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Put in a buttered baking pan, sprinkle with minced parsley, and pour over half a cupful of stock to which two tablespoonfuls of butter have been added.
If one dwells in a provincial town where it is not customary to use carriages, they should go in a chair.
He paid for everything which he consumed the market price-no more, no less-and he made his purchases with prudence and forethought.
The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
He told me that he would go willingly, and that it was himself who fixed the spring for his departure; as he wanted to collect his materials, in order that, immediately on his introduction to the king, he might make an experiment worthy of his majesty, by converting a large quantity of lead into the finest gold.
"It is hard to say which is the most beautiful."
Lights gleamed there like stars in a still sky
Remsen met them coming.
The runaway team was tugged to an inglorious halt by Remsen's tough muscles.
Like a cloud of fire
WILLIAM b ASTOR.
They are obtained by the accomplishment of our obligations of family and of our profession; by our probity and good manners; by our fortune and situation in society.
He only keeps two horses and two men servants.
"Why, what could have taken you out on Tuesday?
You are a mere working Bee, and you will never be anything else all your days."
Like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing
"On account of what, then?"
Mrs Veneering; never saw such velvet, say two thousand pounds as she stands, absolute jeweller's window, father must have been a pawnbroker, or how could these people do it?
Lay the fish upon it, sprinkle with salt and pepper, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and enough water to keep from burning.
"I'll tell you what we'll do to square ourselves," said David, smiling. "We'll take you girls to the football game next Thursday.
Propriety requires that we should always be clothed in a cleanly and becoming manner, even in private, in leaving our bed, or in the presence of no one.
When the group of adventurers peered through the bars of the fence they thought this forest looked more gloomy and forbidding than any they had ever seen before.
Like a poet hidden
Our friend, Sir Henry, and the lady had halted on the path and were standing deeply absorbed in their conversation, when I was suddenly aware that I was not the only witness of their interview.
The storm had spent itself before the break of day, and descending from his perch with the first faint rays of light that penetrated the gloomy recesses of the swamp, he made his way out of it, slowly and toilsomely, with weary, aching limbs, suffering intensely from the gnawings of hunger and thirst, the pain of his injury, and the fear of being overtaken by the avengers of his innocent victims.
Attention to one's person and reputation is also a duty.
Like a flower her red lips parted
She talked about music.
You risk nothing in giving him a little time, and in hurrying him you may lose a great deal.
But the hair wouldn't budge.
The duties of the class president are many and irksome.
Like a star that dwelt apart
With your badge, on your horse, in your uniform, will I charm nurse maids and prevent the grass from growing under people's feet in the Park this day.
The gift of hiding private emotion and keeping up appearances before strangers is not, as many suppose, entirely a product of our modern civilization.
mr Temple was formerly our minister at several of the German Courts, where he was distinguished by his abilities and his hospitality to his travelling countrymen.
Ladies should make morning calls in an elegant and simple neglige, all the details of which we cannot give, on account of their multiplicity and the numerous modification of fashion.
'Why?' says father, getting up and glaring with his eyes, 'because I was a blind, ignorant dog when I was young, as had never been taught nothing, and knowed nothing, not so much as him there' (pointing to Crib), 'for he knows what his business is, and I didn't.
The jig is up, Remsen.
Be quick now, and give them something to eat." The Bees bestirred themselves to feed the little ones, but they were not equally kind to them all.
Like a dipping swallow the stout ship dashed through the storm
Stuff a large trout with seasoned crumbs, and cover it with Claret, adding mushrooms, parsley, chopped onion, thyme, a bay leaf, pepper corns, and mace to season.
Like a golden shielded army
Ladies, to whom the advice contained in this paragraph is particularly addressed, know how the shadow of suspicion withers and torments them.
Unless he is grossly belied, he preferred to compromise than fight, and did not always disdain to court the ruffians who plundered him.
"Yes, Hippy is studying some this year," replied David.
Brown in the oven and serve with Aurora Sauce.
If you damaged that horse of mine I'll never forgive you.
Like a bright window in a distant view
The man reeled as he walked, either from intoxication or weakness and fatigue.
Now their house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.
"Take care," the Queen said one day.
How much alike are we?
"Never fear," replied Julia.
I'll go out with the mowers and mow, and you shall mind the house at home."
The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.
It ran directly across the road and enclosed a small forest of tall trees, set close together.
With that I offered in as many words to marry her, but before she could answer, down came this brother of hers, running at us with a face on him like a madman.
Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue
Father had got into one of his tantrums, and when he did he was fit to be tied; only I'd not have took the contract for something.
What a wild and fiery chaos was the mind of Ferdinand Armine when he read this paragraph.
Then all at once he remembered he had the tap in his hand; but when he got down to the cellar, every drop of ale had run out of the cask.
"No, it is a good investment; especially as things are at present."
But it seemed that his content was only apparent.
I won't stay here an hour longer, but I will go out into the world and build a new nest.
Whom Lady Tippins, surveying through her eye glass, considers a fine man, and quite a catch; and of whom Mortimer remarks, in the lowest spirits, as he approaches, 'I believe this is my fellow, confound him!' More carriages at the gate, and lo the rest of the characters.
Like a noisy argument in a drawing room
Put in a buttered baking dish, lay in the fish, season with salt and pepper, cover with crumbs, dot with butter, pour over a little white wine, and bake in the oven.
Yes, the husband thought that would do very well.
He offered to use all his influence with the ministers to prevent any attempts upon his liberty, which has twice been attacked by the agents of government.
"Be sure and be on hand early."
'I hate seeing women put out.
"Any time you like," answered the Woozy.
Saute a small trout in butter, drain on brown paper, and serve with Remoulade Sauce.
Besides, it's the only thing I could do.
Like a caged lion shaking the bars of his prison
Her face was flushed and her eyes flamed with some inward fire that lighted them.
"I'll effectually attend to their case.
Several busy weeks followed, and a large box was packed and sent off.
The bridal veil was composed of ineffable lace, made from an original design expressly for this bride.
Go ahead!"
"I hope she won't kill the Princesses," she thought, and squeezed herself nearer to the door to hear what happened.
And who could say how such a play might end?
"Her favorite son!
Like a withered leaf the moon is blown across the bay
They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice pails.
The choicest quotations from the works of such established writers as "Aunt Charlotte" of Forget Me Not and "Doctor Cupid", the heart expert of Home Chat, expended themselves fruitlessly on Reggie.
He is unpolite, fantastic, and a dreamer, and acts by fits and starts."
Like a living meteor
"My dear fellow," said he, "Holmes, with all his wisdom, did not foresee some things which have happened since I have been on the moor.
We none of us felt in the humour to say much after that.
Like a ball of ice it glittered in a frozen sea of sky
"I guess the Woozy is asleep," said Scraps.
Victor drew up his chair beside her.
Then she calls him vile impostor.
There he stuck fast; and as for the cow, she hung half-way down the wall, swinging between heaven and earth, for she could neither get down nor up.
Like a wandering star I fell through the deeps of desire
Like a dream she vanished
Stuff the fish, put into a buttered baking pan with enough hot water to keep from burning.
I can ride a little and the fresh air suits me. Think you could land that for me?"
The fate of Delisle was no inducement for them to stop in France.
It so happened that he had promised this day to dine at his cousin's; for Glastonbury, who was usually his companion, had accepted an invitation this day to dine with the noble widow of his old patron. Ferdinand, however, found himself quite incapable of entering into any society, and he hurried to his hotel to send a note of excuse to Brook street.
Like a blade sent home to its scabbard
He is upset, and he doesn't care who knows it.
When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it.
Like the dawn of the morn
What he could have done safely, other men would have attempted to whom the attempt would have been destruction.
TROUT WITH REMOULADE SAUCE
He was quite willing, he said.
Like the music in the patter of small feet
He can entertain a regiment of them, and not even exert himself. Now I must leave you, for I have a very important engagement at home."
She wanted to destroy something.
He then disguised himself as a pilgrim, and returned to France.
'Was mine!' the bride repeats, and her parasol breaks in her angry hand.
Are you sure they're juniors?"
Henrietta Temple one of the greatest heiresses in the country!
That is the whole truth, as I am an honest Christian woman and you will see that if there is blame in the matter it does not lie with my husband but with me, for whose sake he has done all that he has."
Only when angry do I utter my fearful, ear splitting, soul shuddering growl.
He and his beautiful wife were in our power, and, to make matters worse, one of our band lay dead, beside the inner wall, killed by his hand.
Nor can it be said that he was morally brave.
Bake, basting frequently.
"They're coming," whispered Julia.
Like the cry of an itinerant vendor in a quiet and picturesque town
"Calm me, my God, and keep me calm While these hot breezes blow; Be like the night dew's cooling balm Upon earth's fevered brow." --H.
He caught it, too, just as it ran out of doors, and gave it such a kick that piggy lay for dead on the spot.
The two rode side by side during the famous mooted up hill charge that was disputed so hotly at the time by the Spaniards and afterward by the Democrats.
Foiled in this fashion, she had fallen back in desperation on her second line of attack.
Like wine stain to a flask the old distrust still clings
I have said "by one night's work," but, in truth, it was by two nights' work, for on the first we drew entirely blank.
She laid great heaps of them, and the Bees were kept very busy running with the little eggs in their mouths and carrying them into the new cells. Each egg had a little cell to itself; and when they had all been put in their places, the Queen gave orders to fix doors to all the cells and shut them fast.
It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
"We're early!" exclaimed Julia.
There was nothing which he so much abhorred as waste.
So he got up on the house to tie her up.
Well, this gentleman took it into his head to put on extra steam and try and run us down.
"What is the matter?" she cried.
Her eyes beamed an effusive welcome.
He took a house, fitted up a splendid laboratory, and gave out that he knew the secret of transmutation.
Like the bellowing of bulls
When he had done that, he thought the cow might perhaps fall off the thatch and break her legs or her neck.
Saute the fillets of a cleaned trout in butter, seasoning with salt and pepper.
Papa's own boy, he looks beautiful and as bright as the day."
We didn't like working with them. Starlight and I were dead against it.
One must be a Grub before one can become a Bee.
"Oh, mother!" says she, "look at that horrid mallet!
Delisle transmutes his metals in public.
The beast listened with attention and when Ojo had finished the recital it said, with a sigh:
Love shakes like a windy reed your heart
In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana.
THE QUEEN BEE
So I reasoned with myself in the morning, and I tell you the direction of my suspicions, however much the result may have shown that they were unfounded.
The wonders it revealed succeeded each other with such rapidity that for some time he was deprived of the power of reflection.
"No, I left no excuse.
Part of her hair had straggled down, and hung in a sort of ringlet by her face.
"They are Grubs," said the Queen.
Promptly on time the counterfeit presentment of Mounted Policeman O'Roon single footed into the Park on his chestnut steed.
"However, there is this difference. You are here to make mischief and we are here to prevent it, and, furthermore, are going to do so."
You just say 'Krizzle Kroo' to me."
So the gentleman asked the woman what she was doing.
The Analytical, in course of time achieving what he feels to be due to himself in bringing to a dignified conclusion several quarrels he has on hand with the pastrycook's men, announces breakfast.
I told Joe to say I was out, that was all."
In the life of the Old World there is nothing so shocking to a republicanized mind as the awful contrast between the abodes of the poor and the establishments of the rich.
I looked at our men.
"Good bye, girls.
Like those great rivers, whose course everyone beholds, but their springs have been seen by but few
I therefore summoned the alchymist to come to me at Castellane.
Like the sudden impulse of a madman
"Get me a job, Remsen," he said.
Split and bone the cleaned fish and put in a buttered baking pan skin side down.
"We must close in on him rapidly, for he is said to be a desperate fellow.
In despair they crawled about the hive, and did not know which way to turn.
Like the Spring time, fresh and green
His wife was keenly interested in everything he said, laying down her fork the better to listen, chiming in, taking the words out of his mouth.
In fact, this man is the miracle of art.
Whatever it was that had happened to him in the old times when he was a Government man he didn't talk about.
Like the quivering image of a landscape in a flowing stream
He has done nothing except for my sake and because I asked him."
When they got to the top of the fence they began to get down on the other side and soon were in the forest.
Are there any of you who will come with me?"
The black mitted hand of the old pleader gently touched the breast of the man she addressed.
"Then your brother is-"
I told him that, apparently, the king wanted to see him.
Like the rainbow, thou didst fade
Well, he set out, and he traveled a long way, and at last he came to a woman's cottage that had some grass growing on the roof.
The house was painted a dazzling white; the outside shutters, or jalousies, were green.
"William will never make money," his father used to say; "but he will take good care of what he has." And so it proved.
"Dear old auntie! to think how hard at work for her country she is, while I sit idle here," sighed Elsie, closing the letter after reading it aloud to the assembled family.
Like the jewels that gleam in baby eyes
"She's down on me now, and she'll be sure to think I organized the whole thing." For an instant Grace regretted making the promise to Julia, before learning the situation; then, holding her head a trifle more erect, she decided to make the best of her unfortunate predicament.
So Remsen trotted down the bridle paths, enjoying himself hugely, so few real pleasures do ten millionaires have.
"Easy there!" said Buck Patterson.
Delisle, it would appear, was afraid of venturing to Paris.
"Now they are lying there asleep," she said at last. "From morning till evening they do nothing but eat and sleep, and they grow bigger and fatter every day.
'The "Banner" comes next,' says Starlight, tearing it open.
Nor did he appear to carry this principle to an extreme.
And the gentleman went on his way, but he hadn't gone far when the cow tumbled off the roof, and hung by the string tied round her neck, and it strangled her.
Lost like the lightning in the sullen clod
Victor was surprised and delighted to see mrs Pontellier, and he made no attempt to conceal either his astonishment or his delight.
She'll be a junior when I'm a freshman.
She had felt from the first that such a request should be made by her in person and not through the medium of writing, but surely it was incredible that a man like George, who had been through so much for her and whose only reason for being in the neighbourhood was to help her, could have coldly refused without even a word.
It is plain to me that you are a remarkable group-as remarkable in your way as I am in mine-and so you are welcome to my domain.
Like the dim scent in violets
"What funny creatures!" said the young Bees.
He refrained from doing so.
'We shall have something short and sweet after the "Star".
"Why, lookye," she said, "look at all that beautiful grass.
"Why are you taking the thing so seriously and making such a fuss over it?"
"That's the reason I asked Grace to appoint a committee of juniors and come out here with me.
Love as clean as starlight
"And I can send that!" Elsie exclaimed joyously
Like the cold breath of the grave
Then mr Knightley began again.
When he left Marseilles, he had not a shoe to his foot or a decent garment to his back, but was provided with some money and clothes by his wife in a neighbouring town.
"Give me some honey!
We ran and ran until we were completely blown, but the space between us grew ever wider. Finally we stopped and sat panting on two rocks, while we watched him disappearing in the distance.
But these things do happen; and one instance must form a theme for this story-though not, thank Heaven, to the overshadowing of more vital and important subjects, such as drink, policemen, horses and earldoms.
Like the embodiment of a perfect rose, complete in form and fragrance
But I can't climb at all, and I'm too big to squeeze between the bars of the fence."
"Then you'll feel more indignant and can help my cause along all the better.
Stuff trout with seasoned crumbs, cover each one with a thin slice of salt pork, and wrap in buttered paper, fastening the papers securely; bake and serve in the papers.
You couldn't have got any one to say different for a hundred pounds.
Love brilliant as the morning
The lady stood by in haughty silence.
More magnanimous than Nero, he would thus give musical warning of the forthcoming municipal upheaval that Quicksand was scheduled to endure.
So one evening she had gone down to draw the beer, and she happened to look up at the ceiling while she was drawing, and she saw a mallet stuck in one of the beams.
I don't remember who was here."
Like the swell of Summer's ocean
They trailed me down and cornered me here two hours ago.
The Queen looked cautiously round on all sides, and then opened the first of the doors.
Like the faint exquisite music of a dream
"I was afraid of that," declared the beast.
"Mamma, papa, Edward, is there nothing we can do?"
You know Hippy never bothered himself much about study, just managed to scrape through.
Caring little for politics, his eye wandered over, uninterested, its pugnacious leading articles and tedious parliamentary reports; and he was about to throw it down when a paragraph caught his notice which instantly engrossed all his attention.
"Good!" she said, when this was done.
After the Turon races and all that shine, somehow or other we found that things had been made hotter for us than ever since we first turned out.
"There is no danger of my growling, for I am not angry.
Like winged stars the fire flies flash and glance
And he ran straight and turned the tap. Then he said: "Whatever are you three doing, sitting there crying, and letting the beer run all over the floor?" "Oh!" says the father, "look at that horrid mallet!
"That's the only thing that keeps me from your side.
Remove the fillets from slices of sea trout, dip in beaten egg, then in seasoned crumbs, and fry in deep fat.
By acting in that manner in all the transactions of life, a rich man diffuses around him an atmosphere of corruption, and raises the scale of expense to a point which is oppressive to many, ruinous to some, and inconvenient to all.
I tell you, Watson, I've only known her these few weeks, but from the first I just felt that she was made for me, and she, too-she was happy when she was with me, and that I'll swear. There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
Like the jangling of all the strings of some musical instrument
Lovely as starry water
"By the way, who is she?
Good night." He went into the hall, took his hat and stick from the stand, and left the house.
He knew that his sleight of hand would be too narrowly watched in the royal presence; and upon some pretence or other he delayed the journey for more than two years.
Anyhow I'll try for that barrel there; and if I get behind it I can fire from short range and make him come out.'
Like the foam on the river
Yet he hoped to see her again; for each one fancies that his romance has its own tutelary guardian and divinity.
Everything had gone wrong with Maud. Barely a mile separated her from George, that essential link in her chain of communication with Geoffrey Raymond; but so thickly did it bristle with obstacles and dangers that it might have been a mile of No Man's Land.
Looking as sulky as the weather itself
He was trying to get these facts fixed in his mind and connected with past events, when the old woman began to talk.
I have heard the Bees saying to one another that they would like to have a younger and more beautiful Queen, and they will chase me away in disgrace.
It wouldn't have been much wonder if she had after what she'd gone through that night.
One fault he had as a public servant-for we may fairly regard in that light a man who wields so large a portion of our common estate.
Like the shadow of a great hill that reaches far out over the plain
And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear stained face of mrs Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.
I'm going to buy him and take him back with me.
She was not the victim, if one indeed there might chance to be.
HOUSE OWNER.
So, there being no honey bees here, I've eaten nothing for years.
Like the whole sky when to the east the morning doth return
He had not seen this lonely man upon the tor and could not feel the thrill which his strange presence and his commanding attitude had given to me.
A black woman, wiping her hands upon her apron, was close at his heels.
It must have been there a long, long time, but somehow or other she had never noticed it before, and she began a thinking.
And then they got them to hold their tongues and lie still and rest.
What was to be his doom?
At the end of the day Remsen sent the chestnut to his stable and went to O'Roon's room.
Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach
Stuff a cleaned trout through the mouth with butter mixed with finely chopped sweet herbs.
Grace chose Anne, Nora, Jessica and Marian Barber, the latter three being considerably mystified at her request, but nevertheless agreeing to be on hand when school closed.
"More honey!" they shouted, all in one voice.
Remsen was sure that he could.
"I think you can," was the simultaneous reply; mr Travilla adding, "and we can help with the lint, and by running the sewing machines.
Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.
Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield
Besides, he was a much taller man.
She soon came back with many other Bees.
In estimating the character and merits of such a man as the late mr Astor, we are apt to leave out of view the enormous harm he might have done if he had chosen to do it.
Everybody liked and respected her, gentle and simple-everybody had a good word for her.
"Of course not," laughed Grace.
They had never taken the form of struggles.
Like the awful shadow of some unseen power
I noticed he took off his hat and leaned against the wall.
"No, no"
"That means," he said, "that there's a Woozy inside that fence, and the Woozy must be a dangerous animal or they wouldn't tell people to beware of it."
The duke afterwards boasted to Lenglet du Fresnoy of his achievements as an alchymist, and regretted that he had not been able to discover the secret of the precious powder by which he performed them.
In religion the Future is behind us.
Whatever she might think, his conduct had been faultless to her. It was not for Henrietta to complain.
I looked over at Moran.
Then after a bit the father began to wonder that they didn't come back, and he went down into the cellar to look after them himself, and there they two sat crying, and the beer running all over the floor.
Like the faint cry of unassisted woe
"They have trowels," Julia informed them from time to time.
"Nothing at all.
Remove the string and serve in the paper.
The din was perforated at intervals by the /staccato/ of the Terror's guns, and was drowned periodically by the brazen screech that Quicksand knew so well.
She had written a note to George, explaining the whole situation in good, clear phrases and begging him as a man of proved chivalry to help her.
Put not thy trust in woman!
"My God, what's that, Watson?"
This was Eleanor's opportunity.
"Little wife, your jewels alone are worth what to very many would be a handsome fortune."
Like to diamonds her white teeth shone between the parted lips
One only, the nearest and dearest, is requested to remain and witness the end.
FRIED TROUT WITH MUSHROOM SAUCE
I feel as if I wanted to be doing something.
Year after year he saw a gang of thieves in the City Hall stealing his revenues under the name of taxes and assessments, but he never led an assault upon them nor gave the aid he ought to those who did.
Moran and Daly knew about this, and they were dead on for sticking up the place and getting hold of the gold.
Soon the host enters the room.
And they had rakes, and brooms, and pitchforks, reaching into the pond; and the gentleman asked what was the matter. "Why," they say, "matter enough!
And now they might have been so happy!
He began now.
But in any case it was a blow to him and it would take him some time before he could prepare himself to meet it.
You remember the hatchet that we buried last year with such pomp and ceremony?"
"Mammy, sit close to Elsie and keep a careful watch, lest she should drop something."
That he was above such atrocious vulgarity as this, was much to his credit and more to our advantage.
"Then," said Scraps, "suppose we go in and find him?
Looked back with faithful eyes like a great mastiff to his master's face
They have instructed us in the proper spirit in which to approach flowers.
I must go out alone."
That Delisle was no ordinary impostor, but a man of consummate cunning and address, is very evident from this letter.
Nature had denied him the qualities required for such a contest.
And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go.
Every word of it."
"You'll have to have better excuses than football and experiments."
Like the dew on the mountain
And he was acutely conscious of a pair of violet eyes that would have drawn Saint Pyrites from his iron pillar-or whatever the allusion is-and of the lady's smile and look-a little frightened, but a look that, with the ever coward heart of a true lover, he could not yet construe.
There are some people, here and there, like this among the gentlefolk, and, say what you like, it does more to make coves like us look a little closer at things and keep away from what's wrong and bad than all the parsons' talk twice over.
At all events, posterity will hear of him."
Boil a large sea trout in salted water, drain, skin, and serve with Italian Sauce, seasoned with butter, anchovy paste, nutmeg, and lemon juice.
It takes me the best part of an hour to get into mine every morning, and I get so hot!
To act the spy upon a friend was a hateful task.
The body of the Woozy was much larger than its head, but was likewise block shaped-being twice as long as it was wide and high.
Why should you mind what they call it?"
He subscribed money for the relief of the victims of recent inundations, and dowered a number of portionless girls; expending in these ways a quarter of a million francs.
Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake slowly until done.
She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.
Providing that the lives of the more useful citizens were not recklessly squandered, or too much property needlessly laid waste, the community sentiment was against a too strict enforcement of the law. But Calliope had raised the limit.
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality
These were matters not to be lightly ignored, for until one has made himself beautiful he has no right to approach beauty. Thus the tea master strove to be something more than the artist,--art itself.
You need not fear to speak the truth."
Twenty times we tried a rush, but they were always ready-so it seemed-and their fire was too hot for us to stand up to, unless we wanted to lose every second man.
A sudden residence in a vast metropolis, after a life of rural seclusion, has without doubt a very peculiar effect upon the mind.
With a silent prayer for help to control her emotion, Elsie cleared her voice, and began in low, sweet tones the old, old story of Jesus and His love, His birth, His life, His death.
Stuff cleaned trout with chopped oysters or seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered baking dish.
'Permit me to offer you a chair, madam; you look faint.'
"I have forgiven, long ago, but I have not forgotten the way some of those girls performed last year.
She felt no interest in anything about her.
Love smiled like an unclouded sun
A hundred persons in my diocese have been witnesses of these things.
'I'm dashed if I don't think Knightley will bag me.
Boil and skin the fish, put on a serving dish, cover with Allemande Sauce, and the chopped yolks of hard boiled eggs.
A choir of one hundred and ten trained voices, led by the best conductor in Europe-the first tenor of this generation engaged, who sang the prayer from "Moses in Egypt"--a crowd of rabbis, and assistant rabbis, with the grand rabbi of Paris at their head.
In a uniform two men who are unlike will look alike; two who somewhat resemble each other in feature and figure will appear as twin brothers.
Like the stern lights of a ship at sea, illuminating only the path which has been passed over
They have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility.
Lofty as a queen
"Just this," replied Julia.
They had traveled some distance when suddenly they faced a high fence which barred any further progress straight ahead.
However, our conjectures were set at rest by a visit from Stapleton himself that very afternoon.
Lithe as a panther
Would you like that kind of food?"
The rest's flummery.
Calliope made a bold and rapid spurt for it, the marshal's crowd "smoking" him as he ran.
"Ah! then I shall try harder than ever, to save your reputation; but take a recess now, for here comes my boy, reaching out his arms to papa.
Like village curs that bark when their fellows do
Dashed if I don't think it's the best way after all.
But the friendship of a despot is ever a dangerous honour.
Softly the procession approached the spot where the marauders were energetically digging.
Like vaporous shapes half seen
"Don't worry.
Captain Starlight, I surrender my sword-or should do so if I had one.
For the conveyance of the wedding party from the house to the synagogue, he caused twenty five magnificent carriages to be made, such as monarchs use when they are going to be crowned, and these vehicles were drawn by horses imported from England for the purpose.
mrs Pontellier did not know him if she supposed he was one to let an opportunity like that escape him.
Loneliness struck him like a blow
Rather the other way, indeed.
Once, just as she was starting, her aunt Augusta had insisted on joining her for what she described as "a nice long walk"; and the second time, when she was within a bare hundred yards of her objective, some sort of a cousin popped out from nowhere and forced his loathsome company on her.
Cook until thick, stirring constantly, and add two tablespoonfuls of butter, broken into bits.
Along the driveway in the early morning spun a victoria drawn by a pair of fiery bays.
"I begin to think there's truth in the old saw, 'It's hard to teach old dogs new tricks,'" remarked mr Travilla, with a comically rueful face. "I've a mind to give it up.
Suppose you and our daughter was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him!" And then they all started crying worse than before.
Besides, he loves his liberty, has no politeness, and speaks very bad French; but his judgment seems to be solid.
Like troops of ghosts on the dry wind past
You would get us all into trouble, and we can't afford to have any more trouble than is necessary.
Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp
Half turning, the old woman looked up at the standing man, her worn face lighting with a proud and wonderful smile.
"Well, you duffer, are you going to do your share?
"I'll tell you about her as we walk along," replied Grace, wiping her eyes and smiling a little.
I'd be glad to add to the comfort of the poor fellows on both sides."
He did not have the gas turned down low in a temporarily vacated room because he would save two cents by doing so, but because he justly regarded waste as wicked. His example in this particular, in a city so given to careless and ostentatious profusion as New York, was most useful.
One of the greatest schools of painting owes its origin to the tea master Honnami Koyetsu, famed also as a lacquer artist and potter.
I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket. What's the matter with me, anyhow?
Are they going to suicide, like the people in the round tower of Jhansi?'
She was winking hard to keep back the tears. Twice she attempted to speak and failed.
Cook the stuffing for ten minutes, using as little water as possible.
Like fixed eyes, whence the dear light of sense and thought has fled
And when she found that Ferdinand, her own Ferdinand, had indeed never deceived her, was worthy of her choice affection, and suffering even at this moment for her sweet sake, what were all the cold blooded ties in which she had since involved herself?
"You're not such a terrible creature, after all," remarked Scraps.
A tall man with a perplexed countenance, wearing a big badge with "City Marshal" engraved upon it, stood over him.
He little knew that, but for the conventions (which frown on the practice of murdering bishops), Percy would gladly have strangled him with his bare hands and jumped upon the remains.
I don't half like charging him, and that's God's truth.
Edward! she is dying!"
At last he stopped and wiped his face with his handkerchief.
He gave his daughter a portion of five millions of francs.
I ran down the hill therefore and met the baronet at the bottom.
Three or four people could walk abreast easy enough.
His year, strictly speaking, consists only of the four summer months; and when by any means he is prevented from making the proper use of them, he loses a whole year.
I'll drop the tanglefoot and the gun play, and won't play hoss no more.
He was one of the most timid of men.
Like blasts of trumpets blown in wars
Salt the fish and dip in equal parts of flour and corn meal, thoroughly mixed.
"Perhaps he does.
He wanted to know how he stood.
Was there another to whom she had pledged her pure and passionate soul?
One of her painted fans cost five thousand francs.
Well, that was one big silly.
Like echoes from an antenatal dream
"O Julia, how glad I am to see you at close range!" exclaimed Grace. "Admiring you from a distance isn't a bit satisfactory."
Don't you take it as meddlesome fer an old woman with a son as big as you to talk about it.
Lord Belpher's case, inasmuch as he took himself extremely seriously and was not one of those who can extract humour even from their own misfortunes, was perhaps the hardest which comes under our notice; but his sister Maud was also experiencing mental disquietude of no mean order.
My former bad opinion of Delisle was now indeed shaken.
But you couldn't have told much of what they felt by their faces.
They soon discovered that the path they had been following now made a bend and passed around the enclosure, but what made Ojo stop and look thoughtful was a sign painted on the fence which read:
Like cliffs which have been rent asunder
"Oh, john, john, have I brought you to this?
Down the street went Calliope, shooting right and left.
He was very far from being miserly, though keenly intent upon accumulation.
The personal property is also very considerable.
Nice place, isn't it?
She knew that Madame Ratignolle's opinion in such a matter would be next to valueless, that she herself had not alone decided, but determined; but she sought the words of praise and encouragement that would help her to put heart into her venture.
He told me that it generally took him six months to make all his preparations.
Like building castles in the air
A little thrill of satisfaction ran through Remsen, because he had a name to give which, without undue pride, was worthy of being spoken in high places, and a small fortune which, with due pride, he could leave at his end without disgrace.
Serve with one cupful of Spanish Sauce, adding two chopped truffles, half a dozen chopped mushrooms, a dozen chopped olives, and three tablespoonfuls of stewed and strained tomato.
"Yes," he said, gently taking it from her, "but rather too valuable a plaything for my little pet.
mrs Knightley was the only woman that ever put me in mind of Miss Falkland, and I can't say more than that.
It was both an instinct and a principle with him to avoid waste.
O'Roon smiled with evident satisfaction.
Here, again, we were lucky.
Like apparitions seen and gone
Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.
The sophomore year had been crowded with many trials, some of them positive school tragedies, in which Anne and Grace had been the principal actors.
FRIED BROOK TROUT
It was a woman's voice, and mrs Barrymore, paler and more horror struck than her husband, was standing at the door.
Off his beat, exposed, disgraced, discharged.
Like making a mountain out of a mole hill
Great as has been the influence of the tea masters in the field of art, it is as nothing compared to that which they have exerted on the conduct of life.
"The sign doesn't say: 'Beware a Woozy'; it says: 'Beware the Woozy,' which may mean there's only one in all the Land of Oz."
Like ghosts, from an enchanter fleeing
He, too, could have had his park, his half a dozen mansions, his thirty carriages, his hundred horses and his yacht as big as a man of war.
I can't think who could have invented such things.
Just then Moran and Wall managed to find their way into the other side of the house, and they came tearing into the hall like a pair of colts. They looked rather queer when they saw us three and no one else.
Of course, he couldn't think of telling mrs Pontellier all about it, she being a woman and not comprehending such things.
With these words she turned and stalked across the field to the road, where her runabout stood.
Stuff a large sea or lake trout with mashed potatoes, seasoning with butter, pepper, salt, and grated onion.
Did she not believe herself trifled with by him, outraged, deceived, deluded, deserted?
Last of all we dropped on to it.
In black and white she had asked George to go to London and see Geoffrey and arrange for the passage-through himself as a sort of clearing house-of letters between Geoffrey and herself.
I read some time ago of a wedding in Paris.
"Why do they build hotels that go round and round like catherine wheels? They'll take away my shield and break me.
THE THREE SILLIES
Besides that, we felt savage about his trying to run us in.
My reason was convinced by my eyes; and the phantoms of impossibility which I had conjured up were dissipated by the work of my own hands.
O Woman, Woman!
There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
Like sunlight, in and out the leaves, the robins went
"Try some cheese," said Ojo, and threw down a piece.
"Thank God! she is still ours!" exclaimed the father, almost under his breath; then, a little louder, "Elsie, dear wife, I shall go at once for dr Channing, an English physician who has been highly recommended to me."
Chapter forty four
His timidity was constitutional and physical.
Taking advantage of the coldness which had for some time existed between the Taiko and Rikiu, the enemies of the latter accused him of being implicated in a conspiracy to poison the despot.
She examined every detail of the outside before opening it.
Feeling braced up by this unexpected tonic to his spiritual depression, Calliope executed a fortissimo note from his upper register, and returned the fire like an echo.
Then he could walk away with us easily, being free."
And yet, could he reproach her?
The artillery was in trim.
"On the second floor?"
Like dining with a ghost
A deep, dangerous, dastardly stripling this, who fought to win and only to win.
Bake until done and serve with the tomatoes and sliced hard boiled eggs.
He met me at the door, and squeezes me 'most to death.
But Ojo did not feel that way.
I'm sure I couldn't do more than that."
Broil carefully.
"Gather that fellow in," said Buck Patterson, setting forth the lines of the campaign.
It looked as if our luck was dead out, and we began to think our chance of getting across the border to Queensland, and clear out of the colony that way, looked worse every day.
Like sweet thoughts in a dream
Could he not prove that his heart had ever been true and fond?
Stapleton was the cause of the interruption.
Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman.
Therefore I decided to take a hand in things, and here I am, backed by girls from both classes, who are of the self same mind."
Like crystals of snow
But we knew they'd tackle it by themselves if we backed out.
I'll be a good citizen and go to work and quit my foolishness.
"Yes, Sir Henry.
"No; you're round, so you're liable to do anything," asserted the Woozy.
Boil, skin, trim the fish, cover with very thick Cream Sauce and let cool.
"Let papa see where you put it, precious," he said, following her as she tripped across the room and seated herself on a cushion in front of the box.
The old woman was a family servant, who had been with them for years and years.
Like an unwelcome thought
what a dreadful thing it would be!" said the mother, and she sat her down beside the daughter and started crying too.
Daly raps away at this, and the man staggers and falls.
Reddy is horribly jealous of her.
Rikiu then removes his tea gown and carefully folds it upon the mat, thereby disclosing the immaculate white death robe which it had hitherto concealed.
Choosing with a rapid eye the street from which the weakest and least accurate fire had come, he invaded it at a double quick, abandoning the unprotected middle of the street.
It always beat me how they contrived to defend so many points at once.
It was enough to break a boy's heart; and it completely spoiled Albert's appetite-a phenomenon attributed, I am glad to say, in the Servants' Hall to reaction from recent excesses.
But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.
Don't you dare to take it off till the day your mother leaves this town.
"Dere, papa, dus where Elsie dot it," she said, laying it carefully back in its proper place.
As they stepped on to the floor of the hall and looked round mrs Knightley smiled.
His Henrietta Temple, the Henrietta Temple whom he adored, and by whom he had been worshipped!
Scrape and clean the trout, stuff with seasoned crumbs, and put into a buttered baking dish.
"You pull the hair, and I'll pull you, and together we ought to get it out easily."
"You know perfectly well that none of us will say anything about it.
Won't you let me advise you, sir, not to do so no more?
We tried back and front, doors and windows.
Like Heaven's free breath, which he who grasps can hold not
There was a friend who played upon the 'cello.
He has, in consequence, been unable to work, and has not collected a sufficient quantity of his oil and powder, or brought what he has got to the necessary degree of perfection.
Serve with Tartar Sauce.
In the car was a chauffeur and an old gentleman with snowy side whiskers and a Scotch plaid cap which could not be worn while automobiling except by a personage. Not even a wine agent would dare do it.
He's always been a good boy-good when he was growin' up, and kind and 'bedient and well behaved.
"Real fire?" asked Ojo.
It was strange to see this single candle burning there in the middle of the moor, with no sign of life near it-just the one straight yellow flame and the gleam of the rock on each side of it.
So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.
She reached out one veined and calloused hand and took one of her son's.
What do they say of it?"
But lonesome-dreadfully lonesome."
"Oh, fighting's another thing, but I'll persevere as long as you do; unless I find I'm wearying my teacher."
He and Wall sat in a corner, looking as grim and savage as possible, while his deadly black eyes had a kind of gloomy fire in them that made him look like a wild beast in a cage.
The whole Korin school, as it is generally designated, is an expression of Teaism. In the broad lines of this school we seem to find the vitality of nature herself.
He proved to be in an eminent sense the right man in the right place. Besides publishing, from time to time, curious and interesting documents which he discovered in his office, he called attention, by a series of vigorous pamphlets, to the chaotic condition in which the public records of Great Britain were kept.
Like some new gathered snowy hyacinth, so white and cold and delicate it was
Light and false Henrietta could never be.
Clean a large sea or lake trout.
He did not deny it, but began to smile.
"You keep that badge right where it is, Calliope Catesby.
I saw Starlight start as he looked at her.
Mamma, may I, too?"
"She probably knows nothing about our acquaintance with Eleanor; besides, Eleanor has no business to play such tricks.
The merit of that scheme must be shared between Henry Cole and Prince Albert.
Like planets in the sky
ADAPTED BY JOSEPH JACOBS
"Is it not, Edward?"
He was a rugged man, big boned and straight.
"There are eight of them.
But, while this feat may be said to have established a record never subsequently lowered, there is no doubt that almost every day in modern times men and women are performing similar and scarcely less impressive miracles of self restraint.
Magnificent buildings, filled with a vast collection of precious and interesting objects, greet the visitor.
The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.
She was his by an older and more ardent bond.