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comments were disconcerting to me and I pondered much afterwards on what she said.

‘How can you call yourself a free man when your weakness has brought you to this? If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth, even as water seeks its level? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?’

For over a year I was a slave and lived with the slaves, but I could not become as one of them. One day Sira asked me, ‘In the eventime when the other slaves can mingle and enjoy the society of each other, why dost sit in thy tent alone?’

To which I responded, ‘I am pondering what you have said to me. I wonder if I have the soul of a slave. I cannot join them, so I must sit apart.’

‘I too must sit apart,’ she confided. ‘My dowry was large and my lord married me because of it. Yet he does not desire me. What every woman longs for is to be desired. Because of this and because I am


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 barren and have neither son nor daughter, must I sit apart. Were I a man I would rather die than be such a slave, but the conventions of our tribe make slaves of women.’

‘Have I the soul of a man or have I the soul of a slave? What think you?’ I asked.

‘Have you a desire to repay the just debts you owe in Babylon?’

‘Yes, I have the desire, but I see no way.’

‘If thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.’

‘But what can I do who am a slave in Syria?’

‘Stay a slave in Syria, thou weakling.’

‘I am not a weakling,’ I denied hotly.

‘Then prove it.’

‘How?’

‘Does not thy great king fight his enemies in every way he can and with every force he has? Thy debts are thy enemies that have run thee out of Babylon. You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Had’st fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.’

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 by Thisbe of old. This erved to many good Purpoes. For by uch Means Mrs. Bridget became often acquainted with her Brother’s Inclinations, without giving him the Trouble of repeating them to her. It is true, ome Inconveniencies attended this Intercoure, and he had ometimes Reaon to cry out with Thisbe, in Shakepear, ‘O wicked, wicked Wall!’ For as Mr. Allworthy was a Jutice of Peace, certain Things occurred in Examinations concerning Batards, and uch like, which are apt to give great Offence to the chate Ears of Virgins, epecially when they approach the Age of forty, as was the Cae of Mrs. Bridget. However, he had, on uch Occaions, the Advantage of concealing her Bluhes from the Eyes of Men, and De non apparentibus, et non exitentibus eadem et ratio. In Englih: ‘When a Woman is not een to bluh, he doth not bluh at all.’

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a slave at heart, but I was not to have the chance to use them. Three days later the maid of Sira took me to her mistress.

‘My mother is again very sick,’ she said. ‘Saddle the two best camels in my husband’s herd. Tie on water skins and saddle bags for a long journey. The maid will give thee food at the kitchen tent.’ I packed the camels wondering much at the quantity of provisions the maid provided, for the mother dwelt less than a day’s journey away. The maid rode the rear camel which followed and I led the camel of my mistress. When we reached her mother’s house, it was just dark. Sira dismissed the maid and said to me:

‘Hast thou the soul of a free man or the soul of a slave?’

‘The soul of a free man,’ I responded.

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 say thou stole the camels and ran away while I visited my sick mother.’

‘Thou hast the soul of a queen,’ I told her. ‘Much do I wish that I might lead thee to happiness.’

‘Happiness,’ she responded, ‘awaits not the runaway wife who seeks it in far lands among strange people. Go thy own way and may the gods of the desert protect thee for the way is far and barren of food or water.’

I needed no further urging, but thanked her warmly and was away into the night. I knew not this strange country and had only a dim idea of the direction in which lay Babylon, but struck out bravely across the desert toward the hills. One camel I rode and the other I led. All that night I traveled and all the next day, urged on by the knowledge of the terrible fate that was meted out to slaves who stole their master’s property and tried to escape.

Late that afternoon, I reached a rough country as uninhabitable as the desert. The sharp rocks bruised the feet of my faithful camels and soon they were picking their way slowly and painfully along. I met neither man nor beast and could well understand why they shunned this inhospitable land.

It was such a journey from then on as few men live to tell. Day after day we plodded along. Food and water gave out. The heat of the sun was merciless. At the end of the ninth day, I slid from the back of my mount with the feeling that I was too weak to ever remount and I would surely die, lost in this abandoned country.

I stretched out upon the ground and slept, not waking until the first gleam of daylight.

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 far away. About me was a waste of broken country covered with rock and sand and thorny things, no sign of water, naught to eat for man or camel.

Could it be that in this peaceful quiet I faced my end? My mind was clearer than it had ever been before. My body now seemed of little importance. My parched and bleeding lips, my dry and swollen tongue, my empty stomach, all had lost their supreme importance of the day before.

I looked across into the uninviting distance and once again came to me the question, ‘Have I the soul of a slave or the soul of a free man?’ Then with clearness I realized that if I had the soul of a slave, I should give up, lie down in the desert and die, a fitting end for a runaway slave.

But if I had the soul of a free man, what then? Surely I would force my way back to Babylon, repay the people who had trusted me, bring happiness to my wife who had cared for me, bring peace and contentment to my parents.

‘Thy debts are thy enemies who have run thee out of Babylon,’ Sira had said. Yes, it was so. Why had I refused to stand my ground like a man? Why had I permitted my wife to go back to her father? Why had I been weak like a slave if I had not the soul of one?

Then a strange thing happened. All the world seemed to be of a different color as though I had been looking at it through a colored stone which had suddenly been removed. At last I saw the true values in life.

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 unpaid debt. I should tell them that after years of wandering and misfortune, I had come back to pay my debts as fast as the gods would permit. Next I should make a home for my wife and become a citizen of whom my parents should be proud.

My debts were my enemies, but the men I owed were my friends for they had trusted me and believed in me.

I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger. What mattered thirst. They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve.

The glazed eyes of my camels brightened at the new note in my husky voice. With great effort, after many attempts, they gained their feet. With pitiful perseverance, they pushed on toward the north where something within me said we would find Babylon.

We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon, because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, ‘What can I do who am but a slave?’

“ [sic]How about thee, Tarkad? Dost thy empty stomach make thy head exceedingly clear? Art ready to take the road that leads back to Babylon?”

Moisture came to the eyes of the youth. He rose eagerly to his knees. “Thou hast shown me a vision; already I feel the soul of a free man surge within me.”

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 “Where the determination is, the way can be found. I visited every man to whom I was indebted and begged his indulgence until I could earn that with which to repay. Not one but met me gladly and wished me well. Several offered to help me. One indeed did give the very help I needed. It was Mathon, the gold lender, who enquired what I had been doing and when I told him I had been a camel tender, sent me to old Nebatur, the camel trader, who was commissioned by our good king to secure camels for the great expedition. My knowledge of camels was put to profitable use. I prospered and later became a partner unto Nebatur and was enabled to repay every copper and every piece of silver I had borrowed and every debt that I had incurred. Then indeed could I hold my head high and feel that I was an honorable man among men.”

Again Dabasir turned to his food. “Kauskor, thou snail,” he called loudly to be heard in the kitchen, “the food is cold. Bring me more meat fresh from the roasting. Bring thou also a portion for Tarkad the son of my old friend who is hungry and shall eat with me.”

So ended the tale of Dabasir the camel trader of old Babylon. He found his own soul when he realized a great truth, a truth that had been known and used by wise men long before his time.

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Doppler, 201 compositions, 111

Dorus, 202 G♯ key, 67

Double and triple recorders, 19 flutes, ancient, 8

Double-tongueing, 96

Dragon flute, Chinese, 263

Dressier, 206n.

Drouet, 197-200

Dulon, F. L, 258

Dvořák, 163-5 piccolo in, 83, 165 The Spectre's Bride, 164

British players, 206 Christians and the flute, 270 critiques, 109 composers for the flute, 100 musical treatises, 27 pictures containing flutes, 25, 33 references in English literature, 230-3

Eben, Felix J., 227

Ebonite flutes, 278

Egyptian flutes, 4

Eight-keyed flute, the, 45

Elgar, Miss, 223

Encyclopédie Methodique, 42, 257

Epithets applied to the flute, 236

Ernst, Philip, 226

Etruscan flutes, 9

Extreme high notes, 177

F, the, 85

Farrenc, 108

Female Composers for the flute, 224 players, 220

Festing, 207

Fife, early history, 73 music for, 75 in English Literature, 231 Opera, 79 the true, 79 with drum, 75

Fingerholes, development of, 7

Fipple, the, 6

"Flageletto" notes, 96

Flageolet, the, 20

Flautist-composers, 104

Flautists, nationality of, 216

Flood-Porter, Miss, 223

Florio, 41

Flute-à-bec, the, 16

Flute d'Amour, the, 91 and harp, 113, 162 and guitar, 113 considered an amatory instrument, 269-271 early foreign representations and references, 25 epithets applied to, 236 legends about the, 249-251 quartetts, 185 in Addison, 238 in American authors, 236, 242-248 in Bible, 10, 237, 270 in Chaucer, etc., 230 in Dickens and other novelists, 239 in early dramatists, 232 in English poets, 234-238 in Goldsmith, 239 in Milton, 236 in Shakespeare, 231

Flutes with keys, 34

Four flutes in orchestral works, 161

Fransella, A., 215

Frederick the Great, 188

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Gevaert on the flute, 95

Giorgi flute, the, 257

"Glide" eftect, the, 98, 109

Gluck, his flute passages, 129-132 his Orfeo, 129 his use of the lowest notes, 131 piccolo in, 131

Godfroy, 56

Gold flutes, 278

Golden age of the flute, 108

Good flute music, 107, 111

Gordon, 48-52 his flutes, 50

Gordon-Böhm controversy, 59 64

Gounod, 82

Greenhead, Miss, 222

Grenser, K., 260

Grieg, flute and piccolo in, 165

Griffith, F., 215

Guillou, 197, 206n.

flute, the, 24

Hallet, B., 260

Handel, his use of the flute, 122, 127 combines flute and organ, 127 his "flauto-piccolo," 125 his flautist, 129 his flute sonatas, 102 his obligatos, 124, 127 his orchestra, 128

Harmonics, 95

Haydn, his flute passages, 132-134 his chief flautist, 132 his flute sonata, 103 his symphonies, 134 The Creation, 133

Hebrew "Mashrokitha," the, 10, 231, 270

Hebrews considered flute profane, 270

Heckel's Cap, 257

Heind'l, 227

Heinemayer, 206n.

Hirsch, 132

Hoffmann, G., 42

Hotteterre, 35 his flute, 38 his Principés de la Flûte traversière, 35, 275 music by, 37, 275

Hudson, E., 215 Miss, 223

Hugot, A., 193

Hummel's septetts, 182

flutes, 25, 266

Instruction Books, early, 275 first English, 276 later English, 277

Interchangeable middle sections, 39

Ireland, flautist, 182

Ismenias, 15

Italian operatic composers, flute in, 152

flutes, 263 legend concerning the flute, 264

Juba's Theatrical History, 6

Juvigny, 20

flute, 266

"Kaval," the, 6

Keyless flutes, 23

Keys, addition of, 34 the D♯. 34 the low C, 41 F♮, G♯, B♭, 41-42 C♮ 43 long F♮, 43 long B♭, 44


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King Henry VIII., 19, 76, 192

Kircher, 17, 32

Kohler, E., 219

Koppitz, 97

Krakamp, 206n.

Krantz, 219

Kreith, 206n.

Kuhlau and his compositions, 105 his friendship with Beethoven, 106 his successors, 107

Kusder, 38, 42

Kyle, John, 228

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Lady flautistes, 220 ancient, 221 modern, 223 American, 223

Lady Maket flutes, 5

Lahou, 206n.

Lamia, 221

Lanier, Sidney, 229, 246

Le Thiere, 81

Left-handed flautists, 196

Legendary date of invention of the flute, 2

Legends about the flute, 249-251

Lemmone, J., 229

Lemon-sucking, effect of, 261

Literary flautists, 246-8

Loeillet, J. B., 100

Lorenzo, L. de, 228

Lorenzoni's instruction book, 277

Love-flutes of American Indians, etc., 268

Lulli, 117

Luscinius, 27

bass and alto flutes, 87, 90

Machault and Deschamps, 26

Magic Flute, The, 137

Mahault's Tutor, 276

Marschner, 82

Marsyas, 3

"Mashrokitha," the Hebrew, 10, 237, 270

Massenet, 83

Materials for flute-tubes, 278

Mathews, J., and his flute, 72

Mendelssohn, 155-158 his symphonies, 157 Midsummer Night's Dream, 155 use of low register, 156 piccolo in, 158

Merci, L., 101

Mersenne's description, 29, 32

Metal flutes, 278

Mexican and Peruvian flutes, 267, 269

Meyerbeer, 148-152 curious combinations in, 149 his use of the flute, 150 obligato for two flutes, 151 piccolo in, 148

Midas, story of, 3

Military fifes and drums, 76-79

Minerva, Ascham on, 270n.

Modern flute composers, 112 French composers, 165-6

Modern Musick Master, The, 22, 276

Molé, Charles, 228

Mollenhauer's mouth-piece. 257

Monteverde's Orfeo, 117

Mouth-piece, Townley's, 255 Mollenhauer's, 257 Wheatstone's, 256

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Music for flute by classical composers, 102

given to favourite flutes, 191n.

"Nay," the, 6

Nebuchadnezzar's flute, 10, 237, 270

Needham, V. L., 215

Needle-springs, 66

Negri, 219

Nicholson, Charles, 208

Nicholson, Henry, 211

Nolan's ring-key, 45

North American Indian flutes, 268

Nose-flutes, 266

Number of flutes used increased, 160

for the flute, 113 in Lucia de Lammermoor, 152 in Bach, 119 in Handel, 124, 127 for two flutes, 151

"Oh, ruddier than the Cherry," 124

One-armed flautists, 259

Open keys, 44

Orchestra, early examples of the flute in, 115

Organ and flute, 127

Origin of the flute, 4

Origin of the name "flute," 2

Ornamented flutes, 254

Osiris, the Egyptian God, 4

Osterle, Otto, 229

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Paintings, the flute in, 33, 189n.

Penville, Miss, 223

Perforated keys, 56

Petersen, Miss, 222

Philbert, 34, 193

"Photinx," the, 6

Piccolo, the, 80 as a solo instrument, 85 Berlioz's remarks on, 81 characteristics of, 8 early examples of its use, 81 military varieties, 85 in D♭ used, 84 two used, 81-84, 132, 136, 147, 149, 165, 169, 170 three used, 84 use by great composers, 82 in Bach, 121 Beethoven, 82, 142 Berlioz, 82-85, 163 Dvořák, 83, 165 Gluck, 131 Grieg, 165 Handel, 125 Mendelssohn, 158 Meyerbeer, 148 Mozart, 136 Rossini, 153 Schubert, 159 Schumann, 82, 85, 160 Spohr, 84, 85 Strauss, 177 Sullivan, 82, 168 Tschaïkowsky, 176 Wagner, 83, 172 Weber, 81, 147 in chamber music, 184 with cymbals, etc., 84

"Plagiaulos," the, 12

Polynesian flutes, 266

Popularity of the flute, 10, 94 recorder, 19

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 At thee Words Mrs. Bridget dicompoed her Features with a Smile; (a Thing very unuual to her.) Not that I would have my Reader imagine, that this was one of thoe wanton Smiles, which Homer would have you conceive came from Venus, when he calls her the laughter-loving Goddes; nor was it one of thoe Smiles, which Lady Seraphina hoots from the Stage-Box, and which Venus would quit her Immortality to be able to equal. No, this was rather one of thoe Smiles, which might be uppoed to have come from the dimpled Cheeks of the augut Tyiphone, or from one of the Mies her Siters.

With uch a Smile then, and with a Voice, weet as the Evening Breeze of Boreas in the pleaant Month of November, Mrs. Bridget gently reproved the Curioity of Mrs. Deborah, a Vice with which it eems the latter was too much tainted, and which the former inveighed againt with great Bitternes, adding ‘that among all her Faults, he thanked Heaven, her Enemies could not accue her of prying into the Affairs of other People.’

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: such district or region or any part thereof, subject to such exceptions or modifications as he may specify in the notification and any such direction may be given so as to have retrospective effect.]

13. Estimated receipts and expenditure pertaining to autonomous districts to be shown separately in the annual financial statement.—The estimated receipts and expenditure pertaining to an autonomous district which are to be credited to, or is to be made from, the Consolidated Fund of the State *** shall be first placed before the District Council for discussion and then after such discussion be shown separately in the annual financial statement of the State to be laid before the Legislature of the State under article 202.

14. Appointment of Commission to inquire into and report on the administration of autonomous districts and autonomous regions.—(1) The Governor may at any time appoint a Commission to examine and report on any matter specified by him relating to the administration of the autonomous districts and autonomous regions in the State, including matters specified in clauses (c), (d), (e) and (f) of sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule, or may appoint a Commission to inquire into and report from time to time on the administration of autonomous districts and autonomous regions in the State generally and in particular on—
 * (a) the provision of educational and medical facilities and communications in such districts and regions;
 * (b) the need for any new or special legislation in respect of such districts and regions; and
 * (c) the administration of the laws, rules and regulations made by the District and Regional Councils;

and define the procedure to be followed by such Commission.

(2) The report of every such Commission with the recommendations of the Governor with respect thereto shall be laid before the Legislature of the State by the Minister concerned together with an explanatory memorandum regarding the action proposed to be taken thereon by [the Government of the State.]

(3) In allocating the business of the Government of the State among his Ministers the Governor may place one of his Ministers specially in charge of the welfare of the autonomous districts and autonomous regions in the State.

15. Annulment or suspension of acts and resolutions of District and Regional Councils.—(1) If at any time the Governor is satisfied that an act or resolution of a District or a Regional Council is likely to endanger the safety of India [or is likely to be prejudicial to public order], he may annul or suspend such act or resolution and take such steps as he may consider necessary (including the suspension of the Council and the assumption to himself of all or any of the powers vested in or exercisable by the Council) to prevent the commission or continuance of such act, or the giving of effect to such resolution.


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 She aid, he could not help agreeing with her Brother, that there was ome Merit in the Sincerity of her Confeion, and in her Integrity to her Lover. That he had always thought her a very good Girl, and doubted not but he had been educed by ome Racal, who had been infinitely more to blame than herelf, and very probably had prevailed with her by a Promie of Marriage, or ome other treacherous Proceeding.

This Behaviour of Mrs. Bridget greatly urprized Mrs. Deborah; for this well-bred Woman eldom opened her Lips either to her Mater or his Siter, ’till he had firt ounded their Inclinations, with which her Sentiments were always trictly cononant. Here, however, he thought he might have launched forth with Safety; and the agacious Reader will not perhaps accue her of want of ufficient Forecat in o doing, but will rather admire with what wonderful Celerity he tacked about, when he found herelf teering a wrong Coure.

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 (2) Any order made by the Governor under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph together with the reasons therefor shall be laid before the Legislature of the State as soon as possible and the order shall, unless revoked by the Legislature of the State, continue in force for a period of twelve months from the date on which it was so made:

Provided that if and so often as a resolution approving the continuance in force of such order is passed by the Legislature of the State, the order shall unless cancelled by the Governor continue in force for a further period of twelve months from the date on which under this paragraph it would otherwise have ceased to operate.

16. Dissolution of a District or a Regional Council.— [(1)] The Governor may on the recommendation of a Commission appointed under paragraph 14 of this Schedule by public notification order the dissolution of a District or a Regional Council, and—

 * (a) direct that a fresh general election shall be held immediately for the reconstitution of the Council, or
 * (b) subject to the previous approval of the Legislature of the State assume the administration of the area under the authority of such Council himself or place the administration of such area under the Commission appointed under the said paragraph or any other body considered suitable by him for a period not exceeding twelve months:

 * Provided that when an order under clause (a) of this paragraph has been made, the Governor may take the action referred to in clause (b) of this paragraph with regard to the administration of the area in question pending the reconstitution of the Council on fresh general election:

 * Provided further that no action shall be taken under clause (b) of this paragraph without giving the District or the Regional Council, as the case may be, an opportunity of placing its views before the Legislature of the State.

[(2) If at any time the Governor is satisfied that a situation has arisen in which the administration of an autonomous district or region cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule, he may, by public notification, assume to himself all or any of the functions or powers vested in or exercisable by the District Council or, as the case may be, the Regional Council and declare that such functions or powers shall be exercisable by such person or authority as he may specify in this behalf, for a period not exceeding six months:

Provided that the Governor may by a further order or orders extend the operation of the initial order by a period not exceeding six months on each occasion.

(3) Every order made under sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph with the reasons therefor shall be laid before the Legislature of the State and shall cease to operate at the expiration of thirty days from the date on which the State Legislature first sits after the issue of the order, unless, before the expiry of that period it has been approved by that State Legislature.]


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Prætorius, 28

Prejudice against the flute, 269

Present-day foreign players, 219

Prill, 219

Puritan attack on the flute, 271

, J. J., his life, 186-193 compositions, 102 instruction book, 277 inventions, 40

Quesnel, Alfred, 228

Quintetts for wind alone, 183-4

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Radcliff, 214 his flute, 71

Rameau, 81

Rebsomen, Count, 259

Recorder, the, 18 some old players, 20

Redfern, E. S., 215

"Register," The, 39

Reicha's Quintetts, 183

Reichert, 206n.

Remusat, 206n.

Ribas, 204

Ribock, 42, 43, 66

Richardson, 209

Ring-keys, 45

Rockstro's attack on Böhm, 63 flutes, 71

Roe, 81

Rossini's William Tell, 153

Royal flautists, 192n.

Rudall, Carte & Co., 69

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Saust, 206n.

Saynor, 206n.

Schafhault, 55

Schickhard's Principes, 276

Schubert's use of the flute and piccolo, 159 flute solo, 103

Schumann, the flute and piccolo in, 82, 85, 160

Schweitzerpfeiff, the, 26, 73

"Sebi," the, 4

Shakes and trills, 98

Shakespeare, fife and flute in, 231

Shepherd's instrument, the flute a, 234

Sibelius, 177

Siccama's flutes, 67

Silver flutes, 278

Smith, Miss L., 223

Sola, 206n.

Songs with flute obligato, 113

Soussmann, 206n.

South American flutes, 267

Spohr's Nonett, 182

Spontini, 84

Stanhope, Miss, 223

Statistics about flautists. 216

Strauss, R., flute and piccolo in, 176-179

Striggio's La Cofanaria, 117

Sturges, R. Y., 248

Style of performance, English and foreign, 217 Böhm's views on, 218

Sullivan, The Golden Legend, 82, 167-169

Svendsen, 213

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Taffanel, 184, 205

Terschak, 204 his compositions, 111

Theorbo and flute in Handel, 128

Thoinan's Les Hotieterre, 35

Tierce flute, the, 85

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 Ladyhip ays, if he was deceived by ome wicked Man, the poor Wretch is to be pitied. And to be ure, as your Ladyhip ays, the Girl hath always appeared like a good, honet, plain Girl, and not vain of her Face, forooth, as ome wanton Hueys in the Neighbourhood are.’

‘You ay true, Deborah, aid Mrs. Bridget, if the Girl had been one of thoe vain Trollops, of which we have too many in the Parih, I hould have condemned my Brother for his Lenity towards her. I aw two Farmers Daughters at Church, the other Day, with bare Necks. I protet they hock’d me. If Wenches will hang out Lures for Fellows, it is no matter what they uffer. I detet uch Creatures; and it would be much better for them, that their Faces had been eamed with the Small-Pox; but I mut confes, I never aw any of this wanton Behaviour in poor Jenny; ome artful Villain, I am convinced, hath betrayed, nay perhaps forc’d her; and I pity the poor Wretch with all my Heart.’

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Townley's mouthpiece, 255

Transverse flute, was it known to the ancients? 23-24 known to ancient Chinese, 25 in mediæval Europe, 25, 26 introduced into England, 33

Tremolo passages, 96, 98

Tromlitz, 43

Tschaikowsky, 173-176

"Tsche," the Chinese, 263

Tuille's Sextett, 183

Tulou, 196-197

Tuning slides, 39

Two flutes in thirds, 98

, the, 7

Various registers of the flute, 95

Verdi, 83

"Vibrato," the, 98

Virdung, 27

Vivian, 214

"Vivo," the, 266

, 170-173 piccolo in, 83, 172 his Lohengrin, 144

Walking-stick flutes, 253

Ward's flutes, 50n, 66, 255

Weber, 143-148 Der Freuchüts, 144 piccolo in, 83, 147

Wehner, C, 227

Weidemann, 129

Weiner, Eugene, 228

Weird flute story, 241

Wells, B., 211

Wendling, J., 41, 135

Wheatstone's mouthpiece, 256

Wild, Miss, 223

William Tell overture, 153

Winnebago love-flute, 268

Winter, Joseph, 258

Wood, D. S., 215

Wood and silver flutes compared, 278

Woolhouse, Miss, 223

Wunderlich, J. G., 193

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Youthful prodigies, 260

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301 What This Chapter Covers

This Chapter discusses the U.S. Copyright Office’s practices and procedures for evaluating authorship. For guidance on practices and procedures relating to specific types of works, see the following Chapters:
 * For a general overview of the registration process, see.
 * For guidance in determining who may file an application and who may be named as the, see.
 * For guidance in identifying the work that will be submitted for registration, see.
 * For guidance in completing the application, see.
 * For a discussion of, see.
 * For a discussion of, see.
 * For a discussion of, see.
 * For a discussion of websites and website content, see.
 * For a discussion of the options for registering certain groups of works, see.
 * For a discussion of, see.

302 The Legal Framework

The Copyright Act protects “original works of authorship in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.” 17 U.S.C. § 102(a).

Section 410(a) of the statute states that the shall register a  to copyright and issue a  if the U.S. Copyright Office determines that “the material deposited constitutes  subject matter and that the other legal and formal requirements have been met.” If the Office determines that “the material deposited does not constitute copyrightable subject matter or that the claim is invalid for any other reason, the Register shall refuse registration and shall notify the  in writing of the reasons for such refusal.” 17 U.S.C. § 410(b). Chapter 300 : 5


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Rh ''Ow my Children, you are married in the Christian way following the order of the Holy Church. I entrust to you what our Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted: that you love each other, that you be faithful to each other, and that you help one another. The causes of quarrels between you are usually because the husband is lazy and does not dig, nor give his wife guano and firewood; or the woman does not take care of planting, and guarding the savannah, and house: each one go to do what they should, and do not start quarrels. Know how to hide these and be patient, and do not complain and murmur because of little things. The man is the head of the woman and house, as Christ is of the Church, and thus he must love her, and look after her; and she will obey him in what he commands unless it is a sin; honor and serve him, not out of fear but out of love. In this way you will live happy and content in this life, and then afterward, God will give you eternal life.'' In the Timucuan language.

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, Third Edition In determining whether a work is copyrightable, the Office analyzes questions such as:
 * Is the work eligible for copyright protection in the United States?
 * Has the work been fixed in a tangible medium of expression?
 * Was the work created by a human author?
 * Does the work constitute copyrightable subject matter?
 * Is the work sufficiently original?
 * Was the work independently created?
 * Does the work possess at least some minimal degree of creativity?

If the answer to all of these questions is “yes,” the work is copyrightable and the claim may be registered, as long as there are no other issues in the registration materials that raise questions concerning the claim and as long as the other legal and formal requirements have been met.

These questions are discussed in Sections 304 through below. For information on how the Office interprets these questions when examining, , and , see and.

For information on how the Office interprets these questions when examining specific types of, , and visual art works, see , , and.

303 Copyrightability Is Determined Based on U.S. Copyright Law

The U.S. Copyright Act is the exclusive source of copyright protection in the United States. To register a work with the U.S. Copyright Office, all —both foreign and domestic—must satisfy the requirements of U.S. copyright law. In determining whether a work is, the Office applies U.S. copyright law pursuant to title 17 of the U.S. Code, even if the work was created in a foreign country, first in a foreign country, or created by a citizen, domiciliary, or habitual resident of a foreign country.

304 Eligibility

The U.S. Copyright Office may register a work of authorship if it is eligible for copyright protection in the United States. All U.S. works—both and —created on or after January 1, 1978, are eligible for U.S. copyright protection. 17 U.S.C. § 104(a), (b). Additionally, all unpublished and most published foreign works are eligible for U.S. copyright protection. Id. For more information on the eligibility requirements for published foreign works, see. Chapter 300 : 6


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Rh Y children, by the way of the Holy Church, you are married like Christians. Our Lord Jesus Christ says to you: you must love each other and help each other and have mercy on each other, and what he has told you, I similarly entreat of you. When the man does nothing, or does not till the earth, or does not harvest the guano, or does not give firewood; and the woman is not faithful to her man, does not journey to provide the fields, or does not maintain the house and food; because of this, you couples have fought. Thus, with every deed that you have and do, you must live thinking We will not be angry with each other; and whenever there is a little anger, do not ruin all with it; you are to prevent it, forgive each other, and not murmur about each other. The man is the head of the woman and the house, thus he is to love and be faithful and be Rh


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A work of authorship may be deemed, provided that it has been “ in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which [it] can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or indirectly with the aid of a machine or device.” 17 U.S.C. § 102(a). Specifically, the work must be fixed in a or  “by or under the authority of the author” and the work must be “sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.” 17 U.S.C. § 101 (definition of “fixed”).

The terms “copy” and “phonorecord” are very broad. They cover “all of the material objects in which copyrightable works are capable of being fixed,” 94-1476, at 53 (1976), reprinted in 1976 U.S.C.C.A.N. 5659, 5666.
 * Copies are “material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device,” including the material object “in which the work is first fixed.” 17 U.S.C. § 101.
 * Phonorecords are “material objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device,” including “the material object in which the sounds are first fixed.” 17 U.S.C. § 101.

There are countless ways that a work may be fixed in a copy or phonorecord and “it makes no difference what the form, manner, or medium of may be.”  94-1476, at 52 (1976), reprinted in 1976 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 5666. For example, a work may be expressed in “words, numbers, notes, sounds, pictures, or any other graphic or symbolic indicia” and the author’s expression may be fixed “in a physical object in written, printed, photographic, sculptural, punched, magnetic, or any other stable form.” Id.

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 horse are symbols representing the various ways in which the Divine displays Himself to the differing necessities and conditions of mankind.

None of the Divine predictions concerning the second coming of the Lord were ever intended to teach us that He would again personally come into the natural world. Every one may see that He did for man, at His first advent, all that it was possible for Him to do by means of such a coming. There were, at that time, circumstances in man's spiritual condition which required the assumption of humanity and the consequent presence of the Lord in the natural world, in order to remove the evils with which they were associated. He thereby made provision against the possibility of their recurrence: and, therefore, the necessity for a personal coming could no more arise. Every case which is recorded of the Divine appearing is different, because, at the time of its occurrence, there has always been something different in the condition of the world which has required it. On this principle it is plain that His promise to "come again" will be fulfilled in a manner different from that of any previous coming. Indeed, the Lord expressly said that the occasion for this second coming would be such as had not been from the beginning of the world. If, then, the characteristics which are to distinguish mankind at the Lord's second coming are to be so different from all those which have marked previous comings, it seems plain that the mode in which that coming will be effected must be different from all the rest. This, indeed, follows from the statement that His second coming is to take place under a title different from that by which He was distinguished at His first advent. He then came as the Son of God; it was as such that He was received by


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 His disciples, and it was for the assumption of this title that He was rejected by the Jews. But He has nowhere said that that should be the name under which He would come again. Whenever that subject is treated of, He invariably says that it is the Son of man who is to come.

It is exceedingly interesting to observe that all the chief manifestations of the Divine Being have been effected under some distinctive title. Thus, to Adam He appeared as "Jehovah God," to Noah as "God," to Abraham as "God Almighty," to Moses as "I Am," to the seventy elders as the "God of Israel," to Joshua as "the Captain of the host of Jehovah," and to Gideon as "the Angel of Jehovah." When He became "manifest in the flesh," it was as "the Son of God," but it was as the Son of man that He promised to come again. Now, as all the Divine manifestations, preceding that which is called the second coming, differed from each other in their character, as each was suited to the peculiar circumstances of the people to whom it was made, and was indicated by a distinctive name, it is reasonable to infer that the second coming, which is to be effected under a name different from all the rest, will also differ from the rest in its nature.

Moreover, the Lord, when He was in the world, glorified His humanity. The apostle spoke of this as His glorious body. It was, in some measure, revealed to three of the disciples on the mount of transfiguration, but the nature of it was such that it could not be seen with the natural eyes. Hence, "as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead." And why were they told not to speak of it till then? Plainly because the resurrection body of the Lord would then be a


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, Third Edition data file, or an audiovisual work captured on film. Nevertheless, some works of authorship may not satisfy the fixation requirement, such as an improvisational speech, sketch, dance, or other performance that is not recorded in a tangible medium of expression. Other works may be temporarily embodied in a tangible form, but may not be sufficiently permanent or stable to warrant copyright protection, such as “purely evanescent or transient reproductions such as those projected briefly on a screen, shown electronically on a television, … or captured momentarily in the memory of a computer.” 94-1476, at 53 (1976), reprinted in 1976 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 5666 (internal quotations marks omitted).

The Office rarely encounters works that do not satisfy the fixation requirement because the Office requires to submit copies or phonorecords that contain a visually or aurally perceptible copy of the work. However, the Office may communicate with the applicant or may refuse registration if the work or the medium of expression only exists for a transitory period of time, if the work or the medium is constantly changing, or if the medium does not allow the specific elements of the work to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated in a consistent and uniform manner.

306 The Human Authorship Requirement

The U.S. Copyright Office will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was created by a human being.

The copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the mind.” Trade-Mark Cases, 100 U.S. 82, 94 (1879). Because copyright law is limited to “original intellectual conceptions of the author,” the Office will refuse to register a if it determines that a human being did not create the work. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53, 58 (1884). For representative examples of works that do not satisfy this requirement, see below.

307 Copyrightable Subject Matter

A work of authorship may be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, provided that it constitutes subject matter.

Section 102(a) of the Copyright Act states that the subject matter of copyright includes the following categories of works: Chapter 300 : 8
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 * Dramatic works, including any accompanying music.
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 Divine Humanity, some characteristic of which they had been permitted to see in vision, and which, after the resurrection, the other disciples would also be enabled to see, when their spiritual sight should be opened for the purpose. Every one knows that the Lord, at and after His resurrection, was seen by His disciples only; and when they saw Him it was not with their natural eyes, but with a spiritual vision. Hence, it is expressly said, "Their eyes were opened, and they knew Him." Thus His Divine Humanity is such that it cannot become the object of any natural sight, and therefore it is vain to expect that He will ever again make a personal appearance in the physical world. By glorifying His Humanity He withdrew Himself from the natural sight of men, and thus rendered a personal appearance unnecessary to any future ages of mankind. Besides, how could such an appearance be effected without a re-incarnation? an idea for which no one will contend. It is quite true that after His resurrection the Lord was seen personally, on several occasions, by His disciples; but it is equally true that the scene of those appearances was in some region of the spiritual world, and that the sight with which they saw Him was a spiritual sight. If this were not so, why was He not seen by the common people of the times? Still, very few pretend that by those appearances He fulfilled that which He meant by His promise to come again. In that promise the idea of a personal appearing was no doubt included. This seems to be the simple and unforced meaning of the terms of it; but, inasmuch as the Divine Humanity in which the Lord now is can only be seen by the spiritual sight of men, it follows that the natural world cannot be the scene of it. This conclusion seems to be distinctly revealed to us in the


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 history of the ascension. When that phenomenon was about to be accomplished, the Lord, though then personally visible to His disciples, was not living in the ordinary plane of nature, nor did they see Him with their natural sight: remembering those facts, we turn to the narrative. "When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you. And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Hence it is evident that the disciples were not in their normal condition when they witnessed this event. They saw the Lord, which men in their ordinary condition could not do; they were steadfastly looking towards heaven, thus not into the sky, but to the dwelling-place of angels, and this is not the privilege of man's natural state; they also saw angels, for this is the admitted meaning of the two men in white apparel, and for this sight their spiritual eyes must have been opened; they heard the angel speak, and for this their spiritual faculty of hearing must have been awakened. It is therefore certain that the scene of the ascension could not have been upon the plane of the natural world; the Lord, after His resurrection, was in the world of spirits,


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 and therefore it must have been from thence that the disciples, with their spiritual eyes, looked towards heaven as He went up. When, therefore, the angels said unto them, "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven," it seems plain that they referred to His personal coming into the world of spirits, that, as we have before explained, being the primary scene of all His judgments. It is to the world of spirits where the Lord comes to "separate the sheep from the goats;" to give to those who have, and to take away from those who only seem to have; and where, consequently, He "giveth to every man according to his works." The Lord's promise, then, to come again, seems very clearly to involve the idea of His personal manifestation in the world of spirits to execute a judgment there, and afterwards to reveal that event to mankind by pouring out a beneficent influence upon them; and especially by causing the true nature of His Divine Word to be more clearly understood.

The Lord, when speaking of His second coming, said that the sign of it should appear in heaven, and that the Son of man should come in the clouds of heaven. Certainly these terms do not express the idea of His personally coming into the natural world. The scene of the subject treated of is clearly laid in a plane above. He distinctly says that the sign of it should appear in heaven, and that He would be seen coming in the clouds of heaven; now "heaven" and "the clouds of heaven" do not mean the sky and the vapours which arise from the earth, but the eternal habitation of the spiritually good, and all those obscurities of thought by which the bright condition of the heavenly life is prevented from appearing. Thus the appearance of the sign of the Son of man in heaven


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 denotes a manifestation of Divine truth respecting Him, in the hearts of the faithful; and by His being seen coming in the clouds of heaven is meant a revelation of Divine truth respecting Him, to those who are in states of obscurity concerning it. All states of obscurity concerning the Lord and His kingdom are as clouds which hinder the "Sun of righteousness" from appearing, and the Lord is said to come in those clouds when that obscurity is enlightened; because then, by means of that light, the Son of man—the Lord in His Divine Humanity—will be acknowledged. Thus the sign of the Son of man in heaven denotes the activity of Divine truth among the angels, and His coming in the clouds of heaven, primarily refers to the Lord's appearing in the world of spirits, and not in the world of nature as is commonly supposed.

But although the world of spirits was to be the primary scene in which the Lord would fulfil His promise to come again, there can be no doubt that the prediction was intended to have a striking significance in reference to the world of men. The Lord's personal appearance in the one was designed to have a remarkable influence in the other.

Whatsoever takes place above must, sooner or later, display itself below. All that transpires in nature is from a spiritual origin. It is from the spiritual world that men think and act. It is common to ascribe those results to the mind of the thinker and the actor; but that arrests inquiry into the origin of thought and act before it has completed its work. What is mind? Is it not a spiritual faculty associated with a spiritual power other than itself? It does not live of itself; how then can it think or act from itself? Do we not sometimes experience the sudden suggestion of ideas which we are not conscious of having made any effort to obtain? Have not ideas sometimes


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 name of Hylas, instituted legal proceedings against the aggressor, obtained a verdict with damages, and Hylas's wife was brought back to England free.

Another forcible capture of a negro, attended with great cruelty, having occurred in 1770, he immediately set himself on the track of the aggressors. An African, named Lewis, was seized one dark night by two watermen employed by the person who claimed the negro as his property, dragged into the water, hoisted into a boat, where he was gagged and his limbs were tied; and then, rowing down river, they put him on board a ship bound for Jamaica, where he was to be sold for a slave upon his arrival in the island. The cries of the poor negro had, however, attracted the attention of some neighbours, one of whom proceeded direct to Mr. Granville Sharp, now known as the negro's friend, and informed him of the outrage. Sharp immediately got a warrant to bring back Lewis, and he proceeded to Gravesend, but on arrival there the ship had sailed for the Downs. A writ of Habeas Corpus was obtained, sent down to Spithead, and before the ship could leave the shores of England the writ was served. The slave was found chained to the main-mast, bathed in tears, casting mournful looks on the land from which he was about to be torn. He was immediately liberated, brought back to London, and a warrant was issued against the author of the outrage. The promptitude of head, heart, and hand displayed by Mr. Sharp in this transaction could scarcely have been surpassed, and yet he accused himself of slowness. The case was tried before Lord Mansfield—whose opinion, it will be


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 there; the woman serves, honors, and labors for the man, just as the holy Church serves our Lord Jesus Christ. What the spouse wants I complete: when what the woman does is not a sin, this is to be done. In doing this you will live being happy, and afterward God will give you eternal life.

¶ Note: On the second wedding which was not blessed.

¶ ''Per the opinion of Father Juan Baptista, and others DD. who cite in the second part of their Warnings, p. 204, where this is treated in great detail. ''

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function p.EB1911(frame) return p._EB1911(getArgs(frame, {removeBlanks = false})) end

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The Old Countess

 * The Old Countess (1870), a novel by Edmund Höfer originally in German
 * The Old Countess (1927), a novel by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
 * The Old Countess (1873), a novel by Ann Sophia Stephens

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OU are an artist, Monsieur?'

Graham raised his eyes from his canvas and saw an old lady standing in the mountain-path beside him: gloomy, unresponsive eyes they were, and they did not soften for her; yet as he replied, 'I try to be,' they remained fixed upon her; for she was a surprising apparition.

Against the blue autumnal sky it was a Goya she made him think of; festive and sinister with her black ribbons and laces, her pallid, painted face and great owl-like eyes. She leaned, witch-like, on an ebony stick, and a broad hat, edged with lace, was tied, from beneath the brim, under her chin. Blue, black, sallow-white; in colour and design the picture of her was wonderful; and her eyes were wonderful; so old, yet so living and liquid; one iris half veiled by a piteous droop of the eyelid.

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 lacked and the laces at her wrist were tattered. She was so old that she might, in youth, have been a beauty of the Second Empire, with fan and wreath and crinoline, among satin upholstery and gilded consoles; yet that she was still susceptible to male attention was hade evident to him by the faintly provocative smile that hovered on her lips.

'You have made it very menacing,' she now remarked.

Her eyes were on him; his painting, he saw, was a mere pretext; yet she must have looked at it, and pretty carefully, before addressing him, for such a comment, from an old lady of the Second Empire, showed discernment.

'Menacing? What do you mean by that?' he questioned. He remained seated, mannerlessly enough; and he looked away from her to his picture, and then out over the majestic spaces of sky and cliff and river. Perched high as they were on the precipitous hillside, it was also against the sky that the old lady saw him, and she might well divine that when he looked at the landscape he forgot her.

Richard Graham was admirably handsome. The modelling of his brows and eyelids was Napoleonic and something also in the folded, ironic melancholy of his lips, his cold and brooding aspect; but his face showed no further Latin subtleties, and his rough, dark locks, short but ample nose, broad irises and powerful throat, gave to his head, in certain attitudes, a look of Robert Burns. He wore exceedingly well-cut

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 coat and trousers of thin grey homespun; a white silk shirt; blue socks; blue silk handkerchief, and sleeve-links of flat gold;—on all of which details the old lady's eyes rested, successively and with an almost passionate attention. His demeanour was that of an artist, but his dress that of a man of fashion.

'To analyse a menace is difficult, is it not?' she said, as he cast his dark glance again upon her. 'Your sky is blue; it is full of sunlight; yet it is a tragic sky.'

'I always feel the sky in France rather tragic,' said Graham. 'It seems to relegate us; to have no use for us; none of the complicity that one feels in our caressing English skies.'

'Ah; I thought you English—though your French is so excellent.—An English artist who prefers to paint France rather than his own country. Bien, '  the old lady smiled. Her smile drew her drooping lid still lower; and her front teeth, still beautiful, though set in cavernous darkness, lent it a certain pathos. 'Perhaps that is what I felt in your picture. It relegates us. And not only its sky. Your very river is merciless.—Though indeed one does not expect mercy from a great river such as our Dordogne.'

'It's marvellous,' said Graham, gazing again before him. It was. He never recovered from the shock of splendour each seeing of it brought. Winding in majesty between its vast grey cliffs, its wooded gorges, it was to the earth what an eagle is to the sky; a presence; a power; possessing what encompasses it.

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 ciless indeed. During the years that I have lived here I have seen three inundations. Corpses have rolled upon its flood.'

'Corpses? Really?' Graham laughed a little, looking up at her. She was probably a romancing old lady and the quality went with something meretricious he felt in her voice, dulcetly, beautifully as that enshrined her perfect French. It went with the Second Empire tradition, too, this evocation of swollen tides and helpless, livid forms; a poem by Victor Hugo; a picture by Géricault. 'Why didn't they get out of the way?'

'Ah, you do not know the force and fury of our great rivers when they are unchained by spring among the mountains. They can, suddenly, resistlessly, sweep all before them. They are, in that, like our French nation, led by a Napoleon. My maternal grandfather was one of Napoleon's marshals. We are of plebeian blood on my mother's side; but I think I am prouder of that soldier of fortune than of my crusading ancestors.—You fought in our great war, Monsieur?'

'Yes; I fought,' said Graham, amused. Something in her tone, slightly resentful perhaps of his incredulity and lightness, implied that it had been a privilege to fight for the France that Napoleon fought for, and to claim the war, the victory, as France's alone.

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 beginning to wish that she would move on. This wonderful French light enveloped the landscape like an incantation; but it was October; the days were getting short; it would change if they went on talking too long.

'You are staying at our little Buissac, Monsieur?' asked the old lady. She must guess that he wanted to go on painting; but she could not, yet, he felt, bring herself to leave him.

'Only for a week. We are on our way South.'

'You are not alone?'

'My wife is with me.'

'She, also, is an artist?'

'Far from it.' Graham smiled a little, streaking a tentative colour on his palette.

'She has other occupations while you paint?'

'She's fond of motoring. She's probably scouring the country at this moment.' Graham laid on his colour.

'It is a wild, a desolate country for a young woman to venture far afield in. You do not fear for her?'

'Fear for Jill!' Graham laughed. 'She went through the war, too. She drove an ambulance in the firing line most of the time. The Dordogne isn't likely to frighten her after that.' He looked up at the old lady—'May I bring her to see you one day before we go? I should like to go on talking;—but not now.'

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 was untouched by displeasure. Her smile, on the contrary, betrayed delight, a delight that wreathed itself in graciousness. 'I shall be most charmed to receive you. Come any day you please and you will find me waiting for you with a cup of tea; and it will be a cup of real tea, and at the proper time,' she smiled, 'though I, myself, from long seclusion, have lapsed into the habits of the province. I dine at midday, sup at dusk, and go to bed with the birds;—a sad existence, is it not, for a Parisienne?'

'That's all right, then,' said Graham. 'We'll come at tea-time. And where are we to come? And whom are we to ask for?'

'You must ask for the comtesse de Lamouderie; at the Manoir;—anyone will direct you.—It is down there I live;—beyond Buissac; beyond the cemetery; in the midst of the chestnut forest. A road leads up from the grande route. I am afraid it is in terrible disrepair; your car could never attempt it. But it is not far. You could come on foot.'

'If you can get as far as this—I think we certainly can!' laughed Graham. 'And what about your Do you feel it safe to wander about the country by yourself?' He had risen in farewell and doffed his hat.

'Oh, I!' the old lady laughed bitterly. 'There are no dangers where I am concerned. I ceased to be a woman many years ago.'

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 ignored it. 'You might break your leg, you know. You might meet a robber.—Well, ''au revoir. ' ''

'I have nothing to be robbed of, as you see.' The old lady opened her arms and displayed her ancient attire. 'I am a scarecrow. And if a dead scarecrow is found one day on a mountain-path—well, I should prefer that, to tell the truth, to holy water and holy oil and all the lugubrious paraphernalia of a deathbed.'

'I agree with you! I should too,' said Graham. Their dark eyes dwelt on each other for a moment. Something passed between them. He did not think he liked the old lady, but a smouldering ember of recklessness, ruthlessness, perhaps, looked out at him from her eyes and his own dark fires answered it. 'Don't die in the mountain-path till we meet again,' he said.

It was comical, pitiful, he reflected, after she had left him, to remember how the Second Empire glance had answered this final sally: a glance arch, triumphant. He had delighted her; enraptured her. Poor old creature. She was ravenously lonely.

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UISSAC lay along the banks of the great river, hardly more than a thin scattering of houses; the inn, with its cheerful garlanding of vines, at one end, a villa or two at the other. Halfway up the cliff a monstrous modern Mairie, with pompous wings and preposterous cupola, all but obliterated the Romanesque church, ancient, patient, tranquil, its dark carved porch whispering legends terrible or gentle, a mushroom-like clustering of chapels about its apse. The Mairie, Graham thought, as he descended into the village at sunset, looked like a blustering bully pushing an old nun into the gutter, and a sardonic smile curled his lip as he glanced up at the Liberté—Egalité—Fraternité, carved in challenging golden letters above its portals. He and Jill had already come into disdainful contact with some of the furtive officials who lurked within its airless chambers.

Higher still, on the wooded summits, a ruined medizval castle was poised like a falcon against the sky. Predatory falcon or hypocritical bully, which, he wondered, was the more malevolent presence. Though indeed the turbulent history of France, symbolized by castle and Mairie, had, he imagined, affected the remote, self-sufficing life of the little community rather as the seasons affected it; as much and as little. The

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 level of the demand on life in such a place had always been so low that existence crept on, tranquilly, laboriously, throughout the centuries, unchanged by changing dynasties. That was the secret of happy living Graham reflected; to keep the level of demand low. On the level of Buissac life might be said to justify itself.

In front of the Ecu d'Or, on the wall that ran above the river, a young woman, dressed in mushroom-coloured silk, was lounging, a young woman with her hands in her pockets, a cigarette between her lips, an air of infinite if indolent good-humour, and Graham, as he saw her, felt her to be a further exemplification of happy living; for Jill's demand on life was certainly low in the sense that it was very simple. Yet the mystery of Jill was that anyone so rudimentary should seem to possess so much. Sitting there on her background of golden river and golden sky, unaware of appraisals, unconscious of æsthetic significances, the splendid evening permeated her, and she was a part of it all in a sense that the passionate yet impersonal attitude of the artist could never sink to—or attain. It seemed to belong to her as much as she to it.

She sat, as he approached her, not moving, and keeping her oddly smiling eyes upon him. Jill's very eyebrows partook of her smile; they drooped from their broad, quizzical lift over the bridge of her nose and the corners of her eyes drooped with them, while the corners of her mouth curled up. This gaiety of demeanour had in it no touch of coquetry or challenge;

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 it was, rather, that of a school-boy, and of an English school-boy; for Jill was as English as a hawthorn hedge in May.

Her sunburned skin was almost as dark in tone as her tawny hair; but by nature it was fresh and pale. She had been motoring all day and her small, prominent nose was slightly blistered by the hot wind, and her small lips parched, so that she looked more than ever like a hardy boy. But it was so he liked best to see her.

He sat down on the wall beside her and felt, again, his old pleasure in her looks. It never failed him; just as her pleasure in his, he imagined, never failed her. It was with each other's looks that they had fallen in love five years ago, towards the end of the war, and he liked Jill's as well now as when he had first seen her, sitting above him, against a war-ravaged sky, in her ambulance lorry. Poor old Jill could hardly have foreseen that in the gallant, blood-stained young officer who had won her heart, almost without asking for it, she was to find nothing but a moody, incomprehensible artist. She was a girl to marry a soldier; not a girl to marry an artist; whereas he was as content with Jill now as he had been then; and asked nothing more from her.

Loyal, kind, unselfish, there was something endlessly dependable about her, something that made him think of her, in their relation, as riding a restive, cherished horse and saying: 'Steady, old boy; steady.' She had never had to say it explicitly; had perhaps never been

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 aware of a need for holding him up; yet he knew that but for Jill's imperturbable confidence he might have fallen more than once into the disorders of his morose and rebellious youth.

'Any luck?' she asked him now, and it was characteristic of her to put his artistic activities in the category of sport. She would feel towards his canvas as towards a good basket of trout.

'Yes. Excellent. This country surpasses everything. Where have you been?'

'Oh, for miles; over the mountains. There are tablelands up there with endless birch-woods on them. And I found a great blue lake. But nothing's better than this. Nothing could be better than that river.'

From the river wall they gazed down the golden flood to where, beyond a beetling, wooded promontory, dark against the sunset, it turned in a vast curve and seemed to brood across the golden plains. Opposite Buissac the shores were less steep and russet vineyards climbed, from ledge to ledge of quiet hillside, above another hamlet, its evening cries faintly wafted.

At the turn of the river the promontory ran a long foot out into the stream, a green peninsula, its poplars shimmering against the sky. They could see that cattle grazed there, three cream-coloured cows, half dissolved in light, moving among the poplar groves.

'It's all so gentle; yet it's almost dreadful, too,' Jill murmured.

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 that; and everything being so vast; so much more than one can possibly need,' Jill said vaguely. 'Dreadful in a splendid way, of course. Terrible is a better word, perhaps.'

'Everything beautiful is more than one needs, my funny Jill. That's a definition of beauty, perhaps. Except that it's what one needs more than anything.'

'Yes. That's true,' Jill nodded. And her young face, its jocund lines wrested to gravity, took on a sudden strangeness.

An old peasant woman, wearing the austere black dress of the locality, passed along the dusty road, knitting as she led her flock of gaunt, disconsolate sheep.

'The only trouble with the place is the animals,' said Jill, following the sheep with her eyes. 'They all look half starved.'

'That old creature looks half starved herself,' said Graham. 'And by the way, I'm going to take you to tea with another old woman, and I shouldn't be surprised if she were half starved, too. I feel as if we ought to bring our bread and butter with us.'

'How did you pick up anyone in these parts who has tea?—There'll be boiled milk with it, I wager you.'

'She's an old countess, and she lives just beyond that promontory, I gather, for I think I make out chestnut forests on it. She appeared while I was painting and only asked to stay and talk all day. Rather beautiful; rather direful. I never saw anything like her. I only got rid of her at last by telling her I'd come to tea and bring you with me. If you ask me, I

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 think she fell in love with me at first sight. It was a ''coup de foudre. ' ''

'Poor old girl! I don't blame her. I did, too,' laughed Jill, perhaps a trifle ruefully.

So they sat on till it was time to get ready for dinner, watched from the open windows of the Ecu d'Or by Monsieur and Madame Michon, by Camille the garçon, and by Amélie the maid-of-all-work, who was, Jill remarked, when she appeared once or twice at the door to wring out a torchon or sweep a heap of dust into the road, as gaunt as the sheep, and as unbeautiful.

Jill and Graham fulfilled the French tradition of the charming and eccentric English couple travelling unaccountably, light-heartedly, erratically through a country not their own. It was felt by Monsieur and Madame, by Camille and by Amélie, that there was no telling how long they would stay or how soon depart; it depended on nothing predictable, though in hopes of the happier possibility, Madame was roasting a fine fat duck for their dinner and Amélie saw to it that the English insatiability in regard to hot water was met by a steaming broc carried up to their rooms. They had come in a small, open car, yet Madame last night at dinner had worn pearls and Monsieur had an impressive set of toilet articles. They would, everybody felt it, be generous with tips and not critical of bills; and that they knew what they were eating, quite as well as if they had been French and not English, Monsieur Michon had observed when he himself waited on them.

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 on the balcony that overlooked the river, Monsieur Michon ventured to ask them if they were pleased with Buissac, and they said that they were very pleased.

'Is it over there that the comtesse de Lamouderie lives?' Graham asked, pointing towards the promontory.

'Madame la comtesse? Mais oui, Monsieur.' Monsieur Michon could not conceal his surprise. 'Monsieur knows Madame la comtesse?'

'I met her this afternoon. She lives at the Manoir, she told me, in chestnut woods.'

'Yes, but it is a rough road. Monsieur will not get the car to go up it.'

'So she said. One follows the highroad and turns off.'

'You cannot miss it, Monsieur. One turns off at the cemetery à mi-route. And one has a fine view of the river on the way. We seldom see Madame la comtesse here in Buissac; but once a year she appears at High Mass; so I am told,' Monsieur Michon added with discretion, proving himself to be with the Mairie against the Church. 'She is an eccentric old lady.'

'And do you have great floods here at Buissac?' Graham asked, idly interested in verifying his old friend's histories.

'Ah, not now, Monsieur. This is not the season.' Monsieur Michon was evidently alarmed lest a reputation for floods should make Buissac less attractive.

'No; not now. But in the spring. Are people often drowned?'

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 with repudiation. 'No one has been drowned at Buissac;—except a cow here and there. We have great floods; in the spring-time, in some years. But we know how to deal with them and no life is in danger.'

'No corpses, eh?' smiled Graham. 'They don't go floating down the current?'

'' ' Mais non; mais non. ' '' Monsieur Michon smiled indulgently now, perceiving his guest's humour. 'We do not deal in corpses here.'

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T'S a day like a fairy-tale,' said Jill.

'A happy fairy-tale or a sad one?' Graham asked.

They were on their way to the Manoir, the green, lustrous glades of the chestnut forest opening before them as they climbed the mild ascent that led up from the river level. It was a beautiful walk, as Monsieur Michon had said, and the cool, sunny afternoon lay like a benediction over the splendid country.

'A happy one, of course,' said Jill. She turned her smiling eyes upon her husband, thinking that he looked a fitting hero to any fairy-tale. She was happy to be doing anything with Dick. So often she was alone; though Jill was seldom conscious of feeling lonely.

'Some fairy-tales are sinister, you know,' Graham objected. 'Perhaps if you'd seen the old lady you would feel that this one would be. She's rather witch-like and one can imagine her running a long needle into the princess's heart more easily, I'm afraid, than waving the wand for Cinderella.'

'But when princesses have the needles run into their hearts they come to life all right in the end,' said optimistic Jill. 'Fairy-tales may be sinister, but they always end well. I wasn't thinking so much of your old lady, though. It was just the feeling of starting on an adventure, with you. And everything being dif-

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 ferent from anything we've ever done before. It all feels different to-day.'

'Nice child,' Graham smiled at her. Jill's fundamental trust in life often amused and often touched him.

Halfway up the shoulder of the cliff the grande route swept suddenly to the left, on level ground, while, on the right, the ascent continued, more steeply, by a narrow, stony road.

'This must be the way she told me of,' said Graham. 'And it's quite true that one wouldn't care to take the car up it.'

But Jill had stopped short and was staring at a high wall that ran along the grande route.

Above it, bristling against the background of forest green, was an extraordinary array of what looked like nothing in the world so much as large tin tubs turned upside down and mounted on stilts. There were myriads of them; and amidst the quietly rustling solitudes they had a grisly look.

'What in Heaven's name is that?' said Jill.

'This,' said Graham, after a silent survey, 'is evidently the cemetery. Charming, isn't it?' He was less startled than Jill; perhaps because he was by nature more acquiescent in the grisly.

'The cemetery? Why?'

'Ask me another. We must go in and see.'

'I haven't the least wish to go in.—Are they baths?'

'Not at all. And few of those who repose beneath them ever, I imagine, knew a bath. They are temples.

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