The Doctor argues in language most vigorous that the broken sidewalks, the permitted insolence of the railroad, the presence and power of that Spirit, the Ally, and many other things and conditions in Corinth, with the lack of as many other things and conditions, are all due to the influence of what he calls "that hideous, cast-iron monstrosity." By this it will be seen that the Doctor is something of a philosopher.
The monument stands on the corner where Holmes Street ends in Strong Avenue. On the opposite corner the Doctor lives with Martha, his wife. It is a modest home for there are no children and the Doctor is not rich. The house is white with old-fashioned green shutters, and over the porch climbs a mass of vines. The steps are worn very thin and the ends of the floor-boards are rotted badly by the moisture of the growing vines. But the Doctor says he'll "be damned" if he'll pull down such a fine old vine to put in new boards, and that those will last anyway longer than either he or Martha. By this it will be seen that the Doctor is something of a poet.
On the rear of the lot is the wood-shed and stable; and on the east, along the fence in front, and down the Holmes Street side, are the Doctor's roses--the admiration and despair of every flower-growing housewife in town.
Full fifty years of the Doctor's professional life have been spent in active practice in Corinth and in the country round about. He declares himself worn out now and good for nothing, save to meddle in the affairs of his neighbors, to cultivate his roses, and--when the days are bright--to go fishing. For the rest, he sits in his chair on the porch and watches the world go by.
"Old Doctors and old dogs," he growls, "how equally useless we are, and yet how much--how much we could tell if only we dared speak!"
He is big, is the Doctor--big and fat and old. He knows every soul in Corinth, particularly the children; indeed he helped most of them to come to Corinth. He is acquainted as well with every dog and cat, and horse and cow, knowing their every trick and habit, from the old brindle milker that unlatches his front gate to feed on the lawn, to the bull pup that pinches his legs when he calls on old Granny Brown. For miles around, every road, lane, by-path, shortcut and trail, is a familiar way to him. His practice, he declares, has well-nigh ruined him financially, and totally wrecked his temper. He can curse a man and cry over a baby; and he would go as far and work as hard for the illiterate and penniless backwoodsman in his cabin home as for the president of the Bank of Corinth or even Judge Strong himself.
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2012年3月7日星期三
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But, for Corinth, the humiliation of her material failure is forgotten in her pride of a finer success. The shame of commercial and civic obscurity is lost in the light of national recognition. And that self-respect and pride of place, without which neither man nor town can look the world in the face, is saved to her by the Statesman.
Born in Corinth, a graduate of the old Academy, town clerk, mayor, county clerk, state senator, congressman, his zeal in advocating a much discussed issue of his day, won for him national notice, and for his town everlasting fame.
In this man unusual talents were combined with rare integrity of purpose and purity of life. Politics to him meant a way whereby he might serve his fellows. However much men differed as to the value of the measures for which he fought, no one ever doubted his belief in them or questioned his reasons for fighting. It was not at all strange that such a man should have won the respect and friendship of the truly great. But with all the honors that came to him, the Statesman's heart never turned from the little Ozark town, and it was here among those who knew him best that his influence for good was greatest and that he was most loved and honored. Thus all that the railroad failed to do for Corinth the Statesman did in a larger, finer way.
Then the Statesman died.
It was the Old Town Corinth of the brick Academy days that inspired the erection of a monument to his memory. But it was the Corinth of the newer railroad days that made this monument of cast-iron; and under the cast-iron, life-sized, portrait figure of the dead statesman, this newer Corinth placed in cast-iron letters a quotation from one of his famous speeches upon an issue of his day.
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Born in Corinth, a graduate of the old Academy, town clerk, mayor, county clerk, state senator, congressman, his zeal in advocating a much discussed issue of his day, won for him national notice, and for his town everlasting fame.
In this man unusual talents were combined with rare integrity of purpose and purity of life. Politics to him meant a way whereby he might serve his fellows. However much men differed as to the value of the measures for which he fought, no one ever doubted his belief in them or questioned his reasons for fighting. It was not at all strange that such a man should have won the respect and friendship of the truly great. But with all the honors that came to him, the Statesman's heart never turned from the little Ozark town, and it was here among those who knew him best that his influence for good was greatest and that he was most loved and honored. Thus all that the railroad failed to do for Corinth the Statesman did in a larger, finer way.
Then the Statesman died.
It was the Old Town Corinth of the brick Academy days that inspired the erection of a monument to his memory. But it was the Corinth of the newer railroad days that made this monument of cast-iron; and under the cast-iron, life-sized, portrait figure of the dead statesman, this newer Corinth placed in cast-iron letters a quotation from one of his famous speeches upon an issue of his day.
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2012年3月6日星期二
Choose marriage gauze not known secret! Work is the key
Marriage gauze is every woman's dream life, put on beautiful marriage gauze, beginning of happiness. How to select wedding dresses to show the bride of the perfect one side? This is let many the bride was puzzling problem, happens to be in the bride's wedding in most of the attention problems. Choose marriage gauze, everybody often pay attention to color, style, but very few people will pay attention to work in, in fact the so-called work "good" is so of......
Wearing a white dress is different from the fashion and evening dress, is the bride in life, the most important dress, thus in the tens of thousands of in marriage gauze, narrow range, until eventually try on several sets will make the final decision. Today we go with you to talk about not for the attention of everyone choose marriage gauze details! Must make wedding dress every detail, was perfect, become beautiful memories of her lifetime.
herringbone
Not every kind of design all need the fishbone, straight body design will not need. Also not each clothes herringbone added the more the better. Generally speaking four root can, at most 6 root. Of course there are some underwear design practice inside can add to the root. Good fish bone soft and toughness. Not to be hard can tree up is a good bones, flexibility is good is. Unless underwear type practices, otherwise bones should be installed in the lining, not should be installed in the surface of the clothes.
lining
The general YuSha should do. But in here to introduce two fastidious practice. The first is the marriage gauze of abdominal place outfit, helps to promote abdominal curve, still have a kind of way is in the chest of the corresponding back two of the same DaGou bra, in this style with the chest type in marriage gauze application can make chest type perfect, and clothes and body fit well. For some softer marriage gauze fabrics, exquisite also in marriage gauze fabrics inside lining a layer of soft gauze nets.
skirt
The skirt lining yarn can't because we want to wear petticoat and saved. Generally 3 to 6 layers can be. This can cover up the bones of a petticoat her cheek. Fish, straight body, can not consider lining yarn.
Herringbone yarn
In addition to line yarn, large delay marriage gauze skirt, must be in a circle on the edge with fishbone yarn. Is a kind of hard yarn. This hard should be wrapped in gauze satin edge inside. Advantage is that it can make skirt natural prolapse, and natural dragged back, not because around but skirt knit up. Many trailing a beginning will people out flat, then walked a few steps cloth will knit up, to help even bridesmaids. With these hard yarn won't, to a 360 degree turn also won't have a problem, it's still very flat.
Chest against
According to individual be fond of. Do not advocate outfit chest against, because a look that is false, the clothes in the chest not natural. But should still should see individual be fond of.
embroidery
Generally flower shop than the process cheaper embroidery pattern. Embroidery is to spend time, human. Spread the cut good bud silk flower is posted on satin above.
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Wearing a white dress is different from the fashion and evening dress, is the bride in life, the most important dress, thus in the tens of thousands of in marriage gauze, narrow range, until eventually try on several sets will make the final decision. Today we go with you to talk about not for the attention of everyone choose marriage gauze details! Must make wedding dress every detail, was perfect, become beautiful memories of her lifetime.
herringbone
Not every kind of design all need the fishbone, straight body design will not need. Also not each clothes herringbone added the more the better. Generally speaking four root can, at most 6 root. Of course there are some underwear design practice inside can add to the root. Good fish bone soft and toughness. Not to be hard can tree up is a good bones, flexibility is good is. Unless underwear type practices, otherwise bones should be installed in the lining, not should be installed in the surface of the clothes.
lining
The general YuSha should do. But in here to introduce two fastidious practice. The first is the marriage gauze of abdominal place outfit, helps to promote abdominal curve, still have a kind of way is in the chest of the corresponding back two of the same DaGou bra, in this style with the chest type in marriage gauze application can make chest type perfect, and clothes and body fit well. For some softer marriage gauze fabrics, exquisite also in marriage gauze fabrics inside lining a layer of soft gauze nets.
skirt
The skirt lining yarn can't because we want to wear petticoat and saved. Generally 3 to 6 layers can be. This can cover up the bones of a petticoat her cheek. Fish, straight body, can not consider lining yarn.
Herringbone yarn
In addition to line yarn, large delay marriage gauze skirt, must be in a circle on the edge with fishbone yarn. Is a kind of hard yarn. This hard should be wrapped in gauze satin edge inside. Advantage is that it can make skirt natural prolapse, and natural dragged back, not because around but skirt knit up. Many trailing a beginning will people out flat, then walked a few steps cloth will knit up, to help even bridesmaids. With these hard yarn won't, to a 360 degree turn also won't have a problem, it's still very flat.
Chest against
According to individual be fond of. Do not advocate outfit chest against, because a look that is false, the clothes in the chest not natural. But should still should see individual be fond of.
embroidery
Generally flower shop than the process cheaper embroidery pattern. Embroidery is to spend time, human. Spread the cut good bud silk flower is posted on satin above.
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Ten big wedding with flowers and represents meaning
Flowers with a wedding dress is common modelling wedding photos, however, different flowers meaning each are not identical, the bride when collocation not only pay attention to appearance beautiful, carelessly, collocation errors, can want to make a fool of yourself, here is some common introduced hunshazhao flowers represent specific meaning.
1, rose-love
The rose is the best love spokesperson, many new picture taken, the preferred rose, but rose color different meaning may differ: the red rose means: love you; Pink rose said to themselves, love of estrogen declaration; White rose said: naive, purity, and respect of meaning.
2, carnations-sweet
Most of the carnation represents love, charm and respect of love. Shallow red representative admire, deep red to represent the deep love and care. Pure white represents the pure love and lucky; Decorative pattern on behalf of courtship tune carnation refused to apologize. The most important is pink carnations symbol and historical significance, so the immortality of pink carnations become the symbol of a mother's love.
3, gladiolus, miss
Gladiolus flowers represent the miss of love. Also said love, diligently, longevity, corning, fu lu.
4, lilies-pure
In Christianity, lily is a symbol of purity, pure and innocent. At Easter, lily flowers is often in the Christian families, because it is the symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. In China, lily is the symbol of a mother's love. In the Roman and Greek wedding. Lily is a symbol of purity and innocence, with lilies of grain as a bride with the tire, the significance of the grain and make it plentiful, or in one hundred. In the middle ages, the beauty of the female lily is the symbol. Lily to represent purity of heart. Lilies color is rich, most people with the white lilies innocence and sweet linked together. They'd think white lilies of Mary flowers, yellow lily said gratitude and happy.
5, moth orchids (phalaenopsis)-true love
This kind of flower like butterflies, spend appearance beautiful and moving, adornment sex is extremely rich. Representative moth orchids (phalaenopsis) between the lover true love, is the important flowers bridal bouquet of material.
6, all over the sky star-joker flowers
Representatives of concern, pure, success, and joy, and is called the wedding "joker flowers".
7, QingRenCao-romantic
This beautiful form fleeciness lightsome,, like a cloud, often inserted in the main flowers scattered material surface or the voids, increased administrative levels sense, the foil, foil and filling effect, in the wedding with flowers and design in the most indispensable spend materials. It means romantic.
8, don't you forget about me-true love
It asks the significance of kindness, eternal friendship, don't forget me, and true love.
9, helped lang flowers-respect and love each other
Helped lang flower (Africa chrysanthemum) symbol of perseverance, the horns. In some areas, like marriage celebration in with lang take plunge into a bouquet help decorate bridal chamber. Take the harmonic meaning, reflect the couple on respect and love of idea. Africa chrysanthemum radial shape, often as main body flower arrangement, and renal fern, asparagus phase configuration.
10, horse-religious
Symbol "holy law religious and tie the knot, and good luck". In the European and American countries of the ceremony, the bride is a flower flower material used.
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1, rose-love
The rose is the best love spokesperson, many new picture taken, the preferred rose, but rose color different meaning may differ: the red rose means: love you; Pink rose said to themselves, love of estrogen declaration; White rose said: naive, purity, and respect of meaning.
2, carnations-sweet
Most of the carnation represents love, charm and respect of love. Shallow red representative admire, deep red to represent the deep love and care. Pure white represents the pure love and lucky; Decorative pattern on behalf of courtship tune carnation refused to apologize. The most important is pink carnations symbol and historical significance, so the immortality of pink carnations become the symbol of a mother's love.
3, gladiolus, miss
Gladiolus flowers represent the miss of love. Also said love, diligently, longevity, corning, fu lu.
4, lilies-pure
In Christianity, lily is a symbol of purity, pure and innocent. At Easter, lily flowers is often in the Christian families, because it is the symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. In China, lily is the symbol of a mother's love. In the Roman and Greek wedding. Lily is a symbol of purity and innocence, with lilies of grain as a bride with the tire, the significance of the grain and make it plentiful, or in one hundred. In the middle ages, the beauty of the female lily is the symbol. Lily to represent purity of heart. Lilies color is rich, most people with the white lilies innocence and sweet linked together. They'd think white lilies of Mary flowers, yellow lily said gratitude and happy.
5, moth orchids (phalaenopsis)-true love
This kind of flower like butterflies, spend appearance beautiful and moving, adornment sex is extremely rich. Representative moth orchids (phalaenopsis) between the lover true love, is the important flowers bridal bouquet of material.
6, all over the sky star-joker flowers
Representatives of concern, pure, success, and joy, and is called the wedding "joker flowers".
7, QingRenCao-romantic
This beautiful form fleeciness lightsome,, like a cloud, often inserted in the main flowers scattered material surface or the voids, increased administrative levels sense, the foil, foil and filling effect, in the wedding with flowers and design in the most indispensable spend materials. It means romantic.
8, don't you forget about me-true love
It asks the significance of kindness, eternal friendship, don't forget me, and true love.
9, helped lang flowers-respect and love each other
Helped lang flower (Africa chrysanthemum) symbol of perseverance, the horns. In some areas, like marriage celebration in with lang take plunge into a bouquet help decorate bridal chamber. Take the harmonic meaning, reflect the couple on respect and love of idea. Africa chrysanthemum radial shape, often as main body flower arrangement, and renal fern, asparagus phase configuration.
10, horse-religious
Symbol "holy law religious and tie the knot, and good luck". In the European and American countries of the ceremony, the bride is a flower flower material used.
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Highlight perfect curve fishplate gown
Every girl in the mind all hidden a can't say secrets, looking forward to the day can put on fish marriage gauze, blossom mermaid princess grace of magic. Proper wiping a bosom design, clever highlighted the bride full chest. So, what is worth to recommend the marriage gauze tail?
"The daughter of the sea" as Anderson's a vivid image, many girls don't but fresh and it will be in the beauty of her admiration. In the life most important moment put on such a beautiful wedding dress fish, to show the world the princess grace and beauty. The guangzhou city.china bride must be in mind think vanda vivid appearance series, but also is not to say that all the girls like the tail marriage gauze, and, fishplate to the bride's wedding dress figure also have certain requirements.
Although fishplate to be bride wedding dress of the figure is very nice, but wear up after it had on aesthetic feeling that one. If you be aware to stop those members of the upper classes in Paris, it is not hard to find their favorite fish style is, it becomes a symbol of status. Fish skirt has a comparatively significantly characteristics, that is its never-ending journey skirt is equal shoulder width, main basis the bride figure curve cut, will be a very good the bride's outline perfect show.
The whole process is cut fish wedding dress according to the outline of the outline of the bride body design, even if the human body is completely cover word, also can very good show the human body shape. And, in the bride's wedding dress like a choice, does not need to petticoat, the skirt at the lower end of the can also design a mermaid style.
And not to say that choose fish marriage gauze gets the job done, with the top still need to spend some time. A pair of high-heeled shoes can let the bride more radiant and colourful have recalled of power. In addition, the right chest with good design of the bride full bosom curve appear.
Fish marriage gauze also have a feature is the curve of his plays, the design inspiration is hip from the waist style, the whole wedding dress looks like is alive mermaid of their beautiful lawsuit said. For some of the bride was a little meat meat, had better be able to choose some gauze in modified.
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"The daughter of the sea" as Anderson's a vivid image, many girls don't but fresh and it will be in the beauty of her admiration. In the life most important moment put on such a beautiful wedding dress fish, to show the world the princess grace and beauty. The guangzhou city.china bride must be in mind think vanda vivid appearance series, but also is not to say that all the girls like the tail marriage gauze, and, fishplate to the bride's wedding dress figure also have certain requirements.
Although fishplate to be bride wedding dress of the figure is very nice, but wear up after it had on aesthetic feeling that one. If you be aware to stop those members of the upper classes in Paris, it is not hard to find their favorite fish style is, it becomes a symbol of status. Fish skirt has a comparatively significantly characteristics, that is its never-ending journey skirt is equal shoulder width, main basis the bride figure curve cut, will be a very good the bride's outline perfect show.
The whole process is cut fish wedding dress according to the outline of the outline of the bride body design, even if the human body is completely cover word, also can very good show the human body shape. And, in the bride's wedding dress like a choice, does not need to petticoat, the skirt at the lower end of the can also design a mermaid style.
And not to say that choose fish marriage gauze gets the job done, with the top still need to spend some time. A pair of high-heeled shoes can let the bride more radiant and colourful have recalled of power. In addition, the right chest with good design of the bride full bosom curve appear.
Fish marriage gauze also have a feature is the curve of his plays, the design inspiration is hip from the waist style, the whole wedding dress looks like is alive mermaid of their beautiful lawsuit said. For some of the bride was a little meat meat, had better be able to choose some gauze in modified.
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Incredible marriage customs let you a music around
1, France--the legend of eggs
In some rural France has such traditional customs: the girl in marriage that day, to secretly take a few eggs Tibet in the clothing. When the bridegroom accompanies the bride the nuptial chamber, and the bride intentionally tumbles, mix the egg touch to break, can give birth the children by this symbol.
White is the French romantic marriage white wedding's color, whether with flower arrangement, or the bride's clothes, and even all arranged adornment, all is white,
Can see France in the eyes of the marriage should be pure. The wedding, the bride will be prepared, called "Weddingarmosre" for the cabinet of the dowry, engraved with manual fine fine on health and prosperity, symbol design, is have again "magazine of hope" the laudatory name; And in new talent with cup also has the specific name, called the "Coupdemarriage" means "the cup of wedding"
2, Thailand-and the trees of their marriage
Thai people are quite believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is recognized as the state religion. Every man at a certain age, have a house to a monk, little is three months, is more than 35 years, or even a lifetime, even is no exception. If a man not as a monk, it cannot be regarded as an adult, not only relatives and look down upon, even to look for the girlfriend is very difficult also. Buddhism in Thailand has more visible big influence. This buddhist etiquette even performance in the ceremony.
In some parts of southern Thailand, often can see some people around a banging away trees, singing ManWu, originally is the local men in their marriage ceremony held and the tree. Don't look at the object of their marriage is not talking tree, but ceremony with the true but men and women as the wedding ceremony was lively.
Married with trees, the man sent the price being paid filled in the silver bowl, called "niche" flower "or" niche "food". Niches and spend is usually 25 betelnut fruit, and food is for more niche's favorite snacks, candy, and the pillow, the mat and candles, etc.
The wedding ceremony before the start of the bridegroom, and dressed in a luxuriant dress, in all the a dolled herself up girl to speak, ChangGu by saying, the formidable came to the village elders in selected before the big tree. Girls will be displayed in the price being paid "the bride tree" before, announced the beginning of the elders. At this time, the groom will out a candle, and lit them one by one, into one in niches and side, and then read the scriptures to the elders out of the relevant section. Then, the groom's father put some fresh flowers, betelnut and several missiles silver on the pillow and niches, most older in the village to the old lady represents "new niang tree" accept gifts, candles are out, the wedding ceremony. People began to the groom, best and a meal, and after song dance together, until the evening.
According to the local customs, anyone who is the age of 21 years old man will hold a wedding ceremony with trees. Finish after the ceremony, then the house monk, until after the resume secular life with women love marriage, a family. In the local traditional concepts of trees with exuberant vitality, married with trees, can get the Buddha bless, get loyalty to love, establish a happy family.
3, Mauritania--designed rob fat the bride
Moore is one of the major national Mauritania, their wedding is unique.
Long-term since, daughter's marriage is by when my mother's family, when father's can't intervention. A young man value which girl, his mother will be there with a gift to the girl's mother close there to propose, the girl's mother if agree, marriage and agreed down on the spot.
Moore in people's eyes, only waist thick, neck short, hip is prominent, the breast of the bride is recognized as high beauties. Because fat woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man married obesity super wife, their wedding inevitable abnormal grand, many people will also worked from nacson, see the bride's looks.
In fact, in order to make "beauty marry niang", the mother always compete to research the way of obesity. Riches and honour the somebody else's girl, from the age of seven, are for the daily housemaid with grease on the body, drink milk, and eat high fat food, rarely participate in outdoor activities. The daughter of ordinary people every day to follow the arrangement of the parents also drink a lot of camel milk. In addition, the girls will take off regularly almost every day in the soft sand clothes turn roll around, it is said that that the body uneven place to wear away, see not the meat bones become fat girl.
The wedding, the bride's wedding dress with deep national colors. The groom dressed in white or blue enlargement of the new gown, head over a for three meters more white turbans. The bride dressed in colour and lustre bright-coloured flower skirt, head over to skirt the same color cloth scarf.
After the wedding, the couple together a week, then return to their parents' side. Two months later, then live together for a few days, and then to separate. So repeated cycle, for two years before and after. Two years later, the bridegroom with relatives and friends together, and finding camel came to the bride's family, will the bride to collect. Since then began to each other is not separate Cardiff wife to life.
Mauritania marriage customs in that person, it is to have certain origin. In the past, Mauritania is the marriage of early and often more than ten years old girl to marry. The bride is still a child, married every few days will be back to the home, the bride meet the various things about to her mother, the mother taught her how to do a carefully good daughter-in-law, to serve her and take care of her husband. Two years later, the bride grew up, can deal with the housework, move away from the mother, the bride and groom apart two life is over.
4, Mali-the bride to the full, hand, gum with black
Mali is a country of western Africa, where the marriage customs is more special.
According to Mali customs, before the ceremony, men and women both parties family to their tense and preparation. The man is cleaning the yard, and the family natural decorate bridal chamber, invited guests, and preparing for the wedding ceremony party, etc. The family are mainly is to prepare for a dowry and dress up the bride. Mali bride much attention to style. In order to let oneself appear more lively and vigorous, the bride will often take roll song hair straight, a wig will hair extension, again into countless root
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In some rural France has such traditional customs: the girl in marriage that day, to secretly take a few eggs Tibet in the clothing. When the bridegroom accompanies the bride the nuptial chamber, and the bride intentionally tumbles, mix the egg touch to break, can give birth the children by this symbol.
White is the French romantic marriage white wedding's color, whether with flower arrangement, or the bride's clothes, and even all arranged adornment, all is white,
Can see France in the eyes of the marriage should be pure. The wedding, the bride will be prepared, called "Weddingarmosre" for the cabinet of the dowry, engraved with manual fine fine on health and prosperity, symbol design, is have again "magazine of hope" the laudatory name; And in new talent with cup also has the specific name, called the "Coupdemarriage" means "the cup of wedding"
2, Thailand-and the trees of their marriage
Thai people are quite believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is recognized as the state religion. Every man at a certain age, have a house to a monk, little is three months, is more than 35 years, or even a lifetime, even is no exception. If a man not as a monk, it cannot be regarded as an adult, not only relatives and look down upon, even to look for the girlfriend is very difficult also. Buddhism in Thailand has more visible big influence. This buddhist etiquette even performance in the ceremony.
In some parts of southern Thailand, often can see some people around a banging away trees, singing ManWu, originally is the local men in their marriage ceremony held and the tree. Don't look at the object of their marriage is not talking tree, but ceremony with the true but men and women as the wedding ceremony was lively.
Married with trees, the man sent the price being paid filled in the silver bowl, called "niche" flower "or" niche "food". Niches and spend is usually 25 betelnut fruit, and food is for more niche's favorite snacks, candy, and the pillow, the mat and candles, etc.
The wedding ceremony before the start of the bridegroom, and dressed in a luxuriant dress, in all the a dolled herself up girl to speak, ChangGu by saying, the formidable came to the village elders in selected before the big tree. Girls will be displayed in the price being paid "the bride tree" before, announced the beginning of the elders. At this time, the groom will out a candle, and lit them one by one, into one in niches and side, and then read the scriptures to the elders out of the relevant section. Then, the groom's father put some fresh flowers, betelnut and several missiles silver on the pillow and niches, most older in the village to the old lady represents "new niang tree" accept gifts, candles are out, the wedding ceremony. People began to the groom, best and a meal, and after song dance together, until the evening.
According to the local customs, anyone who is the age of 21 years old man will hold a wedding ceremony with trees. Finish after the ceremony, then the house monk, until after the resume secular life with women love marriage, a family. In the local traditional concepts of trees with exuberant vitality, married with trees, can get the Buddha bless, get loyalty to love, establish a happy family.
3, Mauritania--designed rob fat the bride
Moore is one of the major national Mauritania, their wedding is unique.
Long-term since, daughter's marriage is by when my mother's family, when father's can't intervention. A young man value which girl, his mother will be there with a gift to the girl's mother close there to propose, the girl's mother if agree, marriage and agreed down on the spot.
Moore in people's eyes, only waist thick, neck short, hip is prominent, the breast of the bride is recognized as high beauties. Because fat woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man married obesity super wife, their wedding inevitable abnormal grand, many people will also worked from nacson, see the bride's looks.
In fact, in order to make "beauty marry niang", the mother always compete to research the way of obesity. Riches and honour the somebody else's girl, from the age of seven, are for the daily housemaid with grease on the body, drink milk, and eat high fat food, rarely participate in outdoor activities. The daughter of ordinary people every day to follow the arrangement of the parents also drink a lot of camel milk. In addition, the girls will take off regularly almost every day in the soft sand clothes turn roll around, it is said that that the body uneven place to wear away, see not the meat bones become fat girl.
The wedding, the bride's wedding dress with deep national colors. The groom dressed in white or blue enlargement of the new gown, head over a for three meters more white turbans. The bride dressed in colour and lustre bright-coloured flower skirt, head over to skirt the same color cloth scarf.
After the wedding, the couple together a week, then return to their parents' side. Two months later, then live together for a few days, and then to separate. So repeated cycle, for two years before and after. Two years later, the bridegroom with relatives and friends together, and finding camel came to the bride's family, will the bride to collect. Since then began to each other is not separate Cardiff wife to life.
Mauritania marriage customs in that person, it is to have certain origin. In the past, Mauritania is the marriage of early and often more than ten years old girl to marry. The bride is still a child, married every few days will be back to the home, the bride meet the various things about to her mother, the mother taught her how to do a carefully good daughter-in-law, to serve her and take care of her husband. Two years later, the bride grew up, can deal with the housework, move away from the mother, the bride and groom apart two life is over.
4, Mali-the bride to the full, hand, gum with black
Mali is a country of western Africa, where the marriage customs is more special.
According to Mali customs, before the ceremony, men and women both parties family to their tense and preparation. The man is cleaning the yard, and the family natural decorate bridal chamber, invited guests, and preparing for the wedding ceremony party, etc. The family are mainly is to prepare for a dowry and dress up the bride. Mali bride much attention to style. In order to let oneself appear more lively and vigorous, the bride will often take roll song hair straight, a wig will hair extension, again into countless root
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7 kinds of Hot classic wedding color scheme
The colour clever apply can greatly improve the quality of the wedding, different theme wedding can use different color to convey, in color and color, the crisscross of light and shadow search for different case tone. Small make up recommend to you the hottest wedding of seven color scheme, which type is your favorite?
1. The pink peach color wedding
Like pink bride is love romantic girl, always brings a person with the colors of the peach light sweet, with such colour adornment wedding will be full of thick happiness. Whether flower art, cake, the toast covers or adornment small things, everything is so tender and inviting.
Colour collocation: different shades of pink, shallow brown, green light
2. The yellow and blue passion collisions
"Bump color" is now popular color matching method, and yellow and blue bump color is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one of the match. Bright yellow lively jump out, let the quiet of the blue also appears nifty reiki up.
Colour collocation: yellow, blue, shallow ash
3. Brown and white snow forest
If the wedding is held in in the winter, so use some winter color can better rendering winter this theme. Brown, green, white colour of these nature ably collocation, pinecone, trees, white snow these elements can let your wedding extraordinary.
Colour is tie-in, white, green, brown, brown
4. The quiet of the blue wedding
Light blue wedding can always bring a person pure and fresh and elegant feeling. If you are a like quiet bride, so this dopey voice is very suitable for you. Blue and white is cold tonal, can bring fresh and cool feeling it, also can make the space appears more open, like lively festival of new careful have the colour.
Colour collocation: white, black, brown, blue
5. Golden pink build
The gold and pink belong to warm color department, ably collocation are together, can let the wedding to make people feel very warm and comfortable, if in the wedding place cannot provide natural lighting, use this kind of color can feel the layout of environment appears compact and warm. Pink is tender color, also represents girl pursuit of romantic feelings. Gold is luxuriant and expensive gas, these two kinds of colour collocation, make the dream princess temperament.
Colour collocation: pink, brown, brown, shallow ash
6. High grey alternative wedding color
With gray for wedding theme color is very, very rare, the average people like warmth, festive colors. But if used correctly, the gray can also create another sort of flavor, make your wedding personality, extraordinary.
Colour collocation: white, light brown, shallow brown, shallow gray
7. The forest is pure and fresh and green
Like nature of pure and fresh, so green outdoor wedding can satisfy your needs. With bouncing, fresh green decorate the table, ceremony area, with wooden chair of mensal, eat, again with a white gauze, the adornment such as BaiChou, spring in the harmonious and perfect colour collocation.
Colour collocation: green, deep brown, shallow ash, white, lilac
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1. The pink peach color wedding
Like pink bride is love romantic girl, always brings a person with the colors of the peach light sweet, with such colour adornment wedding will be full of thick happiness. Whether flower art, cake, the toast covers or adornment small things, everything is so tender and inviting.
Colour collocation: different shades of pink, shallow brown, green light
2. The yellow and blue passion collisions
"Bump color" is now popular color matching method, and yellow and blue bump color is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one of the match. Bright yellow lively jump out, let the quiet of the blue also appears nifty reiki up.
Colour collocation: yellow, blue, shallow ash
3. Brown and white snow forest
If the wedding is held in in the winter, so use some winter color can better rendering winter this theme. Brown, green, white colour of these nature ably collocation, pinecone, trees, white snow these elements can let your wedding extraordinary.
Colour is tie-in, white, green, brown, brown
4. The quiet of the blue wedding
Light blue wedding can always bring a person pure and fresh and elegant feeling. If you are a like quiet bride, so this dopey voice is very suitable for you. Blue and white is cold tonal, can bring fresh and cool feeling it, also can make the space appears more open, like lively festival of new careful have the colour.
Colour collocation: white, black, brown, blue
5. Golden pink build
The gold and pink belong to warm color department, ably collocation are together, can let the wedding to make people feel very warm and comfortable, if in the wedding place cannot provide natural lighting, use this kind of color can feel the layout of environment appears compact and warm. Pink is tender color, also represents girl pursuit of romantic feelings. Gold is luxuriant and expensive gas, these two kinds of colour collocation, make the dream princess temperament.
Colour collocation: pink, brown, brown, shallow ash
6. High grey alternative wedding color
With gray for wedding theme color is very, very rare, the average people like warmth, festive colors. But if used correctly, the gray can also create another sort of flavor, make your wedding personality, extraordinary.
Colour collocation: white, light brown, shallow brown, shallow gray
7. The forest is pure and fresh and green
Like nature of pure and fresh, so green outdoor wedding can satisfy your needs. With bouncing, fresh green decorate the table, ceremony area, with wooden chair of mensal, eat, again with a white gauze, the adornment such as BaiChou, spring in the harmonious and perfect colour collocation.
Colour collocation: green, deep brown, shallow ash, white, lilac
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Wikipedia wedding! Western countries wedding customs
In America, Britain and other western countries, in the ceremony, the bride and groom is unique wedding testimony, and the traditional Chinese wedding customs and the wedding ceremony is not big. General is to hold the Lord by father, these is said to be the ancient originated from the wedding custom......
veil
At first the bride wear a veil is as a young and the symbol of virginity, Catholic bride wear a veil represent purity. Therefore, many the bride to the wedding in church when choose wear double veil, the father of the bride will after daughter to the groom, groom unveiled by hand.
Diamond ring
The bible says, in ancient times, men marry women to the evidence is ring. 9 th century, the Pope Nicholas I enacted laws, regulations, the man presented the wedding ring to woman is formally proposed essential steps.
tire
The bride wedding day the custom of wearing the headdress, has a long history, the old woman in the best age to get married will be wearing garlands, so as to distinguish from married women, a symbol of the virgin.
The color of the bridal gown
The color of the wedding dress represents the traditional, also have particular meanings: white for pure virgin, American and British common yellow is the symbol of love and rich.
bouquet
Flowers represent passion and reward, transmits the prosperity and rich and extraordinary message, to the bridal bouquet will have good luck, also will be next to tie the knot.
The bride stood in the left side of the bridegroom
This custom originated in popular s reveal, worried about the bride's family will be in the wedding will be the bride rob back, the groom must take the right hand at any time to a response.
Kiss each other
According to custom, the wedding ceremony is the new kiss to an end. It has a profound meaning of a kiss: through the kiss, a person's breath and part of the soul will stay in another person inside body, love makes them together.
Holding the bride into the bridal chamber
This custom is from some native tribes in the marriage customs of evolved, because these tribes of the single woman too little, so the man to neighboring villages rob close, will carry them away, so that they will run away with. Today, people think, the bride can't use the left foot forward into the new house door, so it is best to let the bridegroom bride will hold a room.
The couple's car
When the couple honeymoon start by bus, the car will be on the back of the many cans tied, it originated in ancient custom of throwing shoes, the wedding guests to throw the new shoes, that if there are shoes hit the new car ride, that will bring good luck.
Car horns
With the new car all the way behind the team kept whistling, to ward off the evil. flower girl dresses , weddingdresses blog and yellow bridesmaid dresses .
veil
At first the bride wear a veil is as a young and the symbol of virginity, Catholic bride wear a veil represent purity. Therefore, many the bride to the wedding in church when choose wear double veil, the father of the bride will after daughter to the groom, groom unveiled by hand.
Diamond ring
The bible says, in ancient times, men marry women to the evidence is ring. 9 th century, the Pope Nicholas I enacted laws, regulations, the man presented the wedding ring to woman is formally proposed essential steps.
tire
The bride wedding day the custom of wearing the headdress, has a long history, the old woman in the best age to get married will be wearing garlands, so as to distinguish from married women, a symbol of the virgin.
The color of the bridal gown
The color of the wedding dress represents the traditional, also have particular meanings: white for pure virgin, American and British common yellow is the symbol of love and rich.
bouquet
Flowers represent passion and reward, transmits the prosperity and rich and extraordinary message, to the bridal bouquet will have good luck, also will be next to tie the knot.
The bride stood in the left side of the bridegroom
This custom originated in popular s reveal, worried about the bride's family will be in the wedding will be the bride rob back, the groom must take the right hand at any time to a response.
Kiss each other
According to custom, the wedding ceremony is the new kiss to an end. It has a profound meaning of a kiss: through the kiss, a person's breath and part of the soul will stay in another person inside body, love makes them together.
Holding the bride into the bridal chamber
This custom is from some native tribes in the marriage customs of evolved, because these tribes of the single woman too little, so the man to neighboring villages rob close, will carry them away, so that they will run away with. Today, people think, the bride can't use the left foot forward into the new house door, so it is best to let the bridegroom bride will hold a room.
The couple's car
When the couple honeymoon start by bus, the car will be on the back of the many cans tied, it originated in ancient custom of throwing shoes, the wedding guests to throw the new shoes, that if there are shoes hit the new car ride, that will bring good luck.
Car horns
With the new car all the way behind the team kept whistling, to ward off the evil. flower girl dresses , weddingdresses blog and yellow bridesmaid dresses .
2012年2月23日星期四
I am a stranger here
At any rate the old man must have been somewhat excited for when the introductions were over, and the company was leaving the depot, he managed to steer Dan into collision with a young woman who was standing nearby. She was carrying a small grip, having evidently arrived on the same train that brought the minister. It was no joke for anyone into whom Big Dan bumped, and a look of indignation flashed on the girl's face. But the indignant look vanished quickly in a smile as the big fellow stood, hat in hand, offering the most abject apology for what he called _his_ rudeness.
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The Doctor noted a fine face, a strong graceful figure, and an air of wholesomeness and health that was most refreshing. But he thought that Dan took more time than was necessary for his apology.
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When she had assured the young fellow several times that it was nothing, she asked: "Can you tell me, please, the way to Dr. Abbott's office?"
Dr. Abbott! The Doctor's own office--Dr. Harry's and his now. He looked the young woman over curiously, while Dan was saying: "I'm sorry, but I cannot. I am a stranger here, but my friend--"
The older man interrupted gruffly with the necessary directions and the information that Dr. Abbott was out of town, and would not be back until four o'clock. "Will you then direct me to a hotel?" she asked. The Doctor pointed across the track. Then he got Dan away.
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The church ladies, with Charity and her father, were already on their way back to the place where the bazaar was doing business. Half way down the block the Doctor and Dan were checked by a crowd. There seemed to be some excitement ahead. But in the pause, Dan turned to look back toward the young woman who had arrived in Corinth on the same train that had brought him. She was coming slowly down the street toward them.
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The Doctor noted a fine face, a strong graceful figure, and an air of wholesomeness and health that was most refreshing. But he thought that Dan took more time than was necessary for his apology.
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When she had assured the young fellow several times that it was nothing, she asked: "Can you tell me, please, the way to Dr. Abbott's office?"
Dr. Abbott! The Doctor's own office--Dr. Harry's and his now. He looked the young woman over curiously, while Dan was saying: "I'm sorry, but I cannot. I am a stranger here, but my friend--"
The older man interrupted gruffly with the necessary directions and the information that Dr. Abbott was out of town, and would not be back until four o'clock. "Will you then direct me to a hotel?" she asked. The Doctor pointed across the track. Then he got Dan away.
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The church ladies, with Charity and her father, were already on their way back to the place where the bazaar was doing business. Half way down the block the Doctor and Dan were checked by a crowd. There seemed to be some excitement ahead. But in the pause, Dan turned to look back toward the young woman who had arrived in Corinth on the same train that had brought him. She was coming slowly down the street toward them.
2012年2月20日星期一
It's only crossing the bar
'Serve 'em right,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'for being idle.' She glanced up at his face, with mingled astonishment and dread.
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'By George!' said Mr. Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off. I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about. There was no rope- dancing for me; I danced on the bare ground and was larruped with the rope.'
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Mr. Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so rough a man as Mr. Bounderby. His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago. He said, in what he meant for a reassuring tone, as they turned down a narrow road, 'And this is Pod's End; is it, Jupe?'
'This is it, sir, and - if you wouldn't mind, sir - this is the house.'
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She stopped, at twilight, at the door of a mean little public- house, with dim red lights in it. As haggard and as shabby, as if, for want of custom, it had itself taken to drinking, and had gone the way all drunkards go, and was very near the end of it.
'It's only crossing the bar, sir, and up the stairs, if you wouldn't mind, and waiting there for a moment till I get a candle. If you should hear a dog, sir, it's only Merrylegs, and he only barks.'
'Merrylegs and nine oils, eh!' said Mr. Bounderby, entering last with his metallic laugh. 'Pretty well this, for a self-made man!'
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'By George!' said Mr. Bounderby, 'when I was four or five years younger than you, I had worse bruises upon me than ten oils, twenty oils, forty oils, would have rubbed off. I didn't get 'em by posture-making, but by being banged about. There was no rope- dancing for me; I danced on the bare ground and was larruped with the rope.'
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Mr. Gradgrind, though hard enough, was by no means so rough a man as Mr. Bounderby. His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago. He said, in what he meant for a reassuring tone, as they turned down a narrow road, 'And this is Pod's End; is it, Jupe?'
'This is it, sir, and - if you wouldn't mind, sir - this is the house.'
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She stopped, at twilight, at the door of a mean little public- house, with dim red lights in it. As haggard and as shabby, as if, for want of custom, it had itself taken to drinking, and had gone the way all drunkards go, and was very near the end of it.
'It's only crossing the bar, sir, and up the stairs, if you wouldn't mind, and waiting there for a moment till I get a candle. If you should hear a dog, sir, it's only Merrylegs, and he only barks.'
'Merrylegs and nine oils, eh!' said Mr. Bounderby, entering last with his metallic laugh. 'Pretty well this, for a self-made man!'
It's the nine oils
'Oh!' cried Bitzer. 'Oh! An't you one of the rest! An't you a horse-rider! I never looked at her, sir. I asked her if she would know how to define a horse to-morrow, and offered to tell her again, and she ran away, and I ran after her, sir, that she might know how to answer when she was asked. You wouldn't have thought of saying such mischief if you hadn't been a horse-rider?'
'Her calling seems to be pretty well known among 'em,' observed Mr. Bounderby. 'You'd have had the whole school peeping in a row, in a week.'
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'Truly, I think so,' returned his friend. 'Bitzer, turn you about and take yourself home. Jupe, stay here a moment. Let me hear of your running in this manner any more, boy, and you will hear of me through the master of the school. You understand what I mean. Go along.'
The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated.
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'Now, girl,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'take this gentleman and me to your father's; we are going there. What have you got in that bottle you are carrying?'
'Gin,' said Mr. Bounderby.
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'Dear, no, sir! It's the nine oils.'
'The what?' cried Mr. Bounderby.
'The nine oils, sir, to rub father with.'
'Then,' said Mr. Bounderby, with a loud short laugh, 'what the devil do you rub your father with nine oils for?'
'It's what our people aways use, sir, when they get any hurts in the ring,' replied the girl, looking over her shoulder, to assure herself that her pursuer was gone. 'They bruise themselves very bad sometimes.'
'Her calling seems to be pretty well known among 'em,' observed Mr. Bounderby. 'You'd have had the whole school peeping in a row, in a week.'
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'Truly, I think so,' returned his friend. 'Bitzer, turn you about and take yourself home. Jupe, stay here a moment. Let me hear of your running in this manner any more, boy, and you will hear of me through the master of the school. You understand what I mean. Go along.'
The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated.
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'Now, girl,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'take this gentleman and me to your father's; we are going there. What have you got in that bottle you are carrying?'
'Gin,' said Mr. Bounderby.
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'Dear, no, sir! It's the nine oils.'
'The what?' cried Mr. Bounderby.
'The nine oils, sir, to rub father with.'
'Then,' said Mr. Bounderby, with a loud short laugh, 'what the devil do you rub your father with nine oils for?'
'It's what our people aways use, sir, when they get any hurts in the ring,' replied the girl, looking over her shoulder, to assure herself that her pursuer was gone. 'They bruise themselves very bad sometimes.'
I wanted to get away
'This man lives at Pod's End, and I don't quite know Pod's End,' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'Which is it, Bounderby?'
Mr. Bounderby knew it was somewhere down town, but knew no more respecting it. So they stopped for a moment, looking about.
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Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized. 'Halloa!' said he. 'Stop! Where are you going! Stop!' Girl number twenty stopped then, palpitating, and made him a curtsey.
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'Why are you tearing about the streets,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'in this improper manner?'
'I was - I was run after, sir,' the girl panted, 'and I wanted to get away.'
'Run after?' repeated Mr. Gradgrind. 'Who would run after you?'
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The question was unexpectedly and suddenly answered for her, by the colourless boy, Bitzer, who came round the corner with such blind speed and so little anticipating a stoppage on the pavement, that he brought himself up against Mr. Gradgrind's waistcoat and rebounded into the road.
'What do you mean, boy?' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'What are you doing? How dare you dash against - everybody - in this manner?' Bitzer picked up his cap, which the concussion had knocked off; and backing, and knuckling his forehead, pleaded that it was an accident.
'Was this boy running after you, Jupe?' asked Mr. Gradgrind.
'Yes, sir,' said the girl reluctantly.
'No, I wasn't, sir!' cried Bitzer. 'Not till she run away from me. But the horse-riders never mind what they say, sir; they're famous for it. You know the horse-riders are famous for never minding what they say,' addressing Sissy. 'It's as well known in the town as - please, sir, as the multiplication table isn't known to the horse-riders.' Bitzer tried Mr. Bounderby with this.
'He frightened me so,' said the girl, 'with his cruel faces!'
Mr. Bounderby knew it was somewhere down town, but knew no more respecting it. So they stopped for a moment, looking about.
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Almost as they did so, there came running round the corner of the street at a quick pace and with a frightened look, a girl whom Mr. Gradgrind recognized. 'Halloa!' said he. 'Stop! Where are you going! Stop!' Girl number twenty stopped then, palpitating, and made him a curtsey.
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'Why are you tearing about the streets,' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'in this improper manner?'
'I was - I was run after, sir,' the girl panted, 'and I wanted to get away.'
'Run after?' repeated Mr. Gradgrind. 'Who would run after you?'
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The question was unexpectedly and suddenly answered for her, by the colourless boy, Bitzer, who came round the corner with such blind speed and so little anticipating a stoppage on the pavement, that he brought himself up against Mr. Gradgrind's waistcoat and rebounded into the road.
'What do you mean, boy?' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'What are you doing? How dare you dash against - everybody - in this manner?' Bitzer picked up his cap, which the concussion had knocked off; and backing, and knuckling his forehead, pleaded that it was an accident.
'Was this boy running after you, Jupe?' asked Mr. Gradgrind.
'Yes, sir,' said the girl reluctantly.
'No, I wasn't, sir!' cried Bitzer. 'Not till she run away from me. But the horse-riders never mind what they say, sir; they're famous for it. You know the horse-riders are famous for never minding what they say,' addressing Sissy. 'It's as well known in the town as - please, sir, as the multiplication table isn't known to the horse-riders.' Bitzer tried Mr. Bounderby with this.
'He frightened me so,' said the girl, 'with his cruel faces!'
It was the only clear thing in the case
Then came Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby, the two gentlemen at this present moment walking through Coketown, and both eminently practical, who could, on occasion, furnish more tabular statements derived from their own personal experience, and illustrated by cases they had known and seen, from which it clearly appeared - in short, it was the only clear thing in the case - that these same people were a bad lot altogether, gentlemen; that do what you would for them they were never thankful for it, gentlemen; that they were restless, gentlemen; that they never knew what they wanted; that they lived upon the best, and bought fresh butter; and insisted on Mocha coffee, and rejected all but prime parts of meat, and yet were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short, it was the moral of the old nursery fable:
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There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would NEVER be quiet.
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Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds? Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought? That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions?
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That exactly in the ratio as they worked long and monotonously, the craving grew within them for some physical relief - some relaxation, encouraging good humour and good spirits, and giving them a vent - some recognized holiday, though it were but for an honest dance to a stirring band of music - some occasional light pie in which even M'Choakumchild had no finger - which craving must and would be satisfied aright, or must and would inevitably go wrong, until the laws of the Creation were repealed?
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Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds? Surely, none of us in our sober senses and acquainted with figures, are to be told at this time of day, that one of the foremost elements in the existence of the Coketown working-people had been for scores of years, deliberately set at nought? That there was any Fancy in them demanding to be brought into healthy existence instead of struggling on in convulsions?
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That exactly in the ratio as they worked long and monotonously, the craving grew within them for some physical relief - some relaxation, encouraging good humour and good spirits, and giving them a vent - some recognized holiday, though it were but for an honest dance to a stirring band of music - some occasional light pie in which even M'Choakumchild had no finger - which craving must and would be satisfied aright, or must and would inevitably go wrong, until the laws of the Creation were repealed?
2012年2月17日星期五
As he spoke
The Express had entered the yards at the summit station, and was gradually lessening its speed. Just as the man turned to enter the car, the train came to a full stop, and the sudden jar threw him almost into the arms of the woman. For an instant, while he was struggling to regain his balance, he was so close to her that their garments touched. Indeed, he only prevented an actual collision by throwing his arm across her shoulder and catching the side of the car window against which she was leaning.
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In that moment, while his face was so close to hers that she might have felt his breath upon her cheek and he was involuntarily looking straight into her eyes, the man felt, queerly, that the woman was not shrinking from him. In fact, one less occupied with other thoughts might have construed her bold, open look, her slightly parted lips and flushed cheeks, as a welcome--quite as though she were in the habit of having handsome young men throw themselves into her arms.
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Then, with a hint of a smile in his eyes, he was saying, conventionally, "I beg your pardon. It was very stupid of me."
As he spoke, a mask of cold indifference slipped over her face. Without deigning to notice his courteous apology, she looked away, and, moving to the railing of the platform, became ostensibly interested in the busy activity of the railroad yards.
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Had the woman--in that instant when his arm was over her shoulder and his eyes were looking into hers--smiled, the incident would have slipped quickly from his mind. As it was, the flash-like impression of the moment remained, and--
Down the steep grade of the narrow San Timateo Canyon, on the coast side of the mountain pass, the Overland thundered on the last stretch of its long race to the western edge of the continent. And now, from the car windows, the passengers caught tantalizing glimpses of bright pastures with their herds of contented dairy cows, and with their white ranch buildings set in the shade of giant pepper and eucalyptus trees. On the rounded shoulders and steep flanks of the foothills that form the sides of the canyon, the barley fields looked down upon the meadows; and, now and then, in the whirling landscape winding side canyons--beautiful with live-oak and laurel, with greasewood and sage--led the eye away toward the pine-fringed ridges of the Galenas while above, the higher snow-clad peaks and domes of the San Bernardinos still shone coldly against the blue.
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In that moment, while his face was so close to hers that she might have felt his breath upon her cheek and he was involuntarily looking straight into her eyes, the man felt, queerly, that the woman was not shrinking from him. In fact, one less occupied with other thoughts might have construed her bold, open look, her slightly parted lips and flushed cheeks, as a welcome--quite as though she were in the habit of having handsome young men throw themselves into her arms.
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Then, with a hint of a smile in his eyes, he was saying, conventionally, "I beg your pardon. It was very stupid of me."
As he spoke, a mask of cold indifference slipped over her face. Without deigning to notice his courteous apology, she looked away, and, moving to the railing of the platform, became ostensibly interested in the busy activity of the railroad yards.
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Had the woman--in that instant when his arm was over her shoulder and his eyes were looking into hers--smiled, the incident would have slipped quickly from his mind. As it was, the flash-like impression of the moment remained, and--
Down the steep grade of the narrow San Timateo Canyon, on the coast side of the mountain pass, the Overland thundered on the last stretch of its long race to the western edge of the continent. And now, from the car windows, the passengers caught tantalizing glimpses of bright pastures with their herds of contented dairy cows, and with their white ranch buildings set in the shade of giant pepper and eucalyptus trees. On the rounded shoulders and steep flanks of the foothills that form the sides of the canyon, the barley fields looked down upon the meadows; and, now and then, in the whirling landscape winding side canyons--beautiful with live-oak and laurel, with greasewood and sage--led the eye away toward the pine-fringed ridges of the Galenas while above, the higher snow-clad peaks and domes of the San Bernardinos still shone coldly against the blue.
As he stood there
Among the passengers whose curious eyes were so often turned in his direction, there was one whose interest was always carefully veiled. She was a woman of evident rank and distinction in that world where rank and distinction are determined wholly by dollars and by such social position as dollars can buy. She was beautiful; but with that carefully studied, wholly self-conscious--one is tempted to say professional--beauty of her kind. Her full rounded, splendidly developed body was gowned to accentuate the alluring curves of her sex.
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With such skill was this deliberate appeal to the physical hidden under a cloak of a pretending modesty that its charm was the more effectively revealed. Her features were almost too perfect. She was too coldly sure of herself--too perfectly trained in the art of self-repression. For a woman as young as she evidently was, she seemed to know too much. The careful indifference of her countenance seemed to say, "I am too well schooled in life to make mistakes." She was traveling with two companions--a fluffy, fluttering, characterless shadow of womanhood, and a man--an invalid who seldom left the privacy of the drawing-room which he occupied.
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As the train neared the summit of the pass, the young man on the observation car platform looked at his watch. A few miles more and he would arrive at his destination. Rising to his feet, he drew a deep breath of the glorious, sun-filled air. With his back to the door, and looking away into the distance, he did not notice the woman who, stepping from the car at that moment, stood directly behind him, steadying herself by the brass railing in front of the window. To their idly observing fellow passengers, the woman, too, appeared interested in the distant landscape. She might have been looking at the only other occupant of the platform. The passengers, from where they sat, could not have told.
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As he stood there,--against the background of the primitive, many-colored landscape,--the young man might easily have attracted the attention of any one. He would have attracted attention in a crowd. Tall, with an athletic trimness of limb, a good breadth of shoulder, and a fine head poised with that natural, unconscious pride of the well-bred--he kept his feet on the unsteady platform of the car with that easy grace which marks only well-conditioned muscles, and is rarely seen save in those whose lives are sanely clean.
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With such skill was this deliberate appeal to the physical hidden under a cloak of a pretending modesty that its charm was the more effectively revealed. Her features were almost too perfect. She was too coldly sure of herself--too perfectly trained in the art of self-repression. For a woman as young as she evidently was, she seemed to know too much. The careful indifference of her countenance seemed to say, "I am too well schooled in life to make mistakes." She was traveling with two companions--a fluffy, fluttering, characterless shadow of womanhood, and a man--an invalid who seldom left the privacy of the drawing-room which he occupied.
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As the train neared the summit of the pass, the young man on the observation car platform looked at his watch. A few miles more and he would arrive at his destination. Rising to his feet, he drew a deep breath of the glorious, sun-filled air. With his back to the door, and looking away into the distance, he did not notice the woman who, stepping from the car at that moment, stood directly behind him, steadying herself by the brass railing in front of the window. To their idly observing fellow passengers, the woman, too, appeared interested in the distant landscape. She might have been looking at the only other occupant of the platform. The passengers, from where they sat, could not have told.
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As he stood there,--against the background of the primitive, many-colored landscape,--the young man might easily have attracted the attention of any one. He would have attracted attention in a crowd. Tall, with an athletic trimness of limb, a good breadth of shoulder, and a fine head poised with that natural, unconscious pride of the well-bred--he kept his feet on the unsteady platform of the car with that easy grace which marks only well-conditioned muscles, and is rarely seen save in those whose lives are sanely clean.
The Golden State Limited
The Golden State Limited, with two laboring engines, was climbing the desert side of San Gorgonio Pass.
Now San Gorgonio Pass--as all men should know--is one of the two eastern gateways to the beautiful heart of Southern California. It is, therefore, the gateway to the scenes of my story.
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As the heavy train zigzagged up the long, barren slope of the mountain, in its effort to lessen the heavy grade, the young man on the platform of the observation car could see, far to the east, the shimmering, sun-filled haze that lies, always, like a veil of mystery, over the vast reaches of the Colorado Desert. Now and then, as the Express swung around the curves, he gained a view of the lonely, snow-piled peaks of the San Bernardinos; with old San Gorgonio, lifting above the pine-fringed ridges of the lower Galenas, shining, silvery white, against the blue. Again, on the southern side of the pass, he saw San Jacinto's crags and cliffs rising almost sheer from the right-of-way.
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But the man watching the ever-changing panorama of gorgeously colored and fantastically unreal landscape was not thinking of the scenes that, to him, were new and strange. His thoughts were far away. Among those mountains grouped about San Gorgonio, the real value of the inheritance he had received from his mother was to be tested. On the pine-fringed ridge of the Galenas, among those granite cliffs and jagged peaks, the mettle of his manhood was to be tried under a strain such as few men in this commonplace work-a-day old world are-subjected to. But the young man did not know this.
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On the long journey across the continent, he had paid little heed to the sights that so interested his fellow passengers. To his fellow passengers, themselves, he had been as indifferent. To those who had approached him casually, as the sometimes tedious hours passed, he had been quietly and courteously unresponsive. This well-bred but decidedly marked disinclination to mingle with them, together with the undeniably distinguished appearance of the young man, only served to center the interest of the little world of the Pullmans more strongly upon him. Keeping to himself, and engrossed with his own thoughts, he became the object of many idle conjectures.
Now San Gorgonio Pass--as all men should know--is one of the two eastern gateways to the beautiful heart of Southern California. It is, therefore, the gateway to the scenes of my story.
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As the heavy train zigzagged up the long, barren slope of the mountain, in its effort to lessen the heavy grade, the young man on the platform of the observation car could see, far to the east, the shimmering, sun-filled haze that lies, always, like a veil of mystery, over the vast reaches of the Colorado Desert. Now and then, as the Express swung around the curves, he gained a view of the lonely, snow-piled peaks of the San Bernardinos; with old San Gorgonio, lifting above the pine-fringed ridges of the lower Galenas, shining, silvery white, against the blue. Again, on the southern side of the pass, he saw San Jacinto's crags and cliffs rising almost sheer from the right-of-way.
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But the man watching the ever-changing panorama of gorgeously colored and fantastically unreal landscape was not thinking of the scenes that, to him, were new and strange. His thoughts were far away. Among those mountains grouped about San Gorgonio, the real value of the inheritance he had received from his mother was to be tested. On the pine-fringed ridge of the Galenas, among those granite cliffs and jagged peaks, the mettle of his manhood was to be tried under a strain such as few men in this commonplace work-a-day old world are-subjected to. But the young man did not know this.
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On the long journey across the continent, he had paid little heed to the sights that so interested his fellow passengers. To his fellow passengers, themselves, he had been as indifferent. To those who had approached him casually, as the sometimes tedious hours passed, he had been quietly and courteously unresponsive. This well-bred but decidedly marked disinclination to mingle with them, together with the undeniably distinguished appearance of the young man, only served to center the interest of the little world of the Pullmans more strongly upon him. Keeping to himself, and engrossed with his own thoughts, he became the object of many idle conjectures.
At a look from the doctor
As he paused an instant in the open door to glance about that poverty stricken room, a look of bewildering amazement swept over his handsome face. He started to draw back--as if he had unintentionally entered the wrong apartment. Looking at the doctor, his lips parted as if to apologize for his intrusion. But before he could speak, his eyes met the eyes of the woman on the bed.
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With a cry of horror, he sprang forward;--"Mother! Mother!"
As he knelt there by the bed, when the first moments of their meeting were past, he turned his face toward the doctor. From the physician his gaze went to the nurse, then back again to his mother's old friend. His eyes were burning with shame and sorrow--with pain and doubt and accusation. His low voice was tense with emotion, as he demanded, "What does this mean? Why is my mother here like--like this?"--his eyes swept the bare room again.
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The dying woman answered. "I will explain, my boy. It is to tell you, that I have waited."
At a look from the doctor, the nurse quietly followed the physician from the room.
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It was not long. When she had finished, the false strength that had kept the woman alive until she had accomplished that which she conceived to be her last duty, failed quickly.
"You will--promise--you will?"
"Yes, mother, yes."
"Your education--your training--your blood--they--are--all--that--I can--give you, my son."
"O mother, mother! why did you not tell me before? Why did I not know!" The cry was a protest--an expression of bitterest shame and sorrow.
She smiled. "It--was--all that I could do--for you--my son--the only way--I could--help. I do not--regret the cost. You will--not forget?"
"Never, mother, never."
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With a cry of horror, he sprang forward;--"Mother! Mother!"
As he knelt there by the bed, when the first moments of their meeting were past, he turned his face toward the doctor. From the physician his gaze went to the nurse, then back again to his mother's old friend. His eyes were burning with shame and sorrow--with pain and doubt and accusation. His low voice was tense with emotion, as he demanded, "What does this mean? Why is my mother here like--like this?"--his eyes swept the bare room again.
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The dying woman answered. "I will explain, my boy. It is to tell you, that I have waited."
At a look from the doctor, the nurse quietly followed the physician from the room.
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It was not long. When she had finished, the false strength that had kept the woman alive until she had accomplished that which she conceived to be her last duty, failed quickly.
"You will--promise--you will?"
"Yes, mother, yes."
"Your education--your training--your blood--they--are--all--that--I can--give you, my son."
"O mother, mother! why did you not tell me before? Why did I not know!" The cry was a protest--an expression of bitterest shame and sorrow.
She smiled. "It--was--all that I could do--for you--my son--the only way--I could--help. I do not--regret the cost. You will--not forget?"
"Never, mother, never."
2012年2月15日星期三
I have good news for you
After Mrs. Stewart had left her, Isabel knelt down and prayed for strength to do her duty, however trying she might find it, and for the holy spirit to comfort her in affliction, after which she retired to rest, and was soon in a calm sleep.
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Next morning she arose much refreshed, and having sought divine aid and protection, she commenced to arrange for her departure. Her Father's creditors knowing him to be a man of strict integrity, and that his failure was not attributable to any want of prudence on his part, had kindly arranged that she should retain whatever she particularly wished. This was a great gratification to Isabel, tho' she was too honorable to take an undue advantage of this benevolent intention, indeed she was almost too conscientious upon this point.
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The task before her was a sad one, and although she strove very hard she could not restrain her tears as she made her selections. She was soon joined by Mrs. Arnold, who told her she had come to help her to pack, and that she should not leave until Isabel accompanied her. "Come" she said, kissing her affectionately, "the sooner this painful task is over my love the better.
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I have good news for you. I have heard from Mrs. Arlington, and she says that she shall be most happy to obtain the services of any one recommended by me. The salary I find is only two hundred dollars a year, it is indeed less than I expected, but you must remember that this is your first engagement, no doubt if you remain there a year or two, you will be able to obtain a much more remunerative one."
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Next morning she arose much refreshed, and having sought divine aid and protection, she commenced to arrange for her departure. Her Father's creditors knowing him to be a man of strict integrity, and that his failure was not attributable to any want of prudence on his part, had kindly arranged that she should retain whatever she particularly wished. This was a great gratification to Isabel, tho' she was too honorable to take an undue advantage of this benevolent intention, indeed she was almost too conscientious upon this point.
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The task before her was a sad one, and although she strove very hard she could not restrain her tears as she made her selections. She was soon joined by Mrs. Arnold, who told her she had come to help her to pack, and that she should not leave until Isabel accompanied her. "Come" she said, kissing her affectionately, "the sooner this painful task is over my love the better.
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I have good news for you. I have heard from Mrs. Arlington, and she says that she shall be most happy to obtain the services of any one recommended by me. The salary I find is only two hundred dollars a year, it is indeed less than I expected, but you must remember that this is your first engagement, no doubt if you remain there a year or two, you will be able to obtain a much more remunerative one."
The fire sank low
During her Father's illness, when her time and thoughts were occupied with attending upon him, and in anxiety for his recovery she had thought and felt that the loss of property was an evil of little moment, and tried to persuade her Father not to think so much about the reverse, urging that he could get some employment, and they would still live very happily together in a cottage.
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But now that he was gone, and she had no one left to look too, her lonely and self-dependant position was felt severely, and the tears she could not restrain, fell unheeded. The fire sank low, and finally went out, and still Isabel sat thinking of the miserable prospect the future presented. At last she rose with a shudder, and rang for the tea-things to be removed, then retiring to her own room, she threw herself upon the bed in an agony of grief.
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She had remained there some time, when she felt a kind hand laid upon her shoulder, and turning her head she saw the old housekeeper, Mrs. Stewart, with a cup of hot tea. "Come my dear young lady," said she, while the tears streamed down her aged cheeks, "You must take this, it will never do for you to go without your tea."
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"I know you attach great virtue to a cup of tea" replied Isabel, "so to please you I will take it."
"Oh dear, dear," muttered the old woman as she descended the stairs, "how pale and ill she looks, and no wonder poor lamb, if she goes on like this she will be laid up. Oh, how I wish Mrs. Mornington had not gone to Europe. Poor child, poor child."
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But now that he was gone, and she had no one left to look too, her lonely and self-dependant position was felt severely, and the tears she could not restrain, fell unheeded. The fire sank low, and finally went out, and still Isabel sat thinking of the miserable prospect the future presented. At last she rose with a shudder, and rang for the tea-things to be removed, then retiring to her own room, she threw herself upon the bed in an agony of grief.
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She had remained there some time, when she felt a kind hand laid upon her shoulder, and turning her head she saw the old housekeeper, Mrs. Stewart, with a cup of hot tea. "Come my dear young lady," said she, while the tears streamed down her aged cheeks, "You must take this, it will never do for you to go without your tea."
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"I know you attach great virtue to a cup of tea" replied Isabel, "so to please you I will take it."
"Oh dear, dear," muttered the old woman as she descended the stairs, "how pale and ill she looks, and no wonder poor lamb, if she goes on like this she will be laid up. Oh, how I wish Mrs. Mornington had not gone to Europe. Poor child, poor child."
Isabel's Father had failed in business
In a spacious apartment superbly furnished, and surrounded by every luxury that could please the most fastidious taste, sat Isabel Leicester, attired in deep mourning, with her head resting upon her hand, her face almost as white as the handkerchief she held. Isabel's Father had failed in business, and the misfortune had so preyed upon his mind, that he sank under it and died.
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The funeral had taken place that day, and she was to leave the house on the day following--the house where she was born and had always lived, except when at school. The servants had all been discharged but two, who were to leave next day. A friend had offered Isabel a home until she could procure a situation as a governess, which that friend Mrs. Arnold was endeavouring to obtain for her, in the family of a lady who had been one of Mrs.
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Arnold's school-fellows. Mrs. Arnold was the widow of a clergyman, with a very limited income, and Isabel was unwilling to trespass upon the kindness of one whose means she knew to be so small. But she had no alternative at the time and trusted that it would not be long before she would be able to procure the situation she had in view, or some other. The tea remained untasted on the table, for Isabel was absorbed by the melancholy thoughts that filled her heart. She tried to feel resigned, but her pride was wounded at the idea of becoming a 'governess.' She had been the spoiled petted daughter of a wealthy merchant of the city of New York, whose chief delight had been to indulge her in every way.
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But still Mr. Leicester had been a truly good and christian man, and had taught his daughter not to set her affections on earthly things, and to remember that wealth was given to us for the benefit of others, as well as for our own enjoyment. And he was rewarded as she grew up to find that her chief aim was to do good to the many poor families whose necessities came to her knowledge. Great also was his satisfaction to find that after two seasons in New York, where she had been the Belle, she was still the same loving, unassuming, pure-minded girl she had ever been, tho' the admiration and attention her beauty and accomplishments had excited, had she been less carefully trained, might have rendered her haughty and vain.
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Arnold's school-fellows. Mrs. Arnold was the widow of a clergyman, with a very limited income, and Isabel was unwilling to trespass upon the kindness of one whose means she knew to be so small. But she had no alternative at the time and trusted that it would not be long before she would be able to procure the situation she had in view, or some other. The tea remained untasted on the table, for Isabel was absorbed by the melancholy thoughts that filled her heart. She tried to feel resigned, but her pride was wounded at the idea of becoming a 'governess.' She had been the spoiled petted daughter of a wealthy merchant of the city of New York, whose chief delight had been to indulge her in every way.
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But still Mr. Leicester had been a truly good and christian man, and had taught his daughter not to set her affections on earthly things, and to remember that wealth was given to us for the benefit of others, as well as for our own enjoyment. And he was rewarded as she grew up to find that her chief aim was to do good to the many poor families whose necessities came to her knowledge. Great also was his satisfaction to find that after two seasons in New York, where she had been the Belle, she was still the same loving, unassuming, pure-minded girl she had ever been, tho' the admiration and attention her beauty and accomplishments had excited, had she been less carefully trained, might have rendered her haughty and vain.
2012年2月14日星期二
The doctor remembered
The doctor took the nurse's chart. For a moment, he studied it in silence. He gave it back with a gesture of amazement. "God! nurse," he whispered, "she should be in her grave by now! It's a miracle! But she has always been like that--" he continued, half to himself, looking with troubled admiration toward the bed at the other end of the room--"always."
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He went slowly forward to the chair that the nurse placed for him. Seating himself quietly beside his patient, and bending forward with intense interest, his fine old head bowed, he regarded with more than professional care the wasted face upon the pillow.
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The doctor remembered, too well, when those finely moulded features--now, so worn by sorrow, so marked by sickness, so ghastly in the hue of death--were rounded with young-woman health and tinted with rare loveliness. He recalled that day when he saw her a bride. He remembered the sweet, proud dignity of her young wifehood. He saw her, again, when her face shone with the glad triumph and the holy joy of motherhood.
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The old physician turned from his patient, to look with sorrowful eyes about the room that was to witness the end.
Why was such a woman dying like this? Why was a life of such rich mental and spiritual endowments--of such wealth of true culture--coming to its close in such material poverty?
The doctor was one of the few who knew. He was one of the few who understood that, to the woman herself, it was necessary.
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He went slowly forward to the chair that the nurse placed for him. Seating himself quietly beside his patient, and bending forward with intense interest, his fine old head bowed, he regarded with more than professional care the wasted face upon the pillow.
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The doctor remembered, too well, when those finely moulded features--now, so worn by sorrow, so marked by sickness, so ghastly in the hue of death--were rounded with young-woman health and tinted with rare loveliness. He recalled that day when he saw her a bride. He remembered the sweet, proud dignity of her young wifehood. He saw her, again, when her face shone with the glad triumph and the holy joy of motherhood.
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The old physician turned from his patient, to look with sorrowful eyes about the room that was to witness the end.
Why was such a woman dying like this? Why was a life of such rich mental and spiritual endowments--of such wealth of true culture--coming to its close in such material poverty?
The doctor was one of the few who knew. He was one of the few who understood that, to the woman herself, it was necessary.
The nurse looked at her watch
A young woman in the uniform of a trained nurse turned quickly from the window. With soft, professional step, she crossed the room to bend over the bed. Her trained fingers sought the skeleton wrist; she spoke slowly, distinctly, with careful clearness; and, under the cool professionalism of her words, there was a tone of marked respect. "What is it, madam?"
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The sunken eyes opened. As a burst of sunlight through the suddenly opened doors of a sepulchre, the death-gray face was illumed. In those eyes, clear and burning, the nurse saw all that remained of a powerful personality. In their shadowy depths, she saw the last glowing embers of the vital fire gathered; carefully nursed and tended; kept alive by a will that was clinging, with almost superhuman tenacity, to a definite purpose. Dying, this woman _would_ not die--_could_ not die--until the end for which she willed to live should be accomplished. In the very grasp of Death, she was forcing Death to stay his hand--without life, she was holding Death at bay.
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"My son--my son--will come--to-day." The voice was stronger, and, with the eyes, expressed a conviction--a certainty--with the faintest shadow of a question.
The nurse looked at her watch. "The boat was due in New York, early this morning, madam."
A step sounded in the hall outside. The nurse started, and turned quickly toward the door. But the woman said, "The doctor." And, again, the fire that burned in those sunken eyes was hidden wearily under their dark lids.
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The sunken eyes opened. As a burst of sunlight through the suddenly opened doors of a sepulchre, the death-gray face was illumed. In those eyes, clear and burning, the nurse saw all that remained of a powerful personality. In their shadowy depths, she saw the last glowing embers of the vital fire gathered; carefully nursed and tended; kept alive by a will that was clinging, with almost superhuman tenacity, to a definite purpose. Dying, this woman _would_ not die--_could_ not die--until the end for which she willed to live should be accomplished. In the very grasp of Death, she was forcing Death to stay his hand--without life, she was holding Death at bay.
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It was magnificent, and the gentle face under the nurse's cap shone with appreciation and admiration as she smiled her sympathy and understanding.
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"My son--my son--will come--to-day." The voice was stronger, and, with the eyes, expressed a conviction--a certainty--with the faintest shadow of a question.
The nurse looked at her watch. "The boat was due in New York, early this morning, madam."
A step sounded in the hall outside. The nurse started, and turned quickly toward the door. But the woman said, "The doctor." And, again, the fire that burned in those sunken eyes was hidden wearily under their dark lids.
The face upon the pillow
It was winter--cold and snow and ice and naked trees and leaden clouds and stinging wind.
The house was an ancient mansion on an old street in that city of culture which has given to the history of our nation--to education, to religion, to the sciences, and to the arts--so many illustrious names.
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In the changing years, before the beginning of my story, the woman's immediate friends and associates had moved from the neighborhood to the newer and more fashionable districts of a younger generation. In that city of her father's there were few of her old companions left. There were fewer who remembered. The distinguished leaders in the world of art and letters, whose voices had been so often heard within the walls of her home, had, one by one, passed on; leaving their works and their names to their children. The children, in the greedy rush of these younger times, had too readily forgotten the woman who, to the culture and genius of a passing day, had been hostess and friend.
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The apartment was pitifully bare and empty. Ruthlessly it had been stripped of its treasures of art and its proud luxuries. But, even in its naked necessities the room managed, still, to evidence the rare intelligence and the exquisite refinement of its dying tenant.
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The face upon the pillow, so wasted by sickness, was marked by the death-gray. The eyes, deep in their hollows between the fleshless forehead and the prominent cheek-bones, were closed; the lips were livid; the nose was sharp and pinched; the colorless cheeks were sunken; but the outlines were still delicately drawn and the proportions nobly fashioned. It was, still, the face of a gentlewoman. In the ashen lips, only, was there a sign of life; and they trembled and fluttered in their effort to utter the words that an indomitable spirit gave them to speak.
The house was an ancient mansion on an old street in that city of culture which has given to the history of our nation--to education, to religion, to the sciences, and to the arts--so many illustrious names.
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In the changing years, before the beginning of my story, the woman's immediate friends and associates had moved from the neighborhood to the newer and more fashionable districts of a younger generation. In that city of her father's there were few of her old companions left. There were fewer who remembered. The distinguished leaders in the world of art and letters, whose voices had been so often heard within the walls of her home, had, one by one, passed on; leaving their works and their names to their children. The children, in the greedy rush of these younger times, had too readily forgotten the woman who, to the culture and genius of a passing day, had been hostess and friend.
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The face upon the pillow, so wasted by sickness, was marked by the death-gray. The eyes, deep in their hollows between the fleshless forehead and the prominent cheek-bones, were closed; the lips were livid; the nose was sharp and pinched; the colorless cheeks were sunken; but the outlines were still delicately drawn and the proportions nobly fashioned. It was, still, the face of a gentlewoman. In the ashen lips, only, was there a sign of life; and they trembled and fluttered in their effort to utter the words that an indomitable spirit gave them to speak.
Adam Ward's castle
In spite of that smile of mingled admiration, contempt and envy, with which the people always accompanied any mention of Adam Ward, Millsburgh took no little pride in the dominant Mill owner's achievements. In particular, was the Ward home, most pretentious of all the imposing estates on the hillside, an object of never-failing interest and conversational speculation. "Adam Ward's castle," the people called it, smiling. And no visiting stranger of any importance whatever could escape being driven past that glaring architectural monstrosity which stood so boldly on its most conspicuous hillside elevation and proclaimed so defiantly to all the world its owner's material prosperity.
But the sight-seers always viewed the "castle" and the "palatial grounds" (the Millsburgh _Clarion_, in a special Sunday article for which Adam paid, so described the place) through a strong, ornamental iron fence, with a more than ornamental gate guarded by massive stone columns. Only when the visiting strangers were of sufficient importance in the owner's eyes were they permitted to pass the conspicuous PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO ADMITTANCE sign at the entrance. As the cigar-stand philosopher explained, Adam Ward did not propose to give anything away.
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I can't thank you enough
I was giving the Hotel a bad name. Oh, Doctor, I ain't a bad girl, I ain't never been, but folks are driving me to it. That or--or--" she hesitated.
What could he say?
"It's the same everywhere I try to work," she continued in a hopeless tone. "At the canning factory the other girls said their folks wouldn't let them work there if I didn't go. I haven't been able to earn a cent since I left the Hotel. I don't know what to do,--oh, I don't know what to do!" She broke down crying.
"Look here, why didn't you come to me?" the Doctor asked roughly. "You knew you could come to me. Didn't I tell you to?"
"I--I was afraid. I'm afraid of everybody." She shivered and looked over her shoulder.
The Doctor saw that this thing had gone far enough. "Come with me," he said. "You must have something to eat."
He started to lead her across the street toward Mrs. Mulhall whom he could see at the gate watching them. But the girl hung back.
"No, no," she panted in her excitement. "Not there, I dare not go there." The Doctor hesitated.
"Well, come to my house then," he said. She went as far as the gate then she stopped again.
"I can't, Doctor. Mrs. Oldham, I can't--" The girl was right. The Doctor was never so ashamed in all his life. After a little, he said with decision, "Look here, Grace, you sit down on the porch for a few minutes. Martha is in bed and fast asleep long ago." He stole away as quietly as possible, and in a little while returned with a basket full of such provisions as he could find in the pantry. He was chuckling to himself as he thought of Martha when she discovered the theft in the morning, and cursing half aloud the thing that made it necessary for him to steal from his own pantry for the girl whom he would have taken into his home so gladly, if--
He made her eat some of the cold chicken and bread and drink a glass of milk. And when she was feeling better, walked with her down the street a little way, to be sure that she was all right.
"I can't thank you enough, Doctor," she said, "you have saved me from--"
"Don't try," he broke in. He did not want her to get on that line again. "Go on home like a good girl now, and mind you look carefully in the bottom of that basket." He had put a little bill there, the only money he had in the house. "This will help until times are better for you, and mind now, if you run against it again, come to me or go to Dr. Harry at the office, and tell him that you want me."
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He watched her down the street and then went home, stopping for a word of explanation to Deborah and Denny, who were waiting at the gate.
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The light was still burning in Dan's window when the Doctor again entered his own yard. He thought once that he would run in on the minister for a minute, and then remembered that "the boy would be tired after his great effort defending the faith of Memorial Church." It was long past the old man's bed time. He told himself that he was an old fool to be prowling about so late at night, and that he would hear from Martha all right tomorrow. Then, as he climbed into bed, he chuckled again, thinking of the empty kitchen pantry and that missing basket.
What could he say?
"It's the same everywhere I try to work," she continued in a hopeless tone. "At the canning factory the other girls said their folks wouldn't let them work there if I didn't go. I haven't been able to earn a cent since I left the Hotel. I don't know what to do,--oh, I don't know what to do!" She broke down crying.
"Look here, why didn't you come to me?" the Doctor asked roughly. "You knew you could come to me. Didn't I tell you to?"
"I--I was afraid. I'm afraid of everybody." She shivered and looked over her shoulder.
The Doctor saw that this thing had gone far enough. "Come with me," he said. "You must have something to eat."
He started to lead her across the street toward Mrs. Mulhall whom he could see at the gate watching them. But the girl hung back.
"No, no," she panted in her excitement. "Not there, I dare not go there." The Doctor hesitated.
"Well, come to my house then," he said. She went as far as the gate then she stopped again.
"I can't, Doctor. Mrs. Oldham, I can't--" The girl was right. The Doctor was never so ashamed in all his life. After a little, he said with decision, "Look here, Grace, you sit down on the porch for a few minutes. Martha is in bed and fast asleep long ago." He stole away as quietly as possible, and in a little while returned with a basket full of such provisions as he could find in the pantry. He was chuckling to himself as he thought of Martha when she discovered the theft in the morning, and cursing half aloud the thing that made it necessary for him to steal from his own pantry for the girl whom he would have taken into his home so gladly, if--
He made her eat some of the cold chicken and bread and drink a glass of milk. And when she was feeling better, walked with her down the street a little way, to be sure that she was all right.
"I can't thank you enough, Doctor," she said, "you have saved me from--"
"Don't try," he broke in. He did not want her to get on that line again. "Go on home like a good girl now, and mind you look carefully in the bottom of that basket." He had put a little bill there, the only money he had in the house. "This will help until times are better for you, and mind now, if you run against it again, come to me or go to Dr. Harry at the office, and tell him that you want me."
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The light was still burning in Dan's window when the Doctor again entered his own yard. He thought once that he would run in on the minister for a minute, and then remembered that "the boy would be tired after his great effort defending the faith of Memorial Church." It was long past the old man's bed time. He told himself that he was an old fool to be prowling about so late at night, and that he would hear from Martha all right tomorrow. Then, as he climbed into bed, he chuckled again, thinking of the empty kitchen pantry and that missing basket.
The Doctor knew the girl well
Grace Conner is a type common to every village, town and city in the land, the saddest of all sad creatures--a good girl with a bad reputation.
Her reputation Grace owed first to her father's misdeeds, for which the girl could in no way be to blame, and second, to the all-powerful Ally, without whom the making of any reputation, good or bad, is impossible.
The Doctor knew the girl well. When she was a little tot and a member of Martha's Sunday school class, she was at the house frequently. Later as a member of the church she herself was a teacher and an active worker. Then came the father's crime and conviction, followed soon by the mother's death, and the girl was left to shift for herself. She had kept herself alive by working here and there, in the canning factory and restaurants, and wherever she could. No one would give her a place in a home.
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The young people in the church, imitating their elders, shunned her, and it was not considered good policy to permit her to continue teaching in the Sunday school. No mother wanted her child to associate with a criminal's daughter; naturally she drifted away from the regular services, and soon it was publicly announced that her name had been dropped from the roll of membership. After that she never came.
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It was not long until the girl had such a name that no self respecting man or woman dared be caught recognizing her on the street.
The people always spoke of her as "that Grace Conner."
The girl, hurt so often, grew to fear everyone. She strove to avoid meeting people on the street, or meeting them, passed with downcast eyes, not daring to greet them. Barely able to earn bread to keep life within her poor body, her clothing grew shabby, her form thin and worn; and these very evidences of her goodness of character worked to accomplish her ruin. But she was a good girl through it all, a good girl with a bad reputation.
Her reputation Grace owed first to her father's misdeeds, for which the girl could in no way be to blame, and second, to the all-powerful Ally, without whom the making of any reputation, good or bad, is impossible.
The Doctor knew the girl well. When she was a little tot and a member of Martha's Sunday school class, she was at the house frequently. Later as a member of the church she herself was a teacher and an active worker. Then came the father's crime and conviction, followed soon by the mother's death, and the girl was left to shift for herself. She had kept herself alive by working here and there, in the canning factory and restaurants, and wherever she could. No one would give her a place in a home.
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The young people in the church, imitating their elders, shunned her, and it was not considered good policy to permit her to continue teaching in the Sunday school. No mother wanted her child to associate with a criminal's daughter; naturally she drifted away from the regular services, and soon it was publicly announced that her name had been dropped from the roll of membership. After that she never came.
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It was not long until the girl had such a name that no self respecting man or woman dared be caught recognizing her on the street.
The people always spoke of her as "that Grace Conner."
The girl, hurt so often, grew to fear everyone. She strove to avoid meeting people on the street, or meeting them, passed with downcast eyes, not daring to greet them. Barely able to earn bread to keep life within her poor body, her clothing grew shabby, her form thin and worn; and these very evidences of her goodness of character worked to accomplish her ruin. But she was a good girl through it all, a good girl with a bad reputation.
2012年2月13日星期一
But then the men came
So he kept his mother's trouble secret. There were times when she was calmer and clearer than others, and he took care to learn from her then how to shop and cook and keep the house clean, so that he could do it when she was confused and frightened. And he learned how to conceal himself, too, how to remain unnoticed at school, how not to attract attention from the neighbors, even when his mother was in such a state of fear and madness that she could barely speak. What Will himself feared more than anything was that the authorities would find out about her, and take her away, and put him in a home among strangers. Any difficulty was better than that. Because there came times when the darkness cleared from her mind, and she was happy again, and she laughed at her fears and blessed him for looking after her so well; and she was so full of love and sweetness then that he could think of no better companion, and wanted nothing more than to live with her alone forever.
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But he listened outside the door, and heard them ask about his father, and felt his breath come more quickly.
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He looked so fierce that neither of the men laughed, though he was so young. They could easily have knocked him down, or held him off the floor with one hand, but he was fearless, and his anger was hot and deadly.
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The last question was the only one she could help him with. John Parry had been a handsome man, a brave and clever officer in the Royal Marines, who had left the army to become an explorer and lead expeditions to remote parts of the world. Will thrilled to hear about this. No father could be more exciting than an explorer. From then on, in all his games he had an invisible companion: he and his father were together hacking through the jungle, shading their eyes to gaze out across stormy seas from the deck of their schooner, holding up a torch to decipher mysterious inscriptions in a bat-infested cave… They were the best of friends, they saved each other's life countless times, they laughed and talked together over campfires long into the night.
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His mother didn't know. But one thing she had said stuck in his mind.
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And though Will didn't know what that meant, he understood the sense of it, and felt uplifted with pride and purpose. All his games were going to come true. His father was alive, lost somewhere in the wild, and he was going to rescue him and take up his mantle… It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.
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His mother didn't know. But one thing she had said stuck in his mind.
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And though Will didn't know what that meant, he understood the sense of it, and felt uplifted with pride and purpose. All his games were going to come true. His father was alive, lost somewhere in the wild, and he was going to rescue him and take up his mantle… It was worth living a difficult life, if you had a great aim like that.
2012年2月10日星期五
I know their reasons
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2012年2月9日星期四
At this present moment
To prove your value to yourself and your world, you only had to stay alive. This had great importance in racial survival, but had very stultifying effects on individual personality. Children were turned into like-faced killers, always on the alert to deal out death. Some of the children graduated into the outside world and others took their places.
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Jason watched this process for a while before he realized that all of those from the original group he had entered with were gone. That same day he looked up the chief of the adaptation center. "Brucco," Jason asked, "how long do you plan to keep me in this kindergarten shooting gallery?" "You're not being 'kept' here," Brucco told him in his usual irritated tone. "You will be here until you qualify for the outside." "Which I have a funny feeling will be never.
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The dreams were still there
Days turned into weeks in the school, cut off from the world outside. Jason almost became proud of his ability to deal death. He recognized all the animals and plants in the nursery room and had been promoted to a trainer where the beasts made sluggish charges at him. His gun picked off the attackers with dull regularity.
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The gun was in his hand
Their stimulus had reached an unconscious level. He was aware of wanting to shoot only after he had heard the shot. His respect for Pyrran training techniques went up. Jason spent a thoroughly unpleasant afternoon wandering in the child's garden of horror. Death was everywhere. While all the time the disembodied voice gave him stern advice in simple language. So he could do unto, rather than being done in. He had never realized that violent death could come in so many repulsive forms. Everything here was deadly to man--from the smallest insect to the largest plant.
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Jason sat on it with a friendly feeling and pulled his feet up. An oasis of peace. Some minutes passed while he rested his gravity-weary body. "ROTFUNGUS--DO NOT TOUCH!" The voice blasted at twice its normal volume and Jason leaped as if he had been shot. The gun was in his hand, nosing about for a target. Only when he bent over and looked closely at the rock where he had been sitting, did he understand.
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Jason sat on it with a friendly feeling and pulled his feet up. An oasis of peace. Some minutes passed while he rested his gravity-weary body. "ROTFUNGUS--DO NOT TOUCH!" The voice blasted at twice its normal volume and Jason leaped as if he had been shot. The gun was in his hand, nosing about for a target. Only when he bent over and looked closely at the rock where he had been sitting, did he understand.
2012年2月8日星期三
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We're on schedule now
Jason could never rest content until he had been there and seen for himself. Even if he died in the attempt. None of this could be told to Kerk. There were other reasons he would understand better. "You're not thinking ahead when you prevent me from going to Pyrrus," Jason said. "I'll not mention any moral debt you owe me for winning that money you needed. But what about the next time? If you needed that much lethal goods once, you'll probably need it again some day.short wedding dresses 2012 Wouldn't it be better to have me on hand--old tried and true--than dreaming up some new and possibly unreliable scheme?" Kerk chewed pensively on the second serving of steak. "That makes sense. And I must admit I hadn't thought of it before. One failing we Pyrrans have is a lack of interest in the future. Staying alive day by day is enough trouble. So we tend to face emergencies as they arrive and let the dim future take care of itself. You can come. I hope you will still be alive when we need you. As Pyrran ambassador to a lot of places I officially invite you to our planet. All expenses paid. On the condition you obey completely all our instructions regarding your personal safety." "Conditions accepted," Jason said.cheap flower girl dresses And wondered why he was so cheerful about signing his own death warrant. Kerk was shoveling his way through his third dessert when his alarm watch gave a tiny hum. He dropped his fork instantly and stood up. "Time to go," he said. "We're on schedule now." While Jason scrambled to his feet, he jammed coins into the meter until the paid light came on.
The more he traveled
"Don't talk stupidly," Kerk said as he punched for a duplicate order of steak. "There are much simpler ways of committing suicide. Don't you realize that you're a millionaire now? With what you have in your pocket you can relax the rest of your life on the pleasure planets. Pyrrus is a death world, not a sightseeing spot for jaded tourists.corset wedding dresses I cannot permit you to return with me." Gamblers who lose their tempers don't last long. Jason was angry now. Yet it showed only in a negative way. In the lack of expression on his face and the calmness of his voice. "Don't tell me what I can or cannot do, Kerk Pyrrus. You're a big man with a fast gun--but that doesn't make you my boss. All you can do is stop me from going back on your ship.backless wedding dresses But I can easily afford to get there another way. And don't try to tell me I want to go to Pyrrus for sightseeing when you have no idea of my real reasons." Jason didn't even try to explain his reasons, they were only half realized and too personal. The more he traveled, the more things looked the same to him. The old, civilized planets sank into a drab similarity. Frontier worlds all had the crude sameness of temporary camps in a forest. Not that the galactic worlds bored him. It was just that he had found their limitations--yet had never found his own. Until he met Kerk he had acknowledged no man his superior, or even his equal. This was more than egotism. It was facing facts. Now he was forced to face the fact that there was a whole world of people who might be superior to him.
2012年2月7日星期二
The poor girl must have some amusement
If Conrad Lagrange noticed his companion's manner he passed it by. "I perceive," he said, "that you are still somewhat lacking in the rudiments of your profession. The statement of faith adhered to by modern climbers on the ladder of fame--such as I have been, and you aspire to be--is that 'Pull' wins. Our creed is 'Graft.' By 'Influence' we stand, by 'Influence' we fall.
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It pleases Mrs. Taine to be, in the world of art, a lobbyist. She knows the insides of the inside rings and cliques and committees that say what is, and what is not, art; that declare who shall be, and who shall not be, artists. She has power with those who, in their might, grant position and place in the halls of fame; as their kinsmen in the political world pass the plums to those who court their favor. The great critics who thunder anathemas at the poor devils who are outside, eat out of her hand. Jim Rutlidge and his unholy crew are at her beck and call. Jim, you see, needing all he can get of the Taine millions, hopes to marry Louise. You can scarcely blame the young and beautiful Mrs. Taine for not being interested in her husband--who is going to die so soon.
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The poor girl must have some amusement, so she interests herself in art, don't you know. She gives more dinners to artists and critics; buys more pictures and causes more pictures to be bought; mothers more art-culture clubs; discovers more new and startling geniuses; in short, has a larger and better trained company of lions than any one else in the business. She deals in lions. It's her fad to collect them--same as others collect butterflies or postage stamps. She has one other fad that is less harmful and just as deceptive--a carefully nourished reputation for prudery. I sometimes think the Gods must laugh or choke. That woman would no more speak to you without a proper introduction than she would appear on the street without shoes or stockings. She has never been seen in an evening gown. Her beautiful shoulders have never been immodestly bared to the eyes of the world."
The artist thought of that moment on the observation car platform.
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It pleases Mrs. Taine to be, in the world of art, a lobbyist. She knows the insides of the inside rings and cliques and committees that say what is, and what is not, art; that declare who shall be, and who shall not be, artists. She has power with those who, in their might, grant position and place in the halls of fame; as their kinsmen in the political world pass the plums to those who court their favor. The great critics who thunder anathemas at the poor devils who are outside, eat out of her hand. Jim Rutlidge and his unholy crew are at her beck and call. Jim, you see, needing all he can get of the Taine millions, hopes to marry Louise. You can scarcely blame the young and beautiful Mrs. Taine for not being interested in her husband--who is going to die so soon.
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The poor girl must have some amusement, so she interests herself in art, don't you know. She gives more dinners to artists and critics; buys more pictures and causes more pictures to be bought; mothers more art-culture clubs; discovers more new and startling geniuses; in short, has a larger and better trained company of lions than any one else in the business. She deals in lions. It's her fad to collect them--same as others collect butterflies or postage stamps. She has one other fad that is less harmful and just as deceptive--a carefully nourished reputation for prudery. I sometimes think the Gods must laugh or choke. That woman would no more speak to you without a proper introduction than she would appear on the street without shoes or stockings. She has never been seen in an evening gown. Her beautiful shoulders have never been immodestly bared to the eyes of the world."
The artist thought of that moment on the observation car platform.
The transaction also enabled him
The artist's exclamation drew a sarcastic chuckle from the other. "I am prepared, now, to testify to your unworldly innocence of heart and mind," he gibed. "And, pray, why not his wife? You see, she was the ward of old Rutlidge--a niece, it is said. Mrs. Rutlidge--as you have no doubt heard--killed herself. It was shortly after her death that Jim took this little one into his home. She and young Jim grew up together. What was more natural or fitting than that her guardian--when he was about to depart from this sad world where human flesh is not able to endure an unlimited amount of dissipation--should give the girl as a lively souvenir to his bosom friend and companion of his unmentionable deviltries? The transaction also enabled him, you understand, to draw upon the Taine millions; and so permitted him to finish his distinguished career with credit. You, with your artist's extravagant fancy, have, no doubt, been thinking of her as fashioned for _love_. I assure you _she_ knows better. The world in which she has been schooled has left her no hazy ideas as to what she was made for."
"I have heard of the Taines," said the younger man, thoughtfully. "I suppose this is the same family. They are very prominent in the social world, and quite generous patrons of the arts?"
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"In the eyes of the world," said the novelist, "they are the noblest of our Nobility. They dwell in the rarefied atmosphere of millions. By the dollarless multitudes they are envied. They assume to be the cultured of the cultured. Patrons of the arts! Why, man, _they have autographed copies of all my books!_ They and their kind _feed_ me and my kind. They will feed you, sir, or by God you'll starve! But you need have no fear that the crust of genius will be your portion," he added meaningly. "As I remarked--the 'Goddess' has her eye upon you."
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"And why do you so distinguish the lady?" asked the artist, quietly amused--with just a hint of well-bred condescension. "Has Mrs. Taine such powerful influence in the world of art?"
"I have heard of the Taines," said the younger man, thoughtfully. "I suppose this is the same family. They are very prominent in the social world, and quite generous patrons of the arts?"
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"In the eyes of the world," said the novelist, "they are the noblest of our Nobility. They dwell in the rarefied atmosphere of millions. By the dollarless multitudes they are envied. They assume to be the cultured of the cultured. Patrons of the arts! Why, man, _they have autographed copies of all my books!_ They and their kind _feed_ me and my kind. They will feed you, sir, or by God you'll starve! But you need have no fear that the crust of genius will be your portion," he added meaningly. "As I remarked--the 'Goddess' has her eye upon you."
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"And why do you so distinguish the lady?" asked the artist, quietly amused--with just a hint of well-bred condescension. "Has Mrs. Taine such powerful influence in the world of art?"
I have no friends
Aaron King laughed. "Thank you for your consideration," he returned, "but I do not think I am in any immediate danger."
"Which"--the other retorted dryly--"betrays either innocence, caution, or an unusual understanding of life. I am not, now, prepared to say whether you know too much or too little."
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"I confess to a degree of curiosity," said the artist. "I traveled in the same Pullman with three of the party. May I ask the names of your friends?"
The other answered in his bitterest vein; "I have no friends, Mr. King--I have only admirers. As for their names"--he continued--"there is no reason why I should withhold either who they are or what they are. Besides, I observed that the reigning 'Goddess' in the realm of 'Modern Art' has her eye upon you, already. As I shall very soon be commanded to drag you to her 'Court,' it is well for you to be prepared."
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The young man laughed as the other paused to puff vigorously at his brier pipe.
"That red-faced, bull-necked brute, is James Rutlidge, the son and heir of old Jim Rutlidge," continued the novelist. "Jim inherited a few odd millions from _his_ father, and killed himself spending them in unmentionable ways. The son is most worthily carrying out his father's mission, with bright prospects of exceeding his distinguished parent's fondest dreams. But, unfortunately, _he_ is hampered by lack of adequate capital--the bulk of the family wealth having gone with the old man."
"Do you mean James Rutlidge--the great critic?" exclaimed Aaron King, with increased interest.
"Which"--the other retorted dryly--"betrays either innocence, caution, or an unusual understanding of life. I am not, now, prepared to say whether you know too much or too little."
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"I confess to a degree of curiosity," said the artist. "I traveled in the same Pullman with three of the party. May I ask the names of your friends?"
The other answered in his bitterest vein; "I have no friends, Mr. King--I have only admirers. As for their names"--he continued--"there is no reason why I should withhold either who they are or what they are. Besides, I observed that the reigning 'Goddess' in the realm of 'Modern Art' has her eye upon you, already. As I shall very soon be commanded to drag you to her 'Court,' it is well for you to be prepared."
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The young man laughed as the other paused to puff vigorously at his brier pipe.
"That red-faced, bull-necked brute, is James Rutlidge, the son and heir of old Jim Rutlidge," continued the novelist. "Jim inherited a few odd millions from _his_ father, and killed himself spending them in unmentionable ways. The son is most worthily carrying out his father's mission, with bright prospects of exceeding his distinguished parent's fondest dreams. But, unfortunately, _he_ is hampered by lack of adequate capital--the bulk of the family wealth having gone with the old man."
"Do you mean James Rutlidge--the great critic?" exclaimed Aaron King, with increased interest.
2012年2月6日星期一
I saw several Sugar Canes
I searched for the Cassava Root, which the Indians in all that climate make their Bread of, but I could find I saw large Plants of Alloes, but did not then understand them. I saw several Sugar Canes, but wild, and for Cultivation, imperfect. I contented my self with these Discoveries for this Time, and came back musing with myself what Course I might take to know the Vertue and Goodness of any of the Fruits or Plants which I should discover; but could bring it to no Conclusion; for in short, I had made so little Observation while I wad in the Brasils, that I knew little of the Plants in the Field, at least very little that might serve me to any Purpose now in my Distress.
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The next Day, the 16th, I went up the same Way again, and after going something farther than I had gone the Day before, I found the Brook, and the Savana's began to cease, and the Country became more woody than before; in this Part I found different Fruits, and particularly I found Mellons upon the Ground in great Abundance, and Grapes upon the Trees; the Vines had spread indeed over the Trees, and the Clusters of Grapes were just now in their Prime, very ripe and rich: This was a surprising Discovery, and I was exceeding glad of them; but I was warn'd by my Experience to eat sparingly of them, remembring, that when I was ashore in Barbary, the eating of Grapes kill'd several of our English Men who were Slaves there, by throwing them into Fluxes and Feavers: But I found an excellent Use for these Grapes, and that was to cure or dry them in the Sun, and keep them as dry'd Grapes or Raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, as wholesom as agreeable to eat, when no Grapes might be to be had.
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The next Day, the 16th, I went up the same Way again, and after going something farther than I had gone the Day before, I found the Brook, and the Savana's began to cease, and the Country became more woody than before; in this Part I found different Fruits, and particularly I found Mellons upon the Ground in great Abundance, and Grapes upon the Trees; the Vines had spread indeed over the Trees, and the Clusters of Grapes were just now in their Prime, very ripe and rich: This was a surprising Discovery, and I was exceeding glad of them; but I was warn'd by my Experience to eat sparingly of them, remembring, that when I was ashore in Barbary, the eating of Grapes kill'd several of our English Men who were Slaves there, by throwing them into Fluxes and Feavers: But I found an excellent Use for these Grapes, and that was to cure or dry them in the Sun, and keep them as dry'd Grapes or Raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, as wholesom as agreeable to eat, when no Grapes might be to be had.
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I brought my Rafts on Shore
I learn'd from it also this in particular, that being abroad the rainy Season was the most pernicious thing to my Health that could be, especially in those Rains which came ended with Storms and Hurricanes of Wind; for as the in which came in the dry Season was always most accompany'd with such Storms, so I found that Rain was much more dangerous than the Rain which fell in September and October.
I had been now in this unhappy Island above 10 Months, all Possibility of Deliverance from this Condition, seem'd to be entirely taken from me; and I firmly believed, that no humane Shape had ever set Foot upon that Place: Having now secur'd my Habitation, as I thought, fully to my Mind, I had a great Desire to make a more perfect Discovery of the Island, and to see what other Productions I might find, which I yet knew nothing of.
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It was the 15th of July that I began to take a more particular Survey of the Island it self: I went up the Creek first, where, as I hinted, I brought my Rafts on Shore; I found after I came about two Miles up, that the Tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little Brook of running Water, and very fresh and good; but this being the dry Season, there was hardly any Water in some Parts of it, at least, not enough to run in any Stream, so as it could be perceiv'd.
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On the Bank of this Brook I found many pleasant Savana's, or Meadows; plain, smooth, and cover'd with Grass; and on the rising Parts of them next to the higher Grounds, where the Water, as it might be supposed, never overflow'd I found a great deal of Tobacco, green, and growing to great and very strong Stalk; there were divers other Plants which I had no Notion of, or Understanding about, and might perhaps have Vertues of their own, which I could find out.
I had been now in this unhappy Island above 10 Months, all Possibility of Deliverance from this Condition, seem'd to be entirely taken from me; and I firmly believed, that no humane Shape had ever set Foot upon that Place: Having now secur'd my Habitation, as I thought, fully to my Mind, I had a great Desire to make a more perfect Discovery of the Island, and to see what other Productions I might find, which I yet knew nothing of.
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It was the 15th of July that I began to take a more particular Survey of the Island it self: I went up the Creek first, where, as I hinted, I brought my Rafts on Shore; I found after I came about two Miles up, that the Tide did not flow any higher, and that it was no more than a little Brook of running Water, and very fresh and good; but this being the dry Season, there was hardly any Water in some Parts of it, at least, not enough to run in any Stream, so as it could be perceiv'd.
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On the Bank of this Brook I found many pleasant Savana's, or Meadows; plain, smooth, and cover'd with Grass; and on the rising Parts of them next to the higher Grounds, where the Water, as it might be supposed, never overflow'd I found a great deal of Tobacco, green, and growing to great and very strong Stalk; there were divers other Plants which I had no Notion of, or Understanding about, and might perhaps have Vertues of their own, which I could find out.
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