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by July Hormell 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Room of the chamber, madam, but not as a footman. _Mrs. Sul_. I suppose you served as footman before? _Arch_. For that reason I would not serve in that post again; for my memory is too weak for the load of messages that the ladies lay upon their servants in London. My Lady Howd'ye, the last mistress I served, called me up one morning, and told me, 'Martin, go to my Lady Allnight with my humble service; tell her I was to wait on her ladyship yesterday, and left word with Mrs. Rebecca, that the preliminaries of the affair she knows of, are stopped till we know the concurrence of the person that I know of, for which there are circumstances wanting which we shall accommodate at the old place; but that in the meantime there is a person about her ladyship, that from several hints and surmises, was accessory at a certain time to the disappointments that naturally attend things, that to her knowledge are of more importance--' {191} _Mrs. Sul_., _Dor_. Ha! ha! ha! where are you going, sir? _Arch_. Why, I han't half done!--The whole howd'ye was about half an hour long; so I happened to misplace two syllables, and was turned off, and rendered incapable. _Dor_. [_Aside to Mrs. Sullen_.] The pleasantest fellow, sister, I ever saw!--[_To Archer_.] But, friend, if your master be married, I presume you still serve a lady? _Arch_. No, madam, I take care never to come into a married family; the commands of the master and mistress are always so contrary, that 'tis impossible to please both. {203} _Dor_. There's a main point gained: my lord is not married, I find. [_Aside_. _Mrs. Sul_. But I wonder, friend, that in so many good services, you had not a better provision made for you.

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by controlcambios-bdoo＠lists.ourproject.org 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

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N border, and Filey, who had been in all sorts of qu
by McCrea 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Er there. Where a less complex man would have brought in, if not the menace of a storm, at least an intimation of masterfulness that should advertise the uselessness of opposition, Stonor brought a subtler ally in what, for lack of better words, must be called an air of heightened fastidiousness--mainly physical. Man has no shrewder weapon against the woman he has loved and wishes to exorcise from his path. For the simple, and even for those not so much simple as merely sensitive, there is something in that cool, sure assumption of unapproachableness on the part of one who once had been so near--something that lames advance and hypnotizes vision. Geoffrey Stonor's aloofness was not in the 'high look' alone; it was as much as anything in the very way he walked, as if the ground were hardly good enough, in the way he laid his shapely hand on the carved back of the sofa, the way his eyes rested on inanimate things in the room, reducing whoever was responsible for them to the need of justifying their presence and defending their value. As the woman in the chair, leaning cheek on hand, sat silently watching him, it may have been that obscure things in those headlong hours of the past grew plainer. However ludicrous the result may look in the last analysis, it is clear that a faculty such as Stonor's for overrating the value of the individual in the scheme of things, does seem more effectually than any mere patent of nobility to confer upon a man the 'divine right' to dictate to his fellows and to look down upon them. The thing is founded on illusion, but it is founded as firm as many another figment that has governed men and seen the generations come to heel and go crouching to their graves. But the shining superiority of the man seemed to be a little dimmed for the woman

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Rn for another cargo, and bring back any na
by Oberg 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Ir opinion. I proposed that we should, without loss of time, proceed in the boat to some of the neighbouring islands to search for her, believing it possible that she had been compelled to take shelter in one of their harbours. I told Charlie what I thought of doing. "Dick and I will be ready to accompany you, whatever you may decide," he answered. "Then let us go at once," I said. "We have a sail in

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who's a-goin' to vouch for you, now?" "My
by Likens 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Tement that he lost his breath for a brief period of time. "But Tom, Amasa Culpepper wasn't in our house that morning?" he objected. "Perhaps not, but Dock Phillips was, and he's a boy I'd hate to trust any further than I could see him," Tom agreed. "Do you think Mr. Culpepper could have hired Dock to _steal_ the paper?" continued the sorely-puzzled Carl. "Well, hardly that. If Dock took it he did the job on his own responsibility. Perhaps he had a chance to glance at the paper and find out what it stood for, and in his cunning way figured that he might hold his employer up for a good sum

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detective, a gentleman of education and r
by Kinzinger 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

D down the corridor during the hours in which they were released from their cells, and the effect was observable u

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men's doors, and kicking at the gates of Emperors.' It is a grea
by Castles 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

and fellows of that high order, are in the habit of indulging in this propensity upstairs in the billiard-rooms of the 'Sarcophagus'--and, partly to make their acquaintance, partly from a natural aptitude for crime, Sackville Maine followed them, and became an adept in the odious custom. Where it is introduced into a family I need not say how sad the consequences are, both to the furniture and the morals. Sackville smoked in his dining-room at home, and caused an agony to his wife and mother-in-law which I do not venture to describe. He then became a professed BILLIARD-PLAYER, wasting hours upon hours at that amusement; betting freely, playing tolerably, losing awfully to Captain Spot and Col. Cannon. He played matches of a hundred games with these gentlemen, and would not only continue until four or five o'clock in the morning at this work, but would be found at the Club of a forenoon, indulging himself to the detriment of his business, the ruin of his health, and the neglect of his wife. From billiards to whist is but a step--and when a man gets to whist and five pounds on a rubber, my opinion is, that it is all up with him. How was the coal business to go on, and the connection of the firm to be kept up, and the senior partner always at the card-table? Consorting now with genteel persons and Pall Mall bucks, Sackville became ashamed of his snug little residence in Kennington Oval, and transported his family to Pimlico, where, though Mrs. Chuff, his mother-in-law, was at first happy, as the quarter was elegant and near her Sovereign, poor little Laura and the children found a woful difference. Where were her friends who came in with their work of a morning?--At Kennington and in th

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ow, for you--" His v
by Rutha Macgregor 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

El. Get you clear out of here. Only don't give me a hard time. All you'll get is both of us flashed." "Yeah, I know." Stan held out an arm. "Come on, let's go." * * * * * Stan watched as the chief test engineer waved a hand. "Two hundred twenty gravs," the man said. "Full swing completed on both axes. That's it. Ease off your tractors." He looked closely at his panel of meters, then got off his stool and stretched. "No evidence of strain. Looks as though all components are good." He turned, looking at the test operators. "Let's get this place cleaned up." The sense of disorientation set up by the tractors was subsiding. Stan got to his feet and looked at his companion. Dachmann nodded at him. "Well," he said slowly, "Golzer can get off the hook now. His run'll be approved. Suppose we get back on the job." He led the way out of the blockhouse tunnel. A car was pulling up at the entrance. A heavy, square face looked from a rear window and a large hand beckoned. "Dachmann, Graham. Over here." "Oh, oh." Dachmann sighed. "Here's trouble. Wizow doesn't come out here unless he's got something." The blocky production chief looked coldly at them as they approached the car. "It'll be a lot better," he growled, "if you two clear through my office before you start wandering all over the grounds." He looked at Stan. "Got a problem for you. Maybe we'll get some action out of you on this one." He held out a few sheets of paper. "Hold up over in the components line." He jabbed at a sheet with a forefinger. "Take a trip over there and kick it up." He glanced at Dachmann. "Got another one for you." Stan took the papers, studying them. Then he looked up. There was very little question as to the bottleneck here. Each material shortage traced back to one machine. He frowned. "Maintenance people checked over that machine yet?" he asked. Wizow shrugged impassively. "You're a staffman," he said coldly. "Been on parole to us long enough, you should know what to do, so I'm not going to tell you how. Just get to the troub

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With scornful Eye the Works and Books of those That i
by Henegan Pokorney 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Can be boasted of by any of our modern Wits. _Jocelin_, _Spelman_, both Father and Son, _Cambden_, _Whelock_, _Gibson_, and many more of all Ranks and Qualities, whose Names deserve well to be mention'd with Respect, were there room for it in this place.] But to leave these Pedagogues to huff and swagger in the heighth of all their Arrogance. I cannot but think it great Pity, that in our Considerations, for Refinement of the _English_ Tongue, so little Regard is had to Antiquity, and the Original of our present Language, which is the _Saxon_. This indeed is allow'd by an ingenious Person, who hath lately made some Propo

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M and how nervous the phrases; and
by Cecelia 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Ification of it. We are interrogating our own impressions, and asking ourselves among what kind of writers he ought to be placed. Rhetoric is a good and worthy art, and rhetorical authors are often more useful, more instructive, more really respectable than poetical authors. But it is to be said that Macaulay as a rhetorician will hardly be placed in the first rank, by those who have studied both him and the great masters. Once more, no amount of embellishment or emphasis or brilliant figure suffices to produce this intense effect of agitation rigorously restrained; nor can any beauty of decoration be in the least a substitute for that touching and penetrative music, which is made in prose by the repressed trouble of grave and high souls. There is a certain music, we do not deny, in Macaulay, but it is the music of a man everlastingly playing for us rapid solos on a silver trumpet, never the swelling diapasons of the organ, and never the deep ecstasies of the four magic strings. That so sensible a man as Macaulay should keep clear of the modern abomination of dithyrambic prose, that rank and sprawling weed of speech, was natural enough; but then the effects which we miss in him, and which, considering how strong the literary faculty in him really was, we are almost astonished to miss, are not produced by dithyramb but by repression. Of course the answer has been already given; Macaulay, powerful and vigorous as he was, had no agitation, no wonder, no tumult of spirit to repress. The world was spread out clear before him; he read it as plainly and as certainly as he read his books; life was all an affair of direct categoricals. This was at least one secret of those hard modulations and shallow cadences. How poor is the rhythm of Macaulay's prose we only realise by going with his periods fresh in our ear to some true master of harmony. It is not worth while to quote passages from an author who is in everybody's library, and Macaulay is always so much like himself that almost any one page will serve for an illustration exactly as well as any other. Let any one turn to his character of Somers, for whom he had so much admiration, and then turn to Clarendon's characte

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