Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66700.76I had a small silk handkerchief tied round my throat; I had my gloves.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65280.74The other articles I made up in a parcel; my purse, containing twenty shillings (it was all I had), I put in my pocket: I tied on my straw bonnet, pinned my shawl, took the parcel and my slippers, which I would not put on yet, and stole from my room.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39230.65My slippers were thin: I could walk the matted floor as softly as a cat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14690.64The box was corded, the card nailed on.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36120.60I gave her a shilling: she put it into an old stocking-foot which she took out of her pocket, and having tied it round and returned it, she told me to hold out my hand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40590.58Here, Carter, help him on with his waist-coat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65250.55I knew where to find in my drawers some linen, a locket, a ring.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51960.55Now you are small -- not one whit bigger than the end of my little finger.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37360.55"Only take off the red cloak, sir, and then -- " "But the string is in a knot -- help me."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36140.55She arched her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64710.54"I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39660.54Mr. Rochester put the now bloody sponge into my hand, and I proceeded to use it as he had done.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_59350.53At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39540.52Mr. Rochester opened the shirt of the wounded man, whose arm and shoulder were bandaged: he sponged away blood, trickling fast down.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48990.49"Because," he said, "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you -- especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14360.49She peered at me over her spectacles, and then she opened a drawer and fumbled among its contents for a long time, so long that my hopes began to falter.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70850.49The traces of the bog were removed from it; the creases left by the wet smoothed out: it was quite decent.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40190.49"I can do that conscientiously," said Carter, who had now undone the bandages; "only I wish I could have got here sooner: he would not have bled so much -- but how is this?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33500.49As he moved, a chain clanked; to his wrists were attached fetters.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_23180.49"Of my final re-transformation from India-rubber back to flesh?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_98000.48I had a gold watch-chain: I answered "Yes."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43190.48I drew out my purse; a meagre thing it was.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53160.48And her clothes, they will wear out: how can she get new ones?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19470.48"You have not an umbrella that I can use as a stick?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81080.47Circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into order: the chain that had been lying hitherto a formless lump of links was drawn out straight, -- every ring was perfect, the connection complete.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15950.45She conducted me to her own chair, and then began to remove my shawl and untie my bonnet-strings; I begged she would not give herself so much trouble.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66770.44I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44630.44I looked into a certain corner near, half-expecting to see the slim outline of a once dreaded switch which used to lurk there, waiting to leap out imp-like and lace my quivering palm or shrinking neck.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54720.43The cards of address alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, in the drawer.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15980.43And she produced from her pocket a most housewifely bunch of keys, and delivered them to the servant.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14860.43By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1050.43Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14330.43My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker's to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70380.43Ere long, with the servant's aid, I contrived to mount a staircase; my dripping clothes were removed; soon a warm, dry bed received me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8850.42"Burns, you poke your chin most unpleasantly; draw it in."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70830.42On a chair by the bedside were all my own things, clean and dry.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1080.42In guarantee whereof, I attached myself to my seat by my hands.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4350.39I was spared the trouble of answering, for Bessie seemed in too great a hurry to listen to explanations; she hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel; disciplined my head with a bristly brush, denuded me of my pinafore, and then hurrying me to the top of the stairs, bid me go down directly, as I was wanted in the breakfast-room.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_95130.39"His appearance, -- I forget what description you gave of his appearance; -- a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71830.38"You should have waited for my leave to descend," she said.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53610.38He chuckled; he rubbed his hands.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31800.38"I did not pick her up; she was left on my hands."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15280.38"And you can work on muslin and canvas?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10300.38I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40500.38Jane" (he turned to me for the first time since his re-entrance), "take this key: go down into my bedroom, and walk straight forward into my dressing-room: open the top drawer of the wardrobe and take out a clean shirt and neck-handkerchief: bring them here; and be nimble."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27670.38She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded her needle with a steady hand, and then observed, with perfect composure - "It is hardly likely master would laugh, I should think, Miss, when he was in such danger: You must have been dreaming."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40060.38"Now, Carter, be on the alert," he said to this last: "I give you but half-an-hour for dressing the wound, fastening the bandages, getting the patient downstairs and all."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9980.37Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there: our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet: I remember well the distracting irritation I endured from this cause every evening, when my feet inflamed; and the torture of thrusting the swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70870.36There were the means of washing in the room, and a comb and brush to smooth my hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55220.36Step on my boot-toe; give me both hands: mount!"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35580.65They together extricated the chest, and turned the large key, which was yet sticking in the lock.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21430.64he touched the roll of linen that she had in her arms.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9250.61a red dress and yellow shoes like a rope-dancer!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34490.59She carefully lifted the cover—a thick book, bound rather coarsely in leather, met her eyes,—the still‘ leaves were gaping open, and the corners of the covers Were bent and worn with age.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12090.57He made a terrible wry face, for I had nailed the things up to last there forever, and he had to tug and pull hard enough.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2680.55Papa always brings her great boxes full of them."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7290.54Felicitas put up her hands to her neck—it was gone; it must have been left in the grave-yard!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43600.49Since that time, among the coarse, gray, and white balls in her knitting-basket, a small pink piece of knitting has lain concealed, upon which Madame works often in secret.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25670.49The secret depository in the cabinet contained not the silver only—in one corner was a little gray pasteboard box.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29300.49"I remember old Hirschsprung very we11,——he was a shoemaker—- he made my first pair of boots.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1800.49Some one outside was rubbing his feet long and carefully upon the mat_—that was her husband.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16860.49She now quietly went on with her work, putting the papers most carefully away in the portfolios.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12280.49"Come here, my child,-—the poor little legs are not strong enough yet to walk easily," he said.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22110.48This reproof cut like a two-edged sword,—for it was just.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19050.48They Were the remains of a lace pocket handkerchief.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32690.46She leaned back In her chair as though stiffened into stone, and the stocking that she was knitting fell from her hands, and the white ball of yarn rolled into the middle of the room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36540.44She let go the lightning-rod for a moment and put back her hair which the storm had blown about her face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19040.44Rosa now entered it, and returned immediatelywith a small bundle of white tags in her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21030.43Before I knew what I was doing I had it rolled up undermy arm, and this piece of exquisitely fine linen besides.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_290.43The earth stuck in great clods to their hunting-boots, and every now and then a foot put forward with unwary confidence would splash into some deep puddle, sending the dirty water like a fountain over the coats and faces of the three wretched Wanderers.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8820.42The old lady put her hands before her eyes with horror.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14480.42The Professor produced his cigar-case and handed it to him. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24390.41The large white hands thrust them back again impaticntly—what interest could all that ‘trash’ have for Madame ?—-—she was not curious.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7790.39The former had gone an hour before, without saying a word, to the grave-yard and brought home the unfortunate shawl, which was now lying neatly brushed and folded in the drawer. '
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7000.39The grass and earth in the grave-yard had been wet with dew, and when she threw herself down beside her dead mother she had not thought of the traces which must be left upon her black dress .
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21080.39She had a large bundle under her shawl, and made an almost reverential curtsy as she approached the Professor. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1780.39Frau Hellwig laid the stocking she was knitting in a basket at her side, and arose.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4930.38And that man was still hammering at the cover, so that the hand within could never lift it, never leave that dark, narrow box, where no one could breathe, and where it must be so dreadful to be all alone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26890.38said the young widow peevishly, and pouting visibly as she drew together with a needle and thread a rent in the unfortunate dress.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15180.33Oddly enough it was in every respect exactly similar to the one lying in the old Maiu’selle’s secret drawer, except that it was much smaller—indeed it was rather tight for the young widow’s wrist.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24940.32With increased energy and a singular look upon her countenance, she cut and tore at the leaves, thrusting them all into the hottest part of the fire.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15900.31Felieitas hastily put up her hands to her head; she was conscious of having arranged her hair with great care,—but the comb, which could never be made to sit firmly among the rebellious waves, had slipped out,—it was probably lying at the bottom of the brook.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11580.30She did not continue the conversation, but took up needle and thread, and both sewer‘ until twilight, when a most comfortable bundle was ready for the poor Thiencmanns.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_130.29" I am," said the voice of Hellwig, not very far oil‘, as he crept about on the sodden ground searching for his hat.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24770.28Madame stood be- side him and took care that not a scrap was left behind; she herself did not touch a single sheet—it almost seemed as if she were afraid they would burn her fingers.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16280.28She had a considerable burn upon her arm which was smarting most severely.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8020.27The dust which fell upon your head was historic,—it had bad part centuries ago in the framework of some balcony or in the then fresh plaster, while the blue blood was still coursing through living veins.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21310.24Iler idea about the bird was stupid enough to be sure——its shrill piping would lll accord with my quiet house, but if I had had my way the woman should have left the linen here—a good piece of linen is not to be thrown away in that style, let me tell you."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9290.24IIe put his hands in his pockets, shrugged his shoulders, and planted himself upon the threshold of the door more sturdily than before.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26990.24She had already retu‘°ned to the chestnut-tree, and was sewing diligently ir the hope that she might escape notice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21160.24As she said the last words the woman opened her shawl, and disclosed a large bird-cage and a roll of linen.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27530.24Do you think I shall be pleased if the biscuit are overbaked ?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25490.24After nine years, Felici-.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18570.24her Swedish gloves.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9140.22at It at all i an as at Two days afterward a carriage drew up before the Hell wig mansion.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21260.22He‘ gave her his hand, and pulled the shawl over the objects of her unfortunate expedition.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6420.19There she lies, over there in the corner by the church."

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6420.76I threw my arms around him, and pressed my face against the sleeve of his shabby coat. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44360.75She threw her broken umbrella into a corner, and her dripping shawl upon a sofa, while she dried her face and hair with her handkerchief.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3490.73Heinz pushed his hat on one side, and scratched his ear.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19030.71She inserted a paper-cutter, which lay upon the table, between the remainder of the lid and the box, and lifted the former.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4810.71She put down her knife and looked over her shoulder at the old servant, who was winding diligently away at her huge ball of rope.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12690.71Keep them nice 1" And a quantity of stiff woollen stockings took up con* siderable room in the trunk.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51440.70Mainau inserted the thick blade of his pocket-knife beneath the thin cover, which, as he attempted thus to lift it, broke.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23090.69He took out the key and dropped it into the pocket of his dressing-gown. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19400.69She lifted the cover of the basket she had with her and took out a roll of linen.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18420.69he asked, taking out his pocket-handkerchief to wrap it about his wounded hand.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12580.69She drew a little box from her pocket, and lifted the cover.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24750.68The crown-prince got upon a chair, took the horn from its nail, and examined its contents ; it was quite full.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29590.68Such elegant articles will never even get as far as the wash- tub ; the first walk taken in them will fit them for the rag- bag.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18670.68Use carried the tin box, with my grandmother's papers, beneath her black shawl.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13890.68My hat was no longer pulled firmly down upon my head, I threw it high into the air. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14620.68You had better take off your shoes and stockings, too 1" She put the ruffle around my neck, smoothed my hair with her hands, and tied on my hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12710.68Colossal feather-beds were tied up into as small a compass as possible, and sewed in bagging, a huge piece of luggage.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27810.68She untied the knot beneath her chin and pushed back the kerchief completely; then, without looking up, she took hold of his wounded hand. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_200.66She threw back her cape, and with her left hand settled the comb more firmly in the thick braids of hair at the back of her head, while she drew the handkerchief which was tied beneath her chin over her ears.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15560.65And, as she said this, she nodded energetically, and angrily thrust the horn comb deeper into her knot of gray hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17860.65She carefully removed all the dust, turned the key twice in the lock of the door, and replaced the wardrobe in its old spot.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2940.65With a pair of scissors she quickly cut open its en- velope.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49120.65He felt in his waist- coat pockets, and in the side pockets of his coat. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7890.65She put her hand in her pocket, took thence a biscuit, and held it to the man’s mouth. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22530.65She put down a large basket that she was carrying, and wiped the perspiration from her face. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45080.64She drew them out from beneath a paper- weight. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21910.64I finished the last stroke, and pushed the paper towards him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4420.64He drew off his glove and held out to her his right palm.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26810.64she said, with one hand resting upon her stout hip. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_170.64Two sunburnt hands were care* fully and firmly holding the coarse black woollen petti- coats around the knees, while the upper part of the body was bent forward curiously.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_830.63A. tin kettle and a willow basket con- taining bread hung upon his right arm; a bunch of tallow candles dangled from one of the buttons of his coat in front, and the glass stopper of a flask of rum and the end of a plump paper package peeped from one of his breast pockets.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16900.63We don't need their bedding," said Use, dragging across the threshold, in her strong, bare arms, the gigan- tic bundle, sewed in bagging, that we had brought with us. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18760.62He slowly put his hand into his breast-pocket and drew forth a small jewel-box.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51660.62Carefully, and with a meaning smile, he handed me a white paper parcel loosely folded.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_990.62And she walked on quickly, carrying herself straight as a fir, balancing the bundle of grass upon her head, and looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_490.62She came up to him without a word, but just as he was about to touch her he saw her quietly take a ' handful of grass from her bundle and place it between her shoulder and his arm.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15870.62She saw the trembling taper fingers take up a penknife and cut off the tip of the cigar which had just been selected from the box.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18670.61I cannot tell to what clumsy hand the little box was consigned ; enough, it was handed to me broken."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12650.61There, let us shut the box carefully, and put it back in my pocket."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31750.61The doctor took a stone and hammered the link of the chain farther upon the hook.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15810.61To do otherwise would be to place the murderous knife in a small and inconsiderate hand."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1750.59He carefully picked up one of the fragments with the tips of the fingers of his right hand, pushed his spectacles up upon his forehead, and examined the broken edges of' the clay.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18680.59He drew from under his chair the small box, from which a piece of the cover hung down loosely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45680.59She wiped the moisture from the table with her hand- kerchief and replaced the disordered papers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2410.59"They all tolerate you, going about everywhere with a pen behind your ear, your pockets crammed with bookish stuff, and——" "Henriette!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20590.59"’Tis nothing; and the judge never gives more for—well, for a box on the ear, or a couple of scars on the face.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50510.58Your hair is dripping wet.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6040.58And he put his hand on his chest. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19280.58He took hold of her dress, and tried to pull her on.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21150.57She laid her large, hard hand Upon the tin box as if to guard its contents from all un- advised invasion. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19940.57He had drawn gray linen sleeves over his arms, and was busy sorting a mass of little paper packages.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_930.57"My hand is hard," she replied, forbiddingly ; the arm upon which the net hung was actually lost in the folds of her apron.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14300.56I looked down at my shoes, as they sprawled their clumsy proportions upon the gravel, and then I pulled at the skirt of my black dress, to lengthen it, if I might, by even a fraction of an inch.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2680.56He carefully picked up the rest of the pearls from my hand ; and then I saw the gentleman in the brown hat draw out of his pocket a glittering object, that clinked as he held it " Here, my child," he said, putting five large, round, glittering pieces into my hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18030.55That jointed doll of a man who plays with little hoops ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26540.55she said, hurriedly, indicating his bandaged hand, as he turned to leave her. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47010.55and will you dress your own hair while Caroline washes and irons?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6500.55She took out her handkerchief, laid the dove in it, and tied it up by the four corners.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7260.55She had taken off her tipper garment; her wide linen sleeves hung gleaming white from her shoulders, and her half-unbraided hair was streaming down her back.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34740.55Meanwhile Ferber, after brushing the dust from the mandolin, took it carefully under his arm, while Reinhard closed the jewel-box and lifted it from the table by the exquisitely wrought handle on the lid.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34530.54No, she would replace it uninjured; and Mainau had asked his uncle for the roll of papers that she might examine this particular one.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12480.54shrieked the Minister, "you would strip me to the skin 1" He put both hands to his head.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_720.54Half turning, she showed him that she carried a net with a trout in it on her right arm. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31670.54she said, shaking her finger at him, and then picking up her skirt to examine the injury it had sustained.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5610.53ho muttered through his teeth, that were holding the eternal pipe, and standing stiff and clumsy before me. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19180.53just as he was about to throw a large piece of silver into the hat, his uncle stayed his lavish hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17940.53"Perhaps," she said, laconically, passing her slender fingers as she spoke along the blade of the sickle as if brushing away some stain.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49220.53I give you back your troth, but only as one might let loose a bird tied fast by a string that has one end wound around one’s finger."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12550.52And she sewed the second sleeve into the black gown with renewed diligence; but Heinz dropped his extin- guished pipe into his pocket and slipped away.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46280.52A maid followed her, bearing a huge bundle of linen upon her head, and a basket upon her arm, containing bandages, provisions, and all manner of necessary articles.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10160.52I unfastened the gate for the ducks, and picked up the ball of paper ; it looked forlorn enough, the dirty chaise-wheel had passed over it, and the duck's bill had half torn it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11330.51Whilst he had been sitting beside the bed he had not, to his vexation, been able to forget how the ‘prude’ had pulled down the linen sleeves over her bare arms as though they suffered a soil from exposure to a man’s gaze, and yet an instant afterwards she had been ready to put those same arms about a young beggar-man.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1600.49One of them who wore spectacles, and had a long tin box slung upon his back, crept into the opening, and the young man followed him, while the third, a tall, slender man, exam* ined the inner side of the stone that had just been rolled away.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1140.49She was carefully holding up the skirt of her brown gown, muttering in evident displeasure as she did so, for the dust lay thick upon the stairs, which had been ignorant of broom or brush during all these last days of hustle and confusion.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26420.49The child clapped her hands and began to dig and pull as if she meant to carry home in her wagon half the soil of Herr Claudius's forest. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_790.49you are saucy, child," he laughed; and, putting up the silk pocket-handkerchief with which he had dusted the powdered fir-bark from his lately imprisoned foot, he was at her side in an instant. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29030.49The Frau President stood by the table, her white, wrinkled fingers playing nervously upon its surface, her eyes fixed anxiously upon her grandchild.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16020.49Hastily putting his handkerchief, which lay beside him, into his pocket, and thrusting after it his vinaigrette and bottles of essences, he said, " Pardon me ; it is time for me to retire.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4510.4933 my hat and flung it high into the air, and stripped off the close, uncomfortable jacket, without which Fraulein Streit would never let me leave the house.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32940.49Then he took out a thick roll of papers tied with a black riband and handed it to Mainau, who instantly untied it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17580.49The young wife was still standing beside her work-basket, unconsciously busy with the skeins of gay worsted.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3630.49They said good-night to Heinz, and went their way, whilst my old friend deposited the unfortunate shoes in his huge pockets.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30270.49Without wasting a word more upon the subject, my father wrapped the gold piece in paper again and put it in his pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5100.49"Partly, yes," she assented, pulling her straw hat down farther over her eyes; the hand with which she did it was delicate and shapely, although very brown. '
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43520.49They had to tear down the ’worthless trash’ they had put up, because in two dark corners they had substituted woollen for silken damask.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13600.49He put his hand into his pocket, drew thence a heavy purse of gold, and poured out its contents upon the table.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2740.49The young girl had just taken some orchids carefully out of a tin box preparatory to pressing them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25950.49Her large hands trembled with agitation as she dipped a strip of linen in the water.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14030.49The old man turned towards his nephew, who was softly drumming with his finger-tips upon the panes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19890.49The bandaging was finished; she gently dropped his hand and went to the table to roll up her linen again. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19760.49She bit her lip, and used her needle quickly and skilfully, although now and then her slender fingers trembled.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44150.49With a shiver, she drew her thin shawl close about her, and tied a handkerchief around her throat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9300.49A rusty key was sticking in the lock THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20190.49the wound has been sewn up,—most artistically sewn up,—and I should like to see any one who could find fault with that bandaging."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19840.49Did she wear upon her breast an amulet or some dear memento never to be laid aside?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18800.49Her old linen was put away, and Where the arnica Was she could not rightly recollect at the moment.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26020.49I would clap you into a green hunting-coat in spite of all that your father could say."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29930.49"A grand piano would be a clumsy piece of luggage to carry about with me."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50790.48She held out her hand and drew me down beside her on the sofa. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4200.48Heinz and Use were the children of a broom-maker.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37110.48Tell us about it, my child," she said, as she took off my hat and readjusted my dress. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16540.48I could not help laughing to myself; but a load seemed lifted from my breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12760.48"It would be hard to find such stitching and such Holes," said she. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17770.48You were the most willing tool that ever stood ready to my hand!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20600.48Iwas always the same little round button that I am now; my Peter liked me as I was.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19370.48Why was I so clumsy as to go too near the haughty wielder of the sickle?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36490.48The baroness put both hands to her ears.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21010.48The work dropped from the baroness’ fingers.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52440.481 knew where the shoe pinched.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48570.48I know where you wish to apply the screw.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30690.48Oh, and the shoes, you really must see the shoes !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22020.48Well, as you please, I wash my hands of it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1940.48And he took up a dagger or knife.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11960.48hat and gloves are gone.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20400.48Where would be the use of putting a rope here?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15160.48"Oh, let that miserable work alone!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12030.47I held in my lap the huge round brown straw hat that Use, about five years before, had procured from the city for me, and I was busy, at her bidding, in stripping from it the pink ribbons that had been the delight of my eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2600.46Those are not to be stolen after that fashion," she suddenly interrupted herself, leaning hastily far over the table and snatching at the rose, which Herbert, apparently still abstractedly, was just thrusting into his breast-pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59030.46You are wonderfully lovely, little Bare- foot ; a few short months have made a perfect siren of the slender lizard with the Princess's crown, but what has become of the lizard's wisdom?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40410.46Herr von Walde unfolded his arms, and drummed with such force upon the window-pane with the fingers of his left hand, that Helene thought the glass would be broken.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12880.46After I had swallowed my coffee, well diluted with tears, Use produced a bandbox, from which she took, with great solemnity and with the tips of her fingers, a purple silk bonnet. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7400.46The child, after she had crammed her mouth and pockets full, left her seat, and, pushing aside the hand which her governess held out to her, ran out of the room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_960.45Age, too, seemed to bring no immunity here ; even the pursy, asthmatic old Oberhofmeister waddled about among the crowd of children clapping his hands.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24770.45around for a match , there upon the table lay the remnant of a thin wax taper, and a box of lucifers "These will do," he said, and put them all in his pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21800.45It looks as if a splinter of the surface had been broken off, but, examined under a magnify- ing-glass, it proves to be an exquisitely-cut head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16870.45He left the room, and Use said, with an air of satisfac- tion, as she rolled up her jacket-sleeves above her elbows, " Now affairs will take care of themselves."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4480.45You are laughing at me, Herr von Oliveira," she said, dropping his hand and putting the pistol back into her girdle; "but I will explain What I have said.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6510.45"I will carry this little sufferer to Henriette," she said, holding the handkerchief carefully like a basket,—it looked like a scantily filled traveller’s bundle.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38830.45I am to take those children’s dirty fingers in mine and patiently initiate them stitch by stitch into the mysteries of knitting and netting.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8400.44Old Heinemann Was working away at his rosebushes, stripping them of their winter coverings and tying them to green rods.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3420.44Well, what a child 1 She's left her shoes here I Per fectly new shoes 1" cried Heinz, shaking his head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14140.44Good gracious, Lenore I what are you pulling at my skirts for, and hanging back like a small child ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30450.44But when at last the maid drew forth, from the bottom of the basket, an exquisitely small pair of black satin boots, and held them up before my eyes with a smile, Use left the room without a word.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30050.43Go, my boy, and put your arms around mamma's neck, see, I dare not go any farther with THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11040.43The invalid opened wide a pair of horror-stricken eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3620.43Then he quietly clapped his hands to remove any particles of dust from his gloves.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30710.43"No more of that horrid 'clump, clump,' that my old hob-nailed shoes made.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22980.43Oh, heavens, in that case how I would shake the dust from my feet I We were orphaned when we were very young.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12630.43she said, holding towards me a bundle of coarse, gaily checked bed-coverings. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35140.43for here it is," and she turned the ring about on her finger, "after having really been upon the point of leaving me of its own accord——" "Because it is too large for you.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20330.43She drew nearer, and her small, sharp eyes gleamed with a cat-like cruelty.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20740.43Ho arose, and, stretching his meagre limbs with an irrepressible groan, went to the mirror, arranged his cravat, drenched his handkerchief with millefleurs, and sprinkled his coat and waist- coat with the fragrant essence ; then, taking his hat in his hand, he hobbled to the door.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27320.43She put on a white dressing-gown, and, as she had a racking head- ache, her maid loosened and unbraided her heavy hair, that always brought her relief.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41740.43255 She brushed back my hair, smoothed out my sadly crumpled dress, and put so firm and determined an arm around my waist that I soon found myself upon the way to the other house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36450.43His back turned to Herr Claudius, he sat, balancing a teaspoon upon his forefinger in evident embarrassment, looking as if he longed to escape the tempest rolling over him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_860.43"But, Elsbeth," said her mother, with the tears in her eyes, as she drew her down to kiss her, "Ernst’s last year’s cap is still quite respectable, and you needed a pair of warm winter gloves much more."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5960.43What did they care that the wood-cutter, his holiday clothes and face all laid aside, tramped past them in his heavy boots, whistling some rude melody!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19040.43Then she hurriedly took out some sheets of blotting-papei containing dried plants, then a flat object wrapped in silver paper, apparently a picture, then turned the box upside down and tapped the bottom of it lightly with her finger-tips. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9350.42He looked cautiously around him, and then ran directly to the wire fence.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36490.42he said, propping him aclf upon his crutch-handled cane. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31790.42he asked, with forced composure, drumming with his fingers upon the table. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12120.42They know well enough that the hunting-whip hangs on the wall, now that I cannot walk.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4550.42And she cut them away with a snipping of scissors that was music to my ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16500.42my father replied, running his hands through his hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2580.42He threw his cloak over his shoulders, and seized his lantern. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27900.42" Mine is not, at least," she said, skilfully rolling a fresh bandage.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27000.42dancing with half Hirschwinkel on the soles of your boots!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20970.42If you knew anything about picking and pilfering, you’d have better clothes on your back.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43620.41'* Upon her breast, the gentle rise and fall of which was now hardly to be discerned, lay the strings of golden coins, and her left hand clasped the amulet, hanging by a golden chain around her neck.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33320.41The Hofmarschall was no whit abashed ; he was raging, as was plainly to be seen in the quiver of his pointed chin, and the way in which his white fingers clutched the crimson silk pocket-handkerchief lying upon his lap. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26460.41He grew timorous and gloomy, and there were two people who knew well how to contrive that he never should recover, the man with the shaven crown, and that other who was wheeled away just now.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_450.41This giant would show a clean pair of heels at any white sheet fluttering in the twilight, and this was my delight.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1470.41Heinz, without a word, took the corpus delicti from his mouth and held it loosely by his side, he was greatly ashamed.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9400.41A black slouched hat was pulled down over his face, and his summer coat had been exchanged for a light cloak.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34730.41"I will take these to Elsie," he said, smiling, holding them carefully between his forefinger and thumb, "she will be surprised to find what a Liliputian her ancestress was."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26900.41My assistants,—they are not half good enough for her; she never would have a word to say to them; it cannot be the rogue Linke, with his crooked legs and carroty wig, and there is no one else here."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51690.40This is his thanks for my unwearied care of him, my * sleepless nights 1" the Hofmarschall said ; and, as he arose, his features twitched nervously, whilst Mainau put the paper into his breast-pocket. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31180.40Mainau threw his hat upon the grass, and ran his fingers through his thick brown curls ; the forced smile with which he greeted the forester's wife was anything but grateful.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27140.40She fairly shuddered as she saw there the " sallow skeleton of a man/' who sat in full-dress suit at the table, nervously drumming upon it with his lean white fingers.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3730.40Within lay a square shawl neatly folded, and beside it a large green satin knitting-bag, from the mouth of which there stuck out some dried stems of plants.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2060.39There he stood, wise head, nodding over at me with infinite slyness, as he said, with bis hand hollowed at one side of his mouth, " Aha, little Princess, they are talking of " " Hush, Heinz I "I turned angrily upon him for the first time in my life, and for the first time, also, I stamped my foot.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1150.39Her round, broad-brimmed straw hat had fallen back from her head, and, held only by the ribbon-strings around her neck, formed an aureole behind the dark curls that Were floating on the Wind.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16870.39He had put on a white cravat with great despatch, and welcomed the master of the house at the foot of the grand staircase in a speech full of unction."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6330.39Involuntarily he brushed off his fingers with his pocket-handkerchief after thus getting rid of the obnoxious documents.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3380.39But the clumsy thing that the stranger held up, with a laugh, was of the stoutest calf-skin.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16080.39The doctor explained to me that the little pieces of printed paper must be cut off and given up when you want the interest upon them."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12090.39Soon afterwards a domino approached the Countess Voldern and slipped into her hand this piece of paper.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18000.39The girl dropped the hand that held the sickle, but she ‘certainly had no idea of throwing the implement aside. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28770.39Did not you see, Hollfeld, how very nearly that false front of hers slipped down upon her nose when she was waggling her head in such agitation?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_740.39As he did so, a heavy body fell upon him from behind, and hard, coarse fingers clutched his throat.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33060.39Moritz, they tore the clothes from her back and pulled down her hair——" "This beautiful hair!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29030.38Besides, think in what hands you leave your boy.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2350.38I'll cut her with my whip when she comes."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16040.38We cannot make ourselves stronger and rougher than we are.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9620.38She kissed him and took up her basket of keys. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3590.38What would Use sayf Perfectly new shoes."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3230.38Now go, child, and get your shoes and stockings.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17750.38I put out my head for one moment.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12750.38She took off one of my shoes and held it towards the light.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15000.38She held out her hand to him without hesitation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23620.38he whispered, plucking at his sleeve. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21310.38Really, nine coins on one chain, and all alike?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11740.38He would not have touched a cigar for the world. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19670.38She is just in a condition to stick that knife into you."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45590.38Where were the sheets of iron that had imprisoned them?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24410.38"As sure as that the needle seeks the pole."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2060.38It cuts me to the heart like a knife.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_360.38His spare figure was wrapped in a military cloak, he had secured his cap upon his head by a pockethandkerchief tied beneath his chin, and a broad stream of light fell upon the path before him from the stablelantern which he carried in his left hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12180.38A field-guard, all in tatters, but with his brass scutcheon of office, had appre- hended them, and bore witness to their depredations in the plan- tations, grasping the boy by the shoulder the while.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21920.38Here have I made coffee in all this heat, and burrowed in the cellar for seltzer-water, and cut up a sheet that I spun myself and that was not really Worn out,—that’s the Worst of all,—and hunted in every box and cupboard for the arnica,— all this for nothing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_680.38He glanced rapidly over the paper, which in his former natural haste and agitation he had put carelessly into one of the neatly-arranged pigeon-holes: it was an inventory of the miller’s entire possessions.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35440.38"I can’t see why not, ’tis a beautiful coat of arms, with chevrons, stars——" "And a wheel covered with blood," interrupted Elizabeth.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31610.38Kitty ran to the rescue; she seized him by the collar just as he had torn a mouthful of feathers out of the tail of his unhappy victim.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17710.37Her white hat, which she had decked with flowers, had slipped from her dark braids, and was hanging upon her neck by its loose red strings, which, as her motions grew still more earnest, became wholly untied, and the hat fell on the ground without the knowledge of its owner.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19160.37We passed them, but no one noticed us, for a tall, mus- cular man, with a wallet upon his back, had entered th# yard with the carriage, and now held out his hat to beg.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13330.37he suddenly interrupted himself, and, tearing his cap from his bald head, he threw it through the open kitchen-door at a cat, that had jumped upon the table to appropriate one of the pigeons.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20430.37Suddenly, Flora, as in obedience to a momentary impulse, took from her pocket her porte-monnaie, opened it, and scattered its contents, gold and silver, upon the ground.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10650.36She took from her pocket the choco- late bonbons and laid them on the table. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60240.36As far as I am able to dis- cover, there are no bones broken," said Herr Claudius.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2970.36I left my stockings and shoes by tho brook," I said, meekly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26560.36Possibly something may be wrong under this bandage," he added, shrugging his shoulders.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22370.36He carefully refrained from disturbing the bandage upon his hand, tired as he Was of it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5610.36how it enrages me to see people wearing their piety so pinned upon their sleeves!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36000.35I would sooner drown in the depths of the sea than let youi fingers touch even the skirts of my dress."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32960.35his directions with regard to Gabriel are the first to appear," said Mainau, taking a thin strip of paper from the interior of the roll. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18290.35He lifted one of the trunks, and, while he was examining the straps, Liana turned aside towards Frau Lhn's domain.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12990.35Keep your pennies in your pocket, for the days when you can work no longer," he growled, pounding his stick upon the floor. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1170.35He angrily broke off and threw away some young twigs that had made bold to touch his cheek. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30160.35" Oh 1 then the three thousand thalers are to be tucked away for show in a box, exactly like all that broken trash in the room up-stairs !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17140.35I snatched my hand from the door-handle, and was within a hair's breadth of falling down-stairs in my terror.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4690.35"I give her something to eat; but I always stick my thumbs in the palms of my hands, and never answer one of her questions,—there’s no harm in that!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19300.35When they reached the castle Elizabeth laid Bertha’s hat, which was still hanging upon her arm, upon the table.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12410.35She was superintending the coffee, and stood with her back towards the speakers; but she turned suddenly in terror, and drew aside her muslin morning-dress, such a shower of sparks came crackling forth from the chimney ; the Hofmarschall had thrust the end of bi3 crutch in among the blazing logs.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3270.35But I was nothing daunted, for the lithe willows, although they snapped back at me and scraped and hurt my bare feet, entirely screened me from observation ; and after I had progressed some distance I had reason to bless their friendly shelter, for directly to- wards me, across the moor, came the three gentlemen, with Heinz at their head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2180.35He put his terrified burden down in the hall as gently and carefully as though he were handling some brittle plaything, took her head tenderly between his large hands, kissed her forehead again and again, and said, "That such a queen of Liliput, such a moonshine elf, should dream of being as large as her tall uncle!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23680.35Be assured, besides, that every one will be paid for ; they will all be put on wires and stuck into the bouquets that are ordered for a huge bour- geois ball this evening.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11980.35Oh, Use, pray don't 1" I protested, with a shiver, plucking at the neck, which came close up around my throat, while my elbows threatened to burst the seams of the sleeves. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27910.35Mechanically I brushed up a little heap of jand at my feet with the toe of my boot, which was thus iisplayed in all its clumsy proportions ; but I was not ranoyed, it was only Herr Claudius who saw it " I will go and close the gate."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17290.35And meanwhile he limped about the room wrapping his patched dressing-gown, from the pocket of which dangled a faded cotton pockethandkerchief, about his chest as though it were a robe of costly fur.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3410.34I was happy, and Use had given a contented nod, for the shoemaker, in tender affection for his work, had ranged an orderly battalion of shining brass-headed nails upon the thick soles of the shoes, and now those admired orna- ments sparkled over at me with an evil glitter. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67950.33My dark-haired darling stands on tiptoe, and lays a piece of rope as thick as my finger, and a slender willow twig, directly across my manuscript, and begs, in his lovely, childish voice, " Please make me a whip, mamma I" " Go down and wait for me in the garden," I say, while my fingers are busy in an attempt to produce a whip from such unpromising materials. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34050.33I will obey you in everything; only show me how I can make Leo happy; I will sew, cook——" And, as she spoke, she drew off her lace mittens as if impatient to begin; but, as she did so, she made a grasp at the empty air, with a sudden exclamation of dismay,—the "simple golden circlet" had slipped from her finger.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32530.33But it isn't there now," he continued, making the whip whistle in the air, <; nor any of the other pictures either; and the paper is a beautiful dark-red where they hung; and the stupid blue shoe is gone " " What, Baron Mainau 1 have you made a tabula rasa .?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15980.33"And our little good-for-nothing made these,—R<")schen’s chubby fingers completed them to-day," she said, with a light laugh, picking up and swinging to and fro a pair of large, coarse stockings.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33890.33At its head was a huge candelabrum, in the branches of which were still to be seen the remains of wax candles; but at its foot was a footstool, upon which lay a mandolin, its strings all broken.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3180.33Here he had had the matted growth of underbrush cleared away, and he now produced a bunch of large keys which had been handed over to Frau Ferber as she had passed through L—— the day before.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1420.33What will papa do when, some evening, a weary way-worn traveller, with ragged shoes and empty pockets, prays for admission at the gate of the old castle?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26970.32No one could be, except such a one as our last mistress, who used to stamp her feet, and throw at our heads whatever came first to hand, even though it were a knife or a pair ot scissors.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2100.32" My dear Rdiger, she is a bean-pole, twenty years old, with red hair and downcast eyes, that is all I know.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52310.32But no link in tho chain could have been missed that had bound together two beings at first so coldly indifferent to each other.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_450.32t He had dipped his pocket-handkerchief in the water of the lake, and was laying THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35990.32When we took our leave, the Princess sent for a silken scarf, which she put around my neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24480.32I will not touch a finger to it I" had been her inflexible declaration, and she had left me alone with my Titan undertaking.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18620.32And now the pastor’s wife comes out of the hall; she has thrown a shawl about her shoulders, and is about to take her departure. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4920.32She threw back her head, and he hoped for a cutting reply, but in vain.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27970.32X She hafiily gathered together what she had brought and put it back into her basket.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2320.32Walk on in that dry part of the path; follow your nose; you can’t go astray.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17400.32Kitty asked, in jest, as she placed her beautiful slender hands upon the keys.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52370.32Herr Hofmarschairs special trellis," she said.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16700.3297 grave dug beneath that obelisk.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13230.32In terror she covered his mouth with her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4530.32lightly waved her white handkerchief. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1730.32And one can see at a glance how clumsy they must be at all delicate work.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55270.32You can hardly see the tip of your nose in that splinter of glass.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54380.32With a rude hand my father drew me away. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49260.32I went to the little purse that Use had left with me "in ease of need," and which I had almost forgotten.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30840.32I can see the dress and the shoes perfectly well without looking in the glass."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2950.32I looked down, and did indeed see what might well arouse her displeasure my naked feet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12770.32Those shoes will do to dance in 80 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2370.32Sievert repeated, rubbing his forehead. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28100.32and they might steal me and make a rope-dancer of me?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2740.32And where are the stuffed-up key-holes, J ettchen ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21000.32Tie it on tighter another time, Louise."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21270.31One does not plaster one’s whole neck with such things; one probably owns but one " "Nine are sometimes strung upon a golden chain; at least, I found such a chain of them among my aunt’s effects, my good Griebel," the lord of the manor interrupted her.’ "I can easily show it to you, and you can convince yourself that two of the ducats are wanting on the chain.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40660.31Of course she said sharp things of the odd man in the library, who was' unpacking all sorts of broken crockery, as if it were too precious to be touched, while he left all this fine table- and bed-linen to go to ruin.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30470.31She was not at all ‘proud.’ She immediately took off her gloves and helped little Louise to distribute the pieces of cake among the children, while her lover produced a bundle of keys, and shortly afterwards appeared from the cellar with an armful of bottles of wine.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20620.31You need not slip away " She turned to the girl, who had gone softly behind her in hopes of reaching the balconydoor unobserved, but the stout little woman caught her and held her fast by the corner of her apron, as she had done on the road from the saw-mill.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34730.31Her duties were soon concluded, and, while the maid was putting on a clean apron preparatory to carrying the coffee to the guests, Kitty went to the window and examined the ring, which with a throbbing heart she took from her pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19020.31Her words had a sharp intonation, as if her tongue had been slightly tipped with gall ; but what would have been her reply if she had known that, upon the moor, the name of Use had been suggestive to him of the image of a dragon I It was utterly incomprehensible to me how she had the courage to look just as fairly and indifferently into thoso brown eyes, as if they had belonged to any ragged broom- jnaking boy whom she was dismissing from the Dierkhof with a scolding and a piece of bread.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30500.31As she slowly sipped the golden wine in her glass she watched the ready hands that looked so strangely tanned in contrast with the white muslin sleeves.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12900.31She held her hat out at arm’s length before her, and contemplated with admiration the two fresh roses which she had stuck into the simple band of black velvet that encircled it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6930.30I turned my back to it and stealthily pushed the shoes with my foot farther underneath the ctair; I never TUB LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45020.30It was audacious to intrude thus secretly, under cover of the tempest, among the carefully-guarded relics of de- parted mortals.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3260.30It was no easy matter to penetrate the thick growth that had sprung up and flourished undis- turbed by human hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27350.30There, around the corner of the forest, at any moment the White kerchief might appear,—must appear, if it were not that he had let slip the lucky moment and had staked his all upon a losing card.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16650.30When she came back again, Bella had already laid aside her sack and parasol, and with a joyous face was sitting in a swing, which had been hung between two trees.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55850.30I saw her seated beside them in a box at the theatre, as eminently peaceful and virtuous as ever, wearing, if I am not mistaken, cotton gloves upon her hands.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3350.30"Do not trouble yourself about that; she will not come; she is tied as securely to-day to the apron-string of her detestable old governess as she was during papa’s lifetime," said Flora.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13820.30Herr Markus lit the new hanging-lamp, and with its light the reason why twilight had been selected for this visit became evident in a threadbare, carefully-darned coat that hung upon the old man’s meagre figure as upon a clothes-pole.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54440.30The wheels were silent, and the huge room was so empty and echoing that one might have fancied that, since the strong human hand so lately working here had stiffened in death, each friendly busy elf had pulled his cap over his peevish face and slipped away.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2210.29My uncle has sent off Leo's tutor, because he read in bed o' nights and wore creaking boots, and the governess squints fearfully, and puts almonds and bonbons in her pocket at dessert.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15760.29And since all his new plantations were laid out, there was, as he expressed it, nothing for him to do at home for the next six months, and he was therefore energetically bracing himself for a journey.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32280.29He looked inquiringly at the gentleman, who bowed assentingly, wrapped the coin in paper and handed it to me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24210.29My father looked extremely puzzled and anxious, in- terlacing his fingers until the knuckles cracked.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25050.29I did not touch the bandage for fear of loosening it and bringing upon myself reproof from the messenger of mercy.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21430.29And on weekdays, too, at hay-making and scouring, and with that old rag of a gown that will scarcely hold together.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11050.29she continued, thrusting her slender fingers in among the rustling tracery of withered vines.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20050.29‘ HERB MARKUS was usually not at all averse to Frau Griebel’s visits,—he rather liked to talk with her,—but just now he fairly detested the creaking of her leather shoes as they came clattering up the steps from the garden.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10480.28The shabby, threadbare coat, the shapeless hat, and the ragged light trousers,—Herr Markus had seen them all yesterday; and when the girl came out of the house with a piece of bread, the pallid face with the fine features and the full blond beard appeared from behind one door of the gate, the same that he himself had yesterday laid down among the soft pillows in the hospitable ‘ soldiers’ room’ at the manor-house.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_30.28Everything that prudent housewives had col- lected of linen and bedroom furniture, all that their lords had gathered together of household Ware, silver, and hunting implements, had to be carried into that room, to be submitted to the inspection of coldly scrutinizing eyes, and afterwards to be torn asunder and borne off to all quarters of the world.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18780.28' His delicate forefinger, with its white crooked nail, pressed a spring, and the satin-lined cover sprang open.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8980.28She had falsely promised him a wife " whom he could twist around his finger."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4440.28He hates dissimulation, and would never stoop to the tricks of diplomacy.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40100.28An eye for an eye, and a tooth for & tooth, your reverence.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14220.28Think of drawing on your hands our beloved neighbour's skin !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13600.28Hm 1 these little pricks and scars must bo THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43380.28The angry wind tore the gate from my grasp.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34710.28Until then he had not seen me, for my small person was entirely hidden by a stand of flowers upon his right.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29020.28Herr Claudius took off his glasses and put them in his pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16270.28The few stitches that I have taken in it, to make it fit me, can be ripped out again in five minutes,—otherwise it is just as it was.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12870.28As if bereft'of reason, he snapped his fingers in the air.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12180.28he asked, striking the paper with the back of his left hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8470.28‘She always has pretty little leather boots on; I can see that much, even if she does get out of our way as if there were poison on our clothes."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6250.28Herr Markus slightly stamped his foot.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27730.28She passed him immediately and went to the table, Where she took the bandages .. from her basket.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20140.28"It is by no means useless to have old linen and arnica at hand as they have at the farm.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19740.28"You will have to send for a physician," she said; " there were notches in the sickle ’’ He laughed. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17920.28The little fury would have gladly torn you to pieces with her teeth."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8430.28The girl untied it and held out the dove to Henriette.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_190.27The farmer tenant was allowed to live only in the lower part of the house, and all the upper story was given over to the rats and mice, "and the spiders would soon have the key-holes stuffed up with their horrid gray cobweb stuff," the tenant’s better half, Frau Griebel, was wont to observe, with a disdainful shrug of her shoulders, for all admittance there was denied to herself as well as to broom and scrubbing-brush.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29440.27They passed by the bed of herbs where the young girl, upon the first visit to the farm of the lord of the manor, had pulled down her sleeves over her bare arms,—‘ enviously,’ be maintained. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39890.27Every word that she spoke seemed to lift a weight from his heart, but he never dreamed how it cut into the very soul of the narrator like a two-edged sword, and that all this was only the prelude to her announcement of the terrible sacrifice that she was about to make.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7510.27There stood little Leo, motionless, keenly scanning his new mamma as ho leaned with boyish grace against a huge dog, across whoso back hung the child's right hand holding the famous whip.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45570.27It does nol handle this important table with gloves, but, as you see, advises 'force to resist force. '
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4120.27He jumped clumsily upon all four feet, and stood stock- still in a ridiculous attitude, bleating at the man.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54600.27Do not make too great a demand upon your strength; and wear the bandage upon your forehead for a few days longer.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12730.26They were well worn, and accorded liberal space for my feet I trod upon them as heavily as I pos- sibly could, and sought to soothe my anxious mind with the undeniable certainty that the nails did not make half so loud a clatter as they had produced a few weeks be- fore But this did not always suffice, and gradually my uneasiness brought me to the point of preferring a humble request that Use would buy me a new pair of shoes upon our journey.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1390.26Around lay scattered the broom that had been torn out by the roots, and where it had grown there gaped a large open- ing, from the upper part of which there hung down, out of the miserable mixture of clay and sandy soil, thick roots, the offshoots of the fir, the white scars showing that they had been cruelly hacked by the pickaxe.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17650.26"Then, gentlemen," said one of these honourable cavaliers, as he drew his tight-fit-ting, white glove upon his plump hand, and carefully buttoned it, " I must now return to the ball-room,ar\1d do the honours there in an entirely unconstrained manner, according to his Serene Highness’s command,—a terrible duty after this budget of bad news!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24380.26he will tear your dress, I am afraid I" he said, referring to Leo's huge dog, that, having just escaped from the cottage, was in his delight madly leaping about Liana. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34210.26Then she showed me a large book, bound in red morocco, containing the verses, and a drama that had been published shortly before her death THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28060.26But that the unmarried men who are present in large numbers may have no reason to complain,—that their mouths also may be filled,—a sort of lottery has been ingeniously devised.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11410.26"—she waved her pocket-handkerchief in the air before her face,—"I really believe the worthy woman is baking her everlasting pancakes even before she has a chair in the house to sit down upon.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25320.26The duchess angrily pressed her pearly teeth deep into her under lip, and the movement of the lower flounce of her skirt showed that her little foot was impatiently tapping the gravel- walk.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3400.26That morning the shoes had stood by my bedside, brand-new, in company with a pair of stiff stockings which Use herself had span and knitted from the wool of our moorland sheep, her splendid birthday gift for me.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5070.26Frau von Zweiflingen rolled and unrolled one of her long cap-strings in her thin, yellow wax-like fingers,—there was great nervous excitability in all her movements.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38850.25I climbed up into the elm, by no means an insignificant labour, for I had slipped my feet, clothed in " lace," as Use called my new stockings, into my moorland shoes, that were of course a world too wide for me, and threat- ened every minute to faithlessly forsake me and tumble down into the bushes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19510.25Coming up to the table where stood the lord of the manor, she unrolled her bundle of linen, prepared her bandages, and uncorked a small bottle,—all as gravely, dexterously, and silently as is the Wont of a physician who has to deal with a refractory patient.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_260.24Over his left shoulder hung his plaid, and at his right side a leather wallet; else the tall figure in a light-gray jacket might have been taken for an ordinary pedestrian, so leisurely did he walk, so thoroughly did he seem to resign himself to the enjoyment of the magic of the forest, as he pursued the pathway which ran among the trunks of the trees as if cutting directly into the depths of the beechen shades.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31030.24Brooms and scrubbing-brushes were astir at the manor-house; beds were aired, carpets and furniture cleansed, and Frau Grriebel thanked heaven that on account of the erection of some new buildings atthe ‘Institute’ her Louise had a very long vacation and could help her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50060.24With every step the dizziness that so confused her head de- creased ; she walked more quickly, only turning now and then to lay her finger upon her lip, when some indignant exclama- tion burst from the people following her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12590.24There, upon green leaves, was comfortably lying a large lemon-coloured caterpillar, with black spots, broad bluish-green stripes upon its back, and a crooked horn upon its tail.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4130.24The storks were clattering on the roof, and Use Use of the black eyes held out to me a. little animal, upon whose silky fur I timidly laid my hand, it was a little mewing kitten.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3340.24"God help me 1 How did I ever come by such plebeian children, meas- uring the dignity of their position by a haberdasher's yard* stick?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56150.24I am to hang the big lamps from the work-room up here I" " It is all right, Erdmajm," rallied the old lady, as she THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43530.24My hands loosed their hold upon the stones, and I turned away my head: I heard the same laugh that 23 266 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3640.24The stockings, which he discovered hanging upon a bush near, followed them, and, with a shake of the head, he walked quickly towards the Dierkhof.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14120.24Use turned with a look of intelligence and glanced at the bundle of bedding that rocked ridiculously to and fro upon the porter's head.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12130.24Ah, this time Baoul will make an example of them 1 The shoe pinches him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25520.24Dagobcrt had seen the lizard 154 TI1E LITTLE MOORLAND rRINCESS barefooted again.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21580.24I seized the pen and began to make an L. " But this will never do," I said, stopping as I saw him watching me. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15620.24And I will be diligent, too, father, you may rely upon it, I will knit and sew, oh, you shall see I will not be a burden to you !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12600.24I shall not fail to do so, your Highness," stammered the Minister, now fairly breaking down.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33570.24At the mention of the hated name, Elizabeth bent low over her work.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45410.24259 werth in the mean while?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44400.24But I was at hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41100.24But deliverance was at hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35190.24he said, hastily. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28980.24I am sorry, and yet I have not quite finished.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17770.24Do you think so ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1320.24So he was.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9790.24"And then it all began.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8560.24Where are you going?’’ be asked. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4660.24Uncertainty ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8160.24she asked.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7620.24It was the largest in the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63700.24Certainly, by any one.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5200.2464 K ."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5030.24But don't lose anything, and don't rummage too much."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43860.24No wonder, how could you else become acclimated ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41440.24And she put it into my pocket. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29120.24Hft mouth.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27410.24165 golden calf.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25400.24I slipped into the bushes.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_880.24What is a fellow to do!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4670.24No names!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9380.24.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30760.24You must manage it somehow."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26960.24Wet to the skin too!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21390.24But still I ask how it came on that neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19410.24"Allow me to bandage it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17970.24"You will cut yourself.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5810.24"Most certainly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43210.24"Wolf, seize her!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24000.24"Oh, every inch a queen!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22620.24Well?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21440.24"And that is?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12640.24Isn’t it beautiful?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52580.24She held out her hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51260.24You really know nothing of it?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37790.24His end was gained.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34970.24"And why not?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29110.24"Why was I not told yesterday?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22500.24We are all in His hands!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14980.23He came gravely up to us, and danced about upon the tips of his toes with the most ridiculous air, as if he were master of ceremo- nies to the villa, miracle upon miracle for my unaccus- tomed eyes !
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13020.23Of course"—it seemed almost impossible to get the button on the glove into its button-h.o1e; the speaker was obliged to give it an almost undivided attention—" of course we shall need another maid, a good strong peasant girl who knows ‘her business.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49090.22A relic of old times, which I hid from the greedy grasp of the old man at the castle," the housekeeper said, pointing to the magnificent candelabrum. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58200.22351 CHAPTER XXIX I took advantage of the universal consternation and confusion to wrap myself in my cloak and hood and leave the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53380.22One of my curls fell beneath the scissors, and a small bandage was put on; it was decreed, however, that I must not brave the night air.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1320.22Spitz ran barking by my side, and as I reached the spot breathless, I saw Heinz approaching as if in seven-league boots.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55570.22I feel as if a cool bandage were wrapped around my forehead " THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22750.22She shrugged her shoulders and looked towards the trellis, which had just been replaced under Herr Claudius's directions.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24880.22"I really have nothing more to say," Flora rejoined, with an unsuccessful attempt to smile, as she took her gloves from her pocket.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6420.19But we have had no idea of producing a mere hot house flower, and alas for us and for her, if all that we have unweariedly tended and nourished for eighteen years is so loosely planted in the soil that it can be torn thence by the first blast of life!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47880.19"Was that outside in the corridor, where she made her appearance like a genuine child of the people, the dust of travel on her boots and the poetic kerchief bundle in her hand?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22620.19She led him into the garden, whither Fraulein Fliedner and Use had already gone to inspect the damage done to the green-house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_880.19The councillor anxiously applied cloth after cloth to the wound,—the stream would not be stayed.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2920.19p " There, Herbert has carried his point!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17450.19Cross yourself, Juliana I I look back upon millions of follies where women were con- cerned ; I have swum through tossing waves to recover a lost breast-knot, and have drunk champagne from a dancer's shoe, and why should not I begin by climbing over the wire fene* THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43870.16And there one must sit and not move a muscle of one’s face, when the ridiculousness of the thing is half killing one with inward laughter——" The Frau President imposed silence upon her by an emphatic gesture, for the amateur performers, who had taken a cup of chocolate in the dining-room before the rehearsal, made their appearance now in search of the hats and parasols they had left behind them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5960.16Whoever laid out this Rudisdorf park must have been a genius.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14200.15In the good old times the lords of Schnwerth had a right to shoot such a rascal on the spot, and have a pair of gloves made of his skin.

Marryat_Peter_Simple_20660.88O'Brien then undressed himself, and then he threw off his shirt and drawers, showed me a rope of silk, with a knot at every two feet, about half an inch in size, wound round and round his body.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_77800.88He was naked, with the exception of cloth drawers at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath, and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge-hammer.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_26370.87From each of these drums came two leather bands, each of which turned a pulley-wheel, and each pulley-wheel a grindstone, to whose axle it was attached; but now the grindstones rested in the troughs, and the great wheel-bands hung limp, and the other bands lay along loose and serpentine.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_63750.86Their jackets and hats were thrown off, a bandana handkerchief tied round their heads, and another, or else their black silk handkerchiefs, tied round their waists.
Whitney_Real_Folks_15370.85And she pulled out of her big waterproof pocket a bundle of stockings and a great white ball of darning cotton and a wooden egg.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_15940.85His equipment is a drab greatcoat, a hat covered with an oil-cloth, top-boots, an umbrella in one hand and a small portmanteau in the other.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_182480.84In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the chair.
Evans_Inez_40880.84The thin fingers rested on a small and well-worn Bible, and a tiny package, wrapped in paper and carefully tied.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_36620.84She saw him stoop to the grass, pick up the winding lock which he had severed from her manifold tresses, twist it round his fingers, unfasten a button in the breast of his coat, and carefully put it inside.
Collins_No_Name_3460.83His frock-coat was buttoned tight round the waist, and left to bulge open majestically at the chest.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_107820.83The old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he unfolded.
Collins_No_Name_3470.83His hands were covered with black cotton gloves neatly darned at the fingers; his umbrella, worn down at the ferule to the last quarter of an inch, was carefully preserved, nevertheless, in an oilskin case.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_50240.83One of the students carried, wrapped up in a piece of green buckram by way of a portmanteau, what seemed to be a little linen and a couple of pairs of-ribbed stockings; the other carried nothing but a pair of new fencing-foils with buttons.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_67290.82His dress was a coarse cut of blue cloth such as the fishermen wear in Bretagne, fastened at the waist by a broad belt of black leather, from which hung a short-bladed cutlass; his loose trousers, of the same material, were turned up at the ankles to show a pair of strong legs coarsely cased in blue stockings and thick-soled shoes.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_29580.82Then, lifting aside her shawl, she unfastened a red pocket-handkerchief which covered her skinny neck, and, twisting it into its length, said to the Schoolmaster: "Open your ivories, and take the end of this 'wipe' between them.
Reade_Foul_Play_29820.82He drew this garment over his knees and considered it attentively; then untwisted the brass nozzle through which the jacket was inflated, and so left a tube, some nine inches in length, hanging down from the neck of the garment.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_77450.82He was naked, with the exception of cloth drawers at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath, and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge-hammer.
Whitney_Real_Folks_45690.82Little Barefoot came down at that, with a run; hanging to the rope at one side, and dragging, till she tumbled in a sprawl upon the floor.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_279720.82He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from it a scrap of paper and a bit of red pencil filched from some carpenter.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_8140.82The bottom of one pantalet was entirely torn off, and the other rolled nearly to the knee disclosing a pair of ankles of no Liliputian dimensions.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_34010.81Of course you haven't,--children never do: there's the spotted carpet-bag and the little blue band-box with your best bonnet,--that's two; then the India rubber satchel is three; and my tape and needle box is four; and my band-box, five; and my collar-box; and that little hair trunk, seven.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_3050.80Bring my mackintosh and travelling-cloak down with you, and a couple of pairs of strong boots, although we shall have little or no walking.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_254890.80One of them had made himself a dagger of a stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the stump.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_87840.80Her luggage consisted of a black box, and of a well-worn leather bag which she carried in her hand.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_93030.80Moreover, there was a heavy chain, fixed to a staple in the wall, so that none might carry off the pewter with the gold inside of it.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_39230.80She was clad in a blue loose gown, like the other prisoners, and had under her right arm a small bundle, wrapped up in a miserable, ragged, checked pocket-handkerchief.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_7160.80For I doffed my shoes and hose, and put them into a bag about my neck; and left my little coat at home, and tied my shirt-sleeves back to my shoulders.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_59150.79A waistcoat of brown rabbit-skin with flaps, a red worsted comforter round my neck, an old gray shooting-jacket with a brown patch on the arm, corduroys, and leather gaiters, with a tremendous oak cudgel in my hand, made me a most presentable figure for a dinner party.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_11100.79I had a short jacket of goat's skin, the skirts coming down to about the middle of my thighs; and a pair of open-kneed breeches of the same; the breeches were made of a skin of an old he-goat, whose hair hung down such a length on either side, that, like pantaloons, it reached to the middle of my legs.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_15980.79She had bare feet, in coarse calf-skin slippers, stringy petticoats differing only from the child's in length, sleeves rolled up to the shoulders, no neck garniture,--not a bit of anything white about her.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_25640.79I found a large oblong parcel rolled in the thickest of brown papers, and tied with the thickest of strings round and round again so firmly that it was, or appeared to be, hopeless to open it unless I gnawed that cord.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_39000.79Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, and coarse shoes.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_58990.79By his side was Calabash, whose cap had been torn off, and her yellowish hair, tied behind with a piece of tape, hung down in several scanty and tangled meshes.
Harland_At_Last_15110.79The miserable coat was buttoned up to his chin, and the shreds of a coarse woollen comforter, torn from his throat at his capture, still hung about his shoulders.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_68610.79Here there was a torn hat, and there some fragments of rotten old boots, and scattered around a small attendant litter of torn paper and frowzy rags.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_63200.79This done, he drew from its sheath a huge broad scimitar, and seizing me by the hair he made as though he meant to cut my throat and shear my head clean off.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_62940.78I was going to say I would get him to saw off the legs and make it lower for me, and then my dressing-box would stand so nicely on the top.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_290680.78He was wrapped in a large cloak, and his black cravat was tied loosely about his neck.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_70340.78Gerard made a motion to run him through, and flung his arms round his neck instead.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_56040.78She was in a brown cloak, from under which she took out a basket brimful of little packages, some in blue, some in white paper.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_107710.78"He ought to be here soon," said the one into whose forehead holes seemed dug and little bits of some vitreous substance left at the bottom.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_13790.78He held a riding-whip in his hand, and seemed, from his splashed equipment, to have just descended from the saddle.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_219150.78They all wore linen trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_30850.78He wrapped himself in a dressing-gown and thrust his feet into a pair of cloth slippers.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_18410.78The basket of keys hung at her side, and she had tied a white apron over her dress.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_48690.78Here was a large box full of shoes with high heels and peaked toes.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_33650.78The satchel was worn and old, and the outer polished surface of the leather was cracked and peeling off.
Evans_St_Elmo_17810.78She took from her pocket a small ivory box, and opening it drew out the little key and handed it to him.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_144900.78"If I had been wearing a handkerchief like yours on my head, rags on my back, and worn-out shoes on my feet, you would not have known me."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_145600.78"If I had been wearing a handkerchief like yours on my head, rags on my back, and worn-out shoes on my feet, you would not have known me."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40750.78He held out the tiny glass, and I half filled it from the water-bottle on the washstand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60440.76He put wine to my lips; I tasted it and revived; then I ate something he offered me, and was soon myself.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7160.65The portions were handed round; those who liked took a draught of the water, the mug being common to all.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39520.62He took the sponge, dipped it in, and moistened the corpse-like face; he asked for my smelling-bottle, and applied it to the nostrils.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92830.57I spilt half of what was in the glass," I said.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39280.57"Have you any salts -- volatile salts?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70770.57I had eaten with relish: the food was good -- void of the feverish flavour which had hitherto poisoned what I had swallowed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92730.54He checked the water on its way to his lips, and seemed to listen: he drank, and put the glass down.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32620.53"Commands from Miss Ingram's lips would put spirit into a mug of milk and water."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5870.49Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49370.49and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96690.48Famine for food, expectation for content.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67510.48for but one mouthful to allay the pang of famine!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72630.47I had now swallowed my tea.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5690.47Would you like to drink some water?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31630.47Coffee is handed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28860.47"No: I am too thirsty to eat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2310.47"Would you like to drink, or could you eat anything?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92540.43She then proceeded to fill a glass with water, and place it on a tray, together with candles.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35970.39She again put her short black pipe to her lips, and renewed her smoking with vigour.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60510.38"Taste the wine again, Jane."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40760.38"That will do; -- now wet the lip of the phial."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54020.37"I want a smoke, Jane, or a pinch of snuff, to comfort me under all this, 'pour me donner une contenance,' as Adele would say; and unfortunately I have neither my cigar-case, nor my snuff-box.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39630.36"I shall have to leave you in this room with this gentleman, for an hour, or perhaps two hours: you will sponge the blood as I do when it returns: if he feels faint, you will put the glass of water on that stand to his lips, and your salts to his nose.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39500.35"Hold the candle," said Mr. Rochester, and I took it: he fetched a basin of water from the washstand: "Hold that," said he.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7370.34I saw a universal manifestation of discontent when the fumes of the repast met the nostrils of those destined to swallow it; from the van of the procession, the tall girls of the first class, rose the whispered words - "Disgusting!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33410.32The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request:- "She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40770.32I did so; he measured twelve drops of a crimson liquid, and presented it to Mason.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15380.32"An island thousands of miles off, where they make wine -- the butler did tell me -- " "Madeira?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70030.32I tasted what they offered me: feebly at first, eagerly soon.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69040.32I thought them so similar I could not tell where the old servant (for such I now concluded her to be) saw the difference.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78310.30The pillow was burning: there is an asp in the garland: the wine has a bitter taste: her promises are hollow -- her offers false: I see and know all this."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39310.29I returned, sought the sponge on the washstand, the salts in my drawer, and once more retraced my steps.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46700.27She said I oppressed her by leaning over the bed, and again demanded water.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46620.24She heeded nothing of what I said; but when she had tasted the water and drawn breath, she went on thus - "I tell you I could not forget it; and I took my revenge: for you to be adopted by your uncle, and placed in a state of ease and comfort, was what I could not endure.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9700.24"How?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96420.24Jane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55580.24"Yes, Jane."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_52660.24"Why?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72640.23I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_390.80"Chamomile teal IIm—I think a glass of Burgundy, or at least a good foaming mug of beer would be more appropriate."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13450.71He refused from the first the wine which Madame sent up for his refreshment, but a decanter of water was always placed upon his table.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13470.43When the water in the decanter was no longer fresh he took the vessel down stairs and filled it himself.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_380.39She sent me of!‘ directly with the lantern, and Frederika is brewing a cup of chamomile tea."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14030.32He rubbed his forehead with an air of vexation,‘and drank a glass of water,—it was of no use.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27810.32"Ah--would you like to enclose her in a glass case?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9510.28She had sent him to Bonn—his name was upon her lips every morning at her priedieu, and she was never weary of caring for the fineness and size of his wardrobe—and now he had become a famous man.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10760.68She held out her hand for her coffee-cup, and slowly sipped the delicious beverage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12350.64It is the same to me whether there be wine or water in the spoon that I give her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11710.64The water came pouring out until the bucket was full.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2310.64You shall have a cup of coffee at the Griebels’ the like of which you never tasted.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52090.64He shall know now what it is to have the cup dashed from thirsting lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5030.61they make such a smoke and such a disgusting smel1,—I would not have had such in the servants’ room."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6670.60She poured out half a glass of wine and put it to her lips: she did not like wine, but she felt at the moment so deplorably weak.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26080.58From this, carefully holding it against the light, he dropped five clear drops into the glass of water.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7800.57Such a quantity of expensive ices !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40620.57Let me mix you a glass of lemonade."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21400.55"Will you not give me the pleasure of your company while I drink my coffee?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3590.55And with a glass of delicious punch he drained down his last scruple.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26070.52And now he poured water into the milk-white glass into which she had so lately put her wild-flowers, and, opening a drawer in his table, took from it a tiny vial.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20090.49The waiters that they carried scarcely sufiiced to hold the raspberry-vinegar, the seltzer water, the coffee-pot, the tincture of arnica, and heaven knows what besides that the worthy Frau had got together in her hurry. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40040.49Herr von Waldo poured a little wine into a glass, and held it to her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14780.48‘ Clear spring water’ I Is it with that alone that you have ‘ refreshed’ the jovial company within there?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44170.48He hastily opened a bottle of champagne and filled several glasses.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20320.481 pray you drink this," he said, offering her the glass.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44540.48"Shall I go back and get you a glass of Seltzer-water?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10400.47I will give her the medicine."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22530.47Is he not mag- nificent?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44130.47And he filled his glass again.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26340.47He took up the glass and offered it to her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23660.47"Give her morphia!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5300.46Kitty took from her pocket a tiny flask, and, pouring a few drops of cologne upon the heated iron, the air was filled with a purifying fragrance.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31220.44183 and he looks as if the sweet, gentle lady had poured out vin- egar for him with those lovely hands, instead of coffee.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6290.44The forester had brought his pipe and newspaper, and begged of Elizabeth a cup of the refreshing beverage.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44070.44"I should think not," he replied, smiling with easy assurance, and, filling his glass with Burgundy, he emptied it at a draught.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22750.44The doctor had brought the glass globe of gold-fish from his aunt’s room, and was busy arranging the apparatus of a little fountain attached to it; the maid was bringing fresh water to fill various deep plates on the tables and a bucket near the sick-bed,—all to moisten as much as possible the atmosphere of the room.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16440.43The parson’s wife entered, bringing a glass of cooling - drink.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12770.43But I cannot offer you any wine, for the few bottles that we own I left in town, where they are required for the sick."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3290.43She took the goblet from the writing-table and moistened her pale lips with a few drops of its contents, while the Frau President, without further remonstrance, prepared to leave the room.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31010.42She beckoned to one of the servants who was bearing past a tray of delicacies, and herself placed them before Hollfeld,—but he did not eat a morsel, and only swallowed in quick succession several glasses of fiery wine which he procured for himself at the refreshment tent.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7400.42Only see, Fleury," she turned to her husband,—he was no longer at her side,— his Excellency was drinking a glass of wine at a distant refreshment table.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3490.41Give him a cup of coffee, in the kitchen, Lena."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31300.41With an air of great content he sipped his coffee. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12360.41The new doctor says she must have Madeira " " Deuce take the fool and his prescriptions !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56610.41It is too wildly bacchantic for me 1" She put aside her cup and arose. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14130.41She put his cup of coffee on the table beside his papers. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26390.41She took the glass from his hand and obediently drained its contents.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4290.40It grieved him that she should be obliged to drink to the dregs thff bitter cup, although her own hand had prepared it; hen he said, quietly, "Dear mother, the report is a true one.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21770.39As she spoke she came to the balcony-door, where she stood wiping and polishing the glass that was to hold the mixture of raspberry-vinegar and seltzer-water. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42620.39Nevertheless, the Princess sat down and partook of the delicious fruit offered her by Fraulein Fliedner.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11290.39This infernal gout has got hold of me again, and it is an absolute impossibility for me to get down to the cellar, and I certainly shall allow no one else to meddle with my wine."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45210.39And when they told him that his little idolized darling belonged to that other, he emptied the bitter cup to the dregs, and said ’yes’ because he imagined that she had already said it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44600.39I am just going there to select the wine for this evening; the air in those cellars will act like a cooling bandage."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38290.39"The champagne in which we drank Flora’s health to-day was wanting in that quality: it has given me a headache.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29060.38Beneath the shade of this tent were several refreshing-looking casks, a whole battery of dusty red-sealed flasks and countless silver-capped bottles in ice-buckets,—all presided over by a very pretty girl in the dress of a vivandiere.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_740.38No, thank God ; the gout Has pared me as yet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12510.38by the tea- spoonful ; more will do her harm.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12290.38No more Madeira for the Indian hut.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14770.38But I thank you, no; I do not even wish to drink from the pitcher," he Went on sneeringly. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23430.38the green is full of arsenic!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15940.38Why, you never could endure the smell of a cigar!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6620.37We have all but set a guard over the house, and, nevertheless, some commis-Voyageur contrived to smuggle in a couple of boxes of fine cigars.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30760.37"Clink glasses with me, doctor," he said; "I drink to the welfare of the saviour of my life—of Gold Elsie of Castle Gnadeck!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52040.37Advancing from the table, a tumbler of cooling drink in her hand, the red- haired, unlovely lady whom we have seen in Rudisdorf approached the bed Ulrika.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7890.37* But all these threatening indications were forgotten in the popping of champagne corks, the clinking of glasses, and the enthusiastic toasts that resounded to the noble giver of the entertainment.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8560.37Here she drags home the first tramp she finds in the road, puts him to bed like a baby, and pours down his beery throat the best wine in the cellar.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30770.36The doctor smiled, and the glasses clinked with a loud ring.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5360.35old comrades of former centuries were exhaled in the foam which sparkled from the bottles that nestled among the pieces of ice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7750.35She opened her eyes wide, drank some fresh water, and suddenly her speech returned.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9820.35"The doctor’s a bold fellow," he said, still laughing; "but ’tis of no use, he has drunk his last cup of tea at Lindhof."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44150.35"I am threatened with an attack of headache, to which I am subject, and my best mode of prevention is a brimming glass of wine."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41520.35Am I not forced to accept this view with every draught of air that I inhale, every drop of water that I drink?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11340.35He had a tumbler of ‘clean water in one hand, and in the otherthe silver paper parcel, which he had brought from the overseer, and which he handed to J utta.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37920.35Now and then he put a cigar to his lips with evident enjoyment, and the delicate aroma floating through the air reached Helene at her window.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15150.35She declined the cup of tea which Henriette filled for her with a trembling hand, and drew a small piece of embroidery from her pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14740.32I will bring you a glass from the house——" " The Bible says, ‘ And she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink,’ " he replied, ironically, barring her Way to the house. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8130.32"Well, Sievert," she said, as she entered the room, "can we have some hot water at last '3" Her eyes fell upon the tea-table,——" What, only two cups!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65570.32I went into my bedroom, changed my clothes, and drank a glass of cold water.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4830.32But near to the Fleet, with her head towards the barn, lay Molly, chewing the cud.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10890.32I know nothing, it is true, about his medicines, but I can affirm that he has never yet been so clumsy as——nearly to cut a patient’s throat."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11430.32"I cannot bear to see dirty water in tumblers."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39700.32I am taking the drops that he prescribed for my nervous attacks, and he can do nothing more for me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23060.31When the doctor left the room for a few moments to get a book, the dean’s widow entered, bearing a small waiter, and immediately a delicious fragrance of tea overcame even the strong odour of cologne water.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44180.29"I pray you drink with me to the success of our evening’s entertainment," he said to the ladies, who each followed his example in taking up a glass.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20340.28Was he offering her a glass of water to allay the agitation that a few energetic words on his part addressed to her implacable foe would have prevented? "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31740.28She’s fresh and sound and capable, and the Griebels’ chests and cupboards are not quite empty: my Peter and his old Wife have not been idlers in their day, and they know how to save.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27710.28The feet of the guests must be made warm enough, and their heads also, to judge by the flasks of choice wine just arrived from the tower cellar.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41530.27I hate to inhale a mouthful of air even in such proximity.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11390.27Sievert stood still, holding the glass of water towards her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49560.27They hourly expected the officers of the law to make their appearance; each one looked out for himself or herself; the long tables set for the ball were stripped of everything eatable, and the bowls of punch were drained to the dregs.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16730.26My feet burn and ache," she said, " and I should be very glad of a glass of cold water, Herr Doctor."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30480.26Every one of the children was rega-led with a glass of Rhine-wine, and the lord of the manor emptied his purse, filled with silver, into the hands of his betrothed, that she might divide it among the young rogues.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43700.24The councillor had been sitting with his back to the door, and had just poured out a glass of Burgundy which he was raising to his lips, when Flora’s words apprised him of the entrance of the sisters.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16060.24I might entreat you, but I dislike repetition and useless words; and you know perfectly how I detest a cigar in a woman’s mouth.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7270.24" What?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_50.24II No.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55650.24Nothing, nothing!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24740.24I would never do it again.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30940.23Helene shrugged her shoulders, and left the lady to her qualms of conscience and a brimming glass of champagne, with which she probably intended to fortify herself in anticipation of the dreaded arrival.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29980.20My uncle wrote me, in great irritation, begging me to forego such stupid descriptions, such tedious dissertations, with regard to the various courts that had so graciously re- ceived me, sisce my letters might easily fall into strange hands and compromise me; and upon my return I found a fragment of one of these l tiresome epistles' wrapped round a cork of one of Valerie's cologne-bottles."

Collins_The_Moonstone_94630.82I sent down to the cellar for a bottle of champagne; and I administered half a tumbler-full of it to the patient with my own hand.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_87410.80Take her six bottles of different wine--Cyprus, sherry, and Malaga, and a barrel of Ostend oysters; get them at Borel's, and be sure you say they are for me."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_87840.80Take her six bottles of different wine -- Cyprus, sherry, and Malaga, and a barrel of Ostend oysters; get them at Borel's, and be sure you say they are for me."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_5280.80Caderousse raised his glass to his mouth with unsteady hand, and swallowed the contents at a gulp.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_28680.78The old soldier filled a cup of water from a pitcher placed near him, and held it to her lips.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_218340.78D'Avrigny took the bottle, poured some drops of the mixture it contained in the hollow of his hand, and swallowed them.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_219460.78D'Avrigny took the bottle, poured some drops of the mixture it contained in the hollow of his hand, and swallowed them.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_185660.78Barrois took the glass, and, raising it to his purple lips, took about half of the liquid offered him.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_74930.78And thereupon be mixed himself another glass of hollands with lemon and hot water, yet pouring it very delicately.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_29870.77While the bubbles were yet sparkling on the brim the doctor's four guests snatched their glasses from the table and swallowed the contents at a single gulp.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_91270.77It is a mixture of excellent opium, which I fetched myself from Canton in order to have it pure, and the best hashish which grows in the East--that is, between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_91710.77It is a mixture of excellent opium, which I fetched myself from Canton in order to have it pure, and the best hashish which grows in the East -- that is, between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_54120.76A tiny medicine-chest was open upon the dressing-table, and little stoppered bottles of red lavender, sal-volatile, chloroform, chlorodyne, and ether were scattered about.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_165480.76He half filled a tumbler, and then, dashing some water on it, swallowed it greedily.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_8450.76He only drank a couple of glasses of champagne, and they have given him a racking headache."
Marryat_Peter_Simple_4000.76He then poured out half a tumbler of rum, and filled the glass up with water.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_215540.76Just now, before I came down to you, I drank a glass of sugared water; I left half, because it seemed so bitter."
Evans_Vashti_39430.75Taking a vial from his pocket, he dropped a portion of the contents into a wine-glass, and filled it with sherry wine.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_30920.74There was so much motherliness and full-heartedness even in the way she passed a plate of cakes or poured a cup of coffee, that it seemed to put a spirit into the food and drink she offered.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_34570.74The nurse further swore that she had looked at the bottle containing the composing mixture, and had seen by the measuring marks on the bottle that a dose had been poured out since the dose previously given, administered by herself.
Harland_At_Last_12130.73"If such an ingredient as the compound, double-distilled essence of flatness is to be infused into the wassail-cup, it is he who will supply it!"
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_146750.73And he'll smoke too many cigars, and perhaps drink more brandy-and-water than he ought.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_227410.73And the two drinkers each emptied a tumbler full of brandy at a draught.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_27920.73Oxygen, ozone, nitrogen, water, carbonic acid, is it?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_1750.73There's an eight-ounce mixture he never tasted yet,--infusion of gentian with soda.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_63960.73Taste the hashish, guest of mine--taste the hashish."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_64090.73Taste the hashish, guest of mine -- taste the hashish."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_35330.73He drew the cork from a bottle of sherry, and decanted the wine.
Collins_Armadale_163890.73All she saw at first was what she had seen already--the jar, and the pipe and glass funnel inserted in the cork.
Bronte_Shirley_85890.73She held a glass filled with some cooling beverage to her mouth.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_98400.73The doctor had brought a good supply of bottle food.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_101520.71So she put a pinch or two of catnip leaves into the pot, poured a little water on them, and left it to draw.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_120300.71He would still sit down to dinner, and would drink his allotted portion of port wine, in the doctor's teeth.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_26980.71Hearing me cough, the porter said,'I'll fetch you a morsel of sugar to put in your water.'
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_5260.71Caderousse raised his glass to his mouth with unsteady hand, and swallowed the contents at a gulp.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_228560.71But drink some of this;" and the count took a bottle from his pocket, containing a red liquid, of which he poured a few drops into the glass.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_229770.71But drink some of this;" and the count took a bottle from his pocket, containing a red liquid, of which he poured a few drops into the glass.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_184980.71The doctor poured some drops of the lemonade into the palm of his hand, put his lips to it, and after having rinsed his mouth as a man does when he is tasting wine, he spat the liquor into the fireplace.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_16780.69The bread he gave me, but the water he carried to his father: however, as I was very thirsty too, I took a little sip of it: this water revived his father more than all the rum or spirits I had given him; for he was just fainting with thirst.
Wood_East_Lynne_44120.69A jolly bout we had; cigars and cold punch."
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_13460.69I can only just carry round my little cup of cold water."
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_140080.69He drank a bottle of claret, and then got some brandy-and-water.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_103410.69Should she never know rest never have one draught of cool water between her lips?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_101040.69In one hand she held a glass full to the brim.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_39960.69"I have offered, if they would let me alone, to do anything I could for anybody, to give them half my allowance, although I am always so hungry; but, no!
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_53340.69He poured out a glass from the flask and emptied it at a draught.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_50260.69"Here, drink this," he said, hastily pouring out a glass of wine.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_83280.69Joram.Refractory--crank--bread and Joram.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_83250.69Joram.Refractory--crank; bread and water.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_177340.69The waiter took the brandy and water into the coffee-room.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_59890.83My eyes were covered and closed: eddying darkness seemed to swim round me, and reflection came in as black and confused a flow.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47310.82The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it -- it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57420.80Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48170.77Where the sun had gone down in simple state -- pure of the pomp of clouds -- spread a solemn purple, burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame at one point, on one hill-peak, and extending high and wide, soft and still softer, over half heaven.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21850.77The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18790.76I lingered till the sun went down amongst the trees, and sank crimson and clear behind them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84420.72The breeze was from the west: it came over the hills, sweet with scents of heath and rush; the sky was of stainless blue; the stream descending the ravine, swelled with past spring rains, poured along plentiful and clear, catching golden gleams from the sun, and sapphire tints from the firmament.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69600.71A form was near -- what form, the pitch-dark night and my enfeebled vision prevented me from distinguishing.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21810.71The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65180.70She broke forth as never moon yet burst from cloud: a hand first penetrated the sable folds and waved them away; then, not a moon, but a white human form shone in the azure, inclining a glorious brow earthward.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55180.70He saw me; for the moon had opened a blue field in the sky, and rode in it watery bright: he took his hat off, and waved it round his head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47300.70It was not a bright or splendid summer evening, though fair and soft: the haymakers were at work all along the road; and the sky, though far from cloudless, was such as promised well for the future: its blue -- where blue was visible -- was mild and settled, and its cloud strata high and thin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12400.69April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56590.69On waking, a gleam dazzled my eyes; I thought -- Oh, it is daylight!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1750.69Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1360.68All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travellers.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19240.66pointing to Thornfield Hall, on which the moon cast a hoary gleam, bringing it out distinct and pale from the woods that, by contrast with the western sky, now seemed one mass of shadow.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26280.65In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94070.65"Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone hearth?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38390.64The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the unveiled panes, her glorious gaze roused me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40010.63The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68140.62Dark as it was getting, I could still see these changes, though but as mere alternations of light and shade; for colour had faded with the daylight.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19120.61Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright: I could see him plainly.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21820.60Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman's shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76200.59I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_93860.58"Very dimly -- each is a luminous cloud."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57430.58The moon shone peacefully.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24970.58It was moonlight and gaslight besides, and very still and serene.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65160.56I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19720.55I lingered at the gates; I lingered on the lawn; I paced backwards and forwards on the pavement; the shutters of the glass door were closed; I could not see into the interior; and both my eyes and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house -- from the grey-hollow filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me -- to that sky expanded before me, -- a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud; the moon ascending it in solemn march; her orb seeming to look up as she left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther below her, and aspired to the zenith, midnight dark in its fathomless depth and measureless distance; and for those trembling stars that followed her course; they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_88850.55I contended with my inward dimness of vision, before which clouds yet rolled.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68280.55The light was yet there, shining dim but constant through the rain.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38920.55And dangerous he looked: his black eyes darted sparks.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25140.55Lifting his eye to its battlements, he cast over them a glare such as I never saw before or since.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68400.55Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50380.55I should have said so, perhaps, but a livid, vivid spark leapt out of a cloud at which I was looking, and there was a crack, a crash, and a close rattling peal; and I thought only of hiding my dazzled eyes against Mr. Rochester's shoulder.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66150.54I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21830.54The dim forehead was crowned with a star; the lineaments below were seen as through the suffusion of vapour; the eyes shone dark and wild; the hair streamed shadowy, like a beamless cloud torn by storm or by electric travail.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81470.53I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending stars, -- every one lit me to a purpose or delight.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11190.52such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1260.52Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6530.52I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting, whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4250.52From this window were visible the porter's lodge and the carriage- road, and just as I had dissolved so much of the silver-white foliage veiling the panes as left room to look out, I saw the gates thrown open and a carriage roll through.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11530.52Some heavy clouds, swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left the moon bare; and her light, streaming in through a window near, shone full both on us and on the approaching figure, which we at once recognised as Miss Temple.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18810.49On the hill-top above me sat the rising moon; pale yet as a cloud, but brightening momentarily, she looked over Hay, which, half lost in trees, sent up a blue smoke from its few chimneys: it was yet a mile distant, but in the absolute hush I could hear plainly its thin murmurs of life.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97950.49He saw nature -- he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words the effect of field, tree, town, river, cloud, sunbeam -- of the landscape before us; of the weather round us -- and impressing by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54930.49As I looked up at them, the moon appeared momentarily in that part of the sky which filled their fissure; her disk was blood- red and half overcast; she seemed to throw on me one bewildered, dreary glance, and buried herself again instantly in the deep drift of cloud.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48110.49CHAPTER XXIII A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68150.49My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5950.49It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, "onding on snaw," canopied all; thence flakes felt it intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17080.82Over the distant landscape hovered what seemed like sparkling floating golden dust, dazzling the eye and mingling the indistinct outlines upon the horizon cf earth and heaven.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29440.76The uniform gray tints of the skies were unbroken by any ray of sunlight.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8000.67There were still long echoing corridors with lofty ceilings and worn floors, where a glimmering twilight reigned even at noonday—the very places where of right some legendary ancestress in gray robes with a pale face and shadowy folded hands should wander noiselessly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36260.64The mysterious struggle within her was made clear to her now,—not by the light of \ heavenly ray revealing a sunny landscape before un suspected, but by a lurid flash of lightning showing her the abyss before her, upon whose brink she was tottering.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34820.59The room was dark and gloomy, but through a crack between the boards the golden light was streaming, and thousands of motes were playing in the pillar of sunshine.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24850.58There a red flame played around the name of ‘Gliick’——the notes of a brilliant cadenza of Gimarosa’s glowed like fiery pcarls,—all, Italian, German, and French, enveloped in the same burning shroud, sunk peacefully to rest.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19620.58The flowers on the carpet bloomed afresh in the magic light, and a million silvery gleams were reflected from the antique chandelier hanging from the centre of the ceiling.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17100.55Single sections of country stood out revealed by the fading rays amid the gathering gloom around, like new and sudden thoughts in some human brain.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22290.54It was not quite dark there,—for the lamps in the rooms in the first and second stories were still burning, and through the high windows long rays of light fell upon the stone pavement, glistening upon the little bubbling fountain in the corner, bringing into sparkling relief various dim panes of glass in other corners, and even casting a pale reflection upon the distant facade of the back building.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17090.54Like grain flung from the hand of the sewer, long rays of light were flung from the setting sun, tipping with ruddy gold the summits of the mountain forests and the blossom-ladcn orchards in the valley.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17450.52Her head was resting upon her arm, which was lying upon the window-sill; the snowy forehead and the glittering splendour of the hair contrasting strangely with the gray stone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7870.52The sparkling sunlight shone all around him, upon the waving palms and grassy plains, -—here God’s light seemed almost T twilight, coming through the narrow grated windows, and there was no green leaf to be seen in the street outside, or anywhere in the house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7930.49There the sun was shining—like a little shadow she flitted swiftly up the winding stone staircase.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36420.49Suspicion that she knew all about the missing silver had already been attuched to her, and now her guilt would be clear as day- light.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35730.49No one knew of what had happened except myself and the last ray of the setting sun which had glided curiously over the golden store.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23500.49What a fearful sight for Felieitas, for whom the last ray of love that had lighted her life was about to be extinguished!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1440.49Her whole soul gazed once more from her beautiful eyes, whose light death would so shortly extinguish.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26950.48And such trouble as we had to clear up his cloudy face new and then!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25130.48"Yes, single sheets.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_980.46For one moment the tall form of the Amazon stood immovable; the smoke of the powder obscured her features; through its thick clouds her armour shone but dimly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_560.44Before she could look up, the window was shut down, and a heavy green eurtain hung in thick folds behind the panes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18000.43In the distant room a huge pile of snowy muslin could be seen upon the ironingtable.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37600.42It may indeed often happen that I shall bring home with me gloomy looks and fr4wns,—but if I can find my Fay there, the frowns will disappear, the gloom be changed to sunshine.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29730.41A piece of clear blue sky hung above the square court-yard—the coltsfoot dried its well-washed leaves in a most refreshing breeze -—the swallows, whose nests were hanging thick under the caves, ‘constantly flew in and out, their shining little backs actually sparkling in the pure warm sunshine.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17120.39The delicious calm of evening brooded over everything, and up here the flowers exhaled their intoxicating fragrance, which in the intense quiet of the air hung caressingly around the vine leaves, yet faint from the warm sun.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13940.39The landing without was flooded with golden sunshine—the girl’s form as she left the darker room stood out like a painting upon a golden background.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37140.39Fay, in the midst of gay conversation and coquettish faces, the lonely girl with her proud bearing and her white brow, bel ind which dwelt such a brave honest spirit, was always by my side wherever we we; t,—o ver hill and dale, she belonged to me; she was the ether half of my life.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3630.38The charming but unveiled form of 9.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15910.38The wondrous loosened masses lay thick upon her shoulders with shining drops of water scattered like pearls here and there among them.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28450.37The gray skies above seemed to bode evil —-and, indeed, this day was to be one of the grayest and gloomiest in Madame’s experience,—it was the day of the reading of the old Mam’se1le’s will.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23030.36What a ray of sunlight upon the path of the despised player’s child!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36080.36Involuntarily Felicitas lifted the book high in air, as if in triumph, and her eyes sparkled,—what prevented her from leaving the little gray box with its terrible contents there upon the writing-table?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19810.36Those three high windows, now glittering silver, had shone on that sad evening long ago—with the golden light of the fairylike illumination within,—and upon that very spot upon the floor where now the moon’s pale ray was sleeping, the wondrously lovely woman had stood unfalteringly before the crowd of spectators and the deadly weapons, —but beneath her breastplate a mother’s heart was throbbing tenderly and anxiously,—for a little child was sleeping lonely at the inn for whom she would Work until—the six shots fell and all was over.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23460.36173 mouth the white curtains of the bed, which fluttered gently like wings in the breeze from the open window, as if they were Waiting to receive and bear aloft the parting soul, lay a pale, pale face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35510.35"Was it the invisible finger of one of these spirits which one day pointed out to me a glittering gold coin upon the ground?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22230.35Her lap was filled with some airy light blue ma154 mm 01.1) 114.1: ’SEL1.E’o" sacrum.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19770.35They had been alone together within four walls, one in the exercise of mercy and eompassion—divided by a deep gulf of hatred and prejudice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15100.35"It looks airy enough to waft the wearers to heaven, were it not for—yes, were it not for such heavy golden bracelets as that one for example, which must inovitably drag its fair possessor to earth again."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31870.33Flying clouds now and then obscured the setting sun, throwing shadows as of huge birds of prey across the paths and lawn,—roseleaves whirled about in the air, and even the still‘ cypress hedges bent like so many stately solemn court-dames.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19740.33On the window-sill was a tall tearose bush,—one exquisite flower, doubly pale in the white moonlight, hung above her snowy brow and glimmering hair.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29110.33May the eyes of others be opened to this dark shadow in the advancing light of our times, ‘and may others aid in exalting and supporting a calling-— at present so often under-rated!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10600.33From behind those grave brows a mighty flood of inspiration broke, and there is no loneli~ ness, no desolation for those who can bathe in it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8160.32Frederika had taken it off of her one evening, and it had vanished, and she had Worn these ugly dark dresses ever since.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19610.31The bright glittering moonlight was bathing the sleeping town,it shone into the long room in the merchant’s house where the old portraits were hanging, touching them with silver, and breathing a strange life into their motionless features.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8100.30One of these stood open, and revealed a room filled with all sorts of old lumber, and lighted by a high dormer Window.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16810.26This low laugh with the strange change in the old Mam’selle’s face, threw for one moment a faint reflex light upon her past life, but no guiding thread appeared in the dark web, and she now exerted herself to destroy any impressicn which her momentary self-forgetfulncss might have made upon Felicitas.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31650.24I think we shall have a storm.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23210.24she was all alone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15850.24Indeed,’—-and what was that for, Adele?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9340.22Perhaps an attentive observer might have noticed less distinetness of outline in the dragons’ heads upon the edge of the roof, but no THE OLD MA1l!’SELLE"S SEUREIZ 62 wonder, they had been shedding heaven’s tears eontinu ally through these long years upon the pavement, below, while in the intervals of their weeping the sun had scorched them with its rays.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2170.87The pale crescent of the moon, which, like some vaporous fleck, had been swallowed up in the glowing sea of colour, reappeared, and began to assume a faint golden hue.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48020.86The silver orb above sailed through cloudless blue, but between heaven and earth hung a light silvery mist that veiled all distinctness of outline.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25800.84Darkness ‘ as of night fell upon everything; the black masses of clouds hung so low that they seemed wellnigh resting upon the tops of the trees.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43860.83A faint red yet glimmered in the west, tinging a few little floating clouds,—the forest lay in deep shadow.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45340.81There was a fire in that direction, and huge volumes of smoke were pouring upwards so thickly that the sparks showed in its pitchy blackness like rockets in a dark night.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19480.80The strip of forest which bordered, as it were, the dark mantle of pines was still light, light as if the dome of dark green had been removed from its shady aisles.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7470.79Meanwhile, the golden-green light of the fading day was Wellnigh extinguished in the woods, and with it the soothing charm of the transparent solitude also vanished.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4850.78She grew cold suddenly in the dim room ; the little flame beneath the tea-kettle had long been extinguished; there was only a feeble red light from the dying embers on the hearth.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44180.77White cloud-like phantoms were hovering hither and thither over the open space beneath,—the mists rising from the damp ground.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42930.76It parted the black cloud hanging overhead, and an intensely yellow light broke the gloom, sparkling dazzlingly upon the window- panes of the opposite houses, and throwing pale, hovering reflections upon the walls and furniture of the darkening room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6950.75Then, for a few seconds, a hedge of mimosa shut out the view, but suddenly opened, disclosing, in startling contrast, a brilliantly-painted Hindoo temple with a gilded dome.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3480.75The red glow was no longer seen outside the windows, but the brilliant light from the drawing-room gleamed over the tempest-swept avenue until long past midnight.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60440.75The smoke-clouds flitted above the silvery summits of the trees, and when the water from the engine sparkled in the air from the midst of the crowds below, the fluttering banners would half disperse, only, to my terror, to expand again more majestically than ever. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17010.75The stars began to twinkle palely in ‘the skies, which were still bright with the dying day, but there they were in the narrow strip of the heavens that showed between the forest on either side of his pathway; just so they had shone down upon his childish head years _ before.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5720.74The ices banished all thought of the heat, and any light from the lreavens was superfluous at this moment, for in a second, as though from a flashing spark of electricity, the Wreaths of stars, lanterns, and torches flamed out and poured their brilliant Waves of yellow light over lake, forest-meadow, and threatening skies.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1560.74I looked, and for a moment it seemed to me that all light and colour vanished from the moor ; the brilliant butterflies folded their wings and fell to the ground, and where were those glittering spears on the horizon ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35050.74The sunlight penetrating, its interior came flashing back in a thousand sparkling rays, dazzling the eyes that looked on.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18350.73Without, golden sparks were gleaming and dancing on the surface of the little lake.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2190.73But, forest fairy as you are, you know all about the sun, for your head is covered with its beams."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56030.73There was no need of the lanterns of the attendant servants; the clouds had vanished from the sky, and through the naked branches of the poplar grove grotesque streaks of silver light fell upon the snowy plain.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10900.73Where the illumination threw its fiery glare upon the skies a black tu- multuous mass of clouds was revealed, with here and there pale white peaks and domes, big with hail.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18070.71The long, gleaming lines that marked the corridors vanished, and left not a trace upon the night.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33760.71The old ruins did not seem half so desolate from within as from without; the blue heavens peeped in everywhere, and the fresh breeze swept through as often as it would.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_440.71The chestnuts before the window had long since shed their last leaf; every opening left in the tracery of their boughs formed a rural landscape picture, each lovelier than the other, although for the moment the dark December sky dimmed the lustre that was reflected from the little lake, and veiled in misty gloom the hazy purple of the distant mountain-tops.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15930.69Thero he sat by the carping old man, looking after the blue rings of smoke that floated out of the window from his cigar to mingle with the last golden rays of the setting sun.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12110.69The gentle breeze of evening had long since folded its wings,—you could have counted the shadows of the linden leaves upon the moonlit earth, so distinct and motionless they lay.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47510.69There she comes, calm and pale as a cool moonlit night," she said.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46570.69But the night waned, and the dawn peeped in at the windows,—he never, never came.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7930.68Outside, the snow-clouds were rent asunder and the stars glittered down upon the wintry earth.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7670.68The glass dome of the conservatory swam before her eyes, the ground beneath her seemed unsteady.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16780.68The light grew brighter, and at last, to our astonishment, we saw that it streamed from two high illuminated windows.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44420.68the dark curtains from the windows ; the blessed sunlight fell full upon his bed, and a veil seemed to fall from his eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23460.68In the glorious eyes there was now not a ray of consciousness: they rolled wildly hither and thither beneath the half-closed eyelids.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33400.68And then a violent storm would arise some midnight,—a mighty crash would come, and the rays of the rising sun would wander for the first time over walls and floors that they had never touched before.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53620.67A clear, starry sky canopied the silent park, the single groups of trees could be distinguished, and the mirror of the pond gleamed like dull silver through a misty veil.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39930.67The sun was low in the heavens; its declining rays bathed in purple and gold the clouds, the dark forest of firs in the distance, and the encircling water on either side of the hill.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11290.67"Look, child, a moment ago it nestled amid the branches among its fellows, now its outspread wings gleam like silver, and it hangs in the blue, lonely firmament a shining spectacle for mortal eyes to gaze upon.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12100.67Single rays shot like silver arrows between interlacing boughs, and lay motionless like oases of light upon the dim meadow, until at last the moon arose, large and victorious, above the tops of the trees, and its full lustre flooded the landscape.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_30.66Who, in face of the storm-clouds that were scurrying and tossing between earth and sky, could remember the unchang- ing light of the sparkling stars shining behind all that tempest with a splendour as radiant as ever flooded the most cloudless, fragrance-breathing night in May?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_120.66Bright and sunny as the eastern wing was, peaceful as it looked with its lofty, quiet windows, it was nevertheless the dismal scene of a conflict,—a ghostly conflict, that must go on forever.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22420.66The sky still arched hard and cloudless like an inverted blue glass bowl above the thirsty earth, but the distant horizon line of the forest had lost its sharpness.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44630.65At this moment a strong draught of air extinguished the torch, which had burnt only dimly, and all was enveloped in darkness.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40420.65Their beams were all the light she had had there until dawn, for the wind had extinguished the lamps as soon as they were lit.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58330.65A dazzling white light lay broad upon the spacious gardens.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11490.65A white wavering object attracted his glance to the low roof.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17980.64Thank Heaven, I shall never be bored by dilettante airs !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56020.64A gay flag was floating above its roof.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66720.64Above the strip of woodland the flaming spikes of the evening glow shot upward to the zenith, it would storm agam ou ita morrow : it was as if the tempest meant to intetpo^ * \wxtit ^or^tora.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22440.64And as they increased and stretched long arms into the overarching blue, seeming to try to clutch boldly at the glowing disk of the sun, the vvatcher’s impatience also increased; if she were belated until the storm was imminent, he should not see her to-day.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9680.63A lamp hanging from the ceiling threw a dim, dreamy light, through a coloured glass shade, around the child's bedroom.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43090.63It was already twilight beneath the oaks, although a golden light illumined their topmost boughs, and played upon the gray roof of the tower.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12090.63Meanwhile a light arose behind the trees, which had blended undistinguishably with the dark heavens, but which now stood out in strong relief against the bright background.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4250.63These prep- arations for a brilliant illumination might, indeed, look rather meagre and poor in the light of the last rays of the setting sun, but when once all those wreaths of starry lights and the many-coloured lanterns gleamed in the darkness of the summer night, the old forest must surely think that the gnomes had transported from under ground a strip of fairy-land to dazzle the timid Dryads withal.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1740.62Her face was always lily-pale, and her eyes often shone with a glow that seemed born of southern skies.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7250.62The sky with its sparkling stars made a striking background for the powerful outline of her figure.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60430.62burning; the bed was in deep shadow, but the ojrcn space outside the window was all the brighter for the contrast.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37260.62The moon had risen, but it was behind a mountain of cloud, to whose jagged edges it gave a silver lining.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3190.62he heard only the crescendo of that wild melody, and saw only the light that, streaming from an uncurtaincd window of one of the towers, lay upon the snow outside, showing the shadow in flickering outlines of the grated window.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24220.62The greenish light through sunny tree-tops had vanished utterly; the forest lay dark and motionless beneath the gathering storm as though it and all that it contained were holding their breath in terror.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_180.61For one moment there was a lull in the storm, and the snow fell quietly, sparkling and dancing in the long, feeble rays of light that streamed from her lantern.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52910.61She looked through her window into the rosy heavens; she watched the swallows, their white breasts and wings looking like silver crosses floating among the pink evening clouds.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5140.61The green lattice-work that had obscured the window had vanished.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45810.61Only from Helena’s chamber window gleamed a faint light.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7880.61The glassy surface of the lake, which had hitherto placidly reflected the light, was now broken by myriads of sparkling ripples; there was a faint, low Whisper through the tree-tops, and the flames from the torches, which had burned perfectly straight and steadily, flickered restlessly.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48050.60Nevertheless, she turned from the scene with a shiver ; the dense shade and the leaden glassy surface of the water had a ghostly air.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39810.60A lamp with a pink shade was burning upon the table ; its rosy light faintly tinged the folds of satin.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60130.60The fiery tongues of flame burst from the windows of the library behind me, and clouds of smoke floated away over the tops of the trees. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22430.60Mists seemed rising there; they swelled and grew, peeping variform above the tree-tops, —the first clouds for so many days!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18690.60Day after day the sun had risen and set in blue cloudless skies, and the atmosphere and the earth had become thoroughly heated.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45190.60in a flash it was a burning crater, vomiting forth with a noise like thunder a cloud of pitchy vapour into the serene skies.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36070.60In one of the huge conservatories of which the Prin- cess had that evening spoken, a light was burning, two large globe lamps flung a crimson light abroad upon the night.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40940.60How I hated that lake, the shining group of marble figures in its midst, and the trees which approaching autumn had begun to tint here and there with yellow 1 I gazed at it all with a throbbing heart, my tears were prisms for the dazzling play of colour. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27380.59The last ray of evening light still touched those full, heavy rings, and they gleamed like the red metal so jealously guarded by the gnomes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9880.59The curtains, emerald-green in the bright morn- ing dawn, were caught back to the wall, letting the breeze sweep across the bed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53270.59It is not light at the Dierkhof ; the panes in the windows are thick and dull, the sun only peeps through them, and the Fleet is always in twilight, al- V 322 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11560.59Without, behind the uncurtained bow-windows, reigned profound darkness, only broken now and then by a livid flash of lightning from the tempest Which, in fact, was now subsiding.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46580.59The rosy light of a glorious morning shone upon Villa Baumgarten, making the broken window-panes glitter and shine.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38120.59The air came sweeping in, heavy with damp, to dim the lustre of the glittering satin.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4670.59The girl stood out as against a golden background, in the midst of the sunny, lonely landscape.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42940.59It had absorbed the azure of the sky, and lay a giant sapphire of spotless purity.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2610.58From afar came the crowing of the cock, which, with his six hens, resided in a corner of the ruined cloisters, and above the curling smoke from the chimney circled Heinemann’s white doves, glittering against the blue sky like silver spangles.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40930.58But at last the sad, the dreaded day arrived ; it touched with burning gold from the unveiled sun the summits of the forest trees, and looked up from the pure blue of the little lake.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13830.58My eyes, accustomed only to the uniform grayish-brown or purple of the moorland, roamed in utter bewilderment over the sea of colour that actually flooded the wide space before me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13450.58This marble made the place delightfully cool, but it was all in shadow, pervaded by a dim, religious light that even the sunshine that streamed in at the top of the stairs could not brighten. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12190.58In the dwelling-room above, the lamp was burning; in spite of the bright moonlight, its beams were distinctly visible, for the front of her home lay in deep shade.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27480.58The waves that last evening had received into their depths the rejected ring were far on their way towards the distant ocean; they alone could tell of the treacherous white hands that had burst asunder an oppressive chain.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15240.58Its subdued light made it seem almost gloomy in contrast with the other brilliantly lighted apartments, and the dark crimson of its hangings deepened to black in remote corners.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48010.58It was a warm, moonlit night.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65940.58They were all there still, the flitting shadows on the ceiling told me that.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30400.58It was like thunder out of a clear sky.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28180.58millions of tiny pearls.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47560.58Now the sun will shine brightly there.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5830.57Quite ready to start, he had just lit a cigar,, and the blue rings of smoke were wafted almost to the open window. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43780.57Around her were grouped the mighty monarchs of the forest, their topmost boughs still tipped here and there by the fading western light.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25650.57The softened light of a night-lamp gleamed from the windows of the sick-room: the struggle was not yet ended.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4310.57Not a leaf stirred; the surface of the lake, usually broken by ripples, was smooth as molten lead in its entire circumference,-—and the last light of the sun was diffused like a tawny glow over the sky.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5650.57The sisters walked in the deep twilight, caused by the closed shutters, through iU entire length to the extreme end, where a few rays of day- light, hovering about in a dim, ghostly way, showed pale reflections on the smooth, shining marble floor.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1170.56Behind the dark line of forest they shot upward through the va* porous mist and fleecy clouds the giants of eld were circling the wide moor, and touching the skies with their glittering spears.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22200.56Pacing quietly out of the dark silence of the forest into the uncertain twilight beneath the starlit sky, horse and rider assumed gigantic propor- tions and a certain mysterious air of solemnity.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1710.56Here only two windows on the ground-floor were illuminated; a hanging lamp between the crimson curtains of one of them gleamed out into the darkness, bathing in rosy light the white limbs of a marble nymph by a fountain in the grove.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_50.56Within there was glow and sparkle enough, but the light was of that dismal brilliancy which is emitted by a gigantic flame guided and controlled by human hands.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1860.56The sun was just rising in the eastern sky, and shot his rays upon the earth in splendid amazement at the diamonds with which she had adorned herself during his absence.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10.56The rays of a December sun shone dimly into a room in the large castle mill, calling forth feeble sparks of light from the strange objects lying on the broad stone window-sill, and then vanishing in a bank of snow-clouds that were rising slowly but steadily in the west.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18470.55A soft twilight is already falling upon the forest-house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53100.55Henriette’s eyes wandered to the evening sky.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2380.55There was still light enough to see the green of the well-cultivated meadows, and a faint glimmer of gold behind the garden-fence, like a lingering reflection of the tinted sunset sky.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27520.55Then the lonely figure had stood out in the.morning light as against a golden background; now the afternoon sunshine was glowing dark crimson upon the drenched meadows.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25140.55Twilight already reigned in the hall, which looked towards the north, but in the kitchen the last red gleam from the west played upon the walls and fell upon the red tiled floor.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38610.55She raised the shade in the window of the blue boudoir and looked out ; it had grown quite dark, and the light of the lamp behind her was reflected from the pools of water col- lected upon the gravel-path in front of the window, and showed thsm in tremulous motion with the steadily-falling rain.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_270.55The soul of a hero certainly did not inform the owner of the little brown feet, they made one spring for the shore, how ridiculous 1 All above the moor the evening sky shone rosy-red; a cloud dissolving in bright flame was hovering over the little pool, hence the flaming nimbus, and the eyes ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_980.54Her white reflection floated like swan's-down upon the glassy sur- face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48370.54The day that began to glimmer faintly behind the treetops should usher in a new life for me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13030.54There still hangs a veiling mist of tears over that sunny morning of my departure.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16840.54At Castle Lindhof numberless lights were flitting to and fro like will-o’-the-wisps.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55590.54And now a flickering flame seemed creeping towards her from the perfumed envelope lying near her elbow.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3720.54At last the shutter yielded with a crash; the golden-green sunlight streamed in through a high bow-window and disclosed an apartment not broad, but very deep, the walls of which were hung with Gobelin tapestry.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23460.54A fairy land, full of golden promise, was revealed before her; her enchanted eyes gazed rapturously upon the fair landscape,—but never, never might she tread that magic ground, for nothing could bridge the abyss at her feet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47040.54Like, the maiden in the fairy-tale, sprinkled with gold from the magic tree, the pale, beautiful woman stood there in yellow satin from which the dazzling gas-light was reflected in a metallic gleam of colour. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11600.53As they emerged from the gloom of the pathway, involun tarily she looked in the priest's face; it was calm, almost stony.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_730.53Barbe cleared her throat, and cast a stolen glance towards the Windows of the eastern wing.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5170.53A delicate golden mist veiled the level landscape and obscured the ducal castle.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7020.53Use had alluded to a coming storm, but the starry canopy above the moor could not be more entirely clear from clouds than at present.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1160.53I had to shade my eyes with both hands, the crimsou rays of the setting sun blazed so fiercely.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4960.531 " I think not," she replied, retreating a little, as though to avoid the blue circles of smoke that suddenly floated about her head.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24100.53the clouds were rising, and here and there gray threads of mist detached themselves from the dark compact mass.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6240.53As soon as the last rays of the setting sun had faded from the tree-tops, Elizabeth sat down at the piano.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2960.53There, above the tops of the trees, she could see a black streak, which stood out distinctly against the clear blue sky.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1470.53The feeble glimmer of the mill-lights which accompanied him for a few steps of the way vanished behind him, and he went on alone in the black darkness.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5150.53Over it all arched the blue sky, only now and then traversed by a bird in its swift flight, clear as crystal, as far above the earth, with its blooming growth and mouldering decay, as are the thoughts of the Most High above human dreaming and striving; but on the distant horizon it met the swelling mountain-range and melted into it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45180.53Silence reigned again; no sound was heard but the faint flapping of the doves’ wings; those graceful sailors of the air were floating in the crimson evening light, slipping through the interstices of the mural crown of the tower as it showed clear against the western sky—No, it was no mural crown!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1610.53The bright pictures on the walls, the heavy portières of violet velvet, the chandeliers of gilded bronze with their gas-lights shining through pearly glass shades, stood out in relief against the surrounding blackness of the winter night like a scene upon some fairy stage.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18690.53Gradually a silver light floods forest, house, and meadow; the moon rises large and full.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27390.53He shaded his eyes with his hand against the red gold of the setting sun, which had just broken forth, and looked eagerly towards the distant thicket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38760.52The sun shone with a burning glare upon the garden, as if greedy to absorb all the blue water of the little lake, that lay colourless and dull in its marble frame.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25390.52Beneath its grace- ful arches the clear, bright water flowed with as soft and musical a murmur as that of the dear moorland stream behind the Dierkhof.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_210.52The blue sky that shone through the parted busnes was given back from the water in a hard, steely gray, a dull background for the girlish figure.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_560.52But dark as were the heavens above the struggling pair, one star rose quietly among the black clouds and seemed not unlikely to indemnify them by its radiance for all the storms with which fickle fortune had overwhelmed them.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4310.52As she entered the sick-room, the close, heated atmosphere of which was filled with smoke, she saw in the dim light that penetrated the old green glass of the window a man standing with his back towards her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44630.52Behind the shadowy outlines of the roses on the window curtains, the panes, against which the rain dashed in torrents, rattled unceasingly, even the roseate glow of the pink gauze draperies was quenched in the gathering gloom.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27350.51There she lay, immovable, for more than an hour, among the blue cushions, her left hand beneath her head, watching the shining folds of satin on the opposite wall mirror all the hues of the setting sun, from glowing crimson to pale, glim- mering gold.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15240.51But glimmering among the deep shade of the trees the fountains leaped and shone here and there with a magic gleam, as a ray from the brilliant ball-room sparkled upon the falling drops,—and when the blaring trumpet tones were silent for a moment, the waters murmured and whispered amid the sad story, as if they too remembered how the grave, melancholy man, upon Whose brow death had set its seal, had passed by them for the last time.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15210.49He pointed out to his breathless, silent listener, the high prominent rock upon the mountain’s side, where the noblest heart in the World had fought its last mortal fight,-7-the night was now clear - and starry,—the bold outline of the bare white rock stood out in the darkness, and high above it gleamed the millions of silver spangles withwhich the veil of night is sprinkled.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43540.49Wher ever her glance rested there was desolation ; the Hindoo temple alone shone brighter and more golden after its bath of rain, and the pond sparkled smooth and blue at its feet, as if it had not played the part of a false friend a few hours before, and tossed its mimic waves into the very vestibule of the building.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4320.49Ah 1 Then in one at least of these heads there is a spark of sense, a weak glimmer of just pride of position I" She laughed contemptuously, and hurled the heavy volume from her with such violence that it crashed through one of the panes of glass and fell upon the pavement of the terrace outside. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5120.49The morning sun lay brightly upon its hoary head, the brazen tongue of which—the bell that had once sounded its summons over forest and hill—had long before been hurled into the depths below by infuriated peasants.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40670.49She grew quite cheerful as the yellow tint produced by their long imprisonment faded into spotless white beneath her skilful hands and the bleaching rays of the sun ; but she had very little time to spare for me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43050.49Never had the fairy structure seemed to her so aristocratically unapproachable as to-day in the golden light of morning, the gay flag waving from the roof,—a fluttering sign of welcome floating on the air.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51850.49A crimson floating mist seemed to fill the room, hideously distorting with its waving clouds the coun- tenance of the Hofmarschall, as he sat opposite her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4780.49The stateliest drawing-room was used as a granary ; all the window-shutters were closed, and where a ray of light penetrated some chink it fell upon dust and desolation everywhere.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60580.49By degrees the crowd without dispersed; it grew quieter, and the hissing of the stream of water, still directed now and then towards the burned apartment, struck more sharply upon the ear.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48890.49The Indian garden lay before her, as strange and weird be- neath the silvery moon as upon the first evening of her stay in Schbnwerth, but what a contrast between now and then !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40380.49The morning sky laughed blue and cloudless above the ill- used earth, and the tossed trees again stood quiet and upright.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37980.49The moon was stealing through those mysterious apartments upon silvery feet ; but the hanging-lamp in the room of the grim old fanatic below would not tremble.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2160.49The false tinsel of a transient spectacle vanished, and the solemn heavens extended their dark-blue canopy above the earth.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37760.49She grew a little more quiet, that is, the fearful tension of her nerves relaxed somewhat, when the first beam of morning light pierced the curtains of her room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6990.49The black darkness of the room grew lighter, and I became quieter, all actual terror of the darkness vanished.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67200.49I mistook the fire of passion for that pure, starry gleam that your coming, my darling, first shed upon my life.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57080.49She took the shade from the globe of the lamp upon the tea-table, that its light might fall full upon Lothar's picture.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47530.49They were mirrored in the puddles of rain on the pavement, and showed how dark and threatening were the clouds that still overhung the city.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23970.49He had come to the door and pointed with his pipe towards the sky, where the sun was just vanishing completely behind the dark masses of cloud.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41900.49My sisters have at length opened my blinded eyes, and revealed to me in a dazzling vista the ’happiness’ to which I have been destined.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2260.49All is so still upon the moor, The warm noon sun above it beaming/' he declaimed, with disdainful pathos. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6710.49He looked as though the glare ascended from his cheeks, and in a broad band of light spread across his brow.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5740.49The crimson curtain rolled up,—— there lay Titania, reposing with her attendant fairies.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44400.49No; that light came from below, and penetrating quickly farther and farther into the forest, faintly tinged the boughs above with its rays.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15170.49She met his gaze for an instant; the ice had all melted, and was replaced by a wondrous radiance.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53980.49To which of those golden orbs had the spirit of her sister been borne upon the rosy evening air?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6980.49As the wire gauze ended, the scene vanished without a trace.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46250.49The silvery-white robe glimmering like moonlight 204 THE SECOND WIF&.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58340.49The disk of the moon was clearly cut against the cold, glassy sky.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38010.49She gazed steadily at the glistening panes and shrugged her shoulders. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12500.49We have scrubbed and aired and warmed the rooms, but have altered nothing; we are not rich enough for that, and indeed there is no need of it."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31250.48The shadow upon Mainau's brow had vanished.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7060.48She turned away from the sunlit expanse and looked northward.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30350.48the courtyard is too gloomy and mast be changed !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28670.48how those odious blue glasses glared after him!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11580.48"Do you see that perpendicular black streak just above the forest there?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30870.48"You must be cold-blooded indeed to be so calm in the midst of all this.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23370.48The glowing sunset gradually paled.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21010.48At last they emerged upon the sunny open fields.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9070.48Stifling clouds of incense, through which the light of the candles sent feeble rays, and the declining sun beams of glistening gold, were wafted among the pillared aisles; as through a mist Liana saw the bowed heads around her, the crimson silken cushion upon which lay the white folded hands af the Hofmarschall, and the gorgeous vestments of the offici- ating priest glimmering down from the steps of the altar.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34750.48The tea-table was spread, and in its midst stood the large lamp, with a green shade over the* glass globe, its light but scantily illumining the huge room ; the furniture against the walls looked shapeless and strange, and in the corners scarcely a ray of light penetrated ; but around the fireplace the burning logs threw a bright gleam upon the polished florr.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11250.48A flood of light streamed from the open doors of the saloons; a stormy polonaise drowned the muttering of the distant thunder, and the forms that had just hurried in silence and dread through the murky night, were gliding over the polished floors, chattering with undiminished gaiety, their elegant costumes no whit disordered by their hurried retreat from the tempest.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1380.48Well, yes, that may be.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7210.48came within the range of my vision. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60900.48367 my range of vision.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56040.48The moon had risen.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_490.48in bright daylight?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1570.48The sun was setting, that was all.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21840.48It actually gleams in the sunlight!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8260.48And she, too, appeared quite willing to allow her light to shine.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46050.48No one means to take her from you!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11650.48In the milk-white lotus-blossom suspended from the ceiling of the adjoining sea-room, a dim light was burning, it shed a. pale ray like moonlight over the green magic, around the white limbs of the Water-gods, and the beautiful but evil picture of the Countess Voldern.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19870.47The huge, ragged leaves of a palm threw a half- shadow upon the reclining figure, while in the distant back ground the sunlight glittered upon the marble steps of the Hindoo temple and the shimmering waters of the little lake.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29030.47Although he was Herr Glaudius, whom I detested, he certainly had remarkably fine eyes ; they affected me like the cloudless sky at noonday, that stretches above us soft and mild, and yet if we attempt to gaze into it steadily, our eyelids droop beneath its glowing fire.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40060.47She never liked this corner; she could not understand how the rich man could endure it night and day beneath his feet; and when her fancy conjured up the ghostly ancestress of the Von Baumgartens gliding hither and thither with her gleaming torch, she shuddered with horror.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46270.47The jewelled fan in her hand seemed to scatter a fire of brilliant sparks, and the airy folds of yellow gauze floated upon the heavy satin train like a shadowy mist gilded by the sun.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17520.47It was growing quite dark ; the low reed roof of the cot was undistinguishable amid the rose-trees, and only upon the golden dome of the temple did there linger a reflection of the fading light. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27500.46He with whom she had so often wandered along meadow paths in brilliant sunshine, and past gloomy abysses in storm and rain, was with her,—the one who had so often aroused within her joyous presentiments, and who had expressed in immortal harmonies all the loftiest and most sacred aspirations of her nature,—who was as dear and familiar to her as her mother’s face, although her gaze fell dazzled by the fiery glories which wreathed his majestic head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38350.46Through the ruby glass of the door of the corridor the light threw a crimson stain upon his white palm, and a red gleam shot from the brilliant upon his finger.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4600.46He had just lighted a cigar, and blue clouds of smoke were chasing away the fragrance of lavender and thyme, which the morning breeze had Wafted in from the Frau Oberforstmeisterin’s herbgarden.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13380.46All the windows of the lower story on the south side, which had so long been dark and closed behind their white shutters, now reflected the sunlight in a long, shining row.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58430.46The lamp was still burning upon the writing-table, but across the ceiling a shadow passed rapidly to and fro : it wa3 my father, he seemed more restless and agitated than ever.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43720.46Gradually her song died away, and soon the gentle breeze wafted only the tolling of the bell to the ears of the lonely girl upon the roof of the tower.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9890.45Behind the glass panes no light was to be seen except where the lamp from her salon sent forth a yellow gleam into the obscurity of the columned walk outside.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32310.45It almost seemed as if the thunder-clouds without had in- vaded the apartment and were hanging from the ceiling, so oppressive was the twilight that reigned in the spacious room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53420.45The next morning, when a pale, cold sunbeam fell across my bed, the delightful rision vanished to thinnest air.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_260.45The very shadow of the girl, as she bent forward, grew to be a gloomy well whence two huge horror-stricken eyes glared up at her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11790.45I fled with my overflowing heart to the solitary mound, and gazed up with aching eyes into the clear, blue sky.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_90.45The windows of the huge buildings, seen from without, were only dully illuminated; but a volume of light streamed upward from the chimney, as it now and then emitted millions of sparks, which glittered like stars, flung by some daring hand up toward the vaulted sky, and then fell back and were extinguished in the darkness,—as inef fectual against its blackness as are human thoughts to break the seven seals of the mystery by which we are encompassed.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38170.44She would not remain a single night beneath the roof of him who had believed her capable of infidelity, who had declared that she was lost.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_320.44But Spits, who had been stretched lazily and sleepily in the cool shade, took a more tragic view of the affair.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14700.44She plays so deliciously that I entreat her to make us forget the gray and gloomy skies above us this afternoon.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27300.44The menacing clouds in the skies had dissolved in blessings and benefits, and the mysterious door was wide, wide open; but still he paced the room to and fro in exciting suspense, as he had done two hours since.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5190.44Behind these nearest summits towered countless ranges in the blue misty light, and from a distant, dim valley which separated two giant mountains, arose two slender, shadowy gothic towers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18070.44"The most brilliant rocket vanishes and leaves not a trace in the air, while the fiery heart of Vesuvius throbs and glows,—the world knows of its burning core, and exults or trembles when the flames leap forth.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44040.44The crescent moon was reigning in the skies, where all the other shining wanderers appeared and went their way, never heeding that their sister planet, the earth, careering in space with them, contained millions of little worlds, each inclosing in its sphere heights and depths, tossing waves with their ebb and flow, mighty storms, and only too rarely a sacred repose.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43300.44The keen, incorruptible intellect of his second wife had thrown a torchlight glare into the dim obscu- rity of the past; but a still more intense light shone from this quiet face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7990.43It seemed to me that my soul floated off into space upon the tones that came full and free from my 6reast.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26770.43Yes, that’s the sight for me," the farmer said, stretching out his hand towards the glittering, swimming landscape.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4280.43A crimson curtain was arranged before the trunks of several mighty oaks, so that at a given moment it could be raised and vanish among the foliage, revealing the motionless forms of youth and beauty in the midst of natural decorations,—an idea which artistic taste had helped to carry out.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14600.43The muffled tick of the old clock against the wall sounded like a measured subterranean knocking, and through the thick green curtain before the glass of the closed door of the recess the night-lamp at Susie’s bedside glowed like the eye of some gloomy gnome.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5680.43The broad sunlight fell full upon the pictured image of a reverend old man seated by a table, upon which rested one firm, white hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17930.43The music still crashed and thundered from the ball-room, and the light still flamed from the candles that had been lighted at the command of the man who was now wandering there a beggar and an outcast.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43790.43Far in the distance gleamed a strip of light,—there lay L—— with its lofty castle, whose long rows of windows glittered for a few moments, and then disappeared in gloom.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35820.43A slender ray of the setting sun touched a ruby pane in the little window and threw a bloody stain upon the name "Lila," on the lid of the coffin.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32790.43All the gay brilliant dreams which had hovered around her path through the forest now folded their wings and vanished beneath the searching gaze of her awakened consciousness.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24710.43She could distinctly perceive this movement, as just at that spot the trees separated, and encircled a light spot of grass which shone like an oasis in the dark forest.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8410.42The noonday sun had been hot upon the old grave-stones, and the young leaves were stirring in their sheaths, longing for light and air.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9820.42The rustling oak boughs were tipped with ruddy gold, and the little panes in the gable window of the Dierkhof began to glitter.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52660.42I repent, bitterly repent, the moment when I thought to surround you, beneath my care, with a purer atmos- phere," he continued, with the same emphasis. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_220.42Suddenly wreaths of glowing vapour floated above her in the mirror, in- credible as it was, they arose unmistakably from the curling rings of her hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18050.42The Minister’s eye rested for one moment upon the fiery cube of the castle, that glimmered, a fairy-like illumination through the whispering leaves.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14430.42The brooding sunshine lay white and glittering upon the baked pavement of the deserted yard, where no rain had fallen for many days.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4470.42"And at last it began to be whispered that he was busy with magic and the black art up there, and no one dared to go near the castle even at high noon, let alone the dark night.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49420.42He had also been able so to dazzle the eyes of those with whom he had dealings by the splendour of the golden cloud in which he enveloped himself, that the dark side of his schemes and speculations never was evident to them.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14860.42The night wind of spring refreshed her hot cheeks, and stars filled the clear sky with glittering arabesques.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45830.42There above the trees the thick vapour rolled lazily and heavily upwards, painting the heavens far and near in dull ashen gray, and here before the house, with its shattered window-panes, the orange-trees were overturned upon the lawn, where the water trickled and flowed in little rills, to gather in pools in the deep furrows cut by the fire-engines.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9920.42There was no motion in the figure ; it was only the shade cast by the column.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24540.42First the steer, basking lazily in the sun, was chased away.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15980.42Uncle Hormarschall would still have been staring from the windows THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66240.42The smoky picture of Charles the Great looked down unchanged upon me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57520.42The Princess's face suddenly became white as snow.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53140.42he said, the light in his eyes chasing their previous gloom. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37940.42The moon hung clear and full above the villa.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17150.42She had probably, wearied and heated, taken refuge there in the shade for a moment.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25360.42Has not my happy star risen to-day in my heavens?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53960.42That this was the colour she would give to what had taken place was clear as the stars above.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5290.42Gradually a comfortable warmth was diffused by the stove.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27510.41The flower-crowned heads ranged against the walls, the lorgnettes and spectacles which, glittering in the sunlight, shot their lightning directly upon the lonely performer in the midst of the saloon, all vanished.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6680.41There gleamed the little lake, and above the fishers , cots circled a flock of white pigeons, all else looked calm and lonely.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4080.41In the cold gray light of morning his face looked changed: he seemed to Claudine to have grown years older in the last two months.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9270.41A couple of lofty pear-trees and a beautiful mountain-ash cast a cool shade around him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66000.41When I emerged upon the boundless plain, when upon one side I saw the Hun's grave looming up against the evening sky, and the light in the Dierkhof twinkled afar through the gloaming, while Spitz's familiar bark sounded, deadened by distance, on my ear, I threw myself down upon the dry moorland stubble and wept bitterly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26630.40I was reminded of a white-topped storm-cloud, as I looked at him, so stern and menacing was his countenance beneath the silvery gleam of his uncovered hair, as he rapidly advanced towards us.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_70.40% A dazzling ray of crimson light streamed forth from themass of fire on the hearth, and illuminated the bare freestone walls and the moist and blackened faces of the workmen.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16920.40The windows of the corner room were still ourtained as closely as upon the previous day, but bright light was streaming out into the gathering darkness from a window upon the northern side.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3020.40The wind, which had gradually risen to a tempest, rattled at the window-frame, and in the red light cast upon the bare, tossing branches outside, by the lamp hanging in the other window, the crimsoned snow-flakes whirled madly hither and thither like the tormenting thoughts in his own brain.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55790.39Bathed in the light of concealed gas- jets, the green melted into a thousand tints, from the phosphorescent hue of early spring to the deepest hem- lock shade; the conservatory lay in the midst of the dimly gleaming field of snow like a cluster of emeralds upon white velvet. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17600.39A gray, ghostly twilight crept in at the broafl window, inscribing in dark outlines a giant cross upon the oaken floor, and enveloping the speaker, whose voice rang all the changes from tones of gay self-disdain to those of angry contempt. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8610.39Just then, when the second wife by this act took possession, as it were, of her domain, did not the "fluttering, airy souF* that ought to thave flown to heaven on "angel wings," rise to the blue satin ceiling with an indignant sigh?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40.39Human Voices and smoke were too much for the sly depredator, too much for the sailor of the crystal ether; he circled wildly about, and at last vanished, as if blown away like an air-bubble, while a shrill, childish hurrah was shouted after him.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53450.39The fluttering vine-leaves at the window stirred, as if lightly touched, and the rosy light in the sky, in which the parting soul had longed to bathe, suddenly glowed to deepest crimson.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9710.39His slumbers were unwatched, although a bronze angel spread its gold-gleaming wings above his bed and held back the curtain with both hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66790.39The dark object tottered on,- the crimson evening light illumined it : it was certainly the very same old vehicle that had brought the physician to my grandmother's death-bed.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18060.39Then the chandeliers in the ball-room were darkened, and busy hands extinguished the myriads of candles that had lighted a féte so'terribly interrupted.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22100.39A pale bluish gleam issued from these windows, a magic light as fascinating and attractive to him as to the swarm of fluttering moths and gnats.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9280.39Behind the closely-drawn curtains she had not noticed that the full moon was high in the heavens outside.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50130.39She might have been a phantom Undine from the depths of the lake, come to bear thither some mortal lover.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16590.39In their eyes there was not a trace of the lightning-flash that speaks of sympathy and mutual understanding.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63770.39The green stuff curtains at the windows admitted a mild, pleasing light.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25540.39But he had been in a dark dress when I had seen him an hour before with my father, and then, too, a brilliant gleam had flashed upon me from the thicket.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7480.39The black shadows creeping among the trees dimmed alike the souls of men.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40.39The gas lamps were an excellent substitute for those heavenly lights which would not make their appearance.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55580.39The sheets had seemed to burn beneath her touch, but she had dutifully read them through that she might not seem ill-natured.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41070.39In that air, filled with pretence and gold-dust, no healthy thought or feeling can survive.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33460.39"I also know that the sun of princely favour has suddenly shone full upon him in a most unexampled fashion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25970.39Cheek and brow were crimson, as if he had been walking far and fast beneath a noonday sun.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19020.39The lamp was usually shining brightly through the windows of the corner room, clearly illuminating the bridge.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17860.39Although the mean tallow candle gave forth but a feeble ray, illumina ting in the twilight of the apartment only the White face of the young girl, the pale starry blossoms in her hair, and here and there the shimmer of the rich satin of her robe, the tall mirror reflected a figure which, in its proud bearing and the seductive charm of its faultless outlines, could not certainly be likened to a lonely modest wood anemone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44210.39Forth from the billows of mist floated the shadowy forms of the nuns buried under these walls, their features pale and passionless, their desolate hearts stilled within their long-flowing robes, and their waxen brows, beneath their white bands, haunted no longer by restless doubts and longings.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46870.38Too much gas-light here, and too many people!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35800.38Her stately figure took upon it new dignity. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26670.38as true as the sun shines above us !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6860.38CHAPTER V. It was close and warm there.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59580.38The moonlight flooded all the place.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39970.38I only know that he sparkled and shone, and they told us he was an officer.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28220.38" All the other house is cold and gloomy.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12000.38But its flame is extinguished in my breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25750.38And now I will go forth in God’s name; I may find some trace of her in the forest."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22320.38These were startling side-lights.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45680.38A torch glimmered through the thicket.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53790.38I know—I know that your clear, just insight may be dimmed for a while; but this cannot last.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27420.38The morning was clear and beautiful.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25310.38Did it never fade, although its ideal were shattered?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10890.38Fierce blasts of wind in swift succession swept across the lake, and tossed the ripples, shining redly in the torchlight, so high upon the damp shore that the satin-shod feet of the ladies recoiled in dismay.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47930.38Her glance grows sad for a moment, and tears fill her eyes, as they rest upon a lofty gilded cross, glimmering among the trees upon the shore of the lake,—beneath those rustling boughs Helene has slept for a year.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4330.38He was an invited guest, but he was not one of these people, who were all, without exception, bent upon amusement; his gloomy, brooding countenance cast a shadow around it like the rising thunder-clouds on the distant horizon.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_40.38Who ever thought of moonlight, or the gentle beams of stars, within those four grim walls, that stood out in their naked ugliness in the midst of the gloom, defying the blast which swept by them powerless to injure?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4320.38He seemed to himself like a hermit who, withdrawn to his lonely mountain-top, is scarcely aware that the flood of human trafiic is still dashing onward at its foot, because he hears it no longer.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19810.38He gazed as if spell-bound at the graceful head bent over his hand, at the luxuriant nut-brown hair so simply arranged, whence a current of electricity seemed streaming towards him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3190.38The utmost exertions of the three men were necessary before the rusty locks and bars would move, but at last the door creaked, or rather crashed upon its hinges, and a thick cloud of dust floated up into the air.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37270.38A vague, uncortain light reigned over the spacious garden, the field of white lilies, although it lay far in the background, partly beneath the trees upon the bank of the river, seemed to have gathered into its breast all the moonlight; it glimmered over at me and again reminded me, as it had before, with a pang of homesickness, of my poor grandmother when she had lain lifeless beneath the oaks.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15050.38As she was herself impressed by this strange presence, she penetrated still deeper into her world of feeling,—gradually the clear depths of her pure, maidenly soul were revealed to the listeners; they stood, as it were, by some transparent, magic fountain, and saw within its quiet waters the lovely form of the young girl reflected, with twofold distinctness, for there was a perfect harmony between her exterior and her interior being.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10150.38To-day you have bared your brow to the sunlight, and have no reason for shunning me as though I were some iconoclast or Heaven only knows what sort of evil-doer.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8380.37They sat beside the dead, and through the open Windows of the next room floated in the deep tones of the churchbells announcing to the land on this cold, dark winter morning that its Princess was sleeping the eternal sleep.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2150.37Meanwhile the evening glow paled and faded to a deep violet on the far horizon ; a faint crimson still tinged a long, thin strip of cloud that stretched above the desecrated grave like an arm of menace.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53600.37The lantern carried before them by the gardener shed abroad a ghostly light over the lonely walls and passages, where so lately the stream of life had flowed in luxurious evidence of what was after all but a false, fleeting show of wealth.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7730.37The naked flesh of the pictures on the tapestry had faded to a corpselike hue, and looked like extra- neous points of light ; and one single object hovered like a dazzling white dove in the gloom, it was a many- branched silver candelabrum, furnished with wax-candles, hanging from the middle of the ceiling.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5430.37there was a warm glow upon the hearth, stillness reigned in the spacious depths of the dark barn, through which the smoke from Heinz's pipe floated ; now and then the chain on Molly's neck rattled gently ; upon one pf the lofty beams a fowl would stir in its sleep, or Spiti THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16400.37Gisela leaned far out of the Window and gazed at the dark outline standing clearly defined against the sparkling heavens: it was the forest ascending the mountain-side, and concealing within its depths the old gray forest-house in its garment of green.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9030.37How ineffably plain and simple did his paternal mansion show in the landscape at this minute in the light of the event which had crowned his ambitious hopes, his marriage!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6410.37Oliveira bowed, without a Word; the lurid light of a torch fell upon his composed features, and cast upon the brown complexion an increased pallor.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51380.36cried Mainau, as if a sudden light had broken in apon him. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_430.36The lonely white figure was leaning against the trunk of the tree.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22540.36From a Pallas Athene there comes a breath as icy as that from the glacier of the Jungfrau.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52280.363H arms received me, and then black, mysterious darkness encompassed me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41660.36I could not endure even the slender rays of light that came through the cracks in the shutters.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21650.36The crimson carnation gleamed at me Sle a fiery ball.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11110.36377 "Here, darling, take my burnous," said her beautiful Excellency hastily approaching.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17610.36I did not know that a watch was kept in the forest lodge upon every passer-by," he said, between embarrassment and vexation. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53180.36A transfiguring glow seemed to illumine the doctor’s bowed head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49440.36This was the rent in the curtain which let in the light of reality upon the corpse, as Flora had said.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42340.36"I have no reason to shun that light," the young girl replied, "even should it suddenly reveal faults hitherto unsuspected, as it sheds a brilliant glare on the stains upon the crest of the Gnadewitzes.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11260.36The last rays of the sun were just gilding the trembling leaves of the poplars by the roadside, and there was a rosy light upon the fields of blooming grain; but the forest that enclosed in its bosom Elizabeth’s home lay dark and gloomy beyond, as if it had already forgotten the sunny life which had penetrated its inmost recesses so short a time before.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22260.36Later in the night, it is true, he returned to the forest lodge, and the blue light in the corner room twinkled out like a pale star into the forest, but horse and rider had vanished like some phantom of the night; the high-backed wooden chair in which the girl had sat was empty; there was not even a whisper to be heard of the murmuring voice in the dark corner.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9960.35Then the path led through a dark thicket ; sparks of fire moved everywhere around the fireflies were abroad.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44770.35The pale and uncertain daylight fell upon the little yellow pillows among which Charlotte had buried her face. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13080.35The sun was just above our heads; it Seemed determined to scorch up the snorting train, the* crowded city ; and our insignificant selves. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11870.35And such crowds of my favourites, the blue butterflies, floated hither and thither that it seemed as if the heavens above THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16150.35You mock our miserably povertystricken estate by trailing it over the wretched floors of this forest-house!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24650.35It certainly was strange that, although he had only seen the lady once, gliding like a shadow in the twilight at her uncle’s side, he seemed to have been familiar with her for a long while.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28240.35She handed the little slip to the baroness, who took it immediately, while a ray of actual sunshine broke over her features.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19000.35The evenings were still cold, and from the dark forest the floating mists would moisten both hair and dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5870.35Behind the dim panes of one of these windows there hung a piece of thick, gay-coloured carpeting, which, in mj THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38480.35I assured her they had been brought there by the dazzling ruby glass in the corridor door, which I wished Darling had shattered instead of the panes in the green-house.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1820.35There lay Castle Greinsfeld,—if the night had been clear I could have seen the illumination in ‘honour of the Princess Heinrich,’—a brilliant point in the landscape.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23120.35But this unfortunate attachment, on which she now lives and breathes as in sunlight, will one of these days cast the darkest shadow that has yet fallen upon her sorrowful existence.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10060.35"I cannot relish my food when I think of these things, and our pleasant Sunday, to which I look forward all the week, must have no other shadows upon it than those cast by the white, fleecy clouds up there."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50760.35"You glide about so white and noiseless that one might suppose the ghostly Baumgarten ancestress, now that her wanderings in the tower are no longer possible, had taken up her abode in the villa.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66310.35her veiled eyes had yearnsd to see it the misty distance one, lost, dishonoured, whom her bleeding, maternal heart could not forget And for me now the boundless expanse of the heavens, sprinkled with its millions of starry lights arched above one spot alone, the old mer- chant house The wind arose outside, and stirred the bare twigs of the southernwood-tree, so that they tapped lightly against the window.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25570.35The forest which had been the scene of the rude attack of the afternoon looked like a black pall over the low hills, and the ploughed meadow-land lay smooth and still, giving no token that millions of living germs were there thrusting forth tiny arms beneath the thin crust, ready to issue forth into the golden sunlight a waving field of grain.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30550.35But I paid no heed to her ; I ran through the hall, across the bridge, and then through the flower-garden, while my light draperies floated about me as if I were en- veloped in a fleecy summer cloud.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18080.35One after another every light was put out; one still hovered here and there, in the hands of some servant making his last nightly rounds; it too was extinguished, and as it went out, there was a pistolshot in the solitary shrubbery of the Arnsberg Castle garden. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11970.35I came back across the ocean breathing revenge,—the fiery southern sun and the revelations of a grossly betrayed man had fanned this smoul- dering fire within me to a flame.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42750.35The light that suddenly revealed such a hateful web of intrigue was too lurid,—its glare had the annihilating effect upon her hitherto unsuspicious mind of a flash of lightning.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45460.35Had the ghostly ancestress of the Baumgartens indeed lighted the train to put an end to the farce which the modern parvenu was playing above the hoary ruins of the home of her race?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51950.34A fiery sun- beam would then penetrate the blue twilight and awaken glittering reflections on the mass of ruddy golden hair within, lying loose upon the white coverlet of the bed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25160.34Early on that morning my father descended into the vaults of the Karolinenlust, whence he did not reappear during the entire day ; he neither ate nor drank ; he was almost wild with excitement ; such an immense mine of scientific treasures was here revealed to him.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4040.34At this moment lanterns glided past the window; the train went more slowly; in the melancholy dawn of a snowy morning the Baron recognized the railwaystation of the capital, and the ducal fortress looming grim and gray above the town.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10910.34The throng crowded together, folding themselves closely in their cloaks and shaw1s,—one torch after another was extinguished by the fitful gusts of the coming storm, but in the distance the White Castle could be seen bathed in light like a cube of fire,—one more short battle with the tempest and its protecting shelter would be reachel.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8670.34Twilight was beginning to reign beneath the trees; clouds were flying swiftly across the skies, but the wind driving them was mild and tender; it waved back the veil from the young wife’s forehead, and bent the budding boughs towards one another; it swept over the new grass on the edge of the path, and told of coming glories, of the splendour of blossoms and sunshine.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27340.34Sitting for hours at her window, she gazed out over the wind-tossed trees of the park, to distinguish, if possible, in the waning moonlight and through the falling rain, a glimpse of the white weathercock on the roof of the house by the stream; but the low dwelling had vanished, at it were, and all was quiet there, although Kitty hourly expected that some messenger sent thence would rouse the inmates of the villa with evil tidings.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27360.33In a twinkling, as if sprung from the ground, the villa servants had ranged themselves about the carriage with their lanterns; the yellow light illumined the white pillars of the porch, and sparkled and shone on the silver-mounted harness and the sleek coats of the horses,—nay, it was even powerful enough to bring into relief one or two of the marble figures in the shrubbery on the other side of the drive.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16830.33"While we were descending the mountain," Reinhard continued, "my master said not a word; but from certain signs I judged that he was quite as ready to laugh at me as you were; it would have been a fine thing if you could have accompanied us as a good fairy, for we left all the moonlight and beauty behind us upon the mountain, and had to walk on through the dim valley, where the mists were rising, and where there was nothing, not even a wandering zephyr to bid us welcome home.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18190.33I had gone to sleep in a kind of intoxi- cation 5 now that the light of day shone bright and clear, and I was restored by rest to my old self, I was once again the timid little lizard, ready to hide away in any dark corner from human eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5140.33In the pauses of the airy talk that followed the presentation, a macaw screamed in a window-niche, and two snow-white poodles snarled and frolicked on the faded rug.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21150.33Then, too, the sun, hot as upon a day in August, beat down upon her unprotected head; now and then the world seemed to swim in a strange, lurid light around her, and she was in imminent danger of sinking down with exhaustion.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43490.33His splendid musa, that had grown so bravely beneath northern skies, lay pros- trate on the grass : the wind had shattered it. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4610.33Down below, the bells of St. Mary's Church were ringing, perhaps for a wedding; here and there lamps were already lighted in the early twilight, and it was snowing, snowing incessantly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42660.33How like-life his eyes looked down upon us, and how warm and living the " incomparably fine" hand, with its mysterious golden circlet, stood out from the dark background !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29510.33Don't be misled, though, for pity's sake : he is always himself; he numbers over the golden orbs in the skies just as he counts the shining thalera on the huge office-table."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19890.33I longed tc turn upon the threshold and run Into the yard to convince myself that a July sun was actually shining in the cloudless morning skies.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56790.3311 And you have buried yourself in the very darkest corner to-night, when I wanted to surround the little moorland Princess with all the light that the old house could afford ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5400.33The Prince cast an anxious and fretful look at the needless heavens, where the last glow of evening was met fading.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15730.33But now come," she put her hand upon Gise1a’s shoulder, while a ray of humour shot from her clear blue eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2920.33After dinner we must begin to think of Castle Gnadeck; but first strengthen your eyes with a little sleep, lest they should be dazzled by the splendour which will flash upon them up there."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33070.33the dean’s widow said, tenderly, as she stroked the shining waves that rippled back from the girl’s brow.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25460.33The window whence she had looked so confidently to see him once more ride across the bridge was the same through which the doctor’s study-lamp threw its nightly beam.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18460.32As the young wife entered, a sudden illumination seemed to flood the room.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4740.32"It makes those old panes of glass reflect all kinds of colours; it is very deceptive.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66370.32I should not have allowed those white hands to touch him, and then the charm of the evil spell might have been broken.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14750.32she asked, pointing to a faint white streak that glimmered through the trees and bushes. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55720.32She covered her eyes with her hand, as if some phantom had appeared in the midst of her bewildering delight.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31890.32"Let me tell you that not until very lately did the heroine before you learn to rise superior to the dread of ghosts in the dark."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7720.32She looked up at him with her blue eyes swimming with tears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53280.32though there is broad, warm sunlight on the moor.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_140.32Here comes our beautiful Christmas snow 1" she cried.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11640.32said the forester, as his beaming eyes looked around the horizon.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51000.32Life now returned to the motionless figure.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4400.32"I seem fallen from the skies, do I not, Susie dear?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_330.31If it had all happened naturally, why was the lovely temptress seen so often afterwards in the dim evening twilight gliding out of her former room, While the gray fury pursued her, eager to clasp her long, thin arms around the fair young neck ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4290.31These curtains Fraulein Streit kept drawn almost always, declaring that the moor in its vast- ness and tomblike silence frightened her as it basked in the hot sunlight; and when the moon shone above it, it frightened her no less.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34870.31"And be under no alarm: we cherish such rare guests as the apple of our eye, and I shall, if I can, reserve for myself the refreshing moorland breeze that has penetrated our sultry atmos- phere from the distant moorland village."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31340.31"Good; in the midst of the sorrow and gloom to which I am summoned there will be a glimpse of clear blue sky above me, and for you——may my good angel whisper in your ear the word that will unlock that fairy realm for me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54270.31If the light of the stars could only have illuminated the dark avenue, the speaker would never have allowed the girl at his side to leave him, so hopeless a despair was painted on her face; he would have taken her in charge then and there, and wrung from her the thoughts that were torturing her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1840.31But this sorrow was past, and lay behind her, with much beside which she had sacrificed and endured silently; and as she sat looking out into the morning twilight, with eyes sparkling with delight,—eyes that seemed to read behind the misty veil of the dawn all kinds of brilliant prophecies for the future,—who could have discerned in that figure, glowing with the elasticity of youth, one trace of the fatigue of the last busy weeks?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52690.31Of course she did not hesitate for a moment, and will only remain in Eudisdorf long enough to receive your husband and yourself, and then, as she writes me, a ray of sunlight will once more illumine her 'forlorn and lonely path.'
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4230.31THE old German forest by the lake, which by night had hitherto seen only silver moonbeams dancing upon its branches and the mossy carpet at its feet, had a brilliant dream.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46230.31In solemn silence an object was being borne along, and within the circle of those who were accompanying it walked Doctor Bruck, without his hat, his tall figure towering above the rest.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23360.31Never dreaming of the black, threatening cloud that overshadowed her peaceful life, she took her waiter from the room after Kitty had gratefully accepted a cup of tea.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14590.31No sooner had the sun set than the servants invariably drew the curtains, the gas was lighted, and its dazzling rays banished the shadows from every corner.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42590.30From their gleaming hair and white skin there streams phosphoric light like that from mermaids' bodies ; with their cool breath they fan flames which they never quench; mind enough, but no fervour of soul ; flowing phrases upon their lips, but no sweet madness of love, none of woman's passionate devotion in their hearts !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4850.30Thus Elizabeth’s self-reproaches soon vanished before the picture which presented itself to her memory, and still threw around her all the magic of a moonlit night in the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27330.30The crowd of men at the window divided suddenly as by magic, and Herr von Walde’s lofty figure appeared.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36350.29Water leaped into the air from the midst of a pile of brown rock, and the spray, dashing into diamonds as it fell, made the delicate leaves of the giant ferns, growing in every crevice, trem- ble unceasingly ; cacti sprawled their clumsy proportions hither and thither at the base of the rock, while from their green flesh sprang forth crimson bells a span long, and where others twisted and turned their awkward arms in the darkest shadow there was a faint glimmer of gold and white, like a dim reflection of a sunbeam.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7050.29True, it was no longer traversed by the ghostly train of giant horsemen, the attendants of the hoary monarch of the Huns; that crimson and golden dream had been destroyed to-day by the merciless pick- axe ; but I knew that life was pulsing in every tiny stalk of heather, forming to exquisite perfection millions and millions of fairy blossoms, that would shortly burst forth and cast a royal purple robe upon the moorland.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_500.29A shade, hastily constructed of green paper, darkened the light of the lamp; and the pendulum of the wooden clock hanging on the wall was motionless,—all which betrayed the careful hand of a woman.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7050.29Yes, heaven and earth met and mingled in the human heart, as they did there on the distant horizon.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8090.29Their dark splendour was, it is true, partially veiled, but there were soul and conscious intelligence in them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13520.29You must turn round the street corner to your right " " Gracious heavens I must we go out into that fearful heat again ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4930.29A considerable part of it had been cleared, and showed distinct traces of having been tastefully laid out.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45010.29The loose curtains waved and rustled like a woman's garments, letting in here and there a pale glimmer of light to play restlessly upon the violet bed-hangings, and flit across the gray shadows of the opposite corners, ghostly as some poor soul hovering between heaven and earth.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25280.29The waters rushed beneath her feet, struggling against every stone that maintained its place in the bed of the stream, every root that projected from the shore, and in the struggle dashing up mimic showers of spray; but at a little distance the pale crescent moon was mirrored in its depths as though nothing could ever efface it.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2580.29An old man who is forever taking snuff, and who never leaves the school-room or his narrow, horrid alley ; the sun never shines there, and his room is as full of smoke as a chimney.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7960.29The lights from the castle gleamed abroad over the snowy landscape, and below from the houses in the town many a prayer ascended for the kindly, compassionate sovereign now on her death-bed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10510.28His escape through the window must have cost him a gigantic effort, and, in view of his evident weakness, it waspositively ridiculous to imagine that he could have roamed through the house to thieve, or could have stolen the pierced ducat from a distant chamber.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32560.28No wave rolled higher, no breeze stirred, to whisper to her of wrong, wilful treachery, and miserable inconstancy, while the sunshine played about her graceful form, illumining it as if she were of all earth’s children the most dear.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4580.28It was already twilight ; I could hardly distinguish them from the dark bushes, or see them move at all ; but I knew that they were hurrying, just as Fraulein Streit had done, to leave the despised moor be- hind them.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29880.28You know her and love her, and yet you can hardly know how striking are the beauty and nobility of her Whole appearance, or you Would never for an instant have dreamed that they could be hidden beneath the coarse garb of a servant.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13180.28The boy's lithe figure vanished like a shadow. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44990.28There was life here now, where I had seen only the noiseless sunbeams glide and hover.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11650.28Now, child, you give me no peace, you would ask the blue off the sky to see what there was behind it !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11190.28she ejaculated, after a moment's reflection, "you heard that last night.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6260.28Here was that girl again: she actually began to embitter his forest-home for him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8750.28Here the Baroness Lessen arose with a gesture of impatience.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26830.28if I had not been quick as a flash we should have had a blaze that would have been well fed by those old balconies.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29460.28I will ask permission to withdraw until the household skies are again clear."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32320.28The white alabaster ornaments upon the walls glimmered ghost- like, but the angry countenance of the royal lady had a still more ghastly hue ; the dim, uncertain light quenched the bril liancy of her beautiful eyes ; they shone like dull coals beneath the drooping brim of her light-gray felt hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62900.27But there was sunshine within me at the sight, sunshine like that which, strange to say, broke forth from the cloudy March sky at the moment, and illumined, with its wintry ray, the pleas- ant room and the family portraits on the walls, making them smile, in sympathy with the joy of reconciliation.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4440.27She used to stand out in the courtyard, and, extending her arms towards the sky, would pipe out, in a weak little voice, " Hurrying clouds, as ye glide there in heaven, Would that to me to sail with you 'twere given !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9760.27With every step the picture grew more distinct, until at last they could distinguish Sabina waiting for them at the door, shading her eyes with the corner of her white apron, and retreating into the house when she saw them, that she might take her stand behind the soup tureen, which was smoking upon the table beneath the beeches, where she fulfilled her duty with the air of a general upon a rampart.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_760.27And then he puffed out a huge cloud of smoke to the consternation of a swarm of gnats that rapidly dispersed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46430.27He said you had ordered shutters " " Yes, I have borne the sun blazing in upon me as long M3 1 could," Charlotte interrupted her, defiantly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_480.27Here it projected far into the apartment, and the glowing tiles diffused a delicious warmth through the atmos- phere.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3680.27The other two men lent their assistance, and a thick oaken door was revealed behind the masonry that they cleared away.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26790.27Flora swept past him, as if unwilling to interrupt his instructions to the servant, and vanished in the darkness.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_70.26Smiling shopmen displayed their fascinating merchandise, and withered old flower-sellers stood among their fresh-blooming bouquets, which exhaled beauty and fragrance beneath the light of the lamps that shed a brilliant glare upon the slippery pavement and upon the flood of human life streaming by, revealing the pinched, blue features and the desperately uncomfortable movements of all, old and young.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22110.26One of the shades was slightly lifted, and gave him a glimpse of the mysterious corner room, and it was so quiet in the darkening forest-—the silence was as deathly as if life and breath were suffocated in the oppressive heat —that he could distinctly hear the murmur of a man’s voice within the room.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8160.26"The company cannot come; the Herr Student has been taken ill," replied Sievert, curtly, holding the teapot towards the light, to be sure that its surface was thoroughly bright and shining.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1620.26A sudden gust of wind swept down the avenue, tossing snowflakes and dry linden-leaves madly against the balcony, but the hurly-burly had no effect upon the dignified repose reigning within: there was not even a motion of the airy lace curtains; the fire alone flickering upon the marble hearth might blaze more brightly for an instant when breathed upon by the blast down the chimney.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1680.25Where, a few weeks before, the melted snow had foamed down from the mountain tops in a bed created by its own torrent, beautiful moss was now weaving a soft carpet, that would soon quite conceal the scarred breast of the mountain, while here and there, through the thick green the silver thread of some little stream glittered in the sunlight.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9740.25The excellent sermon which they had just heard, furnished matter for abundant conversation and exchange of newly-developed thoughts and sentiments; while the birds twittered and sang as though determined to vindicate their right to speak here, and the golden-green sunshine came quivering through the tops of the trees, flecking their heads as they passed with its transfiguring light.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4490.24Well,—once as she was leaning against a tree there, gazing at the high walls, and lost in thoughts concerning all that might be going on behind them, suddenly an arm appeared above them white as snow, and then a face fairer than sun, moon, and stars, my grandmother said, and at last with a sudden spring a young maiden stood upon the top of the broad wall, and, stretching her arms up into the air, cried out something in a strange tongue that my grandmother could not understand, and was just about to leap down into the deep ditch full of water that then entirely surrounded the castle, when Jost appeared behind her, and, putting his arms around her, begged and implored her so that a stone would have melted at such entreaties wrung from a heart full of terror and anguish.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_340.24As perfect quiet as was possible in the mill reigned in the room she had left; up through the floor came the continuous, measured beat of machinery; the water tumbling over the weir outside sang its perpetual refrain, and now and then the doves fluttered against the window-pane, or cooed in the branches of the ancient chestnuts, through which the western light faintly illumined the room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30.24But to-day he did not venture down, for there were people standing about, old and young, and the young shouted and danced, and in childish glee tossed their balls up at him; horses neighed and stamped upon the grassy banks, and clouds of smoke curled up through the tops of the trees and stretched wavering arms to heaven.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18710.24Herr Markus quite agreed with Frau Griebel, who said very unpoetically, but all the more indignantly, that such blue skies, when they were not wanted, showing, for an entire eternity, not even a speck of a cloud, looked to-her like some mocking face making merry over the poor creatures on God’s earth.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14630.24All these recollections were but faintly present to her now: her eyes were fixed upon the southern window, whence a faint light was still visible in the sky,—upon the spot where the castle miller had breathed his last; and she was thinking of the way in which Dr. Bruck had told her of the verdict passed upon him by the public, and of his self-vindication, to which she now wondered more than ever that he had condescended.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50740.24"Herr Hofmarschall," she continued, 11 the man pursued the lovely Indian at night through the gardens to steal her from the dying occupant of the red room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1440.24gone, like an ugly chrys- alis from the bright-hued butterfly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36430.24The glimmer and brilliancy of his uniform harmonized with 220 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3600.24"Bit this Use seems to be the dragon who guards your barefooted little Princess, voild,!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5750.24The lady, sparkling With diamonds, had never achieved such a victory as at this moment !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15190.24She bowed her head in assent, and both again entered the dark avenue.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22510.24she cried, wagging her head towards the rising mass of clouds. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9660.24He welcomed them from a distance with sparkling eyes and a flourish of his hat in the air.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48310.24"What have I to say to you?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37810.24"Inquire of him.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34050.24How provoking !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27860.24That room is not heated."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1020.24_~._-¢.-~.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8200.24"My Liesel !"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5210.24"No; oh, no; but please, Dina!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62370.24At last, at last, my sun is rising!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53680.24He is lost !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43180.24moor !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36300.24219 panes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30810.24Have you looked in the glass yet?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23330.24I thought it not at all strange.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14710.24Whom else should she stay with ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10630.24Torches to the front !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6770.24" The last?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25590.24You are not going out into the storm?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16470.24"Nothing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14140.24There!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12730.24" Well, well, so it was to be!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_980.24"In the Thiergarten, indeed!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31640.24And her parents?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31440.24"Are you going?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26920.24"Well?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26350.24It had grown very dark.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20770.24"I have been tried inconceivably.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16760.24’It means that there is a lamp there,’ was my reply.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12350.24"Two suns at once?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50180.24"Ah!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41190.24Had she not had proof of the latter?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34370.24"Leo!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31960.24She crimsoned.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22480.24Well, I say nothing.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_500.23" Oh, what does the water-witch care for bright day- light when she is angry 1" And to my delight he looked half distrustfully, half incredulously at the crimson-tinted water. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13140.23A stifling cloud of dust enveloped us upon the journey from the depot to the town, and it lay like ashes upon th6 grass around and the pretty slender chestnut-trees above our heads.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52920.23On the previous day, thin wreaths of vapour had still floated above the ruin, and distant noises had troubled the sick girl’s mind, causing it to dwell painfully upon the terrible spot where the crashing walls had buried beneath their fragments the "rash man" to whom, with all his weaknesses, she had clung in sisterly affection.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6210.22He often called her his butterfly, because of the airy grace of her motions and her quickness of mind, which never left her at a loss for a reply to his merry attacks; but his favourite name for her was "Gold Elsie," for he maintained that her hair was such perfect gold that he could see it shining and shimmering in the darkest parts of the forest as she approached, and that it heralded her coming to him as the jewel in the giant’s shield had once announced his approach to Childe Roland.

Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_10890.92It was evening, a still, oppressive evening, for though the sun yet shone brightly as he sunk in the west, a succession of black thunder-clouds, gradually rising higher and higher athwart the intense blue of the firmament, seemed to threaten that the wings of the tempest were already brooding on the dark bosom of night.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_8630.90Night shades already lingered under the tree-tops; a cloud of mist floated over the pond where it was lighter and more open; and over there where the water was bordered by a marsh, whitish-gray veils of mist arose yet more thickly.
Cooper_The_Prairie_2170.90It was now in the first watch of the night; and the pale, quivering, and deceptive light, from a new moon, was playing over the endless waves of the prairie, tipping the swells with gleams of brightness, and leaving the interval land in deep shadow.
Cooper_The_Pilot_49820.89But now a streak of pale light showed itself along the horizon, growing brighter, and widening at each moment, until long fleecy clouds became visible, where nothing had been seen before but the dim base of the arch that overhung the dark waters.
Bronte_Shirley_7860.89Even by candle-light the bright clear skies, the soft distances, with blue air quivering between the eye and the hills, the fresh tints, and well-massed lights and shadows, charmed the view.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_8960.88It had now grown quite dark; the night had commenced; a cold, gloomy autumn night, without moon or star shining, but over there upon the marsh where lately the veils of mist floated, something now shot up with a bluish light, glimmering dimly in the fog, but growing brighter and clearer like a flame; now appearing, now disappearing, and with it a second and a third.
Kingsley_Hypatia_88940.88Into the cool dim shadow, with its fretted pillars, and lowering domes, and candles, and incense, and blazing altar, and great pictures looking from the walls athwart the gorgeous gloom.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_53430.88* * * * * The wavering masses of mist grew thicker and darker; they floated upward from all the valleys, sailed forth from every cleft, and veiled forests and peaks in their damp mantle.
Longfellow_Hyperion_9690.88The moon had risen, and silvered the dark outline of the nearest hills; while, afar off, the snowy summits of the Jungfrau and the Silver-Horn shone like a white cloud in the sky.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_306230.88The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness.
Cooper_The_Prairie_38180.88The air was filled with the brands of the beacon, and a heavy darkness succeeded, not unlike that of the appalling instant, when the last rays of the sun are excluded by the intervening mass of the moon.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_22720.87The last crimson reflection of sunset had long vanished, field and forest were covered with dew, and the darkness was softly creeping up from the valleys to the heights, while above the snow-peaks began to gleam with a silvery lustre,--the herald of the rising moon, which was not yet visible.
Evans_St_Elmo_27290.87The sun had just gone down behind a fleecy cloud-mountain and kindled a volcano, from whose silver-rimmed crater fiery rays of scarlet shot up, almost to the clear blue zenith; while here and there, through clefts and vapory gorges, the lurid lava light streamed down toward the horizon.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_85940.87The stars flash out one by one, and Venus, like another moon, tinges the eastern snows with gold, and sheds across the bay a long yellow line of rippling light.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_11550.87Faintly and fitfully the moon had shone through one of the long, narrow windows of the aisles, shedding its cold spectral light for a brief space, then passing into darkness.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_9750.86The twilight deepened; a dark transparent mist seemed to veil the sky; the heavens showed as if through thin mourning crape; the broad shining edges of the ponds and pools were dim; the crescent moon grew brighter.
Cooper_The_Spy_51840.86The pinnacle could be faintly discerned in front of a lighter background of clouds, between which a few glimmering stars occasionally twinkled in momentary brightness, and then gradually became obscured by the passing vapor that was moving before the wind, at a vast distance below the clouds themselves.
Bronte_Villette_41320.86Pendent from the dome, flamed a mass that dazzled me--a mass, I thought, of rock-crystal, sparkling with facets, streaming with drops, ablaze with stars, and gorgeously tinged with dews of gems dissolved, or fragments of rainbows shivered.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_59960.86A few solitary rays still strayed into the room; but, little by little, these too vanished, and the space was filled with a faint rosy shimmer, a reflection from the gorgeous evening sky without.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_57380.86One little touch and all is dark; The winter with its sparkling moons The spring with all her violets, The crimson dawns and rich sunsets, The autumn's yellowing noons.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_7080.86As we glance again at the Maypole a solitary sunbeam is fading from the summit, and leaves only a faint golden tinge blended with the hues of the rainbow banner.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_132390.86The evening sun was shining brightly, the light and shade lay together in grand masses, the varied colors of objects blended softly one with the other.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_69030.85Without, the landscape lay flooded in sunlight--the broad gleaming lake, the blue mountains in the distance, all sparkling in the noonday beams.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_21540.85The clear, mild, June day was near its close; the sun had set; a crimson glow still lingered about the loftiest mountain-tops.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_13540.85It was a lovely night; a night for lonely highland tarns, and southern shores by Baiae; without a cloud to veil the brightness of the stars.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_76790.85At length he came upon the open space before the cathedral, whence the poplar-spire rose aloft into a blue sky flecked with white clouds.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_63320.85And she looked after the floating cloud as it grew thinner and thinner, until it was gradually dissolved in air, and the gentle radiance of the evening star appeared where it faded.
Evans_Vashti_30590.85Her broad brow blackened with a frown that became a terrible scowl, and her eyes gleamed like lightning under the edge of a thunderous summer cloud.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_260110.85It was about six o'clock in the evening; an opal-colored light, through which an autumnal sun shed its golden rays, descended on the blue ocean.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231600.85The darkness lasted two hours longer; then by degrees a cold light crept through the Venetian blinds, until at length it revealed the objects in the room.
Bronte_Shirley_2720.85The evening was pitch dark: star and moon were quenched in gray rain-clouds--gray they would have been by day; by night they looked sable.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_59910.85The sun was just up, his beams gilded the crests of the leaping waves, and the spray danced up, white and gay, round the tall rocks, whose shadow was reflected in deep green, broken by the ever-moving swell.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_32280.85For a few seconds only--then the great disc sank out of sight, the glory died away, and there remained nothing but the darkening autumn landscape with, overhead, the heavy masses of storm-cloud, and far away in the distant horizon a lingering crimson flush.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_42090.85But if your evening sky wants the pearly light, the rosy clouds, and the soft tints which, at that hour, melt into each other, across the entire vault of Napoli, it far excels in the vividness of the glow, in the depth of the transitions, and in the richness of colors.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_30.85The storm had passed; there was still a low mutter of thunder in the ravines, and masses of clouds lay encamped about the mountainsides, but the skies were once more clear, the loftiest peaks were unveiling, and dark forests and green slopes were beginning slowly to emerge from the sea of cloud and mist.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_37000.85But on gaining the top, a brilliant spectacle of a thousand watchfires met the eye: so close did they seem, it looked like one great volcanic crater blazing on the mountain top; while above, the lurid glow reddened the black sky, and melted away into the darkness in clouds of faint yellowish hue.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_296100.85A light mist rose from the high grass, bathed in nocturnal dew, while the calm and limpid waters of a vast lake reflected the whitening dawn in their deep, blue mirror.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_34570.85The clouds deeper, heavier, and of a dense violet, were rolled upon the rest of the form; the bases of those clouds as livid as the storm, but their edges, where they flowed into the virgin raiment, sun-fringed, glittering.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_3520.85The stars are not yet awake, but the moon has risen full, though giving but little light, and looking in its reddish lustre like a candle lighted by day; the heavens are of a pale, greenish blue, with opalescent gleams on the horizon.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_81300.85But as the sunlight vanished, a veil sank from the face of the moon, already half-way to the zenith, and she gathered courage and shone, till the mountain looked lovely as a ghost in the gleam of its snow and the glimmer of its glaciers.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_81280.85The snow-peaks were faintly tinged with rose, and the ragged masses of vapour that hung lazy and leaden-coloured about the sides of the abyss, were partially dyed a sulky orange red.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_35980.85The sun had risen in all his glorious brilliancy, and poured a flood of golden light across the bay, tipping with a violet hue the far-off peaks of the Wicklow mountains, and lighting up the wooded valleys at their feet.
Evans_Vashti_36050.85The east was purple and gold, the sea a purling mass of molten amber, and only two stars were visible low in the west, where a waning moon swung on the edge of the distant misty hills.
Evans_Infelice_37050.85Far away, on the sky-line opposite, and towering above the intervening mountains, glittered the white fire of the snowy Alps, as if they longed to quench their dazzling lustre in the peaceful blue sleeping beneath.
Cooper_The_Prairie_4420.85The moon had fallen behind a sheet of thin, fleecy, clouds, which skirted the horizon, leaving just enough of its faint and fluctuating light, to render objects visible, dimly revealing their forms and proportions.
Cooper_The_Pilot_3430.85Several dark clouds overhung the vessel, whose towering masts apparently propped the black vapor, while a few stars were seen twinkling, with a sickly flame, in the streak of clear sky that skirted the ocean.
Cooper_Pathfinder_27860.85Darkness was now beginning to render objects on shore indistinct, the whole of the land forming one shapeless black outline of even forest summits, to be distinguished from the impending heavens only by the greater light of the sky.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_74400.84Before them, lying in the golden mist of twilight, was a sea of distant hill-tops,--purple and shadow-black and gray.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_25350.84She was all pale except her eyes, and that strange halo she had never lost shone dim as the darkliest violets, a soft yet awful hue.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_13880.84A heavy snow had fallen during the night; and the sun, ascended to its meridian, shone through the thick atmosphere like a ball of fire.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41540.47"God grant it may be so!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20750.24No wonder you have rather the look of another world.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8990.32Don’t you know that there is One who will always love you, even although the whole world should turn away from you?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28920.29I don’t know exactly what I should do in your place, but " "I’ll take it.—I’ll take it, Frcderika," said Heinrich, with great composure.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4140.48"What," he thought, distressed at her extraordinary demeanour,—"what if the Duchess should be right, after all, and she should actually love the Duke ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5520.48I had called him sillv, because he in his simplicity had done his best to reply as he thought would please me.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9830.47I don’t care for that.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14130.38In an instant all the ladies surrounded us.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42760.38Those who don’t know how to speculate had better let it alone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2300.37I pray you show me some- thing in it besides moor ; nothing but moor, this horrid brown phantom I Is there ever the sound of a bird to be heard ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17800.32I don’t believe one Word about the courier," one of the men was saying to another as the Minister glided past them.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12650.32he cried, pointing with his thumb overhis shoulder towards the room he had just left.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47600.32" None of our people have returned yet," replied old Erdmann.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8460.32Oh, she can get along, and I don’t believe in no wages there, in spite of what people say.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7110.32turn us out to beg; I don’t care.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31320.32"And will you be ready, when I return, to hear the conclusion?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14190.24Don’t let your coffee get cold, and don’t write yourself into a fever.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45030.24"Yes, yes."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32960.24"Better so!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22960.22Your highness will pray forgive your being exposed to hearing such irreligious rant at my table," he said, with forced calmness, to the duchess. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56450.21"Archaeology craze" was the designation he had bestowed upon my father's labours, he, who had been a servile " famulus" to the famous philosopher, disturbing him continually.

Cervantes_Don_Quixote_82790.93"Thou art in the right of it, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "and the bachelor Samson Carrasco, if he enters the pastoral fraternity, as no doubt he will, may call himself the shepherd Samsonino, or perhaps the shepherd Carrascon; Nicholas the barber may call himself Niculoso, as old Boscan formerly was called Nemoroso; as for the curate I don't know what name we can fit to him unless it be something derived from his title, and we call him the shepherd Curiambro.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_1900.90To this the peasant answered, "Senor- sinner that I am!- cannot your worship see that I am not Don Rodrigo de Narvaez nor the Marquis of Mantua, but Pedro Alonso your neighbour, and that your worship is neither Baldwin nor Abindarraez, but the worthy gentleman Senor Quixada?"
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_86140.87Don Quixote replied that he himself was to be called the shepherd Quixotize and the bachelor the shepherd Carrascon, and the curate the shepherd Curambro, and Sancho Panza the shepherd Pancino.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_57890.85"Tell me, brother squire," asked the duchess (whose title, however, is not known), "this master of yours, is he not one of whom there is a history extant in print, called 'The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha,' who has for the lady of his heart a certain Dulcinea del Toboso?"
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_62060.85We have been in the cave of Montesinos, and the sage Merlin has laid hold of me for the disenchantment of Dulcinea del Toboso, her that is called Aldonza Lorenzo over there.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_44620.85I am Sancho Panza, his squire, and he the vagabond knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.""
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_44600.85"Well, I can only say, Sancho, my friend," said Don Quixote, "that it is as plain they are jackasses- or jennyasses- as that I am Don Quixote, and thou Sancho Panza: at any rate, they seem to me to be so."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_33590.83To those who were in the secret of Don Quixote's humour all this afforded great amusement; but to those who knew nothing about it, it seemed the greatest nonsense in the world, in particular to the four servants of Don Luis, as well as to Don Luis himself, and to three other travellers who had by chance come to the inn, and had the appearance of officers of the Holy Brotherhood, as indeed they were; but the one who above all was at his wits' end, was the barber basin, there before his very eyes, had been turned into Mambrino's helmet, and whose pack-saddle he had no doubt whatever was about to become a rich caparison for a horse.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_77870.83Don Quixote, who had been listening to what Claudia said and Roque Guinart said in reply to her, exclaimed, "Nobody need trouble himself with the defence of this lady, for I take it upon myself.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_77020.83Here ended Sancho's conversation with the landlord, Sancho not caring to carry it any farther by answering him; for he had already asked him what calling or what profession it was his master was of.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_56090.82CHAPTER XXVII WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER WITH THE MISHAP DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT CONCLUDE AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE HAD EXPECTED Cide Hamete, the chronicler of this great history, begins this chapter with these words, "I swear as a Catholic Christian;" with regard to which his translator says that Cide Hamete's swearing as a Catholic Christian, he being- as no doubt he was- a Moor, only meant that, just as a Catholic Christian taking an oath swears, or ought to swear, what is true, and tell the truth in what he avers, so he was telling the truth, as much as if he swore as a Catholic Christian, in all he chose to write about Quixote, especially in declaring who Master Pedro was and what was the divining ape that astonished all the villages with his divinations.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_43870.82By this time the labourer had come up, and Don Quixote asked him, "Can you tell me, worthy friend, and God speed you, whereabouts here is the palace of the peerless princess Dona Dulcinea del Toboso?"
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_62700.82"The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_53980.82"You are right," said Don Quixote; "but I should like to know, if by God's favour they grant you a licence to print those books of yours- which I doubt- to whom do you mean dedicate them?"
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_40150.82"Thou must have mistaken the surname of this 'Cide'- which means in Arabic 'Lord'- Sancho," observed Don Quixote.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_4010.82Sancho answered them that this fell to him lawfully as spoil of the battle which his lord Don Quixote had won.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_39750.82"That was only reasonable," replied Sancho, "for, by what your worship says, misfortunes belong more properly to knights-errant than to their squires."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_31890.81Don Quixote offered to mount guard over the castle lest they should be attacked by some giant or other malevolent scoundrel, covetous of the great treasure of beauty the castle contained.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_77390.80"You will do quite right," said Don Jeronimo; "and there are other jousts at Barcelona in which Senor Don Quixote may display his prowess."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_58000.80"Gently, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha," said the duke; "where my lady Dona Dulcinea del Toboso is, it is not right that other beauties should he praised."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_3480.80"I doubt it," replied Sancho Panza, "because for my part I am persuaded that though God should shower down kingdoms upon earth, not one of them would fit the head of Mari Gutierrez.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_58190.80"Well then, in troth," returned Sancho, "I have heard my master, who is the very treasure-finder of stories, telling the story of Lancelot when he came from Britain, say that ladies waited upon him and duennas upon his hack; and, if it comes to my ass, I wouldn't change him for Senor Lancelot's hack."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_4310.80With this idea I pressed him to read the beginning, and doing so, turning the Arabic offhand into Castilian, he told me it meant, "History of Don Quixote of La Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_39570.79CHAPTER II WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS The history relates that the outcry Don Quixote, the curate, and the barber heard came from the niece and the housekeeper exclaiming to Sancho, who was striving to force his way in to see Don Quixote while they held the door against him, "What does the vagabond want in this house?
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_77250.79To this he replied, "Dulcinea is a maiden still, and my passion more firmly rooted than ever, our intercourse unsatisfactory as before, and her beauty transformed into that of a foul country wench;" and then he proceeded to give them a full and particular account of the enchantment of Dulcinea, and of what had happened him in the cave of Montesinos, together with what the sage Merlin had prescribed for her disenchantment, namely the scourging of Sancho.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_61710.79To this Sancho replied with an irrelevant remark, which, addressing Merlin, he made to him, "Will your worship tell me, Senor Merlin- when that courier devil came up he gave my master a message from Senor Montesinos, charging him to wait for him here, as he was coming to arrange how the lady Dona Dulcinea del Toboso was to be disenchanted; but up to the present we have not seen Montesinos, nor anything like him."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_19920.79Three then being mounted, that is to say, Don Quixote, the princess, and the curate, and three on foot, Cardenio, the barber, and Sancho Panza, Don Quixote said to the damsel: "Let your highness, lady, lead on whithersoever is most pleasing to you;" but before she could answer the licentiate said: "Towards what kingdom would your ladyship direct our course?
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_85510.79To which Don Quixote returned, "I have no doubt whatever that your worship is that Don Alvaro Tarfe who appears in print in the Second Part of the history of Don Quixote of La Mancha, lately printed and published by a new author."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_610.79The host fancied he called him Castellan because he took him for a "worthy of Castile," though he was in fact an Andalusian, and one from the strand of San Lucar, as crafty a thief as Cacus and as full of tricks as a student or a page.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_58690.79I have vanquished giants and I have sent her caitiffs and miscreants; but where are they to find her if she is enchanted and turned into the most ill-favoured peasant wench that can be imagined?"
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_84270.78This the bachelor did; he set out in quest of Don Quixote, and not finding him at Saragossa, he went on, and how he fared has been already told.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_60940.78"If you were the devil, as you say and as your appearance indicates," said the duke, "you would have known the said knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, for you have him here before you."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_57560.78"Did I not tell thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this, "that we had reached the place where I am to show what the might of my arm can do?
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_34340.78"Believe it not," said Don Quixote, "for had it been so, I would have avenged thee that instant, or even now; but neither then nor now could I, nor have I seen anyone upon whom to avenge thy wrong."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_16380.78If he was persuaded that this was true, and that his lady had wronged him, it is no wonder that he should have gone mad; but I, how am I to imitate him in his madness, unless I can imitate him in the cause of it?
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_73180.78God be with your worships, and tell my lord the duke that 'naked I was born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a farthing I go out of it, very different from the way governors commonly leave other islands.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_42480.78"I know what I am saying, mistress housekeeper; go, and don't set yourself to argue with me, for you know I am a bachelor of Salamanca, and one can't be more of a bachelor than that," replied Carrasco; and with this the housekeeper retired, and the bachelor went to look for the curate, and arrange with him what will be told in its proper place.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_34800.78"In God's name, then, senor," replied Don Quixote; "if that be so, I would have you know that I am held enchanted in this cage by the envy and fraud of wicked enchanters; for virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than loved by the good.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_19660.78Sancho took down the armour, which was hung up on a tree like a trophy, and having seen to the girths armed his master in a trice, who as soon as he found himself in his armour exclaimed: "Let us be gone in the name of God to bring aid to this great lady."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_82900.77The word albogue is Morisco, as are all those in our Spanish tongue that begin with al; for example, almohaza, almorzar, alhombra, alguacil, alhucema, almacen, alcancia, and others of the same sort, of which there are not many more; our language has only three that are Morisco and end in i, which are borcegui, zaquizami, and maravedi.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_85610.77But I don't know what to say, for I am ready to swear I left him shut up in the Casa del Nuncio at Toledo, and here another Don Quixote turns up, though a very different one from mine."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_57470.77there stands the castle or fortress, where there is, no doubt, some knight in durance, or ill-used queen, or infanta, or princess, in whose aid I am brought hither."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_45320.77In this trouble and perplexity he came to where Don Quixote lay in a far sorrier plight than he liked, and having helped him to mount Rocinante, he said to him, "Senor, the devil has carried off my Dapple."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_2660.77In carrying so many together she let one fall at the feet of the barber, who took it up, curious to know whose it was, and found it said, "History of the Famous Knight, Tirante el Blanco."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_21990.77"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and Andres must have patience until my return as you say, senora; but I once more swear and promise not to stop until I have seen him avenged and paid."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_65850.76But if your worship looks into it, you will see it was your worship alone that put me on to this business of governing; for I know no more about the government of islands than a buzzard; and if there's any reason to think that because of my being a governor the devil will get hold of me, I'd rather go Sancho to heaven than governor to hell."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_19530.76"There's no doubt of that," replied Sancho, "for I have known many to take their name and title from the place where they were born and call themselves Pedro of Alcala, Juan of Ubeda, and Diego of Valladolid; and it may be that over there in Guinea queens have the same way of taking the names of their kingdoms."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_56280.76To which Sancho replied, "Senor, there's nothing to stick at in that, for maybe the regidors who brayed then came to he alcaldes of their town afterwards, and so they may go by both titles; moreover, it has nothing to do with the truth of the story whether the brayers were alcaldes or regidors, provided at any rate they did bray; for an alcalde is just as likely to bray as a regidor."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_22340.76The first that he opened he found to be "Don Cirongilio of Thrace," and the second "Don Felixmarte of Hircania," and the other the "History of the Great Captain Gonzalo Hernandez de Cordova, with the Life of Diego Garcia de Paredes."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_19830.76"Nor even that will I consent to, senor licentiate," answered Don Quixote, "and I know it will be the good pleasure of my lady the princess, out of love for me, to order her squire to give up the saddle of his mule to your worship, and he can sit behind if the beast will bear it."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71460.64"I've lived here thirty year.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8180.61"We pay, or our friends pay, fifteen pounds a year for each."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80560.58"Twenty thousand pounds?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43090.58You don't travel a hundred miles alone."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47150.56My journey seemed tedious -- very tedious: fifty miles one day, a night spent at an inn; fifty miles the next day.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20880.49"The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago," said I, speaking as seriously as he had done.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65860.48I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings; I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80550.48Nothing of course to speak of -- twenty thousand pounds, I think they say -- but what is that?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68980.48"He hadn't time, bairn: he was gone in a minute, was your father.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_52380.48But I really thought he came in here five minutes ago, and said that in a month you would be his wife."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43500.48I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72480.48"I am near nineteen: but I am not married.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6750.48"Fifty miles."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58020.48Not, perhaps, once in a hundred years.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47500.48It does not signify if I knew twenty ways; for he has seen me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4500.48"Ten years."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42770.48That is a hundred miles off!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43000.43I would never think of running a hundred miles to see an old lady who will, perhaps, be dead before you reach her: besides, you say she cast you off."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96570.41"A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81560.41Diana said they would both consider themselves rich with a thousand pounds, so with five thousand they will do very well."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81680.39You cannot fail to see that twenty thousand pounds, the sum in question, divided equally between the nephew and three nieces of our uncle, will give five thousand to each?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62170.39My father and my brother Rowland knew all this; but they thought only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined in the plot against me."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14560.39-shire was seventy miles nearer London than the remote county where I now resided: that was a recommendation to me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97850.38I have now been married ten years.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94100.38"And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62380.38Thus, at the age of twenty-six, I was hopeless.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58990.38-- they are fifteen years too late!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46520.38It was dated three years back.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43570.38"Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_23810.38"How was your memory when you were eighteen, sir?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21310.38"And you stayed there eight years: you are now, then, eighteen?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72470.36"Why, she can't he above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33560.32Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a gallant gentleman-highwayman you would have made!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11330.32Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94930.32Does that mean a respectable well-conducted man of fifty?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53450.32The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14680.30I had not a very large wardrobe, though it was adequate to my wants; and the last day sufficed to pack my trunk, -- the same I had brought with me eight years ago from Gateshead.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68700.28The line is worth a hundred pages of fustian.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_52350.24It has seemed to me more than once when I have been in a doze, that my dear husband, who died fifteen years since, has come in and sat down beside me; and that I have even heard him call me by my name, Alice, as he used to do.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96530.24Jane, will you marry me?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9150.24"Will you ever go back?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9040.24"Is it still 'Rasselas'?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68670.24good!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41000.24Richard, how is it with you?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36360.24"You have -- have you?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3140.24What, you are a baby after all!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20720.24"Eight years!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12910.61As far as I know, you are right, for you are young, and he is, as I hear, a man advanced in years, which is unsuitable.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28980.58Thirty thousand thalers.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36170.48a thousand times rather die than do him this injury.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33400.48"The few paltry dollars!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11360.44Hcllwig will spend two months in Thuringia for the sake of his health.’ He has come to be a famous man, Fay."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37470.41I ask you, upon your conscien re, do you not value above all things the unstained past of your family?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31170.41Years may elapse before this right expires—and even then it is a question whether I shall release you."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35080.38Then it happened that the Swedish king, Gustavus Adolphus, with twenty thousand warriors, eame marching through Thuringia.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31280.36For years 1 have been sustained by the thought that my eighteenth birthday would bring me deliverance.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40080.34Forty thousand thalera remained to this family after " "Yes, after Paul Ilellwig, the man of unstained integrity, the champion of God, one of the chosen of the Lord, i had appropriated twenty thousand thalersl" interrupted the Professor, trembling with indignation.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31730.30Why, she would rather a thousand times be subjected for years to Madame’s most cruel treatment, than pass one month more in the society of the man who was developing this dcmoniac power over her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28940.30The old Mam’selle’s will, that had elicited so mmh emotion in the Hcllwig house, had been deposited with her lawyer ten years before.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33480.29"I will show you to-morrow a notice written by the deceased lady herself, in which she estimates the value of the collection at five thousand thalers, at the lowest-—and this not including the Bach manuscript.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6410.28" Oh, yes, she was killed in the town-hall five years ago.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38150.24"I thought you were below.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30780.24At your age?"

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6140.58" Just as much as I allowed my first wife three thousand thalers."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3520.5823 for forty thalers that we must pay.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17100.58It was not new when we bought it, five years ago.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47960.55Schafer says it is a loss of forty thousand thalers."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16950.55Oh, who can give me back these eleven lost years!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17140.54"It costs a thousand thalers!—a thousand thalers for a girl’s whim.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8550.49"I remember that you ascribed the attack of croup, by which you lost your little son at two years of age, to a couple of hours in the cold church."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24140.48that was fourteen years ago ; and have they never once been unpacked and aired in all this time ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8850.48"Fifteen minutes ago, my love."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11760.48And yet she was older than my father, more than forty-two years old, how horrible!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10940.481 will wager it will all be clear in ten minutes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53440.48And before the ten minutes were passed she slept.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44020.48She spent too much: three thousand a year on her dresses alone."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11600.48"In the mean time, I have no present right to take one dollar locked up there."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9380.48"Nine thousand thalers!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9360.48Nine thousand thalers !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67850.48I have been married seven years.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40020.48I think he could not have been more than twenty years old then."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30020.48at least twelve thousand."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1060.48What 1 Seventeen years old ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18100.48—j It was the month of September.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8480.48"Eleven years old!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49850.48"My four thousand thalers!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63050.44I used to have just such another little silky darling; he was a present from Count Stettenheim, and cost more louis-d'ors than Blanche did thalers.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30370.43Just imagine the counting-room where all the Claudiuses have worked for more than a hundred years !
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_80.42Many a doughty fist was mouldering there which, in its time, had known well how to maintain by downright blows its owner’s right to what ' of goods and gold he had won, or perhaps usurped.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48170.41He of the shaven crown arrived also awhile ago.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6720.41"Use, I am seventeen years old to-day, and tall and strong enough.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54250.41" Only twelve thousand thalers that you took with you from her locked desk."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46000.41What are forty thousand thalers to Uncle Erich ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38050.41What matter whether that career lasted ten or fifty years ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8610.41Ten thalers Wouldn’t pay me for that joke."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_850.41"They gave me my first five thalers of salary at school to-day."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9670.41Sixty years previously, the old pile had been torn down.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6720.41I am assured that it is worth, at the very least, twenty thalers: we cannot hope, I suppose, for more than half that price from Baruch Mendel."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4280.41She knew about all the lords who had lived at the old castle for hundreds of years; yes, many a thing that had happened there, that must have outraged God and man.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40030.39" He was twenty-one years of age," the bookkeeper rejoined, with a gloomy look, " when he left Paris for- ever."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7700.38new potatoes at this time of year !"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54190.38I am right, my hundreds of thousands have vanished, have they not?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36310.38In the meanwhile, the twentieth of May, Flora’s birthday, had come.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24390.37"Strange that this inextinguishable thirst should assail you for the first time within the last few months, after you——" "After I have lived without this fame _twenty-nine_ years," she completed his sentence with a burning blush.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6470.36Ulrika, next month I shall be twenty-one years old ; you and I have gone through many a bitter day together.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4890.36He repeatedly declared that he would have nothing to do with ‘the fellow,’ even if he should live to be a hundred years old.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3690.36The poor Duchess may perhaps not live twenty-four hours longer.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4300.36When I was four years old she began to instruct me, and Use used to bring her work and listen.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6730.35Some time ago the bird might have shamed many a child with the number of conversational phrases it had picked up."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47050.35It was indeed the darkest part of his life ; but, my child, he was then a young man scarcely twenty-one years old, a passionate, enthusiastic man.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23820.33Four weeks ago I might have sought it myself, in the honest hope of fulfilling the duties I had as- sumed with such unpardonable frivolity; to-day, after all ihat has passed, it cannot be !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52300.32Enough of evil for a lifetime lay between this hour and the moment of her first entrance into this little blue boudoir, and yet but a few months had elapsed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1270.32He does not pay his rent, and continues to draw profit from a place which he had notice to quit more than a year ago.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4160.32Good gracious!—only a girl, hardly eighteen years old, and the owner of such a mill!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33260.32The change has not been contemplated for months, uncle.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24060.32How many years ago was that, my good Frau Use ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32200.32If it were not for my cousin’s seven and thirty years, I might actually be jealous!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23330.32"Holla, Gold Elsie, what is the matter with you?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13510.30He made over to your Highness before his death the sum of four hundred thousand thalers, as compensation for the revenue of which your Highness has been deprived for so many years by the crime of which he was cognizant."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29170.30"This path is the shortest, and we can for a quarter of an hour at least escape from the buzz and clatter with which my friends and relatives are celebrating the completion of my thirty-seventh year.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51400.29mentioned had been solemnly presented to you by Uncle Gisbert, before witnesses, on the tenth of September.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4400.29Seven years ago he plunged into the lake and saved me from drowning at the risk of his life.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35380.29I shall gain a step in my profession, of course, instantly; that yellow parchment, with its crooked letters, has done for me in an instant what thirty years of hard service have failed to accomplish.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21690.28121 witnesses, a few days before his death, and wrote at the time, Never forget that you received this seal-ring on the tenth cf September.'
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2190.28In spite of her seventy years, she entered with an elastic step; in spite of her seventy years, she looked a wonderfully youthful grandmamma.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40250.28"But we must strictly avoid all haste, even although years should elapse."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2040.26The deuce only knows how she managed itl She was then far beyond thirty, and had a daughter seventeen years old, but she looked like roses and alabaster.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3710.26" I musty mamma," Ulrika calmly replied ; " because you so often forget what is surely not difficult to understand that our creditors have cut down our yearly income from twenty- five thousand to six hundred thalers."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3750.24She closed it again, and said calmly, but with evident malice, " Only six hundred thalers !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43630.24She was borne through the forest, in longing for which her heart had broken two centuries before.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15450.24"Five months ago you often paid a visit yourself to Christel’s kitchen.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23270.24Oh, Magnus !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16670.24" That I can tell you.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63680.24Is he to be seen ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51390.24"So be it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24470.24"Get through with what you have begun as best you can.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11320.24Uave you done now ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1050.24II Seventeen.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44250.24No, a thousand times no!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35130.24"What!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3300.24"Let us go on."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32510.24Hector!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22940.24"And not return for years?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15370.24"Yes."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32540.24Could it be?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26560.24"Yes, go," he said.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3100.22I did well to weep and lament when, thirty years ago, a little new-born monster 1 a genuine Trachenberg was laid in my arms."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35130.18He takes out his watch, and scolds his people if they are a moment late in that detestable cage, and at night he ob- serves the stars only that he may count them as he does the thalers on his table.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25640.18I would a thousand times’ rather battle with wind and rain than encounter anger "and narrow-mindedness here.

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_132800.91On the death of my grandfather in 1719, the amount was already near a million; in 1724, it would be twelve hundred thousand francs; in 1738, two millions four hundred thousand; in 1752, about two years after my birth, four millions eight hundred thousand; in 1766, nine millions six hundred thousand; in 1780, nineteen millions two hundred thousand; in 1794, twelve years after the death of my father, thirty-eight millions four hundred thousand; in 1808, seventy-six millions eight hundred thousand; in 1822, one hundred and fifty-three millions six hundred thousand; and, at this time, taking the compound interest for ten years, it should be at least two hundred and twenty-five millions.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_193390.89Thus, one hundred and forty-six families, paying me only one hundred and twenty-five francs a-year, and one hundred and fifteen bachelors, seventy-five francs, I shall have a total of twenty-six to twenty-seven thousand francs.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_161730.88it was two milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_19260.84There was twelve acres of clearin' at ten dollars, and eighty-eight at one, and the whole came to two hundred and eighty-six dollars and a half, after paying the men."
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_2650.83I bet twenty thousand against any of you that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; that is to say, in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
Collins_The_Moonstone_116840.82That the twenty thousand pounds (from which the income was supposed to be derived) had every farthing of it been sold out of the Funds, at different periods, ending with the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_71800.82Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_72170.82Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds?
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_35420.79So Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days, and had won his bet of twenty thousand pounds.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_10770.78Seven and a half per cent, on twelve thousand dollars would be nine hundred dollars a year.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_259750.78"Four thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight louis," said Peppino; "You have paid two louis in advance."
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_102720.78At last, after paying out thousands, one man came up who had notes to the amount of ten thousand pounds.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_35510.77So Phileas Fogg had won his twenty thousand pounds, but as he had expended nearly nineteen thousand pounds, his gain was small.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_303480.77At two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the present day represent forty-eight millions.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_36640.77I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_6440.76Now I have calculated that I lose two shillings every four-and-twenty hours, which is just sixpence more than my wages.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_79810.76Yet when the man told him that he had not a brass farthing he thought of his own thousand pounds which were now in the man's pocket.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_293790.76Two hundred and twelve millions, one hundred and seventy-five thousand francs!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_21140.76Only consider, there are four, and for such a number we should have to pay at least twenty sous (ten pence) a day.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_13390.76She passes half the year a hundred miles from this, and there are young men everywhere.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_320830.76There were five hundred notes for a thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred.
Collins_No_Name_30.76The day was the fourth of March, and the year was eighteen hundred and forty-six.
Collins_The_Moonstone_116990.74He had three hundred pounds to find on the twenty-fourth of the month, and twenty thousand pounds to find in February eighteen hundred and fifty.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_121950.73Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_48340.73"Of what, think you, do young and strong men die in prison, when they have scarcely numbered their thirtieth year, unless it be of imprisonment?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_48460.73"Of what, think you, do young and strong men die in prison, when they have scarcely numbered their thirtieth year, unless it be of imprisonment?"
Collins_Woman_in_White_70000.73"In that case, you would gain twenty thousand pounds, and you would lose----" "I should lose the chance of three thousand a year."
Collins_Woman_in_White_100370.73Anne was born in the June month of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven--and I think he came at the end of April or the beginning of May."
Wood_East_Lynne_70640.73A hundred pounds every three months shall be paid to you, dating from this day.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_27890.73not I; not if he didn't pay me them ninety-two pounds thirteen and fourpence for the next five years."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_129060.73I wish I had bought a hundred-weight, for they tell me it is worth three pound ten here."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_127990.73The land had been bought twenty-seven years and some months ago.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_127910.73"Five times five hundred shillings, one hundred and twenty-five pounds.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_205870.73A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there are twenty-five thousand."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_179240.73At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they seem twenty.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_11200.73Then I was three year at Mellstock, and I've been here one-and-thirty year come Candlemas.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_25310.73Parkins paid the four hundred and fifty in gold-pieces.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_82770.73There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_155230.73"From one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand livres per annum."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_83170.73There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_156050.73"From one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand livres per annum."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_33400.73Ours have amounted to sixteen thousand dollars and some cents up to this time."
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_29000.72That same evening Caspar Bethenyi risked his last thousand francs on number twenty-nine,--perhaps because the twenty-ninth of January was his birthday,--and lost.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_137870.72This is the reason that, instead of the sixteen I had last year, I have this year, you see, eleven, already plucked--twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_138530.72This is the reason that, instead of the sixteen I had last year, I have this year, you see, eleven, already plucked -- twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_16390.71"A single year's income, only--ten thousand pounds will hardly"---- "Ten thousand pounds!
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_19540.71"I will give you a hundred pounds a day and a bonus of two hundred pounds, if you arrive in time."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_9090.71he added; all the time evidently thinking of something else, and saying forty sous as he would say twenty sous or a hundred sous.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_20790.71One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen years.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_139440.71"Here are ten thousand more francs," he said, "with the fifteen thousand already in your pocket, they will make twenty-five thousand.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6790.48"Be sure and take good care of her," cried she to the guard, as he lifted me into the inside.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89910.41You have lost your labour -- you had better go no farther," urged the monitor.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97560.39A short time after she pursued -- "I seed you go out with the master, but I didn't know you were gone to church to be wed;" and she basted away.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_850.32What a fury to fly at Master John!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66920.24Where?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35570.48I called my father, and the man whom I loathed came~into the poultry-yard with him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2410.41"Yes, but that stupid Heinrich came for me much too soon)’ "Your mother sent him, my child.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17190.32Tan adventures by fire and flood were not withou evil consequences.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16040.24.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_00.24CHAPTER I. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21450.17"Oh, that is carrying the joke a great deal too far, John," she said, in a complaining tone,—" this exquisitely fine linen l" " You have often reproached me," the Professor said, turning to his mother, without appearing to have heard his cousin’s last remarks, "by declaring that I do not suffieientl y prize the results of my very expensive education; I assure you, I am a practical man.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31200.76For all I care, ten bailiffs’ sons may come home from the gold-fields."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4470.64He comes from the place where the bailiff once had a farm on the royal lands; he was a day-labourer there, and seems very fond of his old master, for he spends every particle of time that he can spare from his own hard work on the farm-fields, andwhatever my wife may say—the maid helps him very cleverly."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8550.57What vexes me is the old woman’s ways.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31010.57The farm swarmed with labourers.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8890.54He must have jumped out of the window at day-dawn, and gone through the farm-yard into the fields.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4650.53"No, I don’t believe that, sir, although I know——" "That the whole country is swarming with such creatures, all ripe for the gallows," interrupted her master.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21720.47But, good hoavens !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19300.47Yes, yes, they are now reaping what they have sown.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_350.41At that time their group of buildings opposite the market square was like a bee-hive, so thriving was their business.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9920.39"When I think of poor Schneider,—she is the widow of a day-labourer in the village," she said, turning to the others; "she always worked hard to make both ends meet, and no one could say a word against her, but she had four children to feed, and lived from hand to mouth.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14260.39The rogue who breaks into the tailor's or the cobbler's shop is treated just like my criminal, my poacher.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26960.38The mother ran to it and took it in her arms. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18990.38Ah, that would be grist indeed for her mill!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13000.37So soon, however, as the new buildings are completed the old order must be re-estab1ished,—that is, there must be cattle in the stables, and the necessary amount of hired labour to work the farm if it is not to go to utter ruin.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_980.32How could he help the low suspicions of the miserable old corn-dealer, who saw a possible robber in every man, no matter what his position and culture?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23230.32He pointed with his pipe over his shoulder into the kitchen, where the new maid was bustling about sulkily.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9150.32"What else can I call your presenting to me such a picture of the future?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8700.28The girl was evidently looking for some lost object; she pushed about the straws left atop of the stubble, and even turned over some of the nearest mounds of hay.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39090.28Moritz will never endure the jangle of a bunch of keys at your girdle,—rely upon that, even although he should gallantly promise you ten poultry-yards.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14060.27I cannot abide the forester there; he struts about and treats one just as they do at the farm.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31720.24There was no need.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29750.21you know what my uncle is, with his terror of any diminution of the Mainau property; his grasping avarice grows unendurable, the old man is almost insane upon the subject.

Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_59710.86Bill Dadds had a sickle, Jem Slocombe a flail, the cobbler had borrowed the constable's staff (for the constable would not attend, because there was no warrant), and the parish clerk had brought his pitch-pipe, which was enough to break any man's head.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_11360.79Small thanks to you, John Fry, I say, and you Bill Dadds, and you Jem Slocomb, and all the rest of your coward lot; much you care for your master's son!
Cooper_The_Prairie_15490.78"You would be no better than a drone at your time of day, with a young hive to feed and swarm."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_14400.77"Girt Jan Ridd," I was called already, and folk grew feared to wrestle with me; though I was tired of hearing about it, and often longed to be smaller.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_9860.76The fright I had taken that night in Glen Doone satisfied me for a long time thereafter; and I took good care not to venture even in the fields and woods of the outer farm, without John Fry for company.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_56940.76For if men shulde trouthe seche, And found it nought within a king, It were an unfittende thing The worde is token of that within; There shall a worthy king begin To kepe his tunge and to be trewe, So shall his price ben ever newe.'
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_69580.76said poor Jeremy, turning to me; "a pretty state of things, John!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_5650.76"Bad job for he as her had not got thiccy the naight as her coom acrass them Doones.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_11390.76began John; "Jan wudd goo, now wudd't her, Jem?
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_164220.76He knows how to take care of bees and he calls them the poor man's pasture cattle.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_37700.75"Zeed me adooing of thic, every naight last ten year, Jan, wiout vindin' out how hard it wor.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_110590.73Big culverins of war they cast with no more ado than our folk horse-shoes, and have done this fourscore years.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_44890.73"There is a big young fellow upon this farm," Carver Doone muttered sulkily, "with whom I have an account to settle, if ever I come across him.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_20880.73[Illustration: _He will scold you awfully._ Original Etching by Adrian Marcel.]
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_10100.73Anyhow, there was this good in it--the full buckets would be to carry down hill 'stead of up.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_78830.73[Illustration: 544.jpg Swung me on high] "How now, Simon Carfax?"
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_52340.73Don't you think it is high time to put on your snow-shoes, John?"
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_21500.73His name was Simon Carfax, and he came as the captain of a gang from one of the Cornish stannaries.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_72810.72Therefore, having done their business, and served both citations, these two good men had a pannier of victuals put up by dear Annie, and borrowing two of our horses, rode to Dunster, where they left them, and hired on towards London.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_99540.72The man turned up the gully leading from the moor to Cloven Rocks, through which John Fry had tracked Uncle Ben, as of old related.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_860.71First she went into the barn, and then through the barn into the stack-yard, and then round the ricks one after another, and then into the corn-loft; but all without avail.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_27770.71There was two boys pig-minding, seed him at it down the hill, beside a maiden that was taken mazed (and no wonder, poor soul!)
Cooper_The_Prairie_11380.71Do you ever find your longings after riches less when you have made a good crop, than before you were master of a kernel of corn?
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_52300.71Nevertheless she had answered bravely,-- "Go and tell the Counsellor, and go and tell the Carver, who sent you to spy upon us, that we shall have a finer dish than any set before them."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_46760.71Wull, as I coom down the hill, I zeed a saight of volks astapping of the ro-udwai.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_44930.71"Oh, you mean that fool, John Ridd," answered the young squire; "a very simple clod-hopper.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_32340.71After us, the maidens came, milkmaids and the rest of them, with Betty Muxworthy at their head, scolding even now, because they would not walk fitly.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_24900.71'Tis a supper quite fit for Tom Faggus himself, the man who hath stolen my victuals so.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_46420.71And in smaller ways, I was much put out; for instance, who would ensure our corn-ricks, sheep, and cattle, ay, and even our fat pigs, now coming on for bacon, against the spreading all over the country of unlicensed marauders?
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_89480.70The accounts of Harry were bad; he was still living at Daddy Collins's, nobody knew how, and working gang-work occasionally with the outlaws of the heath.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_5660.70Rackon Varmer Jan 'ood a-zhown them the wai to kingdom come, 'stead of gooin' herzel zo aisy.
Warner_Queechy_61600.69"Yes--uncle Rolf has let the farm--only think of it!--he has let the farm to that Didenhover."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_166860.69Reigate, or Maidstone, or anywhere about Great Marlow would not be so bad."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_96400.69"Why, Squire Wurley as was then--not this one, but the last--and his lawyer, and Farmer Tester."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_103660.69So Harry Winburn went off to the stable to fetch his clothes.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_33600.69It was long since there had been such a harvest; the barns could scarcely contain all the grain.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_7790.69"'Tisn't a master; 'tis a mistress, shepherd."
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_50600.69There were five wheat-ricks in this yard, and three stacks of barley.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_67890.69A hard-headed, sensible man the lawyer, no doubt.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_91580.69"Girt Jan Ridd," said the handmaid, very sulkily.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_78480.69cried Master Carfax; "I reckon her did; no doubt her did."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_46850.69says I: 'sure 'ee knaws better nor thic, Bill!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_43560.69Little Gwenny is not allowed to leave the valley now; so that I could send no message.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_38210.69Knaw what boys and maidens be, as well as I knew young pegs.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_33150.694 The oats, oh the oats, 'tis the ripening of the oats!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_33040.692 The wheat, oh the wheat, 'tis the ripening of the wheat!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_32050.69None of us but my grandfather, and the Counsellor (who is a great scholar), can compare with you in this.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_2750.69"It be nawbody," said John, "vor us to make a fush about.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_26250.69The man who starved me on the way down, the same shall feed me fat going home."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_11410.69Master John, if you please, to a lad of his years and stature.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68710.60'Ich wage die Gedanken in der Schale meines Zornes und die Werke mit dem Gewichte meines Grimms.'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42060.41CHAPTER XXI Presentiments are strange things!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89340.38CHAPTER XXXVI The daylight came.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65910.32CHAPTER XXVIII Two days are passed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86580.27CHAPTER XXXV He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_890.24CHAPTER II I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85980.24"Shall I?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83830.24"Jane, what are you doing?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13200.4898 THE OLD 1lIAJl’SELLE’S SEO'Ii.E'I'.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7760.47CHAPTER IX.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_700.47CHAPTER II.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5010.47CHAPTER VII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41420.47CHAPTER XXVI 1.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4010.47CHAPTER VI.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39670.47CHAPTER XXVI.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35920.47CHAPTER XXIV.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34060.47CHAPTER XXIII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31830.47CHAPTER XXII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30250.47CHAPTER XXI.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28380.47CHAPTER XX.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26060.47CHAPTER XIX.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24250.47CHAPTER XVIII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2340.47CHAPTER IV.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22770.47CHAPTER XVII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19110.47CHAPTER XV.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17180.47CHAPTER XIV.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1570.47CHAPTER III.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15000.47CHAPTER XIII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13280.47CHAPTER XII.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7520.32There stands the ‘fairy-like li‘tlo creature,’ as he calls her in his letter."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37860.32CHAPTER XXV OUTSIDE ii her agony she stretched her arms to Heaven.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23180.27The old Mam’se1le " " Is deadl" she shrieked.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36830.24. "

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7140.64- ^r- - r to vi2k tscil- uit " i azs _:-- * ,,.. .
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9820.47CHAPTER VII.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8340.47CHAPTER VI.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51900.47297 CHAPTER XXVIII.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47980.47CHAPTER XXVI.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4730.47CHAPTER IV.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46710.47CHAPTER XXV.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45220.47CHAPTER XXIV.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43130.47T&R CHAPT8K XXIII.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40340.47CHAPTER XXII.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34260.47CHAPTER XX.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32180.47CHAPTER XIX.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30250.47CHAPTER XVIII.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27170.47CHAPTEK XVI.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25860.47CHAPTER XV.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24450.47CHAPTER XIV.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23060.47CHAPTER XIII.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13760.47CHAPTER IX. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4160.47CHAPTER XXVI.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2440.47CHAPTER II.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9690.47*& CHAPTER VII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8590.475T CHAPTER VI.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65960.47CHAPTER XXXII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63660.47383 CHAPTER XXXI.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61550.47CHAPTER XXX.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55500.47CHAPTER XXIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53410.47323 CHAPTER XXVII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50560.47CHAPTER XXYI.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48380.47CHAPTER XXV.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43260.47CHAPTER XXIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38490.47CHAPTER XXI.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33640.47CHAPTER XX.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29830.47CHAPTER XVIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27760.47CHAPTER XVII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22200.47CHAPTER XIV.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19880.47CHAPTER XIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11810.47CHAPTER VIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9190.47CHAPTER XXVIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6860.47CHAPTER XXVII.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4220.47CHAPTER XXVI.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2770.47‘CHAPTER II.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16530.47CHAPTER XXXII.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14800.47CHAPTER XXXI.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8660.47CHAPTER VII.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7510.47I CHAPTER VI.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4240.47CHAPTER IV.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30800.47CHAPTER XX.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30250.47CHAPTER XIX. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27100.47CHAPTER XVIII.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2660.47CHAPTER III.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26050.47CHAPTER XVII.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23920.47CHAPTER XVI.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21940.47CHAPTER XV.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20040.47CHAPTER XIV.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17360.47’ CHAPTER XII.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16560.47CHAPTER XI.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1600.47b 2* CHAPTER II.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13690.47CHAPTER IX.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10580.47CHAPTER VIII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9610.47CHAPTER VIII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7760.47CHAPTER VII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_710.47CHAPTER II.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5910.47CHAPTER VI.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46050.47CHAPTER XX.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40940.47CHAPTER XIX.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39230.47CHAPTER XVIII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35850.47CHAPTER XVII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33360.47CHAPTER XVI.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3040.47CHAPTER IV.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26380.47CHAPTER XV.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25730.47CHAPTER XIV.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23540.47CHAPTER XIII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21800.47CHAPTER XII.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16470.47CHAPTER XI.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1570.47CHAPTER III.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12480.47CHAPTER IX.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9640.47CHAPTER VI.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5900.47CHAPTER IV.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54730.47CHAPTER XXIX.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52690.47CHAPTER XXVIII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50530.47CHAPTER XXVII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49330.47CHAPTER XXVI.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46540.47CHAPTER XXV.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44280.47CHAPTER XXIV.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43430.47CHAPTER XXIII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42280.47CHAPTER XXII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40650.47CHAPTER XXI.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39860.47CHAPTER XX.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3920.47good dogs!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38380.47CHAPTER XIX.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3600.47CHAPTER III.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35620.47CHAPTER XVIII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34220.47CHAPTER XVII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32500.47CHAPTER XVI.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30400.47CHAPTER XV.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27270.47CHAPTER XIV.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25130.47CHAPTER XIII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22870.47CHAPTER XII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21000.47CHAPTER XI.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16520.47CHAPTER IX.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14530.47CHAPTER VIII.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1450.47CHAPTER II.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11850.47CHAPTER VII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67120.3944 Look at me I" I cited, fctov^vY^ wk \Ktast* Vvsl* THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7330.38" Tut, ttft, tut !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31620.38That is, I would write and you should illus- trate ?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21040.3811 122 THE SECOND WIFE CHAPTER XII.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4750.388fr CHAPTER IV.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33020.38But let us dis- cuss that other matter further.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23140.34He has forced us to take his name, our own is Me*ricourt, and we must 12* n / * v calculating around th cliuch yo'y throbbing deliveranr As sho *' out to IV Dagobert, ] sou; he < JV ' Could ho fingers em-' to throw T< rose-trellis.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2840.32Little fool, to hide auch an ornament from him !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46440.27Ther chould be shutters on the sunny side.''
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31610.27\%$ CHAPTER XIX I found the maid still in my room.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3620.24This is but a sorry jest."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_68030.24Then came the war of '66.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45340.24Indeed ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42280.24"You do not know, then, who was its former pos- sessor ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14810.24CHAPTER X.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17760.24Bab, we are quits!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_00.24 CHAPTER I.

Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2670.89Oh, Lord, spah de little chil'en, don't tar de little chil'en away f'm dey frens, jes' let 'em off jes' dis once, and take it out'n de ole nibgah.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2640.88Take de ole niggah if you's, got to hab somebody.--Good Lord, good deah Lord, we don't know whah you's a gwyne to, we don't know who you's got yo' eye on, but we knows by de way you's a comin', we knows by de way you's a tiltin' along in yo' charyot o' fiah dat some po' sinner's a gwyne to ketch it.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_8400.87Ef dem vaces in der veels, and dem awvool veels in der veels, and dem figures vot always says aideen huntert vordy dree, ef dem tond mean sompin awvool, vot does dey mean?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_95370.86End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Wandering Jew, v3 by Eugene Sue THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK IV.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_268590.86End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Wandering Jew, v10 by Eugene Sue THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK XI.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_26830.86S. End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Wandering Jew, v1 by Eugene Sue THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK II.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_243010.86End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Wandering Jew, v9 by Eugene Sue THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK X. XXXIII.
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Eggleston_End_of_the_World_3230.85You kooms sneaggin heim Zaturtay nocht leig a tog vots kot kigt, unt's got his dail dween his leks; and ven I aks you in blain Eenglish vot's der madder, you loogs zheepish leig, und says you a'n't tun nodin.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_21590.85Unt ich ish hoong unt troundt unt darrdt unt vedderd unt drakt out indoo de ribber, unt dolt if I ko back do mein vrau unt kinder I zhall pe kilt vunst more already.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_20970.85ye'll live to see yer husband sold, or mebbe be sold yerself; and these yer boys, they's to be sold, I s'pose, too, jest like as not, when dey gets good for somethin'; an't no use in niggers havin' nothin'!"
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_21600.84Unt I shpose if ich shtays here der Gainduckee beobles vill hang me unt dar me unt trown me all over in der ribber, doo, already, pekoz I ish Deutsch.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_3220.84Vot for you sprachen not mit me ven ich sprachs der blainest zort ov Eenglish mit you?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_113490.83They say commonly, 'Kanstu niecht sauffen und fressen so kanstu kienem hern wol dienen.'
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_3340.83If I dought you said vot you zhoodn't zay doo Shule, I vood shust drash you on der shpot!
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_380.83Talks 'bout goin' to Mozouri--lots uv 'ems talkin' that- away down thar, Ole Higgins say.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2650.83But good Lord, dose chilen don't b'long heah, dey's f'm Obedstown whah dey don't know nuffin, an' you knows, yo' own sef, dat dey ain't 'sponsible.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_21610.82Ich zay de voorld ish all pad, unt it aud doo pe vinished vunst already, I ton't gare how quick, so ash dem droonk vools kit vot pelongs doo 'em venever Gabrel ploes his drumbet."
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_16530.82And I says to myself, I'll try to be somethin' more nor Pete Jones, and dad, and these other triflin', good-fer-nothin' ones 'bout here.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_103280.81And now 'ere I be wi un agen, a-runnin' from the constable; and like to be tuk up and transpworted, and 'tis just the same; and I s'pose 'twill be just the same if ever I gets back, and sees un, and talks wi' un, if I be gwine to be hung.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_64370.81I repeat it all: 'My willina sol wooda sta in socha framas zees, ansit ansin hassaf awai to affarlastin blees thar.'
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_3420.80I dells you, unt dells you, unt _dells_ you to sprach nodin put Deutsche, unt to marry a kood Deutsche vrau vot kood sprach mit you, unt now you koes right shtraight off unt kits knee-teep in lieb mit a vool of a Yangee kirl!
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_9250.80Missis don't want dis yer Mas'r Haley to get Lizy's boy; dat's de go!"
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_8640.80"Vel, you are der queerest Yankee in Chicago, you are; I dink you are 'bout haf Sherman.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_5840.80"I app'int Larkin Lanham and Jeems Buchanan fer captings," said the Squire.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2890.80An' warn't he a lookin' right at dis gang heah, an' warn't he jes' a reachin' for 'em?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_63230.80End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Wandering Jew, v2 by Eugene Sue THE WANDERING JEW By Eugene Sue BOOK III.
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Eggleston_End_of_the_World_8530.79Ich tidn't, Hankins tidn't, Ze'kel's wision tidn't zay nodin pout no goon-tog.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_20730.79"Looky yer, Jeems; ef you say anythin' agin Ann Marier, I'll commit the wust larson on you you ever seed."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_9110.78but, Sam," said Andy, "you'd better think twice; for Missis don't want her cotched, and she'll be in yer wool."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_16510.78Thar, Andy, you may have dat ar bone,--tan't picked quite clean."
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_38100.78Miss Edie's berry sick, and I don't know whar to go for a doctor, and she won't have any; but she mus, and right away.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_33110.78He de boy for me; Sodger, buccra, Sodger, buccra, Nebba, nebba do.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_81040.78Ther' wur no sich a caddle about sick folk when I wur a bwoy."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_103200.78So fur as I can see, 'tis jest nothin' but talkin' wi' our Master Tom.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_2520.78No lickin', no l'arnin', says I. Lickin' and l'arnin,' lickin' and larnin', is the good ole way."
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_3250.78If you a'n't tun nodin den, vy don't you dell me vot it is dat you has tun?
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_21560.78A blace vare troonk sheounders dosh vot ever dey hadn't ort!
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2770.78Dis Chile would like to know whah we'd a ben now if it warn't fo' dat prah?
Alcott_Little_Women_9400.78If we do so, you just say to us, as old Chloe did in UNCLE TOM, `Tink ob yer marcies, chillen!
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_16480.77"Dat ar was _conscience_, Andy; when I thought of gwine arter Lizy, I railly spected Mas'r was sot dat way.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_48340.77Not dat I specs He's gwine to bodder wid dis ole niggah, but den I'd jes like to hear 'bout Him a little."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_116730.77Tain't like the owld wars and fightin' o' the French, this here fightin' wi' blackamoors, let 'em talk as thaay wool."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_260.77Russ Mosely he tote ole Hanks he mought git to Obeds tomorrer or nex' day he reckoned."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_99120.76"Jes like Mas'r George,--he's allers so ferce for tellin' everything hisself.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_9030.76"Well, anyhow, Mas'r wants Bill and Jerry geared right up; and you and I 's to go with Mas'r Haley, to look arter her."