Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21330.60"Arithmetic, you see, is useful; without its aid, I should hardly have been able to guess your age.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28920.53YOU gifted with the power of pleasing him?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11180.53Such is the imperfect nature of man!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34010.52All their class held these principles: I supposed, then, they had reasons for holding them such as I could not fathom.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22020.51You had not enough of the artist's skill and science to give it full being: yet the drawings are, for a school-girl, peculiar.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42090.48Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24430.47"The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27540.46"I will put her to some test," thought I: "such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16450.46It would be difficult to say: I could not then distinctly say it to myself; yet I had a reason, and a logical, natural reason too.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78840.45There is this difference between me and deistic philosophers: I believe; and I believe the Gospel.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66470.45But I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47030.44I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12890.44It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89600.43I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72590.43"And you need help, do you not?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24410.43"You are human and fallible."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84550.42I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms: my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84400.41I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74120.39What, with the largest portion of your mind -- sentiments -- tastes?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21760.38As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18540.37Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28030.37What if a former caprice (a freak very possible to a nature so sudden and headstrong as his) has delivered him into her power, and she now exercises over his actions a secret influence, the result of his own indiscretion, which he cannot shake off, and dare not disregard?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85090.36My work, which had appeared so vague, so hopelessly diffuse, condensed itself as he proceeded, and assumed a definite form under his shaping hand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3260.36Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24630.36While talking to you, I have also occasionally watched Adele (I have my own reasons for thinking her a curious study, -- reasons that I may, nay, that I shall, impart to you some day).
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24270.36Only one thing, I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection; -- one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57270.35Do you accept my solution of the mystery?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22080.35And who taught you to paint wind?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15220.35"I always said you would surpass them in learning: and can you draw?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37530.35If, on reflection, I find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you; but it was not right."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36320.34"A mean nutriment for the spirit to exist on: and sitting in that window-seat (you see I know your habits ) -- " "You have learned them from the servants."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48710.34I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this suggestion on the character of my beloved; indeed, when you are far away, Janet, I'll try to forget it: I shall notice only its wisdom; which is such that I have made it my law of action.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84760.31It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you: you are formed for labour, not for love.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96790.30"To the finest fibre of my nature, sir."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84060.30There are no such things as marble kisses or ice kisses, or I should say my ecclesiastical cousin's salute belonged to one of these classes; but there may be experiment kisses, and his was an experiment kiss.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25770.30It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22460.29I should have liked something clearer; but Mrs. Fairfax either could not, or would not, give me more explicit information of the origin and nature of Mr. Rochester's trials.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84090.29As for me, I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22630.29"And mind," he continued, "don't bother me with any details of the anatomical process, or any notice of the condition of the entrails: let your operation be conducted in silence: tiens-toi tranquille, enfant; comprends-tu?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8870.29The lesson had comprised part of the reign of Charles I., and there were sundry questions about tonnage and poundage and ship-money, which most of them appeared unable to answer; still, every little difficulty was solved instantly when it reached Burns: her memory seemed to have retained the substance of the whole lesson, and she was ready with answers on every point.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27950.29I hardly heard Mrs. Fairfax's account of the curtain conflagration during dinner, so much was I occupied in puzzling my brains over the enigmatical character of Grace Poole, and still more in pondering the problem of her position at Thornfield and questioning why she had not been given into custody that morning, or, at the very least, dismissed from her master's service.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36270.28"I wonder what thoughts are busy in your heart during all the hours you sit in yonder room with the fine people flitting before you like shapes in a magic-lantern: just as little sympathetic communion passing between you and them as if they were really mere shadows of human forms, and not the actual substance."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85030.28In the resolute readiness with which you cut your wealth into four shares, keeping but one to yourself, and relinquishing the three others to the claim of abstract justice, I recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37590.28But my mind had been running on Grace Poole -- that living enigma, that mystery of mysteries, as I considered her.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79870.26It seems her career there was very honourable: from a pupil, she became a teacher, like yourself -- really it strikes me there are parallel points in her history and yours -- she left it to be a governess: there, again, your fates were analogous; she undertook the education of the ward of a certain Mr.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31450.26I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76050.26What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder?)
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54190.26I did try, but was presently swept off the stool and denominated "a little bungler."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17630.25"Why, Miss Eyre, though Mr. Rochester's visits here are rare, they are always sudden and unexpected; and as I observed that it put him out to find everything swathed up, and to have a bustle of arrangement on his arrival, I thought it best to keep the rooms in readiness."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85830.23How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: the analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33640.60There never existed a clearer, healthier intellect than hers.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23890.53It is hard to believe that the human soul, which, like everything that God’s wisdom has created, obeys the law of gradual progress, and passes through countless phases before arriving at perfection, immediately upon release from its earthly prison,—is endowed with the Divine attribute of omniscienee, and from beyond the grave reads like an open book all the actions and secret motives of those whom it leaves behind.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28760.52This was the character which had so long seemed to him the model of feminine perfection!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34600.47Profound original thought, with a rare power and felicity of expression, riveted the at lention and forced reflection.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33010.45239 flected whither her revelations were of necessity lcading her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18400.45For you, indeed, with your ideas, such a thought would unhinge your whole nervous system.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21890.44"Although I hold the power of representing the creations of master-minds to be one of the noblest talents that human beings can possess, I have not the courage which such an undertaking demands.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21990.43"It must be a most remarkable secret!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32930.41"This composition, then, which has been a kind of myth for the mu- sical world, did really exist!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20250.39This is the result of the social laws which you despise—-but in obedi~ enee to which numbers of men exercise an amount 0!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14950.37She detests all science, study, and meditation, because they would hinder the progress of her knitting or embroidery.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32580.35Her keen decided intellect never lacked power of expression.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6710.34"It is already lostl" "No, mother, although, I grant you, that blood must bring with it an utter levity of mind, still I have great faith in the effect of education."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30630.31But spite of the command of language that this man possessed, diplo ratio ambiguity was foreign to his nature.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36010.31The world contains nothing more untrustworthy, and yet how often it decides the entire earthly fate of individuals!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10500.30She studied with avidity, and the knowledge possessed by the mysterious inhabitant of those rooms was like an inexhaustible fountain, like a well-cut diamond, emitting brilliant sparks of light in whatever direction it was turned.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36000.30What an inexplicable riddle is public opinion!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31680.30All was chaos in her mind, usually so clear and decided.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_810.28The beautiful young creature had excited universal interest, and every one wished to see how she would look when the six muskets were pointed at her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23430.26How utterly incongruous it seemed, that those rough rhymes, strung together so rudely, and abounding in coarse material imagery, should have been selected to arouse and soothe the dying consciousness of one who had, during her whole long life, paid the truest homage to the Beautiful, and who recognized the Creator always in the beauty and love mani- fested in his works!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42110.24He was tal1—a1most too tall, for his figure was rather slenderand every gesture betrayed the finished man of the World, while his whole hearing was that of one born to command—of the self-conscious aristocrat.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21970.24"And here we come again upon the ground-tone of your nature, which revolts at all law and rule," he said sarcastically, although he had listened with evident interest to her peculiar definition of music.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10180.23Ileavensl look what a monstrous leaf that isl" She pointed to a long leaf, the point of which was most artistically curled.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2870.23"Must I learn to-day that neither sympathy nor pity is to be found in my house?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25360.22as if she thought her treasures less safe with richly endowed, generous natures, than with those Whose souls are as tightly closed as their money-bags.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6870.22And how you look!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36160.22N o!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21760.22~ 151 that point.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17330.22But do you suppose she ever touched it?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8360.20A more cultivated -car than the child’s, would never have suspected that those tones proceeded from an organ.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33840.20The desire of study, the appetite for knowledge was unquenchable in my childish soul,—if you had starved my body, Madame, it would not have been as cruel as were your systematic efl'orts to fetter my thoughts, to kill my mind.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11440.18"1*‘iel" "Yes, aunt, this is the truth.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20380.17But you cannot deprive me of the conviction that there exist kind-hearted, unprejudiced people in the world, who will recognize an honest heart and good intentions even in ajuggler’s daughter.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9450.16Within the last nine yea.rs an engineer had flourished his magic wand above and below the soil of X , and this modern Moses’ rod had revealed a bitter spring, which if it did not harden into gold and silver upon contact with the air, certainly developed precious crystal salt.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23810.13Perhaps she had wished to dispose of her property, and had thus been prevented by Mardaine’s violence.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23350.69I was entirely too inexperienced and wanting in judgment to be able to attribute the power that she possessed to any special cause.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24350.65"Can you not see how my whole soul is thirsting to embrace an author’s profession?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38950.60"What incredible simplicity^jJuliana, you combine with your strong, ripe intellect and clear comprehension !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15520.57"But with regard to the nature of these duties people may puzzle themselves, as in the case of the ‘ Fraulein gouvernante’ hidden like some saintly image behind a mysterious veil!"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1090.53Give it up; we neither of us can solve that riddle."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63370.53"And these, then, are the poetical relations existing between you ?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32080.53But you are healthy in body and mind."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50160.52You told me just now how difficult you found such purely mechanical labour.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42320.52Certainly not our pedantic old court-painter, Krause, he never could have put so much soul into the eyes."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2670.51She had not been here a month before I discovered that she had not a single healthy thought in her entire composition; she is a mass of exaggerated ideas and inconceivable arrogance.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52830.47" Yes, as venomous reptiles, creations of disordered brains, utterly at variance with morality and a genuine 820 TEE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44300.47Must she learn that a spotless life was nought, laid in the balance with a human device, which was, in fact, a phantom of the brain,—an absolute nothing?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43990.47You have no confidence in me, that is, it has been systematically destroyed in your mind ; for you did not bring hither with you one atom of distrust in any human being," he continued, gravely. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37270.47Hollfeld possessed very little intellect, but he had a vast amount of cunning, which, as we see, served his turn better than intellect could have done.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24400.47"Account for that as you please; call it a result of the feminine nature, which gropes and errs until it finds the right path——" "Are you so sure that it is the right path?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3380.47‘But the discontented old critic had not applied the singular expression, " ravings," altogether inappropriately.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30570.47Here first I met with this wonderful combination of characteristics, and it taught me to understand and to appreciate you, Agnes."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27840.45Still, I am right, although to-day has converted me to a belief that there are exceptions.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27830.45That contradicts my view of feminine dilettanteism.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50880.45There is no such patent, warring against hon- est labour, to be had from nature, and the stroke of a prince's pen, to which such virtue is ascribed, that, by its magic, healthy red blood is transformed to- artificial blue, even it has no power to release any one from the obligation to work which lies upon every human being.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16380.44denly I stood chained to the spot, and unconsciously there dawned within me the first dim perception of the wonders, the immense power of art.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60810.43you know that is my vulnerable point."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17420.43Oh, feminine logic!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18440.43Such stupidity never will learn!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38870.43No power upon earth shall take me over it again!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35480.43What can you know of a psychological problem?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25730.43A mysterious influence, unknown in the busy world, reigned around ; it was as quiet as in those sealed apart- ments.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8880.43He discussed Schubert’s compositions in a manner that manifested refined perception and a thorough knowledge of his subject.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41460.43"There is something horrible in the sudden conviction that one has no existence as a genuine human creature, with a right to be happy after one’s own fashion."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15730.42I am much interested in the woman question, and desire nothing more, in common with all thoughtful men, than that woman should be an intelligent assistant and co-worker with man in the department of the intellect."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22830.41" " True, true ; and among them I rank the mysterious in- fluences of the forces of nature.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20170.41I learn to know you to-day ; you have nerve and race, and more wit than you care to manifest.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16550.41It seemed as if the man were beating his tortured brain for one clear, distinct idea.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42570.41"I find myself the object of a misunderstanding, the origin of which I cannot possibly comprehend," she said hastily.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6340.41"The worst of it is that the worthlessness of single individuals is attributed to an entire class.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10890.41I 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-AtTheCouncillors_49430.41And thus, in spite of these revelations as to his losses, his fate might always have been bewailed as a result of his antiquarian love for the historic powder in the ruins, had he not made the mistake of selecting for his instrument of destruction a modern explosive material.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7530.41The maxims of religion, and perhaps, also, a certain sleepy kind of ‘philanthropy, require them to give alms of their substance, but there must be no contact with the recipients of their bounty.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2920.39"But you are right in thinking I should be more at home in the lecture-room than by the side of a man who has stamped himself a bungler in his profession; I could not endure such chains."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8090.39I must beg you to be patient until the force of habit shall as- sert itself.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43200.39These arrangements sufficed to influence the variable mind?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41870.39" Is that paper the only document existing upon which you base your knowledge of his will ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7340.39’Tis a strange caprice on her Highness’s part."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39900.39"This is, indeed, a most wonderful solution of an old riddle," he said, when Helene had finished.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21620.39"But what magnetism there must be in these musical practisings that they have worked such miracles!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9630.37Here we have again the mystic mode of speech in which you love to veil your young lady’s existence.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47460.37"Surely you do not estimate the full meaning of your hasty words," she said, slowly and emphatically.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17420.36"No, uncle," she replied, laughing, "that I shall not attempt, even though I do boast that I have wonderfully keen eyes and ears for the processes of nature."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33830.35Oh, yes, their "untutored instincts" had been "trained."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28930.35Hers is a noble nature, but there is alloy in it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31660.35Two months before, all this would have been an inexplicable riddle to her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15260.35"True, because you do not know me; but my idea is almost universal."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2280.35It would congeal any poetic idea in my brain, the very words on my lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14750.35me when I am released striving and labouring in accordance with his holy com mands?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37960.35He must have reached a height almost too lofty for human nature to attain.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2550.35She had taken it for granted that she should experience only kindness from all, since she was conscious of meaning well by all the world.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11300.35Perhaps you may one day stand what thirsting, aspiring soul it resembles.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28360.34165 world, while the other is tremblingly sensitive to every harsb word uttered in the privacy of domestic life.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10980.34Crude as my thoughts were, I could understand that there was not one spark of cruelty in his nature; he had been systematically inocu- lated with it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19800.34What gave that egotist such power over the clear mind and the daily life of this strange girl ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42970.34There was the same light in his eyes that shone in the eyes of the por- trait she called it soul that the pedantic old court- painter could never reproduce.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45120.32He had created for himself an ideal of her by whose side alone he could find real peace,—not that he required extraordinary physical beauty or intellectual power,—he sought a pure, true heart, that should be influenced by no consideration of worldly advantages, but should give herself to him for his own sake alone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6360.32Good heavens, it is a melancholy admission I Magnus is a mere nonentity, a man of no energy, no force | but what is detestable in him is admirable in his sister.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22860.32And it is asserted that the all-wise Creator capri- ciously interrupts and alters the eternal laws that He has made, often for insignificant human ends.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12950.31The Hofmarschall looked at her with profound suspicioa " I cannot tell," he said, with slow emphasis, " whether yon are really the soul of stupidity, or desperately cunning."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33230.31Never mind, I have taken up my domestic cross again, and shall bear it on for awhile; I cannot see the child cry, even though I were sure that the effect of every tear was exactly calculated."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_350.31These mingled noises did not exist as such for the sick man, however: they were as much part and parcel of his existence as the beating of his heart.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19820.31Liana had thrown upon paper, somewhat idealized, of course, one of the figures she had seen in the Indian cot.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29460.31I asked, vexed that " the tradesman," as my father called him, should intrude upon the realm of science.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11900.31"In the course of this interview his Highness Will learn Why I must decline all explanation With you personally," he said, with composure. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20110.31In presence of the pupil, the methods of the teacher were perpetually analyzed and criticised.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19250.31Again she felt it take possession of her soul more mightily and intoxicatingly than before, but it was just as mysterious and incomprehensible.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2640.31Her eyes were wonderfully fine, revealing depths of passionate feeling.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24970.31No; she was to be my intellectual inspiration, my pride, my sympathetic companion, the light of my household."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6350.30If she understands how to adapt herself " " I'll answer for her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4420.30He weak- minded, profound thinker that he is I Oh.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28190.30" I deny it emphatically," she said, with perfect calmne&s. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61620.30371 life o\ thu distinguished scholar."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45800.30The solution of the mystery was as clear as daylight, even to me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38200.30But you must not learn the truth until 232 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2310.30And where has the human life crept to that must exist here somewhere?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12920.30The idea of fashion, of course, could not enter my mind.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6480.30time last summer, for you are a practical man.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24500.30He would tear the veil from the mysterious picture.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7790.30These lessons soon proved a source of much enjoyment.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12820.30"But what does the Frau President say to such a system of education?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31150.30Her conception of moral law was distinct and clear; she was still inexperienced enough to believe that rewards and punishments are just consequences of individual action; and here, in this strangely perverted world, she found it was eagerly desired that falsehood, treachery, and a systematic denial of duty should not only go unpunished, but should even be rewarded by rare good fortune.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1950.30That ideal elevation of thought, that charming sensibility which emanated all unconsciously from my poor Dolores, and with which you beguile me again to-day, beggared though I be,—there is not an atom of it in that barbarous creature."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39070.30erable delusion to set op intellectual culture, as I hi* modern idol is called, where the Lord had been re-estab- lished in all his ancient power!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35560.30He told her that they had cost him a consid- erable sum, but that they made his collection, already famous, almost perfect, for the existence of some of the specimens that he had just procured had been considered as fabulous as a Niebelungen lay.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39060.30If in Flora was seen the woman of intellect who had already attempted to pierce the mystery of existence, her youngest sister was the type of maidenly innocence and spotless purity.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26460.30I see men professing to be talented and intellectual commit the clumsiest blunders, and I can predict with mathematical precision their conduct under certain circumstances—ah, it is too disgusting!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20650.29I must emphatically repel the Herr HofmarschaH's accusation, that I was inspired in my labours by a desire to shine in the world of art.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25290.29Dagobert, who really developed a passion for antiquarian lore, would spend whole half-days in the library and antique cabinet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43850.29"As we passed, we heard ’Pallas Athene,’ ’the roses of Cashmere,’ and ’learned professor,’ in admirable confusion——" "Ugh!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22470.29These schemers, who never speak of their profession, have good reasons for silence: there is much in their practice of medicine which no honorable man could countenance.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28550.28I am not blind to this great weakness of mine, and when I think that you, with your power of delicate analysis and keen criticism, over- beard that coarse remark, the blood mounts to my cheek.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32090.28"Yes, that is true; but there are certain things for which youth and ignorance have no scale of measurement, upon which their judgment cannot be brought to bear——" "Love, for example," he hastily interposed, with a rapid glance towards the girl.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34560.28In a few moments it was placed beneath the microscope, hei faithful aid in her studies.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35420.28Herr von Wismar shrugged his shoulders to convey his ignorance of the subject. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34540.28Here was a species of human being as en- tirely unknown to me as if he had come from the Sand- wich Islands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14900.28What did I know then of renaissance and baroque I No knowledge of the strict rules of art disturbed the enchantment around me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8480.27You adore Him as perfect, and yet you ascribe to Him all the weaknesses of your corrupt human nature, your malice, your lust of power, your cold cruelty ; your Re- deemer put a palm-branch into your hand, but you convert it into a scourge."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20580.27You must admit that there are no ink-spots upon my fingers, and that I have never wearied you with a single word concerning my small amount of botanical knowledge.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19720.27I only wanted to acquire suflicient knowledge to be of use in the country, where a physician often has to be sent for from a great distance," she replied, without pausing in her Work.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10220.27But the loud, uneasy creaking of the machinery of a most complicated domestic economy could not be drowned by the rustle of the most flowing and elegant crinoline.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3620.27This guardian was Councillor Römer, who, at the reading of the will, shook his head and pondered deeply upon the inconsistencies that exist in the human soul.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50190.26I told you at the first that the wayward, antagonistic ele- ment in your nature would have to be subdued, it dis- torts a truly feminine character, admired though it be by many as lawless grace, but not an iota of your individuality must be disturbed."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17010.26"The worst of it all is," said Ferber, "that unless a man is possessed of great culture, or of a special fund of good humour, he ends by detesting not only his tormentors but the whole subject of religion that causes him such suffering.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4880.26What a delicate feminine hand the old gentleman writes !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26830.26if 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_The_Second_Wife_32410.25And my ' walk in the woods' had nothing in the world to do with sentiment ; I merely objected to being scorched any longer by the burning sun."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16280.25I can appreciate now the figures that we presented in the antique cabinet, and the sensations with which I then regarded the objects of art, to which, of course, I could give no name.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33850.25It represented an irregular triangle, and in one somewhat rounded corner was the very small window whose existence they had suspected.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48660.25Flora, I told you awhile ago that my refusal to dissolve the engagement between us was the result of a false principle.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12390.25Our means were not adequate, and all my economy in housekeeping was needed to maintain the dignity of his position; but it was the happiest time of my life.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24700.25The merest trifle more of discernment than that with which his step-mother Nature had gifted him would easilyhave solved the sphinx’s enigma, for it was not a difficult one, and it had brought into play, in addition to some bitter earnestness, more than a spice of girlish cunning, as he now saw: the mysterious image had sat behind its veil in the attic-room, while Fraulein Agnes Franz had donned the coarse jacket to win bread for the poor old people.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47110.25269 Countess Juliana, with her studied air of reflection, her pain- fully acquired mite of masculine information, but such a woman is never really loved."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47090.25Some other motive animates you, doubtless, but we can as little believe in the one you would seem to profess as that that gorgeous pomegranate-tree with its fiery blossoms is longing to take root in glacial snow.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22850.25133 forces as commonplace and easily comprehended, because their effects can be seen, heard, and understood, forgetting that the miracle lies in this very sight, hearing, and under- standing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24690.25In the hands of this delicate creature he had been but an honest, stupidly credulous German dunce, without a particle of insight or of capacity to see anything that was not directly before his eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15890.25"Strangely enough, however, the feminine brain, although weighing four ounces less than that of the lord of creation, shares with it this peculiarity: it thinks more vividly and works more easily while smoking."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4860.25He, absorbed in the miracles of creation, forgot that his little Famulus would shortly cease to live and work with him; and from her lips came fluently Latin names and critical remarks, but never an allusion to her distant bridegroom.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38160.24This idea of an innate aristocracy can be no chimera, there must be some chain woven through successive generations to link us with past greatness, even although we are not aware of it, as in the case of Dagobert and myself, whose origin is enveloped in impenetrable darkness."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_730.24As children, we instinctively sought another element,—I, the ‘dreamer,’ a student and star-gazer, and you, the nightingale with golden throat, a vision of grace and elegance.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54030.24I do not ignore the fact that my desires will arouse a conflict within you: you were not else the strictly just and honourable girl that you are; but I know also that I shall attain the goal I so long for without stormy arguments and entreaties.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17190.23It gratefully seeks the cold skies above it ; while the foreign human growth degraded itself to the stable-yard.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9550.23She formed the letters her last earthly act with infinite difficulty, but the name, "Clotilde van Sassen, n&e Jacobsohn," was at last com.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39170.23I tell you," she replied, angrily, " I would dress in sackcloth and ashes to have the means to go to Paris to investigate " "Suppose you need not go so far to penetrate the mystery ?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47140.23How lightly it took root is plainly proved by the ease with which it died."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7520.23HERB MARKUs’s manner of action Was like that of a thousand other egotists.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45650.23Some very different explosive material has been at work here," a loud voice said from the crowd.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22330.22"This same order is the goal of the hopes of so many," he continued; "many a person of distinction has sighed for it in vain; and here it lies, as if carelessly thrown aside, on this miserable painted table!—thrown around the neck of a man, an ignoramus, disgraced by his repeated failures,—pardon me, dear madame, I cannot help saying so,—thrown around his neck, I repeat, and no one has an idea of the why or the wherefore!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48700.22She declared that I was miserably changed since I had become so " stuffed" with knowledge, that there was no longer a trace left of the charming natural " little moorland Princess," and that I arranged my curls with such chic as showed me to be possessed of no small amount of coquetry.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50730.22Am I to blame that her weeping-willow face always looks as if entreating pardon of God and the universe for her pre- sumption in existing ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50570.22Send for a physician !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42150.22"Is that logic, uncle?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38830.22I told you up-stairs that I was going, and you see me on my way.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37010.22214 THE SECOND WIFE. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34330.22There was some mystery here.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32610.22I am going away THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13080.22What are you to be ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2170.22There was no reply.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1910.22our boy is thoroughly healthy.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9440.22And so I became a very demon of housekeeping."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9190.22I wish for nothing more in all this world."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7250.22Really, Lothar, you are sometimes quite incomprehensible!
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4660.22Uncertainty ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8810.22She was quite alone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66080.22What is the matter with the brute ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61260.22Well, then, I will speak for once from your own standpoint.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54150.22We have nothing in common!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5200.2264 K ."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44060.22I should like to know of what you are thinking."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41420.22" There's something in that.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39280.22If I said you did, it would be false.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33230.22' To some extent, as you see."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19190.2244 What is your trade ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18970.22He laughed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10650.22What new wisdom is this?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4670.22No names!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4060.22he cried in confusion.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25680.22Did she not tell you that she was one With me in heart and soul?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22970.22Why we are not to know the reason I can’t tell.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20830.22How did you come by so valuable a thing?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18880.22It could not be a human being.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44810.22"I force you?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41090.22She pointed to the garland.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23960.22"We?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19150.22Still I think he looks like him."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15270.22"Yet surely it is very one-sided."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7440.22"Well, you are heartily welcome!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50350.22she said.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39550.22"Never!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29110.22"Why was I not told yesterday?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16050.22"My rights, as yet, do not extend so far.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11610.22She pointed to the safe.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25090.21The chests and boxes in the vaults had not been disturbed for many years when, sud- denly, the young Duke succeeded to the helm of state and manifested a perfect passion for archaeology.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9600.21She suddenly finds herself in a trap, and admits sorrowfully that the trite old doctrine, ’See, ye who join in endless union, that heart with heart be in communion,’ contains a terrible truth.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54900.21The woman continued, as heretofore, to assist Susy in her housekeeping, while the children received such an education as their father, whose mind had been occupied entirely with material considerations, had never dreamed of giving them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20540.20They are pressed wild plants, as you see; some specimens of orchids that are very rare about Rudisdorf.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47320.20Erich's strong mind discovered the best medicine for his hurt in labour.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45810.20How could Herr Claudius have denied the truth so firmly and with such an unblushing front ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6540.20I never could endure the trite image of the ivy and the oak, and shall most certainly not illustrate it in my own person.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22060.20Miss Mertens, who was doubtless standing behind her, should not exult in any effect of her teasing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38050.20"I do know it, Moritz; but really in this case I am astounded,—these are such rubies as even our beloved princess does not possess."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22640.20"Let us waive the question for the present, content in the conviction that Frau von Mainau does not intend by her remarks to deny the occasional interference of supernatural forces in the affairs of this world."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22430.20" Your highness would make a woman's task a very eiisy one if we are to open the door to superstition, and to those beliefs in a supernatural world and in the power of Satan to which a woman's nature is, alas, but too prone."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24790.20For a few seconds she stood petrified by this simple sentence, evidently the result of entire conviction, and then, with a half-frantic mixture of affected merriment and unrepressed anger, she extended her arms.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35790.19The interest in antiquities that at present emanates from the court is adopted by him just as if it were a varying fashion, like that by which he hangs a golden saddle to-day, and a gay beetle to-morrow, as charms to his watch-chain.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47100.19A violent scene ensued, and words were uttered, the insult of which, according to the wicked law of human honour, could only be wiped out in blood.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14870.19Kitty was ashamed of her idle dreaming; but had it not assailed her like a sudden vertigo which may suddenly attack even the healthiest and strongest of human kind?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48400.19I knew that Gret- ehen's father was a teacher in one of the first establish- ments in K ; he should help me to mould myself anew.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_650.18"And he was, besides, no agriculturist, but a useless fellow, who studied the flowers of the field with his microscope, delighted in their beauty, and forgot that they were weeds that spoiled good pasturage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6050.18'Tis a matter of taste.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56330.18We shall have another fashion before long, Charlotte.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27240.17Fate had at last seized him and driven him forth into the forest, where the fretting enigma found the loveliest solution.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24010.131 mean," she added, " in this costume that surely antedates the flood ?"

Cervantes_Don_Quixote_48400.84The reason is, that art does not surpass nature, but only brings it to perfection; and thus, nature combined with art, and art with nature, will produce a perfect poet.
Evans_Beulah_93530.83The rigid processes of Idealism annihilated the external world; and Hume proved that Mind was a like chimera; yet who was ever seriously converted by their incontrovertible reasoning?
Evans_St_Elmo_34660.82According to Moleschott's celebrated dictum--'Without phosphorus no thought,' and if there be any truth in physiology and phrenology, you women have been stinted by nature in the supply of phosphorus.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_238210.79From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more curious and fruitful than the study of slang.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_173380.79It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by their contemplation of the absolute.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_24890.77"To be warped, unconsciously, by the magnetic influence of all around is the destiny, to a certain extent, of even the greatest souls."--OAKFIELD.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_10220.77I wish some profound psychologist would give us his theory on the question of "The influence of nomenclature on disposition and destiny."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_38490.76I deny to woman not the ability to grasp the grand results of science, but the mental endurance, the technical facility, to arrive at them unassisted."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_41170.76"He can ask questions without number, propound problems and, for his dessert, would fain have an epitome of ecclesiastical history, physiology or any other interesting department of knowledge.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_26080.75The different combinations of human destiny upon earth afford an inexhaustible source of reflection.
Kingsley_Hypatia_78590.75Philosophers, when they gave mechanical explanations of natural phenomena, came no nearer to the real solution of them.
Kingsley_Hypatia_41170.75She was content to let the divine light of philosophy penetrate by its own power, and educe its own conclusions.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_20410.75"He not only excels in his peculiar art, but possesses vast acquirements in all other learning and science.
Evans_Beulah_81830.75Admit the supremacy of the individual reason, and she could not deny "that the individual mind is the generating principle of all human knowledge; that the soul of man is like the silkworm, which weaves its universe out of its own being; that the whole mass of knowledge to which we can ever attain lies potentially within us from the beginning; that all truth is nothing more than a self-development."
Evans_Beulah_92900.75Even if we admit that it is not a doctrine, like that of Spinoza, which identifies God with the abstract idea of substance; or even like that of Hegel, which regards Deity as synonymous with the absolute law and process of the universe; if we admit, in fact, that the Deity of Cousin possesses a conscious personality, yet still it is one which contains in itself the infinite personality and consciousness of every subordinate mind.
Disraeli_Lothair_36130.73Then is the time when characters are never more finely drawn, or difficult social questions more accurately solved; knowledge without reasoning and truth without logic -- the triumph of intuition!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_33620.73Dantes possessed a prodigious memory, combined with an astonishing quickness and readiness of conception; the mathematical turn of his mind rendered him apt at all kinds of calculation, while his naturally poetical feelings threw a light and pleasing veil over the dry reality of arithmetical computation, or the rigid severity of geometry.
Disraeli_Lothair_32250.73But man requires that there shall be direct relations between the created and the Creator; and that in those relations he should find a solution of the perplexities of existence.
Disraeli_Lothair_32220.73And if there were design, there must be intelligence; and if intelligence, pure intelligence; and pure intelligence was inconsistent with any disposition but perfect good.
Collins_Armadale_33530.73"The view of a medical man, when he has a problem in humanity to solve, seldom ranges beyond the point of his dissecting-knife."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_10800.73You ought to know that if I throw my time and abilities into a patent medicine, it's a patent medicine whose field of operations is the solid earth!
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_69860.72Every science has its obscure points and mysteries, but who begins with those to learn the science?
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_94800.72In the rapidity of all pure mental action, this at once took its part in the apparent objectivity.'
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_69920.72The same power of concentrativeness that he so eminently possessed himself, he imparted, as if by magic, to his Government.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_214230.72Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_23530.72"I do believe it," said the artist seriously; "not as a superstition, however, but as proved by unquestionable facts, and as exemplifying a theory.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_22690.72The more I look at it, the more it puzzles me, and I begin to suspect that a man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
Evans_Beulah_31710.72Art could not produce it, but practice and scientific culture had improved and perfected it.
Disraeli_Lothair_63180.72There is no relation, therefore, between the faculties of man and the scale in creation of the planet which he inhabits."
Collins_No_Name_88070.72The moles supply us with what we scientific men call a Crucial Test.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_202980.72In civilization, such as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics.
Kingsley_Hypatia_41700.72said Philammon, while the old man added-- 'And does it not show us, too, how the one perfect and original philosophy may be discovered in all great writers, if we have but that scientific knowledge which will enable us to extract it?'
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_13510.72In Italy, there is a class of men whose merely mechanical skill is perhaps more exquisite than was possessed by the ancient artificers, who wrought out the designs of Praxiteles; or, very possibly, by Praxiteles himself.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_33490.72"Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.
Goldsmith_The_Vicar_of_Wakefield_19890.72Why man should thus feel pain, why our wretchedness should be requisite in the formation of universal felicity, why, when all other systems are made perfect by the perfection of their subordinate parts, the great system should require for its perfection, parts that are not only subordinate to others, but imperfect in themselves?
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_25650.72Whether medicine is a science, or only an empirical method of getting a living out of the ignorance of the human race, Ruth found before her first term was over at the medical school that there were other things she needed to know quite as much as that which is taught in medical books, and that she could never satisfy her aspirations without more general culture.
Evans_Beulah_74690.71Long before she had arrived at the conclusion that ethical and theological truth must be firmly established on psychological foundations, hence she plunged into metaphysics, studying treatise after treatise and system after system.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_31780.71But I doubt whether he was competent to teach a creed or, even to hold one, if it be necessary that a man should understand and define his creed before he can hold it.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_52130.71It was a gross error, which the admirable experiments of Goodwin--the famous Goodwin--incontestably detected and exposed."
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_60150.71Thus he worked under the guidance of reason, science, Christian principle, instead of mere impulse, as is too often the case with genius.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_20550.71Is it not strange to think with what ingenuity men will investigate the minute anatomy of vice, and how little they will do to apply this knowledge to its remedy?
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_22490.71Being of so cold and pure a substance, and mostly deriving their vitality more from thought than passion, they require to be seen through a perfectly transparent medium.
Collins_No_Name_5090.71Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen.
Evans_Beulah_69320.70"A profound philosophic writer of the age intimates that the various psychological systems which have so long vexed the world are but veiled ontologic speculations.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_2770.69What were arts and human ingenuities for, and the things given to work with?
Warner_Queechy_23950.69But religion cannot work alike on every foundation; and the varieties are as many as the individuals.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_135380.69He has no instinct in politics, but reaches his conclusions by philosophical deduction.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_5250.69"You idealists never comprehend that we must take into account human nature and the world.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_303140.69An obscure ramification ever at work; a construction which is immense and ignored.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_297090.69On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of the ideal.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18660.60October, November, December passed away.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65230.58It was yet night, but July nights are short: soon after midnight, dawn comes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55620.58"Yes: but remember, Jane, you promised to wake with me the night before my wedding."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54820.58Something had happened which I could not comprehend; no one knew of or had seen the event but myself: it had taken place the preceding night.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21970.54"I had nothing else to do, because it was the vacation, and I sat at them from morning till noon, and from noon till night: the length of the midsummer days favoured my inclination to apply."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55630.53"I did; and I will keep my promise, for an hour or two at least: I have no wish to go to bed."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4870.53"Do you say your prayers night and morning?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28450.53"Do you expect him back to-night?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_88480.52The prayer over, we took leave of him: he was to go at a very early hour in the morning.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76090.52Last night, or rather this morning, I was dancing till two o'clock.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4030.52November, December, and half of January passed away.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27370.52Too feverish to rest, I rose as soon as day dawned.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96880.45"The third day from this must be our wedding-day, Jane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83440.45It was then nine o'clock: he did not return till midnight.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60910.45All, you know, is prepared for prompt departure: to-morrow you shall go.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43150.45"Early to-morrow morning, sir."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75140.44Was I very gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89860.43"My journey is closed," I thought to myself.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7450.43Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40290.43"And I did not expect it: she looked so quiet at first."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29390.43"Indeed he is -- in three days, he says: that will be next Thursday; and not alone either.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16600.43"I see you are an early riser."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8590.43After dinner, we immediately adjourned to the schoolroom: lessons recommenced, and were continued till five o'clock.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70440.41I took no note of the lapse of time -- of the change from morning to noon, from noon to evening.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62740.39I thank Providence, who watched over you, that she then spent her fury on your wedding apparel, which perhaps brought back vague reminiscences of her own bridal days: but on what might have happened, I cannot endure to reflect.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42050.37As I went one way, he went another, and I heard him in the yard, saying cheerfully - "Mason got the start of you all this morning; he was gone before sunrise: I rose at four to see him off."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19950.36CHAPTER XIII Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89790.35It was a journey of six-and-thirty hours.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82840.35The eventful Thursday at length came.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50440.35The clock was on the stroke of twelve.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37640.35I have your permission to retire now, I suppose?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94450.34Very early the next morning I heard him up and astir, wandering from one room to another.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25700.34It was not till after I had withdrawn to my own chamber for the night, that I steadily reviewed the tale Mr. Rochester had told me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65240.31"It cannot be too early to commence the task I have to fulfil," thought I. I rose: I was dressed; for I had taken off nothing but my shoes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29000.30You repeated to yourself this morning the brief scene of last night?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27010.30"Good-night, then, sir," said I, departing.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84010.30One evening when, at bedtime, his sisters and I stood round him, bidding him good-night, he kissed each of them, as was his custom; and, as was equally his custom, he gave me his hand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12540.30But I, and the rest who continued well, enjoyed fully the beauties of the scene and season; they let us ramble in the wood, like gipsies, from morning till night; we did what we liked, went where we liked: we lived better too.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10130.28The Sunday evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and in listening to a long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepressible yawns attested her weariness.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70750.28On the third day I was better; on the fourth, I could speak, move, rise in bed, and turn.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45640.28The communications were renewed from day to day: they always ran on the same theme -- herself, her loves, and woes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7110.27It was the hour of study; they were engaged in conning over their to- morrow's task, and the hum I had heard was the combined result of their whispered repetitions.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1600.27Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45210.26"Perhaps you had, Miss: but she often talks in this way towards night -- in the morning she is calmer."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33330.26Its second rising displayed a more elaborately prepared scene than the last.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27380.24CHAPTER XVI I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8990.22The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest fraction of the day at Lowood: the bit of bread, the draught of coffee swallowed at five o'clock had revived vitality, if it had not satisfied hunger: the long restraint of the day was slackened; the schoolroom felt warmer than in the morning -- its fires being allowed to burn a little more brightly, to supply, in some measure, the place of candles, not yet introduced: the ruddy gloaming, the licensed uproar, the confusion of many voices gave one a welcome sense of liberty.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76820.22By nine o'clock the next morning I was punctually opening the school; tranquil, settled, prepared for the steady duties of the day.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96420.21Jane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_93910.21"But you shall have some to-night.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29720.43At last the rainy days seemed over.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34080.34The Professor was mistaken,—so far from spending the night, she would not even spend the evening beneath Madame’s roof.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41890.32In the afternoon, when his hour for coming drew near, he would be far, far away from her—a crowd of strange faces Wou’d separate him from his love—and perhaps a whole long dreary year pass before she should see him once more.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25340.32She searched and read until the perspiration stood upon her pale forehead,—to-day was an unlucky day—the afternoon’s exertions, like those of the morning, were entirely without result.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_760.31"My master will be brought to confession early to-morrow morning, I’l1 warrant."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29740.30It was a day to spend in the open air.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19450.30It was the ninth evening of little Anna’s illness.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17210.27Nevertheless she attended to all her customary duties with her usual diligence,her wounded arm was not very painful, for the healing ointment had worked well during the night.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43240.24"If t-he intelligence did not seem to fit in so well just at this moment, you would have waited until this evening to learn that tomorrow morning at eight o’c1ock you will leave X-—— for Bonn, accompanied by Madame Franz.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7490.21for they cannot defend themselves.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53610.60The day after that eventful evening she came to my room. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41250.60It seems she has arrived a day earlier than she intended, and leaves to-morrow ; hence this sudden invita- tion.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47790.53Thus hour after hour passed.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2750.53I will tell her why you cannot come to her ‘tea-party’ to-night.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5000.46The marriage morn had come, a cool, cloudy July day.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40910.46It was agreed that the interview should take place at four o’clock that afternoon, in the pavilion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55140.46In this solitude her young life passed, day after day.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31730.46of the previous evening he had meant to mark a boundary between his former and his present life.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28050.45Not a word was said of the occurrences of the previous evening.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27320.45Kitty passed a sleepless night.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9470.44"How glad I am," said Elizabeth, as an hour later she was sitting at her mother’s bedside relating the events of the afternoon, "that to-morrow will be Sunday.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46330.43We are to depart in a few days."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43750.43When he looked at you as he came in to breakfast this morning, I saw how it was.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7220.43_ " Wedding-day ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67730.43And now, Frau Use, bestir yourself; we leave here to-morrow morning, and you must go wvtti vx^ 406 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24880.43Thus it happened that the exterior of the dark, granite house in the retired street had never been beautified or renewed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19110.43On the seventh day after the councillor’s departure, news arrived from Berlin that the factory was sold.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49680.41Kitty recovered very quickly, leaving her bed on the afternoon of the second day.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13300.39And then her encounter of the previous evening flashed into her mind.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51360.39Well, then, my dear, I wish nothing more or less than to know what has passed between Bruck and yourself yesterday and to-day."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49540.37In the servants’ hall the day which had been so long looked forward to as the wedding-day was marked by a confusion and subversion of all custom and order, such as only sudden preparations for departure can produce.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16430.36There he would review all the agony of renunciation through which he had passed, that he might greet with doubled rapture the morning sun that heralded the hour when he might again clasp his happiness in his arms.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1310.35" Yes, ‘some provision for a rainy day,’ as the will said.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65880.35The train leaves in an hour.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9380.35She thought no more about it, and usually forgot him entirely before she reached her home.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36310.35In the meanwhile, the twentieth of May, Flora’s birthday, had come.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32370.35"Do you suppose I shall leave your sister here?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3300.34LS nothing there, and she had just such a fright on ,’ e evening before the last at twilight as the coach1.11 had last evening.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3530.34Claudine," he began, with hesitation, "I wrote to you the day before yesterday.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11220.34No good bed at the bailifl"s, where every one was always so delighted to pass the night!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52710.34The legal authorities had been expected since the early morning, and yet when they made their appearance it was like an electric shock.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6480.34Until to-day I had seldom heard any sounds cf life from my grandmother's room ; indeed, I had never listened for any such, instinctively I avoided its vicinity.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46800.31There was an angry frown upon her brow as she came down from the third story about ten o’clock in the evening.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39390.31You hear the hammering yonder in the pavilion every day from morning until night.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6590.30By the day after to-morrow We must have eight tha1ers."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55100.30His reputation spread from day to day.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44390.30"Take time enough," he called after him; "I shall not dress before six o’clock."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27280.30The next morning all were astir at Villa Baumgarten.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18870.30His visits were paid every morning at the same hour.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30410.29By the afternoon of this day the sick-room in the doctor’s house looked precisely as it had done when the invalid had first been carried into it forty-eight hours before.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7070.28Llffc 48 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS, was busy there, too, day and night, restlessly act!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29550.28Here are the stockings, a dozen, that I ordered for you from R ; they came last night, and to-morrow the dressmaker will bring your dress."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7280.28I must go home,—I have so much to do there; and, besides, I must iron: my poor invalid must have fresh bed-curtains to-morrow.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12340.26"Do you suppose, Heinz, that this can go on forever, that the child can wan- der about the moor like a heathen all day long, and come home to me in the evening, barefoot, with her stockings and shoes in her hand ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40180.26Can you consent to resume your place to-morrow as if nothing had happened ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25500.26In the very first hours of the two years that were to form me to such elegance, what a terrible.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10590.26feed the birds at one o'clock at night; who would be such a fool ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1350.26But I’ve thought sometimes that a single stormy night drove him away."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2040.26"Well," said he, "you must have been knocked up at an early hour, I must say, and that’s hardly the thing for women."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10830.26He was with the ladies this morning when the carriage passed," said Diana.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3620.25why do you sit here so sadly?’ At such a moment I roused myself the day before yesterday and Wrote to you on the spot to ask you-——" She interrupted him: " Why ask?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6940.23Wanted to see them again ; I never wanted to be reminded of the stranger whose appearance had heralded a traia of unhappy occurrences, and new and painful emotions.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2760.23And now good night, and better health to you, Herr Student l" With that he left the room, and went out again into the stormy night.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18660.23Four days after his departure, however, there arrived from him for his sisters-in-law three magnificent bouquets, at which the Frau President did not smile.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50490.23This need not go until to-morrow morning, Erdniann," said Herr Claudius, taking it from the table.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8810.23For days and nights I have tracked tigers and bears to destroy them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17900.22"Early to-morrow we \ull go to the other house," she said to me, as she took a fresh white ruffle out of the trunk and laid it on the toilet-table. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_70.21lake.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43790.21I tried this morning, but it would not do.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4300.21And where/ ' she asked, " is the name of the illustrator?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2090.21What does she look like?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18520.21The duchess will not be here before four o'clock."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5670.21" To-morrow," said the Duchess. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4110.21"Not until to-morrow ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9130.21"Well, then, an hour at most."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52490.21It really is not necessary."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49610.21" Then it is fair enough ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12780.21for two years to come!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12510.21Must it really be ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14910.21Oh, no, no!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45920.21"Do you remember?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21440.21"And that is?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45310.21"There!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26560.21"Yes, go," he said.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12460.21she asked.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48910.20Her heavy train rustled strangely in the dead silence of the night.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15030.20Do you know, Kitty, that the day before yesterday, when I had that attack, I really imagined that Bruck would see me next as a corpse?

Harris_Rutledge_1100.82That night at twelve, we expected to arrive at C---- where we were to rest till morning; and thence taking the boat, were to reach our journey's end about noon.
Bronte_Villette_21830.79I know not that even lovely weather would have tempted me to spend the evening-time of study and recreation where I had spent it yesterday.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_17970.75It was eleven o'clock on the Wednesday morning following that eventful Monday night.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_27670.72Most of the day was spent in preparing for the journey, which was to commence at four o'clock the next morning.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_71780.72"Remember, the execution is fixed for the day after tomorrow, and that you have but one day to work in."
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_90920.72Early the next morning I left London for Paris by the tidal-train.
Whitney_We_Girls_31870.71The next day--_that_ day, after our eleven o'clock breakfast--Harry came back, and was at Westover all day long.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_131960.71It began early Saturday morning, and perhaps ended with Sunday night, for all Monday was hope and expectation.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_27320.69Night and day I journeyed, till I reached the place.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_46310.69I will be there by ten o'clock to-morrow morning; we will march almost the whole night."
Longfellow_Hyperion_340.69He had passed a sleepless night at Rolandseck, and had risen before daybreak.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_24250.69She was obliged to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in winter.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_86130.69Now promise me to remember this, and expect me the 21st of May at the same hour in the forenoon."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_122740.69"This is Tuesday--well, to-morrow evening we leave, and the day after we shall be at Treport.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_86560.69Now promise me to remember this, and expect me the 21st of May at the same hour in the forenoon."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_123460.69"This is Tuesday -- well, to-morrow evening we leave, and the day after we shall be at Treport.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_24620.69Hour after hour passed, and the day ended, and night came once more.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_29150.68She longed to go out again; but Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday passed, and the weather still kept her close prisoner.
Harland_Jessamine_16680.68took the afternoon train to Dundee, and passed, in that retreat from briefs and busybodies, the happiest Sabbath I have known since last August."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_49250.68The time of the interview related in the close of the preceding chapter, was in the early watches of the night.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_25590.66We depart to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock, so that we can catch the fast train and arrive at Burgsdorf the day after to-morrow.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_68910.65I could listen to you 'From morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve.'"
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_21890.65He had finished the night at his club, where lansquenet had been raging till long after sunrise.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_71530.65The courier is to come here without fail to-morrow morning--in time for the tidal train to Paris.
Collins_Armadale_128210.65"August 9th.--Two o'clock.--I rose early this morning, more depressed in spirits than usual.
Collins_Armadale_126240.65"August 1st.--Nothing to record, but that I have had a long, quiet, happy day with Midwinter.
Collins_Armadale_105470.65"July 21st, Monday night, eleven o'clock.--Midwinter has just left me.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_48060.65Sunday--you are to spend Sunday with me; come bright and early."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_152930.65The only time she could have was the early morning before the rest of the family were up.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_16520.65And yet these sunny summer days were not long cloudless.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_145970.65"`Villetaneuse, this 13th of February, 1682, eleven o'clock at night.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_18160.65"I must leave to-morrow by the seven-o'clock train from Gradenik.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_99650.65From that hour there was but little rest morning, noon or night.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_24100.65MARCH 3.-They all got here at 7 o'clock last night, just in time for tea.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_69370.65I remember one Shrove-Tuesday when she went to bed at eight o'clock.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_20800.65Then their wedding journey would begin to end tomorrow!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_101110.65They took the early train for Hamburg, and arrived there towards evening.
Harland_At_Last_1730.65The breakfast-hour, always pleasant, was to-day particularly merry.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_82600.65"Yet I must tell him to-night, I suppose, for he's working so far off, and leaves early."
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_8880.65The New Year dawned, passed, and the ides of February came.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_96220.65It was the evening of the second of October--the anniversary of the bridal eve.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_86870.65The wedding-day was postponed until some time in October; but at last it came.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_86190.65"Being five o'clock of a sultry summer day, I don't intend to try.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_77940.65To-morrow was the wedding-day, but the wedding would never take place.
Evans_Vashti_48750.65"This is Friday,--and I shall go on the six o'clock train, Monday morning."
Evans_Beulah_50730.65"Beulah, will you come on Saturday morning and spend an hour or so with me?"
Evans_Beulah_39800.65They reached home in the gloaming, and each retired to her own room.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_118650.65"In the morning at nine o'clock, in the day at one o'clock, and in the evening at eight.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_11240.65"In the dark all the time--day and night in the dark."
Collins_Woman_in_White_123840.65To-morrow I may be called away--ten years hence I may be called away.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30280.71Presently a voice blent with the rich tones of the instrument; it was a lady who sang, and very sweet her notes were.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76500.65he repeated, in a voice low and hollow as an echo.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30290.60The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49610.58The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26770.53I listened for some noise, but heard nothing.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13110.53I whispered softly, "are you awake?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2650.52I had often heard the song before, and always with lively delight; for Bessie had a sweet voice, -- at least, I thought so.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18590.52which, when first heard, had thrilled me: I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs; stranger than her laugh.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39070.51No: stillness returned: each murmur and movement ceased gradually, and in about an hour Thornfield Hall was again as hushed as a desert.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29970.50A joyous stir was now audible in the hall: gentlemen's deep tones and ladies' silvery accents blent harmoniously together, and distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_88990.45I saw nothing, but I heard a voice somewhere cry - "Jane!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13510.45Presently she said, in the sweetest tone - "How comfortable I am!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2670.44Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; "A long time ago" came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86630.44I saw by his look, when he turned to me, that they were always written on the air between me and him; whenever I spoke, they sounded in my voice to his ear, and their echo toned every answer he gave me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39690.44I experienced a strange feeling as the key grated in the lock, and the sound of his retreating step ceased to be heard.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54030.43But listen -- whisper.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41790.43"But the instrument -- the instrument!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26160.43Something gurgled and moaned.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26010.43The sound was hushed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17220.43Shall I let you hear me sing now?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11880.43She rang her bell.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10830.43Then aloud: how loud it seemed to me!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18100.43While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41810.42I have myself -- I tell it you without parable -- been a worldly, dissipated, restless man; and I believe I have found the instrument for my cure in -- " He paused: the birds went on carolling, the leaves lightly rustling.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28720.41"A very rich and powerful one: she sang delightfully; it was a treat to listen to her; -- and she played afterwards.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56300.41I heard them clear and soft: a thought too solemn perhaps, but sweet as music -- 'I think it is a glorious thing to have the hope of living with you, Edward, because I love you.'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30300.39I listened long: suddenly I discovered that my ear was wholly intent on analysing the mingled sounds, and trying to discriminate amidst the confusion of accents those of Mr. Rochester; and when it caught them, which it soon did, it found a further task in framing the tones, rendered by distance inarticulate, into words.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19760.39It revealed, too, a group near the mantelpiece: I had scarcely caught it, and scarcely become aware of a cheerful mingling of voices, amongst which I seemed to distinguish the tones of Adele, when the door closed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49030.39"Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36670.39"The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18120.37I stopped: the sound ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though distinct, it was very low.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6500.36That afternoon lapsed in peace and harmony; and in the evening Bessie told me some of her most enchanting stories, and sang me some of her sweetest songs.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38440.36The night -- its silence -- its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32500.35exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18170.35"Did you hear that loud laugh?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15540.35I bethought myself to ring the bell.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68580.35This scene was as silent as if all the figures had been shadows and the firelit apartment a picture: so hushed was it, I could hear the cinders fall from the grate, the clock tick in its obscure corner; and I even fancied I could distinguish the click-click of the woman's knitting-needles.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32730.35said she, and again touching the piano, she commenced an accompaniment in spirited style.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50620.34The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45060.34It would wail in its cradle all night long -- not screaming heartily like any other child, but whimpering and moaning.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25580.34Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18570.34When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh: the same peal, the same low, slow ha!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54470.34Here I heard myself apostrophised as a "hard little thing;" and it was added, "any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38500.34And overhead -- yes, in the room just above my chamber-ceiling -- I now heard a struggle: a deadly one it seemed from the noise; and a half-smothered voice shouted - "Help!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39770.32But since Mr. Rochester's visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals, -- a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32750.32Mrs. Fairfax had said Mr. Rochester possessed a fine voice: he did -- a mellow, powerful bass, into which he threw his own feeling, his own force; finding a way through the ear to the heart, and there waking sensation strangely.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31500.31I saw them smile, laugh -- it was nothing; the light of the candles had as much soul in it as their smile; the tinkle of the bell as much significance as their laugh.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62540.31"The sweet wind from Europe was still whispering in the refreshed leaves, and the Atlantic was thundering in glorious liberty; my heart, dried up and scorched for a long time, swelled to the tone, and filled with living blood -- my being longed for renewal -- my soul thirsted for a pure draught.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97300.31seemed spoken amongst mountains; for I heard a hill-sent echo repeat the words.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92490.30Just at this moment the parlour-bell rang.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36560.65sounded wailingly through the roaring and whistling of the wind.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4880.62The sound rang harshly through the high rooms, where no one even whispered loudly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8710.60or did she hear the rustle of the child’s footstep?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1770.60cried the clear voice of a child outside.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1560.58It was a heart-rending sound—the mingling of the tear-choked voice, and the silvery, laughing, childish tones.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20710.53She had discovered that she could always soothe the child by beginning some flowing melody very softly, only lending its full power to her voice after singing for some moments, and never then, if she dreamed that unkind ears were near.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33920.52said the Professor suddenly, in a clear ringing voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30000.51It was indeed a clear, fulltoned voice-—but there was in it none of that delicate modulation, that melodious intonation, which years had so Wonderfully developed in the former monotonous voice of the Professor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20730.51Felicitas sung the first verse with touching simplicity and suppressed force, but at the beginning of the second: ‘Apart from all, alone I go,—-No human word can soothe my woe,’—her powerful voice swelled forth like the note of an organ.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20680.47The young girl’s voice was contralto,—its tones were full and round, issuing from the chest, without any uncertainty, like musical strokes upon a bell, and with that clear vibration which seems peculiar to the Violoncello, and which in the human voice, without one shade of shrillness, breathes a tender melancholy, and is always expressive of intellectual refinement.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35250.46And when you sat at the piano with such wondrous melodies breathing from your fingers!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24190.46"Just when the birds were screeching loudest she softly unbolted the door again.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10540.45Within there was a perfect hubbub of singing and chirping.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_970.45The last word of command rang through the listening hall—six shots sounded like one—the sword whistled through the air, and twelve half-bullets rolled upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16950.44These melodies, which have been sleeping here upon paper for more than a century, are for musicians a sort of Nibelungen treasure, especially as they are the only genuine opera airs that Bach ever composed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17150.43Could these sounds come from the piano within?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1750.43At last the street door was opened as the full, deep sound of the bell rang through the house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24740.41At sight of the music a sort of harsh discordant laugh broke from her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23380.41The door of the bird-room was ajar,—it resounded with shrill chirpings.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20750.41and a bell rung violently and shrill, like an alarum, through the quiet house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9600.41IIis tones were low and hesitating, the room was so embarrassingly quiet that the ticking of the clock against the wall could be distinctly heard.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6140.37CHAPTER VIII THE next morning the church bells rung solemnly in the town.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14620.35They walked on, and their voices died away.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17140.35And now the chords of Beethoven’s funeral march rang out from the music-room into the stillness with an indescribable ell'cct, but after the first few bars, Felicitas raised her head and cast a startled glance back into the room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5150.35There she could do no harm, said Frederika, for not a note of the wicked music could be heard below.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23050.34A light wind whispered in the branches above her hcad—she smiled sad|y—their rustling sounded to her like an echo from a lost Eden.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14390.34Approaching footsteps and the creaking of the garden gate startled Felicitas from her melancholy reverie Through the north window she perceived the Professor lust entering the garden accompanied by another gentleman.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_530.31Then he pinched his ear thoughtfully and made a wry face, for the ‘player’s wife’ must have heard every word.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11610.31She heard little Anna, the young widow’s child, laughing and talking, and a loud hammering was going on in the second story.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23230.30His voice failed him, and he cried like a child.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20670.26She was extravagantly fond of hearing Felicitas sing.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18930.25Felicitas heard her walking up and down with agitated steps, and then there came a sharp sound like the tearing of muslin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16990.25Gottheif v. llirschsprung.’ "IIe sung in the operetta," she said in a voice that vibrated audibl y, pointing to the last name.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10570.25’Tis true these little voices always sung the same thing, but then there was no chance of the change which characterizes the voices that can cry ‘Hosanna!’ one day and ‘Crucify him’ the next.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21680.24"I pray you to believe," she continued, "that I had not the faintest suspicion that you were in the house at the timel" The word singing awoke the remembrance of Felicitas‘ tears in little Anna's mind.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20920.22The idea that her voice might reach the ears of strangers would alone suflice to paralyze her powers and make l1er dumb; the thought of wearying or annoying any one with her singing, was too much.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43400.21Felicitas soothes away every frown from his brow, and when in the evening, after a day of harassing professional care, he entreats, "Give me a song, Fayl" the same delicious contralto fills the room, which once drove him from his home to the Thuringian forest, because it so irresistibly attracted him to its wondrous possessor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8830.20"Ah, don’t be frightened l" said Felicitas, in her sweet Innocent voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25100.15At his description of the aulo dafé she started up.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_200.11_ "Oh yes, resume the command," growled his stout friend, privately assuring himself that the splintered remains of his beautiful meerschaum, and not of one of his ribs, were making that mysterious rattling sound in the region of his heart,—"resume the command, do,—-it becomes you so well, just after you have been within a hair’s breadth of murdering two fathers of families with your confounded self-conceit,—no, I will not spend the night in this den of lions—-but you shall devise some way out of it.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5970.66The forest heeded not, but kept up the same mysterious murmur amid its branches like a thousand-voiced whisper of prayer, and the little birds sang as before their matin and vesper hymns in God’s praise.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39180.65Each of these words struck upon my ear like sounding brass.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3340.65No noise disturbed the deathlike silence reigning here.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41580.65She listened in wonder, his voice sounded so faint and broken.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1670.63He joined in her merry laughter, how melodious and inno- cent it sounded 1 The spell of silence was broken.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3150.63He ran on, and suddenly laughed aloud,——borne on the Wind, he heard several full chords on the piano. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43130.62It was a shrill, piercing, female voice, shouting, rather than singing, a hymn.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36790.61Through the melody that Kitty’s fingers evoked from the piano the girl could hear a continuous murmur of sound, in which she distinguished the grave tone of the doctor’s voice, although, to her great satisfaction, no distinct word was audible.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38450.60I heard the sound of distant footsteps.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36860.60"You bang away so that I can scarcely hear my own voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35120.60Did you hear the ring drop, child?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8890.60Suddenly there was a harsh clash of chords upon the piano; it seemed as though fingers of bone were belabouring the keys.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32480.60she cried in a clear ringing voice,—and at the same moment she heard the loud barking of a dog near her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3350.58Even the jackdaws soaring in the air above ceased their chatter, and the echoes of the footsteps upon the stone pavement had a ghostly sound.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45170.58They at least had voice to remonstrate, and answered to her touch with such horrid discord and shrill jangling of broken strings that, as the harsh sounds re-echoed from the walls, even Charlotte recoiled, and closed the instrument.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47870.58I cried, my trembling voice sounding above the rattling of the wheels. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31290.58When the music ceased and the customary thanks had been uttered, the assemblage broke up.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18580.58a harsh, unmelodious voice screams in the bride’s ear.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42600.58These words sounded like a thunder clap in Elizabeth’s ears.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24770.58Suddenly the noise of a horse’s hoofs struck upon her ear.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_760.58the miller hissed in his ear, in a strange, muffled tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14010.56Loud exclamations, laugh- ter, and ringing, girlish voices sounded more and more distinctly, until we suddenly saw gay-coloured rings ^88 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56410.56Dagobert began the accompaniment, and Charlotte's powerful voice re-echoed from the walls.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33760.56What a draught I" he said, his sonorous voice sound- ing clearly out in the courtyard in a pause of the music. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43600.56At the same moment the tolling of a distant bell broke the evening silence of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39400.56They sat together in the dwelling-room, laughing, while the little bell rang till it was quite hoarse.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56780.56Deep and full came the sound of the chimes in the distant town; they were ringing in—Easter!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1590.56A word that will thrill with its magic the human soul as long as trees burst into leaf, larks soar trilling aloft, and clear spring skies laugh above us.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42000.55The harsh, rude voice of the baroness sounded like sweet music in her ears, for it brought her succour.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25600.54At the Dierkhof, the distant bells had sounded like a faint, broken tinkle; how I started when a deep, sonorous peal rang out upon the air of the town 1 Use got ready for church ; and, as she walked solemnly to the music of those bells around the little lake, I stood in the hall and looked after her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18230.54Behind the wall against which the wardrobe stood, a deep, melodious voice suddenly sang, in long-drawn tones, ii verse of a hymn.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5870.53Every syllable was clear and distinct. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8130.53she asked, and there was melody in her broken voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3030.53How weird and wild the blast was!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5630.53And it is not only this trumpet-blowing that outrages me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37990.53she cried loudly, almost harshly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28780.53And she broke again into a ringing laugh.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41930.52The sound of the shrill laughter startled Hollfeld, and he looked up.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7250.52She could hear it in his voice, and fell silent in dismay.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7990.52It seemed to me that my soul floated off into space upon the tones that came full and free from my 6reast.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30810.52A loud "vivat" resounded through the air, and the glasses clinked merrily.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35890.52In all this bustle, this hurry of beginnings and endings, the councillor came and went like a bird of passage.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26500.51I delighted in " Taubert's Nursery Songs," and so I now began to sing, " The farmer has a dovecote fine."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9520.51For a few moments there was a hubbub of voices, a rustle of silk, and a rattling of chairs, and then it suddenly grew so still that the crackling of the torches was distinctly audible.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43720.51Gradually 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-GoldElsie_31600.51She breathed more freely as the throng was left behind her, and as a few sounding chords concluded the waltz whose bewildering notes had for a short distance accompanied her.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18040.51Single dying chords of the music penetrated the thicket now and then, until they, too, were hushed, and as the last stroke of twelve upon the Neuenfeld church clock trembled on the air, the last carriage rattled across the bridge.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24780.51Like a trumpet sounding the alarm it came blaring through the air, arousing a solemn rustle and moan in the tree-tops, while the windows of the house rattled and the doors shook violently.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30320.50And soon a buzz and noise, as of some neighbouring gypsy encampment, broke upon their ears; the path grew broader, gay throngs were seen fluttering through the bushes, and suddenly a loud flourish of bugles and trumpets sounded over their heads.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17570.49Here was no brilliant execution, no crash of chords,—one hardly asked what style of performance it was,—there was no thought of the performance, any more than of the shape of a singer’s mouth when an enchanting song is issuing from it; and when the melody ceased with a few low notes, breathed as it were from the instrument, there was a moment of breathless silence, as if all feared that any noise might scare the fleeting spirit of music.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66500.48I heard it once more, the creaking and cracking of the old framework, the whistling and roaring in the corners, and the ghostly rattle of the dead leaves that were still clinging to the oak boughs.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8210.48She sat motionless as a statue,—it was his voice, but how changed I "Countess, do you hear me," he repeated more distinctly, while the loud chords of the music filled the air.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6120.47Did she not hear the noise, the dreary sound that echoed back from the rafters of the old Dierkhof ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33670.47As we crossed the courtyard, Helldorfs magnificent voice rang out upon the air ; he was singing alone.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8010.47A burst of music from the forest opposite drowned the rest of this intellectual conversation.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45940.46The confused murmur was hushed for moment at the entrance of " the Schnwerthers."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12220.46Baron Mainau's voice was heard, loud and clear.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34390.46I was not singing for her, and so my voice did not tremble, but I sang on bravely to the end.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9300.46The music that had been sounding on in seeming endlessness ceased with a few crashing chords.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43640.46Bertha, too, seemed to listen to the sound of the bell; for a moment she did not stir.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43140.46Elizabeth could hear that the singer, whoever she might be, was running quickly as she sang.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53590.46Their steps echoed drearily through the silent, deserted house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34640.46Oddly enough, it had dropped through the wires and upon the soft sand without noise.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19560.46Again the scream was heard: it was Henriette’s thin, feeble voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39920.45In low tones, but clearly and distinctly, she told him every- thing.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47510.45came the hum and noise of human life.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13180.45Now the sound of drums and lifes was heard.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44050.45And now life began to stir in the old tower.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7070.45A distant noise of wheels startled her.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4340.44N ow and then the hum of voices in the forest-meadow penetrated, like the sound of distant surf, to the lonely forestepath.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13880.44and only observed in a distinct voice to the bailiff, whose hearing was not quick, that there must be game in this part of the wood, he could hear it rustling.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9300.44At that moment the Frau President rang the bell so sharply that the sound echoed from the end of the long corridor.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18290.43Yesterday the whole place seemed to me so heathenish and uncanny " She stopped, for the voice began a second verse : the lovely trilling on the window-sill had ceased, the little singer had been scared away by the first notes of the powerful voice. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17550.43It was a very simple melody that now fell upon the listeners’ ears; but after the first few notes the players at the card-tables dropped their cards, so liquid and pure were the tones that filled the air, so touchingly were they rendered.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7690.43sounded in her ear.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7950.43I cannot hear her singing, Use !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14800.43Can the noise be heard outside ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41700.43he asked at last in a hoarse voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41310.43Do you not hear them laughing already?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6840.43The noise of the wheels drowned her words, but Baron Mainau, looking back, saw the gesture that accompanied them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56940.43An instant afterwards he was seated at the piano, and such a flood of harmony rolled forth upon the air as fairly bewildered me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53640.43And therefore Kitty started in terror when the doctor’s full deep voice broke the silence.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62700.42Aunt Christine was singing, or rather trilling, whenever she struck a note and tried to hold it firmly, my heart sank within me, the voice that must once have been so enchanting was utterly broken.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67450.41Oh, wert thou in the cauld blast" I sang out clearly amid its roar.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65500.41we heard Oharlotte cry out in tones of heart-piercing anguish.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51460.41Can you really have forgotten it, when it has sounded bo much sweeter and more distinguished in your ears than the name of Claudius?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13220.41The sound drew nearer, and presently a crowd of people came pouring along the street. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43180.41It was hushed for a moment, and then the hymn began again, while the singer came rushing on like the wind.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21250.41Flora called across the field, with all the clear, silvery strength of her voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23530.41"Do you know, child," he said, after the last faint sound had died away, and his voice trembled with emotion, "if I had not already seen that something was the matter, I should soon have learned it from your playing,—it was tears, nothing but tears!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27580.40A bird suddenly whirring through the air, a field-mouse running across the path, a noise from the manor-house, might scare the trembling girlish soul, and he should lose it forever.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31610.39She could now yield herself up undisturbed to the magic that had laid so sweet a spell upon her entire mind and being, and forced her to listen still to the tones of that voice which had died upon her ear, ensnaring her heart with its thrilling melody, and at the sound of which all the suggestions of maidenly reserve, all the arguments of her understanding, vanished.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1520.39It was an old, worn-out instrument, whose hoarse, weak tones harmonized perfectly with its shabby exterior; but, nevertheless, beneath Elizabeth’s fingers Mendelssohn’s song, "Through the dark green Forest," rang deliciously through the little room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10870.39At table, a few hours before, there had been a hot debate concerning political matters, and this man's voice had rung clear and full, like the warlike note of a trumpet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66290.39No, there was no rest for me even at the Dierkhof : the deeper and moro perfect was the stillness around me, the louder was the cry of my lonely heart.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56430.39All that the handsome Tan- cred said had sounded so odd and incomprehensible, with its accompaniment of trills and roulades upon the piano.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3850.39"Did you hear that magnificent performance upon the piano?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15710.39Why, Use, the child has my wife's voice ; it is just as sweet and clear.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17970.39The carriage rolled oil‘, and there was a pause in the music.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11230.39Hark l I hear the first notes from my orchestra."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10600.39Do you not hear it roaring and whistling above our heads, ladies?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47280.39Faint as was the sound, Flora’s ear caught it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45200.38beets of music lying upon the piano, until, with a sud- den exclamation, she began to sing, in a low but exulting voice, "Gia la luna in mezzo al mare."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3370.38The old soldier was evi dently no enthusiast for music, or he must have admired the Wondrous execution, the brilliant emphasis of that touch upon the keys; those clear trills and roulades would have delighted the most fastidious public.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62690.37Now and then our conversation was interrupted by a bold roulade, or a trill like a string of pearls, from the room below.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59520.37It sounded as if some heavy body were overthrown, and the laugh was so strange that my blood seemed to c\it&\s m ra^ v*\us.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56770.37he cried, coming quickly to- wards me without heeding whether others should note the unwonted fire in his look and voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31110.37I wished the tones could have sounded abroad over my wide moorland ; these walls re-echoed them too piercingly.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5550.37His eyes wandered aimlessly over the CI'OWd,—he seemed only to be listening to the wondrous orchestra.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14820.37The servants were all busy in the ball-room, whence the music of the dance was loudly sounding.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15350.37"Childish enough, no doubt; but I like to hear an attendant rustle of silk,—it sounds majestic.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11960.37"The sound of that scornful laughter went with me when I left my native land,—it rung in my ears wherever I turned my wandering footsteps, in the bustle of cities and in the profound silence of the desert!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3340.37At one end there Was a balcony for musicians, whence trumpets had once sounded for the entertainment of the merry huntsmen seated at the banquet, When the chase Was over;'noW from beneath it a gentle bleat Was occasionally heard,-—it had been converted into a stable for goats.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45210.36"Here is the song, Dagobert, that mamma sang at Madame Godin's ; here it is, look, look 1" she interrupted herself, waving the sheet of music in the air.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36270.36I scarcely heard what Charlotte was whispering, and accompanied her mechanically until wo stood looking through the clear glass into the interior.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6150.36And then she opened the instrument and a flood of rich melody filled the rooms where the silence of death had reigned for so many years.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5950.36They had joined in bravely when the air had quivered with the brazen clang, and still rang gently with every breeze that swept through the underbrush.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25380.36"What do you think," he asked, suddenly, in a low tone, and his eyes flashed as he looked at her, "shall I listen to the delicious hope that it may shine upon me for the rest of my life?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15030.36But to-day there was something blended with the tones that she could not herself comprehend; she could not possibly pursue and analyze it, for it breathed almost imperceptibly across the waves of sound.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3040.36’Tis true that the wind shrieks strange fantasies around an old castle, but its voice is no less mysterious when it rustles among the topmost boughs of the forest, making every shrivelled, curled leaf a tiny speaking-trumpet, forcing it to join — .
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3760.36I know, papa, that I cannot serve God more truly than by living for mankind, by devoting all my powers " A shrill burst of laughter interrupted her; it echoed hoarsely from the walls. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47800.35he cried, in an indignant tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9930.35But without there were sounds of reawakening ex- istence.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5920.35Do not touch it I" was yelled into my ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45900.35Do you hear that signal-gun?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34370.35I took courage, and sang a little song.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31440.35I must re- strain all these wayward tongues."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23740.35I was overjoyed; he knew my voice already, and I had some power over him.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23810.35Then, sir, we shall sing to a different tune.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21650.35she called down to her, in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47680.35Remembering all this, we ring the bell.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44470.35suddenly resounded through the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1920.35The postillion sounded his horn.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44930.35A loud footfall behind her made her look around.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40340.35You shall never hear another sound from them,—I will take care of that.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40260.35"No, aunt; the noise wearies me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30230.35The councillor waited with a scornful air until the rustle of her silken robes had died away and the door of the music-room had closed audibly, and then he indulged in a low chuckling laugh.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65080.35But my aunt sank upon the piano-stool, the instrument thun- dered beneath her touch, and the walls re-echoed a pow- erful but no longer melodious voice, as she began " Gia la luna in mezzo al mare."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8620.35Certain it is that, breathed forth as it were, and yet distinct, Liana heard a woman's cry.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3960.35She spoke to deaf ears; her mother's screams continued.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37170.35he asked ; his sharp, suspi- cious ear had caught the whisper.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56300.35And Dagobert gave a low laugh, he was already preluding at the piano. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46480.35when will the time come for these chains to cease rattling forever in my ears ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5420.35His Highness had summoned hither the excellent orchestra from the court chapel at A .
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1360.35Just at this moment a loud, shrill blast came whistling around the corner.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3660.35It’ seemed as though the sound of footsteps other than his own must fall upon his ear in these cosey rooms.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27330.35and the clear, cool air transmitted all sounds distinctly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52680.35The door closed behind them to the accompaniment of a low, mocking laugh.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48810.35With these words the breathless listening figure awoke to life.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17900.35Flora again approached the piano, and took the sheet of music from the desk.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6170.34He now leaned silently against the wall, as the wondrous sounds flowed forth from beneath the girl’s touch.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46730.34Her highness the duchess herself gave the signal for the applause, and in the pauses of the music over- whelmed the singer with tokens of her favour and approval.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47780.34That " if" almost made me cry out with sudden terror, but I bit my lip, and listened anew for every sound of wheels, every passing footfall.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1930.34A tremendous barking of dogs was heard; and with a loud whirr a large flock of doves soared, terrified, into the air from the pointed gable of the house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26360.33The family and Miss Mertens accompanied the visitors to the gate in the wall; and, as they all stepped forth upon the open sward, they heard sweet sounds floating up from the valley through the forest, which lay steeped in the silence of night, and where the birds had ceased to flit among the boughs, and even the breeze had fallen asleep in the tree-tops in the midst of the strange tales from distant lands that it whispered to them every evening.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26300.32By degrees other sounds ventured abroad,——the chirp and Whistle of a bird, the rustling flight of some small woodland animal through the dripping underbrush, and faint sounds of life from human habitations.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24860.32The pistol was discharged with a loud report, and the ball whistled through the air and lodged in the trunk of a tree; as the startled wretch fell upon the ground, a woman’s loud scream for help rang through the forest.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64470.32I have already heard from Fraulein Fliednei of the strange guest who has taken shelter beneath the ving of the thoughtless moorland lark," he interrupted my com* munications. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50170.31Through the closed door of the adjoining apartment the croaking voice of the Hofmarschall sounded incessantly; every syllable could be.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_390.31bo asked, in those muttering, broken tones that always pro- ceed from a mouth where the unfailing pipe is sure to be between the teeth. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36190.31She paused, and stood listening for a moment to the threatening sound of Eckhof's voice as it rang out on the night.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34360.31For a moment the thought of how my voice would re- echo from these walls frightened me ; but there was a kind of glamour upon me, had I not just been revelling in the life of my childhood ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17370.31needed no great courage for that, none at all ; but I suddenly screamed so that the high walls echoed, and clasped my hands over my eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2180.31And then, for half an hour, she talked to those men,—about what I could not hear,—I could only hear deadly terror in the tones of her voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2500.31He started, and looked towards the open window on the ground-floor, whence came the loud chords of a piano; then he shook himself, with a laugh. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1820.31Its thin, quavering voice had sounded in Elizabeth’s ears tender and dear as the voice of her mother.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9800.3159 content upon the pillow, and in five minutes his breathing testified that he was sound asleep.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9720.31From the school-room came muffled sounds of laughter and the clinking of glasses.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51970.31I will sing the duet with you, if you like," I said, with something of a tremor in my voice, it is true, for I seemed to myself to be doing something superhuman, preternatural.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4900.31I heard Heinz at work in the courtyard, and Use went bustling about, she had " her hands full."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40040.31" Mamma sat at the piano," Dagobert continued, " and every one implored, 'The tarantella!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6560.31At this moment the music of the piano in the next room was ended with a resounding chord.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43670.31Her terrible voice echoed eerily against the narrow walls of the tower.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34780.31But not one word did they learn of what had been seen or heard, until the whole party were once more seated beneath the linden.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41860.31"No, Herr Doctor, you exult too soon," she cried, with a kind of triumph in her tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47880.31A loud galop began from the orchestra, and, with a haughty inclination to the annihilated courtier, the beautiful duchess was whirled off in the arms of her partner, " in a strangely wild and excited way," several scandal-loving old ladies whispered among themselves.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7890.30My seat moved and the curtain rustled. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6130.30The clatter and clink of the money continued.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59640.30In one night his brilliant reputation has vanished."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56260.30The Princess has asked me to sing," she said to me, turning over her notes. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29350.30She was thoroughly tired of the indefatigable psalm-singer.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12320.30Just hearken to these two children 1 they really be- have as if the little one's throat were to be cut !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13860.30_ "Your Highnessl" qried Gisela, as if she could not believe her ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2520.30Even to this spot it pursues one with its sounding hammers !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18290.30"What did you intend to do when you came running so hastily into the forest?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45360.30a voice cried from the midst of the throng.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32700.30no shrinking from the sound of her own voice here upon this spot?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15610.30he asked, not without a touch of merriment in his face and voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57050.30Every note, even the faintest, reached my ear from the piano, and now and then a light laugh or a word spoken rather loudly could be heard from the apartment where the antlers were hanging.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24610.30She must have come through a side-door, probably from the kitchen, and was arranging something upon a table; a soft tinkle of glasses was audible, instantly hushed, however, and then came the noise of the trailing dress again.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39440.30Her replies to Helena’s remarks were unheard by the poor sufferer, but there was something soothing in the mere sound of a human voice after her wretched, lonely night.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32460.30It was not like a storm in winter ; there were thousands of jubilant voices echoing abroad: the rushing of the water, exulting to be freed from icy chains ; the murmur of the forest instinct with reawakening life, where every maybell was ringing itself free from its brown blossom-covering.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47560.29Echoing footsteps passed beneath the window, and a voice in conversation said, rapidly, "A lame woman who could not get away is drowned !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33370.29The ruins of Gnadeck might well listen in amazement to the strange noise which had resounded through their crumbling walls from the first peep of dawn.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40130.29Kitty walked along the bank of the stream, and soon heard the merry voices of children mingling with the murmur of its waters.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14880.29From a distance she saw through the trees the glimmer of the lights at the villa; and as she entered the hall-door she was greeted by the sound of the piano.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14590.28The house was evidently closed; no one was at home, and therefore the lord of the manor was just about to leave his post of observation, when his steps were stayed by a sudden resounding burst of laughter.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9070.28She had spoken louder and louder, until she did not perceive that her voice was entirely destroying the effect of a touching phrase, just delivered by the unwearied chaplain, whose efforts had not been intermitted for an instant.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54290.28Now and then a pebble rattled from beneath their feet on the gravelled road, and the rushing of the waters of the stream sounded loud and near in the silence that followed the doctor’s last words.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12180.28Her heart beat slightly, for she really had no right to be seen here; but the soft turf smothered the sound of her footsteps, which indeed could never have been heard above the din of the rushing river and of the sparrows twittering upon the roof.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12220.28There Was a sudden noise in the adjoining room, and soon after a distant loor was slammed violently.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42180.28"You are mistaken, gracious lady," she said in a clear ringing voice; "I have no claim to such distinction."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25460.27Suddenly there was a crackling in the bushes; it was just the sound tbat Spitz used to make at the Dierkhof when he came to look for me, and would dash through the underbrush into the water, and everything around me now was so like home that at that sound of breaking twigs I called my dear old com- rade loudly by name.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65480.27The beguiling power of that voice is actually demonic, I hear it im- ploring, caressing, lamenting, she will cast fresh spells around him."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57150.27Before I was aware of her intentions, she advanced directly towards the Prin- cess, closing the door, so that the music sounded fainter in the distance.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10230.27We each wrote down what he dictated that there might be no blunder,——his hoarse whisper, frequently interrupted by his difficult breathing, it was hard to understand.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27470.27At first there was a breathless silence; then a whisper ran from mouth to mouth, which was instantly hushed when the young girl struck the keys.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30310.26A faint and dying trumpet note, which was doubtless the result of the impatience of the musicians who were waiting upon the roof of the tower, betrayed the close vicinity of the scene of festivity.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49840.26A fearful shriek rang through the air ; but it did not come from Liana.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15130.26Such words sound strange from a woman's lips," he said. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55950.26the Princess said, merrily, with no accent of disagreeable surprise. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15000.26A wealth of melody welled up in her soul, which carried it far aloft.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14970.26Helene cried to her, as she saw her turning over the music-sheets.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16790.26"It would be an inheritance from the Sommers; our family have no voices for singing."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_120.26Whoever has listened while childish fingers, or sometimes fingers no longer childish, confidently begin upon the piano a well-known melody, which goes bravely on for a few bars, then is arrested by a frightful discord followed by a wild grasping after every key on the instrument except the correct ones, while the patient teacher sits by, ceasing to attempt to evoke order out of chaos by the usual steady marking of the time, wearily waiting until the panting melody is seized again and carried on with lightning rapidity through several easy bars as over some level plain,—whoever has thus had his ears stretched upon the rack, can understand the delight with which this young girl, who has just given two music lessons in a large school, offers her hot cheek to the wind as to an energetic comrade, whose mighty roar can breathe wondrous melodies through the pipes of an organ or over the strings of an Æolian harp.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16350.25His tone sounded amiably indulgent, as if he would be glad to hear that die really had paid little heed. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43580.25" My plaidie to the angry airt, to share it a'," rang in the ears of my excited girlish fancy.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18610.25Keen as was the invalid’s power of discrimination, impressed as she was by the superficiality and unreality of a life given up to society, she was, and always must be, a child of the world of fashion; she had grown up in the drawing-room of her aristocratic grandmother, and often, when the sound of rolling carriages bound for ball or opera was heard in the distance, she would smile bitterly, and liken herself to a broken-down war-horse, weak and lame, who nevertheless at the blast of the trumpet pricks his ears and longs for the strife.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42850.25His cane sounded along the passage, and the noise was accompanied by the jingling of the housekeeper's keys and the rattle of the china upon the waiter whioh she carried after him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_340.25The storm lulled for a moment; the roar of the waters of the dam could be heard in the distance, and the dull noise of the work going on in the foundry was audible.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49130.25He paused, and his face flushed; never could he confide to these ears how then and there the entrancing conviction had possessed his soul that the girl weeping by the poplars loved him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33860.25They bowed their heads without a word when they were even deprived of the sweet fresh air, lest the forbidden tones might reach their ears, and to that singer of morning hymns was assigned the office of their overseer.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42690.25Through the cooing of the doves and the distant murmur of the weir came the sound of excited human voices, and just behind the last chestnut the young girl had a view of the gravelled space in front of the factory.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45180.24Silence 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_34580.24However, I am glad to see that my musical errors are forgotten, since our excellent chamberlain confounds my deep con- tralto with a clear soprano, you have compared a spar- row to a nightingale Sidonie used to sing charmingly ; I never sang 1" The old chamberlain was entirely confused.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12810.24and on the other side of the wire fence you're wild enough I know you, spoiling expensive paper with your scribbling, and singing worldly songs as bold as a lark " Liana, greatly moved, looked at the poor fellow.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4120.24Ah, I’ve dusted and cleaned everything there often enough, and frightened indeed I was whenever I came to that old clock, for it plays such mournful music when it strikes, it used to sound like something unearthly, when I was all alone at work in the old place.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43040.23I thought I had never heard it sound so sweet and kind, as she assured Herr Claudius that she should some again to visit the old patrician mansion."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3650.23I waited a little while in my hiding-place, listening to the retreating footsteps of the strangers until they died away on the soft turf.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8760.23And I heard you with my own ears telling your mother that you put your pierced ducat last evening in the glass cup on the bureau, as you always do.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43120.23At first she seemed to hear something like a distant ejaculatory cry for help; then gradually the sounds grew more connected, and rapidly drew near.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40470.23"You are wont to be keen-sighted, aunt, but here you fail lamentably," he said, pausing suddenly in his inharmonious laughter.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1850.23One hour more and your dance will have cost you a million,—at that moment the storm began afresh, .—a chimney toppled over, and the stones tumbled down upon the pavement in the court-yard, but, in the midst of the crash, I heard something like the rolling of wheels and the clatter of horses’ hoofs.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10340.23"You might sing until to-morrow morning, child," the woman replied. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47820.23The noise of unusual excitement in the city had not entirely died away, but it was more quiet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1400.23"We have come to the stone," said one of the gentle- men, as one of the men's picks came down with a clang.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9640.23Long before the first sound of the church bell they usually set out for church.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30770.23The doctor smiled, and the glasses clinked with a loud ring.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17300.23Play one of your own compositions," said Flora, only half suppressing a sneer.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9730.23"Dom Enriquez was not present, and just before midnight it was whispered in the ear of the beautiful Aspasia, who was playing her part as hostess like a fairy in a splendid masquerade dress, that her absent friend lay dying.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6700.23Tell me, for Heaven’s sake, why that strange creature is perpetually screaming, in that ear-piercing voice, ‘Revenge is sweet?’ " Did the flickering flame of the torch change in hue, or was the change in the face of the Portuguese?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23030.23She had protested against the drawing of the curtains "because the dull twilight would stifle" her, and she begged that every one would come in and go out of her room as usual and speak in ordinary tones,—she could not endure whispering and "tiptoe tread;" she was even afraid of it: it made her think that every one thought her dying.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19520.23There was the noise of the cracking of dry wood and of loud human voices, and in among the thickest bushes Kitty suddenly came upon a swarthy woman who was just tearing down a branch as thick as her arm that had been sawed from the parent stem.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3960.22I had seen it rarely, but when, in after-years, I heard the rustle of silk, it arose before me like a phantom without any definite out- line, and I heard a peevish voice say, " Child, you make me nervous !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33770.22Oh 1 and so you have opened the windows that you may listen to the wily voice of the tempter, while your hands are folded in your laps I Foolish virgins that you are, in your ears will one day sound the terrible, * I know you not.'
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14840.22I even hoped the gentlemen Would join in a jovial drinking-song " " You are Wrong," she interrupted him, turning pale, and the anxious look that she cast upon him was half veiled in tears.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5930.22The brazen bells had retired into private life, and looked black and silent through the loopholes in the bell-towers, that seemed like the coffins of the melodious life which had so lately streamed forth from them during the holidays.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9670.22For ever and ever, amen 1" The physician completed the sentence of the lips that were silent forever; and then, with a gentle touch, he closed her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59730.22cried my father, I scarcely recognized the shrill voice as his, " Sassen lied 1 Ask Hart in Hanover: he knows I Down with you I You, too, are counterfeit!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24560.22And before me rose the dear old roof, with the bees humming around it; and the magpies chattered shrilly down into the courtyard from the oak boughs.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2300.22I 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_The_Second_Wife_38770.22Do you hear the wind ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3220.22cried Ulrika. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3130.22cried Liana. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21970.22Where did you find the ring?"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1020.22_~._-¢.-~.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8860.22"Where were you going?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5210.22"No; oh, no; but please, Dina!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64840.22asked a voice behind us.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63810.22I saw him again !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59380.22Were there strange noises here ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52080.22What a little moorland lark it is !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44370.22"At last 1" she cried. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40050.22the tarantella!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34690.22There sits the nightingale."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29750.22Let him see that they are at- tended to !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28130.22" Must I ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21050.22" Now, Lenore, if you come to me with that, I have done," she interrupted me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14210.22"Oh, yes, why not?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13910.22I cried, in delight. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13420.22Use rang.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11090.22I cannot hear that!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8620.22Strike on!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1130.22"Why, yes.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10570.22We will hear you farther at our leisure!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22920.22Why, she has gone,—gone far enough.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19980.22And What prevented him now from playing the .
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1280.22What have you to say to this, eh?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12730.22" Well, well, so it was to be!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35320.22It is really past hearing!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32290.22he repeated.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20770.22"I have been tried inconceivably.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10430.22how rude!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52410.22I will keep my ring!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50220.22"Hush!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49310.22You shall hear from me again!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41190.22Had she not had proof of the latter?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3210.22cried Flora.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20890.22I will not stir from here alone.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16950.22"Compose melodies!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16770.22"Do you sing?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48730.21295 ears she should judge that the small bird had a very loud voice ; and one Sunday afternoon when my fellow-singer, young Helldorf, accompanied me to the garden-gate and there took leave of me, she came running towards me from the grove, laughing violently, and crying, " May I congratulate you, Fraulein von Sassen ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43110.21She stepped across the trampled sward,—then stood for an instant as if rooted to the earth,—for the evening breeze brought to her ear single broken tones of a human voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50430.20Was I wrong, or was it really your voice that called out to me on the night of the flood, when I returned from Dorotheenthal ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18370.20Whilst I was dressing, the voice in the next room sang on without stop or stay. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1840.20dance and make merry, I thought, as the castle clock boomed twelve.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33720.20A concealed apartment, containing a coffin!—the words were music to his antiquarian ears.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33920.20"Your figure is charming, lady fair," a voice it was that of the duchess hissed in her ear; "but I am not afraid of those soft, strong arms.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26540.20On the moor it had sounded comparatively weak ; the winds had dispersed it abroad ; but here the close- drawn curtains of woodland greenery gave back its tones, and it welled forth so full and clear that I could hardly believe it the same.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8280.20Again there was silence, broken only by the gasping cf the invalid, and her heavy, irregular breathing, and by a continual low whirr in the old tall clock in the coi ner ; its shining face glared at us stonily, and it wheezed with every swing of the pendulum.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15060.20It was the first time she had ever spoken to Kitty of dying; and it was well that the fingers scrambling hither and thither over the keys in the music-room seemed just now endowed with fresh energy, and that three elderly gentlemen, standing by the chimney-piece, raised their voices in the ardour of their discussion, for the invalid’s last exclamation was loud and passionately uttered.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25890.19After the sound of the wheels of the rolling-chair had died away in the distance, it seemed as if all that had happened resolved itself in memory into a series of grotesque, startling phantasmagoria, thrown upon the air from the slides of some gigantic magic-lantern, such a calm had now descended upon the spot; but there on the ground across the walk lay the stake that had been hurled away, and the peacock approached in majestic silence and regarded inquisitively the mysterious little heap of powder upon the floor of the veranda.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26050.19She must have been to church, for she hurriedly laid aside her hymn-book upon the nearest garden-table and held out her arms for the boy, who, at the sound of her voice, ceased crying and crowed with delight, dancing with eagerness.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46620.19she said, in vain endeavoring to give to her voice a tone of contemptu- ous gaiety. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7740.18The Italian castle with all its splendour, its aristocratic air, and its oppressive silence, only broken by the clamour of a spoiled child, faded behind her like a dream of the night; and when she had imparted her impressions of all that she had seen and heard to her parents, she concluded with the words: "You have taught me, father dear, never to form any settled judgment of others upon a slight acquaintance with them, for such judgment runs a fair chance of being unjust, but what can I do with my unruly fancy?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29810.18"But you cannot wonder that I want a birthday greeting all to myself,—that I desire that it may sound quite different from any that you have hitherto uttered,—for I am neither your father, nor your bluff forester uncle, and certainly I cannot lay claim to the rights of the brother with whom you play.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49660.18Look dowu into that clear minor."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5640.18She must be silent,—— silent forever.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7390.18What could a servant who had come hither from afar desire more ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12770.18"Ah, there are none such to be breathed into here in the forest."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34560.17My good Herr von Wismar," said the Princess, sup- pressing her laughter, " many years ago, it is true, I was sometimes guilty of the sin of boring a small audience with the, sound of a weak voice faultily trained.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39900.16The poi- sonous breath of that hateful priest never touched you, that I can swear; and yet I cannot be content, Liana I feel as if a hand were at my throat when, in the midst of my present bliss, I think of that mysterious moment when I saw your terrified face in the dimly-lighted room and heard his voice enjoining silence upon my uncle.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_420.16The huntsmen and Amazons, the mythological and Biblical personages woven into the fine damask, might well wonder on such occasions at the strange silence in the court-yard, where there was no talk of the price of flax, or of the wages of the weavers; where no piled-up drays rolled through the arched gate-way of the warehouse, and where the rattle of the shuttle no longer resounded.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4660.15Let the silver off which my forefathers dined be melted up.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14150.15And has that little sin also reached your ears, uncle ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9960.15Again she dropped her mask of humility and laughed. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50700.14The sainted Frau Claudius would turn in her grave if she could hear the clatter that you are making at this moment among her porcelain treasures.

Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_29960.84She heard the tramp of footsteps, the rattle of wheels, and the mingled hum of a multitude of voices, with strains of music and loud laughter breaking through.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_78480.83As we listened, the notes swelled upwards yet fuller; and one by one the different bands seemed to join, till at last the whole air seemed full of the rich flood of melody.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_31550.79The street noises had gradually died away, and save the distant sound of a ballad-singer, whose mournful cadence fell sadly on the ear, I heard nothing.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_29140.79The birds, too, were singing; and the hum of the street noises, mellowed by distance, broke not unpleasantly on the ear.
Cooper_The_Pilot_3710.77--the former rising on the night air, from its first low mellow notes to a piercing shrillness that gradually died away on the waters; and the latter bellowing through every cranny of the ship, like the hollow murmurs of distant thunder.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_10920.77The music gradually died away, occasionally a few cries could be heard, but soon they ceased, and silence reigned around.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_16910.77In many, many minutes I heard his voice; it was a voice all tremble, like a harp-string jarred and breaking.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_50640.77She listened to the wild roaring of the March wind, which seemed to have risen with the stillness and darkness of the night.
Alcott_Little_Women_20730.77Sweet voices and rich melody filled the air, and so with mirth and music the masquerade went on.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_63510.76A confused and distant hum, swelling and falling at intervals, now filled the air, and gradually I could distinguish the shouts of people at a distance.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_292740.76Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which were discharges of cannon, struck the ear confusedly.
Longfellow_Hyperion_6670.76how, amid the chorus of a hundred voices and a hundred instruments,--of flutes, and drums, and trumpets,--this universal shout and whirl-wind of the vexed air, you can so clearly distinguish the melancholy vibration of a single string, touched by the finger,--a mournful, sobbing sound!
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_20540.75No music was before Davy as he commenced the opening symphony of one of Weber's most delighting airs.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_5300.75There was something of triumph in the rhythm of his retreating footsteps; at least so it seemed to her as she listened to the sound as it died away in the distance.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_43550.75that was like a low, mournful vibration of an Aeolian harp, when the night-breeze breathes upon it.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_41220.75When this rude rhyme had been repeated in chorus, there was a little silence, and the conversation took a somewhat deeper tone.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_76960.75Then he raised his voice in a shout; it rang through the silence, and, when it ceased, the silence reigned again.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_34360.75Riotous music pealed through it, that even in its clamor kept a certain silvery ring, a certain rhythmical cadence.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_17300.75It was a sharp prolonged rattle, continuous, but rising and falling as if in rhythmical cadence.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_25620.75Suddenly she distinguished a sound as of human footsteps, and a shout came up through the roar of the blast.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_3970.75She was suddenly startled by the tinkling alarum--high, sharp, and irregular--of a little bell.
Bronte_Shirley_64440.75The sudden and joyous clash of bells here stopped the dialogue by summoning all to the church.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_6760.73From beginning to end of the allegro not a disturbing sound arose throughout the hall; but on the closing chord of the overture there burst one deep toll of wonderful applause.
Evans_Beulah_18320.73The confused sound of many voices and the tread of dancing feet, keeping time to a band of music, came indistinctly from the parlors.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_26560.72Vaulting into the passage, I heard strange sounds--singing, but not only singing.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_50070.72"You will die of laughing if you hear Gris-Gris to-night--such a song!"
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_77330.72Soft and slow came the notes of the old harpsichord--she was playing one of the abbey anthems.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_77540.72At last one triumphant burst, so shrill that all ears rang again, and then dead silence.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_50800.72Sometimes it modulated into tones which reminded me of the severer harmonies of the old Gregorian chants.
Collins_Armadale_65530.72When the last vibrations of the bell had died away, the voices were not audible again, and the silence was broken no more.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_189080.72The lowing of the cows and the ringing of their bells were heard above the rattling hail.
Evans_Beulah_31670.72No description could do justice to the magnificent voice, as it swelled deep and full in its organ-like tones; now thrillingly low in its wailing melody, and now ringing clear and sweet as silver bells.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_63030.72Intermingled with its plash and murmur came those voices which are heard only in the stillness of the night, strange, unfamiliar voices, mysterious as the night itself The wind was hushed.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_38630.72The sound of the keys, so brilliant, grew dulled as by a tempest voice in distance; not alone the hurrahs, the vivas, but the stir, the crash of the dividing multitude.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_66830.72When within a few yards of it, Wallace heard the sound of singing, but it was not the gay caroling of mirth; the solemn chant of more serious music mingled with the roaring blast.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_37500.71It is as if a noble strain of music commenced sweetly, and then suddenly broken down into a few discordant notes and ceased.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_35080.71Amid the shouts, the crash, the tumult, the gay, ringing voice of Cigarette rose distinct.
Harland_Alone_95040.70And ere the first hymn was concluded her clear voice led the choristers, and the pealing chords rolled out in full strength and harmony.
Reade_White_Lies_65760.69But what was curious, too, this rustle, thump--rustle, thump--fell exactly into the time of the music; so that, clearly, either the rustle thump was being played to the tune, or the tune sung to the rustle thump.
Bronte_Shirley_60400.69In an instant out clashed the eight bells in the tower, loud swelled the sounding bands, flute spoke and clarion answered, deep rolled the drums, and away they marched.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_28800.69This note was soon repeated, but more faintly, as though the brilliant bird were already at a distance.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_63370.69Her merry laugh rang through the hall like a peal of bells.
Longfellow_Hyperion_10040.69Last night he had heard a voice to which his soul responded; and he might have gone on his way, and taken no farther heed.
Lewald_Hulda_30760.69They sounded dull and discordant in his ears, as if they were cracked, and he had formerly thought them sweet.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_131290.69The noise of their retreating footsteps and the murmur of their voices soon died away.
Collins_The_Moonstone_68780.69"It sounds strangely," I went on, "in my old-fashioned ears----" "What sounds strangely?"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_89230.69Just like the finch who never wearies of repeating his song, they sang the same words over and over again.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_19900.69They heard not the sound of many voices below, nor a rapid footstep on the stairs.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_5290.69Then a faint breathing of wind succeeded; but far away there rose a low moan like that which arises from some vast cataract at a great distance, whose roar, subdued by distance, sounds faintly, yet warningly, to the ear.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_35890.69And she has heard dreadful noises, that were not of this world,--sometimes sounds as sweet as the organ plays in the church, and then a rustle and roar as of a mighty wind, although not a breeze is stirring outside, or blasts of a trumpet like the trumpet of Jericho, so that she ran away in deadly fright."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12500.42The teachers were fully occupied with packing up and making other necessary preparations for the departure of those girls who were fortunate enough to have friends and relations able and willing to remove them from the seat of contagion.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28520.39I should think there were fifty ladies and gentlemen present -- all of the first county families; and Miss Ingram was considered the belle of the evening."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22500.39In the mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon, gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed to dine with him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72700.39I was brought up a dependant; educated in a charitable institution.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8800.36In the course of the day I was enrolled a member of the fourth class, and regular tasks and occupations were assigned me: hitherto, I had only been a spectator of the proceedings at Lowood; I was now to become an actor therein.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_98120.34Mary's is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother's, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11390.34Had he treated you as an especial favourite, you would have found enemies, declared or covert, all around you; as it is, the greater number would offer you sympathy if they dared.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62000.30Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race; and so did she.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38960.30Gentlemen, have the goodness to set the ladies the example.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34920.30cried all the juveniles, both ladies and gentlemen.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14940.30but Bobby preferred sidling over to his mother.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13720.29I remained an inmate of its walls, after its regeneration, for eight years: six as pupil, and two as teacher; and in both capacities I bear my testimony to its value and importance.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9270.28"Probably you would do nothing of the sort: but if you did, Mr. Brocklehurst would expel you from the school; that would be a great grief to your relations.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7650.26Ere I had gathered my wits, the classes were again seated: but as all eyes were now turned to one point, mine followed the general direction, and encountered the personage who had received me last night.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21280.25"He starved us when he had the sole superintendence of the provision department, before the committee was appointed; and he bored us with long lectures once a week, and with evening readings from books of his own inditing, about sudden deaths and judgments, which made us afraid to go to bed."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18390.22CHAPTER XII The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80870.21"I would rather not just now."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74390.21"What?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74250.21Rivers?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36470.21"Oh, I have not much choice!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28790.21"Oh!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13640.21But this is not to be a regular autobiography.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20420.43I belong to the class.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29090.41‘ 1 dispose of my property thus in the firm conviction that it will be of as much use as if I should call into existence with it a new institution.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41980.30It was engraved upon his card with aristocratic ostentation.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18730.22he cried, now really angry—"I, as your physician, sent you here, not to occupy yourself with missionary societies, but solely and simply for the sake of your child!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5940.21Papa would not tell you.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5730.21All that is over now.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12150.21said she.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55110.68Large and distinguished audiences attended his lectures, and several fortunate cures, of which the objects were individuals of high rank, were everywhere talked of.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13680.65I divided his property among public benevolent institutions.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37710.65you would not ally yourself with the revolutionary party—with those social democrats?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64530.53What induced the lady to propose seeing me, what can she want with me ?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51740.51Mainau retreated from the speaker, making it evident that he now considered every tie dissolved between himself and the " most honourable and respectable member of the family."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42830.47Had I not declared before all these people that I did not know whether my grandmother was one of the wealthy old noble family of the Von Olderodes ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4050.46Do not suppose, my dear friend, that I wish to intrude upon your family affairs!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16520.45My regards to your jovial friends Within there," he called after her.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4910.45At the entertainments given in the castle she had accompanied the Dowager Duchess only to the state apart- ments, and she had endeavoured to avoid attending her Highness’s small social receptions.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45870.43Society in the capital had further been accustomed to regard Baron Mainau as a bachelor : he always appeared with- out his wife ; and at the last large ball given there, he had replied to an inquiry as to how she was with a shrug of his shoulders and a " Well, I suppose ; I have not been to Schnwerth for three days."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35220.43"Does it not all belong to you as the elder?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5070.43"True, my father’s distinguished mother-in-law was, at that time, only an occasional guest at the villa."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11920.43Yes, the strange foreign element that vibrated through all the social intercourse of the family at the villa, the money-fever, the spirit of speculation, had intruded here also in this mimicry of the old chivalric life.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52850.42He will never venture to appear in public again ; the affair has made so much talk, and the Protestant inhab- itants of the capital are so exasperated, that his patroness the duchess, has judged it wise to retire to Meran for awhile, to benefit 'an attack of weakness of the chest.'"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49000.41The young people, whom the re- moval of the huntsman had separated for some time, were having a meeting here.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5130.41"Those ’over there,’ ’the family,’ as you call them, are alike strangers to me; I cannot beforehand feel as if I belonged to them, not even to my sisters.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63520.41Herr Clau- dius holds himself quite aloof from society, while Hell- dorf as a teacher has a very wide acquaintance in the capital.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2370.39But I hold to my conservative principles, and certain distinctions must be preserved.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_68020.37Helldorf s name never passed her lips, although she was on terms of great intimacy, as are we all, with his brother's family.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36160.37These friends maintained unanimously that the university professor’s future wife gave herself the airs of a full-plumaged peacock as she rolled along in her coupé, and that her arrogance was almost unbearable.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4380.35in a large circle about the carriages.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17870.35"She is only distantly connected with my uncle, and I do not even know her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33670.35"I am not permitted to decline the title."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46300.35We thought the learned recluse of Schnwerth so averse to social gaiety that we did not venture to send her a special bidding to our little musical evening," she said, coldly, and yet as if excusing herself for not particularly inviting the young wife.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10700.34He has doubtless been summoned to some patient——" "To L——g, where distinguished professors from the university can be had?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39010.32When he sees me presiding in society he will acknowledge my superiority,—he will enjoy the lustre that my ease and grace as mistress of his household shed upon his distinguished position, when he finds that my holding aloof from housekeeping cares entails no pecuniary sacrifice on his part.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12180.32A 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-AtTheCouncillors_18570.32There had been several large festivities in aristocratic circles, and, in addition, Flora had been requested to compose and recite verses at some tableaux vivants arranged at a small fête at court.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41340.31I have had a new lock pat apon the gate of the grove, and the key is yours ; you can visit the Helldorfs now when you choose, and see as much as you please of your little pet."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28300.31I cannot help saying that, to my mind, the principal blame in allowing matters to come to such a point is your own: you ought to have taken decided measures at the first hint of discontent among these wretches.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51410.31And the paper which he thus endeavoured to render in some measure legal, is it still in existence, Liana ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2150.31Yes, Colonel von Gcrold was a worthy representative of’ his ancient line.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35100.31What would my white muslin dress say if I should some day introduce it into such distinguished society?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26100.31Ferber now invited the gentlemen to join the circle beneath the lindens.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37510.31I should like to know what you would have said eight months ago if any one in our circle had advocated the rights of the people; all that was entirely beneath your notice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67340.30She is going to enter another establishment to be trained for a governess.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28640.30What sacrifices Bär has made for the royal family!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62890.30Inti- mate as I was with the Helldorfs, now that those so long sundered were again meeting as father and daugh- ter, I did not belong among them ; the moment was too sacred to be intruded upon by a stranger.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30410.29The new trunks had been banished to a garret, the odour of the Russia leather was so frightfully strong, and the brilliant farewell dinner that Mainau was to give at his club to his associates in the capital was indefinitely postponed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5820.28"It is time I should present myself at the villa, if I would not run the risk of intruding upon the Frau President’s distinguished tea-table," she said, with a feigned shudder, taking her gloves from her pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54860.28In my opinion it would be better to go to your friends the Helldorfs ; they surely must have some little room where they could accommodate your aunt."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24700.28"But those initials were well known throughout your large circle of acquaintance long ago,—before the essays were published."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46470.27Flora followed the silent group apart, as if bound by no tie to the three people whom misfortune had suddenly shown to be so closely allied.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30350.26^ 177 The young wife presided over the household as heretofore.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8650.26Kitty could not help thinking that in this case the hatred was not so much of a class as of an individual.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22660.26"But, my dear friend, how do you know that this decoration belongs to the doctor?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10570.26"Is it not my affair, solely, whether I choose to attract or repel?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25270.25I cannot help it, indeed you must not take it ill of me, but I seem in listening to you to hear the utterances of some gov- erness, some excellent Smith or Jones.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45610.25And what had become of him,—of the man who, as Anton declared, had gone to the tower an hour before to select the wine for the evening’s entertainment?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_680.25His right hand made an involuntary movement toward the embroidered cap,—the ‘badge of his dignity as a student and member of the luniversity,—that lay upon the table.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14900.24This was one of the Frau President’s reception evenings,—old and young came to take tea,—the elders went to the card-tables, and the young people amused themselves with music and conversation as best pleased them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45900.23The duchess had wished to make the entertainment espe- cially brilliant; this was the first concert given at court since the duke's death, and a whisper was circulated that there was to be also a small dance afterwards, with which she meant to surprise the young people invited.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2460.21And, all !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19630.21" No, that I cannot admit.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7270.21" What?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23550.21It is an old story ; no one knows much about it, I least of all.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18280.21.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23720.21has she been talking with you?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2140.21Well, and what do you think of it?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20480.21For all your fine speech, it was not so very serious.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12540.21"Well, what can it be?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42080.21"Go, go!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38030.18In the aristocratic world the grass grows quickly over such dis- agreeable experiences.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28930.18"And, besides this, a pamphlet he has just published has made an immense sensation in medical circles," he continued.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17240.18If I could have engaged any workmen, it should have been pulled down before now."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8440.14Under the influence of these experiences, and confirmed by her mother's and sister's words, Liana had supposed that no great amount of resolve would be necessary to embrace the lot marked out for her ; it was the natural result of circum- stances.

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_31990.82With the exception of that large fête which had collected the whole community, and the hunts, which were naturally prominent at this time of the year, no particular festivities took place.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_74770.79There was the popular element, the fashionable element, the legislative element, the legal element, and the commercial element.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_40210.77In our cities, the ward meetings elect delegates to the nominating conventions and instruct them whom to nominate.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_127460.75But they, with their leader, and one other influential member of the party, were all who at last came as the political friends of the candidate for Westminster.
Disraeli_Lothair_22270.75The theatre, entirely remodelled and reformed, and, under a minister of state, should be an important element of education.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_62190.73His friend, the Minister, took him to the houses of the leaders of society, and introduced him as an eminent American statesman and member of the Senate.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_46710.72Besides this, in the present state of affairs, there can be no thought of receptions or any social gatherings for some time to come.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_67950.72There was a vacancy for a member of parliament at Westminster, and Melmotte was about to come forward as a candidate.
Harland_Jessamine_25860.72Yet they are generally the pets of their respective circles, especial favorites with ladies.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_201300.72I used all my influence with one of the committee, a young peer of my acquaintance, to get admission to one of the galleries.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_202410.72I used all my influence with one of the committee, a young peer of my acquaintance, to get admission to one of the galleries.
Disraeli_Lothair_670.72It was a rather large party, for the Brentham family were so numerous that they themselves made a festival.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_62400.72I have to go about this University bill, the vote of an absent member we must have here, Senator Dilworthy cannot go.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_24460.72The Senator was the guest of his old friend Gen. Boswell, but it almost appeared that he was indebted to Col.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_15280.71"If you look around the circle in which I visit intimately, Caroline, you will find that did you act according to your own wishes, you would stand more alone than were you to regard mine.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_36100.69With the check came two through tickets--good on the railroad from Hawkeye to Washington via New York--and they were "dead- head" tickets, too, which had beep given to Senator Dilworthy by the railway companies.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_138370.69I am told that very few of those whom he calls his Conservative friends could be induced to attend that banquet.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_136870.69The electors were balloting; but with the ballot so said the leader of the understrappers there never was any excitement.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_118220.69He even hinted to certain political friends that at the next general election he should try the City.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_44360.69It seems to be the fashionable plan now for gentlemen to make offers by deputy.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_145040.69Moreover, now-a-days, people do their politics for themselves, but they expect to have their dinners cooked for them."
Disraeli_Lothair_45420.69"You ought to know my military secretary," said the general, as Lothair entered, "and therefore I will introduce you."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_68420.69I suppose if the people wanted decent members of congress they would elect them.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_57150.69Have you any friend whom you would like to present with a salaried or unsalaried position in our institution?"
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_29950.69He found matrimony would be very inconvenient in the gay circle of which he was a member.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_20330.69She was only invited to those large assemblies which included all her acquaintances, not merely her friends.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_119270.68The Government would probably have gained the seat for Westminster, as Melmotte would at once have become very unpopular with the great body of his supporters.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_44930.68It would add incalculably to my own enjoyment, and I presume to that of my colleague and his friend, if they could be prevailed upon to join our party."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_103440.68The first one to mount the speaker's stand was the candidate of the "Blacks," as the popular party termed their opponents.
Disraeli_Lothair_16630.68We do not at all enter general society; Colonel Campian only likes people who interest or amuse him, and he is fortunate in having rather a numerous acquaintance of that kind."
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_14080.67In many of the two-story Rockland families, and in those favored households of the neighboring villages whose members had been invited to the great party, there was a very general excitement among the younger people on the morning after the great event.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_42970.67She was, in fact, the leading lady of the place--the manager of the book-club, in the chair at all the charitable committees, and the principal person in society, giving literary parties, with a degree of exclusiveness that made admission to them a privilege.
Collins_Woman_in_White_124110.66The presidents and the secretaries know the members, but the members, among themselves, are all strangers, until their chiefs see fit, in the political necessity of the time, or in the private necessity of the society, to make them known to each other.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_30920.66He also had been at Oxford; but he had done little there except talk at a debating society, and make himself notorious by certain ideas on religious subjects which were not popular at the University.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_34050.65The President of the People's Lyceum Club made a little speech, and dismissed the audience.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_25330.65It was a delightful dinner-party, elegant without ostentation, and select without pretence of exclusiveness.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_75120.65Ten great peers with their peeresses were selected by the general committee of management.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_63180.65He was a Director of this great company, sitting at the same board with the great commercial hero.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_135450.65And it would be remembered, too, that he had been the Conservative candidate for the great borough of Westminster perhaps, even, the elected member.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_19860.65the firm of Meulaert never gave such a bill to William Smith, and never had such a transaction with such an individual."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_22520.65Blake was his senior by a term; might have called on him any time these three years; why should he want to make his acquaintance now?
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_38270.65This first select reception took place at a cabinet minister's--or rather a cabinet secretary's mansion.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_25450.65A part of their way lay with that of General Boswell and Senator Dilworthy, and introductions were made.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_133040.65Seeing the members of the Government all there, he wished that he had come forward in Westminster as a Liberal.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_132160.65The dinner was very pleasant, but the judge talked for the whole party.
Reade_White_Lies_13180.65However, he insisted on placing his financial talent at their service.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_126760.65"Not in the least, but I think it is the engineer's business to give an order of that kind."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_19510.65Webber had a large acquaintance in Dublin, and soon made me known to them all.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_75290.65"'Dummy ladies provided as large as life.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_62810.65He had business to attend to in Oxford at this time of the year.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11640.52Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70120.43Where are your friends?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35920.43"Prove it," I rejoined.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48890.35We have been good friends, Jane; have we not?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29620.30"She is a good hand, I daresay," said the charwoman.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74850.28"Jane, you will wonder at us and our mysteries," she said, "and think us hard-hearted beings not to be more moved at the death of so near a relation as an uncle; but we have never seen him or known him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48770.26You'll like Ireland, I think: they're such warm-hearted people there, they say."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61710.25"Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man -- you forget that: I am not long-enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71320.21"And what is he?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34930.21"Let her come -- it will be excellent sport!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17600.21Fairfax!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9810.20"Well," I asked impatiently, "is not Mrs. Reed a hard-hearted, bad woman?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51810.18"If that will be YOUR married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16120.46Give her a dress of good strong gingham that will be of some service to her, and that will be quite .
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9670.37"I cannot conceive, Master Thienemann," she rejoined sharply, "how a man in his senses could ask such a thing.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5440.37The child felt, instinctively, that the rough but thoroughly good-hearted old servant was now her only friend.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17300.34There is no use in trying to be kind to her,"—she added, as she remarked a gathering cloud upon her hearer’s face,—"she has always ever since she was a little child, been an obstinate thing, behaving herself as though she were a king’s daughter,—she, a player girl!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_160.29At last all three regained that posture whereby nature distinguishes man as the noblest of God's creatures, and began to reflect upon what had happened, and what was best to be done.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9630.25"You have applied to the wrong person, Master Thienemann," Madame said coldly, after a short pause.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23310.23take care what you do," he said, as he walked part of the way by her side,—"Madame is with her; ’tis a good thing that the old Mam’selle cannot know It.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6860.60"Yes, I know; you are a faithful, true-hearted fellow."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13120.53"True, true, my daughter.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37300.53To tell the truth, I grudge an iota of my right to any one else.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2360.47I, too, am not one of those who use fine phrases in which they have no faith themselves, my dear; I am too good a Christian for that; nor do I look down upon my fellow-beings.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2060.47"I am an honest woman, and not at all inclined to be ‘my little friend’ for every fellow that comes sneaking here like a rat into a dovecote."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26980.46And so I had better be silent, and not burden your kind, gentle heart with anything more.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13700.45We found him a brave and honest servant."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53310.45Be kind to her—befriend her——" "To my latest breath!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4610.43But, since you are so obstinate, I will not come at all, depend upon it.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3720.43For you are, and always will be, the same true, frank Greta, the integrity of whose transparent nature no contact with the world can harm.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7130.41‘ "But that is the least of it," he said, and his bearded face lit up with an honest, true-hearted smile. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28410.39The foresterfaithful fellow !—was Otto’s playmate when they were boys, and he wept and laughed in a breath to see him again in so sad a condition.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1750.39I am not an attrac- tive person to my fellow-beings."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12980.39Perhaps I shall have better luck," the lord of the manor rejoined. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2660.39I wished to do good, but I have provided myself with a perpetual scourge,—although I do not deserve it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16040.35We cannot make ourselves stronger and rougher than we are.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5430.35"Yes," said the forester, "she is kind and benevolent.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13730.35Indeed, I am absent-minded and forgetful!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28950.34If there had ever existed in me a particle of liking for this man, these words would have destroyed it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20380.34"Yes, it was kind and thoughtful to send you here, after the accident that happened to our master.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14900.34Let us be friends, Juliana, good comrades, who are well content with each other, without soaring aloft into any realms of sentimentality.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8620.34He was gentle and true, and not one of those who had driven the unhappy daughter of the Jew out into the night of mad- ness.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40200.34She, too, was a faithful creature, whose services were not all rendered merely for the sake of money; her good-natured, honest face seemed to belong of right to the household in the modest house by the river.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4350.32He had a frank, kind, honest face, and a pair of eyes black as sloes; but he had shown how true it is that the good always get the worst of it in this world.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2150.31They say the night is no man’s friend," the old soldier interrupted himself with a discordant laugh, " but it is a good friend to rogues.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40840.30The servants were right in saying that the rough woman looked like a ghost.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38400.30Had he entered now, she was weak enough to tell him, " I am going, it is true, but I know that I shall never forget you."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11010.30You must be mistaken ; she is weak, and worn to a shadow.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44910.30Are you really so frighU fully simple-minded?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13310.30The young fellow is now a kind of nabob.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4410.30He was kind-hearted, and never harmed a child.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6780.28"And Moritz is an exceedingly kind-hearted man; he does a great deal for the poor."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10180.27A gentle word from her, a kindly advance on her side, would, she hoped, unseal Bertha’s lips; but she succeeded no better than Elizabeth had done.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1840.26"Would to God that our pale, quiet little fellow there"—-she nodded towards the boy, and her eyes grew sad—" had a share of them I" "I have my own opinion of such strong, energetic people, my dear," the Frau Councillor rejoined, shrugging her shoulders.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66010.26I was coming back to my moor wretched and broken-hearted.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46910.26The torture that I was suf- fering compelled me to speak. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45530.25"Not on that account,—for one kind look from you made me happy again; but another obstinate opponent entered the lists,—my reason.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40400.23Ought I to scream, ' Don't come here, if you are going to tell secrets, for I am sitting up here, and would not for the world be seen by that old man who is so cross to me?'
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52100.21" And Gabriel ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7480.21But the Princess did not seem to understand him. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1510.21"Oh, let the little thing alone!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_940.21It was just what I want ti.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5680.21Don't think it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35650.21he cried. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10470.21I cried; but Use interrupted me. '
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10620.21quick!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18260.21No!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19480.21"Not for the world!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10970.21rejoined Venus.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50410.21"Ugh!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67580.17Gra- cious goodness !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7000.17And how could she presume to compare herself with that girl.

Cooper_Pathfinder_71150.75"Well then, Mabel, I've been thinking it was quite likely, when you gave in to the Sergeant's wishes, that you did not know the natur' of Jasper Western's feelings towards you?"
Collins_Woman_in_White_33280.75I was guided by my father, because I had always found him the truest of all advisers, the best and fondest of all protectors and friends.
Cooper_Pathfinder_72470.72"'Tis best, Mabel, 'tis altogether best, Eau-douce; and it's wisest.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_67960.69A sweeter-tempered man than he never lived,--nor one who was of a kinder nature.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_38280.69"It is two lovers parting, or it is two common friendly acquaintances; all depends on how it was done, and that you don't tell me."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_190130.69"Oh, the good father, the brave father, the very honest father!"
Cooper_Pathfinder_30200.69"He has indeed, Pathfinder; and, though I have been loath to believe anything to the injury of Jasper, I have a feeling which tells me I ought to distrust him.
Cooper_Pathfinder_20250.69No one is better known on this frontier than my honest, brave, true-hearted friend."
Cooper_Pathfinder_10600.69"Not he, not he; he is as prudent as he is brave, in the main, though so forgetful of himself in the late ambushment.
Bronte_Villette_8070.69O my noble Frank--my faithful Frank--my _good_ Frank!
The_Eichhofs_Clean_4840.68"You have a tender and loving father," she said, softly: "be to him a good daughter in the true sense of the word."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_25040.68There have been many idols--idols of gold, idols of clay--less pure, less true than the brave and loyal-hearted beast from whom he parted now.
Cooper_Pathfinder_15140.66Mabel Dunham, though unsophisticated, like most of her countrywomen of that period, and ingenuous and frank as any warm-hearted and sincere-minded girl well could be, was not altogether without a feeling for the poetry of this beautiful earth of ours.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_19600.66"'Tis good to be merry and wise; 'Tis good to be honest and true; 'Tis good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_75380.66Strong-minded women, as they are called, think me narrow-minded,--the narrow-minded call me strong-minded.
Cooper_Pathfinder_55800.66June no Yengeese, June Tuscarora -- got Tuscarora husband -- Tuscarora heart -- Tuscarora feeling -- all over Tuscarora.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_47390.65I shall have a good opinion ever after of a boy honest enough to confess, May junior, I saw you," he added, hopefully and kindly.
Evans_Infelice_20730.65He is my noble true friend, my dear good brother, and you must not think such things of him and of me; it hurts me."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_5330.65There was only one good thing about them, if indeed it were good, to wit, their faith to one another, and truth to their wild eyry.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_16600.65'Nay, I give him credit for doing it as well as it is in nature of things for it to be done.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_23710.65But then the girl must be really in earnest, and her earnestness will depend on that of her lover.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_51830.65I never had a braver, better fellow,--trusty and true as steel.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_33440.65He would have been satisfied if she had said, "I will be your friend in the truest sense of the word."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_68110.65Why have I not as good a right to be a brave girl as you to be a brave man?"
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_63160.65The warm-hearted girl could not act his part.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_17350.65"Ay, father; but nature is stronger than wit, and she is against us.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_93760.65This simple-minded, honest fellow was not a girl.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_63190.65But words may be but schismatics; deeds alone are certainly of the true faith.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_50390.65He is a simple-minded and kind-hearted man.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_63790.65"MY DAUGHTER,--My loving, kind-hearted girl.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_35260.65"They are both wise, both brave, and both generous; they ought to part friends.
Cooper_Pathfinder_68180.65"I should be out of humor with the man that gainsayed the last, Master Cap.
Cooper_Pathfinder_52020.65"Nay, my good friend, you mistake my meaning.
Cooper_Pathfinder_45710.65This Pathfinder is all extraordinair, Mabel, if truth may be said of the man."
Cooper_Pathfinder_42660.65"I do not think you would say that which you do not feel, Mabel," returned Pathfinder earnestly.
Cooper_Pathfinder_19020.65"That for Jasper Eau-douce, and every younker of them in or about the fort!"
Collins_The_Moonstone_38310.65The lad is a good lad, and has an honest respect for me.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_1970.65My uncle, always kind and good to me, has been kinder and better than ever.
Collins_No_Name_15630.65I don't think Frank took kindly to his own good luck; not kindly at all."
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_21070.65He ought to feel satisfied with her; but then, he's good and true and has well deserved her."
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_4780.65She only wants a little of my good advice and better example, to become really a girl of spirit."
Cooper_Pathfinder_27810.63It was now appropriated to the Quartermaster, the Sergeant, Cap, and Jasper; the Pathfinder roaming through any part of the cutter he pleased, the female apartment excepted.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_30430.62He's a true, good man, and is the first one that ever treated me as if I were a true, good woman.
Cooper_The_Spy_30730.62With the foolish credulity of my youth, I thought you all that was brave, noble, generous, and loyal."
Cooper_Pathfinder_46820.62"And yet women have often done such things in this quarter of the world, girl, as our friend, the Pathfinder here, will tell you.
Cooper_Pathfinder_43300.62Like loves like, I tell you, Sergeant; and my gifts are not altogether the gifts of Mabel Dunham."
Cooper_Pathfinder_42310.62It would have been better, Mabel, had he not over-persuaded me into a different notion; and it might have been better, too, had you not been so pleasant and confiding like; yes, it would."
Cooper_Pathfinder_24800.62But Mabel here, the Sergeant's daughter, will give you full credit for the words.
Cooper_Pathfinder_19940.62Is it true, Sergeant, that the men complain of having been over-venisoned and over-pigeoned of late?"
Cooper_Pathfinder_18920.62"A better man, Pathfinder, would be hard to find," returned the father.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33630.60"An English hero of the road would be the next best thing to an Italian bandit; and that could only be surpassed by a Levantine pirate."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62990.54For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37770.52"His name is Mason, sir; and he comes from the West Indies; from Spanish Town, in Jamaica, I think."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77150.43Did I know French and German?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61940.41Mr. Mason, a West India planter and merchant, was his old acquaintance.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61630.41You shall go to a place I have in the south of France: a whitewashed villa on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51210.39"You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_680.39"You are like a murderer -- you are like a slave-driver -- you are like the Roman emperors!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34590.37Presently the words Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, indicated the West Indies as his residence; and it was with no little surprise I gathered, ere long, that he had there first seen and become acquainted with Mr. Rochester.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63010.36I sought my ideal of a woman amongst English ladies, French countesses, Italian signoras, and German grafinnen.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85430.35"I am ready to go to India, if I may go free."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40440.34"You will when you are out of the country: when you get back to Spanish Town, you may think of her as dead and buried -- or rather, you need not think of her at all."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53660.31I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85250.31And how will the interval between leaving England for India, and India for the grave, be filled?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62820.30I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62570.29You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield: then travel yourself to what clime you will, and form what new tie you like.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51180.29After a brief stay there, I shall bear my treasure to regions nearer the sun: to French vineyards and Italian plains; and she shall see whatever is famous in old story and in modern record: she shall taste, too, of the life of cities; and she shall learn to value herself by just comparison with others."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87430.28With me, then, it seems, you cannot go: but if you are sincere in your offer, I will, while in town, speak to a married missionary, whose wife needs a coadjutor.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85240.28If I join St. John, I abandon half myself: if I go to India, I go to premature death.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75650.26God had an errand for me; to bear which afar, to deliver it well, skill and strength, courage and eloquence, the best qualifications of soldier, statesman, and orator, were all needed: for these all centre in the good missionary.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34610.26I knew Mr. Rochester had been a traveller: Mrs. Fairfax had said so; but I thought the continent of Europe had bounded his wanderings; till now I had never heard a hint given of visits to more distant shores.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61980.25My father said nothing about her money; but he told me Miss Mason was the boast of Spanish Town for her beauty: and this was no lie.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1060.23This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92740.21"This is you, Mary, is it not?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79300.21"But why are you come?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79220.21"No.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51230.21I laughed at him as he said this.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47800.21Everybody knew your errand."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4620.21"Come here," he said.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28870.21Will you let me have another cup?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17940.21"Nor any traditions of one?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_840.30Of middle _ size, with great grace of movement, regular but strikingly pale countenance, and most expressive eyes, his peculiarly accented German indicated his Polish nationality at once, and made him still more attractive as a son of that unhappy down-trodden land which has for so long excited the sympathies of the civilized world.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32310.25She certainly showed ‘by her visit to Leipzig how little regard she entertained for her own reputation,—and her ‘extraordinary power of mind,’ as you call it, led her into most devious and crooked paths,—she was a free-thinker—an atheist."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18450.23'l‘hcy were the various Burgomasters and Councillors of Commerce, who had once borne the name of llellwig.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10960.21what have you got there?"

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19850.46It was the Bayadere of Benares, as the German noble had brought her across the seas.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7490.46Heaven only knows in what mean little English county she learned her native tongue!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24850.45some of the most famous species were originally sent from this skilful German firm to Holland, where they were bought at fabulous prices, and found their way into the market as exclusively Dutch.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4450.45I, too, am proud, very proud, of our old renowned name, but I cannot understand how a .
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21140.45I am a plain German; what have I to do with French trumpery ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3640.41You could surely have gone to Berlin or Vienna or Paris, or to some large cityeven more distant."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56450.41"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.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56320.39I heard the interesting news at the club ; it was all the talk there, and it has gone through the city like wildfire that the archaeology craze is at its last gasp.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2030.39Later, rather more than two hundred years since, a certain Behno von Gerold, returning victor from a bloody feud, had celebrated the birth of a second son, born to him in his old age, by dividing the estate of Altenstein between his last-born and his first-born; this was the origin of the Neuhaus line.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36400.36Germany is right in expelling fiom her soil these arch-foes to patriotism, to spiritual deveijpment, and to the harmony of sects.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12570.35cried the Hof- marschall. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10420.35The Portuguese stepped up to the Prince.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44820.35She came like an exile to have one last look of a beloved country.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42290.31You know my brain is old ; it does not apprehend quickly least of all what looks like modern innovation," said the Hof- marschall.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13640.31What would 'Red Roland of Trachenberg/ wealthiest and mightiest of crusaders, have said to these little wounds ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9510.31It has also fled from the stake and the persecution of Christian intolerance I" She gasped for breath.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56340.31Thank God, there will be no more need of that jaw-breaking Greek, Roman, and Egyptian gibberish !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67360.30Dagobert wishes to leave the army and go to America.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24820.29It had flourished and enjoyed * wide-spread reputation when the tulip mania raged in Holland and thence through Europe, in the seventeenth century, when the incredible sum of thirty thousand gulden was paid for three bulbs of the Semper Augustus.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5750.27"Why, perhaps then he may install as mistress of Lindhof some fair daughter of a fellah, whose ancestors lie among the mummies at Memphis," said Elizabeth, laughing.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20170.27The baroness must have known that the chaplain’s French was execrable,—but she requested him to be present during the French hour that he might correct Miss Mertens’ accent.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56380.26with exquisite naivete, that he is a direct descendant of the Jews.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17360.26Every one knew that he had accumulated an immense for- tune ; tales were told of his mode of life and his exploits that would have done credit to the ' Arabian Nights; 1 and when he sent from Benares to purchase Schnwerth, and had it laid out according to his fancy, the worthy citizens of our little capital opened their mouths and eyes in astonishment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43890.25You heard the Herr Hof* marschall laugh in the young baron's face this morning.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29810.25I dipped into jurisprudence at Bonn and Berlin, I have made a couple of campaigns, and my rank is undoubted, what else is necessary ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36660.24rooms, and which degrade our honest German tonga* with their childish babbie, appealing as they do to the rude religious conceptions of the Middle Ages I" This crushing condemnation was uttered in anything but an excited tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33500.21What have I said?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29350.21I do not understand you.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30770.21"Yes, yes!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39660.21he asked anxiously.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5370.21"Were you with him?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_00.21 CHAPTER I.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39380.19The evil began when the merchant's son despised the station in life to which the Lord had called him, and grasped the sword He was fair to look upon, and understood the arts by which human souls are ensnared, so the Duke conferred upon him a patent of nobility and could not bear to have him out of his sight.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9880.17That imperious woman will soon influence her, and there is none to resist, for ’Heaven is high, and the Czar afar,’ as the Russians say.

DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_39640.79This river, they told us, parted Europe from Asia, though our map-makers, as I am told, do not agree to it; however, it is certainly the eastern boundary of the ancient Siberia, which now makes a province only of the vast Muscovite empire, but is itself equal in bigness to the whole empire of Germany.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_52100.77That's the cream of many a Levant voyage, and East Indian voyage, and West Indian voyage.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_1260.76His first goals had been Italy, Constantinople, and Greece; he went to Egypt, he visited South America, Norway and Sweden, and had travelled through Russia and the Caucasus.
Disraeli_Lothair_61540.75Jerusalem has not been sacked so often or so recently as the other two great ancient cities, Rome and Athens.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_94830.75"They are perfect mother, so perfect, that they surpass by far all I have known in the leading aristocracy of the three proudest nobilities of Europe--the English, the Spanish, and the German."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_30430.75"Yes, I speak five of the modern tongues -- that is to say, German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek -- I don't speak it so well as I could wish, but I am still trying to improve myself."
Disraeli_Lothair_56310.73He would go to America, or Australia, or the Indian Ocean, or the interior of Africa; but even in all these places, according to the correspondence of the Propaganda, he would find Roman priests, and active priests.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_5850.73The title of _Count_ has been adopted within a century or two by both nations, and occasionally appended to the ancient heroic designation of _Boyard_.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_85660.72As for us, all our glorification goes to the English soldier, to the English army, to the English people.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_14310.72Why not go to the South of France?--to Italy?--Paris, Naples, Venice, Rome?
Disraeli_Lothair_48270.72Establish the Roman republic, and the Roman race will, as before, conquer them in detail.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_36780.72What their trade to the universal commerce of England, Holland, France, and Spain?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_238250.71According as one digs a longer or shorter distance into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provencal, Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_12890.71There is Anglo-Saxon blood in her veins, one would say, and a right English accent on her tongue, but much that is not English breeding, nor American.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_19970.71A'n't he a free-born an' enlightened citizen of this glorious and civilized and Christian land of Hail Columby?
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_10890.70Factories and warehouses in Cairo, Ispahan, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Yedo, Peking, Bangkok, Delhi, Bombay--and Calcutta!
Warner_Queechy_66050.69One of those superb English country-seats is beyond even the imagination of an American."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_40500.69"Besides, though the ship was English, I believe my hero is a Frenchman, for he speaks our language as well as we do.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_32680.69"So this is Germany," thought Gerard; "and Germany is a great country by Holland.
Kingsley_Hypatia_74570.69'The Goths will, and the Markmen, and those Dacians, and Thracians, or whatever the Romans call them.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_89700.69The year 1823 was what the Restoration called "the epoch of the Spanish war."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_5050.69Born a Provencal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of the south.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_4610.69[Footnote 12: _Congress land_ was the old designation for land owned by the government.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_29030.68The Ferrises went to Europe some years after their marriage, revisiting Venice, but sojourning for the most part in Florence.
Cooper_Pathfinder_30600.68"I mean to tell you this is York, and that is Upper Canada; and that English and Dutch and Indian are spoken in the first, and French and Indian in the last.
Evans_Inez_20370.68Florry, contrast Italy and Germany, Spain and Scotland, and look at Portugal, and South America, and Mexico, and oh, look at this benighted town!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_254180.68The great wars of Africa and Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,--all this glory covers the Rubicon.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_37480.66He seemed to have been everywhere, and to have seen everything: born in Peru, and sent home to Spain at ten years old; brought up in Italy; a soldier in the Levant; an adventurer to the East Indies; again in America, first in the islands, and then in Mexico.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_109920.66The English, Turkish, Japanese, Hindu laws, are as familiar to me as the French laws, and thus I was right, when I said to you, that relatively (you know that everything is relative, sir)--that relatively to what I have done, you have very little to do; but that relatively to all I have learned, you have yet a great deal to learn."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_100990.66The writer has lived, for many years, on the frontier-line of slave states, and has had great opportunities of observation among those who formerly were slaves.
Kingsley_Hypatia_20900.66Did not the Council of Nice settle that the Metropolitan of Alexandria should have authority over Libya and Pentapolis, according to the ancient custom?'
Cooper_The_Pioneers_11120.66The Germans, or "High Dutchers," as they were called, to distinguish them from the original or Low Dutch colonists, were a very peculiar people.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_46580.65French was not very common among the honest trading class, or indeed any but the higher classes in England.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_94790.65The count purchased an island in the Tuscan archipelago, and, as he told you to-day, has founded a commandery.
Disraeli_Lothair_33900.65I shall treat him, and all Southern gentlemen, as our fathers treated the emigrant nobility of France."
Disraeli_Lothair_16710.65I should myself like to go to America, but that would not suit Colonel Campian; and, if we are to live in Europe, we must live in England.
Alcott_Little_Men_45860.65"They are all to be poets, painters, and statesmen, famous soldiers, or at least merchant princes, I suppose."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_37650.65"And she boasted of all the noblemen, French and foreign, who used to visit her!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_16150.65When the traveller quitted him, the general could not return to France, but now he can do so."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_27820.65Tascher it could not be, for the very last accounts I had seen from Germany spoke of him as with his regiment.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_18750.65These were of all nations, but chiefly Americans, with some French Canadians.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_32880.65He was a wealthy merchant, and for several years had resided in Calcutta.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_62460.65An American Senator ranks with an English Duke.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_10200.65Is this the way the foreign nobility treat an American citizen?"
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_52610.65Maine is as different from South Carolina as England from Spain.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_136190.65He had gone to England, and then returned to America, where he had lived out West.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_71600.65The only ones with which I am familiar are our American, European, and Eastern agencies.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_36810.65Our city of London has more trade than all their mighty empire.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_910.65It is of local use in the west of England, whence it is most probably derived by the Americans.
Collins_The_Moonstone_46440.65We might hear of him next in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38950.65Now, then, I must see you all back into your rooms; for, till the house is settled, she cannot be looked after.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37740.65"No; he said he had known you long, and that he could take the liberty of installing himself here till you returned."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47200.60I was going back to Thornfield: but how long was I to stay there?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94380.52Now I'll leave you: I have been travelling these last three days, and I believe I am tired.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82420.52And first I must beg you to set Hannah at liberty, and get somebody else to wait on you."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79550.52You will not be summoned to leave England sooner than you expected?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75390.52"No, I cannot stay; I have only brought you a little parcel my sisters left for you.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47920.52I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home -- my only home."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60760.52Jane, you shall not stay here, nor will I. I was wrong ever to bring you to Thornfield Hall, knowing as I did how it was haunted.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40990.52"Take care of him," said Mr. Rochester to the latter, "and keep him at your house till he is quite well: I shall ride over in a day or two to see how he gets on.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45670.46She passed about five minutes each day in her mother's sick-room, and no more.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97640.45Without waiting to hear more, I left the kitchen.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_95920.45Oh, till this moment, I thought my little Jane was all mine!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47730.45And he had spoken of Thornfield as my home -- would that it were my home!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44850.45"You sent for me," I said, "and I am here; and it is my intention to stay till I see how you get on."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34170.44The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87850.43And then he will stay in England."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63750.43I wondered what you thought of me, or if you ever thought of me, and resolved to find this out.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61460.43"The last time, Jane!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55430.43I found him at supper.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43020.43"How long will you stay?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39300.43"Go back and fetch both."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20100.43"When is his tea-time?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91770.41"It was all his own courage, and a body may say, his kindness, in a way, ma'am: he wouldn't leave the house till every one else was out before him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18380.41We found dinner ready, and waiting for us in Mrs. Fairfax's room.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83790.39One afternoon, however, I got leave to stay at home, because I really had a cold.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26500.39I did run; I brought the candle which still remained in the gallery.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40310.37Besides, you might have waited till to- morrow, and had me with you: it was mere folly to attempt the interview to-night, and alone."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35650.37"If you like, miss," said Sam, "I'll wait in the hall for you; and if she frightens you, just call and I'll come in."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15420.37"Yes; he did not stay many minutes in the house: Missis was very high with him; she called him afterwards a 'sneaking tradesman.'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55660.36"And on my part likewise," he returned, "I have settled everything; and we shall leave Thornfield to-morrow, within half-an-hour after our return from church."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_600.35I returned to the window and fetched it thence.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44500.35"If," said I, "you would just step upstairs and tell her I am come, I should be much obliged to you."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19210.35"I should think you ought to be at home yourself," said he, "if you have a home in this neighbourhood: where do you come from?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72990.34Show me how to work, or how to seek work: that is all I now ask; then let me go, if it be but to the meanest cottage; but till then, allow me to stay here: I dread another essay of the horrors of homeless destitution."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34380.32"It appears I come at an inopportune time, madam," said he, "when my friend, Mr. Rochester, is from home; but I arrive from a very long journey, and I think I may presume so far on old and intimate acquaintance as to instal myself here till he returns."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94320.32"You shall not get it out of me to-night, sir; you must wait till to-morrow; to leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7420.31A long grace was said and a hymn sung; then a servant brought in some tea for the teachers, and the meal began.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50950.31This morning I wrote to my banker in London to send me certain jewels he has in his keeping, -- heirlooms for the ladies of Thornfield.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77390.31My little servant, after helping me to clean my house, was gone, well satisfied with the fee of a penny for her aid.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72190.31He did not speak to me one word, nor even direct to me one glance, till his sisters returned.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75950.30"Did you find your scholars as attentive as you expected?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3030.30Can't she manage to walk at her age?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26480.29I am up now; but at your peril you fetch a candle yet: wait two minutes till I get into some dry garments, if any dry there be -- yes, here is my dressing-gown.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92470.28I explained to them, in few words, that I had heard all which had happened since I left Thornfield, and that I was come to see Mr. Rochester.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55350.28"I'll laugh at you heartily when to-morrow is past; till then I dare not: my prize is not certain.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3070.28"That's for you, nurse," said he; "you can go down; I'll give Miss Jane a lecture till you come back."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57370.27Wake Sophie when you go upstairs, under pretence of requesting her to rouse you in good time to-morrow; for you must be dressed and have finished breakfast before eight.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91020.26They said Mr. Edward had brought her from abroad, and some believed she had been his mistress.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_880.26Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25520.43Over there she had found a home.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7710.39For your naughty conduct to-day you must stay in the house for a long time, especially since you make such a bad use of liberty.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41860.39She knew that she was still his Fay—whom he longed to dream of as waiting for him at home, and always thinking of him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29660.37He seemed determined to spend as much time as possible, during the remainder of his stay with his mother, in the rooms under the roof.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3490.36Thus began and ended her forced care for the ‘player’s child,’ and when she returned to the room on that evening the whole affair was for her a closed chapter.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24480.36Frau Hellwig called down to her to send up Heinrich, and stepping back into the rooms, began her search anew.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6100.31"I think myself that Nathanael might have kept it to himself for this one day," she concluded; "to-morrow Madame takes her in charge, and I Warrant you she’ll not be handled with gloves."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28330.31I will wait patiently,-—-perhaps the time may come when the angry fir-tree upon the rock will not use its weapons."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7920.28Up-stairs in the garret, at the top of the house she could look across the roofs of the houses into the open country.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34910.26The board was replaced, but from that time I ran across to see you every day.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41350.23"Come, Felicitas,—you must not stay a moment longer in this wretched house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2810.23"Frederika," he said, "this child will be under your care at night,—be kind and gentle to her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3550.22he had exhausted his stock of energy on the evening when he brought the child home, but he guarded Felicitas with never-tiring vigilance.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8770.22"Over the roofs!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8350.22Service had long been over.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7750.22and he left the room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40040.22I " Giving up?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36830.22. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31110.22"Your con- sent?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25830.22There was no one left now to be taken from her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24130.22"Can such things be possible!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21250.22There, now go, and tell William that I shall certainly come to look after him once more to-morrow."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20600.22She always waited supper for her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18190.22"There is no one to take care of little Anna.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_260.18I knew some time ago that this famous Jehu was driving too much to the left We have only to go directly back across this ploughed field, and we shall certainly come to the road again,—so came along without any more grumbling, and think of your wife and children, who are perhaps drowned in grief at this moment because you are not at home at supper."

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22130.53We decided this morning that he must go in three weeks.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15990.4793 of his town-house if Gisbert von Mainau had been content to stay at home."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38220.46Now go quietly home, and let Ddrte prepare you a soothing draught.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33130.46And let me tell you also, to-morrow I shall send for the doctor to tell me whether you are really ailing; you have looked wretchedly for the last few weeks.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63460.45" He leaves his room to-day for the first time."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62410.45To-day, for the first time, I can say ' My aunt, the Princess. '
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15720.45She shall stay with me ; she shall not go back to the moor, that is settled !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24540.45Would you be so cruel as to leave me here alone until tea-time?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12140.45"Carry it home so, and you’ll not crush it."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42720.45"Yes, yes, so it goes," said Franz, as he brought in Kitty’s trunk.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51880.44Five minutes later a carriage drove furiously towards the town, to bring a physician to the bedside of the mistress of Schon werth, who was dangerously ill.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17700.43I cared nothing more about the matter.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67010.43If you consent to go with me, there must be but one home for both of us.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37600.43I must go home, Use is waiting for me," I said.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3030.43I should have to hurry to be in time.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6840.43Shall you have time to-morrow?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25030.43Well, I waited patiently.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56070.43Rest, rest!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40290.43I need rest,—rest!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28150.43"Stay, Kitty!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21100.43Perhaps the doctor himself is at home."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44570.43He is overwhelmed with practice; I believe he will have to be sent for to leave some sick-bed to come to his very marriage, the day after to-morrow."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30320.41Fraulein Claudius sent me to try it on," she said, while taking it from the basket ; and she went on to assure Use that it was such a day as she had never seen before in the other house.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25740.41I will Wait quietly until my dear messenger of mercy remembers her patient.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65640.40He told me, smiling, that the Duke's physician had accorded him permission to drive out the next day, and that the Duke himself wa* to call for him ; and then, stroking my cheek, he said he was glad that my stay in the Claudius house had not been long, and that I was with him again. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44450.40I am dying with impatience, and you come with such silly stuff 1 Do you imagine that 1 am going to wait patiently and obediently another night, when I have been hoping and longing for the departure of your odious, old never-to-be-got-rid-of Use, as the Jews waited for the Messiah ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27650.39I beg you to dismiss the doctor ; he is, I suppose, waiting outside?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4260.39The little Princes had been left at home: their presence was thought to be too exciting.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65690.39"You must go back to your home for awhile to regain your strength.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23820.39I have brought you back your little daughter, Herr Doctor," she said. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21900.39She told Elizabeth that in a few weeks Reinhard would go to England for her mother.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10130.39She took her Sunday dinner alone in her own room, and the forester allowed her to please herself in the matter.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27740.39"Good gracious, here is this parcel back again for the third time!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15890.38Then he had shaken the dust of Germany from his feet, and a few years afterwards the German ambassador in Brazil had sent home news of his deavh from fever.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12090.37Day after to-morrow we leave, that's decided 1" Hat and scissors fell from my hands. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33120.37I will bear with you a little longer; but should I find you once leaving the house after nightfall, this is your home no longer,—you must go.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29270.37Neither was there any time to tell you while we were never alone at the doctor’s, when the meagre comforts of his home had put you into such an ill humour."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18790.36Then she departed in search of old linen and arnica, remarking that Herr Markus must have patience and keep his hand in Water until she found them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6540.35Stay here with papa till I am gone."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44440.35* I'll lisk it/ I said to myself," and hurried away.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20020.35She is proud, and would rather remain at home."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4260.35"I did not come to stay any length of time.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66030.35I co\M fc^eti &*fetat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65720.35Indeed, I am fairly pining for the moor.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64850.35It was Charlotte, who was just returning from her walk. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57070.35I saw that she was relieved at finding herself at last alone in this room.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36110.35I will take her safe home to the Karolinenlust."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16220.35We cannot stay in the large room in there.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4970.35"You stay forever when you go upon an errand.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26090.35"Let him decide whether it is a comforting one, or the contrary."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10270.35She was to wait for him there until he had concluded his business.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31690.35She hoped he would go into the house without observing her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17740.35"There is very little said about it at home," she replied, quietly.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38160.35She would leave Schnwerth so quietly, so noiselessly, that no one should know precisely when she had departed.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1430.35But I am going to begin now; I am going to keep house in my old Owl’s Nest—-—" " You do not mean——-" "That I am going to stay with Joachim?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66210.35There, child, now go directly to bed, and I will bring you some elder-tea.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4300.35When I was four years old she began to instruct me, and Use used to bring her work and listen.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21700.35He then quietly left the room to send for the required physician.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49960.34He had not reached it before the garden seemed fairly alive with the castle servants, hurrying hither from all dhec- tions.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24040.34If he met her, the lovely niece, he would not send her home; on the contrary, he would waylay her, and she should answer his questions.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31090.34"I have just received sad news, which will compel me to leave you immediately," he said, in a low voice, to the doctor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50480.34"First of all, we must pack up everything that is our own and leave the house, if we would not have the officers seal up our effects also; we might wait long before they would be returned to us.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38070.31219 the carpet and furniture of the room which she had learned to feel was her own special domain, her home, and where she now looked around her for the last time before leaving it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31130.31Let my sister and my guests suppose that I am called away for a few minutes by some trifling matter of business, and will return hither shortly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_21420.31"Oh, yes, if you wish it," she replied hesitatingly and without looking at him; "but I am sorry to tell you that you must hurry a little, for Fräulein Ferber has come to practise with me, and she has already been kept waiting an unconscionable time."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17560.31"We have stayed too long," said Miss Mertens anxiously, as she took leave of the Ferbers and stepped out into the forest-clearing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50650.31She was taking care of everything belonging to her; sending her maid up- and down-stairs for every pocket-handkerchief that might have been mislaid; she was determined to lose nothing—nothing.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43140.31The Hofmarschall kept his room for the rest of the day; he took his dinner there alone,^pot even asking for Xeo.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15610.31I will go away this in- stant, and, if needs must, I will run back alone to the moor ; Heinz is there, and he will surely be glad to see me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41240.31He harshly reprimanded the little ones, and ordered them to return behind the house and stay there until they were dismissed.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46010.30Take one look at the woman so maligned before I send her home !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44230.30She got two thousand thalers for that, and left for her home.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38480.30Perhaps that homeward drive had been decisive fc?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_280.30She found affairs in a terrible state.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45480.30Let them stay where they are until the time comes for producing them with eclat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29950.30"Did not you bring here with you some papers of value left by my mother ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12430.30You shall not take me back to that horrible back room !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14440.30I am free, and may go wherever I choose," said Gisela firmly.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6550.30he asked, directly, probably with regard to the aforesaid errand. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7900.30My tête-à-tête with the doctor will not last long, and I shall soon be with you again."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9370.30"Will you not stay to tea, Herr Doctor?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53670.30"I tell myself also that we are walking together for the last time,—that is, for the present——" "Forever!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21230.30Kitty was just considering whether she should not call to them for help, when the doctor himself came out of the house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29800.30"Of course, my dear Kitty," she said, indifferently, "you will remain here as long as you are content to do so; only your stay must not partake in the smallest degree of the character of self-sacrifice,—that we must most decidedly prohibit.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45400.29"Dammer brought me a message from Wolkershausen ; he cannot ride back until to-morrow morning : is he to starve here in Schon* THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10740.29He cannot love his little master Leo enough ; it is he who persuades the old Herr Baron to let him stay here, or he and his mother would have been sent away long ago.".
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44120.29Of course, they supposed her to be yet at the castle,—perhaps they were displeased at her long absence from home; but they would possibly wait until ten o’clock for her return.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56650.29They left the house, and Kitty, leaning on the doctor’s arm, walked along the path she had traversed so often in the wintry weather.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30540.29The doctor had been summoned to an audience with the prince, and his aunt was absent to arrange some household matters; the two sisters were alone for the first time.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44780.28If she had only stayed away 1 But now that she had seen him again, she fretted after him till she was ill. She scarcely looked at her little Gabriel, she so longed to go to him whom she adored.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39010.28A woman who leaves her husband's house, never to return, at night in a storm, alone, is and always must be a fugitive.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2790.28b He is obliged to carry a Rosa alba to his " Your jest professor of botany to-morrow."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9820.28We will stay at home.’ ‘But suppose I want to go, Lothar ?’ ‘ Oh, I know you, Dina; we shall stay here.’ And so they went on quarrelling, madame, until at last:-" " Well ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7870.28One afternoon, when they had been practising unusually long, a servant entering announced a visitor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22540.28"One thing I pray of your kindness, my dear friend," he said, as he finished: "try to get to the bottom of this affair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4380.27The milk for my supper was brought tc me cold as ice, and if I chanced to awake, I found myself entirely alone in the large, cheerless room.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5050.26To lavish your care on your beautiful hands and to he waited upon all day in a cool room is a thousand times preferable to turning hay in the Wasting heat of the sun, is it not?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46790.26Flora, on the contrary, maintaining an entire self-possession in spite of the horrors of the day, pondered long upon the possible consequences to her half-sister of the destruction of the safe in the tower.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23900.26I promise you that I will live for him alone, that I will guard him like the apple of my eye.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58560.26I obeyed, rather than vex him still further, and I re- tired from the door for awhile.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42190.26I must have left my vinaigrette in the hot-house, will you have the kindness to look for it there ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13400.26Let us return I" " Wait," she said, and urged rne up the steps.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12810.26At last the morning actually arrived when I was to leave my beloved Dierkhof.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8490.26"I’d like to see how she’ll act when she has a home in the Count’s forest.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23490.26The young lady’s consent was not asked: I am master in my own house.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14080.26Elizabeth took advantage of this moment to slip out of the room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20100.26My daughter shall drown herself sooner than work for those skinflints!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16230.26You have just returned from a pleasure-trip, and have been amusing yourself——" She stopped.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30560.25tc I hope to find you still a good Protestant upon my return, Juliana," he said, in a low voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49370.25I remembered this, when Emma the maid again brought me a long account one day, and I had not a penny where- with to pay it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5880.25I have no doubt she is glad enough to queen it at Lindhof, for I hear that she has no part or parcel in her son’s property."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5100.25He threw his arms around his sister’s neck as she carried him up-stairs, assuring her all the way that he liked it a thousand times better here than in B——.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14140.25But after a few steps she heard, as though the speaker were directly beside her, the words, "To-morrow evening you will leave Lindhof."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13730.25Of course he had not crossed the threshold of the door,—he was too firm in his resolve for that, —but he could not prevent the bailifi‘ from coming to the window to thank him with enthusiasm for the basket of wine which he had sent to the farm immediately upon his return to the manor—house.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20150.24Eh, give the note back to me, little lady," the Hofmar- schall called to her; perhaps, as her hand dropped at her side, he was afraid she might put it in her pocket. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9160.23Rest was impossi- ble; lonely and among strangers, in her home-sickness she must see and touch some object from home.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_520.23I go back gladly, and light of heart, to the old house,—your house, your inheritance, which you have so generously placed at my disposal.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2850.23I ran towards home like a hnnted hare, pursued by the remembrance of the young man's jeering laughter.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8590.23One of us is scolded like a dog if a door is left open, they’re so afraid of thieves, and here they bring the thief himself into the very house.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29950.23"The grand piano will be here to-morrow, and will be placed for the present in your room."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30360.22She made the tea every evening, and attended to Leo's lessons precisely as if nothing had happened, except that she avoided, with a kind of horror, any tete--tete with the Hofmar- schall.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7120.22fc.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31580.22what am I saying ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31070.22Nothing at all when one has not seen his boy for so long.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23200.22Once more to be free !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15310.22Hardly in the school-room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15020.22I should be very glad not to have her come," she said. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13670.22The Mainaus, too.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_690.22I shall have a time darning it!"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4630.22What is the matter ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1370.22Did you drive so through the town?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9790.22"And then it all began.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9270.22She ought to be at home again soon."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7190.22.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5890.22take it back!"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5390.22Claudine, do you know why I have come back?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4120.22" To-morroW," she repeated.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8100.22"Come here," she said, after the silence had lasted about a minute.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65970.22What a return it was !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65020.22ran to the instrument. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62450.22I am to go to her to-morrow.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55850.22she said with a smile. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53440.22I fled from the other house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53290.22No ; I like it now, this old house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45340.22Indeed ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40270.22They walked away.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33980.22What a metamorphosis !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17970.22If you do, I will run away, and you shall never, never see mo again !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14370.22"What,——you send me away?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7640.22Now you will have to wait for your supper.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6570.22you know well enough that we have long since done with the jeweller.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6340.22There was nothing for it but patience.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19630.22I am far too impatient?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15220.22Of course, they prefer to work for themselves.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10880.22rectly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7690.22Elizabeth then took leave.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47180.22What have you to tell us?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41780.22"Leave me!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29840.22What should she say?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25670.22Certainly not.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17820.22"Yes,—what can have happened?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35130.22Certainly not!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33350.22"Mine are by no means so large.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27760.22"I am tired of the sight of it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20290.22You’ll find no one to believe that.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14080.22I shall stay with her."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7020.21Ah, she knew he did not choose to break his promise; nothing should induce grance, brought the blood throbbing to the temples and made the heart beat with a sense of oppression ; nothing of the lofty windows, behind which a young wife, the daughter of a king, slender and very pale, walked feebly hither and thither, coughing from time to time, and longing for a glance from the dark eyes whose looks of‘ imploring passion were given—to another.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20870.20I collected the plants during my walks with Leo, and taught him the A B C of botany at the same time.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1770.20"I never laugh at genuine il1-breed- ing, of that you may rest assured.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2680.20I brought home a headache, mamma, and Ulrika loosened my braids for me,*' was the answer, and there was a slight shade of timidity in the voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18820.20You must certainly be familiar with the arms of the Princes of Thurgau, Herr Hofmar- schall: have the kindness to satisfy yourself that they are engraved here upon this side of the jewel.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38190.20I promise you this darkness shall be withdrawn one day, Charlotte," he said, as composedly as if the violent outburst had been addressed to him and he were answer* ing it directly. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30390.20All this terrified the young girl; it was inexplicable, and as uncomfortable as the close crimson room, with its musty odour of books and papers upon which she now turned her back to return to the house by the river.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67350.19I did not oppose her desire to do so ; for intellectual activity is her best means of cure, of course the Claudius house will always be her home.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28470.19" I can't say that, but I long so for the Dierkhof 1 Sometimes I suffer so with longing that I could dash my head against all these trees !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5570.19I know people who have been for twenty years collecting subscriptions from others to found a poor-house.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5610.18I must not keep him waiting," she replied, gravely.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4570.18You cannot take Ulrika's home from her, her place is with me."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2920.18p " There, Herbert has carried his point!"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2790.18'_[‘here’s not a Whole egg left in the house."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62490.18matter, the Duke, do you hear f Do you know what that means ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23200.18We certainly are giving no dinners or suppers.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12150.18"Then it may stay there," said she, laughing, as she arose.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9470.17She goes on with her news: "The paper reports that Lothar has bought back Altenstein, and the sapient reporter says, ‘ Probably Baron Grerold wishes in the future to endow his second son, born a few months ago, with the ancestral home of his family.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7420.17And the wild-flower painting might be carried on in the pretty gable-room, as the forester had suggested.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6900.15"Yes; and it called forth a tempest at our house, as you may guess.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21090.15And am I expected to stand by mute as a fish and look on?"

Warner_Queechy_153660.72"My mother has brought news that determines me to return to England immediately."
Alcott_Little_Women_22760.72"Mother isn't sick, only very tired, and she says she is going to stay quietly in her room all day and let us do the best we can.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_60120.69If it isn't all gone in the morning, what comfort we'll have in keeping house and taking care of baby!"
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_51510.69"I'll go and send a doctor; and I'll bring you news.
Warner_Queechy_145400.69"A friend that took care of me on the way--I'll tell you about it,--but in the mean time, supper, Barby."
Warner_Queechy_104820.69"No ride for me to-day--but how very glad I am that I had a chance of setting that matter right.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_68400.69On that other affair he was told that his grandfather would be glad to see him on the following morning; and then he left his mother.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_80420.69When I had waited ever so long, I was sent back to where I had come from--the Home Office.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_57620.69He waited, and waited, and hoped till the day ended, but no!
Goldsmith_The_Vicar_of_Wakefield_10900.69'Yes,' returned my entertainer, 'when he does what we would have him; but if he goes on as he has done of late, I'll never trouble myself more with his matters.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_66930.69so you may go down-stairs and keep there till you're wanted; and you may take mother--no, mother may stay, I shall want her presently."
Alcott_Little_Men_11060.68"Very well, then, we will say no more, only you will stay at home from the walk to-morrow, as the other boys will and all of you must wait on poor Buttercup till she is well again."
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_7550.66"He won't be to wait on long, he'll be able to return to his friends in Portland in a week, and to tell the truth, I shan't be sorry to be rid of him.
Wood_East_Lynne_134320.66"If I chose to live in London, and he chose to make a morning call upon me, now and then, as an old friend, what's that to anybody?
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_5830.66"I'll order your meals sent to your room, and to-morrow night I shall return."
Alcott_Work_13290.66Coming to her work late one morning, she found the usually orderly room in confusion.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_32930.65Promise me to return quietly home and to wait for me there.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_106010.65Run in, run into the parlour, and see what you'll find there."
Warner_Queechy_155680.65The days were few that remained to them in their old home; not more than a week, as Fleda had said.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_26730.65"The day after to-morrow, if I could have managed to stay away so long."
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_26660.65Even after this journey he was not content to stay quietly at home.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_4120.65She will not send you back, though I should certainly be sent back if _I_ took such a liberty."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_30960.65I was the cause of his trouble, and will not leave him till he is safely home.
Lewald_Hulda_62910.65The family always stayed in his house when they viated the town.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_47670.65May I beg, if you're not too much tired, you'll join us at dinner.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_8940.65Tell Checa to come here and stay with my mother till I come back."
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_25590.65So you'll please leave the farm at the end of the week!"
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_9300.65You'll stay for tea, won't you, and all night?
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_80240.65She was back in Sandypoint, he beside her, living over the old days, gone forever.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_12500.65I'll go down and get my supper, and call for Master Baby by and by."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_15610.65He returned home at night, disappointed, but not discouraged.
Collins_Woman_in_White_17670.65I have been in Cumberland ever since--I have been staying all the time at Limmeridge House."
Collins_No_Name_149810.65"I would have waited patiently till her friends found her -- I would, indeed!"
Collins_Man_and_Wife_9370.65Was it _there_ he had seen her for the last time, on the day when he left the room forever?
Collins_Man_and_Wife_105080.65"Be satisfied if I tell you that I have thought it all out--and wait for the rest till to-morrow."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_60030.65Six others are sick, but expect to be about again tomorrow or next day, a friend tells me.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_93110.65They all know that you brought home so much money with you, and we went off and left the house alone.
Alcott_Little_Women_59280.65The boys are at home, and we'll have a comfortable time.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_20590.65She seemed so disappointed at being too late that Will promised to get them to me, if he ran all the way to town.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_15710.63"By the time Frank has gone back to the house and brought us back another carriage it will be too late to drive as far as the town."
Bronte_Villette_8390.63And then calling to another servant, who came hurrying from the kitchen as if summoned by some instinct, 'Ruth, take missis into the house directly.'
Alcott_Little_Men_10910.63Buttercup was made comfortable in her stall, and the boys sent to their rooms till supper-time.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_20130.62"I hope you are not disappointed that I've brought my sister this time instead of the doctor."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_26630.62"Thank you, ma'am," said Ellen, as she ran off for her bonnet; "a week's a long time.
Warner_Queechy_116540.62"No," said Fleda, "he went away this morning on business, and we do not expect him home before night-fall.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_19420.62It was a long time before he succeeded, but he looked back once more to the doctor's house before he walked on.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_27640.62Part of the older guests at once left for their homes, and the rest stayed for supper.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_27410.62She returned for her parcels, and set out on her wet return walk home.
Evans_Beulah_63870.62Don't go home; stay with mother to-day, and when I come back we will have a glorious time.
Evans_Beulah_26080.62If you will come back, I will give them a comfortable home of their own wherever they may prefer to live, and see that they are always well cared for.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7810.79Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66700.72I had a small silk handkerchief tied round my throat; I had my gloves.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35690.68She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14710.62I had brushed my black stuff travelling-dress, prepared my bonnet, gloves, and muff; sought in all my drawers to see that no article was left behind; and now having nothing more to do, I sat down and tried to rest.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27490.61There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brown stuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50580.58I took a plain but clean and light summer dress from my drawer and put it on: it seemed no attire had ever so well become me, because none had I ever worn in so blissful a mood.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7590.58Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect; a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks combed from their faces, not a curl visible; in brown dresses, made high and surrounded by a narrow tucker about the throat, with little pockets of holland (shaped something like a Highlander's purse) tied in front of their frocks, and destined to serve the purpose of a work-bag: all, too, wearing woollen stockings and country-made shoes, fastened with brass buckles.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56750.58I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24720.57A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44300.55There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48680.53You're not turning your head to look after more moths, are you?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40590.53Here, Carter, help him on with his waist-coat.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15280.53"And you can work on muslin and canvas?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19130.53His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16460.53However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock -- which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety -- and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70840.52My black silk frock hung against the wall.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51960.52Now you are small -- not one whit bigger than the end of my little finger.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37360.52"Only take off the red cloak, sir, and then -- " "But the string is in a knot -- help me."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36120.51I 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_21240.51He is a harsh man; at once pompous and meddling; he cut off our hair; and for economy's sake bought us bad needles and thread, with which we could hardly sew."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53500.47I told him in a new series of whispers, that he might as well buy me a gold gown and a silver bonnet at once: I should certainly never venture to wear his choice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29750.46However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20130.45You had better change your frock now; I will go with you and fasten it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8390.44"The one with red cheeks is called Miss Smith; she attends to the work, and cuts out -- for we make our own clothes, our frocks, and pelisses, and everything; the little one with black hair is Miss Scatcherd; she teaches history and grammar, and hears the second class repetitions; and the one who wears a shawl, and has a pocket-handkerchief tied to her side with a yellow ribband, is Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France, and teaches French."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_95130.43"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_53160.43And her clothes, they will wear out: how can she get new ones?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19620.43I took up my muff and walked on.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19470.43"You have not an umbrella that I can use as a stick?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66770.43I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44390.42several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot -- now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2630.41Bessie had now finished dusting and tidying the room, and having washed her hands, she opened a certain little drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana's doll.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70860.39My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1080.39In guarantee whereof, I attached myself to my seat by my hands.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14330.39My 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_7100.38Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35970.37She again put her short black pipe to her lips, and renewed her smoking with vigour.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9980.36Our 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_70540.36"She is not an uneducated person, I should think, by her manner of speaking; her accent was quite pure; and the clothes she took off, though splashed and wet, were little worn and fine."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15950.36She 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_48990.36"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_98010.35"And have you a pale blue dress on?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79250.35He stamped the snow from his boots.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40600.35Where did you leave your furred cloak?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10300.35I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70870.34There were the means of washing in the room, and a comb and brush to smooth my hair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5180.33My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks -- they are almost like poor people's children!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30580.32Then the importance of the process quickly steadied her, and by the time she had her curls arranged in well-smoothed, drooping clusters, her pink satin frock put on, her long sash tied, and her lace mittens adjusted, she looked as grave as any judge.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27670.32She 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_70800.31Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14860.31By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15420.69It was certainly worn and faded, but it was faultlessly clean, and smoothly ironed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1690.68This cap and a black dress of the plainest cut with tight sleeves and narrow white cuffs at the wrists gave a puritanical air to her whole appearance.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9240.60You can take it and buy a red dress and yellow shoes to wear at the next fairl" "Oh, you miserable fellow!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9250.58a red dress and yellow shoes like a rope-dancer!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1800.58Some one outside was rubbing his feet long and carefully upon the mat_—that was her husband.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10710.57We have good store here, though; there is not much to be done, and we can send oil‘ a most respectable bundle if you will only take a few stitches for me," and she held up a little cap in one hand and a rcll of very narrow lace in the other.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7400.51A deep scarlet flush overspread cheek, brow, and neck tothe edge of the coarse black woollen dress.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18050.48"My gracious lady must always have a fresh white muslin dress every morning—there is no end to the washing and ironing; these muslin dresses make more work than " She stopped short, for the young lawyer was seized with a violent fit of laughter.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2140.47"Frederika, put this chi1d’s hood and cloak on," she said, pointing to the little garments upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29300.46"I remember old Hirschsprung very we11,——he was a shoemaker—- he made my first pair of boots.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19050.45They Were the remains of a lace pocket handkerchief.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6180.45No one would have recognized the graceful form of the little Felicitas under the thick coarse shawl, which completely enveloped her from top to toe, and was pinned together with a large pin under her chin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9560.43Time had made no change in the fine black dress; the white collar and cuffs, and even the little brooch at her neck, were precisely as we found them on the evening when we first made her acquaintance.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43600.43Since 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_4340.43A negligé of heavy black silk enveloped her small figure, it was short enough to show a pair of exquisitely shaped feet, whose tread was somewhat uncer- tain.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6940.42There was not a speck of dust upon his well-fitting black dress ——not a hair out of place above the smooth forehead, across which he passed his white hand continually Everything about him was fastidious!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24840.41The silk ribbons with which it was tied together were loosened one after the other by Madame’s large determined fingers, and ahl how eagerly the blazing fire devoured them!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24380.39She opened each and took out bundles of letters, yellow witlrage, and tied with faded ribbon, and piles of manuscript.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22510.39But such an ugly man as he is, with his red beard and bearish ways.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15390.39How can you come into the presence of gentlemen in that ugly short skirt?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1780.37Frau Hellwig laid the stocking she was knitting in a basket at her side, and arose.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33450.35Those miserable yellow sheets!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38600.34In spite of their worn soiled leaves, they have a great eharm‘for me.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20760.34It’ was the first time that the bell-rope in the second story had ever been put in requisition.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32690.34She 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_24300.32But in spite of all this, the dead woman had borne the name of Hellwig, and therefore Madame wore the black cap, and the crape collar which to-day replaced the still‘, white linen strip that usually surrounded her throat She unlocked the door behind which Felicitas had '*ziC0 seen the old Mam’selle disappear.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21430.30he touched the roll of linen that she had in her arms.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8140.30Shyly, with bated breath she lifted the cover; on top lay the light-blue dress with the delicate embroidery upon the skirt and sleeves.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11160.29"Now we will fold the money in a piece of white paper," she said to Felicitas, and her voice still betrayed inward emotion, "and put it inside the cap—which shall thus contain a blessing even before the little head is put into it,—and Heinrich must be at his post punctnally at nine this evening—don’t forget that."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26890.29said 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_34490.29She 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_29540.29But beneath the coarse dark dress an anxious heart was beating,—and while the hand mechanically repaired many a rent, the mind was tortured at the thought of severe tasks and of the hard struggles that must ensue.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9590.28Near the door, at a respectful distance, stood a manhis thin figure was clad in a threadbare coat, and his hand, which he now and then stretched out in speaking, was hard and horny.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_580.27Heinrich then picked up a pair of freshly blacked boots that he had put down upon the woman’s appearance, and went into his mastcr’s room, which master reveals himself to us by daylight as a little elderly man with a world of kindness and good humour in his thin, pale face.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12350.24But the tenants of the sitting-room must have been anxious that this same interview should take place as quickly as possible, for scarcely was dinner over when IIeinrich appeared in the kitchen, examined Felicitas’ dress most carefully, brushed a little dust from her black sleeve, and said, with anxiety: "Put up that curl that has slipped out just over your ear, Fay,-—make it smooth,—the people in there don’t like anything out of place, you know.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8130.23The large, wide-open eyes had something terrible in them, now that the child saw them closely,—she turned away; but ah, how her little heart beat, and how the blood rushed to her headl—that trunk in the corner, covered with sealskin—how Well little Felicitas knew that!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42000.23Involuntarily, at the sound of them some mailed knightly figure rises upon our mental vision, and they testify to aristocratic blood, although they suit oddly enough the pigmy race in black dress-coats of to-day.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40990.22"Now it is my turn to boast.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38590.22But I like such old yellow books.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30970.22" Unalterably ?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26430.22There is.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23690.22Certainly not the bands which had just bolted it upon her!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18570.22her Swedish gloves.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16530.22At last Heinrich appeared with the necessary garments.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9510.20She 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_OMS_15780.20The little girl, while her mother was in the kitchen, had taken the box of matches from the table-—-as she was lighting one in the garden outside a piece of linen which had been tied around her finger for some trifling scratch, caught fire; she tried to wipe off the flame upon the skirt of her dress, and thus the disaster had occurred.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10740.18"Ah, Aunt Cordula," said Felicitas, taking up her needle and thread, "these poor people need more than all this!

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60500.79The skirt of her dress was torn in great rents, and the heavy braids of her hair were tumbling down upon her neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19830.76Upon the small strip of white neck left bare by her neckerchief there was still the narrow black velvet ribbon, now half untied.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14620.73You 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_The_Second_Wife_18490.72Wide sleeves lined with silk tell back from the shoulders, leaving the arms bare, except for their covering of delicate lace, the same that was gathered to the throat from the square-cut neck of the dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7260.72She 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_Baliff_870.70The sleeves had been removed from her worn gown, and had ‘ given place to her chemise-sleeves, which fell long and beautifully white down over her elbows.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18680.68She had completed her travelling costume by the addition of a pair of dark cotton gloves, and looked quite imposing.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15610.68Around the upper part of her neck she wore a velvet ribbon so narrow that it seemed almost like a thin line drawn by a paint-brush.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9330.66His little naked feet were thrust into slippers, his green velvet breeches, evidently put on in a great hurry, were held up by both hands, and his night-dress, trimmed with lace, fell open and away from his shoulders, letting the moonlight play upon THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12860.66Above it arched the immense brown straw hat which Use had trimmed with a black ribbon.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44150.66With a shiver, she drew her thin shawl close about her, and tied a handkerchief around her throat.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13530.66Her cap was set upon her false curls all awry, and the curls themselves were but loosely put on.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9440.64She had put on a huge white cooking-apron over her shabby working-dress, and‘ had rolled up her sleeves; the coarse shawl was laid aside, as well as the kerchief she had worn on her head.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1380.64l Little Margarete pulled at the ribbons at her throat T to rid herself of her hat, and glanced carelessly at the embroidered front of the skirt of her White gown.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_360.63His 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_18580.63His hair was snowy and his cravat as white, while his black coat shone like satin in the morning sun.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8690.63She had on a light morning-gown, and her thick fair hair was gathered into a net with blue ribbons.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30360.63And by his side fluttered a white dress, and the lovely girl who wore it, and who hung upon his arm ‘ as if she had a right there,’ wore.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17290.62And 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_49120.62He felt in his waist- coat pockets, and in the side pockets of his coat. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1700.62In his hands he held a large vessel of yellowish-gray clay. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7960.62Both wore dark dresses, which, contrary to the prevailing mode, fell limp and close around them, large scarfs of black woollen stuff, and brown, round straw hats, tied, in the case of the mother, with black ribbon, while the daughter had a lilac bow beneath her chin.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18780.61' His delicate forefinger, with its white crooked nail, pressed a spring, and the satin-lined cover sprang open.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5290.61Beneath the hem of her long white muslin dress, which enveloped her form to the throat, peeped out two tiny feet encased in gold-embroidered satin slippers.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6880.60He clumsily took off his cap and adjusted the band on it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21080.60The girl blushed, and, tying her kerchief beneath her chin, put the velvet again around her neck. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45900.60She looked down at the wet sod, and then at her white boot that peeped forth from beneath the flounces of her muslin dress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27320.60She 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-GoldElsie_13960.60Her scanty locks, usually so carefully arranged, were streaming from under a morning-cap across her forehead, no longer white and smooth as ivory, but flushing scarlet.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_880.60A faded woollen shawl was clumsily crossed on her bosom and tied in a knot behind, and the thick folds of her stifliy-starehed blue apron disfigured her waist and hips.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_110.60They were all familiar with her black crape cap and her large square shawl thrown about her shoulders, with the tripping feet in white stockings, about which the black shoestrings were crossed several times after the old fashion, with the green satin knitting-bag on her arm, and with the intelligent white poodle that always trotted beside his venerable mistress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50000.58The girl had taken off her clean white muslin apron, and with it was gently drying the dripping brow and shoulders of her mistress.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8180.58she gasped, and her pretty blue eyes peeped compassionately beneath the broad brim of the man’s hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11120.58Indeed, I’m very sorry for him," he went on, with genuine compassion, running his hand through the thin white hair beneath his velvet skull-cap. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20200.58figure of the man in tbe brown hat, but the head could not be the same.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4190.58"Don’t touch," she said, "that is no work for you,—you will make your fingers yellow."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12880.58You want to buy some trinket or other, a feather, or ribbons for your hat, hey?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29590.56Such 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_Baliff_27420.56No; it was as white and coarse and ugly as a kerchief tied about the head could be, and it was now full in sight.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34950.56The faded silk of which they were made was torn here and there, and showed perfectly the shape of the foot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33060.56Moritz, they tore the clothes from her back and pulled down her hair——" "This beautiful hair!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_450.55This giant would show a clean pair of heels at any white sheet fluttering in the twilight, and this was my delight.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9400.55A black slouched hat was pulled down over his face, and his summer coat had been exchanged for a light cloak.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2340.54Her dress, too, although of simple material, betrayed in its arrangement the greatest care, and the observer could not but suspect that the skirt was so artistically looped not merely that the hem might be kept from the dust, but also with an eye to the neat little boot which it revealed, and which certainly was not made to be hidden beneath the heavy woollen stuff of the dress.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_790.54you 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_14080.53I peeped out from behind Use, and saw several other ladies standing about, one overtopping them all, a tall, strongly-made figure in a white dress, over which she had thrown a flame-coloured jacket embroidered with gold.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19280.53He took hold of her dress, and tried to pull her on.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12940.53And there is your caterpillar, and now you shall know why I want to black-mail you.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8470.52‘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_1790.52She pointed to the white kerchief on the girl’s head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47010.52and will you dress your own hair while Caroline washes and irons?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6500.52She took out her handkerchief, laid the dove in it, and tied it up by the four corners.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25930.52She had on a white gown, and her long flaxen hair fell almost down upon her sash.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7090.52" Let him 1" the girl said, bitterly, as she quickly knotted the kerchief beneath her chin. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8550.51She put on her wrap, tied a lace kerchicf over her head, and went up to say ‘good-bye’ to Joachim. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20750.51By the girl’s hasty gesture the velvet ribbon at her neck had been loosened, and had fallen upon the carpet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31930.51I asked, summoning all my courage, as I smoothed his ruffled locks, and tied bis satin cravat beneath his chin. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63120.51On the floor in the middle of the room was a pair of white satin slippers, evidently used alike for dressing-slippers and playthings for Blanche.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19790.51Fraulein Fliedner put a mantilla over her shoul- ders, settled the white cuffs at her wrists and passed her hands over her faultlessly smooth hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1150.48Her 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_The_Second_Wife_38640.47Liana exchanged her light dress for one darker in hue, put on a black cloak, and drew the hood of it over her head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11980.47Oh, 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-GoldElsie_780.47Here she hastily took off her bonnet and placed upon her lovely fair hair a boy’s cap, trimmed with fur, which she drew from under her cloak.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32940.47Then he took out a thick roll of papers tied with a black riband and handed it to Mainau, who instantly untied it.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4560.47The hair was thrown into the fire, the jacket was hung up in the closet, and thenceforth I wore a skirt and boddice like Use's.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40960.47She had on her travel- ling dress, her Sunday bonnet was upon the table, and near me stood the box containing her scanty wardrobe.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4000.47I was in the arms of a tall man, with bristly, straw-coloured hair upon his temples, who laughed, "Ha !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31620.47She took posses- sion of me, fastened on the missing bow, and placed a little white straw hat upon my curls.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_900.47The gown, although worn and degraded to a working dress, was city-like in its cut, and probably had been inherited from her mistress’s wardrobe. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13830.47His linen, however, was faultlessly white and clean, and in his cravat sparkled a paste diamond in an oldfashioned setting.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25950.47Her large hands trembled with agitation as she dipped a strip of linen in the water.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11950.47One day Use selected from among them a black woollen gown, ripped it, and began to make it up.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36750.46I could almost swear I see a little pink corner peeping from your pocket at this moment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3280.46Liana pointed to the worn and faded covering of the old 22 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27770.46I shall have to wrap it up again to-morrow and put a fresh address upon the cover.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27470.46The big blue linen apron concealed her figure with its stiffly-starched folds, and the outline of the bust was completely lost beneath the coarse kerchief that was crossed upon her breast and knotted behind.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63100.45A worn violet silk dressing-gown, much soiled, hung loosely about her graceful form, and at the neck and through the holes in the elbows there appeared a night-dress of very doubtful hue.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5070.45Frau 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_Baliff_24300.45The tall old gentleman in a summer overcoat, with short gray hair and wash-leather gloves, would have been highly gratified to know that he had been assigned the part of a gypsy captain.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1660.45She must be a great-grandmother at least, and wear spectacles !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9460.45Use, put the necklace around that little brown neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37110.45Tell us about it, my child," she said, as she took off my hat and readjusted my dress. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23050.45How be would have shaken his stiff and venerable queue !
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20600.45Iwas always the same little round button that I am now; my Peter liked me as I was.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15990.45He got wet through on horseback, and is just changing his dress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27140.45She 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_3730.45Within 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_Baliff_20400.45A burning blush dyed the girl’s cheeks, and she put her hands behind her to loosen the knot of the large white kerchief she wore crossed upon her breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12550.44And 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_27090.44She had hitherto never worn a dress that did not cover her neck to her chin, and could not see why the fashionable world had decided that women should be _decolleté_ in large assemblies.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19580.44At first she saw only a knot of women and ragged lads gathered about the trunk of a pine-tree; but through the openings made here and there by the gesticulations of the throng Flora’s white hat and blue feather could be seen behind the mass of bristly heads and dirty kerchiefs.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12850.44Then Use put on me my new black dress, and tied around my neck a huge, snow-white linen ruffle from my grandmother's wardrobe, upon which my brown head lay like a ripe hazel-nut upon a little heap of snow.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53380.44One 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_12710.44Colossal feather-beds were tied up into as small a compass as possible, and sewed in bagging, a huge piece of luggage.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7990.44His clothes were worn, but the collar about his neck was snowy white and his hands showed their master’s love of cleanliness. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49220.44I 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-AtTheCouncillors_38830.44I 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-AtTheCouncillors_20020.44"A fine gown this!—a holiday gown!—and worn, too, o’ week-days, and in the woods, where the thorns might tear it to shreds!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52440.431 knew where the shoe pinched.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30690.43Oh, and the shoes, you really must see the shoes !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11960.43hat and gloves are gone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22990.43Let us go now and pluck some fruit," she said, gaily, as if nothing had happened, carefully setting her hat upon her curls, and taking up her sunshade. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_00.43CHAPTER I. AUNT SOPHIE had tied on her tight-fitting apron, and was taking the linen from the line.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14140.43Good gracious, Lenore I what are you pulling at my skirts for, and hanging back like a small child ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12690.43Keep them nice 1" And a quantity of stiff woollen stockings took up con* siderable room in the trunk.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3090.43Why, you saw her yourself, Herr Markus,—the girl in the worn city-made gown and the scarecrow on her head.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32290.42189 the long black curls hanging down her back, and tore at the ostrich plume in her hat ; but she seized the balustrade on the landing with both hands, and looked down at the apparently harmonious pair advancing to the steps, with Leo between them, in such incredulous amazement that she quite over- looked Mainau's salutation.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3370.42I had read in stories of pearl-embroidered slippers and little red shoes, and the very paper upon which these charming fairy-tales were printed had seemed to me too coarse and thick to serve as soles for such ethereal articles of costly satin and velvet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13890.42His figure, with its broad shoulders and erect carriage, and the fine bearded face, belonged of right, it seemed, to a soldier, and should have been clad in uniform, were it only the green coat of a forester, He handed the glass to the young girl, with a courteous inclination.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_860.42"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_21830.42At her feet stood a trunk half packed, closets and wardrobes were wide open, and the chairs were heaped with books, dresses, and linen.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41180.41She hastily smoothed out her starched white apron, and cast down, her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33770.41" Ah,,a blue-stocking in dishabille, with her hair in dis- order !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2940.41With a pair of scissors she quickly cut open its en- velope.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_610.41I loved the little smooth, white things that rolled about in my hand so prettily.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30710.41"No more of that horrid 'clump, clump,' that my old hob-nailed shoes made.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12630.41she said, holding towards me a bundle of coarse, gaily checked bed-coverings. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10720.41what a long face; she tried to bow, but the ladies have no eyes in the backs of their heads."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7670.41The fountain in the conservatory showed its silver spray just above the plumes in her hat.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23410.41She plucked at the green silk coverlet, evidently attempting to throw it off.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_200.41She 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-AtTheCouncillors_3830.41A close black velvet jacket, trimmed with fur, showed the full, graceful outlines of bust and waist, and upon her brown hair sat, a little to one side, a cap of marten-skin.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14300.41I 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-GoldElsie_1940.41A man in a hunting uniform was standing at the open door,—a gigantic figure, with a huge beard that almost covered his breast.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30480.41The old lady was still in the brown silk dress, over which she had tied a large white linen apron to deaden the rustle of the silk.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39200.40"Mainau, you would not venture " she cried, in terror; and as she started her hood fell back and her loosened hair escaped to lie in heavy golden rings upon the black velvet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63580.40I arose, and she, putting her feet down from the sofa, slipped on the satin slippers, giving me an opportunity t% remark that her small feet were clad in flesh-coloured silk stockings. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12030.40I 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-GoldElsie_17710.40Her 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-GoldElsie_100.40A small threadbare cloak closely envelopes her slender form, and a worn old muff is pressed against her breast, confining the ends of a black lace veil, behind which two girlish eyes are glowing with the sunlight of early youth.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46230.39"My dear Fliedner," he said with all his wonted composure, pointing as he spoke to my muddy, torn satin boots and my dripping dress, " pray see that Fraulein von Sassen has dry clothes immediately, I rely upon your doing so."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12950.39Therefore my respect for the beak-like shape of Use's bonnet was undiminished, but her head-covering certainly had suffered both in colour and gloss during its twenty years of seclusion in the band- box.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17290.39With his own hands he had mended the steps which led to the top of the rampart, and they arose now smooth and white from the close-shaven turf which clothed its sloping side.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17580.39The young wife was still standing beside her work-basket, unconsciously busy with the skeins of gay worsted.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15560.39And, as she said this, she nodded energetically, and angrily thrust the horn comb deeper into her knot of gray hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2030.39As she did so two thick braids of hair fell far over the balustrade, so that the breeze fluttered the blue ribbons with which they were tied.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2580.39Perhaps he was amazed at the audacity with which the child of the moor, in coarse linen and short woollen skirts, placed her- self beside him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19940.39He had drawn gray linen sleeves over his arms, and was busy sorting a mass of little paper packages.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34720.39The forester took up a pair of them; they were scarcely longer than the width of his broad hand,—only Cinderella’s feet could ever have worn them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_700.39" For which my portrait will be hung with black crape in future."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17300.39You look at me as Red Riding-Hood must have looked at the cruel wolf.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12120.39They know well enough that the hunting-whip hangs on the wall, now that I cannot walk.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46150.39He himself, wrapped in a cloak, his hat in his hand, appeared upon the threshold.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4550.39And she cut them away with a snipping of scissors that was music to my ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2390.39Those were Use's favourites, the huge orange-yellow marigolds.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14180.3989 in the other the huge white ruffle which, Heaven only knows how or when, I had taken off of my neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25670.39"You are right: the girl in kerchief and Working-jacket is not here; she will never be found again.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8430.39The girl untied it and held out the dove to Henriette.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12590.38There, 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_4040.38Beside him walked Fraulein Streit in a black bonnet and veil, and I could see her quietly wringing her hands while large tears rolled down her cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22480.38Louise, a straw hat with blue ribbons crowning her fair braids, came in sight, followed by her stout and worthy mamma.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13820.38Herr 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_3380.37But the clumsy thing that the stranger held up, with a laugh, was of the stoutest calf-skin.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17880.37Oh, how insolently the red-and-white checked coverlet paraded THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5540.37Had he committed a crime in touching the ugly straw hat and that ‘scarecrow’ of a kerchief?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27120.37He had changed his dress and brushed the short curls that had been so drenched; there was an air almost of solemnity about him. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26670.37I prefer the kerchief on the head,—the dear white kerchief of my messenger of mercy.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51250.37"Either you are a most finished actress or—a declaration of love must be handed to you in black and white before you can understand it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4650.37He instantly recognized her gait and carriage, although to-day, besides the ominous white kerchief so stigmatized by Frau Griebel, she wore a broad-brimmed straw hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_840.37Between her broad horns hung a garland of yellow buttercups and birch* leaves, she really wore this decoration as easily and majestically as if she had been born with it, a chain of dandelion-stalks hung around her neck, and a bouquet of moorland flowers dangled at the end of her tail.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54740.36We were just about to turn into the grove when we met the brother and sister, Charlotte in a white satin hood and sealskin jacket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30440.36Use, too, examined everything closely ; her fingers felt and twitched at the delicate ma- terial, much to my dismay, while she wondered " how long it would wear."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16870.36He 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-AtTheCouncillors_55850.36I 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_Baliff_1610.36THE girl had scarcely gone twenty steps when a short fat woman, in a brown round straw hat and a loose jacket, came from a side-path leading out into the road, walked up to the hurrying figure, and caught her by the apron. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4900.36Every remonstrance on the girl's part was cut short by the declaration that her own hand, that of a Lutowiska, Lad been disposed of in the same manner, and that it was the *nly becoming fashion for such arrangements.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_560.36He looked in a kind of terror at the child, Who, in preparation for departure, was trying to put over her shoulders a little round calico cape, such as the Thuringian peasant women wear.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41740.36255 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_19440.36In her silk gown and white cap, with the gold watch-chain at her belt, Fraulein Fliedner looked as attractive and refined as upon the previous day.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33970.36The hooks in the press had, in some cases, pierced the mouldering stuffs; and the threads, which had once confined the pearls and spangles of the trimming, hung loose and broken.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2890.35What have I ever done, to be punished by two red-heads ?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2860.35With such hair " " But it is red, mamma."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3590.35What would Use sayf Perfectly new shoes."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3230.35Now go, child, and get your shoes and stockings.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12750.35She took off one of my shoes and held it towards the light.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12830.35"My old brown woollen one, mamma."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26350.35Green-jerkin was at home again.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25720.35He pointed to his bandaged hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23620.35he whispered, plucking at his sleeve. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20640.35Now that you are not wearing that scarecrow on your head, one can see what you are.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15130.35But how about Dame Blue-stocking?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_890.35No; new gloves would be a most superfluous luxury.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3400.35That 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_Baliff_30460.35Then he presented his betrothed, and meanwhile Hanne had her hands full with keeping back the dirty barefooted crowd of children who pressed forth to peep at the face of the lovely betrothed in the white dress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12160.34He wore spurs, had a riding-whip in his hand, and looked rather dusty.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12130.34Ah, this time Baoul will make an example of them 1 The shoe pinches him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30700.34I raised my skirt and let the light play upon my satin boot.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30170.34Not a morsel of food or a shoe for the child's foot will it buy.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17510.34The furniture was white-and-gold, covered with blue silk.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31400.34And she swung around in the air the lost ducat on its velvet ribbon. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20190.34the 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_18800.34Her old linen was put away, and Where the arnica Was she could not rightly recollect at the moment.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5610.34how it enrages me to see people wearing their piety so pinned upon their sleeves!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30700.34"Fräulein Ferber alone is as destitute of ornament as Cinderella.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15320.34Tell me, for heaven’s sake, why you always wear these frightfully heavy silks?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24100.34139 shake off this girl with the red-gold braids so quickly as in his thirst for revenge he had possessed himself of her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64810.34When I called for her, I found her al- ready equipped in cloak and hood with her veil over her face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61040.34the bookkeeper groaned in despair, running his fingers through bis smoothly-brushed hair.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50240.34Hanna partly dried her mistress's braids, and, in her haste, put on her a black dress shuddering then at the effect she had produced.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4210.34Nevertheless, she got hastily out of bed, thrust her feet into her dressing-slippers, and in a few minutes confronted her son in her dressing-gown and nightcap.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4510.3433 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_2550.34It grew dark around me ; every one drew near ; the gentleman who had just descended the hillock, the labourers, all approached ; and I saw Heinz's huge shoes by my side.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22150.34" Order must be preserved, perhaps you will learn that one of these days," said Fraulein Fliedner, brushing off with her handkerchief a speck of dust that had fallen upon her mantilla.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15490.34She can climb trees, and peep into birds' nests, but not a decent stitch can she sew, or knit a row upon a stocking; all I could do I never could teach her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21210.34She herself now descended the stone steps of the front door in her white cap and apron, bringing to the laborer some afternoon refreshment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2210.34My 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_Rubies_3010.34Then Barbe made her appearance with a duster; she wiped off the garden-table, covered it with a nap kin, and placed upon it a waiter with cups and saucers; then she began to roll up the clothes-line.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2310.34What a sight he was when he was brought to the castle on a litterl His clothes were torn and covered with mud, and his hair, that used to be freshly oiled and curled every day, hung over his face like a gypsy’s elf-locks.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10480.33The 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_13040.32I only know that I threw both arms around the kindly old fellow, and buried my face in his shabby linen coat, in spite of the broad, stiff brim of my hat, add that he, in the midst of the gaping village youth, kept his face hidden in his blue checked handkerchief while I mounted to the seat of the vehicle that was ta convey us to the nearest railway station.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15750.32She did not appear to notice Elizabeth, who was sitting close by, and brushed past her so rudely, as she bent to kiss Helene’s hand, that a button upon her sack caught in the delicate trimming of Elizabeth’s dress and tore it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27510.32The faithful old cook-maid was once more installed in her kitchen, with sleeves rolled up and a dazzling white apron tied around her waist, her round red cheeks shining with good humour and content.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32640.32If the ugly glasses had only covered his eyes, and the broad hat-brim shaded his face I but all at once he looked so young out of those intense blue eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12880.32After 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_Baliff_25040.32I gazed for hours out into the sultry afternoon, hoping to see the girl in the Working-garb, the white kerchief upon her head, come around the corner of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47880.32"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_12890.31This was my Sunday bonnet in Hanover," she said, going to the mirror and putting the silken roof carefully upon the top of her head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26370.31Yes, she came,—came like a prisoner escaped from prison,—her hat and veil, her gloves and parasol, left behind in the forest-lodge.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_830.31A. 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_The_Second_Wife_2630.3119 oyer her back, like a glittering cloak, hung a shining mass.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35990.31When we took our leave, the Princess sent for a silken scarf, which she put around my neck.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18950.31He picked up the carnation and stuck it in his button- bole THE LITTLE MOORLAND VRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12720.31Jutta turned back the fine lace cuffs from her wrists.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12480.31shrieked the Minister, "you would strip me to the skin 1" He put both hands to his head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45920.31cried the Frau President, grasping the skirt of white muslin.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19760.31All real,—nothing laid on,—a skin like silk and velvet,—good enough to eat."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12980.31It was no longer his, it would in a few short days be reclaimed, with the ring which he still wore on his finger.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1600.31One 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-GoldElsie_20590.31At sight of the dog, Hollfeld hastened into the garden, and came back in a few moments with Herr von Walde, who had evidently just returned from a drive, for he wore a gray dust coat and a round felt hat.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33320.30The 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_Baliff_590.30It pro- jected like the broad brim of a hat, and screened from View her brow and nose, while the lower part of her face was even more completely concealed by the thick folds of the linen.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30840.30I can see the dress and the shoes perfectly well without looking in the glass."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17850.30This miserable Sunday bonnet, I never want to put it on again !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12760.30"It would be hard to find such stitching and such Holes," said she. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27010.30Hanne will grumble loud enough, to have to scrub it all over again.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21000.30Tie it on tighter another time, Louise."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16800.30She would think the trifle of work in the house and in the fields mere play, and would go about in her flannel jacket and hob-nailed shoes, as a good village girl should.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5650.30Do you suppose that the maid-servant, with a hot smoothing-iron in her hand, or the cook, who is just putting her roast to the fire, can rejoice in the sound of that bell?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26270.30"Ah, that is nothing new; the dear little town passes half its time in that posture, and the consequence is that the light of intelligence shines upon the tough soles of its feet.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3410.30I 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_38850.29I 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_Gisela_16630.29He cast not a. single glance into its velvet-lined interior; his eyes wandered over the Turkish curtain, as though he were count- ing its orange arabesques, whilst he took from the case a small object, and slipped it into his breast-pocket.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40980.29Her cheeks wore crimson when she rejoined me, but her agitation did not hinder her from making good use of the dust-cloth she had in her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28020.29My glance followed his, and, oh, dear I what a rent the sharp boughs of the elm- tree had made in my new black dress !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14580.29Do you suppose that because the child has not such gay gear aa that over her shoulders," and she pointed to Charlotte's jacket, "she cannot come of distinguished folk?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_580.29He leaned forward to look under the large white kerchief which she had tied over her head and beneath her chin to shield her from the sun.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37160.29The Frau President loosened the cloud of lace beneath her chin, and could not suppress a fleeting, ironical smile.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3350.29"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_Owls_1140.29She 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-GoldElsie_34700.29He went again to the press, and looked at the garments that had once enveloped the delicate limbs of the gypsy maiden, and had evidently been adjusted with great care, that they might recall the times when they had been seen upon the beautiful Lila by the enraptured eyes of her lover.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34050.29I 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_2900.28Countess Ulrika, who had in the mean time taken her worsted embroidery from her pocket, sat like a statue.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6330.28Involuntarily he brushed off his fingers with his pocket-handkerchief after thus getting rid of the obnoxious documents.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34550.28Had it not been for his deep voice and his carefully waxed moustache, I should have declared him to be a woman in disguise. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30480.28Use was right; in the "lace" and satin I felt barefooted again, as if the moorland breeze were playing about my feet.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27160.28"But the garden is still dripping, Herr Markus, and in an instant that brand-new coat Will be as Wet as the other!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21430.28And on weekdays, too, at hay-making and scouring, and with that old rag of a gown that will scarcely hold together.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_880.28The councillor anxiously applied cloth after cloth to the wound,—the stream would not be stayed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50670.28Now she was going to set off for L—— before her lover, with all her trunks and boxes, and so got rid of the trouble that might come upon the villa at any moment.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3620.27Upon some of the walls fragments of family portraits were still hanging, upon which, strangely and comically enough, only an eye, or, perhaps, a pair of delicate folded hands, or a mail-clad, theatrically-posed leg, was yet distinctly to be traced.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4960.27"There, behind the frame, I see the corner of the almanac, where grandpapa kept his accounts, and over the top is still sticking the rod, with its faded ribbon, once my mother’s terror."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29440.26They 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_19630.26H> lest they should be appropriated some fine day and shut up in that back office."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16500.26my father replied, running his hands through his hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30370.26a hat and gray veil upon her dark hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27000.26dancing with half Hirschwinkel on the soles of your boots!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15850.26But the child took no notice of it, and hid both her hands in her dress.
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_35820.25"The psychologist is right it is true that those women are the cruellest whose heads wear like a crown that golden glory."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3130.25She confronted the child with her broad, portly person, turning her back to the window in question.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2830.25But with great composure he took the hand which was about to put a cambric handkerchief to her eyes and clasped it Warmly between his own.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28890.25Allow me to entreat you to have some regard for my crape dress, which will be torn to rags by these bushes through which you are hurrying me, with such speed."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19960.25"Yes, and looks as proud as if she were come direct from the three kings of Cologne," added the woman with the purple kerchief on her head.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16460.25I have dutifully tied them up with delicate pink ribbon ; but I have never reopened them, for fear lest there might breathe out of them upon me the spirits of discord, tyranny, and childish caprice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4280.25In Fraulein Streit's honour my grandmother had sent for a stuffed sofa from town, and Use had put up blue-and- white check curtains.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3020.25Ulrika started as if her mother had struck her ; from the sharp blue eyes beneath her heavy eyelids came a flash of irritation; but he calmly drew out her needleful of green THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21760.25Do not behave as if the child had given you the flower 1" she said, dryly, adding, by way of explanation a Dd to the great amusement of the bystanders, " He "^headed the poor thing with his cane, before our eyes, ax *d now he is letting it perish miserably in his button- hole."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21450.24The grave face beneath the white cap with plaid ribbons never smiled, and her "court curtsy" was stiff enough, but the coffee was delicious, and everything from her hands was so well cooked and so delicately served that her silent, almost morose manner was easily forgiven.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1100.24He thrust his hands into the side-pockets of his light over- coat, shrugged his shoulders, and began, with a sly smile, " Once upon a time there was a beautiful but poor princess and a gay young gallant.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_470.24What bouts of fascinating terror we had together 1 " I am crushing a pair of eyes, Heinz," said I, stamp- ing again so that the water splashed up on his faded linen jacket. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36360.24I looked up to Charlotte, thinking that she too must be wrapped in the same intoxication that possessed me, the inexperienced moorland child by her side ; I forgot that it all belonged to this " shop" that she and Dagobert so hated and despised.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24120.24My dear Use, in the lower story here, some- where among my effects, there must be two trunks full of dresses; the housekeeper packed them up at that mournful time " Use clasped her hands in dismay. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8560.24Better and better," said the old lady, satirically; and, as she spoke, she loosened and adjusted the cloud of lace about her face and throat, as if her agitation made her insufferably warm.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40800.23" Very provoking 1 But nothing shall be replaced or mended in the Indian garden ; the sooner that nonsense falls to pieces 236 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26900.23My 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_3600.23"Bit this Use seems to be the dragon who guards your barefooted little Princess, voild,!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3350.23I caught my breath, peeped through the bushes, and saw him pick up one of my shoes.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2130.23The gentleman in the brown hat took no part in the learned dispute.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20850.23I know that pierced ducat as well as my own thimble; it belongs to my Louise as surely as two and two are four.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1010.23He says that cold shivers ran all down his back, and his legs felt as heavy as lead, but he took heart, and stepped to one side and peeped around the corner, and it glided through the long corridor right before his eyes, tall and thin and snow-White from head to foot " "Don’t forget the black kid gloves, Barbe," Aunt Sophie interposed.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7010.22Several lackeys in livery rushed forward, and the major-domo in dress-coat and white waistcoat opened the carriage-door with a profound bow.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4030.22I could not but come to the con- clusion at last with the rest of the wicked world that the white hands of the Duke’s niece were to help you to attain to the highest round of the ladder,—the ministerial dignity.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27910.22Mechanically 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_13020.22Of 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_Baliff_10670.22He was undeniably a distinguished figure, and the effect of the refined courtesy of his manner was scarcely impaired by the patched old dressing-gown that fluttered about his spare limbs.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1560.22The opposite chimneys, no longer smoking, had put on thick white night-caps, and looked stiffly and coldly, like peevish old age, into the little attic room, which enclosed, in the midst of the snow-storm, a perfect spring of joy and gaiety within its four walls.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16600.22She said to herself that nothing upon earth but his own strong desire and will would ever have any power over the soul of this man, petted and spoiled by fate and the favour of women as he was ; and he took up his hat with a shrug, thinking that he could almost read in those gray eyes the number of crimson stitches that had been taken while he was speaking. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6930.22I 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_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_Baliff_27350.22There, 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_35440.22"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_The_Second_Wife_29610.22What?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4300.22She sighed. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65890.22I will help her to pack, and take her to the depot."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63990.22I longed so to have her bring me to see you.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59870.22Something woollen was burning. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37830.2241 What do you complain of?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16670.22Oh, these tradesfolk !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4110.22. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11080.22"Our maid?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43550.22how ugly you are!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48880.22Why she went you well know.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28090.22she asked, over her shoulder.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4940.21She added much to the painful impression produced by the room ; she was most plainly dressed, -—her dark cotton gown rudely spread itself over the satin cushions of the arm-chair.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15980.21"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_Baliff_9430.21Herr Markus involuntarily smoothed his gloves tighter over his hands and hastened his steps to meet the lady in the white gown ; but it was only the maid, whose appearance at the moment so vexed him that he felt the blood colour his cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19510.21Coming 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-AtTheCouncillors_8150.20Indeed, I am really glad you are alone, Kitty; I am sure we shall like you far better than if you were pinned to the apron of your prosaic old governess."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38720.20Flora rang for her maid to take away the councillor’s gifts, and Kitty took up her parasol.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9300.20master of Hirschwinkel to approach this table, on which scissors, thimble, and some fine mending indicated the place as the customary resort of a lady.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3630.20His widow had survived him for some twenty years, but his dressing-gown still hung upon its ‘nail, as though the master of the house had just exchanged it for his uniform.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10130.20"No need to treat me thus because I once ventured to glance beneath the brim of your hat: I obeyed the odd impulse that leads us to investigate what is concealed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11330.19Whilst 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_The_Second_Wife_30880.19The young wife in her light summer dress wight well have passed for the forester's fair daughter, so maidenly and young did she look sitting under the tree, while the forester's huge striped cat, showing small respect for Liana's air aw hat, which was lying beside her, occupied the other half of the bench.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16260.18"I have not appropriated the dress,-—I have only borrowed it for a few hours.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14210.18"What, you mean to remain in the White Castle?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14010.17It’s very sultry outside, Herr Markus,—hot as an oven ;" and she wiped her face and neck with her apron. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49560.16They 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_Gisela_3980.15The White Castle is already deserted, and you keep us waiting.