejudiced study of this notable historical source we find it very different in several important respects from the popular impression here again the modern criticism and history have come to certain conclusions which destroy the prevalent tradition in its very foundations
007875_6806_000045 the monotheism which moses endeavored to establish in the worship of jehovah and which the prophets the philosophers of the hebrew race afterwards developed with great success had at first to sustain a long and severe struggle with the dominant polytheism which was in possession jehovah or yahweh
007875_6806_000046 millions of christian theologians have racked their brains in vain for the last nineteen hundred years the gospels which are the only clear sources of this triplotheism are very obscure as to the relation of the threes persons to each other and do not give a satisfactory answer to the question of their unity
007875_6806_000047 with the pantheistic truth of the law of substance all these efforts rest on confusion or sophistry when they are honest as pantheism is a result of an advanced conception of nature in the civilized mind it is naturally much younger than theism
007875_6806_000048 was originally derived from the heaven god which under the title of moloch or baal was one of the most popular of the oriental deities the sethos or typhon of the egyptians the saturn or cronos of the greeks
007875_6806_000049 the crudest forms of which are found in great variety in the uncivilized races of ten thousand years ago we do indeed find the germs of pantheism in different religions at the very dawn of philosophy in the earliest civilized peoples in india egypt china and japan several thousand year before the time of christ
007875_6806_000050 on the other hand it must be carefully noted what confusion this obscure and mystic dogma of the trinity must necessarily cause in the minds of our children even in the earlier years of instruction
007875_6806_000051 i am the lord thy god thou shalt have no other gods beside me christian monotheism shared the fate of its mother mosaism with the generally only monotheistic in theory while it degenerated practically and into every kind of polytheism
007875_6806_000052 for the rest the trinity is not an original element in christianity like most other christian dogmas it has been borrowed from earlier religions out of the sun worship of the chaldean magi was evolved the trinity of ilu the mysterious source of the world
007875_6806_000053 who conceived the essential unity of the infinite universe apeiron more profoundly and more clearly than his master thales or his pupil anaximenes only the great thought of the original unity of the cosmos and the development of all phenomena out of the all pervading primitive matter
007875_6806_000054 still we do not meet a definite philosophical expression of it until the hylozoism of the ionic philosophers in the first half of the sixth century before christ all the great thinkers of this flourishing period of hellenic thought are surpassed by the famous anaximander of miletus
007875_6806_000055 there were however other gods in great favor with the jewish people and so in the struggle with idolatry continued still jehovah was in principle the only god explicitly claiming in the first precept of the decalog
007875_6806_000056 one morning they learn in their religious instruction that three times one are one and the very next hour they are told in their arithmetic class that three times one are three i remember well the reflection that this confusion led me to in my early school days
007875_6806_000057 moreover in the more widely distinguished form of christianity the virgin mother of christ pray plays an important part of a fourth deity in many catholic countries she is practically taken to be more powerful and influential than the three male persons of the celestial administration
007875_6806_000058 the first three christian virtues faith hope and charity form a similar triad according to amphitheists the world is ruled by two different gods a good and an evil principle god and the devil they are engaged in a perpetual struggle like rival emperors or pope and anti-pope
007875_6806_000059 roman poet and philosopher lucretius carus has presented it in a highly poetic form in his poem de rerum natura however this true pantheistic monism was soon entirely displaced by the mystic dualism of plato
007875_6806_000060 in point of fact monotheism was logically abandoned in the very dogma of the trinity which it was adopted as an indispensable foundation of the christian religion the three persons which are distinguished as father son and holy ghost
007875_6806_000061 are three distinct individuals and indeed anthropomorphic persons just as truly as the three indian deities of the trimurti brahma vishnu and shiva or the trinity of the ancient hebrews anu bel and aa
007875_6806_000062 heraclitus and empedocles had in the same or an analogous sense a profound conception of this unity of nature and god of body and spirit which has obtained its highest expression in the law of substance of our modern monism the famous
007875_6806_000063 is also conceived as a divine unity made up of three persons brahma the creator vishnu the sustainer and shiva the destroyer it would seem that in this and other ideas of a trinity the sacred number three as such as a symbolical number has counted for something
007875_6806_000064 its three manifestations were anu primeval chaos bel the architect of the world and aa heavenly light the all-enlightening wisdom in the brahmanic region the trimurti
007875_6806_000065 the condition of the world is a result of the conflict the loving god or good principle is the source of all that is good and beautiful of joy and of peace the world would be perfect if his work were not continually thwarted by the evil principle the devil this being the cause of all that is bad and hateful of contradiction and of pain
007875_6806_000066 and especially by the powerful influence which the idealistic philosophy obtained by its blending with christian dogmas when the papacy attained to its spiritual despotism over the world
007875_6806_000067 the cult of the madonna has been developed to such an extent in these countries that we may oppose it to the usual masculine form of monotheism as one of a feminine type the queen of heaven becomes so prominent as it is seen in many pictures and legends of the madonna that the three male persons practically disappear
007875_6806_000068 amphitheism is undoubtedly the most rational of all the forms of belief in god and the one which is least incompatible with a scientific view of the world hence we find it elaborated in many ancient peoples thousands of years before christ
007875_6806_000069 the different forms which monotheism has assumed in the course of its polyphyletic development have been distributed into two groups those of naturalistic and anthropistic monotheism naturalistic monotheism finds the embodiment of the deity in some lofty and dominating natural phenomenon
007875_6806_000070 in addition the imagination of the pious christian soon came to increase this celestial administration by a numerous company of saints of all kinds and bands of musical angels who should see that eternal life should not prove too dull
007875_6806_000071 it was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that pantheism was exhibited in its purest forms by the great baruch spinoza he gave for the totality of things a definition of substance in which god and the world are inseparably united the clearness confidence and
007875_6806_000072 the popes the greatest charlatans that any religion ever produced have constantly studied to increase this band of celestial satellites by repeated canonizations this curious company received its most interesting acquisition in eighteen seventy
007875_6806_000073 when the vatican council pronounced the popes as the vicars of christ to be infallible and thusly raised them to a divine dignity when we add the personal devil that they acknowledge and the bad angels who form his court
007875_6806_000074 the fertile mother earth and elion moloch or sethos the stern heavenly father in the zend religion of the ancient persians founded by the zoroaster two thousand years before christ there is a perpetual struggle between ormuzd the good god of light and ahriman the wicked god of darkness
007875_6806_000075 consistency of spinoza's monistic system are more remarkable when we remember that this gifted thinker of two hundred and fifty years ago was without the support of all those sound empirical bases which have been obtained in the second half of the nineteenth century
007875_6806_000076 in christian mythology the devil is scarcely less conspicuous as the adversary of the good deity the tempter and seducer the prince of hell and lord of darkness a personal devil was still an important element in the belief of most christians at the beginning of the nineteenth century
007875_6806_000077 five seventy learned to despise the polytheistic idolatry of his arabian compatriots and became acquainted with nestorian christianity he adopted its chief doctrines in a general way but he could not bring himself to see anything more than a prophet in christ like moses
007875_6806_000078 this godless world system substantially agrees with the monism or pantheism of the modern scientist it is only another expression for it emphasizing its negative aspect the non-existence of any supernatural deity
007875_6806_000079 today the majority of educated people look upon belief in a personal devil as a mediaeval superstition while belief in god that is the personal good and loving god is retained as an indispensable element of religion
007875_6806_000080 we have in modern catholicism still the most extensive branch of christianity a rich and variegated polytheism that dwarfs the olympic family of the greeks islam or the mohammedan monotheism is the youngest and purest form of monotheism when the young mohammed born
007875_6806_000081 he found in the dogma of the trinity what every emancipated thinker finds on an impartial reflection an absurd legend which is neither reconcilable with the first principles of reason nor of any value whatever for our religious advancement
007875_6806_000082 his splendid god and world and the world prometheus faust et cetera embody the great thoughts of pantheism in the most perfect poetic creations atheism affirms that there are no gods or goddesses assuming that god means a personal extramundane entity
007875_6806_000083 towards the middle of the century he was gradually eliminated by being progressively explained away or he was restricted to a subordinate role he plays as mephistopheles in goethe's great drama
007875_6806_000084 in this sense schopenhauer justly remarks pantheism is only a polite form of atheism the true pantheism lies in its destruction of the dualist antithesis of god
007875_6806_000085 he justly regarded the worship of the immaculate mother of god as a piece of pure idolatry like the veneration of pictures and images the longer he reflected on it and the more he strove after a purified idea of deity the clearer did the certitude of his great maxim
007875_6806_000086 yet the one belief is just as much or as little justified by the other in any case the much lamented imperfection of our earthly life the struggle for existence and all that pertains to it are explained much more simply and naturally by this struggle of a good and an evil god than by any other form of theism
007875_6806_000087 the dogma of the unity of god may in some respects be regarded as the simplest and most natural type of theism it is popularly supposed to be the most widely accepted element of religion
007875_6806_000088 and the world in its recognition that the world exists in virtue of its own inherent forces the maxim of the pantheist god and the world are one is merely a polite way of giving the lord god his conge
007875_6806_000089 god is the only god there are no other gods beside him yet mohammed could not free himself from the anthropomorphism of the god idea his one only god was an idealized almighty man like the stern vindictive god of moses and like the gentle loving god of christ
007875_6806_000090 the sun the deity of light and warmth on whose influence all organic life insensibly and directly depends was taken to be such a phenomenon many thousand years ago sun worship solarism or heliotheism seems to be the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism
008167_7583_000000 the justice paused that the prisoners might admire his eloquence but alas such was the absorbing nature of self-love that they were only thinking of what was going to be done with them and to what this terrible exordium was likely to lead
008167_7583_000001 go said he as soon as the drowsy butler have made his appearance i am sure the duke feels nearly as great an interest in the success of edmund as myself and will not be displeased if he be disturbed a little earlier than usual upon such an occasion
008167_7583_000002 after a short pause edric supposing they were expected to speak addressed the judge and begged to know of what crime they were accused we are strangers said he and gentlemen we were attracted to your country by an account of wonders that it contained
008167_7583_000003 i obey replied abelard i will shake off my somnolent propensities and speed with the velocity of the electric fluid to the castle of the noble chieftain
008167_7583_000004 the duke was exceedingly fond of petty mysteries and needless manoeuvres and he wasted as much ingenuity and as many contrivances over this scheme as might if differently applied have sufficed to overturn a kingdom
008167_7583_000005 but even if we get out of prison what is to become of us our money and valuables were all in that balloon and here we are in a foreign country entirely destitute not entirely edric not entirely cried the doctor
008167_7583_000006 so he said he very well that will do and now girls that you are safely embarked we will be off hyppolite will you steer us
008167_7583_000007 the mummy thus stranger recalled to life was indeed cheops and horrible were the sensations that throbbed through every nerve as returning consciousness brought with it all the pangs of his former existence and renewed circulation thrilled through every vein
008167_7583_000008 whose victories no doubt have reached even this remote province my dear mister montagu said the judge i really beg your pardon why did you not acquaint me sooner your dignity
008167_7583_000009 and as such under the protection of my own court my sovereign has a counsel here and to him i make my appeal i am neither ignoble nor unknown in my own country my name is montagu and i am the brother to the celebrated general of that family
008167_7583_000010 and indeed i may say that after mature deliberation i have confidently arrived at the conclusion that both the faculties in which we call life and soul depend entirely upon the nervous system
008167_7583_000011 words are altogether too feeble to express the transports of my gratitude at receiving so gracious an accolade beauteous eloisa replied the romantic butler for thus in allusion to his own name was he wont to call her
008167_7583_000012 but his grace had no patience it was an ingredient nature that had quite forgotten to put into his composition and without waiting for the ascending ladder to be put down he sprang into the car in such haste the moment the balloon was brought to the door that he was in imminent danger of oversetting it so
008167_7583_000013 and as i presume you are now convinced your learned dissertation on the probable seat of human life was to say the least ill times we will drop the subject
008167_7583_000014 i hoped it was a dream a fearful dream for methinks i have been long asleep was it indeed reality are all all gone
008167_7583_000015 that life might be restored if by the intervention of any powerful agency the nervous system could be excited to reaction and at this of course could be effected where any kind of decomposition had taken place it appeared to me that the mummy was the only body in which the experiment could be tried
008167_7583_000016 i saw the mummy the king of cheops as plain as i see his worship there sitting on this throne ohh groaned the horror strucken crowd ohh groaned the judge and jury yes continued the man i'll take my oath if it was the last word i had to speak
008167_7583_000017 well continued gregory as i was sitting there thinking of nothing at all and somehow i believe i had fallen into bit of a doze i heard a queer sort of buzzing sound and i opened my eyes and there i saw a gentlemen whirligig buzzing and puffing like a steam engine on fire and i all midst the smoke i take my oath
008167_7583_000018 his first impulse was to quit the tomb in which he had been so long immured and to seek again the regains of light and day instinct seemed to guide him to this for as yet a mist hung over his faculties and ideas thronged in painful confusion through his head which he was incapable of either arranging or analyzing
008167_7583_000019 usually employed in secreting the mucus of my tongue erect themselves thereby occasioning an overflow of the saliva yet i will deny myself the indulgence and content myself simply with a boiled egg as being more likely to agree with the present enfeebled state of the digestive organs of my stomach
008167_7583_000020 whilst the soft yielding disposition and feminine graces of elvira seemed to harmonize exactly with the taste of the philosophic edric no persuasions however could induce the duke to deviate in the slightest degree from his design
008167_7583_000021 when however he reached the plain light and air seemed to revive him and restore his scattered senses and gazing wildly around he exclaimed where am i what is this place
008167_7583_000022 but he had also someone to oppose for father morris's opinions as to the dispositions of young people was diametrically opposite to his own he thinking the strong mind and haughty spirit of rosabella better suited to the ambitious edmund
008167_7583_000023 but i thought as how seeing it was but a queer-looking thing and not likely to tempt any body to steal it i might as well save the gentlemen from throwing their money away upon a parcel of idle fellows and keep watch over it myself and so get the reward instead of them observed the judge
008167_7583_000024 for this purpose he made father morris his confidant and held long private conferences every day with him upon the subject the duke was now completely happy he had not only something to plan and something to think about
008167_7583_000025 do not all philosophers agree that we receive ideas merely through the medium of the senses and can our senses be operated upon otherwise through the influence of the nerves
008167_7583_000026 what then can be more simple than to suppose life resides there pursuing this idea i have long been convinced that where the nervous system remained uninjured and the appearance of death was only occasioned by a suspicion of the operation of the animal functions
008167_7583_000027 it was true the interest of the plot was somewhat spoiled by the fear that the instant he made known his intentions everyone would be delighted to comply with them yet still as long as it was kept secret it was a plot an it was the best the duke could muster he resolved to make the most of it
008167_7583_000028 well your honor said the fellow grinning i thought they might give me something that might do me good but which would be nothing amongst so many very true remarked the judge go on gregory
008167_7583_000029 ergo the nerves alone convey the ideas and sensations of the mind or rather the nerves alone are the mind not a single instance i believe is known in which life remained after the sensorium had been destroyed or even seriously injured
008167_7583_000030 methinks all seems wondrous new and strange where is my father and where oh where is my arsinoe alas alas he continued wildly i had forgotten
008167_7583_000031 but though you had only the rigors of the paraclete to invite to me instead of the comforts of your well-stored pantry still would words be wanting to express the feeling of my bosom thus again beholding you spare my blushes said mrs russel casting her eyes upon the ground and playing with the corner of her apron
008167_7583_000032 i feel a roseate suffusion glow upon my cheeks as your flattering accent strike upon the tympanum of my auricular organs oh missus russell sighed abelard gazing upon her tenderly and then after a short pause he continued
008167_7583_000033 you shall have it instantly cried mrs russel and will you have the kindness to superintend the culinary arrangement of it yourself rejoined abelard i do not like the albumen too much coagulated and i prefer it without any butyraceous oil
008167_7583_000034 as to consulting the inclinations of the young people themselves the idea never entered his imagination children don't know what is good for them he would reply sharply if such a thought were suggested to him and it is the duty of the parents and guardians to decide in such matters
008167_7583_000035 their terror at what they may considered as the doctor's daring impiety being considerably augmented by their not understanding above one-tenth part of what he said and when he had finished there was a dead pause in which no one dared to interrupt till a sudden gust of wind happening to blow the door open of the justice retiring room
008167_7583_000036 it is the fatal river of the dead no pdpyrine boats glide smoothly on its surface but strange infernal vessels vomiting forth volumes of fire and smoke
008167_7583_000037 and then resumed gregory something went whiz and off it fled all together like a flash of lightning oh shrieked the whole court in a convulsion of horror some of the fair sex in particular screamed and covered their faces as though they feared the next exploit of the redoubtable magicians would blow up
008167_7583_000038 let me hear the sound of another's voice before my brain is lost in madness i have entered hades or am i still on earth yes yes it is earth for there is the mighty pyramid that i caused to be erected towers behind me
008167_7583_000039 my dear edric exclaimed sir ambrose throwing himself into the arms of his son my dear dear edric your brother has gained the battle the germans are completely overthrown
008167_7583_000040 and there is scarcely any alcohol in the whole composition that is exactly what i want said abelard for my physicians have expressively forbidden stimulants
008167_7583_000041 and was that hideous scene true those horrors which still haunt my memory like a ghastly vision speak speak continued he his voice rising in thrilling energy as he spoke speak
008167_7583_000042 resuscitation is not only possible but probable that the dead bodies may be easily restored to life the horror and consternation produced by this extraordinary speech amongst the anglo egyptians who heard it far exceeded any human powers of description
008167_7583_000043 the terrified crowd fell back aghast upon one another pale and trembling as though they absolutely expected his infernal majesty to appear before them in propria persona when tranquillity was in some degree restored the judge ordered the prisoners to be re-conducted to prison
008167_7583_000044 the mighty barrier that protect her splendour from the waste of waters must have been swept away by the encroaching inroads of the swelling nile but is this the nile he continued looking wildly upon the river sure i must be deceived
008167_7583_000045 have you anything cool and refreshing i have some bottled beer replied missus russel but i'm afraid the carbonic acid gas has not been sufficiently disengaged during the process of the vinous fermentation to render it wholesome
008167_7583_000046 in six months no no i'm right and so they'll find it in the end he would then shake his head and put on such a look of positive determination that father morris would generally retire in silence feeling it perfectly in vain to attempt to alter his resolution
008167_7583_000047 with the least prospect of success from various circumstances however it has never now been in my power to realize my wishes on this head
008167_7583_000048 yet where is memphis where my forts and palaces what a dark smoky mass of building now surrounds me can this be the once proud queen of cities i see no palaces no temples memphis is fallen
008167_7583_000049 instead of your being able to substantiate a charge against us we left our balloon containing valuable articles and money to a considerable amount in your charge or at least in the custody of a man who you recommended
008167_7583_000050 simply flavoured by the addition of a small quantity of common muriate of soda the egg was soon prepared and devoured thank you thank you dear mrs russell said abelard
008167_7583_000051 and we quitted the pyramid we of course inquired for our balloon it had vanished and instead of making us amends for our loss you throw us into prison and tell us a wild extravagant story of the disappearance of our property which no man in his senses could possibly believe
008167_7583_000052 that i saw him there vomiting fire and his big eyes flaring like a fiery furnace oh groaned the judge crowd and jury a degree louder than before
008167_7583_000053 this refrection was most acceptable and i had felt for some time the gastric juice corroding the coats of my stomach and still though i have now given it some solid substance to act upon i think it would be amiss to dilute its very virtulence with the addition of a little fluid
008167_7583_000054 like many of the higher classes of society in the days of universal education he affected an excessive plainness and simplicity in his language so much so indeed as sometimes almost to degenerate into rudeness in order that it might be clearly distinguished from the elaborate and scientific expressions of the vulgar
008167_7583_000055 and the court and send them all flying after the resuscitated mummy with your permission sir said edric as soon as the tumult had somewhat abated this proves nothing against either my friend or myself we are in fact injured by it and we have a claim against you
008167_7583_000056 but for a few weeks past my pupil has entertained similar longings to myself and yesterday saw our hopes accomplished yes i flatter myself there cannot now remain a shadow of doubt to the world that in ordinary cases before decomposition has taken place
008167_7583_000057 the duke had already risen and was in his garden when the messenger of sir ambrose arrived panting for breath and quite exhausted by the velocity as he expressed it which be had employed in endeavoring to execute with the utmost expedition the wishes of his master
008167_7583_000058 a glow of satisfaction spreading itself over his face oh no no i have guarded against that ah what a thing it is to have foresight well some persons are certainly singularly gifted in that line and it is a happy thing for you that you have somebody to think for you see here
008167_7583_000059 awake awake he cried with a scream of agony set me free i did not mean to slay him then throwing himself violently upon the ground he lay for some moments apparently insensible
008167_7583_000060 far from agreeable were these meditations for edric for he was too angry with the doctor's ill-timed candour to be inclined to speak and the doctor was too much ashamed of the effect already produced by his eloquence to wish to make any farther display of it
008167_7583_000061 holy osiris defend me where am i where have i been a misty veil seems thrown upon the face of nature
008167_7583_000062 had not your worship better call the other witnesses whispered the clerk pitying the dilemma of his principal true true said the lycurgus of anglo egypt your observation is premature young man when in the case had been proved against you it will be time enough for you to think of your defense
008167_7583_000063 i dare say there is no truth in the charge only assure me upon your honour that you did not touch the mummy and that you know nothing of what is become of it at present and i will instantly order you to be set at liberty
008167_7583_000064 take heed you do not forget your message by the way repeated sir ambrose smiling not all the waters of lethe could wash such somnifugous tidings from my memory replied the butler your honour's words are imprinted upon the mnemonic organ of my brain
008167_7583_000065 another confused murmur though very different in its character from the former ran through the court in the conclusion of this speech and the judge if such an expression be not profane when speaking of the representative of justice looked most excessively foolish
008167_7583_000066 edric bowed assent and the examination continued the guide was the next witness well samuel said the judge what do you know about this matter
008167_7583_000067 it is too dark for me to see any more said father morris who during this conversation had been watching the telegraph and now turned from it in despair the machine is still in motion but it is too dark for me to decipher what it means
008167_7583_000068 and the frothing liquid soon sparkled in a goblet to the infinite satisfaction of the thirsty butler who after a hearty draught vowed nectar itself was never half so delicious
008167_7583_000069 provided the gluten that forms a germ was properly separated in the preparation of the malt and the seed sufficiently germinated to convert the fecula into sugar i shall be perfectly satisfied i can guarantee the accuracy of its preparation both with regard to the malt and the beer repeated mrs russel
008167_7583_000070 after the dangerous and impious speech we have just heard said he it would be madness to trust such suspected persons at large and yet i would willingly take time to consider the case and to ascertain whether this young man be indeed the person he represents himself
008167_7583_000071 as i own i should be sorry to inflict the full penalty of the law upon the brother of her britannic majestys commander-in-chief remonstrance was useless and the prisoners were again conducted to their dungeon where they were heavily chained and left to ruminate upon the calamities that had befallen them
008167_7583_000072 and abelard go into the buttery and let my fellows give you something to eat you will want something after your fatigues there there that will do don't let us hinder a moment and the rest of his speech was lost in the air as the balloon floated majestically away
008167_7583_000073 shh said the duke besides continued abelard a saline secretion distills from my every pore of my skin in a serous transudation from the excessive exertions i have made use of
008167_7583_000074 the haste i have made has impeded my respiration and the blood finding the pulmonary artery free rushes with such force along the arterial canal to the aorta that that i am in imminent danger of being suffocated
008167_7583_000075 the duke was surprised to see him what brings you out so early abelard demanded he oh your grace replied the butler gasping for utterance
008167_7583_000076 i hope so too replied sir ambrose though he says nothing of himself but you know edmund our troops won this our army gained that the soldiers fought bravely he never speaks of himself to hear him relate a battle nobody would imagine he had ever had any thing to do with it
008167_7583_000077 we declared our purposes openly and we have affected no concealment we have done nothing we need to blush to avow a confused murmur ran through the court as he spoke expressive of the utmost disgust and abhorrence
008167_7583_000078 then slowly rising he looked at himself and a deep unnatural shuddering convulsed his whole frame his sensation of identity became confused and he recoiled with horror from himself these are the trappings of a mummy murmured he in a hollow whisper am i then dead
008167_7583_000079 he has taken their king and several of their princes prisoners and the fine province of france is cededly to us entirely i am rejoiced to hear it cried edric returning his fathers embrace with emotion and he i hope is safe
008167_7583_000080 taciturnity however upon some subject is i believe generally considered synonymous with prosperity and as master edmund to the best of my credence conveyed no information relative to his sanity in the communication made by him to his paternal ancestor
008167_7583_000081 at this moment the car of the balloon caught his eye ah what is that he cried i am summoned tis the boat of hecate ready for me to ferry across the maerian lake to learn my final doom
008167_7583_000082 what is that black spot over there i declare it moves good heavens what can it be really doctor returned abelard
008167_7583_000083 with either the art of making blunders or forgetting them said edric pointedly these hieroglyphics are very curious observed the doctor who had his own reasons for not wishing to pursue the subject
008167_7583_000084 looking around with something like fear at these alarming indications for his heated imagination had not yet quite recovered the effect of the awful speculations in which he had been so lately indulging
008167_7583_000085 the attention of all present was directed to the sky as he spoke it was indeed become of a pitchy blackness a general gloom seemed to hang over the face of nature the birds flew twittering from shelter
008167_7583_000086 don't abuse the patience of the court we have nothing to do with your dame or black pudding it is quite irrelevant to the matter now before us go on but samuel could not go on and like his predecessor in the witness box he only stood still and scratched his head why don't you speak fellow asked the clerk
008167_7583_000087 and what has occasioned these violent exertions the earnest desire experienced by sir ambrose to transmit with all the expedition possible to your grace the intelligence that he had just received
008167_7583_000088 and how is he abelard is the brave boy safe himself god bless him victory will be nothing to us if we are to lose him it occasions me excessive chargin replied abelard that i am totally unable to resolve that integratory to your grace's complete satisfaction
008167_7583_000089 begin with the pyramid said the judge and if you can give a clear account of all that happened after you left the old passage by the moveable block in the wall which was last discovered
008473_6838_000000 the fortunate jason as we know from euripides piously thanked the goddess and saw clearly that he was not at all obliged to medea jermyn was perhaps not aware of the precedent but thought out his own freedom from obligation
008473_6838_000001 you reckon up your sacrifices for me you have kept a good account of them and it is needful they are some of them that no one else could guess or find out
008473_6838_000002 the days passed without bringing him any gossip concerning esther's visit for such gossip was almost confined to mr lyon's congregation her church pupils miss louisa jermyn among them
008473_6838_000003 and then ask her to pay you back by breaking the last poor threads between her and her son i i do not ask it said jermyn with a certain asperity
008473_6838_000004 he doesn't mind about my feelings he cares more about mr transome than he does for me he will not listen to me any more than if i were an old ballad singer it's very hard on me i know said jermyn in the tone with which a man flings out a reproach
008473_6838_000005 but you made your sacrifices when they seemed pleasant to you when you told me they were your happiness when you told me that it was i who stooped and i who bestowed favors
008473_6838_000006 having been satisfied by her father's written statement that she was gone on a visit of uncertain duration but on this day of esther's call in malthouse yard
008473_6838_000007 but if you are imagining i can do anything pray dismiss the notion i have told him as plainly as i dare that i wish him to drop all public quarrel with you and that you could make an agreement without scandal i can do no more he will not listen to me
008473_6838_000008 the miss jermyns in their walk saw her getting into the transomes carriage which they had previously observed to be waiting and which they now saw bowled along on the road toward little treby it followed that only a few hours later the news reached the astonished ears of matthew jermyn
008473_6838_000009 he was beginning to find this intolerable the mere brute strength of a masculine creature rebelled he felt almost inclined to throttle the voice out of this woman you do ask it it is what you would like
008473_6838_000010 they are not so impudent to one another i would not lose the misery of being a woman now i see what can be the baseness of being a man one must be a man first to tell a woman that her love has made her your debtor
008473_6838_000011 jermyn was confounded by this hopeless frustration to which he had no key though he thought of christian the thought shed no light but the more fatal point was clear he held no secret that could help him you are aware that these chancery proceedings may ruin me he told me they would she said
008473_6838_000012 and the indebtedness of others towards him with a native faculty not inferior to jason's before three minutes had passed however as if by some sorcery the brilliant smiling young woman above the mantelpiece seemed to be appearing at the doorway
008473_6838_000013 but a mind in the grasp of a terrible anxiety is not credulous of easy solutions the one stay that bears up our hopes is sure to appear frail and if looked at long will seem to totter
008473_6838_000014 with an intensification of his previous tone rising and walking a step or two then turning and laying his hand on the back of the chair of course the law in this case can't in the least represent the justice of the matter
008473_6838_000015 i made a good many sacrifices in time past i gave up a great deal of fine business for the sake of attending to the family affairs and in that lawsuit they would have gone to rack and ruin if it hadn't been for me
008473_6838_000016 i didn't know what i felt the horror of his not knowing the truth i might have been dragged at last by my own feeling by my own memory to tell him all and make him as well as myself miserable to save you again there was a slight tremor as if at the remembrance of womanly tenderness and pity
008473_6838_000017 he moved away again laid down his hat which he had been previously holding and thrust his hands into his pockets as he returned mrs transome sat motionless as marble and almost as pale
008473_6838_000018 i besought you three months ago to bear anything rather than quarrel with him she said i have not quarrelled with him it is he who has always been seeking a quarrel with me i have borne a great deal more than anyone else would he set his teeth against me from the first
008473_6838_000019 swiftly upon these last words she passed out of the room the softly padded door closed behind her making no noise and jermyn found himself alone
008473_6838_000020 though of course it was important that his english and french should be carefully attended to from the first jermyn hearing this suggestion was not without a momentary hope that it might be true and that harold was still safely unconscious of having under the same roof with him the legal claimant of the family estate
008473_6838_000021 i have had a terror on me lest evil should happen to you from the first after harold came home i had a terrible dread it seemed as if murder might come between you
008473_6838_000022 ignorant too of some busy motives in the mind of his obliged servant johnson jermyn was not likely to see at once how the momentous information that esther was the surviving bycliffe could possibly have reached harold
008473_6838_000023 entirely ignorant of those converging indications and small links of incident which had raised christian's conjectures and had gradually contributed to put him in possession of the facts
008473_6838_000024 his daughters naturally leaped as others had done to the conclusion that the transomes seeking a governess for little harry had had their choice directed to esther and observed that they must have attracted her by a high salary to induce her to take charge of such a small pupil
008473_6838_000025 but immediately she launched forth again but now you have asked me i will never tell him be ruined no do something more dastardly to save yourself if i sinned my judgment went beforehand that i should sin for a man like you
008473_6838_000026 for a brief space he stood still human beings in moments of passionate reproach and denunciation especially when their anger is on their own account are never so wholly in the right that the person who has come to wince cannot possibly protest against some unreasonableness
008473_6838_000027 her hands lay crossed on her knees this man young slim graceful with a selfishness which then took the form of homage to her had at one time kneeled to her kissed those hands fervently
008473_6838_000028 withered and frosted by many winters with lips and eyes from which the smile had departed jermyn advanced and they shook hands but neither of them said anything by way of greeting
008473_6838_000029 i told you everything at the time i told you i was very uneasy about those witnesses and about getting him thrown into prison i know it's the blackest thing anybody could charge me with if they knew my life from the beginning to the end
008473_6838_000030 he saw quite clearly what was likely to be the result of the disclosure not only would harold transome be no longer afraid of him germyn but also by marrying esther
008473_6838_000031 too much depended on that unconsciousness of harold's and although jermyn did not see the course of things that could have disclosed and combined the various items of knowledge which he had imagined to be his own secret and therefore his safeguard
008473_6838_000032 or unfairness in their outburst and if jermyn had been capable of feeling that he would had thoroughly merited this infliction he would not have uttered the words that drew it down on him
008473_6838_000033 what jermyn felt about mrs transome when she disappeared was that she was a furious woman who would not do what he wanted her to do and he was supported as to his justifiableness by the inward repetition of what he had already said to her
008473_6838_000034 and she had thought there was a poetry in such passion beyond any to be found in everyday domesticity i stretched my conscience a good deal in that affair of bycliffe as you know very well he said
008473_6838_000035 and jermyn at once felt sure of this issue would be triumphantly freed from any unpleasant consequences and could pursue much of his ease the gratification of ruining matthew jermyn
008473_6838_000036 men do not become penitent and learn to abhor themselves by having their backs cut open with the lash rather they learn to abhor the lash
008473_6838_000037 he rose too and laid his hand on the back of the chair he had grown visibly paler but seemed about to speak don't speak she said peremptorily don't open your lips again you have said enough i will speak now
008473_6838_000038 the prevision of an enemy's triumphant ease is in any case sufficiently irritating to hatred and there were reasons why it was peculiarly exasperating here
008473_6838_000039 still more that his self-vindication to mrs transome would be like the exhibition of a brand mark and only show that he was shame proof there is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind
008473_6838_000040 the greater mistake was mine egoism is usually stupid in a dialogue but jermyn's did not make him so stupid that he did not feel the edge of mrs transome's words they increased his irritation i hardly see that he replied with a slight laugh of scorn
008473_6838_000041 a man who had stolen the pyx and got frightened when justice was at his heels might feel the sort of penitence which would induce him to run back in the dark and lay the pyx where the sexton might find it
008473_6838_000042 and i should never have done it if i had not been under an infatuation such as makes a man do anything what did it signify to me about the loss of the lawsuit i was a young bachelor i had the world before me
008473_6838_000043 but a ruin in detail which his thoughts painted out with the sharpest ugliest intensity man of sixty with an unsuspicious wife and daughters capable of shrieking and fainting at a sudden revelation
008473_6838_000044 and of looking at him reproachfully in their daily misery under a shabby lot to which he had reduced them with a mind and with habits dried hard by the years
008473_6838_000045 with no glimpse of an endurable standing ground except where he could domineer and be prosperous according to the ambitions of pushing middle class gentility
008473_6838_000046 it was right that harold should know the truth he did not take into account how should he the exasperation and loathing excited by his daring to urge the plea of right
008473_6838_000047 indeed one often seems to see why the saints should prefer candles to words especially from penitents whose skin is in danger some salt of generosity would have made jermyn conscious that he had lost the citizenship which authorized him to plead the right
008473_6838_000048 but if in doing so he whispered to the blessed virgin that he was moved by considering the sacredness of all property and the peculiar sacredness of the pyx it is not to be believed that she would like him the better for it
008473_6838_000049 but jermyn had not the leisure now for mere fruitless emotion he had to think of a possible device which might save him from imminent ruin not an indefinite adversity
008473_6838_000050 you had an estate and a position to save to go no farther i remember very well what you said to me you said a clever lawyer can do anything if he has the will if it's impossible he will make it possible and the property is sure to be harold's someday
008473_6838_000051 i had to think of you you would not have liked me to make another choice then clearly said mrs transome with concentrated bitterness but still quietly
008473_6838_000052 and never recriminate but these things which are easy to discern when they are painted for us on the large canvas of a poetic story become confused and obscure even for well read gentlemen
008473_6838_000053 he was a baby back then i remember most things a little too well she said you had better say at once what is your object in recalling them
008473_6838_000054 i had often immense trouble to raise the money necessary to pay off the debts and to carry on the affairs and as i said before i had given up other lines of employment which would have been open to me if i had not stayed in this neighborhood at a critical time when i was fresh to the world
008473_6838_000055 so many things were more distinctly visible to him and touched him more acutely than the effect of his acts or words on mrs transome's feelings in fact he asked with a touch of something that makes us all akin
008473_6838_000056 it is chiefly in showing them that their own case has subtle distinctions from all others which should free them from unmitigated condemnation and it was in this way with matthew jermyn
008473_6838_000057 or that will leave him with money in his pocket to the humiliation and hardship of new servitude in old age shabby hat and a melancholy hearth where the firing must be used charily
008473_6838_000058 and the women look sad but though a man may be willing to escape through a sewer a sewer with an outlet into the dry air is not always at hand running away especially when spoken of as absconding seems at a distance to offer a good modern substitute for the right of sanctuary
008473_6838_000059 anybody who knew the whole circumstances would have said my being hunted and run down on the score of my past transactions with regard to family affairs is an abominably unjust and unnatural thing
008473_6838_000060 when their affection for themselves is alarmed by pressing details of actual experience if their comparison of instances is active at such times
008473_6838_000061 such a man is likely to find the prospect of worldly ruin ghastly enough to drive him to the most uninviting means of escape he will probably prefer any private scorn that will save him from public
008473_6838_000062 an object is said that is nothing more than justice with the relation i stood in it was not likely i should think myself bound by all the forms that are made to bind strangers
008473_6838_000063 he paused a moment and then added at my time of life and with a family about me and after what has passed i should have thought there was nothing you would care more to prevent
008473_6838_000064 i do care it makes me miserable that is the extent of my power to feel miserable no it is not the extent of your power you could save me if you would it is not to be supposed that harold would go on against me if he knew
008473_6838_000065 as he was moving his arm from the chair-back and turning to take his hat there was a boisterous noise at the entrance hall the door of the drawing room which had closed without latching
008473_6838_000066 the hazaels of our world who are pushed on quickly against their preconceived confidence in themselves to do doglike actions by the sudden suggestion of a wicked ambition are much fewer than those who are led on through years by gradual demands of a selfishness
008473_6838_000067 the whole truth jermyn had sat down before he uttered the last words he had lowered his voice slightly he had the air of one who thought that he had much prepared the way for an understanding that a man with so much sharpness with so much suavity
008473_6838_000068 requesting her to appoint an hour at which he could see her privately he knew she would understand that it was to be an hour when harold was not at home as he sealed the letter he indulged a faint hope that in this interview he might be assured of esther's birth being unknown at transome court
008473_6838_000069 i have made sacrifices too but it was when i knew that they were not my happiness it was after i saw that i had stooped after i saw that your tenderness had turned to calculation after i saw that you cared for yourself only not for me
008473_6838_000070 but in the worst case perhaps some help might be found in mrs transome to such uses may tender relations come when they have ceased to be tender
008473_6838_000071 missus transome seated herself and pointed to a chair opposite harold has gone to loamford she said in a subdued voice you had something particular to say to me
008473_6838_000072 at command a man who piqued himself on his persuasiveness towards women should behave just as jermyn did on this occasion would be surprising but for the constant experience that temper and selfish insensibility will defeat excellent gifts
008473_6838_000073 which has spread its fibres far and wide through the intricate vanities and sordid cares of an everyday existence in consequence of that letter to mrs transome jermyn was two days afterwards ushered into the smaller drawing room at transome court
008473_6838_000074 was pushed open and old mister transome appeared with a face of feeble delight playing horse to little harry who roared and flogged behind him while moro the dog yapped in a puppy voice at their heels but when mr transome saw jermyn in the room he stood still in the doorway
008473_6838_000075 was it not preposterous this excess of feeling on points which he himself did not find powerfully moving she had treated him most unreasonably it would have been right for her to do what he had
008473_6838_000076 and you expect me to tell him she said not loudly but yet with a clear metallic ring in her voice would it not be right for him to know he said in a more bland and persuasive tone than he had yet used
008473_6838_000077 as jermyn sitting down and leaning forward with an elbow on his knee uttered his last words if he knew the whole truth
008473_6838_000078 will make a sensible person shout when shouting is out of place and will make a polished man rude when his polish might be of eminent use to him
008473_6838_000079 as if he did not know whether entrance was permissible the majority of his thoughts were but raveled threads of the past the attorney came forward to shake hands with due politeness but the old man said with a bewildered look and in a hesitating way
008473_6838_000080 a slight shock seemed to pass through mrs transome's hitherto motionless body followed by a sudden light in her eyes as in an animal about to spring
008473_6838_000081 it was a charming little room in its refurbished condition it had two pretty inlaid cabinets great china vases with contents that sent forth odors of paradise
008473_6838_000082 he could not help seeing many memories lit up by it but the strong bent of his mind was to go on arguing against each memory into a claim and to see in the regard others had for him a merit of his own there had been plenty of roads open to him when he was a young man
008473_6838_000083 that brilliant young woman looked down smilingly on jermyn as he passed in front of the fire and at present hers was the only gaze in the room he could not help meeting the gaze as he waited holding his hat behind him
008473_6838_000084 groups of flowers in oval frames on the walls and mrs transome's own portrait in the evening costume of the year of eighteen hundred with a garden in the background
008473_6838_000085 her hands hung beside her clenched tightly her eyes and lips lost the helpless repressed bitterness of discontent and seemed suddenly fed with energy
008473_6838_000086 i heard your explanations of your duty in life of our mutual reputation of a virtuous young lady attached to you
008473_6838_000087 yes said jermyn with his soft and deferential air the last time i was here i could not take the opportunity of speaking to you but i am anxious to know whether you are aware of what had passed between hereward and me
008473_6838_000088 perhaps if he had not allowed himself to be determined chiefly of course by the feelings of others for of what effect could his own feelings have been without them into the road he actually took
008473_6838_000089 perhaps some of the most terrible irony of the human lot is this of a deep truth coming to be uttered by lips that have no right to use it i will never tell him she said starting up her whole frame thrilling with a passion that seemed almost to make her young again
008473_6838_000090 he might have done better for himself at any rate he was likely at last to get the worst of it and it was he who had the most reason to complain
008473_6838_000091 i bore it i let everything go i shut my eyes i might almost have let myself starve rather than have scenes of quarrel with the man i had loved in which i must accuse him of turning my love into a good bargain
008473_6838_000092 yea it becomes a man to cherish memory where he had delight for kindness is the natural birth of kindness he whose soul records not the great debt of joy is stamped forever an ignoble man quotation from ajax by sophocles
008728_7499_000000 she does not think of me at all he said sitting down again and facing mrs barclay with an earnest face she hardly knows me her attention has been taken up i fancy with another suitor
008728_7499_000001 i want you to tell me what i shall do what hinders you making up your own mind it's made up long ago then act on it what hinders you i don't see what i've got to do with that
008728_7499_000002 dillwyn took the divan and mrs barclay took the chair dillwyn looked around him i should never dream of pitying the person who can be contented here he said why the mental composition must be so admirable
008728_7499_000003 mrs marx from this time took upon herself the post of head nurse lois was free to go out as much as she pleased yet she made less use of the freedom than might have been expected and still confined herself unnecessarily to the sick room
008728_7499_000004 whether the words had moved her lois could not tell or whether it was the power of her own affection and sympathy mrs barclay did not speak and lois did not dare add another word
008728_7499_000005 i do not speak with certainty said philip but i think i know of a place that would suit you good air pleasant country comfortable quarters and moderate charges if you went there there is work where is it
008728_7499_000006 mrs barclay did look with a little curiosity at the words lois held before her but then she put down the book and took the girl in her arms holding her close and laying her own head on lois' shoulder
008728_7499_000007 look here i am the bread of life he that cometh unto me shall never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst this is the bread which cometh down from heaven that man may eat thereof and not die not die of weariness nor of anything else
008728_7499_000008 tom had guided her upstairs and along a gallery and now indicated the door of lois's room lois was quite glad to see her aunt as tom had supposed she would be aunty whatever has brought you here to the isles of shoals
008728_7499_000009 another suitor you are not going to be quixote enough to educate a wife for another man no the other man is out of the way and makes no more pretension
008728_7499_000010 so days went on and then something happened to relieve both parties of the efforts they were making a very strange thing to happen at the isles of shoals misses wishart was taken seriously ill
008728_7499_000011 not to see the isles you may bet i've come to look after you why i'm well enough but it's very good of you no it ain't for i wanted an excuse to see what the place is like you haven't grown thin yet what's all the folks about that they let you do all the nursing
008728_7499_000012 mrs marx do you think she would have me if i asked her as a friend won't you tell me i don't see why i should if i knew which i don't i don't see how it could be a friend's part why should i tell you supposin' that i could
008728_7499_000013 which was true no doubt or mr lenox himself would join them and turn everything tom said into banter until lois could not help laughing though she was yet vexed
008728_7499_000014 will be high enough and then you may leave a space of eight or ten feet on that side from the window to window without any yes that'll be kind of lopsided won't it i always likes to see things samely what'll you do with all that space of emptiness it'll look awful bare
008728_7499_000015 and what does lois find here to delight her everything said tom with enthusiasm i was with her the first time she came to this corner of the island
008728_7499_000016 not go you are not well inquired lois anxiously i am quite well too well but something is the matter
008728_7499_000017 on the connecticut shore far down the sound not too far from new york though perfectly accessible who lives there it is a new england village and you know what those are broad grassy streets shadowy old elms and comfortable houses and the sea not far off
008728_7499_000018 and it was a lesson to see her delight the old cellars and the old stones and the graves and then the short green turf that grows among them and the flowers and weeds what i call weeds who know no better but miss lois tried to make me see the beauty of the sumach and all the rest of it
008728_7499_000019 why don't you go her aunt remonstrated seems to me you ain't so dreadful fond of the isles of shoals after all if one could be alone sighed lois but there is always a pack at my heels alone is that what you're after i thought half the fun was to see the folks
008728_7499_000020 how did he show his folly mrs barclay asked well it's a story lois knows he was dreadfully sot on a little grandchild he had his children was all dead and he had just this one left and she was a little girl
008728_7499_000021 to that there door where the mouse was and they say he made a terrible rumpus when he couldn't find it but arter that the spell was broke like and he lived pretty much as other folks did you say six feet
008728_7499_000022 that's well written but a man can't read all the world he went on and as he laid it out of his hands again much study is a weariness to the flesh arter all i don't suppose a man'd be no wiser if he'd read all you've got here the biggest fool i ever knowed was the man that had read the most
008728_7499_000023 i've had it for a long while i came here because i heard she was coming i have lost my heart to her mrs marx ah what are you going to do about it or what can i do about it lost hearts can't be picked up under every bush
008728_7499_000024 and then julia would come to learn a crochet stitch or mrs caruthers would call her to remedy a fault in her knitting or to hold her wool to be wound refusing to let mr lenox do it under the plea that lois did it better
008728_7499_000025 i'll put something else there what do you suppose the white mouse had to do with your old gentleman's seclusion seclusion living shut up you mean why don't ye see he believed the mouse was the spirit of the child leastways the spirit of the child was in it
008728_7499_000026 i don't see why that's good for them shouldn't be good for you that need be no hindrance tom urged well i don know i guess lois would think it was and maybe you would think it was too come to find out i guess you'd better let things be mr caruthers
008728_7499_000027 quiet and good air and people with their intelligence alive there is even a library and among these comfortable inhabitants who would want to be troubled with me
008728_7499_000028 tom looked gloomy you think she would not have me he repeated i think you'll get over it said mrs marx rising and i think you better find somebody that will suit your mother and sister
008728_7499_000029 mrs barclay was sitting in her easy-chair before the fire doing nothing and upon receipt of this information turned a very shadowed face towards the bringer of it what will you say to me if after all your aunt's kindness in asking me i do not go
008728_7499_000030 but in other need as great and as terrible and i know and everyone else who has ever tried knows that the lord keeps his word how have you tried mrs barclay asked abstractedly
008728_7499_000031 a table covered with books and papers hanging shelves with more books a work basket a trunk converted into a divan by a cushion and a chintz cover and a rocking chair about filled that space
008728_7499_000032 true and there is another work time does sometimes he sometimes draws forth a treasure from underneath the encumbering rubbish that hid it and lets it appear for the gold it is philip you have never lost your heart to one of these girls said mrs barclay with an expression of real and grave anxiety
008728_7499_000033 a pretty face and a pink cheek said mrs barclay with half a groan you are all alike you men now we women philip is the thing mutual already does she think of you as you think of her
008728_7499_000034 nothing new dear missus barclay can i help you i do not think you can i'm tired lois tired oh that is spending so much time giving lessons to madge and me i am so sorry
008728_7499_000035 i needed the forgiveness of sin said lois letting her voice fall a little and deliverance from it you asked mrs barclay i was as unhappy as anybody could be until i got it
008728_7499_000036 not exactly but your words mean that they are not intended to convey such a meaning why should they because if they do not mean that your plan is utterly wild and extravagant and if they do then what
008728_7499_000037 well now i'm here you go off do you like this queer place i want to know aunty it's just perfectly delightful is it i don't see it maybe i will by and by now go off lois
008728_7499_000038 do go downstairs and see the people she said or take your kind aunt lois and show her the wonders of appledore is all the world gone yet
008728_7499_000039 they are all as well as fishes every one of them mrs marx kept her peace and let things go their train for a few days more mrs wishart still gave her and lois a good deal to do
008728_7499_000040 you see when he got back from the funeral the first thing his eyes lit on was that ere white mouse and it was white you see and that ain't a common colour for a mouse and when it got into his head and couldn't get it out that that was ella's spirit it might have been for all i can say but after that day it was gone
008728_7499_000041 but you know better than that mr midgin said lois well i don't maybe you do lois but according to my lights i don't know you'll have 'em walnut won't you that'll look more like furniture
008728_7499_000042 but what shall i tell him to go about his business and come new year's or next fourth of july you do not want to see him now said lois hastily but mrs barclay roused herself and begged that he might come in it is the carpenter i suppose said she
008728_7499_000043 are you coming the wagon's here lois said madge opening the door is mrs barclay ready will be in two minutes replied the lady yes mr midgin let them be walnut and good evening
008728_7499_000044 suppose it no harm will be done as i never had any fancy whatever before perhaps your second alternative is hardly likely the other i must risk and you must watch against mrs barclay shook her head but the end was she yielded
008728_7499_000045 nobody was in danger of saying too many words to lois now nobody could get a chance she was only seen by glimpses how long is this sort of thing going on inquired mr lenox one afternoon he and julia had been spending a very unrefreshing hour on the piazza doing nothing
008728_7499_000046 she had not been quite well when she came and she always afterwards maintained that the air did not agree with her lois thought it could not be the air and must be some imprudence but however it was the fact was undoubted
008728_7499_000047 oh they do not care for the things i care for the sea is nothing to them and the rocks less than nothing and instead of being quiet they talk nonsense or what seems nonsense to me and i'd as leave be at home
008728_7499_000048 then what tires you mrs barclay lois's face showed unaffected anxiety mrs barclay gave the hand she held a little squeeze it's nothing new my child she said with a faint smile i'm tired of life
008728_7499_000049 mr midgin was a tall loose-jointed large-featured man with an undecided cast of countenance and slow movements which fit oddly to his big frame and powerful muscles he wore his working suit which hung about him in a flabby way and entered mrs barclay's room with his hat on
008728_7499_000050 no it was something the seeds of which she had brought with her and the strong sea air had developed reasoning that lois did not understand but she understood nursing and she gave herself to it night and day there was a sudden relief to miss julia's watch and ward
008728_7499_000051 looking at the girl as she spoke she saw how unable her listener's mind was to comprehend her lois looked puzzled you do not know what i mean she said hardly
008728_7499_000052 the shortest way would be to ask her yes but you see i can't get a chance miss lothrop is always up-stairs in that sick-room and if she comes down my sister or my mother or somebody is sure to be running after her
008728_7499_000053 perhaps they are afraid you will do something imprudent if you do not take care that's what they call it in their ridiculous ways of looking at things mrs marx i wish people had sense perhaps they are right perhaps they have sense and it would be imprudent
008728_7499_000054 it couldn't be the air he answered no one ever got sick at the isles of shoals was it some imprudence couldn't be he said there was no way in which she could be imprudent and she could not help living a natural life at appledore
008728_7499_000055 i hope you never will it's a miserable feeling it is like what i fancy a withered autumn leaf is feeling if it were a sentient and an intelligent thing of no use to the branch which holds it fresh and power gone no reason for existence left
008728_7499_000056 rejected and how do you know all of this so accurately because he told me now have you done with objections philip this is a very blind business you may send me to this place and i may do my best
008728_7499_000057 its work all done only i never did any work and was never of any particular use ohh you cannot mean that cried lois much troubled and perplexed
008728_7499_000058 soothing and comforting of the nerves aids to thought powerful helps to good humour something to do there now you have it philip you're talking nonsense your nerves are as steady and as sound as a granite mountain
008728_7499_000059 besides you said mrs marx yes besides me perhaps they don't want to let you have her all to yourself that's the disagreeable truth said tom in a burst of vexed candour
008728_7499_000060 you think the child's spirit might have been in the mouse who knows i never say nothin i don't know nor deny nothin i do know ain't that a good principle
008728_7499_000061 they were still wrapped in each other's arms and one or two of lois's tears wet the other woman's cheek and there was no movement made by either of them until the door was suddenly opened and they sprang apart
008728_7499_000062 well some of them said lois but as sure as i go out to have a good time with the rocks and the sea as i like to have it there comes first one and then another and then another and maybe a fourth and the game is up why i don't see how they should spoil it
008728_7499_000063 missus marx laughed out i mean said tom she's so quiet and steady and she don't talk and she don't let one see what she thinks i think she must know that i like her but i have not the least idea whether she likes me
008728_7499_000064 she's the only person that knows anything about it tom pulled his moustache right and left in a worried manner have you asked her haven't had a ghost of a chance since i've been here cried the young man and she isn't like other girls she won't give a fellow a bit of help
008728_7499_000065 not the people themselves yes i know the people so far as one specimen goes i fancy they are people you could get along with mrs barclay looked a little scrutinizingly at the young man his face revealing nothing more than friendly solicitude
008728_7499_000066 a household of women the mother and father are dead the grandmother is there yet and there are three daughters they are relations of an old friend of mine indeed a connection of mine in the city so i know something about them
008728_7499_000067 and you may spend your money and at the end of it all she may marry someone else or which is quite on the cards you may get another fancy well said he
008728_7499_000068 but he caught the look and broke out suddenly with a change of subject how do you women get along without cigars what is your substitute what does the cigar to you represent
008728_7499_000069 it's nothing of the kind said mrs barclay stretching out her hand to take one of lois' which she retained in her own if anything would take away this tired feeling it's just that lois nothing refreshes me so much or does me so much good
008728_7499_000070 hat and all his head made a sudden jerk of salutation to the lady good afternoon said he sun'thin i can do here yes mr midgin i left word for you three days ago said lois
008728_7499_000071 what they go for then i don't know i think they do not know what to do with themselves what do they stay here for then for pity's sake if they are tired why don't they go away i can't tell that is what i've asked myself a great many times
008728_7499_000072 i think i know i think i know just the house where your coming would be a boon they are not very well-to-do i have not asked but i am inclined to believe they would be glad to have you who are they
008728_7499_000073 here's mr midgin announced the voice of miss charity shall he come in or ain't there time of all things why can't folks choose convenient times for doing what they have to do it passes me but it's because it's a sinful world i suppose
008728_7499_000074 mrs wishart was ill and the doctor who was fetched over from portsmouth to see her said she could not be moved and must be carefully nursed was it the air
008728_7499_000075 though her ailments aroused no anxiety after those few days mrs marx spoke again what keeps you so mum she said to lois why don't you talk as other folks do i hardly see them you know except at meals
008728_7499_000076 you're fond of reading mr midgin said mrs barclay well i think so but what's in 'em all he came forward into the room and picked a volume from the table mrs barclay watched him he opened the book and stood still eagerly scanning the page for a minute or two
008728_7499_000077 but here's truth and sacrifice and i don't know what all hope and love i suspect wall them's good lamps to light up anything by only i don't make out whatever they can have to do with buildings
008728_7499_000078 no not a farthing seriously don't you think we might mend our quarters you can said tom of course i can't go while mrs wishart is sick
008728_7499_000079 it sounds a good deal like that lois assented they go on just as if you wasn't there and why shouldn't they because you are there i am nothing to them said lois quietly nothing to them you're worth the whole lot
008728_7499_000080 they do not think so and politeness is politeness i sometimes think said lois that politeness is rudeness well i wouldn't let myself be put in a corner so if i was you
008728_7499_000081 do go down mrs marx and take a walk and see if he's caught anything lois would not go along she told her aunt what to look for and which way to take and said she would sit still with mrs wishart and keep her amused
008728_7499_000082 that's what they say they seem to take sort o' hard that tom's so fond o' appledore mrs wishart was silent a minute and then she smiled he spends most of his time trollin for bluefish mrs marx went on ah i dare say
008728_7499_000083 why mrs marx i am sure you have sense i have plenty to live upon and live as i like there is no difficulty in my case about ways and means
008728_7499_000084 the room where he awaited her was one of those dismal places a public parlour in a boarding-house of second or third rank respectable but forlorn nothing was ragged or untidy but nothing either had the least look of home comfort or home privacy
008728_7499_000085 impossible to say i'm rather tired of it how long has mrs wishart been laid up now a week and she has no idea of being moved well are we fixtures too
008728_7499_000086 and she couldn't said mrs marx well i can't the noise of the sea and the sight of it eternally breaking here upon the rocks would drive me out of my mind i believe after a while and yet mrs marx sat down on a turfy bank and looked contentedly about her
008728_7499_000087 never mind that verse she said beginning again it's the next do you remember my good right hand forgets its cunning now to march the weary march i know not how
008728_7499_000088 you can think without help of any extraneous kind your good-humour is quite as fair as most people's but-you do want something to do i cannot bear to have you waste your life in smoke be it never so fragrant
008728_7499_000089 i don't care about appledore it's the fishing tom i may remark had been a good deal out in a fishing boat during this past week that's glorious but you don't care for fishing old boy oh don't i
008728_7499_000090 why don't you talk at meal times that's what i'm askin' about you can talk as well as anybody and you sit as mum as a stick aunty they all talk about things i do not understand then i'd talk about something they do not understand two can play at that game
008728_7499_000091 what would you have me do anything so you were hard at work and doing work there is nothing for me to do that cannot be she said shaking her head propose something
008862_10240_000000 judge me o lord and prove my ways and try my reins and try my heart my faith upon thy promise stays nor from thy law my feet depart
008862_10240_000001 in zion is his throne his honours are divine his church shall make his wonders known for there his glories shine how holy is his name how terrible his praise justice and truth and judgment join in all his works of grace
008862_10240_000002 i love thy habitation lord the temple where thine honour dwell they shall hear thine holy word and there thy works of wonder tell let not my soul be join'd at last with men of treachery and blood since i my days
008862_10325_000000 where shall we go for our garlands glad at the falling of the year when the burnt up banks are yellow and sad when the boughs are yellow and sere
008862_10456_000000 as for the gall it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes and he shall be healed and when they were come near to workers the angel said to the young man brother to day we shall lodge with raguel who is thy cousin he also hath one only daughter named sara
008862_10456_000001 my son be mindful of the lord our god all thy days and let not thy will be set to sin or to transgress his commandments do uprightly all thy life long and follow not the ways of unrighteousness
008862_10456_000002 and raguel said to tobias eat and drink and make merry for it is meet that thou shouldest marry my daughter nevertheless i will declare unto thee the truth i have given my daughter in marriage to seven men who died that night they came in unto her nevertheless for the present be merry
008862_10456_000003 so he called him and he came in and they saluted one another then tobit said unto him brother show me of what tribe and family thou art
008862_10456_000004 those that exercise alms and righteousness shall be filled with life but they that sin are enemies to their own life surely i will keep close nothing from you for i said it was good to keep close the secret of a king but that it was honourable to reveal the works of god
008862_10456_000005 now therefore when thou didst say and sara thy daughter-in-law i did bring the remembrance of your prayers before the holy one and when thou didst bury the dead i was with thee likewise
008862_10456_000006 then tobit said thou art welcome brother be not now angry with me because i have enquired to know thy tribe and thy family for thou art my brother of an honest and good stock
008862_10456_000007 because the alms do deliver from death and suffer with not to come into darkness the alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most high
008862_10456_000008 and when thou didst not delay to rise up and leave thy dinner to go and cover the dead thy good deed was not hid from me but i was with thee and now god hath sent me to heal thee and sara thy daughter-in-law
008862_10456_000009 chapter fourteen so tobit made an end of praising god and he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight which was restored to him after eight years and he gave alms and he increased in the fear of the lord god and praised him
008862_10456_000010 and the face of god shall not be turned away from thee if thou hast abundance give alms accordingly if thou have but a little be not afraid to give according to that little that thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity
008862_10456_000011 and when he came near to sara his daughter-in-law he blessed her saying thou art welcome daughter god be blessed which hath brought thee unto us and blessed be thy father and thy mother and there was joy among all his brethren which were at nineve
008862_10456_000012 and when he was very aged he called his son and the sons of his son and said to him my son take thy children for behold i am aged and am ready to depart out of this life going to medea my son for i surely believe those things which jonas the prophet spake of nineve
008862_10456_000013 to whom the angel said i will go with thee and i know the way well for i have lodged with our brother gabriel then tobias said unto him tarry for me till i tell my father
008862_10456_000014 but he said unto them fear not for it shall go well with you praise god therefore for not of any favour of mine but by the will of our god i came wherefore praise him forever
008862_10456_000015 this shalt be overthrown and that for a time peace shall rather be in media and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land
008862_10456_000016 then raphael said to tobias thou knowest brother how thou didst leave thy father let us haste before thy wife and prepare the house
008862_10456_000017 then he said unto him go and tarry not so he went in and said to his father behold i have found one which will go with me then he said call him unto me that i may know of what tribe he is and whether he be a trusty man to go with thee
008862_10456_000018 i am raphael one of the seven holy angels which present the prayers of the saints and which go in and out before the glory of the holy one then they were both troubled and fell upon their faces for they feared
008862_10456_000019 i will speak for her that she may be given thee for a wife forty feet doth the right of her appertain seeing thou only art of her kindred
008862_10456_000020 and despise not thy mother but honour her all the days of thy life and do that which shall please her and grieve her not remember my son that she saw many dangers for thee when thou wast in her womb and when she is dead bury her by me in one grave
008862_10456_000021 and jerusalem shall be desolate and the house of god in it shall be burned and shall be desolate for a time and that again god will have mercy on them and bring them again into the land where they shall build a temple but not like to the first until the end of the age be fulfilled
008862_10456_000022 for if thou deal truly thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee and all them that live justly give alms of thy substance and when thou givest alms let not thine eye be envious neither turn thy face from any poor
008862_10456_000023 remember my son that our fathers from the beginning even that they all married wives of their own kindred and were blessed in their children and their seeds shall inherit the land
008862_10456_000024 now therefore my son love thy brethren and despise not in thy heart thy brethren the sons and daughters of thy people in not taking a wife of them for in pride is destruction and much trouble and lewdness is decay and great want for lewdness is the mother of famine
008862_10456_000025 so shall all nations praise the lord and his people shall confess god and the lord shall exalt his people and all those which love the lord god in truth and justice shall rejoice showing mercy to our brethren
008862_10456_000026 and bury me decently and thy mother with me but tarry no longer at nineve remember my son how aman handled achiacharus that brought him up
008862_10456_000027 beware of all whoredom my son and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers and take not a strange woman to wife which is not of thy father's tribe for we are the children of the prophets noah abraham isaac and jacob
008862_10456_000028 yea moreover if ye return safe i will add something to thy wages so they were well pleased then said he to tobias prepare thyself for the journey and god send you a good journey
008862_10456_000029 remember me and look on me punish me not for my sins and ignorances and the sins of my fathers who have sinned before thee for they obeyed not thy commandments
008862_10456_000030 and when his son had prepared all things for the journey his father said go thou with this man and god which dwelleth in heaven prosper your journey and the angel of god keep you company
008862_10456_000031 and she said with him a man so they slept both that night and raguel arose and went and made a grave saying i fear lest he also be dead
008862_10456_000032 be circumspect my son in all things thou doest and be wise in all thy conversation do that to no man which thou hatest drink not wine to make thee drunken neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey
008862_10456_000033 so they went forth both and the young man's dog with them then his mother wept and said to tobit why hast thou sent away our son is he not the staff of our hand in going in and out before us
008862_10456_000034 my brother thou art of a good stock but tell me what wages shall i give thee wilt thou a drachm a day and things necessary as to mine own son
008862_10456_000035 and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity and build up jerusalem gloriously and the house of god shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building as the prophets have spoken thereof and all nations shall turn and fear the lord god truly and shall bury the idols
008862_10456_000036 let not the wages of any man which hath wrought for thee tarry with thee but give him it out of hand for if thou serve god he will also repay thee
008862_10456_000037 and now my son depart out of nineve because that those things which the prophet jonas spake shall surely come to pass bequeath thou the law and the commandments and show thyself merciful and just that it may go well with thee
008862_10456_000038 chapter three then i being grieved did weep and in my sorrow prayed saying oh lord thou art just and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth and thou judgest truly and justly forever
008862_10456_000039 how out of light he brought them into darkness and how he rewarded him again yet achiacharus was saved but the other had his reward for he went down to darkness
008862_10456_000040 all these days i did appear unto you but i did neither eat nor drink but ye did the fishing now therefore give god thanks for i go up to him that sent me but write all things which are done in a book and when they arose they saw him no more
008862_10456_000041 them came mankind thou hast said it is not good that man should be alone let us make unto him an aid like unto himself and now o lord i take not this my sister for lush but uprightly therefore mercifully ordain that we may become aged together
008862_10456_000042 when raguel was come into his house in the interest of anna send one of the maids and let her see whether he be alive if he be not then we may bury him and no man know it
008862_10456_000043 so the maid opened the door and went in and found them both asleep and came forth and told them that he was alive then raguel praised god and said o god thou art worthy to be praised with all pure and holy praise
008862_10456_000044 take no care my sister he shall return in safety and thine eyes shall see him for the good angel will keep him company and his journey shall be prosperous and he shall return safe then she made an end of weeping
008862_10456_000045 grant them mercy o lord and finish their life in health with joy and mercy then raguel bade his servants to fill the grave and he kept the wedding feast fourteen days
008862_10456_000046 therefore let thy saints praise thee with all thy creatures and let all thine angels and thine elect praise thee forever thou art to be praised for thou hast made me joyful
008862_10456_000047 and now thy judgments are many and true deal with me according to my sins and my fathers because we have not kept thy commandments neither have walked in truth before thee
008862_10456_000048 for before the days of the marriage were finished raguel had said unto him by an oath that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the marriage were expired and then he should take the half of his goods and go in safety to his father and should have the rest when i and my wife be dead
008862_10456_000049 give of thy bread to the hungry and of thy garments to them that are naked and according to thine abundance give alms and let not thine eye be envious when thou givest alms
008862_10456_000050 pour out thy bread on the burial of the just but give nothing to the wicked ask counsel of all that are wise and despise not any counsel that is profitable
008862_10456_000051 command therefore that i may now be delivered out of this distress and go into the everlasting place turn not thy face away from me
008862_10456_000052 but the lord himself giveth all good things and he humbleth whom he will as he will now therefore my son remember my commandments never let them be put out of thy mind
008862_10456_000053 when he had said these things he gave up the ghost in the bed being an hundred and eight and fifty years old and he buried him honorably and when anna his mother was dead he buried her with his father
008862_10456_000054 wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil and unto captivity and unto death and unto a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed
008862_10456_000055 but tobias said i will eat nothing here till we agree and swear one to another margaret said then take her from henceforth according to the manner for thou art her cousin and she is fine and the merciful god give you good success in all things
008862_10456_000056 he died at ecbatane in media being an hundred and seven and twenty years old but before he died he heard of the destruction of nineve which was taken by nabuchodonosor and assuerus and before his death he rejoiced over nineve
008862_10456_000057 and that is not come to me which i suspected but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy thou art to be praised because thou hast had mercy of two that were the only begotten children of their fathers
008862_10456_000058 now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee and command my spirit to be taken from me that i may be dissolved and become earth for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live because i have heard false reproaches and have much sorrow
008862_10456_000059 and the maid is fair and wise now therefore hear me and i will speak to her father and when we return from rages we will celebrate the marriage for i know that raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of moses
008862_10456_000060 therefore he was very sorry then his wife said unto him my son is dead seeing he stayeth long and she began to wail him and said now i care for nothing my son since i have let thee go the light of mine eyes
008862_10456_000061 but his father-in-law said unto him tarry with me and i will send to thy father and they shall declare unto him how things go with thee but tobias said no but let me go to my father
008862_10456_000062 whom asmodeus the evil spirit had killed before they had lain with her dost thou not know said they that thou hast strangled thine husbands
008862_10456_000063 it came to pass the same day that ecbatana  the city of media sarah the daughter of raguel was also reproached by her father's maids because that she hath been married to seven husbands
008862_10456_000064 if ye turn to him with your whole heart and with your whole mind and deal uprightly before him then will he turn unto you and will not hide his face from you
008862_10456_000065 until the fourteen days of the wedding were expired which raguel had sworn that he should spend there then tobias said to raguel let me go for my father and my mother look no more to see me
008862_10456_000066 which is at the right hand of that city which is called properly nephthali in galilee above aser i tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice and i did many almsdeeds to my brethren and my nation who came with me to nineve
008862_10456_000067 when she heard these things she was very sorrowful so that when she thought to have strangled herself and she said i am the only daughter of my father and if i do this it shall be a reproach unto him and i shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave
008862_10456_000068 that all the tribes should sacrifice there where the temple of the habitation of the most high was consecrated and built for all ages now all the tribes which together revolted and the house of my father nephthali sacrificed unto the heifer baal
008862_10456_000069 and now o lord i set mine eyes and my face toward thee and say take me out of the earth that i may hear no more the reproach
008862_10456_000070 but i alone went often to jerusalem at the feasts as was ordained unto all the people of israel by an everlasting decree having the first fruits and tenths of increase with that which was first shown
008862_10456_000071 but he came again and said father one of our nation is strangled and is cast out in the market place then before i had tasted of any meat i started up and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun
008862_10456_000072 then she prayed toward the window and said blessed art thou oh lord my god and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable forever let all thy works praise thee forever
008862_10456_000073 to whom tobit said hold thy peace take no care for he is safe but she said hold thy peace and deceive me not my son is dead and she went out every day into the way which they went and did eat no meat on the daytime and ceased not whole nights to bewail her son tobias
008862_10456_000074 and when i saw abundance of meat i said to my son go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren who is mindful of the lord and lo i tarry for thee
008862_10456_000075 thou hast had already seven husbands neither wast thou named after any of them wherefore dost thou beat us for them if they be dead go thy ways after them let us never see of thee either son or daughter
008862_10456_000076 chapter ten now tobit his father counted every day and when the days of the journey were expired and they came not then tobit said are they detained or is gabael dead and there is no man to give him the money
008862_10456_000077 the two now when i was come home again and my wife anna was restored unto me with my son tobias in the feast of pentecost which is the holy feast of the seven weeks there was a good dinner prepared me in the which i sat down to eat
008862_10456_000078 declare his greatness and extol him before all the living for he is our lord and he is the god our father forever and he will scourge us for our iniquities and will have mercy again and will gather us out of all nations among whom he hath scattered us
008862_10456_000079 then raguel arose and gave him sara his wife and half his goods servants and cattle and money and he blessed them and sent them away saying the god of heaven give you a prosperous journey my children
008862_10456_000080 thou knowest lord that i am pure from all sin with man and that i never polluted my name nor the name of my father in the land of my captivity
008862_10456_000081 therefore i wept and after the going down of the sun i went and made a grave and buried him but my neighbours mocked me and said this man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter who fled away and yet lo he burieth the dead again
008862_10456_000082 brother and grant that i may see thy children of my daughter sara before i die that i may rejoice before the lord behold i commit my daughter unto thee of special trust
008862_10456_000083 therefore see what he will do with you and confess him with your whole mouth and praise the lord of christ and extol the everlasting king in the land of my captivity do i praise him
008862_10456_000084 furthermore when i was come to the age of a man i married anna of mine own kindred and of her i begat tobias and when we were carried away captives to nineve all my brethren and those that were of my kindred did eat of the bread of the gentiles
008862_10456_000085 and when she espied him coming she said to his father behold thy son cometh and the man that went with him then said raphael i know tobias that thy father will open his eyes
008862_10456_000086 another tenth part i sold away and went and spent it every year at jerusalem and the third i gave unto them to whom it was meet as debora my father's mother had commanded me because i was left an orphan by my father
008862_10456_000087 so raphael went out and lodged with gabael and gave him the handwriting who brought forth bags which were sealed up and gave them to him and early in the morning they went forth both together and came to the wedding and tobias blessed his wife
008862_10456_000088 and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation o ye sinners turn and do justice before him who can tell if he will accept you and have mercy on you i will extol my god and my soul shall praise the king of heaven and shall rejoice in his greatness
008908_8511_000000 with only a nod to barry i turned the range band to maximum and brought it swiftly to bear upon that portion of the city in which the little vial had fallen as i drew the focusing lever towards me the scene leaped at me through the clear glowing glass disc
008908_8511_000001 ja ben led the way straight to the low but vast building of dun-colored stone that i knew was the administration building of the control city
008908_8511_000002 for the people of earth had built their monster habitation toward the stars until they reached up into the altitude of perpetual cold only under that gleaming roof was there warmth
008908_8511_000003 at least we would wipe you out first i said hoarsely true nodded ja ben but the vengeance of our ships would be a terrible thing you wouldn't dare to take the chance
008908_8511_000004 betty young gasped what force could be so powerful that it could even budge so many tons a derrick had been used and rollers placed under the block when men had moved it
008908_8511_000005 special patrol work in those days before the advent of the present de centralized system was a succession of false starts hurried recalls and urgent emergency orders
008908_8511_000006 and are doubtless filled with fighting moon men that's right said dalis who also had been calculating this very thing but our ray directors will disintegrate the aircars as easily as my ray director disintegrated sarka the first
008908_8511_000007 reason tried to assert itself it it must have exploded that would cause it to shift she said faintly marable shrugged his examination was interrupted by the arrival of the museum's chemist sent for by young
008908_8511_000008 the destruction swiftly painlessly of all the others and when the survivors had again repopulated the earth to overflowing a repetition of the same corrective
008908_8511_000009 i think we will find it to be some sort of missing link between the dinosaurs and mososaurs it's surely unbelievable that such a creature should be found alive but perhaps it can be explained it's related to the amphibians and was able to live in or out of the water
008908_8511_000010 the one o'clock gong had struck and all the workers and investigators were leaving in paleontological laboratories for a bite to eat marable with betty went out last
008908_8511_000011 and recognized one law only in their extremity that of self-preservation so there was murder rampant and mothers who wept for children husbands fathers or mothers who would never return to their homes
008908_8511_000012 then the thick green stuff flowed over the whole building and there was nothing to be seen there but a mound of soft flowing gray-green stuff that rushed on now with the swiftness of the wind i looked up into barry's face
008908_8511_000013 jaben selected a large hollow hemisphere of crystal glass and placed it upon a smooth sheet of flat glass next he picked a few blossoms from a bowl that stood incongruously enough on the table and threw them under the glass hemisphere
008908_8511_000014 sarka's last words were almost drowned out by the humming sound that came out of the revolving barrel that perfected device which was the ultimate in the evolution of television and vibration transference
008908_8511_000015 smythe was the janitor of the museum betty standing behind her father wondered what he could want that he should phone so early in the morning her father's next words sent a thrill of fright through her heart
008908_8511_000016 we are not yet ready if we were we wouldn't move for we prefer that your council have time to think about what is surely to come if you doubt that we have the power to do what we have threatened to do
008908_8511_000017 a hateful ugly people perpetually scowling snarling their very voices resembled more the growl of wild beasts than the speech of intelligent beings
008908_8511_000018 belong to your people what i plan is for their betterment but it means war war which may last century two centuries in which lives of countless thousands may be lost
008908_8511_000019 the tubular nostrils and antennae seemed to be sniffing at them waving to and fro see the white expanse of cornea how large it is
008908_8511_000020 they walked up the driveway entrance and then marable uttered an exclamation something's wrong he said there was a small crowd of people collected on the steps the outer doors instead of being open as usual were closed and guards stood peering out
008908_8511_000021 sarka glancing out into the outside across which blew the storms of the heights and noting that no cracks appeared in the surface of the world's vast roof
008908_8511_000022 not even sarka the second guessed the depth of infamy of which dalis was capable dalis had given a hint but sarka had in his sudden realization of the fact that jaska really loved him and was no traitor forgotten that hint
008908_8511_000023 a head flat and reptilian long tubular with movable nostrils and antennae at the end framed two eyes which were familiar enough to her for they were the orbs which had stared from the inside of the amber block she had dreamed of those eyes
008908_8511_000024 fifteen centuries ago my father's father cried sarka dalis told you that he possessed the power to halt for a moment the headlong whirl of the world on its axis about the sun
008908_8511_000025 a dead world covered with ashes whose people dwell in dank caverns like gnomes of the underworld stay snapped sarka but i granted you a greater honor even than that dalis
008908_8511_000026 times and times or which hadn't left its own blood in the dwelling places of neighbors no law could cope with this intolerable situation for men down the ages had changed in their essential characteristics but little
008908_8511_000027 it will of course be understood that at the time we had but a bulky and clumsy instrument to enable us to convey and receive thought
008908_8511_000028 as he did so a single white robed figure of life-size when seen through the micro telescopes darted out of the fray and headed at top speed for the dwelling place of sarka jaska relieved was returning home
008908_8511_000029 now we have many instances of reptiles such as lizards and toads penned up in solid rock but surviving for hundreds of years evidently this great reptile went through the same sort of experience i would say that there has been some great upheaval of nature
008908_8511_000030 sarka turned again to the beryl the area of which dalis was spokesman was roughly speaking that part of what had once been the pacific ocean north of a line drawn east and west through the southern most of the hawaiian islands northward to the pole
008908_8511_000031 commander at the time of the super cruiser tamon a special patrol ship of the alliance i wasn't at all surprised to receive orders from the central council to report at emergency speed
008908_8511_000032 go and tell your council we are more than a match for you and for them he thrust me reeling towards his three assistants take him to his ship and send aid for ife rance here
008908_8511_000033 now he shouted bringing down his arm we have begun our journey into space come let us look outside and await the first reports from my father
008908_8511_000034 many of the men and women and children who had lost in their now century-old fight for survival had merely been tossed out of their hives a painless swift death
008908_8511_000035 and had worked and slaved in his laboratory against the contingency which had developed he had smiled though there was a trace of fear on his face after dalis had left for his scheme had been worked out-not to destroy but to save
008908_8511_000036 i'm not so sure of that son replied the elder sarka for i have known him longer than you have there is something else in that brain of his which takes no thought of the death of people of his gens or for the betterment of the other people of the earth i wonder
008908_8511_000037 the gens of dalis rushed headlong to meet the aircars and many of them rushed headlong to their destruction sarka noted a group of perhaps a hundred people break forth from the vanguard of the attackers
008908_8511_000038 for within twenty-four hours the earth will have started on its voyage of conquest is there no way sarka queried dalis by which we can control the direction of our flight
008908_8511_000039 i planned on your gens led by you making a successful conquest of the moon because only such a genius as dalis could force from this dead world a living for his gens because you are the wisest of the spokesmen i planned for you the greatest task
008908_8511_000040 as beautiful and effortless at the flight of those birds which had vanished from the earth centuries before remember dalis said sarka that while the speed of the earth in its orbit is between eighteen and nineteen miles per second
008908_8511_000041 the conquest of mars by garrett p serviss darkness and dawn and into the great oblivion and the after-glow and the air trust all by george allan england
008908_8511_000042 twelve hours later exactly sarka shouted a single word to dalis now the laboratory was swinging about in a sort of circle in a way that made one dizzy if one remained still for the merest second
008908_8511_000043 we follow cleric wherever he leads finally the words became intelligible it matters not to us whom cleric follows so long as we may follow cleric
008908_8511_000044 professor young curator was an expert in his line but young marable had charge of these particular fossil blocks the amber being pure because it was mixed with lignite the particular block which held the interest of the three was a huge yellow brown mass of irregular shape
008908_8511_000045 i stood there staring at him in a sort of daze what he had said was so true terribly damnably true
008908_8511_000046 why should i safeguard jaska asked sarka quietly she is a true daughter of cleric if cleric doesn't fear for her to be spokesman of a gens why should i
008908_8511_000047 the navigating room of an interplanetary ship is without doubt unfamiliar ground to most so it might be well for me to say that such ships have
008908_8511_000048 the observer glanced at me curiously but he was too well disciplined to hesitate or ask questions yes sir he said crisply and spoke into the microphone beside him
008908_8511_000049 when the first sarka discovered the secret they would have destroyed him though he made them immortal if only the secret interrupted jaska could be returned to him who discovered it
008908_8511_000050 jack darrow forty-two twenty-five north spalding avenue chicago illinois all readers are extended a sincere and cordial invitation to come over in the readers corner and join in our monthly discussion of stories authors scientific principles and possibilities
008908_8511_000051 send one ship commanded by a man whose word you will trust and we will prove to him that these are no empty words that as nearly as i can remember it concluded kellen is the message the man who brought it died almost before he had finished
008908_8511_000052 i shouldn't tell even you he answered his fingers working swiftly in their secret silent language which all the world could see but which only these two understood
008908_8511_000053 and always they knew the legions of enemies of sarka kept their ears open for words of sarka which could be twisted around to his undoing
008908_8511_000054 leffler made a gesture of impatience it cost me many thousands of dollars he cried it's time for lunch professor said betty marable bowed to leffler and left the millionaire sputtering away inspecting the various specimens he had contributed
008908_8511_000055 well spoken o gens of cleric snapped sarka when the murmuring died down to a whisper then faded out entirely deck yourselves in the white garments of cleric emblazon upon your backs and breast the red lily of his house prepare for war
008908_8511_000056 the face of dalis went suddenly white but he nodded his eyes burning redly jaska moved closer to the men who stood near the table of the vari-colored lights
008908_8511_000057 as they crossed the threshold a stout red-faced man in a gray uniform a watchman's clock hanging at his side raised his hat and smiled at the young woman and her father hello rooney cried betty how do you do miss young staying late this evening
008908_8511_000058 comparatively speaking taking a curving course about the surface of the moon as it had for countless millions of years coursed about the sun then back to the observatory to see how went the battle through the micro telescope the first meeting was plain to be seen
008908_8511_000059 and publish a lot by merritt edgar rice burroughs and authors like that you haven't as yet printed a story of the type that a merritt writes and that is one thing this magazine needs and lots of them as they are the cream of science fiction and the more of them you have the better
008908_8511_000060 as one voice the spokesmen of the gens spoke the word and sarka heard it he had forgotten for the moment that the spokesmen still could hear him that is all he said huskily prepare your gens each of you for such battle as even our histories never have recorded
008908_8511_000061 enough of this squabbling snapped sarka the second do you not realize that within a matter of hours some gens must be sent into battle
008908_8511_000062 the great black hand was nearly a third of the way around the face we were very close two hours would bring us into the atmospheric envelope in less than two hours and a half we would be in the control city of what is now called the forgotten planet
008908_8511_000063 i knew he would go said sarka for he cannot endure to see someone else take credit for winning this first victory if it's even possible to win it i knew that vain though he is dalis is yet a man
008908_8511_000064 come with me to the observatory where you will begin something beside squabbling with which to occupy your minds leaving the earth on its lonely flight through space the three men hurried to the observatory where they seated themselves before the eyepieces of the micro telescopes
008908_8511_000065 betty young screamed at last she had a sight of the terrible creature which her imagination had painted in loathing and horror a flash of brilliant scarlet dabbed with black patches was her impression of the beast
008908_8511_000066 you are proud and rightfully so of your great author ray cummings why not give us several stories which helped to build his glory here are several tarranto the conqueror
008908_8511_000067 the disc wasn't as perfect as those we have today it was hooded to keep out exterior light which isn't necessary with the later instruments and it was more unwieldy however it did its work and did it well in the hands of an experienced operator
008908_8511_000068 no we're leaving now rooney good night g night miss young sleep happy thanks rooney the old night watchman was a jolly fellow and everybody liked him he was very fond of betty and the young woman always passed a pleasant word with him rooney entered the room where the amber blocks were
008908_8511_000069 then what happens to your scheme sarka the third you see there is no change in the plans say one i am the master not you
008908_8511_000070 he glanced at me curiously as the observer had done but saluted and left with only a brief yes sir i returned the salute and turned my attention again to the charts
008908_8511_000071 and from this same laboratory in which sarka now sat and pondered on the next step in man's expansion sarka the first had in fear and trembling at first but with his confidence growing by leaps and bounds
008908_8511_000072 remember said dalis as the beryl began to revolve and its humming mounted moment by moment to normal that you must concur in whatever i say to the people of the earth for if you don't i swear that i will destroy this master beryl
008908_8511_000073 you wonder said kellen speaking of course in the soft and liquid universal language which is i understand still disseminated in our schools as it should be
008908_8511_000074 right sir he said briskly and gave the order i felt my weight increase and the order was obeyed gradually the familiar uncomfortable feeling left me
008908_8511_000075 and it was well for the peace of mind for the sarkas that they couldn't read the black thought of the man or look into the future even so far as a dozen years the gens of the yellow stars moved into contact with the aircars of the moon
008908_8511_000076 while the youngest of the spokesmen in a manner serving his apprenticeship was tutelary head of the vast plateau once called africa the name of this man was gerd
008908_8511_000077 his right hand started to rise though he would make it signal the negative he was unable for a moment to speak but even as he stood there swaying slightly on his feet
008908_8511_000078 and such married women as have all their children grow and who no longer need them prepare to go forth to battle from this laboratory within a brief space dalis and the sarkas will give you a further word
008908_8511_000079 and don't keep us waiting over long for we are an impatient race he bowed mockingly and passed his left hand swiftly before his face his people's sign of parting
008908_8511_000080 give orders to ascend at emergency speed for once my first officer hesitated he glanced at the attraction meter and then turned to me again wondering
008908_8511_000081 and that dream spoke jaska with speeding fingers i have wondered about you said sarka softly while those eyes of his bored deeply into hers
008908_8511_000082 we have been the best of friends the best of comrades but there are times when it comes to me that i don't know you entirely and i have many enemies
008908_8511_000083 the planet itself loomed up straight ahead a great half-circle its curved rim sharp and bright against the empty blackness of space the chord ragged and blurred in two hours i turned away and began a restless
008908_8511_000084 none of us wore menores when on duty for several reasons our instruments were not nearly as perfect as those in use to-day and verbal orders were clearer and carried more authority than mental instructions
008908_8511_000085 i glanced forward through the thick glass partitions into the operating room three men stood there watching intently they too were wondering why we visited the unfriendly world
008908_8511_000086 exactly sarka managed at last if the earth can be stayed on its axis it can be diverted from its orbit entirely i know for i have found the manner of its doing though i need the genius of dalis to check my work and my calculations
008908_8511_000087 the home of dalis was in the heart of what had once been an island historians claimed had been called oahu now a mountain peak still retaining a hint of the pre-discovery name ohi
008908_8511_000088 despite the fact that for centuries the secret of life had been the possession of children of men the earth was dying she was dying because the warmth of the sun was fading
008908_8511_000089 it were better if dallis self-named master of the work knew whether he was going chapter eight moon minions prepare
008908_8511_000090 one end of the vial unscrewed he turned the cap gently carefully a strained anxious look upon his face my four guards watched him breathlessly fearfully
009525_7116_000000 and some few of the servants that dared to resist we presently despatched the others that were quiet were shut up in the hall being very unwilling that they should get abroad and make any discovery till we knew whether the other company had succeeded in their attempt
009525_7116_000001 i have told you already what was the occasion of my voyage the same i would discover to all present and make them judges in the case for after the opposite faction had expelled bettigerence
009525_7116_000002 thus to a prophetic soul a sneeze or an omen though no great matter simply considered in itself yet may be the sign and token of considerable impending accidents
009525_7116_000003 and hipposthenides giving him a nod and bidding him deliver his message to the company for they were all sure friends and privy to the whole plot he began sir i know the men very well and not finding you either at home or in the marketplace
009525_7116_000004 he is a pythagorean of the italian sect and comes hither to make some offerings to old lysis as his tomb according to diverse dreams and very notable appearances that he have seen
009525_7116_000005 in the mean time phyllidas you know him archidamus who was then secretary to archias the general who knew of the exiles coming and was one of the associates taking me by the hand as he used to do before the company found fault with the late exercises and wrestling he had seen
009525_7116_000006 when it is pulled back draws in repentance for past sin and shame for loose and unlawful pleasures which is a pain and stroke inflicted on the soul by a governing and prevailing power
009525_7116_000007 and the cylonians and burned the remains of that society in their school at metapontum and destroyed all but philolaus and lysis who being young and nimble escaped the flame
009525_7116_000008 he hath brought a good sum of money with him and thinks himself bound to satisfy epaminondas for keeping lysis in his old age and is very eager though we are neither willing nor desire him to relieve his poverty
009525_7116_000009 and having adored the god and freed himself from the thronging inquisitive crowd he told us many wonderful things he had seen and heard for this was his relation
009525_7116_000010 but afterwards leading me aside he enquired after the exiles and asked whether they were resolved to be punctual to the day and upon my assuring that they were then he replied i have very luckily provided a feast today to treat archias make him drunk and then deliver him an easy prey to the invaders
009525_7116_000011 till by this means it becomes gentle and manageable and like a tamed beast without blows or torment it understands the minutest direction of the daemon such indeed are but very slowly and very hardly brought to a right temper
009525_7116_000012 for every art and science takes care to collect many things from few and great from small and as if one that doth not know the power of letters when he sees a few ill-shapen strokes should not believe that a man skilled in letters could read in them the famous battles of the ancients
009525_7116_000013 when we were all together in the house eight and forty in number and theocritus in a little room by himself offering sacrifice there was heard a sudden and loud knocking at the gate
009525_7116_000014 this hipposthenides turning about cried out clido by hercules i'll lay my life some unlucky accident hath happened clido observing that we took notice of him came softly from the gate towards us
009525_7116_000015 thus when base bribes and considerable advantages are offered it will be difficult to refuse unless he hath long ago rooted out all thoughts of gain and love of money for other desires will nourish and increase that appetite
009525_7116_000016 some as they entered had a flash of lightning on their right hand without a clap of thunder and that portended safety and glory intimating that their actions should be splendid and without danger
009525_7116_000017 and he will easily be drawn to any unjust action who can scarce forbear reaching out his hand to a proffered present but he that will not lay himself open to the favors of friends and the gifts of kings but refuseth even what fortune proffers
009525_7116_000018 between these islands there was a large sea or lake which shone very gloriously being adorned with a gay variety of colors mixed with blue some few of the islands swam in the sea
009525_7116_000019 and this upon consideration gave us probable reasons to conjecture that this demon of socrates was not an apparition but rather a sensible perception of a voice or an apprehension of some words which after an unaccountable manner affected him
009525_7116_000020 as in a dream there is no real voice yet we have fancies and apprehensions of words which makes us imagine that we hear some speak this perception in dreams is usual because the body whilst we are asleep is quiet and undisturbed but when we are awake meaner thoughts creep in
009525_7116_000021 the duller and lazy sort are abundantly satisfied with a short account and upshot of any business but he that is of generous and noble temper that is fitted to be a spectator of virtue as of a curious piece of art is more delighted with the particulars
009525_7116_000022 a thing so much desired that i protest i would willingly go to thebes to be informed did not the athenians already suspect me to lean too much to the boeotian interest
009525_7116_000023 the night drawing on i saw nothing indeed but i thought i heard a voice saying move not those relics that ought not to be moved for lysis's body was duly and religiously interred and his soul is sent to inform another body
009525_7116_000024 for he would very gladly have had a more full discovery from his own mouth i have done theocritus with the story and discourse but pray shall we not entreat the stranger to discuss this point for it is very proper subject for excellent and divine men
009525_7116_000025 suppose us to be of this sort and give us an account of the whole design how from the very beginning it was carried on what company you kept and what particular discourse you had that day
009525_7116_000026 he never repeated the same question but he had often heard him declare those to be vain pretenders who said they had seen any divine apparition while to those who affirmed that they had heard a voice he would gladly hearken and would eagerly enquire into particulars
009525_7116_000027 the women too as soon as they were acquainted with the flying report unmindful of the boeotian strictness ran out to one another and enquired of every one they met how things went
009525_7116_000028 when charon had ended we admired the honesty and bravery of the man but were angry at his suspicion and bade him take away his son charon said pelopidas we should have taken it more kindly
009525_7116_000029 and committed to the care of another daemon and early this morning asking epaminondas about the manner of lysis's burial i found that lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect
009525_7116_000030 as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations at the same instant the surgeon coming in unbound simmias's leg and prepared to dress it
009525_7116_000031 the haliartii believe the great scarcity and overflowing of the pool that followed were not effects of chance but a particular judgment upon them for permitting the grave to be opened
009525_7116_000032 sir that is his humor he loves to be silent he is very cautious how he proposeth any thing but will hear eternally is never weary of an instructive story
009525_7116_000033 if you had removed your son into another house for why should he suffer for being in our company nay let us send him away now that if we fail he may live and grow up to punish the tyrants and be a brave revenger of our deaths
009525_7116_000034 with their chains upon their legs the others that were in the stocks held out their hands and begged us not to leave them behind these being set free many of the neighbors came in to us understanding and rejoicing for what was done
009525_7116_000035 and scattering to the sophisters of the age all those vain pretenses which are as it were the smoke of philosophy what galaxidorus and hath meletus persuaded you that socrates condemned all divine things for that was part of his accusation divine things
009525_7116_000036 as he was prating thus phyllidas ran him through a base fellow upon whose carcass the next day many women spat and trampled we breaking open the prison door first called out amphitheus by name and then others as every one had a mind they knowing our voice jocundly leaped out of their straw in which they lay
009525_7116_000037 by no means replied galaxidorus but having received philosophy from pythagoras and empedocles full of dreams fables superstitions and perfect raving he endeavored to bring wisdom and things together and make truth consist with sober sense
009525_7116_000038 and were carried to the other side of the current others and those the most were carried up and down tossed whirled and almost overwhelmed the sea in some places seemed very deep especially towards the south
009525_7116_000039 but he considering the unseasonableness of the time and that phyllidas as being yet hot and out of breath spoke with more than ordinary concern suspected the cheat and replied to phyllidas pray sir did ever the governors send for a prisoner at such a time before or ever you what warrant do you bring
009525_7116_000040 for they were a particular barbarous and very like the egyptian character and therefore agesilaus as the story goes sent a transcript of them to the king of egypt desiring him to show them to the priests and if they understood them to send him the meaning and interpretation
009525_7116_000041 upon the monument there was a brazen plate full of strange because very ancient letters for though when the plate was washed all the strokes were very easily perceived yet nobody could make any thing of them
009525_7116_000042 i have never feared that wealth would take possession of our house except on account of caphisias's body for that wants fine attire that he may appear gay and gaudy to his numerous company of lovers
009525_7116_000043 for in my mind as homer makes minerva to stand by ulysses in all dangers so the daemon joined to socrates even from his cradle some vision to guide him in all the actions of his life
009525_7116_000044 yet be silent by no means i replied let us part with our old friend and the excellent breeder of our youth but defend her cause for you are to manage it my dear father said he
009525_7116_000045 we can hardly bring our souls to observe better advertisements for being in a hurry of tumultuous passions and distracting business we cannot compose our mind or make it listen to the discoveries
009525_7116_000046 but perhaps in this matter simmias can inform us for at that time he studied their philosophy and frequently conversed with the priest upon that account
009525_7116_000047 friends this is my only and my beloved son and him i put into your hands conjuring you by all that's good if you find treacherous to kill him and have no mercy upon him for my sake
009525_7116_000048 be it so rejoined theocritus but what shall we think of this daemon was it a mere juggle indeed nothing that is told of pythagoras regarding divination seems to me so great and divine
009525_7116_000049 what need have we and what shall we do with wealth shall we gild our arms shall we like nicias the athenian adorn our shield with gold purple and other gaudy variety of colors and buy for you sir a milesian cloak
009525_7116_000050 but as for your parts sir be provided against the worst that can come do not yield your bodies tamely to be butchered by base fellows but behave yourselves bravely and persevere your souls invincible for the good and glory of your country
009525_7116_000051 and great supplies of food that he may be strong to endure wrestling and other exercise of the ring but since he doth not give up poverty since he holds fast his heredity want like a color since he a youth prides himself in frugality and is very well content with his present state
009525_7116_000052 what then said theanor shall we not have the opinion of epaminondas who is of the same school and as well learned as myself in these matters but my father with a smile said
009525_7116_000053 in other parts very shallow it ebbed and flowed but the tides were neither high nor strong in some parts its color was pure and sea-green in others it looked muddy and as troubled as a pool
009525_7116_000054 for upon a general view much of fortune is discovered but when the particulars are examined then appear the art and contrivance the boldness in conquering intervening accidents and the reason that was mixed with and tempered the heat and fury of the undertakers
009525_7116_000055 many honest worthy citizens first joined and their number continually increased when i had informed them in the particulars of what was done and desired them to march into the marketplace
009525_7116_000056 but you would have been exceedingly surprised at the serene and fearless temper of the boy with a soul as great as that of achilles's son for he did not change color or seem concerned but drew out and tried the goodness of pelopidas's sword
009525_7116_000057 so that there is no need of another stroke and the soul obeys as it stretches or slackens her affections not forcibly as if it wrought by contrary  or passions but smoothly and gently as if it moved flexible and loose reins
009525_7116_000058 and yet we cannot believe that men are sacred and favorites of heaven though we confess the love of man and not the love of birds to be attribute of the deity now
009525_7116_000059 upon this account said epaminondas when jason the thessalian general lately sent me great sum of money and desired me to accept it i was thought rude and unmannerly for telling him that he was a knave for endeavoring whilst he himself loved monarchy
009525_7116_000060 which not one of the thebans themselves besides the captains of the horse knows for he that goes out of office leads his successor to the place alone and in the dark
009525_7116_000061 so amongst men the superior powers choosing as it were the best out of the whole herd breed them more carefully and nicely not directing them it is true by reins and bridles
009525_7116_000062 and i asking phyllidas hath any new thing happened nothing new to me he replied for i knew and told you that hipposthenides was a coward and therefore begged you not to communicate the matter to him or make him an associate
009525_7116_000063 but since i am now come upon an embassy and have nothing to do until i receive an answer to my memorial to be uncivil and not to satisfy the request of an obliging friend would revive the old reproach that hath been cast upon the boeotians for morose sullenness and hating good discourse
009525_7116_000064 to assist their friends they proclaimed liberty and the multitude were furnished with arms out the piazzas that were stuffed with spoil the neighbors' armorers shops
009525_7116_000065 but by reason imparted by certain notices and signs which the vulgar and common sort do not understand for neither do all dogs know the huntsman's nor all horses the jockey's signs
009525_7116_000066 for most of those that have been duly elected with office are now in exile nay all besides gorgidas and plato and they will never ask those for they are afraid of them
009525_7116_000067 those that found their fathers or their husbands followed them for the tears and prayers of the modest women were a very great enticement to all they met affairs being in this condition understanding that epaminondas gorgidas and their friends were draw into a body about minerva's temples i went to them
009525_7116_000068 now that which was applied was not a voice but more probably a declaration of a daemon by which the very thing that it would declare was immediately and without audible voice represented to his mind voice is like a stroke given to the soul
009525_7116_000069 these archinus's sons and all the rest my very good acquaintance so that you need not doubt a favorable and obliging audience very well but where shall i begin the story how much of these affairs are you acquainted with already
009525_7116_000070 you don't know the men caphisias though they are worthy your acquaintance men of good families and no enemies to you this is lysithides thrasybulus's nephew this timotheus the son of conon
009525_7116_000071 of such things the dae mon often discoursed with him presiding over and by divine instinct directing his intentions more and greater things perhaps you may learn from simmias and other companions of socrates
009525_7116_000072 indeed archidamus your kind eagerness after this story is so obliging that putting myself above all business as pindar says i should have come on purpose to give you a relation
009525_7116_000073 and sure nobody can wonder at this that hath observed what great ships of burden are turned by small helm or seen a potter's wheel move round by the gentle touch of one finger these are lifeless things it is true
009525_7116_000074 a reproach which began to die in the time of socrates but as for the rest of the company pray sir are they at leisure to hear such a story for i must be very long since you enjoin me to add the particular discourses that be passed between us
009525_7116_000075 but you offer physic to your friends who are in perfect health if upon a report that we were distressed and overpowered you had brought men and arms to our assistance but being arrived had found all in quietness and peace i am certain you would not have thought it necessary to leave those supplies which we did not then stand in need of
009525_7116_000076 be daring above thy age and with these brave citizens venture upon necessary dangers for the defense of liberty and virtue for we have a good hopes still left and perhaps some god will protect us in this just and generous undertaking
009525_7116_000077 these words of his archidamus drew tears from many but he not shedding so much as one and delivering his son to pelopidas went out of the door saluting and encouraging every one as he went
009525_7116_000078 about the middle of these islands the ambient sea seemed to bend into a hollow a little less as it appeared to him than eight parts of the whole into this sea were two entrances
009525_7116_000079 and for my mother a purple gown for i suppose we shall not consume any upon our belly or feast more sumptuously than we did before treating this wealth as a guest of quality and honor away away son replied my father let me never see such a change in our course of living
009525_7116_000080 to bribe one of democratic principles and a member of a free state your good will sir addressing the stranger which is generous and worthy a philosopher i accept and passionately admire
009525_7116_000081 and phyllidas in a passion replied how many hipposthenides do you think are privy to this design thirty i know engaged and why then continued phyllidas
009525_7116_000082 in the meantime diotonus one of cephisodorus's friends came to us with his sword girt and breastplate on and understanding that archias had sent for charon he chid our delay and urged us to go and set upon the house presently
009525_7116_000083 would you singly oppose your judgment to them all and ruin those measures they have all taken and agreed to what had you to do send a messenger to desire them to return and not approach today when even chance encouraged and all things conspired to promote the design
009525_7116_000084 well said my brother we would not lie lazily at home and watch over our unemployed riches for then the bestower's kindness would be a trouble and the possession infamous what need then said my father have we of wealth
009525_7116_000085 many turned back amongst whom i holding euthyphron was one but some of the youths keeping on the straight way on purpose as it were to confute socrates's daemon took along with them charillus the piper
009525_7116_000086 as one that loves horses doth not take an equal care of the whole kind but always choosing out some one excellent rides trains feeds and loves him above the rest
009525_7116_000087 then said theanor in my opinion that story of timarchus should be accounted sacred and inviolable and consecrated to god and i wonder that any one should disbelieve his report as simmias has related it swans horses dogs and dragons we sometimes call sacred
009525_7116_000088 which going before him shed a light upon hidden and obscure matters and such as could not be discovered but unassisted human understanding
009525_7116_000089 and now he is gone to haliartus to fill up the grave again and as the oracle directs to make some oblations to alcmena and aleus but who this aleus is he cannot tell and as soon as he returns he must endeavor to find the sepulchre of dirce
009525_7116_000090 this sight pleased him very much but when he looked downward there appeared a vast chasm round as if he had looked into a divided sphere a very deep and frightful full of thick darkness which was every now and then troubled and disturbed
009525_7116_000091 then ilipposthenides with his friends and servants appeared having by chance joined the trumpeters that were coming to thebes against the feast of hercules straight some gave the alarm in the market-place others in other parts of the city distracting their enemies on all sides as if the whole city was in arms
009525_7116_000092 thence a thousand howlings and bellowings of beasts cries of children groans of men and women and all sorts of terrible noises reached his ears but faintly as being far off and rising through the vast hollow and this terrified him exceedingly
009679_10228_000000 castell shook his head impatiently ask the question man if you will but never take the answer if it is against you wait rather and ask it again and went on peter without noticing his grey eyes lighting with a sudden fire
009679_10228_000001 among these were a man and a lady the latter attended by a handsome young woman who were all three sufficiently striking in appearance to attract some notice in the throng
009679_10228_000002 there was a ring of earnestness in the speaker's voice that caused de ayala who knew something of his private reputation to look at him curiously a true fanatic and therefore to us a useful man he thought to himself though one who knows how to make the best of two worlds as well as most of them
009679_10228_000003 could touch her hand at morn and evening could watch the light shine in her beauteous eyes and sometimes as she bent over him feel her breath upon his hair and now his purgatory was at an end and of a sudden the gates of joy were open
009679_10228_000004 castell's eyes twinkled the answer amused him at least you have an upright heart he said for what other man in such a case would argue against himself
009679_10228_000005 but she was certainly frightened when the fellow caught hold of her and then she called for me loud enough what is that what woman in london would not call for such a one as peter brome in her trouble
009679_10228_000006 also it is lent and a fast day and by ill fortune although none of us ate of it there was meat on the table for as you know he added hurriedly
009679_10228_000007 but what if margaret should prove the angel with the flaming sword who forbade him entrance to his paradise he trembled at the thought well if so so it must be
009679_10228_000008 and then-then that brute and her eyes filled with tears of shame and anger caught hold of me and peter threw him down and afterwards when he attacked him with a sword peter killed him with his staff and-all the rest happened
009679_10228_000009 look to the women comrades behind there now you murderers if you would see english sword-play come on or if you are afraid let us go in peace yes come on you foreign cowards shouted the mob who did not love these turbulent and privileged guards
009679_10228_000010 well you must ask her and that soon if you can find the words take a lesson from that spanish don and scrape and bow and flatter and tell stories of the war and turn verses to her eyes and hair oh peter are you a fool that i at my age should have to teach you how to court a woman
009679_10228_000011 indeed that's why he had come here at all who otherwise would have been far away hewing a road to fame and fortune or digging out a grave with his broadsword for here at least he could be near to margaret
009679_10228_000012 none other of your well born and ancient family were left so when sir peter against my counsel staking his all upon that usurping rogue richard who had promised to advance him
009679_10228_000013 i am not strict in such matters who give little weight to forms and ceremonies well he observed it and touched fish only although he drank enough of the sweet wine doubtless a report of that meat will go to spain by the next courier
009679_10228_000014 let the earth be evil as it must but let the church be like heaven above it pure unstained the vault of prayer the house of mercy and of righteous judgment wherein walks no sinner such as i and again he crossed himself
009679_10228_000015 he was not strictly speaking a handsome man being somewhat too high of forehead and prominent of feature moreover one of his clean-shaven cheeks the right was marred by the long red scar of a sword-cut which stretched from the temple to the strong chin
009679_10228_000016 mayhap sir at least i can do none of these things and poesy wearies me to read much more to write but i can ask a question and take an answer
009679_10228_000017 next instant they laughed again and to the ruffian andrew it seemed as though suddenly he had fallen into the power of a whirlwind at least margaret was wrenched away from him while he spun around and round to fall violently upon his face that's peter exclaimed one of the soldiers in spanish yes answered another
009679_10228_000018 peter turned to those men who had stood by him and thanked them very heartily then he said to margaret come cousin that is over for this time and you have had your wish and seen his grace now the sooner you are safe at home the better i shall be pleased
009679_10228_000019 the money is safe most of it my wealth they shall never get and now i will make my daughter safe also as with peter she must be i would i had not put it off so long
009679_10228_000020 i never thanked you for all you did you brave peter though i thanked you enough in my heart do you know that when you stood there with that sword in the middle of those englishmen you looked quite noble
009679_10228_000021 señor d'aguilar i thank you and so does my cousin peter brome whose life perhaps you saved don't you peter oh and so will my father
009679_10228_000022 so peter told him in few words yet omitting nothing i find no blame in you said the merchant when he had done nor do i see how you could have acted otherwise than you did it is margaret who i blame
009679_10228_000023 the man a person of about thirty years of age dressed in a merchant's robe of cloth and wearing a knife in his girdle seemed over six feet in height while his companion in her flowing fur trimmed cloak was for a woman also of unusual stature
009679_10228_000024 my daughter is never likely to see it broke in castell i do not purpose that she should visit spain ah then you do not purpose but who knows god and his saints alone and again he crossed himself then fell to describing the beauties of granada
009679_10228_000025 and a patron saint worth having while a third pulled the recumbent andrew to his feet the man looked like a devil his cap had gone and his fiery red hair was smeared with mud
009679_10228_000026 she stared peter was not in the habit of making her presents of flowers no wonder he had looked strange then i will help you to tie them do you know why i'm up so early it is for your sake i behaved badly to you last night for i was cross because you wanted to thwart me about seeing the king
009679_10228_000027 his cloak thrown over his left arm and his sword his right hand nor i said another peter brome and i have fought together before nor i shouted a third for we were born in the same essex hundred
009679_10228_000028 doing the bidding and taking the rough words of chapmen and of lordly customers filling in bills of exchange and cheapening bargains all without a sign or murmur though oftentimes he felt as though his gorge would burst with loathing of the life
009679_10228_000029 i am no coward but i think there is much more to be feared peter the arm of the pope is long and the arm of the crafty ferdinand is longer and both of them grope for the throats and moneybags of heretics
009679_10228_000030 and meanwhile took his money was killed at bosworth leaving you landless penniless and out of favour i offered you a home and you being a wise man put off your mail and put on woollen and became a merchant's partner though your share of profit was but small
009679_10228_000031 englishmen he cried in ringing tones but without shifting his head or glance will you see me murdered by these spanish dogs there was a moment's pause and then a voice behind cried by god not i and a brawny kentish man at arms ranged up beside him
009679_10228_000032 at length the meal came to an end and when the serving-men had cleared away the dishes and they were alone castell said now kinsman peter tell me your story
009679_10228_000033 also you are of good blood and not ill to look on or so some maids might think whilst as for wealth what said the wise king of my people that ofttimes riches make themselves wings and fly away
009679_10228_000034 he was a fine and ready talker and his voice was very pleasant so margaret listened attentively enough watching his face and forgetting to eat while her father and peter watched them both
009679_10228_000035 and so it went on until there were as many stout englishmen at his side as there were spaniards and scotchmen before him that will do said peter we want no more than man to man
009679_10228_000036 it was beautifully done said d'aguilar in his soft voice and foreign accent i saw it all and made sure that you were dead the parry i understood but the way you got your smashing blow in before he could thrust again ah that well well said castell
009679_10228_000037 and if it does what matter we are in england and englishmen will not suffer their spanish laws and ways perhaps the sr d'aguilar learned as much as that tonight outside the banqueting hall there is something to be feared from this brawl at home but while we were safe in london no more from spain
009679_10228_000038 on the open space opposite to the banqueting hall in front of which were gathered squires and grooms with horses stood and walked many citizens of london who their day's work done came to see the king pass by in state
009679_10228_000039 almost i feel as though the rope were tightening about my throat at last it came upon me while that accursed spaniard crossed himself at my table well so be it i will hide the truth while i can but if they catch me i'll not deny it
009679_10228_000040 his face however was open and manly if rather stern and the grey eyes were steady and frank it was not the face of a merchant but rather that of one of good degree accustomed to camps and war
009679_10228_000041 we know you marquis said the leader in a cowed voice sheath your swords comrades after all it is no affair of ours the men obeyed somewhat unwillingly but at this moment arrived the ambassador de ayala very angry for he had heard of the death of his servant demanding
009679_10228_000042 do you want to see every spaniard in london torn to pieces as for that drunken brute and he touched the corpse of andrew with his foot he brought his death upon himself moreover he was not a spaniard there is no blood quarrel come obey me or must i tell you who i am
009679_10228_000043 there had been a great show in london for that day his grace opened the newly convened parliament and announced to his faithful people who received the news with much cheering since war was ever popular at first his intention of invading france
009679_10228_000044 peter could lie abed no longer but rose and dressed himself although the dawn was not fully come by his open window he said his prayers thanking god for mercies past and praying that he would bless him in his great enterprise
009679_10228_000045 yes answered peter somewhat sulkily i thank him very much though as for my life i trusted to my own arm and to those of my friends here good night sir
009679_10228_000046 peter it is in my mind to have done with all this trading and to withdraw me to spend my old age where none will take any notice of me down at that hall of yours in dedham if you will give me lodging
009679_10228_000047 if need be i can break that fine spaniard's bones as though he were a twig ah said castell perhaps you will be called upon to make your words good before all is done for my part i think his bones will take some breaking well ask in your own way
009679_10228_000048 for i only gave her leave to walk with you and betty by the river and bade her beware of crowds yes father the fault is mine and for it i pray your pardon said margaret so meekly that her father could not find the heart to scold her as he'd meant to do
009679_10228_000049 by now the spanish blood was up and the old race-hatred awoke in broken english the sergeant of the guard shouted out some filthy insult about margaret and called upon his followers to cut the throats of the london swine
009679_10228_000050 peter understood for his long arms moved uneasily and his grey eyes flashed i will go to bed he said i wish to think nay lad answered castell fill your glass and stay awhile i've words to say to you and there is no time like the present who knows what may happen tomorrow
009679_10228_000051 of the lady's figure little could be seen because of the long cloak that hid it but the face which appeared within its hood when she turned and the dying sunlight filled her eyes was lovely indeed
009679_10228_000052 so he descended the broad oak stairs and unbolting a door entered this garden which though not too well kept was large for london covering an acre of ground perhaps surrounded by a high wall and having walks and at the end of it a group of ancient elms beneath which was a seat hidden from the house
009679_10228_000053 but here in london there was no country wherever he went he would meet men moreover he remembered that it might be best that just now he should not wander through the streets unguarded lest he should find spaniards watching to take him unawares well there was the garden he would go thither and walk a while
009679_10228_000054 for that moment a tall señor who'd been standing in the shadow and watching all that passed walked between the opposing lines as he went striking up the swords with his arm have done said d'aguilar quietly for it was he speaking in spanish you fools
009679_10228_000055 presently the sun rose and there came a great longing on him to be alone in the countryside who was country born and hated towns with only the sky and the birds and the trees for company
009679_10228_000056 but the wonder of it what distinguished her above everything else from other beautiful women of her time was to be found in her eyes for these were not blue or grey as might be expected from her general colouring but large black and lustrous
009679_10228_000057 only ask and let me hear the answer before tomorrow night now it grows late and i have still something to say i'm in danger here my wealth is noised abroad and many covet it some in high places i think
009679_10228_000058 now margaret grew frightened for the thought that harm might come to peter cut her heart the colour left her cheek and once again her eyes swam with tears oh say not so she exclaimed peter will you not fly at once
009679_10228_000059 for from her birth to her death-day margaret castell fair margaret as she was called had this gift to a degree that is rarely granted to woman rounded and flower-like was that face most delicately tinted also with rich and curving lips and a broad snow-white brow
009679_10228_000060 swords shone red in the red sunset light men shifted their feet and bent forward and in another instant a great and bloody fray would have begun but it did not begin
009679_10228_000061 and were i not with you may waylay you now seeing from his face that peter was still bent upon declining this escort margaret interposed quickly
009679_10228_000062 well sir we are not heretics no perhaps not heretics but we are rich and the father of one of us was a jew and there is something else in this house which even a true son of the holy church might desire and he looked at the door through which margaret had passed to her chamber
009679_10228_000063 indeed for a year or more ever since you spoke to me on the subject of margaret i have been calling in my moneys from spain and england and placing them out at safe interest in small sums or buying jewels with them or lending them to other merchants who i trust who will not rob me or mine
009679_10228_000064 you should ask peter's pardon he muttered seeing that he's likely to be laid by the heels in a dungeon over this business yes and put on his trial for causing a man's death remember he was in the service of de ayala with whom our liege wishes to stand well and de ayala it seems is very angry
009679_10228_000065 fair margaret by h rider haggard chapter one how peter met the spaniard it was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of king henry the seventh of england
009679_10228_000066 i fear senor said answered d'aguilar with a smile that we cannot part just yet you forget i have become bond for you and must therefore accompany you to where you live that i may certify the place also perhaps it is safest for these countrymen of mine are revengeful
009679_10228_000067 thus they walked in the twilight across the fields and through the narrow streets beyond that lay between westminster and holborn in front tripped margaret beside her stately cavalier
009679_10228_000068 and clasping her slender hands looked pleadingly into his face and asked señor you who are so powerful and the friend of great people will you not help us
009679_10228_000069 he was not the man to force her fancy or call her father to his aid he would do his best to win her and if he failed why then he would bless her and let her go
009679_10228_000070 for the rest his figure was well-built and active and his voice when he spoke which was seldom clear and distinct to loudness but cultivated and pleasant again not the voice of a merchant
009679_10228_000071 yes that is wisest also my father would wish it señor i will show you the way and accompanied by d'aguilar who gallantly offered her his arm she stepped forward briskly leaving peter to follow with her cousin betty
009679_10228_000072 peter you have worked well for me but you are no chapman it is not in your blood therefore since there is enough for all of us and more i shall pass this business and its goodwill over to others to be managed in their name but on shares and if it please god we will keep next yule at dedham
009679_10228_000073 fighting there would have been also notwithstanding all that d'aguilar could do to prevent it but of a sudden the noise began to die away
009679_10228_000074 then having paused a while to receive petitions from poor folks which he handed to one of his officers to be read amidst renewed shouting he passed on to the great feast that was made ready in his palace of westminster
009679_10228_000075 in a loud voice that the man who killed him should be given up we will not give him up to a spanish priest shouted the mob come and take him if you want him and once more the tumult grew while peter and his companions made ready to fight
009679_10228_000076 who exported woollen and other goods to spain under the royal licence bringing thence in his own ships fine raw spanish wool to be manufactured in england and with it velvet silks and wine from granada also beautiful inlaid armour of toledo steel
009679_10228_000077 with whom she was soon talking fast enough in spanish a tongue which for reasons that shall be explained she knew well while behind the scotchman's sword still in his hand and the handsome betty on his arm came peter brome in the worst of humours
009679_10228_000078 so when their gracious liege appeared surrounded by his glittering escorts of nobles and men-at-arms they threw their caps in the air and shouted themselves hoarse the king himself although still young in years already a weary looking man with a fine pinched face smiled a little sarcastically at their clamour
009679_10228_000079 peter brome for he was so named looked a little anxiously about him at the crowd then turning addressed margaret in his strong clear voice there are rough folk around he said
009679_10228_000080 and as it chanced margaret who also had risen early and not slept too well looking through her window curtains saw him wandering there and wondered what he did at that hour
009679_10228_000081 but i hankered after a great marriage for her which being a christian she might make i'll mend that fault before tomorrow's morn she shall be plighted to him and before may day his wife
009679_10228_000082 come out into the sun and i will thank you properly in his agitation peter let the remainder of the flowers fall then an idea struck him and he answered look i can't if you're really grateful for nothing at all come in here and help me pick up these violets a pest on their short stalks
009679_10228_000083 now again you have changed staff for steel and he glanced at the scotchman's sword that still lay upon a side table and margaret has loosed that rock of which i spoke to her
009679_10228_000084 also why he was dressed in the clothes he wore on sundays and holidays perhaps she thought his weekday garments had been torn or muddied in last night's fray
009679_10228_000085 now if a charge is to be laid over this brawl it will probably be done not by the churchman de ayala but through de puebla who knows your laws and courts and do you understand me señor castell
009679_10228_000086 and of leading the english armies in person in parliament itself it is true the general enthusiasm was somewhat dashed when allusion was made to the finding of the needful funds but the crowds without formed for the most part of persons who would not be called upon to pay the money did not suffer that side of the question to trouble them
009679_10228_000087 john castell lived in a large rambling many-gabled house just off the main thoroughfare of holborn that had at the back of it a garden surrounded by a high wall
009679_10228_000088 but aloud he said no wonder that our church rejoices in such a son and that her enemies tremble when he lifts her sword but señor you have not told me what you think of all this ceremony and people
009679_10228_000089 let us eat first and talk afterwards sr d'aguilar you will honour my poor board will you not although it is hard to come from a king's feast to a merchant's fare
009679_10228_000090 primroses snowdrops violets and in the shadow of the trees long harts-tongue ferns for a while peter walked up and down the central path
009679_10228_000091 moreover man i have learned to love and honour you and sooner would i leave my only child in your hands than in those of any lord in england i know not what to say broke in peter then say nothing it is your custom and a good one only listen
009679_10228_000092 and doctor de puebla the friend of the king and strangely enough de puebla does not love de ayala yet he does love money which perhaps will be forthcoming
009679_10228_000093 of this ancient place the front part served as a shop a store for merchandise and an office for castell was very wealthy trader how wealthy none quite knew who
010118_7704_000000 are indignantly haled to prison the jailor has no room whereupon other place of security not suggesting itself it is written on les pendit they hanged them brief is the word not without significance be it true or untrue
010118_7704_000001 soft speeches produce no clearance of these de launay gives fire pulls up his drawbridge a slight sputter which has kindled the too combustible chaos
010118_7704_000002 of locks each invalid his dogshead if ordered to fire they would he imagines turn their cannon against himself
010118_7704_000003 patriotism consorts not with thieving and felony surely also punishment this day hitches if she still hitch after crime with frightful shoes of swiftness some score or two of wretched persons found prostrate with drink in the cellars of that saint lazare
010118_7704_000004 quote you will not leave us you will abide with us unquote a perilous juncture mayor bailly and the municipals sit quaking within doors
010118_7704_000005 harmless he sat there while unharmed but the king's fortress meanwhile could might would or should in no wise be surrendered save to the king's messenger one old man's life worthless
010118_7704_000006 and suddenly there has come as it were a new heaven on earth eighty-eight august senators bailly lafayette and our repentant archbishop among them
010118_7704_000007 bacchantes in these ultimate formalized ages bronze henri looks on from his pont-neuf the monarchic louvre
010118_7704_000008 take coach for paris with the great intelligence benedictions without end on their heads from the place louis quinze where they alight all the way to the hotel-de-ville
010118_7704_000009 them deshuttes and varigny massacred at the first inbreak have been beheaded in the marble court a sacrifice to jerome's manes jourdan with the tile beard did that duty willingly and asked if there were no more
010118_7704_000010 the great scipio americanus can do nothing not so much as escape quote morbleu mon general unquote cry the grenadiers serrying their ranks as the white charger makes a motion that way
010118_7704_000011 unfortunate old military gentlemen it is your hour not of glory old marquis de launay too of the bastille has pulled up his drawbridges long since and retired into his interior with sentries walking on his battlements under the midnight sky
010118_7704_000012 like old roman senator or bronze lamp-holder coldly appraising thuriot and all men by a slight motion of his eye what his resolution was
010118_7704_000013 the outer drawbridge has been lowered for thuriot new deputation of citizens it is the third and noisiest of all penetrates that way into the outer court
010118_7704_000014 frantic patriots pick up the grape shots bear them still hot or seemingly so to the hotel-de-ville paris you perceive is to be burnt flesselles is pale to the very lips for the roar of the multitude grows deep
010118_7704_000015 high frowning there of all ages from twenty years to four hundred and twenty beleaguered in this its last hour as we said by mere chaos come again
010118_7704_000016 or seeming to beat or one can hear nothing the very swiss at the portcullis look weary of firing disheartened in the fire deluge a porthole at the drawbridge is opened as by one that would speak
010118_7704_000017 for four hours now has the world bedlam roared call it the world chimera blowing fire the poor invalide have sunk under their battlements or rise only with reversed muskets they have made a white flag of napkins go beating the chamade
010118_7704_000018 and ply the great forge hammer till stithy reel and ring again while ever and anon overhead booms the alarm cannon for the city has now got gunpowder pikes are fabricated fifty thousand of them
010118_7704_000019 what meanest thou flesselles tis a ticklish game that of amusing us cat plays with captive mouse but mouse with enraged cat with enraged national tiger
010118_7704_000020 a courier is this night getting under way for necker the people's minister invited back by king by national assembly and nation shall traverse france amid shoutings and the sound of trumpet and timbrel
010118_7704_000021 see huissier maillard the shifty man on his plank swinging over the abyss of that stone ditch plank resting on parapet balanced by weight of patriots
010118_7704_000022 meanwhile the faster oh ye black aproned smiths smite with strong arm and willing heart this man and that all stroke from head to heel shall thunder alternating
010118_7704_000023 that a bodyguard should look out of window on the right wing of the chateau to see what prospect there was in heaven and in earth rascality male and female is prowling in view of him
010118_7704_000024 his fasting stomach is with good cause sour he perhaps cannot forbear a passing malison on them least of all can he forbear answering such
010118_7704_000025 load his musketoon and threaten to fire and actually fire were wise to wist it stands asserted to us not credibly be this as it may menaced rascality in whinnying scorn is shaking at all grates
010118_7704_000026 paris by her own pike and musket and the valour of her own heart has conquered the very wargods to the satisfaction now of majesty itself
010118_7704_000027 suddenly by the wide thunder of the mountain avalanche awakened not by them awakened far off by others when the chateau clock last struck
010118_7704_000028 monatic women infuriated men mad with revenge with love of mischief love of plunder rascality has slipped its muzzle and now bays three throated like the dog of erebus
010118_7704_000029 half-pay elie is home for a suit of regimentals no one would heed him in colored clothes half-pay hulin is haranguing gardes francaises in the place de greve
010118_7704_000030 with precautions with the aid of pieces of cannon and regiments that can be depended on messeigneurs between the sixteenth night and the seventeenth morning get to their several roads
010118_7704_000031 chaillot which will promptly yield baked loaves is not plundered nor are the sevres potteries broken the old arches of sevres bridge echo under menadic feet
010118_7704_000032 to meudon to saint cloud on both hands the report of them is gone abroad and hearths this evening will have a topic
010118_7704_000033 and so in loosest flowing order to the rhythm of some eight drums having laid aside his own with the bastille volunteers bringing up his rear once more takes the road
010118_7704_000034 that no arms are in the arsenal that an unarmed attitude and petition to a national assembly will be the best he hastily nominates or sanctions generalesses captains of tens and fifties
010118_7704_000035 fourteen bodyguards are wounded two massacred and as we saw beheaded jourdan asking was it worthwhile to come so far for two hapless deshuttes and varigny their fate surely was sad whirled down so suddenly to the abyss as men are
010118_7704_000036 the message and monition of the figure was that resistance would be hopeless that if blood flowed woe to him who shed it thus spoke the figure and vanished
010118_7704_000037 ill words breed worse till the worst word came and then the ill deed did the maledicent bodyguard getting as was too inevitable better malediction than he gave
010118_7704_000038 they too were pacing languid with poised musketoon anxious mainly that the next hour would strike it has struck to them inaudible
010118_7704_000039 he hovers perilous such a dove towards such an ark deftly thou shifty usher one man already fell and lies smashed
010118_7704_000040 on the white charger lafayette in the slowest possible manner going and coming and eloquently haranguing among the ranks rolls onward with his thirty thousand saint-antoine with pike and cannon has preceded him
010118_7704_000041 off ye too loyal broglies polignacs and princes of the blood off while it is yet time did not the palais-royal in its late nocturnal violent motions set a specific price place of payment not mentioned on each of your heads
010118_7704_000042 seine river gushes on with his perpetual murmur and paris flings after us the boom of tocsin and alarm drum inaudible for the present amid shrill-sounding hosts and the splash of rainy weather
010118_7704_000043 far down there against the masonry usher maillard falls not deftly unerring he walks with outspread palm the swiss holds a paper through his porthole the shifty usher snatches it and returns terms of surrender
010118_7704_000044 there are such forecourts cour avance cour de l'orme arched gateway where louis tournay now fights then new drawbridges dormant bridges rampart bastions and the grim eight towers a labyrinthic mass
010118_7704_000045 their trunks lie mangled their heads parade on pikes twelve feet long through the streets of versailles and shall about noon reach the barriers of paris a too ghastly contradiction to the large comfortable placards that have been posted there
010118_7704_000046 alas poor besenval with his troops melting away in that manner has not the smallest humour to fire at five o'clock this morning as he lay dreaming oblivious in the ecole militaire
010118_7704_000047 conceive the blank face of patriotism when it found them filled with rags foul linen candle ends and bits of wood provost of the merchants how is this neither at the chartreux convent whither we were sent with signed order is there or ever was there any weapon of war
010118_7704_000048 a mixed multitude of all and of no arms hovers on his flanks and skirts the country once more pauses agape paris marche sur nous
010118_7704_000049 seeing which course of things messieurs of the court triumvirate messieurs of the dead born broglie ministry and others such consider that their part also is clear to mount and ride
010118_7704_000050 a figure stood suddenly at his bedside with face rather handsome eyes inflamed speech rapid and curt air audacious such a figure drew priam's curtains
010118_7704_000051 ordinance of all calibres throats of all capacities men of all plans every man his own engineer seldom since the war of pygmies and cranes was there seen so analogous a thing
010118_7704_000052 nay here in this seine boat safe under tarpaulings had not the nose of patriotism been of the finest are five thousand weight of gunpowder not coming in but surreptitiously going out
010118_7704_000053 gardes francaises also will be here with real artillery were not the walls so thick upwards from the esplanade horizontally from all neighbouring roofs and windows flashes one irregular deluge of musketry without effect the invalides lie flat
010118_7704_000054 the king of siam's cannon also lay knowing nothing of him for a hundred years yet now at the right instant they have got together and discourse eloquent music for hearing what was toward georget sprang from the brest diligence and ran
010118_7704_000055 now volunteers of the bazoche the volunteers of the palais royal national volunteers numerable by tens of thousands of one heart and mind the king's muskets are the nation's
010118_7704_000056 in six and thirty hours judge whether the black aproned have been idle dig trenches unpave the streets ye others assiduous man and maid cram the earth in barrel barricades at each of them volunteer sentry
010118_7704_000057 pardon immunity to all are they accepted quote foi d'officier on the word of an officer unquote answers half-pay hulin
010118_7704_000058 cholat the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer see georget of the marine service fresh from brest ply the king of siam's cannon singular if we were not used to the like georget lay last night taking his ease at his inn
010118_7704_000059 the spoilers these for patriotism is always infected so with a proportion of mere thieves and scoundrels gondran snatched their prey from them in the chateau
010118_7704_000060 pile the whinstones in window-sills and upper rooms have scalding pitch at least boiling water ready ye weak old women to pour it and dash it on royal allemand with your old skinny arms your shrill curses along with it will not be wanting
010118_7704_000061 who presided on the night of pentecost and is original member of the breton club thereupon rises huge shout vive lechapelier and several armed persons spring up behind and before to escort him
010118_7704_000062 the man d'artois indeed is gone but has he carried for example the land d'artois with him not even bagatelle the country-house which shall be useful as a tavern
010118_7704_000063 three sons of france and four princes of the blood of saint louis says weber could not more effectually humble the burghers of paris than by appearing to withdraw in fear of their life alas the burghers of paris bear it with unexpected stoicism
010118_7704_000064 the other captive bodyguard is still circling the corpse of jerome amid indian war-whooping bloody tilebeard with tucked sleeves brandishing his bloody axe when gondran and the grenadiers come in sight comrades will you see a man massacred in cold blood
010118_7704_000065 the walls are scaled no invalide firing a shot the gates must be flung open patriotism rushes in tumultuous from grundsel up to ridge-tile through all rooms and passages rummaging distractedly for arms
010118_7704_000066 the fastenings of one some write it was a chain merely gives way rascality is in the grand court whinnying louder still
010118_7704_000067 and all minor whirlpools play distractedly into that grand fire mahlstrom which is lashing round the bastille and so it lashes and it roars
010118_7704_000068 and have had in all times to be buried all in so deep silence and the salt sea is not swollen with your tears
010118_7704_000069 in few moments the grate of the inner and inmost court which they name the court of marble this too is forced or surprised and burst open
010118_7704_000070 sweeping the palace clear the mangled carnage is removed jerome's body to the town hall for inquest the fire of insurrection gets damped more and more into measurable manageable heat
010118_7704_000071 patrols of the newborn national guard bearing torches scour the streets all that night which otherwise are vacant yet illuminated in every window by order strange looking like some naphtha lighted city of the dead with here and there a flight of perturbed ghosts
010118_7704_000072 oh poor mortals how you make this earth bitter for each other this fearful and wonderful life fearful and horrible and satan has his place in all hearts such agonies and ragings and wailings ye have
010118_7704_000073 he reels death-stricken rushes to the pavement scattering it with his blood and brains allelew wilder than irish wakes rises the howl of pity of intense revenge
010118_7704_000074 in this manner amid wild october weather they a wild unwinged stork flight through the astonished country wend their way travellers of all sort they stop especially travellers or couriers from paris
010118_7704_000075 this is what they call the first emigration determined on as appears in full court conclave his majesty assisting prompt he for his share of it to follow any counsel whatsoever
010118_7704_000076 transcend things of all sorts as in the general outburst of multitudinous passion are huddled together the ludicrous nay the ridiculous with the horrible far over the billowy sea of heads may be seen rascality caprioling on horses from the royal stud
010118_7704_000077 paris wholly has got to the acme of its frenzy whirled all ways by panic madness at every street barricade there whirls simmering a minor whirlpool strengthening the barricade since god knows what is coming
010118_7704_000078 king's procureur m ethys de corny and officials are there the cure of saint-etienne du mont marches unpacific at the head of his militant parish the clerks of the bazoche in red coats we see marching
010118_7704_000079 a national guard without arms was stabbed but see sure enough poor jerome l'heritier an unarmed national guard he too cabinet maker a saddler's son of paris with the down of youthhood still on his chin
010118_7704_000080 off butchers answer they and the poor bodyguard is free busy runs gondran busy runs guards and captains scouring at all corridors dispersing rascality and robbery
010118_7704_000081 the press of women still continues for it is the cause of all eve's daughters mothers that are or that hope to be no carriage lady were it with never such hysterics but must dismount in the mud roads in her silk shoes and walk
010118_7704_000082 broglie has his own difficulties at versailles runs his own risks at metz and verdun does nevertheless get safe to luxembourg and there rests
010118_7704_000083 in any case behold about nine in the morning our national volunteers rolling in long wide flood south-westward to the hotel des invalides in search of the one thing needful
010118_7704_000084 nevertheless news dispatches from lafayette or vague noise of rumor have pierced through by side roads in the national assembly while all is busy discussing the order of the day regretting that there should be anti-national repasts in opera halls
010118_7704_000085 think old m de sombreuil how in this extremity thou wilt refuse them old m de sombreuil would fain hold parley send couriers but it skills not
010118_7704_000086 as the house cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a trump of doom monsieur said some master of ceremonies one hopes it might be debris
010118_7704_000087 great meanwhile is the moment when tidings of freedom reach us when the long enthralled soul from amid its chains and squalid stagnancy arises
010118_7704_000088 miomandre de sainte-marie pleads with soft words on the grand staircase descending four steps to the roaring tornado his comrades snatch him up by the skirts and belts literally from the jaws of destruction and slam to their door this also will stand few instants
010118_7704_000089 freedom is the one purport wisely aimed at or unwisely of all man's struggles toilings and sufferings in this earth yes supreme is such a moment if thou have known it first vision as of a flame girt sinai
010118_7704_000090 the emigration is not gone many miles prince conde hardly across the oise when his majesty according to arrangement for the emigration also thought it might do good undertakes a rather daring enterprise
010118_7704_000091 in this our waste pilgrimage which thenceforth wants not its pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night something it is even nay something considerable when the chains have grown corrosive poisonous
010118_7704_000092 aloft over the glare of illuminated paris whom a national patrol passing that way takes the liberty of firing at seven shots towards twelve at night which do not take effect
010118_7704_000093 has one want only that of arms the industry of all crafts has paused except it be the smith's fiercely hammering pikes and in a faint degree the kitchener's cooking off-hand victuals for bouche va toujours
010214_10108_000000 but the owl is not a burglar he is the friend of man there is no other bird that does the farmer so much good as the owl the owl comes out in the dark to get the small animals that are out at that time stealing things from the farmer
010214_10108_000001 number nine was taken greedily but the owl could not swallow it the tail hung out of the owl's mouth for a while before it could be fairly counted then no more were eaten till about three hours after when the owl was pleased to take four more mice
010214_10108_000002 sometimes so many mice have come upon the farms in england that it looks as if everything would be eaten up by them but a great many owls always came when the mice were so thick and helped the farmers save their crops one owl was seen to make in thirty minutes seventeen trips to her young with food
010214_10108_000003 one barn owl had thirty-nine locusts twenty-two other insects and one mouse which it had just taken screech owls and burrowing owls usually have more than two dozen locusts and some of them had other kinds of insects
010214_10108_000004 this is one reason why the farmer likes the owl so well barn owls sometimes roost with pigeons but they are good friends we know they do not eat the pigeons because the owls swallow their food whole and have to throw up the bones afterwards and it is known that the owls living with pigeons throw up bones of rats and mice but not of pigeons
010214_10108_000005 a gentleman living in the west when there was so much damage done by grasshoppers found that the owls were living on them and not eating much of any other kind of food the only way he could tell what the owls had for supper was to shoot an owl once in awhile and see what was in its stomach
010214_10108_000006 the gopher is a small animal that does damage to growing things it digs up corn after it is planted and gnaws the roots of fruit trees so as to hurt them badly owls catch gophers and eat them
010214_10108_000007 a rabbit a weasel a mink or even a skunk is good eating for the owl  there are times when one owl will make a meal of another owl of smaller size a large red-tailed hawk was once put into a garret where there was a snowy owl that night the hawk was killed partly eaten by the owl
010214_10108_000008 a tame great horned owl and a little screech owl were shut up in a hay loft together the wings of the big owl were cut so he could not fly after about a week they both became one owl and that owl threw up the claws beaks bones and feathers that had once been useful to the little screech owl
010214_10108_000009 owls sometimes catch partridges and quails this is not so bad for they pick out the weak birds that are not well and so keep disease from spreading amongst the fine birds a hunter once shot a bob white so that it was not killed but could not fly he and his dog were chasing the bird in the grass along a fence hoping to catch it
010214_10108_000010 an owl saw the wounded bird and thought it belonged to him because it was not well he came out of the woods very swiftly and picked up the bob white right before the eyes of the hunter in woods where there are panthers one will often hear in the night fearful cries that make it seem as if some wild beast were about to jump down from some tree nearby to kill the one who is out so late
010214_10108_000011 so we may call the owl the night watchman of the farm he sometimes comes out in the daytime but most owls prefer the night or at least a dark day the owl has been called a wise bird for the same reason that some men are thought to be wise he looks wise
010214_10108_000012 most of these cries which frighten people are made by hoot owls but it is not easy to tell whether the sound comes from a hoot owl or from the throat of a wild cat there is a saying amongst country people who wish to seem wise i wasn't brought up in the woods to be afraid of owls
010214_10108_000013 the hoot owl has so many wild notes in his voice that is not at all strange that he scares people who have not been brought up in the woods before he sends out his proper hoot he sometimes seems to try to frighten everybody out of the forest with his awful shrieks
010214_10108_000014 the owl is brave one that weighed less than six ounces once fought a nine-pound rooster a teamster in maine once went to sleep on top of his load while his horses ate their oats beside a forest road
010214_10108_000015 eh ha ha ha and then they become as solemn as any other owls and the stillness of the night is perfect until another owl has a droll story or song to set the rest a-shouting at
010214_10108_000016 but he makes up for his awkwardness when there are eggs to sit upon for the owl is the best husband a bird ever had when there is room in the old hollow where the nest is he will sit upon the eggs with his wife and help her hatch the puffy little owl children
010214_10108_000017 if the owl is a sober and wise bird he forgets all about it when he woos his mate such awkward dancing and foolish boo hooing is never seen except when the owl is trying to choose a mate for life
010214_10108_000018 when he pulled the blanket away from his face an owl pounced down upon it perhaps thinking his white skin was a rabbit and tore his cheeks fiercely he was much frightened having just awakened but he caught the owl and killed it after a short struggle and called himself lucky because his eyes were not put out by the bird
010214_10108_000019 they lay their eggs earlier than other birds and often the falling snow covers the back of the sitting bird the warmth of her body melts it so that water runs gently down through the nest and forms icicles that hang below and glisten in the sunshine to tell of the faithful conduct of the mother owl
010214_10108_000020 owls are the best of parents too for they will risk their own lives freely to protect their young if their nests are robbed and the old birds can find where their young ones are caged they will come daily with food for them even though they are in great danger in doing so
010214_10108_000021 one reason he looks so steadily at you that you think he is studying you is because the light is so strong in the daytime that his sight is bad but the owl is not as wise as he is said to be he does some foolish things as well as other birds in fact he is sometimes more foolish than any other bird would be in the same place
010214_10108_000022 but the small birds find their desire to torment ends in their own capture for they cannot get away from the bird lime until the trapper comes along and gathers all the little birds that are hanging to the sticky limbs and twigs about the big bird they were trying to tease
010214_10108_000023 small birds as a rule hate owls and they delight in getting round these great awkward fellows whenever they can catch them by day and doing all they can to hurt their feelings bird-catchers sometimes catch small birds because they are so fond of teasing owls
010214_10108_000024 an owl is caught and tied to a tree the tree is covered with sticky stuff called bird lime as soon as a little bird sees the owl in the tree he cries to his friends and they come in great crowds to tease the owl
010214_10108_000025 all owls are not too stupid to learn puffy a tame young owl caught and ate a two-pound pullet an old hen afterwards took a fancy to his perch
010214_10108_000026 she went in and gave the little owl a sound whipping and after that shared the perch with him he never forgot the lesson the hen had given him and always treated her well owls have a way of hiding from notice by making believe that they are something besides owls they can move their feathers so as to change their looks entirely
010214_10108_000027 the great horned owl sometimes makes himself a frightful mass of feathers a yard wide and at other times he seems to be a very slim bird too thin for an owl puffy once got away from his master he flew to the top of a stump and sat like a stake for an hour
010214_10108_000028 owls are fond of mice a boy who'd a half-grown barn owl tried one day to see how many mice he would eat the first four mice went down the owl's throat very quickly then number five and number six were eaten in a short time number seven did not go down quite as rapidly and number eight was slower still
010214_10108_000029 while his master looked all round the place for him without knowing there was a bird on the stump in plain sight owls draw the feathers away from their mouths in an odd way when they eat and when walking softly to steal upon a mouse tuck up their feathers as a lady lifts her skirts
010214_9994_000000 and stick one on the door of the church or chapel if there is one and if not he must pin one on the seat of his breeches and walk around the said parish from ten in the morning till five in the afternoon for two consecutive sundays or live upon skilly for one month
010214_9994_000001 the van was led by bobby blue and the boasting cock of waterloo for a revolution would not do they dread its desperation the bonded grain must soon come out it will give the monopolists the gout and put them to the right about to meet this competition
010214_9994_000002 twelve all publicans and beer shop keepers are to place a wet blanket over their chimney pots close the windows and stop up the key holes lest the smell should offend the framers of the new beer house act
010214_9994_000003 when persons are preaching then will be search time to collar them that's walking in church time the tenants of houses and those of floors then must not venture out of doors then
010214_9994_000004 two any person keeping a house for the sale of any land of fermented liquor and who shall dare to keep the said house open one moment after the clock has said cut it and sell one half pint malt tea he shall for the first offense have his head shaved and for the second be imprisoned for a term not exceeding his natural life
010214_9994_000005 their rusty bars and locks so strong must open wide before it's long with grief they'll hear our merry song for long they're lived in clover the granaries with corn and flour into our markets will pour and the bread tax loaf we'll soon devour that caused such desolation
010214_9994_000006 ten and woe betide any woman who is caught with a flask containing cholic drops in her pocket eleven all cowkeepers or dairymen are cautioned against feeding their cows on grains lest the milk should give the tea a beery flavour
010214_9994_000007 all those who brew their home brewed beer then at times i'm sure will quake with fear then and dread to let it in the vat lay lest it should happen to work on that day
010214_9994_000008 so men and women and children too rejoice you'll soon have work to do in spite of all the bread tax crew rejoice they are defeated your teeth must soon commence the mill and grind away with right good will your bellies every one can fill with puddings pies and dumplings
010214_9994_000009 as some heroes bold i will unfold together were conversing it was in the praise of nelson as you shall quickly hear said one unto the other if we could behold another in old england like nelson we proudly would him cheer
010214_9994_000010 h disley printer fifty-seven high street st giles london grand conversation on brave nelson
010214_9994_000011 the bones that now are thin and small in loads of flesh they soon will fall and on a cab will have to call o what an alteration away with the hungry cry that's been such mumping of bread was never seen long life attend our gracious queen a woman rules the nation
010214_9994_000012 thirteen any person who receives a visit from father mother brother or grandmother during the prescribed hours they must not dare to give them one glass they not being servants or lodgers
010214_9994_000013 a new song opening the ports composed by e wrigley for his three strings men women and children come list to my story
010214_9994_000014 so women all shout out huzzah hot cakes at will with good strong tea and that honest debts you soon will pay to your neglected belly the poor will soon have to turn about with corporations they'll strut out with american flour cheap and stout their bellies to adorn
010214_9994_000015 and lastly any person causing the conviction of one score of offenders against above act will receive as a reward a free admission to the crystal palace at the next meeting of the temperance league so says the new beer house act
010214_9994_000016 now at copenhagen and the nile he gave command with a smile he said stand firm my british tars the enemy to meet prepare each gun all terror shun but never do surrender the champion of the briny waves was nelson and his fleet
010214_9994_000017 from norfolk it is known he came he was a man of noted fame he struggled hard for liberty as every briton knows in battle he would loudly cry i'll gain the victory or die this grand conversation on brave nelson arose
010214_9994_000018 when capt hardy you may see who always done his duty free brave collingwood the enemy undaunted would oppose he caused some thousands to be slain while fighting on the raging main this grand conversation on brave nelson arose
010214_9994_000019 the ports are thrown open your bellies may glory provisions must drop now to satisfy many who long before this time could scarcely get any for bread's been so dear it was hard to be gotten potatoes so scarce and one half of them rotten
010214_9994_000020 in ireland and scotland the famine has raged so hundreds and thousands old young middle-aged too food's been so scarce and so dear through the nation that many grim death claimed died through starvation
010214_9994_000021 then if you're seized with cough or phtisic you must not even swallow physic for it's decreed all rest that one day so not even salts must work on sunday
010214_9994_000022 many a youth i'll tell the truth in action have been wounded some left their friends and lovers in despair upon their native shore others never returned again but died upon the raging main causing many a one to cry my son and widows to deplore
010214_9994_000023 but let us all hope now these hard times are ended provisions come down fast and trade be mended that poor folk may live by their labour god send it forget what is past now the ports are thrown open
010214_9994_000024 three any keeper of any refreshment house who shall have the cheek to sell or cause to be sold one glass of cooper or one quarter of watling's pork feed to any person without being cock sure that his character is strictly moral he shall not draw another drop for twelve calendar months
010214_9994_000025 some hardy tars they did survive in greenwich college now alive will tell the deeds of nelson and the battles that he won he never feared a cannon ball till at trafalgar he did fall no flinching from the enemy no action he did shun
010214_9994_000026 trafalgar i will mention if you will give attention it has long been recorded where brave nelson fell and bled the officers around him all human aid was found but were affected to the heart to find that he was dead
010214_9994_000027 these millers and swailers and other corn dealers their granaries well stocked with corn and meal is in hope of bread rising from the market they stop it these clam gutted robbers but now they must drop it
010214_9994_000028 when war was raging it is said men for their labour were paid commerce and trade flourishing but now it ebbs and flows and poverty it does increase though britons say we live in peace this grand conversation on brave nelson arose
010214_9994_000029 and tatoes must drop too old chaps you will find the corn's coming free now the ports are open this dropping of food instead of its rising to some of the bakers has come most surprising such stocks they've laid in thinking of making riches through this fall of bread some will dirty their breeches
010214_9994_000030 the rich with their treasure can roll at their leisure they know not they feel not for nothing but pleasure full bellies don't know what an empty one's feeling enough to set hundreds that's honest a stealing and farmers now mind it your corn quickly grind it and bring it to market or you'll be behind it
010214_9994_000031 the grain that in warehouses years has been bonded must now be brought out it's our right to demand it from all foreign shores fresh supplies will be landed in spite of the tyrants the ports are thrown open
010214_9994_000032 he many powers did defeat and never was that hero beat neither would he surrender till he had thrashed his daring foes although he lost an eye and wing he was loyal and true to his king this grand conversation on brave nelson arose
010214_9994_000033 now in memory of that hero's loss we understand at charing cross a monument of nelson has been erected there an ancient building was pulled down and an open space of ground to commemorate the battle it is called trafalgar square
010214_9994_000034 battle of waterloo twas on the eighteenth day of june napoleon did advance the choicest troops that he could raise within the bounds of france
010214_9994_000035 you british tars as do pass by look up aloft and you will spy the visage of that hero respected as it shows though his remains are in decay grim death in action won the day this grand conversation on brave nelson arose
010214_9994_000036 set your pots on the fire which of late has been empty pies dumplings and puddings there soon will be plenty and tatoes must fall too for one thing remember all food's to come free from the first of september
010214_9994_000037 the gallant tars were grieved sore to find lord nelson was no more all was in confusion in the midst of dying woes in rum they put him it is said and then to england him conveyed this grand conversation on brave nelson arose
010214_9994_000038 and ships from all parts now they are got in motion their canvas well spread are a-ploughing the ocean to bring in cheap food from each foreign nation so lasses and lads shout the ports are all
010214_9994_000039 the stores that's hid up now they out must be bringing or else a dead weight on their hands will be ringing while sighing and crying we'll merrily be singing come drop your bread bakers the ports are thrown open
010214_9994_000040 their glittering eagles shone 'round and proudly looked the foe but briton's lion tore their wings on the plains of waterloo with wellington we'll go with wellington we'll go for wellington commanded us on the plains of waterloo
010214_9994_000041 the fight did last from ten o'clock until the dawn of day while blood and limbs and cannon balls in thick profusion lay their cuirassieurs did quickly charge our squares to overthrow but britons firm undaunted stood on the plains of waterloo
010214_9994_000042 this clause does not refer to the tribe of overend and gurney's or any one connected with the albert assurance company or in fact any gentlemanly swindlers whatsoever
010214_9994_000043 it is now the dreadful night comes on how dismal is the plain for the prussians and the english found above ten thousand slain brave wellington and blucher both most nobly drove their foes and buonaparte's imperial crown was taken at waterloo
010214_9994_000044 the number of the french that at waterloo were slain was near sixty thousand all laid upon the plain near forty thousand of them fell upon that fatal day of our brave british heroes who their prowess did display
010214_9994_000045 now beef has come to fourpence a pound it's a pity you should want folks talk about america but don't you emigrate but stop at home in england if you've any work at all for provisions will be cheap if wages be but small
010214_9994_000046 if you have one shilling to spend go down to mr ward and there you'll get three pounds of beef that's just come from abroad chorus so there never was such doings in old england before
010214_9994_000047 and butchers your flesh meat may now be dropping such rattling of grinders and porridge pots wopping for some when they start there will be no stopping shout huzza lads and lasses the ports are thrown open john harkness printer hundred and twenty one church street preston
010214_9994_000048 dumb animals they'll be strangely puzzled when sunday comes each dog must be muzzled the cocks must on their roosts abide up and to stop their crowings their beaks must be tied up a noise with contempt will the act be treating the calves and sheep must keep from bleating the dairies must close from twelve to twelve sir
010214_9994_000049 now beef and mutton has come down and so is pork and flour too which is what this country wanted a many years ago the cutlers now may go to work and grind away like bricks for now we'll carve with knives and forks instead of porridge sticks
010214_9994_000050 now peace be to their honoured souls who fell that glorious day may the plough ne'er raise their bones nor cut the sacred clay but let the place remain a waste a terror to the foe and when trembling frenchmen pass that way they'll think of waterloo
010214_9994_000051 the butchers now they may give o'er selling their stinking meat for there's many a hundred weight been sold that was never fit to eat and now when you do walk the street if you should happen to turn your eye it's how do you do good morning man as you are passing by
010214_9994_000052 we followed up the rear till the middle of the night we gave them three cheers as they were on their flight says bony damn those englishmen they do bear such a name they beat me here at waterloo at portugal and spain
010214_9994_000053 there were hundreds in this country oh tis true what i do tell that could not get a pound of meat or hardly get the smell but since the tariff bill is passed many hundreds will be fed with plenty of good pork and beef and likewise good cheap bread
010214_9994_000054 so to conclude and make an end and finish up my lines the poor will find in england a difference in the times for work it will be plentiful and provisions will be low and that is what poor man wants wherever he does go
010214_9994_000055 close one be it enacted that any person wishing to open a place for sale of beer wine ale cider or swankey shall give notice of the same to the overseers churchwardens town crier and parish beadle of the parish wherein he lives
010214_9994_000056 the agony bill dear me what a change has seen our nation since we've reformed our legislation each m p as now the fashion brings a new bill every session because one did in the way of peace act by getting past the new police act
010214_9994_000057 this worthy pious emasculator who talks of setting your morals straighter vows by the gods your pleasures to be balking he'll put a stop to your sunday walking
010214_9994_000058 now it has pleased the lords spiritual and temporal of this miscalled free and happy england to look with an eye of pity on the working classes and feeling for all those who are fond of their beer have passed a bill called the new beer house act and all persons breaking the same will have to look out for squalls
010214_9994_000059 another wants a grand reversion so brings you a sabbath bill coercion at this you'll laugh for its meant to gag you this is the bill of saint andrew agnew
010214_9994_000060 married men will to quake be inclined then for fear their wives should be confined then for as no labour's allowed on sundays of course she must put it off till the mondays john harkness printer hundred and twenty-one church street preston
010214_9994_000061 all persons who are in the habit of getting tight on saturday night are requested to drink one quart of half-and-half before closing time lest they should be thirsty next morning
010218_10173_000000 stories of dead cities that had tumbled beneath the waves and for the famous forest of reeds covering a hundred villages which disappeared in one night were known only too well
010218_10173_000001 under the birch tree lovers met to plight their vows and on its smooth bark was often cut the figure of two hearts joined in one
010218_10173_000002 they did not sink in the mud and the man's feet were comfortable even after hours of labor they did not draw his feet and they kept out the water far better than leather possibly could
010218_10173_000003 when the van eyck vrouw and the children saw how happy daddy was they each one wanted a pair then they asked him what he called them
010218_10173_000004 in such a case all the people the babies and their mothers men women horses and cattle would be drowned the dutch folks were a little too fast he thought in winning their acres from the sea
010218_10173_000005 in one hand he grasped his tool box in the other he held a curious looking machine it was a big lump of iron set in a frame with ropes to pull it up and let it fall down with a thump what is it asked van eyck
010218_10173_000006 they were lively and happy what now asked the dreamer smilingly of his two visitors he had hardly got the question out of his mouth when in walked a kabouter all smutty with blacksmith work
010218_10173_000007 that's the way the dutch talk not how do you do but in their watery country it is this how do you sail or else how goes it with you already
010218_10173_000008 moreover he was frightened at the thought that the new land made by pushing back the ocean and building dikes might sink down again and go back to the fishes
010218_10173_000009 the carpenter daddy continued to mourn over the loss of the forests he even shed tears fearing lest by and by there should not one oak tree be left in the country
010218_10173_000010 then van eyck told his dream it was this the moss maiden and trintje the wood elf came to him again at night and danced
010218_10173_000011 one day while sitting on his doorstep brooding sorrowfully a moss maiden and a tree elf appeared skipping along hand in hand
010218_10173_000012 which his fathers loved and which he would allow no one to cut down looking up the leaves of the tree rustled and one big branch seemed to sweep near him
010218_10173_000013 it's a hey a pile driver said the kabouter showing him how to use it when men say to you on the street tomorrow how do you sail laugh at them said the moss maiden herself laughing
010218_10173_000014 did they not say you could walk on top of them by this time van eyck had asked so many questions and kept the elves so long that the moss maiden peeped anxiously through the window
010218_10173_000015 i and my fellow oak trees shall pass away but the sunshine shall be spread over the land and make it dry then
010218_10173_000016 then it whispered in his ear do not mourn for your descendants even many generations hence shall see greater things than you have witnessed
010218_10173_000017 yes and now you can tell the people how to build cities with mighty churches with lofty towers and with high houses like those in other lands
010218_10173_000018 take the trees trim the branches off sharpen the tops turn them upside down and pound them deep in the ground did not the ancient oak promise that the trees would be turned upside down for you
010218_10173_000019 they came up to him and told him that his ancestral oak had a message for him then they laughed and ran away van eyck which was now the man's fully family name went into the forest and stood under the grand old oak tree
010218_10173_000020 instead of its falling down like acorns from the trees more and better food shall come up from out of the earth
010218_10173_000021 klompen said he in good dutch and klompen or klomps they are to this day i'll make a fortune of this said van eyck i'll set up a klomp winkel shop for wooden shoes at once
010218_10173_000022 where green fields now spread and the cities grow where forests were we shall come to life again but in another form
010218_10173_000023 i'll make another fortune out of this also said the happy man who next morning was saluted as mr joyful at once van eyck set up a factory for making pile drivers
010218_10173_000024 in summer the forest furnished shade and in winter warmth from the fire in the spring time the new leaves were a wonder and in autumn the pigs grew fat on the mast or the acorns that had dropped on the ground
010218_10173_000025 seeing the day breaking she and trintje and the kabouter flew away so as not to be petrified by the sunrise
010218_10173_000026 the leaves of the branch rustled for another moment then all was still until the moss maiden and trintje the tree elf again hand in hand as they tripled along merrily appeared to him
010218_10173_000027 so a foundation as good as stone was made in the soft and spongy soil and well built houses uprose by the thousands
010218_10173_000028 will we do this believe what we tell you and be happy we shall turn ourselves upside down for you i cannot see how all these things can be said van eyck fear not my promise will endure
010218_10173_000029 yet soon there rose large cities with splendid mansions and town halls as high towards heaven as the cathedrals and towers in the other lands which had rock for foundation her brick churches rose in the air
010218_10173_000030 nor need you fear for the land that it will fall for even while living we and all the oak trees that are left and all the birch beech and pine trees shall stand on our heads for you
010218_10173_000031 when most needed we shall furnish you and your children and children's children with warmth comfort fire light and wealth
010218_10173_000032 we shall hold up your houses lest they fall into the ooze and you shall walk and run over our heads as truly as when rooted in the soil
010218_10173_000033 on top of the forest trees driven deep in the sand and clay dams and dykes were built that kept out the ocean so
010218_10173_000034 even the lofty walls of churches stood firm the spires were unshaken in the storm old holland had no fertile soil like france or vast flocks of sheeps producing wool like england or armies of weavers as in the belgic lands
010218_10173_000035 sending men into the woods who chose the tall straight trees he had their branches cut off then he sharpened the trunks at one end and these were driven by the pile driver down far and deep into the ground
010218_10173_000036 we shall help you and get our friends the elves to do the same now do you take some oak wood and saw off two pieces each a foot long
010218_10173_000037 instead of the old two thousand square miles there were in the realm in the course of years twelve thousand rich in green fields and cattle
010218_10173_000038 pondering on what all this might mean van eyck went to his wood shed and sawed off the oak timber at night after his wife had cleared off the supper table he laid the foot-long pieces in their place
010218_10173_000039 when van eyck woke up in the morning he recalled his dream and before he was dressed hurried to the kitchen there on the table lay a pair of neatly made wooden shoes
010218_10173_000040 see that they are well dried then set them on the kitchen table tonight when you go to bed after saying this and looking at each other and laughing just as girls do they disappeared
010218_10173_000041 they had heels at the bottom and were nicely pointed at the toes and altogether were very inviting to the foot he tried them on and found that they fitted him exactly
010218_10173_000042 not a sign of tools or shavings could be seen but the clean wood and pleasant odor made him glad when he glanced again at the wooden shoes he found them perfectly smooth both inside and out
010218_10173_000043 so going out to the blacksmith's shop in the village he had the man who pounded iron fashion for him on his anvil a set of tools exactly like those used by the kabouter and the elf which he had seen in his dream
010218_10173_000044 so for thousands of years when men made their home in the forest and wanted nothing else the trees were sacred but by and by when cows came into the land and sheep and horses multiplied
010218_10173_000045 in years long gone too many for the almanac to tell of or for clocks and watches to measure millions of good fairies came down from the sun and went into the earth
010218_10173_000046 at night in his dreams he saw two elves come through the window into the kitchen one a kabouter dark and ugly had a box of tools the other a light faced
010218_10173_000047 were the chief ones that made holland the fairies that lived in the trees bore the name of moss maidens or
010218_10173_000048 which they ate roasted boiled or mashed or made into meal from which something like bread was kneaded and baked
010218_10173_000049 but for van eyck it was like walking on ice after slipping and balancing himself as if on a tightrope and nearly breaking his nose against the wall he took off the wooden shoes and kept them off while inside the house
010218_10173_000050 there they changed themselves into roots and leaves and became trees there were many kinds of these as they covered the earth but the pine and birch ash and oak
010218_10173_000051 tree trintjes which is the dutch pet name for kate or katharine the oak was the favorite tree for people lived then on acorns
010218_10173_000052 he tried to walk on the kitchen floor which his wife kept scrubbed and polished and then sprinkled with clean white sand with broomstick ripples scored in the layers
010218_10173_000053 however when he went outdoors he found his new shoes very light pleasant to the feet and easy to walk in it was not so much like trying to skate as it had been in the kitchen
010218_10173_000054 with oak bark men tanned hides and made leather and from its timber boats and houses under its branches near the trunk people laid their sick hoping for help from the gods
010218_10173_000055 then he hollowed out from inside of it a pair of shoes which the elf smoothed and polished then one elf put his little feet in them and tried to dance but he only slipped on the smooth floor and flattened his nose
010218_10173_000056 up among its leafy branches the new babies lay before they were found in the cradle by the other children to make a young child grow up to be strong and healthy mothers drew them through a split sampling of young tree
010218_10173_000057 at first the two elves seemed to be quarreling as to who should be the boss then they settled down quietly to work the kabouter took the wood and shaped it on the outside
010218_10173_000058 but the other fellow pulled the nose straight again so it was all right they waltzed together upon the wooden shoes then took them off jumped out the window and ran away
010218_10173_000059 even more wonderful as medicine for the country itself the oak had power to heal the new land sometimes suffered from disease called the fall
010218_10173_000060 elf seemed to be the guide the kabouter at once got out his saw hatchet auger long chisel-like knife and smoothing plane
010218_10173_000061 beneath the oak boughs also warriors took oaths to be faithful to their lords women made promises or wives joined hand in hand around its girth hoping to have beautiful children
010218_10173_000062 when van eyck put the wooden shoes on he found that out in the fields in the mud and on the soft soil and in sloppy places this sort of foot gear was just the thing
010218_10173_000063 then he hung out a sign marked wooden blocks for shoes he made klomps for the little folks just out of the nursery for boys and girls for grown men and women and for all who walked out-of-doors in the street or on the fields
010218_10173_000064 soon klomps came to be the fashion in all the country places it was good manners when you went into a house to take off your wooden shoes and leave them at the door
010218_10173_000065 more open ground was needed for pasture grain fields and meadows fruit trees bearing apples and pears peaches and cherries were planted and grass wheat rye and barley were grown
010218_10173_000066 when sick with the val the ground sunk then people houses churches barns and cattle all went down out of sight and were lost forever in a flood of water but the oak with its mighty roots held the soil firm
010218_10173_000067 then instead of the dark woods men liked to have their gardens and orchards open to the sunlight still the people were very rude and all they had on their bare feet were rough bits of hard leather tied on through their toes
010218_10173_000068 then the new holland with its people and red roofed houses with its chimneys and windmills and dykes and storks took the place of the old holt land of many trees
010218_10173_000069 soon a thousand needles were clicking to put a soft cushion between one's soles and toes and the wood women knitted even while they walked to market or gossiped on the street
010218_10173_000070 even in the towns and cities ladies wore wooden slippers especially when walking or working in the garden klomps also set the fashion for soft warm socks and stockings made from sheep's wool
010218_10173_000071 though most of them went barefooted the forests had to be cut down men were so busy with the axe that in a few years the woodland was gone
010218_10173_000072 the klomp winkels or shops of the shoe carpenters were seen in every village when rich beyond his daydreams van eyck had another joyful night vision the next day he wore a smiling countenance
010218_10173_000073 everybody who met him on the street saluted him and asked in a neighborly way good morning mr  cheerful how do you sail today
010218_10173_000074 now there was a good man a carpenter and very skilful with his tools who so loved the oak that he gave himself and his children after him the name of eyck which is pronounced ike and is dutch for oak
010218_9728_000000 and the women the horrid sick dread in the blood of their smiles of their voices the touch of their hands
010218_9728_000001 i yet can bless the transient glow which led him to our humble well he was so noble sir to see such majesty was in his mien and bearing bold
010218_9728_000002 every prayer and as the conflict round us grew intenser in its frenzy dire he fiercer turned as though he drew fresh fury from each mounting fire thou art my bride
010218_9728_000003 while yet its silver shining strands gleamed bright and beauteous in her hands my child my child but she like one who sees beyond the deep abyss
010218_9728_000004 but life and death were now to me as equal she the beautiful the fond the dear had perished and not even the cry of victor in his grief could e'er
010218_9728_000005 but ah for me it lies within my heart it is enough for me to feel the start of mine own blood to know that he is true though all the world should fail that he is true
010218_9728_000006 that i might ease perhaps with smile or sigh i am at rest now and she turned her face in glad content on me through whose pure light her glances burned like holy lamps on holy shrine
010218_9728_000007 ah then you love he whispered and a gray dull shadow fell upon his manner gray but hold and fighting up the casement wide he sat again with forehead turned aside
010218_9728_000008 and you yet afar can you think what it were to hear her shriek out with assurance you'd heed
010218_9728_000009 yes he went on more shrill in the pause of the death-dealing guns one may ask may he not such a question as that of a man
010218_9728_000010 but he who sat beside rose to his feet and bending o'er me cried the name what was it and half wonderingly i answered
010218_9728_000011 i could not live so far she said from where his head may come some weary day to lie nor breathe my breath and know some bed of pain was comfortless
010218_9728_000012 my very cup took dignity beneath his glance which gently told twas welcome as a cup of gold i quaffed and in a moment more had passed forever from my sight
010218_9728_000013 of daily care nor live to see my dreams fade in reality to live to love and then to die
010218_9728_000014 and at last as you looked beheld her slip over those eyes that you love the forehead the hair saw her struggle and catch at some dizzy small branch that would hold but a breath
010218_9728_000015 while life and love are pure and sweet as april's mingled smile and sigh in which all hopeful fancies meet is not so sad more sad to me it were to see the falling leaves
010218_9728_000016 he used to say and sharest sway with freedom in this breast of mine your fates are one the selfsame day that sees her fall sees thee and thine laid bruised and bleeding on her shrine
010218_9728_000017 for reply i drew from my bosom a curl that i kissed and put back on my heart without word 'twas enough
010326_10194_000000 yea i shall haunt until the dusk of time the heavy eyelids filled with fleeting dreams i wait for one who comes with sword to slay the king i wronged who searches for me now and yet he shall not slay me
010326_10194_000001 i shall stand with lifted head and look within his eyes baring my breast to him and to the sun he shall not have the power to stain with blood that whiteness for the thirsty sword shall fall and he shall cry and catch me in his arms
010326_10194_000002 beneath the silken silence the crystal branches slept and dreaming through the dew-fall the cold white blossoms wept
010326_10194_000003 the cries of trojan women as they flee the quivering moan of pale andromache now lifted loud with pain and now brought low
010326_10194_000004 it is the soul of sorrow that we know as in a shell the soul of all the sea so sometimes in the compass of a song
010326_10194_000005 unknown to him who sings through lips that live the voiceless dead of long-forgotten lands proclaim to us their heaviness and wrong
010326_10194_000006 this is the funeral pyre and troy is dead that sparkled so the day i saw it first and darkened slowly after i am she who loves all beauty
010326_10194_000007 olympus let the other women die they shall be quiet when the day is done and have no care to-morrow yet for me there is no rest
010326_10194_000008 yet i wither it why have the high gods made me wreck their wrath forever since my maidenhood to sow sorrow and blood about me
010326_10194_000009 lo they keep their bitter care above me even now it was the gods who led me to this lair that tho the burning winds should make me weak they should not snatch the life from out my lips
010326_10194_000010 still the wan fields elysian any love to lift their breasts with the longing any lips to thirst against the quiver of a kiss lo i shall live to conquer greece again
010326_10194_000011 to you the beauty and to you the bale for never woman born of man and maid had wrought such havoc on the earth as i or troubled heaven with a sea of flame that climbed to touch the silent whirling stars and blotted out their brightness ere the dawn
010326_10194_000012 have i not made the world to weep enough give death to me yet life is more than death how could i leave the sound of singing winds the strong sweet scent that breathes from off the sea or shut my eyes forever to the spring
010326_10194_000013 i will not give the grave my hands to hold my shining hair to light oblivion have those who wander through the ways of death
010326_10194_000014 the gods are not so kind to her made half immortal like themselves it is to you i owe the cruel gift leda my mother and the swan my sire
010326_10194_000015 till light turn darkness and till time shall sleep men's lives shall waste with longing after me for i shall be the sum of their desire the whole of beauty never seen again
010326_10194_000016 and they shall stretch their arms and starting wake with helen on their lips and in their eyes the vision of me always i shall be limned on the darkness like a shaft of light that glimmers and is gone
010326_10194_000017 i have no anger now the dreams are done yet since the greeks and trojans would not see aught but my body's fairness till the end in all the islands set in all the seas and all the lands that lie beneath the sun
010326_10194_000018 to make the people love who hate me now my dreams are over i have ceased to cry against the fate that made men love my mouth and left their spirits all too deaf to hear the little songs that echoed through my soul
010326_10194_000019 they shall behold each one his dream that fashions me anew with hair like lakes that glint beneath the stars dark as sweet midnight or with hair aglow like burnished gold that still retains the fire
010326_10244_000000 and staring eyes who did nothing but eat and drink all the day long the mother was full of grief and told her neighbors of her sad piece of luck and asked if they could tell her what she ought to do
010326_10244_000001 one of them told her to set the strange child in front of the hearth build a fire and boil some milk in two egg shells this will make the child laugh said the neighbor and if he once laughs it will be all over with him
010326_10244_000002 the man saw how she pined and said what ails you dear wife oh i shall die said she if i do not get some of that lettuce that grows back of the house
010326_10244_000003 when the queen reached home she went again to her glass and got it from the same reply as twice before this made her wild with rage snowdrop shall die she cried even if it cost me my life
010326_10244_000004 she went to a secret room which no one else could enter and there made a deadly poisoned apple then she again stained her face and dressed as a peasant's wife and went a third time to the dwarves' house
010326_10244_000005 by good luck the dwarfs soon came home and when they saw snowdrop lying on the floor they knew the stepmother had been there again as they raised snowdrop they saw the comb in her hair and as soon as they drew it out she revived
010326_10244_000006 they reached a hen house and cinderella sprang into it so the prince waited till her father came home he told him a strange maiden had run into the pigeon house and an axe was brought to break into the house but no one was there
010326_10244_000007 now said the peddler let me show you how to use it and she began to comb snowdrop's hair the poison worked at once and snowdrop fell to the floor senseless
010326_10244_000008 she stained her face and put on a dress of a peddler woman and went over the hills to the dwarfs' house she knocked and snowdrop looked out and thinking she was some poor woman let her in and bought a staylace from her
010326_10244_000009 then the queen knew the hunter had not told her the truth she thought and thought how she could kill snow drop and at last she hit on a plan
010326_10244_000010 when they came to the house there lay cinderella in her dirty frock for she had jumped out of the henhouse on the far side and run to the hazel tree where she had left her fine dress for the bird to take away
010326_10244_000011 the mother said cut off a piece of your heel for when you are queen you need not go on foot the daughter did so squeezed her foot into the slipper and went down to the prince
010326_10244_000012 but this time the old witch caught him and said how dare you come in my place and steal my lettuce you shall pay for this oh said he do not be so hard on me
010326_10244_000013 he turned his horse at once and took the false bride home saying she was not the right one that the other sister must try the slipper on the younger one took it to her room and to her joy her toes went in but she could not get the slipper over her heel
010326_10244_000014 i had to do it for my wife wished so much for it that she would have died if she had not got it well if that is true said the witch you may have all you like but you must give me a pledge that you will do one thing
010326_10244_000015 turn and look turn and look there's blood upon the shoe the shoe's too small and she behind is not the bride for you he turned and looked at her foot and saw the blood that flowed from the shoe
010326_10244_000016 i will get some said he cost what it will so that night he climbed over the wall and got some the wife liked it so well that she longed for more and to give her rest the man went again to get some
010326_10244_000017 the daughter cut off her toe squeezed her foot into the slipper and hiding her pain went down to the prince then he placed her as his bride upon his horse and rode off but as they passed the grave of cinderella's mother two white doves sat on the hazel tree and cried
010326_10244_000018 if you should have a child you must give it to me i will do well by it and give it as good care as your wife would in his fear he said he would give the child to the witch
010326_10244_000019 rapunzel grew to be a fair girl and had hair of great length when she was twelve years old the witch shut her up in a tower that had no stairs and but one small window at the top
010326_10244_000020 when weeks had passed a child was born to them and the witch came and claimed it she called it rapunzel and took it off with her
010326_10244_000021 the prince looked in her face and saw that she was the fair maiden with whom he had danced so he said this is my true bride the step-mother and two sisters turned white with rage but the prince took cinderella upon his horse and rode off
010326_10244_000022 when less than a year had passed the king took a new wife who was most fair but so proud that she could not bear to think that anyone else came near her in beauty
010326_10244_000023 there was once a rich man's wife who was quite ill and as she felt that her end was near she called her one daughter to her bedside and said
010326_10244_000024 oh that i had a child as white as this snow as red as this blood and with hair as black as the wood of this frame it soon came to pass that the queen had a girl child who was as white as snow
010326_10244_000025 he looked down at her foot and saw that the blood was trickling from her shoe he turned his horse once more and brought the false bride home this is not the right one he said to the father have you no other daughter
010326_10244_000026 the dwarfs will not be able to rouse you this time she said and when she reached home and went to her glass it answered thou art the fairest lady queen
010326_10244_000027 then he put her upon his horse as his bride and rode off but they too must pass the hazel tree where the two doves sat again they cried turn and look turn and look there's blood upon the shoe the shoe's too small and she behind is not the bride for you
010326_10244_000028 once upon a time in the depth of winter when the flakes of snow fell like feathers from the clouds a queen sat sewing at her pal-ace window which had a carved frame of black wood
010326_10244_000029 while she sewed she pricked her finger and three drops of blood fell on the snow the bright red looked so well on the white snow that the queen thought
010326_10244_000030 some years went by and one day a young prince came that way and heard such a sweet voice sing from the tower that he had to stop it was rapunzel who sang that way to pass the time
010326_10244_000031 she knocked but snowdrop looked out of the window and said i dare not open the door for the dwarfs have told me to let no one in that is hard for me said the woman for i must take back my apples but there is one which i will give you and she held up an apple
010326_10244_000032 as red as blood and with hair as black as the window frame she looked like a snow drop and hence was called by that name and when the child was born the mother died
010326_10244_000033 no said snow drop i dare not take it what are you afraid of it cried the old woman there see i will cut it in two and you can have the red half and i will take the white the apple had been made so that the red side a-lone was poisoned
010326_10244_000034 when the witch wished to get in she would say rapunzel rapunzel let down your hair then rapunzel would let her long hair down out of the window and the witch would climb up by it
010326_10244_000035 my dear child be a good girl and the dear god will take care of you and i will look down on you from heaven and think of you soon after this she died
010326_10244_000036 each day the girl went to her mother's grave and wept she kept her last words in mind and was good and kind to all a round her winter came and clothed the earth in a soft white robe
010326_10244_000037 but the prince would have his way and cinderella was called she washed her hands and face and went in bowing to the prince who gave her the gold slipper she sat down and put on the slipper which was a perfect fit for her
010326_10244_000038 snow-drop longed for the fruit and when she saw the woman eat her half she could not resist but took the poisoned part she took but one bite and fell down dead the queen looked at her with cruel eyes and laughed
010326_10244_000039 no said the father except the daughter of my first wife but she cannot be the bride the prince asked to see her but the step mother said oh no she is much too dirty i dare not let her be seen
010326_10244_000040 when the dwarfs came home they tried all means to bring snow drop to life but this time she seemed to be dead beyond recall they laid her on a bier and sat by her and wept for three days
010326_10244_000041 by and by a young prince passed through the woods one day and saw the case on the rock and the fair girl within it when he had looked at it he said to the dwarfs
010326_10244_000042 as they came to the hazel tree the two white doves cried turn and look turn and look there's no blood upon the shoe it fits so nice and she behind is the rightful bride for you
010326_10244_000043 the queen was shocked and turned green with envy from that hour the sight of snow drop filled her heart with hate and the hate grew so strong and fierce that she had no rest night or day
010326_10244_000044 they took off her clothes and gave her an old gray dress and shoes of wood she had to stay in the kitchen and work hard all day at night when she was tired she had no bed to lie on but must lie down in the cinders on the hearth
010326_10244_000045 now came a sad time for the poor stepchild is the goose to sit in the same room with us said the two daughters they who eat bread must earn it out with you go help the kitchen maid
010326_10244_000046 this gave her such a dirty look that the sisters who were always glad to have a chance to insult her called her cinderella one day the father wished to go to the fair
010326_10244_000047 rapunzel was in great fear when she saw the young man but the prince spoke to her kindly and told her how he had heard her sing and that he could not rest till he had seen her
010326_10244_000048 but when the warm rays of spring had caused the snow to melt from the mothers grave the husband took a new wife the wife brought home with her two daughters of her own who were fair in face but black and mean at heart
010326_10244_000049 let me have this case and i will pay you what you like for it the dwarfs said we will not sell the case for all the gold in the world but when they saw that the prince loved snowdrop truly they gave him the case the prince had his servants lift it and take it away
010326_10244_000050 they would have buried her but she looked so fair and life-like they could not bear to put her in the earth so they had a case made of clear glass in which one could view the body from all sides and in this they placed her
010326_10244_000051 once when he stood behind a tree he saw the witch come and cry rapunzel rapunzel let down your hair then he saw the hair let down and the witch climb up by it
010326_10244_000052 the woman did as she was told as soon as she put the eggshells in place the strange child sang out old am i as the oldest tree but to cook in eggshells is new to me
010326_10244_000053 the queen was vexed and went to her glass mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest one of all the mirror replied thou wert the fairest lady queen snowdrop is fairest now i ween
010326_10244_000054 then she was pleased for she knew the glass spoke the truth but as snow drop grew up she became fairer and fairer till she reached the age of eight and then was more lovely than the queen
010326_10244_000055 then they put the glass case upon the ledge of a rock and one of them always stayed by to watch snow drop lay in the case a long time and showed no signs of decay
010326_10244_000056 come said the old woman let me lace your pretty waist right and snow-drop let her do so but she drew the lace so tight that snow-drop could not breathe and fell down as if dead then the queen sped away
010326_10244_000057 the next day cinderella went to the tree again when the stepmother and sisters had gone to the ball and a dress more grand and rich than the first was thrown down to her the prince danced with her again all the evening
010326_10244_000058 the prince tried to get into the tower but he could find no door he went home but the song still rang in his ears and he came each day to hear it
010326_10244_000059 before night he sold these and could then buy stuff for four pairs of shoes at dawn he found them made and thus it went on day by day in this way he did well and in the end got rich
010326_10244_000060 then she sent her off to a hut in a lonely place where she could see no one when the prince came the next day the old witch hung out rapunzel's hair for him to climb up by
010326_10244_000061 the hunter took the child to the woods but when he drew his knife to kill her she begged him to spare her life i will run into the wilds and not be seen anymore she said this speech touched the man's heart and he took pity on her and let her go
010326_10244_000062 first tale a shoe maker through no fault of his own once grew so poor that he had only as much stuff left as would make one pair of shoes he cut out the shoes at night so that he could set to work the next day
010326_10244_000063 but the old witch had seen him go she was in a rage and as soon as she had climbed up in the tower she seized rapunzel's long hair took a pair of shears and snip snap off fell the fine braids to the floor
010326_10244_000064 there was once a man who had seven boys but no girl at last a girl was born but she was so weak and small that it was thought best to baptize her at once lest she should die
010326_10244_000065 three times a day cinderella went to it to weep and pray and each time a little white bird flew on the tree and if she spoke a wish out loud the bird threw down what she wished for
010326_10244_000066 i wish they would all change to crows he said and the words were no more than out of his mouth when the boys were changed to crows and flew off
010326_10244_000067 cinderella thanked him for the twig and went at once to plant it on her mother's grave the poor girl wept long and her tears fell like water on the twig so that it grew to a tree
010326_10244_000068 where am i she cried you are with me said the prince full of joy and he told her all that had come to pass you are more dear to me than all else in the world come with me to my father's palace and be my wife
010326_10244_000069 a man soon came in who bought them and thought they were so good a pair that he paid a high price for them the shoemaker could now buy stuff for two pairs of shoes he cut them out at night to lose no time but there was no need of this for when he got up the next day they were made
010326_10244_000070 the first twig that hits your hat on your way home father break off and bring to me said she so he brought the dress and the pearls for his stepdaughters and on his way home as he rode through a wood a hazel bough struck his hat and he broke it off and took it with him
010326_10244_000071 the seven boys were sent to the well for water each wished to draw the water and in their strife the pail fell into the well then they feared to go in the house and the father grew cross because they did not come
010508_10335_000000 the chestnut curls his mother oft had stroked in fondest pride neglected hung in clotted locks with deepest crimson dyed ah many a mother's heart shall ache and bleed with anguish sore when tidings come of him who marched so blithely forth to war
010508_10335_000001 let all the bells from all the towers a joyous peal ring out we've gained a glorious victory and put the foe to rout a mother heard the chiming bells her joy was mixed with pain pray god she said my gallant boy be not among the slain
010508_10335_000002 oh sad for them the stricken down in manhood's early dawn and sadder yet for loving hearts god comfort them that mourn yes victory has a fearful price our hearts may shrink to pay and tears will mingle with the joy that greets a glorious day
010508_10335_000003 but he who dies in freedom's cause we cannot count him lost a battle won for truth and right is worth the blood it cost oh mothers count it something gained that they for whom you mourn bequeath fair freedom's heritage to millions yet unborn
010508_10335_000004 alas for her that very hour outstretched in death he lay the color from his fair young face had scarcely passed away his nerveless hand still grasped the sword he never more might wield his eyes were sealed in dreamless sleep upon that bloody field
010508_10494_000000 sweated said mr brisher regular run off me all that morning said mr brisher i was at it pretending to make that rockery and wondering what i should do i'd have told her father perhaps only i was doubtful of his honesty i was afraid he might rob me of it like and give it up to the authorities
010508_10494_000001 mr brisher meditated on the difficulties of narration and embarked on a complicated parenthesis i don't know if i told you it'd been a burglar's house before it was my girl's father's and i knew he'd robbed a mail train once i did know that it seemed to me that's very likely i said but what did you do
010508_10494_000002 yes he said i found a treasure and come ome i tell you i could surprise you with things that has happened to me and for some time he was content to repeat that he had found a treasure and left it
010508_10494_000003 now you'd hardly believe it but all them three days i never had a chance at the blessed treasure never got out not even a half crown there was always something always astonishing thing it isn't thought of more said mr brisher finding treasure's no great shakes it's getting it
010508_10494_000004 that ain't all you'd hardly believe it he said but i found a treasure found a regular treasure i fancied this was irony and did not perhaps greet it with proper surprise
010508_10494_000005 i was engaged once he said at last with a reminiscent eye on the shuv apenny board so near as that he looked at me so near as that fact is he looked about him brought his face close to mine lowered his voice and fenced off an unsympathetic world with a grimy hand
010508_10494_000006 i was a smart young chap when i was younger said mr brisher i ad my work cut out but i was very careful very and i got through he leant over the taproom table and thought visibly on the subject of my trustworthiness i was relieved at last by his confidence
010508_10494_000007 well at last i got a sort of plan i was always a bit good at planning though carrying it out isn't so much in my line i thought it all out and settled on a plan first i was going to take all my pockets full of these here half crowns see and afterwards as i shall tell
010508_10494_000008 mr brisher by means of enigmatical facework tried to make me think he had the best of that argument but i knew better i went out in a huff at last but not before i was pretty sure i had to lift that treasure by myself the only thing that kept me was thinking how i'd take it out of him when i had the cash there was a lengthy pause
010508_10494_000009 if she ain't dead or married to some one else or anything i'm engaged still now he confirmed this statement with nods and facial contortions still he said ending the pantomime and broke into a reckless smile at my surprise me run away he explained further with coruscating eyebrows come ome
010508_10494_000010 i don't suppose i slept a wink any of those nights thinking where i was to take it what i was to do with it how i was to explain it it made me regular ill and days i was that dull it made jane regular huffy you ain't the same old chap you was in london she says several times i tries to lay it on her father and his snacks but bless you she knew better
010508_10494_000011 what must she have that i'd got another girl on my mind said that wasn't true well we had a bit of a row but i was that set on the treasure i didn't seem to mind a bit anything she said
010508_10494_000012 and you mean to say i began wait a bit said mr brisher i say i'd made my plan that put the kybosh on one bit but it didn't hurt the general scheme not a bit
010508_10494_000013 i made no vulgar clamour for a story but i became attentive to mr brisher's bodily needs and presently i led him back to the deserted lady she was a nice girl he said a little sadly i thought and respectable he raised his eyebrows and tightened his mouth to express extreme respectability beyond the likes of us elderly men
010508_10494_000014 he was pensive for a little while thinking as we must all come to think sooner or later of the vanished brightness of youth but he refrained as one may do in taprooms from the obvious moral
010508_10494_000015 well i got to that state i couldn't think of getting at the treasure again in the daytime so i waited until the night before i had to go and then when everything was still up i gets and slips down to the back door meaning to get my pockets full what must i do in the scullery but fall over a pail
010508_10494_000016 it was a long way from ere essex in fact near colchester it was when i was up in london in the buildin trade i was a smart young chap then i can tell you slim ad best clo'esa s good as anybody
010508_10494_000017 i went and i finished that rockery the next day as though there wasn't a snack in the world cemented over the stones i did dabbed it green and everything i put a dab of green just to show where the box was they all came and looked at it and said how nice it was even he was a bit softer like to see it
010508_10494_000018 she lived at home with her father and mother quite the lady in a very nice little house with a garden and remarkable respectable people they was rich you might call 'em a most they owned their own house got it out of the building society and cheap because the chap who had it before was a burglar and in prison and they had a bit of free old land and some cottages and money invested all nice and tight
010508_10494_000019 e didn't said mr brisher not then anyhow arever after all that was over off i set for london off i set for london pause
010508_10494_000020 i pretended i did and when this chap married her sister him and me was great friends what must he do but ask me down to colchester close by where she lived naturally i was introduced to her people and well very soon her and me was engaged he repeated engaged
010508_10494_000021 i'd left the spade just where i could find it i'd got everything planned and right i ired a little trap in colchester and pretended i wanted to go to ipswich and stop the night and come back the next day and the chap i ired it from made me leave two sovrings on it right away and off i set i didn't go to no ipswich neither
010508_10494_000022 i got to know her through a chap what was engaged to her sister she was stopping in london for a bit with an aunt that had a ham and beef shop this aunt was very particular they was all very particular people all her people was and wouldn't let her sister go out with this feller except her other sister my girl that is went with them so he brought me into it sort of to ease the crowding
010508_10494_000023 and besides considering i was marrying into the family i thought it would be nicer like if it came through me put me on a better footing so to speak well i'd had three days before me left of my holidays so there wasn't no hurry so i covered it up and went on digging and tried to puzzle out how i was to make sure of it only i couldn't
010508_10494_000024 only i wasn't going to no london said mr brisher with sudden animation and thrusting his face into mine no fear what do you think i didn't go no further than colchester not a yard
010508_10494_000025 we used to go walks in battersea park of a sunday afternoon me in my topper and im in is and all the girls well stylish there wasn't many in battersea park ad the larf of us she wasn't what you'd call pretty but a nicer girl i never met i liked er from the start and well though i say it who shouldn't she liked me you know ow it is i daresay
010508_10494_000026 he was always great on singing hearty to the lord and when he got out of tune half the people went after him always he was that sort of man and to walk behind him in his nice black clothes is hat was a brimmer made one regular proud to be engaged to such a father-in-law and when the summer came i went down there and stopped a fortnight
010508_10494_000027 i made a sympathetic noise and down at the bottom of their garden was a bit of wild part like so i says to him why don't you have a rockery here i says it'd look nice too much expense he says not a penny says i i'm a dab at rockeries lemme make you one you see i'd helped my brother make a rockery in the beer garden behind his tap so i knew how to do it right
010508_10494_000028 i hoisted one end sort of wild like and over the whole show went with a tremendous noise perfect smash of silver and then right on the heels of that flash lightning like the day and there was the back door open and the old man coming down the garden with his blooming old gun he wasn't not a hundred yards away
010508_10494_000029 i tell you i was that upset i didn't think what i was doing i never stopped not even to fill my pockets i went over the fence like a shot and ran like one o'clock for the trap cussing and swearing as i went i was in a state
010508_10494_000030 i couldn't no more lift it than fly i was sick i'd never thought of that i got regular wild i tell you i cursed i got sort of outrageous i didn't think of dividing it like for the minute and even then i couldn't ave took money about loose in a trap
010508_10494_000031 now you know there was a sort of itch said mr brisher we wanted to marry me and jane did and get things settled but he said i had to get a proper position first consequently there was a itch consequently when i went down there i was anxious to show that i was a good useful sort of chap like show i could do pretty nearly everything like see
010508_10494_000032 i kep'on i whacked at it-i didn't dream the old man would ear i didn't even trouble to go quiet with the spade and the thunder and lightning and ail seemed to excite me like i shouldn't wonder if i was singing i got so ard at it i clean forgot the thunder and the orse and trap i precious soon got the box showing and started to lift it heavy i said
010508_10494_000033 it was what you'd call snug and warm i tell you i was on furniture too why they add a pianner jane her name was jane used to play it sundays and very nice she played too there wasn't hardly any  tune in the book she couldn't play
010508_10494_000034 mr brisher was pensive for an interval i was done he repeated very bitterly well i said that's all said mr brisher you didn't go back
010508_10494_000035 what a treasure dug up yes buried wealth treasure trove come out of the ground where i kept on saying regular treasure he looked at me with unusual disrespect
010508_10494_000036 no fear i'd ad enough of that blooming treasure any'ow for a bit besides i didn't know what was done to chaps who tried to collar a treasure trove i started off for london there and then
010508_10494_000037 wasn't more than a foot deep not the top of it he said i'd ardly got thirsty like before i come on the corner go on i said i didn't understand why directly i hit the box i knew it was treasure a sort of instinct told me something seemed to shout inside of me now's your chance lie low
010508_10494_000038 i thought said mr brisher and i thought once i got regular doubtful whether i'd seen it or not i went down to it and had it uncovered again just as her ma came out to hang up a bit of washing she'd done jumps again afterwards i was just thinking i'd have another go at it when jane comes to tell me dinner was ready you'll want it she says seeing all the hole you've dug
010508_10494_000039 rights lemme make you one i says it's olidays but i'm that sort of chap i ate doing nothing i says i'll make you one to rights and the long and the short of it was he said i might and that's ow i come on the treasure what treasure i asked why said mr brisher the treasure i'm telling you about what's the reason why i never married
010508_10494_000040 and will you believe me when i got to the place where i'd left the horse and trap they'd gone off when i saw that i hadn't a cuss left for it i just danced on the grass and when i'd danced enough i started off to london i was done
010508_10494_000041 jane was a nice girl he said a thorough nice girl mind you if jealous and there's no knowing i mightn't have gone back to her after a bit i thought if he didn't give up the treasure i might have sort of an hold on him
010508_10494_000042 kicked the lid on again and covered it up like a shot and went on digging about a yard away from it like mad and my face so to speak was laughing on its own account till i had it hid i tell you i was regular scared like at my luck
010508_10494_000043 it's lucky i knew the laws of treasure trove or i'd have been shoutin' there and then i daresay you know crown bags it i said all but one percent go on it's a shame what did you do
010508_10494_000044 issuing counterfeit coins he said counterfeit coins you don't mean to say yes it bad quite a long case they've made of it but they got him though he dodged tremendous traced his having passed oh nearly a dozen bad off crowns
010508_10494_000045 uncovered the top of the box there wasn't anybody in the garden or about like jane was helping her mother do the house i was excited i'll tell you i tried the lock and then gave it a whack at the hinges open it came silver coins full shining it made me tremble to see 'em
010508_10494_000046 and you never went back never but about jane did you write three times fishing like and no answer we'd parted in a bit of a huff on account of her being jealous so that i couldn't make out for certain what it meant i didn't know what to do i didn't even know whether the old man knew it was me
010508_10494_000047 and just then i'm blessed if the dustman didn't come round the back of the house pretty nearly gave me heart disease think what a fool i was to have all that money showing and directly after i heard the chap next door he was holidaying too i heard him watering his beans if only he'd looked over the fence what did you do
010508_10494_000048 i just thought that it had to be kept close and that was all treasure i kept whisperin' to myself treasure and hundreds of pounds hundreds hundreds of pounds whispering to myself like and digging like blazes it seemed to me that box was regular sticking out and showing like your legs do under the sheets in bed
010508_10494_000049 well one day i looks as usual under colchester and there i saw his name what for do you think i could not guess mr brisher's voice sank to a whisper and once more he spoke behind his hand his manner was suddenly suffused with a positive joy
010508_10494_000050 he always called me a jackanapes somehow knows how to put is back into it after all seemed quite impressed by it he did how long was the box i asked suddenly how long said mr brisher yes in length oh bout so by so mr brisher indicated a moderate sized trunk full said i
010508_10494_000051 and i went and put all the earth i'd got out of my hole for the rockery slap on top of it i was in a sweat and in the midst of it all out toddles her father he didn't say anything to me just stood behind me and stared but jane told me afterwards when he went indoors he says that there jackanapes of yours jane
010508_10494_000052 full up of silver coins half crowns i believe why i cried that would mean hundreds of pounds thousands said mr brisher in a sort of sad calm i calculated it out but how did it get there
010508_10494_000053 i was in a regular daze all dinner wondering whether that chap next door wasn't over the fence and filling his pockets but in the afternoon i got easier in my mind it seemed to me it must have been there so long it was pretty sure to stop a bit longer and i tried to get up a bit of a discussion to draw out the old man and see what he thought of treasure trove
010508_10494_000054 all i know is where i found what i thought at the time was this the chap who'd owned the house before her father had been a regular slap-up burglar what you'd call a high class criminal used to drive his trap like peace did
010508_10494_000055 lor e did let me ave it mr brisher affected an insincere amusement e was well what you might call a rare and at snacks said that was the sort of friend e'd naturally expect me to ave said e'd naturally expect that from the friend of a out-of-work loafer who took up with daughters who didn't belong to im
010508_10494_000056 just to draw him out i told a story of a chap i said i knew pretending you know who'd found a sovereign in an overcoat he'd borrowed i said he stuck to it but i said i wasn't sure whether that was right or not and then the old man began
010508_10494_000057 there i couldn't tell you off he said you went on most outrageous i stood up to him about it just to draw him out wouldn't you stick to it arf sov not if you found it in the street i says certainly not he says certainly i wouldn't what not if you found it as a sort of treasure
010508_10494_000058 mr brisher's treasure you can't be too careful who you marry said mr brisher and pulled thoughtfully with a fat wristed hand at the lank moustache that hides his want of chin
010508_10494_000059 that's why i ventured yes said mister brisher with a solemn light in his bleary blue-grey eyes moving his head expressively and breathing alcohol intimately at me there's lots as have try at me many as i could name in this town-but none have done it none i
010508_10494_000060 mr brisher paused and affected amusement at the memory the old man was a scorcher he said a regular scorcher what said i did he it was like this explained mr brisher laying a friendly hand on my arm and breathing into my face to calm me
010508_10494_000061 i surveyed the flushed countenance the equatorial expansion the masterly carelessness of his attire and heaved a sigh to think that by reason of the unworthiness of women he must needs be the last of his race
010508_10494_000062 young man there's higher authority than mine render unto caesar what is it yes well he fetched up that a rare and hitting you over the head with the bible was the old man and so he went on he got to such snacks about me last i couldn't stand it i'd promised jane not to answer him back but it got a bit too thick i i give it to him
010508_10536_000000 true to the bond you gave and will not break and fearless in the fight for conscience sake against giant robber clad in steel with blood of trampled belgium on his heel striding through france to strike you down at last britain stand fast
010508_10536_000001 stand fast brave land the huns are thundering toward the citadel they prate of culture but their path is hell their light is darkness and the bloody sword they wield and worship is their only lord
010508_10536_000002 stand fast dear land thou island mother of a world-wide race whose children speak thy tongue and love thy face their hearts and hopes are with thee in the strife their hands will break the sword that seeks thy life fight on until the teuton madness cease
010508_10536_000003 o land where reason stands secure on right o land where freedom is the source of light against the mailed barbarians deadly blast britain stand fast
010508_10627_000000 what pipe was ever thus beatifying in effect you are aching all over and enjoying it and the scent of limes drifts in through the window this is undoubtedly the best and greatest country in the world and none but good fellows abide in it
010508_10627_000001 laud we the gods and let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils from our blest altars end of the romance of the road
010508_10627_000002 but the getting back to them is now a matter of effort of set purpose a stepping aside out of our ordinary course they are no longer unsought influences towards the making of character
010508_10627_000003 all that lay between a day's ride a life's romance was the excellent title of an unsuccessful book and indeed the journey should march with the day beginning and ending with its sun to be the complete thing the golden round required of it
010508_10627_000004 to all these natural bounds and limitations it is good to get back now and again from a life assisted and smooth by artificialities where iron has superseded muscle the kindly life-blood is apt to throb dull as the measured beat of the steam-engine
010508_10627_000005 this makes that mind and body fare together hand in hand sharing the hope the action the fruition finding equal sweetness in the languor of aching limbs at eve
010508_10627_000006 not fully nor worthily perhaps until it too is a vanished regret though emerson for one will not have it so and maintains and justifies its right to immediate recognition as poetic material
010508_10627_000007 so perhaps the time of them has gone by here in this second generation of steam pereunt et imputantur they pass away and are scored against not us but our guilty fathers for ourselves our peculiar slate is probably filling fast the romance of the steam-engine is yet to be captured and expressed
010508_10627_000008 disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts so that he looks upon the factory village and the railway and sees them fall within the great order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web
010508_10627_000009 for as it is dislocation and detachment from the life of god that makes things ugly the poet who re attaches things to nature and the whole re attaching even artificial things and violations of nature to nature by a deeper insight
010508_10627_000010 the little engine tethered well ahead as if between traces to those bred within sight of the sea steamers will always partake in somewhat of the beauty and mystery of the ships
010508_10627_000011 recording by will cooper the romance of the road by kenneth grahame among the many places of magic visited by pantagruel and his company during the progress of their famous voyage few surpass that island whose roads did literally go to places
010508_10627_000012 and even in a certain work by another and a very different painter though i will willingly acquit mr frith of any deliberate romantic intention you shall find the element of romance in the vestiges of the old order still lingering in the first transition period the coach shaped railway carriages with luggage piled and corded on top the red-coated guard
010508_10627_000013 the romance of the rail by kenneth graham in these iron days of the dominance of steam the crowning wrong that is wrought us of furnace and piston-rod lies in their annihilation of the steadfast mystery of the horizon so that the imagination no longer begins to work at the point where vision ceases
010508_10627_000014 au lieu destin the best example i know of an approach to this excellent sort of vitality in roads is the ridgeway of the north berkshire downs join it at streatley the point where it crosses the thames
010508_10627_000015 and in the first god-like intoxication of motion with braced muscle in the sun for walk or ride take the mind over greater distances than a throbbing whirl with stiffening joints and cramped limbs through a dozen counties
010508_10627_000016 the poet however seems hard to convince hereof emerson will have it that nature loves the gilding train of cars instead of which the poet still goes about the country singing purling brooks
010508_10627_000017 painters have been more flexible and liberal turner saw and did his best to seize the spirit of the thing its kinship with the elements and to blend furnace glare and rush of iron with the storm shower the wind and the thwart flashing sunrays and to make the whole a single expression of irresoluble force
010508_10627_000018 in the days where streets were less wearily familiar than now or even the golden cord was quite loosed that led back to relinquished fields and wider skies i have lain awake on stifling summer nights thinking of luckier friends by moor and stream and listening for the whistles from certain railway stations
010644_10457_000000 the support of bankrupts the hero of gladiators and actors his adherents are monsters of crime we cannot endure them any longer their destruction is at hand
010644_10457_000001 our general has given us peace abroad under my leadership let us declare war upon our domestic enemy
010644_10457_000002 i give them one more chance let them follow their leader happy for us if we can be quit of them catilina's departure alone has relieved us much he is the friend of every criminal the corrupter of youth
010644_10457_000003 their only chance is a measure of compulsory sale which i offer them two those who hope by the revolution to obtain power and office let these mark the forces against them
010644_10457_000004 of his adherents there are six classes one men with large debts but larger estates which they will not part with hoping that catalina will declare an abolition of debts
010644_10457_000005 the hopeless bankrupt their ruin is certain but they need not involve the whole state in it five criminals of every class let them stay with catalina six
010644_10457_000006 i wish indeed he had taken all his adherents with him our armies can easily deal with the band of bankrupts and swindlers he has assembled it is the conspirators of high rank whom he has left behind that we have now to fear
010644_10457_000007 some may say you should have arrested him had i done so many would not have believed my accusations for their sakes i was obliged to make him declare himself once outside i do not fear him
010644_10457_000008 in such a contest the result is certain guard your own homes and we will do our duty on
010644_10457_000009 yet now if he should change his mind and really go into exile i am to be called a tyrant i would gladly bear it if war might be so averted
010644_10457_000010 but there is no chance of it in three days he will be in arms those who thus reproach me are really his secret partisans
010644_10457_000011 one more appeal to the conspirators who are still in the city they can go out if they will but any attempt at violence here will be crushed this shall be done under my direction
010644_9753_000000 puss now made a last and desperate effort and had succeeded in forcing her head and shoulders through it when the foremost of the dogs made a spring and seized her violently
010644_9753_000001 that brought about the hornpipe be the hole o my coat shouted jack there's something alive in it or it would never cut sich capers begorra there is jack something strange entirely has got into it wirra man alive what's to be done jist as she spoke the pot seemed to cut the buckle in prime style
010644_9753_000002 from the body resembling the hollow one emitted by an empty barrel when struck in the meantime the interment took place and the sensation began like every other to die away in the natural progress of time when behold a report ran abroad like wildfire that
010644_9753_000003 swung to and fro carrying his unyielding body along with it he was obliged to depart in silence the cow-boy sent by tom's wife who knew well what sort of allurement detained him
010644_9753_000004 and they could not persuade him at last he got angry and swore a big oath saving your presence that he would not dance a step more and the word was hardly out of his mouth
010644_9753_000005 there was the pot bobbin up an down and from side to side jiggin it away as merry as a grig an it was quite easy to see that it wasn't the pot itself but what was inside of it
010644_9753_000006 and i followed its track and at last it led me whilst whisper right up to katey macshane's door and when i was at the threshold i heard a moanin' within a great moanin' and a groanin'
010644_9753_000007 by the same disorder and that your eldest son was cured in a most extraordinary way when the physicians had given him over tis true for you sir returned tom your father the doctor god be good to him i won't belie him in his grave
010644_9753_000008 that whenever moll roe slept she had an out-of-the-way custom of keeping her eyes shut if she did however for that matter the loss was her own for sure we all know that when one comes to shut their eyes they can't see as far before them as another
010644_9753_000009 take place among his friends within many miles of him as to this last class of exceptions it may appear at first very singular that he is much more punctual in his attendance
010644_9753_000010 he could not help it sir replied tom bourke they that could make him do more than that made him do it howsomever when he had done they wanted him to dance again but he was tired
010644_9753_000011 the gentleman considered this not impossible amongst a parcel of thoughtless young men and appealed to them to make an apology but one and all on honour denied the impeachment suddenly
010644_9753_000012 and make your advances a long time before you can hope to obtain possession if you march up boldly and tell him at once your object you are for the most part sure to have the gates closed in your teeth
010644_9753_000013 told me when my fourth boy was a week sick that himself and dr barry did all that man could do for him but they could not keep him from going after the rest no more they could if the people that took away the rest wished to take him too
010644_9753_000014 when he remained out after a certain hour was in attendance to conduct his master home i have no doubt that he returned without meeting any material injury as i know that within the last month he was to use his own words as stout and hearty a man as any of his age in the county
010644_9753_000015 if i have thought billy he shall go and fetch the horses from the bog every night for i don't see why i am not every inch of me as good a gentleman as my master
010644_9753_000016 when he found himself all alone with nothing but a white cow grazing by his side did he ever discover why he was gifted with these extraordinary powers in the dance tom said mr martin i'll tell you that too sir answered bourke when i come to it
010644_9753_000017 never wish it twice billy said a little man in a three-cornered hat bound all about with gold lace and with great silver buckles in his shoes so big that it was a wonder how he could carry them
010644_9753_000018 a story indeed muttered he old wives fables to please the weans as he took up his bundle of tinkering implements
010644_9753_000019 this reply was made in so decided a tone that pat did not attempt to repeat his appeal but turned away reluctantly to resume his weary journey
010644_9753_000020 and he fell asleep he got into a perspiration saving your presence as if he was drawn through the river and breathed hard with a great impression on his chest and was very bad very bad entirely through the night
010644_9753_000021 and the words were scarcely out of his mouth when he made his appearance what to think he knew not when he saw the minister footing it away at the rate of a wedding he had very little time however to think for before he could sit down
010644_9753_000022 it so happened that upon a christmas morning i think in the year eighteen fourteen there was a deep fall of snow and young m'kenna instead of going to mass
010644_9753_000023 and i opened the door and there she was herself sitting quite content in the shape of a woman and the black cat that was sittin' by her rose up its back and spit at me but i went on
010644_9753_000024 according to his order i took the little boy out of the dwelling-house immediately sick as he was and made a bed for him and myself in the cow-house well sir i lay down by his side in the bed between two of the cows
010644_9753_000025 to pay more court to the dead than the living are precisely those which lead to the opposite conduct in the generality of mankind-a hope of future benefit
010644_9753_000026 and stockings at the other side of the river he walked over to the crowd and mixed with them for some time without being minded he thought sir that he'd show them better dancing than any of themselves for he was proud of his feet sir
010644_9753_000027 but he was afraid not to do his bidding so up he got in the evening and away he went for the fort field he was not long there before the little man came towards him and said billy i want to go
010644_9753_000028 which they twinkle give them an expression of shrewdness and intelligence if not of cunning and this is very much the character of the man if you want to make a bargain with tom bourke you must act as if you were a general besieging a town
010644_9753_000029 was duly communicated to the family and it was found that the circumstances were exactly as it had represented them this of course was considered as sufficient proof of the truth of its mission
010644_9753_000030 just as jack spoke the pudding appeared to take the hint for it quietly hopped out and as the house was directly on the roadside turned down towards the bridge the very way that old harry went it was very natural of course that jack and katty should go out to see how it intended to travel
010644_9753_000031 they could hear no more for harry appeared to feel like a man that carried something a great deal hotter than he wished as anyone might see by the liveliness of his motions
010644_9753_000032 she then ordered the cow to be drove back to her pasture and again entered the house go now said she to the woman and bring me some milk from every cow in your possession she went and soon returned with a large pail filled with a frightful-looking mixture of blood milk and corrupt matter
010644_9753_000033 his enthusiasm for the sport however was stronger than his love of religion and he refused to be guided by his father's advice the old man during the altercation got warm
010644_9753_000034 her arms and cheeks were much the colour of the hair and her saddle nose was the prettiest thing of its kind that ever was on a face her fists for thank goodness she was well starved with them too
010644_9753_000035 to use the language of the people frank m'kenna was appearing one night about a fortnight after his funeral the daughter of daly the herd a girl about fourteen while lying in bed saw what appeared to be the likeness of m'kenna who had been lost
010644_9753_000036 after arriving to the ground she remained motionless for a few moments looking around her sharply she then began to skip and jump in a playful manner now advancing at a smart pace towards the cows and again retreating precipitately
010644_9753_000037 never heeding and asked the old how she was and what ailed her nothing says she what's that on the floor says i
010644_9753_000038 at the funerals than at the baptisms or weddings of his friends this may be constructed as an instance of disinterested affection for departed worth very uncommon in this selfish world but i'm afraid that the motives which lead
010644_9753_000039 said the methodist preacher where pace is he had time to go no further however for much to his amazement the priest and the minister started up from the table just as he was going to swallow the first spoonful of the pudding and before you could say jack robinson
010644_9753_000040 i make no doubt but ere the sun goes down we will find out the infernal villain who is robbing you bryan secured the doors and windows and commenced churning
010644_9753_000041 and still continued gazing round the house with an air of importance and self-sufficiency when mrs c had ended the old hag remained a while as if in a deep reverie at length she said have you any of the milk in the house i have replied the other show me some of it
010644_9753_000042 started away at a lively jig down the floor at this moment a neighbor's son came running in an told them that the person was coming to see the new-married couple and wish them all happiness
010644_9753_000043 i thought about twelve o'clock he was going at last and i was just getting up to call the man i told you of but there was no occasion my friends were getting the better of them that wanted to take him away from me there was nobody in the cow-house but the child and myself there was only one halfpenny candle lighting it and that was stuck in the wall
010644_9753_000044 well away they went billy leading the third horse and never stopped until they came to a snug farmer's house in the county limerick close under the old castle of carrigogunniel that was built they say by the great brian boru
010644_9753_000045 pat's hair stood on end and the cold perspiration poured from his forehead but there was nothing for it but to perform his dreadful task
010644_9753_000046 and as the day was sunday it was but natural too that a greater number of people than usual were passing the road this was a fact and when jack and his wife were seen following the pudden the whole neighbourhood was soon up and after it jack rafferty
010644_9753_000047 the gentleman seeing something was wrong took him aside and pressed for an explanation whereupon captain stewart without entering into particulars said he had been made the victim of a sort of practical joking that he thought quite unwarrantable with a stranger
010644_9753_000048 and the whole floor was streaming with blood no hare however could be found and the men were more than ever convinced that it was old rachel who had by the assistance of some demon assumed the form of the hare and they now determined to have her if she were over the earth they entered the bedroom
010644_9753_000049 what is it katty ahagur will you tell us what it means why replied katty it's my big pudden that's bewitched and it's now hot foot pursuing here she stopped
010644_9753_000050 by the haunch she uttered a loud a piercing scream and struggled desperately to free herself from his grip and at last succeeded but not until she left a piece of her rump in his teeth the men now burst open the door a bright turf fire blazed on the hearth
010644_9753_000051 or if you do it may be worse for you in the long run if i find you a good servant you will find me an indulgent master
010644_9753_000052 got down his cock stick which uh is a staff much thicker and heavier at one end than at the other and prepared to set out on his favourite amusement his father seeing this reproved him seriously and insisted that he should attend prayers
010644_9753_000053 their conversations now became not only frequent but quite friendly and familiar the girl became a favourite with the spectre and the spectre on the other hand soon lost all his terrors in her eyes
010644_9753_000054 seeing him fairly embarked in it the tall men went away soon however the flames rose so high as to singe the rope
010644_9753_000055 there they were both master and man looking down upon the fun that was going forward and under them were the priest
010644_9753_000056 and leaping on the ground quite near them they were now convinced that this was the object which they had so impatiently expected and they were resolved to watch her motions narrowly
010644_9753_000057 and billy did the same upon another facing him but not being much accustomed to roosting in such a place his legs hung down as untidy as may be
010644_9753_000058 and a good right he had for there was not a boy in the same parish could foot a double or treble with him but pwah his dancing was no more to theirs than mine would be to the mistress here they did not seem as if they had a bone in their bodies
010644_9753_000059 home went billy macdaniel and though he was tired and weary enough never a wink of sleep could he get for thinking of the little man
010644_9753_000060 the old woman got it into the churn and made preparations for churning now she said you both must churn make fast the door and windows and let there be no light but from the fire do not open your lips until i desire you and by observing my directions
010644_9753_000061 and the corpse fell with a great thud upon the fire scattering the ashes and embers and extracting a howl of anguish from the miserable cook who rushed to the door and ran for his life
010644_9753_000062 my reason for appearing he added is that you may tell my friends that none of them is to wear them they must be given in charity this serious and solemn intimation from the ghost
010644_9753_000063 might have startled many a mind from a purpose that was to say the least of it at variance with religion and the respect due to a father it had no effect however upon the son
010644_9753_000064 at last taking them in connection with her lively temper we have it upon good authority that there was no danger of their getting blue moulded for want of practice
010644_9753_000065 she had a twist too in one of her eyes that was very becoming in its way and made her poor husband when she got him take it into his head that she could see round a corner she found him out in many quare things without doubt but whether it was
010644_9753_000066 whether their sport was good or otherwise is not on to the purpose neither am i able to say but the story goes that towards the later part of the day they started a larger and darker hare
010644_9753_000067 too often be goxty it is a burning shame said one to see three black mouth clergy in such a state at this early hour thunder an ounce what's over them all says others why
010644_9753_000068 and fear of future evil for the good people who are a race as powerful as they are capricious have their favourites among those who inhabit this world often show their affection by easing the objects of it from the load of this burdensome life and frequently
010644_9753_000069 and strengthened of course the truth and authenticity of their dialogues the whole neighbourhood was now in a commotion with this story of the apparition and persons incited by curiosity began to visit the girl in order to satisfy themselves of the truth of what they had heard
010644_9753_000070 billy did accordingly wondering what the little man would be at and he picked two of the stoutest rushes he could find with a little bunch of
010644_9753_000071 among the good people and that then your father i beg your pardon sir said bourke interrupting him but don't call them my enemies twould not be wishing to me for a good deal to sit by when they are called so no offence to you sir here's wishing you a good health and long life
010644_9753_000072 and almost smothered in a pool of blood the men were astounded they addressed the wretched old woman but she either could not or would not answer them her wound still bled copiously her tortures
010644_9753_000073 billy thought this very considerate of his master and thanked him accordingly but said he if i may be so bold sir i would ask which is the way to your stable
010644_9753_000074 faix and troth i'll no carry him replied he but there's pat diver in the drain why wouldn't he come out and take his turn come out pat come out
010644_9753_000075 upon one of his two large farms for he has added one to his patrimony or will send his labourers to construct a shed at a hedge-side and supply straw for a bed while the disorder continues his wife remarkable for the largeness
010644_9753_000076 and the forgotten dead slept around the walls under dense matted tangles of brambles and ben weed no one ever buried there now
010644_9753_000077 as any three boys in munster and there were uncles and aunts and gossips and cousins enough besides to make a full house of it and plenty was there to eat and drink on the table for every one of them
010644_9753_000078 but it was not known by what means she acquired her supernatural knowledge she was delighted at the issue of her mysterious operations bryan pressed her much to accept of some remuneration for her services
010644_9753_000079 reverence to the first cut of the pig's head which was placed before her beautifully bolstered up with white savoys that the bride gave a sneeze which made everyone at table start
010644_9753_000080 but he was not many minutes in the drain before he heard the heavy tramping again and the four men came up with their burthen which they laid down on the edge of the drain i'm tired said one to the giant it's your turn to carry him a piece now
010644_9753_000081 reward or punish the living according to the degree of reverence paid to the obsequies and the memory of the elected dead some may attribute to the same cause the apparently humane and charitable actions which tom
010644_9753_000082 i'm amazed the not a particle of me can tell you says jack but will your reverence just take a morsel of pudding merely that the young couple may boast that you ate at their wedding for sure if you wouldn't who would well says he to gratify them i will so just a morsel
010644_9753_000083 and that although they tried to turn her course homewards they could not succeed in doing so as evening advanced the companions of m'kenna began to feel the folly of pursuing her further
010826_10341_000000 when any one sort of rays hath been well parted from those of other kinds it hath afterwards obstinately retained its colour notwithstanding my utmost endeavours to change it i have refracted it with prisms and reflected it with bodies
010826_10341_000001 so that of those which are alike incident on the same medium some shall be more refracted than others and that not by any virtue of the glass or other external cause but from a predisposition which every particular ray hath to suffer particular degree of refraction
010826_10341_000002 and that this is the entire and adequate cause of their colours is manifest because they have no power to change or alter the colours of any sort of rays incident apart
010826_10341_000003 if at that distance you intercept this light with a sheet of white paper you will see the colours converted into whiteness again by being mingled but it is requisite that the prism and lens be placed steady
010826_10341_000004 and by their prevalence cause it to appear of that colour and for the same reason bise reflecting blue most copiously shall appear blue by the excess of those rays in its reflected light and the like of other bodies
010826_10341_000005 f their common focus and o the other focus of the metal in which the object is placed but to return from this digression i told you that light is not similar or homogeneal but consists of difform rays some of which are more refrangible than others
010826_10341_000006 for by this means i thought the regular effects of the first prism would be destroyed by the second prism but the irregular ones more augmented by the multiplicity of refractions the event was that the light which by the first prism was diffused into an oblong form was by the second reduced into an orbicular one
010826_10341_000007 and to try this i took another prism like the former and so placed it that the light passing through them both might be refracted contrary ways and so by the latter returned into that course from which the former had diverted it
010826_10341_000008 its vertical angle abc may conveniently be about sixty degrees mn designeth the lens its breadth two and a half or three inches sf one of the streight lines in which difform rays may be conceived to flow successively from the sun
010826_10341_000009 four yet seeming transmutations of colour may be made where there is any mixture of diverse sorts of rays for in such mixtures the component colours appear not but by their mutual allaying each other constitute a middling colour
010826_10341_000010 than that at which they before converged which being at most but about thirty one or thirty two minutes there still remained some other cause to be found out from whence it could be two degrees and forty nine minutes
010826_10341_000011 which in daylight were of other colors i have intercepted it with the colored film of air interceding two compressed plates of glass transmitted it through colored mediums and through mediums irradiated with other sorts of rays and diversely terminated it and yet could never produce any new color out of it
010826_10341_000012 and that the paper on which the colours are cast be moved to and fro for by such motion you will not only find at what distance the whiteness is most perfect but also see how the colours gradually convene and vanish into whiteness and afterwards having crossed one another in that place where they compound whiteness
010826_10341_000013 by this experiment therefore as well as by the former computation it was evident that the difference of the incidence of rays flowing from diverse parts of the sun could not make them after decussation diverge at a sensibly greater angle
010826_10341_000014 it would by contracting and dilating become more brisk or faint and by the loss of many rays in some cases very obscure and dark but i could never see it changed in specie
010826_10341_000015 care must be taken that none of the colours fall besides the lens in the annexed design table three figure two of this experiment a b c expresseth the prism set end wise to sight closed by the hole f of the window e g
010826_10341_000016 are again dissipated and severed and in an inverted order retain the same colours which they had before they entred the composition you may also see that if any of the colours at the lens be intercepted the whiteness will be changed into the other colours and therefore that the composition of whiteness be perfect
010826_10341_000017 yet my curiosity caused me again to take my prism and having placed it at my window as before i observed that by turning it a little about its axis to and fro so as to vary its obliquity to the light
010826_10341_000018 and therefore if by refraction or any other of the aforesaid causes the difform rays latent in such a mixture be separated they shall emerge colours different from the colour of the composition
010826_10341_000019 more than an angle of four or five degrees the colours were not thereby sensibly translated from their place on the wall and consequently by that variation of incidence quantity of refraction was not sensibly varied
010826_10341_000020 then i began to suspect whether the rays after their trajection through the prism did not move in curve lines and according to their more or less curvity tend to diverse parts of the wall and it increased my suspicion when i remembered that i had often seen a tennis ball
010826_10341_000021 struck with an oblique racket describe such a curve line for a circular as well as a progressive motion being communicated to it by that stroke its parts on that side where the motions conspire
010826_10341_000022 lest any scattering light mixing with the colour disturb and allay it and render it compound contrary to the design of the experiment tis also requisite that there be a perfect separation of the colours than after the manner above described can be made by the refraction of one single prism
010826_10341_000023 which colours are not new generated but only made apparent by being parted for if they be again entirely mixed and blended together they will again compose that colour which they did before separation and for the same reason transmutations made by the convening of diverse colours are not real
010826_10341_000024 f p and f r two of those rays unequally refracted which the lens makes to converge towards q and after decussation to diverge again
010826_10341_000025 for when viewed with a good microscope they still appear blue and yellow interspersed five there are therefore two sorts of colours
010826_10341_000026 and blue and purple in uppercase p lowercase p and pi if you proceed further to try the impossibility of changing any uncompounded colour which i have asserted in the third and thirteenth propositions tis requisite that the room may be very dark
010826_10341_000027 they ought to feel the greater resistance from the ambient ether on that side where this motion conspires and thence be continually bowed to the other but notwithstanding this plausible ground of suspicion when i came to examine it i could observe no such curvity in them
010826_10341_000028 for when the difform rays are again severed they will exhibit the very same colours which they did before they entered the composition as you see blue and yellow powders when finely mixed appear to the naked eye green and yet the colours of the component corpuscles are not thereby really transmuted but only blended
010826_10341_000029 must press and beat the contiguous air more violently than on the other and there excite a reluctancy and reaction of the air proportionably greater and for the same reason if the rays of light should possibly be globular bodies and by their oblique passage out of one medium into another acquire a circulating motion
010826_10341_000030 the one original and simple the other compounded of these the original primary colours are red yellow green blue and violet-purple together with orange indico
010826_10341_000031 but those which are situated at too great a distance do not so orange indico produce not the intermediate green nor scarlet and green but the intermediate yellow
010826_10341_000032 i shall now proceed to acquaint you with another more notable deformity in its rays wherein the origin of colours is unfolded concerning which i lay down the doctrine first and then for its examination give you an instance or two of the experiments as a specimen of the rest
010826_10341_000033 thus if compound yellow light fall upon blue bise the bise will not appear perfectly yellow but rather green because there are in yellow mixture many rays indued with green and green being less remote from the usual blue colour of bise than yellow
010826_10341_000034 and besides which was enough for my purpose i observed that the difference twixt the length of the image and diameter of the hole through which the light was transmitted was proportionable to their distance
010826_10341_000035 and how to make such farther separations will scarce be difficult to them that consider the discovered laws of refractions but if trial shall be made with colours not throughly separated there must be allowed changes proportionable to the mixture
010826_10341_000036 but put on all colours indifferently with which they are enlightned these things being so it can be no longer disputed whether there be colours in the dark nor whether they be the qualities of the objects we see
010826_10341_000037 the gradual removal of these suspicions at length led me to the experimentum crucis which was this i took two boards and placed one of them close behind the prism at the window
010826_10341_000038 and an indefinite variety of intermediate gradations six the same colours in specie with these primary ones may be also produced by composition for a mixture of yellow and blue makes green of red and yellow makes orange of orange and yellowish green makes yellow
010826_10341_000039 and in general if any two colours be mix'd which in the series of those generated by the prism are not too far distant one from another they by their mutual alloy compound that colour which in the said series appeareth in the mid-way between them
010826_10341_000040 so that the light might pass through a small hole made in it for the purpose and the fall on the other board which i placed about twelve feet distance having first made a small hole in it also for some of that incident light to pass through
010826_10341_000041 unless when the glasses i used were not sufficiently clear for then they would a little incline it to their colour eight hence therefore it comes to pass that whiteness is the usual colour of light
010826_10341_000042 be intercepted or else that allowance be made for the emerging of so much red out of the yellow green as may possibly have been diffused and scatteringly blended in those colours
010826_10341_000043 and i saw by the variation of these places that the light tending to that end of the image towards which the refraction of the first prism was made did in the second prism suffer a refraction considerably greater than the light tending to the other end
010826_10341_000044 and if these things be observed the new production of red or any intercepted colour will be found impossible this i conceive is enough for an introduction to experiments of this kind which if any of the royal society shall be so curious as to prosecute i should be very glad to be informed with what success
010826_10341_000045 this done i took the first prism in my hand and turned it to and fro slowly about its axis so much as to make the several parts of the image cast on the second board successively pass through the hole in it that i might observe to what places on the wall the second prism should refract them
010826_10341_000046 tis necessary either that the colours be very well parted before the red be intercepted or that together with the red the neighbouring colours into which any red is secretly dispersed that is the yellow and perhaps green too
010826_10341_000047 i have often with admiration beheld that all the colours of the prism being made to converge and thereby to be again mixed as they were in the light before it was incident upon the prism reproduced light intirely and perfectly white and not at all sensibly differing from a direct light of the sun
010826_10341_000048 seven if the most surprising and wonderful composition was that of whiteness there is no one sort of rays which alone can exhibit this tis ever compounded and to its composition are requisite all the aforesaid primary colours mixed in a due proportion
010826_10341_000049 then i plac'd another prism behind this second board so that the light trajected through both the boards might pass thro that also and be again refracted before it arrived at the wall
010826_10341_000050 when i understood this i left off my aforesaid glass works for i saw that the perfection of telescopes was hitherto limited not so much for want of glasses truly figured according to the prescriptions of optic authors which all men have hitherto imagined as because that light itself
010826_10341_000051 is a heterogeneous mixture of differently refrangible rays so that were a glass so exactly figured so as to collect any one sort of rays into one point it could not collect those also into the same point which having the same incidence upon the same medium are apt to suffer a different refraction
010826_10341_000052 and so the true cause of the length of that image was detected to be no other than that light consists of rays differently refrangible which without any respect to a difference in their incidence were according to their degrees of refrangibility transmitted towards diverse parts of the wall
010826_10341_000053 for the difform rays by their unequal refractions are made to diverge towards several parts of the retina and there express the images of things coloured as in the former case they did the sun's image upon a wall and by this inequality of refractions they become not only coloured but also very confused and indistinct
010826_10341_000054 as it happens in the blue flame of brimstone the yellow flame of a candle and the various colours of the fixed stars nine these things consider'd the manner how colours are produced by the prism is evident for of the rays constituting the incident light since those which differ in colour proportionally differ in refrangibility
010826_10341_000055 nay i wondered that seeing the difference of refrangibility was so great as i found it telescopes should arrive to that perfection they are now at for measuring the refractions in one of my prisms
010826_10341_000056 for light is a confused aggregate of rays indued with all sorts of colours as they are promiscuously darted from the various parts of luminous bodies and of such a confused aggregate as i said is generated whiteness if there be a due proportion of the ingredients but if any one predominate the light must incline to that colour
010826_10341_000057 they by their unequal refractions must be severed and dispersed into an oblong form in an orderly succession from the least refracted scarlet to the most refracted violet and for the same reason it is that objects when looked upon through a prism appear coloured
010826_10341_000058 and to that end measured the several lines and angles belonging to the image its distance from the hole or prism was twenty-two foot utmost length thirteen and a quarter inches its breadth
010826_10341_000059 so that the difference is about a twenty fourth or twenty fifth part of the whole refraction and consequently the object glass of any telescope cannot collect all the rays which come from one point of an object so as to make them convene at its focus in less room than in a circular space whose diameter is the fiftieth part of the diameter of its aperture
010826_10341_000060 which is an irregularity some hundred of times greater than a circularly figured lens of so small a section as the object glasses of long telescopes are would cause by the unfitness of its figure were light uniform
010826_10341_000061 i found that supposing the common sine of incidence upon one of its plains was forty-four parts the sine of refraction of the utmost rays on the red end of the colours made out of the glass into the air would be sixty-eight parts and the sine of refraction of the utmost rays on the other end sixty-nine parts
010826_10341_000062 and such are the drops on the inside of the primary bow and on the outside of the secondary or exterior one so these drops which refract in greatest plenty the rays apt to appear red towards the spectator's eye refract those of other sorts so much more as to make them pass beside it
010826_10341_000063 no nor perhaps whether light be a body for since colors are the qualities of light having its rays for their entire and immediate subject how can we think those rays' qualities also
010826_10341_000064 and such are the drops of the exteriour part of the primary and interiour part of the secondary bone eleven the odd phnomena of an infusion of lignum nephriticum leaf gold fragments of coloured glass and some other transparently coloured bodies appearing in one position of one colour and of another in another
010826_10341_000065 the doctrine you will find comprehended and illustrated in the following propositions one as the rays of light differ in degrees of refrangibility so they also differ in their disposition to exhibit this or that particular colour
010826_10341_000066 ten why the colours of the rainbow appear in falling drops of rain is also from hence evident for these drops which refract the rays disposed to appear purple in greatest quantity to the spectator's eye refract the rays of other sorts so much less as to make them pass beside it
010826_10341_000067 which would polish as finely as glass and reflect as much light as glass transmits and the art of communicating to it a parabolic figure be also attained but there seemed very great difficulties and i have almost thought them insuperable when i further considered that every irregularity in a reflecting superficies
010826_10341_000068 they were terminated at the sides with straight lines but at the ends the decay of light was so gradual that it was difficult to determine justly what was their figure yet they seemed semicircular
010826_10341_000069 relates to have made with two wedge-like transparent vessels filled the one with red the other with blue liquor namely that though they were severally transparent enough yet both together became opaque for if one transmitted only red and the other only blue no rays could pass through both
010826_10341_000070 this made me take reflections into consideration and finding them regular so that the angle of reflection of all sorts of rays was equal to their angle of incidence i understood that by their mediation optic instruments might be brought to any degree of perfection imaginable provided a reflecting substance could be found
010826_10341_000071 that in the beginning of the year sixteen sixty six at which time i applied my self to the grinding of optic glasses of other figures than spherical i procured me a triangular glass prism to try therewith the celebrated phenomena of colours and in order thereto having darkened my chamber
010826_10341_000072 makes the rays stray five or six times more out of their due course than the like irregularities in a refracting one so that a much greater curiosity would be here requisite than in figuring glasses for refraction amidst these thoughts i was forc'd from cambridge by the intervening plague and it was more than two years before i proceeded further
010826_10341_000073 accordingly as they are disposed more or less to reflect or transmit the incident colour twelve from hence also is manifest the reason of an unexpected experiment which mr hook somewhere in his micrography
010826_10341_000074 but then having thought in a tender way of polishing proper for metal whereby as i imagined the figure also would be corrected to the last i began to try what might be effected in this kind and by degrees so far perfected an instrument in the essential parts of it like that i sent to london
010826_10341_000075 but after a while applying myself to consider them more circumspectly i became surprised to see them in an oblong form which according to the received laws of rarefraction i expected should have been circular
010826_10341_000076 thirteen i might add more instances of this nature but i shall conclude with this general one that the colours of all natural bodies have no other origin than this that they are variously qualified to reflect one sort of light in greater plenty than another
010826_10341_000077 are on these grounds no longer riddles for those are substances apt to reflect one sort of light and transmit another as may be seen in a dark room by illuminating them with similar or uncompounded light for then they appear of that colour only with which they are illuminated but yet in one position more vivid and luminous than in another
010826_10341_000078 and made a small hole in my window shuts to let in a convenient quantity of the sun's light i placed my prism at his entrance that it might be thereby refracted to the opposite wall it was at first a very pleasing divertissement to view the vivid and intense colors produced thereby
010826_10341_000079 for those instruments seem as capable of improvement as telescopes and perhaps more because but one reflective piece of metal is requisite in them as you may perceive in plate three paper one where a b representeth the object metal c d the eyeglass
010826_10341_000080 from that time i was interrupted till this last autumn when i made the other and as that was sensibly better than the first especially for day objects so i doubt not but they will be still brought to a much greater perfection by their endeavours who as you inform me are taking care about it at london
010826_10341_000081 first to examine those circumstances and so tried what would happen by transmitting light through parts of the glass of diverse thicknesses or through holes in the windows of diverse bignesses or by setting the prism without so that the light might pass through it and be refracted before it was terminated by the hole
010826_10341_000082 i have sometimes thought to make a microscope which in like manner should have instead of an object glass a reflecting piece of metal and by this i hope they will also take into consideration
010826_10341_000083 and this i have experimented in a dark room by illuminating those bodies with uncompounded light of diverse colours for by that means any body may be made to appear of any colour
010826_10341_000084 but i found none of those circumstances material the fashion of the colours was in all these cases the same then i suspected whether by any unevenness in the glass or other contingent irregularity these colours might be thus dilated
010826_10341_000085 i could scarce think that the various thickness of the glass or the termination in the shadow or darkness could have any influence on light to produce such an effect yet i thought it not amiss
010826_10341_000086 and therefore minium reflecteth rays of any colour but most copiously those endued with red and consequently when illustrated with daylight that is with all sorts of rays promiscuously blended those qualified with red shall abound most in the reflected light
010826_10341_000087 by which i could discern jupiter's four concomitants and showed them diverse times to two others of my acquaintance i could also discern the moon-like phase of venus but not very distinctly nor without some niceness in disposing the instrument
010826_10341_000088 comparing the length of this coloured spectrum with its breadth i found it about five times greater a disproportion so extravagant that it excited me to a more than ordinary curiosity of examining from whence it might proceed
010826_10341_000089 unless one quality may be the subject of and sustain another which in effect is to call it substance we should not know bodies for substances were it not for their sensible qualities and the principal of those being now found due to something else we have as good reason to believe that to be a substance also
010826_10341_000090 besides whoever thought any quality to be a heterogeneous aggregate such as light is discovered to be but to determine more absolutely what light is after what manner refracted and by what modes or actions it produceth up in our minds the phantasms of colours is not so easy and i shall not mingle conjectures with certainties
010826_10341_000091 and consequently the angle of the hole which that breadth subtended was about thirty-one minutes answerable to the sun's diameter but the angle which its length subtended was more than five such diameters
010845_10848_000000 christ is coming little children christ is coming coming through the flaming sky to convey his trusting children to their glorious home on high do you love the lord's appearing are you waiting for the day when with all his shining angels he will come in grand array
010845_10848_000001 all who keep the ten commandments will rejoice his face to see but the wicked filled with anguish from his presence then will flee now while yet probation lingers now while mercy's voice is heard haste to give your heart to jesus seek to understand his word
010845_10869_000000 the villages canandaigua new york a beautiful village the county seat of ontario county situated at the foot of canandaigua lake which is called the gem of the inland lakes of western new york about three hundred and twenty-five miles from new york city
010845_10869_000001 i made the pocket for my dress after i got home from school and then grandfather said he would take us out to ride so he took us way up to thaddeus chapin's on the hill julia phelps was there playing with laura chapin for she is her cousin henry and ann eliza field came over to call this evening
010845_10869_000002 she said i was mistaken about remembering it for he died before i was a year old but i had heard it told so many times i thought i remembered it probably that is the way it was but i know it happened
010845_10869_000003 if it had been left at some people's houses it would not have been sent away grandmother says they heard that the baby was adopted afterwards by some nice people in geneva people must think this is a nice place for children for they had eleven of their own before we came
010845_10869_000004 she sent a carriage for chloe and she came and had a nice dinner not in the kitchen either grandmother asked her if there was any one else she would like to see before she went home and she said yes miss rebekah gorham so she told the coachman to take her down there and wait for her to make a call and then take her home and he did
010845_10869_000005 thursday father and uncle edward richards came to see us yesterday and took us down to mr corson's store and told us we could have anything we wanted so we asked for several kinds of candy stick candy and lemon drops and bulls eyes and then they got us two rubber balls and two jumping ropes with handles and two hoops and sticks to roll them with
010845_10869_000006 we wanted to pull some long stockings over our shoes and go too but grandmother did not think it was best she gave us the dairyman's daughter and jane the young cottager by leigh richmond to read
010845_10869_000007 november twenty-second i wrote a composition today and the subject was which of the seasons is the pleasantest anna asked grandmother what she should write about and grandmother said she thought a contented mind would be a very good subject but anna said she never had one and didn't know what it meant so she didn't try to write any at all
010845_10869_000008 sunday rev m l r p thompson preached today he used to be the minister of our church before mr daggett came some people call him rev alphabet thompson because he has so many letters in his name
010845_10869_000009 may twenty sixth there was an eclipse of the sun today and we were very much excited looking at it general granger came over and gave us some pieces of smoked glass
010845_10869_000010 i tried to comfort her and told her it might never happen so she stopped crying november twenty-fourth three ladies visited our school today miss phelps miss daniels and mrs clark we had calisthenics and they liked them
010845_10869_000011 she's on her way to school one morning and she saw an indian coming and was so afraid but did not dare run for fear he would chase her so she thought of the word sago which means good morning and when she got up close to him she dropped a curtsy and said sago and he just went right along and never touched her at all
010845_10869_000012 he preached a very good sermon from the text dearly beloved as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men i like to hear him preach but not as well as i do mr daggett i suppose i am more used to him
010845_10869_000013 i don't see how they happened to be so awfully good anna says they died of early piety but she did not say it very loud grandmother said she would give me ten cents if i would learn the verses in the new england primer
010845_10869_000014 sunday mr tousley preached to-day mr lamb is superintendent of the sunday school mr chipman used to be miss mollie bull played the melodeon mr fairchild is my teacher when he is there he was not there to-day and miss mary howell taught our class i wish i could be as good and pretty as she is
010845_10869_000015 miss clark wanted us to write compositions about it so anna wrote about eleven o'clock we went out to see if it had come yet but it hadn't come yet so we waited awhile and then looked again and it had come and there was a piece of it cut out of it miss clark said it was a very good description and she knew anna wrote it all herself
010845_10869_000016 thursday edward everett of boston lectured in our church this evening they had a platform built even with the tops of the pews so he did not have to go up into the pulpit
010845_10869_000017 i handed in a composition too about the eclipse but i don't think miss clark like it as well as she did anna's because it had something in it about the beggarly elements of the world
010845_10869_000018 that john rogers left for his wife and nine small children and one at the breast when he was burned at the stake at smithfield england in fifteen fifty-five one verse is i leave you here a little book for you to look upon that you may see your father's face when he is dead and gone it is a very long piece but i got it
010845_10869_000019 we go to church morning and afternoon and to sunday school and learn seven verses every week and recite catechism and hymns to grandmother in the evening grandmother knows all the questions by heart so she lets the book lie in her lap and she asks them with her eyes shut she likes to hear us sing
010845_10869_000020 she asked me where i got it and i told her that it was in a nice storybook that grandmother gave me to read entitled elizabeth thornton of the fruit and flower of female piety and other sketches by samuel irenaeus prime
010845_10869_000021 grandmother says the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church anna learned in adam's fall we sinned all my book and heart shall never part the cat doth play and after slay the dog doth bite a thief at night
010845_10869_000022 tis religion that can give sweetest pleasure while we live tis religion can supply solid comfort when we die december one
010845_10869_000023 the pennies especially seemed to attract them and we noticed the same ones several times aunt mary carr made lovely new year cakes with a pretty flower stamped on before they were baked
010845_10869_000024 i think grandmother will laugh out loud for once when she sees it but i don't think anna will wear it to school or anywhere else she wouldn't want to if she knew how terrible it looked i threaded a dozen needles on a spool of thread for grandmother before i went to school so that she could slip them along and use them as she needed them she says it is a great help
010845_10869_000025 crowds and crowds came to hear him from all over everywhere grandmother let me go they say he is the most eloquent speaker in the u s but i have heard mr daggett when i thought he was just as good
010845_10869_000026 grandfather asked me to read president pierce's message aloud to him this evening i thought it was very long and dry but he said it was interesting and that i read it very well i am glad he liked it part of it was about the missouri compromise i didn't even know what it meant
010845_10869_000027 february four eighteen fifty-four we heard today of the death of our little half sister julia dey richards in penn yan yesterday and i felt so sorry i couldn't sleep last night so i made up some verses about her and this morning wrote them down and gave them to grandfather
010845_10869_000028 sunday we went to church today and heard rev mr stowe preach his text was the poor ye have with you always and whensoever ye will ye may do them good
010845_10869_000029 this was one of the other sketches it commenced by telling how the moon came between the sun and the earth and then went on about the beggarly elements miss clark asked me if i knew what they meant and i told her no but i thought they sounded good she just smiled and never scolded me at all i suppose next time i must make it all up myself
010845_10869_000030 grandmother says i will have a great deal to answer for because anna looks up to me so and tries to do everything that i do and thinks whatever i say is gospel truth the other day the girls at school were disputing with her about something and she said it is so if it ain't so for calline said so
010845_10869_000031 when she came to the end of it and said zaccheus he did climb a tree his lord to see she said she heard someone say the tree broke down and let him fall and he did not see his lord at all grandmother said it was very wicked indeed and she hoped anna would try and forget it
010845_10869_000032 april one grandmother sent me up into the little chamber today to straighten things and get the room ready to be cleaned i found a little book called child's pilgrim progress illustrated
010845_10869_000033 it gave us a little change i read once that variety is the spice of life they sit around the table and each one has a candle and thomas reads aloud to the girls while they sew he and bridget are catholics but hannah is a member of our church
010845_10869_000034 saturday december ninth we took our music lessons today miss hattie heard is our teacher and she says we are getting along well anna practiced her lesson over sixty-five times this morning before breakfast and can play mary to the saviour's tomb as fast as a waltz
010845_10869_000035 i shall have to toe the mark as grandfather says if she keeps watch of me all the time and walks in my footsteps we asked grandmother this evening if we could sit out in the kitchen with bridget and hannah and the hired man thomas holleran she said we could take turns and each stay ten minutes by the clock
010845_10869_000036 that i had never seen before i got as far as giant despair when anna came up and said grandmother sent her to see what i was doing and she went back and told her that i was sitting on the floor in the midst of books and papers and was so absorbed in pilgrim's progress that i had made none myself
010845_10869_000037 mister coburn is the doorkeeper in our church and he rings the bell every day at nine in the morning and at twelve and at nine in the evening so grandfather knows when it is time to cover up the fire in the fireplace and go to bed
010845_10869_000038 i never knew anyone who liked to go to church as much as grandmother does she says she would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of our god than to dwell in the tents of wickedness they don't have women doorkeepers and i know she would not dwell a minute in a tent
010845_10869_000039 i curled her hair all around in about thirty curls and she looked very nice she waved the flag in the shape of the letter s and sang the star spangled banner and all the others joined us in the chorus was perfectly grand
010845_10869_000040 he liked them so well he wanted me to show them to miss clark and ask her to revise them i did and she said she would hand them to her sister mary to correct when she handed them back they were very much nicer than they were at first and grandfather had me copy them and he pasted them into one of his bibles to keep
010845_10869_000041 saturday anna and i went to call on miss upham today she's a real old lady and lives with her niece mrs john bates on gibson street our mother used to go to school to her at seminary miss upham said to anna your mother was a lovely woman you are not at all like her dear
010845_10869_000042 december eighth we are taking dictation lessons at school now miss clark reads to us from the life of queen elizabeth and we write it down in a book and keep it she corrects it for us i always spell until with two l's and she has to mark it every time i hope i will learn how to spell it after a while
010845_10869_000043 miss clark gave us twenty words which we had to bring into some stories which we wrote it was real fun to hear them everyone was different this evening as we sat before the fireplace with grandmother she taught us how to play cat's cradle with a string on our fingers
010845_10869_000044 i never heard of anyone who knew so many bible verses as grandmother anna thought she would be sorry for her and get her a new sun bonnet but she didn't sunday
010845_10869_000045 we chose sides and spelled down at school today julia phelps and i stood up the last and both went down on the same word eulogism i don't see the use of that e
010845_10869_000046 tuesday mrs greig and miss chapin called us to see us today grandmother says that we can return the calls as she does not visit anymore we would like to for we always enjoy dressing up and making calls
010845_10869_000047 i think if the president should come to call he would have to go home at nine o'clock grandfather's motto is early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
010845_10869_000048 i told anna she meant in looks i was sure but anna was afraid she didn't sunday mr daggett's text this morning was the twenty-second chapter of revelation sixteenth verse i am the root and offspring of david and a bright and morning star
010845_10869_000049 grandmother did not like the picture so she pasted a piece of pink calico over it so we could only see the giant from his waist up i love the story of cinderella and the poem twas the night before christmas and i am sorry that there are no fairies and no santa claus
010845_10869_000050 monday when we were on our way to school this morning we saw general granger coming and anna had on such a homely sunbonnet she took it off and hid it behind her till he had gone by when we told grandmother she said pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall
010845_10869_000051 the girls have lived here always i think but i don't know for sure as i have not lived here always myself but we have to get a new hired man sometimes grandmother says if you are as good to your girls as you are to yourself they will stay a long time
010845_10869_000052 i am sure that is grandmother's rule mrs mccarty who lives on brook street some people call cat alley but grandmother says that is not proper washes for us mondays and grandmother always has a lunch for her at eleven o'clock and goes out herself to see that she sits down and eats it
010845_10869_000053 mrs judge taylor taught our sunday school class today and she said we ought not to read our s s books on sunday i always do mine to-day was entitled cheap repository tracts by hannah more and it did not seem unreligious at all
010845_10869_000054 friday may miss clark told us we could have a picnic down to sucker brook this afternoon and she told us to bring our rubbers and lunches by two o'clock but grandmother was not willing to let us go
010845_10869_000055 that is one of her favorite verses she said mrs mccoe never had any children of her own and perhaps that is the reason she looks so sad at us perhaps someone will leave a bandbox and a baby at her door some dark night
010845_10869_000056 she says she hopes we will always be polite to everyone even to strangers november abbie clark's father has been elected governor and she's going to albany to live for a while we all congratulated her when she came to school this morning but i am sorry she's going away
010845_10869_000057 we went to moore's store and to richardson's and to collier's but they asked ten fifteen or twenty dollars for them so anna said she resolved from now henceforth and forever not to spend her money for black silk mantillas
010845_10869_000058 i'm sure that i said something better than that wednesday mr cross had us speak pieces today he calls our names and we walk onto the platform and toe the mark and make a bow and say what we have got to say
010845_10869_000059 missus mccarty told us monday that missus brockle's niece was dead who lives next door to her grandmother sent us over with some things for their comfort and told us to say that we were sorry they were in trouble we went and we when we came back ann told grandmother that i said never mind missus brockle some day we will all be dead
010845_10869_000060 i like abbie clark the best of all the girls in school excepting of course my sister anna before i go to school every morning i read three chapters in the bible i read three every day and five on sunday and that takes me through the bible in a year
010845_10869_000061 chloe said she had a very nice time so probably grandmother was alright as she generally is but i could not be as good as she is if i should try one hundred years tune
010845_10869_000062 a squaw walked right into our kitchen today with a blanket over her head and had beaded purses to sell this is my composition which i wrote which of the seasons is the pleasantest
010845_10869_000063 this morning we had on our new white dresses that miss rosewarne made and new summer hats and new patten leather shoes and our mitts when he had looked us all over he said with a smile the bible says let your garments be always white
010845_10869_000064 we go to school to miss zilpha clark in her own house on gibson street other girls who go are laura chapin julia phelps mary paul bessie seymour lucilla and mary field louisa benjamin nannie corson kittie marshall abbie clark and several other girls
010845_10869_000065 tuesday a gentleman visited our school to-day whom we had never seen miss clark introduced him to us when he came in miss clark said young ladies and we all stood up and bowed and said his name in concert
010845_10869_000066 we have sunday school at nine o'clock in the morning now grandfather loves to watch us when we walk off together down the street so he walks back and forth on the front walk till we come out and gives us our money for the contribution
010845_10869_000067 grandfather says he would rather have us go to school to miss clark than any one else because she teaches us manners as well as books we girls think that he is a very particular friend of miss clark he is very nice looking but we don't know where he lives
010845_10869_000068 sunday rev mr tousley preached today to the children and told us how many steps it took to be bad i think he said lying was first then disobedience to parents breaking the sabbath swearing stealing drunkenness
010845_10869_000069 those i read this morning were the first second and third chapters of job the first was about eliphaz reproveth job second benefit of god's correction third job justifieth his complaint
010845_10869_000070 he did not know what our pieces were going to be and some of them said the same ones two boys spoke the boy stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled william schley was one and he spoke his the best when he said the flames that lit the battle wreck shone round him o'er the dead
010845_10869_000071 laura chapin says he is an architect i looked it up in the dictionary and it says one who plans or designs i hope he does not plan to get married to miss clark and take her away and break up the school but i presume he does for that is usually the way
010845_10869_000072 after we had gone on a little ways anna said if grandmother had thought of that verse i wouldn't have had to wear my pink barge dress to the concert i told her she need not feel bad about that now for she sang as well as any of them and looked just as good she always believes everything i say although she does not always do what i tell her to
010845_10869_000073 we could almost see the fire and when he said my father must i stay we felt like telling him no he needn't he is going to make a good speaker mr cross said so
010845_10869_000074 dedication to my dear brothers james and john who by precept and example have encouraged me and to my beloved sister anna whose faith and affection have been my chief inspiration this little volume is lovingly inscribed naples new york
010845_10869_000075 i don't remember just the order they came it was very interesting for he told lots of stories and we sang a great many times i should think eddy tousley would be an awful good boy with his father in the house with him all the while but probably he has to be away part of the time preaching to the other children
010845_10869_000076 monday there was a minister preached in our church last night and some people say he is the greatest minister in the world i think his name was mr finney grandmother said i could go with our girl hannah white we sat under the gallery in miss antoinette pierson's pew there was a great crowd and he preached good
010845_10869_000077 mr noah t clarke told us in sunday school last sunday that if we wanted to take shares in the missionary ship morning star we could buy them at ten cents apiece and grandmother gave us one dollar today so we could have ten shares
010845_10869_000078 i then learned a text to say at school i went to school at quarter to nine and recited my text and we had prayers and then proceeded with the business of the day just before school was out we recited in science of things familiar
010845_10869_000079 we got the certificate with a picture of the ship on it and we are going to keep it always anna says if we pay the money we don't have to go sunday i almost forgot that it was sunday this morning and talked and laughed just as i do weekdays
010845_10869_000080 and in dictionary and then we had calisthenics we go through a great many figures and sing a life on the ocean wave what fairy-like music steals over the sea lightly row lightly row o'er the glassy waves we go and oh come come away and other songs mrs judge taylor wrote one song on purpose for us
010845_10869_000081 grandmother says that our mother was a christian when she was ten years old and joined the church and she showed us some sermons that mother used to write down when she was seventeen years old after she came home from church and she has kept them all these years i think children in old times were not as bad as they are now
010845_10869_000082 publisher's note after this book was in type on march twenty-nine nineteen thirteen the author mrs caroline richards clarke died at naples new york
010845_10869_000083 sunday uncle david dudley field and his daughter mrs brewer of stockbridge mass are visiting us mrs brewer has a son david josiah who is in yale college
010845_10869_000084 albert murray spoke excelsior and horace finley spoke nice too my piece was why phoebe are you come so soon where are your berries child emma van arsdale spoke the same one
010845_10869_000085 after she prayed she asked me to but i couldn't think of anything but now i lay me down to sleep and i was afraid she would not like that so i didn't say anything when i got home and told anna she said caroline i presume probably mrs taylor wants you to be a missionary but i shan't let you go
010845_10869_000086 introduction the diary of caroline cowles richards fell into my hands so to speak out of space i had no previous acquaintance with the author and i sat down to read the book one evening in no especial mood of anticipation
010845_10869_000087 may one i arose this morning about the usual time and read my three chapters in the bible and had time for a walk in the garden before breakfast the polyanthuses are just beginning to blossom and they border all the walk up and down the garden
010845_10869_000088 grandmother told me to write down this verse before i went to church so i would remember it keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of god and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools i will remember it now sure my feet are all right any way with my new patten leather shoes on but i shall have to look out for my head
010845_10869_000089 we played snap the whip at recess today and i was on the end and was snapped off against the fence it hurt me so that anna cried it is not a very good game for girls especially for the one on the end
010845_10869_000090 mr thomas howell read a sermon today as mr daggett is out of town grandmother always comes upstairs to get the candle and tuck us in before she goes to bed herself and some nights we are sound asleep and do not hear
010917_10786_000000 barrack's at the sandwich counter watch crystal is standing in the line in the front of the hot table he murmured they prolonged the task of filling their water glasses until barrack with an almost empty tray made his way through the room to a table for six in a far corner
010917_10786_000001 ken gulped he was aware of a convulsive movement on sandy's part the beginning of a vast guffaw that sandy nobly controlled and he turned his head to avoid sandy's glance what else you wanted to know if the box was valuable lausch went on
010917_10786_000002 ken stalled around at the tray counter collecting unnecessary amounts of knives forks and spoons until he caught sandy's eye on him then he moved on to the water fountain sandy shortly joined him there with his own tray of assortment of cutlery
010917_10786_000003 and in this case he said cheerfully unaware of ken's reaction to his first statement i'm afraid you will find the news not so pleasant sintelli said that this box is in excellent condition but that even so it is not worth more than fifteen or twenty dollars in american money
010917_10786_000004 it was more than cold at six thirty the next morning when ken hurried sandy out of the apartment and along a quiet gray street toward barrack's address it was bitter
010917_10786_000005 the man came out and moved purposefully toward the corner sandy was close behind him their quarry descended into the subway station at the corner and the boys followed he boarded an uptown train and they got into the next car standing where they could see him through the glass topped door between
010917_10786_000006 sandy bristled for a moment and then gave it up okay he said i admit i'm curious about the whole business and if lausch has some interesting news for us in the morning but that won't be until ten o'clock ken pointed out he walked toward the kitchen and opened the refrigerator door
010917_10786_000007 sandy obviously enjoying himself answered him oh perfectly he said it all fits in perfectly with a little old theory ken has whipped up he dropped a heavy hand on ken's shoulder in a mocking congratulation doesn't it ken old boy
010917_10786_000008 when the train pulled into times square station the man got off and headed for the street but before he passed through the exit turnstile he suddenly reversed his direction walking straight back toward them
010917_10786_000009 maybe he'll go down to the tobacco market maybe he won't maybe he'll start right out on his sales route anything's possible ken agreed i want to be there to see
010917_10786_000010 and in the meantime ken went on putting milk and bread and ham and cheese on the table and beginning to cut bread for sandwiches i'd like to keep an eye on barrack's rooming house in the morning when it's time for him to leave for work
010917_10786_000011 valuable antique very valuable worth almost a dime a dozen unless of course he added cocking his head on one side and studying the box intently it is instead an ingenious copy of a valuable antique made by some nefarious criminal
010917_10786_000012 when a mastermind like yourself gets really tangled up in his own theories when he is knocked out by the weight of his own genius now where are you going he demanded as ken got up and started toward the boys' bedroom in the rear of the apartment sandy followed him
010917_10786_000013 right sandy agreed he still had the surprised expression he'd had worn ever since the man first appeared in the cafeteria entrance ken waited in the doorway adjoining the cafeteria until a few minutes later
010917_10786_000014 put it on his knees under his recovered napkin and then went on eating but now he seemed suddenly in a hurry gulping his food in large mouthfuls never mind barrack ken said let's see where he goes he picked up the second half of his sandwich i'll finish this outside you stay here until he leaves
010917_10786_000015 go right ahead enjoy yourself ken told him slumping into a chair without bothering to remove his overcoat sandy swung around to grin at him you can't blame me can you
010917_10786_000016 ken had pointed out that sandy ought to wear a hat to hide his all too obvious red hair and for once sandy had raised no objections but he had complained loudly when ken insisted that they both put on sunglasses to further conceal their identity
010917_10786_000017 you stay here and i'll go up the next corner ken suggested that way we'll be able to pick him up whichever way he turns when he comes out of the house alright but if he doesn't come out soon i'll be picking up double pneumonia instead sandy warned
010917_10786_000018 they boarded a train already waiting on the nearest track and were whisked across manhattan to the east side there the man made his way down a flight of stairs to the station platform for a downtown subway from where they stood at the head of the stairs the boys could see him
010917_10786_000019 you haven't answered my question sandy entirely serious now sat down on the edge of the bed what the idea of changing your clothes where are you going for a moment ken didn't answer and then he said reluctantly
010917_10786_000020 the man was dressed this time in a battered hat and a well-worn overcoat and he was walking briskly toward the corner where ken stood ken could see that sandy had already left his own post and was coming along behind barrack ken stepped hastily inside a convenient hallway
010917_10786_000021 well this will give you another laugh but i'm going down to that building where we left barrack this morning i'm still curious about him i see sandy said do you ken smiled briefly well that's more than i do but somehow i he broke off and pulled a heavy sweater on over his shirt
010917_10786_000022 sandy froze where he was and finding himself before a chewing gum slot machine tried to look as if he had been busy inserting pennies into it for some time ken who had been slightly farther behind had time to step behind a protective pillar
010917_10786_000023 it doesn't concern you ken told him and it's got nothing to do with the box he began to change into a pair of tweed slacks and a flannel shirt i was obviously way off the beam about that you were probably mistaken about the weight of it the first time and if we accept that then there's no reason to think there's anything fishy about the box at all
010917_10786_000024 but the station was fairly well occupied they didn't dare let the man get too far away before they followed him sandy took up the chase ken intercepted him as he came past let me take the lead he may have seen you drop behind
010917_10786_000025 sandy took off the jacket of his suit and began to unbutton his shirt it was ken's turn to ask a question what are you changing your clothes for sandy looked surprised for the same reason you are so we'll look a little different from the way we did this morning just to be on the safe side
010917_10786_000026 don't be a dope ken told him you don't have to come along this is my hunch and it's my he stopped and it's my father that's what you were going to say weren't you sandy demanded
010917_10786_000027 you'd better stay up here ken said i'll go down on the platform but try to get down in time to get on the train he takes a local train came into the station shortly after ken descended the stairs
010917_10786_000028 we'll both follow him but not too close together ken went on and if one of us should lose him if we should get separated we'll meet at the museum at ten o'clock the icy minutes dragged slowly by but actually it was barely seven o'clock when ken caught sight of barrack
010917_10786_000029 if you don't think that dark glasses will look crazy in the dead of winter sandy began they're a protection against snow blindness ken told him go on put them on they walked quickly their chins buried in their coat collars until they reached the corner of barrack's block
010917_10786_000030 in their new order with ken dogging the man's footsteps as closely as he thought was safe they went through the maze of corridors and passageways that brought them to the crosstown shuttle train terminal
010917_10786_000031 they watched him board a car by its center door and then screened by other riders they entered the same car by the doors on either end the train was an express and had rocketed its way downtown without a stop until it reached times square
010917_10786_000032 his query ignored it pacing up and down with the package held lightly beneath his arm suddenly the man made for the stairs he had just come down ken bounded after him glad that sandy was on guard on the upper level
010917_10786_000033 from side to side the man was nowhere in sight where'd he go ken asked quickly coming up beside sandy i don't know sandy spoke between clenched teeth
010917_10786_000034 ken had no real reason to suspect that barrack was a criminal or that barrack's knowledge of his father's address was actually incriminating evidence but ken also knew that he himself wouldn't be satisfied
010917_10786_000035 for a moment neither of them spoke sandy busied himself getting dressed but ken knew that sandy too was remembering the occasion when richard holt's nose for the news had brought him into a serious danger when he had learned more than was safe for him to know about a certain criminal activities
010917_10786_000036 check ken's prophecy was accurate they boys took up positions on the station platform on either side of the barrack to make sure he didn't leave by another entrance and only moving in toward their quarry when the train flowed to a stop before them
010917_10786_000037 he saw the redhead first when he reached the top and then just beyond him the man they were both following sandy rounded a corner only a few yards behind the men ken trailed him but as he rounded the corner himself he saw sandy standing still turning his head
010917_10786_000038 is that all ken's voice cracked on the words unfortunately yes lausch nodded so many of them were made at the time you see it used to be apparently a small money box they can be found in numerous antique shops
010917_10786_000039 he waited there until barrack passed by and then sauntered slowly in the man's wake giving sandy a chance to pass him as sandy went by ken said quietly i'll be behind you looks like he's heading for the seventy-second street subway station
010917_10786_000040 two chairs at the table had been tipped forward to mark the places as reserved barrack set his tray down in front of one of them rightened the chair and sat down he put the package he was carrying it was about the size of a small suit box on the floor near his feet
010917_10786_000041 the boys reached the building in ninth avenue a few minutes before twelve o'clock just as the first trickle of workers began to emerge on their way to lunch from a lobby across the street they watched the trickle swell into a steady stream
010917_10786_000042 until he learned a little more about the affable mr barrack so sandy's reaction didn't surprise him once ken had let sandy see that he was really worried his red-headed friend would naturally insist upon standing by
010917_10786_000043 let's try this he said and dove for a flight of steps that led to another section of downtown subway platforms they had just left there was an express train waiting in the station when they reached the bottom of the stairs but its doors were already beginning to slide shut
010917_10786_000044 there were fewer people abroad in that neighborhood the boys could fall farther behind and still keep their quarry in sight at ninth avenue barrack waited for a traffic light and then hurried past the halted vehicles
010917_10786_000045 ken made one more effort to keep sandy out of what he believed to be his own problem you're going to give me a guilt complex he said if you get frostbite standing
010917_10786_000046 a familiar shape caught ken's eyes the man who had broken his watch crystal the man who had picked up barrack's package was squeezing himself through one rapidly narrowing entrance
010917_10786_000047 one by one the cars went past at a swiftly increasing speed and then the train disappeared entirely except for the winking red light on the last car growing smaller and smaller in the dark tunnel of the subway ken let himself sag wearily against a pillar
010917_10786_000048 sandy glanced longingly toward the warm steamy interior but he didn't argue barrack was out again in less than fifteen minutes to continue his rapid pace westward sandy moved out into the stream of pedestrians in his wake
010917_10786_000049 barrack didn't even look up as the train stood in the station there he was engrossed in a newspaper but at thirty fourth street the next stop he made his way hurriedly out of the car when he reached the street the boys were both fairly close behind him and ken cautiously dropped back another twenty feet
010917_10786_000050 and ken fell into position behind him barrack turned south when he reached eighth avenue and walked along the busy truck crowded street until he passed the rear of pennsylvania station at thirty-second street he swung westward again to walk briskly past the block long bulk of new york's main post office
010917_10786_000051 but when i came around the corner right behind him he was already gone he could be anywhere his gesture took in an exit to the street level and three stairways leading down various train platforms ken thought quickly if the man had disappeared that fast he must have gone down the nearest stairway
010917_10786_000052 barrack walked west on thirty-fourth street at a rapid pace until he turned abruptly and entered a cafeteria sandy waited on the sidewalk until ken came up do we go in better not you stand inside the doorway here and i'll take the one behind the cafeteria
010917_10786_000053 do you want me to go sulking around in corners for the rest of my life because i broke a promise he stood up are you ready for a moment their eyes met and they both grinned yes ken said then i'm ready
010917_10786_000054 the boys dashed for another door in the same car ken's fingers grabbed for the rubber edge of the panel in an effort to prevent it from closing but he was too late it slid shut with a small final thud the train lurched into motion
010917_10786_000055 leaned comfortably against a radiator why didn't we find this spot this morning he asked this is my idea of comfortable sleuthing when he came swiftly erect there he is let's go
010917_10786_000056 ken and sandy glanced around saw no sign of barrack and slid through the crowd to study the building's directory on the rear wall it was obvious from the names listed on it that the entire building was devoted to printers paper dealers and ink companies
010917_10786_000057 when the second hand on ken's new chronometer had ticked off two full minutes they drifted into the lobby with the stream of workers obviously hurrying toward an eight o'clock deadline the four elevators along one wall each swallowed up a dozen or more with every ascent
010917_10786_000058 a moment later he vanished from sight through the doorway of a huge building sandy waited for ken to catch up and they stood for a moment on the sidewalk either he'll come right out again or he'll take an elevator ken said
010917_10786_000059 barrack was just coming through the doorway carrying half a dozen small cartons he paused at a large mailbox designed for packages standing against the building wall and began to drop the cartons in
010917_10786_000060 one after the other the largest proved too big for the opening and barrack propped it up on top of the mailbox instead then with one package still tucked securely under his arm he walked the few steps to the corner and waited for a light he apparently intended to walk westward on thirty-second street
010917_10786_000061 in almost the same instant ken saw sandy sidestep into a shop doorway he waited there until ken came up ken stopped and pretended to stare through the glass at the display of hardware and tools where he continued to watch barrack you see what i see sandy said ken nodded
010917_10786_000062 that's funny sandy said what would he be doing at a printing trade center i guess we were right after all he was lying about where he worked i didn't say that ken reminded him
010917_10786_000063 they found a sheltered doorway a few yards down the block and did their best to keep warm by stamping their feet but the icy chill crept through their overcoats and into their very bones at nine o'clock sandy said grimly
010917_10786_000064 and an employee of the tobacco mart might have a perfectly legitimate business in a place like this maybe he came to pick up a batch of labels or printed containers he glanced at his watch let's wait outside awhile and see if he comes back down and goes some place else to chatham square say
010917_10786_000065 then he began to eat his single sandwich washing down the mouthfuls with swallows of coffee an irritated voice snarled at ken's elbow that's the sixth time you've rinsed out that water glass are you going to stay here all day
010917_10786_000066 i've had enough of this i'll agree to anything barrack lied about the tobacco mart he's really a printer or he's an international crook who steals rubies to melt down into red ink which he ships around in iron boxes
010917_10786_000067 very interesting very interesting sandy said in a curious choked voice sintelli was quite surprised at your third question lausch went on
010917_10786_000068 you mean the night your father got back when the door was found open in the morning you think barrack was here then ken nodded barrack or someone involved with him how else would he have known this address
010917_10786_000069 you take him ken said i'll be along in a minute he dashed across the street between rumbling trucks and took a swift look at the package barrack had left outside the box then he turned and crossed ninth avenue again in plenty of time to fall in a few steps behind sandy
010917_10786_000070 barrack was following the same route that he had taken that morning in reverse as he neared the cafeteria where he had stopped for breakfast ken gave a start up ahead apparently waiting for someone at the cafeteria entrance stood the man whose broken watch crystal sam morris had repaired on christmas eve
010917_10786_000071 a hasty glance through the wide plate-glass front of the big self-service restaurant assured them that it was very crowded i think it's safe to go in ken muttered as long as we're careful to keep out of their way
010917_10786_000072 it sure is a small world sandy muttered and brother when you get a hunch it is a hunch i certainly didn't expect this ken assured him barrack had reached the cafeteria door he entered briskly through the revolving door
010917_10786_000073 then if barrack does work here we ought to be able to pick him up again maybe i told you i'll agree to anything sandy said starting toward the lunch line sign he had spotted a block away anyway by noon we'll have the information from lausch and maybe you'll be willing to call this whole thing off
010917_10786_000074 good the little expert beamed sintelli has just sent back your box and the answers to all your questions but come in come in and sit down near the heater you must be cold if you walked here from your friend holt's apartment
010917_10786_000075 funnier and funnier sandy muttered did you see that barrack walked right past him ken nodded barrack had certainly seen the man he had actually brushed against him as he entered but neither had given any sign of recognition
010917_10786_000076 ah sandy said under his breath if that's all we've done but at a glare from ken he broke off and moved toward the chair lausch was pulling into place for them first lausch said a moment later smoothing out a sheet of notes on his desk you want to know if the box is really old
010917_10786_000077 and don't tell me sandy said that they couldn't recognize each other not after they drove together for a couple hundred miles look ken said now mr watch crystal is going inside too come on sandy said they began to move toward the cafeteria
010917_10786_000078 have it any way you like but if i don't get some hot coffee pretty soon alright ken interrupted to sandy's amazement this doesn't seem to be getting us anywhere i'll agree to leave here now after all we have to get to the museum anyway if you agree to coming back here around noon
010917_10786_000079 this is the first time i ever went into a restaurant with my mind on something besides food sandy said go ahead i'll follow you in a minute we'll be less conspicuous that way meet you at the tray counter if the coast is clear
010917_10786_000080 this is supposed to be our christmas vacation remember i you'll feel better when you've got some breakfast ken assured him they did feel considerably better although sandy was still mumbling dire forebodings about frostbite on both feet when lausch opened his office doors to them an hour later
010917_10786_000081 he probably wanted to find out how much we knew or suspect ken said well sandy told him grimly you may suspect plenty but even you don't know anything he started briskly across the room he looked perfectly alright to me
010917_10786_000082 ken looked around into a pair of eyes as irritated as the voice sorry he muttered and moved away we'd better get a sandwich ourselves sandy suggested we'll be less noticeable doing that than hanging around here
010917_10786_000083 he doesn't know why you thought such a box as this might have been stolen from a museum or anywhere else they're not valuable or rare enough to merit inclusion in a collection or to merit the risk of stealing for that matter
010917_10786_000084 ken will have to refer to his crystal ball for an explanation of that sandy murmured lausch glanced at him questioningly i don't quite understand you nothing nothing sandy said hesitantly let's see there was one further question wasn't there
010917_10786_000085 inside the great brightly lighted room rimmed with service counters hundreds of men and women were milling around intent on collecting a trayful of food or if already laden with trays on finding a vacant table where they could eat
010917_10786_000086 they made sure that neither barrack nor the second man looked their way as they hesitantly collected a pair of corned beef sandwiches and two glasses of milk then they sought out a table from which they could continue their observations
010917_10786_000087 sandy shrugged he might have learned it in a hundred different ways but suppose for a minute you're right in that case why would he come back here now why wouldn't he avoid us
010917_10786_000088 he smiled at them over his glasses it is definitely sintelli didn't make any spectroscopic tests of the metal but he said that it wasn't necessary he is quite certain the box was made not less than three hundred years ago
010917_10786_000089 they had just managed to find satisfactory places when sam morris's former customer moved away from the food counter his tray was crowded it was easy to see why he had taken so long to collect his lunch he made his way straight between the crowded tables to the one where barrack sat
010917_10786_000090 and besides their own charm lies in the fact that being homemade no two are exactly alike an exact duplication would seem pointless and a modern craftsman would probably charge more to make such a thing than you would pay for an original box but it could be duplicated if there was any reason for doing such a thing
010917_10786_000091 he picked up the phone book and leafed through it the tobacco market so that part of his story wasn't invented at least it's on chatham square that's down at the edge of chinatown isn't it
011130_11061_000000 soon he will smile i said and bubble baby love if into my ears how it will thrill i waited oh dread the clutching agony
011130_11061_000001 fears it was so strange and still did i curse god and rave when they came shrinkingly to tell me twas a witless child no i
011130_11061_000002 we are not lovers you and i upon this sunny lane but children who have never known love's joy or pain
011130_11061_000003 the trees we pass the summer brook the bird that o'er us darts we do not know tis they that thrill our childish hearts
011130_11061_000004 i only gave one cry just one i think because you know he never smiled
011130_11061_000005 the road the wood the heaven the hills are not a world to day but just a place god's made for us in which to play
011130_11061_000006 his lips flame truth from heaven and vanity seem all my thoughts and prayers when he but speaks thy law out of my heart the tares are torn by awe
011130_11061_000007 i cannot look upon him so strangely burn his eyes hath not some grieving drawn him from paradise for thee for thee i'd live lord yet oft i almost fall before him oh forgive lord my sinful thrall
011130_11061_000008 that he may sometimes be like other children learning beside my knee or playing prattling seeking for help comes to my heart ah sinful lord i'm speaking how good thou art
011130_11061_000009 it came with groping lips and little fingers stealing aimlessly about my heart i was like one who slips a sudden into ecstasy and thinks near to depart
011130_11061_000010 i cried to god give for my days beat wild with loneliness that will not rest but under the still sod
011130_12074_000000 did bank my bed with a black damp girth under the damp and under the mould i kenned my breasts were clammy and cold out from red beams slanting and bright i kenned my cheeks were sunken and white
011130_12074_000001 i was a dream and the world was a dream and yet i kenned all things that seem i was a dream and the world was a dream but you cannot bury a red sunbeam
011130_12074_000002 for though in the under graves doom night i lay all silent and stark and white yet over my head i seemed to know the murmurous moods of the wind and snow the snows that wasted
011130_12074_000003 i felt the winds of ocean and land that whispered the blossoms soft and bland though they had buried me dark and low my soul with the season's seemed to grow
011130_12074_000004 the wind that blew the rays that slanted the clouds that drew the water ghosts up from lakes below and the little flower souls in the earth that grow under earth in the grave stark night i felt the star and the moon's pale light
011130_12074_000005 to the worlds of sorrowing overhead men would have called me a thing of harm but dreams of my baby made me rosy and warm i felt my breasts swell under my shroud no star shone white
011130_12074_000006 no winds were loud but i stole me past the graveyard wall for the voice of my baby seemed to call and i kenned me a voice though my lips were dumb hush baby hush for mother is come
011130_12074_000007 when the winds are soft and the blossoms are red she could not sleep in her cold earth bed i dreamed of my baby for a day and a night and then i rose in my graveclothes white i rose like a flower from my damp earth bed
011130_12074_000008 i dreamed of my baby in glimmer and gloom i dreamed of my babe and i kenned that his rest was broken in wailing on my dead breast i dreamed that a rose-leaf hand did cling oh you cannot bury a mother in spring
011130_12074_000009 light waves that break on the shores of death i listened a space at my chamber door then stole like a moon ray over its floor my baby was asleep on a stranger arms oh baby my baby the grave is so warm
011130_12074_000010 i passed the streets to my husband's home the chamber stairs in a dream i clomb i heard the sound of each sleeper's breath
011130_12074_000011 though dark and so deep for mother is there o come with me from the pain and care o come with me from the anguish of earth where the bed is banked with a blossoming care
011130_12074_000012 and heavens may open its shimmering doors and saints make music on pearly floors and hell may yawn to its infinite sea but they never can take my baby from me for so much a part of my soul he hath grown
011130_12074_000013 but never the grave for mother is there i nestled him soft to my throbbing breast and i stole me back to my long long rest and there i lie with him under the star
011130_12074_000014 dead to earth its peace and its wars dead to its hates its hopes its harms so long as he cradle up soft in my arms
011130_12074_000015 that god doth know of it's high on his throne and here i lie with him under the flowers the sun winds rock through the billowy hours with the night airs that steal from the murmuring sea
011130_12107_000000 hence whenever i behold thee i shall think of angels too and the countless works of godness they descend on earth to do all unseen and silent round us they
011130_12107_000001 his soul rose behind them to lay up the treasure more bright than the stars more enduring than time and here while the sorrowing salem is shrouded in weeds for the son of her pride and her love
011130_12107_000002 is his to behold with his vision unclouded the glories unveiled of the salem above
011130_12107_000003 with bowditch inscribed for the whole earth's revering in letters of light to each point beaming round
011130_12107_000004 aged man with locks so hoary high estate dost thou possess they appear thy crown of glory in the way of righteousness
011130_12107_000005 jewels not of man's preparing form the shining diadem thou art from thy sovereign wearing the god's own finger silvered them
011130_12107_000006 thine are honors proved and heightened by a gift of lengthened years in affliction's furnace brightened tried by cares and washed by tears like thy master meek and lowly
011130_12107_000007 thou a thorny earth hast trod with thy breast a high and holy temple of the living god aged saint thy form is bending sere and withered to the tomb
011130_12107_000008 till a band of smiling angels mildly shining however near gently as they gathered round thee all in silence one of them laid his soft fair finger on thee pulling leaves from out the stem
011130_12107_000009 in it i beheld my rose tree stripped of flower and bud and leaf but thy naked stalk and branches filled me with methought i wept to see thee spoiled of all that made thee dear
011130_12107_000010 rose tree o my beauteous rose tree often have i longed to know how thy tender leaves were moulded how thy watered sunned and trained thee and have watched thee many an hour
011130_12107_000011 yet i never could discover how a bud becomes a flower so last night i thought about thee on my pillow till at last i was gone in quiet slumber and a dream before me passed
011130_12107_000012 dying in the azure distance naming thee a gift of love and my rose tree stood before me finished thus by angel hands perfect in its blossom and fragrance beautiful as now it stands
011130_12107_000013 the lord from his cloudy pavilion hath spoken the soul to himself and its dust to the clod the cord he hath loosed and the golden bowl broken who formed them so precious be still it is god
011130_12107_000014 then came one the buds to open he their silken rolls unsheathed while the one who tint the roses through their loosened foldings breathed
011130_12107_000015 then the angel of the odors filled each golden bottomed cell till between the parting petals free on air the fragrance fell
011130_12107_000016 lifting there their shining pinions quick the angels passed from sight leaving where aloft they vanished but a stream of fading light there i heard sweet strains of music and the voice far above
011130_12107_000017 he shines in the light he diffused for mankind that mind as a guide that trod paths on the ocean its marks over the billowy desert to place
011130_12107_000018 but there while affection her tribute is giving the beauty the grandeur the power of his mind the grave cannot hide in his deeds he is living
011130_12107_000019 his form pale and cold the dark mansion encloses around it philanthropy science and art their tears for their friend as in death he reposes shower warm o'er the hand and the head and the heart
011130_12107_000020 a sage hath departed the cities sit weeping from land unto land does the gloom spread away the seas give their wail to the winds o'er them sweeping the spirit that spanned them hath passed from the clay
011130_13331_000000 britons guard your own call home your ships across biscayan tides to blow the battle from their oaken sides why waste the yonder their idles thunder why stay they there to guard a foreign throne
011130_13331_000001 seamen guard your own we were the best of marksmen long ago we won old battles with our strength the bow now practice yeomen like those bowmen till your balls fly as their true shafts has flown yeomen guard your own
011130_13331_000002 should he land here and for one hour prevail there must no man go back to bear the tale no man to bear it swear it we swear it although we fought the banded world alone we swear to guard our own
011130_13331_000003 rise britons rise if manhood be not dead the world's last tempest darkens overhead the pope has blessed him the church caressed him he triumphs maybe we shall stand alone
011130_13331_000004 britons guard your own his ruthless host is bought with plundered gold by lying priest the peasants votes controlled all freedom vanished the true men banished he triumphs maybe we shall stand alone britons guard your own
011130_13331_000005 britons guard your own we hate not france but france has lost her voice this man is france the man they call her choice by tricks and spying by craft and lying and murder was her freedom overthrown britons guard your own
011130_13331_000006 vive l'empereur may follow by and bye god save the queen is here a truer cry god save the nation the toleration and the free speech that makes a briton known
011130_13331_000007 britons guard your own rome's dearest daughter now is captive france the jesuit laughs and reckoning on his chance would unrelenting kill all dissenting till we were left to fight for truth alone
011130_13375_000000 evenly sees in much of good but he's bold and bright and strong and think he knows the rights of wrong he scatters his bounty everywhere and smile with a hearty devil-may-care
011130_13375_000001 the guilty lover and the moon by dan standridge read for little fox dot org i see the marred moon in the day how pale she is she steals away like a beast the stag hound track she flies and never turneth back
011130_13375_000002 she looks on horrid mysteries and never shuts her shrinking eyes she hears the cries of beaten wife she hears small children plead for life she sees where the murdered corse is hid where the miser open his coffer's lid
011130_13375_000003 she knows the pity of lives of shame every night she gazes on brutish acts without a name no wonder she is pinch and wan the sun on many a crime look down many a crime in many a town many a time he drinketh blood
011130_13375_000004 if i could know what she must know a shrieking maniac i would go what scenes she peers at in the night many a loathsome deadly sight frightful acts and ghastly deeds hateful crimes as common as weeds no wonder she's pale with fright
011130_13375_000005 be the judgment late or be it soon i know that the spirit of the moon will stand as witness at the rail and shuddering begin her tale every secret open wide
011130_13375_000006 naught forget and nothing hide but till the dooming day shall come the pale-faced coward must be dumb till every evil be confessed she may not rest she may not rest
011130_13375_000007 full-faced alone you saw us stand heart to heart and hand to hand flit on flit on o'er heaven's floor and carry on your lined face until wither in your place one secret more one secret more
011130_13375_000008 a brave old optimist is he but the moon is timid as she can be for all the treasure under the ground i would not find what she has found o moon you watched us on that night lingering in your softened light
011130_13375_000009 yet here so many leagues away to grieve for you is all my part to feel your sorrow in my heart to love and pray yet is this all it is not so you know me fond you know me true my life is crowned with love of you
011130_13375_000010 if i could only comfort you could come tonight in spirit form yet with my glad heart beating warm to find you true and lay your head upon my breast and hush your sighs of pain and still your eager yearning at my will and give you rest
011130_13375_000011 and this you know what then if we must never meet to feel each other's sympathy through all the leagues of land and sea is this not sweet
011130_13857_000000 it is an undisputed fact that robust a graft greedy columbian abhors every free expression on love or marriage emil ruedebusch like many others who have dared to lift the veil of hypocrisy was condemned to a heavy fine
011130_13857_000001 a second work of the author die eigenen was published in germany his idea that the relation of the sexes must be freed from oppressing factors
011130_13857_000002 that which passes as history in our schools or governmentally fabricated books on history is a forgery a misrepresentation of events like the old drama centering upon the impossible figure of the hero with a gesticulating crowd in the background
011130_13857_000003 the way history is written will depend altogether on whatever purpose the writers have in view and what they hope to achieve thereby it will altogether depend upon the sincerity or lack thereof upon the broad or narrow horizon of the historian
011130_13857_000004 the importance of written history for the people can easily be compared with the importance of a diary for the individual it furnishes data for recollections points of comparison between the past and the present
011130_13857_000005 but as most diaries and autobiographies show a lack of straight forward big simple sincere self analyses so does history seldom prove a representation of facts of the truth of reality
011130_13857_000006 and also furnishing their blood money for the whims and extravagances of their masters such history only tends to produce conceit national impudence superciliousness and patriotic stupidity all of which is in full bloom in our great republic
011130_13857_000007 our aim is to teach a different conception of historical events to define them as an ever-recurring struggle for freedom against every form of might
011130_13857_000008 quacks of history speak only of great men like bonapartes bismarcks deweys or rough riders as leaders of the people while the latter serve as a setting a chorus howling the praise of the heroes
011130_13857_000009 of a lame morality that degrades every human emotion to the plane of utility and purpose i heartily endorse his method of achieving the ideal seems to me too full of red tape
011130_13857_000010 between ourselves the number of those who still believe in the american republic can be counted on one's fingers one has either pierced through the lie all for the people and by the people-in that case one must become a revolutionist
011130_13857_000011 history to us means a compilation of experiences out of which the individual as well as the race will gain the right understanding how to shape and organize a mode of life best suited
011130_13857_000012 to bring out the finest and strongest qualities of the human race the american brutus is of course a business man and has no time to overthrow caesar recently however the imperialistic stew became hot and too much for him
011130_13857_000013 a struggle resultant from an innate yearning for self-expression and the recognition of one's own possibilities and their attitude toward other human beings
011130_13857_000014 the marriage of miss alice roosevelt produced such a bad odor of court gossip as to make the poor american brutus ill with nausea he grew indignant draped his sleeve in mourning and with gloomy mien and clenched fists went about prophesying the downfall of the republic
011130_13857_000015 besides the cry about the decline of the great republic is really meaningless as far as it ever stood for liberty and well-being of the people it has long ceased to be
011130_13857_000016 one has succeeded in putting one's bounty in safety then he is a conservative no disturbances please we are about to close a profitable contract modern bourgeoisie
011130_13857_000017 is it absolutely indifferent as to who is to be their political boss just so they are given opportunity to store their profits and accumulate great wealth
011130_13857_000018 therefore lamentations come too late true the american republic has not given birth to an aristocracy it has produced the power of the parvenu not less brutal than european aristocracy
011130_13857_000019 now exposed before the civilized world in all her slavish submissiveness the storm in russia has frightened many out of their warm bedclothes a real revolution in these police regulated times more than one voice was raised against the possibility of a revolution
011130_13857_000020 only narrower in vision and not less vulgar in tastes instead of mourning one ought to rejoice that the latest display of disgusting servility has completely thrown off the mantle of liberty and independence of dame columbia
011130_13857_000021 and they who dared to predict it were considered fit for the lunatic asylum the working men peasants and students of russia however have proven that the calculations of the wise contained a hitch somewhere
011252_11245_000000 after him came the stout major his sabre under his arm and the slim lieutenants whilst the mounted officers also alighted the master is not at home said a servant appearing at the top of a flight of steps what not at home but he is coming home for dinner is he not
011252_11245_000001 no your excellency i had it by chance it was brought by one of my oldest friends a fine fellow with whom you would be very well pleased we are very intimate
011252_11245_000002 the long hedges separating the houses were suddenly covered with soldiers caps exposed to the sun grey frieze cloaks hung in the doorways and moustaches harsh and bristling as clothes brushes were to be met with in all the streets
011252_11245_000003 information respecting him may be asked of all the young ladies in the districts of tamboff and simbirsk he would very probably have further extended his reputation in other districts if he had not been obliged to leave the service in consequence of one of those affairs which are spoken of as a very unpleasant business
011252_11245_000004 what is mine is his and what is his is mine i won it of him at cards would your excellency have the kindness to honour me at dinner tomorrow you could see my calash
011252_11245_000005 he began to play a fresh rubber however the conversation which was going on in every corner of the room took an especial turn those who were playing whist were quiet enough but the others talked a great deal
011252_11245_000006 no he is not he has gone out for the day and will not be back till this time to-morrow bless me said the general but what the deuce what a joke said the colonel laughing
011252_11245_000007 had he given or received a blow i cannot say with certainty but what is indisputable is that he was asked to send in his resignation however this accident had no unpleasant effect upon the esteem in which he had been held up till then
011252_11245_000008 a captain had taken up his position on a sofa and leaning against a cushion pipe in mouth he captivated the attention of a circle of guests gathered about him by his eloquent narrative of amorous adventures
011252_11245_000009 these moustaches showed themselves everywhere but above all at the market over the shoulders of the woman of the place who flocked there from all sides to make their purchases the officers lent great animation to society at b
011252_11245_000010 they sat down to supper as might be expected wine was not lacking and tchertokoutski kept involuntarily filling his glass with it for he was surrounded with bottles
011252_11245_000011 a lengthy conversation took place at table but the guests carried it on after a strange fashion a colonel who had served in eighteen twelve described a battle which had never taken place and besides no one ever could make out why he took a cork and stuck it into a pie
011252_11245_000012 at length a few minutes before supper play came to an end tchertokoutski could remember that he'd won a great deal but he did not take up his winnings and after rising stood for some time in the position of a man who has no handkerchief in his pocket
011252_11245_000013 he usually behaved after the fashion of a great noble he had married a rather pretty lady with a dowry of two hundred serfs and some thousands of rubles this money was at once employed in the purchase of six fine horses some gilt bronze locks and a tame monkey he further engaged a french cook
011252_11245_000014 a somewhat brisk discussion on cavalry drill had arisen in another corner and tchertokoutski who had twice already played a knave for a king mingled in the conversation by calling out from his place in what year or what regiment without noticing that very often his question had no application whatever
011252_11245_000015 at the last election he had given to the whole of the nobility a grand dinner during which he declared that if he were elected marshal he would put all gentlemen on the best possible footing
011252_11245_000016 he frequented the numerous fairs to which flock the whole of the population of southern russia consisting of nursemaids tall girls and burly gentlemen who go there in vehicles of such strange aspect that no one has ever seen their match even in a dream
011252_11245_000017 tchertokoutski always wore a coat of a military cut spurs and moustache in order not to have it supposed that he had served in the infantry a branch of the service upon which he lavished the most contemptuous expressions
011252_11245_000018 a very stout gentleman whose arms were so short that they looked like two potatoes hanging by his sides listened to him with a very satisfied expression and from time to time exerted himself to pull his tobacco-pouch out of his coat-tail pocket
011252_11245_000019 he instinctively guessed the spot in which a regiment of cavalry was to be found and never failed to introduce himself to the officers on perceiving them he bounded gracefully from his light phaeton and soon made acquaintance with them
011252_11245_000020 the officers of the regiment amongst whom were the colonel and the fat major formed the majority of those present the general himself was rather stout a good officer nevertheless according to his subordinates he had a rather deep bass voice
011252_11245_000021 society  consisted up till then of the judge who was living with a deacon's wife and of the chief of police a very sensible man but one who slept all day long from dinner till evening and from evening till dinner-time this
011252_11245_000022 no no such things are inconceivable said the general angrily if he could not receive us why did he invite us i cannot understand your excellency how it is possible to act in such a manner observed a young officer
011252_11245_000023 the coachman who drove him home found every one asleep he routed out after some trouble the valet who after having ushered his master through the hall handed him over to a maidservant
011252_11245_000024 the two hundred peasants of the lady as well as two hundred more belonging to the gentleman were mortgaged to the bank in a word he was a regular nobleman besides himself several other gentlemen were amongst the general's guests but it is not worth while speaking of them
011252_11245_000025 tchertokoutski followed her as well as he could to the best room and stretched himself beside his pretty young wife who was sleeping in a nightgown as white as snow
011252_11245_000026 they began to break up at three in the morning the coachmen were obliged to take several of them in their arms like bundles and tchertokoutski himself despite his aristocratic pride bowed so low to the company that he took home two thistles in his moustache
011252_11245_000027 the dinner was magnificent there were sturgeons sterlets bustards asparagus quail partridges mushrooms the flavour of all these dishes supplied an irrefutable proof of the sobriety of the cook during the twenty-four hours preceding the dinner
011252_11245_000028 i don't know what to say alone i could not but if you would allow me to come with these officers i beg of them to come too i shall esteem it a great honour gentlemen to have the pleasure of seeing you at my house the colonel the major and the other officers thanked tchertokoutski
011252_11245_000029 at these words the general took a long pull at his pipe she is not quite recovered yet there is not a decent stable in this cursed little place but she is not bad looking puff puff the general here let out the smoke which he had kept in his mouth till then the little mare
011252_11245_000030 four soldiers who had been given him as assistants had not ceased working all night knife in hand at the composition of ragouts and jellies the immense quantity of long-necked bottles mingled with shorter ones holding claret and madeira
011252_11245_000031 she looked at herself twice in the glass and thought she looked very pretty that morning this circumstance a very insignificant one apparently caused her to stay two hours longer than usual before her glass she dressed very tastefully and went into the garden
011252_11245_000032 the shock of her husband falling on the bed awoke her she stretched out her arms opened her eyes closed them quickly and then opened them again quite wide with a half vexed air
011252_11245_000033 we can see her now said the general here my dear fellow added he addressing his aide-de-camp an active well-made young officer have the bay mare brought here you shall see for yourselves gentlemen
011252_11245_000034 and a white dressing-gown which fell about her like the waters of a fountain then she passed into her dressing-room and after washing in water as fresh as herself went to her toilet
011252_11245_000035 it was late that is according to country customs when the lady woke again her husband was snoring more loudly than ever she recollected that he had come home at four o'clock and not wishing to awaken him got up alone and put on her slippers which her husband had had sent for from saint petersburg
011252_11245_000036 the guests rose from the table with a pleasant feeling of repletion and after having lit their pipes all stepped out coffee-cups in hand on to the verandah
011252_11245_000037 the fine summer day the wide-open windows the plates piled up with ice on the table the crumpled shirt-fronts of the gentlemen in plain clothes and a brisk and noisy conversation now dominated by the general's voice and now besprinkled with champagne were all in perfect harmony
011252_11245_000038 seeing that her husband did not pay the slightest attention to her she turned over on the other side rested her fresh and rosy cheek on her hand and went to sleep again
011252_11245_000039 the pretty mistress of the house had quite forgotten that it was noon at least and that her husband was still asleep already she heard the snores of two coachmen and a groom who were taking their siesta in the stable after having dined copiously
011252_11245_000040 first came a light calash with two places in which was the general wearing his large and glittering epaulettes with the colonel this was followed by another with four places containing the captain the aide-de-camp and two lieutenants
011252_11245_000041 the weather was splendid it was one of the finest days of the summer the sun which had almost reached the meridian shed its most ardent rays but a pleasant coolness reigned under the leafy arcades and the flowers warmed by the sun exhaled their sweetest perfume
011252_11245_000042 whilst old old reeds served to thatch them following a custom very common in the towns of south russia the chief of police has long since had all the trees in the gardens cut down to improve the view
011252_11245_000043 the mare's name was agrafena ivanovna strong and bold as a southern beauty she suddenly became motionless the general began to look at her with evident satisfaction and left off smoking
011252_11245_000044 here as he spoke the general disappeared behind the cloud of smoke at that moment a soldier jumped out of the stable the trampling of a horse's hooves was heard and another soldier with immense moustaches and wearing a long white tunic appeared
011252_11245_000045 the town of b had become very lively since a cavalry regiment had taken up its quarters in it up to that date it had been mortally wearisome there when you happened to pass through the town and glanced at its little mud houses with their incredibly gloomy aspect the pen refuses to express what you felt
011252_11245_000046 further on came the celebrated regimental vehicle the present owner of which was the major and behind that another in which were packed five officers one on his comrade's knees the procession being closed by three more on fine bays
011252_11245_000047 puff puff not very long i had her from the breeding establishment two years ago and did your excellency condescend to buy her ready broken or have to have her broken in your here yourself puff puff puff puff
011252_11245_000048 you suffered a terrible uneasiness as if you had just lost all your money at play or had committed some terrible blunder in company the plaster covering the houses soaked by rain had fallen away in many places from their walls which from white had become streaked and spotted
011252_11245_000049 leading by the bridle the terrified and quivering mare which suddenly rearing lifted him off his feet come come agrafena ivanovna said he leading her towards the verandah
011252_11245_000050 but she was still sitting in a bower from which the deserted high road could be seen when all at once her attention was caught by a light cloud of dust rising in the distance after looking at it for some moments she ended by making out several vehicles closely following one another
011252_11245_000051 the soldier who held her bridle drew himself up and stared fixedly at the guests she is very very fine said tchertokoutski a very well shaped beast will your excellency allow me to ask whether she is a good goer
011252_11245_000052 what what's the matter murmured tchertokoutski stretching his limbs without opening his eyes get up get up visitors have come do you hear visitors visitors what visitors after saying these words he uttered a little plaintive grunt like that of a suckling calf
011252_11245_000053 one never meets anything in the town unless it is a cock crossing the road full of dust and soft as a pillow at the slightest rain this dust is turned into mud and then all the streets are filled with pigs
011252_11245_000054 let me kiss you my dear get up at once for heaven's sake the general has come with all his officers ah goodness you have got a thistle in your moustache the general has he come already but why the deuce did not they wake me and the dinner is the dinner ready what dinner
011252_11245_000055 displaying to all their grave faces they utter such grunts that travellers only think of pressing their horses to get away from them as soon as possible sometimes some country gentleman of the neighbourhood the owner of a dozen serfs passes in a vehicle which is a kind of compromise between a carriage and a cart
011252_11245_000056 are they coming here thought the mistress of the house good heavens yes they are leaving the main road she gave a cry clasped her hands and ran straight across the flower beds to her bedroom where her husband was still sleeping soundly get up get up get up at once she cried pulling him by the arm
011252_11245_000057 she goes well but that idiot of a doctor deuce take him has given her some balls which have made her sneeze for the last two days she is a very very she's a fine beast a very fine beast has your excellency a turn-out to match the horse turn-out but she's a saddle horse
011252_11245_000058 i am of opinion myself your excellency that if one buys anything it should be good it is not worth the trouble of getting if it turns out to be bad if you do me the honour of calling on me tomorrow i will show you some improvements i have introduced on my estate
011252_11245_000059 the colonel himself went down the steps and patted her neck the major ran his hand down her legs and all the other officers clicked their tongues at her tchertokoutski left the verandah to take up a position beside the mare
011252_11245_000060 the general liveliness was still further increased when the town of b became the residence of the general commanding the brigade to which the regiment belonged many gentlemen of the neighbourhood whose very existence no one had even suspected
011252_11245_000061 surrounded by sacks of flour and whipping up his bay mare with her colt trotting by her side the aspect of the marketplace is mournful enough
011252_11245_000062 what said the general who always made an officer under the rank of captain repeat his remarks twice over i wondered your excellency how any one could do such a thing quite so if anything has happened he ought to have let us know
011252_11245_000063 all around the rest of the market-place are nothing but palings but in the centre are some little sheds where a packet of round cakes a stout woman in a red dress a bar of soap
011252_11245_000064 i know i put the question your excellency to know if you have an equipage an equipage worthy of your other horses no i have not much in the way of equipages
011252_11245_000065 i must admit that for some time past i've been wanting to buy a calash such as they build nowadays i've written about it to my brother who is now at saint petersburg but i do not know whether he will be able to send me one
011252_11245_000066 this stall which was to serve as a model was built by the chief of police in the time of his youth before he got into the habit of falling asleep directly after dinner and of drinking a kind of decoction of dried goose-berries every evening
011252_11245_000067 but on arrival of the cavalry regiment everything changed the streets became more lively and wore quite another aspect often from their little houses the inhabitants would see a tall and well-made officer with a plumed hat pass by
011252_11245_000068 but haven't i ordered a dinner a dinner you got home at four o'clock in the morning and you did not answer a single word to all my questions i did not wake you since you had so little
011252_11245_000069 it is very comfortable then extremely comfortable the cushions the springs and everything else are perfect ah that is good
011252_11245_000070 having uttered these words he hurriedly slipped on his dressing gown and ran off to shut himself up in the coach house which he thought the safest hiding place but he fancied that he might be noticed in the corner in which he had taken refuge this will be better he said to himself letting down the steps of the nearest vehicle which happened to be the calash
011252_11245_000071 that in which you came oh no i make use of that for ordinary service but the other is something extraordinary it is as light as a feather and if you sit in it it seems as if your nurse was rocking you in a cradle
011252_11245_000072 idiot that i am he exclaimed clasping his hand to his forehead i had invited them to dinner what is to be done are they far off they will be here in a moment my dear hide yourself
011252_11245_000073 some pounds of bitter almonds some lead some cotton and two shopmen playing at svaika a game resembling quoits are always to be seen
011252_11245_000074 his eyes staring out of his head remained motionless for some moments as though a thunderbolt had struck him all at once he jumped out of bed in his shirt
011252_11245_000075 ho there somebody hi there you girl come here you fool what are you afraid of the officers are coming here tell them i am not at home that i went out early this morning that i am not coming back do you understand go and repeat it to all the servants be off quick
011252_11245_000076 it seems to me your excellency remarked the colonel that there are no better calashes than those of vienna you are right puff puff puff i have an excellent calash your excellency a real viennese calash said tchertokoutski
011252_11245_000077 today it was the major who drove out in it tomorrow it was seen in the lieutenant's coach house and a week later the major's servant was again greasing its wheels
011252_11245_000078 the general looked at him and puffed out a fresh cloud of smoke tchertokoutski was charmed with his notion of inviting the officers and mentally ordered in advance all manner of dishes for their entertainment
011252_11245_000079 began to come into town with the intention of calling on the officers or perhaps of playing bank a game concerning which they had up till then only a very confused notion occupied as they were with their crops and the commissions of their wives and their hare-hunting
011252_11245_000080 and what a quantity of things can be packed away in it i have never seen anything like it your excellency when i was still in the service there was room enough in the body to stow away ten bottles of rum twenty pounds of tobacco six uniforms and two pipes
011252_11245_000081 he jumped inside closed the door and as a further precaution covered himself with the leather apron there he remained wrapped in his dressing-gown in a doubled-up position
011252_11245_000082 the longest pipes imaginable your excellency and in the pockets you could stow away a whole bullock that is very good it cost four thousand rubles your excellency it ought to be good at that price did you buy it yourself
011252_11245_000083 on his way to the quarters of one of his comrades to discuss the chances of promotion or the qualities of a new tobacco or perhaps to risk at play his carriage which might indeed be called the carriage of all the regiment since it belonged in turn to every one of them
011252_11245_000084 there is nothing to be done your excellency we had better go back home said the colonel certainly there is nothing to be done however we can see the calash without him probably he has not taken it with him come here my man
011252_11245_000085 during this time the equipages had drawn up before the porch the general got out of his carriage and shook himself followed by the colonel arranging the feathers in his hat
011252_11245_000086 he smiled at these gentlemen who on their part appeared to increase their show of attention towards him as was noticeable from the expression of their eyes and the little half nods they bestowed upon him his bearing assumed a certain ease and his voice expressed his great satisfaction
011252_11245_000087 it seems to me your excellency that it is not worth four thousand rubles remarked a young officer what i said your excellency that i did not think that it is worth four thousand rubles four thousand it is not worth two perhaps however the inside is well fitted unbutton the apron
011252_11245_000088 what does your excellency want show us your master's calash have the kindness to step this way to the coach house the general entered the coach house followed by his officers let me pull it a little forward your excellency said the servant it is rather dark here
011252_11245_000089 the little courtyard of the house occupied by the general was crowded with vehicles the company only consisted of men officers and gentlemen of the neighbourhood
011252_11245_000090 that will do the general and his officers walked around the calash carefully inspecting the wheels and springs there is nothing remarkable about it said the general it is a very ordinary calash nothing to look at added the colonel there is absolutely nothing good about it
011252_11245_000091 your excellency will make the acquaintance of the mistress of the house that will be most agreeable to me said the general twirling his moustache tchertokoutski was firmly resolved to return home at once in order to make all the necessary preparations in good time
011734_5126_000000 oh how i shall prize this little note said mrs martin as they were leaving the church for home you could not have given me a christmas remembrance which would have meant more to me and i am sure that i am not the only one you have remembered this day-you have given yourselves to christ who died and arose from the grave for you and he will treasure the christmas gift you have given him
011734_5126_000001 and that reminds me that i must write his text down in my textbook let's see it was last christmas wasn't it when mrs martin gave us those little books and told us to write in them the text of every sermon we heard preached
011734_5126_000002 oh i was just thinking about what the minister said last sabbath that is all replied the lad in a low voice oh yes what he said about people being born again if they would live the christ life
011734_5126_000003 what is on your mind now it was tim's sister ada who asked this question as she came running into the room upon her return from school she had stopped on her way to gather violets and that you see is why she had not reached home as soon as
011734_5126_000004 and gave himself up to the flow of his own thoughts yes he said just that and more too he said that the life of christ will do us little good unless we are living in it that is unless we are christians it makes little difference to us whether christ gave his life for us or not
011734_5126_000005 the good old grandma no longer used her crutch but leaned on her granddaughter there was much prattling about this in the village and all wondered at last they found out the cause the granddaughter in a fit of passion threw her grandmother's crutch in the fire
011734_5126_000006 and i am glad to say that i have not missed many sabbaths since then neither have i said tim and do you know i have been wondering whether mrs martin will give her class any present this christmas oh i don't know i should think a teacher did her duty by teaching a sabbath school class
011734_5126_000007 and let's get up one for her proposed tim and that means that we will laughed ada when you say let's in that tone something is always sure to happen but we don't want to have the whole say about a presents ourselves observed the boy evidently pleased at his sister's compliment
011734_5126_000008 mark and nettie haven't come from school yet when they do we will call them in and see what can be done all right and let's watch for them the windows facing the road were immediately taken possession of and it was not long before ada and tim were both rapping on the panes of glass what is it shouted mark from the road
011734_5126_000009 i have said tim i have heard her say that what she wanted the most of anything was to have her scholars come to christ but i mean something that we could give her but if we should make up our minds to be christians it would make her pleased said tim and perhaps she would rather be pleased in this way than to have a present
011734_5126_000010 come and see replied ada mark and nettie a rosy-cheeked brother and sister were soon in the little sitting room and ada and tim were laying before them their plans for christmas it is just like this said ada i found tim dreaming about christmas and i just suggested that we give mrs martin a christmas present this year now what do you think of it
011734_5126_000011 i know that she would said nettie and i say let's settle the question once for all the others looked in amazement at nettie they could scarcely understand what she meant her face was flushed and she was trembling with emotion but one thing was certain and that was that nettie was in earnest also tim and whatever tim wanted the others to do they generally did
011734_5126_000012 you may as well tell us what you do mean said mark why just what i said replied tim i think it is about time that we begin to think of some being christians that is if what the minister says is true and i suppose that it is for everybody believes everything else that he says when he says anything to say in our house and in our store
011734_5126_000013 that would be just the thing said nettie but what do you think she would want queried mark we can't tell unless we ask her replied ada but have any of us ever heard her say what she wanted
011734_5126_000014 mama smiled you have been having a good time meg she said and she put a tin bason with some soap and warm water in it on a chair where meg could reach now then wash your hands and face dear dada will soon be in for dinner but meg pouted
011734_5126_000015 so he read we four scholars of your class have made up our minds to be christians and we give you this information as your christmas remembrance from us just the thing said ada and i suppose that we must all sign it suggested nettie of course answered tim
011734_5126_000016 but this is all that we must do to be christians queried mark i should say not answered tim but if missus martin knows that we are in earnest she will tell us what to do so the paper was signed by the four after which mark and nettie continued on their way homeward
011734_5126_000017 so we can said mark and let's do it at once so tim went to the desk and spent a few minutes writing something upon a piece of paper when he had finished he turned around and asked want to hear it of course answered nettie
011734_5126_000018 we felt that we needed help from you and you shall have it in this very hour we will let the lesson go today and just have a little meeting all to ourselves that will be just beautiful exclaimed
011734_5126_000019 while the other classes in the church were discussing the lesson for the day missus martin's class in the pew in the rear were settling the great question of their lives missus martin began by telling them the story of the christ how christ left his heavenly home and came to earth to die for all men since all are sinners
011734_5126_000020 she put her hands into the water and began to wash and scrub them lucy is older than meg and she had looked on all the time to see what meg would do when lucy saw her begin to wash and be good she said
011734_5126_000021 why is it mama that you and dada could do just as you like about everything but we children have to do as you tell us all the time i don't think it is fair i wish we could do as we like too
011734_5126_000022 bear the punishment said mama you say lucy that dada and i just do what we choose and that is quite true but if we choose to do wrong then we have to be punished too and the punishment is far worse than any that dada or i can give you for it comes from god
011734_5126_000023 mania did not speak for a moment in her heart she said lord help me to make this plain to my little girls did meg have to wash she asked them yes lucy said if not she would have to
011734_5126_000024 when she opened it and read the note that was within her eyes filled with tears of joy oh my precious class my precious class this was all she could say as she looked from one to another with face shining like an angel we thought that you would tell us just what to do began edda
011734_5126_000025 on the sabbath following christmas after the class had gathered and was waiting for sabbath-school to begin in the little church on the hill tim passed to missus martin an envelope bearing her name
011734_5126_000026 commit thy way unto the lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass and he shall make thy righteousness to go forth as the light and thy judgment as the noonday
011734_5126_000027 my two little girls may do just as they choose as long as they choose to do what is right and then when they are big and there is no mama to tell them all the time what to do i hope they will do right of themselves
011734_5126_000028 and how all may be saved from sin by being sorry for their wrong-doing deciding to lead a right life and taking him as their personal saviour is this what you all believe
011734_5126_000029 it is replied the class softly then all closed their eyes and mrs martin prayed softly for them after which each prayed for pardon and by the time sabbath-school was dismissed all felt that christ had accepted them as his very own
011734_5126_000030 trust always never fret trust in the lord and do good dwell in the land and follow after faithfulness delight thyself also in the lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart
011734_5126_000031 rest in the lord and wait patiently for him fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass kiss from anger and forsake wrath fret not thyself it tend only to evil doing
011734_9165_000000 in that minute the maddening indecision took possession of him once more he opened the letter again read it over again and tore it up again i'm out of my mind cried geoffrey fixing his big bewildered blue eyes fiercely on the professor who trained him
011734_9165_000001 he pledged himself to write again the moment he had any information to send blanche snatched up the newspaper and opened it let me look she said i can find what anne saw here if any body can she ran her eye eagerly over column after column and page after page and dropped the newspaper on her lap with a gesture of despair
011734_9165_000002 don't you think mister crum will write before monday it is such a fortunate circumstance for us if he does write that i don't venture to anticipate it you are down on our luck sir
011734_9165_000003 he had been positively forbidden to enter the house his one excuse for setting that prohibitory sentence at defiance rested on the assumption that his father was actually dying as matters now stood lord holchester's order remained in full force
011734_9165_000004 after some journeying backward and forward to consult his gentleman he decided on retiring from business and on taking up his abode within an easy distance of his medical man
011734_9165_000005 the butler laid a special emphasis on a personal pronoun julius turned to his brother the change for the better in the state of lord holchester's health made geoffrey's position at that moment an embarrassing one
011734_9165_000006 finding a piece of freehold land to be sold in the neighborhood of fulham he bought it and had a cottage residence built on it under his own directions he surrounded the whole being a man singularly jealous of
011734_9165_000007 i detest slang arnold but slang i own expresses my state of mind in this instance with an accuracy which almost reconciles me to the use of it-for once in a way
011734_9165_000008 there is no denying he said that matters have taken a very serious turn my plans and calculations are all thrown out it is impossible to foresee what new mischief may not come of it
011734_9165_000009 sir patrick and arnold held more than one private consultation during the interval on the delicate and difficult subject of admitting blanche to a knowledge of what had happened the wise elder advised and the inexperienced junior listened think of it said sir patrick and do it and arnold thought of it and left it undone
011734_9165_000010 the news from glasgow the letters to lady lundie and to mr crum having been dispatched on monday the return of the post might be looked for on wednesday afternoon at ham farm
011734_9165_000011 go to that address and inquire for miss silvester if she has arrived give her my compliments and say i will have the honor of calling on her on mr brinkworth's behalf at the earliest date which she may find it convenient to appoint
011734_9165_000012 any intrusion on his retirement or of any chance observation of his ways and habits with a high wall which cost a large sum of money and which was rightly considered a dismal and hideous object by the neighbors when the new residence was completed he called it after this name of the place in staffordshire where he had made his money
011734_9165_000013 silvester is expected in london duncan i want a discreet person to communicate with her you are the person duncan bowed sir patrick handed him the note if you start at once you will be in time to catch the train
011734_9165_000014 julius geoffrey is standing by and taking no other than a listener's part in the proceedings is my father alive his lordship i am rejoiced to say he astonished the doctors sir he rallied last night in the most wonderful way if things go on for the next
011734_9165_000015 let those who feel inclined to blame him remember that he had only been married a fortnight it is hard surely after but two weeks possession of your wife to appear before her in the character of an offender on trial
011734_9165_000016 wait and see what the chances of the next eight or forty hours might bring forth and then write to her or desert her as the event might decide it lay in a nutshell if you could only see it thanks to crouch he did see it and so away in a pleasant temper for a dinner with our fellows and an evening at the play
011734_9165_000017 he mechanically took up the glasgow journal which arnold had laid aside while he spoke what is this he exclaimed as a name caught his eye in the first line of the newspaper at which he happened to look mrs glenarm again
011734_9165_000018 he recovered his good manner as if by magic want the pen and ink sir inquired his pedestrian host not i answered geoffrey the muddle's out of me now pen and ink be hanged i shall look up some of our fellows and go to the play he left the public house in the happiest condition of mental calm inspired by the stimulant
011734_9165_000019 of his whimsical humor once declared in my hearing that the invention of printing was nothing more or less than a proof of the intellectual activity of the devil upon my honor i feel for the first time in my life inclined to agree with him
011734_9165_000020 be quick about it and you will have time to get back before the last train have mr and mrs brinkworth returned from their drive no sir patrick pending the return of arnold and blanche sir patrick looked at mr crum's letter for the second time
011734_9165_000021 toward eighteen hundred and forty he first felt the approach of the chronic malady which ultimately terminated his life after trying what the medical men of his own locality could do for him with very poor success he met by accident with a doctor living in the western suburbs of london who thoroughly understood his complaint
011734_9165_000022 application of crouch's gloves his torpid cunning had been shaken up into excellent working order at last write to anne who but a fool would write to such a woman as that until he was forced to it
011734_9165_000023 forty hours as they are going now my lord's recovery is considered certain what was the illness a paralytic stroke sir when her ladyship telegraphed to you in scotland the doctors had given his lordship up is my mother at home her ladyship is at home to you sir
011734_9165_000024 his first proceeding after reading it was to consult the railway timetable hanging in the hall having done this he returned to the library wrote a short note of inquiry addressed to the musical agent and rang the bell miss
011734_9165_000025 thunder and lightning explosion and blood send for crouch crouch known and respected wherever english manhood is known and respected was a retired prize fighter
011734_9165_000026 if those two women meet or what desperate act delamayn may not commit if he finds himself driven to the wall as things are i own frankly i don't know what to do next a great light of the presbyterian church he added with a momentary outbreak
011734_9165_000027 on the left hand side of the passage there was a drawing room situated at the back of the house and communicating with a dining room in the front on the upper floor there were five bedrooms two on one side of the passage corresponding in size with the dining room
011734_9165_000028 thought sir patrick and i owe it to myself to bring geoffrey delamayn to a day of reckoning if i can the barking of the dogs in the yard announced the return of the carriage sir patrick went out to meet
011734_9165_000029 and whether some direct appeal to geoffrey himself might not be in contemplation as the result in that event sir patrick's advice and assistance would be placed without scruple at miss silvester's disposal
011734_9165_000030 the position of the second son was the position of that wild beast in the house a creature to be got rid of without risk to yourself if you only knew how geoffrey spoke and solved the problem
011734_9165_000031 a lady of distinction had lately been made the object as her name had already been publicly mentioned in an application to the magistrates there could be no impropriety in stating that the lady in question was mrs glenarm whose approaching union with the honorable geoffrey delamayn was alluded to in another column of the journal
011734_9165_000032 the under-servants in the hall charged to obey that orders as they valued their places looked from mr geoffrey to the butler the butler looked from mr geoffrey to mr julius julius looked at his brother there was an awkward pause
011734_9165_000033 answered her uncle mr crum is possibly expecting to receive some special information and is waiting on the chance of being able to communicate it we must hope my dear in tomorrow's post open lady lundie's letter in the meantime said blanche are you sure it is for you and not for me there was no doubt about it
011734_9165_000034 on the lower floor were two rooms at the right-hand side on entering by the front-door there was a kitchen with its outhouses attached the room next to the kitchen looked into the garden in reuben limbrick's time it was called the study and contained a small collection of books and a large store of fishing-tackle
011734_9165_000035 open the door one of you fellows he said to the footmen i'm off wait a minute interposed his brother it will be a sad disappointment to my mother to know that you have been here and gone away again without seeing her these are no ordinary circumstances geoffrey come up stairs with me i will take it on myself
011734_9165_000036 by asserting her claim in opposition to the claim of mrs glenarm she was also asserting herself to be an unmarried woman and was thus serving blanche's interests as well as her own i owe it to blanche to help her
011734_9165_000037 the cottage was so small that it looked quite lost in the large garden all round it there was a ground floor and a floor above it and that was all on either side of the passage
011734_9165_000038 the correspondence delivered included exactly as sir patrick had foreseen a letter from lady lundie further investigation on the far more interesting subject of the expected news from glasgow
011734_9165_000039 he was not quite satisfied that the pecuniary motive was really the motive at the bottom of anne's journey south remembering that geoffrey's trainers had removed him to the neighborhood of london he was inclined to doubt whether some serious quarrel had not taken place between anne and mrs glenarm
011734_9165_000040 i'm blessed if i take it on myself returned geoffrey open the door wait here at any rate pleaded julius till i can send you down a message send your message to nagle's hotel
011734_9165_000041 are they turning the iron men's widow into a public character there the name of the widow was unquestionably figuring for the second time in type in a letter of the gossiping sort supplied by an occasional correspondent and distinguished by the title of
011734_9165_000042 sayings and doings in the north after tattling pleasantly of the prospects of the shooting season of the fashions from paris of an accident to a tourist and of a scandal in the scottish kirk
011734_9165_000043 and where he had lived during the happiest period of his life his relatives failing to understand that a question of sentiment was involved in this proceeding appealed to hard facts and reminded him that there were no salt mines in the neighborhood reuben limbrick answered so much the worse for the neighborhood and persisted in calling his property salt patch
011734_9165_000044 revealed nothing the lawyer had not answered sir patrick's inquiry by return of post is that a bad sign asked blanche it is a sign that something has happened
011734_9165_000045 and to find that an angel of retribution has been thrown into the bargain by the liberal destiny which bestowed on you the woman whom you adore they were all three at home on the wednesday afternoon looking out for the postman
011734_9165_000046 i well know wrote this estimable and christian woman that i have been all along regarded in the light of an intruder by the family connections of my late beloved husband
011734_9165_000047 and the drawing room below but not opening into each other three on the other side of the passage consisting of one larger room in front and of two small rooms at the back all these were solidly and completely furnished money had not been spared and workmanship had not been stinted it was all substantial and upstairs and downstairs
011734_9165_000048 but i was hardly prepared to find myself entirely shut out from all domestic confidence at a time when some serious domestic catastrophe has but too evidently taken place i have no desire dear sir patrick
011734_9165_000049 delamayn that gentleman had seriously compromised himself with another lady and the lady would oppose his marriage to mrs glenarm with proof in writing to produce in support of her claim
011734_9165_000050 geoffrey delamayn is going to marry mrs glenarm what cried arnold the idea instantly flashing on him that this was the news which anne had seen sir patrick gave him a warning look and picked up the newspaper from the floor i may as well run through it
011734_9165_000051 everybody's luck turns sooner or later persisted arnold i can't help thinking our luck is on the turn at last would you mind taking a bet sir patrick apply at the stables
011734_9165_000052 her ladyship's reply was ominously addressed to her ladyship's brother-in-law i know what that means said blanche eying her uncle eagerly while he was reading a letter if you mention anne's name you insult my step-mother i have mentioned it freely lady lundie is mortally offended with me
011734_9165_000053 missus glenarm had it appeared received an anonymous letter on the first day of her arrival as guest at the house of a friend residing in the neighborhood of perth the letter warned her that there was an obstacle of which she was herself probably not aware in the way of her projected marriage with mister geoffrey
011734_9165_000054 the proof was contained in two letters exchanged between the parties and signed by their names and the correspondence was placed as mrs glenarm's disposal on two conditions as follows first that she should
011734_9165_000055 simply aggravated the noise he was making geoffrey solved this problem also in his own decisive way he swung round as the dog was passing him and kicked it with his heavy boot the little creature fell on the spot whining
011734_9165_000056 rash judgment of youth a lady who takes a dignified attitude in a family emergency is never mortally offended she is only deeply grieved lady lundie took a dignified attitude
011734_9165_000057 the agent had already been favored with her instructions to pay the strictest attention to any command received from sir patrick lundie he would take care that sir patrick's message should be given to miss silvester as soon as she arrived at last then
011734_9165_000058 reuben limbrique was not a hospitable or a sociable man he set very little value on human sympathy in his attacks of illness and he bore congratulations impatiently in his intervals of health
011734_9165_000059 not less than to theirs the effort proved fruitless with the tide of events turning decidedly in his favor relieved of the necessity of taking a doubtful journey to scotland assured of obtaining his interview with
011734_9165_000060 he appeared with the third and last remedy for clearing the mind known to the honorable geoffrey delamayn namely two pair of boxing gloves in a carpetbag the gentleman and a prize fighter put on the gloves and faced each other in the classically correct posture of
011734_9165_000061 offer a sufficiently liberal price to induce the present possessor of the letters to part with them secondly that she should consent to adopt such a method of paying the money as should satisfy the person that he was in no danger of finding himself brought within reach of the law
011734_9165_000062 i'm at home at nagles i'm not at home here at that point the discussion was interrupted by the appearance of a little terrier in the hall seeing strangers the dog began to bark perfect tranquillity in the house had been absolutely insisted on by the doctors and the servants all trying together to catch the animal and quiet him
011734_9165_000063 it was all ugly the situation of salt patch was lonely the lands of the market gardeners separated it from other houses jealously surrounded by its own high walls the cottage suggested even to the most unimaginative persons the idea of an asylum or a prison
011734_9165_000064 relatives occasionally coming to stay with him found the place prey on their spirits and rejoiced when the time came for going home again they were never pressed to stay against their will
011734_9165_000065 there was news to be relied on at last there was a prospect of seeing her blanche was radiant with happiness arnold was in high spirits for the first time since his return from baden sir patrick tried hard to catch the infection of gayety from his young friends but to his own surprise
011879_12006_000000 he put his finger into the gossamer threads to disentangle the hair and instantly the web grew larger and larger and enveloping him like a veil carried him off his feet and wafted him to the clouds
011879_12006_000001 there he found himself in fairyland and a kind old fairy was standing before him prince floribel said she i am the fairy godmother of the princess coeca
011879_12006_000002 then he saw that the ivy-vine was glistening and dripping with dew as if with tears of gratitude and he heard its little voice saying because you have been so kind to the house and to me i will help you when you need it
011879_12006_000003 so with his crowbar he turned the house around until its windows faced the south and the warm sunshine poured into them then the house stopped groaning and moaning and laughed instead
011879_12006_000004 as prince floribel was turning away he heard something weeping and sobbing and saw on a windowsill a lank little ivy vine in a pot
011879_12006_000005 it was pale and feeble why are you weeping and sobbing so asked he because i have not enough soil to grow in said the ivy and the bright light cannot touch my roots
011879_12006_000006 i'll quickly change all that said the prince so he took the little ivy vine out of its pot and planted it by the side of the house where the bright light could strengthen it
011879_12006_000007 prince floribel caught one pearly drop in the palm of his hand and turning his boat around shot down the river but the banks were different now
011879_12006_000008 between them rose the glacier flashing brighter than any diamond while from its side gushed a waterfall that as it touched the river broke into spray whose drops sparkled like opals rubies and pearls
011879_12006_000009 prince floribel then pursued his way and soon came to the place where the river of light rolled along he set his tray upon the water and stepped into it
011879_12006_000010 immediately became a boat and he sailed rapidly up the river soon he saw before him the mighty mountains of the moon shining like diamonds and reaching halfway up to heaven
011879_12006_000011 i will do what i can for you for your purpose is good you shall go to the mountains of the moon i will give you three things your mother's hair a tray and a bit of advice
011879_12006_000012 with his left he held aloft the drop of the water of light that illumined the whole darkness before him thus prince floribel sailed on for some time until suddenly the hair rose to the top of the cliff
011879_12006_000013 they towered above him in cliffs and cracks too steep and sharp to climb it grew dark as pitch around him as he unreeled the spindle with his right hand
011879_12006_000014 then he saw before him the end of a frail streamer of ivy hanging from the cliff and waving in the draught of the river he caught it with his right hand and as he did so the boat shot from under his feet
011879_12006_000015 and at the same instant he heard the thunderous roar of a cataract toward which his boat was speeding his heart stood still with terror and he trembled so hard that the drop danced and almost fell from his palm
011879_12006_000016 she saw how many mean and spiteful thoughts were hidden there she wept so hard that the tears carried away all her bad feelings and left her heart filled with light
011879_12006_000017 he found himself in a wide country and following the hair soon reached the kingdom of his wicked aunt pomarea he stayed there just long enough to put his crowbar
011879_12006_000018 and with love for her sister and for prince floribel and the princess coeca after that the prince hastened to his mother's kingdom and dashed the drop of the water of light into the princess coeca's eyes
011879_12006_000019 under her throne and turn it toward the sun for she always sat facing the north and when the bright sunshine streamed into the dark recesses of her heart
011879_12006_000020 and plunged down the cataract clinging to the ivy prince floribel climbed to the top of the cliff
011879_12006_000021 at once she sprang up with a cry of joy for she could see again i need not declare the happiness of prince floribel the wonder of the princess coeca
011879_12006_000022 nor tell how glad the queen mother was nor how great were the rejoicing of the people nor how magnificent was the royal banquet that good queen pomarea attended with all her court
011879_12006_000023 a drop of the water of light new tale once upon a time there was a queen who had two children a son named floribel and a daughter named coeca they were both extremely beautiful but alas
011879_12006_000024 so saying she handed him a little sandalwood tray and taking the hair from him stroked it and stroked it while it grew longer and longer then she twisted it and reeled it on a spindle
011879_12006_000025 when the princess coeca reached her sixteenth year she became blind her large soft brown eyes had no light in them
011879_12006_000026 the queen consulted the wisemen of the kingdom and they said her aunt the wicked queen pomarea has cast a spell upon her nothing will break it and restore her sight except a drop of the water of light
011879_12006_000027 where does this water come from asked prince floribel it springs from the glacier of the mountains of the moon replied the wisemen
011879_12006_000028 while he was preparing for the journey his mother entered his apartment and pulling a hair from her head presented it to him
011879_12006_000029 then i will go and get a drop said the prince there are many great dangers in the way said the wisemen nevertheless i will go answered the prince for he loved his sister tenderly
011879_12006_000030 all around him were hedges to which clung quantities of gossamer webs spangled with dew he then saw that his mother's hair was caught in one of these webs
011879_12006_000031 when you require a boat said she set this tray upon the water and step into it as for the hair look
011879_12006_000032 prince floribel obediently cast the hair before him and it sailed out of the window he leaped after it and was carried rapidly along to a strange land where lie was dropped gently upon the ground
011879_12006_000033 my son said she cast this before you and it will lead you to your sister's fairy godmother who will tell you what to do next
011879_12006_000034 why do you groan and moan so asked he because said the house my windows and door are all on one side and that side is turned toward the north
011879_12006_000035 as he set his feet upon the earth he saw a rusty crowbar lying there he picked it up and took it along with him presently he came to a house that was groaning and moaning loudly
011879_12006_000036 she cast the end before her and the spindle began to unwind rapidly as the end of the hair flew away reel this up as you follow it said she and unwind it again when you return
011879_12006_000037 the bright warm rays of the sun cannot reach my rooms so they are mouldy and damp and bugs live in them i'll quickly change all that said prince floribel for he was very kind-hearted
011879_12006_000038 and she handed him the spindle immediately the gossamer web enveloped prince floribel more closely and wafted him down to the lower world again
011879_12006_000039 terrible was the combat between bellerophon and the chimera he fought her from pegasus back while the brave winged horse hovered above her one by one he cut off her flame breathing heads and so he destroyed her
011879_12006_000040 hastily he arose and put on his brazen armor taking his bow he set out for the spring of pirene which flowed cold and exceedingly clear from the side of a lofty hill near corinth
011879_12006_000041 with his aid alone may you slay the chimaera then bellerophon awoke and though the maiden had vanished he found the golden bridle lying by his side
011879_12006_000042 then upward he sprang and soared into the sky higher and higher and away to this land of lycia where the chimaera was ravaging and destroying the people
011879_12006_000043 then was bellerophon filled with so great pride and presumption that he wished to ascend even to heaven itself so he urged pegasus upward and upward and higher and higher
011879_12006_000044 but jupiter looking from his throne on mount olympus saw him ascending and quickly sent a little insect to sting the winged horse
011879_12006_000045 the insect hid under his wings and stung him so badly that goaded by pain he flung bellerophon from his back
011879_12006_000046 but the winged horse had flown into the sky and was become a cluster of stars there you may see him on any bright night if you search the glittering heavens
011879_12006_000047 down to earth bellerophon fell but he was not injured and there he wandered about sorrowful and lonely until at last he died
011879_12006_000048 quickly bellerophon climbed to the spring and approached it softly its waters fell with musical murmur into a beautiful marble basin edged round with flowers and grasses
011879_12006_000049 she had three heads one of a lion one of a goat and the third of a serpent the front part of her body was like a lion the middle like a goat and the hinderpart like a dragon
011879_12006_000050 on its margin stood the winged horse drinking the pure water while his silvery wings waved in the air and his quivering hoofs seemed scarcely to press the sod
011879_12006_000051 in days of yore there dwelt a young handsome king in corinth named bellerophon he was about to set out on a strange adventure he had vowed to kill the chimera a terrible monster that was ravaging the land of lycia
011879_12006_000052 her three heads breathed out fire and smoke such was the terrible monster that bellerophon had sworn to kill one night
011879_12006_000053 and she bore on her arm the shadowy aegis the shield of minerva the wise one in the centre of which was engraved the snaky head of medusa in her right hand she carried a golden bridle
011879_12006_000054 very tall and stately she was and her large gleaming eyes regarded him steadfastly a helmet covered her ringlets
011879_12006_000055 while he lay on his couch considering with what weapon he should slay the chimsera he fell asleep he dreamed that a maiden stood beside him
011879_12006_000056 a very wonderful horse was this pegasus for he was born from the blood that flowed from the neck of the gorgon medusa when perseus cut off her head
011879_12006_000057 she stepped into it and was carried through the air straight to a cottage in front of which sat a beautiful lady spinning
011879_12006_000058 ladybird ladybird fly away home your house is on fire your children will burn one day while she was playing in the wood a lovely little carriage drawn by a hundred red ladybirds drove up
011879_12006_000059 tame pegasus the winged horse of the muses at dawn he will come flying from the fountain of hippocrene on mount helicon and you shall find him drinking from the pure water of pirene
011879_12006_000060 as bright and pure as the spring of pirene had gushed from the earth and flowed down the mountainside so on mount helicon in the grove of golden-beamed apollo pegasus made his home
011879_12006_000061 bellerophon said she with sweet calm accents arise go to the spring of pirene take with you this magic bridle made of soul subduing gold and with it
011879_12006_000062 straight pegasus had flown up from her blood and had winged his way to mount helicon there with one stroke of his delicate hoof he had cleaved the ground and a fountain called hippocrene
011879_12006_000063 the lady rose when she saw the little girl and taking her by the hand led her into the cottage saying
011879_12006_000064 i sent for you dear child because there is a dreadful war being fought in your land i wish you to stay with me until it is over
011879_12006_000065 now when bellerophon saw pegasus drinking from the spring of pirene his wings glittering in the soft morning light he stole noiselessly forward and clapped the golden bridle over his jaw
011879_12006_000066 goodbye dear child the war is over the little girl was carried through the air to her parents' cottage and they as you may guess were overjoyed to see her
011879_12006_000067 instantly a shiver ran through the animal's slender frame his extended nostrils trembled but as he felt the touch of the soul-subduing gold he stood quietly and let bellerophon mount him
011879_12006_000068 so the little girl stayed with her five years at the end of that time the carriage drawn by the hundred red ladybirds drove up again and the lady put the little girl into it saying
011879_12232_000000 standing guard and at the same time giving vent to his feelings in loud and spirited song of course our sympathies were with the victors
011879_12232_000001 but whenever the latter said i wish the old lady would die the clergyman's bird rolled up its eyes and exclaimed we beseech thee to hear us good lord
011879_12232_000002 there is a gray old post which has haunted my imagination for several years the fence has long ceased to fence anything in or out
011879_12232_000003 cat bird and cherry stone during one of my many rambles through the woods i discovered the nest of a cat bird in a thick clump of briars and upon drawing near found it contained four little ones
011879_12232_000004 i always expect to discover a secret yet never do still the post haunts me for once boy chickadee kept house there
011879_12232_000005 is a round hole which is rather jagged about the lower edge as if gnawed by sharp little teeth every time i travel that road i am impelled to stop and put a finger into the hole
011879_12232_000006 dear to the heart of every bird lover he is especially so in winter it is then that his crystal pendulum of song swings lightly to and fro where other birdsong is rare
011879_12232_000007 the uppermost rail is the only one left and that is fastened to my post about five inches from the top just under the lee of that rail
011879_12232_000008 boy chickadee is one of our smallest birds he wears a dumpy little gray coat surmounted by a pair of bright black eyes under a velvet black cap
011879_12232_000009 sea mews in wintertime i walked beside a dark gray sea and said oh world how cold thou art thou poor white world i pity thee for joy and warmth from thee depart
011879_12232_000010 it is rather plaintive two minor notes swing to the left then two more to the right and seems to belong only to frosty mornings
011879_12232_000011 all the while he spends so much time eating them that i eye my store anxiously wondering if it will hold out under such onslaughts sometimes he brings a companion and they take turns going into the gourd
011879_12232_000012 retreating for a short distance i stopped and watched the mother bird who was greatly excited at first and seeing that i meant no harm to her little family she proceeded with household matters
011879_12232_000013 boy chickadee stays to wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year and comes daily to dine on sunflower seeds stowed in a large gourd for him
011879_12232_000014 i should be ashamed to say how many seeds he consumes at a sitting or flitting better describes it he flits in for a seed then out to the apple tree to hammer it uttering gurgles of content
011879_12232_000015 yon rising wave licks off the snow winds on the crag each other chase in little powdery whirls they blow the misty fragments down its face
011879_12232_000016 in despair we crossed the road and hid behind the sassafras hedge presently something strange passed us and there was dame chickadee
011879_12232_000017 bred joy companied with every cry joy in their food in that keen wind that heaving sea that shaded sky and in themselves and in their kind
011879_12232_000018 in summer time chickadee deserts us and we must seek him in the fields and that is how we came to find the fence-post
011879_12232_000019 a chirping chickadee flew overhead and sat preening his feathers in a sweetgum tree how nearly we had come to seeing that bath
011879_12232_000020 the sea is cold and dark its rim winter sits cowering on the world and i besides this watery brim am also lonely also cold
011988_12115_000000 all of the circumstances surrounding the processing and awarding of the above grant have been so irregular that i am taking this means to record and document some of these circumstances to protect myself and perhaps some other people within the agency in the event of possible future embarrassing disclosures
011988_12115_000001 in late february chuck colson and i decided that the departments and agencies involved with aging were not letting older voters know as well as they should or could what was being done by the president on their behalf
011988_12115_000002 i was informed by a staff member of the office of program review in the early part of september that number one the agency had been ordered by a junior white house staff member to fund a proposal from the federation of experienced americans
011988_12115_000003 because of these factors the v a will be the primary agency used in the governmental effort to win the support of veterans the v a administrator and designated officials within his agency will be responsible for executing the v a communications activities presented in the communications plan
011988_12115_000004 veterans administration the v a is the point of contact for all civilian veterans who utilize any government veteran benefits and has received favorable responses from vietnam era veterans for their programs to assist returning veterans in recent years
011988_12115_000005 number five i sense that i have been used as a professional program specialist and titular head of o e o's older persons programs and as a veteran civil servant to give this grant some semblance of legitimacy and suspect that my professional reputation may be damaged as a result
011988_12115_000006 number four the urgency and secrecy with which the grant was pushed through were highly irregular never in my long experience in the federal government have i experienced anything approaching the impropriety of this grant transaction
011988_12115_000007 thus underlining the political nature of events in which hatched government employees were involved however according to jon foust who on april fifteen nineteen seventy-two joined c r p as chief of the advance team
011988_12115_000008 the select committee has received evidence regarding several instances where hatched government employees advanced or companied surrogates on political trips it is significant that f c r p paid all bills for surrogates and their aides on campaign trips
011988_12115_000009 danny is quite alarmed and just wanted you to be aware of the above in case he makes a desperate plea to get you to put in a strong call to colson to get him to back off unquote it appears that d o t did not produce a brochure but the other six pamphlets involved with this note
011988_12115_000010 advances handled by his office after that date were only performed by c r p employees or persons in private life subsection three activities regarding military voters
011988_12115_000011 those from h u d d o a d o l action o e o and v a were prepared and distributed evans earlier had entertained doubts concerning the government production of brochures that were too political in nature
011988_12115_000012 exhibit number thirty-nine is a march sixteenth nineteen seventy-two confidential memorandum from evans to todd entitled older american pamphlets which sets out various options for the preparation of a brochure entitled the president speaks to older americans again
011988_12115_000013 responsible organization committee mcadoo in cooperation with the executive branch colson and hill party leadership concept of execution
011988_12115_000014 which was to consist entirely of quotations from and photographs of the president having been recognized in this memorandum that preparation of a political pamphlet by g p o could result in a charge quote that the republicans got the g p o to do its campaign literature
011988_12115_000015 sub sub section b other uses of government funds the evans to colson weekly staff report referenced above contains other examples of proposed expenditures of federal funds for what appear to be primarily campaign purposes at page two evans wrote quote
011988_12115_000016 todd in a staff interview stated that several departments and agencies prepared for campaign use and at government expense brochures reflecting their services for the elderly
011988_12115_000017 knowledgeable members of both parties in the congress and our own c a a's and s e s programs no service at all would be preferable to a contract with f e a both from the programatic and political standpoints unquote
011988_12115_000018 and a white house fellow to frederick malek concerning military voters sets out a strategy for maximizing the president's support within that constituency attached to that memorandum is a recommended action plan for career military voter groups the following entry appears in that plan
011988_12115_000019 committee will select most populous bases then set up schedule with defense for their officials and u s congressmen from the respective states to visit the bases in september or october
011988_12115_000020 i anticipate an extremely unfavorable reaction among aging organizations when this group begins to move such that it could totally undermine the president's credibility with o a's and cost considerable votes
011988_12115_000021 this document which is a final report on campaign activities respecting the elderly states under the heading strong points quote i doubt if there has ever before been such a massive effort by a political organization to involve itself directly in the daily lives of so many
011988_12115_000022 and tell the career force who served in vietnam about how the president and the country appreciate their efforts and sacrifices in bringing about vietnamization strong highlight on president nixon cost should be nil since it should be charged off as official business unquote
011988_12115_000023 this effort of course can only be accomplished by an encumbent situation and the available resources of the administration through arthur flemming elliot richardson and the domestic affairs council were maximized
011988_12115_000024 f e a does not have and cannot within a period of several years if ever acquire an acceptable degree of competence to perform these functions i am convinced this course would be utterly destructive to our aging programs an award to f e a for this purpose would offend the entire aging constituency in the country
011988_12115_000025 it appears that hew has agreed to produce sixty copies of the richardson flemming rocha tv program taping this will then be distributed simultaneously to the top tv stations in all of our key states it is a very political show
011988_12115_000026 one will be released every two weeks beginning september one the agencies who will be asked to participate are action hew hud d o t o e o agriculture labor
011988_12115_000027 under subsection e entitled brochures slash direct mail the following entry appears quote government agencies each agency who has senior citizen programs will be asked to produce an informational brochure stating just exactly what the agency can do for older americans
011988_12115_000028 subsection two the federation of experienced americans particularly significant are the administration's activities concerning the federation of experienced americans this organization which was created on march twenty-ninth nineteen seventy-two on white house initiative
011988_12115_000029 todd stated that the requests for these brochures originated with him but were funneled through the domestic council todd was unaware whether the departments and agencies involved had perceived that the requests actually came from c r p
011988_12115_000030 all that i have are allegations nothing that would stand up in court but this will be aimed at the press where proof isn't needed particularly following i t t and watergate i urge your attention to this matter i've done all i can from my shop if there is any possibility i would recommend that the grant be canceled unquote
011988_12115_000031 in hand on this document malek wrote discuss with colson and what does evans say to all of this todd in a staff interview stated that malek told him colson had advised that f e a was a legitimate organization
011988_12115_000032 there is a handwritten good by this entry written by coulson this document also comments that with malek's help an individual paid by hew would be brought on board to act as corbat flemming's scheduling advanceman from now until the election
011988_12115_000033 the v a will develop program activities in the medical and education areas and coordinate with labor and the presidential advisory group on employment activities to focus attention on government initiatives to aid the veteran
011988_12115_000034 which stresses time and time again the fantastic things the president has done for older people which is why the need for simultaneous distribution this should be shown in late july or early august in any event it will be shown before the president is nominated unquote
011988_12115_000035 hud d o l action o e o and v a brochures totaled around two hundred sixty-three thousand dollars the comptroller general noted that these six publications were distributed in accordance with lists and preprinted mailing labels supplied by the white house
011988_12115_000036 the june thirty weekly staff report to colson from evans also reflects todd's concern and reveals a white house purpose to injure anti-administration organizations receiving federal funding
011988_12115_000037 he also reported the assertions of various agency officials that this was the first time a concerted effort to produce a number of aging brochures had been made by an incumbent administration
011988_12115_000038 quote i had met with malek concerning the new aging organization and he was very impressed and very cooperative in getting his guys to move out in assuring us funding at our foe's expense however after having chatted with todd he raised cries of alarm that such a organization would hurt us politically
011988_12115_000039 because we would cut funds to democratic groups thereby leading them to criticize us as you are well aware groups like n c s c are going to criticize us anyway unfortunately while i told todd about the organization in confidence he immediately told flemming who was particularly upset and called malek
011988_12115_000040 the g a o concerning these two awards has now concluded that quote the grant and contract awards were processed outside normal procedures officials of labor and o e o said that both the grant and the contract had substantial white house backing unquote
011988_12115_000041 as to the labor department contract the gao report page thirteen contained the following statement quote the former assistant secretary malcolm r lovell junior advised us that the white house took an active role in directing the labor department as to how the expansion moneys were to be spent
011988_12115_000042 labor's initial allocation plan did not satisfy this requirement and according to former assistant secretary mr evans and the former executive assistant to the assistant secretary brad bearden
011988_12115_000043 while these are collected at evans exhibit number seven through sixteen a few illustrations are useful here thus in response to todd's requests of july fourteen and twenty-four nineteen seventy-two as to a schedule for production and publication of certain brochures
011988_12115_000044 other campaign and white house documents strongly suggest a political purpose behind the brochures on june seventh nineteen seventy-two william novelli of c r p wrote a confidential memorandum entitled government white papers and brochures on older americans to todd and l j evans
011988_12115_000045 the white house staff member involved was identified as l j evans jr according to former assistant secretary the white house wanted the thirteen million in expansion moneys to go to organizations considered friendly to the administration
011988_12115_000046 the v a will review major construction announcements grants opening of new facilities and legislative actions and coordinate communication plans for these items with the committee the v a will recommend program initiatives and action on special veterans issues and plan these activities with the committee unquote
011988_12115_000047 quote we are all in agreement that brochures produced and distributed by government departments and agencies will be important in persuading older voters to re-elect the president
011988_12115_000048 but did concede that he endeavored to limit any additional funding they might receive g a o has conducted a programmatic review of f e a's d o l contract it concluded that in significant respects f e a's operations were ineffective deficient or in violation of its d o l contract
011988_12115_000049 mr evans confirmed in his testimony that he was involved to some degree in the process leading to the d o l and o e o awards he denied however that he directed either d o l or o e o to fund f e a while admitting that he expressed his view that funding would be desirable
011988_12115_000050 this memorandum is a review of the brochures project as of that date and also contains suggestions as to how to proceed under the heading background novelli wrote
011988_12115_000051 evans claimed he lacked the power to direct either institution to make an award he also denied that he attempted to induce d o l and o e o to terminate or cut back existing funding to the national council on aging or the national council of senior citizens
011988_12115_000052 malek seemed to understand the value of the organization and is still working with us but i have had to do some shoring operations with flemming i don't think this requires any action on your part but you should be aware of it end quote coulson wrote in hand by this entry keep malek on board
011988_12115_000053 this brochure and subsequent ones will be direct mailed to approximately one million persons unquote mister evans in his executive session before the committee on may twenty eighth nineteen seventy four vigorously denied that he perceived the primary purpose for these brochures as political
011988_12115_000054 the g a o also found white house involvement concerning the o e o grant its report reads in pertinent part quote an o e o official advised us that a white house staff member l j evans junior
011988_12115_000055 under the caption administration support malek stated quote the older americans project team has been particularly imaginative in the use of administration resources to support the re-election
011988_12115_000056 specifically they have arranged for each department and agency with programs that help the elderly to develop and distribute a brochure that explains these programs the first of the brochures department of agriculture is off the presses and mentioned the mentions the president prominently not surprising since we control the content of each brochure
011988_12115_000057 a complete report on the subcommittee's investigation is found at exhibit number forty-eight it appears that in late nineteen seventy-one glenn c wallace then special assistant to the administrator solicited a hundred dollar contributions for the president's election campaign from v a employees on federal facilities
011988_12115_000058 we can indirectly check copy and also stagger the release of the brochures to ensure a steady stream between now and late september unquote exhibit number forty is an august four nineteen seventy-two c r p memorandum for clark macgregor from fred malek entitled older americans' progress
011988_12115_000059 novelli under the heading distribution timing and coordination stated quote the agencies and departments should be requested to develop the brochures immediately along with a plan for mass distribution
011988_12115_000060 g a o also performed a financial review of f e a's activities regarding both the d o l contract and the o e o grant it concluded that f e a's accounting system and related internal controls were inadequate
011988_12115_000061 efforts were taken to politicize the veterans administration for purposes of the president's reelection this information which has been verified in all significant respects by the select committee was first supplied to the committee by senator alan cranston chairman of the subcommittee on health and hospitals of the committee on veterans affairs
011988_12115_000062 he stated that his memorandums regarding these publications often sound in political terms because he was trying to convince others to support this project these comments by evans should be compared with the remarks in a may twenty third nineteen seventy two confidential eyes only memoranda
011988_12115_000063 the evidence collected by the cranston subcommittee also indicates that the administrator donald johnson held a meeting in early nineteen seventy two of top v a officials where he indicated to those present that key officials in the agency would be expected to lend their full support to the reelection effort including participation in campaign activities
011988_12115_000064 the contributions were in connection with a thousand dollar a plate dinner held to pay tribute to the president a contribution of one hundred dollars gave the contributor the chance to draw for one of the two tickets to the dinner that besides the ticket reserved for the administrator were available to v a personnel
011988_12115_000065 written by him to todd and others on the subject government brochures quote i have been informed of disgruntlement expressed at this morning's breakfast concerning the development of government aging brochures
011988_12115_000066 he said he made no attempt to stagger distribution of brochures for political benefit although he felt it would be advantageous if periodic distribution eventuated he conceded that others in the white house and c r p may have supported the preparation of the brochures mainly for political reasons but emphasized that this was not his chief motivation
011988_12115_000067 a memorandum to the record dated november seventeen nineteen seventy-two by irven m eitreim chief older persons program office of operations o e o set out at length his views of the circumstances surrounding the f e a award quote
011988_12115_000068 be expected to award a grant or contract to f e a to provide a full range of professional training and technical assistance for o e o aging programs that had been provided by the national council on the aging for many years with funds from o e o and other agencies
011988_12115_000069 was told the grant must be completely processed and signed by the end of the following day october thirty one i was informed that the work program and budget were to be accepted as presented with no further opportunity for negotiating work or budget provisions
011988_12115_000070 we will be sending out seven additional brochures at a rate of approximately one everv two weeks and i will forward these to you as they come off the press unqote evans explained his memorandums stating the distribution of the brochures would be staggered for maximum impact with the assertion that
011988_12115_000071 since it appeared the brochures would be inadvertently be finalized at different times he told those interested that they would produced at intervals to reduce the pressure from those persons concerned with political impact
011988_12115_000072 evans responded on july twenty four with a detailed schedule indicating when each of the brochures then under consideration would be mailed and on july twenty seven he sent malek then at crp a memorandum that read quote
011988_12115_000073 there is evidence that the purpose of the advance school was to train these employees for political missions the advance manual for the surrogate program which was distributed at the school states at page four quote
011988_12115_000074 attached is the first government aging brochure to come off the printing press it still has a slight bureaucratic flavor to it but i think it gets across the president's concerns as well as emphasizes help in solving the problems of older persons
011988_12115_000075 and perhaps by telephone and that standard procedures for announcing the grant were to be bypassed at least for the time being continuing in summary i have the following reservations about this grant
011988_12115_000076 the original mailing will distribute nine hundred fifty thousand of these brochures this will leave us five hundred fifty thousand remaining brochures for distribution to senators and congressmen field organizations and other groups that may want to reach
011988_12115_000077 at a small briefing session on the morning of october thirty one conducted in the atmosphere of conspiracy and attended by brody we were told that the normal agency requirement for review board approval had been waived that normal approval of the mayor of washington and certain governors would be handled informally
011988_12115_000078 the evidence shows that in early nineteen seventy-two an advance school in connection with the surrogate candidate program was held in the executive office building under the direction of bart porter head of the c r p surrogate program
011988_12115_000079 frequent contact and planning with the administrator of the v a to place spokesmen and start action programs made possible a positive veterans program throughout the campaign unquote subsection two the surrogate program advance school
011988_12115_000080 number one i consider the grantee to be totally unqualified to do the job number two i think the grant can produce nothing that is not already well-researched and tested it is a weak poorly developed plan and inappropriate for the use of section two five two funds
011988_12115_000081 evans also reported to colson on these brochures as reflected in a june thirty nineteen seventy-two weekly staff report colson wrote excellent by evans's account of the progress of these publications colson however apparently became concerned about the political nature of the brochures
011988_12115_000082 you should never lose sight of the political purpose of the trip and the fact that the actual events are in many cases only a vehicle for a more important purpose namely exposure of the administration's views to aid the president's re-election unquote
011988_12374_000000 certainly alas we were seen for even as i was looking around the patch in the first ray of moonlight to see if any of our friends were there the thunder stick rang out again and once more we plunged for the trees
011988_12374_000001 and the poor deer especially when they had at last won to a place of safety from the flames were generally so tired and so bewildered that they fell an easy prey to the pumas and wolves
011988_12374_000002 we dared not go show ourselves in the open so we followed the edge of the patch keeping alongside of the men but in the shadow of the trees they pulled kahwa across the middle of the patch into the woods on the other side and began to go to the riverbank
011988_12374_000003 well this time the sound was much nearer and there was a second report before we were well into the shadow and then a third so terrified were we that there was no thought of stopping but after we got into the woods we kept on as fast as we could go father and mother in front
011988_12374_000004 where we knew there began an open path which the men had beaten in going to and from their houses half a mile further on here there were several houses in a bunch together inside one of these they shut her
011988_12374_000005 all night long the forest was full of the yelping of the coyotes revelling over the bodies of animals that the larger beasts had killed and only partly eaten and every creature seemed to be quarrelling with those of its kind the former inhabitants of the neighbourhood resenting the intrusion of the newcomers
011988_12374_000006 and all went to the other house themselves we stayed around and two or three times later on we saw one or more of the men come out and stand for awhile at kahwa's door listening but at last they had come out no more and we saw the lights go out on their house and we knew that the men had gone to sleep
012150_12481_000000 they said their horse could jump like fun and asked an amateur to ride him in the steeplechase and told him they were sure the last time round he'd sail away with such a swallow's flight
012150_12481_000001 the horse was known as who's afraid by panic from the fright but still his owners told the jock he'd finish out of sight and so he did for who's afraid without the least pretence
012150_12481_000002 but a juvenile smart who objected to part went in on the nod and to do it he crawled in through a crack in the tent at the back for the boy had no slight ingenuity and says he with a grin
012150_12481_000003 the rest would never see him go he'd finish out of sight so out he went and when folk saw the amateur was up some local genius called the race the dude in danger cup
012150_12481_000004 it's grand to be a rabbit and breed till all is blue and then to die in heaps because there's nothing left to chew it's grand to be a minister and travel like a swell and tell the central district folk to go to inverell
012150_12481_000005 disposed of him by rushing through the very second fence and when they ran the last time round the prophecy was right for he was in the ambulance and safely out of sight
012150_12481_000006 with shovel in your hand to dig your little homestead out from underneath the sand it's grand to be a shearer along the darling side and pluck the wool from stinking sheep that some days since have died
012150_12481_000007 next day for his freak by a narrabri beak he was jawed with a deal of verbosity for his only appeal was professional zeal he wanted another monstrosity
012150_12481_000008 it's grand to borrow english tin to pay for wharves and rocks and then to find it isn't in the little money box it's grand to be a democrat and toady to the mob for fear that if you told the truth they'd hunt you from your job
012150_12481_000009 it's grand to be a cockie with wife and kids to keep and find an all-wise providence has mustered all your sheep it's grand to be a western man
012150_12481_000010 that's the way to get in but i reckon i'd better be quiet or they'll spiflicate me and he chuckled for he had the loan of the circus proprietor
012150_12481_000011 it's grand to be a socialist and lead the bold array that marches to prosperity at seven bob a day it's grand to be an unemployed and lie in the domain and wake up every second day and go to sleep again
012150_12481_000012 and all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown there came two strangers with a horse and i am much afraid they both belong to what is called the take you down brigade
012150_12524_000000 not one half so much under the ordeal of our contriving which i hope cured him as under the isolation which his dedication to goodness made inevitable he was a lonely boy
012150_12524_000001 for on the other hand instinct tells him that the larger perfection is cold that it dwells in the rarefied air of the mountaintops that it is unhuman
012150_12524_000002 to love the derelict student is treason to his profession yet as he looks back over the long line of pupils who have passed through his hands he sees that the ones who remain warm and vivid in his memory
012150_12524_000003 in education man as a rule inculcates ideals of perfection without pretending to practice them but woman with an iron logic with which
012150_12524_000004 like the grasshopper in the broad and genial glow that falls from a humorous philosophy of life he was a joy a heart-filling atomy of mischief a triumphant example of the imperfectness of humanity and the humanness of imperfection
012150_12524_000005 though he may not have realized that he was that he could never understand his fellows or be understood by them was impossible he was the victim of the most perverse fate that can afflict a boy
012150_12524_000006 man's aspersions to the contrary notwithstanding is characteristic of her not only points but leads the way hence it is that some teachers of her sex have two manners the human for social occasions and the divine for the classroom
012150_12524_000007 we can postulate so much of the imperfect thing and so little of the perfect flawlessness leaves the weaker imagination so little to take hold of it is slippery even woman with that inconsistency which makes her adorable
012150_12524_000008 really loves perfection no more than we every one knows that a little girl loves an old doll or a rag doll or a one-legged doll
012150_12524_000009 hopeless when we enter in the little girl is tasting this experience the contemplation of elastic joints mechanical eyes and waxen complexion warmed the cockles of her heart but the embodiment of these in a palpable doll freezes her hopeless
012150_12524_000010 better than the most expensive parisian wax doll with real hair and eyes that open and shut the parisian beauty has been longed for for months but now that it has become an entity it leaves the child cold
012150_12524_000011 in the privacy of their homes they have imperfections in the classroom they are icily perfect their perfectness extends to such detail as facial expression and tone of voice occasionally a man adopts the duplex character but with deplorable result
012150_12524_000012 if it is so lucky as to lose an arm or some sawdust there may be hope for it but so long as it remains new and whole it can never hope to enter the warmest precincts of the little girl's heart
012150_12524_000013 to the little girls it seems perfectly natural they catch the idea readily and practice their teachers precisions and pruderies upon family we must admit too
012150_12524_000014 but women carry this dual character more successfully than men whether because they are better actors or because we confuse saintliness with femininity even as boys we are ready to forgive it in them
012150_12524_000015 i remember such a one in high school those of us who had the good fortune to meet him socially found that his peccadillos of character manner and language but in the school he was a pattern which we despaired of imitating
012150_12524_000016 from his necktie to his reading of burke's conciliation he was without spot or blemish we did not dare to love him we gave up all hope of emulation we nicknamed him mrs dawson and let it go at that
012150_12524_000017 to keep in sight perfection says a contemporary poet is the artist's best delight and his bitterest pang that he can do no more than that yet in another epigram
012150_12524_000018 in reckless moments i wonder whether the greek statues did not suffer more happily at the hands of fate when they lost their arms and heads and legs than we are accustomed to thinks
012150_12524_000019 if the poet with more imagination suffers too and the highest natures those which we call the transcendental whiff the sadness that lies in the attainment of the perfect surely the unimaginative mass of mankind can be excused if they find the interlunar regions chilly
012150_12524_000020 may it not be that we get a keener pleasure out of eating an imperfect apple it is neither the best possible apple which would be perfect nor the worst possible apple which would have a kind of negative perfection
012150_12524_000021 and prompted by the constitutional laziness aforesaid he takes refuge in calling goodness womanish his institutions therefore are good enough in in essentials his political organizations and governments his bureaus and offices and federations and unions
012150_12524_000022 do you remember the little old white church which when we were boys we attended more or less unwillingly according to the season with its stiff backed pews in which we sat aching counting the pipes in the organ and the balusters in the altar rail and the dentils in the moulding of the pulpit
012150_12524_000023 he had been born in the bosom of a family whose piety contained not a grain of the salt of humor not a particle of the leaven of imagination no but i am forgetting
012150_12524_000024 an inveterate and dogged attention to detail it is chiefly here that we men fail the male saints witness jerome had a time of it with their petty temptations simply because sainthood is largely a matter of detail
012150_12524_000025 whether their dilapidation has not given them a place in our hearts instead of merely in our heads has not couched them in our love instead of merely pedestaled them in our reverence or to take an illustration from a lower plane
012150_12524_000026 that in the art of being a pattern women show a sterner conscientiousness than men they are not constitutionally so lazy it requires hard and sustained effort to be a pattern
012150_12524_000027 are those who fell short of the very ideals which he tried to inculcate among all the students in a certain school i have a living recollection of just one and he was the most imperfect student in it
012150_12524_000028 most men are good enough in essentials but fail in the little things the little things of which woman is enamored too often the slave to be perfect gives her a satisfaction that man will never understand
012150_12524_000029 that has a worm at the core but i wonder whether we do not enjoy it more because we have to eat more carefully to keep from eating him besides he arouses in our mind all sorts of questionings
012150_12524_000030 nor did she fail continually to impress upon us boys facing us sometimes with uplifted finger the immanence of him who goeth to and fro in the earth and rageth like lion seeking whom he may devour ah those prayer meetings shall we shall we ever forget them
012150_12524_000031 and note this what sort of an apple would it have been if he had taken up his residence elsewhere i am rather proud of this little apologue to the apple for the perfect apple could have roused no queries which the defective apple does not
012150_12524_000032 she is a creature of soupcons and nuances and intuitive niceties she can endure no compromise with disorder or dirt or decay her motes are all beams until they are demolished she uses a mountain of faith to move a mustard-seed
012150_12524_000033 all these last subtleties are beyond him just as be he never so neat are all the tiny sweetnesses and refinements and knots and bows and satisfying knick-knacks of his wife's person
012150_12524_000034 why is he there what kind what kind of worm is he how did he get in how would he have got out if we had not ousted him
012150_12524_000035 and rolled the names of the ten tribes and their enemies as a sweet morsel under his tongue the little old lady you recollect was valiant in prayer meeting she was not afraid to criticize the minister or to repeat week by week the story of her conversion in her ninth year
012150_12524_000036 of course you remember it and the little old lady who sat in the corner ejaculating her hallelujahs and amens with the regularity of a cuckoo clock and the solemn precentor who sawed out the time with his hand and the preacher who took his texts from the old testament
012150_12524_000037 all are nobly planned but lack the feminine touch that makes for perfection his streets are dirty and so are his politics his laws need dusting a little sweeping would not hurt his governments
012150_12524_000038 the same subtle influences went to make both the same elements the same forces the same chemical processes but the defective apple has in addition to all these the worm
012150_12524_000039 or the references to the sinners who sat on the back row where we always sat or the wailing hymns or the dismal testimonies or the waves of dejection that swept over us during the cataloguing of our omissions and commissions
012150_12524_000040 and if the analogy holds our souls must have been singularly robust we were bashful about our virtues and vices we could not fathom the sentiments of take time to be holy
012150_12524_000041 never deterred by the stupendousness of the task she goes on century by century generation by generation teaching him preaching to him marrying him
012150_12524_000042 not knowing the sentiment of the gods we have to content ourselves with those of the poets and humorists who we fondly imagine have in them something of the god-like vision they look at humanity from above
012150_12524_000043 gently leading him or tyrannously compelling him toward the heaven of her ideal and here again her gaze is microscopic in her ats attention to his foibles she is liable to overlook his sins she can seldom understand badness in boys nor can she ever see
012150_12524_000044 there is some strangeness even in beauty the perfect rhythm is intolerable we demand chiaroscuro in life as in color
012150_12524_000045 i wish to ask the reader's consideration not of the victim but of the tormentors why is it that boys are suspicious of that approximate moral perfection called goodness girls find a deep satisfaction in being good in being neat in being clean in being decorous
012150_12524_000046 he refused to study he refused to behave he insisted on fighting and bringing snakes to school in his pocket and i do not exaggerate standing on his head in the middle of a recitation
012150_12524_000047 we expected this of an occasional girl yet the girls never did it a mumbled text a flurried word or two were the extent of their temerity
012150_12524_000048 if the gods that sit above have a sense of humor they must find us grown men and women as funny and as sad as we find boys and girls and dogs
012150_12524_000049 as for us it was not our custom to discuss our souls even among ourselves it is said that to forget the existence of a stomach is the best symptom of health in that useful organ
012150_12524_000050 she cannot see the polished surface for the speck of dust that is on it in her extreme development she spends her life doing the million and one trifles that man would leave undone the trouble is that not satisfied with all this she longs to make him perfect too
012150_12524_000051 that the boy who is most bad in small matters may be the most good in large she loves to keep her male offspring lamblike
012150_12524_000052 the preciousness of the ointment is the more evident for the fly we love people for their vices so the vices do not make them despicable
012150_12524_000053 and there was always a boy do you remember him a boy of our own age mind you a boy who ostentatiously arose and with the decorum of a deacon dwelt upon his former iniquities and present beatitude
012150_12524_000054 when he at last rebels and privily snips off his hair and rends his sashes and furbelows she weeps not because of the loss of material but because of the loss of an ideal
012150_12524_000055 and tries his docility by making him wear long hair and wide collars and linen and ruffles and lace never learning but through hard experience that like the puppy he takes naturally to mud and feels at ease only close to the soil
012150_12524_000056 and they find that the spectacle of humanity trying to be what it cannot be facing both ways on the threshold of heaven casting a longing lingering look behind is comic and tragic in its very essence for comedy and tragedy differ chiefly in degree
012150_12524_000057 as the little old lady called him was to recite to the congregation the entire book of esther from memory for us who found it beyond our power to remember a golden text of ten words for ten minutes such a performance was unbelievable
012150_12524_000058 however it is not because she will have had children no i do not go that far as that i merely demand that she shall have had a husband he is quite sufficient he is a male a year's association with him will have softened her fibre
012150_12524_000059 we put our heads together and evolved a plot dark yet charming in its simple effectiveness we decided to make faces at him we were expert in the art of face-making because we had practiced it for weeks upon our sisters who sang in the choir they had suffered
012150_12524_000060 in the imperfection of humanity lie its tragedy and its humor without it this would be a happier world but with it it is a merrier
012150_12524_000061 and who can blame her it is seldom enough in this world that we can kiss and fondle an ideal except in dreams i have a theory that our school laws should be revised and we should confine our grammar school teaching of boys only to women who have been married my reason is not the one reader is imagining
012150_12524_000062 that it lay with us as a duty to puncture the bubble of his presumptuousness the time came you remember very opportunely on a memorable evening it was announced that this infant samuel
012150_12524_000063 we were in mortal fear that some day somebody might convict us of sin and hale us forthwith into the fold of the elect yet here was a boy who flaunted his goodness in our faces it was evident that he was not normal
012150_12524_000064 i suppose that the idea is that the big nature sees the future in the instant tolerates the perfect imperfection dreaming of a distant flawlessness while the little nature satisfies himself
012150_12524_000065 by attaining perfections in trifles the average man or woman who has drifted into the profession is saved from despair or insanity by that biological interest in and curiosity about humanity which we call humor
012150_12524_000066 will have aroused in her mind doubts of the perfectibility of mankind then then she will be ready to teach boys yet it must be admitted that every teacher who has managed to remain human is confronted by a dilemma
012150_12524_000067 looked away stammered recovered and went bravely on but we knew that he would look back we dared not glance at our neighbors but had faith that each was doing his duty
012150_12524_000068 the student may be admirable but he is dull company it has been suggested that teaching can be a satisfying profession only to very big or very little natures
012150_12524_000069 i have indulged in this long reminiscence which probably can be matched in the experience of my  most masculine readers because it is provocative of thoughts that reserve to be aired
012150_12524_000070 but were now immune the grimaces of a grimaldi could not have ruffled the calm of their scornful features we planted ourselves in the front row and the boy began his recital in time his preoccupied and lack-lustre eye wandered in our direction and rested upon us he started
012150_12524_000071 as a teacher he he is expected to inculcate ideals of perfection not only in studies but in deportment and yet when he happens to come upon a student who approaches perfection it is a mournful occasion
012150_12524_000072 and that our victim retired amid the titterings of the judicious and the commiserations of the pious while we plumed ourself upon a difficult task laudably accomplished
012150_12524_000073 an essay might be written upon the pathos that lies in the spectacle of a boy who is incited to a public display of his goodness in the docility which is as clay in the hands of deluded adults that he suffered there can be no doubt
012150_12524_000074 he passed most of his days sitting in the headmaster's office studying demurely when that gentleman was present and making paper flying machines when surveillance relaxed
012150_12524_000075 if they are not these we call them tomboys still casting the onus of sinfulness upon the other sex when we boys confided our exploit to the little girls we found that they openly defended the boy though it must be admitted they privately admired us
012150_12524_000076 some of his teachers having no faith in my theory of the interestingness of the imperfect found him a thorn in the flesh and predicted him for a sudden end by suspension
012150_12524_000077 yet as i search my heart i find that my memories of him are pleasant that i should like to see him again even at the price of having to recapture his garter snakes or of having to turn him right-side-up during a recitation he was much misunderstood
012499_12713_000000 it was not that she was suddenly conscience stricken or that she thought her mistress had suffered enough without having the skeleton in the cupboard dangled in in front of the public
012499_12713_000001 the woman was incapable of any real love save self love but she liked juliet and would have inflicted upon her no great gratuitous pain
012499_12713_000002 to flash in at home clamouring for her maid between mrs van esten's party and the opera if only for a minute certainly it was more than a minute that simone remained at the phayre house after being brought back after dinner in taxi
012499_12713_000003 at the end of that time she was out again and on her way to the office of the inner circle about this place there was always something mysterious even to simone's practical and unimaginative mind and the private office of the editor was the heart of the mystery the inner circle of the inner circle
012499_12713_000004 and the duchess had not been quiet ten minutes when she flew out to keep it she said nothing to her dinner companion however about the later appointment and excused herself early on the plea that it would be like madame
012499_12713_000005 the inner circle never paid cheques for whisperer stuff the presentiment was outweighed simone had in any case a dinner engagement which nothing short of death would have induced her to miss
012499_12713_000006 yet to this day she had never seen his face and did not know his real name mr jones will speak to you was the message telephoned down from the regions above to the amateurish
012499_12713_000007 little reception room where an elderly mild-faced lady in old-fashioned dress received her visitors and tapped a typewriter but the frenchwoman was sure that outside the office his excellency was other than mr jones
012499_12713_000008 for years she had been a highly paid contributor to the scandalous little paper ever since she had entered her first smart situation in new york and had been approved by a man whose outward business was straightforward reporting for the society columns of a reputable daily
012499_12713_000009 as sure as that simone amaranthe was at home simonetta amaranti the editor's private office was divided practically into two by means of a fixed screen or partition of match-boarding so high that even if an enterprising caller jumped on to a chair
012499_12713_000010 against the partition was placed a table and a chair of the ordinary office furniture type and the other decoration there was none on the table were writing materials and a small house telephone
012499_12713_000011 and though she shrewdly attributed this quality to disguise it could not well have been initiated by an understudy this happened to be the first time simone had ever been to the office at night
012499_12713_000012 he or she could not see what lay on the other side there was no door on the screen therefore no danger existed that the editor could be rushed
012499_12713_000013 the pain to be inflicted in this instance however as well as other instances in the past was not gratuitous simone would be magnificently paid for inflicting it and so far as juliet was concerned she could earn the reward without a qualm
012499_12713_000014 twenty minutes brisk walk brought her to the door of what had been once a private house and was now given up to the offices the inner circle occupied the two lower floors and above was a quite well-known though not very fashionable manicurist madame vino
012499_12713_000015 still higher the fourth and the top floor was tenanted by a wig maker who widely advertised a hair-dye golden glints and once when a wave of rage against the whisperer
012499_12713_000016 it was in a cross town street within possible walking distance of the fire house and this was luck for her as she would have taken a taxi with great reluctance
012499_12713_000017 but the voice which answered simone's call on the phone that afternoon had warned her that this would be so and had told her what to do
012499_12713_000018 tonight the whole house front looked so darkly brooding to simone's worried eyes that she could have believed anything of it especially anything that was hideous and evil there were no lights in the windows and the front door always open by the day was closed
012499_12713_000019 swept new york it was rumoured that both these businesses were secretly owned by the inner circle no proof was obtainable however and since then several new managers had come and gone both for madame veno and golden glints
012499_12713_000020 it was for herself that she hesitated and she did not quite know why that was the trouble if she had known she could have argued out the two sides of the matter and for and against
012499_12713_000021 two or three minutes passed and bought no answer but suddenly as simone was about to ring again the door opened on a chain what do you want a woman's voice demanded through the aperture
012499_12713_000022 as thought she were suffering from neuralgia simone could not see what she was like whether old or young except that her silhouette loomed tall and slender against the dim light
012499_12713_000023 the chain fell and the door opened as if the frenchwoman challenged had given the countersign simone squeezed through the small space allowed her
012499_12713_000024 and the door instantly shut it was dark in the basement passage except for the light that came from a room at the back the woman the janitor's wife perhaps had a little knitted shawl over her head
012499_12713_000025 to see the editor of the inner circle replied simone i have an appointment with him oh what's your name questioned the voice mademoiselle simone amaranthe
012499_12713_000026 she was less superstitious and of harder mental fibre than most frenchwomen of the south and of her class but after the quarrel between the duke and duchess something within her shrank from keeping the secret appointment she had made
012499_12713_000027 very well go up and knock when you come to the door mr jones is expecting you simone switched on the flame of her torch and went up
012499_12713_000028 can you find your way up asked the voice yes said simone i was told it would be dark and that i must bring an electric torch i have brought it
012499_12713_000029 she had she too vividly recalled taken at luncheon three helpings of lobster salad a dish which never agreed with her besides she was naturally excited over her part in the events of the day and that she had telephoned the office
012499_12713_000030 but it was a vague sort of presentiment she felt that she would somehow be sorry if she gave this story to the paper she served and it might not be a proper presentiment at all but only a form of indigestion
012499_12713_000031 but tonight the last paragraphs were to be held up expressly for simone almost beyond the time limit she was bound to make good or she would never be trusted again
012499_12713_000032 she had camouflaged her message lest it should be overheard but what she said would inform the editor that she had up her sleeve the best tid-bit he had ever gotten from her
012499_12713_000033 tomorrow afternoon the inner circle a weekly publication would be on sale and the whisperer's columns were always kept back till the latest possible moment on account of just morsels dropping in
012499_12713_000034 and if the editor were satisfied she was to receive exactly five times the sum she got for more or less valuable items supplied each week with a vague uneasy presentiment in one scale and five hundred dollars in the other notes not check
012499_12890_000000 it was looked upon says a recent writer much with the same view that the boys on the serpentine even now seem to adopt as an accomplishment
012499_12890_000001 they have the bump of destructiveness largely developed and it is no small calamity when a tribe locates itself near a village scarcely anything in the shape of fruit or grain comes amiss to them
012499_12890_000002 cut off my head again and for ages long have i kindled with the spirit of man worshipped by artists adored by the sages present and the past combine in my pages there all the secrets of beauty you scan
012499_12890_000003 the acme of which was reached when the performer could succeed in running along quickly on his skates and finishing off with a long and triumphant slide on two feet in a straight line forward
012499_12890_000004 like nearly all other wild animals they have a keen sense of danger when when a certain whoop is given however scattered or tempted to stay in a few moments they are hidden on tops of the highest trees in the locality
012499_12890_000005 off with my head i'm a living creature trembling i follow i guide no more large-eyed and gentle of kindly feature hunted by man in the wilds of nature when he is coming i fly before
012499_12890_000006 and when neither are to be had in the hottest part of the year they eat the stems of the young leaves when they commence upon a field of lentils pulse or peas they always pluck up the plant by the root
012499_12890_000007 when skates were bones though it appears to be impossible to fix on the time when skating first took root in england
012499_12890_000008 pull off one pod and then fling the plant away so that it does not require many days to clear a whole field ripe mangoes have a special attraction and it requires no small amount of vigilance to keep them away from the groves
012499_12890_000009 there can be no doubt that it was introduced there from more northern climates where it originated more from the necessities of the habitants than as a pastime
012499_12890_000010 when snow covered their land and ice bound up their rivers imperious necessity would soon suggest to the scands or the germans some ready means of winter locomotion
012499_12890_000011 dogs however strong and fleet are of very little use to drive them away for the monkeys are sagacious enough to know that their safety is in keeping near the trees
012499_12890_000012 these seem originally to have been used by the finns for which reason says a swedish writer they were called squidfini
012499_12890_000013 this first took the form of snow-shoes with two long runners of wood like those still used by the inhabitants of the northerly parts of norway and sweden in their journeys over the immense snow-fields
012499_12890_000014 to tempt him to a second encounter mischief is certainly in their hearts for not content with stealing the produce of the gardens and the fields they'll pull off the thatch from the native huts
012499_12890_000015 when the dog has spent himself with barking and screaming at the foot of the tree a monkey will come down to the lowest branch and wag his long tail within a few inches of the dog's face and when the poor dog has retired completely foiled a monkey will sooner be after him
012499_12890_000016 sliding finns a common name for the most ancient inhabitants of sweden both in the north saga and by foreign authors
012499_12890_000017 when used on ice one runner would soon have been found more convenient than the widely separated two and harder materials used than wood
012499_12890_000018 fling the tiles from the better-built houses and shops to the ground and we have seen them even try their best to rift the stones from the temples a native town in one of the zemindary estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if it had sustained a siege
012499_12890_000019 some years ago after making our arrangements for the encampment at night we constantly had our peaceful rest broken by a tribe of brown monkeys they evidently thought that long possession had given them a prior claim to the grove
012499_12890_000020 for our own comfort it was felt by all that some means must be adopted to drive them away accordingly one was shot death was not instantaneous and quite a number came to see it die
012499_12890_000021 they looked with startling interest into its face but as soon as life was extinct they bounded away fear had fallen upon them all and not a sound was heard from them during the night
012499_12890_000022 frequent allusions occur in the old northern poetry which prove that proficiency in skating was one of the most highly esteemed accomplishments of the northern heroes one of them named kolson
012499_12890_000023 a gentleman would probably then have no more thought of trying to execute different figures on the ice than he would at the present day of dancing in a drawing room on the trips on the tips of his toes
012499_12890_000024 early next morning they assembled in an adjoining field the sharp and quick manner in which they turned their faces first in this way and then in that was a sight not soon to be forgotten
012499_12890_000025 boasts that he is master of nine accomplishments skating being one while the hero harold bitterly complains that though he could fight ride swim
012499_12890_000026 they had instinct enough to see their only safety would be in flight in the course of an hour the king headed the tribe and away they went and not a solitary monkey was seen in that region for years afterward
012499_12890_000027 glide along the ice on skates dart the lance and row yet a russian maid disdains me in the edda this accomplishment is singled out for special praise then the king asked
012499_12890_000028 what the young man could do who accompanied thor thialfe said that in running upon the skates he would dispute the prize with any of the countries the king owned the talent he spoke of was a very fine one
012499_12890_000029 olaus magnus the author of the famous chapter on the snakes of iceland tells us that skates were made of polished iron or of shank bone
012499_12890_000030 within a few miles of the temple of juggernaut there are many hundreds if not thousands they are so tame and they will come down from the trees and eat rice from the hands of the pilgrims
012499_12890_000031 of a deer or sheep about a foot long filed down on one side and greased with hog's lard to repel the wet
012499_12890_000032 time of henry the second tells us that when that great fen that washes moorfields at the north wall of the city is frozen over great companies of young men
012499_12890_000033 these rough and steady bone skates were the kind first adopted by the english for fitzstephen in his description of the amusements of the londoners in his day
012499_12890_000034 when the pilgrim presents his hand with the rice in it the monkey seizes it with his left paw and he will never let go his grip until he has taken every grain
012499_12890_000035 very few persons are injured by monkeys but they will sometimes seize a basket if there be fruit in it when carried by a woman or child the natives often say that monkeys can do everything except talk and they would do that if it were not for the fear of being made to work
012499_12890_000036 headed with sharp iron which sometimes have they strike against the ice these men go as swiftly as doth a bird in the air or a bolt from a cross-bow
012499_12890_000037 go to sport upon the ice some striding as wide as they may do slide swiftly some better practiced to the ice bind to their shoe bones as the legs of some beasts and hold stakes in their hands
012499_12890_000038 then he goes on to say that some imitating the fashion of the tournament would start in full career against one another armed with poles
012499_12890_000039 even as an amusement of the common people it is not alluded to in any of the usual catalogues of sport so often referred to
012499_12890_000040 they meet elevate their poles attack and strike each other when one or both of them fall and not without some bodily hurt specimens of these old bone skates are occasionally dug up in fenny parts of great britain
012499_12890_000041 for there seems to be good evidence that even in london the primitive bone skate was not entirely superseded by implements of steel at latter part of the last century
012499_12890_000042 one found about eighteen thirty nine in moorfields in the boggy soil peculiar to the district is described as being formed of the bone of some animal
012499_12890_000043 made smooth on one side with a hole at one extremity for a cord to fasten it to the shoe at the other hole is also drilled horizontally to a depth of three inches which might have received a plug
012499_12890_000044 with another cord to secure it more effectually there is hardly a greater difference between these old bone skates and the acmes and club skates of today
012499_12890_000045 so little thought of was the exercise that for long after fitzstephen's day we find few or no allusions to it
012499_12890_000046 the monkeys of india a missionary in india gives an interesting account of the monkeys that live in that far-away country
012499_12890_000047 and up to the restoration days it appears to have been an amusement confined chiefly to the lower classes among whom it never reached any very high pitch of art
012499_12890_000048 he says that in the morning during the cold season the monkeys are always very listless but as soon as they are warmed with the rays of the sun they are as playful as kittens
012499_12890_000049 they will jump over each other's backs slap each other's faces pull each other's tails and even make pretense to steal each other's babies the gray and the brown species are found nearly all over the continent of india
012499_12890_000050 the former is more daring and destructive and the latter more mischievous and cunning they both form themselves into separate packs or tribes and rarely go beyond a certain boundary
012499_12890_000051 they seldom migrate except it be for food or water in times of drought and scarcity this wild citizenship seems to be respected for they very rarely trespass on each other's ground
012499_12890_000052 charade out on the sea when the tempest is blowing over the waters dark and wild guide i the sailor his pathway showing over the shoals and the currents flowing never through me is the ship beguiled
012499_12890_000053 each tribe has a leader or king which can easily be recognized from the manner in which he conducts himself he's evidently aware of the dignity of his position
012499_12890_000054 many a wandering step have i guided children at school have i often taught many disputes through me are decided oft has my help though sometimes derided even the muse of history sort
012659_12930_000000 lua the second harbor or the second landing place in the harbor here they landed very quietly the shell boats became very small and kaulana and her companions took them and hid them in their clothes they went along the beach saw some fish the attendants took them for the girl
012659_12930_000001 the navel string had not been cut off so anuenue broke off part and threw it into the ocean where it became hee makoko a blood-red squid this is the legendary origin of that kind of squid
012659_12930_000002 on the southeast coast of hawaii near kalapana is one of the largest oldest and best preserved heiaus it is worthy the name of temple only in that it is intimately associated with the religious customs of the hawaiians
012659_12930_000003 maui lived in a land where volcanic fires were always burning in the mountains nevertheless it was a little inconvenient to walk thirty or forty miles for a live coal after the chill winds of the night had put out the fire which had been carefully protected the day before
012659_12930_000004 for some reasons the priests after the flesh had decayed set apart the bones for some special purpose the legends imply that the bones were to be treated dishonorably
012659_12930_000005 to urge the chief to come down and sent him leis he said he could not receive their gift but must wear his own lei he called for his divine caretaker to send his garlands and immediately the most beautiful rainbows wrapped themselves around his neck and shoulders falling down around his body
012659_12930_000006 went to this field and sat down in their place the daughters of nuuanu pali were there kane sent ke aomele mele after the dancing goddess kapo who lived at mauna loa she was the sister of the poison gods and knew the art of sorcery
012659_12930_000007 often there is a historical foundation which has been dealt with fancifully and enlarged into miraculous proportions there are hidden caves which can be entered only by diving under great breakers or into the deep waters of inland pools
012659_12930_000008 thus when he saw that some intelligent birds knew the art of making fire he captured the leader and forced him to tell the secret of rubbing certain sticks together until fire came
012659_12930_000009 and was much troubled so she asked waka to go with her to see mo o inanea at ke alohi lani but the gods kane and kanaloa could not be deceived they understood that there was trouble and came to meet them
012659_12930_000010 this gave the name kau-lana-iki-pokii to that place to this day as they went along the dragon friend made the signs of a high chief appear over the girl
012659_12930_000011 the young men and anuenue went to the house and saw the girls dancing and wondered how kau lana had come from the far-off land
012659_12930_000012 but poliahu followed met the chief secretly and took him up to mauna kea again covering the mountain with snow so that waka could not go to find them waka and the bird friends of paliula could not reach the mountain-top because of the cold
012659_12930_000013 then the chief came to the lava fields of the wahaula and lay down to rest the ghost came to him again in a dream telling him that great personal danger was near at hand
012659_12930_000014 twilight resting in the sky who was very beautiful like the deep red flowers of the ohia in the shadows of the leaves of the tree she determined to come back and marry him after her journey to oahu when she left kuai he lani
012659_12930_000015 these in the days of the priesthood had been filled with earth brought in baskets from the mountains here they raised sweet potatoes and taro and bananas
012659_12930_000016 she was the first dragon on the islands she watched with magic power later mo oinanea came with many dragons to watch over the islands ke ao mele mele taught her young sister the different hulas and meles so that they were both alike in their power
012659_12930_000017 kau lana told how she had come ke ao mele mele told the dragons to go and stay on the mountain by the broken pali at the head of nuuanu valley so she went to the precipice and became the watchman of that place
012659_12930_000018 he had followed the footsteps of kahele almost entirely around the island and had come to puna the last district before his own land of kau would welcome his return the spirit voice could be heard now in the dream which nightly came to him warnings and directions were frequently given
012659_12930_000019 now the rains have washed the soil away and to the unknowing there seems no sign of a previous agriculture near these depressions and along the paths leading to wahaula
012659_12930_000020 poulet a nanana with the aid of departed spirits was used and is believed in at the present time almost every valley of the island has its peculiar and interesting myth
012659_12930_000021 waka by her magic power looked over the island and saw the three young men living with the three maidens of the snow mantle she called with a penetrating voice for the chief to return to his own home she went in the form of a great bird and brought him back
012659_12930_000022 the temple is built near the coast on the rough sharp broken rocks of an ancient lava flow in many places in and around the temple the lava was dug out making holes three or four feet across and from one to two feet deep
012659_12930_000023 so pele the fire-goddess who dwelt in the hottest regions of the most active volcanoes belongs to all and also kamapuaa who is sometimes her husband but more frequently her enemy
012659_12930_000024 around which cluster tales of love and adventure there are many mythological characters whose journeys extend to all islands of the group the maui stories are not limited to the large island hawaii and a part of the adjoining island which bears the name of maui but these stories are told in a garbled form on all islands
012659_12930_000025 she named that girl paliula and explained to the parents that when paliiila should grow up to be married the boy of waolani should be her husband the girls then took the babe
012659_12930_000026 its walls are several feet thick and in places ten to twelve feet high it is divided into rooms or pens in one of which still lies the huge sacrificial stone
012659_12930_000027 when the young men heard hula voices in the other houses they thought they would go and see the dancers at the hour of twilight waolani shook as if in an earthquake and there was thunder and lightning
012659_12930_000028 she flew over the seas to oahu and showed the gods her skill then she went to kauai danced on the surf and in the clouds and above the forests and in the whirlwinds each night she went to one of the other islands
012659_12930_000029 danced in the skies and over the waters and returned home at last she went to hawaii to mauna kea where she saw kuana hi
012659_12930_000030 then he came down to waiakea the chief took kanuku also as a follower and went on up the coast to hamakua the chief looked up manakea
012659_12930_000031 it may have been that the bones were folded together and known as unihipili bones folded and laid away for purposes of incantation such bundles of bones were put through a process of prayers
012659_12930_000032 from time to time however he heard the spirit voice calling him to save the bones of the body of his dead son at last he felt that his journey was nearly done
012659_12930_000033 suddenly a new voice was heard mo o inanea was by the house she called to ku and to hina telling them to give the child into the hands of the strangers that they might take her to waka a great priestess to be brought up by her in the ohia forests of the island of hawaii
012659_12930_000034 to this day the grave stands by the temple walls an object of superstitious awe among the natives many of the varieties of trees planted there have died leaving only those which were more hardy and needed less priestly care than they received a hundred years or more ago
012659_12930_000035 brought up by kane and the other gods at waolani the girl went out and asked waka about her parents and learned that this was her first-born brother who was to be her husband because they had very high divine blood
012659_12930_000036 of the fairy people it was said no task is difficult it is the work of one hand on the way down to nuuanu valley the mene hunes came to ka opua ua storm cloud
012659_12930_000037 many of them are still covered as in the days of the long ago it is not strange that legends have developed through the mists of the centuries around this rude old temple wahaula was a tabu temple of the very highest rank the native chant said
012659_12930_000038 here the thirsty messengers running from one priestly clan to another or the traveller or worshippers coming to the sacred place could almost always find a few drops of water to quench their thirst usually these water-holes were covered with a large flat stone
012659_12930_000039 this was quickly done she commanded the bird iwa to go to nuumea-lani a far off land above kuai-he-lani the place where mo-o-inanea was now living
012659_12930_000040 their contacts and associations with other peoples and their religious beliefs and activities it is perhaps the last factor that influences people the most in matters respecting their intellectual development
012659_12930_000041 new motions in their dances with many kinds of winds one day kahanai saw signs among the stars and in the clouds which made him anxious to travel so he asked kane for a canoe
012659_12930_000042 with those of the supernatural beings and in time these form literature and develop arts of great value to the people the ethnology of the peoples of the pacific is an interesting and profitable field for study and especially is this true of the hawaiian
012659_12930_000043 the conflicts between the two are often suggested by destructive lava flows checked by storms or ocean waves it cannot be suspected that the ancient hawaiian had the least idea of deifying fire and water
012659_12930_000044 there she had found a beautiful girl and took her as an aikane friend to journey around hawaii they travelled by way of the districts of puna kau and kona to waipio
012659_12930_000045 all kinds of fish would go to it the second was kalala ika wai this was the tree used for getting all kinds of food call this tree and food would appear waka wanted mo o inanea to send these trees to hawaii
012659_12930_000046 or great magic power to keao mele mele with divine tabus she made this child the heir of all the divine islands therefore she was able to know what was being done everywhere she had understood how the kahanai had forsaken his sister to live with polaahu
012659_12930_000047 the maiden of the golden cloud belonged to the cloud mountains and was named after their golden glow her name in the hawaiian tongue was ke aomele mele the golden cloud
012659_12930_000048 until such a state of intelligence is attained the developing race conceives for itself gods ghosts and other supernatural forms to give it the connected relations between itself and the things and phenomena of nature which cannot be understood
012659_12930_000049 poliahu by her kupua power recognized paliula and told the chief that she saw her with a new husband paliula went on to her old home
012659_12930_000050 especially when these beliefs and activities are laid out along rational lines as intelligence increases knowledge is gained concerning the various phenomena of life and the relation that man bears to the forces of nature that have an influence over him
012659_12930_000051 in that they reveal an understanding of the phenomena of nature and unveil their early history with its mythological setting they are also valuable for comparison with the legends of the other pacific islands
012659_12930_000052 beat out the oil and anointed himself thoroughly walking along carelessly as if to avoid suspicion he drew near to the lands of the temple wahaula
012659_12930_000053 her brother she persuaded him to leave the maiden of the snow mantle and return to waolani paliula and her friends had returned to the home with waka where she taught the leaves of clinging vines and the flowers and leaves on the tender swinging branches of the forest trees
012659_12930_000054 so she went to hawaii to aid her sister paliula when mo o inanea had taken the child from the head of hina ku and hina were aroused ku went out and saw the wonderful cloud images standing near the house like men
012659_12930_000055 as the shadows of night rested over the temple and its sacred graves the chief crept closer to the dreaded taboo walls concealing himself he waited for the ghost to reveal to him the best plan for action
012659_12930_000056 ku and hina watched these clouds shining and changing colors in the light of dawn as the sun appeared the light of the sun streamed over the skies for three days these changing clouds were around them
012659_12930_000057 kahanai once more kau lana hastened to hawaii in her shell boat she called o my red shell boat of the deep blue sea and the black sea come up to me the shell boat appeared on the surface of the sea floating the girl was carried swiftly to hawaii
012659_12930_000058 in the fruitful lands under the shadow of the beautiful nuuanu precipices waka watched over paliula until she grew up beautiful like the moon of
012659_12930_000059 it was said that waka by her magic power saw in that land two trees well cared for by the multitudes of servants the name of one was makalei this was a tree for fish
012659_12930_000060 when the menehunes finished their boat they carried it down to nuuanu valley to puunui there they rested and many of the little folk came to help taking the canoe down step by step to the mouth of the nuuanu stream
012659_12930_000061 chiefs and gods mingle together as in the days of the nibelungen lied voyages are made to many distant islands of the pacific ocean whose names are frequently mentioned in the songs and tales of the wandering heroes
012659_12930_000062 other holes were sometimes cut out of the hard fine-grained lava when heavy rains fell little grooves carried the drops of water to these holes as they became small cisterns
012659_12930_000063 both of the combatants were becoming very weary then the chief made a new attack forcing the olohe into a narrow place from which there was no escape and at last seizing him breaking his bones and then killing him
012659_12930_000064 through the instrumentality of these supernatural forms the imagination of a people is developed songs and legends originate blending accounts of the lives and exploits of the living and the dead
012659_12930_000065 almost all day the battle raged between the two men back and forth they forced each other over the lava beds the chief's well-oiled body was very difficult for the olohe to grasp bruised and bleeding from repeated falls on the rough lava
012659_12930_000066 opua alii cloud chief with the name ka ao opua ola the sharp-pointed living cloud this was the sorcerer and astronomer never weary never tired knowing and watching over all things mo o inanea gave her mana nui
012659_12930_000067 she was said to be one of the first persons brought by the gods to find a home in the paradise of the pacific in the ancient times the ancestors of the hawaiians came from far-off ocean lands for which they had different names such as
012659_12930_000068 kane told waka to return and tell the girl to be patient the chief should be punished for deserting her waka returned and found that paliula had gone away wandering in the forest picking lehua flowers on the way up toward the lua paylay
012659_12930_000069 clouds highest in the sky all these clouds were caretakers watching for the welfare of that girl mo o inanea gave them their laws for service she took ku ke ao loa the long cloud of ku and put him at the door of the house of clouds with great magic power
012659_12930_000070 the gods sent iwa with the child to waka on hawaii to her dwelling-place in the districts of hilo and puna where she was caring for all kinds of birds in the branches of the trees and among the flowers waka commanded the birds to build a house for paliula
012659_12930_000071 and yet the continual conflict between man and woman is like an eternal enmity between the two antagonistic elements of nature when the borders of mist-land are crossed a rich store of folklore with a historical foundation is discovered
012659_12930_000072 he was to be the messenger of all the cloud lands to the parents and ancestors of this girl the eye of the sun was the cloud with magic power to see all things passing underneath near or far then there was opua-alii
012659_12930_000073 indeed the rovers of the pacific have tales of seafaring which equal the accounts of the voyages of vikings the legends of the hawaiian islands are valuable in themselves
012659_12930_000074 a chief from samoa establishes a royal family on the largest of the hawaiian islands and a chief from the hawaiian group becomes a ruler in tahiti
012659_12930_000075 the hawaiians never found gold in their islands the mountains being of recent volcanic origin do not show traces of the precious metals but hovering over the mountaintops clustered the glorious golden clouds built up by damp winds from the seas
012659_12930_000076 soon a man came out to meet him this man was olohe a beardless man belonging to a lawless robber clan which infested the district possibly assisting the manhunters of the temple in securing victims for the temple altars
012659_12930_000077 where she saw a fine looking man standing above a precipice over which leaped the wonderful mist falls of hiilawe this young chief married the beautiful girl of paliula
012659_12930_000078 but should have magic medicine power for all coming days and kahanai should have the power over all customs of priests and sorcerers and knowledge of sacrifices and should be the bosom friend of the medicine goddess she said that they would all go to waipio hawaii
012659_12930_000079 and rested many days waka then took her from island to island until they were near oahu when they came to the beach paliula leaped ashore and went up to manoa valley there she rushed into the forest and climbed the ridges and precipices
012659_12930_000080 kane called the eepa and the menehune people and told them to make canoes and carry kahanai to his parents these boats were made in the forests of waolani
012659_12930_000081 in this legendary land lived mo o inanea self-reliant dragon she cared for the first children of the gods one of whom was named hina
012659_12930_000082 upon which victims sometimes human were slain before the bodies were placed as offerings in front of the hideous idols leaning against the stone walls this heiau is now called
012659_12930_000083 maui also made snares captured the sun and compelled it to journey regularly and slowly across the heavens thus the day was regulated to meet the wants of mankind
012659_12930_000084 the eepas left their boat there to slowly decay but it is said that it lasted many centuries the people who made this boat were the second class of the little people living at waolani
012659_12930_000085 these were repeated at the fireside and feast until the imagination of the people became directive and resourceful so there should be little wonder that they learned readily and that their transformation under organized government and institutions was rapid
012659_12930_000086 the accent of the five sixths of the words is on the penult and a few proper names accent the first syllable in hawaiian every syllable ends in a vowel and no syllable can have more than three letters generally not more than two and a large number of syllables consist of the single letters vowels
012659_12930_000087 with her followers she flew like a bird over the waves of the sea soon she passed niihau and came to kauai to the place where paliula was dancing and as a cloud with her cloud friends spied out the land
012674_10961_000000 animals which like those of stonesfield might thereafter be discovered with difficulty by geologists but there would at the same time be no megalosauri and other fossil remains showing that large saurians were plentiful on the land
012674_10961_000001 the arguments in favor of the later conclusions are without any force unless we can assume that the rules followed by author of nature in the creation and distribution of organic beings were the same formerly as now
012674_10961_000002 represented by more than two hundred species of trilobites besides other genera of the same class the remains of fish are as yet confined to the upper part of the silurian series but some of those belong to placoid fish
012674_10961_000003 those rocks comprise the monuments of a long series of ages in which reptiles of every variety of size form and structure people
012674_10961_000004 epochs much less can we derive any information respecting the inhabitants of the land from a similar source when we carry back our inquiries to the wealden or carboniferous epochs we are as well assured that land and rivers then existed
012674_10961_000005 is that they exist now but it is evident that even a slight geographical revolution accompanied by the submergence and denudation of land would reduce to an extreme improbability the chance of our hitting
012674_10961_000006 teeth preserved in some of the carboniferous strata but if the carcass should escape and should happen to sink where sediment was in the act of accumulating and
012674_10961_000007 ascending gradually from the lichen to the lily or the rose we encounter incomparably greater difficulties yet the doctrine of a more highly developed organization in the plants created at successive periods presupposes the admission of such a graduated scale
012674_10961_000008 and that as certain families of animals and plants are now most abundant in or exclusively confined to regions where there is a certain temperature
012674_10961_000009 the earth so that the whole period and especially that of the lias and oolite has been sometimes called the age of reptiles as there are now mammalia entirely confined
012674_10961_000010 and in the waters at a time when mammalia were scarce this example therefore would afford a very imperfect parallel to the state of the animal kingdom supposed to have prevailed
012674_10961_000011 on what grand laws in the animal physiology those remarkable phenomena depend cannot in the present state of science be conjectured not could we predict whether any opposite condition of the atmosphere in respect
012674_10961_000012 the numerous causes of subsequent disintegration should not efface all traces of the body included for countless ages in solid rock is it not contrary to all calculation of chances that we should not hit upon the exact spot that
012674_10961_000013 made too little progress in ascertaining what were the eocene pachydermata of england to entitle us to expect to have discovered any
012674_10961_000014 to heat moisture and other circumstances would bring about a state of animal life which might be called the converse of that above described namely a state in which reptiles of every size and order might abound
012674_10961_000015 which we may safely regard as mere fragment of an ancient flora since in europe alone there are now no less than eleven thousand living species
012674_10961_000016 oolite in the former the evidence is as yet limited to two small molar teeth described by professor plieninger in eighteen forty-seven under the generic name of microlestes they were found near stuttgart and possess the double fangs so characteristic of mammalia
012674_10961_000017 that mere point in the bed of an ancient ocean where the precious relic was entombed can we expect for a moment when we have only succeeded amidst several thousand fragments of corals and shells
012674_10961_000018 not of the same date since those remarks were first written in eighteen twenty-nine a great number of extinct species have been added to our collection of tertiary mammalia from great britain and other parts of the world
012674_10961_000019 and mammalia disappear the nearest approximation to such a fauna is found in the galapagos archipelago those islands situated under the equator and nearly six hundred miles west of the coast of peru have been called
012674_10961_000020 in finding a few bones of aquatic or amphibious animals that we should meet with a single skeleton of an inhabitant of the land clarence in his dream saw in the slimy bottom of the deep a thousand fearful wrecks a thousand men that fishes gnawed upon
012674_10961_000021 the other fossil remains of the same class were derived from one of the inferior members of the oolitic series in oxfordshire and afford more and full satisfactory evidence consisting of the lower jaws of three species of small quadrupeds about the size of a mole
012674_10961_000022 at length between the years eighteen thirty-six and eighteen thirty-nine a few remains of quadrumana were found in france and england india
012674_10961_000023 i have already hinted that the plants which produced coal were not drifted from a distance but that nearly all of them grew on the spots where they became fertile
012674_10961_000024 they appear to have belonged as before explained page one hundred fifty to a peculiar class of stations to low level and swampy regions in the deltas of large rivers slightly elevated above the level of the sea from the study
012674_10961_000025 and brazil those of india belonging to more than one extinct species of monkey were first discovered near the sutlej in latitude thirty degree north in tertiary strata of which the age is not yet determined the brazilian for so
012674_10961_000026 cuvier when he saw one of them during a visit to oxford in eighteen eighteen referred it to the marsupial order stating however that it differed
012674_10961_000027 ocean has been discovered yet although some of those islands are from three to four thousand feet high and one of them seventy-five miles long
012674_10961_000028 evidence in its support inconclusive vertebrated animals and plants of the most perfect organization in strata of very high antiquity
012674_10961_000029 wedges of gold great anchors heaps of pearl had he also beheld amid the dead bones that lay scattered by the carcasses
012674_10961_000030 therefore of such a vegetation we can derive but little insight into the nature of the contemporaneous upland flora still less of the plants of the mountainous or alpine country and if so we are enabled to account for the apparent monotony
012674_10961_000031 the skull and other bones met with in the south of france belong to a gibbon or one of the tailless apes which stand next in the scale of organization to the orang it occurred at sansan
012674_10961_000032 differences between the organic remains of successive formations comparative modern origin of the human race the popular doctrine of successive development not established by the admission that man is of modern origin
012674_10961_000033 introduction of man to what extent a change in the system progressive development of organic life in the preceding chapters i have considered whether revolutions in the general climate of the globe
012674_10961_000034 sigillaria which united the structure of ferns and of cycade departed very widely from all known living types the conifer and ferns on the contrary were very closely allied to living genera it is remarkable that none of the exogens of lindley
012674_10961_000035 brought from the basin of the rio das velhas about latitude eighteen degrees south is referable to a form now peculiar in america allied to the genus callithrix the species being extinct
012674_10961_000036 it may be unreasonable to look for a nearer analogy between the fauna now existing in any part of the globe and that which we can show to have prevailed when our secondary strata were deposited because we must always recollect
012674_10961_000037 of probability and violation of analogy would have been condemned as unpardonable even where the poet was painting those incongruous images which present themselves to a disturbed imagination during the visions of the night until lately it was supposed that
012674_10961_000038 they contain with the exception of small mouse no indigenous mammifer even here however it is true that in the neighboring sea there are seals and several kinds of cetacea
012674_10961_000039 from all known carnivora in having ten molar teeth in a row professor owen afterwards pointed out that the jaw belonged to an extinct genus having considerable affinity to a newly discovered australian mammifer the
012674_10961_000040 afford any just ground of opposition to the doctrine that the former changes of the earth which are treated of in geology belong to one uninterrupted series of physical events governed by ordinary causes
012674_10961_000041 lions deer and the other wild tenants of the forest and the plain the fiction would have been deemed unworthy of the genius of shakspeare so daring disregard
012674_10961_000042 old red sandstone or devonian rocks contained no vertebrate remains except those of fish but in nineteen fifty the footprints of a
012674_10961_000043 up to the year eighteen forty-four it was laid down as a received dogma in many works of high authority in geology that reptiles were not created
012674_10961_000044 lastly the english quadrumane first met with occurred in a more ancient stratum than the rest and at point more remote from equator it belongs to the genus macacus is an extinct species and was found
012674_10961_000045 no counterpart on the globe consequently the type of animal and vegetable existence required for such a climate might be expected to deviate almost
012674_10961_000046 angiosperms of brongniart which comprise four-fifths of the living flora of the globe and include all the forest trees of
012674_10961_000047 as widely from that now established as do the flora and fauna of our tropical differ from those of our arctic regions in the tertiary strata the tertiary formations were deposited when the physical geography of the northern hemisphere had been entirely altered
012674_10961_000048 in suffolk at latitude fifty-two degrees is london clay the fossil of which such as crocodiles turtles' shells of the genus nautilus and many curious fruits had already led geologists to the conclusion that the climate of that era
012674_10961_000049 europe except the fir tribe have yet been discovered in the coal measures and a very small number fifteen species only of monocotyledons if several of those last
012674_10961_000050 as the process is not bent inward in a greater degree than in the mole or hedgehog hence the genus amphitherium of which there are two species from stonesfield must be referred
012674_10961_000051 and in nineteen fifty-one the skeleton of reptile allied both to the batrachians and lizards were found in the sandstone of that age near elgin in scotland
012674_10961_000052 against this doctrine some popular arguments have been derived from the great vicissitudes of the organic creation in times past
012674_10961_000053 to the ordinary or placental type of insectivorous mammals although it approximates in some points of structure of the myrmecobius and allied marsupials of australia
012674_10961_000054 i shall therefore proceed to the discussion of such objections which have been thus formally advanced by the late sir humphrey davy it is impossible he affirms
012674_10961_000055 during the secondary periods when a high temperature pervaded european latitudes it may nevertheless be advantageous to point to some existing
012674_10961_000056 the eocene was warm and nearly tropical some years later in eighteen forty-six the jaw of another british species of fossil monarchy
012674_10961_000057 was announced by mr owen as having been met with in the newer pleiocene strata on the banks of thames at grays in essex accompanying
012674_10961_000058 but the determination of those palms being doubtful we have as yet in the coal no positive proofs either of the existence of the most perfect or of the most simple forms of flowering or flowerless vegetation we have no fungi lichens
012674_10961_000059 deepest and which must consequently be supposed to be the earliest deposited forms even of vegetable life are rare shells and vegetable remains are found in the next order
012674_10961_000060 until after the close of the carboniferous epoch in the course of the year however hermann von meyer announced the discovery in the coal measures of rhenish bavaria of a reptile called by him apateon
012674_10961_000061 to defend the positions as the present order of things is the ancient and constant order of nature only modified by existing laws in those strata which are
012674_10961_000062 a certain degree of humidity a certain intensity of life and other conditions so also analogous phenomena were exhibited at every former era
012674_10961_000063 large inland lakes had become numerous as in central france and other countries there were gulfs of the sea into which considerable rivers
012674_10961_000064 to the land others which like the bat and vampire fly in the air others again of amphibious habits frequenting rivers like the hippopotamus otter and beaver others exclusively aquatic and marine like the seal whale or narwhal
012674_10961_000065 apateon related to the salamanders and in the eighteen forty seven the species of another genus called archegosaurus by goldfuss were obtained from the coal of saarbrck between treves and strasburg the footprints of a large quadruped probably
012674_10961_000066 reptile or mammifer but when we carry back our investigation to a period so remote from the present we ought not to be surprised if the only accessible strata should be limited to deposits formed far from land because the ocean probably occupied then
012674_10961_000067 are true plants an opinion to which messrs lindley unger corda and other botanists of note incline the question whether any of the most highly organized plants are to be met with in ancient strata is at once answered in the affirmative
012674_10961_000068 emptied themselves and where strata like those of the paris basin were accumulated there were also formations in progress in shallow seas not far from shore
012674_10961_000069 magnified six times the occurrence of those most ancient memorials of the mammiferous type in so low a member of the oolitic series while no other representatives of the same class if we except the microlestes
012674_10961_000070 batrachian had also been observed by doctor king the carboniferous rocks of pennsylvania in eighteen forty-four the first example of the bones
012674_10961_000071 or mosses yet this later class may have been as fully represented then as now in the flora of the secondary eras all botanists agree that palms existed although in europe plants of the family of zamia and cycas together with conifer predominated
012674_10961_000072 the bones of fishes and oviparous reptiles exist in the following class the remains of birds with those of the same genera mentioned before in the next order
012674_10961_000073 the remains of hippopotamus elephant and other quadrupeds and associated with freshwater and land shells most of which are now inhabitants
012674_10961_000074 existing may in  great measure explain why the remains of land animals so rare in the older strata are not uncommon in those more modern deposits yet even those have sometimes proved
012674_10961_000075 of a reptile in the coal of north america was detected so lately as september eighteen fifty-two by mr g w dawson and myself in nova scotia this remains referred by mrs wyman and owen to bury the bring cheat
012674_10961_000076 those of quadrupeds of extinct species in a still more recent class and it is only in the loose and slightly consolidated strata of gravel and sand
012674_10961_000077 of the british isles when we consider the small area of the earth's surface hitherto explored geologically and the new discoveries brought to light daily even in the environs of great european capitals
012674_10961_000078 and must have given a peculiar aspect to the flora as only two hundred or three hundred species of plants are known in all the rocks ranging from the trias to the
012674_10961_000079 and which are usually called diluvian formations that the remains of animals such as now people the globe are found with others belonging to extinct species
012674_10961_000080 grossier a marine limestone of the district round paris had afforded to collectors more than eleven hundred species of shells besides many zoophytes echinodermata and the teeths of fish before the bones of one or two land
012674_10961_000081 quadrupeds were met with in the same rock the strata called london and plastic clay in england have been studied for more than half a century and about four hundred species of shells fifty or more of fish besides several kinds of chelonian and saurian
012674_10961_000082 the oolite inclusive our data are too scanty as yet to affirm whether the vegetation of this second epoch was or was not on the whole of a simpler organization than that of our own times
012674_10961_000083 you see quadrumana did not attain as high a grade of organization as they do in our own times what would the naturalist know
012674_10961_000084 entirely destitute of mammiferous relics for years after they had become celebrated for the abundance of their fossil testacea fish and reptiles thus the
012674_10961_000085 according to perfection or complexity of structure it was for many years suggested that the marsupial order to which the fossil animals of stonesfield were supposed exclusively to belong
012674_10961_000086 unphilosophical to infer as some writers have done from a single extinct species of this family obtained in a latitude far from the tropics
012674_10961_000087 and whoever dwells upon this subject must be convinced that the present order of things and the comparatively recent existence of man as the master of the globe is as certain as the destruction of a former and a different order
012674_10961_000088 batrachian were met with in the interior of an erect fossil tree apparently a sigillaria they seem clearly to have been introduced together with the sediment into the tree during its submergence and after it had decayed and was standing
012674_10961_000089 our secondary rocks were formed but it seems fatal to the theory of progressive development or to the notion that the order of precedence in the creation of animals considered chronologically has precisely coincided with the order in which they would be
012674_10961_000090 establishing the important fact of the coexistence of a large number of angiosperms with cycade and with that rich reptilian fauna comprising the ichthyosaur plesiosaur and pterodactyl
012674_10961_000091 we must feel that it would be rash to assume that the lower eocene deposits mark the era of the first creation of quadrumana it would however be still more
012674_10961_000092 but in none of these formations whether called secondary tertiary or diluvian have the remains of man or any of his works been discovered
012674_10961_000093 reptiles were known before a single mammifer was detected at length in the year eighteen thirty-nine there were found in this formation the remains of a monkey an opossum
012674_10961_000094 they are referable to a much greater variety of families and classes than an equal number of fossil species taken from secondary or primary rocks
012719_12771_000000 how long this repining from joys and delight wake up for this life is a borrowed ware take the cup from the hand of the friend who is dear with languishing eye-lids and languorous air
012719_12771_000001 and he was delighted with her singing and said to isaac by allah never saw i her like and isaac said oh my lord indeed i marvel at her with utterest marvel
012719_12771_000002 i considered her and saw her like the moon on the night of its fulness having in attendance on her two damsels as they were constellations she made me sit and seating herself by my side
012719_12771_000003 and he wotteth not its full tale so every morning i will give thee a purse of five hundred dinars which do thou offer to my sire saying henceforth i will pay thee only day by day
012719_12771_000004 after this i went to the shaykh one evening and heard a great noise and loud voices so i asked him what is to do and he answered saying this is the night of our remarkablest nights
012719_12771_000005 i sowed on his cheek a fresh rose which amid his side-locks the fruit of the granado tree bare thou wouldst deem that the place where he tear his fair cheek were ashes
012719_12771_000006 then she bade bring food and there came four damsels high bosomed girls and virginal who set before us food and fruits and confections and flowers and wine such as befit none save kings so o commander of the faithful
012719_12771_000007 but keep thou thy secret and conceal thy case and i will so contrive that thou shalt abide with me till such time as allah will for indeed there is in my heart a great love for thee thou must know that all my father's money is under my hand
012719_12771_000008 now my late father had partners trading with his coin and voyaging on the ocean so one day as i sat in my house with a company of merchants a certain of my servants came in to me and said oh my lord there is at the door a man who craveth admittance to thee
012719_12771_000009 when all souls embark on the river and divert themselves by gazing one upon other hast thou a mind to go up to the roof and solace thyself by looking at the folk
012719_12771_000010 and am beside myself for delight now al-rashid with all this stinted not to look upon the house master and note his charms and the daintiness of his fashion
012719_12771_000011 i thought of estrangement in her embrace and my eyes rained tears red as andam wood so i wiped the drops on that long white neck for camphor is wont to stay flow of blood
012719_12771_000012 i gave leave and he came in bearing on his head a something covered he set it down and uncovered it and behold it was a box wherein were fruits out of season and herbs conserved in salt and fresh such as are not found in our land
012719_12771_000013 signed to her slave girls who set before us a tray covered with dishes of various kinds of meats pullets and quails and sand-grouse and pigeons so we ate our sufficiency and never in my life ate i aught more delicious than this food
012719_12771_000014 but good my lord hearing from behind a wall is only half hearing how would it be and we heard it from behind a curtain quoth the caliph come oh ja'afar
012719_12771_000015 what wilt thou with her asked she and i she hath taken my wit o abu al-hasan hast thou a mind to her
012719_12771_000016 yes answered i and went up to the terrace roof whence i could see a gathering of people with flambeaux and cressets
012719_12771_000017 let us play the parasites with the master of this house and haply we shall look upon the songstress face to face and quoth ja'afar i hear and i obey so they landed and sought admittance
012719_12771_000018 on this sat a lovely young lady confounding all beholders with her beauty and comeliness and symmetry and perfect grace and by her side a youth whose hand was on her neck and he was kissing her and she kissing him
012719_12771_000019 i thanked him and gifted him with an hundred dinars and he went away grateful then i divided these things amongst my friends and guests who were present and asked them whence they came quoth they
012719_12771_000020 when i saw them o prince of true believers i could not contain myself nor knew where i was so dazed and dazzled was i by her beauty but when i came down i questioned the damsel with whom i was and described the young lady to her
012719_12771_000021 and setting out therein with the whole of the property voyaged awhile then i hired a barque and embarking therein with all my monies sailed up the river some days till we arrived at baghdad
012719_12771_000022 by allah i will assuredly torture thy heart even as thou hast tortured me so she went to the girl's father and exposed to him all that had passed first and last
012719_12771_000023 and great mirth and merriment then i went up to the end of the roof and beheld there behind a goodly curtain a little chamber in whose midst stood a couch of juniper-wood plated with shimmering gold and covered with a handsome carpet
012719_12771_000024 they come from bassorah and praised them and went on to portray the beauties of bassorah and all agreed that there was naught in the world goodlier than baghdad and its people
012719_12771_000025 when behold there came out to them a young man fair of favour sweet of speech and fluent of tongue who said to them well come and welcome o lords that honour me with your presence enter in all comfort and convenience
012719_12771_000026 and on this wise o prince of true believers i abode with her a whole year till it chanced on a certain day that she beat one of her handmaids grievously and the slave-girl said
012719_12771_000027 so i arose and selling my houses and lands ships and slaves negroes and handmaids i got together my good to wit a thousand thousand dinars besides gems and jewels wherewith i freighted a vessel
012719_12771_000028 tis our wont when a merchant grow poor with us to give him hospitality three days but thou hast had a year with us eating and drinking and doing what thou wouldst then he turned to his pages and cried to them
012719_12771_000029 then they fell to describing baghdad and the fine manners of its folk and the excellence of its air and the beauty of its ordinance till my soul longed for it and all my hopes clave to looking upon it
012719_12771_000030 when the caliph heard this he said o ja'afar how goodly is that voice and the wazir replied o our lord never smote my hearing aught sweeter or goodlier than this singing
012719_12771_000031 he will hand the sum to me and i will give it to thee again and we will abide thus till such time as may please allah thereupon i thanked her and kissed her hand
012719_12771_000032 while cheeks hues incendiary wear quoth the blamer forget him but where is my excuse when his side-face is growing the downiest hair
012719_12771_000033 at last one day which was a friday i sallied forth to solace myself taking with me somewhat of coin i went first to a cathedral-mosque called the mosque of mansur
012719_12771_000034 when we had eaten she bade remove the tray and set on the service of wine and flowers sweetmeats and fruits and i abode with her a month in such case at the end of that time i repaired to the bath then going to the old man i said to him
012719_12771_000035 i enquired where the merchants abode and what part was pleasantest for domicile and was answered the karkh quarter so i went thither and hiring a house in a thoroughfare called the street of saffron transported all my goods to it and took up my lodging therein for some time
012719_12771_000036 but wend thy ways and if thou tarry in this town thy blood be upon thine own head so i went forth o commander of the faithful in my own despite
012719_12771_000037 but he saw on his face a pallor as he would die so he turned to him and said ho youth and the other said adsum at thy service o my lord the caliph asked knowest thou who we are and he answered no quoth ja'afar
012719_12771_000038 oh my lord i know not the honourable of you from the more honourable bismillah deign he that is the highest in rank among you favour me by taking the head of the room and let his brethren sit each in his several stead
012719_12771_000039 at its upper end was a dais whereon stood a goodly row of seats and thereon sat an hundred damsels like moons the house-master cried out to them and they came down from their seats then he turned to ja'afar and said to him
012719_12771_000040 but knowest thou o abu al-hasan what be the price of her night and her day no five hundred dinars for she is a regret to the heart of kings
012719_12771_000041 pull off his clothes they did as he bade them and gave me ten dirhams and an old suit worth five silvers after which he said to me go forth i will not beat thee nor abuse thee
012719_12771_000042 so they went in and he with them to a saloon with four faces whose ceiling was decorated with gold and its walls adorned with ultramarine
012719_12771_000043 by allah i will spend all i have on this damsel so saying i lay heartsore for desire through the livelong night till the morning when i repaired to the hammam and presently donned a suit of the richest royal raiment and betaking myself to ibn al alaa said to him
012719_12771_000044 we ate and sat over our wine compassed about with blooms and herbs of sweet savour in a chamber suitable only for kings
012719_12771_000045 knowing not whither to hie for i had fallen on my heart with all the trouble in the world and i was occupied with sad thought and doubt then i bethought me of the wealth which i had brought from oman and said in myself i came hither with a thousand thousand dinars
012719_12771_000046 where the friday service was held and when we had made an end of congregational prayers i fared forth with the folk to a place hight karn al-sirat
012719_12771_000047 ay by allah for she hath captivated my heart and soul this is the daughter of tahir ibn al alaa she is our mistress and we are all her handmaids
012719_12771_000048 up where i saw a tall and goodly mansion with a balcony overlooking the riverbank and pierced with a lattice window so i betook myself thither with a company of folk and sighted there an old man sitting handsomely clad and exhaling perfumes
012719_12771_000049 o my guests with your leave shall i set somewhat of food before you and they answered yes hearing this he bade his handmaids bring food
012719_12771_000050 when i saw her o commander of the faithful my reason was confounded with her beauty for she was like the full moon on its fourteenth night
012719_12771_000051 and he is a keeper of girls all who go into him eat and drink and look upon fair faces quoth i by allah this long while have i wandered about in search of something like this and shahrazad perceived the dawn of day
012719_12771_000052 for he had been my friend and my father's friend before me then he questioned me of my case seeing me clad in those tattered clothes so i told him all that had befallen me
012719_12771_000053 accordingly he took me and carried me to an apartment than which my eyes never saw a goodlier on the earth's face and there i found the young lady seated
012719_12771_000054 part price of thirty ships and have made away with it all in the house of yonder ill-omened man and now i go forth from him bare and broken-hearted
012719_12771_000055 and written on the raised edge of the tray were verses such as sorted with the entertainment so they ate till they had enough and washed their hands after which said the young man
012719_12771_000056 so they sat down each according to his degree whilst masrur abode standing before them in their service and the host asked them
012719_12771_000057 whereupon four damsels with girded waists placed in front of them a table whereon were rare meats of that which flieth and walketh earth and swimmeth seas sand-grouse and quails and chickens and pigeons
012719_12771_000058 oh my lord i want her whose night is five hundred dinars quoth he weigh down the money so i weighed out to him fifteen thousand dinars for a month's hire and he took them and said to the page carry him to thy mistress such an one
012719_12771_000059 i took passage in her of the owner and when we reached our port i landed and went into the bazar being sore and hungered presently a man saw me a grocer whom i had known aforetime and coming up to me embraced me
012719_12771_000060 sore sighs and a-weeping continued she as the tooth stick beautifies teeth even so must prickle to coynte as a tooth stick be
012719_12771_000061 quoth i i know not what i shall do and quoth he wilt thou abide with me and write my outgo and income and thou shalt have two dirhams a day over and above thy food and drink i agreed to this and abode with him o prince of true believers
012719_12771_000062 we came not to thy dwelling save for the sake of a voice we heard from behind the wall of thy house and we would fain hear it again and know her to whom it belongeth
012719_12771_000063 and he said by allah this is not the act of a sensible man but after this that hath befallen thee what doest thou purpose to do
012719_12771_000064 she cried while played in her side desire and night o'er hung her with blackest blee o night shall thy murk bring me ne'er a chum to tumble and futter this coynte of me and she smote that part with her palm and sighed
012719_12771_000065 o moslems is never a stand to your tools to assist a woman's necessity thereat rose upstanding beneath its clothes my yard as crying at thee at thee
012719_12771_000066 now it fortuned that one day there came ships with merchandise and all the merchants resorted to them to buy and i went with them on board when behold there came two men out of the hold and setting themselves chairs on the deck sat down thereon
012719_12771_000067 cushioned with brocade set it down then withdrew again and presently returned with a damsel as she were the moon on the night of its full who sat down on the chair then the black girl
012719_12771_000068 selling and buying till i had gotten an hundred dinars when i hired me an upper chamber by the river-side so haply a ship should come up with merchandise that i might buy goods with the dinars and go back with them to baghdad
012719_12771_000069 so and thou deem right to vouchsafe us this favour it will be of the generosity of thy nature and after we will return whence we came
012719_12771_000070 a model of grace and symmetry and loveliness her speech shamed the tones of the lute and it was as it were she whom the poet meant in these verses
012719_12771_000071 she resumed it hath reached me o auspicious king that the young man continued to describe before the prince of true believers the young lady's characteristics saying she was like the full moon on her fourteenth night
012719_12771_000072 quoth the host ye are welcome and turning to a black slave-girl said to her fetch me thy mistress such an one so she went away and returning with a chair of chinaware
012719_12771_000073 oh my lords if you have any want let us know it that we may have the honor of satisfying it they replied it is well
012719_12771_000074 the merchants addressed themselves to the twain with intent to buy and the man said to one of the crew bring the carpet accordingly he brought the carpet and spread it and another came with a pair of saddlebags
012719_12771_000075 presently one of her maids brought a silken bag which she opened and taking thereout a lute laid it in her lap and smote its strings whereat it complained as child complaineth to mother and she sang these two couplets
012719_12771_000076 oh my lord i want her whose night is twenty dinars weigh down the gold said he so i fetched money and weighed out to him six hundred dinars for a month's hire
012719_12771_000077 hurting hinder cheeks by its potency and she cried as i rose after courses three suit thy gree the stroke and i suit thy gree and how excellent is the saying of another
012719_12771_000078 a fair one to idolaters if she her face should show they'd leave their idols and her face for only lord would know
012719_12771_000079 whence he took a budget and emptied it on the carpet and our sights were dazzled with that which issued therefrom of pearls and corals and jacinths and carnelians and other jewels of all sorts and colours
012719_12771_000080 and i loosed her trouser string startling her who art thou and i said a reply to thy plea and began to stroke her with a wrist thick yard
012719_12771_000081 it was inlaid with gems and jacinths and furnished with pegs of gold then she tuned its strings even as saith the poet of her and her lute in these lines
012719_12771_000082 wilt thou that i tell thee the names of each of us and quoth the young man yes when the wazir said this is the commander of the faithful
012719_12771_000083 of the excess of my desire i fell a-weeping for fear of severance and pouring forth the tears of the eye recited by these two couplets
012719_12771_000084 she pursued it hath reached me oh auspicious king that the young merchant cried by allah this long while i have gone about in search of something like this so i went up to the shaykh oh commander of the faithful and saluting him said to him
012719_12771_000085 she sits it in lap like a mother fond and she strikes the strings that can make it speak and near smiteth her right an injurious touch but her left repairs of her right the wreck
012719_12771_000086 an time my lover restore me i'll blame him fain saying pass o my dear the bowl and in passing drain the wine which hath never mixed with the heart of man but he passes to joy from annoy and to pleasure from pain
012719_12771_000087 then zephyr arose to his task of sustaining the cup didst e'er see full moon that in hand the star hath ta'en how oft i talked through the night when its rounded lune shed on darkness of tigris bank a beamy rain and when
012719_12771_000088 then she strained the lute to her bosom bending over it as mother bendeth over babe and swept the strings which complained as child to mother complaineth after which she played upon it and began improvising these couplets
012719_12771_000089 i saluted her and she said to me well come and welcome and fair welcome and taking me by the hand o prince of true believers made me sit down by her side whereupon
012719_12771_000090 if in the eastward she appeared unto a monk for sure he'd cease from turning to the west and to the east bend low
012719_12771_000091 and if into the briny sea one day she chanced to spit assuredly the salt sea's floods straight fresh and sweet would grow and that of another
012719_12771_000092 luna sank in the west twas as though she'd wave o'er the length of the watery waste a gilded glaive when she had made an end of her verse she wept with sore weeping and all who were in the place wept aloud till they were well-nigh dead
012719_12771_000093 drink not pure wine except from hand of slender youth like wine for daintiness and like him eke the wine for wine no joyance brings to him who drains the cup save bring the cup-boy cheek as fair and fain and fine
012960_10805_000000 at first there were such as still endeavoured to afford her solace or who suspecting lest she brooded over the memory of her father and mother felt homesick or aggrieved through some offence given her tried by every persuasion to console and cheer her
012960_10805_000001 their bloom wanes their smell dies but who is there with them to sympathise while vagrant gossamer soft doth on fluttering springs bowers bind its coils
012960_10805_000002 yesterday replied hsiao hung mr secundus told me that there was no need for me to water the flowers today that it was enough if they were watered every other day as for the birds you're still in the arms of morpheus sister when i give them their food
012960_10805_000003 but pao y was not inclined to touch any more food he washed his hands drank a cup of tea and then exchanged a few further sentences with the two matrons but subsequently the two women said goodbye and quitted the room
012960_10805_000004 we three cannot however definitely say that we won't write verses for if we come across any comparatively easy subject and metre we too will indite a stanza if we feel so disposed
012960_10805_000005 but she found on second scrutiny the work so really admirable that impulsively picking up the needle she continued it for her at quite an unforeseen moment for lin-tai yu had met shih shun
012960_10805_000006 and is it likely you'll die from drunkenness are you pray going now to disregard this rule and to drink instead ten large cups besides going down to pour the wine
012960_10805_000007 everything from old till now from the very creation itself embodies a certain proportion of the yin and yang principles
012960_10805_000008 i really did it in the hope that it would afford you amusement i never for a moment entertained such thoughts as those you credit me with
012960_10805_000009 i wouldn't last time have had any wish or inclination to disclose to you every bit of those troubles which ordinarily fall to my share at home
012960_10805_000010 inga turned towards pao chai and expressed her readiness to execute her commission after which she betook herself home where we will leave her without further notice
012960_10805_000011 let them go and complain as much as they like but if they fail to establish a case against me they'll after all be punished for trying to make the corpse the means of extorting money out of me
012960_10805_000012 when the recollection afterwards flashed through her mind that one and all had their relatives and that she alone had not a soul to rely upon avoid withdrawing out of the way and giving vent to tears
012960_10805_000013 and it was in fact the rest of the singing girls who saw pao yu out pao yu's heart was gnawed with doubts and conjectures in an imbecile frame of mind he came to the i hung court
012960_10805_000014 i didn't really see you come over protested pao yu cousin pao chai it was who came and sat for a while and then left
012960_10805_000015 ha ha laughed the taoist chang aloud as he followed chia chen in chia chen approached dowager lady chia bending his body he strained a laugh
012960_10805_000016 pao-yu thereupon addressed himself to tai-yu have you heard what was said or not he asked and is there pray any likelihood that cousin secunda would also follow in my lead and tell lies
012960_10805_000017 but while they were deliberating the time came to light the lamps nothing of any note transpired the whole night the next day they got up at early dawn the weather fortunately was beautifully clear
012960_10805_000018 but never mind i'll let it go and save you all this misery so saying he verily gave the bird its liberty and with one blow he smashed the cage to atoms
012960_10805_000019 but were you to talk a little slower wouldn't it be a saving of exertion for you lady feng was about to laugh but hastily checking herself she lent an ear to what madame wang might have to tell her
012960_10805_000020 first rate exclaimed li wan and why should we not fix upon some new designations by which to address ourselves this will be a far more refined way as for my own i've selected that of the old farmer of tao hsiang so let none of you encroach on it
012960_10805_000021 i and the others tried to dissuade them lin chih hsiao's wife continued and by having recourse to intimidation as well as to promises of money they at last agreed to our terms
012960_10805_000022 pao-yu she said to every one she met is the one after all who shows me much attention so much so that he has even thought of bringing me a twig of flowers
012960_10805_000023 you go and tell him pao-yu urged that i've informed myself of the contents of his notes and that there are few who think of me as he does if you also take the flowers and put them in my room it will be all right
012960_10805_000024 it's still over there at mr chia chen's i tell you all this so that you should avoid going over to madame wang's and getting into trouble but i'll go and depute some one to fetch it
012960_10805_000025 the one and pao chai descanted of course with their aunts and cousins on the events that had transpired since their separation but tai yu though when they first met continued in cheerful spirits could not again
012960_10805_000026 home pao y was however not in a very happy frame of mind on account of the reference to his marriage made by chang the taoist the day before so when he heard lin tai-yu's utterances
012960_10805_000027 what an awful rumpus you're kicking up i simply brought you along with me to look at things and lo you put on airs and she beat pan erh until he burst out crying
012960_10805_000028 followed by a whole bevy of nurses and waiting-maids she repaired into lady feng's quarters on the off side she bandied words with her for a while and then coming out she betook herself into the garden of broad vista and called on li kung-ts'ai
012960_10805_000029 pao-yu at these words turned himself round and betook himself immediately into his grandmother's apartments where he did all that lay in his power to urge her to depute servants to go and fetch her
012960_10805_000030 we will notice however that old goody liu took pan erh along with her and came first and paid a visit to lady feng
012960_10805_000031 but to resume our story after hearing his mother's arguments hseh p'an's indignation gradually abated but notwithstanding that his pains and aches completely disappeared in three or five days time
012960_10805_000032 and stealthily says one thing and another simply because they see how fond our worthy ancestor is of both pao y and lady feng and how much more won't they do these things with me
012960_10805_000033 he must be mulcted the first one could anyhow be overlooked but this line is more unintelligible as they said this they were about to pour the wine when pao-yu smilingly interfered the rhyme is all right he observed
012960_10805_000034 if we buy one we won't know what she's really like pao chai demurred if she gives us the slip the money we may have spent on her will be a mere trifle so long as she hasn't been up to any pranks
012960_10805_000035 for as it is absolutely necessary that there should be a disorderly emperor before they can afford any admonition to what future fate do they thus expose their sovereign if they rashly throw away their lives
012960_10805_000036 judging he reflected from this behaviour of hers it would seem as if it could not be for what transpired yesterday yesterday too i came back late in evening and what's more i didn't see her so that there was no occasion on which i could have given her offence
012960_10805_000037 be careful how you ride that horse hasn't been ridden very much so hold him in tight a bit as he urged him to be careful they reached the interior of the city walls
012960_10805_000038 but even those beautiful girls in the female apartments have been so contaminated by this practice that verily they show themselves ungrateful for the virtue of heaven and earth in endowing them with perception
012960_10805_000039 as she was recounting this incident well she overheard pao chai sarcastically observe from the opposite direction have you done spinning your yarns if you have come along it's quite evident that you are brother and sister for here you leave everyone else and go and discuss your own private matters
012960_10805_000040 here you've been at this early hour of the morning standing for ever so long in this damp place so you should go back and have some rest this single hint recalled tai y to her senses she at length realised that the legs felt rather tired
012960_10805_000041 or will you perchance ask for some from in here this long tirade had the effect of bringing the true facts of the case to hsiang yns notice and she began to waver in a state of uncertainty
012960_10805_000042 i'd avail myself of the present when all you girls are alive to pass away and could i get you to shed such profuse tears for me as to swell out
012960_10805_000043 those that were to be invited were invited and those that had to be sent for were sent for and before the lapse of such time as could suffice to have a meal in the old as well as young
012960_10805_000044 for with just a trifle of inattention the railings will slant the pillars will be topsy-turvy doors and windows will recline in a horizontal position
012960_10805_000045 we are all both high or low fond of such things this will be quite enough we don't want anything else so don't go to any useless trouble goody liu gave utterance to profuse expressions of gratitude and signified her readiness to comply with her wishes
012960_10805_000046 you've got from one year's end to another she smiled the trouble and annoyance of conferring dutiful attentions upon our venerable senior upon madame wang and upon myself so as i've nothing today with which to prove my affection for you
012960_10805_000047 those two tai yu observed can't get together the moment they meet how much trouble doesn't arise they must surely have now gone to hatch their plans over that haunch of venison
012960_10805_000048 tai-yu then directed someone to take down the frame and suspend it instead on a hook outside the circular window and presently entering her room she seated herself inside the circular window
012960_10805_000049 this is no regular fasting she said we simply have come for a little change and we should not have put any one to any inconvenience
012960_10805_000050 could he have had any inclination to be present at the plays hence it was that he refused to go on the pretext of indisposition lin tai-yu had got a couple of days back
012960_10805_000051 just you go to sleep p'ing erh urged and i'll get the things ready for you and put them in here as soon as the day breaks tomorrow i'll send the servant lads to hire a cart and pack them in don't you therefore worry yourself in the least on that score
012960_10805_000052 but as pao-yu had so hurt tai-yu's feelings the two cousins saw nothing whatever of each other and conscience-stricken despondent and unhappy as he was at this time
012960_10805_000053 it really looked as if you were disposed to beg donation of us this observation sent the whole company into a violent fit of laughter even georgen could not suppress a smile
012960_10805_000054 we will now resume our story by adding that on the return of the young ladies into the garden they had their meal this over they parted company and nothing more need be said about them
012960_10805_000055 on her arrival at widow li's quarters she in point of fact discovered lady feng seated inside with her having a chat hsiao hung approached her and made her report
012960_10805_000056 and that if she did not frown her eyebrows she anyway heaved deep sighs but they were quite at a loss to divine why she was with no rhyme or reason ever so ready to indulge to herself in inexhaustible gushes of tears
012960_10805_000057 the sight of their old mistress delight filled the waiting maids and married women with high glee as well and each hurried with vehemence to execute her respective errand
012960_10805_000058 ch'un at her remark laughed with such heartiness that it was all she could do to check herself cousin pao she observed don't you wring her mouth just ask her what disparaging things she said about you why need i ask pao chai smiled
012960_10805_000059 but you must carefully consider that when my mother died i hadn't even any sisters or brothers and that up to this my fifteenth year there has never been a single person to admonish me as you did the other day
012960_10805_000060 while still speaking she started on her way to dowager lady chia's suite of rooms after first paying her respects to her she made a few general remarks and then betook herself into yan yang's quarters where she held a consultation with yan yang
012960_10805_000061 i'm somewhat distrustful mrs yu laughed so i'd like to check it in your presence these words over she verily checked sum after sum
012960_10805_000062 she maintained that people who gathered together must soon part that when they came together they were full of rejoicing but did they not feel lonely when they broke up
012960_10805_000063 an estimable and refined girl manages after great exertion to compose verses at a refined meeting
012960_10805_000064 the young ladies don't like anyone to come in here for fear lest their quarters should get contaminated so don't let us show ourselves disregardful of their wishes the right thing would be to go and have our wine aboard one of those boats
012960_10805_000065 look at this handkerchief she overheard if it's really the one you've lost well then keep it but if it isn't you must return it to mr yun
012960_10805_000066 tai yu did not even so much as look at him straight in the face but egressing alone out of the door of the court she proceeded there and then in search of the other girls pao-yu fell into a despondent mood and gave way to conjectures
012960_10805_000067 he could therefore only put on a smiling expression and add i'll give you another one instead hsi jen was prompted by his rejoinder to nod her head and sigh
012960_10805_000068 but unconsciously a stream of tears rolled down their cheeks they could not it is true get a glimpse of each other yet as the one was in the hsiao hsiang lodge
012960_10805_000069 and to gratify to some small degree a particle of his wish this had been a piece of good fortune he so little expected would fall to his share during the course of his present existence that as he reclined on his bed his heart swelled with happiness and contentment
012960_10805_000070 after listening to her suggestion madame hsing began again to feel in a happier frame of mind my idea is she observed that i shouldn't start by mentioning anything to our venerable senior
012960_10805_000071 and was inwardly feeling in low spirits he became aware that pao chai t'an ch'un and the other girls had also arrived after a short chat with dowager lady chia pao chai likewise entered the apartments to find out what her cousin lin was up to
012960_10805_000072 but were they now to open and see me here won't they feel ashamed moreover the voice in which those remarks were uttered resembles very much that of hung erh attached to pao yu's rooms who has all along shown a sharp eye and a shrewd mind
012960_10805_000073 whether willing or not interposed hsiao hung smiling such as we couldn't really presume to raise our voices and object we should feel it our privilege to serve such a one as your ladyship
012960_10805_000074 the only thing that damped his spirits was the notion that there was a certain want of reverence in his proceedings but on second consideration he concluded that what he had about him was after all considerably superior to any he could purchase
012960_10805_000075 but then again we could find none decent enough for if her looks were not at fault her disposition was not proper and if she had possessed this quality she lacked that one
012960_10805_000076 a happy man enjoys a full measure of happiness but still prays for happiness a beloved girl is very much loved but yet craves for more love
012960_10805_000077 she herself nevertheless felt too listless to join the banquet so simply reclining on a sofa of the inner room she looked at the plays in company with mrs hseh and choosing several kinds of such eatables as were to her taste
012960_10805_000078 psha ch'ing wen ejaculated with a significant smile you are indeed a mean thing who has seen nothing of the world she gave the good ones to others and the refuse to you and do you still pat on all this side
012960_10805_000079 and her eyes also so pure she may it is to be feared have come across some spirit or other i can't help thinking therefore that you should consult some book of exorcisms on her behalf for mind she may have run up against some evil influence
012960_10805_000080 by the lantern i weep as if i sat with some one who must go the small courtyard full of bleak mist is now become quite desolate
012960_10805_000081 madame wang laughed and pointed at lady feng with her finger but as for saying a word she could not missus hseh had much difficulty in curbing her mirth and she sputtered the tea with which her mouth was full all over t'an ch'un's petticoat
012960_10805_000082 during this while dowager lady chia and the other inmates devoted more of their time in visiting the various places but just as they were on the point of going up the two-storied building they heard chia chen shout
012960_10805_000083 and drooping catkins lightly strike and cling on the embroidered screens a maiden in the inner rooms i sore deplore the close of spring such ceaseless sorrow fills my breast that solace nowhere can i find
012960_10805_000084 and that heaven does not in the creation of human beings bestow on them natural gifts to no purpose we've been sighing and lamenting that it was a pity that such a one as she should really be so unpolished
012960_10805_000085 that my husband will also treat you as well as he does everyone else and that when in the course of a year or so you give birth to a son or daughter you'll be placed on the same footing as myself and of all the servants at home
012960_10805_000086 they already bear me considerable dislike so much so that i'm still quite at a loss whether i should stay or go and why should i make them heap execrations upon me well in that case pao chai observed i'm too in the same plight as yourself
012960_10805_000087 but when he now heard the remarks passed by hsiang yun and the rejoinders made on the other hand by pao chai and when he noticed how different tai yu's voice and manner were from former occasions and how they actually bore out pao chai's insinuation
012960_10805_000088 but go with my father mother or brother i won't i'll either commit suicide or cut my hair off and go and become a nun if you fancy that i'm not in earnest and that i'm temporarily using this language to put you off
012960_10805_000089 but you four will positively have to do so if you agree to this well we can proceed with the society but if you don't fall in with my wishes i can't presume to join you
012960_10805_000090 if you come along with us you know that my disposition too is gentle that i'm not one of those persons who don't show any regard for anyone
012960_10805_000091 lady feng was well aware that yan yang and the other attendants were at the back and could not overtake their old mistress so she herself alighted from her chair to volunteer her services
013033_13527_000000 as a knight he is the mirror of chivalry doing battle for the weak and debelling the strong while ever defending the honour of women as a husband his patriarchal position causes him to be loved and fondly loved by more than one wife
013033_13527_000001 and who ordered some of them as though related by the tongues of brute beasts were the palo persians and the kings of the first dynasty the ashkanian kings of the third dynasty appended others to them
013033_13527_000002 it containeth a thousand nights but less than two hundred night stories for a single history often occupied several nights i have seen it complete sundry times and it is in truth a corrupted book of cold tales
013033_13527_000003 and cadre of the work but no more he contends that no considerable body of prae mohammedan or non arabic fiction appears in the actual texts
013033_13527_000004 and glamour of fancy three the histories and historical anecdotes analects and acroamata in which the names when not used achronistically by the editor or copier give unerring data for the earliest data quo and which by the mode of treatment suggest the latest
013033_13527_000005 tellers of night tales and the relaters of fanciful adventures together with the names of books treating upon such subjects mohammed ibn is'hak saith the first who indited themes of imagination and made books of them consigning these works to the libraries
013033_13527_000006 and that all the tales even those dealing with events localised in persia india china and other infidel lands and dated them from ante-islamite ages
013033_13527_000007 halla bi al ashar the adorned with verses a topography of egypt and africa which is apparently now lost in this he quotes from al kur
013033_13527_000008 of destiny and predestination a feature which ennobles the low aspect of al-islam even in these her days of comparative degeneration and local decay
013033_13527_000009 hence his moderation in prosperity his fortitude in adversity his dignity his perfect self dominance and lastly his lofty quietism which sounds the true heroic ring
013033_13527_000010 as a father affection for his children rules his life he is domestic in the highest degree and he finds few pleasures beyond the bosom of his family lastly his death is simple pathetic and edifying
013033_13527_000011 we must carefully separate subject matter from language matter the neglect of such essential difference has caused the remark it is not a little curious that the origin of a work which has been known to europe and has been studied by many during nearly two centuries
013033_13527_000012 and of the royal brothers or to transfer the mise en scene any whither from khorasan or outer persia where the story has not been too much worked by the literato's pen for instance the ten wazirs in the
013033_13527_000013 by the editors or copyists of the compilation upon the metrical portion also further notices must be offered at the end of this essay in considering the uncle derivatur of the nights
013033_13527_000014 and divs and peris of kayomars and the olden guebre kings into the jinns and jinniyahs of sulayman volumes are spoken by the fact that the arab adapter did not venture to change the persic names of the two heroines
013033_13527_000015 a writer in the athenum objecting to lane's modern date for the nights adduces evidence to prove the greater antiquity of the work abu al-hasan ibn sa'id bin musa el
013033_13527_000016 and a sublime conception of the unity and omnipotence of the deity noteworthy too is a proud resignation to the decrees of fate and fortune kaza wa kadar
013033_13527_000017 as the life which led to it considered in a higher phase the mediaeval moslem mind displays like the ancient egyptian a most exalted moral idea the deepest reverence for all things connected with his religion
013033_13527_000018 each of these constituents will require further notice when the subject matter of the book is discussed the metrical portion of the nights may also be divided into three categories viz one the oldest and classical poetry of the arabs
013033_13527_000019 example the various quotations from the suspended poems two the mediaeval beginning with the laureates of al rashids court such as al asma
013033_13527_000020 evidently the learned baron had not studied such works of the totkahni or parrot chat which notably translated by nakhshabi from the sanskrit suka saptati has now become as orthodoxically muslim as the nights
013033_13527_000021 should still be so mysterious and that students have failed in all attempts to detect the secret hence also the chief authorities at once branched off into two directions one held the work to be practically persian the other as persistently declared it to be purely arab professor galland in his epistle dedicatory
013033_13527_000022 bi ahkamillah let build it for the bedouin woman the love of whom had gotten the mastery of him in the neighbourhood of the chosen garden and used to resort often thereto and was slain as he went thither
013033_13527_000023 his pessimism resembles far more the optimism which the so-called books of moses borrowed from the ancient copt than the mournful and melancholy creed of the true pessimist as solomon the hebrew
013033_13527_000024 and the whole is crowned by pure trust and natural confidence in the progress and perfectability of human nature which he exalts instead of degrading this he holds to be the foundation stone of society and indeed the very purpose of his existence
013033_13527_000025 differing however in minor details especially in the native country of the nights syria had been chosen because then the most familiar to europeans the wife of bath had made three pilgrimages to jerusalem
013033_13527_000026 shaar quoting from el curtubi the story of the building of the houdej in the garden of cairo the which was the magnificent pleasuances of the fatimite khalifs the rare of ordinance and surpassing to wit that the khalif el amir
013033_13527_000027 and held that they had been reduced to their present shape by an auteur arabe inconnu this reference to india also learnedly advocated by m langls was inevitable in those days it had not then
013033_13527_000028 mostly with the naivest anachronism confine themselves to depicting the people manners and customs of baghdad and mosul damascus and cairo during the abbasid epoch
013033_13527_000029 been proved that india owed all her literature to far older civilisations and even that her alphabet the ngari erroneously called devangari was derived through phoenicia and himyar land from ancient egypt
013033_13527_000030 converted to christianity we find precisely the same process in european folk-lore for instance the gesta romanorum in which after five hundred years the life manners and customs of the romans lapse into the knightly and chivalrous
013033_13527_000031 this again is softened and tempered by a simple faith in the supremacy of love over fear an unbounded humanity and charity for the poor and helpless an unconditional forgiveness of the direst injuries which is the note of the noble a generosity and liberality
013033_13527_000032 and they were augmented and amplified in the days of the sassanides the fourth and last royal house the arabs also translated them into arabic and the loquent and eloquent polished and embellished them and wrote others resembling them
013033_13527_000033 to the marquise d'o daughter of his patron m de guillerague show his literary acumen and unfailing sagacity by deriving the nights from india via persia
013033_13527_000034 it ceased not to be a pleasuring place for the khalifs after him the folk abound in stories of the bedouin girl and ibn meyyah of the sons and her uncle cousin
013033_13527_000035 which at times seem impossible and an enthusiasm for universal benevolence and beneficence which exalting kindly deeds done to man above every form of holiness constitute the root and base of oriental nay of all courtesy
013033_13527_000036 the christian and ecclesiastical developments of mediaeval europe here therefore i hold that the austrian arabist has proved his point whilst the frenchman has failed mr lane during his three years as labour of translation first accepted von hammer's view and then came around to that of de sacy
013033_13527_000037 although a most inexact writer he was extensively read in oriental history and poetry his contention was that the book is an arabisation of the persian hazr afsaneh or thousand tales
013033_13527_000038 and what hangs thereby of the mention of el aamir so that the tales told of them on this account became like unto the story of el bettl and the thousand nights and a night and what resembleth them
013033_13527_000039 his opinion is entitled to no more deference than his deriving the sub african and negroid fellah from arabia the land per excellentiam of pure and noble blood
013033_13527_000040 and he proved his point von hammer began by summoning into court the herodotus of the arabs ali ab al-hasan al-mas'di who in a h three hundred thirty three
013033_13527_000041 the indian buddhist and esoteric european imitators of buddhism he cannot but sigh when contemplating the sin and sorrow the pathos and bathos of the world and feel the pity of it with its shifts and changes ending in nothingness
013033_13527_000042 its scanty happiness and its copious misery but his melancholy is expressed in-a voice divinely sweet a voice no less divinely sad
013033_13527_000043 that darted from the east when all that was polite or elegant in literature was classed among the studia arabum nor is the shady side of the picture less notable our arab at his worst is a mere barbarian
013033_13527_000044 nor does he mourn as they mourn who have no hope he has an absolute conviction in future compensation and meanwhile his lively poetic impulse the poetry of ideas not of formal verse and his radiant innate idealism
013033_13527_000045 breathe a soul into the merest matter of squalid workaday life and awaken the sweetest harmonies of nature epitomised in humanity such was the muslim at a time when the dark clouds of ignorance and superstition hung so thick on the intellectual horizon of europe as to exclude every ray of learning
013033_13527_000046 bi ahkam illah so that their traditions or tales upon the garden became like unto el bettl and the thousand nights and what resembleth them
013033_13527_000047 aljauhar meads of gold and mines of gems the styrian orientalist quotes with sundry misprints an ampler version of a passage in chapter sixty eight which is abbreviated in the french translation of m c
013033_13527_000048 but few cared to visit the barbarous and dangerous nile valley mr lane however was an enthusiast for egypt or rather for cairo the only part of it he knew and when he pronounces the nights to be of purely arab that is of nilotic origin
013033_13527_000049 so europe was contented to compare the nights with the fables of pilpay for upwards of a century at last the pehlevi or old iranian origin of the work was found an able and strenuous advocate in baron von hammer-purgstall who worthily continued what galland had begun
013033_13527_000050 the same passage from ibn sa'id corresponding in three m s s occurs in the famous khitat attributed to al makrizi died a d fourteen hundred forty-four and was thus translated from a m s in the british museum by mister john payne
013033_13527_000051 other authors have wandered still further afield some finding mosul idioms in the recueil proposed middlegates for its birthplace and mr w g p palgrave boldly says the origin of this entertaining work appears to have been composed in baghdad
013033_13527_000052 barbier de meynard and indeed many men well acquainted with their arab histories opine that the stories above mentioned with other trifles were strung together by men who commended themselves to the kings by relating them and who found favour with their contemporaries by committing them to memory
013033_13527_000053 the change of names is easily explained amongst the arabs as amongst the wild irish there is divinity the proverb says luck in odd numbers and consequently the others are inauspicious
013033_13527_000054 who has not forgotten the savage he is a model mixture of childishness and astuteness of simplicity and cunning concealing levity of mind under solemnity of aspect his stolid instinctive conservatism
013033_13527_000055 his mental torpidity founded upon physical indolence renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful his conscious weakness shows itself
013033_13527_000056 and by reciting them of such fashion is the fashion of the books which have come down to us translated from the persian frasiyah the indian hindiyah and the greco-roman rmyah
013033_13527_000057 it is known to the public under the name the book of a thousand nights and a night kitab alf laylah wa laylah this is an history of a king and his wazir the minister's daughter and a slave-girl jariyah
013033_13527_000058 hence as sir william ouseley says travels two twenty-one the number thousand and one is a favourite in the east olivier voyage six
013033_13527_000059 this evidently means either that the nights existed in the days of al amir twelfth century or that the author compared them with a work popular in his own age mr payne attaches much importance to the discrepancy of titles which appears to me a minor detail
013033_13527_000060 in the overweening arrogance and intolerance his crass and self-satisfied ignorance makes him glorify the most ignoble superstitions while acts of revolting savagery are the natural results of a malignant fanaticism and a furious hatred of every creed beyond the pale of al-islam
013033_13527_000061 grovels before the tyrant rule of routine despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler
013033_13527_000062 pa with a preface by cazotte and was englished by ambrose phillips lastly in india and throughout asia where indian influence extends the number of cyphers not followed by a significant number is
013033_13527_000063 and he makes a point of the whole being impregnated with the strongest and most zealous spirit of mohammedanism he points out that the language is the popular or vulgar dialect differing widely from the classical and literary
013033_13527_000064 the reader who has reached this terminal stage will hardly require my assurance that he has seen the mediaeval arab at his best and perhaps at his worst
013033_13527_000065 the first work of such kind was entitled the book of hazar afsan signifying alf khurfah the argument whereof was a follows a king of their kings was wont when he wedded a woman and had lain one night with her to slay her on the next morning
013033_13527_000066 is its being the architect of the nights unquestionably proving that the arab work borrows from the persian bodily its cadre or framework the principal characteristic
013033_13527_000067 indefinite for instance to determine hundreds the hindus affix the required figure to the end and for one hundred right one hundred one four one thousand one thousand one but the grand fact of the hazar asfane
013033_13527_000068 nomen is the chief authority for the arab provenance of the nights apparently founding his observations upon galland he is of the opinion that the work as now known
013033_13527_000069 was originally composed in syria and written in the vulgar dialect that it was never completed by the author whether he was prevented by death or by other cause and that imitators endeavoured to finish the work
013033_13527_000070 presently he espoused a damsel of the daughters of the kings shahrzad height one endowed with intellect and erudition and when as she lay with him she fell to telling him tales of fancy
013033_13527_000071 he's a gentleman in manners without awkwardness vulgar astonishment or mauvaise honte as a man he is high-spirited and energetic always ready to fight for his sultan his country
013033_13527_000072 moreover she used to connect the story at the end of the night with that which might induce the king to preserve her alive and to ask her of its ending on the next night until a thousand nights had passed over her
013033_13527_000073 the following is an extract page three hundred and four from the eighth discourse which consists of three arts funn the first section on the history of the confabulatores nocturni
013033_13527_000074 fond of his comrades and respectful to his pastors and masters even schoolmasters as a lad he prepares for manhood with a will and this training occupies him throughout youthtide
013033_13527_000075 that king had also a kahramnah nurse and duenna not entremetteuse hight dunyazad who aided the wife in his artifice it is also said that this book was composed for or by humi daughter of bahman
013033_13527_000076 anything save the production of a moslem writer all this with due deference to so high an authority is very superficial granted which nobody denies that the archetypal hazr afsnah was translated from persic into arabic nearly a thousand years ago
013033_13527_000077 meanwhile he cohabited with her till she blessed by boon of child of him when she acquainted him with a device she had wrought upon him wherefore he admired her intelligence and inclined to her and preserved her life
013033_13527_000078 i proceed to lay before the reader a proces-verbal of the sundry pleadings already in court as concisely as is compatible with intelligibility furnishing him with references to original authorities and warning him that a fully detailed account would fill a volume
013033_13527_000079 in fine all that we here find of the city of the magians as well as of the fire worshippers suffices to show that one would not expect to discover in it
013033_13527_000080 even my own reasons for decidedly taking one side and rejecting the other must be stated briefly and before entering upon this subject i would distribute the prose matter of our recueil of folklore
013033_13527_000081 here occur the questions where and when was written and to whom do we owe a prose-poem which like the dramatic epos of herodotus has no equal
013033_13527_000082 in glancing over the myriad pictures of this panorama those who can discern the soul of goodness in things evil will note the true nobility of the moslem's mind in the moyen age and the cleanliness of his life from cradle to grave as a child he is devoted to his parents
013033_13527_000083 the prince's father has moslems for subjects his mother is named fatimah and when imprisoned he solaces himself with reading the koran the genii who interpose in these adventures are again those who had dealings with solomon
013033_13527_000084 by inserting romances which were already known but which formed no part of the original recueil such as the travels of sindbad the seaman the book of seven wazirs and others he accepts the persian scheme
013033_13527_000085 and especially his faith courteous and affable rarely failing in temperance of mind and self-respect self-control and self-command hospitable to the stranger
013033_13527_000086 that it contains many words in common modern use and that generally it suggests the decadence of arabian literature of one tale he remarks the history of the loves of camaralzaman and budour princess of china is no more indian or persian than the others
013033_13527_000087 this was a favourite with olden persia and mohammed most austere and puritanical of the prophets strongly objected to it because preferred by the more sensible of his converts to the dry legends of the talmud and the koran quite as fabulous without the halo
013033_13527_000088 under three heads one the apologue or beast fable proper a theme which may be of any age as it is found in the hieroglyphics and in the cuneiforms two the fairytale as for brevity we may term the stories based upon supernatural agency
013033_13527_000089 attached to his fellow citizens submissive to superiors and kindly to inferiors if such classes exist eastern despotisms have arrived nearer the idea of equality and fraternity than any republic yet invented
013033_13527_000090 he however designed not therein merely to please himself but that he might thereby become the more cautious and alert after him and the kings in like fashion made use of the book entitled hazr afan
013033_13527_000091 and in it were included other matters mohammed bin is'hak adds and the truth is inshallah the first who solaced himself with hearing night tales was al iskandar he of macedon and he had a number of men who used to relate to him imagery stories and provoke him to laughter
013116_13545_000000 which plainly shows that those of one country by their customs and manner of life have found occasion to make several complex ideas and given names to them which others never collected into specific
013116_13545_000001 men would often see what a small pittance of reason and truth or possibly none at all is mixed with those huffing opinions they are swelled with if they would but look
013116_13545_000002 that makes the archetype and specific idea whether any such action were committed in rerum natura or no number four how this is done to understand this right
013116_13545_000003 the near relation that there is between species essences and their general name at least in mixed modes will further appear when we consider that it is the name that seems to preserve those essences and give them their lasting duration
013116_13545_000004 evidently arbitrarily in that the idea is often before the existence nobody can doubt but that these ideas of mixed modes are made by a voluntary collection of ideas put together in the mind independent from any original patterns in nature
013116_13545_000005 under which divers particulars as far forth as they agreed to that abstract idea might be comprehended and if the doubtful signification of the word species may make it sound harsh to some that i say the species of mixed modes are made by the understanding yet i think it can by nobody be denied
013116_13545_000006 i leave it to be considered who makes the boundaries of the sort or species since with me species and sort have no other difference than that of a latin and english medium number ten in mixed modes it is the name that ties the combination of simple ideas together and makes it a species
013116_13545_000007 this could not have happened if these species were the steady workmanship of nature and not collections made and abstracted by the mind in order to naming and for the convenience of communication the terms of our law which are not empty sounds will hardly find words that answer them in the spanish or italian no scanty languages
013116_13545_000008 and how much all sorts of knowledge discourse and conversation are pestered and disordered by the careless and confused use of application of words it will perhaps be thought worthwhile thoroughly to lay it open
013116_13545_000009 we must consider wherein this making of these complex ideas consists and that is not in the making any new idea but putting together those which the mind had before wherein the mind does these three things first it chooses a certain number secondly it gives them connexion and makes them into one idea
013116_13545_000010 beyond fashionable sounds and observe what ideas are or are not comprehended under those words with which they are so armed at all points and with which they so confidently lay about them
013116_13545_000011 and i shall be pardoned if i have dwelt long on an argument which i think therefore needs to be inculcated because the faults men are usually guilty of in this kind are not only the greatest hindrances of true knowledge but are so well thought of as to pass for it
013116_13545_000012 and those species or rather their essences being abstract complex ideas made arbitrarily by the mind it is convenient if not necessary to know the names before one endeavour to frame these complex ideas unless a man will fill his head with a company of abstract complex ideas
013116_13545_000013 the names of mixed modes being general they stand as has been shown for sorts or species of things each of which has its peculiar essence the essences of these species also as has been shown
013116_13545_000014 that it is the mind makes those abstract complex ideas to which specific names are given and if it be true as it is that the mind makes the patterns for sorting and naming of things
013116_13545_000015 and therefore it is not unreasonable for them to be wary herein themselves and not to be unwilling to have them examined by others with this design therefore i shall go on with what i have further to say concerning this matter
013116_13545_000016 whilst yet they had no being but in the understanding as well as now that they have but too frequently a real existence whereby it is plain how much the sorts of mixed modes are the creatures of the understanding
013116_13545_000017 though therefore it be the mind that makes the collection it is the name which is as it were the knot that ties them fast together what a vast variety of different ideas does the word triumphous hold together and deliver to us as one species
013116_13545_000018 is that very word annexed to it without which the several parts of that would no more be thought to make one thing than any other show which having never been made but once had never been united into one complex idea under one denomination
013116_13545_000019 for the connection between the loose parts of those complex ideas being made by the mind this union which has no particular foundation in nature would cease again were there not something that did as it were hold it together and keep the parts from scattering
013116_13545_000020 had this name been never made or quite lost we might no doubt have had descriptions of what passed in that solemnity but yet i think that which holds those different parts together in the unity of one complex idea
013116_13545_000021 who will but reflect that this sort of complex ideas may be made abstracted and have names given them and so a species be constituted before any one individual of that species ever existed
013116_13545_000022 i shall imagine i have done some service to truth peace and learning if by any enlargement on this subject i can make men reflect on their own use of language and give them reason to suspect that since it is frequent for others
013116_13545_000023 who can doubt but the ideas of sacrilege or adultery might be framed in the minds of men and have names given them and so these species of mixed modes be constituted before either of them was ever committed and might be as well discoursed of and reasoned about and as certain truths discovered of them
013116_13545_000024 where they have a being as subservient to all the ends of real truth and knowledge as when they really exist and we cannot doubt but lawmakers have often made laws about species of actions which were only the creatures of their own understandings
013116_13545_000025 it may also be possible for them to have sometimes be very good and approved words in their mouths and writing with very uncertain little or no signification
013116_13545_000026 which others having no names for he has nothing to do with but to lay by and forget again i confess that in the beginning of languages it was necessary to have the idea before one gave it the name
013116_13545_000027 and by the common name it gives them makes them the essence of a certain species without regulating itself by any connection they have in nature for what greater connection in nature has the idea of a man than the idea of a sheep with killing
013116_13545_000028 but such as are set out by name because they being of man's making only in order to naming no such species are taken notice of or supposed to be
013116_13545_000029 number six instances murder incest stabbing to see how arbitrarily these essences of mixed modes are made by the mind we need but take a view of almost any of them a little looking into them will satisfy us that it is the mind that combines several scattered independent ideas into one complex one
013116_13545_000030 much less i think could anyone translate them into the caribbee or westoe tongues and the versura of the romans or corban of the jews have no words in other languages to answer them the reason whereof is plain from what has been said nay if we look a little more nearly into this matter
013116_13545_000031 are nothing but the abstract ideas in the mind to which the name is annexed thus far the names and essences of mixed modes have nothing but what is common to them with other ideas but if we take a little nearer survey of them we shall find that they have something peculiar which perhaps may deserve our attention
013116_13545_000032 that this is made a particular species of action signified by the word murder and the other not or what union is there in nature between the idea of the relation of a father with killing than that of a son or neighbour
013116_13545_000033 beings that had no other existence but in their own minds and i think nobody can deny but that the resurrection was a species of mixed modes in the mind before it really existed
013116_13545_000034 unless a name be joined to it as the sign of man's having combined into one idea several loose ones and by that name giving a lasting union to the parts which would otherwise cease to have any as soon as the mind laid by that abstract idea
013116_13545_000035 i leave it to be considered by those who look upon essences and species as real established things in nature number eleven suitable to this we find that men speaking of mixed modes seldom imagine or take any other for species of them
013116_13545_000036 how much therefore in mixed modes the unity necessary to any essence depends on the mind and how much the continuation and fixing of that unity depends on the name in common use annexed to it
013116_13545_000037 that those are combined into one complex idea and thereby made the essence of the distinct species parricide whilst the other makes no distinct species at all but though they have made killing a man's father or mother a distinct species from killing his son or daughter yet in some other cases son and daughter are taken in too
013116_13545_000038 for to what purpose should the memory charge itself with such compositions unless it were abstractions to make them general and to what purpose make them general unless it were that they might have general names for the convenience of discourse and communication
013116_13545_000039 whilst others that have altogether as much union in nature are left loose and never combined into one idea because they have no need of one name it is evident then that the mind by its free choice gives a connection to a certain number of ideas which in nature have no more union with one another than others that it leaves out
013116_13545_000040 i do not say this is done without reason as we shall see more by and by but this i say that it is done by the free choice of the mind pursuing its own ends and that therefore these species of mixed modes are the workmanship of the understanding and there is nothing more evident than that
013116_13545_000041 and ceased actually to think on it but when a name is once annexed to it wherein the parts of that complex idea have a settled and permanent union then is the essence as it were established and the species looked on as complete
013116_13545_000042 thus we see that killing a man with a sword or a hatchet are looked on as no distinct species of action but if the point of the sword first enter the body it passes for a distinct species where it has a distinct name as in england
013116_13545_000043 yet since those ideas which are combined in it are supposed to have an union in nature whether the mind joins them or not therefore those are looked on as distinct species without any operation of the mind either abstracting or giving a name to that complex idea
013116_13545_000044 why else is the part of the weapon the beginning of the wound is made with taken notice of to make the distinct species called stabbing and the figure and matter of the weapon left out
013116_13545_000045 as well as father and mother and they are all equally comprehended in the same species as in that of incest thus the mind in mixed modes arbitrarily unites into complex ideas such as it finds convenient
013116_13545_000046 in whose language it is called stabbing but in another country where it has not happened to be specified under a particular name it passes not for a distinct species but in a species of corporal substances though it be the mind that makes the nominal essence
013116_13545_000047 number twelve for the originals of our mixed modes we look no further than the mind which also shows them to be the workmanship of the understanding conformable also to what has been said concerning the essences of species of mixed modes
013116_13545_000048 and are made by it with great liberty yet they are not made at random and jumbled together without any reason at all though these complex ideas be not always copied from nature yet they are always suited to the end for which abstract ideas are made and though they be combinations made of ideas that are loose enough
013116_13545_000049 that they are the creatures of the understanding rather than the works of nature conformable i say to this we find that their names lead our thoughts to the mind and no further or gratitude when we speak of justice or gratitude we frame to ourselves no imagination of anything existing which we would conceive
013116_13545_000050 and so it is still where making a new complex idea one also by giving it a new name makes a new word but this concerns not languages made which have generally pretty well provided for ideas which men have frequent occasion to have and communicate and in such i ask
013116_13545_000051 but our thoughts terminate in the abstract ideas of those virtues and look not further as they do when we speak of horse or iron whose specific ideas we consider not as barely in the mind but as in things themselves which afford the original patterns of those ideas
013116_13545_000052 for the most part in the framing these ideas the mind searches not its patterns in nature nor references ideas it makes to the real existence of things but puts such together as may best serve its own purposes without tying itself to a precise imitation of anything that really exists
013116_13545_000053 number seven but still subservient to the end of language and not made at random but though these complex ideas or essences of mixed modes depend on the mind
013116_13545_000054 and exactly compare different languages we shall find that though they have words which in translations and dictionaries are supposed to answer one another yet there is scarce one often amongst the names of complex ideas especially of mixed modes that stands for the same precise idea
013116_13545_000055 number two first the abstract ideas they stand for are made by the understanding the first particularity i shall observe in them is that the abstract ideas or if you please the essences of the several species of mixed modes are made by the understanding
013116_13545_000056 and have as little union in themselves as several other to which the mind never gives a connection that combines them into one idea yet they are always made for the convenience of communication which is the chief end of language the use of language is by short sounds to signify with ease and dispatch general conceptions
013116_13545_000057 it does with great liberty unite often into one abstract idea things that in their nature have no coherence and so under one term bundle together a great variety of compounded and decompounded ideas thus the name of procession
013116_13545_000058 what a great mixture of independent ideas of persons habits tapers orders motions sounds does it contain in that complex one which the mind of man has arbitrarily put together to express by that one name
013116_13545_000059 and name so many complex ideas of these mixed modes as they find they have occasion to have names for in the ordinary occurrence of their affairs if they join to the idea of killing the idea of father or mother and so make a distinct species from killing a man's son or neighbour
013116_13545_000060 if they would make distinct abstract ideas of all the varieties which might be observed in them the number must be infinite and the memory confounded with the plenty as well as overcharged to little purpose it suffices that men make
013116_13545_000061 those they have combined into distinct complex ideas and given names to whilst others that in nature have as near a union are left loose and unregarded for to go no further than human actions themselves
013116_13545_000062 hence likewise we may learn why the complex ideas of mixed modes are commonly more compounded and decompounded than those of natural substances because they being the workmanship of the understanding pursuing only its own ends and the conveniency of expressing in short those ideas it would make known to another
013116_13545_000063 wherein not only abundance of particulars may be contained but also a great variety of independent ideas collected into one complex one in the making therefore of the species of mixed modes men have had regard only to such combinations as they had occasion to mention one to another
013116_13545_000064 but in mixed modes at least the most considerable parts of them which are moral beings we consider the original patterns as being in the mind
013116_13545_000065 and to those we refer for the distinguishing of particular beings under names and hence i think it is that these essences of the species of mixed modes are by a more particular name called notions as by a peculiar right appertaining to the understanding number thirteen
013116_13545_000066 when they have any determined signification the real essences of their species for these abstract ideas being the workmanship of the mind and not referred to the real existence of things there is no supposition of anything more signified by that name
013116_13545_000067 commonly make the whole nominal essence number fourteen names of mixed modes stand alway for their real essences which are the workmanship of our minds another thing we may observe from what has been said is that the names of mixed modes always signify
013116_13545_000068 and so in these the real and nominal essence is the same which of what concernment it is to the certain knowledge of general truth we shall see hereafter number fifteen why their names are usually got before their ideas
013116_13545_000069 whereof the intranslatable words of diverse languages are a proof a moderate skill in different languages will easily satisfy one of the truth of this it being so obvious to observe each store of languages in one language which have not any that answer them in another
013116_13545_000070 and therefore they find it necessary to mention it by a distinct name which is the end of making that distinct combination but though the ideas of mother and daughter are so differently treated in reference to the idea of killing that the one is joined with it to make a distinct abstract idea with a name
013116_13545_000071 but barely that complex idea the mind itself has formed which is all it would have expressed by it and is that on which all the properties of the species depend and from which alone they all flow
013116_13545_000072 and so a distinct species and the other not yet in respect of common knowledge they are both taken under incest and that still for the same convenience of expressing under one name
013116_13545_000073 are without difficulty rendered by the english names hour foot and pound but yet there is nothing more evident than that the ideas a roman annexed to these latin names were very far different from those which an englishman expresses by those english ones and if either of these should make use
013116_13545_000074 of the measures that those of the other language designed by their names he would be quite out in his account these are too sensible proofs to be doubted and we shall find this much more so in the names of more abstract and compounded ideas
013116_13545_000075 such as are the greatest part of those which make up moral discourses whose names when men come curiously to compare with those they are translated into in other languages they will find very few of them exactly to correspond
013116_13545_000076 will possibly be thought by some to this be much more than what so slight a subject required i allow it might be brought into a narrow compass but i was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appears to me new and a little out of the way
013116_13545_000077 reason of my being so large on this subject what has been said here of mixed modes is with very little difference applicable also to relations which since every man himself may observe i may spare myself the pains to enlarge on especially since what i have said here said concerning words in this third book
013116_13545_000078 wherein they differ from those of substances which carry with them the supposition of some real being from which they are taken and to which they are conformable but in its complex ideas of mixed modes the mind takes a liberty not to follow the existence of things exactly
013116_13545_000079 which the word does that in dictionaries it is rendered by there are no ideas more common and less compounded than the measures of time extension and weight and the latin names hora pes nebra
013116_13545_000080 wherein they differ from those of simple ideas in which sort the mind has no power to make any one but only receives such as are presented to it by the real existence of things operating upon it
013116_13545_000081 number three secondly made arbitrarily and without patterns in the next place these essences of the species of mixed modes are not only made by the mind but made very arbitrarily made without patterns or reference to any real existence
013116_13545_000082 it unites and retains certain collections as so many distinct specific ideas whilst others that as often occur in nature
013116_13545_000083 whether it not the ordinary method that children learn the names of mixed modes before they have their ideas what one of a thousand ever frames the abstract ideas of glory and ambition before he has heard the names of them in simple ideas and substances
013116_13545_000084 in the whole extent of their significations number nine this shows species to be made for communication the reason why i take so particular notice of this is that we may not be mistaken about genera and species and their essences
013116_13545_000085 and give occasion to the most averse or negligent to reflect on a general miscarriage which though of great consequence is little taken notice of when it is considered what a pudder is made about essences
013116_13545_000086 i am sure it is one i thought not of when i began to write that by searching it to the bottom and turning it on every side some part or other might meet with every one's thoughts
013116_13545_000087 as if they were things regularly and constantly made by nature and had a real existence in things when they appear upon a more wary survey to be nothing else but an artifice of the understanding for the easier signifying such collections of ideas as it should often have occasion to communicate by one general term
013116_13545_000088 and are as plainly suggested by outward things pass neglected without particular name or specifications nor does the mind in these of mixed modes as in the complex idea of substances examine them by the real existence of things or verify them by patterns containing such peculiar compositions in nature
013194_11760_000000 and the folly of it was that another woman of cerny wished for nothing better than to go since my sister and father are sent away she said i should rather go with them i have no mind to stay here alone with my two babies
013194_11760_000001 to see people who are not germans to know what is going on to live a gleam of hope came it was in the month of march
013194_11760_000002 in order to give a larger apartment to bubenpech genevive and i had to be satisfied with the small room which is on the level with the yard and icy cold in winter
013194_11760_000003 no denunciation and for good reasons the people were convinced that the soldiers had kindled the straw on purpose
013194_11760_000004 the military authority grieved to the heart imprisoned without further delay the mayor and six notable persons
013194_11760_000005 here is it is black it is long the crow hovers i do not stir my feet are sunk in the snow yet i come nearer or rather the thing is approaching
013194_11760_000006 it was not to be three persons eager to stay were forced to go three others nothing loath to go were bidden to stay thus had our leaders settled the matter
013194_11760_000007 he understands that we look sour at the germans and he does not want to have us punished for it we were candid bubenpech was not rude and unmannerly like von bernhausen and therefore his methods were different
013194_11760_000008 perhaps for two or three days the first thing then was to make ourself comfortable our feet were cold suppose we put on our slippers no sooner said than done when our first joy had somewhat cooled down
013194_11760_000009 for instance our neighbourhoods the branchiers a very young couple whose joint ages were less than forty years who had only an empty purse and about thirty kilo of potatoes were robbed to the very last shred
013194_11760_000010 gathered together in a large schoolroom label bureau both in french and german and busied themselves with endless scribblings
013194_11760_000011 but he swore that we should pay dearly for the scorn of the germans and he waited his opportunity he was sure to seize it
013194_11760_000012 and her daughters two gendarmes on horseback accompanied us thus we were enrolled among the emigrant we alighted in laon
013194_11760_000013 broke out laughing and turned a deaf ear with a great deal of ajointing the cars took us away and we soon lost sight of the pale faces of madame valane
013194_11760_000014 why posy are you in the vosges how can the wind make such a noise through the branches i see but one fir tree black against the gloomy sky and i hear it thunder
013194_11760_000015 and he was content with a short bow when he happened to meet one of us which was rare for we carefully avoided him at least we said he is not too dull-witted
013194_11760_000016 all the same he bore us a grudge for having been insensible to his charms only he looked upon to revenge as a cold dish
013194_11760_000017 yet it is exactly what i thought it is a dead body its uniform is untouched its face the eye sockets are empty who is it who is it the crow has torn out his eyes
013194_11760_000018 the civilians they distributed passports and they superintended requisitions from the outset bubenpech seemed eager to show he was hard to please the rural constable was ordered
013194_11760_000019 they put in writing all divers tasks required for the villagers they kept an account of allowance of food sometimes granted to
013194_11760_000020 and were shown into a huge hall adjoining the station the little immigrants of cerny were still screaming the refractories of woman had not left off crying
013194_11760_000021 yet the thunder never roars in winter i see a crow whirling round and round before it alight there is nothing under the fir trees but i know something must be there
013194_11760_000022 there were tears and gnashing of teeth treasure were discovered potatoes and corn dug up the germans laid hold of everything and they even despoiled the very poor of their slender provisions
013194_11760_000023 they drew up lists of the male inhabitants of the village who twice a month had to be present when their names were called over
013194_11760_000024 who do not live upon nothing we in our house tired of war hid nothing at all we had possessed for a fortnight four sacks of wheat
013194_11760_000025 its raging interlocutor the cannon to roar instead of itself it was impossible to try to sleep again
013194_11760_000026 was not absent nor was god punish england in letters three feet high the shrieking of the urchins their mothers scolding overtopped the general noise
013194_11760_000027 and be squeezed tight like a sardines in a tin box who will go i inquired there were some who held back i stay here declared madame valaine up to now the house has not been plundered i want to keep it as it is
013194_11760_000028 or on our knees five days to go to paris what is that even were we to spend them sleepless even were we to starve
013194_11760_000029 at vaux they had no left twenty centimetres of a certain garden unexplored after a long debate we decided to leave things as they were
013194_11760_000030 and within four or five days at the farthest we should be in paris would we go indeed rather than stay behind we would have made journey in a cattle truck upon our head
013194_11760_000031 but we also used to dream wide awake in the invaded country thousands and thousands of people are thus thinking in the dark their hands are clasped in prayer
013194_11760_000032 other villages less fortunate than ours had been overburdened with taxes upon the most ridiculous pretences
013194_11760_000033 posy i shrieked with terror and i awoke panting the wind moaned through the trees of the garden and from time to time ceased as if
013194_11760_000034 besides the picture of the emperor the wall were chiefly decorated with a vast inscriptions god with us
013194_11760_000035 pierrot felt uneasy and hung onto my arm we dragged our luggage along with a great deal of trouble the hall we were taken to was already crowded with hundred of persons
013194_11760_000036 yet we buried the scout in chevregny who is it oh god he that is nearest to me in the world
013194_11760_000037 even if it limped with a lame foot for the present he encouraged us to go and gave most comforting particulars about the journey which would be an easy one the trains would take thousands of people to switzerland
013194_11760_000038 from early morning the refugee had been arriving in great numbers long rough boards nailed upon four upright pieces of wood serve as a table and benches
013194_11760_000039 one hundred marks for one hundred twenty francs pieces of gold are not readily drawn out of the stockings yet a few of them had to come forth i am afraid that since then the invaders have managed to empty them
013194_11760_000040 especially when you know from sad experience that the perquisitioners perform their office conscientiously at aulnois they had watered a cellar to make sure that the ground had not been newly dug
013194_11760_000041 but at that time they were only at the heel by mere chance morny had as yet paid no more than the contribution of war which had been levied on the whole country soon after the invasion
013194_11760_000042 but if peace returns and i am able to build a house it shall have hiding places wells tanks deep dungeons hollow wall
013194_11760_000043 the old people looked scared and did not know what to do on the rot tables soldier put platters of sticky greyish soup
013194_11760_000044 i stay here said colette in her turn do you think i will fly before the prussians again besides i have nothing to do in paris
013194_11760_000045 then they deliberated upon the matter and always regretfully imposed a fine of sixteen thousand francs on the village
013194_11760_000046 and we were properly installed we watched the landscape the train went slowly through a dull country the clouds seemed to crawl along the ground and the mist moistened the panes of the windows
013194_11760_000047 in other villages it was still worse a man of barenton set his house on fire and hanged himself rather than leave some persons were sent away because the germans coveted their houses for one purpose or another at vivaise
013194_11760_000048 or clenched or convulsively pressed or relaxed out of utter weariness it is the hour when the absent are present what family has not one or several members at the front
013194_11760_000049 and for many months an abyss had grown between us which cannot be crossed but at night they come back in the dark we see the dear faces smile we watch their familiar gesture we hear their familiar voices
013194_11760_000050 shall open by means of a secret springs and two three five cellars shall be arrayed one beneath the other which in case of a need shall swallow
013194_11760_000051 a smell of burnt grease floated in the air we were waiting for our turn to go to a small room where three nurses of the red cross were busy feelings searching undressing the immigrant as they pleased
013194_11760_000052 a poor hamlet coucy les eppes was fined six times during the space of a few months first came the general contribution
013194_11760_000053 a simple rush mat cover the pavement the stove was small the fuel rare our blanket thinned the hussars has requisitioned two others we went to bed shivering with cold
013194_11760_000054 he appeared to our eyes crowned with a golden nimbus and more dazzling than an archangel his voice was sweeter than honey he said the persons who want to leave the invaded territory
013194_11760_000055 all that is left for our potatoes for us the provisions for macaroni that is hidden in the canopy of the bed of our prussian
013194_11760_000056 they have been dead perhaps these last six months their bodies may be rotting among barbed wire they may have been blown to pieces by an explosion
013194_11760_000057 mother and daughter insisted besides they added living will be easier when you are away if mme lantois manages to give us one or two eggs or a bottle of milk this windfall will not have to be divided into seven parts for us
013194_11760_000058 shall i go and study music in paris when the prussians are still here never since mother and colette remain i stay with them after all the french can't be long in coming back
013194_11760_000059 a basket to right a basket to left a basket over the way our provision well-nigh dwindled to nothing after that we were in the same state as our neighbours
013194_11760_000060 it so happened that in september some soldiers coming back from reims drove their carts through sissonne and as their cart were loaded with bottles of wine
013194_11760_000061 after a long discussion the thing was settled we fell into one another arms every one of us shed a flood of tears and with fervid hate we made preparation for our departure
013194_11760_000062 the civilians were accused of having put a trap for honest prussian wheels their protestations availed nothing the canton was condemned to a fine the canton must pay and coucy paid like the other communes
013194_11760_000063 truly a more miserable herd never was seen the germans had chosen to send away the poorest among the poor of our villages
013194_11760_000064 he declared he was compelled to requisition to the corn with a smile he left us our potatoes colette was indignant why this fellow does not take our potatoes because he wants to be amiable
013194_11760_000065 bubenpech who out of politeness gave himself the trouble to search our house visiting every cupboard and poking his nose everywhere had been at no pain to discover them
013194_11760_000066 where are the beloved ones the mother are at prayers the mother are crying sisters wives all that i love shrink with horror at the sights that pass before their eyes where are the beloved ones
013194_11760_000067 the pitiful crowd wended its way to the station about twelve hundred immigrant surrounded by the soldier from their thresholds the inhabitants stared at us
013194_11760_000068 when all houses were searched after the great proclamation of november an old flintlock kept in memory of an ancestor was discovered in coucy
013194_11760_000069 no papers no letters at two every one had filed off before these searchers and we were ordered to start again so through the street of vaux
013194_11760_000070 or swollen by asphyxiating gas or burn in the flames or crushed beneath earthworks or riddled by grapeshot or torn by balls their bodies which have been cherished cared for
013194_11760_000071 and our neighbour to have been despoiled of everything it is a shame we must share with the others and we did
013194_11760_000072 shall we be allowed to see them again here below where are they where are the strong arms that embraced me when i murmured posy i am cold
013194_11760_000073 they drank all the way and threw empty bottle behind them then camed motor-cars which punctured their tyres on the broken glass great scandal
013194_11760_000074 we had to tell him that if he were so tiresome we should be obliged to leave him in mourning and he became as quiet as a lamb our bags were soon packed and with thrilling heart we awaited our departure
013194_11760_000075 the announcement of the journey did not arouse the enthusiasm which the german had expected bubenpech had given us a grand and imposing picture of those evacuation of en masse we purpose he said
013194_11760_000076 and made very profitable visit madame turgau for instance had succeeded in hiding a sack of wheat and the soldier were hardly out of the way a loaf to celebrate her good fortune
013194_11760_000077 it is beyond doubt that some people had managed to save many things and of course the germans had surmised as much two or three days after the first perquisitions they dropped in unawares
013194_11760_000078 at an old maiden lady's it never struck the owner that she should have brought it to the mayor's house or hidden it and suppose the old maiden lady had shouldered the ancient
013194_11760_000079 or moaning upon a bed in hospital our souls our eager heart are longing for delivery and the day it comes will perhaps bring with it the bitterest sorrows
013194_11760_000080 sir i besought please order a moment rest i can't go any further no no no halt if you can't carry your things ask someone else someone else
013194_11760_000081 is enough to make you shudder when you think of the danger the german army might have thus incurred as quick as could be a few thousand francs were levied on the village
013194_11760_000082 the loaf yellow and round was displayed on the table while on the ground lay the sack saved from the wreck and little lucienne a slender girl of twelve as reasonable as a woman was grinding corn in a coffee mill
013194_11760_000083 we purpose evacuating forty percent of the civil population why should we go on feeding so many useless people we shall but keep back he went on
013194_11760_000084 most families will have to mourn a dead one the whole country will be sunk in grief rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted we shall be despoiled and stripped of everything
013194_11760_000085 near at hand a dish was already full of flour after a second operation of the same kind it would be fit for kneading
013194_11760_000086 we leave but for the hope of meeting again our loved ones and how many will never come back and while they die receive their murderers they sleep under our roofs eat the fruits of our labour and reigned over us
013194_11760_000087 a french aviator dropped a bomb on the station and the bomb disturbed a few german carriages the military authority knitted its brows
013194_11760_000088 we had walked a mile i could hardly carry my bag any longer at one moment it even dropped from my hands i approached an officer stiff and stout who seemed to be the manager of the caravan
013194_11760_000089 which dared to be subversive enough to conceal an old maid and an old gun even then the troubles of the poor village did not come to an end
013194_11760_000090 kissed and we go on hoping then thinking them alive safe and sound when shall we know whether they are dead or alive whether strong and healthy
013194_11760_000091 that was easy to say i looked around me despairingly the people were all as weary as i pierrot stuck to my arm antoinette was somewhere in front genevieve was spent with fatigue
013194_11760_000092 at the idea that we was going to see his mother again pierrot had turned as white as a sheet and then had begun screaming at the top of his voice mother mother mother he jumped he danced
013194_11760_000093 but every one prefer keeping what was dearest to him we too were overladen we made what haste we could among the grey crowd
013228_13762_000000 they stood side by side in the doorway while campton's darkened mind struggled anew with the mystery of fate almost every day now the same readjustment had to be gone through
013228_13762_000001 oh by all means what i want campton pursued is to get him out of this business altogether they wouldn't be happy they couldn't be she's too much like he broke off frightened at what he had been about to say
013228_13762_000002 madame olida had had a struggle to bring up her boy but she kept on with the beauty shop had made a success of it and not long before the war had added fortune telling to massage and hair dressing
013228_13762_000003 nurses and orderlies were speeding from one room to another of the house of pain with the message america has declared war on germany
013228_13762_000004 but mr brant quietly sided with george and campton was glad to be spared the necessity of celebrating the day in such a setting it was some time since campton had seen his son
013228_13762_000005 why it was like digging him up again out of that peaceful corner of the neuilly cemetery where at last he was resting like dragging him back to the fret and the fever and the senseless roar of the guns that still went on
013228_13762_000006 everything all right george said he dropped back his lids closing again and a single twitch ran through the hand that campton had seized after that he lay stiller than ever
013228_13762_000007 so i sail tomorrow i mean to take a house somewhere near him he's not well and he writes that he misses me the life in camp is so unsuited to him
013228_13762_000008 they sat and looked at each other without speaking then she began again imploringly i tell you there's not a moment to be lost campton picked up a palette knife and began absently to rub it with an oily rag
013228_13762_000009 by and by you'll understand she'll show you we'll show you together but at present nothing's to be said to any one please not even to mother madge thinks this is no time for such things
013228_13762_000010 mister brant's look seemed to say that making julia understand had proved a no less onerous task for his maturity than for campton's youth if you don't object perhaps the matter might for the present continue to be kept between you and me he suggested
013228_13762_000011 pepito was born there and soon afterward alas her clever husband declaring that he hated grease in cooking or in woman and after my pepito's birth i became as you now see me had gone off with the manicure and all their savings
013228_13762_000012 but the fault was not his son's the painter was aware of having voluntarily avoided george he said to himself as long as i know he's safe why should i bother him
013228_13762_000013 you've both been awfully fine did you know it you two first made me feel a lot of things i hadn't felt before and you know this is my job i've never felt surer of it than at this minute
013228_13762_000014 they clasped hands in silence each looking his fill of the other then the crowd closed in george exclaimed my kit-bag and somehow in the confusion the parting was over
013228_13762_000015 had forgotten that they were in his possession mr mayhew delivered himself of this indictment amid an embarrassed silence to campton it had seemed as if a burst of protest must instantly clear the air
013228_13762_000016 oh gasped campton wringing his hand boylston burst into the studio the next day what did i tell you sir george's influence it wakes up everybody but talk it i'll be hanged if i should have thought it
013228_13762_000017 and we thought of celebrating the day by a little party a dinner with perhaps the smallest kind of a dance or just bridge yes probably just bridge the banker added tentatively opinions differ as to the suitability it's for his mother to decide
013228_13762_000018 but of course no evening clothes and we hoped perhaps to persuade you our only object is to amuse himto divert his mind from this wretched entanglement
013228_13762_000019 all this time mr boylston treasurer and chairman of the financial committee appeared to think it quite in order that the funds should have been as he assumed deposited in the bank by a member who was not on that particular committee and who in reality
013228_13762_000020 the cowering averted mind dragged upward and forced to visualize a new gap in the ranks and summon the remaining familiar figures to fill it up and blot it out and today this cruel gymnastic was to be performed for george's best friend the elder dastrey's sole stake in life
013228_13762_000021 o grave where is thy victory in the querulous tone of a schoolmaster reproaching a pupil who mislaid things it was always so with campton when sorrow fell it left him insensible and dumb not till long afterward did he begin to feel its birth pangs
013228_13762_000022 but it sounded far off and hollow like the voice of a ghost calling for another who was george what did the name represent the father left his post in the window and turned back to the bed once more searching the boy's face for enlightenment
013228_13762_000023 he saw her as an old empty hearted woman and asked himself how such an unmanageable monster has grief was to fill the room up of her absent son
013228_13762_000024 he jammed his hat on shouted out i resign and limped out of the room it was the way in which his encounters with practical difficulties always ended
013228_13762_000025 and the two chatted quietly in the twilight till the young man rising said it was time to be off back to your shop rather there's a night's work ahead but i'm as good as new after our talk
013228_13762_000026 but that did not wholly account for the difference campton in the last analysis could only say that his vision of his boy was never quite in focus either as in the moment when george had comforted mme lebel or greeted his orderly or when he had said those last few broken words at the station
013228_13762_000027 the same thought had tightened campton's own heart strings but he had hoped she would not say it it may be george's turn any day she insisted
013228_13762_000028 the chasseur alpin he merely said picking up the letter and handing it to campton it was the grandson she counted on most madame lebel caught sight of campton smoothed herself and stood up also
013228_13762_000029 but in reality he did not feel himself to be fit company for anyone and had even shunned poor paul dastrey on the latter's hurried passage through paris when he'd come back from carrying the fatal news to young dastrey's mother
013228_13762_000030 i've been converted we men of culture can't stand by while the ignorant and illiterate are left to die for us we must leave that attitude to the barbarian our duty is to set an example i'm off tonight for america for plattsburg
013228_13762_000031 but it seems that there are no end of officers always intriguing to get staff jobs strong able bodied young men who ought to be in the trenches and are fit for nothing else but who are jealous of the others and last week in spite of all she could do poor isador was ordered to the front
013228_13762_000032 was first of all an artist with the habits of the studio rather than of the office in the circumstances campton jumped to his feet again if he stayed a moment longer he felt he should knock mayhew down
013228_13762_000033 campton was turning from the door when george dashed past him caught the young man by both shoulders and shouted out his name it was that of the orderly who had carried him out of the firing line and hunted him up the next day at the doullens hospital
013228_13762_000034 i had found him a wife a strong healthy girl with a good dot there go my last great grandchildren for the other will be killed too i don't understand any more do you
013228_13762_000035 going over old photographs comparing studies recalling scenes and sayings discussing with some sculptor or other the shape of george's eyelids the spring of his chest muscles the way his hair grew and his hands moved
013228_13762_000036 mrs brant's anguished voice still sounded on unless something is done immediately it appears there's a regular hunt for embusque as they're called as if it was everybody's business to be killed how's the staff work to be carried on if they're all taken but it's certain that if we don't act at once act energetically
013228_13762_000037 for a moment george seemed to hesitate his thick fair eyebrows were drawn into a puzzled frown i know i've never explained it to you properly i've tried to but i was never sure that i could make you see
013228_13762_000038 they first came to him those pangs on a morning of the following july as he sat once more on the terrace of the tuileries most of his time during the months since george's death had been spent in endless aimless wanderings up and down the streets of paris
013228_13762_000039 but george's eyes were closed sleep lay on him like an impenetrable veil the sleep of ordinary men was not like that the light of their daily habits continued to shine through the chinks of their closed faces
013228_13762_000040 about madge you'll be awfully good to her won't you if i get smashed my dear boy there was another pause and then campton risked a question just how do things stand i know so little after all
013228_13762_000041 campton looked at him wistfully you know i'd like to paint you some day oh cried boylston suffused with blushes and added with a laugh it's my uniform not me well your uniform is you it's all of you young men
013228_13762_000042 on the threshold she turned to him once more and your own son juanitoi know he's at the front again his mother came the other day she often comes
013228_13762_000043 too much he emended like the usual fool of a woman that every boy of george's age thinks he wants simply because he can't get her and you say she came to you for advice
013228_13762_000044 i believe he knew any number of languages and poor mme de dol metsch you know i've never approved of her but things are so changed nowadays and at any rate she was madly attached to him and had done everything to keep him in paris medical certificates people at headquarters working for her and all the rest
013228_13762_000045 and that day descending early from montmartre he had noticed in his listless way that all the buildings on his way were fluttering with american flags the fact left him indifferent paris was always decorating nowadays for one ally or another
013228_13762_000046 when he couldn't yet bear to turn that last canvas out from the wall or look into the old portfolio even suffering suffering what did they any of them know about suffering
013228_13762_000047 and have you seen his wife she's a war goddess i went to the station with them their farewells were harrowing at that minute you know i believe she'd forgotten that george ever existed
013228_13762_000048 a nurse came gliding up on light feet the tears were running down her face yes i know i know i know she exulted up the tall stairs and through the ramifying of long white passages rose an unwonted rumour of sound
013228_13762_000049 pale and bewildered hurrying toward her motor and the vault of the porte-cochere sent back the chauffeur's answer to her startled question poor old lady yes her only son's been killed at the front
013228_13762_000050 what did such people as julia do with grief he wondered how did they make room for it in their lives get up and lie down every day with its taste on their lips its elemental quality that awful sense it communicated of a whirling earth
013228_13762_000051 yes i understand he said and she took up her desperate litany clinging about him with soft palms like medusa lips till by dint of many promises he man aged to detach himself and steer her gently to the door
013228_13762_000052 there of course i don't agree but i must be patient the secrecy the underhandedness are hateful to me but for her it's all a part of the sacred humbug
013228_13762_000053 campton saw the look the two exchanged it lasted only for the taking of a breath a moment later officer and soldier were laughing like boys and the orderly was being drawn forth to shake hands with campton
013228_13762_000054 they were at the station father and son got out and walked toward the train campton put both hands on george's shoulders look here george broke out there's one thing more i want to tell you that i know what a lot i owe to you and adele
013228_13762_000055 he seemed nearer than ever seemed part and substance of his father or else he became again that beautiful distant apparition the winged sentry guarding the unknown
013228_13762_000056 he continued to consider her in silence and she frowned in her perplexed and fretful way he's at plattsburg you know her eyes wandered unseeingly about the studio there's nothing else to do is there now here or anywhere
013228_13762_000057 checked subdued invisibly rebuked but ever again breaking out like the noise of ripples on a windless beach in every direction
013228_13762_000058 julia too it was strange that his thoughts should turn to her with such peculiar pity it was not because the boy had been born of her body campton did not see her now as he had once had in a brief moment of compassion as the young mother bending illumined above her baby
013228_13762_000059 but again the glance was an illumination it came straight from that far country the benny upsher country which campton so feared to see in his son's eyes
013228_13762_000060 but my son i want news of my son real news i want a letter i want to see some one who has seen him to touch a hand that has touched him oh don't you understand
013228_13762_000061 nor on their sympathetic treasurer's gallant efforts to acquire amid all his other pressing interests the rudiments of business habits but miss anthony had all along been dividing her time between two widely different charities and mr boylston like his distinguished champion
013228_13762_000062 and i can promise you things if you'll help me no even if you don't help me for the old days sake i will i know secrets magical secrets that will protect him there's a moorish salve infallible against bullets handed down from king solomon i can get it
013228_13762_000063 then he remembered that it must be the fourth of july but the idea of the fourth of july came to him through the same haze of indifference as a mere far off childish memory of surreptitious explosions and burnt fingers
013228_13762_000064 the consciousness of his inferiority in argument the visionary's bewilderment when incomprehensible facts are thrust on him by fluent people the helpless sense of not knowing what to answer and of seeing his dream-world smashed in the rough-and-tumble of shabby motives
013228_13762_000065 ah he respects her murmured mr brant impressed and campton reflected that he had no doubt respected julia and what she wants is to get you to persuade him to accept less well something of the sort
013228_13762_000066 he fixed his eyes on hers why do you come to me he asked her lids opened wide but he's our child your husband knows more people he has ways you've often told me
013228_13762_000067 i followed you in the other motor he said looking away oh i say campton murmured then with an effort shouldn't you like me to drive back with you
013228_13762_000068 he knew there was an answer to be made and that he was the man to make it and his eyes filled with tears of rage and self-pity at his own incompetence but then he took heart at the thought of boylston's astuteness and miss anthony's courage they would not let themselves be beaten
013228_13762_000069 no he won't there's the difficulty it seems it's the new view the way the young men feel since the war he wants her for his wife nothing less
013228_13762_000070 the north light modeling the fresh curves of his face the father's heart gave a leap of pride his son had never seemed to him so young and strong and vivid
013228_13762_000071 but there campton held out his hand much obliged i think i'll walk mr brant nodded then he said abruptly this clairvoyante business is there anything in it do you think
013228_13762_000072 but he suddenly remembered the day three months earlier when leaning from george's window in the hospital he said to himself by the time our first regiments arrive he'll be up and looking at them from here or sitting with me over there on the terrace
013228_13762_000073 and so in sheer self-defense she would gradually stealthily fill up the void with the old occupations with bridge and visits and secret consultations at the dressmaker's about the width of crape on her dresses and all the while the object of life would be gone for her
013228_13762_000074 was aware of there being something between george and madge talkett not that he's ever said anything or even encouraged me to guess anything but she's got a talking face poor little thing and not much gift of restraint
013228_13762_000075 once more he was that dark enigma a son at the front in the heavy weeks which followed a guarded allusion of campton's showed him one day that boylston
013228_13762_000076 then at a corner he paused again and looked back at the place de la concorde it was not curiosity that drew him heaven knew he would never again be curious about anything
013228_13762_000077 campton as he came out of the station stumbled to his surprise on mr brant the little man as they met flushed and paled and sought the customary support from his eye-glasses
013228_13762_000078 where father and son in the early days of the war had seen the young recruits of the foreign legion patrolling under improvised flags
013228_13762_000079 campton nodded for george's sake he was glad yet he could not repress a twinge of his dormant jealousy was it always to be brant who thought first of the things to make george happy always brant who would alone have the power to carry them out
013228_13762_000080 but he can't prevent that poor fellow's getting killed tomorrow campton thought almost savagely as the young soldier beamed forth from the taxi in which george was hurrying him to the station
013228_13762_000081 what on earth could paul and i have found to say to each other campton argued with himself for men of our age there's nothing left to say nowadays the only thing i can do is try to work up one of my old studies of louis that might please him a little later on
013228_13762_000082 how much more deeply brant had loved her son than she had and how much more inconsolably he mourned him that would only increase her sense of isolation
013228_13762_000083 we're sealed to the job every one of us even i feel that sitting here at a stuffy desk he flushed crimson and his eyes filled we'll be in it you know america will a few weeks now i believe
013228_13762_000084 and i suppose it's fairly obvious to everybody except perhaps to talkett that she's pretty hard hit yes and george boylston's round face became remote and mysterious we don't really know do we sir exactly how any of them feel any more than if they were
013228_13762_000085 ah cried campton drawing a deep breath he threw back his shoulders as if to shake off a weight i feel exactly as brant does he declared
013228_13762_000086 and in a few months more george leaning from that same window or perhaps well enough to be watching the spectacle with his father from the terrace of the tuileries would look out on the first brown battalions marching across the place de la concorde
013228_13762_000087 she hadn't had a chance to speak to me of your visit till last night campton felt his colour rising but though his own part in the business still embarrassed him he was glad that the barriers were down
013228_13762_000088 mr brant as they left this entertainment hung back on the stairs to say in a whisper to campton the family are provided for amply i've asked george to mention the fact to the young man but not until just as he's starting
013228_13762_000089 yes they were all being swept into it together swept into the yawning whirlpool campton felt that as clearly as all these young men he felt the triviality
013228_13762_000090 a crumbling time and all the cold stellar spaces yawning to receive us these feelings which he was beginning to discern and to come to terms within his own way and with the sense that it would have been george's way too these feelings could never give their stern appeasement to julia
013228_13762_000091 and when their portraits were finished to put them away locked up for his own pleasure and what he had earned in the last years was to be partly for these young men for their reading rooms clubs recreation centres whatever was likely to give them temporary rest
013506_13383_000000 as we find them at the time and you took me as you found me at the time only that you made me out so much better mary i am not worthy of you what has birth to do with it and so far as that goes yours is better though mine may seem the brighter in every other way you are above me
013506_13383_000001 aproned the yellow dugs of shale with brown in the middle was the caldron of the torrent called the scarfe the sheer trap-rock which is green in the sunlight like black night flung around it while a snowy
013506_13383_000002 now one thing more here is a ring not worthy although it is the real stuff to go upon your precious hand yet allow me to put it on no not there upon your wedding finger now do you know what that is for for me i suppose she answered blushing with pleasure and admiration
013506_13383_000003 but it is too good too beautiful too costly not half good enough though to tell you the truth it can not be matched easily any more than you can but i know where to get those things now promise me to wear it when you think of me and the one habit will confirm the other
013506_13383_000004 he regards me with scorn because he knows no better he may know our laws but he knows nothing of our ways to suppose that my men were in any danger if i had been caught while the stir was on a gibbet on the cliff would have been set up
013506_13383_000005 to fall out with their children took a hasty turn against me at once mordacks whom i saw last week trusting myself to his honor tells me that sir duncan would have cared twopence about my free-trade work and so on or even about my having killed the officer in fair conflict
013506_13383_000006 and a skulk and unworthy to bear the name of yordas what a wicked unnatural man he must be cried mary he deserves to have no children no i am told that he's a very good man but stiff-necked and disdainful
013506_13383_000007 for he is used to that but he never will forgive me absconding and leaving my fellows as he puts it to bear the brunt he says that i am a dastard
013506_13383_000008 she would not turn back and be angry with her idle fears when she came to think of them with hereditary scorn of second thoughts she cast away doubt and went down the steep and stood on the brow of sheer rock
013506_13383_000009 recover her breath and strength for a long bold cast the crag beneath her feet was trembling with the power of the flood below and the white mist from the deep moved slowly shrouding now and now revealing
013506_13383_000010 got hold of her more than they should have done with the frail in her right hand poised upon three fingers the fourth had been broken in her childhood she planted the sole
013506_13383_000011 you are good and i am wicked you are pure and i am careless you are sweet and i am violent in truth alone i can ever vie with you and i must be a pitiful scoundrel mary if i did not even try to do that after all that you have done for me
013506_13383_000012 her bright boots were flashing against the white mist a picture in her mind forever her body was following inch by inch with elbow and shoulder and even hair coil she strove to prolong the descent into death but the descent increased its speed and the sky itself was
013506_13383_000013 her left foot on the brink and swung herself for the needful cast a strong throw was needful to reach the black water that never gave up anything the bag were dropped in the foaming race it might be carried back to the heel of the fall
013506_13383_000014 even before my trial such is the reward of eminence but no yorkshire jury would turn around in the box with those poor fellows before them not guilty my lord was on their tongues before he had finished charging them oh i am so glad they have been acquitted and you were there to see it
013506_13383_000015 she was proud of her bodily strength which was almost equal to that of a muscular man and her long arm swelled with the vigor of the throw but just when the weight should have been delivered and flown with a hiss into the bottomless abyss
013506_13383_000016 had a paper in his hand done in printing letters by myself because he is a very tidy scholar and signed by me the which he was to read before receiving sentence saying that robin lyth himself was in york town
013506_13383_000017 nothing escaped him for his eyes were sharp being of true danish breed he saw captain anerley trudging up the hill with a pipe in his mouth to the bean field
013506_13383_000018 and harry was the only one of all the six in danger according to the turn of the evidence my poor eyes have scarcely come round yet from the quantity of sobbing that i had to do and the horrible glare of my goggles and then i had a crutch that i stumped with as i sighed so that all the court could hear me
013506_13383_000019 horrible death was pulling at her not a stick nor a stone was in reach of her hands and the pitiless crags echoed one long shriek above all the roar of the waterfall she strove to turn over and grasp the ground but only felt herself going faster
013506_13383_000020 a loose flag of the handle twisted on her broken finger instead of being freed the fall then back and struck her in the chest and threw her back for the clock weight was heavy one her balance was lost her feet flew up and she fell upon her back and the smooth beaver cloak began sliding upon the slippery rock
013506_13383_000021 and whenever i did it all the women sighed too and even the hardest hearts were moved mr mordacks says that it was capital oh but robin how shocking though you make me laugh if the verdict had been otherwise oh what then well then harry
013506_13383_000022 and sir duncan yordas having made a strong pull at the imminent risk of his life threw back his weight on the heels of his boots and they helped him his long indian spurs which had no rowel held
013506_13383_000023 but said mary with her lovely eyes gleaming with the glittering shade of tears i like you very much to do it but not exactly as a duty robin you look at me like that and you talk of duty duty duty this is my duty i should like to be discharging it forever and a day
013506_13383_000024 and would surrender to that court upon condition that mercy should be warranted to the prisoners and you would have given yourself up and without consulting me about it bad i admit robin answered with a smile but not half so bad as it
013506_13383_000025 jordas without suspicion of pursuit had allowed no grass to grow under the feet of marmaduke on the homeward way his orders were to use all speed to do as he had done at the lawyer's private door
013506_13383_000026 where three or four men were enjoying the air without any of the greedy gulps produced by too great exertion of the muscles then he saw the mistress of the house throw wide a lattice
013506_13383_000027 she disliked this place and never came near it for pleasure's sake although in dry summers when the springs were low the fury of the scene passed into grandeur and even beauty
013506_13383_000028 fowls to rally from their scratching places these came zealously with speed of leg and wing from straw-rick threshing-floor double hedge or mixen and following their tails the boy slipped through the rick-yard and tossed a note to mary with a truly flamburian delivery
013506_13383_000029 and then without baiting his horse to drive back reserving the nose-bag of very humpy halting-place there is no such man at the present time of day to carry out strict orders as the dogman was
013506_13383_000030 and the chance of there being such a one again diminishes by very rapid process marmaduke as a horse was of equal quality reasoning not about his orders but about the way to do them
013506_13383_000031 to give up you which you calmly proposed just now my dear however there is no need for any trouble now except that i am forced to keep out of sight until other evidence is procured mordacks has taken to me like a better father mainly from his paramount love of justice and of daring gallantry as he calls it
013506_13383_000032 but the more important part is this and the last thing for me to say to you your father still hates my name i fear tell him every word i have told
013506_13383_000033 just when the balance was inclining downward and the plunge hanging on a hair's breadth powerful hands fell upon her shoulder a grating of a drag against the grain was the last thing she was conscious of
013506_13383_000034 it was short and sweet at least in promise being no more than these few words darling the dike where first we met an hour after sunset mary never doubted that her duty was to go and at the time appointed she was there with firm knowledge of her own mind being now a loving and reasonable woman
013506_13383_000035 it would be a great deal more than he deserves mary answered with sweet simplicity but what could you do if he found out who you are not the smallest fear of that my dear
013506_13383_000036 there were no special emergency now so far as my lady philippa knew but the manner of her mind was to leave no space between a resolution and its execution
013506_13383_000037 it was just a year since she had saved the life of robin and patience and loneliness and opposition had enlarged and ennobled her true and simple heart no lord in the land need have looked for a purer or sweeter example of maidenhood than this daughter of a yorkshire farmer was
013506_13383_000038 madam i will not steal it it is only for a cushion the lady however though still in a stupor kept her fingers clinched upon the handle of the bag and without using violence he could not move them then the stitching of the frail gave way and sir duncan espied a roll of parchment suddenly the lady opened
013506_13383_000039 i may be going for a little walk but you will at once carry up the turbot mrs carnaby's appetite is delicate the butler had his own opinion upon that interesting subject but in her presence it must be his own
013506_13383_000040 shall fill the locker with this disgusting peace on and no chance of prize money and plenty in their pockets for a good spell ashore blue jackets will be scarce when sir duncan yordas sails
013506_13383_000041 although it was only a small-sized boy no other than the heir of the cod-fish a brighter rose flew into mary's cheeks then the master cock of all the yard could show upon comb or wattle
013506_13383_000042 if i can get a decent berth as a petty officer off i go for calcutta and watch like the sweet little cherub that sits up aloft for the safety of my dear papa and mamma as the frenchmen are teaching us to call them what do you think of such filial devotion
013506_13383_000043 as soon as her long sight showed her the trusty jordas begin the home ascent it is to be taken first out of the car and to my sister's sitting room the other things jordas will sit
013506_13383_000044 contemptuous of twopence which mary felt for the boy disappeared like a rabbit and the fowls came and helped themselves to the tail wheat while their mistress was thinking of her letter
013506_13383_000045 in her simple dress and with the dignity of love the glen was beginning to bestrew itself with want of light instead of shadows and bushy places thickened with the imperceptible growth of night mary went on with excitement deepening while sunset deepened into dusk and the color of her clear face flushed
013506_13383_000046 large dark eyes which wandered a little and then as he raised her head met his and turned away philippa he said and she faintly answered yes being humbled and shaken by her deadly terror and scarcely sure of safety yet for the roar and the chasm
013506_13383_000047 early in september the belleisle is being paid off now and i have my certificate as well as lots of money next to his lass every sailor loves a spree and mine instead of emptying
013506_13383_000048 but truly my darling there was very little danger and i am up for a much better joke this time my august roman father who has cast me off sailed as a very great indian gun in a ship of line from spithead
013506_13383_000049 breathless himself for the transit of years and of curry powder had not improved his lungs he labored at the helpless form and laid it at last in a place of safety what a weight the lady is was his first idea it can not be
013506_13383_000050 this is the way to go up in the world or else to go down abruptly and to her the latter would have been far better than to halt between two opinions her plan had been shaped and set last night and like all great ideas was the simplest of the simple
013506_13383_000051 want of food that has driven her nor of money either her cloak would fetch a thousand rupees in calcutta and a bag full of something precious also to judge by the way she clings to it
013506_13383_000052 i have never had the honor of an introduction my new step-mother who might have been my sweetheart if i had not seen somebody a hundred times as good a thousand times as gentle and a million times as lovely
013506_13383_000053 i did not come here for ideas of this kind said mary with her lips as red as pyracanthine berries free trade was bad enough but the royal navy worse it seems now robin dear be sensible and tell me what i am to do to listen to me and then say whether i deserve what my father has done to me
013506_13383_000054 pursued by square-toed men prepared to add elasticity to velocity therefore welldrum made a leg in silence and retreated while his mistress prepared for her intended exploit she had her beaver hat and mantle ready by the shrubbery door as a little quiet postern
013506_13383_000055 were in sight and hearing still philippa are you better never mind what you were thinking of all shall be right about that philippa what is land in comparison with life look up at me don't be afraid to look surely you know your only brother i am duncan
013506_13383_000056 lived for years in india i used to be very kind to you when we were children and why should i alter from it now i remember when you tumbled in the path down there and your knee was bleeding i tied it up with a dock leaf and my handkerchief
013506_13383_000057 can you remember it was primrose time to be sure i do she said looking up with cheerfulness and you carried me all the way home almost and eliza was dreadfully jealous
013506_13383_000058 and fleeted under the anxious touch of love as the tint of a delicate fingernail with any pressure varies but not very long was she left in doubt how long have you been and oh where have you been and how much longer will you be among many other words and doings she insisted chiefly on these points
013506_13383_000059 she has a little temper of her own i can assure you and i wish sir duncan joy of her when they get among mosquitoes but as i was going to say the only risk of my being caught is from her sharp eyes even of that there is not much danger for we common sailors need not go within hail of those grandees unless it comes to boat-work
013506_13383_000060 but a yordas long ago gone to answer for it had flung a man who plagued him with the law into this hole and what was more disheartening although of less importance a favorite maid of this lady upon the exile of her sweetheart leading that his feet were upside down to hers and this
013506_13383_000061 especially at this time of year when fires are weak and telltale and parchment makes such a nasty smell eliza might come in and suspect it but the scarfe is a trusty confidant
013506_13383_000062 and perhaps it will bring him halfway round sooner or later he must come around and the only way to do it is to work him slowly when he sees in how many ways i have been wrong and how beautifully i have borne it all he will begin to say to himself
013506_13383_000063 i am a true blue as you may see and a warrant officer already he said with his old way of smiling at himself when the war begins again as it must please god before many weeks are over i shall very soon get my commission and go up i am quite fit already to command a frigate mary was astonished
013506_13383_000064 not only as an outlaw which has been upon the whole a comfort but as a suspected criminal with warrant against him and reward upon him
013506_13383_000065 any attempt at enlargement of her mind by exchange of sentiment such as mrs carnaby permitted and enjoyed would have sent him flying down the hill
013506_13383_000066 and even if miss janetta i beg her pardon lady yordas should chance to recognize me i am sure she would never tell her husband no no she would be too jealous and for fifty other reasons she is very cunning let me tell you well cried mary with a smile of wisdom
013506_13383_000067 oh robin do leave off such very dreadful stories i saw her in the church and she looked beautiful fine feathers make fine birds however she is well enough in her way and i love her father but for all that she has no business to be my step-mother and of course it was only the money that did it
013506_13383_000068 of her own was called and in the heavy standing desk or secretary of her private room she had stored a flat basket or frail of stout flags with a heavy clock weight inside it much better to drown the wretched thing than burn it she had been saying to herself
013506_13383_000069 at his modesty she thought that he ought to be an admiral at least and so she told him however he knew better you must bear in mind he replied with a kindly desire to spare her feelings that until a change for the better comes i am under disadvantages
013506_13383_000070 that she always was and you not much better but now we are getting on in life and we need not have much to do with one another still we may try not to kill one another by trumpery squabbles about property stay where you are for a moment sister you shall see the end of that sir duncan took the bag with the deed inside it
013506_13383_000071 for a hundred and twenty feet the water is bright in the novelty and the power of itself striking out freaks of eccentric flashes and even little sun bows in fine weather but the triumph is brief and a heavy retribution created by its violence awaits below
013506_13383_000072 upon one of the wildest head-waters of the tees a strong mountain torrent from a desolate ravine springs forth with great ferocity and sooner than put up with any more stabs from the rugged earth casts itself on air
013506_13383_000073 only two things more in the first place mordacks has taken a very great fancy to me and has turned against my father he and widow carroway and i had a long talk after the trial and we all agreed that the murder was committed by a villain called john cadman a sneak and a skulk
013506_13383_000074 whom i knew well as one of carroway's own men among other things they chanced to say that cadman's gun was missing and the poor widow can swear to it i asked if anyone had searched for it and mordacks said no
013506_13383_000075 it would be hopeless i told them that if i were only free to show myself and choose my time i would lay my life upon finding it if thrown away as it most likely was in some part of that unlucky cave mordacks caught at this idea and asked me a number of questions and took down my answers
013506_13383_000076 it had been clearly proved to his knowledge long before the great fact was vouchsafed to me that i am the only son of sir duncan yordas or at any rate his only son for the present
013506_13383_000077 from the tossing turmoil of the fall two white volumes roll away with a clash of waves between them and sweeping round the craggy basin meet like a snowy wreath below and rush back in coiling eddies flaked with
013506_13383_000078 of course i am innocent and everybody knows it or at least i hope so except the one who should have known it best i am the person who should know it best of all his true love answered
013506_13383_000079 and the sooner it was done the less the chance of disturbing poor eliza's mind the scarfe is a deep pool supposed to have no bottom except perhaps in the very bowels of the earth
013506_13383_000080 i hope that i may never live to be a step-mother the way those poor things get abused you would have more principle i should hope than to marry anybody after me however i have told you nearly all my news in a few minutes i must be off
013506_13383_000081 returned in three steps to the perilous shelf and with one strong hurl sent forth the load which cleft the white mist and sank forever in the waves of the whirlpool no one can prosecute me for that said returning with a smile
013506_13383_000082 mistress yordas while sure that her sister having even more than herself at stake would approve and even applaud her scheme was equally sure that it must be kept from her for both its own sake and for hers
013506_13383_000083 with some jealousy explain yourself robin if you please no robin so please you but mr james blyth captain of the foretop then cockswain of the barge and now master's mate of h m ship of the line belleisle
013506_13383_000084 because you belong to great people and i am just a farmer's daughter and no more and quite satisfied to remain so such things never answer a little while ago you were above me weren't you while i was nobody's son and only a castaway with a nickname that has nothing to do with it we must take things exactly
013506_13383_000085 he came back from india as you must understand with no other object in life that i can hear of or he had any quantity of money than to find out me his only child and the child of only wife he ever could
013506_13383_000086 speak she said it is better to speak plainly you know that it must be so do i why robin lyth asked calmly being well contented to prolong her doubts that he might get the benefit thereafter
013506_13383_000087 now this young man may be improving but he never will say he hath no need of it i should rather think not you conceited robin or whatever else i am to call you now but i bargain for one thing whatever may happen i shall never call you anything less but robin
013506_13383_000088 and it is to be feared that some fleeced clients will not feel the horror which they ought to feel at the mode pursued by mistress yordas in the delivery of her act and deed she came down the dell from the private grounds of scargate with a resolute face and a step of strength
013506_13383_000089 of a diving-bell and some great american inventions but nothing of the kind can be used there nor even grappling-irons the thing must not be heard of even until it has been accomplished whatever is done must be done by a man who can swim and dive as i can