text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/87

RV 75 (BUDDENBROOKS) was as wonderfully dressed as ever. Giving her husband a sidelong glance with her clear blue eyes, she said:

“Jean, I wanted to ask you to consider something: if it would not perhaps be advisable to engage a man-servant. I have just been coming to that conclusion. When I think of my parents—”

The Consul let his paper drop on his knee and took his cigar out of his mouth. A shrewd look came into his eyes: here was a question of money to be paid out.

“My dear Betsy,” he said—and he spoke as deliberately as possible, to gain time to muster his excuses—“do you think we need a man-servant? Since my parents’ death we have kept on all three maids, not counting Mamsell Jungmann. It seems to me—”

“Oh, but the house is so big, Jean. We can hardly get along as it is. I say to Line, ‘Line, it’s a fearfully long time since the rooms in the annexe were dusted’; but I don’t like to drive the girls too hard; they have their work cut out to keep everything clean and tidy here in the front. And a man-servant would be so useful for errands and so on. We could find some honest man from the country, who wouldn’t expect much. . . . Oh, before I forget it—Louise Möllendorpf is letting her Anton go. I’ve seen him serve nicely at table.”

“To tell you the truth,” said the Consul, and shuffled about a little uneasily, “it is a new idea to me. We aren’t either entertaining or going out just now—”

“No, but we have visitors very often—for which I am not responsible, Jean, as you know, though of course I am always glad to see them. You have a business friend from somewhere, and you invite him to dinner. Then he has not taken a room at a hotel, so we ask him to stop the night. A missionary comes, and stops the week with us. Week after next, Pastor Mathias is coming from Kannstadt. And the wages amount to so little—”

“But they mount up, Betsy! We have four people here in the house—and think of the pay-roll the firm has!” RV 75 (75)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/47

 tion, that they might have befitted a young prophet.

"Very, very beautiful!"

"'Tis Max—Max Rodenstein," said the lady with a faltering voice. "He was killed at Leipsic, at the head of a band of his friends and fellow students. Oh! Mr. Grey, this is a fair work of art, but if you had but seen the prototype, you would have gazed on this as on a dim and washed out drawing. There was one portrait, indeed, which did him more justice—but then, that portrait was not the production of mortal pencil."

Vivian looked at his companion with a somewhat astonished air, but Mrs. Felix Lorraine's countenance was as little indicative of jesting, as that of the young student whose miniature rested on her bosom.

"Did you say not the production of a mortal hand, Mrs. Felix Lorraine?"

"I'm afraid I shall weary you with my sto-

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/47


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/88

RV 76 (BUDDENBROOKS) So we really can’t afford a man-servant?” the Frau Consul asked. She smiled as she spoke, and looked at her husband with her head on one side. “When,I think of all the servants my Father and Mother had—”

“My dear Betsy! Your parents—I really must ask you if you understand our financial position?”

“No, Jean, I must admit I do not. I’m afraid I have only a vague idea—”

“Well, I can tell you in a few words,” the Consul said. He sat up straight on the sofa, with one knee crossed over the other, puffed at his cigar, knit his brows a little, and marshalled his figures with wonderful fluency.

“To put it briefly, my Father had, before my sister’s marriage, a round sum of nine hundred thousand marks net, not counting, of course, real estate, and the stock and good will of the firm. Eighty thousand went to Frankfort as dowry, and a hundred thousand to set Gotthold up in business. That leaves seven hundred and twenty thousand. The price of this house, reckoning off what we got for the little one in Alf Street, and counting all the improvements and new furnishings, came to a good hundred thousand. That brings it down to six hundred and twenty thousand. Twenty-five thousand to Frankfort, as compensation on the house, leaves five hundred and ninety-five thousand—which is what we should have had at Father’s death if we hadn’t partly made up for all these expenses through years, by a profit of some two hundred thousand marks current. The entire capital amounted to seven hundred and ninety-five thousand marks, of which another hundred thousand went to Gotthold, and a few thousand marks for the minor legacies that Father left to the Holy Ghost Hospital, the Fund for Tradesmen’s Widows, and so on. That brings us down to around four hundred and twenty thousand, or another hundred thousand with your own dowry. There is the position, in round figures, aside from small fluctuations in the capital. You see, my dear Betsy, we are not rich. And while the capital has grown smaller, the running expenses

RV 76 (76)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/48

 ries, but the one I am about to tell is so well evidenced, that I think even Mr. Vivian Grey will hear it without a sneer."

"A sneer! Oh! Lady love, do I ever sneer?"

"Max Rodenstein was the glory of his house. A being so beautiful in body, and in soul, you cannot imagine, and I will not attempt to describe. This miniature has given you some faint idea of his image, and yet this is only the copy of a copy. The only wish of the Baroness Rodenstein, which never could be accomplished, was the possession of a portrait of her youngest son—for no consideration could induce Max to allow his likeness to be taken. His old nurse had always told him, that the moment that his portrait was taken, he would die. The condition upon which such a beautiful being was allowed to remain in the world was, as she always said, that his beauty should not be imitated. About three months before the bat-

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/48


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/89

RV 77 (BUDDENBROOKS) have not; for the whole business is established on a certain scale, which it costs about so much to maintain. Have you followed me?”

The Consul’s wife, her needle-work in her lap, nodded with some hesitation. “Quite so, my dear Jean,” she said, though she was far from having understood everything, least of all what these big figures had to do with her engaging a man-servant.

The Consul puffed at his cigar till it glowed, threw back his head and blew out the smoke, and then went on:

“You are thinking, of course, that when God calls your dear parents unto Himself, we shall have a considerable sum to look forward to—and so we shall. But we must not reckon too blindly on it. Your Father has had some heavy losses, due, we all know, to your brother Justus. Justus is certainly a charming personality, but business is not his strong point, and he has had bad luck too. According to all accounts he has had to pay up pretty heavily, and transactions with bankers make dear money. Your Father has come to the rescue several times, to prevent a smash. That sort of thing may happen again—to speak frankly, I am afraid it will. You will forgive me, Betsy, for my plain speaking, but you know that the style of living which is so proper and pleasing in your Father is not at all suitable for a business man. Your Father has nothing to do with business any more; but Justus—you know what I mean—he isn’t very careful, is he? His ideas are too large, he is too impulsive. And your parents aren’t saving anything. They live a lordly life—as their circumstances permit them to.”

The Frau Consul smiled forbearingly. She well knew her husband’s opinion of the luxurious Kröger tastes.

“That’s all,” he said, and put his cigar into the ash-receiver. “As far as I’m concerned, I live in the hope that God will preserve my powers unimpaired, and that by His gracious help I may succeed in reëstablishing the firm on its old basis. . . . I hope you see the thing more clearly now, Betsy?” RV 77 (77)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/49

 tle of Leipsic, when Max was absent at the University, which was nearly four hundred miles from Rodenstein Castle, there arrived one morning a large case directed to the Baroness. On opening it, it was found to contain a picture—the portrait of her son. The colouring was so vivid, the general execution so miraculous, that for some moments they forgot to wonder at the incident in their admiration of the work of art. In one corner of the picture, in small characters, yet fresh, was an inscription, which on examining they found consisted of these words, "Painted last night. Now, lady, thou hast thy wish." My aunt sunk into the Baron's arms.

"In silence and in trembling the wonderful portrait was suspended over the fire-place of my aunt's most favourite apartment. The next day, they received letters from Max. He was quite well, but mentioned nothing of the mysterious painting.

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/49


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/90

RV 78 (BUDDENBROOKS) “Quite, quite, my dear Jean,” the Frau Consul hastened to reply; for she had given up the man-servant, for the evening. “Shall we go to bed? It is very late—”

A few days later, when the Consul came in to dinner in an unusually good mood, they decided at the table to engage the Möllendorpfs’ Anton.

RV 78 (78)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/50

 Three months afterwards, as a lady was sitting alone in the Baroness's room, and gazing on the portrait of him she loved riglit dearly, she suddenly started from her seat, and would have shrieked, had not an indefinable sensation prevented her. The eyes of the portrait moved. The lady stood leaning on a chair, pale, and trembling like an aspen, but gazing stedfastly on the animated portrait. It was no illusion of a heated fancy; again the eyelids trembled, there was a melancholy smile, and then they closed. The clock of Rodenstein Castle struck three. Between astonishment and fear, the Lady was tearless. Three days afterwards came the news of the battle of Leipsic, and at the very moment that the eyes of the portrait closed, Max Rodenstein had been pierced by a Polish Lancer."

"And who was this wonderful lady, the witness of this wonderful incident?" asked Vivian.

"That lady was myself."

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/50


text:
Page:Memoirs on the coleoptera (IA memoirsoncoleopt01case).pdf/58

50 {|style="font-size:90%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0
 * Atheta (Micrearota) reperta n. sp.—Moderately stout and convex, strongly shining, the micro-reticulation very fine and nearly obsolete, moderately larger but feeble on the abdomen, the punctures very fine and rather sparse, wholly inconspicuous; pubescence somewhat coarse; color black, the pronotum piceous, the elytra but slightly paler, the legs pale piceo-testaceous; head rather transverse, parallel, the convex eyes larger, at scarcely more than their own length from the base, the tempora not swollen beyond them, the carinæ extremely fine, extending anteriorly a short distance from the base; antennæ blackish, moderately short, the joints from the fifth moderately stout and subparallel, transverse, the last gradually pointed, a little longer than the two preceding, the second and third moderately elongate, the latter only a little the shorter but more obconic; first joint stout; prothorax slightly wider than the head and a little narrower than the elytra, moderately transverse, the sides parallel and somewhat feebly, subevenly arcuate, unimpressed; elytra and abdomen nearly as in the preceding; hind tarsi slender, the basal joint much more elongate, almost as long as the next two. Length 1.65 mm.; width 0.35 mm. Iowa (Iowa City).
 * }
 * }

The two specimens of this species were labeled by Prof. Wickham “Nest a.” I have placed with them a single example from Keokuk.

Allied rather closely to reperta but less parallel, the head and prothorax relatively smaller, the abdomen slightly narrower and not so parallel and the tempora more swollen. I have placed with the types two examples which I took at St. Louis, Mo. In neither case were they associated with ants so far as observed.


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/91

“We shall put Tony into Fraulein Weichbrodt’s boarding-school,” said the Consul. He said it with such decision that so it was.

Thomas was applying himself with talent to the business; Clara was a thriving, lively child; and the appetite of the good Clothilde must have pleased any heart alive. But Tony and Christian were hardly so satisfactory. It was not only that Christian had to stop nearly every afternoon for coffee with Herr Stengel—though even this became at length too much for the Frau Consul, and she sent a dainty missive to the master, summoning him to conference in Meng Street. Herr Stengel appeared in his Sunday wig and his tallest choker, bristling with lead-pencils like lance-heads, and they sat on the sofa in the landscape-room, while Christian hid in the dining-room and listened. The excellent man set out his views, with eloquence if some embarrassment: spoke of the difference between “line” and “dash,” told the tale of “The Forest Green” and the scuttle of coals, and made use in every other sentence of the phrase “in consequence.” It probably seemed to him a circumlocution suitable to the elegant surroundings in which he found himself. After a while the Consul came and drove Christian away. He expressed to Herr Stengel his lively regret that a son of his should give cause for dissatisfaction. “Oh, Herr Consul, God forbid! Buddenbrook minor has a wide-awake mind, he is a lively chap, and in consequence—Just a little too lively, if I might say so; and in consequence—” The Consul politely went with him through the hall to the entry, and Herr Stengel took his leave. . . . Ah, no, this was far from being the worst! RV 79 (79)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/51

 There was something so singular in the tone of Mrs. Felix Lorraine's voice, and so peculiar in the expression of her countenance, as she uttered these words, that the jest died on Vivian's tongue; and for want of something better to do, he lashed the little poneys, who were already scampering at their full speed.

The road to the Elfin's Well ran through the wildest parts of the park; and after an hour and a half's drive, they reached the fairy spot. It was a beautiful and pellucid spring, that bubbled up in a small wild dell, which, nurtured by the flowing stream, was singularly fresh and green. Above the spring, the taste of the Marquess, or the Marquess's steward, had erected a Gothic arch of grey stone, round which grew a few fine birch trees. In short. Nature had intended the spot for pic nics. There was fine water, and an interesting tradition; and as the parties always bring, or always should bring, a

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/51


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/92

RV 80 (BUDDENBROOKS) The worst, when it became known, was as follows: Young Christian Buddenbrook had leave one evening to go to the theatre in company with a friend. The performance was Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell; and the role of Tell’s son Walter was played by a young lady, a certain Mademoiselle Meyer-de-la-Grange. Christian’s worst, then, had to do with this young person. She wore when on the stage, whether it suited her part or not, a diamond brooch, which was notoriously genuine; for, as everybody knew, it was the gift of young Consul Döhlmann—Peter Döhlmann, son of the deceased wholesale dealer in Wall Street outside Holsten Gate. Consul Peter, like Justus Kröger, belonged to the group of young men whom the town called “fast.” His way of life, that is to say, was rather loose! He had married, and had one child, a little daughter; but he had long ago quarrelled with his wife, and he led the life of a bachelor. His father had left him a considerable inheritance, and he carried on the business, after a fashion; but people said he was already living on his capital. He lived mostly at the Club or the Rathskeller, was often to be met somewhere in the street at four o’clock in the morning; and made frequent business trips to Hamburg. Above all, he was a zealous patron of the drama, and took a strong personal interest in the caste. Mademoiselle Meyer-de-la-Grange was the latest of a line of young ladies whom he had, in the past, distinguished by a gift of diamonds.

Well, to arrive at the point, this young lady looked so charming as Walter Tell, wore her brooch and spoke her lines with such effect, that Christian felt his heart swell with enthusiasm, and tears rose to his eyes. He was moved by his transports to a course that only the very violence of emotion could pursue. He ran during the entr’acte to a flower-shop opposite, where, for the sum of one mark eight and a half shillings, he got at a bargain a bunch of flowers; and then this fourteen-year-old sprat, with his big nose and his deep-lying eyes, took his way to the green-room, since nobody stopped him, and came upon Fräulein Meyer-de-la-Grange,

RV 80 (80)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/52

 trained punster, champagne, and cold pasties, what more ought Nature to have provided?

"Come, Mrs. Lorraine, I will tie Gypsey to this ash, and then you and I will rest ourselves beneath these birch trees, just where the fairies dance."

"Oh, delightful!"

"Now truly, we should have some book of beautiful poetry to while away an hour. You will blame me for not bringing one. Do not. I would sooner listen to your voice; and, indeed, there is a subject on which I wish to ask your particular advice."

"Is there?"

"I have been thinking that this is a somewhat rash step of the Marquess,—this throwing himself into the arms of his former bitterest enemy, Cleveland."

"You really think so?"

"Why, Mrs. Lorraine, does it appear to you

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/52


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/53

 to be the most prudent course of action, which could have been conceived?"

"Certainly not."

"You agree with me, then, that there is, if not cause for regret at this engagement, at least for reflection on its probable consequences?"

"I quite agree with you."

"I know you do. I have had some conversation with the Marquess upon this subject, this very morning."

"Have you?" eagerly exclaimed the lady, and she looked pale, and breathed short.

"Ay; and he tells me you have made some very sensible observations on the subject. 'Tis a pity they were not made before Mr. Cleveland left, the mischief might then have been prevented."

"I certainly have made some observations."

"And very kind of you; what a blessing for the Marquess to have such a friend!"

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/53


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/93

RV 81 (BUDDENBROOKS) talking with Consul Peter Döhlmann at her dressing-room door. Peter Döhlmann nearly fell over with laughing when he saw Christian with the bouquet. But the new wooer, with a solemn face, bowed in his best manner before Walter Tell, handed her the bouquet, and, nodding his head, said in a voice of well-nigh tearful conviction: “Ah, Fraulein, how beautifully you act!”

“Well, hang me if it ain’t Krishan Buddenbrook!” Consul Döhlmann cried out, in his broadest accent. Fräulein Meyer-de-la-Grange lifted her pretty brows and asked: “The son of Consul Buddenbrook?” And she stroked the cheek of her young admirer with all the favour in the world.

Such was the story that Consul Peter Döhlmann told at the Club that night; it flew about the town like lightning, and reached the ears of the head master, who asked for an audience with Consul Buddenbrook. And how did the Father take this affair? He was, in truth, less angry than overwhelmed. He sat almost like a broken man, after telling the Frau Consul the story in the landscape-room.

“And this is our son,” he said. “So is he growing up—”

“But Jean! Good heavens, your Father would have laughed at it. Tell it to my Father and Mother on Thursday—you will see how Papa will enjoy it ”

But here the Consul rose up in anger. “Ah, yes, yes! I am sure he will enjoy it, Betsy. He will be glad to know that his light blood and impious desires live on, not only in a rake like Justus, his own son, but also in a grandson of his as well! Good God, you drive me to say these things!—He goes to this—person; he spends his pocket-money on flowers for this—lorette! I don’t say he knows what he is doing—yet. But the inclination shows itself—it shows itself, Betsy!”

Ah, yes, this was all very painful indeed. The Consul was perhaps the more beside himself for the added reason that Tony’s behaviour, too, had not been of the best. She had given up, it is true, shouting at the nervous stranger to make

RV 81 (81)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/54

 "I spoke to him," said Mrs. Felix, with a more assured tone, "in much the same spirit as you have been addressing me. It does, indeed, seem a most imprudent act, and I thought it my duty to tell him so."

"Ay, no doubt; but how came you, lady fair, to imagine that I was also a person to be dreaded by his Lordship—I, Vivian Grey?"

"Did I say you?" asked the lady, pale as death—

"Did you not, Mrs. Felix Lorraine? Have you not, regardless of my interests, in the most unwarrantable and unjustifiable manner—have you not, to gratify some private pique which you entertain against Mr. Cleveland, have you not, I ask you, poisoned the Marquess's mind against one, who never did aught to you, but what was kind and honourable?"

"I have been imprudent—I confess it—I have spoken somewhat loosely."

"Now, madam, listen to me once more,"

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/54


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/55

 and Vivian grasped her hand—"What has passed between you and Mr. Cleveland, it is not for me to enquire—I give you my word of honour, that he never even mentioned your name to me. I can scarcely understand how any man could have incurred the deadly hatred which you appear to entertain for him. I repeat, I can contemplate no situation in which you could be placed together, which would justify such behaviour. It could not be justified, even if he had spurned you whilekneeling at his feet."

Mrs. Felix Lorraine shrieked and fainted. A sprinkling from the fairy stream soon recovered her. "Spare me! spare me!" she faintly cried: "do not expose me."

"Mrs. Lorraine, I have no wish. I have spoken thus explicitly, that we may not again misunderstand each other—I have spoken thus explicitly, I say, that I may not be under the necessity of speaking again, for if I speak

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/55


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/94

RV 82 (BUDDENBROOKS) him dance; and she no longer rang the doorbell of the tiny old woman who sold worsted dolls. But she threw back her head more pertly than ever, and showed, especially after the summer visits with her grandparents, a very strong tendency to vanity and arrogance of spirit.

One day the Consul surprised her and Mamsell Jungmann reading together. The book was Clauren’s “Mimili”; the Consul turned over some of the leaves, and then silently closed it—and it was opened no more. Soon afterward it came to light that Tony—Antonie Buddenbrook, no less a person—had been seen walking outside the City wall with a young student, a friend of her brother. Frau Stuht, she who moved in the best circles, had seen the pair, and had remarked at the Möllendorpfs’, whither she had gone to buy some cast-off clothing, that really Mademoiselle Buddenbrook was getting to the age where—And Frau Senator Möllendorpf had lightly repeated the story to the Consul. The pleasant strolls came to an end. Later it came out that Fräulein Antonie had made a post-office of the old hollow tree that stood near the Castle Gate, and not only posted therein letters addressed to the same student, but received letters from him as well by that means. When these facts came to light, they seemed to indicate the need of a more watchful oversight over the young lady, now fifteen years old; and she was accordingly, as we have already said, sent to boarding-school at Fraulein Weichbrodt’s, Number seven, Millbank.

RV 82 (82)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/56

 again, it must not be to Mrs. Felix Lorraine—there is my hand, and now let the Elfin's Well be blotted out of our memories."

Vivian drove rapidly home, and endeavoured to talk in his usual tone, and with his usual spirit; but his companion could not be excited. Once, ay twice, she pressed his hand, and as he assisted her from the phaeton, she murmured something like a blessing. She ran up stairs immediately. Vivian had to give some directions about the poneys; Gypsey was ill, or Fanny had a cold, or something of the kind, and so he was detained for about a quarter of an hour before the house, speaking most learnedly to grooms, and consulting on cases with a skilled gravity worthy of Professor Coleman.

When he entered the parlour he found the luncheon prepared, and Mrs. Felix pressed him very earnestly to take some refreshment. He was indeed wearied, and agreed to take a glass of hock and seltzer.

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/56


text:
Page:Memoirs on the coleoptera (IA memoirsoncoleopt01case).pdf/59

Rh

A very small species differing from definita in the smaller and more convex eyes, more quadrate head, with the tempora more basally swollen and in its parallel abdomen; from repleta it differs in its smaller size, more slender form, relatively smaller head and prothorax, the former less transverse, narrower abdomen and shorter antennæ.

This species is distinguishable from the three preceding by the smaller head and more evident though feeble micro-reticulation, and, from loricula, by the decidedly longer elytra and feeble sculpture.


text:
Page:Buddenbrooks vol 1 - Mann (IA buddenbrooks0001mann).pdf/95

was humpbacked. So humpbacked that she was not much higher than a table. She was forty-one years old. But as she had never put her faith in outward seeming, she dressed like an old lady of sixty or seventy. Upon her padded grey locks rested a cap the green ribbons of which fell down over shoulders narrow as a child’s. Nothing like an ornament ever graced her shabby black frock—only the large oval brooch with her mother’s miniature in it.

Little Miss Weichbrodt had shrewd, sharp brown eyes, a slightly hooked nose, and thin lips which she could compress with extraordinary firmness. In her whole insignificant figure, in her every movement, there indwelt a force which was, to be sure, somewhat comic, yet exacted respect. And her mode of speech helped to heighten the effect. She spoke with brisk, jerky motions of the lower jaw and quick, emphatic nods. She used no dialect, hut enunciated clearly and with precision, stressing the consonants. Vowel-sounds, however, she exaggerated so much that she said, for instance, “botter” instead of “butter”—or even “batter!” Her little dog that was forever yelping she called Babby instead of Bobby. She would say to a pupil: “Don-n’t be so stu-upid child” and give two quick knocks on the table with her knuckle. It was very impressive—no doubt whatever about that! An when Mlle. Popinet, the Frenchwoman, took too much sugar to her coffee, Miss Weichbrodt had a way of gazing at the ceiling and drumming on the cloth with one hand while she said: “Why not take the who-ole sugar-basin? I would!” It always made Mlle. Popinet redden furiously.

As a child—heavens, what a tiny child she must have been!

RV 83 (83)


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/57

 "Let me mix it for you," said Mrs. Felix; "do you like sugar?"

Tired with his drive, Vivian Grey was leaning on the mantel-piece, with his eyes vacantly gazing on the looking-glass which rested on the marble slab. It was by pure accident that, reflected in the mirror, he distinctly beheld Mrs. Felix Lorraine open a small silver box, and throw some powder into the tumbler which she was preparing for him. She was leaning down, with her back almost turned to the glass, but still Vivian saw it—distinctly. A sickness came over him, and ere he could recover himself, his Hebe tapped him on the shoulder—

"Here, drink, drink while it is effervescent."

"I cannot drink," said Vivian, "I am not thirsty—I am too hot—I am anything"

"How foolish you are! It will be quite spoiled."

"No, no, the dog shall have it. Here, Fidele, you look thirsty enough—come here—"

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/57


text:
Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/58

 "Mr. Grey, I do not mix tumblers for dogs," said the lady, rather agitated: "if you will not take it," and she held it once more before him, "here it goes for ever." So saying, she emptied the tumbler into a large globe of glass, in which some gold and silver fishes were swimming their endless rounds.

title: Page:Vivian Grey, Volume 2.djvu/58


text: Vivian Grey/Volume 2/Chapter 3.4

title: Vivian Grey/Volume 2/Chapter 3.4


text:
Page:Memoirs on the coleoptera (IA memoirsoncoleopt01case).pdf/60

52

Readily distinguishable by the relatively small head and prothorax and wide elytra; the eyes are more developed than usual and the tempora are not in the least inflated.

DIstinguishable from any other species by the unusual development of the infra-lateral cephalic carinæ, which are frequently virtually entire though sometimes abbreviated, always however, so far as observed, extending well before the middle.

Recognizable among the other species by its rather stout form and transverse prothorax.


text:
Page:The story of the flute (IA storyofflute1914fitz).djvu/87

Böhm is the groundwork of all modern flutes. Since the inventor's day it has undergone many changes and experiments, but, with very few exceptions, these have not made any substantial improvement. Böhm himself wrote in 1878, "Alterations can be made ad infinitum, but nothing has as yet been better than my system, which will very likely remain the best. I never dispute with others about their improvements." Between 1848–9 Messrs. Rudall and Rose alone made ten different attempts at "improvement" (all subsequently discarded) for various would-be inventors. Most of these attempts were based on no sound theory, others were merely new applications of old contrivances. If they remedied some old defects, they substituted other new ones. As Skeffington says, "Flute-players were divided, and flute-makers were worked up to a great pitch of rivalry and contention. Systems of mechanism were advocated


text: File:The Third International - Cover.jpg


text:
Page:NBS Circular 553.djvu/169

{| !Color name !Source !ISCC-NBS color designation with serial number from sec. 14 158
 * Zest Pink.||P||s.Pk 2
 * Zinc||M||pGy 233, med. Gy 265
 * Cloud Grey, Grey Dawn
 * Zinc Chromate (MA)||F||m.YG 120
 * Green Zinc Yellow Primer (N 84G)
 * Zinc Green (same as Cobalt Green)||M||m.yG 136
 * Zinc Green||R||m.G 145
 * Dark Zinc Green.||R||m.G 145
 * Zinc Orange (same as Cowslip)||M||s.O 50, m.O 53
 * Zinc Orange.||R||s.O 50, m.O 53
 * Zinc Yellow (same as Light Chrome Yellow)||M||S.Y 84
 * Zinc Yellow Primer (N 84).||F||m.Y 87
 * Dark Zinc Yellow Primer (N 84D)||F||gy.OlG 127
 * Zinnia||M||m.R 15
 * Zinnia Gold||Р||I.OY 70, I.Y 86
 * Zulu (same as Ibis Red)||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zuni Brown (same as Auburn)||M||m. Br 58
 * }
 * Zinc Orange (same as Cowslip)||M||s.O 50, m.O 53
 * Zinc Orange.||R||s.O 50, m.O 53
 * Zinc Yellow (same as Light Chrome Yellow)||M||S.Y 84
 * Zinc Yellow Primer (N 84).||F||m.Y 87
 * Dark Zinc Yellow Primer (N 84D)||F||gy.OlG 127
 * Zinnia||M||m.R 15
 * Zinnia Gold||Р||I.OY 70, I.Y 86
 * Zulu (same as Ibis Red)||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zuni Brown (same as Auburn)||M||m. Br 58
 * }
 * Zinnia||M||m.R 15
 * Zinnia Gold||Р||I.OY 70, I.Y 86
 * Zulu (same as Ibis Red)||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zuni Brown (same as Auburn)||M||m. Br 58
 * }
 * Zuni Brown (same as Auburn)||M||m. Br 58
 * }
 * }

title: Page:NBS Circular 553.djvu/169


text:
Page:William Muir, Thomas Hunter Weir - The Caliphate; Its Rise, Decline, and Fall (1915).djvu/411

 380 throughout the East. A deputation from Al-ʿIrāḳ, canvassing the cause in the harmless garb of merchants, was arrested in Khorāsān and taken before "Khodheina." But he, listening to their feigned story, and accepting the guarantee of their friends, allowed them to go. And so the cause insidiously grew.

Year by year, tradition has up to this time been chronicling the death of aged men who having been in the society of Moḥammad, are dignified as his Companions. Such notices, by the lapse of time, now come to a natural close. In 89 the last two of these who lived in Syria died, one aged a hundred, the other, a "Companion who had seen the two Ḳiblas." Others survived in Al-ʿIrāḳ for a year or two later. But the last of all who had seen and known the Prophet, died at Mecca in the year 101. "Companions" always enjoyed special and high distinction in Muslim society. They would have done so under any circumstances, as having seen and conversed with Moḥammad himself. But a fresh value as time went on began to attach to their words. The Ḳorʾān, at first the sole guide in all concerns, social, legal, and spiritual, was gradually found inadequate for the novel wants of an ever-expanding Muslim world. The word and wont (Sunna) of the Prophet was now called in to supplement it. Collectors of tradition thus sprang up everywhere, who sought out "Companions" from the ends of the earth, and spent their lives in noting down their remembrance of incidents connected with the life of Moḥammad. Nothing, however trivial, came amiss; for every word and every act might form a precedent hereafter in social or legal obligation. The profession thus came to be one of high repute, and hundreds of thousands of traditions have been handed down of every shade of credibility, upon which to a great


text:
Page:William Muir, Thomas Hunter Weir - The Caliphate; Its Rise, Decline, and Fall (1915).djvu/412

 720–4] extent the law and custom of Islam has been built, and which incidentally also give us a clear and generally authentic view of the Prophet’s life itself.

Early in his reign Yezīd was persuaded to nominate as successor his brother Hishām, and after him his own son Al-Welīd, then but eleven years of age. Homage was done to both accordingly throughout the Empire. A few years later he repented that he had not given the succession immediately to his son; but did not venture on a change.

Yezīd had even a greater passion for the ḥarīm than any of his predecessors, but it was more fixed and constant. We are told of a slave-girl Ḥabbāba and a songstress Sallāma, whose influence was supreme at Court. Even Ibn Hubeira was said to have obtained his high place through them. His attachment to the former was so great that he did not many days survive her death. He had retired with her for a season to a garden retreat in Palestine, and there casting playfully a grape-stone into her mouth, it choked her, and she died upon the spot. For three days he clung weeping to her relics. At last he was persuaded to let her be buried. The funeral service was performed by his brother Maslama, who feared that if the Caliph were seen by the people, they would be scandalised at the extravagance of his grief. He never recovered composure or self-control, and died within a week. The cry of Sallāma, who was tending his last moments, was the first intimation of the fact to his family and attendants.


text:
Page:William Muir, Thomas Hunter Weir - The Caliphate; Its Rise, Decline, and Fall (1915).djvu/413

 382 Yezīd II. died at the age of forty, having reigned a little over four years;—an inglorious reign, which failed to stay, if it did not actually hasten, the decadence of the Umeiyad house. Ibn aṭ-Ṭiḳṭaḳa calls him the Prodigal Son of the Umeiyads. He was succeeded by his brother Hishām, another son of ʿAbd al-Melik.


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 4

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 4


text: Jesuit Education/Chapter 5

title: Jesuit Education/Chapter 5


text:
Page:William Muir, Thomas Hunter Weir - The Caliphate; Its Rise, Decline, and Fall (1915).djvu/414

now entered peaceably on a long reign. His mother was of Makhzūm, once the principal gens of Ḳoreish, and he showed favour to her brothers. Exemplary as a true believer, he banished, like ʿOmar II., from his Court all things inconsistent with the profession of Islām, and his mild and generally upright administration might have restored prosperity to the Empire, had not the evil genius of his predecessors still cast its blight upon the throne. There was much besides to cause depression. His lieutenants were not always happily chosen, and they so played upon his two defects of character, avarice and suspicion, as sometimes to betray him into unguarded and cruel action, as well as cause him to miss the friendship and popularity which a well-timed liberality would have secured. Military enterprise was nowhere successful in his reign, and indeed repeatedly suffered severe disaster. From the first Hishām threw himself into the arms of the Yemeni party, and thus alienated from his rule the Northern faction.

From early times, anterior even to the birth of Moḥammad, there existed a rivalry between the two chief stocks of Ḳoreish, the descendants namely of Hāshim and of Umeiya. The Prophet, sprung from the former, suffered bitter opposition, both in field and forum, from the Umeiyads, till the conquest of Mecca converted the whole body of Ḳoreish, and welded friend and foe equally within the bonds of Islām.


text: The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall/Chapter 54


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/59

 after that of maintaining it in the field had devolved entirely upon the sovereign or commonwealth. In all the different republics of ancient Greece, to learn his military exercises was a necessary part of education imposed by the State upon every free citizen. In every city there seems to have been a public field, in which, under the protection of the public magistrate, the young people were taught their different exercises by different masters. In this very simple institution, consisted the whole expense which any Grecian State seems ever to have been at, in preparing its citizens for war. In ancient Rome the exercises of the Campus Martius answered the same purpose with those of the Gymnasium in ancient Greece. Under the feudal governments, the many public ordinances that the citizens of every district should practice archery as well as several other military exercises, were intended for promoting the same purpose, but do not seem to have promoted it so well. Either from want of interest in the officers intrusted with the execution of those ordinances, or from some other cause, they appear to have been universally neglected; and in the progress of all those governments, military exercises seem to have gone gradually into disuse among the great body of the people.

In the republics of ancient Greece and Rome, during the whole period of their existence, and under the feudal governments for a considerable time after their first establishment, the trade of a soldier was not a separate, distinct trade, which constituted the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens. Every subject of the State, whatever might be the ordinary trade or occupation by which he gained his livelihood, considered himself, upon all ordinary occasions, as fit likewise to exercise the trade


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/159

 had married an extremely wealthy wife, but that that wife proposed to divorce you, with excellent reasons, what would you do about it?"

"I should endeavour, sir," replied George, "to make her change her mind."

"By peaceful or by forcible methods?"

George looked shocked.

"You will excuse me, sir," he said, “but a gentleman of the aristocracy would not behave like a White chapel coster. He would not do anything low."

"Would he not, Georges? I wonder now. Well, perhaps you are right."

There was a knock on the door. George went to it and opened it a discreet inch or two. A low murmured colloquy went on, and then the valet returned to Poirot.

"A note, sir."

Poirot took it. It was from M. Caux, the Commissary of Police.

"We are about to interrogate the Comte de la Roche. The Juge d'Instruction begs that you will be present."

"Quickly, my suit, Georges! I must hasten myself."

A quarter of an hour later, spick and span in his brown suit, Poirot entered the Examining Magistrate's room. M. Caux was already there, and both he and M. Carrège greeted Poirot with polite empressement.

"The affair is somewhat discouraging," murmured M. Caux.

"It appears that the Comte arrived in Nice the day before the murder."

"If that is true, it will settle your affair nicely for you," responded Poirot.


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/60

 of a soldier, and upon many extraordinary occasions as bound to exercise it.

The art of war, however, as it is certainly the noblest of all arts, so in the progress of improvement it necessarily becomes one of the most complicated among them. The state of the mechanical, as well as of some other arts, with which it is necessarily connected, determines the degree of perfection to which it is capable of being carried at any particular time. But in order to carry it to this degree of perfection, it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens, and the division of labor is as necessary for the improvement of this, as of every other art. Into other arts the division of labor is naturally introduced by the prudence of individuals, who find that they promote their private interest better by confining themselves to a particular trade, than by exercising a great number. But it is the wisdom of the State only which can render the trade of a soldier a particular trade separate and distinct from all others. A private citizen who, in time of profound peace, and without any particular encouragement from the public, should spend the greater part of his time in military exercises, might, no doubt, both improve himself very much in them, and amuse himself very well; but he certainly would not promote his own interest. It is the wisdom of the State only which can render it for his interest to give up the greater part of his time to this peculiar occupation: and States have not always had this wisdom, even when their circumstances had become such that the preservation of their existence required that they should have it.

A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/160

 M. Carrège cleared his throat.

"We must not accept this alibi without very cautious inquiry," he declared. He struck the bell upon the table with his hand.

In another minute a tall dark man, exquisitely dressed, with a somewhat haughty cast of countenance, entered the room. So very aristocratic-looking was the Count, that it would have seemed sheer heresy even to whisper that his father had been an obscure corn-chandler in Nanteswhich, as a matter of fact, was the case. Looking at him, one would have been prepared to swear that innumerable ancestors of his must have perished by the guillotine in the French Revolution.

"I am here, gentlemen," said the Count haughtily.

"May I ask why you wish to see me?"

"Pray be seated. Monsieur le Comte," said the Examining Magistrate politely. "It is the affair of the death of Madame Kettering that we are investigating."

"The death of Madame Kettering? I do not understand."

"You wereahem!acquainted with the lady, I believe, Monsieur le Comte?"

"Certainly I was acquainted with her. What has that to do with the matter?"

Sticking an eyeglass in his eye, he looked coldly round the room, his glance resting longest on Poirot, who was gazing at him with a kind of simple, innocent admiration which was most pleasing to the Count's vanity. M. Carrège leaned back in his chair and cleared his throat.


text:
Page:The Tarikh-i-Rashidi - Mirza Muhammad Haidar, Dughlát - tr. Edward D. Ross (1895).djvu/67

 40 but however this may be, if the usually accurate Abul Gházi be followed, we learn that: "As there remained no longer in Kashghar, Yarkand, Alah-Tágh or Uighuristan, any prince descended from Chaghatai Khan, whose authority was acknowledged, the Moghul Amirs held a council, at which it was decided to summon Isán Bugha from Bokhara; and they proclaimed him Khan of Kashghar, Yarkand, Alah-Tágh, and of Moghulistan." This would make it appear that Isán Bugha was still reigning in Mávará-un-Nahr when summoned by the Dughlát Amirs; but the point is doubtful, for we have just been told that he had fled to Moghulistan. In any case, the dates of the two events agree, for the disappearance of Isán Bugha from Mávará-un-Nahr is recorded by one author to have taken place in 721 (1321 ), and this is just the year when he is said, by the other, to have been summoned to Kashghar and made Khan of Moghulistan, with (it may be assumed) its dependencies.

Thus, although the chronology and even some of the events of the times are uncertain, the final division of the Chaghatai Khanate appears to have taken place in or about the year 1321, and it resulted in two separate lines of Khans being established which were never afterwards united. The western branch was, a little later, superseded by Timur, whose descendants, through Baber, gave the ruling house to India, which has gone, for three centuries, by the name of "Moghul"; though, as we shall see from Mirza Haidar's narrative, it was, in its early days, known—and perhaps more correctly—as the "Chaghatai." The history of the eastern branch—that of the true "Moghuls" of Central Asia—we may now leave to be told, in detail, by our author; but as this line was several times broken, or sub-divided, and as the subject is a complicated one, it may aid the reader to give (immediately below), in the form of an epitomised statement, a general view of the succession of the Moghul Khans from the time of Isán Bugha onwards. It is extracted almost entirely from Erskine's History of India, and was com-


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/161

 "You do not perhaps know, Monsieur le Comte”he paused"that Madame Kettering was murdered?"

"Murdered? Mon Dieu, how terrible!"

The surprise and the sorrow were excellently doneso well done, indeed, as to seem wholly natural.

"Madame Kettering was strangled between Paris and Lyons," continued M. Carrège, "and her jewels were stolen."

"It is iniquitous!" cried the Count warmly; "the police should do something about these train bandits. Nowadays no one is safe."

"In Madame's handbag," continued the Judge, "we found a letter to her from you. She had, it seemed, arranged to meet you?"

The Count shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands.

"Of what use are concealments," he said frankly.

"We are all men of the world. Privately and between ourselves, I admit the affair."

"You met her in Paris and travelled down with her, I believe?" said M. Carrège.

"That was the original arrangement, but by Madame's wish it was changed. I was to meet her at Hyères."

"You did not meet her on the train at the Gare de Lyon on the evening of the 14th?"

"On the contrary, I arrived in Nice on the morning of that day, so what you suggest is impossible."

"Quite so, quite so," said M. Carrège. "As a matter of form, you would perhaps give me an account of your movements during the evening and night of the 14th."


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/61

 manufacturer has none at all. The first may, without any loss, employ a great deal of his time in martial exercises; the second may employ some part of it; but the last cannot employ a single hour in them without some loss, and his attention to his own interest naturally leads him to neglect them altogether. Those improvements in husbandry, too, which the progress of arts and manufactures necessarily introduces, leaves the husbandman as little leisure as the artificer. Military exercises come to be as much neglected by the inhabitants of the country as by those of the town, and the great body of the people becomes altogether unwarlike. That wealth, at the same time, which always follows the improvements of agriculture and manufactures, and which in reality is no more than the accumulated produce of those improvements, provokes the invasion of all their neighbors. An industrious, and upon that account a wealthy nation, is of all nations the most likely to be attacked; and unless the State takes some new measures for the public defence, the natural habits of the people render them altogether incapable of defending themselves.

In these circumstances, there seem to be but two methods by which the State can make any tolerable provision for the public defence.

It may either, first, by means of a very rigorous police, and in spite of the whole bent of the interest, genius and inclinations of the people, enforce the practice of military exercises, and oblige either all the citizens of the military age, or a certain number of them, to join in some measure the trade of a soldier to whatever other trade or profession they may happen to carry on.

Or, secondly, by maintaining and employing a certain number of citizens in the constant practice of military exer-


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/162

 The Count reflected for a minute.

"I dined in Monte Carlo at the Café de Paris. Afterwards I went to the Le Sporting. I won a few thousands francs," he shrugged his shoulders. "I returned home at perhaps one o'clock."

"Pardon me, Monsieur, but how did you return home?"

"In my own two-seater car."

"No one was with you?"

"No one."

"You could produce witnesses in support of this statement?"

"Doubtless many of my friends saw me there that evening. I dined alone."

"Your servant admitted you on your return to your villa?"

"I let myself in with my own latch-key."

"Ah!" murmured the Magistrate.

Again he struck the bell on the table with his hand.

The door opened, and a messenger appeared.

"Bring in the maid. Mason," said M. Carrège.

"Very good, Monsieur le Juge."

Ada Mason was brought in.

"Will you be so good, Mademoiselle, as to look at this gentleman. To the best of your ability was it he who entered your mistress's compartment in Paris?"

The woman looked long and searchingly at the Count, who was, Poirot fancied, rather uneasy under this scrutiny.

"I could not say, sir, I am sure," said Mason at last. "It might be and again it might not. Seeing as


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/62

 cises, it may render the trade of a soldier a particular trade, separate and distinct from all others.

If the State has recourse to the first of those two expedients, its military force is said to consist in a militia; if to the second, it is said to consist in a standing army. The practice of military exercises is the sole or principal occupation of the soldiers of a standing army, and the maintenance or pay which the State affords them is the principal and ordinary fund of their subsistence. The practice of military exercises is only the occasional occupation of the soldiers of a militia, and they derive the principal and ordinary fund of their subsistence from some other occupation. In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character; and in this distinction seems to consist the essential difference between those two different species of military force.

Militias have been of several different kinds. In some countries the citizens destined for defending the State seem to have been exercised only, without being, if I may say so, regimented; that is, without being divided into separate and distinct bodies of troops, each of which performed its exercises under its own proper and permanent officers. In the republics of ancient Greece and Rome, each citizen, as long as he remained at home, seems to have practiced his exercises either separately and independently, or with such of his equals as he liked best; and not to have been attached to any particular body of troops till he was actually called upon to take the field. In other countries, the militia has not only been exercised, but regimented. In England, in Switzerland, and, I believe, in every other


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/163

 how I only saw his back, it's hard to say. I rather think it was the gentleman."

"But you are not sure?"

"Noo," said Mason unwillingly; "nno, I am not sure."

"You have seen this gentleman before in Curzon Street?"

Mason shook her head.

"I should not be likely to see any visitors that come to Curzon Street," she explained, "unless they were staying in the house."

"Very well, that will do," said the Examining Magistrate sharply.

Evidently he was disappointed.

"One moment," said Poirot. "There is a question I would like to put to Mademoiselle, if I may?"

"Certainly, M. Poirotcertainly, by all means."

Poirot addressed himself to the maid.

"What happened to the tickets?"

"The tickets, sir?"

"Yes; the tickets from London to Nice. Did you or your mistress have them?"

"The mistress had her own Pullman ticket, sir; the others were in my charge."

"What happened to them?"

"I gave them to the conductor on the French train, sir; he said it was usual. I hope I did right, sir?"

"Oh, quite right, quite right. A mere matter of detail."

Both M. Caux and the Examining Magistrate looked at him curiously. Mason stood uncertainly for a minute or two, and then the Magistrate gave her a


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/63

 country of modern Europe, where any imperfect military force of this kind has been established, every militiaman is, even in time of peace, attached to a particular body of troops, which performs its exercises under its own proper and permanent officers.

Before the invention of firearms, that army was superior in which the soldiers had, each individually, the greatest skill and dexterity in the use of their arms. Strength and agility of body were of the highest consequence, and commonly determined the fate of battles. But this skill and dexterity in the use of their arms, could be acquired only, in the same manner as fencing is at present, by practicing, not in great bodies, but each man separately, in a particular school, under a particular master, or with his own particular equals and companions. Since the invention of firearms, strength and agility of body, or even extraordinary dexterity and skill in the use of arms, though they are far from being of no consequence, are, however, of less consequence. The nature of the weapon, though it by no means puts the awkward upon a level with the skilful, puts him more nearly so than he ever was before. All the dexterity and skill, it is supposed, which are necessary for using it, can be well enough acquired by practicing in great bodies.

Regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command are qualities which, in modern armies, are of more importance toward determining the fate of battles, than the dexterity and skill of the soldiers in the use of their arms. But the noise of firearms, the smoke, and the invisible death to which every man feels himself every moment exposed, as soon as he comes within cannon shot, and frequently a long time before the battle can be well said to be engaged, must render it very difficult to maintain any con-


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/164

 brief nod of dismissal, and she went out. Poirot scribbled something on a scrap of paper and handed it across to M. Carrège. The latter read it and his brow cleared.

"Well, gentlemen," demanded the Count haughtily, "am I to be detained further.?"

"Assuredly not, assuredly not," M. Carrège hastened to say, with a great deal of amiability. "Everything is now cleared up as regards your own position in this affair. Naturally, in view of Madame's letter, we were bound to question you."

The Count rose, picked up his handsome stick from the corner, and, with rather a curt bow, left the room.

"And that is that," said M. Carrège. "You were quite right, M. Poirotmuch better to let him feel he is not suspected. Two of my men will shadow him night and day, and at the same time we will go into the question of the alibi. It seems to me ratherera fluid one."

"Possibly," agreed Poirot thoughtfully.

"I asked M. Kettering to come here this morning." continued the Magistrate, "though really I doubt if we have much to ask him, but there are one or two suspicious circumstances" He paused, rubbing his nose.

"Such as?" asked Poirot.

"Well"the Magistrate coughed"this lady with whom he is said to be travellingMademoiselle Mirelle. She is staying at one hotel and he at another. That strikes meeras rather odd."

"It looks," said M. Caux, "as though they were being careful."


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/64

 siderable degree of this regularity, order, and prompt obedience, even in the beginning of a modern battle. In an ancient battle there was no noise but what arose from the human voice; there was no smoke, there was no invisible cause of wounds or death. Every man, till some mortal weapon actually did approach him, saw clearly that no such weapon was near him. In these circumstances, and among troops who had some confidence in their own skill and dexterity in the use of their arms, it must have been a good deal less difficult to preserve some degree of regularity and order, not only in the beginning, but through the whole progress of an ancient battle, and till one of the two armies was fairly defeated. But the habits of regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command can be acquired only by troops which are exercised in great bodies.

A militia, however, in whatever manner it may be either disciplined or exercised, must always be much inferior to a well-disciplined and well-exercised standing army.

The soldiers, who are exercised only once a week, or once a month, can never be so expert in the use of their arms as those who are exercised every day, or every other day; and though this circumstance may not be of so much consequence in modern, as it was in ancient times, yet the acknowledged superiority of the Prussian troops, owing, it is said, very much to their superior expertness in their exercise, may satisfy us that it is, even at this day, of very considerable consequence.

The soldiers, who are bound to obey their officer only once a week, or once a month, and who are at all other times at liberty to manage their own affairs their own way, without being in any respect accountable to him, can never be under the same awe in his presence, can never have the


text: Template:Cast and crew/doc

title: Template:Cast and crew/doc


text:
Page:Alumni Oxonienses (1500-1714) volume 4.djvu/285

 Wagstaffe, Henry, s. Richard, of Harbury, co. Warwick, pleb. , matric. 31 Oct., 1623, aged 19; B.A. from. 15 Feb., 1625-6.  Wagstaff, James, s. Joh., of Worcester (city), p.p. ., matric. 7 June, 1700, aged 16.  Wagstaffe, John, of co. Warwick, cler. fil. ., matric. 26 June, 1621, aged 17, demy 1619-24, B.A. 11 Dec., 1622; perhaps bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1632 (as son and heir of Richard, of Harbury, co. Warwick, gent.); another rector of Wollaton, 1628, and of Bilborough, Notts, 1641. See 1585; Bloxam, v. 103; & Foster's Judges and Barristers.  Wagstaffe, John, gent. ., matric. 22 Nov., 1650, Pauline exhibitioner 1649-58, B.A. 18 Oct., 1653, M.A. 9 July, 1656; incorporated at Cambridge 1668 (s. John, of London), succeeded to an estate at Hasland, co. Derby; died distracted in London 2 Sept., 1677, buried in Guildhall chapel. See Ath. iii. 1113; & St. Paul's S.R. 44.  Wagstaffe, John, s. Joh., of Tachbrook, co. Warwick, gent. , matric. 7 July, 1665, aged 18.  [5]

Wagstaff, John; B.A. from, Cambridge, 1673-4, M.A. 1677; incorporated 10 July, 1677; rector of Little Wenlock, Salop, 1678. See Foster's Index Eccl.  Wagstaffe, Robert, s. Jo., of Glossop, co. Derby, pleb. ., matric. 31 May, 1677, aged 20, B.A. 9 Feb., 1680-1; vicar of Glossop 1682. See Foster's Index Eccl.  Wagstaffe, Thomas, demy. 1557-61, fellow. 1565, B.A. 5 July, 1566, M.A. 28 April. 1570, supd. for licence to preach 13 June, 1576, after 6 years in theology; canon of Westminster 1579, vicar of Lewknor 1574, and rector of Henley-on-Thames, (both) Oxon, 1581, rector of Porlock, Siomerset, 1581. See Bloxam, iv. 152; & Foster's Index Eccl.

Wagstafe, Thomas, of co. Warwick, pleb. ., matric. 2 July, 1585, aged 16; student of Middle Temple 1591, as 2s. Henry, of Harbury, co. Warwick, gent. See 1621. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Wagstaffe, Thomas, s. Th., of Stoke, co. Warwick, pleb. , matric. 14 March, 1662-3, aged 19, B.A. 15 0ct., 1664, M.A. 20 June, 1667 ; born at Stafford 15 Feb., 1645, went to, Cambridge, 1659; chaplain to Earl of Denbigh and Sir Richard Temple, of Stowe, Bucks, rector of Martinthorpe alias Malthorpe, Rutland, 1669-91, curate of Stowe 1676, chancellor of Lichfield and canon 1684, deprived 1689, rector of St. Margaret Pattens and St. Gabriel, Fenchurch, London, 1685, until deprived in 1690 for not taking the oaths; licenced (V.G.) 4 Feb., 1686-7, to marry Martha Broughton, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, spinster; consecrated suffragan bishop of Norwich 23 Feb., 1693-4, afterwards practiced physic; died 17 Oct., 1712, buried at Bixley. co. Warwick, 20th; father of William 1700. See Ath. iv. 785; Foster's Index Eccl.; & Rawl. i. 51.
 [10]

Wagstaffe, Thomas, s. William, of Farmborough, co. Warwick, gent. , matric. 21 May, 1669, aged 17, B.A. 16 Jan., 1672-3, M.A. 1675; vicar of Helidon 1676-89, and of Staverton, (both) Northants, 1678-1722, rector of Cublington, Bucks, 1688-1724; father of William 1700. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Wagstaffe, Thomas, s. Th., of Burrington, Northants, gent. , matric. 27 Nov., 1674, aged 17.

Wagstaff, Timothy; B.A. from. 13 Feb., 1595-6; bar.-at-law, of Middle Temple, 1605 (as son and heir of Thomas, of Harbury, co. Warwick, gent.); licenced 2 Jan., 1604-5, to marry Elizabeth daughter of Nicholas Fuller, of Christ Church, London; father of the next. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.

Wagstaffe, Timothy. s. Timothy, of Warwick (town), arm. ., matric. 20 Feb., 1634-5, aged 18; student of Middle Temple 1632. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Wagstaffe, William, B.A. 26 Feb., 1521-2, M.A. 13 July, 1525; admon. at Oxford 8 Nov., 1528.
 [15]

Wagstaffe, William, pleb. ., matric. 9 Aug., 1658, demy 1658-64, B.A. 1662; bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1668; licenced 13 Feb., 1671-2, to marry Sarah, daughter of — Whittingham, of St. Michael, Cornhill, London, mercer. See Bloxam, v. 237; & Foster's Judges and Barristers.

Wagstaffe, William, s. Tho., of Daventry, Northants, cler. ., matric. 31 Oct., 1700, aged 16, B.A. 1704, M.A. 1707. B. and D.Med. 1714, fellow college of physicians 1718, F.R.S., physician to St. Bartholomew's hospital; died at Bath 5 May, 1725. See Munk's Roll, ii. 60; Rawl. i. 237, ii. 174, iii. 38, 205; & Hearne, i. 38.

Wahill, Thomas (or Wayll), B.A. 29 Jan., 1513-14.

Waice, Leonard, of in and before 1568.

Wainman, Thomas, of. 1675. See.
 [20]

Wainewright, Benjamin, s. J., of Midhop, Yorks, pleb. ., matric. 27 May, 1669, aged 17, B.A. 16 Jan., 1672-3. M.A. 1675; rector of Crowell, Oxon, 1697. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Wain(w)right, Charles, s. William, of Ripton, co. Derby, pleb. p.p. ., matric. 26 April, 1662, aged 19.

Wainwright, John; B.A. from. 3 June, 1630; M.A. from. 11 May, 1633.

Wainwright, John; fellow. 1635-51, B.C.L. 29 Nov., 1639, D.C.L. 19 Oct., 1650; chancellor of the diocese of Chester, an advocate of Doctors' Commons 1650. See Garbutt's Notitia Cestriensis, i. 22 (Chetham Soc.); Coote's Civilians, 84; Fasti, ii. 162; & Burrows, 475.

Wainwright, John, s. Thomas, of Chester (city), doctoris. , matric. 7 June, 1708, aged 19, B.A. 1712, M.A. 1715; bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1716, a 3rd baron of the exchequer in Ireland 1732, until his death 15 April, 1741 ; brother of Thomas 1710. See Foster's Judges and Barristers & Al. West. 250.
 [25]

Wain(w)right, Robert, s. Zach., of Stourbridge. co. Worcester, pleb. ., matric. 24 May, 1661, aged 15, B.A. 3 Feb., 1664-5; incorporated at Cambridge 1668, and M.A. from ., Cambridge, 1668; incorporated at Oxford 1694, B.D. 20 May, 1697; rector of Thorpe Mandeville, Northants, 1668, until his death; buried there 9 June, 1711. See Ath. iv. 680; & Foster's Index Eccl.

Wainewright, Thomas, s. J(ohn), of Chester (city), D.C.L.; ., matric 12 Nov., 1669, aged 16, fellow. 1672, B.C.L. 1676, D.C.L. 1682; chancellor of Chester cathedral 1682; died 1720; father of John 1708. and of the next.

Wainwright, Thomas, s. Tho., of Chester (city), doctoris. , matric. 9 June, 1710, aged 18, B.A. 1714. M.A. 1717; student from Westminster school 1710, until his death 9 Aug., 1721; buried in Christchurch cathedral; brother of John 1708. See Al. West. 253; & Gutch, i. 472.
 [ 1552 ]


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/65

 same disposition to ready obedience, with those whose whole life and conduct are every day directed by him, and who every day even rise and go to bed, or at least retire to their quarters, according to his orders. In what is called discipline, or in the habit of ready obedience, a militia must always be still more inferior to a standing army than it may sometimes be in what is called the manual exercise, or in the management and use of its arms. But in modern war the habit of ready and instant obedience is of much greater consequence than a considerable superiority in the management of arms.

Those militias which, like the Tartar or Arab militia, go to war under the same chieftains whom they are accustomed to obey in peace, are by far the best. In respect for their officers, in the habit of ready obedience, they approach nearest to standing armies. The Highland militia, when it served under its own chieftains, had some advantage of the same kind. As the Highlanders, however, were not wandering, but stationary shepherds, as they had all a fixed habitation, and were not, in peaceable times, accustomed to follow their chieftain from place to place; so in time of war they were less willing to follow him to any considerable distance, or to continue for any long time in the field. When they had acquired any booty they were eager to return home, and his authority was seldom sufficient to detain them. In point of obedience they were always much inferior to what is reported of the Tartars and Arabs. As the Highlanders, too, from their stationary life, spend less of their time in the open air, they were always less accustomed to military exercises, and were less expert in the use of their arms than the Tartars and Arabs are said to be.


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/165

 "Exactly," said M. Carrège triumphantly; "and what should they have to be careful about?"

"An excess of caution is suspicious, eh?" said Poirot.

“Précisément."

"We might, I think," murmured Poirot, "ask M. Kettering one or two questions."

The Magistrate gave instructions. A moment or two later, Derek Kettering, debonair as ever, entered the room.

"Good morning. Monsieur," said the Judge politely.

"Good morning," said Derek Kettering curtly. "You sent for me. Has anything fresh turned up?"

"Pray sit down. Monsieur."

Derek took a seat and flung his hat and stick on the table.

"Well?" he asked impatiently.

"We have, so far, no fresh data," said M. Carrège cautiously.

"That's very interesting," said Derek drily. "Did you send for me here in order to tell me that?"

"We naturally thought. Monsieur, that you would like to be informed of the progress of the case," said the Magistrate severely.

"Even if the progress was non-existent."

"We also wished to ask you a few questions."

"Ask away."

"You are quite sure that you neither saw nor spoke with your wife on the train?"

"I've answered that already. I did not."

"You had, no doubt, your reasons."

Derek stared at him suspiciously.

“Ididnotknowshewasonthetrain,"


text:
Page:NBS Circular 553.djvu/168

{| !Color name !Source !ISCC-NBS color designation with serial number from sec. 14 Rh
 * [Yellow], Sulphur (see Sulphur [Yellow])||M
 * Yellow, Verona (see Verona Yellow)||P
 * Yellow, Veronese (see Veronese Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Sun (see Sun Yelllow)||T
 * [Yellow], Sunflower (see Sunflower [Yellow])||M
 * Yellow, Sunlight (see Sunlight Yellow)||P
 * Yellow, Sunrise (see Sunrise Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Transparent (see Transparent Yellow)||P
 * Yellow, Tulip (see Tulip Yellow)||P
 * Yellow, Turner's (see Turner's Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Ultramarine (see Ultramarine Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Venetian (see Venetian Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Viridine (see Viridine Yellow)||M, R
 * Yellow, Vitelline (see Vitelline Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Wax (see Wax Yellow)||M, R
 * Yellow, Wine (see Wine Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Winter (see Winter Yellow)||P
 * Yellow, Yolk (see Yolk Yellow)||M
 * Yellow, Youth (see Youth Yellow)||P
 * Yellow, Zinc (see Zinc Yellow)||M
 * Yellow Beige||M||I.yBr 76, m.yBr 77
 * Yellow Berries (same as Ta-Ming)||M||s.OY 68, m.OY 71
 * Yellow Brazil Wood (same as Lime [Yellow])||M||m.Y 87, gy.Y 90
 * Yellow Bright||P||brill.gY 98, l.gY 101
 * Yellow Brown||S||brPk 33, d.r0 38. l.rBr 42, l.gy.rBr 45, m.O 53, brO 54, s.Br 55, l.Br 57, d.OY 72, s.yBr 74, l.Ol 106
 * Yellow Buff||S||m.yPk 19 m.O 53, m.ΟΥ 71, p.ΟΥ 73, 1.y Br 76, p.Y 89, gy.Y 90
 * Yellow Carmine (same as Florida Gold)||M||s.OY 68, m.OY 71
 * Yellow Cream.||P||p.Y 89
 * Yellow Daisy (same as Lemon [Yellow])||M||brill.Y 83, s.Y 84, l.Y 86, m.Y 87
 * Yellow Earth (same as Yellow Ochre)||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Yellow Essence||P||p.gY 104
 * Yellow Gem||P||p.Y 89
 * Yellow Green||R||brill.YG 116
 * Yellow Green||S||s.YG 117, m.YG 120, v.yG 129, brill.yG 130, s.yG 131, deep yG 132, v.l.yG 134, l.YG 135, m.yG 136, d.yG 137, v.G 139, brill.G 140, s.G 141, v.l.G 143, l.G 144, m.G 145
 * Clear Yellow-Green.||R||brill.YG 116
 * Dark Dull Yellow-Green||R||m.OlG 125, gy.OlG 127
 * Deep Dull Yellow-Green (1)||R||m.YG 120, m.OlG 125
 * Deep Dull Yellow-Green (2)||R||d.yG 137
 * Dusky Yellow Green||RC||gy.YG 122
 * Grayish Yellow Green||RC||gy.YG 122
 * Light Yellow-Green||R||brill.YG 116, 1.YG 119
 * Moderate Yellow Green||RC||m.YG 120
 * Pale Yellow-Green||R||I.YG 119
 * Pale Yellow Green||S||brill. YG 116, I.YG 119, brill.yG 130
 * Yellowish Brown||A||s.yBr 74, deep yBr 75
 * Yellowish Brown||SC||s.yBr 74, m.yBr 77
 * Dark Yellowish Brown||RC||gy.yBr 80
 * Dark Yellowish Brown||SC||s.yBr 74, m.yBr 77, d.yBr 78
 * Dull Yellowish Brown||A||1.yBr 76, m.yBr 77, d.yBr 78, 1.gy.yBr 79, gy.yBr 80, d.gy.yBr 81
 * Dusky Yellowish Brown||RC||d.gy.yBr 81
 * Light Yellowish Brown.||SC||I.yBr 76, d.gy.Y 91
 * Moderate Yellowish Brown||RC||m.yBr 77
 * Pale Yellowish Brown||RC||l.gy.yBr 79
 * Yellowish Citrine||R||d.gY 103
 * Yellowish Glaucous||R||p.YG 121
 * Yellowish Gray||RC||yGy 93
 * Yellowish Green||A||brill. YG 116, s.YG 117, deep YG 118, I.YG 119, m.YG 120, m.OlG 125, brill.yG 130, s.yG 131, deep yG 132, v.deep yG 133, v.l.yG 134, I.yG 135, m.yG 136, d.yG 137, v.d.yG 138
 * Bright Yellowish Green||A||v.YG 115, v.yG 129
 * Dark Yellowish Green||R||d.yG 137
 * Dark Yellowish Green||RC||d.yG 137
 * Dull Yellowish Green||A||p.YG 121, gy.YG 122
 * Dusky Yellowish Green||R||gy.OlG 127
 * Dusky Yellowish Green||RC||d.yG 137, d.gy.G 151
 * Moderate Yellowish Green||RC||m.yG 136
 * Pale Yellowish Green||RC||p.G 149
 * Yellowish Oil Green||R||l.Ol 106
 * Yellowish Olive||R||l.Ol 106, m.Ol 107
 * Light Yellowish Olive||R||d.gY 103
 * Yellowish Orange||A||brill.OY 67, s.OY 68, deep OY 69, l.ΟΥ 70, m.ΟΥ 71, d.ΟΥ 72
 * Bright Yellowish Orange||A||v.OY 66
 * Dark Yellowish Orange||RC||d.ΟΥ 72
 * Dull Yellowish Orange||A||p.OY 73
 * Pale Yellowish Orange||RC||p.OY 73
 * Yellowish Pink||A||v.yPk 25, s.yPk 26, deep YPK 27, I.yPk 28, m.yPk 29, d.yPk 30, p.yPk 31, gy.yPk 32
 * Yellowish Red||A||s.rO 35, deep rO 36, m.rO 37, d.rO 38
 * Bright Yellowish Red.||A||v.R 11, v.rO 34
 * Dull Yellowish Red.||A||gy.rO 39
 * Yellow Madder (same as Stil de Grain Yellow)||M||brill.Y 83 s.Y 84, l.Y 86, m.Y 87
 * Yellow Maple||T||s.yBr 74, l.yBr 76,m.yBr 77
 * Yellow Mist||P||l.OlBr 94
 * Yellow Ochre||H||s.OY 68, m.OY 71
 * Yellow Ochre.||M||m.OY 71
 * Chinese Yellow, Di Palito, English Ochre, French Ochre, Gold Earth, Imperial Yellow, Italian Lake, Mineral Yellow, Mountain Yellow, Ochraceous, Ochre, Oxford Chrome, Oxford Ochre, Oxford Yellow, Oxide Yellow, Permanent Yellow, Quercitron Lake, Sil, Yellow Earth, Yellow Sienna, Yellow Wash||R||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Yellow Ochre||S||d.ΟΥ 72
 * Yellow Orange||R||s.O 50, m.O 53
 * Pale Yellow-Orange||M||I.yPk 28
 * Yellow Realgar (same as Lemon [Yellow])||M||brill. Y 83, s.Y 84, l.Y 86, m.Y 87
 * Yellow Red.||SC||brO 54, s.Br 55
 * Yellow Rose.|M||l.gY 101
 * Yellow Sienna (same as Yellow Ochre)||P||m.OY 71
 * Yellow Smoke||M (12G2)||m.Y 87, d.Y 88
 * Yellow Stone||M (12K6)||gy.gy 105
 * Yellowstone Burnt||F||d.gy.Y 91
 * Yellow Striping (N 42) (same as Orange Yellow (AN 506))||T||v.OY 66, s.OY 68
 * Yellow Tint||F||yWhite 92, p.YG 121
 * Yellow Tint (MA)||M||p.OY 73
 * Yellow Wash (same as Yellow Ochre)||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Yellow Wood (same as Lime [Yellow])||M||m.Y 87, gy.Y 90
 * Yew Green  Brewster Green||M||m.OIG 125
 * Yew Green.||P||gy.OIG 127
 * Yew Green.||R||m.0IG 125
 * Yolk Yellow (same as Golden Rod)||M||s.Y 84
 * Yosemite (same as Sundown)||M||I.yBr 76
 * Youth Yellow||P||I.gY 101
 * Yucatan : Cathay, French Yellow, Transparent Gold Ochre, Mexican, Ochre de Ru, Oker de Luce, Oker de Luke, Oker de Rouse, Ru Ochre, Rut Ochre, Spruce Ochre||M||brO 54, s.yBr 74
 * Yucca.||M||gy.G 150
 * Yu Chi.||M||d.G 146
 * Yuletime.||P||m.OlG 125
 * Yule Tree.||P||d.bG 165
 * Yvette Violet||M||gy.P 228
 * Yvette Violet.||R||gy.V 215
 * Dark Yvette Violet.||R||d.gy.P 229
 * Zaffre Blue (same as Smalt)||M||deep B 179, m.B 182
 * Zanzibar.||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zedoary Wash (same as Daffodile [Yellow])||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Zenith (Blue)||M||I.pB 199, p.pB 203
 * Zephyr||M||p.Pk 7, gy.Pk 8
 * Zephyr Blue.||P||v.p.B 184, p.B 185
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }
 * Dark Yellowish Green||RC||d.yG 137
 * Dull Yellowish Green||A||p.YG 121, gy.YG 122
 * Dusky Yellowish Green||R||gy.OlG 127
 * Dusky Yellowish Green||RC||d.yG 137, d.gy.G 151
 * Moderate Yellowish Green||RC||m.yG 136
 * Pale Yellowish Green||RC||p.G 149
 * Yellowish Oil Green||R||l.Ol 106
 * Yellowish Olive||R||l.Ol 106, m.Ol 107
 * Light Yellowish Olive||R||d.gY 103
 * Yellowish Orange||A||brill.OY 67, s.OY 68, deep OY 69, l.ΟΥ 70, m.ΟΥ 71, d.ΟΥ 72
 * Bright Yellowish Orange||A||v.OY 66
 * Dark Yellowish Orange||RC||d.ΟΥ 72
 * Dull Yellowish Orange||A||p.OY 73
 * Pale Yellowish Orange||RC||p.OY 73
 * Yellowish Pink||A||v.yPk 25, s.yPk 26, deep YPK 27, I.yPk 28, m.yPk 29, d.yPk 30, p.yPk 31, gy.yPk 32
 * Yellowish Red||A||s.rO 35, deep rO 36, m.rO 37, d.rO 38
 * Bright Yellowish Red.||A||v.R 11, v.rO 34
 * Dull Yellowish Red.||A||gy.rO 39
 * Yellow Madder (same as Stil de Grain Yellow)||M||brill.Y 83 s.Y 84, l.Y 86, m.Y 87
 * Yellow Maple||T||s.yBr 74, l.yBr 76,m.yBr 77
 * Yellow Mist||P||l.OlBr 94
 * Yellow Ochre||H||s.OY 68, m.OY 71
 * Yellow Ochre.||M||m.OY 71
 * Chinese Yellow, Di Palito, English Ochre, French Ochre, Gold Earth, Imperial Yellow, Italian Lake, Mineral Yellow, Mountain Yellow, Ochraceous, Ochre, Oxford Chrome, Oxford Ochre, Oxford Yellow, Oxide Yellow, Permanent Yellow, Quercitron Lake, Sil, Yellow Earth, Yellow Sienna, Yellow Wash||R||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Yellow Ochre||S||d.ΟΥ 72
 * Yellow Orange||R||s.O 50, m.O 53
 * Pale Yellow-Orange||M||I.yPk 28
 * Yellow Realgar (same as Lemon [Yellow])||M||brill. Y 83, s.Y 84, l.Y 86, m.Y 87
 * Yellow Red.||SC||brO 54, s.Br 55
 * Yellow Rose.|M||l.gY 101
 * Yellow Sienna (same as Yellow Ochre)||P||m.OY 71
 * Yellow Smoke||M (12G2)||m.Y 87, d.Y 88
 * Yellow Stone||M (12K6)||gy.gy 105
 * Yellowstone Burnt||F||d.gy.Y 91
 * Yellow Striping (N 42) (same as Orange Yellow (AN 506))||T||v.OY 66, s.OY 68
 * Yellow Tint||F||yWhite 92, p.YG 121
 * Yellow Tint (MA)||M||p.OY 73
 * Yellow Wash (same as Yellow Ochre)||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Yellow Wood (same as Lime [Yellow])||M||m.Y 87, gy.Y 90
 * Yew Green  Brewster Green||M||m.OIG 125
 * Yew Green.||P||gy.OIG 127
 * Yew Green.||R||m.0IG 125
 * Yolk Yellow (same as Golden Rod)||M||s.Y 84
 * Yosemite (same as Sundown)||M||I.yBr 76
 * Youth Yellow||P||I.gY 101
 * Yucatan : Cathay, French Yellow, Transparent Gold Ochre, Mexican, Ochre de Ru, Oker de Luce, Oker de Luke, Oker de Rouse, Ru Ochre, Rut Ochre, Spruce Ochre||M||brO 54, s.yBr 74
 * Yucca.||M||gy.G 150
 * Yu Chi.||M||d.G 146
 * Yuletime.||P||m.OlG 125
 * Yule Tree.||P||d.bG 165
 * Yvette Violet||M||gy.P 228
 * Yvette Violet.||R||gy.V 215
 * Dark Yvette Violet.||R||d.gy.P 229
 * Zaffre Blue (same as Smalt)||M||deep B 179, m.B 182
 * Zanzibar.||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zedoary Wash (same as Daffodile [Yellow])||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Zenith (Blue)||M||I.pB 199, p.pB 203
 * Zephyr||M||p.Pk 7, gy.Pk 8
 * Zephyr Blue.||P||v.p.B 184, p.B 185
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }
 * Yellow Smoke||M (12G2)||m.Y 87, d.Y 88
 * Yellow Stone||M (12K6)||gy.gy 105
 * Yellowstone Burnt||F||d.gy.Y 91
 * Yellow Striping (N 42) (same as Orange Yellow (AN 506))||T||v.OY 66, s.OY 68
 * Yellow Tint||F||yWhite 92, p.YG 121
 * Yellow Tint (MA)||M||p.OY 73
 * Yellow Wash (same as Yellow Ochre)||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Yellow Wood (same as Lime [Yellow])||M||m.Y 87, gy.Y 90
 * Yew Green  Brewster Green||M||m.OIG 125
 * Yew Green.||P||gy.OIG 127
 * Yew Green.||R||m.0IG 125
 * Yolk Yellow (same as Golden Rod)||M||s.Y 84
 * Yosemite (same as Sundown)||M||I.yBr 76
 * Youth Yellow||P||I.gY 101
 * Yucatan : Cathay, French Yellow, Transparent Gold Ochre, Mexican, Ochre de Ru, Oker de Luce, Oker de Luke, Oker de Rouse, Ru Ochre, Rut Ochre, Spruce Ochre||M||brO 54, s.yBr 74
 * Yucca.||M||gy.G 150
 * Yu Chi.||M||d.G 146
 * Yuletime.||P||m.OlG 125
 * Yule Tree.||P||d.bG 165
 * Yvette Violet||M||gy.P 228
 * Yvette Violet.||R||gy.V 215
 * Dark Yvette Violet.||R||d.gy.P 229
 * Zaffre Blue (same as Smalt)||M||deep B 179, m.B 182
 * Zanzibar.||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zedoary Wash (same as Daffodile [Yellow])||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Zenith (Blue)||M||I.pB 199, p.pB 203
 * Zephyr||M||p.Pk 7, gy.Pk 8
 * Zephyr Blue.||P||v.p.B 184, p.B 185
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }
 * Yucca.||M||gy.G 150
 * Yu Chi.||M||d.G 146
 * Yuletime.||P||m.OlG 125
 * Yule Tree.||P||d.bG 165
 * Yvette Violet||M||gy.P 228
 * Yvette Violet.||R||gy.V 215
 * Dark Yvette Violet.||R||d.gy.P 229
 * Zaffre Blue (same as Smalt)||M||deep B 179, m.B 182
 * Zanzibar.||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zedoary Wash (same as Daffodile [Yellow])||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Zenith (Blue)||M||I.pB 199, p.pB 203
 * Zephyr||M||p.Pk 7, gy.Pk 8
 * Zephyr Blue.||P||v.p.B 184, p.B 185
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }
 * Zaffre Blue (same as Smalt)||M||deep B 179, m.B 182
 * Zanzibar.||M||d.gy.rBr 47
 * Zedoary Wash (same as Daffodile [Yellow])||M||m.ΟΥ 71
 * Zenith (Blue)||M||I.pB 199, p.pB 203
 * Zephyr||M||p.Pk 7, gy.Pk 8
 * Zephyr Blue.||P||v.p.B 184, p.B 185
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }
 * Zephyr||M||p.Pk 7, gy.Pk 8
 * Zephyr Blue.||P||v.p.B 184, p.B 185
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }
 * Zephyr Green.||P||v.p.G 148
 * }

title: Page:NBS Circular 553.djvu/168


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/166

 he explained, spacing his words elaborately, as though to some one dull of intellect.

"That is what you say, yes," murmured M. Carrège.

A frown suffused Derek's face.

"I should like to know what you’re driving at. Do you know what I think, M. Carrège.?"

"What do you think. Monsieur?"

"I think the French police are vastly overrated. Surely you must have some data as to these gangs of train robbers. It’s outrageous that such a tiling could happen on a train de luxe like that, and that the French police should be helpless to deal with the matter."

"We are dealing with it. Monsieur, never fear."

"Madame Kettering, I understand, did not leave a will," interposed Poirot suddenly. His fingertips were joined together, and he was looking intently at the ceiling.

"I don't think she ever made one," said Kettering.

"Why?"

"It is a very pretty little fortune that you inherit there," said Poirot"a very pretty little fortune."

Although his eyes were still on the ceiling, he managed to see the dark flush that rose to Derek Kettering's face.

"What do you mean, and who are you?"

Poirot gently uncrossed his knees, withdrew his gaze from the ceiling, and looked the young man full in the face.

"My name is Hercule Poirot," he said quietly, "and I am probably the greatest detective in the world. You are quite sure that you did not see or speak to your wife on that train?"


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/66

 A militia of any kind, it must be observed, however, which has served for several successive campaigns in the field, becomes in every respect a standing army. The soldiers are every day exercised in the use of their arms, and, being constantly under the command of their officers, are habituated to the same prompt obedience which takes place in standing armies. What they were before they took the field is of little importance. They necessarily become in every respect a standing army, after they have passed a few campaigns in it. Should the war in America drag out through another campaign, the American militia may become in every respect a match for that standing army of which the valor appeared, in the last war, at least not inferior to that of the hardiest veterans of France and Spain.

This distinction being well understood, the history of all ages, it will be found, bears testimony to the irresistible superiority which a well-regulated standing army has over a militia.

One of the first standing armies of which we have any distinct account, in any well authenticated history, is that of Philip of Macedon. His frequent wars with the Thracians, Illyrians, Thessalians, and some of the Greek cities in the neighborhood of Macedon, gradually formed his troops, which in the beginning were probably militia, to the exact discipline of a standing army. When he was at peace, which he was very seldom, and never for any long time together, he was careful not to disband that army. It vanquished and subdued, after a long and violent struggle, indeed, the gallant and well-exercised militias of the principal republics of ancient Greece; and afterward, with very little struggle, the effeminate and ill-ex-


text: Page:Forma breve de administrar los sacramentos a los Indios, y Españoles que viven entre ellos (1635).djvu/2


text: Page:Forma breve de administrar los sacramentos a los Indios, y Españoles que viven entre ellos (1635).djvu/66


text: Page:Forma breve de administrar los sacramentos a los Indios, y Españoles que viven entre ellos (1635).djvu/67


text: Page:Forma breve de administrar los sacramentos a los Indios, y Españoles que viven entre ellos (1635).djvu/68


text:
Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/216

 them would really begin work in some department of Natural History, and keep to it. These men when once interested would be untiring students. He concluded an admirable speech by proposing a vote of thanks to the President for his address.

Major seconded the motion. The part of the address which elicited his warmest sympathies was that in which the President spoke of the duties of Naturalists and how they should endeavour to spread the knowledge of Natural History in general He was of opinion that the Midland Union of Naturalists would become, in a few years, a Society of considerable influence in the country at large. He hoped one object would be kept in view by the members of the Union, namely, that of promoting the study of Natural History in our schools. No doubt a great many efforts were being made in that direction at the present time, but still a little gentle pressure would, he was sure, be productive of good. It was true that a great many schools professed to teach Natural Science, but when they came to look into the matter they found, somehow or other, that the leaching of Natural History occupied only a very small corner. Indeed, he had found, from enquiries he had made, that one lesson a week was the maximum. He thought, therefore, it might be a legitimate thing for the members to do, and he felt assured so large a number of members, with such an amount of influence as they possessed, would, if they brought that influence to bear, be able to achieve great results in that direction.

The motion was put and carried unanimously, and briefly acknowledged by the.

The report of the Council was then read by Mr..

After detailing the history of the formation of the Union, (see pages 1 te 4 "Midland Naturalist,") it went on to speak of the journal of the Union—the "Midland Naturalist"-and expressed the opinion that it had already fully realised the expectations of the Council, and urged all members who are not at present subscribers to become so at once. The report then proceeded as follows:—

"The Societies constituting the Union are—

The Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society.

The Birmingham Philosophical Society.

The Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society.

The Birmingham School Natural History Society.

The Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Arolæological Society.

The Caradoc Field Club.

The Cheltenham: Natural Science Society.

The Derbyshire Naturalists' Society.

The Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society and Field Club.

The Evesham Field Naturalists' Club.

The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.

The Northampton Naturalists' Society.

The Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society.

The Nottingham Naturalists Society.

The Rugby School Natural History Society.

The Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists' Field Club.

The Severn Valley Naturalists' Field Club.

The Shropshire Archælogical and Natural History Society.

The Stroud Natural History and Philosophical Society.

The Tamworth Natural History, Geological, and Antiquarian Society, and

The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club.


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/67

 ercised militia of the great Persian empire. The fall of the Greek republics and of the Persian empire was the effect of the irresistible superiority which a standing army has over every sort of militia. It is the first great revolution in the affairs of mankind, of which history has preserved any distinct or circumstantial account.

The fall of Carthage, and the consequent elevation of Rome, is the second. All the varieties in the fortune of those two famous republics may very well be accounted for from the same cause.

From the end of the first to the beginning of the second Carthaginian war, the armies of Carthage were continually in the field, and employed under three great generals, who succeeded one another in the command; Amilcar, his son-in-law, Asdrubal, and his son, Annibal; first in chastising their own rebellious slaves, afterward in subduing the revolted nations of Africa, and, lastly, in conquering the great kingdom of Spain. The army which Annibal led from Spain into Italy must necessarily, in those different wars, have been gradually formed to the exact discipline of a standing army. The Romans, in the meantime, though they had not been altogether at peace, yet they had not, during this period, been engaged in any war of very great consequence; and their military discipline, it is generally said, was a good deal relaxed. The Roman armies which Annibal encountered at Trebia, Thrasymenus and Cannæ were militia opposed to a standing army. This circumstance, it is probable, contributed more than any other to determine the fate of those battles.

The standing army which Annibal left behind him in Spain had the like superiority over the militia which the Romans sent to oppose it, and in a few years, under the


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/167

 "What are you getting at? Do youdo you mean to insinuate that II killed her?"

He laughed suddenly.

"I mustn't lose my temper; i'’s too palpably absurd. Why, if I killed her I should have had no need to steal her jewels, would I?"

"That is true," murmured Poirot, with a rather crestfallen air. "I did not think of that."

"If ever there were a clear case of murder and robbery, this is it," said Derek Kettering. "Poor Ruth, it was those damned rubies did for her. It must have got about she had them with her. There has been murder done for those same stones before now, I believe."

Poirot sat up suddenly in his chair. A very faint green light glowed in his eyes. He looked extraordinarily like a sleek, well-fed cat.

"One more question, M. Kettering," he said. "Will you give me the date when you last saw your wife?"

"Let me see," Kettering reflected. "It must have beenyes over three weeks ago. I am afraid I can't give you the date exactly."

"No matter," said Poirot drily; "that is all I wanted to know."

"Well," said Derek Kettering impatiently, "anything further?"

He looked towards M. Carrège. The latter sought inspiration from Poirot, and received it in a very faint shake of the head.

"No, M. Kettering," he said politely; "no, I do not think we need trouble you any further. I wish you good morning."


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/68

 command of his brother, the younger Asdrubal, expelled them almost entirely from that country.

Annibal was ill supplied from home. The Roman militia, being continually in the field, became in the progress of the war a well-disciplined and well-exercised standing army; and the superiority of Annibal grew every day less and less. Asdrubal judged it necessary to lead the whole, or almost the whole of the standing army which he commanded in Spain, to the assistance of his brother in Italy. In this march he is said to have been misled by his guides; and in a country which he did not know, was surprised and attacked by another standing army, in every respect equal or superior to his own, and was entirely defeated.

When Asdrubal had left Spain, the great Scipio found nothing to oppose him but a militia inferior to his own. He conquered and subdued that militia, and, in the course of the war, his own militia necessarily became a well-disciplined and well-exercised standing army. That standing army was afterward carried to Africa, where it found nothing but a militia to oppose it. In order to defend Carthage it became necessary to recall the standing army of Annibal. The disheartened and frequently defeated African militia joined it, and, at the battle of Zama, composed the greater part of the troops of Annibal. The event of that day determined the fate of the two rival republics.

From the end of the second Carthaginian war till the fall of the Roman republic, the armies of Rome were in every respect standing armies. The standing army of Macedon made some resistance to their arms. In the height of their grandeur, it cost them two great wars and three great battles to subdue that little kingdom; of which the conquest would probably have been still more difficult,


text:
Page:The Mystery of the Blue Train.pdf/168

 "Good morning," said Kettering. He went out, banging the door behind him.

Poirot leaned forward and spoke sharply, as soon as the young man was out of the room.

"Tell me," he said peremptorily, "when did you speak of these rubies to M. Kettering?"

"I have not spoken of them," said M. Carrège. "It was only yesterday afternoon that we learnt about them from M. Van Aldin."

"Yes; but there was a mention of them in the Comte's letter."

M. Carrège looked pained.

"Naturally I did not speak of that letter to M. Kettering," he said in a shocked voice. "It would have been most indiscreet at the present juncture of affairs."

Poirot leaned forward and tapped the table.

"Then how did he know about them?" he demanded softly. "Madame could not have told him, for he has not seen her for three weeks. It seems unlikely that either M. Van Aldin or his secretary would have mentioned them; their interviews with him have been on entirely different lines, and there has not been any hint or reference to them in the newspapers."

He got up and took his hat and stick.

"And yet," he murmured to himself, "our gentleman knows all about them. I wonder now, yes, I wonder!"


text: The Mystery of the Blue Train/Chapter 17


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/69

 had it not been for the cowardice of its last king. The militias of all the civilized nations of the ancient world, of Greece, of Syria, and of Egypt, made but a feeble resistance to the standing armies of Rome. The militias of some barbarous nations defended themselves much better. The Scythian or Tartar militia, which Mithridates drew from the countries north of the Euxine and Caspian Seas, were the most formidable enemies whom the Romans had to encounter after the second Carthaginian war. The Parthian and German militias, too, were always respectable, and, upon several occasions, gained very considerable advantages over the Roman armies. In general, however, and when the Roman armies were well commanded, they appear to have been very much superior; and if the Romans did not pursue the final conquest either of Parthia or Germany, it was probably because they judged that it was not worth while to add those two barbarous countries to an empire which was already too large. The ancient Parthians appear to have been a nation of Scythian or Tartar extraction, and to have always retained a good deal of the manners of their ancestors. The ancient Germans were, like the Scythians or Tartars, a nation of wandering shepherds, who went to war under the same chiefs whom they were accustomed to follow in peace. Their militia was exactly of the same kind with that of the Scythians or Tartars, from whom, too, they were probably descended.

Many different causes contributed to relax the discipline of the Roman armies. Its extreme severity was, perhaps, one of those causes. In the days of their gran-


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/70

 deur, when no enemy appeared capable of opposing them, their heavy armor was laid aside as unnecessarily burdensome, their laborious exercises were neglected as unnecessarily toilsome. Under the Roman emperors besides, the standing armies of Rome, those particularly which guarded the German and Pannonian frontiers, became dangerous to their masters, against whom they used frequently to set up their own generals. In order to render them less formidable, according to some authors, Diocletian, according to others, Constantine, first withdrew them from the frontier, where they had always before been encamped in great bodies, generally of two or three legions each, and dispersed them in small bodies through the different provincial towns, from whence they were scarce ever removed, but when it became necessary to repel an invasion. Small bodies of soldiers quartered in trading and manufacturing towns, and seldom removed from those quarters, became themselves tradesmen, artificers, and manufacturers. The civil came to predominate over the military character; and the standing armies of Rome gradually degenerated into a corrupt, neglected, and undisciplined militia, incapable of resisting the attack of the German and Scythian militias, which soon afterward invaded the western empire. It was only by hiring the militia of some of those nations to oppose to that of others that the emperors were for some time able to defend themselves. The fall of the western empire is the third great revolution in the affairs of mankind, of which ancient history has preserved any distinct or circumstantial account. It was brought about by the irresistible superiority which the militia of a barbarous, has over that of a civilized nation; which the militia of a nation of shepherds has over that of a nation of husbandmen, artificers and


text:
Page:The wealth of nations, volume 3.djvu/71

 manufacturers. The victories which have been gained by militias have generally been, not over standing armies, but over other militias in exercise and discipline inferior to themselves. Such were the victories which the Greek militia gained over that of the Persian empire; and such, too, were those which in later times the Swiss militia gained over that of the Austrians and Burgundians.

The military force of the German and Scythian nations, who established themselves upon the ruins of the western empire, continued for some time to be of the same kind in their new settlements as it had been in their original country. It was a militia of shepherds and husbandmen, which, in time of war, took the field under the command of the same chieftains whom it was accustomed to obey in peace. It was, therefore, tolerably well exercised, and tolerably well disciplined. As arts and industry advanced, however, the authority of the chieftains gradually decayed, and the great body of the people had less time to spare for military exercises. Both the discipline and the exercise of the feudal militia, therefore, went gradually to ruin, and standing armies were gradually introduced to supply the place of it. When the expedient of a standing army, besides, had once been adopted by one civilized nation, it became necessary that all its neighbors should follow the example. They soon found that their safety depended upon their doing so, and that their own militia was altogether incapable of resisting the attack of such an army.

The soldiers of a standing army, though they may never have seen an enemy, yet have frequently appeared to possess all the courage of veteran troops, and the very moment that they took the field to have been fit to face the hardiest and most experienced veterans. In 1756, when the Russian