" Theyall went accordingly out of the gate: but Thorer went back to Jomala,and took a silver bowl that stood upon his knee full of silver money.
Yet these peoplewere not in the least noisy or rude and—I almost hesitate to make sucha startling statement about a Syrian city—I do not remember being onceasked for _bakhsheesh_.
The coal magnates--Tamms, Duval, and Remington--findingthat that ichor of our civilization was growing too plentiful, hadlaid their heads together and were “diminishing the output;” that is,they forbade that more than a certain number of tons should be minedper week.
Epanchin became more and more pleasedwith her guest; the girls, too, listened with considerable attention.
He was encouraged by the sounds of the deafening tumult from the frontof the house.
Alexandra, Adelaida, look after the prince! He doesn’t seemso very ill, does he? I don’t think he requires a napkin under hischin, after all; are you accustomed to having one on, prince?”“Formerly, when I was seven years old or so
There, that’s quite enough!”Gania’s irritation increased with every word he uttered, as he walkedup and down the room.
Gracie turned her dear eyes full on his; and then the barriers of hisheart broke down.
Their children are sometimescongenital idiots, like the hero of our story; sometimes they are foundin the dock at the Assizes, where they are generally acquitted by thejury for edifying motives; sometimes they distinguish themselves by oneof those burning scandals that amaze the public and add another blot tothe stained record of our age.
Turning at the sound, hestopped, and he and the chair and the candle and the picture came downin a heap together.
’ Now that wasbase—cowardly and base!”“That is so,” observed Lebedeff quietly; “cowardly and base
Thank Heaven, Jeeves managed to get outand buy me a collar that fitted, or I should be a strangled corpse bynow! It was touch and go till the stud broke.
The cloak was unbuttoned; two ofthe buttons, in fact, were missing, and a third was due to fall offmomentarily.
”Half an hour after this conversation, she went off to town, and thenceto the Kammenny Ostrof, [“Stone Island,” a suburb and park of St.
"I must ask you, if you will be so good," said the policemancourteously, "to come along with me.
"He also sings:-- "The captured men will grieve the most Svein and their comrades to have lost; For it went ill with those who fled, Their wounded had no easy bed.
My Lord,--The first opportunity I had of sending a letter to the coast occurred in February last, when I was at a village called Molemba (lat.
Two or three times to-day I have had the word ‘hospitality’ pushed downmy throat; this is not fair.
Er hatte das Spottliedl wohl gehört und gute Lust bezeigt, unter derSchwelle umzukehren und den Takt dazu zu schlagen, aber Leni hatte ihnbittend am Arme gefaßt und fortgezogen.
They havethen to stand upon the fragments of the thing they have broken,and its jagged edges keep on wounding them at every turn.
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The accusation against him, of being stingy with hismoney, was not just, for he was a most generous man towards his friends;but that alone was the cause of the discontent raised against him, thathe appeared hard and severe in his retributions.
"He stood at the foot of the stairs holding the light high above his headand she ascended.
Looking back, I may say that, so far as I was mixed up in it, the thingbegan at seven o’clock in the morning, when I was aroused from adreamless sleep by the dickens of a scrap in progress outside mystate-room door.
""Those people are not mine," said the native; "but they are my friends,and I fight for them.
I talked hard, and told lots of stories, andlaughed like mad; then I joined the ladies
One of the most curious and alarming of the audible phenomena observablein the Capitol, so all the watchmen say, is a ghostly footstep thatseems to follow anybody who crosses Statuary Hall at night.
The Scythians, according toHerodotus, used the bones[68] of the animal sacrificed to boil theflesh, the Guachos of South America do the same when they have nofuel: the ox thus boils himself.
Yet directly he caught sight of me again, he got allworked up and seemed to have only one idea in life—to start chewing mewhere he had left off.
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"And that was why you might have seen a Mephisto and a slender troubadourof lovely form, with mandolin flung across his shoulder, followed by abevy of jockeys and ballet girls, laughing and singing as they sweptdown Rampart Street.
Übrigens erhielten sie doch einige Nachricht von der bewegten Weltda draußen, denn die alte Sepherl brach etlichemal den Bannkreis desZauberschlosses und wenn niemand bei dem Gattertore zu errufen war, soscheute sie auch den Weg um das Gehöft nicht, um rückwärts durch denGarten einzudringen.
The general was, owing to certain circumstances, a little inclined tobe too suspicious at home, and needlessly nervous; but, as anexperienced father and husband, he judged it better to take measures atonce to protect himself from any dangers there might be in the air
That story went therounds of newspapers all over the country and resulted in the proprietorof the place receiving hundreds of letters from all over the country.
”“Oh, but you’re quite wrong in my particular instance,” said the Swisspatient, quietly.
Once shecomes panting to say: "Oh, brother, have you heard? Such lovelyIndian soaps have come out! My days of luxury are gone by;still, if they contain no animal fat, I should like to try some.
” Psalm 68 from the Psalm book, published in Amsterdam by Henry Ainsworth, and used by the Pilgrim congregation in Leyden and at Plymouth.
”“If I wish! That’s good, I must say! Do you think I am deceived as tothe flagrant impropriety of my conduct? I am quite aware that his moneyis his own, and that my action—is much like an attempt at extortion.
She leaned over with herelbows on her knees and the cigarette fumes bathing her colorless face.
Miksi et lähde loppuiäksesi johonkin pyhään paikkaanja uhraudu hurskauden töihin? Me järjestämme asian aineellisen puolen.
I fired a gun, and when my attendants came gaveher a string of beads, which made her express distress at my "leavingwithout drinking anything of hers.
She had certainly given him awonderful smile, both at coming and again at leave-taking, but had notsaid a word, not even when the others all professed their friendshipfor him.
“General, you must take your pearls back, too—give them to yourwife—here they are! Tomorrow I shall leave this flat altogether, andthen there’ll be no more of these pleasant little social gatherings,ladies and gentlemen
It looks as if towards the end of the rainy seasonthe sponges were lifted up by the water off their beds, and the poresand holes, being enlarged, are all employed to give off fluid.
""I suppose," she replied, "that there are people all the way along theriver until you reach the end of it.
" This was the first time I haveheard the word "sleep" applied to death in these parts.
Thewell-preserved bridge which now spans the stream was built by thesultan Selim four hundred years ago; but a Latin inscription on thecliff indicates that a military road was constructed here by MarcusAurelius as early as the second century, and on the sheer rocks at theleft bank of the river are cut panels whose records far antedate thedays of Roman supremacy.
»Pareš Babu oli aluksi aivan ymmällä kuullessaan Goran olevan jutussamukana, mutta kuultuaan Lolitalta koko tapahtuman kulun hän painuihetkeksi mietteisiin.
Epanchin examined the portrait of Nastasia Philipovna for somelittle while, holding it critically at arm’s length.
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You should choose, once for all, between disreputable women, andrespectable ones, or you are sure to get mixed.
Tämän synkän sään vallitessa, kun oli yhtä epämieluistapysytellä huoneissa kuin epävarmaa uskaltautua ulos kaduille, kaksinuorta miestä istui pajutuoleissa kolmikerroksisen rakennuksenkostealla kattotasanteella.
Madelaine was in the center of the veranda, turning about to show hermother a rent in her cape where a stray Bolshevik bullet had penetratedone night beyond Omsk, when old Murfins appeared in the doorway.
“It was, I assure you, and if not to her then to Rogojin, which is thesame thing.
The barometers had shown nodifference of level from about 1800 feet above the sea.
They sailed thesame day past Jadar with the best wind, and in the evening reachedHirtingsey, from whence the king proceeded to Hordaland, and wasentertained there in guest-quarters.
He gave them teachers, andplaced these as thickly in the country as he saw needful.
I have already stated that the general, thoughhe was a man of lowly origin, and of poor education, was, for all that,an experienced and talented husband and father
Arthurwas already tired, with his short and idle day; he was overcome by therush and the whirl and the magnitude of things.