Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19090.50I was in the mood for being useful, or at least officious, I think, for I now drew near him again.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19630.50The incident had occurred and was gone for me: it WAS an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of a monotonous life.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61560.45I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70620.42He imagined my recovery would be rapid enough when once commenced.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67600.42Reader, it is not pleasant to dwell on these details.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69110.35Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, their appearance and conversation had excited in me so keen an interest, I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77510.33the readers of our era are less favoured.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55110.33The event of last night again recurred to me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79330.33Besides, since yesterday I have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been half- told, and who is impatient to hear the sequel."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13630.33CHAPTER X Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many chapters.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63270.30I now hate the recollection of the time I passed with Celine, Giacinta, and Clara."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34620.30I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84490.28Strange words of a strange love!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45260.28I am come to a strange pass: I have heavy troubles.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2680.28She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41660.28The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable; you take measures to obtain relief: unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6860.27Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me; for I believed in kidnappers, their exploits having frequently figured in Bessie's fireside chronicles.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11120.27It was as if a martyr, a hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength in the transit.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_240.25Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37200.25I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34530.25These last were discussing the stranger; they both called him "a beautiful man."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14780.25cried the individual who stopped my progress and took my hand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97840.25My tale draws to its close: one word respecting my experience of married life, and one brief glance at the fortunes of those whose names have most frequently recurred in this narrative, and I have done.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70190.23I began once more to know myself; and when Mr. St. John demanded an account -- which at present I was far too weak to render -- I said after a brief pause - "Sir, I can give you no details to-night."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76780.21At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence -- after a day passed in honourable exertion amongst my scholars, an evening spent in drawing or reading contentedly alone -- I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy -- dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis; and then the sense of being in his arms, hearing his voice, meeting his eye, touching his hand and cheek, loving him, being loved by him -- the hope of passing a lifetime at his side, would be renewed, with all its first force and fire.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83000.20Now, I did not like this, reader.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82470.20I thought you were for flying off on some excursion.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_59160.20sir, she sees you!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49740.20"Entirely."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35300.20Would she take it as a joke?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27590.20"A strange affair!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17920.20"So I think: you have no ghost, then?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37140.18Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25710.15As he had said, there was probably nothing at all extraordinary in the substance of the narrative itself: a wealthy Englishman's passion for a French dancer, and her treachery to him, were everyday matters enough, no doubt, in society; but there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood, and his newly revived pleasure in the old hall and its environs.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8600.15The only marked event of the afternoon was, that I saw the girl with whom I had conversed in the verandah dismissed in disgrace by Miss Scatcherd from a history class, and sent to stand in the middle of the large schoolroom.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22900.54N ot until after the occurrence of some great misfortune do we recur to the mysterious warnings that foreshadowed it to us.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30500.50To what would this strange introduction lead?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23860.42At all events it would now be too late, even if she were released at this moment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33680.33I have then nourished in my own house a witness against mel" sneercd Madame.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30930.33As before, while relating his so-called vision, there was a certain fascination in the tones of his voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41940.29While Councillor and Madame Franz were engaged in a. lively conversation about this man, who had appeared as from the land of fable, Felieitas sat by them in the greatest agitation of mind.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12550.25"Ah, I am just in time to hear sentence passed," she said.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32680.21Question and answer had hitherto succeeded each other with such lightning rapidity, that Frau Ilellwig had had no time to recover from her astonishment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6870.20And how you look!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33910.20"Her place is here!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26680.16"Madame would hardly say, ‘how do you do?’ she was so full of the story of the will.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6030.50And then ensued a scene that I can never, never forget.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20590.50Do you wish the interest added to the principal?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6940.46Wanted 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_40700.37Of course the thought of any danger to myself from meddling in this mysterious drama, never occurred to me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44280.36What a terrible episode in the family history of the Gnadewitzes those crumbling ruins commemorated!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_140.36But this introduction cannot take place,—and we really do not need it, for I forthwith intend to relate to the reader my heroine’s antecedents.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39030.33"The con- sequences cannot be calculated.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42640.33Kitty was in a strange mood.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6980.33As the wire gauze ended, the scene vanished without a trace.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25680.33What sensational events your highness has witnessed in Schnwerth to-day !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8050.33The great lady seemed entirely pacified by the explanation of what had occurred without her consent.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22040.33Miss Mertens and her affairs were all forgotten for the moment as if they had never existed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19800.33What gave that egotist such power over the clear mind and the daily life of this strange girl ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12050.33A flood of memories came rushing over his mind, called forth by his narration of the old story of two hundred years before.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30520.33This he had done while Kitty, in Flora’s room, was a witness of the scene occasioned by the nearly simultaneous announcement by Fräulein von Berneck and the councillor of their startling news.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_700.29Here let us resume the thread of our story, and we shall not shrink, I hope, from the trouble that we must take in following our heroine through the wet streets upon this stormy evening to her home and her parents.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51980.28And he knew it, for he was well aware of my dread of a strange audience.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6760.28Upon these Words hangs a strange tale."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32050.28"Then it was the tragical end of that forsaken dame——" "Not that only.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6810.28I could begin at once upon the spot, but you yourself would be the last to forgive me if I should interrupt the programme for this evening with my story, Without express permission from his Highness, the Prince."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51400.27mentioned had been solemnly presented to you by Uncle Gisbert, before witnesses, on the tenth of September.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35590.27You forget what a fine life we should lead, if I had a position at court, and you were a fine lady.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14390.27She had already learned how that cold repose could be entirely laid aside for a time, and she told her father of the scene which she had witnessed.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10160.27Besides, the man’s story had a strange similarity to a dark, old, half-forgotten tale that, for the Minister’s sake, he would not have revived before all this gossiping, inquisitive crowd,—still, without some direct explanation, he could not suppress the denouement of the story that had just been called for, therefore by a hasty, and not very gracious, wave of his hand, he signified to the Portuguese his permission to conclude the narrative.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12710.26"I congratulate you on your singular sense of justice, Frulein," the Hofmarschall said, with bitter sarcasm in his one, to the governess, who had approached, and now looked Gown in confusion.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36900.26Eckhof 's son fell in an honourable duel, which was certainly one of the most interesting occurrences in Uncle Erich's highly respectable existence.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50200.26He recalled the most distant past, to show to what a succession of trials and difficulties he, the only genuine scion of his ancestors, the one who alone had known how to maintain the true lustre and principles of their noble name, had been exposed.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6820.25"Ah, your Highness, it is an interesting Brazilian tale."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23860.25But where they are at present I cannot reveal: you might steal a march upon me and buy them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12870.25I must have presented an extraordinary appearance, not unlike the little toad- stools with their huge hats which I had always thought so comical.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51080.25She paused only when she mentioned, for the first time in her narrative, Frau Lhn's name, for the Hofmarschall interrupted her with a mixture of rage and shrill scorn in his voice. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11900.25Later in life I learned to endure the want of this romantic termination to the story with a good grace, as I considered that in such case my own appearance here would have been very dubious, and my honest name pleased me too much to wish it changed for any other; but imagine my sensations when I stood for the first time upon the threshold where the little foundling had passed the most helpless moment of his life, when, deserted by his natural parents, sympathy had not yet supplied their place.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28620.23For therein, in that the- atrical striving for effect, lies the key to all Mainau's follies, his duels, intrigues, D'J even his love of travel, appearing in strange lands, as he docs here and there, like a prince in a fairy-tale THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4240.23A Prince’s gold and his Highness’s com- mands had again had the effect of the Wishing-cap in the fairy tale, and the forest-meadow had been metamorphosed beyond recognition in a few hours.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11050.23He then told of his meeting with the stranger by the roadside, and of his passing the night at the manor-house, not suppressing the fact of his early flight, which Was probably the result of wounded pride. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46120.23Every one runs past us; no one answers our questions; and I cannot stir from the spot, because grandmamma has lost her head, and in her agitation is positively tearing the clothes off my back.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36760.23Kitty would not listen to Bruck’s reply; it was terrible to her to be perpetually an involuntary witness of these scenes between the betrothed pair; it would end in Bruck’s hating her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32030.23"In old times a noble lady lived there——" "Ah, the romantic story told, too, in many a peasant’s spinning-room!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49440.22You will cer- tainly be in time to witness the completion of the irreparable breach between the uncle and the nephew, to see the interest- ing Baron von Mainau divest himself of all former ties and associations in order to belong entirely to you !"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2160.22It’s high time you came, Herr Markus, high time !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3110.22"In your present mood, I cannot permit you to return to the drawing-room."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15780.22The old gentleman was touchy, and protested in his own name and that of his noble ancestors against such an expres- sion; and a sharp discussion ensued, which threw a bright glare upon past events.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30310.21A 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_7120.20fc.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1320.20So he was.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3070.20she said.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8160.20she asked.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47070.20I will not dwell upon that to you.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43860.20No wonder, how could you else become acclimated ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26070.20She was very delicate in appearance.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23210.20.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19190.2044 What is your trade ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11120.20But her agitation lasted only a minute. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8970.20You little know the Griebels.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4220.20"I will help you a little, and you shall tell me a story.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29580.20"I was in fact indignant."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22620.20Well?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17590.20"Without doubt."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7440.20"Well, you are heartily welcome!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51260.20You really know nothing of it?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39550.20"Never!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20610.20I am sorry to have involuntarily caused this scene, and, in transgression of the programme marked out for me by you, to have offended against this I must say it this once, THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6450.20All sorts of tradesfolk presented their accounts as soon as Palmer's flight was made known.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37430.20His question put a stop to the agitating discussion, and consequently the footsteps re* treated.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2470.20"And now let those old stories rest, Sievert," he cried, cuttingshort the old soldier’s narrative. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39880.20Helene related the story of the ruins, to which her brother listened breathlessly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34840.20But Miss Mertens, to whom the whole bearing of the discovery was explained by Ferber, as she did not even know the story of the foundling, clapped her hands above her head at such a revelation.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29910.16"You narrate interestingly and fluently.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10480.16No one observed that the Minister, at this turn of the narrative, had at first staggered backwards with cheeks as pale as ashes, and then in total disregard of all propriety, had looked over his master’s shoulder prying into into the paper which T his Highness, in lingering confusion, was slowly opening.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52270.15I owe you an explana- tion ; I should set your mind at rest, Liana, and the physician has granted his permission ; but I can no more speak of it all than I can enter the Indian garden where such wretched scenes were enacted.

Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_61910.69With such rapidity the events of my life now followed one upon the other, that I could take no note of time as it passed.
Collins_The_Moonstone_118990.66EIGHTH NARRATIVE Contributed by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE I am the person (as you remember no doubt) who led the way in these pages, and opened the story.
Collins_No_Name_88930.66That one central incident in the events of the morning was of all the incidents that had hitherto occurred, the most important in its results.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_33540.66I have so much to say that I shall become tedious, but I must relate to you the most important--the most romantic incident of my life.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_70790.66From time to time the rumors of great events reached us.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_16500.66She lingered so long over one particular sketch, that Miriam asked her what discovery she had made.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_39880.66Now, it was certain that an important result was to be effected, or a mortifying failure was to ensue.
Collins_The_Moonstone_76050.66To my great relief he proved to be quite as excited about the coming event as I was.
Collins_Armadale_9730.66"Guiltless minds may see nothing thus far but the result of a series of events which could lead no other way.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_55180.64Topsy was cited, and had up before all the domestic judicatories, time and again; but always sustained her examinations with most edifying innocence and gravity of appearance.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_25370.63and he rapidly recounted the story of his life, ending with the fatal tragedy of his love.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_12960.63It appeared that Miriam and her strange companion were passing up the first mentioned of these three, and were soon hidden from Hilda and the sculptor.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_67700.62"But a few hours before his death, he related to me all his past; and then I learned what you had really been to him--as much, perhaps, as he to you."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_65420.62Yet how shall I describe it--the familiar spot; so familiar that it seems to need no description at all.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_27860.62I know the time for these tales is past; but I was interested in it, very much interested.'
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_74270.62Such was the horrible drama which now perpetually acted itself in his mind.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_245260.61It is natural enough; this strange chain of domestic afflictions, followed by the no less strange death of his daughter"-- "Strange?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_246540.61It is natural enough; this strange chain of domestic afflictions, followed by the no less strange death of his daughter" -- "Strange?
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_48870.61In mentioning his appearance as a witness at the Trial, I find I have borrowed (without meaning to do so) from my experience of him at this later time.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_10810.60Some time before the period at which my history commences it had passed into other hands, and it was now quite strange to him.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_20060.60I now had no doubt upon my mind that she loved me, and that her present affliction was caused by my approaching departure.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_246860.60The audience felt that a startling revelation was to follow this ominous prelude.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_248130.60The audience felt that a startling revelation was to follow this ominous prelude.
Collins_The_Moonstone_8800.60It's curious to note, when your mind's anxious, how very far in the way of relief a very small joke will go.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_164270.60Why do I torment my mind by recording every trifling incident or passing emotion?
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_27210.60The reader, if he think it worth while to recall some of the strange incidents which have been talked of, and forgotten, within no long time past, will remember Miriam's name.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_9600.58They were discussing the last occasion that Bodkin had visited this spot, and talking of the fatal event which happened then.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_63040.58The witnesses of the event had told it over so many time that they had worked it up into a most dramatic scene, and embellished it with whatever could heighten its awfulness.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_212560.57The reader knows what had been the end of that episode in her life.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_81020.57Her mind was one that dwelt on the present, not on the past.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_40580.57But now my little story follows another actor of the tale."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_22750.57said I, curious to learn the least incident of the scene.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_79680.57But a very different scene was destined to pass on that spot.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_14260.57How very distant, in this mood, were the most recent events!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_146870.57"Well, this surprises me, for I thought you took the liveliest interest in all my affairs!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_108510.57All this was achieved in much less time than is occupied in the recital.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_31980.57What a singular chance it was that you should have made such a discovery!"
Cooper_The_Prairie_26430.57An event of so extraordinary a character was not likely to be soon forgotten.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_6920.57The stranger alone disregarded the passing incidents.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_124520.57he repeated, as if reminded of something long forgotten.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_2900.57These scenes are well for a time, but they are not those in which I would wish to pass my life.
Harland_Alone_70980.57It was during one of his worst spells, that an incident occurred, which she did not heed at the time, but when recalled by subsequent events, was fraught with meaning.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_9990.57With this sketch of the general features of the scene where so many of our incidents occurred, we shall proceed to describe the habitation of the Alderman, a little more in detail.
Wood_East_Lynne_136490.55Next came up the past vision of the place and hour when the accident occurred.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_233210.55At this moment, a singular incident added to the grandeur of the scene.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_98520.55If I forget them one hour, one moment of my life, so may God forget me!
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_66250.55But it is to your later words that I refer, and not the trifling incident that led to them.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_62860.55He then, in as few words as possible, repeated the subsequent events of the recent meeting.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_31300.55A short time after this, that dreadful scene happened which I have before described.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_7090.55With that disastrous day my campaigning was destined, for some time at least, to conclude.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78860.55I am not a pagan, but a Christian philosopher -- a follower of the sect of Jesus.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21210.50a novice not worship her priest!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57920.50We entered the quiet and humble temple; the priest waited in his white surplice at the lowly altar, the clerk beside him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10030.44We had to walk two miles to Brocklebridge Church, where our patron officiated.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97060.42I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8100.40"And why do they call it Institution?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84700.37But I was no apostle, -- I could not behold the herald, -- I could not receive his call.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67340.33It is the clergyman's function to help -- at least with advice -- those who wished to help themselves.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3770.33cried the fervent Abbot.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_73520.33I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57680.33"Go you to the church: see if Mr. Wood (the clergyman) and the clerk are there: return and tell me."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21160.30"And you girls probably worshipped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16780.29To be sure I am distantly related to the Rochesters by the mother's side, or at least my husband was; he was a clergyman, incumbent of Hay -- that little village yonder on the hill -- and that church near the gates was his.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24080.27"You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10040.27We set out cold, we arrived at church colder: during the morning service we became almost paralysed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46080.25It was a wet and windy afternoon: Georgiana had fallen asleep on the sofa over the perusal of a novel; Eliza was gone to attend a saint's-day service at the new church -- for in matters of religion she was a rigid formalist: no weather ever prevented the punctual discharge of what she considered her devotional duties; fair or foul, she went to church thrice every Sunday, and as often on week-days as there were prayers.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97510.25A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10130.24The 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_8120.22"It is partly a charity-school: you and I, and all the rest of us, are charity-children.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57700.22"Mr. Wood is in the vestry, sir, putting on his surplice."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_95500.20"Of an evening?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89460.20JOHN."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84770.20A missionary's wife you must -- shall be.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79200.20I demanded.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48900.20"Yes, sir."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46540.20I asked.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1900.20Have you seen something?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11010.19Teachers, you must watch her: keep your eyes on her movements, weigh well her words, scrutinise her actions, punish her body to save her soul: if, indeed, such salvation be possible, for (my tongue falters while I tell it) this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut -- this girl is -- a liar!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83510.14St. John did not rebuke our vivacity; but he escaped from it: he was seldom in the house; his parish was large, the population scattered, and he found daily business in visiting the sick and poor in its different districts.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8340.50That could not be the organ from the neighbouring church.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35060.50"The Hirsehsprungs were all good Catholics,—they clung to the old faith when the whole country was converted to the Lutheran doctrines.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14570.40Is this your devotion to his precepts?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6850.33You were not upon the parish school benches.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43550.33Misfortune has at last crossed her consecrated threshold, —-she has lost two children.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33290.33Even on the Sabbath she desecrated my quiet house with her sinful practices.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6830.28"Come with me this instant, and tell mamma the text of the sermon!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33250.25"Whatever I do is done in his name, in his honour, and for the glorification of his holy church.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14780.25My revered Professor, I, too, would choose a religious wife.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9690.23But I know that you take no interest in the pious labours of our church members, and therefore I must tell you that not one thaler of the fund in my hands is distributed in this town.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35890.22And Paul Ilellwig smiled-like a fiend as he heard my oath.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35120.20But the furious Swedes destroyed and burned everything in the house that they could lay their hands upon, and when the sons came home to tell the results of their expedition, old Adrian was lying beneath the aisle of the church of the Holy Virgin, and they sought in vain for their inheritance.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32660.20"Yes."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24170.17If you should go before a magistrate, and tell it all, and accuse her, you’d be sent directly home again because you have nu witnesses, and no one in the whole town would believe you, for she is the pious, worthy Frau IIellwig—and you,—Ah, she’s a sly one!"

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7410.58She knew that the marriage ceremony was to be repeated this very day, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8300.50"Then you did not attend divine service?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29300.50Converted converted to Roman Cathol- icism ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37210.44A secret between a strict Catholic priest and a ' heretic' how piquant !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49790.40I am a Protestant ; you are not my confessor.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11490.40He is a strict Catholic."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25700.40155 wny to church.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9490.37I never could have believed that I could have listened to a choral without being moved to aspiration and devotion.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8350.37"And were you greatly edified at the village church at Lindhof?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51690.37Is it a crime to approach reverently another’s domestic altar?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2960.37I grant you, also, that I refuse to allow myself to be influenced or led by others, since I know best what best beseems me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56580.36"—he pointed through the window to the spire of the neighbouring village church,—"I always had such an affection for that place."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8390.35When the service was about to begin it was evident that the little church could not contain the crowd of worshippers, and an altar was constructed under God’s free sky.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22420.35We women should do all that we can by our united efforts to resist their influence ; let us cling to our only salvation, and, resting our faith thore, never be led astray to question or investigate."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_970.33Are you at service in the mill yonder?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56570.33Will you not consent to kneel before the altar there?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36530.33"I revere Christianity, understand me aright, but not the church," he continued. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3750.33I will, as far as I may, absolve my grandmother’s soul from sin, although not by telling the beads of a rosary.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48770.33But for the sake of my departed child, strictly pious as she was, I cannot abate one iota of my demand, and therefore I tsk you.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8340.30The venerable form of the old clergyman looked solemn and imposing in his black gown, his prayer-book in his hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35660.30I only wanted two souls: the heathen mother to be baptized, the boy to be devoted to the mission.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34640.30Had this been done for lands and wealth, or had religious fanaticism also added an incentive to the crime ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8640.30Herr Pastor," Use said to him outside in the Fleet, 4 'do not think hardly of her; she was baptized by one who was as truly, kind and good as you are, and she really believed in Christ.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29450.29Yes, yes, that head, with its splendid weight of gold, would look well in the angelic choir of the Romish Church; the pious prosclyter sees that, and it is sweet to be glorified as an angel; 172 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20700.28Are you a Catholic, a nun, that you conduct yourself in this fashion?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8380.28His discourse was not delivered in the church, but under the trees outside.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8320.28I went with my parents to the village church at Lindhof."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27260.28The Protestant majority of the population, therefore, had not been greatly edified by their sovereign's choice of the most bigoted of his Romish cousins for a wife.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36510.28Many men of intellect have a certain faith in the influence of these worn-out anathemas upon the masses, and are silent in spite of their more enlightened convictions, and this gives the throne upon which your party is seated feet of clay for a certain period."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5480.28He will be turned away without a penny, if he ventures to hint that he would rather listen to the pastor in the village church on Sundays than go to the castle chapel, where the chaplain of the baroness every week calls down fire and brimstone, and every imaginable pain of hell, upon the heads of the ungodly."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7490.26I can compare the impression only to what I have experienced upon entering an ancient church full of half-tarnished splendour, hung with pictures of martyrdoms and redolent of the strange mixture of cold, confined church atmosphere and the stifling fames of frankincense.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11810.25"His reverence the court chaplain,' ' she grumbled, "is too strict.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44260.25He heeds no incense wafted before the shrine of Baal.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26470.25They told him that only insanity could hafe caused him to build the Hindoo temple or to give his heart ui o* 154 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38650.25The tracts had been cleared out by the basketful, and the young clerk who had tried to curry favour by giving far beyond his means to the missionary box, and by canting THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_420.25His efforts to convert Ferber to his own narrow dogmas were met by such quiet but decided resistance, that the pious spirit of the saintly Herr Hagen was seized with holy horror.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4720.25I was confirmed by the old pastor of the district ; for I had learned a great deal by heart from Use, and one day, leaving Heinz to keep watch at the Dierkhof, we actually stole away, and I knelt in the little village church and made my confession of faith, without my grandmother's dreaming what we were about.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23220.24I know by heart all those portions that can comfort and support me; but the fierce politico-religious controversy at present raging in the world should interest women greatly, and, although we may not enter the field, we ought to range ourselves intelligently beneath some banner, which we can do only by divesting our minds of prejudices and superstitions engendered by pulpit and school, and studying the sacred books themselves."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22780.23" Your stand-point is so far removed from that of the be- lieving Christian, madame, that I could scarcely here and now enter upon a controversy with you, certain as I am of the victorious might of my cause."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8780.22This propitiatory proposal was received with a gracious inclination of the head,—the more especially as the baroness did not feel herself quite equal to the doctor in a war of words; and, as everyone must have seen her indignation, she was quite willing to have it supposed that the beautiful, soothing music was the cause of her refraining from annihilating the impious defamer of her holy zeal, for she was perpetually presenting Bibles to poor children.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14450.21Several day-labourers who had been summarily dismissed, either because they were warm adherents of the village pastor, and had, on account of their work, been frequently absent from prayers at the castle, or because they did not care to listen to the chaplain’s sermons, were again working on the estate.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2380.21The convent had been built by a pious and sorely-tried ances- tress of the family, and had been partly destroyed in the Peasant War.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10600.21I sat quietly within my four walls," he blurted out, " which my father built with his own honest hands, and there is a pious text over the door.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25670.20U9 " You would find it difficult to gain an adherent to that doctrine among Luther's disciples, I fear," Mainau inter- rupted him, with a short laugh, as he turned away, not seeming to notice Liana's emphatic gesture of dissent, and approached the duchess. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36630.20The church appeals to them with an open palm at every important epoch of their lives at baptism, confirmation, solemnization of marriage ; even at their iast farewell to the world they must add their contribu- tion from the labour of their bands towards the support of the church.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42700.20That is the Church's affair.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37260.20Madame is not even Protestant.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_50.20II No.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18260.20A pious man !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1790.20Oh, oh 1 that sounds very like a layman!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9850.20Flora had come with them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1830.20I am only a layman, it is true, bat an enthusiast foi my hobby, M he said, deprecatingly. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8330.20Then, reminding Liana that in an hour he should come for her to attend the fulfilment of the Romish marriage-rite, he left the room before she had time to reply ; while the maid imme- diately slipped into the adjoining apartment to arrange every- tiling for her mistress's toilette.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62090.18Sue always entered my room out of breath with the haste that the fear of meeting him had enjoined upon her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10700.18My master said so, and he was a rich man and a farmer ; and the pastor said so in the pulpit, and he THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9730.18On the return from church, her uncle led Elizabeth by the hand, "just like a little school-girl," as she said, and, indeed, it looked like it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5280.18The marble heads of the apostles around the chancel and altar of the castle chapel of Rudisdorf had often before looked down upon a pale, statue-like bride, had often heard a cold, calm assent from manly lips for it had never been a custom in the Trachenberg family to pay much heed to the " sentimental folly" of its daughters; but surely there had never been solemnized here so dreary and colourless a marriage *b this !

Collins_Man_and_Wife_3850.77"It is felony, as I have just told you, for a Roman Catholic priest to celebrate a marriage which may be lawfully celebrated by a parochial clergyman, a Presbyterian mini ster, and a Non-conformist minister.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_146640.72Our numerous altars in one church are heathen: the Jews, who are monotheists, have but one altar in a church.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_6170.72His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.
Evans_Inez_31620.72I have been a member of the Church of Rome: I have prayed to saints and the Virgin, counted beads and used holy water, and have knelt in confession to a priest of papal Rome.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_17560.69Any one who had read this sermon in a book of sermons would have divined what sort of congregation it was preached to--a primrose of a sermon.
Evans_Inez_7550.69"I have entered this church, this holy sanctuary, without crossing myself; and passed the image of the Blessed Virgin without kneeling."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_3870.68And it is again felony (by yet another law) for a Presbyterian minister and a Non-conformist minister to celebrate a marriage which may be lawfully celebrated by a clergyman of the Established Church.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_65360.66He told the vicar he did not see why his grandmother was to be called a saint because she had gone through great misfortunes, and because it had pleased her to be _trundled_ to church, on all Sundays and saints' days, besides attending to the other ordinances of the church and the sacraments.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_107390.66And of the true Cross enow to build Cologne Minster.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_16880.66I believe he is most likely a papist; though they say papists don't read the Bible, but worship images."
Disraeli_Lothair_10990.66"A Christian estranged," said the cardinal; "a Christian without the consolations of Christianity."
Collins_Woman_in_White_108080.66Every parish church, you know, has a vestry-clerk and a parish-clerk.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_27520.64As calmly as in his own abbey the venerable abbot read the holy service, and administered the rites of religion to all who sought.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_29450.63The Reverend Pierrepont Honeywood, D. D., entered the study of the Reverend Chauncy Fairweather.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_16400.63That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint Jerome would be heretics.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_6190.63Here preached the Reverend Pierrepont Honeywood, D. D., successor, after a number of generations, to the office and the parsonage of the Reverend Didymus Bean, before mentioned, but not suspected of any of his alleged heresies.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_15950.62* The divines of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States commonly call other denominations Dissenters, though there never was an established church in their own country!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_174090.62What creed, what dogma, what formula, what religious symbol, oh!
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_25210.62What crosses do the members of the Church of the Holy Virgin take up?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_143330.62And soon after took the monastic vows, and became a friar of St. Dominic.
Kingsley_Hypatia_20100.62How would the Gospel be glorified if heathens were holier than Christians?
Disraeli_Lothair_37440.62Where he now ministered, he was attended by acolytes, and incensed by thurifers.
Bronte_Shirley_8550.62He was not irreligious, though a member of no sect; but his religion could not be that of one who knows how to venerate.
Alcott_Little_Women_79070.62Here an ancient monastery, whence the solemn chanting of the monks came down to them.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_31100.61But sure such a sermon was never preached by a popish priest in these latter ages of the world: and, as I told him, I thought he had all the zeal, all the knowledge, all the sincerity of a Christian, without the errors of a Roman Catholic; and that I took him to be such a clergyman as the Roman bishops were before the church of Rome assumed spiritual sovereignty over the consciences of men.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_20740.61bishops, priests, deacons, wardens, vestry, and choir; organ, organist, amid bellows!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_47020.59He is strictly religious, and devout as a monk; never absent from mass or vespers, making his Easter offerings, and going regularly to confession.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_3860.59It is also felony (by another law) on the part of a parochial clergyman to celebrate a marriage that may be lawfully celebrated by a Roman Catholic priest.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_49420.59Malcom, "a priest unto God" through his faith, officiated at the simple ceremony.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_144800.59Then ri tiddle tiddle tiddle tiddle tiddle tiddle!
Longfellow_Hyperion_14830.59During the week she labored for other people, and on Sundays for herself, by going to church and reading the Bible.
Evans_Inez_7510.59I have missed mass, vespers and many holy ordinances of our most holy church.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_68950.59I was one of your congregation when you preached in the chapel of the Refuge You reconciled others besides me to our hard pilgrimage.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_57540.58"The Romish Church puts the Virgin, saints, penances, and I know not what, between the sinner and Jesus, and we put catechisms, doctrines, and a great mass of truth about them, between Him and us.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_45590.58"Well, at High Church they pray singing, and worship all the colours of the rainbow; and at High Chapel they pray preaching, and worship drab and whitewash only.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_190560.58It was already being said of him among his neighbours, at Eardly, at Caversham, and at the Bishop's palace, that he either had become or was becoming a Roman Catholic, under the priest's influence.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_70620.58The funeral service was performed by the Archbishop of Chalcidonia, with a large body of the clergy attending.
Lewald_Hulda_32550.58They had thought him tliG curate looking and seeming quite ill at Easter; but his confirmatioa discourse and the Whitsuntide services had been edifying indeed.
Harland_Jessamine_17260.58He worships _them_, it is true, but through her, as discriminating Romanists try to make us believe that they adore the Virgin Mary by the help of her images."
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_13620.58It's a sin to run Sunday-schools, or temp'rince s'cieties, or to send missionaries.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_60690.57"The Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and represents the three divine powers; the rest-ORDINES INFERIORES-of the ecclesiastical hierarchy bless in the name of the holy archangels and angels.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_145620.57On each side of the choir and behind the gratings opening into the convent was assembled the whole community of the Carmelites, who listened to the divine service, and mingled their chant with the chant of the priests, without seeing the profane, or being seen by them.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_9350.57"You would swear to it, on the holy mass yonder, both of you?"
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_42820.57"I would to the village, so please you--to the shrine of the Blessed Friedmund."
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_156600.57Ancient Hymn for the Dedication of a Church.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_55020.57The grand controversy was at present about the school.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_46780.57Nor is that temple without its priestess, that altar without its angel.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_147580.57"You will go no more to that heretical monk," said Jerome to Clement.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_38740.57Why, this is the temple of superstition, and you are the high-Priestess.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_17520.57On Sunday he preached in the parish church.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50600.50Nature must be gladsome when I was so happy.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_73230.50These details were just to me what they were to them -- so many pure and sweet sources of pleasure.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33730.44There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57110.42I wish I could believe them to be only such: I wish it more now than ever; since even you cannot explain to me the mystery of that awful visitant."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1530.42How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94190.42"Where is the use of doing me good in any way, beneficent spirit, when, at some fatal moment, you will again desert me -- passing like a shadow, whither and how to me unknown, and for me remaining afterwards undiscoverable?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77580.40Genius banished?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48220.40Here one could wander unseen.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94360.40If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49550.40"And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64770.40Of yourself you could come with soft flight and nestle against my heart, if you would: seized against your will, you will elude the grasp like an essence -- you will vanish ere I inhale your fragrance.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85960.38Once wrench your heart from man, and fix it on your Maker, the advancement of that Maker's spiritual kingdom on earth will be your chief delight and endeavour; you will be ready to do at once whatever furthers that end.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_68690.37"There you have a dim and mighty archangel fitly set before you!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36060.37Chance laid them somewhat apart; let them be once approached and bliss results."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46150.37In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words -- her faith -- her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75640.37After a season of darkness and struggling, light broke and relief fell: my cramped existence all at once spread out to a plain without bounds -- my powers heard a call from heaven to rise, gather their full strength, spread their wings, and mount beyond ken.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66380.36I again nestled to the breast of the hill; and ere long in sleep forgot sorrow.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46140.36Whither will that spirit -- now struggling to quit its material tenement -- flit when at length released?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35090.36Again Sam vanished; and mystery, animation, expectation rose to full flow once more.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36270.36"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_17950.33no legends or ghost stories?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84470.33He seemed in communion with the genius of the haunt: with his eye he bade farewell to something.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54650.33My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44830.33My tears had risen, just as in childhood: I ordered them back to their source.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17190.33"I lived long ago with mama; but she is gone to the Holy Virgin.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78540.33"Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month, my image will be effaced from her heart.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77610.33No; they not only live, but reign and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell -- the hell of your own meanness.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56300.33I 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_49420.33I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; -- it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal, -- as we are!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65380.31There was a heaven -- a temporary heaven -- in this room for me, if I chose: I had but to go in and to say - "Mr. Rochester, I will love you and live with you through life till death," and a fount of rapture would spring to my lips.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76580.30This spectacle of another's suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53700.30"And what will you do, Janet, while I am bargaining for so many tons of flesh and such an assortment of black eyes?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45660.30Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_98230.29The last letter I received from him drew from my eyes human tears, and yet filled my heart with divine joy: he anticipated his sure reward, his incorruptible crown.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97120.28Oh, I longed for thee both with soul and flesh!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77550.28Powerful angels, safe in heaven!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37100.28I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18920.28The man, the human being, broke the spell at once.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7490.27A quarter of an hour passed before lessons again began, during which the schoolroom was in a glorious tumult; for that space of time it seemed to be permitted to talk loud and more freely, and they used their privilege.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85160.27He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54320.27"My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45640.27The communications were renewed from day to day: they always ran on the same theme -- herself, her loves, and woes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35560.27They affirmed that she had even divined their thoughts, and had whispered in the ear of each the name of the person she liked best in the world, and informed them of what they most wished for.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94650.26All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear (I am glad it is not naturally a silent one): all the sunshine I can feel is in her presence."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85210.26Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5640.26Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80450.26at hearing one has got a fortune; one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50200.26And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting -- called to the paradise of union -- I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57160.25he exclaimed, "that if anything malignant did come near you last night, it was only the veil that was harmed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56250.25"And these dreams weigh on your spirits now, Jane, when I am close to you?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10600.53From behind those grave brows a mighty flood of inspiration broke, and there is no loneli~ ness, no desolation for those who can bathe in it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4910.50Iler uncle’s form had vanished l—that black.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8700.42Was the old lady conscious of a human presence?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41990.42We love to search out names from vanished ages.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35260.41A wretched little spinnet stood in one corner of your father’s room, its tones were dull and harsh, but your genius inspired it-—it could utter the wild tones of the tempest or bring visions of a smiling heaven above a sunny world.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6470.40Earth—-nothing but earth.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8530.39These thousand lovely flowers, then, were the ‘ stupid grass,’ and she who loved and cherished them, was—the old Mam’selle, who was again ‘desecrating the Sabbath with her gay music.’ These thoughts were scarcely awakened in the child's mind, before her little feet were upon the window-sill With the elasticity of childhood, the grief and trou‘.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40150.39Satan always selects the best and noblest souls to estrange from the kingdom of God,—but he has struggled out of the slough of sin, and it is Written: ‘There shall be joy with the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.’ He battles unweariedly for our blessed faith.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33280.38In- stead of praying for her vanished peace of mind, she silenced the voice of conscience with the poison of profane music full of incitement to Worldly pleasure.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32400.38Iler faith was rooted not in the letter, but in God’s fair creation —-—in her own consciousness, in the heavenly gift of reason, and in the self-reliant thought and action of the immortal soul.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6350.37beneath which the turmoil and hurry of life were stilled forever.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22330.37Nothing has been so misunderstood and pressed into the service of worldly passions as the word of God, and no greater sins have desecrated his beautiful world than those perpetrated in his name.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24280.35The worldly woman, who had so often desecrated the Sabbath of the Lord with her songs and frivolities, was dead,-even the form which had been the abode of that spirit of levity had vanished from the old house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27140.33"Well, let me see now how much of the saying is pure superstitionl" He stood before her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3780.33She did not dream that that bewitching face which had bent over her with such passionate tenderness, had long since mouldered away in the earth.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34720.33"Your stronger spirit is released, and is exploring new realms, but I must wander here upon this little earth without even knowing whether you can look back to me,—I can speak to none of my inward struggles, and I do not wish it-—for who could understand my loss?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37100.31But I will woo you with the patience of undying love; I will wait-—hard as it will be—until you yourself, of your own free will, say to me: ‘John, I will I’ I know what miraculous changes can take place in the human heart.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19750.30Iler pulses throbbed feverishly—no wonder; within there, in that narrow room, death had hovered very near a human life.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_150.28The third victim, too, was now heard complaining, as he tried to lift his unwieldy form upon all-fours from close contact with his mother-earth.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21130.25Ah, IIerr Professor, all the treasures that the world contains would not be too much for you!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40740.25The demon of vanity, always by her side, induced her to put on the strange bracelet which all the world would notice, that the pretty white arm might be noticed also."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20590.25Aunt Cordula seemed to have overcome her late physical weakness, and to have no more presentiments of death,—she was more cheerful than ever, and would exult like a child in the anticipation of soon having Felicitas all to herself.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35250.22And when you sat at the piano with such wondrous melodies breathing from your fingers!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30730.22I can assure you that no one who could see your face at this moment would dream of requiring anything superhuman of you.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17130.21Sometimes a clumsy May beetle would fall clattering upon the floor of the gallery, or a pair of swallows whirr twittering past to their nest,—nothing else disturbed the solemn repose of nature.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15850.20Indeed,’—-and what was that for, Adele?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15460.20Strikingly beautiful?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32410.18She did not, it is true, go with the multitude to worship God in a church,—but when the bells rang, she stood in humble adoration before the Highest, —and I cannot think that her prayers were less acceptable to Him than the worship of those who honour him with their lips while their hearts are full of evil thoughts of their fellow-men I" Involuntarily young Franz arose,—he leaned his hand upon the back of his chair, and regarded the courageous girl with incredulous wonder.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17360.16You see, Herr Professor, she has been this way from childhood.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34360.16The calm snow-white faces upon the walls looked like old friends, and yet so strangely unfamiliar,—they had once informed this room with life, for their living thoughts had been conjured up to float around their pale brows—but_now they were mere ornaments, decorations of the wall,——they looked impartially upon the youthful figure of the coquettish young widow and the pale girlish face now lifted to them, streaming with tears.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2470.57‘ Gentle concord, heavenly peace’ !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15020.52The purity of her whole inner world was mirrored in sound; she had never been obliged to seek for a melody which should embody her feeling, it lay ready in her soul,—ready as the feeling itself.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6270.51’Tis true no elves or gnomes appeared, but the spirits which the mightiest of the masters of music had imprisoned in sound floated forth from their prison-house on a flood of melody, breathing into the solemn silence around a mysterious life—a life of whose joys and sorrows every sympathetic human soul is conscious, although to genius alone is granted power to embody and reveal them.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47460.50271 of delight and bliss, for I have potoer.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40470.50What in- describable bliss it was to know herself beloved !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9230.50What thoughts had that "airy, fluttering soul" transcribed here ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43160.50A foreboding of evil filled Elizabeth’s mind.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2520.50The first shadow had fallen upon the enjoyment that had filled her soul.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_9450.50Some such thoughts fill her mind now; she sits fbr a while as in a revery, then rouses herself with, " Thank God, that’s all past.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22880.46A whole heaven full of cherubs sinks into insignificance contrasted with the wondrous power that causes a delicate flower to spring forth from the ground.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36320.46I did not know that here was a piece of the tropics imprisoned in the midst of German vegetation ; for me there then existed but two climes, miracle and reality.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31240.46There is a fairy tale which tells of a realm of inexhaustible riches and endless delights, revealed by a single word.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50130.45She might have been a phantom Undine from the depths of the lake, come to bear thither some mortal lover.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40500.45Then she wrote to Ulrika a full account of all her woes and struggles, with their happy ending.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22730.45Heaven and hell are invested with earthly attributes, and in I he exaggeration of these our fancy revels."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53120.44It must be a heavenly delight for the freed soul to bathe in such splendour!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37770.43The thin golden ray seemed to glide into her darkened soul, and illumine thoughts which had hitherto been hidden in the wild tumult of her mind.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54770.42I now dreaded him from the depths of my soul, and recoiled from him.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47280.42But I owe this atonement to the ' blonde Countess Juliana, 9 the maiden whose soul is inspired by pure enthusiasms, whose thoughts are her own.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15050.42As she was herself impressed by this strange presence, she penetrated still deeper into her world of feeling,—gradually the clear depths of her pure, maidenly soul were revealed to the listeners; they stood, as it were, by some transparent, magic fountain, and saw within its quiet waters the lovely form of the young girl reflected, with twofold distinctness, for there was a perfect harmony between her exterior and her interior being.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3490.40Who consecrated them 7 Human beings themselves.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31970.40You are beautiful as an angel!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46050.40No one means to take her from you!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30800.40I should like to have one look now into the depths of her soul.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31460.40"Do not conjure up again those ugly spirits now slumbering, quelled by your own two- edged weapon !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34380.40The triumph of that moment transfigured the earthly tenement from which the soul had departed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55720.40She covered her eyes with her hand, as if some phantom had appeared in the midst of her bewildering delight.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49490.40With all the egotism of old age her mind had already ceased to dwell upon the dead man himself.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18620.40Lovely as a fairy, Flora would glide through the music-room before her departure.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43600.40The Bayadere could never have been more exquisitely beautiful, when in former years she had aroused so fierce a passion in his worldly soul, than now in the transfiguration of approaching death.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49750.38I ask for nothing but that, in full view of this clear, pure mirror, you should declare that you are not so filled with love for him and with aversion to me as you would persuade me."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8650.38Envy and malice and all the evil inclinations of the human soul were at work here, as in the bustling theatre of the world.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16470.38You, with your cool glance and blooming cheeks, have no conception of the mad intoxication which can take possession of a human soul."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16810.38Shall I tell of the miracle of the awakening of feminino instinct that was now manifest in the wild and wanton child, the miracle by which a thousand tender fibres stir in a girl's heart as soon as loving duties devolve upon her?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15000.37A wealth of melody welled up in her soul, which carried it far aloft.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31140.37The chaos of yesterday still reigned in Kitty’s mind.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22910.37" Do you forget that the founder of your own Church Luther accorded to the principle of Evil a throne, a power in the world never acceded to Satan before his time?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4770.37Six years before, the suitor would have borne a fairy bride from the midst of feasting and revelry, ftes rivalling in splendour those of an Eastern tale ; now he was to bear his bride from gardens that were wildernesses, from deserted rooms, where the phantoms of vanished joys hovered among marble pillars hung with the tapestry that the spider weaves.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27500.37He with whom she had so often wandered along meadow paths in brilliant sunshine, and past gloomy abysses in storm and rain, was with her,—the one who had so often aroused within her joyous presentiments, and who had expressed in immortal harmonies all the loftiest and most sacred aspirations of her nature,—who was as dear and familiar to her as her mother’s face, although her gaze fell dazzled by the fiery glories which wreathed his majestic head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44040.36The crescent moon was reigning in the skies, where all the other shining wanderers appeared and went their way, never heeding that their sister planet, the earth, careering in space with them, contained millions of little worlds, each inclosing in its sphere heights and depths, tossing waves with their ebb and flow, mighty storms, and only too rarely a sacred repose.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40470.36"That old man la growing childish, he dreamed strange dreams long ago, and now he says his long-deceased wife told him this wild tale i And some shadow of probability attaches to the THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13850.36For the first time I began to understand how human fancy could have conceived the world of fairy lore ; this exquisite field of flowers floated like a lovely enchanted island in the midst of the novel world, which bad hitherto seemed to me so odious and dusty.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32650.35I felt utterly ashamed, and he did nothing to help me out of my embarrassment, he stood silent, while they sang on, " Thy shield should be my bosom To share it a'."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43830.35"This afternoon our house will be full to overflowing, and everything is in the greatest bustle and confusion,—our breakfast-table is in the only peaceful spot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39060.35If 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_34790.35The unpretending symbol of conjugal fidelity worn by Flora’s gentle mother to the hour of her death had been desecrated by the daughter’s wanton hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16740.33There was the beautiful Titania upon a lounge.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24620.33The lady now appeared within the sphere of his vision.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23370.33"I see,—there is a veil over your eyes, and over your heart, too!
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_10.33Her heart leaped for joy as she tripped about under the wellpropped ropes.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17520.33He forgot what a miserable soul dwelt within her wondrous frame.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16050.33A heavenly calm filled Gisela’s soul in this house.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13420.33You shall know what the world,—-the gay world is l" Y He took her hand and led her to the door. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23210.33if I could only take his place for two days, I would soon exorcise the evil spirit and not a trace of it should ever appear again.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1800.33It had to be sold for a few thalers, because it was old and frail,—too frail to be transported to the new home.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12310.33"He might do so with a quiet mind, for over those whose consciences are pure nothing uncanny can have any power.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11300.33Perhaps you may one day stand what thirsting, aspiring soul it resembles.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39860.33fostered and cherished them while she was struggling and unhappy, and they could better divine her silent, shy delight than he who still believed himself unloved.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33530.33Does it not mako planets stationary that, in obedience to the laws of the Eternal Creator, are in continual motion?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9290.33She must confront this power,—must know whether there were any force on earth which could divide two hearts knit together in the closest love.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15630.33I long to breathe a purer air, I long to lay aside here the evil that may cling to me from my former life.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39720.33Do you not know that I shall go mad, that I shall die, if I believe this wondrous tale even for one short hour, and then ad- mit to myself, ' It is not true, it is a vision born in the brain of a woman long since dead' ? "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31610.32She 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_47940.31She died in Elizabeth’s arms, praying God to bless the dear sister who had so helped her to bear her burden of woe until her spirit could soar away from its frail mortal tenement.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38190.31The purity and truth of Liana's nature made her helpless here ; there was no refuge for her but to flee to her brother and sister and place her defence in their hands.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29120.31I know what wounds the first religious doubts and struggles leave in the soul ; why invoke them rashly, and perhaps injure forever the entire religious consciousness?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15520.31"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_The_Second_Wife_33540.30Does it not represent as the work of good or evil spirits what is due to the intelligence and activity of mortal man ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23830.30You must permit the unscientific dwellers in the other house to have a hand in forming and developing this wild moorland flower."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39380.30The 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_37730.30The humiliating consciousness of her physical infirmities, which caused her to be thrust out of an earthly paradise; Hollfeld’s confession of love to which she had just listened, and which brought such infinite joy and woe; a frantic jealousy of the woman, whoever she might be, who was to stand beside him as a wife,—all these emotions were seething in her mind, threatening to sever the frail thread that bound together soul and body.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8290.30Besides, her severe piety pro- vided her, doubtless, with angel wings.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44960.30What if those two departed souls had ardently desired that even after their death the veil should not be lifted!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11750.30It sounded sweet and good, but far too prosaic for the charming image that hovered before me.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14770.30Once more she glanced around, as if in farewell to the dim walls that she had so loved, and then passed out into the corridor. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31340.30"Good; in the midst of the sorrow and gloom to which I am summoned there will be a glimpse of clear blue sky above me, and for you——may my good angel whisper in your ear the word that will unlock that fairy realm for me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1590.30A 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_35840.29Centuries had flown by, effacing, as if they had never existed, all the transporting charm of that short life,—all the stormy emotion which had worked its ruin,—and yet the young heart that was throbbing restlessly in that chamber of death beside that bier, fancied that the emotions causing it to throb so wildly could never die.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41760.28Mainau did not suspect what memories he awakened.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16640.28But I forget stainless souls like yours have nothing to fear."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54430.28She was a star, this entrancingly-beautiful woman.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4410.28Otherwise the " divine reminiscences" of my governess affected me very little.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8830.28I was afraid of the soul in his dying eyes!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56000.28An ecstasy possessed her soul in which all thought seemed lost.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39560.28she cried, shaking her head indignantly, her whole maidenly soul in revolt against the consciousness to which she had been so suddenly and rudely awakened.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47140.28Well, if even in our own sphere all sense of shame, all dignified self-consciousness, is at an end,—if every one is to heed the dictates of low and vulgar impulses,—no wonder that the halo surrounding us is dimmed, and the mob ventures to attack the throne itself!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5740.27The crimson curtain rolled up,—— there lay Titania, reposing with her attendant fairies.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29950.27The drama unfolded itself as in a fairy-tale, where hero or heroine undergoes a transformation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20610.27Yes, yes, as I say, it always grieved me to the soul when some beauty that I took delight in seemed to go astray, and people pointed their fingers at her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45370.27"This divine dream must not fade," he said with a sigh, as Elizabeth gently extricated herself from his embrace.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35670.27Our century hates and persecutes as fanaticism this devotion of an ardent human soul to the priestly calling; it forgets that a flame encircled by an iron band soars heaven- wards and " v* 208 THE SECOND WIFE. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64150.26I would rather a thousand times hear you call me wild, defiant, and unmannerly, enren unfeminine, than to have you pronounce my name so gently and kindly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11920.26Yes, 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-GoldElsie_44230.26Elizabeth thought of those dark times, when these gloomy walls were erected in expiation of the crime of a knightly assassin,—cold stone walls to appease Him from whom has come the Word made life,—who is the source of Eternal Love.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51460.26"Do you suppose that in an hour when he lends support and consolation to the dying, Doctor Bruck has either mind or heart for aught else," she asked, with grave reproof in her tone, "and when, besides, in the sufferer to whom he ministers he loses the dearest friend he has upon earth?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26480.25He was far from self-possessed; the indignant blood was still in commotion, and the frivolous creature whose wanton hand had so made discord in this harmonious nature smiled down from the wall in white Iphigenia robes, her hands calmly folded, her expression thoughtfully spiritual, almost holy.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52170.25The world without was as lovely as if no icy winter were at hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_43190.25No noise should annoy the peace of the parting soul.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22690.25I do not believe in the miracles and heavenly visions taught by the Church.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19390.25What is this wonderful source of revenue, ma- dame?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64060.25I see, too, that she can toss this same head as indignantly as ever; but what affair is it of hers if nature chose to see an actual fairy among her creations ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43870.25No youthful soul can leave a peaceful solitude and enter the great world with impunity."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37590.25No wonder, then, that he exulted at the news, and immediately formed the magnanimous resolution of honouring the fair flower of Castle Gnadeck with an offer of marriage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18430.23This continual warfare was entirely concealed from Mainau In his presence the Hofmarschall ruled his features and his tongue with all the skill of the accomplished courtier, and as for complaining to the man who desired peace above all else, liana never dreamed of it.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34700.23He 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_The_Second_Wife_30230.23Leo suddenly burst into a flood of tears ; the child felt that he was about to ose his guardian angel.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64680.23How timidly I had resigned my- self to them, and what i\ blissful sense of repose had then stolen over me 1 just so when I was a child, Use's arms had been my happy refuge.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57440.23For the first time for years Herr Claudius was breathing forth his pent-up soul in music, while here his fair name was being assailed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34360.23For 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-GoldElsie_28930.23They had seen many a fresh young creature pass hurriedly along the dim narrow forest path to ring the bell at the convent portal with feverish impatience, as though unable to wait one instant longer for the promised peace abiding within those walls.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_930.22You shall com- plete your precious work in peace and serenity, for your own amusement.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25440.22Notwithstanding all our stern self-discipline, we are sometimes overmastered by a beautiful dream.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9730.22Liana thought that the spirit of the child's departed mother must wander angrily through these rooms, and write a " mene, tekel," above the heads of guardians so dead to duty as these. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22820.22I will, however, concede something to you in leaving the field of biblical authority, and reminding you that one of the world's greatest poets has said, l There are more things 'twixt heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy.'
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15010.21At such moments she knew that she was gifted beyond thousands of her fellow-mortals, for she had the power of giving expression to the most hidden emotions of her heart.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7430.21The time is past when I could lead you by the hand," said he, slowly, as if lost in contemplation of her face, which was bathed in a rosy blush.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36740.21Despise the ' childish babble' if you will, Herr Clau- dius," he said, his sonorous voice was sharp as a knife, " it refreshes and strengthens me, and thousands of other true Christian souls.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52880.21While this confusion reigned, the soul of the sick girl above-stairs unfolded its wings to leave, calmly and peacefully, after the conflict of years, the worn and weary body.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33790.20"She, with her rich endowments of intellect, will appreciate more fully than I can the sanctity and, at the same time, the frequent trials of his profession, and will surely create for him a home whither he may flee from the cares that beset his public career, and where affection and serenity will abide _uniformly_."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5070.20Heaven help us I that a bridegroom !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48310.20"What have I to say to you?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46190.20If he should succumb again to this magic?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39640.20For.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37810.20"Inquire of him.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36810.20His reverence ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35480.20"I am about voluntarily to depart, as they all know.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34010.20Never let that woman touch you again !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21780.20There is a little mystery about it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19440.20" I painted it."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4130.20But now enough of strife.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1380.20Well, yes, that may be.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_800.20Why, what a sight she is !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59190.20"Aha, there is the demon once more !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43660.20Be gentle, and come with me."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29750.20Let him see that they are at- tended to !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13910.20I cried, in delight. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5630.20And now she was spell-bound.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4900.20"Then it is a mystery to me!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_690.20he called after her.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_6770.20" The last?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4790.20What the deuce!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19870.20The girl certainly did not dream of the.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_980.20"In the Thiergarten, indeed!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4340.20"Among the men, there was only one whom I liked to look at.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41920.20All this was the work of a few seconds.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31440.20"Are you going?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26920.20"Well?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20770.20"I have been tried inconceivably.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50180.20"Ah!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34370.20"Leo!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22480.20Well, I say nothing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11750.20Is he your oracle already?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66370.20I should not have allowed those white hands to touch him, and then the charm of the evil spell might have been broken.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42180.20Is it not natural to be strongly moved by such a living likeness of one long since departed?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30610.18Hitherto she had only gazed reverently from without towards the bowwindow ; now she was to come hither to stay: the pretty nook was to be her abiding-place until the man whom she loved came to carry her to his home. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35220.18His Darling, which he purchased when last from home, is a miracle of beauty and grace, but a thoroughly vicious brute.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9630.18Here we have again the mystic mode of speech in which you love to veil your young lady’s existence.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7190.18Liana saw herself reflected by the side of his stately, well knit figure ; in form and bearing they were well matched ; but what a gulf yawned between the two souls that had that day been knit together by a formula of words sanctioned by a priestly blessing!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9620.18She perfectly understood Dom Enriquez’s eccentricities, and openly designated them as, what he in the depths of his soul believed them to be, ‘originality and genius.’ She had wonderful ambercoloured hair; smilingly and in secret she knotted to- gether those golden threads, and of them she wove a net that separated Dom Enriquez from the world far more etfectively than did the solid walls of his castle.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52460.16What are you all gaping and staring at, the whole rabble of you ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3200.16You will be a majestic bride, Liana.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43480.16"Transparent, brittle creature!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40260.16"No, aunt; the noise wearies me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28940.16They had seen how, behind those irrevocable bolts and bars, the mute lips of the nun grew white,—how convulsively her waxen hands clutched the crucifix, while her agonized looks would seek the ground; for the sight of the clear, blue heavens, arching above the gay children of the outer world, awakened joyous memories within her, and breathed a keen desire for pleasure and life into the soul and heart muffled forever in the folds of the sackcloth of her order.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17590.16Beneath the huge arch of that window Uncle Gisbert had died died with his gaze turned towards that creation of his fancy ; the oul had gone home from the contemplation of that picture of its " evil ways," in spite of clouds of incense and ecclesiastical formulas.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33370.15" Not so much his request as my own conviction that neither my grandfather nor myself had the right to lock Dp such treasures of art from the world," was the calm reply.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14910.14I have broken with the sphere in which I was born and bred.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44050.14And now life began to stir in the old tower.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25260.14The old man had but half an hour before designated himself and his son as ‘sovereigns by the grace of gold ;’ he had exulted in his ‘ magnificent programme’ that by virtue of the California wealth was to convert a desert into a Utopia; and even although there was reason to suspect that the inveterate optimist did not place entire faith in his own bold representations, it was pitiful to know that the ‘tramp with the communistic beard’ to whom he had sent a few pennies and a crust of bread was his own flesh and b1ood,—his golden boy.

Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_6470.72The Divine personality, enthroned in the depths of her soul and permeating her life, looked commiseratingly forth also.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_3860.72It was a very simple sight, but somehow very touching, as if the soft spectacle were but a respite from desolation and solitude; as indeed it was.
Evans_Beulah_18380.72Images of divine beauty filled her soul, and nobler aspirations than she had ever known took possession of her.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_146300.72"Well, then let me tell you that you have desecrated a sanctuary, lovelier and more beautiful than any that ever existed on earth--the sanctuary in which you were worshiped.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_1520.72Doubts may flit around me or seem to close their evil wings and settle down, but so long as I imagine that the earth is hallowed and the light of heaven retains its sanctity on the Sabbath--while that blessed sunshine lives within me--never can my soul have lost the instinct of its faith.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_88640.71"And when this mortal life shall fail, And flesh and sense shall cease, I shall possess within the veil A life of joy and peace.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_176850.70The whole world seemed a marvel, and vague fairy pictures filled her mind.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_71950.68In the depths of his own affectionate nature, he felt able to perceive something of the fulness of Divine love; for an old oracle hath thus written,--"He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
Longfellow_Hyperion_10610.66He gazed upon her with a feeling of delight, not unmingled with holy awe.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_37910.66Still he felt a pleasure in being near her, in breathing the same atmosphere and gazing on the same scenes.
Harland_Alone_94040.66It did not overflow;--tumultuating passions were stilled into a calm, delicious ecstacy.
Evans_Inez_360.66"Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit!
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_40680.66His senses yielded to the subtle incantation, and sleep came to him as he lay.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_53860.66you may be formed in the image of the Maker, but Satan dwells in your heart.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_39210.66Beautiful, purified soul, God's angels rejoice over you!
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_24870.66No; they looked up to their God; they rejoiced that so peaceful, so blessed had been the death of their beloved one.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_8680.66Are you not dreaming of the unknown beautiful world that exists up there;--beautiful, as heaven is beautiful, because you know nothing of the reality?
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_6140.66It is then that the spirit of peace settles upon the heart, unfetters the thoughts and elevates the soul to the Creator.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_52660.66She forgot she was still of earth, while a holy love, like that of the dove in Paradise, sat brooding on her heart.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_118980.66They had passed--those pure spirits, from a world which was uncongenial to a fairer world and a purer clime.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_82910.66She was without sin, then, and unacquainted with grief; the world was full of sunshine and her heart was full of music.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_44970.66A sense of awe came on him, and over him, and wrapped him round; awe at a presence of which he was becoming suddenly conscious, into which he seemed to have wandered, and yet which he felt must have been there around him, in his own heart and soul, though he knew it not.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_64340.66Then among them glided like a pure ray, like a Christian angel in the midst of Olympus, one of those chaste figures, those calm shadows, those soft visions, which seemed to veil its virgin brow before these marble wantons.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_35610.65There was henceforth, while the dragon flew, a relation between the desolate little chamber, in that lowly house buried among so many more aspiring abodes, and the unmeasured depths and spaces, the stars, and the unknown heavens.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_78590.64Love has transformed that desert place into the paradise of God; and, if such is its power in the wastes of earthly desolation, what will be its might amid the perfect scenes of heaven?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_27910.64And after this interview, filled with terrible remembrances and boundless griefs, wandering stars of eternity, we pursue our infinite course.
Evans_Beulah_18350.64Her whole being was inexpressibly thrilled; and, forgetting her frightful vision, her enraptured soul hovered on the very confines of fabled elysium.
Cooper_Pathfinder_40.64The most abstruse, the most far-reaching, perhaps the most chastened of the poet's thoughts, crowd on the imagination as he gazes into the depths of the illimitable void.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_167190.64This is the fabled paradise--a life above this, in the free ether, beyond the reach of storm or tempest; a region to which music alone can transport us.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_5990.63Was it possible, he sometimes asked himself, that an angel had actually descended from heaven to nestle in his heart and to conjure up for him a Paradise on earth?
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_38210.63The true hermit finds in communion with the Divine mind the perfection of companionship.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_29910.63Silent and wondering he lay very still, conscious that by some subtle power she was exorcising the demons of pain.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_30740.63Like the unsubstantial mirage had vanished the beautiful, happy life of the past few weeks.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_67780.63The mortal aspires in purity of heart, and the immortal comes down and assists and responds to his aspirations.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_224980.63When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit.
Evans_Beulah_32300.63Then my heart comprehended that immortality dwelled in the spaces between the worlds, and Death only among the worlds; and the murky planets I perceived were but cradles for the infant spirits of the universe of light!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_296810.62the sweetness of the everlasting sleep takes possession of my senses."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_101390.62Is not this power the spirit of Him whose kingdom is yet to come, and whose will to be done on earth as it is in heaven?
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_42530.62Evil is throned in my heart supreme and malignant.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_46630.62Oh, joy to whose height what poet has yet soared, or ever tried to soar?
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_23500.62Her gentle nature responds at once to holy influences.
Longfellow_Hyperion_4670.62And this the silent stars beheld, looking downfrom heaven, and told it not again.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_32810.62Fantine was beautiful, and remained pure as long as she could.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_225100.62Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more than heaven, it has voluptuousness.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_224780.62Like it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_44740.62"Whenever I look at it, there is an old dreamy recollection haunting me, but keeping just beyond the grasp of my mind.
Evans_Beulah_18300.62Come with me, and I will try to exorcise this evil spirit which haunts even your slumbers."
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_3730.62And into the tumult of his feelings there came the sweet benediction of Nature.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_42640.62Joy, rapture, bliss, ecstasy, delight!
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_37580.62This maiden--this wonder among mortals--is not a mortal, she is an exiled soul.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81720.66I am not brutally selfish, blindly unjust, or fiendishly ungrateful.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1400.57Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25460.45A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87140.42Your words are such as ought not to be used: violent, unfeminine, and untrue.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46670.42"My disposition is not so bad as you think: I am passionate, but not vindictive.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60190.40I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_23940.35Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry, I cannot flatter myself that I am better than he: I am forced to confess that he and I are on a level.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86180.33"It would do," I affirmed with some disdain, "perfectly well.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84800.33He had calculated on these first objections: he was not irritated by them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9880.33Surely it will never, on the contrary, be suffered to degenerate from man to fiend?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25840.33He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25470.31"They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely: frivolous, mercenary, heartless, and senseless, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33740.30Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram's.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9900.30Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live in calm, looking to the end."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87580.28Long since you ought to have crushed it: now you should blush to allude to it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24040.28"It will sting -- it will taste bitter, sir."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86610.28Not that St. John harboured a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness -- not that he would have injured a hair of my head, if it had been fully in his power to do so.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86250.27"I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_42630.27She had been all animation with the game, and irritated pride did not lower the expression of her haughty lineaments.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62290.26"Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63160.25Giacinta was unprincipled and violent: I tired of her in three months.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49380.25Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17250.20It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78710.20I scorn the weakness.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64870.20"You will not come?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19340.20"Can you tell me where he is?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63070.16Disappointment made me reckless.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63360.14Last January, rid of all mistresses -- in a harsh, bitter frame of mind, the result of a useless, roving, lonely life -- corroded with disappointment, sourly disposed against all men, and especially against all womankind (for I began to regard the notion of an intellectual, faithful, loving woman as a mere dream), recalled by business, I came back to England.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36740.61You are defiant, wounded, —and very proud,—and this sometimes makes you unjust and unkind,—but you are utterly incapable of meanness.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2320.50He had mortally oifended his wife.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20240.42And what an unimaginable humiliation would that be for your proud heart!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37960.40VVhat an expression of satanic malice transformed those angelic features!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36230.37Hate, aversion, and the wish for revenge—they were all extinguished in her soul!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31710.37Had she not done everything to prove to him how her very soul abhorred him, how implacable she should always be while she lived?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41150.36"You never take into cc nsideration that this despicable woman, this wretched hypocrite, would poison my Whole existence.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25510.35IIow much lay between that wretched day, when her wounded childish heart had rebelled against God and man, and to day!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40420.33I hate a state of dependence.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20170.33"I have offended you mortally, and yet——I repeat it—I could not do otherwise."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17630.3313, for me or for my mother but one of inextinguishable hatred?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27890.33"Don’t make yourself ridiculous, John," she said with a cold sneer.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20940.33Madame’s harshest injustice and most wilful misunderstanding and ill treatment had never drawn a tear from her eyes, but now she wept bitterly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13310.30She breathed freely, and yet, strange to say, she had never felt more humiliated and Wounded than at present.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34010.28"I neither forget nor refuse to acknowledge one iota of what I said.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28840.28"Don’t think I’m envious, IIeinrich—that would be unchristian!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33120.26How often in passionate moments had an evil desire for revenge upon her heartless tormentor possessed her l She had thought then that it would be sweet to see this odious woman suffer.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38460.25Do me the favour to justify now, here upon the spot, your shameful accusation?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28550.25Well, congratulate us, Adele," cried Madame, with a bitter laugh, full of malice and contempt.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16160.25"In the first place, we insult you by the offer of paltry gold, and then let you stand there in your wet clothes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28750.22And this stubborn religion of the letter—this pietistic arrogance, beneath which such boundless spiritual pride had been at work—had surrounded his mother, in his eyes, like a halo of light.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37780.20"No!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37770.20You will never be false to me, Felicitas?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31180.20"We shall see about that!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13210.20"Very well," he said, shortly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38510.20"And now give back the book," said her cousin, in a harsh, unrelenting tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10260.16IIow perfect the girl had become in the habit of selfeontroll At the young widow’s last words, the bot re- bellious blood mounted to her forehcad—and the head thrown back showed for a moment something almost demonic in its expression of hate and contempt.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17710.62I was indignant then, and I am so still, that such a man should have suffered from a woman's treachery.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51560.60"Oh, you may protest as you please, with that defiant air and that pitiable pretence of offended pride.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16210.57Her maidenly pride was deeply wounded.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32210.57She was this man’s curse; his passion for her would be his ruin.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36770.50But she was indignant at the farce she had again seen played.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52980.50"No, not now, not just when you have so deeply offended and irritated me, it would be an ignoble re- venge !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8920.50If suffering comes to me through you, let it come; and if the Whole World should heap you with its scorn, I shall never accuse ‘ you, even by a look."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8590.50You say that you have not successfully played your part of scorn and contempt.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43500.50And Moritz, with his boundless extravagance, is behaving like a fool.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28080.50She was deeply offended ; she did not hear his last words, only that he accused her of desiring revenge.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8540.50He hated lying, avarice, and arrogance ; he for- gave his enemies, and forswore revenge upon those who injured him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64120.50If you knew what a detestable creature I am, how treach- erous, false, and cruel I can be, you would thrust me from your doors " " Lenore !"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31180.46Of course; he had never released her, even when she told him that she hated him, And Kitty glowed with indignation at the thought of the pitiable weakness which could induce a man to play so unmanly a part.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11180.45To such wanton malice can vanity prompt a petted, spoiled, and worshipped woman!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17790.44I was cured forever 1 A faithless woman is beneath contempt.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15510.44"I thank you, Mainau," she said, with an almost child-like joy, entirely ignoring the sneer contained in his last words.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64160.44I have injured you ; I have done you wrong whenever I could ; 1 have aspersed your character, and taken part with your enemies.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18300.44"A very sensitive conscience, my dear; it tells me that it would be most culpable frivolity to throw myself away.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32140.43She was deeply offended by his unjust accusations; but he was more compre- hensible to her thus than when shrouded in his artificial indif- ference and mock air of ennui.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46020.42And the men all thought him insane with arrogance and vanity.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52760.42your heartless and degrading treatment of those whom you consider your inferiors ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36390.42It was not true that there was any coldness in his "implacable eyes."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11860.42the Minister interposed, with Satanic contempt. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51180.42He, like some brainless fop, boast of a conquest?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38670.42"You, of all men, should be the last to say a word for him,—he was one of the most violent of your accusers."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42490.42I have, it is true, been weak enough to stand in dread of it, and to play the heartless mocker sooner than expose myself to ridicule as a sentimentalist.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35490.42I shall make very little trouble for the duchess and her ally; but while I still bear the name of Mainau, I will not suffer the husband to whom I am bound to be slandered in my presence, whatever his course may have been.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8990.42"Lothar, if you loved me, Why did you hurt me whenever you could by such harsh, unkind words, humiliating me so in my own eyes that I was wellnigh driven to despair?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48790.42To my great satisfaction he proudly bade defiance to her unkind treatment by ignor- ing the haughty girl entirely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43130.42I hated those laughing brown eyes ; they had tempted me to the meanness of which I had been guilty, and that warm breath upon my cheek was an insult.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31930.42Shame and indignation drove the blood to her face, and she sought in vain for terms in which to punish such unexampled temerity.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7100.41Could she love these shallow, specious creatures, who, with falsehood in their hearts and upon their lips, could not possibly appreciate her aspirations?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33440.40His contempt was crushing.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3500.40he asked, with a bitter emphasis.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42840.40Falsehood, falsehood !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1610.40Worthless creature!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10510.40Even this impertinence was not heeded.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41700.40"And upon what do you base this accusation?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2890.40"Hiss, little viper, if you will.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29210.40Besides," and there hovered about his lips both satire and a frivolous sneer, " you aro not very grateful.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28650.40Had he been more in earnest with regard to himself, and less flattered by worthless women, he might have been otherwise, but " Here the pen had been thrown aside. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28130.40Anl you, how could I desire revenge for insults that were not intended as such, and there- fore not regarded as such by me?
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4500.40You ought to know that coquetry of that kind is considered a legitimate amusei ment and is condoned by society.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20780.40The glances of the two men met; disdainful surprise shone in Mainau's eyes, and undisguised anger sparkled in those of the priest. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1880.38Was there ever another man who could, upon the altar of his wounded pride, slaughter his victim after so implacable, so refined, so cruel a fashion as you did just now?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41890.37The impertinent insult to Liana made him flush. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37780.37Do you not know that the Countess Trachenberg resents and repels such insolence ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17300.37But do not deceive yourself I I will never follow you into your shame, obscurity, and poverty!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22350.37She had gone away yesterday deeply, bitterly offended, but she had said, " To-morrow I will come again and see how it is."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20680.37The phlegmatic little woman was almost choked by righteous indignation.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16220.37She reproached herself that she had not rebuked his impertinence boldly upon the spot.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32780.37"Brainless fop, he will never cease to be the vulgar bagman!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15650.37It is, to be sure, only a woman’s work, and you cannot, of course, comprehend how there can be any hurry about such a trifle."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3230.36Mainau insults us," murmured the young girl, in a deeply wounded tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29200.36Shall I throw into the fire the ‘ rascal counters’ on account of which you reject the wretched, self-conceited mortal who owns them?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38280.36I would rather learn the harshest truth than harbour the faintest suspicion that you were not perfectly true to me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26990.36"She is vain and arrogant enough for it, but he,—he cares nothing for women,—he is a cold, heartless egotist," said the forester.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18680.36"And you think that these views will steel you against all the mortifications great and little which a heartless, capricious mistress might heap upon you?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1330.35But I can assure you that I do not make myself wretched long about such contacts hasty plebeian sins of the hand, in which the soul has no part There it is again.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36200.33Now he is indifferent to you, but after the discovery he will hate you.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35450.33The second wife owns in him her bitterest enemy.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8510.33Within an hour you will know that I am a cruel enemy."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25870.33" I am not such a coward," she replied, provoked.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18600.33And what had become of the proud contempt in which he had wrapped himself?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41530.33"You are a very imp of coldness and malice!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41320.33"How stern and implacable that sounds!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40750.33The time will come when you will acknowledge it with shame.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40580.33She started up as though a viper had stung her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38200.33"When I tell you of the cause of my cheerful looks you will repent your reproaches," he said.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20580.33She made a scornful gesture.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17390.33His wife shook her head with a kind of savage exultation.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46550.33Bertha denounced him as an unprincipled liar, and rushed from his presence.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34240.33Disgust and aversion drove her from the room in which such a farce had just been played.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38500.33The young wife was now suspicious and embittered enough to suspect that Mainau's accusing words had been but THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25700.33Should she not enter at once, place herself by his side, and confront her perjured sister with all the might of her maidenly scorn and anger?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22010.33No one could confront an enemy with a look of more bitter hatred than that which gleamed in the sunken eyes of the distinguished physician.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8070.33You have been insulted, and my pride is as sensitive to the insult as your own," he said, more calmly than he had spoken before; "but I pray you to consider that my first wife was the daughter of that sick man, his only child.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2520.33But that youth- ful scorner, with his contemptuous smile, and his mock- ing words, that cut me to the heart, must be humiliated upon the spot.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25690.33Must she not, then, be indignant as I am,—feel as I do that a girl who truly respects herself cannot pardon the odious accusation brought against her of angling for the admiration, for the hearts, of men ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41670.33Mainau looked in amazement at the old man whom he had thought, as he had told Liana, avaricious and arrogant, prone to petty malice, but possessed of a cold nature, not to be led astray by passion.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17840.33During Mainau's narrative she had been half inclined to draw near him and follow his recital with sympathy, when suddenly the hateful egotism of his last words repelled and disgusted her; she wished for no closer approach to a man who, in his arrogant consciousness of health and strength, seemed to believe himself above all mortal ill, and who avoided the slightest contact with misery, lest it should endanger his enjoyment of existence. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23170.31Sho exulted in the courage with which she had denounced the superstition of these orthodox believers, every word she had uttered had been a crushing protest against Mainau's benumbing course towards her.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7570.31He was moved by outraged vanity and by anger against the foresterfellow who was ‘ good as gold,’ as the girl said, and _ who Was only playing at staunch fidelity that he might gain his own ends.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29480.31At first the mistake amused me, and I did nothing to explain it; afterwards I held to my disguise because I was deeply wounded, bitterly offended: you never should become acquainted with the despised governess.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27180.31Did not the beautiful creature beside her—the personification, as it were, of glaring wrong, arrogance, and cruel self-will—conduct herself with all the determination and complacent resolve of one to whom no other course lay open?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35250.30It may, however, not be insulting to a woman's dignity to know that she has been married solely to wound and outrage another after a fashion which is the very refinement of cruelty."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22340.30He would summon up all his cleverness and crush down his foolish passion; his brain should be clear to confront this incomprehensible girl when she can1e,—and she would come.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41810.30"If there is no spark of honour in you to which I can appeal, you force me to use the only weapons at my command, by declaring to you that I thoroughly despise you; I detest the sight of you; the hiss of a poisonous viper could not inspire me with the aversion and disgust with which I listen to the words by which you would awaken my affection.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27080.30All the pride of the Trachen- bergs, as well as her injured feminine dignity, stirred within her. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26220.30Is it hatred that makes a man crouch and kneel and whine for pity upon him?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23410.30There are tears of indignation, of injured pride " " And of profound remorse," she interrupted him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60910.30All unction, all hypocritical pietism, had utterly vanished from his agitated countenance.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54500.30No, no ; her indignation at such an accusation disproved it utterly; had I not seen the tears shining in her eyes ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41820.30I have never harboured one sentiment of regard for you; but, if I had, it must have been instantly annihilated by your despicable conduct towards me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48580.30What words from one who usually repudiated all maidenly emotion as unworthy her masculine intellect!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_52320.29She could not yet look boldly back upon the past, she did not know what had followed upon that last moment of consciousness, in which she had been aware of the Hofmarschall confronting Mainau in unbroken arrogance and impertinent malice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50080.29Oh, how bitterly I repented having come into the counting-room 1 With a sudden access of my old defiant mood I took the paper that I had brought and thrust it into my pocket THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23970.28"Do you know what vanity beneath the lash looks like, Juliana ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65270.28But you could not know that she is the false, faithless Diana who caused him such suffering.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5740.28"A coward, Heinz I Yes, that was what made me so worthless.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28610.28I cannot have this reckless waste, Erdmann ; you know how I detest it.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_5980.28Herr Markus could not comprehend this infatuation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3240.28I suffer from an invincible antipathy for governesses."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35580.28"Elsie, you are a cruel, foolish creature.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10390.28He repeated his former refusal, and so ungraciously, that I am quite outraged.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31530.28No; she would rather pass for cruel, hard,—yes, even shrewish.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30960.28Could it really matter much to a man so insulted, so outraged?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38070.28I know what it is to pass half one's youth with a proud, ambitious heart and a sordid plebeian name, among sneering aristocratic com panions.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8990.28I am only provoked that the man has exposed himself to such a slander, for he was the child of good people,—any one could see that at a glance,—and his sad face troubles me still.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20090.28Nor could she scold the lower servants without offending the master of the house, and therefore all her malice was wreaked upon the unfortunate and defenceless governess.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8540.27Judg- ing from the bitter irony with which Mainau had spoken of her, the woman who had dwelt here must have been a way- ward, spoiled creature, prone to fits of childish impatience.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35400.27Mainau cared little what took place after this farce was concluded," the priest continued, hurriedly.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11370.27Will it not insult your pride, madame, to know that Schn werth shelters a fallen woman?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46340.27"I have often begged, Char- lotte, that you would refrain in my presence from such unkind, unjust epithets.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27730.27I felt instinctively that Herr Claudius must be deeply wounded by a word so emphasized, and I looked at him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5670.27I will pass my life in an endeavour to atone for that woman’s sin,—only take from me the curse of your contempt!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12400.27"My unvarying good fortune has provoked against me all manner of envy and secret malice."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4830.27But common sense often plays a poor part when opposed to excited fancy.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31440.27At the first shock she had protested against the terrible accusation; but now, whenever she called up in her memory her grandfather’s coarse, hard face, she could not but admit to herself that he might have said the cruel words about the "starving mice," and in positive pain she clenched her hands.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14060.27The poor child passes nights of suffering entirely alone, rather than summon attendants whose sleepy, sullen faces irritate her diseased, sensitive nerves; and, besides, her pride rebels against any confession of dependence upon her inferiors.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6390.26One meets with much coarse ingratitude, ’tis true, but there are also many true, noble natures to be found among those who are so poor, so distressingly needy——" "Not so bad as you think, Fräulein; that kind of people will always deceive you," Franz interrupted her, with a contemptuous wave of his hand.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16200.26Elizabeth was disgusted with his farce,—first, at the insulting familiarity, which made her blood boil with indignation, and then, at the denial of any acquaintance before a third person.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20160.26And then, the nettle-stings of her discourse vanished into insignificance by the side of the cruelty with which the unappreciated martyr invoked upon the head of the wretched governess all the gall of his suppressed sermons.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11930.26Let the man speak; I will satisfy myself whether radicalism or hatred " "This matter has nothing to do with the so-called radicals in your Highness’s domains," the Portuguese interposed; "but for the hatred which your Highness speaks of, I cannot and Will not deny my profound, inextinguishable hatred of that man!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47800.26It was true that the petted Flora Mangold had ensnared many a man’s heart to reject it pitilessly in wanton love of power: not a season had passed without bringing her such triumphs; but that a man should prove faithless to her—ridiculous!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32550.25She glided lightly over the place where she had declared herself separated forever from the man whom she despised; only a few hours had passed since she had heaped every epithet of scorn and contempt upon his home, which she had vowed never again to enter; and here she was, with her lovely, smiling face, confronting the "dreary barn," her little feet confidently pressing the grassy paths.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51730.25I am vexed at haying been the dupe of such a creature as that Lhn."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43720.25Not a word should pass my lips, first to lie, and then betray !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28980.25Yes, I knew it well; here was just the sly, deceitful manner that so irritated Dagobert.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5570.25She turned away her head, overcome by shame and humiliation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16310.25Positively, she was as frivolous and worldly-minded as her mistress. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15960.25All sorts of evil are stirring within me, malice and all uncharitableness.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51840.25"Even the lifeless stuff rebels against a sister’s treachery."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26440.25This ’beggarly pride’ has been a kind of Cassandra-curse to me.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36560.25he asked, with a cruel smile, almost gently, like some examiner who has just seen the last point of defence fail the accused man before him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5580.25She knew now why he had formerly thrust her from him In the forest-meadow with every sign of aversion; she" said to herself that he was quite right in rejecting the hospitality she had offered him upon her own estate,_.'.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56460.25How often I had heard my father complain of the frivol- ous, persistent intruder I Thus much I understood, my father's position at court was not as secure as formerly, and the cowardly rabble that had fawned upon him, were beginning to bark at him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47770.25I looked across the room, with a kind of envy, at her delicate little figure, standing mo- tionless at the window ; her conscience was clear ; she had never done him an injury ; she would have nothing to reproach herself with if the waters should close over those fair curls.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8150.23She found it almost impossible to speak to this cruel egotist, who had thus fettered ber to his side to confront such annoyances. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28540.23"Yes, the good creature came to express her sympathy for Henriette’s illness and the shameful attack made upon Flora," she said.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40760.22A single night had transformed the obsequious famulus into an imperious lord, he looked quite as haughty as he had been upon the moor, and it provoked me; but those proud brown eyes possessed such power over me that not one of the angry words I would have said to him passed my lips. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9200.22Mainau will soon cure you of your pedantry," the Countl- ess Trachenberg had said, and this very afternoon at table, in consequence of some allusion to " women's rights," he had de- clared, with disgust in look and gesture, that he did not know which woman he most detested, one who neglected her chil- dren from vanity and love of frivolous enjoyment, or the blue- stocking who banished her children from her room that she might compose verses or learned essays, an ink-spot on a woman's hand was more detestable than the ugliest birth-mark.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39020.22It sounds offensive and insulting to your sensi- bility, I know, but I cannot spare you."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1950.22under the cruel conditions imposed upon you by your pride," he said, almost defiantly, after a pause. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19250.22" Now you are hoaxing me," the Hofmarschall said, with \ laugh, " or else I must accuse you of sordid niggardliness.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29060.22I don't mean to offend, Fraulein," I heard Use say in the distance ; " but I think it a disgusting habit.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10080.22He had heard the old soldier’s low, muttered declaration, and, although he did not resent it in words, he pointed imperiously in the direction of the foresthouse, and the old man withdrew with a smile of scorn.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66260.22How I hated that face 1 How much frivolity, false- hood, and deceit lurked behind the white brow that had so dazzled me at the Hun's grave 1 It had been the light to lure me into the unknown world, unconsciously I had yielded to its attraction ; for its sake I had been recon- ciled to leaving my old home.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39960.21And the poor boy whom -that paper had branded and cast out as a bastard had been obliged to drag out what should have been the happy years of childhood, the victim of oppression, a mark for the contempt and scorn of all ; he had been crushed under foot and banished into the holes and corners of the castle that had belonged to the man whose only child he was.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58240.21Every word had been a dagger-thrust to me, and had filled me with a thirst for revenge upon his passionate denouncer, and yet I had been forced to remain with streaming eyes and clasped hands in my hiding-place.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15610.20was that, in conformity with one of the mysteries of feminine nature which lie hidden in the bosom of the proudest aristocrat no less than in that of the meanest grisette, the duchess had never loved the haughty baron so passionately and humbly as since his fearful revenge, since he had morally trodden her under foot.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49770.20What insolence !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42220.20That is my only excuse.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28920.20Have you anything else to say, Juliana?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16480.2096 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11380.20he said, with keen irony. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2690.20"Well, and ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66080.20What is the matter with the brute ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58490.20Counterfeit, do you say ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57960.20The haughty Princess !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54290.20" Lies I lies !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48450.20Will you teach me ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46730.20They already believe her much more heartless than she really is."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23550.20It is an old story ; no one knows much about it, I least of all.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30760.20You must manage it somehow."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23560.20nonsense!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20.20.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42030.20But what a look met hers!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40590.20"That is a cruel accusation!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38120.20I envy you."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50470.20What is to be done?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4760.20if she only knew how I detest these curtains!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_29320.20I know you well.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20450.20"Stop that!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20090.20’Tis shameful!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17760.20"Nonsense!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10910.20"Heartless!"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_3430.20There was no time for reflection; she had been seen, and nothing but her fleetness of foot could save her from prompt humiliation.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46910.20Her haughty arrogance all vanished, the baroness sat huddled together in one corner of it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19310.20Moritz would never have made such a sudden tabula rasa,—he clung to the factory in a manner to me perfectly incomprehensible,—but these last outrages have disgusted him: he does not want to have anything more to do with it."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35460.20I should think that all those who have been tortured and hunted down in life by that pitiless, haughty race, would arise, like accusing ghosts, from their graves, if the name should ever be revived, beneath whose shelter such oppression and tyranny existed for centuries.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14880.20In a moment of enthusiasm I promised its wearer carefully to preserve this token of her triumph, and now, whenever I write a letter, there it lies, in its more than respectable length and breadth, wounding both my sense of beauty and my vanity; for it tells of the time when I must have been an uncommonly stupid youth.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35860.18Little did my father dream that I, too, had a cold shiver at this moment, that I suddenly detested the people around me 1 They laughed and sneered, and no one had a word to say in defense of the absent.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51870.18Her blood was easily roused; her sense of justice was strong, and not even for the sake of peace would she submit to the persistent injustice of wayward egotism.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50010.18Upon it was written, in finely-formed, firm charac- ters, " Rosa Damascena."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1770.18You have all kinds of fine things that are not paid for, and there’s a very devil of arrogance and vanity in your head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37600.17There was, of course, no doubt that she would accept the offer, for although coquetry had led her to reject his advances hitherto, she could not possibly pursue such a line of conduct, in view of the brilliant prospect of becoming the envied wife of Herr von Hollfeld.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37330.16Embarrassed, perhaps, by this public display of affection, or irritated by Henriette’s reproof, the doctor started as if the white hand had been an odious reptile, and his colour changed.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18430.16‘The stubborn Portuguese’ gilded his answer with the same diplomatic delicacy; but the actual bitter meaning of it which could not be disguised was, that the man so honoured was not of those who oppose the aristocracy only as long as they do not belong to it; that our times afforded examples enough of renegades becoming the props and key- stones of worn-out institutions that they have hitherto derided and scorned—defending their conduct by saying, ‘For our children’s sake.’ He loved his name and did not wish to change it.

Hugo_Les_Miserables_248110.71That gentleman is a knave, a wretched scoundrel, a vain little ingrate, a heartless, soulless, haughty, and wicked man!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_132760.69As we have said, he perfectly understood the old man's vocabulary, and if he did not use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_6280.66Don't believe a word of what I have been saying--lies, lies, cowardly, contemptible lies!
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_24570.63You know, as I do, that it is a bad fiend and a wicked one,--a fiend that is prompting you to the worst cruelty in the world.
Wister_Schillingscourt_6810.62The impertinent, insolent conduct of this arrogant cottonprincess."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_173000.62The woman envied by all the women; the man by all the men.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_14080.62"But is it any worse for a false priest than for a hypocritical minister?"
Harland_Alone_91240.62"Falsehood--unprovoked falsehood is viler in a woman.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_33600.62I am selfish and worldly--ambitious and heartless, and all that is abominable.
Evans_Beulah_90530.62Oh, is she indeed so utterly, utterly heartless, selfish, callous?
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_37570.62"Say your worst and do your worst, you cruel, cruel man!
Evans_St_Elmo_24480.60It is true many women are flattered by a man's perseverance, their vanity is gratified.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_147670.60I will allow you to make me hateful, but I will prevent your rendering me ridiculous, and, above all, I forbid you to ruin me."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_132060.60As we have said, he perfectly understood the old man's vocabulary, and if he did not use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing.
Alcott_Little_Women_18110.60She was proud, and her pride was useful just then, for it helped her hide her mortification, anger, and disgust at what she had just heard.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_263110.58But every day there comes to him an insolent letter, to provoke and exasperate his legitimate hatred, by mockeries and insults.
Evans_St_Elmo_69310.58My conscience assures me that a man who can deliberately seek to gain a woman's heart merely to gratify his vanity, or to wreak his hate by holding her up to scorn, or trifling with the love which he has won, is unprincipled, and should be ostracized by every true woman.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_14070.57"He shall suffer for it, the spiteful, ungrateful brute!
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_98110.57She was staunch in her friendships, and staunch in her enmities.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_61910.57Do not try to make me think that anything could tempt you to be false to your vows."
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_153460.57You are the most ungrateful, heartless creature I ever met.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_290490.57And you have thought to humiliate and crush me with your insolent disdain!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_282300.57What offends you, offends me also; what disgusts you, disgusts me.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_31750.57But I have done with your ridiculous false pride forever."
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_71510.57How doubly harsh and unjust her words seemed now!
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_62100.57She had been false at first, and, in a certain sense, must appear false to the last, in that she had not told him the truth.
Reade_White_Lies_77430.57His rival had quarrelled with him, had insulted him, had challenged him.
Reade_White_Lies_41240.57I am a foolish, disingenuous woman: I have been very culpable.
Reade_White_Lies_35670.57"She hates me: it is true, then, that we hate those whom we have wounded.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_171800.57She was bitterly piqued, but she did not make that use of her pique.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_17070.57The old man grinned with gratified pride.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_54270.57He will reject it, and spurn me; and I shall know that I deserve his scorn.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_69340.57Do not belie yourself, Cigarette; you are too generous ever to be vindictive."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_48020.57The word had rankled in her; she could launch it now with telling reprisal.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_53460.57"You will be kind enough, if you please, to avoid all such epithets; at least, in my hearing."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_94610.57The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this without any affectation.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_72000.57My treatment of you was thoughtless, inexcusable, wicked!
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_28600.57"A true man, and proud as a lucifer."
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_97790.57And yet I deserved pity; what I suffered no tongue can ever tell.
Evans_St_Elmo_78270.57But you only upbraided and heaped savage sarcasms upon me.
Evans_Beulah_71600.57You will blush for the name which, as your wife, Antoinette will disgrace.
Evans_Beulah_49460.57Oh, where is your pride--your womanly pride--your self-respect?
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_16070.57If I had not known that this cowardly fop--I don't know what _else_ he may be--was injuring me by his lies I should not have come in.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_47500.57That reconciliation was nothing but the vengeance of a jealous woman.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_197530.57Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_69510.57It was in vain that she reproached and even cursed herself for her weakness.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_38620.57She has wronged--cruelly wronged--another woman."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_7410.57this underhanded mercenary creature might have taken me up--and ruined me!
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_22220.57She was proud and she felt the sting of poverty.
Bronte_Shirley_83510.57"I reject counsel poisoned by insinuation.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21260.33"And was that the head and front of his offending?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43400.25Adele, as you say, must go to school; and you, of course, must march straight to -- the devil?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86760.20Let us be friends."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71320.20"And what is he?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_66750.20How could she serve me?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55890.20"No."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4980.20"No?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43080.20"And who goes with you?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37440.20"But not with you?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_36360.20"You have -- have you?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26490.20Now run!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69440.20If you've any followers -- housebreakers or such like -- anywhere near, you may tell them we are not by ourselves in the house; we have a gentleman, and dogs, and guns."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19280.37Ile had a command of language which few men possess.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_850.33But all this was forgotten when the six soldiers, under the command of a sergeant, marched into the ball.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5760.28"You do not know my mamma at all," she said, half questioningly, and almost breathlessly.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4920.40She was just passing me to go into the courtyard. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30740.40And I marched up to her like a soldier. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40180.33He took the young officer's arm.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41610.33Elizabeth stood proudly erect, and retreated a pace or two.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7390.33This disgraceful scene would probably have lasted much longer if the baroness had not brought up a _corps de reserve_ to her assistance in the shape of a box of bonbons.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26030.28Across the bridge came a gentleman with a lady upon his arm.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23070.28Dagobert and I are French through and through, body and soul !
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14680.27Doctor Bruck, after serving as regimental surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War, and then remaining for some time in Berlin as assistant to a distinguished surgeon there, had returned to M——, principally in compliance with his aunt’s entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51330.22The significance of rank is no longer what it was ; if I do not cringe I cannot be de- graded.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2970.22That was, as old Sabina said, an ancient iron flag-staff upon the roof of Castle Gnadeck, from which in times long gone by the proud banner of the Gnadewitzes had flouted the air.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37110.20quite apropos!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29430.20" Your will may be of steel ; his is no less so.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13470.20The men who come after us must be of iron.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1060.20No, no !
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_600.20"Just see '~ here, Barbe!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6210.20That was I I !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60700.20them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51040.20" What do you mean ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37650.20That capital rider ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31320.2018?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16490.20I am always at his service!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14140.20There!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35130.20"What!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_3300.20"Let us go on."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32510.20Hector!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5990.20Its wing was broken.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50410.20"Ugh!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26560.20"Yes, go," he said.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18430.20"Oh yes; if I want to play soldiers she puts on just the same kind of paper hat that she makes for me, and marches, drumming up and down the garden, just as long as I choose.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1890.18"But there are gentlemen there, too, Floss——" "Greater gossips than the rest, in spite of their orders and epaulettes!"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2370.16Here had been the site, in days long gone by, of the convent Walpurgiszella, close upon the dividing line between the two Geroldscourts.

Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_64310.83They were but fifteen hundred or so in all--a single squadron of Chasseurs, two battalions of Zouaves, half a corps of Tirailleurs, and some Turcos; only a branch of the main body, and without artillery.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_72810.83Under an overwhelming shower of grape, to which succeeded a charge of cavalry of the Imperial Guard, the head of Ney's column fired its volley and advanced with the bayonet.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_5960.81Our own troops, retiring in haste before the overwhelming forces of the French, occupied every little vantage ground with their guns and light infantry, charges of cavalry coursing hither and thither; while, as the French pressed forward, the retreating columns again formed into squares to permit stragglers to come up.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_26820.79To resist the impetus of our approach was impossible; and without a shot fired, scarcely a sabre-cut exchanged, we actually rode down their advanced squadrons, hurling them headlong upon their supporting division, and rolling men and horses beneath us on every side.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_72050.79As I looked, the supporting columns halted, wheeled, and retired; while a tremendous shower of grape was poured upon them from the village, which now seemed to have been retaken by the Allies.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_3760.77His division consisted of the hussars and chasseurs under Kellermann, the cuirassiers of D'Auvergne, and the heavy dragoons of Nansouty,--making a force of eight thousand sabres, supported by twenty pieces of field artillery.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_67000.76Ride forward, O'Malley, and if they be our fellows, let them carry that height yonder; there are two guns there cutting the 92d to pieces."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71690.74Marcognet's Division is surrounded; the dragoons ride them down on every side; the guns are captured; the drivers cut down; and two thousand prisoners are carried off.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_79450.74Where the infantry stood the artillery arrives, the cavalry rushes in where the artillery was, the battalions are like smoke.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_72400.73Our column dashed forward to meet them; when suddenly through the drift we beheld a mass of fugitives, scattered and broken, approaching: they were our own cavalry, routed in the attempt on the flank, now flying to the rear, broken and disordered.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_32230.73We had a commissary-general, an inspecting brigade-major of something, a physician to the forces, the adjutant himself, and Major Dalrymple; the _hoi polloi_ consisting of the raw ensign, a newly-fledged cornet (Mr. Sparks), and myself.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_35940.73But beyond the frontier were the veteran legions of the Austrian campaign, who, while advancing on their return to France, were suddenly halted, and now only awaited the Emperor's orders whither they should carry their victorious standards.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71570.73The brave Brunswickers, overwhelmed by the heavy cavalry of France, at first begin to waver, then are broken; and at last retreat in disorder up the road, a whirlwind of pursuing squadrons thundering behind them.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_78560.73Here, too, the bustle and excitement seemed considerable, for to this point the dark masses of the infantry seemed converging from the extreme right; and here we could perceive the royal guards and the reserve now forming in column of attack.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_61870.73Some dismounted guns and broken wagons alone marked the spot; while far in the distance, the dust of the retreating columns showed the beaten enemy as they hurried towards the frontiers of Spain.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_85630.73Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is what was grand.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_1820.73Yonder are the heights where your brave father--who commanded us, and the Poles of the Guard--overthrew the Russian Cuirassiers, after having carried the battery.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_41470.73The Emperor's headquarters were established at Weimar, and thither all the ambulances were conveyed; while the marshals, with their several divisions, were sent in pursuit of the enemy.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_3920.73was now heard from squadron to squadron; while dashing along the line like a thunderbolt, Murat rode far in advance of his staff, the men cheering him as he went.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_62390.73From the little mound where I stood, I could see the long line of cavalry as they deployed into the plain, followed by the horse artillery, which brought up the rear.
Cooper_The_Spy_36030.73"As it is quite uncertain whether we shall be attacked in front, or in rear," said Hollister, "five of you shall march in advance, and the remainder shall cover our retreat towards the barrack, should we be pressed.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_72070.72was now the order; and a force of six thousand sabres advanced from between the battalions, and formed for attack.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_79610.72They stood in columns of divisions, with artillery and cavalry between them, the bands of the various regiments in front.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_2920.71Next came Bernadotte's division, separated by the highroad from Brunn to Olmutz from the division under Murat, which, besides his own cavalry, contained Oudinot's grenadiers and Bessière's battalions of the Imperial Guard; the centre and right being formed of Soult's division, the strongest of all; the reserve, consisting of several battalions of the Guard and a strong force of artillery, being under the immediate orders of Napoleon, to be employed wherever circumstances demanded.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_31940.71Ever foremost in the attack upon our rear-guard, this gallant youth (he was scarce six-and-twenty), a colonel of his regiment, and decorated with the Legion of Honor, he led on every charge of his bold "_sabreurs_," riding up to the very bayonets of our squares, waving his hat above his head, and seeming actually to court his death-wound; but so struck were our brave fellows with his gallant bearing, that they cheered him as he came on.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_85690.71The trumpets sounded, the salvoes of artillery pealed out, the lances and the swords were carried up in salute; on the ground rode the Marshal of France, who represented the imperial will and presence, surrounded by his staff, by generals of division and brigade, by officers of rank, and by some few civilian riders.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_27370.71The Seventh Division were ordered to cross the Turones, while Crawfurd, forming the light division into squares, covered their retreat, and supported by the cavalry, sustained the whole force of the enemy's attack.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_67320.71Yes, it is true: the camp of Boulogne has received orders to break up; troops are once more on their march to the Rhine; all France is arming."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_41100.71The troops were cantoned along the line of the frontier,--the infantry occupying the villages, and the cavalry being stationed wherever forage could be obtained.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_29620.71After this the French pursued their march in silence, and even when assembling in force we rode down upon their squares, they never halted nor fired a shot.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_26590.71While we thus advanced into the plain, the artillery unlimbered behind us, and the Spanish cavalry, breaking into skirmishers, dashed boldly to the front.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_256610.71Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_79490.70We followed as far as Guntzburg without coming up with them; and there the news of the capitulation of Meiningen, with its garrison of six thousand men, to Marechal Soult, reached us, along with an order to return to Ulm.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_79770.69Seventy pieces of cannon, with a long train of ammunition wagons, and four thousand cavalry horses, brought up the rear of this melancholy procession,--the spoils of the capitulation of Ulm.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71460.69The battle was now raging from the Château de Hougoumont to St. Lambert, where the Prussian tirailleurs, as they issued from the wood, were skirmishing with the advanced posts of Lobau's Brigade.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_111320.69We were to march at once, with two six-pounders and a squadron of cavalry, on a fort occupied by an outlying lot of them which commanded a ford, and was to be taken and destroyed, and the rascals who held it dispersed; after which we were to join the main army.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_77600.69Your last gazette was as colonel; but there is a rumor you should have received your appointment as general of brigade.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_76480.69At the same instant the whole line presented arms, and the drums beat the salute.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71480.69To the right of Ney's attack, D'Erlon advanced with three divisions, and the artillery of the Guard.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_67470.69"I am an aide-de-camp to General Picton, but without regimental rank."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_66720.69Strong French corps are already at Fresnes, under the command, it is said, of Marshal Ney."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_2420.69Ammunition has just been served out, and I know the horse artillery have orders to be in readiness by daybreak."
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_108970.69The dragoon and the Swiss followed him, and all their comrades followed the dragoon and the Swiss.
Disraeli_Lothair_45200.69Colonel, I order you to your tent; you are a veteran -- the only one among us, at least on the staff, who was wounded at Aspromonte."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_10920.69THE MILL ON THE HOLITSCH ROAD At an early hour on the morning of the 4th came orders for the "Garde à Cheval" to hold themselves in readiness, with two squadrons of the carabineers, on the road to Holitsch; part of this force being under the command of General d'Auvergne.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_6320.69It was necessary that all should be done noiselessly and speedily; while, therefore, the wounded were marched to the front, and the heavy artillery with them, a brigade of light four pounders and two squadrons of cavalry held the heights above the bridge, and the infantry, forming into three columns, began their march.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_26100.69We could perceive, however, from the road to the southward, by the long columns of dust, that reinforcements were still arriving; and learned during the morning, from a deserter, that Massena himself had come up, and Bessiéres also, with twelve hundred cavalry, and a battery of the Imperial Guard.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_64520.69General Falkenried stood in the main square of the lower town with his staff, about to move also into the fortress.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_72740.69The lancers pursue the fugitives through the plain; and before the very eyes of the Emperor, the Guard--his Guard--are sabred and routed.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_44160.69After them came two battalions of the _Chasseurs à pied_,--a splendid body of infantry, the remnant of four thousand who went into battle on the morning of the 15th.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81760.50I abandon to you, then, what is absolutely superfluous to me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_77320.50I thought I would far rather be where I am than in any high family in the land.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31860.50You pay her, of course; I should think it quite as expensive, -- more so; for you have them both to keep in addition."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12120.50What stores of knowledge they possessed!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90880.50such an immense quantity of valuable property destroyed: hardly any of the furniture could be saved.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29600.50I should not wonder but she has saved enough to keep her independent if she liked to leave; but I suppose she's got used to the place; and then she's not forty yet, and strong and able for anything.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89770.44I entered -- not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27120.44"You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immense a debt.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22390.44He did not like to diminish the property by division, and yet he was anxious that Mr. Edward should have wealth, too, to keep up the consequence of the name; and, soon after he was of age, some steps were taken that were not quite fair, and made a great deal of mischief.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78030.43It seemed to me that, should he become the possessor of Mr. Oliver's large fortune, he might do as much good with it as if he went and laid his genius out to wither, and his strength to waste, under a tropical sun.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81520.41Now the wealth did not weigh on me: now it was not a mere bequest of coin, -- it was a legacy of life, hope, enjoyment.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8780.40How small my portion seemed!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80370.40"Yes, you, rich -- quite an heiress."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81930.37I, wealthy -- gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74940.35Mary and I would have esteemed ourselves rich with a thousand pounds each; and to St. John such a sum would have been valuable, for the good it would have enabled him to do."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80600.33"It is a large sum -- don't you think there is a mistake?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61920.33I must be provided for by a wealthy marriage.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43530.33"I could not spare the money on any account."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35380.33-- Is she a real fortune-teller?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74880.33It was by his advice that my father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57010.33I must be careful of you, my treasure: nerves like yours were not made for rough handling."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51660.33Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22380.33The old gentleman was fond of money, and anxious to keep the family estate together.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74900.33My uncle engaged afterwards in more prosperous undertakings: it appears he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72400.33Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54830.32Mr. Rochester that night was absent from home; nor was he yet returned: business had called him to a small estate of two or three farms he possessed thirty miles off -- business it was requisite he should settle in person, previous to his meditated departure from England.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63180.30I was glad to give her a sufficient sum to set her up in a good line of business, and so get decently rid of her.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75000.30Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen, with a deal bedstead and chest of drawers; small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty wardrobe: though the kindness of my gentle and generous friends has increased that, by a modest stock of such things as are necessary.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81490.30They were under a yoke, -- I could free them: they were scattered, -- I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81690.28What I want is, that you should write to your sisters and tell them of the fortune that has accrued to them."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_13690.28Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were intrusted to the management of a committee.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7970.27I was still pondering the signification of "Institution," and endeavouring to make out a connection between the first words and the verse of Scripture, when the sound of a cough close behind me made me turn my head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49530.27"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71750.26Mr. St. John, when he grew up, would go to college and be a parson; and the girls, as soon as they left school, would seek places as governesses: for they had told her their father had some years ago lost a great deal of money by a man he had trusted turning bankrupt; and as he was now not rich enough to give them fortunes, they must provide for themselves.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80400.22Your fortune is vested in the English funds; Briggs has the will and the necessary documents."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_73790.22"You need be in no hurry to hear," he said: "let me frankly tell you, I have nothing eligible or profitable to suggest.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12300.22I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56100.21I saw plainly how you would look; and heard your impetuous republican answers, and your haughty disavowal of any necessity on your part to augment your wealth, or elevate your standing, by marrying either a purse or a coronet."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96680.20What do I sacrifice?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79300.20"But why are you come?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79220.20"No.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78570.20You are wasting away."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_59440.20I must shut up my prize."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51230.20I laughed at him as he said this.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38080.20He took the glass from my hand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19030.20"Can I do anything?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17940.20"Nor any traditions of one?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10290.20And, O ma'am!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_23680.18"I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41590.16You don't hesitate to take a place at my side, do you?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3100.72Heir to a considerabio property, he had increased his Wealth by extensive commercial operations.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32020.58And then to have some worthless person appear who will squander in a few months the careful savings, which would have been such a source of blessing in our hands."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41680.50At present the money was in the best possible hands,—he did not consider his property as 398 THE OLD HA.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14540.50and devoted the worth in money of the other two to the missionary fund."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10770.50"IIm l—rather a large sum for my present finances," said she, "but he must have it."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29090.50‘ 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_29070.42The yearly interest of the capital safely invested, shall be divided in all future time equally among eight of the teachers employed in the public schools of X , in such a manner that all the public school teachers shall receive a portion in regular rotation without favour or partiality.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25300.40Perhaps indeed her own savings had accumulated.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11190.35Heinrich had for years been her right hand—of which the left was unconscious; he distributed Mam’se1le’s bounty as slyly as though dis» covery would cost him his living, and many a poor wretch in the town who gave ear to, and devoutly believed the most monstrous stories concerning her, lived upon the old Mam’selle’s alms.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39960.33It was stolen money that they squandered.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20210.33You are necessitated to earn your own living.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38640.33"Do not let me think that you wish to ascertain the actual worth of tl:e only present that I have ever asked you to make me!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29460.33And now,—’twas un-heardof,—a large sum ‘of money was to leave this house for- ever, and the stout old walls and the iron figure behind the asclepias plant had no power to retain it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10850.32The space thus disclosed was the Mam’selle’s bank, and in former years had seemed to Felicitas an inexhaustible mine of fairy treasures, so be- Witching had been the few glimpses that she had had of the wonders that it contained ;—on the shelves inside were several rolls of gold, a quantity of silver plate, and various articles of jewelry.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28910.30The old Mam’selle ought not to have willed away a penny of her money—it all belonged by good rights to our people,—and when you come to think of it, it would be actual stealing to take it, Heinrich.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42880.30I have no doubt that I can succeed in inducing my father to allow you a considerable yearly stipend."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40850.30There is a decided difference between keeping property that has no owner, and stealing bread from another’s store.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25690.30It was on no account to fall into the hands of her heirs, and yet how averse she had been to consign it to destruction herself!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33010.28239 flected whither her revelations were of necessity lcading her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40070.27"IIow—pay such an enormous sum to the first miserable Vagabond who may lay claim to it!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9750.26many a time in better days I have spent my holiday in making some little article for your charitable fairs, because I thought they were for the assistance of some of my poor neighbours, but all the money will be sent away from here, while so many of us have not a shoe to our feet or a stick of wood in our houses for winter."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12820.25"All the missionary funds pass through his hands—and the members of our church have the greatest confidence in him."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40240.23Madame cast one venomous glance towards him as he made his protestation, and then continued in a raised voice: "We are not justified in throwing away, to be squandered in riotous living, the means which We devote to such pious purposes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6720.22"Do you intend then that we shall go on paying money for a creature who has no earthly claim upon us?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33370.22"You will probably reproach me with having deprived Nathanael and yourself of this valuable inheritance," she continued. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16120.22Give her a dress of good strong gingham that will be of some service to her, and that will be quite .
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15070.20"But you forget, my dear," said a rather over-dressed young lady, looking suspiciously at the other’s boasted simple attire, "that you trim this simple material with quantities of insertion and edging, which certainly must increase the price of the dress to three times its original cost."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10610.20The images -and the works of the master-composers of various times shared the old Mam’selle’s asylum, and as the ivy Wreathed itself impartially around all the busts, so did Man:’selle enjoy the old Italian and the German schools with equal relish.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16040.20.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13170.20What ingratitudel" "You believe, then, that you can do without further assistance from us?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10960.20what have you got there?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24590.14"It will be a fine thing--a perfect shame-—if the old woman has sold this valuable family silver, or perhaps —-given it away,—it would have been just like herl" she continued as if to herself.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6240.75"Several of the best workmen, having saved a little money, asked of Moritz that when the estate was divided he would allow them to buy a small piece of waste land near the factory,—of small value in itself.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3690.64The will further provided that the whole property should be invested in government securities and other solid stock, the choice of which should be left entirely to the guardian, as a prudent and careful man of business.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19330.62"I, for my part, would not have parted with the factory at present for millions.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43020.61For all there had been expended immense sums; whatever was flung abroad in the stock market, the golden stream here seemed inexhaustible.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49910.57The company in which you took stock has failed, I suppose."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11260.54Although we have had to resign a degree of splendour, the solid worth of a good establishment still remains for us.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38640.51He had magnanimously left in the bookkeeper's hands the sum already subscribed by the workmen to the missionary box, but had replaced it from his own pocket, and converted it into the foundation of a fund that should defray the expenses of an advanced scientific educatiou for mechanics' sons, and provide dow- ries for the daughters of the poorer class of laborers.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32390.50he has had the sole management of them for a year.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33360.50I will sell out, and invest in this new stock."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5460.50No more alms are distributed among the poor, unless they are earned by hypocrisy.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29690.50Your estates here, he declared, are mines of wealth, but those to whose care they are intrusted arp.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45890.50Everything laid waste and under water that it has taken years of labour to bring to perfection.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11710.50The last of the Gnadewitzes divided his forests because the Prince of L—— was willing to pay an immense sum of money that he might enlarge his own woodland possessions.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35770.50Disturbed by no loss, no failure, whatever was touched by the enchanted wand of his business genius seemed to turn to gold,—his wealth was estimated by millions.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50090.47Even if the enormous capital employed by Moritz in his business operations be lost in consequence of the destruction of his books and papers, the real estate and personal property which he owned will amount to a handsome fortune."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49370.46The councillor had undertaken all the improvements upon his Baumgarten estate at the same time, and consequently only a small portion of their cost had been defrayed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45110.46Was he one of the discontented crowd of factory-hands who envied the rich man and wrought mischief to his possessions whenever they could?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3740.45"The income of the property shall be divided among the poor of the land during my life, but by myself," she quietly interrupted him. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12700.44For years Use had been accumulating all sorts of supplies for me, and now they were to be displayed to the world.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7960.44He was an adventurer, a braggart of’ the worst kind,-—who knew how those jewels had come into his possession?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33300.44I tell you there is a charm about your money; the dividends from some new investments I have just made for you are enormous."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2980.43Sievert provided for himself, and he was quite able to do so,—he had sold the farm that he had inherited from his father, and the interest of the proceeds of the sale amply sufiiced for his moderate wants.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5560.43There are perpetual collections, fairs, and lotteries for the poor, and the whole neighbourhood is black-mailed, but when it comes to taking the money from, where it is plentiest, their own purses,—oh, that’s carrying the joke too far, as the saying goes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19290.43"The coachman told me awhile ago that they were in a very agitated state over there,—quite beside themselves,—because the factory has been sold to a joint-stock company, principally, they say, under the management of Jews.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3820.42Therefore I conclude that you must have a arplus of money at your disposal of which you do not tell me."
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2780.42"Herbert Wants his stolen property for his class.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46020.42It cannot diminish our inheritance by a single penny.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20790.42"Are you satisfied to have this money deposited in my hands ?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9130.42"You are a real-estate owner, Moritz tells me.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18700.41"But, grandmamma, did you really suppose that Moritz would purchase rank at such an immense price and then allow his race to die out?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16890.40It involves a consider- able outlay.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32250.40I must have the coin, I must invest in it."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15220.40Of course, they prefer to work for themselves.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61800.40"You must have an abundance of pocket-money, iny love, to be able to afford such luxuries ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49210.40My father's income was considerable, but he denied himself the necessaries of life that he might increase his various collections.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16820.40A great deal of money, Kitty,—I meant to tell you that you employ very dear teachers."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39020.40I have calculated everything, and find that besides my pin-money I shall have quite sufficient income to pay out of my own pocket the wages of a housekeeper and capital cook."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49410.40He had indeed understood as few speculators ever had done how to keep his confidential business friends in ignorance of his money transactions; even the former book-keeper of the factory, whom after its sale he had retained as his private secretary, had no knowledge of his affairs.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54930.39In the disastrous confusion that followed the explosion there were many creditors whose claims even the real estate and valuable collections were not sufficient to satisfy; the failure proved to be one of the worst and most hopeless that occurred in that time of ruin and uncertainty.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39100.38If I possessed power and wealth, your party would boast one more zealous convert, but I must sail with the stream, and so I belong to those who lend a hand to the whirligig that they call progress."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12460.38But it is by no means your private affair that you have embezzled the property of your ward,that you have sold, for eighty thousand thalers, jewels belonging to her, and have substituted in their place worthless imitations.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45670.38"It is no loss, Elizabeth; it is an exchange,—an exchange by which I gain a priceless treasure,—the happiness of an entire existence."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46720.38But, although enormous sums had thus been destroyed, did not she, the Frau President, at present make her home upon an estate valued at many thousands?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35750.38There were many occasions, and very welcome ones, for festivities of various kinds, and the Frau President’s invention and the councillor’s purse seemed alike inexhaustible.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11950.37It was this that made Kitty a stranger in the home of her childhood; this display, this estimate of effect, for which no outlay of money was too great; this feverish effort to proclaim to the world that the basis of everything here was of gold,—-all this was in direct contradiction to the spirit of the old Mangold firm, which had never thus asserted its undeniable wealth and credit.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21510.37If the money is given to you, Frau Use's signature will not suffice.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13680.37I divided his property among public benevolent institutions.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37060.37What should I do without an enormous income with such an extravagant, frivolous wife!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8870.37You still maintain that we women of the capitalists’ families have provoked them?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47250.37My sister Henriette, with whose inheritance Römer has been speculating, will be a beggar; and Kitty?—rest assured that not a stiver of all her immense fortune is left."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_530.37The lucky heir, who was greatly annoyed by seeing so large a part of his woodland possessions in stranger hands, would gladly have purchased the old castle at a high price, but the cunning clause at the conclusion of the codicil forbade any such transaction.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11990.37She had thrown her small property of a few thousands into the huge lottery,—that is, invested it in stock,—and it was strange to see her face, usually so calm and impassive, work nervously, and flush with colour to the temples, when the subject of conversation was the money-market.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4610.36"Never dare," she harshly commanded Ulrika, "to use one penny of that money for household expenses."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22070.36131 you going to leave Fraulein von Sassen's property in mr hands without any receipt?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3900.35As for that braggart the bailiff, with his invincible propensity for squandering, I Want to have nothing to do with him, and I cannot even make over the farm to his Wife if I do not want this last hope of hers to be wasted in extravagance and dissipation; she is so weak where her husband is concerned,—a leaf in the wind!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27770.33The bookkeeper's thrust had been successful.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17290.33What right had my small, prying person here ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_890.33No; new gloves would be a most superfluous luxury.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40340.33"Emil’s income is not large."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_720.33He had touched money belonging to another!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19190.33"He can now break entirely with every connection with trade.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2800.33woe to the tongue that hinted at these sources of increase to her income !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61080.33Pray how could you take so so forgive me so little care of money intrusted to your safekeeping ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49280.33I could not go to Use, nor to Herr Claudius, for I should have to tell him for what purpose I desired a portion of my property.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35830.33how the precious articles, that young Claudius brought thence, looked when he gave them to me !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25850.33I looked abroad upon a fair prospect and a considerable extent of sky.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23150.33If this is the way my smoke-houses and provisions are managed, ’tis no wonder what becomes of my income!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42950.33It had been finished thus quickly at an enormous expense of money and labour.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33230.33"Open her safe, of course, and scatter her stocks abroad among the people."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_380.33He then moved with his family to B——, where he obtained quite a lucrative situation as bookkeeper in an extensive mercantile establishment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18570.33Raoul is a fool, with his gloxinias, gesnerias, and whatever else those costly South American things are called 1 Untold sums he spends, that they may wither in meddling hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24850.33some 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_Gisela_18390.33Frau von Herbeck also vanished from the scene, and lived forgotten in a small country town upon her ‘reminiscences’ and a yearly allowance made her by Gisela.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7560.33Would he not gladly have gone this instant to the farm, which he had hitherto avoided, to present himself to the ‘ old spendthrift, the braggart, the notorious gambler and drunkard,’ and his family, and to beg them all not to judge him harshly?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1770.32It is true the prince had sent his new official a considerable sum of money for travelling expenses, and the forester uncle, too, had shown his usual generosity; but with the greatest economy it did not suffice, and therefore Elizabeth had employed every hour which she usually had for recreation in sewing for a large ready-made linen establishment,—occupying herself thus with her needle for many a night, after her unsuspecting parents were sleeping soundly.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13280.32I thought it my duty to rescue the name of Viildern from obloquy, and although I rejected the means for doing so - offered to me by Baron Fleury, I nevertheless yielded in part to his suggestion: I determined to spend my life in retirement, at Greinsfeld, to distribute the yearly income ' from the stolen estates among the poor of the country, and at my death to make the reigning family my heirs."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2250.31Consequently her husband had lived for her alone, and had exhausted his last sources of income to preserve for her the illusion of the wealth of the family, until finally the angel of deliverance had freed her from earthly pain, when he had resigned himself placidly to the ruin of his fortune.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55870.31My child, you really do not know what a priceless possession you have in those pearls that are wreathed so carelessly in your wealth of curls I" " Yes, your Highness, I do know that the pearls are all now left of great riches," I replied, endeavouring to make my voice full and clear. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_470.31In full remembrance and consideration of the good fortune and many blessings which have always hovered above this ancient pile, I hold it entirely superfluous to increase my legacy further.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_28060.31But that the unmarried men who are present in large numbers may have no reason to complain,—that their mouths also may be filled,—a sort of lottery has been ingeniously devised.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30080.31True, he now possessed rank, and was wealthier than most others of his present station,—he had just reaped another golden harvest,—he could plant himself defiantly upon his money-bags, and—this he was doing.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8530.30And my father," she continued, " gave bread to the hun- gry, and his left hand knew not the work of his right hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39040.30Neither of you can appreciate, for you do not know, the immense influence that it gave the church to have the eminent house of Clau- dius, with all its dependents, within our ranks.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30040.30It is the greatest piece of luck that has ever befallen me; I have had so many sacrifices to make in what I have purchased hitherto, and just now I have very little capital at my disposal.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7780.30"Gisela hates jewels, and their mere touch suffices to‘ bring on her nervousness in the highest degree."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11550.30The castle miller knew how to grasp fortune at the flood,—his will is proof of that,—but even he could hardly dream how his wealth would increase metamorphosed thus."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_68130.30They are now living in DorotheenthaL Helldorf has a high position in the firm of Claudius & Co., and since little Paul opened his large eyes upon the world, Charlotte cannot understand how there should be such wretched divisions of rank in a world where all are born equal.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63430.30why, it must be very hard work ; I cannot pos- sibly live any longer upon your earnings !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41600.30Use was gone, and the moment was near at hand in which I had volunteered to give indubitable proofs of all that the bookkeeper had said.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24860.30But as the wealth of the firm accumulated, its chiefs became more and more simple, honest, and retiring.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30950.30There was no further capital to be made by the braggart out of his ‘golden boy’s’ long silence.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8840.30His eyes sparkled as he thanked them for a treat which, as he assured them, was richer than any he had enjoyed for years.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54150.30The heiress’s duty was all marked out for her, and consisted in spending her income as brilliantly as possible.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11820.30"Well, then, your enterprising ’hands’ must content themselves for the present," she rejoined, neither surprised nor irritated.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9160.30If the dead Frau Oberf'orstmeisterin’s legacy was to fulfil the purpose for which she had destined it, the sum she had saved and invested in the Tillroda inn must be realized and expended upon the neglected farm.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21900.30He was family physician to the reigning prince, who had conferred upon him a patent of nobility in reward of his services, which had also obtained him quite a number of orders, diamond rings, and gold snuff-boxes.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2100.29Such industry and a strict rule in dairy and storehouse had principally contributed to the wealth of the family; at least so the people in the village asserted, and their assertion was not without foundation. '
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35560.29He 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_The_Second_Wife_39160.28You cannot suppose that I shall let you go alone to a judge partial already to the plaintiff?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1240.28He will be surprised; they ran it up to an unheard-of sum."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1560.28Such a French braggart as he, is sure to go down, even with us, cautious Germans that we are.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15910.28Her prudence obtained the upper hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43150.28What has an army officer to do with speculating in stocks that he knows nothing of?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20080.28And is it a lie, too, that we are given up to usurers now, who will take our last potato from us?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45420.28What had become, in a moment almost too brief to suffice for one human breath, of the Eden which wealth and luxury had evoked from the ruins of knightly splendour?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35900.28He made many business excursions, but these were shortly all to have an end, he said, and then he should purchase a large estate in the country and become really one of the landed aristocracy.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11540.28Those papers are working for you day and night; you may draw incredible sums of money from the world in this quiet corner.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61310.27And the more sweat and blood and poverty each groschen costs, the more acceptable is it in the eyes of the Lord.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41060.27In addition to pride of rank and of office, the arrogance of wealth is now rampant in the villa.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49480.27The Frau President did not yet dream that a second shock was to follow the terrible event in the ruin; all her thoughts were occupied with speculations as to the amount of the immense fortune left by the unfortunate man, and the heir to whom it would fall.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32020.26You would like to be able to say, * I grant that bankruptcy has left an ugly stain upon the Trachenberg name, but all is not; as it should be at Castle Schbnwerth ; a story might be told of that great wealth which would hardly sound well.'
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2570.26His noble hands could throw away money; but they were too high-born for honest labour which might have replaced what he had squandered; they could not possibly so degrade themselves."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3890.26It is possible that I may die before my unhappy friend at the farm, in which case she would, in default of any testamentary provision on my part, be exposed to terrible destitution.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6520.26Sievert had had charge of her finances since his return to her, and formerly had been able, with infinite pains and economy, to make both ends meet, and maintain a respectable appearance before the World; but now her illness was very expensive.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22940.26Do you suppose, my good woman, that I can afford to keep two such pilfcrers, now when they are pulling my house about my ears and all my admirable management here is interrupted?’ Think of that, Herr Markus !—‘ all my admirable management.’ The old braggart!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55220.26It was best not to speak to her of Flora, who of course had not lost one penny of her fortune, and who now indeed paid the rent of her grandmother’s rooms and the wages of her maid, but could do nothing more, since, as she wrote, she needed all the rest of her income for herself, and could hardly manage to live upon it.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2960.26Her only income arose from a small stipend that fell to her share, according to an ancient rule of the Zweiflingen family; she declined the pension which Baron Fleury procured for her from his Royal Highness, the Prince of A——.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34710.25Until then he had not seen me, for my small person was entirely hidden by a stand of flowers upon his right.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27900.25" Mine is not, at least," she said, skilfully rolling a fresh bandage.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11770.25My niece, who lives with me at present, is an unrivalled flowerpainter.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2300.25How they had smiled at court when Claudine had expended all her savings in repairing and keeping in order her grandmother’s legacy to her!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50170.25And, besides, I will not have your hand, hitherto so unstained by all soil of money, and the curse that cleaves to it, toil for pay.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12070.25Now it belongs to a successful glue-manufacturer, and is thrummed upon by his half-dozen olive-branches.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1950.25True, the bailiff’s people managed their large property badly indeed,—the very shirts on their backs hardly belong to them; but they were always fine folk for all that, and far enough from being your equals."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16680.25The castle was insured for an enormous sum, and the dancers below would have an abundance of time to escape before the flames could attack the ceiling of the ball-room and loosen the chande- liers hanging there!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13690.25Fortune has favoured my private enterprise; my Wealth is the result of my own exertionsl" "Do you intend to return to Brazil '3" The Prince put the question with a look full of meaning, as he approached the Portuguese.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_380.25Yes, the old man had begun life low enough in the scale, as a hard-worked mill-servant, but he was now the owner of untold wealth; trade had made a money-monarch of the invalid upon the clumsy old bedstead; and this fact, doubtless, had something to do with the familiar epithet of "Papa" bestowed upon him by the councillor, who was not bound to him by any tie of blood.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13890.24Then he laughed rather contemptuousl y and walked on, the bailiff leaning heavily upon one arm, while in the other he carried a package of books which the old man had selected from his book-shelves, observing that he was absolutely thirsting for something to read, since, for want of room, he had been obliged to sell his entire splendid library, upon which he had expended thousands, but which had, of course, only fetched a nominal pr1ce.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46040.23The first wife had always flitted before him like a butterfly, and when conventionality required that her finger-tips should rest upon his arm, and her small person accommodate itself to his, it was quite ridiculous to behold them.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11470.23Ah, Use, I beg you n " Not a penny, she took more than her share of the inheritance when she left her home secretly in the night, and that, too, rankled in that poor old brain in there " "My grandmother forgave her, Use."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36080.23She clothed them when they needed it,—there was always an apron or little dress in her work-basket,—and she provided (which the dean’s widow could not have afforded) fruit and biscuit for their refreshment when the hour of industry was over.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46780.23Upon this theme the Frau President in her nervous agitation did not care to speculate; what was the old miller’s hoarded wealth to her?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40550.22She set her teeth and sum- moned up all the stoicism of which she was mistress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2790.22Woe to the hand de- tected in flower-manufacture !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8510.22He gathered and garnered up immense stores 56 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12500.22I will place at your entire disposal the half of the upper story.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2420.22The entire place had been somewhat of a burden to its pos_sessors, and they were quite willing at a later period to make it over to an Altenstein, the grandfather of these last Gerold-Altensteins, in exchange for a bit of meadowland.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33030.21I have as little right as you have to cast your property to the winds, but I am perfectly ready to advance the money to Herr von Sassen from my own funds.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_480.21But if Anna Marie Ferber, blind to the value of my gift, should wish to sell or exchange it in any way, her right to it must be abdicated in favour of the orphan asylum of L——."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35760.21The Gnadewitzes in their long career added nothing to the world, but took much from it; let them moulder in their graves, and their high-sounding, undeserved titles with them!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11350.21Indeed, the castle miller was too careful a man to allow any of his property to go to ruin; there is not a nail wanting in the house, not a slate missing on the roof."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6400.20I am sure that my dearest friend will know how to lay the train so skilfully that the two ladies so kindly disposed towards us shall be blown sky-high——" "Palmer was at work there too, then l" His Highness smiled bitterly, and thought of the hot-blooded, dark-eyed girl into whose hands had been given the match to apply to this train.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40670.20Oh, you are prudent enough, my little lady.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40260.20I think I never shall like those names.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35650.20But no such gain occurred to me.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21140.20123 firmed this gossip.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19090.20why this proof?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6920.20.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_670.20Is.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65100.20Diana !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49770.20You have property of your own.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33230.20' To some extent, as you see."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31720.20There was no need.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21240.20But no one will give her anything.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11440.20" No, I cannot be content !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13400.20you have been in bad hands!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8500.20There’s luck for you.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_770.20" Keep them."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30720.20The one from the gold-fields ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45850.20"Comfort her?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39070.20"Did you wish to buy them?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2010.20A thousand welcomes to you!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19700.20"No, no!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7590.20Just as you please, however.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6600.20"Moritz must be very rich."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46320.20What was she doing near the ruin?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43530.20Always the same parade of his millions!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33330.20"Enormous?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27830.20She was not admitted.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23660.20"Give her morphia!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41290.20You know I should attend upon the duchess if she required my presence, even although I had to crawl to the capital upon all-fours."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30970.20And now the disposal of the Frau Oberforstmeisterin’s legacy brought balm and healing.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25100.20My father, one of the greatest authorities in such matters, was sum- moned to K , and antiquarians sprang up everywhere like mushrooms; his Highness might have paved his palace with them.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42910.20Franz was right; one felt here that the noise and confusion of the money-market could not touch the rich man and his belongings; that the devouring waves of misfortune and ruin could not even wet the soles of his feet.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41530.20In my dear Dresden home I am cajoled as the ’heiress,’ my teachers exalt the faint spark of musical talent which I possess for the sake of the high price I pay for my lessons, and the guardian wooes his ward because he knows better than any one else—how rich she is."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36240.19Although the baroness was tortured by the thought that those who had been so far beneath her, might now be her equals,—nay, even rank considerably above her in wealth; still she wisely suppressed the bitter retort that rose to her lips, and contented herself with observing that the whole story at present had altogether too much the air of a legend or fable to be implicitly believed.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10210.18L—— was certainly a small town, and bore the unmistakable impress of a small town, although the court resided there from the appearance of the first primrose to the fall of the last autumn leaf, and its inhabitants took the greatest pains to adapt themselves, in their social life, to the manners and customs of a large Capital.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44410.18I went to the red room to give my master his medicine, and I drew back 22 254 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19730.18You despise an aristocratic hand that adapts itself to toil when there are no inherited revenues at its disposal?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18930.18And, in view of such wealth, you are further quite right in returning the crumbs of former splendour to your family for the use of your sister Ulrika.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9430.16I only want to give Gabriel these chocolates.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40350.16I am sorry only on one account,—Kitty——" "Always that girl!"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2520.16They were all scattered to the four winds of heaven ; and the old, despised rubbish was gathered together again, for it be- longed to the entail, and could not be sold.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13320.16Let one or two years pass by and I can frankly ask His Serene Highness what he will take for his Gelsun gen estate, and Deuce take you, get out!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49350.16Two days had passed since the catastrophe, and in these forty-eight hours the horror and grief occasioned by the death of the millionaire had gradually been replaced by dark reports, alarming the business world, and carrying dismay among the labouring classes.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54260.15For at some future day you will be carried off without a question as to the debit and credit in your books, and terrible confusion might be the consequence."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2960.15Then the Frau Oberforstmeisterin took pity on them and gave them the farm; not for nothing, of course, she was too strict and orderly in her ideas of money _ for that, but for a mere song; and even that the old swindler never pai " She interrupted herself, and put her hand in her_ pocket. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20310.13You and the old madame rule the roost; the councillor must obey, and, now that he is rich enough, shake himself clear of all the common people who have earned him his money.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25320.13Some old Herr Claudius had bought it and inclosed it, not for any busi- ness purposes, but simply and solely that he and his suc- cessors might enjoy their Sunday promenades, the only luxury that they allowed themselves, in seclusion, upon their own soil, undisturbed by stranger eyes.

Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_60390.75It might be asked why the government should buy this land, when it had millions of yes, more than the railroad companies desired, which, it might devote to this purpose?
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_92890.72In America I could sell these inventions for a large sum, or work them myself at an enormous profit.
Collins_No_Name_122000.72"In the will that you made under your wife's influence, to whom did you leave the surplus money which remained at your own disposal?"
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_12330.70They had retained, however, the princely title, an enormous fortune, and a very extensive property.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_37930.70The failure of the large banking firm had involved many other business firms.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_194160.70The better they manufacture, the better I shall sell, and the larger will be their gain and mine also.'"
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_330.70Have we not the very best article in the educational market to supply--almost a monopoly of it--and shall we not get the highest price for it?"
Evans_Infelice_27560.70I sold my jewellery, even my richest clothing, that I might have a little money to defray expenses.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_72580.70They devoted their energies to an article of nourishment which was calculated to benefit the world.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_83650.70Others again said that Smithers & Co. had made large amounts in California mining speculations.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_32850.70How could she obtain so large a sum, even from her own banker, and thus apply it, without his knowledge and assistance?
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_192280.70It was clear that they could not get back the title-deeds of the Pickering property without paying the amount which had been advanced upon them, and it was equally clear that they could not pay that sum unless they were enabled to do so by funds coming out of the Melmotte estate.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_82180.69That saving of labor represents an enormous profit--a large fortune; so I have patented the invention at my own expense.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_105070.69Again, you make a profit upon each article you purchase for my toilet, amounting in the course of a year to a sum equalling your wages."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_148400.68I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one's hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions; I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing enterprises, joint-stock companies, viceroyalties, and principalities, not drawing more than 1,500,000 francs, the whole forming a capital of about fifty millions; finally, I call those third-rate fortunes, which are composed of a fluctuating capital, dependent upon the will of others, or upon chances which a bankruptcy involves or a false telegram shakes, such as banks, speculations of the day--in fact, all operations under the influence of greater or less mischances, the whole bringing in a real or fictitious capital of about fifteen millions.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_162530.66And now the property was sold, and the title-deeds gone and he had not received a penny!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_39700.66"They will not admit any persons without they possess furniture, or some such property; and you know we have nothing in the world.
Reade_Foul_Play_101230.66He had then disposed of his lease to a Californian company for a large sum.
Harland_Alone_10980.66"Treasures she would not barter for the wealth of both Indies," added Carry.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_72860.66The shares are selling at a large premium in the London market.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_200.66This had been his first purchase of land, and he had never given up his residence there, although his wealth would have entitled him to the enjoyment of a larger establishment.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_60.66He had failed at least in attaining either much wealth or much repute, though he had succeeded in earning, or perhaps I might better say, in obtaining, a livelihood.
Warner_Queechy_50290.66"The land's in poor heart now," said he, "a good deal of it; it has been wasted; it wants first-rate management to bring it in order and make much of it for two or three years to come.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_2310.66To this purpose, getting a kind of a letter of naturalization, I purchased as much land that was uncured as my money would reach, and formed a plan for my plantation and settlement, and such a one as might be suitable to the stock which I proposed to myself to receive from England.
Evans_Macaria_37640.64Yesterday I sold my diamonds for a much larger amount than I supposed they would command, and this sum, added to other funds now at my disposal, will enable me to accomplish the scheme.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_48760.64"'You will sell this diamond; you will divide the money into five equal parts, and give an equal portion to these good friends, the only persons who have loved me upon earth.'"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_48880.64"`You will sell this diamond; you will divide the money into five equal parts, and give an equal portion to these good friends, the only persons who have loved me upon earth.'"
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_33060.64Afterwards, of course, all kinds of improvements were added, but the inventor made a goodly profit; they paid him a very large price for the patent."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_20360.64The prospect was far better than he could hope for by remaining at home; the salary was sufficient to defray all his own expenses, and provide for the wants of those who were now becoming more dependent upon him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_149190.63I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one's hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions; I call those second-rate fortunes, that are gained by manufacturing enterprises, joint-stock companies, viceroyalties, and principalities, not drawing more than 1,500,000 francs, the whole forming a capital of about fifty millions; finally, I call those third-rate fortunes, which are composed of a fluctuating capital, dependent upon the will of others, or upon chances which a bankruptcy involves or a false telegram shakes, such as banks, speculations of the day -- in fact, all operations under the influence of greater or less mischances, the whole bringing in a real or fictitious capital of about fifteen millions.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_25790.63You do not realise what it is to be dependent for your living on a sum hardly greater than that which now defrays the expenses of your toilet.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_1890.63The large sum of money that was to be the basis of the immense fortune he had hoped to amass was gone.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_19680.63My home is in the West, and, like yourselves, I belong to that class who, when they give, give not from their abundance, but out of their poverty.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_41430.63In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_300760.63These twenty-five millions, employed in assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_7570.63From that time the three had lived together in humble comfort, for, though poor, industry and frugality secured them from want.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_79490.63She had received many presents during the year, and enough money to buy a moderate-sized farm.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_34970.63Even if the road be employed to the fullest extent it cannot bring in a sufficient income to indemnify it approximately for the amount of loss sustained; the entire enterprise must either go to ruin, or fall into the hands of some unprincipled schemer."
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_39750.62'For my part,' he added, 'I certainly thought he meant to carry off the hands of some of the family.'
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_134210.62_He_ hadn't anything then but his living, and that was a small one; he had some property left him though, just before he came to America."
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_86950.62And yet she is the last person in the world to whom I ought to go for money to improve her prospects as well as my own.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_40310.62You must content yourselves with the money, which, indeed, will amount to a considerable sum.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_34910.62We have here a chance to make a profit,--a considerable profit.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_24800.62"Because she is rich; because her hand can confer the wealth which I do not possess.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_130.62"He has speculated on the Bourse, and gained lots of money."
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_63850.62There are four persons in our family dependent on me for support and shelter.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_8810.62"Are there not more valuable possessions than dollars, stocks, and bonds?
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_45540.62Now no gold mine can be worked to a profit by a company.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_127870.62"I have but one price for land, and that is five per cent profit on my outlay.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_79730.62This might be the nucleus of a great commercial settlement-- And yet, was even that worth while?

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22290.57He lost his elder brother a few years since."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80460.54Besides, the words Legacy, Bequest, go side by side with the words, Death, Funeral.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28760.50Old Lord Ingram's estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81820.45Besides, the entire fortune is your right: my uncle gained it by his own efforts; he was free to leave it to whom he would: he left it to you.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80340.45"Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left you all his property, and that you are now rich -- merely that -- nothing more."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61900.43"Well, Jane, being so, it was his resolution to keep the property together; he could not bear the idea of dividing his estate and leaving me a fair portion: all, he resolved, should go to my brother, Rowland.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94760.42What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_11690.42My uncle is dead, and he left me to her care."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91320.40"Leave England?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72690.40My parents died before I could know them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49710.40Jane, will you marry me?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76040.40(This then, I thought, is Miss Oliver, the heiress; favoured, it seems, in the gifts of fortune, as well as in those of nature!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8130.37I suppose you are an orphan: are not either your father or your mother dead?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46490.37It is my intention to write shortly and desire her to come to me at Madeira.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81110.37Mr. Briggs, being Mr. Eyre's solicitor, wrote to us last August to inform us of our uncle's death, and to say that he had left his property to his brother the clergyman's orphan daughter, overlooking us, in consequence of a quarrel, never forgiven, between him and my father.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74920.37My father always cherished the idea that he would atone for his error by leaving his possessions to us; that letter informs us that he has bequeathed every penny to the other relation, with the exception of thirty guineas, to be divided between St. John, Diana, and Mary Rivers, for the purchase of three mourning rings.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_81100.36"My mother's name was Eyre; she had two brothers; one a clergyman, who married Miss Jane Reed, of Gateshead; the other, John Eyre, Esq., merchant, late of Funchal, Madeira.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74850.36"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_65270.33I left that; it was not mine: it was the visionary bride's who had melted in air.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17690.33Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31930.33The young lady thus claimed as the dowager's special property, reiterated her question with an explanation.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20920.33"Well," resumed Mr. Rochester, "if you disown parents, you must have some sort of kinsfolk: uncles and aunts?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46500.33Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53560.31I will write to Madeira the moment I get home, and tell my uncle John I am going to be married, and to whom: if I had but a prospect of one day bringing Mr. Rochester an accession of fortune, I could better endure to be kept by him now."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_45030.31"I had a dislike to her mother always; for she was my husband's only sister, and a great favourite with him: he opposed the family's disowning her when she made her low marriage; and when news came of her death, he wept like a simpleton.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32530.30As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman -- her legitimate appanage and heritage!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62370.29mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband -- that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25590.29I acknowledged no natural claim on Adele's part to be supported by me, nor do I now acknowledge any, for I am not her father; but hearing that she was quite destitute, I e'en took the poor thing out of the slime and mud of Paris, and transplanted it here, to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an English country garden.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_95960.28Jane, leave me: go and marry Rivers."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_62000.28Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race; and so did she.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_15330.28Have you ever heard anything from your father's kinsfolk, the Eyres?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1690.28It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_79820.27Charity carried the friendless thing to the house of its rich maternal relations; it was reared by an aunt-in-law, called (I come to names now) Mrs. Reed of Gateshead.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_620.27Now, I'll teach you to rummage my bookshelves: for they ARE mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58780.27Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1680.26Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband's death, by any tie?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96820.25"We must become one flesh without any delay, Jane: there is but the licence to get -- then we marry."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75680.24My father, indeed, imposed the determination, but since his death, I have not a legitimate obstacle to contend with; some affairs settled, a successor for Morton provided, an entanglement or two of the feelings broken through or cut asunder -- a last conflict with human weakness, in which I know I shall overcome, because I have vowed that I WILL overcome -- and I leave Europe for the East."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83570.21St. John had a book in his hand -- it was his unsocial custom to read at meals -- he closed it, and looked up, "Rosamond Oliver," said he, "is about to be married to Mr. Granby, one of the best connected and most estimable residents in S-, grandson and heir to Sir Frederic Granby: I had the intelligence from her father yesterday."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97180.20"I did, Jane.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9630.20It is all I ever desire to be.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90940.20"Was it known how it originated?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90540.20In what land?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86980.20"And you will not marry me!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_80750.20"Oh!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72010.20"Come, you must be obedient."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_7050.20I explained to her that I had no parents.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58570.20I am her brother."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55410.20He landed me on the pavement.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53620.20"Oh, it is rich to see and hear her?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3220.72The Hellwigs were her relations, and adopted her when her parents died, leaving their children destitute.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42430.62"In him you have indeed lost the only relative that you possessed after the death of your mother.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42350.57"Your father then left you in X when his wife died?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6600.56He once said that the child should never leave his house, unless sent for by her father, and with these words——‘I wish to leave the child unconditionally to your care,’ he constitutes me irrevocably the executor of his will.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42290.50You are then thedaughter of the juggler d’Orlowsky?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41960.50Was it her grandfather or her mother’s brother?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41700.50belonging to himse1f,—it was the Lord’s,—he was only the steward of his wealth.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28970.50e town of X— — to settle elsewhere To the direct descendants of this branch of the old noble Thuringian stock, I bequeath‘a.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25040.50"I ‘know for a certainty that according to her father’s will she was powerless to make one,—her property all reverts to the Ilellwig family."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14420.50Of like age with the Professor, he also had been educated by the strict and ortho- dox relative of the Hellwigs on the Rhine.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30070.47If any Hirschsprungs from K should appear in answer to this call, which held out hopes of a rich inheritance, her supposition that the wife of the jugglcr had been disowned by her family would be con- firmed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30080.46But what kind of people could they be whose affection for one of their nearest relatives had so died out that even the tragical death of the juggler’s wife could not revive it!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24600.46"She had diamonds too—some very beautiful ejewellery—everything which the Hellwig family ever possessed of the kind, was divided between her and my mother-in-law."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42540.45In our family record, beside her name there is no mention, as is the custom, of the man whom the daughter of the house married.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26050.45So much was certain—her child would never cross the threshold of those who could publicly disclaim all relationship to the juggler’s wife.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40360.44"I brought an unblemished name -—the same borne by your grandmother before her marriage——into this house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34630.44And therefore Cordula, the stern merchant’s daughter, had loved him to the death.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42450.42He was left at a very early age entirely alone in this world."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35020.42The bracelets were kept in the family as relics until-—yes, until the Swedes came.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23820.42If Aunt Cordula died without a will, her entire property would revert to the Ilellwig family, ——who knows how many poor suffering human beings these moments of delay might rob of their future support, while the storehouses and coffers of the merchant’s family, already wealthy, would receive new accessions through Madan1e’s cunning.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36050.42the accuser would have lost caste at once,—and yet that stately merchant had robbed the poor shoemakcr’s son it his inheritance—had died with this crime on his soul, and his posterity prided themselves upon the wealth-.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31230.41My father appointed me in his stead in case of his death, and I am firmly re solved to abide by these conditions."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14120.41"The instruction that she was receiving at the time of my father's death ceased entirely when she entered the parish school, did it not?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5240.40This seemed strange enough to the child, who never during her uncle's lifetime had known Madame to cross this threshold.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39890.40"Then the money-bags upon which my motherin law so prided herself were stolen,—aha!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30040.40The young lawyer, Franz, had been constituted, by the legal ‘authorities of the town, curator to the Hirschsprung heirs, if any such heirs yet existed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13100.40For years before she had instituted a search for the jugglcr, Orlowsky, or any of the relatives of his wife, in the columns of all the principal papers of Germany—but without any success.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9520.40Still the young Professor with all his fame and skiii would hardly have succeeded in inducing his mother to receive his patients as tenants of her closed second story, had n)t these patients been daughter and granddaughter of that orthodox relative on the Rhine, by whom Madame set great store.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35310.38My stern mother told me it must be my last visit, for that I was now grown up and there must be no intercourse between the wealthy merchant's daughter and the shoemaker’s family.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40350.37"’ "I am no Ilellwig by birth—remember that, my son," she interrupted him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42010.36Evidently this branch of the Hirschsprungs valued its ancient ancestry most highly,—it would certainly have been ditiienlt for the juggler’s daughter to make good her claim to relationship with Baron von Ilirsehsprung.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41950.36The poor player’s child, who, deprived of every family tic, had hitherto lived entirely among strangers, suddenly knew that she was be- neath the same roof with a near relative, connected with her by the ties of blood.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42460.36"And may I be permitted to inquire, sir, in what relation the mother of this child stood to your family?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26040.36They had been twice publicly appealed to and had not responded- Perhaps this branch of the old race had preserved its original purity until the time when a daughter of the house hestowed her heart and hand upon the juggler and was rejected and ignored forever by all with whom she was connected.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3380.35If the relation between Hellwig and his wife had been none of the closest before the coming of the child into the household, it now seemed as if a wall of granite divided the pair.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43270.35Baron von Hirschsprung substantiated his father’s and his own claims, as the only existing heirs of the Hirschsprung race, to the old Mam’selle’s property, which was all handed over to him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29130.34Whatever I possess in silver plate and jewellery, with the exception of the afore-named bracelet, reverts to the existing head of the Hellwig family, as old heirlooms which must not fall into the hands of strangers, as well as everything which I possess in the way of furniture and linen.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42730.33"Is it possible that they can know of the ex- istence of their granddaughter and be Willing to die without seeing her!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3090.33CHAPTER V HELLWIG was a merchant.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28670.33If you wished to inherit her property, you should have pursued a different course l" " How!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40260.33My further reason is that, by stirring at an in the matter, you bring disgrace upon one of your ancestors."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18450.33'l‘hcy were the various Burgomasters and Councillors of Commerce, who had once borne the name of llellwig.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15570.33But still we who are fortunate in being well born should not judge her too severely; there is levity in her blood.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35710.33‘ But some years ago the house, with all that it contained, belonged to my grandfather.’ "‘Yes, Paul, I do not deny your claim,’ said my father.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3300.33Such were Hel1wig’s family circumstances at the time when the juggler’s child was received into his house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26710.33IIe declared that the old aunt had been disowned by the family, who had never troubled themselves about her living or dying, and he could not see how people who despised her could pocket her money.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3930.33The doctor stopped and read aloud: "I rely with confidence on your steadiness of character, my dear John, and wish to bequeath to you unconditionally all care for the child entrusted to my guardianship, in case I should leave this world sooner than " "Oh, enough!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33270.30The deceased Cordula Ilellwig was an infidel, a lost soul,—and whoever undertakes her justification will share her condemnation.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40270.28"IIe brought disgrace upon himself, and upon us all," said the Professor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33500.28The Ilirschsprung heirs must settle that in the future!

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34540.72By the laws of my family, he has no claim upon the Gnadewitz estate, but my maternal inheritance will preserve him from want.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2390.68The land with which the Gerolds had endowed the founder had then reverted to them, and the smaller portion, with the ruined structure, had fallen to the share of the Neuhaus branch.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_2650.60She is a distant relative of my deceased wife, and has no parents, brothers nor sisters.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2040.60For a long time it was the less wealthy and influential branch; but then various rich heiresses married into it, and single members of it distinguished themselves in battle.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8130.57I cannot deprive his grandfather of his onlj grandchild."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34880.57The family has died out, the very name of Gnadewitz is extinct.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4120.57So young and rich,—so immensely rich!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10240.57He declared the head of his family his sole heir, he bequeathed to the Marquise not a rood of his estate, not a farthing of his property.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2000.55This estate was also a Geroldscourt, the inheritance of the lords of Gerold-Neuhaus.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42830.54Had 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_51430.53Alas for those around you if what are called the privileges of birth were really yours 1 Fortu- nately neither your adopted name nor that of your own family justifies you " " That of my own family ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5870.53However, the baron died after two years of marriage, leaving his widow a little daughter and an enormous amount of debts.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35030.50Is not his brother sole heir ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17830.50I too am young and of noble family!"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13630.50then you are probably his adopted son,--his heir ?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40450.50"The estate belongs to you,—you are of age.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35910.50She always had admitted that "the little Ferber" had something distinguished in her appearance in right of the noble descent of her mother.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26570.50Even if he went away to distant lands, and she was forced to live years without seeing him, a time must come when he would return.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51660.50He acknowledged little Gabriel as his son, and conjured his nephew to protect the two persecuted unfortunates, and to see that they inherited the third part of his estates and that his boy bore the family name of his father.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25360.50Her husband’s heir and successor, the scion of a collateral branch, a handsome young cavalier, had daily come from his inherited castle to have one look at the lovely face shrouded in its widow’s weeds.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2030.50Later, 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-GoldElsie_450.50This manly document, which constituted sole heir to his large estates a distant relative of his wife’s, concluded with the following codicil: "In consideration of the undeniable claim which she has upon my property, I bequeath to Anna Marie Ferber, born von Gnadewitz, the castle of Gnadeck in the mountains in Thuringia.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10370.48His father had been an honest, hard-working mechanic, and Moritz, left an orphan at an early age, of striking personal beauty and ingratiating address, had been received as an underling in the establishment of the wealthy banker Mangold, whose daughter he eventually married.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21210.45In fact, it is all about a certain relative who has brought disgrace upon her people, who has been disowned " "Po you know this relative?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15370.44Yes, I am proud of my ancestors ; they were men of honour from generation to generation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11880.44He had never been a favourite of fortune, and there was not much trouble about the little orphan’s inheritance: he left nothing.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47870.44He is no less delighted with his grand-nephew than are Elizabeth’s parents with their grandchild.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3370.43Are you not aware that your mother is a direct descendant of the old Po- lish kings, and that your paternal ancestors were lords of the land long before the crusades ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28970.43It was my duty to inquire why the testatrix should have selected a girl for the guardian and protector of the old people while their son, their natural stay and support, was living."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50320.42Carry your paternal claims into whatever court you please.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7100.42For some time there had been a coolness between the two branches of the family.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_3550.42And now the only son of this sister was heir to Hirschwinkel.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34560.42They will substantiate his claim to be my son and heir.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_10140.42He had no desire to establish any relation between the two girls.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_5830.42The baroness was first married to a certain Herr von Hollfeld; that young man is the fruit of that marriage, and by the death of his father he came into possession of Odenberg, a large estate on the other side of L——.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10360.41Involuntarily I remembered the prodigal son who had always been the beloved child of his father's Becret heart.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5070.41"True, my father’s distinguished mother-in-law was, at that time, only an occasional guest at the villa."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18910.40" That is to say, you took immediate possession ; for which 10 110 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14430.40Take care of yourself, B&oul !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37480.40"At your age, who would think of dying?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35220.40"Does it not all belong to you as the elder?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46680.40Would she inherit his wealth?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43980.40what times these are in which we live!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32440.40Let me beg of you not to lay such exclusive claim to my grandson as Trachenberg property, with which you think you may do as you please.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42770.40Oh, yes, if I do not mistake she was a Yon Olderode, one of our wealthy old noble families, was she not, my child ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12770.40For this reason only she refused to make any testamentary disposition of the Hirschwinkel estate."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_510.40This he had accomplished shortly before the marriage of his only child to the respectable banker Mangold.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_390.40The councillor had married the daughter of the deceased banker Mangold by his first wife.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2820.40Had not that noble, handsome man, her pride, the former lord.of the finest estate in all the country round, come to take refuge in the Owl's Nest?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23900.40"An an- cient name, a distinguished father, and a mother who was once in attendance at court 1 verily the gods have lavished their choicest gifts upon you, and you do not seem to care for it all !"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3330.40Kitty is his natural heir, but it is doubtful whether he has left all his property to her; he always resented the fact that her birth cost his daughter her life.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57490.40Your Highness, to my brother belongs a position as head of a newly-ennobled family which, I say it with pride, would have lent a firm support to the envied caste, for both my brother and myself are thoroughly aristocratic by nature.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4010.40The fruit of this marriage was a daughter,—a charming little girl, who idolized her ‘big brother.’ His step-mother, who after his father’s death still continued at the head of her step-son’s household, had thought herself incapable of rightly directing the education of her high-spirited child, and accordingly their small family circle had been increased by the presence there of a governess during the past four years.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23180.38Surely he could not now leave the care of his household, the education of his heir, in her hands when he departed upon his travels ; the Hofmarschall would never suffer it, and his own desire for such an arrange- ment must have vanished.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27250.38Protestant faith, but the collateral branch, to which the duchesa belonged, had always been cherished in the lap of Mother Church.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65390.38Let me tell you that there cer- tainly were two children born in the Karolinenlust, both boys ; but one died a few hours after its birth, and the other within a year.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_35580.38I could easily imagine the torture that he must endure in seeing the coveted treasures admired on all sides as the lawful property of another.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48330.37First of all, I beg leave to decline the title of ' uncle.'
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27030.37What does he care what he leaves behind him, even although it be his poor young wife ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33450.37" What, uncle I you declare a coin spurious that he considers genuine ?
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13570.37Your brother was drowned, and you left Germany in consequence?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13280.37I would not interrupt and ruin my son’s career for any such whim.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37580.37Elizabeth was now a most desirable match, noble and wealthy.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_31110.37He summons me to him that he may entrust his young children to my care.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42510.37Thus gradually the time appointed for the marriage drew near.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35260.37These ’honourable principles’ I inherit from a good father.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46670.37The councillor had been early left an orphan; so far as she knew, he had no existing relatives of his name; but had he not continually sent a subsistence to a sister of his mother’s living on the Rhine?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3030.3721 worsted, and said, in a grave monotone, " The Trachenbergs then possessed an unencumbered property of half a million They had always been a frugal, domestic family, and my dear father was true to their traditional virtues until, at forty years of age, he married.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_42520.35If you, as his father's chief heir, do not choose to give him a part of your immense inheritance, no one can force you to it, for Gabriel is not legitimate.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27240.35The reigning line of the ducal family was not Roman Catholic; the crown prince and his brother had been educated in the 14 158 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39840.35II Mark you, he will not deprive you of his brother's in- heritance, your rightful possessions, he is too just for that ; nay, more, he insures you his own wealth, also, since he does not marry.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19040.35My parents, my uncle, and this little fellow here," and she took Ernst by the hand as he came running to her, "who grows larger and makes more demands upon me every year.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39630.35If you would hear perpetually how your grandfather drove the mill-wagon and your grandmother went barefoot, then marry into some noble family.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1690.35Frau President Urach was his deceased wife’s grandmother, and did the honours in the house of the widower, with unlimited command of his means.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_460.35Anna Marie Ferber will understand my benevolent intention in her behalf in leaving to her a mansion crowded with memories of the noble race to which she once belonged.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1220.34He is unmarried and childless, and possesses large mines in Brazil, where he leads a solitary hermit’s life; and, in conclusion, he entreats my father to send him out one of his sons, as he is ofizen ailing and sufl'ering, and in need of a friend."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48280.33Here I am, uncle ; I would willingly have gone to you if you had desired it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_4750.33Preparations were making for the marriage.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45600.33"I am waiting for my wife, uncle."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17720.33My uncle and I were the rightful heirs.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1430.33Yes, her heavy widow's mourning was.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59150.3335f mother's title will cover much."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15870.33It was not written by a lawyer, but she thought you would respect her last will " " Of course !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40470.33"Oh yes, Rudolph, you are my next of kin, and should inherit all that I have.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17870.33"She is only distantly connected with my uncle, and I do not even know her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18990.33I shall respect your daughter's memory, and never wear the jewels with which she adorned herself.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57780.33I must tell the truth, even for my brother's sake, for I cannot endure that you should believe us illegitimate children.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2420.33Well, he could easily go where he chose at any moment; he had no wife or child like my Major."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9040.33But this submission must cease when the sacred claims of the Lord are assailed.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34870.33"Undoubtedly," replied Ferber, "but how can we tell in what that maternal inheritance consisted?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11880.33My grandfather was the first who left this place with his master for one of the estates in Silesia.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5050.33During papa’s lifetime the conservatory was the common property of the family."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22610.33Not that this thought had reference to his transfer from this earthly sphere,—she never, if she could help it, thought of death,—but he might be pensioned off.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31370.33Mamma always says that the last Trachenbergs are dying out and degenerate," she said, avoiding a direct reply, with a charming smile.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5490.33Had not her father told her that these very people cherished the suspicion of her grandmother’s crime, and that therefore the evil whisper could not die?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11720.33Perhaps she knew of the sale of the lace; it might have been the last relic of the family inheritance which her unprincipled husband had puffed away into the air.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32060.33that authoritative tone becomes you excellently well," he said, with a sneer; "the noble blood that you inherit from your mother shows itself now.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49500.33The selfishness that animated alike the grandmother and her eldest granddaughter had never been so evident as in this time of trial.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54990.33Child, you have queer relatives, a grandmother born a Jewess, and now this varnished-up actress of an aunt I Apropos, do not be late this evening.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25010.33Lothar resolutely refused to enter the firm when he and his younger brother Erich were left orphans at an early age.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33180.33It was impossible that the new-made nobleman should not shrink at the thought that people would point at his wife and whisper everywhere the tale of her descent and of how her fortune was acquired.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54740.33More than a year had passed since the day in March when Kitty Mangold, grandchild and sole heir of the wealthy castle miller, had been walking upon the high-road from the town on her way to present herself at her guardian the councillor’s in her new character of heiress.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25300.31145 are impoverished, and upon the prsent representatives of the name rests a weight of debt; nevertheless, pride in the heroic deeds and stainless record of a long line of ancestry is my in- alienable inheritance.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_3610.31The castle miller had in fact left his granddaughter, Katharina Mangold, his sole heiress, and confirmed as her guardian the man previously selected as such by her deceased father.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2650.31The Major might have left me ten, such letters as were found upon him after the battle of Ilstedt, and I should never have gone to his wife and daughter, for the old love was dead in my heart; but there was once a time when my father was in danger of being turned off from his farm, in consequence of some worthless lawsuits, and the Major paid for the services of the best lawyer in the country, and my old father kept his property, which had descended to him from his father.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7590.30" Your Grace," was the quiet reply, " probably wishes to hear me declare again that I claim for myself the sole right to decide as to Leonie’s training.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16280.30'l‘heoba.ld was to present his brother to us this evening,—it is certainly natural that I should wish at least to make a respectable impression upon my new relative.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34670.30"We are the descendants of the foundling whose parentage has been a mystery until this hour, for the papers which would have established him in his rights were destroyed when the townhouse at L—— was burned down.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45510.30I am now es certain as that I breathe that we were born here, that we are in our parents' house; our own by right of inheritance," she added, with some solemnity. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4350.30She had almost forgotten the engagement, and had never during her journey thither remembered that she should see this new member of the family.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36950.30She is very anxious about her little grandson, the hope of the ancient family Von Brandau.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18720.30"You ought to have known that such a man as he—still young and rich and handsome—would not remain a widower all his life.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45790.30The brother and sister descended the dark staircase, which Charlotte had ascended in such dread, the rightful heirs of Lothar von Claudius, and nearly related to the reigning ducal family.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35500.30This misalliance was a source of endless suffering and annoyance to my poor mother, for my father had not sufficient strength of character to break with the chief of the Gnadewitz family, and live only for his wife.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60560.29For the first time I feel to-day that I cannot forgive my father for leaving us so unconditionally to his brother's care, trust- ing so absolutely in his faith and honour.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1120.29A handsomer couple could scarcely be imagined than this brother and sister, hastening for the last time, and with downcast looks, through their ancestral home, the nest which had been added to and decorated by the Gerolds for centuries, and of which strange birds had now taken possession,—-birds with golden feathers; for the estate had been bought by some unknown man for a very high price.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2230.28And I want to go to the East, and of course I must leave a wife at home.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7810.28I have no more fear, for I know now that you and I belong to each other forever,—that you trust me and believe in me.

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_52910.73I possess as yet only the entailed estates which, in case I die, go over to a side branch of the family; but our family law secures the widow of the lord of the estates a rich dowry.
Collins_Armadale_10890.73She had been brought to England, after her affliction, under her father's protection; and her child--a posthumous son--had been born on the family estate in Norfolk.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_36790.72You know that in Germany my father will eventually be a noble, the representative of one of the most ancient and honorable families.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_63060.72Though I retain the name of Somerset, it shall only be the name; the inheritance entailed on my father's eldest son belongs to you."
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_5920.72"Thaddeus Sobieski is the grandson of the palatine, and the sole heir of his illustrious race.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_14940.70Her noble husband died,--and the day succeeding his burial, she was told that their fortune, too, was gone.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_53830.68Augustus Melcombe, you know, was the name of the dear grandmother's only brother, her father's heir; he was her father's only son, two daughters born between died in infancy.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_213200.66The wife there can claim her share of her husband's property, but hers is exclusively her own.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_15960.66All I know is, that this medal came to her from her parents, and that it had been a relic preserved in her family for more than a century."
Marryat_Peter_Simple_45190.66Satisfied that her husband had not perished, she had hardly once appeared to remember that she had lost her child.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_27390.66My two uncles, his elder brothers, had died, the third was married and had two daughters.
Collins_The_Moonstone_6470.66Of the two sons, the eldest, Arthur, inherited the title and estates.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_18480.66I am not pliant enough; and that unfortunate daughter of his may have left children to inherit, after all.
Evans_St_Elmo_45630.66To possess themselves of my home and property is all that brought them here; and whether as my wife or as my mother-in- law I think Agnes cares little.
Collins_Woman_in_White_28770.66The third brother, Arthur, had died many years before the decease of Philip, leaving a son and a daughter.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_76830.66The wife in England and the husband in Spain, married or not married living together or not living together--it's all one to the new ideas.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_39670.66And in case of the branch she favoured dying out, the estate was to revert to his heir-at-law--the old man's heir-at-law, you know, his nearest of kin.
Collins_No_Name_4430.66She had lost both her parents while she was still a young woman; and, in course of years, her mother's family connections (who were then her nearest surviving relatives) had been one after another removed by death.
Collins_Woman_in_White_28750.66As eldest son, Philip succeeded to the estate, If he died without leaving a son, the property went to the second brother, Frederick; and if Frederick died also without leaving a son, the property went to the third brother, Arthur.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_37790.64She left her great-grandson, Peter Melcombe, the only son of my nephew Peter Melcombe, whose father was my fourth brother, her sole heir.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_22910.64My sister and the individual she desires to marry are widow and widower, and childless, both bitterly lamenting the child they have lost.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_5960.64The mother of Thaddeus is the only daughter of the palatine; and of her I can say no more than that nothing on earth can more remind me of you; she is equally charming, equally tender to your son.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_57610.64No; secure in her riches, in her rightful possession of his whole heart, she took into hers everything that belonged to John, every one he cared for; to be for ever held sacred and beloved, being his, and therefore her own.
Collins_Woman_in_White_117210.64He had died without leaving a will, and he had no personal property to bequeath, even if he had made one, the whole fortune which he had derived from his wife having been swallowed up by his creditors.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_20760.64by the bye, she must be some distant connection of yours, I fancy; her brother is Lord Delmont, he inherited the title from your maternal grandfather.
Wister_Schillingscourt_9810.63She was the sole heir of the entire Wolfram estate, since her brother had died intestate.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_220.63The free burghers had their pride as well as the nobles; and these two could not bear that any of their blood should go down in the burgh after their decease.
Goldsmith_The_Vicar_of_Wakefield_9800.63While we live they will be our support and our pleasure here, and when we die they will transmit our honour untainted to posterity.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_100010.63For the rest you have your jointure as my widow; and my grandmother's large fortune, which descended to me, I have bequeathed to you in my will.
Evans_Infelice_34550.63'Cuthbert Laurance and his recent marriage with Abbie Ames the banker's daughter.
Collins_No_Name_25170.63The remaining portion was divided between Andrew and Selina -- two-thirds to the brother; one-third to the sister.
Collins_No_Name_158680.63It is only two years since you and I were left disinherited orphans -- and we are sharing our poor father's fortune between us, after all!"
Collins_No_Name_125850.63Would the law say he had gone and married himself a second time, because he had been living with the Wretch, like husband and wife, in Scotland?
Collins_Armadale_69990.63But now, to the relics left by the mother, were added the personal possessions belonging to the son.
Collins_Woman_in_White_29140.63If Lady Glyde died without leaving children, her half-sister Miss Halcombe, and any other relatives or friends whom she might be anxious to benefit, would, on her husband's death, divide among them such shares of her money as she desired them to have.
Evans_St_Elmo_6940.63While his own fortune was handsome and abundant, he married the orphan of a rich banker, who survived her father only a short time and died leaving Mr. Murray childless.
Collins_No_Name_27160.63On the child's death -- if it had only outlived the mother by a few seconds, instead of a few hours, the result would have been the same -- the next of kin to the legitimate offspring took the money; and that next of kin is the infant's paternal uncle, Michael Vanstone.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_1920.62Of the family of the Johnsons there were but three others, the father, the mother, and a brother.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_62140.62Why, leave him;--so leave him that he may have another wife and be the father of a child.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_97180.62"If I were father of a family, I would entrust her with the education of my sons!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_5210.62To-day or never he will say to me, 'A marriage must legitimise the birth of our child!'
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_1730.62The brother and the two sisters appear to possess every natural gift among them.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_19730.62What did the lawyer, who settled father's estate, say before you left?"
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_77160.62This mother and father bore their portion, and bore it well.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_32310.62"He is, my lord," says I; "he's young, as you obsarve, but he's as much divilment in him as many that might be his father."
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_39660.62"Yes, she might leave it to any one of her sons, or his representative; but she was not to divide it into shares.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_19670.62"Why, that one who belonged to you," said Peter, "and the other one who belongs to Bertie and Hugh.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_149020.62I cannot help thinking that he has brought his son to France to choose a wife."
Collins_Woman_in_White_114710.62One was a certificate of his birth, and the other was a certificate of his parents' marriage.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_66450.62What is there sacred in the relations between father and child, when they are such relations as these?

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20020.87Monsieur a parle de vous: il m'a demande le nom de ma gouvernante, et si elle n'etait pas une petite personne, assez mince et un peu pale.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20010.84"Et cela doit signifier," said she, "qu'il y aura le dedans un cadeau pour moi, et peut-etre pour vous aussi, mademoiselle.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30020.78"Mais oui, mademoiselle: voile cinq ou six heures que nous n'avons pas mange."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20030.78J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28120.77"Vos doigts tremblent comme la feuille, et vos joues sont rouges: mais, rouges comme des cerises!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30690.76"Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendrie une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30000.74"Chez maman," said she, "quand il y avait du monde, je le suivais partout, au salon et e leurs chambres; souvent je regardais les femmes de chambre coiffer et habiller les dames, et c'etait si amusant: comme cela on apprend."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24760.66Tenez, je crois que je vais danser!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32650.57"Gardez-vous en bien!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28100.57"Qu' avez-vous, mademoiselle?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17330.57"Yes, and she just used to say it in this way: 'Qu' avez vous donc?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16920.57"C'est le ma gouverante!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53150.55"Oh, qu' elle y sera mal -- peu comfortable!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24730.55"Est-ce que ma robe va bien?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_17340.55lui dit un de ces rats; parlez!'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20440.53As he took the cup from my hand, Adele, thinking the moment propitious for making a request in my favour, cried out - "N'est-ce pas, monsieur, qu'il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre dans votre petit coffre?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18370.49adding, "J'ai bien faim, moi!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_94960.49"'Jeune encore,' as the French say.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24770.47And spreading out her dress, she chasseed across the room till, having reached Mr. Rochester, she wheeled lightly round before him on tip-toe, then dropped on one knee at his feet, exclaiming - "Monsieur, je vous remercie mille fois de votre bonte;" then rising, she added, "C'est comme cela que maman faisait, n'est-ce pas, monsieur?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53440.43Whereupon I told her not to mind his badinage; and she, on her part, evinced a fund of genuine French scepticism: denominating Mr. Rochester "un vrai menteur," and assuring him that she made no account whatever of his "contes de fee," and that "du reste, il n'y avait pas de fees, et quand meme il y en avait:" she was sure they would never appear to him, nor ever give him rings, or offer to live with him in the moon.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24650.42'Il faut que je l'essaie!'
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31980.39"Tant pis!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22660.39Que c'est beau!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53090.37Adele heard him, and asked if she was to go to school "sans mademoiselle?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30700.37Seulement pour completer ma toilette."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_22630.33"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_18360.33Adele came running to meet us in the hall, exclaiming - "Mesdames, vous etes servies!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16930.29said she, pointing to me, and addressing her nurse; who answered - "Mais oui, certainement."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_30240.24Besides, she added, a message might possibly come from Mr. Rochester when she was undressed; "et alors quel dommage!"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53100.23"Yes," he replied, "absolutely sans mademoiselle; for I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23180.49The old Mam’se1le " " Is deadl" she shrieked.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39270.4933; mg 01.0 JIAJ!‘SELLE’S 3120351!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28300.49zce ‘ THE 01,0 HAM’.S'ELLE’S 530123;".
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40610.44You shall have the forgiveness that you ask of me," he 290 mi: 01.1) J!AJI‘SEI.LE’S szozurr.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21750.44"Pray let me reassure you on mm 01.0 )!AM’SE'LLE’S ssczwr.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_8190.42All these deliso THE OLD MAM’SELLE’8 SECRET.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17620.42Have you then no look mm 01.0 ll!AM’SELLE’S szczwr.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15800.42Sympa1'HE OLD 1{AJI’SELLE’S SEt3'RE1'.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13200.4298 THE OLD 1lIAJl’SELLE’S SEO'Ii.E'I'.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4630.39"Well, that was bold enough of the old Mam’selle," muttered Frederika, who had seen all from her kitchen door.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23450.37There, be THE OLD l!.11lI’SE1.LE’S SEC BET.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_22740.37Was he studying out some intricate scientific 153 mm OLD MA.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12660.37cried the CouncilTHE‘ OLD 1l!AJI’SELLE’S SECRET.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40100.36you say my grandmother’s soul is lost because she unTHE OLD il!A;‘ll’SELLE’S SE'C’RE'T.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28940.35The old Mam’selle’s will, that had elicited so mmh emotion in the Hcllwig house, had been deposited with her lawyer ten years before.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38800.33"’ It was a terrible moment,—Felicitas struggled for comTHE OLD MA.-ll SELLE’S SECRET.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25660.33Madame had sought in vain for the old Mam’selle’s silver, and Felicitas suddenly started.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38940.33.\'o one can hinder me from supposing that 330 mm 01.0 1lA.l!’SELLE’S swmrr.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29340.33’l‘he boy became a student afterwards, and people said was a ‘over of our old Mam’se1le’s.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34740.33But once only, I must tell how it THE 01.0 1l!AM’SE'LLE'S 35012311 251 all happened.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33860.33The old Mam’sclle has been my teacher!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24490.33"Do you know where the old Mam’selle‘ kept her silver?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23780.33N o, no, the old Mam’selle had nothing to confess!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13780.33The old Mam’selle had been a most thorough instructress.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13710.31"You will scarcely be able to find it——it is a French hook,—‘Cruvei1hier, Anatomic du Systeme Nerveux’ is printed upon the back," he added with something like another smile.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5660.28Well, you'd better not try that again," he said threat44 THE OLD 1l[A.lI’SELLE'S SECRET.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26120.28with Fclicitas by the old Mam’selle’s bedside.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11400.27The old Mam’se1le looked up at the girl with surprise, —this unspeakable bitterness of tone was quite new to her. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23800.24This much had become gradually clear to Felicitas in her intercourse with Aunt Cordula,—that the old Mam’selle -might bethe repository, but never the accomplice, of some guilty secret.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33000.24In her zeal to defend her dear old friend, she had not reTHE ow MAM’SELLE’S SECRET.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24430.24and was entire mistress of the amount of the old Mam’se1le’s property,—it exceeded her expectations.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21350.24If you, now, had only taken the linen, I should have come begging to you, 153 me am M.4.lI’SELLE’S snczuzr.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14800.24But I pray you, take care mm 01.0 MAM’SELl.E‘S 3503197.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25770.23Could the contents of the little gray box eflectually crush all whispers of any guilt attached to the old Mam’sclle?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43290.20He exacted a thousand thalers from Madame Hellwig as indemnification for the burned operetta of Bach's, and she paid the money with grim reluctance only because she was assured that, in case of a lawsuit, her pecuniary sacrifice would be much more considerable. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5120.20Heinrich was certainly right in always shaking his shock head, and sententiously remarking, "Thcre’s another side to that story 1" Many years before, the old Mam’selle had had her apartments in the main building, but, as Frederika recounted with ever-reviving wrath, she would insist upon desecratiug the Sabbath with profane songs and pieces of music.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10430.18Ever since that first day when she had made her unexpected appearance there, Mam’selle’s rooms had been always open to her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16570.17While the old Mam’selle, mucn shocked, brought out the cooling ointment and tenderly bound up the burnt arm, Felicitas related the whole occurrence.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34430.49Mon Dieu, magnifique !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65200.39Then she turned to me, angcWy " \j&\iaca, y ou kave betrayed us I" she almost screamed.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28000.39Has there been self-sacrifice enough?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47130.39Oh, mon Dieu, who would have thought it!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23590.37I repent, besi les " TUE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23260.37.--'si ^ tu /lit V>1 c 00" ..j,-- Wit* .... 4 .UOTO" *n*.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12030.35"She is very pretty, perfectly comme il faut, plays the piano magnificently Good heavens!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_740.33No, thank God ; the gout Has pared me as yet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18000.33She is not nearly so bornie as I thought her, and is much les* sentimental.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1720.33Au revoir at dinner."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28530.33244 THE BA ILIFF’S Mun.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34870.33"Are you here again, like an inevitable Deus ex machina?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_41310.28This fete comes very apropos," the Hofmarschall added. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55640.28What do I care for the Prin* cess or the Duke ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19460.28I accept such a sacrifice on your part?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50260.28We must be _au fait_ if we would not be laughed at as dupes."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20090.23Her mother's femininely-illegible hand- writing, the first words, " Mon eher ami," were a stab to her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7660.22It was the youthful Isaac bound upon the sacri- ficial pile.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54630.18What have I not been compelled to en- dure I And in what a miserable plight I am now when your stern father thrusts me forth !

Bronte_Villette_40450.89"Une femme superbe--une taille d'imperatrice, des formes de Junon, mais une personne dont je ne voudrais ni pour femme, ni pour fille, ni pour soeur.
Bronte_Shirley_16750.89"Je ne suis qu'au printemps--je veux voir la moisson; Et comme le soleil, de saison en saison, Je veux achever mon anne, Brillante sur ma tige, et l'honneur du jardin Je n'ai vu luire encore que les feux du matin, Je veux achever ma journe!"
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_7910.87ma chere Mam'selle Alide, que ce Monsieur le marin se fachait a cause de la gloire, et des beaux vers de notre illustre M. Pierre Corneille!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_266690.87La premiere fois qu'en mon joyeux bouge Je pris un baiser a ton levre en feu, Quand tu t'en allais decoiffee et rouge, Je restai tout pale et je crus en Dieu!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_279270.86"Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa vitre et m'appela, Ou vont les belles filles, Lon la.
Bronte_Villette_58620.86"Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idees a eux, en amitie, en amour, en tout.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_266400.86These:-- Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, Lorsque nous etions si jeunes tous deux, Et que nous n'avions au coeur d'autre envie Que d'etre bien mis et d'etre amoureux, Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre age a mon age, Nous ne comptions pas a deux quarante ans, Et que, dans notre humble et petit menage, Tout, meme l'hiver, nous etait printemps?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_162610.86It was Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- "Si Cesar m'avait donne[25] La gloire et la guerre, Et qu'il me fallait quitter L'amour de ma mere, Je dirais au grand Cesar: Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, J'aime mieux ma mere, o gue!
Bronte_Shirley_85350.85"Mon cher," replied Hortense, "Robert--c'est tout ce qu'il y a de plus prcieux au monde; ct de lui le reste du genre humain n'est que du rebut.--N'ai-je pas raison, mon enfant?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_115360.84"Quand Italie sera sans poison Et France sans trahison Et l'Angleterre sans guerre, Lors sera le monde sans terre."
Bronte_Villette_25060.84Toute Anglaise, et, par consequent, toute begueule qu'elle soit-- elle fera mon affaire, ou je saurai pourquoi."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_279320.84"Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zeila, Mon ame aleurs plis se mela, Ou vont les belles filles, Lon la.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_239760.83[43] Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des orgues, peut atiger ses momes et ses momignards et les locher criblant sans etre agite lui-meme.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_83070.83"'Se alle sei della mattina le quattro mile piastre non sono nelle mie mani, alla sette il conte Alberto avra cessato di vivere.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_83470.83"`Se alle sei della mattina le quattro mile piastre non sono nelle mie mani, alla sette il conte Alberto avra cessato di vivere.
Bronte_Villette_78190.83"Et figurez-vous qu'elle me deteste, parcequ'elle me croit amoureuse de mon cousin Paul; ce petit devot qui n'ose pas bouger, a moins que son confesseur ne lui donne la permission!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_266560.83Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, Tu tirais ton bas sur ton jambe fine, Je voyais un astre au fond du grenier.
Bronte_Villette_39850.83"Mais, Mademoiselle, asseyez-vous, et ne bougez pas--entendez-vous?-- jusqu'a ce qu'on vienne vous chercher, ou que je vous donne la permission."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_322920.83"Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants qu'il ravissait quiconque!
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_7210.82Que l'envie de ces Anglais se decouvre quand on parle des beaux genies de la France!"
Bronte_Villette_24000.82"Je sais bien qu'elle n'a pas de principes, ni, peut-etre, de moeurs," admitted Madame frankly; but added with philosophy, "son maintien en classe est toujours convenable et rempli meme d'une certaine dignite: c'est tout ce qu'il faut.
Bronte_Villette_64630.81La premiere qui ouvrira cette porte, ou passera par cette division, sera pendue--fut-ce Madame Beck elle-meme!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_237090.81[40] "Vous trouverez dans ces potains-la, une foultitude de raisons pour que je me libertise."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_7400.81Monsieur le Marin n'aime pas a entendre parler de la gloire de la France!
Bronte_Villette_24550.81Moi, je veux que tout cela s'allume, qu'il ait une vie, une ame!"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_134750.80"Do you remember what Louis the Fourteenth said to Massillon?--Mon pre, j'ai entendu plusieurs grands orateurs dans ma chapelle; j'en ai t fort content, pour vous, toutes les fois que je vous ai entendu, j'ai t trs mcontent de moi-mme!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_266620.79Nos jardins etaient un pot de tulipe; Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, Et je te donnais le tasse en japon.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_152340.79"C'est trs bien--c'est trs bien," he muttered--"c'est parfaitement--Monsieur, mademoiselle votre fille has had good lessons--voil qui est entirement comme il faut."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_266570.79J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, Tu me demontrais la bonte celeste Avec une fleur que tu me donnais.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_11350.79Il n'a pas de si grandes terres, que Monsieur le Patteroon, pourtant, on dit, qu'il doit avoir de jolies maisons et assez de rentes publiques!
Bronte_Villette_27580.79"Vous ne passerez pas a moins que ce ne soit sur mon cadavre, et vous ne danserez qu'avec la nonnette du jardin" (alluding to the legend).
Hugo_Les_Miserables_259970.79"Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, Comme deux grives estaient souls; Une tigre en riait dans sa grotte.
Bronte_Shirley_8270.79"Mauvaise tte vous-mme; je ne fais que mon devoir; quant vos lourdauds de paysans, je m'en moque!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_279280.79"Les drolesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela Griserait Monsieur Orfila.
Bronte_Villette_30300.79Je crois voir en je ne sais quoi de rayonnante, petite ambitieuse!"
Bronte_Villette_18460.79"Voila un sang-froid bien opportun, et qui vaut mille elans de sensibilite deplacee."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_6690.79"If Monsieur de Barberie vas 'live, Monsieur Alderman, he should say des choses convenables; mais, malheureusement, mon cher, maitre est mort; and, sair, I shall be bold to remercier pour lui, et pour toute sa famille."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_7410.78Je voudrais bien savoir lire ce f--e Shak-a-spear, pour voir, combien l'immortel Corneille lui est superieur.
Bronte_Villette_39520.78Mais d'abord, faites- moi le plaisir de vous lever; prenez mon bras, et allons de l'autre cote."
Bronte_Shirley_8370.78Je me souviens encore du moment o mon pre et mes oncles Grard appellrent autour d'eux leurs amis, et Dieu sait si les amis se sont empresss d'accourir leur secours!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_260040.78Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_259990.78Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_259960.78Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_259930.78Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_6790.78"Pourtant, Mam'selle like de vivacite; Monsieur le Patroon be nevair trop vif."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_19810.78Mam'selle shall nevair se sauver encore; jamais, je vous en repond."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_11300.78Quel genie que celui de cet homme la!--n'est ce pas, Monsieur?"
Bronte_Villette_27270.78"C'est peut-etre plus beau que votre modele," said he, "mais ce n'est pas juste."
Bronte_Villette_17810.78Les penseurs, les hommes profonds et passionnes ne sont pas a mon gout.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_6320.78Francois, fais moi le plaisir de porter ce petit livre; malgre la fraicheur de la foret, j'ai besoin de m'evanter."

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33140.39Now go!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45710.29Never in my life had I expe- rienced such horror as when I felt that vicelike grasp.

DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_64460.66You breeng ze confersazione to beauty--to poatry--to ze poet Watt--so you may spik verses mos impassione!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_44590.64O lacryrnarum fons tenero sacros Ducentium ortus ex animo; quater Felix in imo qui scatentem Pectore te pia Nynmpha sensit.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_69260.62"Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum."
Evans_St_Elmo_74450.62"Currite ducentes, subteinina currite fusi!"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63400.62Your langua ees not sufficiente musicale for poatry."
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_9330.61Half to himself he said, pending the move of Elfride: '"Quae finis aut quod me manet stipendium?"'
Marryat_Peter_Simple_62130.56"Pish, pish, pish, pish!"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63600.56And yet if he was a poet it is natnrale zat you loafe him best."
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63390.56"You would loafe it moar eef you knew Italiano.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_64450.55I nefare knew befoare zat you was so impassione!--an you air so artaful!
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63850.55It would plees me mooch, my Senator, to hajre you make one quotatione.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63290.55my Senator, that it is not pairmitted to moartals to sociate as zey would laike."
Lewald_Hulda_18910.54Had any iove-expe e n d K nralin I nt such tenderness to her T suh wltreth eyes ?
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_50900.49It was, in a word, a DEED OF CONFIRMATION by OLD DREDDLINGTON, the father of Harry Dreddlington, of the conveyance by the latter to Geoffrey Dreddlington, who, in the manner already mentioned to the reader, had got an assignment of that conveyance to himself.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63720.49Ah, I mus at once procuaire ze works of Watt, which was favorit poet of my Senator."
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_14890.49how we all respect you, _tronante_ in the comfortable cathedra of virtue inexpugnable, perhaps unassailed.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63330.49"How I adamiar youar style of mind, so differente from ze Italiana.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_70590.49There--here they come--just as I told you--here's Mimy Lawson, the first one--if there's anybody I do despise it's Mimy Lawson."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_124240.49Ingentes animos angusto pectore versans.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_73760.49Knight walked on, and Elfride with him, silent and unopposing.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_16680.49Martin Cannister, the sexton, was rather a favourite with Elfride.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_64440.49an you can spik zis poetry!--at soch a taime!
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63680.49Yet I haf read mos of all youar poets."
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_58230.49Lempriere, Smith, Anthon, Drissler, and others would have done honor to her.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_54200.49Martin hev been tolling ever since, almost.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_5290.49Elfride did not like to be seen again at the church with Stephen.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_64020.49But come--will you spik for me some from your favorit Watt?"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63510.49"What Ingelis poet do you loafe best?"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_63440.49And what theenka you of ze Italiano?"
Bronte_Shirley_8100.49It belangs to me, and nob'dy else."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_91960.47Amongst us you will not meet with any of those episodes with which your adventurous existence has so familiarized you; our Chimborazo is Mortmartre, our Himalaya is Mount Valerien, our Great Desert is the plain of Grenelle, where they are now boring an artesian well to water the caravans.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_92400.47Amongst us you will not meet with any of those episodes with which your adventurous existence has so familiarized you; our Chimborazo is Mortmartre, our Himalaya is Mount Valerien, our Great Desert is the plain of Grenelle, where they are now boring an artesian well to water the caravans.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_2560.45Here in this book is a genealogical tree of the Stephen Fitzmaurice Smiths of Caxbury Manor.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_2420.45'By the way,' said Mr. Swancourt, after some conversation, 'you said your whole name was Stephen Fitzmaurice, and that your grandfather came originally from Caxbury.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_325700.44Colle, Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_168660.44In dying, I will say to those around me what Voltaire wrote to Piron: 'Eo rus, and all will be over.'
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_169560.44In dying, I will say to those around me what Voltaire wrote to Piron: `Eo rus, and all will be over.'
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_55090.44Carita-a-a-a --solamente un mezzo baroccho--oh, Signo-o-o!--datemi."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_46120.44And here is 'The Jokist's Own Treasury, or, The Phunny Phellow's Bosom Phriend.'
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_84760.42Stephen first, and Knight afterwards, recognized her as Unity, who had been parlour-maid at the vicarage and young lady's-maid at the Crags.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_55370.42'For if the Lord's anointment had descended upon women instead of men, Miss Elfride would be Lord Luxellian--Lady, I mane.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_25920.42I am a weak man, morally and physically.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_83160.42Somewhat on the plan of 'Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica.'
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_30330.42growled a little Zouave, known as Tata Leroux.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_99390.42So, Harry East, if you please, no more tomfoolery after to-day.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_101580.42"I don't see the joke," said East without moving a muscle.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_51770.42She owned no restraint, physically, morally, or mentally.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_22380.42With store of such his adventurous ramble had enriched him.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_40490.42'I don't know,' said Elfride wofully, and with a distressful smile.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_36200.42'Challenge him, Elfride,' said the vicar heartily.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89960.57To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74490.50They both tried to appear as usual; but the sorrow they had to struggle against was one that could not be entirely conquered or concealed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_52920.46The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9160.40"I hope so; but nobody can be sure of the future."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_31870.40I feared -- or should I say, hoped?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_73750.37I hope this delay will not have increased the difficulty of securing it."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54270.35"I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_91080.33The discovery was brought about in the strangest way.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51720.33You have just been telling me how much you liked to be conquered, and how pleasant over-persuasion is to you.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40180.33Carter, assure him there's no danger."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72930.33"No: I fear discovery above all things; and whatever disclosure would lead to it, I avoid."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41400.33"Tell him to be cautious, sir: let him know what you fear, and show him how to avert the danger."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63060.33Amongst them all I found not one whom, had I been ever so free, I -- warned as I was of the risks, the horrors, the loathings of incongruous unions -- would have asked to marry me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_53770.30I fear you will compel me to go through a private marriage ceremony, besides that performed at the altar.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55850.28What do you fear?- -that I shall not prove a good husband?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41330.28"Is the danger you apprehended last night gone by now, sir?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_780.27I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63790.27I used to enjoy a chance meeting with you, Jane, at this time: there was a curious hesitation in your manner: you glanced at me with a slight trouble -- a hovering doubt: you did not know what my caprice might be -- whether I was going to play the master and be stern, or the friend and be benignant.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64650.23He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64510.23"Think of his misery; think of his danger -- look at his state when left alone; remember his headlong nature; consider the recklessness following on despair -- soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10240.23All along I had been dreading the fulfilment of this promise, -- I had been looking out daily for the "Coming Man," whose information respecting my past life and conversation was to brand me as a bad child for ever: now there he was.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92950.20Oh!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_730.20"Did she say that to me?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60580.20"Oh, I know!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49160.20"Where do you see the necessity?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1980.20"What is all this?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97350.20I listened to Mr. Rochester's narrative, but made no disclosure in return.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38990.16Mesdames" (to the dowagers), "you will take cold to a dead certainty, if you stay in this chill gallery any longer."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63410.16I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life -- my genius for good or evil -- waited there in humble guise.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40680.53Whether the probable approach of death made him communicative, or whether he felt the necessity of telling some one of his past life, I cannot say,—but,—he took me into his confidence " "And gave you a certain bracelet, did he not ?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36330.33Her eyes wandered over the four roofs,she could not pass over them now——she would be seen- her only safety was in immediate concealment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13000.33"That I can readily belicve,——you have never been at any pains to conceal your dislike of our strict decoroue rule and your impatience under it."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33080.28"Or can it be possible," he continued in a tone of alarm, "that it is really destroyed?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31450.26A fearful peril overshadowed her like a dark thunder-cloud, she felt instinct- ively that she must separate herself from him at any sacrifice, if she did not wish to succumb irrevocably to the danger that encompassed her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40580.25Only think, lohn, how it compromises my dear papa, and besides I so longed to save you at all risks from such a humiliating discovery.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18230.20without embarrassment.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33350.55199 grandfather's will, wherein he expressed the wish that the collection should remain in concealment forever."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47210.54I saw him then for the first time after our long separation, and I have never in my life seen a human being undergo such fearful suffering."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_21740.50I loved him in spite of it all, and this loss would greatly distress me."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22200.50The young wife was convinced that she was suffering keenly in anticipa- tion of a threatened calamity.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2800.50"But since the death of the Countess Wallendorf I have been a silent prey to doubt and mistrust; now I doubt no more: I am convinced.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22730.41On the contrary, I have my suspicions that our uncle formerly, especially while in Paris, led the life of a thorough man of the world ; not from any love of it, .
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46790.40She feared him no longer.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15600.40But what these wiseacres did not know 8* 90 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4280.40He hesitated for a moment.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40690.40I was disturbed, too, by another scruple.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48860.40How she loved him, as he faced so boldly, in so manly a way, the unavoidable consequences of his affection for her !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41320.40I know where you will easiest forget the pain of separation, Fraa THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41300.40She is so pale, and I fear that her detestation of the imprisoning forest will greatly increase now."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25830.38Even now, after so many years of married life, she followed blindly where he led; and in her estimation his opinions admitted of no question.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63970.37I forgot everything that interposed between us, and resigned myself to the magic of the moment. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8490.37"Once more I appeal to her, in spite of the decided repulse that I have just received.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38500.36That evening was followed by several days of anxiety -an anxiety that I experienced for the first time in my life.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50670.36Now 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_The_Second_Wife_19180.33Was this one of the " moments of trial' ' in which he wished her to call upon him?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15450.33she asked, struggling with painful embarrassment.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6700.33I felt it deeply at this moment.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32830.33I stood there, and trembled with dread of you.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13240.33You shall not lose a penny; of that I assure you.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31030.33"Yes, yes; love is such a profound mystery!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13050.33What an inconceivable absence of all misgiving!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17290.33By accusing me of a share in your crimes you would force me to endure with you their consequences!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_49900.33"I warned you, but I was laughed at and scorned because I would not invest my bonds and securities in the same way.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36490.33No one appreciated this beautiful present, which it must have cost the giver a pang to resign.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46790.31Flora, 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_64550.30Oh, please, Herr Claudius, be kind I My father has cast her off 1" " And yet she wishes to live in a place where she is in constant danger of meeting him.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6600.30She could scarcely stand, in her agitation ; what right had a ray of hope to intrude upon her anguish ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16140.30Much must be struggled with and endured before a girl of twenty can reconcile herself to a stern destiny.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_42340.29She herself had informed the councillor of his ward’s absence on the evening of the ball; he had turned quite pale with anger, and had been out of humour with her for days in consequence of her share in the affair.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_38400.28"I have overcome myself, and am ready to submit to the inevitable.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40760.28If I should try to remove this cup of suffering from your lips, it would avail nothing; you would repulse me, seeing in me only a barbarian treading under foot all your holiest affections.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15120.28I don't know whether she felt the strangeness and novelty of the surroundings, or the same feeling that pos- sessed me, fear of my father, but Use, the decided, strong-minded Use, hesitated for a moment, and then resolutely took my hand and led me to the window. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53780.28You had been told what has happened, and of course the whole odium that always attaches to the sudden rupture of an engagement had been thrown upon me,—I saw that in your face; and afterwards, when for love of Henriette you promised to be a _sister_ to me, I _heard_ the power that evil whispers had gained over you,—thank God, not for always!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28920.28True, he had long ceased to have any scruples with regard to his silence in a certain matter; the manner of the miller’s death no longer troubled his repose,—for he was a genuine child of the times, an egotist, who, when the choice was to be made between "another" and "self," was never for a moment in doubt that "self" was to be preferred.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_5860.27Your Highness, I fear,—I fear that my daughter has emerged from her seclusion too soon, and greatly to her disadvantage.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61590.26And the time came, after a week of indescribable anxiety, when I knew that the dread messenger had passed by, and the physicians pro- nounced my father out of danger.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5890.25It was a moment to inspire terror into the boldest heart.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38170.25She would not remain a single night beneath the roof of him who had believed her capable of infidelity, who had declared that she was lost.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16260.25She was convinced by Elizabeth’s resentment that her child’s heart was not in the least danger, and her fears were laid to rest.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53780.24I was seized by mortal terror when I heard that the Herr Lieutenant had come with bag and baggage ; the dreaded moment loomed up before me so gloomy and monstrous, and withal so near, that I would gladly have closed my eyes that I might not see it, and yet I said to myself that the keen, sharp stroke of deliverance was infinitely to be preferred to this fluctuating between hope and fear.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17740.23I was now master of the Indian garden ; there was no longer any fear of encountering my uncle's stately figure armed with that cutting smile of contempt, and the THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33310.23Elizabeth ran up the mountain in some anxiety, but Miss Mertens, leading little Ernst by the hand, came to meet her on the sward before the castle, and soothed her fears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9600.23She sent her love to my father, and turned her large, death-veiled eyes from me to Use with a beseeching expression. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62600.23I have no compassion in me, and if Uncle Erich were to be summoned up for trial at thia moment, I would not lift a finger to prevent it."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25940.23And have you really the heart—-only because I judged flippantly and superficially of a calling and of those who followed it-—to rob me of my cherished delusion ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20150.23The accident to my clumsy hand occurred there, and because I dreaded having it bandaged—I am really timid by nature—I ran away,——to no purpose, indeed."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11610.23I saw it a few moments ago, and am now rejoicing unspeakably in the thought that there lies a spot of earth that we may call our own,—a place from which no one has the right to drive us.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12240.22"I assure you, I have no designs either upon your life or your purse, and am simply a peaceful traveller, returning to his home, who greatly desires to know what the light in the ruins yonder may betoken; and yet this moment convinces me that my question is quite superfluous.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27870.22He had come to my rescue, but, childish as I was, I could see perfectly that he had done so only to shield me from the insolence of his subordinate.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1720.22These urns are always very fragile at first, but a few moments' exposure to the air " Too late.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16510.22"But it can do you no harm,—cry,—your tears will wash away all your disturbing thoughts; and then take courage,.—-you have nothing to fear,——you are at the parsonage; and not a hair of your head shall be touched, even if ten Excellencies were to come here and threaten us."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47790.20I, your highness ?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3790.20and more homoeopathic.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61860.20I assented. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59780.20"He is destroying the antiques !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37150.20225 and felt entirely hidden.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_17300.20But, oh !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13960.20Use thanked him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18650.20.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13010.20she!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_31730.20And my Louise?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21640.20‘fDo not go in anger!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40140.20she cried, with anxiety.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_14320.20I think not.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5520.20asked the Duchess, bitterly; "that one can decide—as one does about taking a walk, for instance —that from such and such a- day there shall be an end of it?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34510.20Leo, my life which belongs to you had been in danger, my blood was in a ferment, and—then you irritated me further."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65240.20How his voice trembled, how he struggled to master the terrible emotion 4 hat threatened to overwhelm him I Fraulein Fliedner put her arm around me, and led me into the room where Lothar's picture hung; tho door was immediately closed behind us.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31800.18I have nothing unusual to report, save that Gabriel is drowned in tears in view of his approaching departure, and that Frau Lhn seems much agitated and very unhappy.'
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39220.18I have suffered much beneath your roof, and yet I would not have you exposed to Ulrika's keen judicial scrutiny.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_300.17The old housekeeper, who came into the room to put it in order after the doctor’s visit, looked coldly indifferent; she flitted about like a bat, and seemed much more distressed by a few drops of water that marred the polish upon one of her tables than by the danger that had threatened her master’s life.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22330.15"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!"

Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_38920.69"Why, why must it be my ill fate to hurl down increase of misery and danger on all whom I love?"
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_35460.66Eugénie has suffered much from these scenes; perhaps Berkow may have suffered also.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_63160.66His hope still was to prevent her meeting Dennis, and to keep up the estrangement that existed.
Collins_No_Name_69220.66I say nothing of my devouring anxiety to know what your objects really are -- that anxiety will be satisfied when we meet.
Collins_No_Name_134140.66"Knowing what we know, it is not to be concealed that this circumstance threatens us with more embarrassment, and perhaps with more distress.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_28860.66Why did you implore my father, as he valued my future peace, not to expose me to his fascinations?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_31460.63If I could for a moment have doubted the invincible repugnance with which I inspire her, what she said to the prince must for ever destroy that illusion.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_219410.63Undeceive yourself again; either I am greatly mistaken, or she has provided against the catastrophe which threatens you, and, which will pass over without affecting her.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_34590.62An invincible presentiment told me I was approaching one of the crises of my life.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_34830.62So Eugénie had been right in declaring that her husband would consent at once.
Reade_Foul_Play_21280.62Here was no immediate peril; but certain death menaced them, at an uncertain distance.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_54090.62One hope yet remained, a faint one, but still a hope, and this might yet be realized.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_80940.62We have passed through many troubles, dangers, and dispartments, but never yet was doubt between us; neither ever shall be.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_170240.62His death was one of the terrible consequences of the life he had led.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_36630.61The only thing which I could offer you in our compulsory union was the possibility of dissolving it; it has been dissolved from the moment that we decided upon a separation.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_43300.59"When I reflect that it is on my account that you must remain some time longer with these wretches--" "What consequence is that?
Evans_Inez_31110.59there is a fearful risk to run; he will never place confidence in you again--be warned in time."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_226850.59"Well, conceal me somewhere; you can say you were needlessly alarmed; you can turn their suspicions and save my life!"
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_25820.58And, with the remembrance of this, there welled up within her a feeling which Eugénie Windeg had never known, which it was reserved for Arthur Berkow's wife to experience, a sorrow far quieter, but also far deeper, than any she had yet endured.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_43590.58better the separation, better a whole life of misery and regret, than incur the possibility of such humiliation.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_56770.58The hope was so precious that for a time he hesitated to advance, for fear lest the hope might be dispelled forever.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_35950.57There is nothing I would not suffer; no cost I would not undergo rather than you should endure all this.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_20280.57I fear you forget how recent has been my bereavement.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_38480.57Without being able to account for it, he felt a vague alarm.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_34810.57"He loved you too well to incur the risk of losing you."
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_20900.57My marriage only averted the most threatening danger.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_45770.57The future has its possibilities of further trouble and danger.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_30670.57This providential circumstances saved his life.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_52710.57"Do you not think I am right in thus meeting, and trying to conquer, an inevitable ill?"
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_22320.57Terrified, I implored him not to risk his life.
Lewald_Hulda_51610.57The time is past when I feared to think of you or to meet you.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_37150.57I think your coming will prolong her life; and you will never regret it, I am sure.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_19350.57"Well, then," returned Arthur, "he did not tell me all the circumstances of his marriage.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_112930.57Such terrible thoughts and fears had lately assailed him!
Harland_Jessamine_58310.57You forget this when you threaten me with my husband's displeasure."
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_77460.57Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you never will know.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_57770.57Nor were there any fears of future consequences to deter him.
Collins_Woman_in_White_70030.57In your position the gain is certain--the loss doubtful."
Collins_The_Moonstone_40580.57It will save you from many troubles of the vexing sort.
Collins_No_Name_129540.57Time and Hope alike had both passed her by.
Bronte_Shirley_107590.57Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_47500.57If there be such risk, I ask none to share it; my life is my own, and I will peril it."
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_29680.57But in order still to shield her sister she must secure her confidence, or else the danger averted the past evening would threaten as grimly as ever.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_44500.57I might be resigned to his leaving me for a time; but all my instincts as a woman revolted at his placing himself in a position of danger during his separation from his wife.
Wood_East_Lynne_32760.55Yes, he was smiling; for he knew that these moments of nervous fear are best met jestingly.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_44190.55He understood all the danger of his position; still he hesitated a moment, struggling, as it were, with himself.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_87500.55She hesitated, feeling that she would almost do anything to achieve a reconciliation between her grandfather and her brother.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_61490.55I should not be so greatly disquieted with the fear of a compulsory suspension of my employment.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_4610.55"Because you would not then have incurred the humiliation of signing yourself Eugénie Berkow."
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_31220.55She did not doubt the story of the divorce, or greatly disbelieve in the other wife.