a story of france

... toil. On a platform at the end of the chapel a haggard man of more than middle age, with grey whiskers ascetically cut back from the fore part of his face so far as to be almost banished from ... which the soaring of a young man into the empyrean, and his descent again, is always narrated. But as has often been said, the light and the truth may be on the side of the dreamer: a far wider ... great English-pointed revival under Britton, Pugin, Rickman, Scott, and other mediaevalists, he had crept away from the fashion to admire what was good in Palladian and Renaissance. As soon as...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... she is aware of being of[ 81] the magnificent German people, and shares a part of the national ambition to excel. It's this that we haven't got in America and can't well have under ... inclinations that quite naturally haunted him after a wearying day of travel and as nightfall drew down about his loneliness. He was bound for the home of a strange family, speaking a tongue ... fishing. Playtime was spent in martial exercise, in evenings at the opera or seeing the classical dramas of all races and epochs on the stage. Gard became aware that the Bucher children had carried...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 04:20

... kiss her hand." I was about six years of age and as delighted as only one can be at six years of age. I had already indulged in many quiet fancies about the shadows which I had seen evenings ... mother's looks, the calm, earnest gaze of my father, gardens and vine leaves, and soft green turf, and a very old and quaint picture-book—and this is all I can recall of the first scattered ... time how beautiful she was. It was not that beauty of form and face which dazzles us at the first sight of a lovely maiden, and then fades away as suddenly as a blossom in spring. It was much...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... father, and even attended to the wants of an occasional customer when 'Duke Radford was busy or absent. The store at Roaring Water Portage was awkwardly placed for business. It stood on a ... in, and dinner began. It was a hasty meal, as early dinner has to be when half of the day's work lies beyond it, and in less than half an hour Katherine was getting into a thick pilot coat, ... dried fish which he wanted to trade off for provisions, and, after a good deal of bargaining, Katherine took the lot in exchange for a small barrel of flour and a packet of tobacco. "No need...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:21

... so was a dollar and a half ahead, and had got his pulses well warmed up, Dave manifested great vexation, and asked Grayson to increase the stakes to half a dollar, so as to give him a chance ... But all of Barbara's projects were moderate and took full account of difficulties. Tom had little heart for a process that demanded plodding and patient waiting; nor did any of Barbara's ... beneath and an arm at each end. Henry Miller was a square-set young fellow, without a spark of romance in him. He had plowed corn all day, and he would have danced all night had the chance offered,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... words of satisfaction at Edgar having adopted an Arab costume, and at his appearance in it. On the following day the sheik, taking his son, Edgar, and two of his followers, left the caravan and ... of the country." The conversation had been carried on in Arabic. The speakers were of about the same age, but Edgar Blagrove was half a head taller than his Arab friend. His father was a ... shall go and see this great man, and hear what he says, and shall, if I can, keep on terms of peace with him. An army so strong and so fierce that it has captured Alexandria after four hours' fighting...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... they are of importance make a point of getting seats as near as they can to the captain, and important people are not, as a rule, anything like as pleasant as the rest of us." Wilfrid walked ... sensible woman. Mr. Renshaw was, in fact, an eminently impractical man, weak and easy in disposition, averse to exertion of any kind, and without a shadow of the decision of character that distinguished ... together." As soon as they started on their walk Mr. Atherton began an amusing story of some adventure of his in the Western States of America, and Marion was so interested that she forgot all about...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... smoothly along under the surface, and then emerging amid the spray of the waterfall, where the shafts of sunlight made a rainbow arc. And at last Olaf came out and ran swiftly backward and forward ... that was eastward bound for Gardarike; for in that land her brother was a great man, and she knew that he would gladly succour us until I should be of an age to avenge my father's death ... became painful to his untrained limbs. But at last the hot sun sank in a blaze of gold, and the first day's journey came to an end. A halt was made within the shelter of a vast forest of...

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... Giraud's disappearance was found. The Alcazar left to fill engagements farther down the coast. On the way back the steamer stopped at Macuto and the manager made anxious inquiry. Not a ... is as weak a word as any to express the unnameable kinship of man to nature, that queer fraternity that causes stones and trees and salt water and clouds to play upon our emotions. Why are ... reception room and cafe. Half a dozen of Macuto's representative social and official caballeros were They were on a lower plane of earth and life and were succumbing to its peculiar, subtle...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 18:15

... with the markets before; that was the reason he now needed a job as assistant cashier, or as anything that would pay him a respectable salary. But he had been an outsider, a lamb. He had believed ... them, or at least make them a long visit. Somewhat to Dick's surprise she accepted; partly because the idea of having any sort of a home appealed to her, and partly because, in spite of her ... side of failure. It is daring, splendid, Napoleonic; it makes capital reading in the daily papers, and affords the outsiders a chance to win a little and to lose a great deal of money; but bankers...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20