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["\u2018There can be no two words concerning what we have to aim at; these Dusky Men we must slay everyone, though we be fewer than they be.\u2019", "\u2018Thou wert a boy methought when I cast my spear at thee last autumn, Face-of-god, but now hast thou grown into a man. Now tell me, what deemest thou we must do to slay them all?\u2019", "\u2018Once again it is clear that we must fall upon them at home in Rose-dale and Silver-dale.\u2019", "\u2018never have men gone forth more joyously to a merry-making than all men of us shall wend to this war.\u2019", "\u2018A few, a few; maybe two-hundreds all told.\u2019", "\u2018but some special gain wilt thou be to us.\u2019", "\u2018Good is that. Now have we held our Weapon-show in the Dale, and we find that we together with you be sixteen long hundreds of men; and the tale of the foemen that be now in Silver-dale, new-comers and all, shall be three thousands or thereabout, and in Rose-dale hard on a thousand.\u2019", "\u2018some of the felons have died; we told over our silver arm-rings yesterday, and the tale was three hundred and eighty and six. Besides, they were never so many as thou deemest.\u2019", "\u2018yet at least they shall outnumber us sorely. We may scarce leave the Dale unguarded when our host is gone; therefore I deem that we shall have but one thousand of men for our onslaught on Silver-dale.\u2019", "\u2018I say not but that there is a risk thereof, but in war we must needs run such risks, and all should be risked rather than that our blow on Silver-dale be light. For we be the fewer; and if the foemen have time to call that to mind, then are we all lost.\u2019", "\u2018besides, we might theft leave more folk behind us for the warding of the Dale. So, son, the risk whereof thou speakest groweth the lesser the longer it is looked on.\u2019", "\u2018Thou art wise, damsel; and I marvel that so fair-fashioned a thing as thou can think so hardly of the meeting of the fallow blades. But hearken! will not the Dusky Men hear that we have stripped the Dale of fighting-men, and may they not then give our host the go-by and send folk to ruin us?\u2019", "\u2018Hail to thee, son, for thy word! Herein thou speakest as if from my very soul, and fain am I of such a War-leader.\u2019", "\u2018All hath been spoken that the others of us may speak; and now it falleth to the part of Folk-might to order our goings for the tryst for the onslaught, and the trysting-place shall be in Shadowy Vale. How sayest thou, Chief of the Wolf?\u2019", "\u2018It were good, brother, that we saw the other wardens as soon as may be, to do them to wit of this order, and what they have to do.\u2019", "\u2018Time presses on me these days; but if thou wouldest speak with me to-morrow as I would with thee, then mightest thou go on the Bridge of the Burg about sunrise, and I will be there, and we two only.\u2019", "\u2018Yea, friend, I shall be there, and fain of thee.", "\"Looks almost too good to eat,", "\"Think so, Nirvana? Well, we'll try it.\"", "\"You'd like an electric fan, Mrs Bablove, wouldn't you?\"", "\"I think you're being very well looked after,", "\"That's just the advantage of a little place like this. I'm here pretty often, and the signor knows me; and -- oh, well, I daresay he thinks it worth his while to keep my custom. I assure you I get an amount of personal attention here that I never get at the Ritz.", "\"I like to think that so many people are taking so much trouble to please me.\"", "\"I should think -- er -- that that must always happen,", "\"As a rule, I take all the trouble. Ask Teddy if I don't.\"", "\"Oh, go on, you must,", "\"Well, I was only going to say that appearances are deceptive. You look at first sight as if you had the most placid nature in the world. But I think you could get angry, Mrs Bablove -- very angry.\"", "\"Oh, no. Quite wrong. Whatever makes you think that?\"", "\"There's a look in the eyes sometimes. Oh, I assure you it makes me very careful,", "\"Frightens me. Now, really, Mrs Bablove, you must have a little yellow Chartreuse with your coffee.\"", "\"And if anybody else tries to go,", "\"I shall lose my temper.\"", "\"Might have got a box at one of the halls if I'd thought about it,", "\"Much pleasanter where we are,", "\"Performances always bore me.\"", "\"Why do I call her Nirvana? Because she looks like a gipsy. She does, doesn't she?\"", "\"I don't know. I think she looks charming.\"", "\"I'd like to talk to you about that. Not now -- presently.", "\"Have a cigarette now, Mrs Bablove?\"", "\"Thanks. I think I will.\"", "\"Too many people. The room's nearly empty now. I'm not so brave as -- Nirvana.\"", "\"I don't think you quite know what you are. You're full of possibilities.\"", "\"Teddy gives me one sometimes, though I don't often smoke, but his are not quite so nice as these.\"", "\"I thought you were devoted to London,", "\"What you say rather surprises me.\"", "\"I surprise myself sometimes,", "\"Will you take Miss Holmes in that cab, Teddy? It's scarcely two minutes out of your way. I'll bring Mrs Bablove in the next cab.\"", "\"By the way, Mr Carver, what were you going to tell me about Nirvana?\"", "\"I don't think you know enough about yourself,", "\"That delicious mouth of yours!\"", "\"You know what you did when I had fallen asleep. Never try to do it again. And never speak of it to me. I couldn't forgive it twice, you know. To-night I've -- I made some allowance for -- well, here we are. I must get out.\"", "\"And how did you get on with Miss Holmes?\"", "\"Oh, all right. The trouble with her is that she's rather affected, and affectation is just one of those things that I can't stand.\"", "\"I didn't take much of it. To tell the truth, it's not a wine I ever met before, and the taste seemed to me rather funny. I'd sooner have a whisky-and-soda any day.\"", "\"Have one now. Do. Why not? I'll run up to bed because I'm so tired. I daresay I shall be asleep by the time you come.\"", "\"Oh, I shan't be long,", "\"I want to speak to you for a minute before you go to the city,", "\"Will you come into the drawing-room?\"", "\"Wait. You need say nothing.", "\"Do you think I haven't seen?", "\"I swear that I care for no woman in the world but you, Dora. I'm awfully sorry I've hurt you like this. Can you ever forgive me?\"", "\"if I had let a man kiss me?\"", "\"Then, Teddy dear, I forgive you absolutely. We will never speak of this again. And it will never happen again, will it?\"", "\u201cteacher and agent of the brain.", "\"I'm going to send Martin. No one will ever suppose that we would trust this money to a child.", "\"would be only to lose the money; but to stop you would be to get somebody killed.", "\"You carry a good deal of baggage, my lad.", "\"You know my father I A horse must be fed at dinner time, but a man can go till he gets it.", "\"we have got courage with this new face.", "\"I've had about enough of your big manner. You ride a horse to death and you come plunging in here; what the devil's wrong with you?", "\"But there's something damnably wrong with you, Dix.", "\"Those are big words,", "\"It's a long time un- til daylight, and I have a good deal to say.", "\"I've got a trip to make tonight; get out of the door.", "\"You've got a longer trip to make tonight than you think, Dix,", "\"but you're going to hear what I have to say before you set out on it.", "\"but it explains the thing. While one is the servant of neither, one has the courage of neither; but wheri he finally makes his choice he gets what his master has to give him.", "\"do you believe in the providence of God?", "\"if you are going to talk non- . sense I promise you upon my oath that I will not stay to listen.", "\"you've had a good deal of bad luck. . . . Perhaps you wish it put that way.", "\"you speak the truth; I have had hell's luck.", "\"It is a good word. I accept it. Your partner disap- peared with all the money of the grazers on the other side of the river; you lost the land in your lawsuit; and you are to-night without a dollar. That was a big tract of land to lose. Where did you get so great a sum of money?", "\"I got it from my people over the mountains. You know where I got it.", "\"I know where you got it, Dix. And I know another thing. But first I want to show you this,", "\"And I want to tell you that I believe in the providence of God, Dix.", "\"I don't care a fiddler's damn what you believe in,", "\"I know where your partner is,", "\"Then you know something that nobody else knows.", "\"you are talking nonsense. Nobody knows where Alkire is. If I knew I'd go after him.", "\"it was His angel again ! I never saw Alkire after that.", "\"it was not in the night when Alkire started on his journey; it was in the day.", "\"you talk like a fool. If Al- kire had traveled the road in the day somebody would have seen him.", "\"Nobody could see him on the road he traveled,", "\"You saw Alkire when he started on his journey,", "\"but did you see who it was that went with him?", "\"And I made Alkire go with somebody, did I? \u2022Well, who was it? Did you see him?", "\"he rode the hills before we came into them.", "\"And what kind of a horse did he ride?", "\"You sit here beating around the bush. If you know any- thing, say it out; let's hear it. What is it?", "\"your words move some- what near the truth.", "\"you compliment me. If I had that trick of magic, believe me, you would be already some distance down.", "\"what does it mean when one finds a plot of earth resodded?", "\"Well, confound me, if I don't answer it ! You charge me with mur- der and then you fling in this neat conundrum. Now, what could be the answer to that riddle, Abner? If one had done a murder this sod would overlie a grave and Alkire would be in it in his bloody shirt. Do I give the answer?", "\"Your sodded plot no grave, and Alkire not within it waiting for the trump of Gabriel ! Why, man, where are your little damned conclusions?", "\"you do not deceive me in the least; Alkire is not sleeping in a grave.", "\"Then consumed with fire, like the priests of Baal?", "\"This is *11 fools' talk,", "\"I will answer that upon my own belief you had no accomplice.", "\"how could I have carried off the horse? Alkire I might carry; but his horse weighed thirteen hundred pounds!", "\"no man helped you do this thing; but there were men who helped you to con- ceal it.", "\"the man is going mad! Who could I trust with such work, I ask you? Have I a renter that would not tell it when he moved on tq another's land, or when he got a quart of cider in him? Where are the men who helped me?", "\"they have been dead these fifty years.", "\"With such proofs it is a wonder that you did not have me hanged.", "\"It was clever of you, Dix, to resod the ground; that took only a little time and it effectually con- cealed the place where you had killed the horse; but it was foolish of you to forget that the broken moss around the edges of the great flat stone could not be mended.", "\"you robbed the grazers; you shot Alkire out of his saddle ; and a child you would have murdered 1", "\"Alkire was a just man; he sleeps as peacefully in that abandoned well under his horse as he would sleep in the churchyard My hand has been held back; you may go. Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.", "\"But where shall I go, Abner?", "\"I have no money and I am cold.", "\"a hundred dollars \u2014 and there is my coat. Go ! But if I find you in the hills to-morrow, or if I ever find you, I warn you in the name of the living God that I will stamp you out of life!", "\u201cyou never would have read that lesson to a rich heiress. No, my boy; you would have gone in hot haste to Havre to find out if the girl were handsome, and you would have been very unhappy indeed at her preference for genius; and if you could have tripped up your friend and supplanted him in her affections, Mademoiselle d\u2019Este would have been a divinity.\u201d", "\u201cRich or poor, young or old, ugly or handsome, the girl is right; she has sense and judgment, she has tripped you over into the slough of self-interest and lets you know it,", "\u201cShe deserves an answer, a sincere and loyal and frank answer, and, above all, the honest expression of your thought. Examine yourself! sound your heart and purge it of its meannesses. What would Moliere\u2019s Alceste say?\u201d", "\u201cI love poetry; and I would fain expiate Leonora\u2019s cruelty to Tasso!", "\u201cThe little mischief! how she abuses her privileges,", "\u201cOh, that belongs to Monsieur Vilquin, the richest shipping merchant in Havre, so rich he doesn\u2019t know what he is worth.\u201d", "\u201cThere is no Cardinal Vilquin that I know of in history,", "\u201cIs there there any one staying with them at the present moment,", "\u201cThe d\u2019Herouville family is there just now. They do talk of a marriage between the young duke and the remaining Mademoiselle Vilquin.\u201d", "\u201cthere was a celebrated Cardinal d\u2019Herouville under the Valois, and a terrible marshal whom they made a duke in the time of Henri IV.\u201d", "\u201cAt last we are alone. My Elinor, you do not yet know all my happiness. Colonel Brandon loves Marianne. He has told me so himself.\u201d", "\u201cYou are never like me, dear Elinor, or I should wonder at your composure now. Had I sat down to wish for any possible good to my family, I should have fixed on Colonel Brandon\u2019s marrying one of you as the object most desirable. And I believe Marianne will be the most happy with him of the two.\u201d", "\u201cas an excellent man, is well established.\u201d", "\u201cor after such a warning, I should be the last to encourage such affection, or even to be pleased by it. But his coming for me as he did, with such active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men.\u201d", "\u201cTo judge from the Colonel\u2019s spirits, however, you have not yet made him equally sanguine.\u201d", "\u201cAt Delaford, she will be within an easy distance of me,", "\u201ceven if I remain at Barton; and in all probability, \u2014 for I hear it is a large village, \u2014 indeed there certainly must be some small house or cottage close by, that would suit us quite as well as our present situation.\u201d", "\u201cHis fortune too! \u2014 for at my time of life you know, everybody cares about that; \u2014 and though I neither know nor desire to know, what it really is, I am sure it must be a good one.\u201d", "\"There -- he lies dashed to pieces at the bottom of the ravine.", "\"Brother! O my poor brother! No; this I never prayed for from the demons who had entered into me.", "\"Nay, nay, my good Herr Justitiarius; it couldn't have happened in that way.", "\"You have the presumption to tell me, the lord of the entail,", "\"Here I have the honour to present to you, gentlemen, Freiherr Roderick von R -- -- , lord of the entail of R -- sitten.", "\u201cwe can quicken our march; why adhere to a plan whose dilatory proceeding you already disapprove?\u201d", "\u201ca man died of the plague last night!\u201d", "\u201cbrother of my love, farewell; no other weak expression must cross these lips, I am alive again: to our tasks, to our combats with our unvanquishable foe, for to the last I will struggle against her.\u201d", "\"Mr. Merrick is so well known as a philanthropist that his name was a magic talisman for us,", "\"Moreover, our enterprise commands the sympathy of everyone. We had numerous offers of financial assistance, too.\"", "\"I claimed this expedition to be our private and individual property. We can now do as we please, being under no obligations to any but ourselves.\"", "\"We don't want to be hampered by the necessity of advising with others.\"", "\"By the way, have you found a doctor?\"", "\"Highly recommended, but homely as a rail fence,", "\"Nothing, eh? Well, wait till you see him,", "\"You'll never look Doctor Gys in the face more than once, I assure you. After that, you'll be glad to keep your eyes on his vest buttons.\"", "\"He is clever, honest and earnest. The poor man can't help his mutilations, which are the result of many unfortunate adventures.\"", "\"How long will it take us to reach Calais?", "\"We are not as fast as the big passenger steamers,", "\"but with good weather the Arabella may be depended upon to make the trip in good shape and fair time.\"", "\"I don't know whether I'll faint at the sight of real blood,", "\"but I shall know pretty well what to do if I can keep my nerve.\"", "\"We've a big stock of morphia, in its various forms,", "\"and I expect it to prove of tremendous value in comforting our patients.\"", "\"I'm not sure I approve the use of that drug,", "\"But think of the suffering we can allay by its use,", "\"If ever morphia is justifiable, it is in war, where it can save many a life by conquering unendurable pain. I believe the discovery of morphine was the greatest blessing that humanity has ever enjoyed. Don't you, Doctor Gys?\"", "\"that I have had a rather insignificant part in preparing this expedition, for all I have furnished -- aside from the boat itself -- consists of two lots of luxuries that may or may not be needed.\"", "\"Thermos flasks and cigarettes.\"", "\"Next to our anodynes and anaesthetics, nothing will prove so comforting to the wounded as cigarettes. They are supplied by nurses in all the hospitals in Europe. How many did you bring?\"", "\u201cDo you recognise the prisoner, Miss Cumberland?\u201d", "\u201cYes; he is my brother.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Cumberland, will you be good enough to tell us where you were, at or near the hour of ten, on the evening of your sister\u2019s death?\u201d", "\u201cI was in the club-house -- in the house you call The Whispering Pines.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Cumberland, was your sister with you when you went to the club-house?\u201d", "\u201cNo; we went separately\u201d", "\u201cI drove there. I don\u2019t know how Adelaide went.\u201d", "\u201cYes. I had Arthur harness up his horse for me and I drove there.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Cumberland, will you describe this horse?\u201d", "\u201cIt was a grey horse. It has a large black spot on its left shoulder.\u201d", "\u201cTo a cutter -- my brother\u2019s cutter.\u201d", "\u201cWas that brother with you? Did he accompany you in your ride to The Whispering Pines?\u201d", "\u201cAnd how did you return? With whom, and by what means, did you regain your own house?\u201d", "\u201cIn the same way I went. I drove back in my brother\u2019s cutter and being all alone just as before, I put the horse away myself, and went into my empty home and up to Adelaide\u2019s room, where I lost consciousness.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Cumberland, do you often ride out alone on nights like that?\u201d", "\u201cI never did before. I would not have dared to do it then, if I had not taken a certain precaution.\u201d", "\u201cAnd what was this precaution?\u201d", "\u201cI wore an old coat of my brother\u2019s over my dress, and one of his hats on my head.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Cumberland, will you now give the jury the full particulars of that evening\u2019s occurrences, as witnessed by yourself. Begin your relation, if you please, with an account of the last meal you had together.\u201d", "\u201cVery well. Who were seated at the dinner-table that night?\u201d", "\u201cMy sister, my brother, Mr. Ranelagh, and myself.\u201d", "\u201cDid anything uncommon happen during the meal?\u201d", "\u201cHe did not let his fall. He set it down on the cloth. He had not drank from it.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Cumberland, where were you looking when you let your glass fall?\u201d", "\u201cAnd at whom was Mr. Ranelagh looking?\u201d", "\"when the time comes I'll hand it to her. She can wipe her eyes on it when she opens them and repents.\"", "\"Mr. Kerr, I've got a warrant for you,", "\"I guess you've made a mistake in your man,", "\"I'd know your voice in the dark -- I've got reason to remember it,", "\"There's no mistake, not by a thousand miles. You'll come along back to Glendora with me.\"", "\"There's a reward of nine hundred dollars standing for this man. If you've got any doubt of who he is, or my right to arrest him, take us both to headquarters.\"", "\u201cJob, Johannes, et Zacharias vel vobis vel posteris indicabunt", "\u201cI suppose I shall have to translate this,", "\u201cWell, it may as well be done first as last,", "\u201cJob, John, and Zechariah will tell either you or your successors.", "\u201cWell, I ham pleased, I\u2019m sure, sir, to see you. And so I\u2019m sure, sir, will master.\u201d", "\u201cWhat has been the matter \u2014 I couldn\u2019t make out from your letter? Was it an accident of any kind?\u201d", "\u201cYes, sir \u2014 me, sir, and Mr Gregory,", "\u201cwhich I must beg you to do for me, my dear Gregory. Don\u2019t,", "\u201cI won\u2019t ask for any explanations till you see fit to give them. And if this bit of business is as easy as you represent it to be, I will very gladly undertake it for you the first thing in the morning.\u201d", "\u201cAh, I was sure you would, my dear Gregory; I was certain I could rely on you. I shall owe you more thanks than I can tell. Now, here is Brown. Brown, one word with you.\u201d", "\u201cNot at all. Dear me, no. Brown, the first thing tomorrow morning \u2014 (you don\u2019t mind early hours, I know, Gregory) \u2014 you must take the Rector to \u2014 there, you know", "\u201cand he and you will put that back. You needn\u2019t be in the least alarmed; it\u2019s perfectly safe in the daytime. You know what I mean. It lies on the step, you know, where \u2014 where we put it.", "\u201cYou know roughly, both of you, that this expedition of mine was undertaken with the object of tracing something in connexion with some old painted glass in Lord D \u2014 \u2014 \u2019s private chapel. Well, the starting-point of the whole matter lies in this passage from an old printed book, to which I will ask your attention.\u201d", "\u201cNow, does any explanation of that incident strike you?\u201d", "\u201cThe whole thing is so ghastly and abnormal that I must own it puts me quite off my balance; but the thought did occur to me that possibly the \u2014 well, the person who set the trap might have come to see the success of his plan.\u201d", "\u201cWell, there is my story; and, if you don\u2019t believe it, I can\u2019t help it. But I think you do.\u201d", "\u201cI can find no alternative. I must believe it! I saw the well and the stone myself, and had a glimpse, I thought, of the bags or something else in the hole. And, to be plain with you, Somerton, I believe my door was watched last night, too.\u201d", "\u201cI dare say it was, Gregory; but, thank goodness, that is over. Have you, by the way, anything to tell about your visit to that dreadful place?\u201d", "'How would you have such a body as that go, if she must not walk? What else has she got her feet for?'", "'I was never in this part of the world till now.'", "'Ha! Ha! pleasant enough! And what are you to do about money? Did you ever find that purse of yours that you -- lost, I think, at Dover?'", "'look at this, and take what you will from it.'", "'How the deuce, with such a pretty face as that, could you ever think of making yourself look such a fright?'", "'I'll convey you in my own chaise wherever you like to go;", "'What the deuce can have made you so long in coming?", "'Why did not you stay for my chaise?", "'When I found that you were gone, I mounted my steed, and came over by a short cut, to see what was become of you; and here you have kept me cooling my heels all this devil of a time. That booby of a driver must have had a taste for being out-crawled by a snail.'", "'You must make her tell you her name, Sir!", "'Have you any objection, Ma'am, to giving me your name?'", "'Have I been making any indiscreet enquiry?", "'You? O no! You have been all generosity and consideration!'", "'They insist upon my telling my name -- or they detain my letter!'", "'Why, Harleigh! why, what the deuce can have brought you hither?", "'since charity is the order of the day, I'll see what is become of her myself.'", "'go back to Lewes without knowing whether your expectations are answered in coming hither; or whether you will permit me to tell the Miss Joddrels that they may still have the pleasure to be of some use to you.'", "'yet I have no intention, believe me, to ask any officious questions. I respect what you have said of the nature of your situation, too much to desire any information beyond what may tend to alleviate its uneasiness.'", "'I am ashamed to have mentioned a circumstance, which seems to call for a species of assistance, that it is impossible I should accept.'", "'at our house, so I am come hither to cool myself. Aunt Maple and I have fought a noble battle; but I have won the day.'", "'Attachment? I protest to you, Madam, except at those periods when his benevolence or urbanity have excited my gratitude, my own difficulties have absorbed my every thought!'", "'for he is so completely a non-descript, that he would else incontestably set you upon hunting out for some new Rosamund's Pond. That is all I mean.'", "'How lucky it is that you are come back; for now I have got somebody to say it to!'", "'how we all settle your history in the parlour. No two of us have the same idea of whom or what you are.", "'don't think me such a prig as to do you any mischief; but take a hint! Don't see quite so much of a certain young lady, whom I don't wish should know the world quite so soon! You understand me, my dear?'", "'See how I have been labouring to assist and to serve you, at the very moment of your insidious duplicity!'", "'You must never mind what I say, nor what I do; for I sport all sort of things, and in all sort of manners. But it is merely to keep off stagnation: I dread nothing like a lethargy. But pray what were you all about just now?'", "'You seem mighty fond, methinks, of employing Mr Harleigh for your Mercury!'", "'He is so good as to employ himself. I could never think of taking such a liberty.'", "'for nobody else comes to our house that plays the harp.'", "\u201cMiss Wardour was formerly known to you, she tells me, Mr. Lovel?\u201d", "\u201cto see her at Mrs. Wilmot\u2019s, in Yorkshire.\u201d", "\u201cIndeed! you never mentioned that to me before, and you did not accost her as an old acquaintance.\u201d", "\u201cit was the same lady, till we met; and then it was my duty to wait till she should recognise me.\u201d", "\u201cI am aware of your delicacy: the knight\u2019s a punctilious old fool, but I promise you his daughter is above all nonsensical ceremony and prejudice. And now, since you have, found a new set of friends here, may I ask if you intend to leave Fairport as soon as you proposed?\u201d", "\u201cWhat if I should answer your question by another,", "\u201cand ask you what is your opinion of dreams?\u201d", "\u201cYes, sir; but Cicero also tells us, that as he who passes the whole day in darting the javelin must sometimes hit the mark, so, amid the cloud of nightly dreams, some may occur consonant to future events.\u201d", "\u201cI believe you are right, Mr. Oldbuck, and I ought to sink in your esteem for attaching a moment\u2019s consequence to such a frivolity; -- but I was tossed by contradictory wishes and resolutions, and you know how slight a line will tow a boat when afloat on the billows, though a cable would hardly move her when pulled up on the beach.\u201d", "\u201cYet I am so detached from all the world, have so few in whom I am interested, or who are interested in me, that my very state of destitution gives me independence. He whose good or evil fortune affects himself alone, has the best right to pursue it according to his own fancy.\u201d", "\u201cBut I am unconscious of possessing such powers,", "\u201cMy principal amusements being literary,", "\u201cand circumstances which I cannot mention having induced me, for a time at least, to relinquish the military service, I have pitched on Fairport as a place where I might follow my pursuits without any of those temptations to society which a more elegant circle might have presented to me.\u201d", "\u201cI begin to understand your application of my ancestor\u2019s motto. You are a candidate for public favour, though not in the way I first suspected, -- you are ambitious to shine as a literary character, and you hope to merit favour by labour and perseverance?\u201d", "\u201cI have been at times foolish enough,", "\u201cAh, poor fellow! nothing can be more melancholy; unless, as young men sometimes do, you had fancied yourself in love with some trumpery specimen of womankind, which is indeed, as Shakspeare truly says, pressing to death, whipping, and hanging all at once.\u201d", "\u201cI have hitherto attempted only a few lyrical pieces,", "\u201cJust as I supposed -- pruning your wing, and hopping from spray to spray. But I trust you intend a bolder flight. Observe, I would by no means recommend your persevering in this unprofitable pursuit -- but you say you are quite independent of the public caprice?\u201d", "\u201cAnd that you are determined not to adopt a more active course of life?\u201d", "\u201cFor the present, such is my resolution,", "\u201cI have no instant thoughts of publishing.\u201d", "\u201cBut the invasion of Agricola was not repelled.\u201d", "\u201cNo; but you are a poet -- free of the corporation, and as little bound down to truth or probability as Virgil himself -- You may defeat the Romans in spite of Tacitus.\u201d", "\u201cAnd pitch Agricola\u2019s camp at the Kaim of -- what do you call it,", "\u201cin defiance of Edie Ochiltree?\u201d", "\u201cNo more of that, an thou lovest me -- And yet, I dare say, ye may unwittingly speak most correct truth in both instances, in despite of the toga of the historian and the blue gown of the mendicant.\u201d", "\u201cGallantly counselled! -- Well, I will do my best -- your kindness will assist me with local information.\u201d", "\u201cWill I not, man? -- why, I will write the critical and historical notes on each canto, and draw out the plan of the story myself. I pretend to some poetical genius, Mr. Lovel, only I was never able to write verses.\u201d", "\u201cIt is a pity, sir, that you should have failed in a qualification somewhat essential to the art.\u201d", "\u201cIn that case, there should be two authors to each poem -- one to think and plan, another to execute.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, it would not be amiss; at any rate, we\u2019ll make the experiment; -- not that I would wish to give my name to the public -- assistance from a learned friend might be acknowledged in the preface after what flourish your nature will -- I am a total stranger to authorial vanity.\u201d", "\u201cBut we must consider the expense of publication,", "\u201cthat is true; -- I would wish to do something -- but you would not like to publish by subscription?\u201d", "\u201cit is not respectable. I\u2019ll tell you what: I believe I know a bookseller who has a value for my opinion, and will risk print and paper, and I will get as many copies sold for you as I can.\u201d", "\u201cI only wish to be out of risk of loss.\u201d", "\u201cHush! hush! we\u2019ll take care of that -- throw it all on the publishers. I do long to see your labours commenced. You will choose blank verse, doubtless? -- it is more grand and magnificent for an historical subject; and, what concerneth you, my friend, it is, I have an idea, more easily written.\u201d", "\u201cGuide us, Monkbarns! are things no dear eneugh already, but ye maun be raising the very fish on us, by giving that randy, Luckie Mucklebackit, just what she likes to ask?\u201d", "\u201cA fair bargain! when ye gied the limmer a full half o\u2019 what she seekit! -- An ye will be a wife-carle, and buy fish at your ain hands, ye suld never bid muckle mair than a quarter. And the impudent quean had the assurance to come up and seek a dram -- But I trow, Jenny and I sorted her!\u201d", "\u201cI couldn't, I couldn't! I'd be a liar and a cheat. But he is so nice! If he did want me!... No, no! Just for comforts! I couldn't! What a miserable wretch I am!\u201d", "\u201cVery important. Take me up.\u201d", "\u201cNever know. But I'll be in this bird cage until he comes back.\u201d", "\u201cI have made a really important discovery. Did Cutty say when he would return?\u201d", "\u201cNo. I am not in his confidence to that extent. But I do know that you assumed unnecessary risks in coming here.\u201d", "\u201cIs Mr. Hawksley awake?\u201d", "\u201cIt appears that he left this wallet in my kitchen that night. It might buck him up if I gave it to him.\u201d", "\u201cCome, I've been trying futilely to read him asleep, but he is restless. No excitement, please.\u201d", "\u201cI'll try not to. Perhaps, after all, you had better give him the wallet.\u201d", "\u201cOn the contrary, that would start a series of questions I could not answer. Come along.\u201d", "\u201cJust when I never felt so lonely! Ripping!\u201d", "\u201cTop-hole, considering. Quite ready to be killed all over again.\u201d", "\u201cOnly to show you I was bucking up. Thank you for doing what you did.\u201d", "\u201cMost women would have run away and left me to my fate.\u201d", "\u201cRather not! Your kind would risk its neck to help a stray cat. I say, what's that you have in your hand?\u201d", "\u201cYes. I wanted you to bring it to me the way you have. If I hadn't come back -- out of that -- it was to be yours.\u201d", "\u201cWhy not? Gregor gone, there wasn't a soul in the world. I was hungry, and you gave me food. I wanted that to pay you. I'll wager you've never looked into it.\u201d", "\u201cI wasn't so stony as you thought. What? Cash and unregistered bonds. They would have been yours absolutely.\u201d", "\u201cBut I don't -- I can't quite,", "\u201cbut I couldn't have kept them!\u201d", "\u201cPositively yes. You would have shown them to that ripping guardian of yours, and he would have made you see.\u201d", "\u201cIndeed, yes! He would have been scared to death. You poor man, can't you see? Circumstantial evidence that I had killed you!\u201d", "\u201cI want you to give this to your guardian when he comes in. I want him to understand. I say, you know, I'm going to love that old thoroughbred! He's fine. Fancy his carrying me on his shoulders and eventually bringing me up here among the clouds! Americans.... Are you all like that? And you!\u201d", "\u201cIf -- it wouldn't have been just as well!\u201d", "\u201cYou mustn't talk like that! You just mustn't! You're with friends, real friends, who want to help you all they can.", "\u201cWanting to buck up a chap because you re that sort! All right. I'll stick it out! You two! And I might be the worst scoundrel unhung!\u201d", "\u201cAnything I can get for you?\u201d", "\u201cNo, thanks. I'll try to snatch a little sleep before Cutty returns.\u201d", "\u201cBut he may be gone all night!\u201d", "\u201cWill it be so very scandalous if I stay here?\u201d", "\u201cYou poor child! Go ahead and sleep. Don't hesitate to call me if you want anything. I have a mild sedative if you would like it.\u201d", "\u201cNo, thanks. I did not know that Mr. Hawksley played.\u201d", "\u201cWonderfully! But does it bother you?\u201d", "\"Has the servant made any statement on this subject, sir?", "\"at any rate, there is no reference to any such statement in the newspaper report, though otherwise, the case is reported in great detail; indeed, the wealth of detail, including plans of the two houses, is quite remarkable and well worth noting as being in itself a fact of considerable interest.\"", "\"I think I must leave you to consider that question yourself. This is an untried case, and we mustn't make free with the actions and motives of individuals.\"", "\"Does the paper give any description of the missing man, sir?", "\"So do I, and I've got a little tale that will just suit you, I fancy. The older boys and girls can go and play games if they don't care to hear,", "\"Thanks, we will try a bit, and if it is very namby pamby we can run,", "\"Those must be the cubs of the old bear that was killed last week,", "\"Poor little things! how will they get on without their mother? They look half scared to death, and cry like real babies,", "\"They will starve if we don't take care of them. I'll shake them down; you catch them in your shawl and we'll see what we can do for them.\"", "\"Shake easy, John, or they will fall and be killed,", "\"He was in my bed! He scared George! I'll thrash him!\"", "\"I've always wanted a menagerie, and a tame bear would be a capital beginning.\"", "\"I'll ask him, for I hate to have the poor old fellow killed,", "\"I know it was wrong, but I couldn't see him suffer,", "\"Now if you buy Tom I'll give you my five dollars to help, and Mr. Hitchcock will forgive me and be glad to get rid of both the bears.\"", "\"Say good by for me, and kill him as kindly as you can.\"", "\"Bullets will reach him if we can't, so blaze away, boys, and finish him off. We have fooled away time enough, and I want to get home to supper,", "\"with his martial cloak around him,", "\"What are the Morton boys at now?", "\"Bobby wants to be a knight of the Round Table. We might take him in and have fun with the rites, and make him keep a vigil and all that,", "\"He's such a little chap he'd be scared and howl. I don't vote for that,", "\"Bob is a plucky little chap, and will do anything we put him to. He's poor and the other fellows look down on him, so that's another reason why we ought to take him in and stand by him. Let's give him a good trial, and if he's brave, we'll have him.\"", "\"So we will! Let's do it now; he's over there waiting to be asked in. He doesn't go poking his nose where he isn't wanted, as some folks do,", "\"You must stay here locked in for some hours, and watch your armor. That's the vigil young knights had to keep before they could fight. You mustn't be scared at any noises you hear, or anything you see, or sing out for help, even if you stay here till dark. You'll be a coward if you do, and never have a sword.\"", "\"I promise truly; hope to die if I don't!", "\"He won't know what time it is; let's leave him till after supper, and then march out with torches and bring him in to a good feed. Mother won't mind, and Hetty likes to stuff fellows,", "\"This is the battle of Beauvais, and we've set the city a-fire by flinging pitch-pots over the walls,", "\"No, it's the fall of Troy, and I'm \u00c6neas lugging off the old man,", "\"By St. Dennis, we've left that boy there all night!\"", "\"He wouldn't be such a fool as to stay; that old lock's broken easy enough,", "\"Yes, he would! He promised, and he'll keep his word like a true knight. It rained and was cold, and no one knew where he was. Oh dear, I hope he isn't dead,", "\"You've won your spurs, and we'll knight you just as soon as we get time. You're a brave fellow, and I'm proud to have you one of my men. Please don't say much about this; we'll make it all right, and we're awfully sorry,", "\"Let's buy Bob some hens. He wants some dreadfully, and we ought to do something grand after treating him so badly, and nearly killing him.\"", "\"Who's got any money? I haven't; but it's a good idea,", "\"Mamma would lend us some, and we could work to pay for it,", "\"No, I've a better plan,", "\"We ought to make a sacrifice and suffer for our sins. We will have an auction and sell our arms. The boys want them, and will pay well. My lords and gentlemen, what say ye?\"", "\"Winter is coming, and we can't use them,", "\"And by next spring we shall be too old for such games,", "\"'Tis well! Ho! call hither my men. Bring out the suits of mail; sound the trumpets, and set on!", "\"a dint a water and dingerbed for all us ones.\"", "\"I wasn't frighted. You said Dod be'd all wound, so I goed wite alon, and Mis Foyd gived me a nice cold tater, and a tootie, and the bid dord washed my hands wif his wed tun.\"", "\u201cReally, Randal, you must rouse yourself. Surely you can tell us something. Did you meet with any agreeable people, while you were away?\u201d", "\u201cI met one person who interested me,", "\u201ca guest like myself at a club dinner.\u201d", "\u201cNo: formerly in the navy.\u201d", "\u201cAnd you and he had a long talk together?\u201d", "\u201cThen how came you to feel interested in him?", "\u201cI only know I took a liking to Captain Bennydeck.", "\u201cI had better say no more, I shall only shock you.\u201d", "\u201cHope, my dear, as Randal tells you,", "\u201cWhy haven\u2019t I been told of it before?\u201d", "\u201cWhen I sent for you, I heard that you had gone out.\u201d", "\u201cI want it exactly, word for word.\u201d", "\u201cI have sent the carriage to fetch Miss Westerfield.\u201d", "\u201cI knew she would come back again! The Evil Genius of the family -- that\u2019s what I call Miss Westerfield. The name exactly fits her!\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t you approve of what I have done, Herbert?\u201d", "\u201cif the poor child\u2019s life depends on Miss Westerfield? I ask one favor -- give me time to leave the house before she comes here.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Westerfield comes here,", "\u201con an errand that is beyond reproach -- an errand of mercy. Why should you leave the house?\u201d", "\u201chave I no reason to trust you?\u201d", "\u201cIt is part of your experience,", "\u201cthat I promised not to see Miss Westerfield again.\u201d", "\u201cthough I may be willing to trust you -- you are afraid to trust yourself.\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t listen to her, Herbert. Keep out of harm\u2019s way, and you keep right.\u201d", "\u201cAt what time do you expect Miss Westerfield to arrive?", "\u201cBefore the half-hour strikes. Don\u2019t be alarmed,", "\u201cyou will have time to make your escape.\u201d", "\u201cOne thing I beg you will remember,", "\u201cEvery half-hour while I am away (I am going to the farm) you are to send and let me know how Kitty is -- and especially if Miss Westerfield justifies the experiment which the doctor has advised us to try.\u201d", "\u201cYour brother has insulted me,", "\u201cI was speaking of my brother\u2019s wife,", "\u201cYour brother\u2019s wife has allowed me to be insulted.", "\"Landing Grids, Lightest Emergency, Commerce Refuges, For Use Of.", "\"but it's nice stuff to go in the records. Too bad we don't keep coup-records like you Indians!\"", "\"You don't mean we might actually live through this! Really?\"", "\"you accomplished the impossible. Ralph, here, is planning to attempt the preposterous. Does it occur to you that Mr. Bordman is nagging himself to achieve the inconceivable? It is inconceivable, even to him, but he's trying to do it!\"", "\"to prove to himself that he's the best man on this planet. Because he's physically least capable of living here! His vanity's hurt. Don't underestimate him!\"", "\"In his way he's all right. The refrigeration proves that! But he can't walk out-of-doors without a heat-suit!\"", "\"paleface. But he doubts himself. All the time and in every way. And that's why he may be the best man on this planet! I'll bet he does prove it!\"", "\"You suggested radiation refrigeration! What does it prove that he applied it?\"", "\"What tonnage of iron can you get out, Chuka?", "\"What can you do in the way of castings? What's the elastic modulus -- how much carbon in this iron? And when can you start making castings? Big ones?\"", "\"I owe you an apology, Mr. Bordman,", "\"It won't take back the discourtesy, but -- I'm very sorry.\"", "\"Apparently I think more highly of them than they do of me!\"", "\"It must have sounded horrible! But they ... we ... all of us think better of you than you do of yourself!\"", "\"You in particular. 'Would you marry someone like me? Great Manitou, no!'\"", "\"I wish you all the contentment you look for.", "\"But what's this business about expecting more from me? What spectacular idea do you expect me to pull out of somebody's hat now? Because I'm frantically vain!\"", "\"But I think you'll come up with something we couldn't possibly imagine. And I didn't say it was because you were vain, but because you are discontented with yourself. It's born in you! And there you are!\"", "\"you're all wrong. I'm not neurotic! I'm not. I'm annoyed. I'll get hopelessly behind schedule because of this mess! But that's all!\"", "\"and leave you the office. But I also repeat that I think you'll turn up something nobody else expects -- and I've no idea what it will be. But you'll do it now to prove that I'm wrong about how your mind works.\"", "\"Me neurotic? Me wanting to prove I'm the best man here out of vanity?", "\"Why should I need to prove to myself I'm capable? What would I do if I felt such a need, anyhow?\"", "\"I'm quite comfortable, so long as you feed me that expanded air.", "\"What's all this about? Bringing the Warlock in? Why the insistence on my being here?\"", "\"He's up there. See? He needs you. There's a hoist. You've got to check degree-of-completion anyhow. You might take a look around while you're up there. But he's anxious for you to see something. There where you see the little knot of people. The platform.\"", "\"Chuka said you needed me here. What's the matter?\"", "\"before we threw on the current. It doesn't look like that little grid could handle the sand it took care of. But Lewanika wants to report.\"", "\"We cast the beams for the small landing grid, Mr. Bordman. We melted the metal out of the cliffs and ran it into molds as it flowed down.\"", "\"We made the girders into the small landing grid. It bothered us because we built it on the sand that had buried the big grid. We didn't understand why you ordered it there. But we built it.\"", "\"We made the coils, Mr. Bordman. We made the small grid so it would work the same as the big one when it was finished. And then we made the big grid work, finished or not!\"", "\"All right. Very good. But what is this? A ceremony?\"", "\"We built the small grid on the top of the sand. And it tapped the ionosphere for power. No lack of power then! And we'd set it to heave up sand instead of ships. Not to heave it out into space, but to give it up to mile a second vertical velocity. Then we turned it on.\"", "\"And we rode it down, that little grid,", "\"What a party! Manitou!\"", "\"That's very good. It's excellent. I'll put it in my survey report.\"", "\"But what ... what's this?", "\"Your coup. Placed where it was earned -- up here. Aletha is authorized to certify it. And the head of the clan will add an eagle-feather to the headdress he wears in council in the Big Tepee on Algonka, and -- your clan-brothers will be proud!\"", "\u201cThe moon was this, a habitable world, inhabited before the earth. The moon is that, a world uninhabitable, and now uninhabited.\u201d", "\u201cNational Company of Interstellary Communication.", "\"reminds me of New York; and it's the first thing that has, since I left home.\"", "\"Why, Daddy, it isn't like New York at all,", "\"Well, we're here at last, my dears, and I'm sure we are already well paid for our trip across the continent. What pleasant rooms these are. If the hotel table is at all to be compared with the house itself we shall have a happy time here, which means we will stay as long as possible.\"", "\"A rich miner; a most melancholy and peculiar person, by the way,", "\"No; not Anson. He is registered as C.B. Jones, of Boston.\"", "\"We must get back, girls, and dress for dinner -- an unusual luxury, isn't it? Our trunks arrived at the hotel two weeks ago, and are now in our rooms, doubtless, awaiting us to unpack them.\"", "\"but we can see it from our windows, and as we're a long way from the hotel now I believe Beth's suggestion is wise.\"", "\"whether he really was thinking of plunging into the ocean; or whether that time at the Grand Canyon he had a notion of jumping into the chasm.\"", "\"Myrtle has saved his life twice. But she can't be always near to watch the man, and if he has suicidal intentions, he'll make an end of himself, sooner or later, without a doubt.\"", "\"I am quite wrong, and the strange man had no intention of doing himself an injury. But each time I obeyed an impulse that compelled me to cry out; and afterward I have been much ashamed of my forwardness.\"", "\"But I am not especially pleased to encounter him again,", "\"for, if I remember aright, he acted very rudely to Myrtle and proved unsociable when I made overtures and spoke to him.\"", "\"Can you tell me, Mr. Ross, who the gentleman is in the corner?\"", "\"is the gentleman we spoke of this afternoon -- Mr. C.B. Jones -- the man who usurped the rooms intended for you.\"", "\"He is alone; that is the queer part of it,", "\"Nor has he much baggage. But he liked the suite -- a parlor with five rooms opening out of it -- and insisted upon having them all, despite the fact that it is one of the most expensive suites in the hotel. I said he was eccentric, did I not?\"", "\"Well, Mr. Jones, we meet again, you see.\"", "\"He's worse than a boor. But perhaps his early education was neglected.\"", "\"Yes, my dear; but it is not your Uncle Anson. I've inquired about him. The Joneses are pretty thick, wherever you go; but I hope not many are like this fellow.\"", "\"He's had some sad bereavement -- a great blow of some sort -- and it has made him somber and melancholy. He doesn't seem to know he acts rudely. You can tell by the man's eyes that he is unhappy.\"", "\"His eyes have neither color nor expression,", "\"At his best, this Mr. Jones must have been an undesirable acquaintance.\"", "\"and I'm positive my theory is correct. More and more am I inclined to agree with Myrtle that he is disgusted with life, and longs to end it.\"", "\"I'm sure such a person is of no use to the world, and if he doesn't like himself he's better out of it.\"", "\"He might be reclaimed, and -- and comforted,", "\"When I think of the happiness you have brought into my life, sir, I long to express my gratitude by making some one else happy.\"", "\"just call away the sail-trimmers from the guns, for I mean to fight these fellows under sail, and out-manoeuvre them, if I can. Tell Mr Webster I want to speak with him.\"", "\"Steady; so -- that's right for the stern of the leeward vessel.\"", "\"Now, my lads, over to the lee guns, and fire as they bear, when we round-to. Hands by the lee head-braces, and jib-sheet, stretch along the weather braces. Quarter-master abaft, tend the boom-sheet. Port hard, Swinburne.\"", "\"Be smart and load, my lads, and stand by the same guns. Round in the weather head-braces. Peter, I don't want her to go about. Stand by to haul over the boom-sheet, when she pays off. Swinburne, helm a-midships.\"", "\"Man both sides, my lads, and give them our broadsides as we pass.\"", "\"Capital, my lads -- capital!", "\"this is what I call good fighting.", "\"Must not try for too much, or we shall lose all. Put her about, Peter, -- we must be content with the one that is left us.\"", "\"Now, my lads, be smart; -- we've done enough for honour, now for profit. Peter, take the two cutters full of men, and go on board of the schooner, while I get hold of the three West Indiamen. Rig something jury forward, and follow me.\"", "\"were you ever attacked by boats when you laid at St. Pierre's?\"", "\"Yes; and that they had beaten them off.\"", "\"Did you purchase these masts of an American?\"", "\"Well, hang me, if I didn't think that I had seen that port-hole before; there it was that I wrenched a pike out of one of the rascal's hands, who tried to stab me, and into that port-hole I fired at least a dozen muskets. Well, I'm damned glad we've got hold of the beggar at last.\"", "\"but I won't tell you which way he went unless you will warm me at your heart. I am dying of cold; I shall soon be nothing but ice.", "\"but I may tell thee that one of the flowers was thy own child's; it was thy child's fate thou sawest, thine own child's future.", "\"Perhaps I ought not to say so, but I know she has missed you,", "\"I am going to call on Miss Marjoribanks;", "\"She is sure to be in just now, and I am so glad; and, my dear, you need not mind me, for I am both your friends,", "\"Oh, I am sure I never thought of seeing you here, Mr Cavendish,", "\"Perhaps you are going to see Miss Marjoribanks,", "\"Yes, I am going to see Miss Marjoribanks,", "\"Harry, if you are going to Lucilla -- -- !", "\"wait and rest yourself a little, and I will get you a glass of wine. Keep still; there's some Tokay,", "\"Don't you go and worry yourself. You shall see nobody. I'll bring it you with my own hand.\"", "\"Oh, confound the Tokay!", "\"I know what Woodburn's Tokay is -- if that mattered. Look here, I want to speak to you. I was going to Lucilla, but I'm not up to it. Oh, not in the way you think! Don't be a fool like everybody. I tell you she wouldn't have me, and I won't ask her. Read this, which is much more to the purpose,", "\"It's all right. I can't ask Lucilla Marjoribanks to have me after that, but I mean to put my trust in her, as she says. I was going to ask her to explain; but after all, on thinking of it, I don't see the good of explanations,", "\"The fact is, she is right, Nelly, and, stand or fall, we'll have it out to-night.\"", "\"You must have been giving yourself airs on the subject,", "\"I never was so foolish as that, for my part;", "\"It is I that have to do it, Nelly,", "\"wished to speak to them on important business.", "\"Did you see Enid Glenwilliam, mother, in Palace Yard?\"", "\"One can't help it, she dresses so outrageously.\"", "\"Oh, mother, she dresses very well! Of course nobody else could wear that kind of thing.\"", "\"That's where the ill-breeding comes in -- that a young girl should make herself so conspicuous.\"", "\"She has tremendous success. People on our side -- people you'd never think -- will do anything to get her for their parties. They say she makes things go. She doesn't care what she says.\"", "\"That I can quite believe! Yes -- I saw she was at Shrewsbury House the other day -- dining -- when the Royalties were there. The daughter of that man!\"", "\"And she's very devoted to him, too. She told some one who told me, that he was so much more interesting than any other man she knew, that she hadn't the least wish to marry! I suppose you wouldn't like it if I were to make a friend of her?", "\"It's all very well to be a Socialist and a Bohemian. But there are decencies!\"", "\"Well, mother, what's up? Somebody to be tried and executed?", "\"I can't pretend to make a jest of what I'm going to say,", "\"I wanted to speak to you all on a matter of business -- not very agreeable business, but necessary. I am sure you will hear me out, and believe that I am doing my best, according to my lights, by the family -- the estates -- and the country.\"", "\"have now passed since your father's death. I have done my best with my trust, though of course I realize that I cannot have satisfied all my children.", "\"I have not wasted any of your father's money in personal luxury -- that none of you can say. The old establishment, the old ways, have been kept up -- nothing more. And I have certainly wished", "\"Sold my soul and held my tongue? -- quite right!", "\"I have scores of your letters, my dear mother, to that effect.\"", "\"What! -- you think he still has them -- in the upper regions?\"", "\"Your brothers and sister, Coryston, will not allow you, I think, to insult your father's memory!", "\"Now look here, mother. Let's come to business. You've been plotting something more against me, and I want to know what it is. Have you been dishing me altogether? -- cutting me finally out of the estates? Is that what you mean? Let's have it!\"", "\"Is it fair to keep us on tenter-hooks? What is that paper, for instance? Extracts, I guess, from your will -- which concern me -- and the rest of them", "\"For God's sake let's have them, and get done with it.\"", "\"I will read them, if you will sit down, Coryston.\"", "\"Coryston guessed rightly. These are the passages from my will which concern the estates. I should like to have explained before reading them, in a way as considerate to my eldest son as possible", "\"No, no! Business first and pleasure afterward!", "\"Disinherit me and then pitch into me. You get at me unfairly while I'm speculating as to what's coming.\"", "\"that Coryston is behaving abominably.\"", "\"I won't have it, mother! It's not fair on Corry. It's beastly unfair!\"", "\"I think, mother, you will hardly maintain these provisions.\"", "\"I sha'n't take it, mother! I give you full warning. Whenever it comes to me I shall hand it back to Corry.\"", "\"It won't come to you, except as a life interest. The estates will be in trust,", "\"How long have you been concocting this, mother? I suppose my last speeches have contributed?\"", "\"They have made me finally certain that your father could never have intrusted you with the estates.\"", "\"How do you know? He meant me to have the property if I survived you. The letter which he left for me said as much.\"", "\"He gave me absolute discretion,", "\"Of course I don't deny it for a moment, if the property had come to me I should have made all sorts of risky experiments with it. I should have cut it up into small holdings. I should have pulled down the house or made it into a county hospital.\"", "\"You make it your business to wound, Coryston.\"", "\"No, I simply tell you what I should have done. And I should have been absolutely in my right!", "\"I have a responsibility toward my father's property,", "\"You will understand, I think, that it is better for me to leave you. I do not wish that either Coryston or I should say things we should afterward find it hard to forgive. I had a public duty to do. I have performed it. Try and understand me. Good night.\"", "\"Good night, mother. We'll play a great game, you and I -- but we'll play fair.\"", "\"I say, Arthur, old boy, you talked a jolly lot of nonsense this afternoon! I slipped into the Gallery a little to hear you.\"", "\"Arthur, my son, you'll be in trouble, too, before you know where you are!\"", "\"Why should I? I back you strongly. But you'll have to stick to her. Mother will fight you for all she's worth.\"", "\"I'm no more to be managed than you, if it comes to that.\"", "\"Aren't you? You're the darling, at present. I don't grudge you the estates, Arthur.\"", "\"And I shall find a way of getting out of them -- the greater part of them, anyway. All the same, Corry, if I do -- you'll have to give guarantees.\"", "\"Don't you wish you may get them! Well now", "\"Miss Coryston! I beg your pardon! I was just knocking off work. Can I do anything for you?\"", "\"They have only just gone -- at least, Arthur and Lord Coryston. James went some time ago.\"", "\"I assure you, he did nothing of the kind. I should not have let him.", "\"But they've told you -- he and Arthur -- they've told you what's happened?\"", "\"when he wants to do something he knows he oughtn't to do. And he's told you his precious plan? -- of coming to settle down at Coryston -- in our very pockets -- in order to make mother's life a burden to her?\"", "\"he'll do anything that suits his ideas. He calls it following his conscience. Other people's ideas and other people's consciences don't matter a bit.\"", "\"I had rather not express an opinion. I have no right to one.\"", "\"Mayn't women care for politics just as strongly as men?", "\"I think it's splendid my mother should care as she does! Corry ought to respect her for it.\"", "\"But of course you don't, you can't, feel with us, Mr. Lester. You're a Liberal.\"", "\"I really don't agree with Coryston at all. I don't intend to label myself just yet, but if I'm anything I think I'm a Conservative.\"", "\"But you think other things matter more than politics?\"", "\"You see, I guessed what you meant to say. What things? I think I know.\"", "\"Beauty -- poetry -- sympathy. Wouldn't you put those first?\"", "\"Please, now, Professor, don't stop me. I'm all right, don't you see I am?\"", "\"Yes, at this precise moment you are. It's the moments to come that I am thinking about.\"", "\"Don't you worry one little bit. Walt, will you bring me two of those staking-down ropes? I want to splice them on in case this one should prove to be a little short. Distance is deceptive, looking down, as we are here.\"", "\"In other words, we are to be a sort of 'tug-of-war' team, eh? Is that it?\"", "\"If I win, I'll lose. That sounds funny, doesn't it?\"", "\"that if he wins it will be because he takes a tumble to the bottom of the canyon. Understand?\"", "\"Now, Professor, will you please take charge of the operations?\"", "\"Certainly. But, you understand, I permit this thing under strong protest. I am doing wrong. I should use my authority to prevent it were we not already in such a serious predicament.\"", "\"Don't worry. What I want is to have you take a few turns around that small tree there with the rope, and pay it out carefully, so that I can lower myself safely. Don't give me too much rope at one time, you know.\"", "\"You know what they say happens to people who have too much rope.\"", "\"Please call that lazy Indian over here and set him to work. Little does he care what trouble we're in. See, he's asleep against a tree now.\"", "\"Yes, his head would fall off if it were not nailed fast to him,", "\"Put the Indian on the end of the rope; and, Professor, you please take a hold nearest to the tree. You'll be my salvation. The rest of you, except Chunky, can stand between the Professor and Eagle-eye.\"", "\"What do you want me to do? Have I got to stand here and look on?", "\"No, Chunky. You may run the signal tower,", "\"What's that? I don't see any such thing around here?\"", "\"You are the signal tower in this case. That is, you will stand here and watch me. When I give a signal you will receive and pass it on to the others.\"", "\"That's what I'm trying to tell you, if you will give me the chance. When I hold up my hand, it means that they are to stop letting out rope. When I move it up and down, it means they are to let out on the rope a little. Understand?\"", "\"Oh, yes; that's easy. When they shake their hand, it means you want to go up or down,", "\"O Chunky, you're hopeless. No, no! Nothing of the kind. Listen. When I move my hand up and down, just like this -- Understand?\"", "\"That means I want to go down further. They don't wave their hands at all, at least I hope they don't while I am hanging in the air. Now, do you think you understand?\"", "\"That's right. See that you don't forget. Remember, I'm depending upon you, Chunky, and if you fail me, I may be killed.\"", "\"I can make motions as well as anybody. Eagle-eye, tend to business over there. Get hold of that rope. Twist it around your arm. There, that's right.\"", "\"He'll be wanting to thrash some of us next. See if he doesn't.\"", "\"Better port your helm, though, or the rope will give you a side wipe and take you along over with Tad.\"", "\"I mean, that's what Tad called,", "\"He won't find it so fine if he falls in,", "\"Unfortunately for us, they're not all down there,", "\"No, we don't understand motions in a foreign language,", "\"Watch my signals, then you'll know what to do.\"", "\"I'm afraid this rope is not going to be long enough,", "\"However, I believe I can crawl down the last fifteen or twenty feet if the line will only reach to them. It's not nearly so steep down there as it is higher up.\"", "\"Tell them to be careful, Chunky. This rope won't stand many such jerks as that. Remember, it's running over some sharp rocks above here and is liable to be cut in two.\"", "\"Tell him we will not make that mistake again, Chunky,", "\"All right. I'm doing well now. Just keep the line fairly steady so that I won't lose my footing.\"", "\"I'm sure now that the rope will not reach.\"", "\"Grab him! Grab him, somebody! He's going over the cliff!\"", "\"Umm-mm, only fifty-two years old and a captain already. Remarkably able, a young man like you. And your work hitherto has been outstanding. That Vegan business....\"", "\"I know that, sir. I also know I was picked for a dangerous job because you thought I could fill the role. But I still don't know exactly what the job is.\"", "\"I'm afraid I can't tell you much more than you must already have guessed,", "\"They just can't unite against us, can't unite at all. Conru, you know how we've tried to educate them. It's worked, too, to some extent. But you can't educate three billion people who have a whole cultural pattern behind them.\"", "\"Certainly. Earth is a rich planet, Conru, and a fairly crowded one at the same time. Bickering is inevitable. It's a part of their culture, as much as cooperation has been a part of ours.\"", "\"We learned the hard way. The old Valgol was a poor planet and we had to unite to conquer space or we could not have survived.\"", "\"The problem of Earth is not quite that simple.", "\"Do you know precisely what a provocateur job is, Conru?\"", "\"My opinion is that we should treat all exactly alike -- force them to abandon their unrealistic differences.\"", "\"We're never too rough on the eager lads who come here from Valgol and kick the natives around a bit. We even encourage it when the spirit of rebelliousness dies down.\"", "\"The idealists. Brave, intelligent, patriotic. The kind who probably wouldn't be a part of this racial bickering, anyway.\"", "\"We'll give them the ammunition for their propaganda. We've been doing it. Result: the leaders get mad. Races, religions, nationalities, they hate us worse than they hate each other.\"", "\"Ideally, that would be the situation, Conru. Only it doesn't work that way.", "\"Can't use Luron here. Technologies are entirely too similar. It might shatter both planets, and we wouldn't want that.\"", "\"Nothing of the sort. They must fight. And they must be defeated, again and again, if necessary, until they are ready to succeed. That will be, of course, when they are totally against us.\"", "\"You'll be lucky to understand it by the time you're finished with this assignment and transferred to another ... that is, if you come out of this one alive.\"", "\"We have some influence in the underground movement, as you might logically expect. The leader is a man we worked very hard to have elected.\"", "\"A member of one of the despised races?", "\"The best we could do at this point was to help elect someone from a minority sub-group of the dominant white race. The leader's name is Levinsohn. He is of the white sub-group known as Jews.\"", "\"How well is this Levinsohn accepted by the movement?\"", "\"Considerable resistance and hostility,", "\"To report on the unification of Earth. It's possible that the anarch movement can achieve it under Levinsohn. In that case, we'll make sure they win, or think they win, and will gladly sign a treaty giving Earth equal planetary status in the Empire.\"", "\"And if unity hasn't been achieved?\"", "\"We simply crush this rebellion and make them start all over again. They'll have learned some degree of unity from this revolt and so the next one will be more successful.", "\"That's for the future, though. We'll work out our plans from the results of this campaign.\"", "\"But isn't there a lot of danger in the policy of fomenting rebellion against us?", "\"Evolution is always painful, forced evolution even more so. Yes, there are great dangers, but advance information from you and other agents can reduce the risk. It's a chance we must take, Conru.\"", "\"Suppose we go in now and see the pictures,", "\"We might as well take advantage of our opportunities, even if we are miserable,", "\"Let us go into one of the shops and buy a few trinkets,", "\"I would like to own one of those embroidered Russian aprons.\"", "\"In the Cathedral of St. Isaac, toward the left and in the rear of the church at three o'clock tomorrow,", "'At least, there shall be something for breakfast to-morrow,", "'Go and see who has got into the shed.", "'But however they managed it, they will be very useful,", "'We are in luck! There are two devil-fish in the shed; Whoever brought them, it was very kind of him, and now we have such good bait we will go out in the morning and catch some halibut.", "'It was our son; it is a year to-day since he was drowned, and he knows how poor we are, so he has taken pity on us. I will listen at night, and if I hear anyone whistle I will call him; for I know it is he.'", "'We have longed for you these many months. Fear nothing; no one is here except your father and I.", "'Come in, come in, my son! You have guessed how poor we are and have sought to help us,", "'In the morning we will go out,", "\"What do you mean by the words 'their attire'?", "\"Were they dressed in European clothes or in regular Turkish garments?\"", "\"As the cards were printed in Turkish characters you could not, of course, tell what the names were,", "\"they impressed you as Turkish gentlemen by their features, and they wore fezzes?\"", "\"but there was a little more than that.\"", "\"One of them, the man who spoke to me, had a bad sword-cut across his right cheek, whilst another squinted horribly; besides, they were all elderly men.\"", "\"but you admit, no doubt, that this is a very remarkable crime I am investigating.\"", "\"You are quite sure he was one of the members of the mission?", "\"that two men succeeded in murdering four and in getting away with their plunder and arms without creating the slightest noise or exciting any suspicion in your mind.\"", "\"there is nothing else to be done here. Will you come with me, Mr. Winter?\"", "\"We must strike higher than that feast we had, last year.\"", "\"Oh dear, do you remember how we served Mumps that night!", "\"But, say, I've been thinking of having some fun with him before this spread comes off.\"", "\"That you loan me that masquerade suit you have in your trunk. The one you used at that New Year's dance at home.\"", "\"Hullo, I reckon I smell a mouse!", "\"I did indeed; and I heard Hans say that he wanted nothing to do with the Indians.\"", "\"Well, he's going to have something to do with at least one Indian,", "\"Yes; if you'll fix it so that I can see the sport.\"", "\"All of the crowd can see it, if they don't leak about it,", "\"I dink I could chump dem sticks of I vos taller,", "\"That's right, Hans, you had better learn how to jump now, and to run, too.\"", "\"They say a band of them are in the woods around here,", "\"If you go out you want to be careful or they may scalp you.\"", "\"Cracious, Rofer, ton't say dot!", "\"Vot is dem Indians doing here annavay?\"", "\"They came in East to hunt up some buffalo that got away. They had something like half a million in a corral, and about two thousand got away from them.\"", "\"No, I ton't vonts to meet any of dem,", "\"Da vos von pad lot alretty!\"", "\"That's right, Hans, you give them a wide berth,", "\"We never had such a lad as you before Master Thomas.\"", "\"Thanks, Peleg, and perhaps you'll never have one like me again -- and then you'll be dreadfully sorry.\"", "\"Oh, I never say nuthin, Master Thomas; you know that,", "\"Dutcha boy heap big scalp-me take um! Burra!", "\"It's dem Indians come to take mine hair! Oh, please, Mister Indian, ton't vos touch me!\"", "\"Maka nice door-mat for Big Wolf. Burra!\"", "\"No, no; ton't vos touch mine hair-it vos all der hair I vos got!", "\"Please, Mister Indian mans, let me go!", "\"White bay stop or Big Wolf shoot!", "\"Dance! Dance or Big Wolf shoot!", "\"Dutcha boy take the cake for flingin' hees boots. Faster, faster, or Big Wolf shoot, bang!\"", "\"No, no; I vos dance so hard as I can!", "\"You ought to join the buck-and-wing dancers in a minstrel company.\"", "\"To be sure I am; I'm Big Wolf, the Head Dancing Master of the Tuscaroras, Hans, dear boy. Don't you think I'm a stunner.\"", "\"You vos Tom Rofer, made up,", "\"Vot for you vos blay me such a drick as dis, hey?\"", "\"I ton't vos been asleep, not me!\"", "\"I mean to stir up your ideas -- put something new into your head.\"", "\"Den vot you say you vos put somedings new py him, hey?\"", "\"I mean to make you sharper-put you on your mettle.\"", "\"That's so, and you won't in a thousand years, Hans. But you are the right sort, any way.\"", "\"I dink I blay me Indian mineselluf some tay,", "\"Dot vos lots of fun to make me tance, vosn't it? Vere you got dot bistol?\"", "\"Down in the barn. Look out, or it may go off,", "\"Tance, or I vos shoot you full of holes!\"", "\"Hi, Tom; he's got the best of you now!", "\"That old rusty iron hasn't been loaded for years.\"", "\"It ton't vos no goot? No. Maybe you vos only fool me.\"", "\"for his deeds past never to make him any reproach.\"", "\u201cYou have been prancing up and down this hall until my nerves are quite on edge.\u201d", "\u201cI wasn\u2019t aware that my restlessness bothered you.", "\u201cI thought you had two Dresden jars on either side of the clock,", "\u201cSo I had, but that lazy, worthless parlor maid broke it when dusting this morning.\u201d", "\u201cDo put down that jar, Julian; I cannot afford to lose both,", "\u201cYes, the maid broke the other, and had the audacity to say that it was cracked in the first place.", "\u201cI let her know I thought she was cracked.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s a shame to lose the pair. Perhaps I can cement the pieces together for you.\u201d", "\u201cI had them all collected and placed in this box.\u201d", "\u201cI suppose so. Don\u2019t they fit?\u201d", "\u201cWas there, by chance, anything in the jar?\u201d", "\u201cNo. Nothing was ever kept in either of them. Do stop fingering those pieces, Julian, you may cut your hand on the sharp edges.\u201d", "\u201cI shall have to ask the maid if she picked up all the pieces.\u201d", "\u201cYou can\u2019t do that because she has gone.\u201d", "\u201cYou don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to keep a bull-in-the-china-shop in my employ do you, with all my valuable bric-a-brac? No, indeed; I gave her a week\u2019s wages and sent her packing.\u201d", "\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more aggravating than losing an article you value -- through carelessness -- cursed carelessness,", "\u201cIt\u2019s good of you, Julian, to take so much interest in my jar,", "\u201cAnd sometime when you are not busy, if you will stick the jar together....\u201d", "\u201cCould you give me the girl\u2019s full name and address, Cousin Jane, she....\u201d", "\u201cDon\u2019t tell me she has stolen something from you,", "\u201cQuite the contrary, she laundered some handkerchiefs for me, and I\u2019d like to send her a tip.\u201d", "\u201cShe can take that tip out in my broken jar. Rose was a better laundress than a parlor maid, although Mrs. Leonard McLane gave her an excellent reference. Don\u2019t you want any breakfast?\u201d", "\u201cRun along into the dining room, Julian; you must be starved. Why, it\u2019s nearly ten o\u2019clock.\u201d", "\u201cNo, sor, she is after breakfastin\u2019 in her room. Another muffin, sor?", "\u201cHas Rose, the parlor maid, left the house yet?\u201d", "\u201cYes, sor. I saw her go over an hour ago, sor.\u201d", "\u201cCan you tell me her full name and address?\u201d", "\u201cRose O\u2019Day, sor. She wint direct to the station, sor, an\u2019 I understood her to say she was goin\u2019 to her home in New York, but I dunno her exact address. I\u2019ll ax the cook, sor, if you wish.\u201d", "\u201cShe lives somewhere in Cohoes, near Troy, New York, sor; but the cook doesn\u2019t know her house address.\u201d", "\u201cIs luncheon to be at the usual hour?\u201d", "\u201cMrs. Ogden has engaged extra help for the dinner tonight, and I have to show them the silver and things, sor.\u201d", "\u201cI hope the new servants all come highly recommended,", "\u201cMrs. Ogden\u2019s handsome silver and jewels would be a temptation, a grave temptation, to thieves.\u201d", "\u201cThe extra footmen come from the caterer, sor. Will you take the paper, sor?\u201d", "\u201cNo more money to spare,", "\u201cI\u2019ll be right down; tell Mrs. Ogden not to wait for me,", "\u201cWalter telephoned he would not be back from the Capitol, and Julian hasn\u2019t shown up.\u201d", "\u201cHe\u2019s comin\u2019 now, Mrs. Ogden,", "\u201cBy the way, Julian, why did you disappear so mysteriously last night?", "\u201cYou did not come to my supper party.\u201d", "\u201cI owe you a thousand apologies,", "\u201cI confess I never gave it a thought, Cousin Jane,", "\u201cI hope that you will pardon my absent-mindedness when I tell you that among the crowd leaving the theater I saw Yoshida Ito.\u201d", "\u201cOh, now I recollect; the Jap who poisoned Dwight Tilghman.\u201d", "\u201cExactly. And wishing to hand him over to the police, I gave chase.\u201d", "\u201cNo, worse luck! He eluded me in the crowd and disappeared in the direction of the Mall.\u201d", "\u201cDid you find any further trace of the Jap?", "\u201cNo. I wandered about that part of the city, questioned the policemen on duty there, and came home. Do you know, Cousin Jane,", "\u201cthat you had a burglar here last night?\u201d", "\u201cI suppose my sudden and unexpected glimpse of the Jap, Ito, excited me, for I could not sleep and sat up reading. I thought I heard a window open, and stole downstairs just in time to see a man vault through the hall window.\u201d", "\u201cGood heavens! We might all have been murdered in our beds!", "\u201cNo, madam, not a piece; I\u2019ve just been after acountin\u2019 of it,", "\u201cI locked up the house as usual, last night, madam, but this mornin\u2019 I did find the pantry window unlocked.\u201d", "\u201cProbably that girl, Rose, was a confederate,", "\u201cThat was why she was so agitated this morning. I\u2019ll notify the police. Could you identify the burglar, Julian?\u201d", "\u201cI couldn\u2019t see very well in the half light,", "\u201cI\u2019ve just made out such a queer, strange thing about your grandfather. I\u2019m three years and six months older than he was when he died. I couldn\u2019t very well have been his mother, but I might have been his elder sister, and that seems to me such a pleasant fancy. I\u2019m going to start quite fresh this morning, and get a lot done.\u201d", "\u201cI really believe I\u2019m bewitched! I only want three sentences, you see, something quite straightforward and commonplace, and I can\u2019t find \u2018em.\u201d", "\u201cI don\u2019t believe this\u2019ll do. Did your grandfather ever visit the Hebrides, Katharine?", "\u201cMy mind got running on the Hebrides, and I couldn\u2019t help writing a little description of them. Perhaps it would do at the beginning of a chapter. Chapters often begin quite differently from the way they go on, you know.", "\u201cAnd that\u2019s just what I can\u2019t do. Things keep coming into my head. It isn\u2019t that I don\u2019t know everything and feel everything (who did know him, if I didn\u2019t?), but I can\u2019t put it down, you see. There\u2019s a kind of blind spot,", "\u201cthere. And when I can\u2019t sleep o\u2019 nights, I fancy I shall die without having done it.\u201d", "\u201cthe men were far handsomer in those days than they are now, in spite of their odious whiskers? Look at old John Graham, in his white waistcoat \u2014 look at Uncle Harley. That\u2019s Peter the manservant, I suppose. Uncle John brought him back from India.\u201d", "\u201cthat there was a kind of sincerity in those days between men and women which, with all your outspokenness, you haven\u2019t got.\u201d", "\u201cbecause she used to sing his songs. Ah, how did it go?", "\u201cI think Aunt Celia has come to talk about Cyril, mother,", "\u201cAunt Celia has discovered that Cyril is married. He has a wife and children.\u201d", "\u201cWe thought it better to wait until it was proved before we told you,", "\u201cBut I met Cyril only a fortnight ago at the National Gallery!", "\u201cFor a long time I couldn\u2019t believe it. But now I\u2019ve seen, and I have to believe it.\u201d", "\u201cAnd never telling us a word, though we\u2019ve had him in our house since he was a child \u2014 noble William\u2019s son! I can\u2019t believe my ears!\u201d", "\u201cA very low place \u2014 lodging-houses, you know, with canaries in the window. Number seven just like all the others. I rang, I knocked; no one came. I went down the area. I am certain I saw some one inside \u2014 children \u2014 a cradle. But no reply \u2014 no reply.", "\u201cin case I could catch a sight of one of them. It seemed a very long time. There were rough men singing in the public-house round the corner. At last the door opened, and some one \u2014 it must have been the woman herself \u2014 came right past me. There was only the pillar-box between us.\u201d", "\u201cOne could see how the poor boy had been deluded,", "\u201cI\u2019ve never heard anything so detestable!", "\u201cWe must realize Cyril\u2019s point of view first,", "\u201cHe has written an absurd perverted letter, all quotations,", "\u201cHe thinks he\u2019s doing a very fine thing, where we only see the folly of it.... The girl\u2019s every bit as infatuated as he is \u2014 for which I blame him.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s no use going into the rights and wrongs of the affair now, Celia,", "\u201cThe mischief\u2019s done, and very ugly mischief too. Are we to allow the third child to be born out of wedlock? (I am sorry to have to say these things before you, Katharine.) He will bear your name, Maggie \u2014 your father\u2019s name, remember.\u201d", "\u201cIt\u2019s detestable \u2014 quite detestable!", "\u201cNowadays, people don\u2019t think so badly of these things as they used to do,", "\u201cI\u2019m afraid I take a very different view of principle,", "\u201cBut why should you take these disagreeable things upon yourself, Celia?", "\u201cPerhaps it would be better if I married William,", "\u201cYou, you fool Ivanushka,", "\u201cshall succeed to your grandfather\u2019s money-bags, and eat, drink, and be merry; whereas YOU (such and such another one) shall do no more than lick the dish, since that is all that you are good for.", "\u201cSo far as in me lies,", "\u201cKind friends I am a sick mother with three hungry children. Pray help me. Though soon I shall be dead, yet, if you will not forget my little ones in this world, neither will I forget you in the world that is to come.", "\u201cHe knows the trick too well.", "\u201cFor the love of Christ give me a groat!", "\u201cand are impertinent as well. Why should poverty be so impertinent? Why should its hungry moans prevent us from sleeping?\u201d", "\u201cWell, what is it, my good sir?", "\u201cIt is this, Makar Alexievitch. You have once before been my benefactor. Pray again show me the charity of God, and assist my unfortunate family. My wife and children have nothing to eat. To think that a father should have to say this!", "\u201cAh, Makar Alexievitch,", "\u201csurely it is not much that I am asking of you? My-my wife and children are starving. C-could you not afford me just a grivennik?", "\u201cthat, though you are in such straits, you have hired a room at five roubles?", "\u201cI am innocent. True, I to a certain extent disobeyed orders, but never did I commit theft or embezzlement.", "\u201cGibbon\u2019s History of the Roman Empire. May I have it?\u201d", "\u201cGibbon! What on earth d\u2019you want him for?", "\u201cSomebody advised me to read it,", "\u201cBut I don\u2019t travel about with a miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century historians!", "\u201cGibbon! Ten big volumes at least.\u201d", "\u201cor have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?\u201d", "\u201cThe Speech on the American Revolution?", "\u201cAnother young man at the dance?\u201d", "\u201cNo. That was Mr. Dalloway,", "\"only yesterday I was thinking of you, and wondering whether you were in London!\"", "\"And only yesterday, too, Miss Pennington, I also was thinking of you,", "\"Oh! -- well, he's away just now. He was with me in London only the other day,", "\"But, as you know, he's always travelling.", "\"I'm going into this shop a moment. Will you wait for me? I'm so pleased to see you again, and looking so well. It seems really ages since we were at Gardone, doesn't it?", "\"I was hailed by the lady close to Chapel Street,", "\"and I drove 'er to Oxford Street, not far from Tottenham Court Road. We stood at the kerb for about ten minutes. Then she ordered me to drive with all speed over 'ere.\"", "\"She was with a dark, youngish gentleman when they hailed me. She got in and left 'im in Chapel Street. I heard 'im say as we went off that he'd see 'er again soon.\"", "\"Yes, sir. I've never seen 'er before,", "\"Your man's been tellin' me as how you thought I had a bank-thief in my cab!\"", "\"That's very easy, sir. We're so much alike -- us red 'uns.\"", "\"I've been very anxious about you, Mr. Owen,", "\"When I went to your room this morning I found your bed empty. I wondered where you had gone.\"", "\"I've had a strange adventure, Browning,", "\"No, sir. But somebody else rang up about an hour ago, and asked whether you were in.\"", "\"I couldn't quite catch the name, sir. It sounded like Shuffle -- something.\"", "\"No, sir. He merely asked if you were in -- that's all.\"", "\"You didn't ring me up about one o'clock this morning, did you?", "\"I thought perhaps it might have been you -- that's all. What time shall you be in at White's?\"", "\u201cNot so bad for a rainy day. You might get sick, or hurt, or something happen.\u201d", "\u201cI've known him since we was kids at the Durant School together. He's straight as a die.\u201d", "\u201cIf you were single you'd have lent it to him immediately, wouldn't you?\u201d", "\u201cThen it's no different because you're married. It's your money, Billy.\u201d", "\u201cIt ain't mine. It's ourn. And I wouldn't think of lettin' anybody have it without seein' you first.\u201d", "\u201cI knew, if I did, you'd be madder'n a hatter. I just told him I'd try an' figure it out. After all, I was sure you'd stand for it if you had it.\u201d", "\u201cmaybe you don't know it, but that's one of the sweetest things you've said since we got married.\u201d", "\u201cHe knows no better, and it would be a wicked sin to waste it on him.\u201d", "\u201cIt cost me twenty, though that was years ago. Yet it is well worth the value of the cap.\u201d", "\"The Talking-Cricket was right. I did wrong to rebel against my papa and to run away from home. If my papa were here I should not now be dying of yawning! Oh! what a dreadful illness hunger is!\"", "\"And now, how shall I cook it? Shall I make an omelet? No, it would be better to cook it in a saucer! Or would it not be more savory to fry it in the frying-pan? Or shall I simply boil it? No, the quickest way of all is to cook it in a saucer: I am in such a hurry to eat it!\"", "\"A thousand thanks, Master Pinocchio, for saving me the trouble of breaking the shell. Adieu until we meet again. Keep well, and my best compliments to all at home!\"", "\"Ah, indeed, the Talking-Cricket was right. If I had not run away from home, and if my papa were here, I should not now be dying of hunger! Oh! what a dreadful illness hunger is!\"", "\u201cwe have some precautions to take.\u201d", "\u201cWhy? The island is not inhabited,", "\u201cat such a distance from land?\u201d", "\u201cThese pirates are bold sailors as well as formidable enemies, and we must take measures accordingly.\u201d", "\u201cwe will fortify ourselves against savages with two legs as well as against savages with four. But, captain, will it not be best to explore every part of the island before undertaking anything else?\u201d", "\u201cWho knows if we might not find on the opposite side one of the caverns which we have searched for in vain here?\u201d", "\u201clet us build a house on the edge of the lake. Neither bricks nor tools are wanting now. After having been brickmakers, potters, smelters, and smiths, we shall surely know how to be masons!\u201d", "\u201cbut we have already examined all that mass of granite, and there is not a hole, not a cranny!\u201d", "\u201cAnd a staircase to climb up to them!", "\u201cand why? What is there impossible in what I propose? Haven\u2019t we got pickaxes and spades? Won\u2019t Captain Harding be able to make powder to blow up the mine? Isn\u2019t it true, captain, that you will make powder the very day we want it?\u201d", "\u201cTop smells some amphibious creature,", "\u201cAlligators are only met with in regions less elevated in latitude.\u201d", "\u201cLet us pursue this exploration to the end,", "\u201cThere is no doubt this overflow exists,", "\u201cand since it is not visible it must go through the granite cliff at the west!\u201d", "\u201cBut what importance do you attach to knowing that, my dear Cyrus?", "\u201cfor if it flows through the cliff there is probably some cavity, which it would be easy to render habitable after turning away the water.\u201d", "\u201cBut is it not possible, captain, that the water flows away at the bottom of the lake,", "\u201cand that it reaches the sea by some subterranean passage?\u201d", "\u201cand should it be so we shall be obliged to build our house ourselves, since nature has not done it for us.\u201d", "\u201cI ought to have told you: you see that region of the wood? \u2019tis forbidden ground. The Doctor will have none go there; and woe to the man who disobeyeth him! I may tell you,", "\u201cIs nothing there besides the swamp?\u201d", "\u201clet us hear what you think of him. He has not been shaved very recently, but he don\u2019t look at all ferocious notwithstanding. Stop, though! Let me first see that he is in visiting order.\u201d", "\u201cThis poor child can never have been the pupil of robbers!\u201d", "\u201ctakes up her abode in many temples; and who can say that a fair outside shall not enshrine her?\u201d", "\u201ccrime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.\u201d", "\u201cBut, can you \u2014 oh! can you really believe that this delicate boy has been the voluntary associate of the worst outcasts of society?", "\u201cdo you think I would harm a hair of his head?\u201d", "\u201cmy days are drawing to their close: and may mercy be shown to me as I show it to others! What can I do to save him, sir?\u201d", "\u201cI think if you give me a full and unlimited commission to bully Giles, and that little boy, Brittles, I can manage it. Giles is a faithful fellow and an old servant, I know; but you can make it up to him in a thousand ways, and reward him for being such a good shot besides. You don\u2019t object to that?\u201d", "\u201cUnless there is some other way of preserving the child,", "\u201cThen my aunt invests you with full power,", "\u201cbut pray don\u2019t be harder upon the poor fellows than is indispensably necessary.\u201d", "\u201cYou are as great a boy as poor Brittles himself,", "\u201cHe cannot be hardened in vice,", "\u201cthen so much the more reason for acceding to my proposition.\u201d", "\u201cMisses wished some ale to be given out, sir; and as I felt no ways inclined for my own little room, sir, and was disposed for company, I am taking mine among \u2019em here.\u201d", "\u201cI am afraid you have got yourself into a scrape there, Mr. Giles.\u201d", "\u201cI hope you don\u2019t mean to say, sir,", "\u201cthat he\u2019s going to die. If I thought it, I should never be happy again. I wouldn\u2019t cut a boy off: no, not even Brittles here; not for all the plate in the county, sir.\u201d", "\u201cMr. Giles, are you a Protestant?\u201d", "\u201cboth of you, both of you! Are you going to take upon yourselves to swear, that that boy upstairs is the boy that was put through the little window last night? Out with it! Come! We are prepared for you!\u201d", "\u201cPay attention to the reply, constable, will you?", "\u201cIt\u2019s a simple question of identity, you will observe,", "\u201care you, on your solemn oaths, able to identify that boy?\u201d", "\u201cI sent a message up by the coachman, and I only wonder they weren\u2019t here before, sir.\u201d", "\u201cYou did, did you? Then confound your \u2014 slow coaches down here; that\u2019s all,", "\"I shall really experience deep regret to leave your dwelling-place, dear Katherine,", "\"for even at this season, it possesses many attractions superior to the vicinity of a great city.\"", "\"In the warmer months it is a beautiful spot,", "\"and in that time we have formed a friendship which may never, I hope, be interrupted.\"", "\"Nay \u2014 neither kind nor considerate,", "\"How much do I owe to him \u2014 and how worthy is he of that rank which has rewarded his grand deeds! Such a man could not long remain a humble individual: his great talents \u2014 his noble heart \u2014 his fine qualities were certain to elevate him above the sphere in which he was born.\"", "\"And now will the name of Markham go down to posterity,", "\"Would that his struggles were over, and that the civil war was put an end to in Castelcicala!", "\"Yes \u2014 the finger of heaven was assuredly visible in all those circumstances which led to my benefactor's greatness,", "\"Oh! you wrong our noble-hearted friend \u2014 our mutual benefactor,", "\"Rank and distinction \u2014 wealth and glory cannot change his heart: he will only esteem them as the elements of an influence and of a power to do much good.\"", "\"Is this the way, young ladies, to Farmer Bennet's?", "\"You may see the roof appearing from the other side of yonder eminence. Mr. Bennet is not, however, within at this moment: he has gone to a neighbouring village on business, and will not return till two o'clock.\"", "\"Well, Miss \u2014 do I have the pleasure of meeting you once more?", "\"Was it for me that your visit to the farm was intended?\"", "\"has something important to say to you.\"", "\"Yes \u2014 and we must speak alone, too,", "\"that may not be. I am Miss Wilmot's friend \u2014 the friend, too, of one in whom she places great confidence; and whatever you may have to communicate to her cannot be a secret in respect to me.\"", "\"yes \u2014 whatever you may wish to communicate to me must be told in the presence of my friend.\"", "\"But the business is a most delicate one,", "\"Oh! I have no doubt of that,", "\"I know you well, \u2014 do I not, Miss Monroe?\"", "\"I am not disposed to deny the fact,", "\"You will repent of this obstinacy, Miss \u2014 you will repent of this obstinacy,", "\"nevertheless, menaces will not deter me from my purpose.\"", "\"If you thwart me, I can proclaim matters that you would wish unrevealed,", "\"Your impertinence only convinces me the more profoundly of the prudence of my resolution to remain with Miss Wilmot.\"", "\"for such, I learn, is your name, \u2014 I beg of you to allow my companion a few moments' conversation with your young friend. They need not retire a dozen yards from this spot; and your eye can remain upon them.\"", "\"I am desirous that Miss Monroe should hear your communications,", "\"I will not speak to Miss Wilmot in the presence of witnesses,", "\"Then we have nothing farther to prevent us from returning to the farm immediately,", "\"Neither need we remain here any longer, Mr. Tidkins,", "\"my God! what new plot can now be contemplated?\"", "\"Still I should be glad to have those 'Franks.'\"", "\"That wave will be broken at the threshold of the Ukraine,", "\"How have all the Cossack rebellions ended? They have burst out like a flame and have been stifled at the first meeting with the hetmans.", "\"looking, with the many eyes of his mind, on every side, like a cunning hunter, and having sentries posted five miles and farther from his camp.\"", "\"Only let the steppe get soft,", "\"and I shall not hesitate to meet even the hussars on the offensive; for they will be drowned in the mud with their heavy armor.\"", "\"Take me out on the rampart, that I may see what is passing.\"", "\"As God is living! it is the advance guard, -- nothing more!\"", "\"Those are the dragoons of Balaban; I saw them in Cherkasi! That is the Wallachian regiment; they have a cross on their banner! Oh! now the infantry comes down from the ramparts!", "\"The hussars! Charnetski's hussars!\"", "\"the soul would like to enter paradise.\"", "\"Where is the booty, where the prisoners, where the heads of the leaders, -- where is victory?", "\"and if you don't go, I will drag you by a rope to the Crimea.\"", "\"I will go to-day! I will take booty and prisoners; but you shall give answer to the Khan, for you want booty and you avoid battle.\"", "\"you are destroying the army of the Khan!\"", "\"be not disturbed! Rain interrupted the battle, just as Krechovski was breaking the dragoons. I know them! They will fight with less fury to-morrow. The steppe will be mud to the bottom. The hussars will be beaten. To-morrow everything will be ours.\"", "\"And I will keep it. Tugai Bey, my friend, the Khan sent you for my assistance, not for my misfortune.\"", "\"You prophesied victory, not defeat.\"", "\"A few prisoners of the dragoons are taken; I will give them to you.\"", "\"Don't do that. Give them their liberty. They are men from the Ukraine, from Balaban's regiment. I will send them to bring the dragoons over to our side. It will be with them as with Krechovski.\"", "\"Craft is the equal of courage. If we persuade the dragoons to our side, not a man of the Poles will escape, -- you understand!\"", "\"I will give him to you, and Charnetski also.\"", "\"Let me have some vudka now, for it is cold.\"", "\"looking forward with the many eyes of his mind,", "\"The Commonwealth has passed through more than one defeat,", "\"and though our division is rubbed out, I believe that the hetmans are able to put down this rebellion, not with the sword, not with armor, but with clubs.\"", "\"to him I will pay my ransom. But with that fellow Hmelnitski I will have nothing to do; I give him to the hangman.\"", "\"It must be pretty hot for ours there,", "\"The hetmans are not trifling. Ah! Pan Pototski is a real soldier.", "\"they are revelling now; but if Hmelnitski is beaten, then there will be revelling over them.\"", "\"People who believe in God, save yourselves! The Poles are beating ours!", "\"I knew that it would be so! As I am alive, I knew it! This is the meeting with the hetmans, with the whole Commonwealth! The hour of punishment has come! What is this?\"", "\"What a defeat there must be! what a defeat!", "\"Save yourselves! Hmelnitski is killed! Hmelnitski is killed! Tugai Bey is killed!\"", "\"Oh, almighty, great, and just God, praise to thee in the highest!\"", "\"come and promise pardon to the Mirgorod men, for they wish to go away; and if they go, the crowd will fall upon us.\"", "\"Because you have guarded my person well,", "\"you need no flight to save yourselves, for I promise you intercession and favor with the hetman.\"", "\"See how excited they are, all three of them.\"", "\"Our time's short, I take it, if we are to be of service,", "\"Come on, Taylor; into the diving suits!\"", "\"I was rather rattled. O.K. now, however. Anything I can do?\"", "\"Yes. Help me with this box, and then get the girl to put on the antenna you'll find there. Don't forget the knife and the light.\"", "\"Two days past, the three came again, and our old men refused to give up the slaves. Today they will return, these Rorn, and my people, the Teemorn will all be made dead!\"", "\"Look above and to your right! The Rorn, as Imee calls them, have arrived!\"", "\"Even diluted by the sea water, it kills almost instantly. Go back and make sure that none of the girl's people come back before the current has washed this away, or they'll go in the same fashion. Warn her to keep them back!\"", "\"Stay back! Stay back, Imee! The Rorn are falling to the sand, we have made many of them dead, but the danger for you and your people is still here. Stay back!\"", "\"Truly, do the Rorn become dead? I would like to see that with my own eyes. Be careful that they do not make you dead also, and your friend, for they have large brains, these Rorn.\"", "\"Do not come to see with your own eyes, or you will be as the Rorn!", "\"They are taking him to the Place of Darkness!", "\"Oh, go quickly, quickly, toward the direction of your best hand -- to your right! I shall follow!\"", "\"Delay them as much as you can. You're going faster than I can.\"", "\"The devil take your scientific observations! Drag! Slow them down. I'm losing sight of you. For heaven's sake, drag!\"", "\"That is the Place of Darkness, where we take those whom the Five deem worthy of the Last Punishment. They will tie the stone to him, and bear him out above the Blackness, and then they will let him go! Quickly! Quickly!\"", "\"And just in time. Let's see if we can find our way back to the Santa Maria.\"", "\"Coming to meet you, all of us,", "\"Be careful where you step, so that you do not walk in a circle and find again the Place of Darkness. It is very large.\"", "\"It has been here while much time passed?\"", "\"Since before the Teemorn, my people were here. A Rorn we made prisoner once told us his people discovered it first. They went into this strange skeleton, and inside were many blocks of very bright stone.", "\"These stones, which were so bright, the Rorn took to their city, which is three swims distant.", "\"There were many Rorn, and they each took one stone. And of them, they made a house for their leader.", "\"It is there now, and it is gazed at with much admiration by all the Rorn. All this our prisoner told us before we took him, with a rock made fast to him, out over the Place of Darkness. He, too, was very proud of their leader's house.\"", "\"If we could find the city of the Rorn, we might make the trip pay for itself!\"", "\"I'd rather stand it myself. These Rorn don't appeal to me.\"", "\"We've got to get to the surface, and that quickly. Our air supply is running damnably low. By the time we blow out the tanks we'll be just about out. And foul air will keep us here until we rot. I'm sorry, sir, but that's the way matters stand.\"", "\"But we're dealing with facts, not specifications, sir,", "\"Another two hours here and we won't leave ever.\"", "\"We'll go up. And back. For more compressed air. We must remember to plot our course exactly. You kept the record on the way out as I instructed you?\"", "\"I'll tell her that something's happened; we must leave, but that we will return.\"", "\"had better go to bed. We overdid it. She understands, I think. Terribly sorry, terribly disappointed. Some sort of celebration planned, I gather. Captain Bonnett!\"", "\"You may proceed now as you think best,", "\"We're retiring. Be sure and chart the course back, so we may locate this spot again.\"", "\"You have signaled the men on shore to send out a boat to take us off?\"", "\"Yes, sir; I believe they're launching her now.\"", "\"And the chart of our course -- did the return trip check with the other?\"", "\"You don't remember the bearings, I suppose?", "\"Thank you, Captain, for trying so hard to recover the papers,", "\"You'd better change at once; the wind is sharp.\"", "\"Well, Taylor, we helped her out, anyway,", "\"I'm sorry that -- that Imee will misunderstand when we don't come back.\"", "\"But I can see now what an utterly wild-goose chase it would have been.", "\"No, old friend, it would be impossible. And -- Imee will not come again to guide us; she will think we have deserted her. And", "\"No words of mine will repay you.", "\"I have been so afraid. Have you got it?\"", "\"Oh! thanks, thanks. How can I show my thanks?\"", "\"Here, opposite me; be very careful of it.\"", "\"Let me be criminal, but never weak; For weaklings wear the stunted form of sin Without its brave apparel", "\"Oh! Sam, Sam, don't betray me! I'll go back -- indeed I'll go back!\"", "\"In Heaven's name, mother, what are you doing here?\"", "\"Dear Sam, have pity on me, and take me back! I'll go quietly -- quite quietly.\"", "\"I shall never be able to face her, Sam.\"", "\"Cruel, perjured Geraldine!\"", "\"when I came along. I shut my eyes, and ran past as hard as I could; but my head was so full of voices and cries that I didn't know if 'twas real or only my fancy.\"", "\"Oh! dig my grave -- my shroud prepare; for she was false as she was fair. Geraldine, my Geraldine!\"", "\"No, no. I meant to go, but I have come back. Hornaby, can you forgive me?\"", "\"You could not broach a subject less interest- ing to my mother,", "\"I am not fool enough to suppose that you care what I think,", "\"I know it's hopeless: I felt it the moment I had said it. But I can't always act like a man of the world. I wish I had never met you.", "\u201cthere are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.\u201d", "\u201cShe was engaged to spend the evening with an old schoolfellow.", "\u201cNo, sir, she is not one-and-thirty; but I do not think I can put off my engagement, because it is the only evening for some time which will at once suit her and myself. She goes into the warm bath to-morrow, and for the rest of the week, you know, we are engaged.\u201d", "\u201cBut what does Lady Russell think of this acquaintance?", "\u201cShe sees nothing to blame in it,", "\u201con the contrary, she approves it, and has generally taken me when I have called on Mrs Smith.\u201d", "\u201cWestgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance of a carriage drawn up near its pavement,", "\u201cI am no match-maker, as you well know,", "\u201cMr Elliot is an exceedingly agreeable man, and in many respects I think highly of him,", "\"they devour the people's goods. There is no limit to the foolishness and extravagance that accompanies them. This doctrine of theirs is all nonsense. Would that I could rid the earth of them and wipe out their names for ever.\"", "\"If any witch is found in this county, let her be beaten to death.", "\"Now we are rid of them, and that ends the matter for this county at any rate.\"", "\"you did not know of the official order issued?\"", "\"Are you not afraid to die, that you stay here in this county?\"", "\"How do you know that there are honest mutangs?\"", "\"Let's put the matter to the test and see. If I am not proven honest, let me die.\"", "\"but can you really make good, and do you truly know how to call back departed spirits?\"", "\"I had a friend of such and such rank in Seoul; can you call his spirit back to me?\"", "\"Let me do so; but first you must prepare food, with wine, and serve it properly.\"", "\"It is a serious matter to take a person's life; let me find out first if she is true or not, and then decide.", "\"I want a suit of your clothes, too, please.", "\"The soul of my friend is really present; I can no longer doubt or deny it.", "\"Alas! I thought mutangs were a brood of liars, but now I know that there are true mutangs as well as false.", "\"Eh? oh! ah! second master -- yes, yes, yes; to be sure!", "\"Algy, give Mr. Diamond your chair,", "\"Not at all, Miss Bodkin. You have merely cast another blight over my young existence. I am growing to look like the reverend Peter, in consequence of your ill-usage. Don't you perceive a ghastly hue upon my brow? No? Ah, well, you would if you had any feeling. Here, let me put this cushion better for you. Will that do?\"", "\"Capitally, thanks. And, look here, Algy; I can't bear any music to-night, so will you get mamma to set the McDougalls down to a round game? And play yourself, there's a good boy!\"", "\"Oh, Minnie, you ought to have been Mrs. Nero. There never was such a tyrant. Well, Pawkins and I must make ourselves agreeable, I suppose. For England, home, and beauty -- here goes!", "\"But now, tell me -- do sit down here; I want to talk to you. You come so seldom. I wonder why you came to-night?\"", "\"I chanced to meet Mrs. Bodkin in the street, and she asked me so pressingly -- she is so good!\"", "\"It is a pity mamma should have teased you,", "\"The very wax-lights dazzle me. I feel like a bat or an owl.\"", "\"How can you say so? No: I assure you I was compared to an owl the other evening by a lady, and I felt the justice of the comparison.\"", "\"She called you an owl? That eagle? Well, she has this aquiline quality; I believe she could stare the sun himself out of countenance!\"", "\"To tell me -- -- ? Oh, yes; about the Methodist preacher. That caricature is not like him, you say?\"", "\"Not at all. It is a vulgar conception of the man.\"", "\"And the man is not vulgar? I am glad of that! Tell me about him.\"", "\"It is wonderful! He must be like Garrick, according to the descriptions I have heard. And, then, this fellow is so handsome -- wild and oriental-looking. I always long to clap a turban on his head, and a great flowing robe over his shoulders.\"", "\"But as to his doctrine? Give me some idea of the kind of thing he says.\"", "\"Excuse me; I cannot enter into the subject now.\"", "\"that Algernon Errington should have refused his cousin's offer?\"", "\"Ah! you think Mr. Filthorpe of Bristol is not to be condoled with on the occasion?\"", "\"Who tells you that I do not like him? You are mistaken in fancying so. I think Errington one of the most winning fellows I ever knew in my life.\"", "\"Y-yes; but you don't think so well of him as I do.\"", "\"I know nothing about your thoughts on the subject!", "\"Forgive my interrupting you; but when I am to have a cold shower-bath, I like to pull the string myself. Now it's over.\"", "\"For him to have lost his father when he was a child. Otherwise he might not have been so pampered: though fathers spoil their children sometimes!\"", "\"Mine spoils me, I think. But then there is an excuse, after all, for spoiling me.\"", "\"My dear Miss Bodkin, you cannot suppose that I had any such meaning.\"", "\"You? Oh, no! You are honest: you never speak in innuendoes. But it is true, you know. My father and mother have spoiled me. Poor father and mother! I am but a miserable, frail little craft for them to have ventured so much love and devotion in!\"", "\"who would not embark all their freight of affection in such a venture as the hope that you would love them again? I think your parents are paid.\"", "\"Why, how do you do, Mr. Diamond? Dear me! I little expected to see you this evening. Dear Minnie, how are you now? Well, this is a surprise!\"", "\"Now, I hope, Minnie, you won't owe me a grudge for it; but I must confess that if it hadn't been for me, you wouldn't have had that gentleman to entertain this evening.\"", "\"My dear, I advised him to come here a little oftener. I think he felt diffident, you know, and all that. Poor man, he is rather dull, although Algy is always crying up his talents. But it really is kind to bring him forward a little. I asked him to tea the other night. You see he must feel it a good deal when people are affable, and so on, for", "\"he told me himself that he had been a sizar.\"", "\"I don't know, child. Very likely. None the worse for that, if he were.\"", "\"Pooh! Ten to one it isn't true then. She has her good points, poor woman, but the Ancrams are all liars; every one of them! Greatest liars in all the Midland Counties. It runs in the family, like gout.\"", "\"It does not seem likely, certainly, that Mr. Diamond should have confided the circumstance to Mrs. Errington,", "\"Confided! No; I never knew a man less likely to confide anything to anybody.\"", "\"However, after all, it is a thing which all the world might know, isn't it, papa?\"", "\"It doesn't follow that I'm sleepy because you yawn, papa!", "\"You are tired though, puss! I see it in your face. Go to bed. Mrs. Bodkin, get Minnie off to rest.\"", "\"Don't I always say it? God bless you, my darling!\"", "\"I'm sure he doesn't appreciate you at all, Algy,", "\"how can we expect him to recognise talents like yours -- gentlemanly talents, so to speak? The man himself is a mere plodder. Why, he was a sizar at college!\"", "\"Well, ma'am, plenty of great men have been poor scholars. Dean Swift was a sizar.\"", "\u201cthey were mad and blind, let no blood be shed for us. All we ask of you, friend -- but, how are you called?\u201d", "\u201cFriend Oros -- a good title for one who dwells upon the Mountain -- all we ask is food and shelter, and to be led swiftly into the presence of her whom you name Mother, that Oracle whose wisdom we have travelled far to seek.\u201d", "\u201cThe food and shelter are prepared and to-morrow, when you have rested, I am commanded to conduct you whither you desire to be. Follow me, I pray you", "\u201cfor you will need to cleanse yourselves, and you", "\u201cto be treated for that hurt to your arm which you had from the jaws of the great hound.\u201d", "\u201cIt matters not if I do know and have made ready,", "\u201cand the small bone is broken, but you will take no harm, save for the scars which must remain.", "\u201cAyesha, through life and death I have sought thee long. Come to me, my goddess, my desired.\u201d", "\u201cCome to me, my darling, my beautiful, my beautiful!\u201d", "\u201cI thought you told us that we were safe upon this Mountain.\u201d", "\u201cLeo Vincey, yes, Leo Vincey,", "\u201cBut you have not answered my question. Is it needful that I should repeat the warning?\u201d", "\u201cNot in the least; but you can do so if you wish when he awakes.\u201d", "\u201cNay, I think with you, that it would be but waste of words, for -- forgive the comparison; -- what the wolf dares", "\u201cThere, see how much better are the wounds upon your arm, which is no longer swollen. Now I will bandage it, and within some few weeks the bone will be as sound again as it was before you met the Khan Rassen hunting in the Plains. By the way, you will see him again soon, and his fair wife with him.\u201d", "\u201cSee him again? Do the dead, then, come to life upon this Mountain?\u201d", "\u201cNay, but certain of them are brought hither for burial. It is the privilege of the rulers of Kaloon; also, I think, that the Khania has questions to ask of its Oracle.\u201d", "\u201cis a Voice. It was ever so, was it not?\u201d", "\u201cYes; I have heard that from Atene, but a voice implies a speaker. Is this speaker she whom you name Mother?\u201d", "\u201cLet the air carry them whither it will,", "\u201cSorceress, strip off thy rags, fit only for a corpse too vile to view. Show us what thou art, thou flitting night-owl, who thinkest to frighten me with that livery of death, which only serves to hide the death within.\u201d", "\u201cCease, I pray lady, cease,", "\u201cShe is the Minister, none other, and with her goes the Power.\u201d", "\u201cThen it goes not against Atene, Khania of Kaloon,", "\u201cor so I think. Power, forsooth! Let her show her power. If she has any it is not her own, but that of the Witch of the Mountain, who feigns to be a spirit, and by her sorceries has drawn away my guests", "\u201cO thou that hearest and seest, be merciful, I beseech thee, and forgive this woman her madness, lest the blood of a guest should stain the hands of thy servants, and the ancient honour of our worship be brought low in the eyes of men.\u201d", "\u201cHas she gone back to -- to reason with the Khania?", "\u201cI think that she has gone forward to give warning that the Hesea\u2019s guests draw near.\u201d", "\u201cDo these candles of yours ever go out?", "\u201cseeing that they rise from the eternal fire which the builders of this hall worshipped? Thus they have burned from the beginning, and thus they will burn for ever, though, if we wish it, we can shut off their light.[4] Be pleased to follow me: you will see greater things.\u201d", "\u201cDraw nigh, now, O Wanderers well-beloved, and give greeting to the Mother,", "\"that even when the ship arrives, evil may come of it.\"", "\"The captain will know nothing of what is passing on shore; and if he lands his men incautiously upon the beach, and advances in this direction, the natives will fall upon them and, taking them by surprise, cut them to pieces; and our last hope will then be gone.\"", "\"But we might sally out and effect a diversion,", "\"but, unfortunately, we should not know of the arrival of the ship until all is over.\"", "\"Upon what day do you think the ship will arrive?", "\"is to give them warning of what is happening here.\"", "\"to keep myself up in the water for a long time, and perhaps to swim for my life, if the natives see me. It is even desirable, above all things, that whosoever undertakes the work should be a good swimmer; and although you have long ago given up calling me The Otter, I do not suppose that my powers in the water have diminished.\"", "\"that we should have some notice, here, of the ship being in sight; in order that we might sally out, and lend a hand to our friends on their arrival. I will, therefore, if you will allow me, go with Ned; and when the ship is in sight, I will make my way back here, while he goes off to the vessel.\"", "\"to make your way back here in the daytime. I can steal out at night, but to return unnoticed would be difficult, indeed.\"", "\"But when you see the ship, Ned, and get on board, you might warn them to delay their landing until the next morning; and in the night I might enter here with the news, and we might sally out at daybreak.\"", "\"I will keep along the shore, under the cliff, until I get nearly to the landing; and will then strike out. Do you make for the castle, and tell them that the ship has arrived, and that we will attack tomorrow; but not at daybreak, as we proposed, but at noon.\"", "\"The natives have seen the ship, too; and are following the usual custom, here, of making a fire to show them where to land. I trust that they will not fall into the snare.\"", "\"before they have gone a hundred yards. The natives were crafty enough to allow them to land without hindrance, in order that no suspicion might arise among those on board ship.\"", "\"Where are you? I cannot see your boat.\"", "\"Throw me a rope, to climb up the side. I have a message from the governor for the captain of the ship.\"", "\"I am the bearer of a message to you, senor, from the governor,", "\"It is here in this hollow reed. He gives you but few particulars, but I believe tells you that you may place every confidence in me, and that I have detailed instructions from him.\"", "\"We are in a very critical position, and it will need at once courage and prudence to come out of it. I have sent my friend Don Eduardo Hearne, an English gentleman of repute, to warn you against the danger which threatens, and to advise you on your further proceedings. He will give you all particulars.\"", "\"be close to the spot now; but it is needful that one boat should go forward, and find the exact entrance to the creek.\"", "\"In my opinion it is essential, above all things, that they should be forced to accept Christianity.\"", "\"only your interests at heart; and therefore we have decided to pardon you, and to allow you to return to your island, upon the condition that you and all your people embrace Christianity, and pay such a tribute as we may impose.\"", "\"Will you translate this, for the benefit of these benighted heathens?\"", "\"that it will be impossible for me to do full justice to your eloquent words; and, indeed, that these poor wretches would scarcely take in so much learning and wisdom all at once; but in a few words I will give them the sense of what you have been telling them.\"", "\"Now, if you believe in Him, as I tell you, you will be pardoned both by us and by God. If you do not believe, we shall kill you all, and you will be punished eternally. Now you have the choice what to do.\"", "\"What is the matter, O Emir Kh\u0431lid?", "\"Pardon, O my lord; thou art a man in whom trust is reposed and Allah forfend that the trusty turn traitor!", "\"There is no help for it but that my house be searched.", "\"Bismillah; in the name of Allah! Mashallah; whatso Allah willeth! By the blessing of our coming a hoard hath been hit upon, wait while we go down into this hiding-place and see what is therein.", "\"Deliver her to Khatun, the Governor's lady:", "\"Keep off from me, or I will kill thee and kill myself after.", "\"O strumpet, let my son have his will of thee!", "\"O bitch, by what law is it lawful for a woman to marry two men; and how shall the dog be admitted to the place of the lion?", "\"O harlot, how canst thou make me thus to sorrow for my son? Needs must I punish thee with torture, and as for Ala al-Din, he will assuredly be hanged.", "\"And I will die for love of him,", "\"The reward for thy constancy shall be to break up fire-wood and peel onions and set fire under the cooking-pots.", "\"I am willing to suffer all manner of hardships and servitude, but I will not suffer the sight of thy son.", "\"In the very middle of the house belonging to Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat;", "\"O Ala al-Din, where is the lanthorn?", "\"I stole it not, I know naught of it; I never saw it; I can give no information about it!", "\"O traitor, how cometh it that I brought thee near unto me and thou hast cast me out afar, and I trusted in thee and thou betrayest me?", "\"This is the reward and the least of the reward he shall receive who doth treason against the Caliphs of True Belief!", "\"O Captain Ahmad, O Danaf! thou sittest at thine ease with water flowing at thy feet,[FN#100] and thou knowest not what hath happened.", "\"They have gone down to the gallows with thy son Ala al-Din, adopted by a covenant before Allah!", "\"What is the remedy here, O Hasan Shuuman, and what sayst thou of this?", "\"Assuredly Ala al-Din is innocent and this blame hath come to him from some one enemy.\"[FN#10", "\"We must rescue him, Inshallah!", "\"Give us some one who deserveth death.", "\"Give me room to do my duty.", "\"O accursed, take this man and hang him in Ala al-Din's stead; for he is innocent and we will ransom him with this fellow, even as Abraham ransomed Ishmael with the ram.\"[FN#10", "\"O my sire and chief, Allah requite thee with the best of good!", "\"By the Most Great Name, O my father and chief,", "\"I had no hand in this, nor did I such deed, nor know I who did it.", "\"Whither shall I go, O my chief?", "\"O my son, I will bring thee to Alexandria, for it is a blessed place; its threshold is green and its sojourn is agreeable.", "\"I hear and I obey, O my chief.", "\"Be mindful and, when the Caliph asketh for me, say, 'He is gone touring about the provinces'.", "\"Because I am the watchman of this valley.", "\"O my son, the shop and the room and that which is therein are become thine; so tarry thou here and buy and sell; and repine not at thy lot for Almighty Allah blesseth trade.", "\"Abide here till I go back and bring thee the Caliph's pardon and learn who hath played thee this trick.", "\"No, nor hast thou come to his thought.", "\"See, O Ja'afar, how Ala al-Din dealt with me!", "\"O Commander of the Faithful, thou hast requited him with hanging and hath he not met with his reward?", "\"O Wazir, I have a mind to go down and see him hanging;", "\"Do what thou wilt, O Commander of the Faithful.", "\"O Wazir, this is not Ala al-Din!", "\"How knowest thou that it is not he?", "\"Ala al-Din was fair and this one's face is black.", "\"Knowest thou not, O Commander of the Faithful, that death is followed by blackness?", "\"O Wazir, Ala al Din was a Sunnite, and this fellow is a Rejecter, a Shi'ah.", "\"Glory be to Allah who knoweth the hidden things, while we know not whether this was Ala al-Din or other than he.", "\"Were his father well he had named him; but now I will name him Asl\u0431n.\"[FN#10", "\"He is my son and the fruit of my vitals.", "\"His father was Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat, but now he is become thy son.", "\"In very sooth Ala al-Din was a traitor.", "\"Allah deliver him from treason! the Heavens forfend and forbid that the 'Trusty' should be a traitor!", "\"When this boy shall grow up and reach man's estate and say to thee, 'Who is my father?' say to him, 'Thou art the son of the Emir Kh\u0431lid, Governor and Chief of Police.'", "\"O Captain, give me this lanthorn;", "\"Because lives have been lost for it.", "\"There came hither a man who was made Chief of the Sixty; he was named Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat and he lost his life through this lanthorn.", "\"And what was that story, and what brought about his death?", "\"Thou hadst an elder brother by name Hahzalam Bazazah, and when he reached the age of sixteen and was ripe for marriage, thy father would have bought him a slave-girl named Jessamine.", "\"Haply this slave-girl was my mother Jessamine, and my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat.", "\"Glory be to Him unto whom none is like!", "\"Whereat dost thou marvel, O my chief?", "\"At the make of yonder boy Aslan, for he is the likest of human creatures to Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat.", "\"She is called the damsel Jessamine;", "\"Harkye, Aslan, be of good cheer and keep thine eyes cool and clear; for thy father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat: but, O my son, go thou in to thy mother and question her of thy father.", "\"Thy sire is the Emir Kh\u0431lid!", "\"my father was none other than Ala al-Din Abu al Shamat.", "\"Who acquainted thee with this, O my son?", "\"Ahmad al-Danaf, Captain of the Guard.", "\"What aileth thee, O Aslan?", "\"I know now for certain that my father was Ali al-Din Abu al-Shamat and I would have thee take my blood-revenge on his murderer.", "\"And who was thy father's murderer?", "\"Ahmad Kamakim the arch-thief.", "\"I would fain have thee arm and harness me like thyself and take me with thee to the Divan.", "\"Allah bless thee, O Aslan!", "\"Who tempted thee to do this thing and art thou friend or foe?", "\"I am thy foe and it was my purpose to kill thee.", "\"And wherefore? Art not a Moslem?", "\u201cYou will be nearly as much at sea as you are on land for the five years you must stay at the convent,", "\u201cWe will go first to the house of our langue,", "\u201cand tell them to send down slaves to fetch up our baggage; then I will take you, Gervaise, to Sir Peter D'Aubusson, and hand you over to his care.\u201d", "\u201cWelcome back to us, Sir Guy,", "\u201cI am heartily glad to be back, D'Aubusson; I am sick of the dull life of a commandery, and rejoice at the prospect of stirring times again. This lad is young Tresham, who has come out in my charge, and for whom you have been good enough to obtain the post of page to the grand master.\u201d", "\u201cAnd no slight business was it to do so,", "\u201cI like it greatly, sir, but shall like still more the time when I can buckle on armour and take a share of the fighting with the infidels. I would fain, sir, offer to you my deep and humble thanks for the great kindness you have shown me in procuring me the appointment of page to the grand master.\u201d", "\u201cThere are the less thanks due, lad, inasmuch as I did it not for you, but for the dear friend who wrote to me on your behalf. However, I trust that you will do credit to my nomination by your conduct here.\u201d", "\u201cThere is a letter from our grand prior which I have brought to you,", "\u201cHe commended the lad to me warmly, and seems to be greatly pleased with his conduct.\u201d", "\u201cHe is well furnished with garments both for ordinary and state occasions,", "\u201cand in this packet are some sixty gold crowns, which are the last remains of his patrimony, and which I was to hand to you in order to pay the necessary expenses during his pageship.\u201d", "\u201cRecommended to me as he is, I would have seen that he lacked nothing, but was provided with all necessaries for his position. I will in the future take care that in all things he is on a par with his companions.", "\u201cTell Richard de Deauville to come here,", "\u201cI suppose you arrived in that ship which came in today,", "\u201cOnly De Lille and myself. Of course D'Aubusson will take on the grand master's present pages; but as there are five vacancies on an average every year, he will be able to find room for us among the number.\u201d", "\u201cWhy, how many pages has the grand master?", "\u201cSixteen of them, so you may guess the duties are easy enough, as only two are generally employed, except, of course on solemn occasions.\u201d", "\u201cAre there any other English besides myself?\u201d", "\u201cMy father was a Lancastrian, and my mother a great friend of our Queen Margaret of Anjou, and they were with her all the time she was in exile.\u201d", "\u201cYou seem to be always fighting among yourselves.\u201d", "\u201cthere is any love lost between Louis of France and the Duke of Burgundy, to say nothing of other great lords.\u201d", "\u201cNo; you are right there. But though we talk a great deal about fighting, it is only occasionally that we engage in it.\u201d", "\u201cWe will leave you here while we go down to stand behind our lord's chair. When the meal is over we will bring a pasty or something else good, and a measure of wine, and have our supper together up here; and we will tell the servitors to bring up another pallet for you. Of course, you can go down with us if you like.\u201d", "\u201cThank you, I would much rather stay here. Every one would be strange to me, and having nothing to do I should feel in the way.\u201d", "\u201cIt was the best thing you could do. We have brought up supper. We generally sit down and eat after the knights have done, but this is much better, as you are here.", "\u201cthere is a row of small islands across the mouth of the outer port, and the guns of St. Nicholas, and those on this wall, would prevent any hostile fleet from entering.\u201d", "\u201cI hardly see what use that port is, for it lies altogether outside the town, and vessels could not unload there.\u201d", "\u201cYou have not told me who defends the palace itself.\u201d", "\u201cThat is in charge of a force composed of equal numbers of picked knights from each langue.\u201d", "\u201cWhat a rich and beautiful country!", "\u201cIf they were to plant their cannon on the hills they would do us much harm,", "\u201cThe Turks are clumsy gunners they say,", "\u201cand they would but waste their powder and ball at that distance, without making a breach in our walls.\u201d", "\u201cEven if they did, they could surely scarce pass that deep fosse,", "\u201cHow different to the towns at home!", "\u201cOne would hardly know that it was a town at all.\u201d", "\u201cThis is your new comrade, boys,", "\u201cMaster Gervaise Tresham, a member of the English langue. Be good comrades to him. By the reports I hear I am sure that you will find him a worthy companion.\u201d", "\u201cYou may as well join them in their exercises. In that way you will sooner become at home with them.\u201d", "\u201cYou will have to get one more suit, Gervaise,", "\u201cthat I shall not do this thing unless you be present in the room.\u201d", "\u201cDo not impose too far upon my friendship for you, Vas Kor,", "\u201cThere is no question of royal prerogative here,", "\u201cYou ask me to become an assassin in your stead, and against your jeddak\u2019s strict injunctions. You are in no position, Astok, to dictate to me; but rather should you be glad to accede to my reasonable request that you be present, thus sharing the guilt with me. Why should I bear it all?\u201d", "\u201cI prefer to die standing,", "\u201cIn the name of Nutus, Jeddak of Dusar!", "\u201cIn the name of Carthoris, Prince of Helium!", "\u201cI have a plan. Hold him but a moment longer and all will be well,", "\u201cwith Astok, Prince of Dusar,", "\u201cThere is no time to be lost. Astok will be back in a moment with enough warriors to overpower me.\u201d", "\u201cIt is fortunate that you left me here, red man,", "\u201cI but just now intercepted one who seemed over-anxious to reach this door \u2014 it was he whom they call Astok, Prince of Dusar.\u201d", "\u201cHe escaped my blade, and ran down this corridor,", "\u201cThe craft may even be of Dusar \u2014 she shows no insignia. All that we may do is fire upon the hordesmen", "\u201cI am going to try to take the survivors aboard,", "\u201cIt will need both Kar Komak and myself to man the guns while the Kaolians take to the boarding tackle. Keep her bow depressed against the rifle fire. She can bear it better in her forward armour, and at the same time the propellers will be protected.\u201d", "\u201cTake the port bow gun, Kar Komak,", "\u201cthat offers his life in the service of Kulan Tith? Never was wrought a nobler deed of self-sacrifice upon Barsoom!\u201d", "\u201cGrip yourself! Remember the days of the glory of the seafarers of Lothar. Fight! Fight, man! Fight as never man fought before. All that remains to us is to die fighting.\u201d", "\u201cAgainst such fearful odds? There is another way \u2014 a better way. Look!", "\u201cThey have taught me a lesson, these vanishing bowmen of Lothar,", "\u201cWhen they have served their purpose they remain not to embarrass their masters by their presence. Kulan Tith and his warriors are here to protect you. My acts have constituted the proof of my honesty of purpose. Good-bye,", "\u201cThere will be fighting and forgetfulness.\u201d", "\u201cMay my ancestors have mercy upon me,", "\u201cif I say the thing I have no right to say; but I cannot see you cast your life away, Carthoris, Prince of Helium! Stay, my chieftain. Stay \u2014 I love you!\u201d", "\u201cI could not help hearing all that passed,", "\u201cTake back your liberty, Thuvia of Ptarth,", "\"that a great tract of land formerly existed where the sea now is, and that Cornwall, the Scilly and Channel Islands, Ireland and Brittany are the remains of its highest summits", "\"which cannot stand a voyage through the temperate zone, carried to America?", "\"a cultivated plant which does not possess seeds must have been under culture for a very long period ... it is perhaps fair to infer that these plants were cultivated as early as the beginning of the Diluvial period.", "\"either still kept up commercial intercourse with some southern people, or had originally proceeded as colonists from the south.", "\"Man must have cultivated cereals from an enormously remote period.", "\"there never has been any doubt that this isolated language, preserving its identity in a western corner of Europe, between two mighty kingdoms, resembles in its structure the aboriginal languages of the vast opposite continent (America) and those alone", "\"One-third of this tongue (the Maya) is pure Greek. Who brought the dialect of Homer to America? or who took to Greece that of the Mayas? Greek is the off-spring of the Sanscrit. Is Maya? or are they coeval?", "\"appear from numerous examples of hair found in their tombs to have been an auburn-haired race.\"", "\"regeneration and the pardon of all their perjuries.", "\"omnipresent, who knoweth all things ... invisible, incorporeal, one God of perfect perfection", "\"As among the Jews the ark was a sort of portable temple in which the deity was supposed to be continually present, so among the Mexicans, the Cherokees and the Indians of Michoacan and Honduras, an ark was held in the highest veneration and was considered an object too sacred to be touched by any but the priests.\"", "\"I have returned to make my report, Colonel Talbot.\"", "\"Thank God, you've come back, my boy!", "\"I hesitated to send your father's son on such an errand, but I thought that you would succeed. You have seen the enemy's forces?\"", "\"Then we'll go at once to General Beauregard. He is in his tent now, conferring with some of his chief officers.\"", "\"Our young friend here is obviously a lad of intelligence and discernment and what he saw in Washington shows that the North is resolved to crush us. The battle that we are going to fight will not be the last battle by any means.\"", "\"and now you can rejoin your regiment. You are to receive a promotion of one grade.\"", "\"Hey, you fellow, what do you mean by that?\"", "\"I hit you once, and if you don't speak to me more politely I'll hit you twice.\"", "\"Harry Kenton, by all that's wonderful!", "\"And so you've come back! I was afraid you never would! What have you been doing, Harry?\"", "\"I've been pretty busy. I drove in the right wing of the Yankee army, put to flight a couple of brigades in their center, then I went on to Washington and had a talk with Lincoln. I told him the North would have me to reckon with if he kept on with this war, but he said he believed he'd go ahead anyhow. I even mentioned your name to him, but the menace did no good.\"", "\"I'm in another regiment farther along Bull Run. I merely came over here to tell you that your father was well when I last heard from him. He is with the Western forces that are to be under Albert Sidney Johnston.\"", "\"It's a lot of our men crossing the ford. Raise up and you can see them walking in the water. I take it that the general is going to put a force in the bushes and trees on the other bank to sting the Northern army good and hard before it pushes home the main attack.\"", "\"Do you think the attack is really coming this time?", "\"All the scouts have said so and you may laugh at me, Tom, but I tell you that when the wind blows our way I feel the dust raised by thirty thousand men marching toward us.\"", "\"I'm not laughing at you, Harry. Sometimes that instinct of yours tells when things are coming long before you can see or hear 'em. But while I'm no such wonder myself I can hear those bullfrogs croaking down there at the edge of the water. Think of their cheek, calmly singing their night songs between two armies of twenty or thirty thousand men each, who are going to fight tomorrow.\"", "\"Shut up, you bird of ill omen, you raven, you,", "\"Everything is going to happen for the best, we are going to win the victory, and we three are going to come out of the battle all right.\"", "\"We've got to go to sleep if it's only for the sake of our nerves. We must be fresh and steady when we go into the battle in the morning.\"", "\"but I find this overtaking slumber a long chase. Maybe you can form a habit of sleeping well before big battles, but I haven't had the chance to do so yet.\"", "\"See, the sun is as red as fire! And look how it burns on the water there.\"", "\"In less than a half hour they'll be at the ford.\"", "\"But I doubt if they know what is waiting for them,", "\"This is only a beginning. Wait until we have a real battle.\"", "\"but I'd like to know what the colonel calls a real battle. The fire was so loud I couldn't hear myself speak, and I know at least a million men were engaged. Arthur, how can you be cool enough to bathe your face in that water?\"", "\"I feel that dust and burned gunpowder are thick all over me.\"", "\"and this must have been a sort of prologue. But if the prologue was so hot what's the play going to be?\"", "\"I refuse to believe anything until it happens,", "\"I'm getting hardened to this sort of thing, and as soon as my time off duty comes I'm going to sleep.\"", "\"I think things have changed a lot in the last three days,", "\"Then the Yankees didn't know much about us. They charged almost blindfolded into our ambush. Now we don't know much about them. We don't know by any means where the attack is coming. It is they who are keeping us guessing.\"", "\"But there are only two fords and two bridges across Bull Run,", "\"and they have got to choose one out of the lot.\"", "\"Which means that we've got to accumulate our forces at some one of four places, one guess out of four.\"", "\"It is true, and it is a melancholy phase of this war,", "\u201cI ought to go in and read -- so many things to read -- ought to go in,", "\u201cSaw your husband driving out of town. Couldn't stand it.\u201d", "\u201cWell -- -- You mustn't stay more than five minutes.\u201d", "\u201cCouldn't stand not seeing you. Every day, towards evening, felt I had to see you -- pictured you so clear. I've been good though, staying away, haven't I!\u201d", "\u201cAnd you must go on being good.\u201d", "\u201cHungry? I have some little honey-colored cakes. You may have two, and then you must skip home.\u201d", "\u201cTake me up and let me see Hugh asleep.\u201d", "\u201cCarol! You've told me about your own room. Let me peep in at it.\u201d", "\u201cBut you mustn't stay, not a second. We must go downstairs.\u201d", "\u201cYou've got to be more than reasonably good!", "\u201cDon't spoil everything. Be my friend.\u201d", "\u201cHow many thousands and millions of women must have said that! And now you! And it doesn't spoil everything. It glorifies everything.\u201d", "\u201cCarol! Stop! You do love me!\u201d", "\u201cI do not! It's just -- -- Can't you understand? Everything crushes in on me so, all the gaping dull people, and I look for a way out -- -- Please go. I can't stand any more. Please!\u201d", "\u201cI will see him again soon and make him understand we must be friends. But -- -- The house is so empty. It echoes so.\u201d", "\u201cWhat the dickens have you been saying to Ma Westlake?\u201d", "\u201cI know. You told me. But she was so motherly. And I didn't have any woman -- -- Vida 's become so married and proprietary.\u201d", "\u201cWell, next time you'll have better sense.\u201d", "\u201cOh, there you are, dearie, so glad t' find you in, sit down, want to talk to you.\u201d", "\u201cI've been hearing vague rumors you were interested in this Erik Valborg. I knew you couldn't be guilty, and I'm surer than ever of it now. Here we are, as blooming as a daisy.\u201d", "\u201cHow does a respectable matron look when she feels guilty?\u201d", "\u201cWhy -- -- Oh, it would show! Besides! I know that you, of all people, are the one that can appreciate Dr. Will.\u201d", "\u201cNothing, really. I just heard Mrs. Bogart say she'd seen you and Valborg walking together a lot.", "\u201cBut -- -- I suspect you do like Valborg. Oh, I don't mean in any wrong way. But you're young; you don't know what an innocent liking might drift into. You always pretend to be so sophisticated and all, but you're a baby. Just because you are so innocent, you don't know what evil thoughts may lurk in that fellow's brain.\u201d", "\u201cYou don't suppose Valborg could actually think about making love to me?\u201d", "\u201cWhat do you know about the thoughts in hearts? You just play at reforming the world. You don't know what it means to suffer.\u201d", "\u201cNo, you don't. I'm going to tell you something I've never told a living soul, not even Ray.", "\u201cLet me assure you there isn't a thing to what you've heard,", "\u201cOh, indeed, I do know how sincere Will is, and as you say, so -- so sincere.\u201d", "\u201cYes. I've heard that plea. It's a good one. It sets revolts aside to cool. It keeps strays in the flock. To word it differently: 'You must live up to the popular code if you believe in it; but if you don't believe in it, then you MUST live up to it!'\u201d", "\u201cNo one big enough or pitiful enough to sacrifice for. Tragedy in neat blouses; the eternal flame all nice and safe in a kerosene stove. Neither heroic faith nor heroic guilt. Peeping at love from behind lace curtains -- on Main Street!\u201d", "\u201cWhatever I may do, I'll have you to understand that Will is only too safe!", "\u201cSaw aunty, this afternoon. She said you weren't very polite to her.\u201d", "\u201cWhat is it, dear? Anything wrong?", "\u201cI thought I heard you moaning. So silly of me. Good night, dear.\u201d", "\u201cSome nice flannels, them samples, heh?", "\"I hear that Helga and Leif are fond of each other,", "\"Did you see, also, brother, that Leif threw a spear overboard at Hisargavl?\"", "\"Because it has only just occurred to me that Leif regretted the use he had once made of that spear.\"", "\"With my good will I shall not give Leif reason to deprive himself of many more weapons,", "\"It would be rather after my mind to take care that he finds full use for all his weapons.\"", "\"Haasten is only one of Atle's sons.\"", "\"Have you talked with Leif on this subject?", "\"I know my kinsman, Leif. And I know you, too, Ingolf.\"", "\"We sons of Atle are not accustomed to receive our friends with such a great force.", "\"One can never show one's friends too great an honour, Haasten.\"", "\"We have never been received in such a magnificent way here before,", "\"if Olmod the Old had been here. Where did he go to when he left us? It occurs to me all at once that his bearing was different when he left than when he came.\"", "\"What can Olmod the Old have told any here?", "\"I don't know yet. But some time Leif shall come to miss the spear which he threw overboard at Hisargavl!\"", "\"to make vows when Brage's toast is called. I have a vow to make which I will beg you kind friends to witness.\"", "\"I make this vow with Brage's toast, that I will marry Helga, daughter of Orn, or no other woman.", "\"Now I have begun this game. Now it is your turn, friend Ingolf.\"", "\"It seems to me it is now Haasten's turn to continue the game. He is our leader, and the wisest of us all besides.\"", "\"that I will judge justly and impartially, if a judgment should ever be demanded from me.\"", "\"Your obscure vow does not seem to me to bear out the assertion that you are the wisest of us all. How will you act, if it is between your friends on one side and your enemies on the other that you must pronounce judgment?\"", "\"That I intend myself to determine.\"", "\"With Brage's toast I make the vow that I will not divide my inheritance with any one but my sworn brother, Leif. May all bright gods and all good people present hear it.", "\"I don't understand that vow,", "\"It is not difficult to understand,", "\"Ingolf will give his sister, Helga, to Leif, and no one else.\"", "\"to show that in nothing do I stand behind my ancestors and other good men of my race!\"", "\"Have you forgotten that your grandfather had to leave Telemarken like a criminal?\"", "\"I had no share in, and could not prevent, what has happened this evening,", "\"otherwise it would not have happened. But I cannot remain here as your guest, Ingolf, when you send my brothers away. We, Atle's sons, have always kept together.\"", "\u201cI suspected the little clown's laughter,", "\u201cI have perhaps pricked some one else to-night into his eternal nightmare, and I cannot prick myself out of one.\u201d", "\u201cOut with the gentleman! out with Black Andy's murderer!", "\u201cbut we need not be precipitate about the business,", "\u201cAnnapla becomes more interesting,", "\u201cThe essential lover of the story,", "\u201cNow I know my Annapla is young and lovely. We shall see -- we shall see!\u201d", "\u201cGod be aboot us! Coont, ye near gied me a stroke there.\u201d", "\u201cI forgot that a man of your age should not be taken by surprise.\u201d", "\u201cNo' sae awfu' auld either. At my age my grandfaither was a sergeant i' the airmy, and married for the fourth time.\u201d", "\u201cOnly half his valour seems to run in the blood,", "\u201cWhat did you mean by locking me up there?\u201d", "\u201cAnd it was I they were after,", "\u201cwhich surely gave me some natural interest in the defence.\u201d", "\u201cYe were safer to bide whaur ye were; and hoo ye got oot o't 's mair than I can jalouse. We hae scalded aff the rogues wi' het water, and if they're to be keepit aff, I'll hae to be unco gleg wi' the kettle.\u201d", "\u201cYou should have locked the lady's door as well as mine. 'Art a poor warder not to think of the possibilities in two cells so close to each other.\u201d", "\u201cAnd now you will give me the opportunity of paying my respects to your no doubt adorable lady.\u201d", "\u201cIs't that way the lan' lies? Man, ye're a dour birkie!", "\u201cbut a wilf u' man maun hae his way, and, if naething less'll dae ye, jist gang up to yer ain chaumer, and ye'll find her giein' the Macfarlanes het punch wi' nae sugar till't.\u201d", "\u2018I\u2019ve known it and foreseen it. I knew it would come to this from the very beginning,", "\u2018I\u2019ll make their baseness known to Sir Vernon,", "\u2018and if he has the heart of a man he\u2019ll crush that fair-haired young viper.\u2019", "\u2018I have been for a long, long walk, and the heat has given me a dreadful headache. Please excuse my coming to dinner. I will have some tea in my room.\u2019", "\u2018That foolish girl has been walking too far for her strength, no doubt,", "\u2018She is always in extremes. But what has become of Mr. Goring? Has he been overwalking himself too?\u2019", "\u2018we were dawdling about together near the hotel till four o\u2019clock, and I don\u2019t suppose he would start for a long ramble after that.\u2019", "\u2018Then why is he not at dinner?\u2019", "\u2018I am so vexed with myself for falling asleep and letting Daphne roam about alone,", "\u2018I don\u2019t see why you should blame yourself for Daphne\u2019s want of common sense,", "\u2018It was an afternoon that would have sent anybody to sleep. Even I, who am generally so wakeful, closed my eyes for a few minutes over my book.\u2019", "\u2018Thanks; no! It is aching awfully. Please don\u2019t trouble yourself about me. Go for a nice walk with Lina.\u2019", "\u2018Don\u2019t you think if you were to come out and sit in the garden the cool evening air would do you good?\u2019", "\u2018I couldn\u2019t lift my head from the pillow.\u2019", "\u2018Then you will not be well enough to go back to Montreux to-morrow morning? We had better put off the journey.\u2019", "\u2018On no account. I shall be quite well to-morrow. It is only a headache. Please go away and enjoy your evening.\u2019", "\u2018As if I could enjoy life without you. Good-night, darling. God bless you!\u2019", "\u2018You don\u2019t think anything can have happened \u2014 any accident?", "\u2018Do you mean that he can have tumbled off a precipice? Hardly likely. A man who has climbed Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau would scarcely come to grief hereabouts. I think the worst that has befallen him is to have lost his dinner.\u2019", "\u2018My dear Gerald, I have been miserable about you.\u2019", "\u2018Dear father! It was very good of you to go and see him.\u2019", "\u2018I am sorry you had a headache. It seems an epidemic. Daphne was not able to appear at dinner for the same reason.\u2019", "\u2018The walk downhill through fields and orchards and vineyards", "\u2018but don\u2019t you think it is rather too far for a walk?\u2019", "\u2018Are you too lazy to walk with me?\u2019", "\u2018I don\u2019t think you need insult me by such a question.", "\u2018You are not looking well, Gerald,", "\u2018Those are the only places people go to nowadays,", "\u2018I shall be almost ashamed to tell my friends where I have been. All the people one meets in society go to the Engadine.\u2019", "\u2018I don\u2019t think that idea need spoil our enjoyment of this lovely scenery,", "\u2018Look at Daphne and Mr. Turchill, what a way they are below us!\u2019", "\u2018She is always beginning something tremendous and never finishing it. I daresay we shall have Turchill down here presently in search of a carriage to bring her the second half of the way.\u2019", "\u2018Yesterday she gave herself a headache by roaming about the hills,", "\u2018she has not a particle of discretion.\u2019", "\u2018Do you expect her to be full of wisdom at eighteen, Auntie?", "\u2018I can only say, my dear, that at eighteen I was not a fool,", "\u2018I have a little business to arrange in Geneva,", "\u2018I think I shall take the train, as the quicker way, and then I can be back to dinner.\u2019", "\u2018Have you anything very important to do in Geneva?", "\u2018you never said anything about it before.\u2019", "\u2018No; it is a necessity which has arisen quite lately. I\u2019ll tell you all about it \u2014 afterwards. Good-bye till dinner-time. You must be tired after your morning drive, and you won\u2019t feel inclined for much excursionising to-day.\u2019", "\u2018I am going to make all arrangements for our marriage,", "\u2018I think I\u2019ll go to my room and lie down,", "\u2018Please don\u2019t let Edgar come worrying about me. Tell him to amuse himself without my company for once in a way.\u2019", "\u2018I don\u2019t feel much inclined for sleep, though I confess to being tired. I should like you to come and sit with me for a little, Lina, soon after luncheon, if you don\u2019t mind.\u2019", "\u2018Mind! My darling, as if I were not always glad to be with you.\u2019", "\u2018He is mad, and I am mad,", "\u2018What was it that he read on my hand that day at Fontainebleau?", "\u2018Was it this? was it this?\u2019", "\u2018Seneca was a wise and learned man,", "\u2018Oh God! let me never forget what she has been to me,", "\u2018sister, mother, all the world of love, and protection, and comfort \u2014 teach me to be true to her; teach me to be loyal.\u2019", "\u2018Dearest, your hand is burning hot; you must be in a fever,", "\u2018No; there is nothing the matter with me.\u2019", "\u2019m afraid that walk was too fatiguing. I have ordered some tea for you.", "\u2018I hope you have had a nice long sleep.\u2019", "\u2018I have not been able to sleep much,", "\u2018I have not been able to sleep much, but I have been resting. Don\u2019t trouble about me, Lina dear. I am very well. What delicious tea!", "\u2018How good you are! I want to talk with you \u2014 to have a long serious talk \u2014 about you and \u2014 Mr. Goring.\u2019", "\u2018Indeed, dear. It is not often my lively sister has any inclination for seriousness.\u2019", "\u2018No; but I have been thinking deeply of late about long engagements, and short engagements, and love before marriage, and love after marriage \u2014 don\u2019t you know.", "\u2018And what wise thoughts have you had upon the subject, dearest?", "\u2018I can hardly explain them; but I have been thinking \u2014 you know that I am not desperately in love with \u2014 poor Edgar. I have never pretended to be so; have I, dear?\u2019", "\u2018You have always spoken lightly of him. But it is your way to speak lightly of everything; and I hope and believe that he is much more dear to you than you say he is.\u2019", "\u2018And if the grief took another shape \u2014 if he were to be false to you?", "\u2018I ought not to have talked of such things, dear,", "\u2018Yes; it was foolish, Daphne,", "\u2018Isn\u2019t it too warm for walking?\u2019", "\u2018Not for Aunt Rhoda\u2019s idea of an afternoon walk, which is generally to stroll down to the pier, and sit under the trees watching the people land from the steamers.\u2019", "\u2018Shall you be out long, do you think?\u2019", "\u2018That will depend upon Aunt Rhoda. She said something about wanting to go in the steamer to Vevey, if it could be done comfortably before dinner.\u2019", "\u2018Good-bye! Kiss me, Lina. Tell me you are not angry with me for what I said just now. I wanted to sound the depths of your love.\u2019", "\u2018It was cruel, dear; but I am not angry,", "\u2018God bless you, and reward you for all you have been to me, Lina!", "\"above a year, sir ; and except just furnishing the place, and giving me that trumpery necklace, which is no more to be compared to my shells than Mght to darkness, you have never spent, to my knowledge, a single farthing of your own, from that hour to this. K it had not been for my own fortune, your family would have been pretty much in want of a maintenance.", "\"Never fear me, dear! Hoatd away, Major, and when you have got enough to take us back, why back we will go, won't we?", "\"For Hfe? Oh, no! my love, decidedly not for life,", "\u201cFelix knows Paris as well as he knows London,", "\u201cHe is an idle man, and it is quite likely that he will relieve us of all trouble by taking the matter into his own hands. In any case, he is sure to know who are the right people to address in our present necessity. What do you say?\u201d", "\u201cMr. Sweetsir is a man of the world,", "\u201cIn putting the case before him, we are sure to have it presented to us from a new point of view.", "\u201cThe beastly English climate is telling on my nerves,", "\u201cI believe I speak for her Ladyship,", "\u201cwhen I say that we should like to hear, in the first place, how the whole case strikes you, Mr. Sweetsir?\u201d", "\u201cTell it me all over again,", "\u201cWhere does the suspicion of robbery rest in your opinion? You look at the theft of the bank-note with a fresh eye.\u201d", "\u201cYou mentioned a clergyman just now,", "\u201cThe man, you know, to whom the money was sent. What was his name?\u201d", "\u201cThe Reverend Samuel Bradstock.\u201d", "\u201cYou want me to name the person whom I suspect?\u201d", "\u201cI suspect the Reverend Samuel Bradstock,", "\u201cIf you have come here to make stupid jokes,", "\u201cyou had better go back to your bed again. We want a serious opinion.\u201d", "\u201cYou have a serious opinion,", "\u201cthe exhaustive system of reasoning,", "\u201cYou know as well as I do that you are talking nonsense.\u201d", "\u201cWhen a man persists in talking nonsense,", "\u201csilence is the best answer; anything else only encourages him.", "\u201cYou will either give me a serious reply, or wish me good-morning.", "\u201csome of you have got the number of the lost bank-note? If the thief has tried to pass it in Paris, my man may be of some use to you.\u201d", "\u201cMiss Isabel Miller, Mr. Moody, and myself.\u201d", "\u201cSend me the number, with the abstract of the case. Is there anything else I can do towards recovering the money?", "\u201cThere is one lucky circumstance in connection with this loss -- isn\u2019t there? It has fallen on a person who is rich enough to take it easy. Good heavens! suppose it had been my loss!\u201d", "\u201cIt has fallen doubly on me,", "\u201cand I am certainly not rich enough to take it that easy. The money was destined to a charitable purpose; and I have felt it my duty to pay it again.\u201d", "\u201cYou excellent creature!", "\u201cMy nephew has turned fifty,", "\u201cand he persists in living as if he was a young man. Every now and then Nature says to him, \u2018Felix, you are old!\u2019 And Felix goes to bed, and says it\u2019s his nerves.\u201d", "\u201cI suppose he is to be trusted to keep his word about writing to Paris?", "\u201cYou astonish me, Lady Lydiard! In what way has Moody deteriorated?\u201d", "\u201cYou shall hear. Yesterday was Friday. You took him out with you, on business, early in the morning.\u201d", "\u201cI think I shall manage better with Moody, if your Ladyship will permit me to see him in private,", "\u201cShall I go downstairs and speak with him in his own room?\u201d", "\u201cWhy should you trouble yourself to do that?", "\u201cSee him here; and I will go into the boudoir.\u201d"]