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# Letters from India Volume II/To a Friend 3

June 11, 1887.
This immense paper is a great atrocity, but it can’t be helped; I dare say it is, in fact, note paper, but it.has been drawn out by the heat.
I cannot think what possesses me to write to you at this hour—precisely half-past twelve—when the miserable attempt at breakfast, made at nine, has ceased to give the slightest support, and when, from exhaustion and heat, and the conviction that luncheon will never come, I feel utterly desperate. Too weak to read, and very weak indeed to think of writing to you. Breakfast is a remarkably bad meal in this country. I wish you could see the bilious despondency with which, one after another, we all look at it; not but what there is a great choice of evils—tea and chocolate and eggs in all shapes; and meat, fish, and pine-apples, and mango fruits, and mango-fool, instead of gooseberry-fool. But it is all in vain; it is too much trouble to eat at that hour, and sundry weak voices saying, ​‘Peene ka pawnay’ are all that is heard, which, being interpreted, means ‘a glass of cold water,’ and if that is not sufficiently iced, the dejection of the moment turns into slight irritation.
I wish you would come here, dear. It really is very rude your never calling, and I should like to show you my room; somehow or another I have scraped together a number of pretty things; none very valuable, but they are odd and such as you have not seen before—Chinese and Burmese, and any other ese, that comes in my way.
The black angel, commonly called ‘ducky boy,’ had a horrid narrow escape a fortnight ago. He went frolicking out at the gate of Government House before —— and Fanny, who were riding, and of course never supposed that the country was in that state of disorganisation that any common dogs would touch his little excellency. But two bull-dogs, whom a man was leading in a chain, flew at him and pinned him down; when —— heard the hubbub and rode on, and, by dint of sentries and syces, rescued the poor little prince, who was bit in two places, and had fainted from sheer fright. Jimmund, his servant, had flown at the owner of ​the dogs, ‘and —— says he is the first native he ever saw who gave a regular English knock-down blow; but he knocked the man right down, and then began thumping him with the end of his dog’s chain, till —— advised him to beat the dogs rather than their owner. Chance was brought to by a warm bath, and was not really much hurt. When I came home Jimmund brought him to me, bandaged up in all directions, and told his story by means of an interpreter, who ended by saying, ‘And Jimmund say he very sorry —— Sahib call him off, because he would have deaded the man who have those dogs.’ I told him nothing could be more amiable or correct, but in general I should prefer his driving away the dogs to deading the man. The ‘Abercrombie Robertson’ is in the river, we hear, in which ship we know there is a box from —— for us with some ornamented paper; but it always takes a week to unpack a ship, and the captains clearly make it a general rule to put our boxes at the very bottom of the hold.
Yours most affectionately,
E.E.
# Letters from India Volume II/To the Countess of Buckinghamshire 4

Calcutta, May 5, 1840.
My dearest Sister,— —— and Lord Jocelyn, after sundry delays from gales and want of steamers, sailed in the ‘Conway’ this morning. There is still such a high south wind that I have no idea they will get beyond Kedgeree for two or three days.
You cannot think how well we are getting through the hot season; it is quite different. from any we have seen before, though they say it was the same last year; but there is a storm every other day, and about four o’clock it is quite cool, and the evening drive, instead of a trouble, is an absolute pleasure. I suppose this cannot last, but we have arrived at the 5th of May without any suffering to speak of since the ​first fortnight we came, and the real rains begin in June. This is another reason for going home without fail next year—that the country may leave a favourable impression, or at least its most favourable impression.
I have taken a much wiser line this time—never walk, nor ride, nor move about at all, but just read and write and keep cool; and then all the sleep that was due to me for three years’ marching I am paying up now. It is so pleasant to have a good night. I shall always respect marching for making me like Calcutta, and making me feel the advantage of a quiet room, with books and tables and chairs all clean and in the same place every day.
God bless you, dearest sister!
Yours affectionately,
E.E.
# Letters from India Volume II/To the Hon and Rev R Eden

Barrackpore, August 18, 1837,
My dearest Robert,—I ought to be writing to you, but somehow you always seem to be George’s property in the writing way, and he really has such limited means in that line that it is robbing the poor, apparently, to interfere with him. We are going to send home soon a quantity of things—I may say a ship-load of goods. I cannot think what you are to do with them. Build eight houses for your children and furnish them handsomely, and then take the chance of our not coming home. But most of these things had better be made over in their packing cases to that shady retreat under the gallery at Lansdowne House, which Lord L—— proffered us. There are some Chinese folding screens, a Chinese table, a Chinese cabinet—all bulky articles—besides various smaller articles of furniture. We shall have so many Chinese things that I am beginning to make myself harmonise with the house. I have already achieved a yellow parchment complexion of great merit, and can make a ​handsome plait of long hair; therefore my great care is to pinch my eyes up in the corners and flatten my nose, and, if that can be achieved, there will be something very attractive in the general appearance of Chang Foo Cottage, Knightsbridge. I know I shall be fined or imprisoned before I leave this, for snipping off by irresistible impulse the long plait of hair our Chinese shoemaker wears. It touches the ground, and one snip would have it off. Perhaps I may do it the very last thing, and scuttle off to the ship instantly with it, as my last trophy.
We should not send home all our furniture so soon, but we shall be away from Calcutta a year and a half, and that is quite enough in this country to injure anything that is not daily looked after and aired and wiped and cleaned; but they say that, left in Government House merely to the care of a few natives, the insects and the damp would have destroyed every item before our return. —— is selling off all his goods, books, arms, horses, curiosities, &c., all to be sold on Thursday; indeed, the newspaper is full of the results of our move. ‘To be sold, the property of Capt. ——, proceeding ​to the Upper Provinces with the “GovernorGeneral;”’ then ‘the property of Mr. ——,’ ‘the property of the Rev. C. ——, &c. &c. I should hate that part of an Indian life. People’ are always changing their stations, and at every change they sell off everything, because there are no stages, waggons, or canals by which even a chair can be transported from one place to another, and it is not everybody who can afford a man’s head on which to carry it.
Yours most affectionately,
E.E.
# Linderholm v. Kansas/Opinion of the Court

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* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
296 U.S. 572
Linderholm v. Kansas
Mr. Justus B. Linderholm, pro se.
On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas.
See 84 Kan. 603, 892, 114 P. 857.
The motion for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis is denied for the reason that the Court upon examination of the papers herein submitted, finds no ground upon which writ of certiorari should be granted. The petition for writ of certiorari is therefore also denied.

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# Lindgren v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
281 U.S. 38
Lindgren v. United States
Argued: Feb. 24, 1930. ---
Mr. D. A. Kelsey, of Norfolk, Va., pro hac vice, by special leave of court.
Mr. Jacob L. Morewitz, of Newport News, Va., for petitioner.
The Attorney General and Mr. Claude R. Branch, of Providence, R. I., for the United States.
Mr. Justice SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Lindigo, the White Woman

LINDIGO,
THE WHITE-WOMAN;
OR,
THE HIGHLAND GIRL'S CAPTIVITY AMONG THE AUSTRALIAN BLACKS.
By ANGUS McLEAN.
"AN CHAILIN DILEAS."
Melbourne: H. T. D WIGHT, NEAR PARLIAMENT HOUSES.
MDCCCLXVI.
MELBOURNE: WALKER, MAY AND CO., PRINTERS, 99 BOURKE STREET WEST.
Chapter I — An Awkward Introduction Chapter II — The Fairies Spiriting Away the Venison Chapter III — Stopping Up the West Chapter IV — The First Letter Chapter V — The Bonfire Chapter VI — The Proposal Chapter VII — How to Cure Highland Girls' Love for Englishmen Chapter VIII — John Lom's Farewell to his Father's Cotters Chapter IX — Fighting Jack Chapter X — Mademoiselle Dupont Chapter XI — A Joyfull Surprise Chapter XII — A Turkey Cock Mistaken for a Colonel Chapter XIII — Meeting at the Theatre Chapter XIV — The Shipwreck Chapter XV — Pamul the Maori Girl Chapter XVI — The Confession Chapter XVII — The Free Pardon Chapter XVIII — Chasing the Bushrangers Chapter XIX — The Capture Chapter XX — Charlie Discovers New Country Chapter XXI — A Joyful Discovery Chapter XXII — The White Captive Chapter XXIII — Matoka, the Warrigal Youth Chapter XXIV — A welcome Stranger Chapter XXV — The Rescue Chapter XXVI — The Major Hard Pressed Chapter XXVII — Caught on the Spree Chapter XXVIII — Corroboree in the Highlands Chapter XIX — A General Muster
# Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company

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United States Supreme Court
292 U.S. 151
Lindheimer v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Argued: Jan. 15, 16, 1934. --- Decided: April 30, 1934
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.
[Syllabus from pages 151-153 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. George I. Haight, Benjamin F. Goldstein, and William H. Sexton, all of Chicago, Ill., for Lindheimer and others.
Messrs. William H. Thompson, Charles M. Bracelen, of New York City, Kenneth F. Burgess, of Chicago, Ill., and Edward L. Blackman, of New York City, for Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Lewis v. Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland

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United States Supreme Court
292 U.S. 559
Lewis v. Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland
Argued: May 4, 1934. --- Decided: June 4, 1934
[Syllabus from pages 559-561 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Wallace Miller, of Macon, Ga., and George P. Barse and J. F. Anderson, both of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. M. F. Goldstein, of Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the o inion of the Court.

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# Lessee of French v. Spencer

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United States Supreme Court
62 U.S. 228
Lessee of French v. Spencer

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# Lessee of Coons v. Gallaher

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United States Supreme Court
40 U.S. 18
Lessee of Coons v. Gallaher
ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio. The original action of ejectment was brought in the court of common pleas of Clinton county; and taken thence by appeal to the supreme court; where it was tried, and a verdict and judgment given for the plaintiffs, at May term 1833. Afterwards, a new trial was ordered; and on a case stated, a judgment was rendered by the court in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff prosecuted this writ of error.
The case was argued, on the merits, by Leonard, for the plaintiffs; and by Buck, for the defendant. The decision of the court having been given on the question of jurisdiction, those arguments are omitted.
TANEY, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 1/Letter 94

To MRS. RUXTON.
15 BAGGOT STREET, DUBLIN,
March 1814.
Here we are: arrived at three o'clock: found Henrica looking very well. Such a nice, pretty, elegant house! and they have furnished it so comfortably. It is delightful to see my father here; he enjoys himself so much in his son's house, and Sneyd and Henrica are so happy seeing him pleased with everything. Lady Longford has been here this morning; told us Sir Edward Pakenham was so fatigued by riding an uneasy horse at the battle of Vittoria, he was not able to join for four days. A buckle of Lord Wellington's sword-belt saved him: he wrote four times in one week to Lady Wellington, without ever mentioning his wound. I long for you to see Henrica; she is so kind, and so well-bred and easy in her manners. *** In April Mr. Edgeworth had a dangerous illness. He was just out of danger, when, late at night on the 10th of May, his son Lovell arrived from Paris, liberated by the peace after eleven years' detention.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Mr. and Mrs. Sneyd Edgeworth's house in Dublin.
# Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 1/Letter 95

MARIA EDGEWORTH to MRS. RUXTON.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 16, 1814.
My father's contentment at Lovell's return has done him more good than all the advice of all the surgeons, I do believe, now that the danger is over. If you have suffered from suspense in absence, yet, my dear aunt, you have been spared the torturing terrors we have felt at the sight of the daily, hourly changes, so rapid, so unaccountable: one day, one hour, all hope, the next all despair! The lamp of life, now bright, starting up high and brilliant, then sinking suddenly almost to extinction; the flame flitting, flickering, starting, leaping, as it were, on and off by fits. Some day we shall talk it over in security; now I can hardly bear to look back to it.
All that has passed in France in the last few weeks! a revolution without bloodshed! Paris taken without being pillaged! the Bourbons, after all hope and reason for hope had passed, restored to their capital and their palaces! With what mixed sensations they must enter those palaces! I daresay it has not escaped my aunt that the Venus de Medicis and Apollo Belvidere are both missing together: I make no remarks. I hate scandal—at least I am not so fond of it as the lady of whom it was said she could not see the poker and tongs standing together without suspecting something wrong! I wonder where our ideas, especially those of a playful sort, go at some times? and how it is that they all come junketing back faster than there is room for them at other times? How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Aug. 24.
Sneyd has received a very polite letter from the Marquis de Bonay, who is now ambassador at the Court of Denmark. Mrs. O'Beirne and the Bishop, who like Mons. de Bonay so much, and who have not heard of him for such a length of time, will be delighted to hear of his emerging into light and life. What is more to our purpose is, that he says he can furnish Sneyd with some notes for the Abbé Edgeworth's life, which he had once intended to write himself: he did put a short notice of his life into the foreign papers at Mittau. He says he never knew so perfect a human creature as the Abbé.
I had a letter from Dr. Holland this morning saying at the beginning I should be surprised at its contents; and so I was. The Princess of Wales has invited him to accompany her abroad as her physician! After consulting with his friends he accepted the invitation.

## Footnotes

* ↑ The only son of Mr. Edgeworth's second marriage, with Miss Honora Sneyd.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 134/Issue 1726/Thisbe

* THISBE.
* 1.
* She lives in the smoky city,
* Low down by the railway line;
* But she asks for no man’s pity,
* Nor cares for verse of mine.
* 2.
* She’s moving hither and thither,
* And often her work is hard;
* But sometimes in fine weather
* She rests a bit in the yard.
* 3.
* With the empty pail behind her,
* She leans her arms on the wall,
* And hopes that there he’ll find her,
* Her lover, strong and tall.
* 4.
* Up in the air above her,
* The great trains outward go;
* And many a lass and her lover
* May journey to Jericho.
* 5.
* But when he stoops from his doorway,
* And leans his arms on the wall,
* The world would be in a poor way
* If that were not best of all.
* Blackwood's Magazine.J. R. S.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 134/Issue 1726/To Victor Hugo

In 1880, Tennyson rewrote the first line to read: "Victor in drama, Victor in romance,".
* TO VICTOR HUGO.
* Victor in poesy, Victor in romance,
* Cloud-weaver of phantasmal hopes and fears,
* French of the French, and lord of human tears;
* Child-lover; bard whose fame-lit laurels glance
* Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance,
* Beyond our strait, their claim to be thy peers;
* Weird Titan by thy winter weight of years
* As yet unbroken, stormy voice of France!
* Who dost not love our England — so they say;
* I know not — England, France, all man to be
* Will make one people ere man’s race be run:
* And I, desiring that diviner day,
* Yield thee full thanks for thy full courtesy
* To younger England in the boy my son.
* Nineteenth Century.Alfred Tennyson
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 134/Issue 1727/A Dog Aiding in Smuggling

From The Leisure Hour.
A DOG AIDING IN SMUGGLING.
A family of lacemakers in Belgium, finding that they could not sell the produce of their industry to so great an advantage as in France, became anxious to dispose of it there, and to acquire, by that means, a more rapid fortune than by simply retailing it at home. They had a young and intelligent poodle dog which they trained to have a thorough detestation of custom-house officials, such as are encountered on the frontiers. They dressed up some one in that uniform, who, always beating and kicking the dog whenever he entered the house, and ill-treating him in every way, incurred, very naturally, poor Monton's animosity. Their object was, of course, to nourish such ill-feeling and repugnance in the dog against any one wearing the French douanier uniform, that he would be certain to avoid them. Having succeeded in inspiring the hatred they wished in the poor, innocent, and unoffending Monton's breast, they next prepared a larger poodle-skin than the one he owned, and after winding several metres of valuable lace round his body, sewed the poodle-skin neatly and cleverly over it all. Away went the master and his dog, and succeeded in passing the French frontier; the man, it is true, was examined; the dog ran off from the people in uniform as soon as he espied them, decamping as fast as his legs could carry him. Regaining his master, they reached a French town where the lace was not only sold at a good profit, but an order was given for a larger supply.
These hazardous journeys were often undertaken, and nothing could exceed their good fortune and their lucky escapes; but their success was not destined to be of long duration. Upon one occasion, one of the junior custom-house employés noticed the dog and advanced to play with him, but instead of responding to the proffered caress, Monton showed his teeth and slunk away, whereupon the youth revenged himself by throwing a large stone, which lamed him, and then another and another, until he killed the poor animal. Monton's master, not wishing to appear too anxious about him, had walked on, not doubting but that his faithful companion was following him, but missing him at last he returned to the frontier just in time to witness the official's profound astonishment at the sight a rent in poor Monton's false hide had revealed to him. Since then, I was assured, custom-house officials on the frontier looked sharply after contraband dogs.L. H..
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 134/Issue 1726

LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
| Fifth Series, Volume XIX. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | No. 1726. — July 14, 1877. | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | From Beginning Vol. CXXXIV. |
CONTENTS. :
| I. | Pedigrees and Pedigree-Makers. By Edward A. Freeman, | Contemporary Review, | 67 |
| II. | The Marquis of Lossie. By George Mac Donald, author of "Malcolm," etc. Part XX., | Advance Sheets, | 85 |
| III. | Voltaire in the Netherlands. From the Dutch of Jhr. C.A. van Sypesteyn, | Temple Bar, | 97 |
| IV. | Pauline. By L. B. Walford, author of "Mr. Smith," etc. Part VII., | Advance Sheets, | 105 |
| V. | Mordecai: a Protest against the Critics. By a Jew, | Macmillan's Magazine, | 112 |
| VI. | Green Pastures and Piccadilly. By William Black. Part XX., | Examiner, | 121 |
| VII. | Popular Errors, | Pall Mall Gazette, | 124 |
| VIII. | Little Tortures, | Liberal Review, | 126 |
| IX. | William Caxton, | Fireside, | 127 |
| X. | A New Stimulant - Pitury, | Nature, | 128 |
POETRY. :
| Thisbe, | 66 | To Victor Hugo. By Alfred Tennyson | 66 |
| A Hope, | 66 | |