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 would of itself have grown like a strong tree—loftier, straighter, wider-spreading—and its matured fruits would have attained a mellower ripeness and sunnier bloom; but on that mind time and experience alone could work; to the influence of other intellects she was not amenable."

Whether justly or unjustly, the productions of the two younger Miss Brontës were not received with much favour at the time of their publication. "Critics failed to do them justice. The immature, but very real, powers revealed in 'Wuthering Heights,' were scarcely recognised; its import and nature were misunderstood; the identity of its author was misrepresented: it was said that this was an earlier and ruder attempt of the same pen which had produced 'Jane Eyre. "Unjust and grievous error! We laughed at it at first, but I deeply lament it now."

Henceforward Charlotte Brontë's existence becomes divided into two parallel currents—her life as Currer Bell, the author; her life as Charlotte Brontë, the woman. There were separate duties belonging to each character—not opposing each other; not impossible, but difficult to be reconciled. When a man becomes an author, it is probably merely a change of employment to him. He takes a portion of that time which has hitherto been devoted to some other study or pursuit; he gives up something of the legal or medical profession, in which he has hitherto endeavoured to serve others, or relinquishes part of the trade or business by which he


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xii him; so many children having gone home and tried it from their beds and needed surgical attention.

Notwithstanding other possibilities, I think I wrote Peter, and if so it must have been in the usual inky way. Some of it, I like to think, was done in that native place which is the dearest spot on earth to me, though my last heart-beats shall be with my beloved solitary London that was so hard to reach. I must have sat at a table with that great dog waiting for me to stop, not complaining, for he knew it was thus we made our living, but giving me a look when he found he was to be in the play, with his sex changed. In after years when the actor who was Nana had to go to the wars he first taught his wife how to take his place as the dog till he came back, and I am glad that I see nothing funny in this; it seems to me to belong to the play. I offer this obtuseness on my part as my first proof that I am the author.

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 has been striving to gain a livelihood; and another merchant or lawyer, or doctor, steps into his vacant place, and probably does as well as he. But no other can take up the quiet, regular duties of the daughter, the wife, or the mother, as well as she whom God has appointed to fill that particular place: a woman's principal work in life is hardly left to her own choice; nor can she drop the domestic charges devolving on her as an individual, for the exercise of the most splendid talents that were ever bestowed. And yet she must not shrink from the extra responsibility implied by the very fact of her possessing such talents. She must not hide her gift in a napkin; it was meant for the use and service of others. In an humble and faithful spirit must she labour to do what is not impossible, or God would not have set her to do it.

I put into words what Charlotte Brontë put into actions.

The year 1848 opened with sad domestic distress. It is necessary, however painful, to remind the reader constantly of what was always present to the hearts of father and sisters at this time. It is well that the thoughtless critics, who spoke of the sad and gloomy views of life presented by the Brontës in their tales, should know how such words were wrung out of them by the living recollection of the long agony they suffered. It is well, too, that they who have objected to the representation of coarseness and shrank from it with repugnance, as if such conceptions arose out of the


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Rh easy course of nature every ten years or so. I suppose this theory might explain my present trouble, but I don’t hold with it; I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, in these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house. If we unlock the rooms of the far past we can peer in and see ourselves, busily occupied in beginning to become you and me. Thus, if I am the author in question the way he is to go should already be showing in the occupant of my first compartment, at whom I now take the liberty to peep. Here he is at the age of seven or so with his fellow-conspirator Robb, both in glengarry bonnets. They are giving an entertainment in a tiny old washing-house that still stands. The charge for admission is preens, a bool, or a peerie (I taught you a good deal of Scotch, so possibly you can follow that), and apparently the culminating Act consists in our trying to put each other into the boiler, though some say that I also addressed the spell-bound audience. This washing-house is not only the theatre of my first play, but has a still closer

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xiv connection with Peter. It is the original of the little house the Lost Boys built in the Never Land for Wendy, the chief difference being that it never wore John’s hat as a chimney. If Robb had owned such a hat I have no doubt that it would have been placed on the washing-house.

Here is that boy again some four years older, and the reading he is munching feverishly is about desert islands; he calls them wrecked islands. He buys his sanguinary tales surreptitiously in penny numbers. I see a change coming over him; he is blanching as he reads in the high-class magazine, Chatterbox, a fulmination against such literature, and sees that unless his greed for islands is quenched he is for ever lost. With gloaming he steals out of the house, his library bulging beneath his palpitating waist-coat. I follow like his shadow, as indeed I am, and watch him dig a hole in a field at Pathhead farm and bury his islands in it; it was ages ago, but I could walk straight to that hole in the field now and delve for the remains. I peep into the next compartment. There he is again, ten

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 writers, should learn, that, not from the imagination—not from internal conception—but from the hard cruel facts, pressed down, by external life, upon their very senses, for long months and years together, did they write out what they saw, obeying the stern dictates of their consciences. They might be mistaken. They might err in writing at all, when their afflictions were so great that they could not write otherwise than they did of life. It is possible that it would have been better to have described only good and pleasant people, doing only good and pleasant things (in which case they could hardly have written at any time): all I say is, that never, I believe, did women, possessed of such wonderful gifts, exercise them with a fuller feeling of responsibility for their use. As to mistakes, they stand now—as authors as well as women—before the judgment-seat of God.

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"We have not been very comfortable here at home lately. Branwell has, by some means, contrived to get more money from the old quarter, and has led us a sad life Papa is harassed day and night; we have little peace; he is always sick; has two or three times fallen down in fits; what will be the ultimate end, God knows. But who is without their drawback, their scourge, their skeleton behind the curtain? It remains


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ROSS OF JERUSALEM. . Class 16,. Order:. This flower, has been frequently named Cross of Jerusalem, in most of the European languages, the French calling it croix de Jérusalem; the Spanish, cruces de Jerusalem; the Italians, croce di Cavaliert; the Germans, Hierosolymorum flos; the Portuguese, cruz de Malta; all tending to dedicate it to religion, and as it appears to have been introduced by the crusaders, we present it as the emblem of religious enthusiasm.

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Rh or any other Figure, would too far eparate them from one another, and conequently not o well Anwer that warm and cloe Poition in which they chooe to unite. As the Eggs are very mall, and the Young are of different Sizes, the ame Variation is neceary in repect to their Cells. We find accordingly ome of them more pacious than others. And that they may be no Ways prejudicial, they are all well polihed.

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 only to do one's best, and endure with patience what God sends."

I suppose that she had read Mr. Lewes' review on "Recent Novels," when it appeared in the December of the last year, but I find no allusion to it till she writes to him on January 12th, 1848.

"Dear Sir,—I thank you then sincerely for your generous review; and it is with the sense of double content I express my gratitude, because I am now sure the tribute is not superfluous or obtrusive. You were not severe on 'Jane Eyre;' you were very lenient. I am glad you told me my faults plainly in private, for in your public notice you touch on them so lightly, I should perhaps have passed them over, thus indicated, with too little reflection.

"I mean to observe your warning about being careful how I undertake new works; my stock of materials is not abundant, but very slender; and, besides, neither my experience, my acquirements, nor my powers, are sufficiently varied to justify my ever becoming a frequent writer. I tell you this, because your article in 'Frazer' left in me an uneasy impression that you were disposed to think better of the author of 'Jane Eyre' than that individual deserved; and I would rather you had a correct than a flattering opinion of me, even though I should never see you.


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Rh years older, an undergraduate now and craving to be a real explorer, one of those who do things instead of prating of them, but otherwise unaltered; he might be painted at twenty on top of a mast, in his hand a spy-glass through which he rakes the horizon for an elusive strand. I go from room to room, and he is now a man, real exploration abandoned (though only because no one would have him). Soon he is even concocting other plays, and quaking a little lest some low person counts how many islands there are in them. I note that with the years the islands grow more sinister, but it is only because he has now to write with the left hand, the right having given out; evidently one thinks more darkly down the left arm. Go to the keyhole of the compartment where he and I join up, and you may see us wondering whether they would stand one more island. This journey through the house may not convince any one that I wrote Peter, but it does suggest me as a likely person. I pause to ask myself whether I read Chatterbox again, suffered the old agony, and buried that MS. of the play in a hole in a field.

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xvi Of course this is over-charged. Perhaps we do change; except a little something in us which is no larger than a mote in the eye, and that, like it, dances in front of us beguiling us all our days. I cannot cut the hair by which it hangs.

The strongest evidence that I am the author is to be found, I think, in a now melancholy volume, the aforementioned The Boy Castaways; so you must excuse me for parading that work here. Officer of the Court, call The Boy Castaways. The witness steps forward and proves to be a book you remember well though you have not glanced at it these many years. I pulled it out of a bookcase just now not without difficulty, for its recent occupation has been to support the shelf above. I suppose, though I am uncertain, that it was I and not you who hammered it into that place of utility. It is a little battered and bent after the manner of those who shoulder burdens, and ought (to our shame) to remind us of the witnesses who sometimes get an hour off from the cells to give evidence before his Lordship. I

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Rh have said that it is the rarest of my printed works, as it must be, for the only edition was limited to two copies, of which one (there was always some devilry in any matter connected with Peter) instantly lost itself in railway carriage. This is the survivor. The idlers in court may have assumed that it is a handwritten screed, and are impressed by its bulk. It is printed by Constable’s (how handsomely you did us, dear Blaikie), it contains thirty-five illustrations and is bound in cloth with a picture stamped on the cover of the three eldest of you ‘setting out to he wrecked.’ This record is supposed to be edited by the youngest of the three, and I must have granted him that honour to make up for his being so often lifted bodily out of our adventures by his nurse, who kept breaking into them for the fell purpose of giving him a midday rest. No. 4 rested so much at this period that he was merely an honorary member of the band, waving his foot to you for luck when you set off with bow and arrow to shoot his dinner for him; and one may rummage the book in vain for any trace

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xvi of No. 5. Here is the title-page, except that you are numbered instead of named—

There is a long preface by No. 3 in which we gather your ages at this first flight. ‘No. 1 was eight and a month, No. 2 was approaching his seventh lustrum, and I was a good bit past four.’ Of his two elders, while commending their fearless dispositions, the editor complains that they

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Rh wanted to do all the shooting and carried the whole equipment of arrows inside their shirts. He is attractively modest about himself, ‘Of No. 3 I prefer to say nothing, hoping that the tale as it is unwound will show that he was a boy of deeds rather than of words,’ a quality which he hints did not unduly protrude upon the brows of Nos. 1 and 2. His preface ends on a high note, ‘I should say that the work was in the first instance compiled as a record simply at which we could whet our memories, and that it is now published for No. 4’s benefit. If it teaches him by example lessons in fortitude and manly endurance we shall consider that we were not wrecked in vain.’

Published to whet your memories. Does it whet them? Do you hear once more, like some long-forgotten whistle beneath your window (Robb at dawn calling me to the fishing!) the not quite mortal blows that still echo in some of the chapter headings?—‘Chapter II, No. 1 teaches Wilkinson (his master) a Stern Lesson—We Run away to Sea. Chapter III, A Fearful Hurricane—Wreck of the “Anna Pink”

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56. CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM     } cation[H].c[k]=sol_array[H][QH].ksp / anion[OH].c[k]; cation[H].moles[k]=cation[H].c[k]*litre[k]*$$\Delta X$$[k]; } while (( w.max >0.0001 $$\lor$$ anion [OH].c[k] <0.0) $$\land$$ iterations++ < 50); } /* extrapolate $$\phi'n$$ [FIRST_CELL] value */ $$\phi'^n$$[FIRST_CELL]=$$\phi'n$$[FIRST_CELL+1]-$$\Delta X$$[FIRST_CELL]*($$\phi'^n$$[FIRST_CELL+2]-($$\phi'^n$$[FIRST_CELL+1]); $$\phi'^n$$[FIRST_CELL]=MAX($$\phi'^n$$[FIRST_CELL],0.0);    /* extrapolate $$\phi'^n$$[NUM_CELL] value */   $$\phi'^n$$[NUM-CELLS]=2.0*$$\phi'^n$$[NUM_CELLS-1]-$$\phi'^n$$[NUM-CELLS-2];    /* extrapolate litre[FIRST_CELL] value */  litre [FIRST_CELL]=0.001 * Vsample * $$\phi'^n$$ FIRST_CELL]; }

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60. Parabolic approximation. The routine brent uses parabolic approximation to determine the minimum given three points bracketing the minimum.

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ROWN IMPERIAL. . Class 6,. Order:. This noble flower is said to have been brought into England in the time of Shakspeare, who has introduced it in his :

On this family of plants modern botanists have bestowed the name of Fritillaria, of which this, from its commanding deportment and brilliant colours, is considered the sovereign.

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SKETCHING A GARMENT skirt. (The centre line is the centre of the actual figure, not of the sketch.)

The collar and waist lines curve up in the back and down in the front. The bottom of the skirt describes a circle; therefore, like the waist and collar, the line curves, but always downward. The shoulder lines should be made to slant as much as the silhouette requires.

For this work use an H.B. pencil, Eberhard Faber, Ruby or Emerald eraser, and emery board pad. The point of the pencil should be kept very sharp by continually pointing it on the pad. From the start great attention should be paid to a clean-cut and beautiful line and to the proper placement of the sketch on the paper. See under "Greek Law," page 27.

3. Sketching a Garment. After the form is mastered up to this point, the next step is the sketching of a garment on the foundation drawn. If possible, have as a model a simple dress or suit on a coat-hanger, or preferably a dressmaker's form: then find the centre line of the garinent and see that, in sketching it on the oval form first constructed, you have the centre line of your sketch correspond with the centre line of the garment. You will find the proper observation of the centre fine an infallible guide in giving you the proper relation of the sketch to the garment.

Next observe the large, important facts such as length of sleeves, length of coat, the long, important lines and be particular to put in the seams; but leave details such as embroidery, lace, tucks, plaits, gathers, etc., until the last. See Figs. 5, 6, and 7.

After the lengths of the sleeves, waist, coat, etc., are determined. you must strive for skill in keeping your pencil line clean and sharp. This gives the much-desired, well pressed newness to the garment. To keep this effect, beware of too rounded curves. After the sketch is finished, some accents should be put in, in places where shadows would naturally be; this gives added interest to sketches. From the first, observe and work for texture. Notice how delicate, light lines express thin material better than heavy. hard ones. After ability of this kind is


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YCLAMEN. . Class 5, Order:. As modest diffidence adds attractions to beauty, so does this graceful flower engage our notice by its unassuming carriage, for the cyclamen, although it expands its petals in an upright direction, never rears its head to the sun.

We present this emblem with a hope that the poets will not longer remain too diffident to let this pretty plant escape the harmony of their song, since we cannot find a line to form a motto, or grace the floral symbol of diffidence.

The church has dedicated this flower to.

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the extinction of the ancient Egyptians. Greeks, and Romans there comes a gap in the history of the flute. We hear nothing of it for several centuries, till it appears in the form of the flute-douce, or flute-à-bec, so called from the resemblance of the mouth-piece to the beak of a bird—the direct descendant of the ancient whistle-flute. The number of finger-holes varied from three upwards. (See Figs. 9 and 10.) There were many varieties of this instrument, the English one being called Recorder. This name, rendered familiar by the famous passage in Hamlet (iii. 2)—which, by the way, one learned commentator explains as referring to "the legal official of a city" (!), who in thieves' slang is known as "The Flute"—is derived from an obsolete use of the verb "to record" as applied to the singing of birds: "The nightingale records again What thou dost primely sing" (Browne's Shepherd's Pipe ii. 75). Early writers have spoken of it as "the English flute" (a term still


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 Would you have it for the Prologue, or the Epilogue?

Johns. Faith, Sir, it's so good, let it e'en serve for both.

Bayes. No, no; that won't do. Besides, I have made another.

Johns. What other, Sir?

Bayes. Why, Sir, my other is Thunder and Lightning.

Johns. That's greater: I'd rather stick to that.

Bayes. Do you think so? I'l tell you then; though there have been many wittie Prologues written of late, yet I think you'l say this is a non pareillo: I'm sure no body has hit upon it yet. For here, Sir, I make my Prologue to be Dialogue: and as, in my first, you see I strive to oblige the Auditors by civility, by good nature, and all that; so, in this, by the other way, in Terrorem, I chuse for the persons Thunder and Lightning. Do you apprehend the conceipt?

Johns. Phoo, pox! then you have it cock-sure. They'l be hang'd, before they'l dare affront an Author, that has 'em at that lock.

Bayes. I have made, too, one of the most delicate, daintie Simile's in the whole world, I glad, if I knew but how to applie it.

Smi. Let's hear it, I pray you.

Bayes. 'Tis an alusion to love.

How do you like it now, ha?

Johns. Faith, 'tis extraordinary fine: and very applicable to Thunder and Lightning, methinks, because it speaks of a Storm.

Bayes. I gad, and so it does, now I think on't. Mr. Johnson, I thank you; and I'l put it in profecto. Come out, Thunder and Lightning.


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The Royal Book of Oz The harbor lay just below the Imperial Palace, and the Scarecrow and Happy hurried on through the crowds of fleeing Silvermen, their household goods packed upon their heads. Some cheered faintly for Chang Wang Woe, but none offered to follow, save the faithful Happy.

“Is this king old?” asked the Scarecrow, looking anxiously at the small boats full of warriors that were putting out from the fleet.

“He is the son of the King whom your Majesty conquered fifty years ago,” gulped Happy. “Ha has your Imperial Highness any plan?”

“Not yet,” said the Scarecrow cheerfully, “but I'm thinking very hard.”

“Then, goodbye to Silver Island!” choked Happy Toko, dropping the watering can with a crash.

“Never mind,” said the Scarecrow kindly, “if they shoot me and I catch fire I’ll jump in the water and you must fish me out Tappy. Now please don’t talk any more. I must think!”

Poor Happy Toko had nothing else to say, for he considered his day finished. The first of the invaders were already landing on the beach and standing up in a small boat, encased in glittering gold armor was the King of the Golden Islands, himself. The sun 132

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YPRESS. . Class 2,. Order:. The cypress is the universal emblem of mourning, and is the funeral tree in the eastern world, from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea; it is also dedicated to the dead, from Mazanderan to Constantinople, as well as to the utmost bounds of China’s fruitful shores.

Ovid gives us a traditionary account of the mournful origin of the cypress tree, and we always find it devoted to mournful thoughts, or sad solemnities. , son of Telephus of Cea, was beloved by Apollo. Having killed the favourite stag of his friend, he grieved, pined, and, dying, was changed by Apollo into a cypress tree. Calmet describes it to be a tall, straight tree, having bitter leaves. The shade and smell were said to be dangerous; hence the Romans looked on it as a fatal tree, and made use of it at funerals. It is an evergreen; the wood is heavy, of rather a fragrant smell,—is not liable to be attacked by insects, and does not speedily decay. Shakspeare says that cypress is the emblem of mourning; and we are told by Irving that, in Latium, on the decease of any person, a branch of cypress was placed before the door.

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 : Yes. She loves him, and he wants her. She’ll come. She’s already said she’ll come, in answer to his letter that Barrett took down this morning.

He was itching to write all last night all the evening he was thinking of her, with us in the room. When he went to bed, I heard him come down again for paper. I saw the light under his door till four o’clock. Oh, yes, she said she would come on the impulse of that letter  but when she thinks  when she looks in the glass  you remember yesterday  when she saw him in the garden  she wouldn’t stay then. She went away because she was afraid.

Because she thought it was her duty to go, for your sake because Chris was yours, and she couldn’t hurt you.

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Thun. I am the bold Thunder.

Bayes. Mr. Cartwright, pr'ythee speak a little louder, and with a hoarser voice. I am the bold Thunder? Pshaw! speak it me in a voice that thunders it out indeed: I am the bold Thunder.

Thun. I am the bold Thunder.

Light. The brisk Lightning, I.

Bayes. Nay, you must be quick and nimble. The brisk Lightning, I. That's my meaning.

Thun. I am the bravest Hector of the Skie.

Light. And I, fair Helen, that made Hector die.

Thun. I strike men down.

Light. I fire the Town.

Thun. Let the Critiques take heed how they grumble, For then begin I for to rumble.

Light. Let the Ladies allow us their graces. Or I'l blast all the paint on their faces, And dry up their Peter to foot.

Thun. Let the Critiques look to't.

Light. Let the Ladies look to't.

Thun. For Thunder will do't.

Light. For Lightning will shoot.

Thun. I'l give you dash for dash.

Light. I'l give you flash for flash. Gallants, I'l singe your Feather.

Thun. I'l Thunder you together.

Both. Look to't, look to't; we'l do't, we'l do't: look to't, we'l do't.

[Exeunt ambo.

Bayes. That's all. 'Tis but a flash of a Prologue: a Droll.

Smi. 'Tis short, indeed; but very terrible.

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 (gently) : He’s sent for her. He’s seen you and he’s sent for her.

(very gently) : She’ll come, Kitty.

(hopefully): And you think that’s how it will be?

Nothing.

Marriage? It’s impossible. She’s his mistress. That slut

(moving to her) : Dear, you’re taking things all the wrong way. Chris is ill

(A pause.) After all, I suppose I can sit down to it. Other women do. Teddy Rex runs a chorus girl, and Mrs. Rex has to grin and bear it. What else is it, do you think? It means that Chris is a man like other men. But I did think that bad women were pretty and smart. I suppose he’s had so much to do with pretty ones that a plain one’s a change.

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 said I was cold. I know now what his standards were.

[ ''appears at the windows, back. Neither sees him''.

He wants someone soft and easy it’s the barmaid touch. They say it’s in all men a taste for commonness, sexually. That’s what it is. This is all a blind. He’s pretending!

How dare you? (In a passion of rage) How dare you?

[She seizes her shoulders and shakes her violently and furiously.

(breaking down into a chair, half wailing) : Oh, why are you all against me?

[ comes into the room quickly and quietly.

It’s all such a ghastly muddle, and it’s so rotten for all of us.

(rising) : Why don’t you say, “Jenny, you mustn’t be rude to visitors”? It’s how you feel, I know.

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I know how she bows when you meet her in the street, how she dresses when she goes to church. I know her as one knows a woman staying in the same hotel just like that.

All that a wife should be she’s been to you.

She is your wife, and this place has changed—and it’s better and jollier in all sorts of ways, believe me—and fifteen years have passed

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 : Uncle Arthur sent you  your father  to look after the mines. They were in a bad way and you saved them. You don’t remember?

So I went to Mexico. And then I met Kitty and oh, I can’t believe all this  that it’s all happened to me, and I don’t know it. I don’t mean I doubt you, Jenny I know it’s true, but  it’s like  believing in prehistoric man  all the things archæologists tell us. You know it’s true but you don’t believe it  quite. You don’t really believe anything you haven’t known for yourself. And that poor girl Kitty  you say she’s my wife  that I married her. Why? Why didn’t I marry Margaret? I love her so terribly. You don’t know how sweet and dear and lovely she is. Ever since the first time I went down there from Uncle Ambrose’s on the other bank of the river  and she came across, as she always did, in the punt they used as a ferry, to bring me over, and gave me tea at the inn her father kept  I knew I loved her. I was going to marry her I'd told her I loved her, and she loved me too. I remember there was a quarrel oh, the stupidest quarrel  but it couldn’t have been that. I was jealous and foolish but I wrote to make it up, I know I did, and  and then I can’t remember any more. And she’s all that matters to me all that’s real or beautiful in life. If you’d seen her


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 the drawing together of the bushy eyebrows, the snorts and grunts of violent disapproval. He dashed it down again on the table.

"Perfectly monstrous," he fumed. "Don't you let it worry you, my dear. They're talking through their hat. Mrs. Harfield's intellect was as good as yours or mine, and you won't get any one to say the contrary. They wouldn't have a leg to stand upon, and they know it. All that talk of taking it into court is pure bluff. Hence this attempt to get round you in a hole-and-corner way. And look here, my dear, don't let them get round you with soft soap either. Don't get fancying it's your duty to hand over the cash, or any tomfoolery of conscientious scruples."

"I'm afraid it hasn't occurred to me to have scruples," said Katherine. "All these people are distant relatives of Mrs. Harfield's husband, and they never came near her or took any notice of her in her lifetime."

"You're a sensible woman," said the doctor. "I know, none better, that you've had a hard life of it for the last ten years. You're fully entitled to enjoy the old lady's savings, such as they were."

Katherine smiled thoughtfully.

"Such as they were," she repeated. "You've no idea of the amount, doctor?"

"Wellenough to bring in five hundred a year or so, I suppose."

Katherine nodded.

"That's what I thought," she said. “Now read this."

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 "Impossible," he muttered. "Impossible."

“She was one of the original shareholders in Mortaulds. Forty years ago she must have had an income of eight or ten thousand a year. She has never, I am sure, spent more than four hundred a year. She was always terribly careful about money. I always believed that she was obliged to be careful about every penny."

"And all the time the income has accumulated at compound interest. My dear, you're going to be a very rich woman."

Katherine Grey nodded.

"Yes," she said, "I am."

She spoke in a detached, impersonal tone, as though she were looking at the situation from outside.

"Well," said the doctor, preparing to depart, you have all my congratulations." He flicked Mrs. Samuel Harfield's letter with his thumb. "Don't worry about that woman and her odious letter."

"It really isn’t an odious letter," said Miss Grey tolerantly. "Under the circumstances, I think it's really quite a natural thing to do."

"I have the gravest suspicions of you sometimes," said the doctor.

"Why?"

"The things that you find perfectly natural."

Katherine Grey laughed.

Doctor Harrison retailed the great news to his wife at lunch-time. She was very excited about it.

"Fancy old Mrs. Harfieldwith all that money. I m glad she left it to Katherine Grey. That girl's a saint."

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1 Play. Sir, Mr. Ivory is not come yet; but he'l be here presently, he's but two doors off.

Bayes. Come then, Gentlemen, let's go out and take a pipe of Tobacco.

Ow, Sir, because I'l do nothing here that ever was done before—

Smi. A very notable design, for a Play, indeed.

Bayes. Instead of beginning with a Scene that discovers something of the Plot, I begin this with a whisper.

Smi. That's very new.

Bayes. Come, take your seats. Begin, Sirs.

Phys. Sir, by your habit, I should ghess you to be the Gentleman-Usher of this sumptuous place.

Ush. And, by your gait and fashion, I should almost suspect you rule the healths of both our noble Kings, under the notion of Physician.

Phys. You hit my Function right.

Ush. And you, mine.

Phys. Then let's imbrace.

Ush. Come then.

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 people. Katherine Grey is too human for a saint."

"She's a saint with a sense of humour," said the doctor's wife, twinkling. “And, though I don't suppose you’ve ever noticed the fact, she’s extremely good looking."

"Katherine Grey?" The doctor was honestly surprised. "She's got very nice eyes, I know."

"Oh, you men!" cried his wife. "Blind as bats. Katherine's got all the makings of a beauty in her. All she wants is clothes!"

"Clothes? What's wrong with her clothes? She always looks very nice."

Mrs. Harrison gave an exasperated sigh, and the doctor rose preparatory to starting on his rounds.

"You might look in on her, Polly," he suggested.

"I’m going to," said Mrs. Harrison promptly.

She made her call about three o’clock.

"My dear, I'm so glad," she said warmly, as she squeezed Katherine's hand. "And every one in the village will be glad too."

"It's very nice of you to come and tell me," said Katherine. "I hoped you would come in because I wanted to ask about Johnnie."

"Oh! Johnnie. Well"

Johnnie was Mrs. Harrison's youngest son. In another minute she was off, retailing a long history in which Johnnie's adenoids and tonsils bulked largely. Katherine listened sympathetically. Habits die hard. Listening had been her portion for ten years now. "My dear, I wonder if I ever told you about that naval ball at Portsmouth? When Lord Charles admired my gown?" And composedly, kindly, Katherine would re-


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GERMAN ANTIGUERRILLA OPERATIONS IN THE BALKANS (1941–1944) II. Climate

With the exception of its coastal areas, the Balkan Peninsula has a central European climate, characterized by warm and rainy summers and cold winters, differing little from the Danubian lands to the north. The Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, facing the Adriatic, and the Ionian and western Aegean coasts of Greece enjoy variations of the Mediterranean type of climate, with warm, dry summers and mild, rainy winter seasons; other coastal areas have a climate between that of central Europe and the Mediterranean—for example, the north Aegean coast with its hot summers and cold winters and the Black Sea coast with its moderately hot summers and cold winters.


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The peace treaties following the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, World War I, and the Greek-Turkish conflict ending in 1923 resolved the frontiers of the various Balkan states until 1939. In that year, Italy occupied Albania and proceeded to implement her designs for dominating the Balkan Peninsula.

The creation of these states had satisfied many national aspirations, but numerous minority and territorial problems were left unsettled, and both Italians and Germans were able to turn them to their own advantage. Among the dissatisfied were the Hungarians in the part of north central Yugoslavia that had once been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; the Italians along Yugoslavia's northwestern border; the Macedonians, torn among the Bulgarians, Yugoslavs, and Greeks; and the large colonies of Austrians and Germans in northern Yugoslavia. There were also bitter rivalries between member nations of the same state, as the Serbs and Croats of Yugoslavia, and both Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were resentful of Greek possession of the Aegean coast. Despite the efforts of some Balkan leaders to foster intra-Balkan cooperation and good will prior to 1941, these sources of animosity and friction remained to hamper resistance to Italian and German subjugation.

Slightly smaller in area than England, Greece had. a population of less than eight million in 1941. Migrations and exchanges of population, chief among them the replacement of Turks in western Thrace with a million and a quarter Greeks expelled from Asia Minor in 1922–24, contributed to making the inhabitants of the Hellenic state predominantly Greek by the outbreak of World War II. Although there were a number of Albanians and Vlachs in the Pindus Mountains area, they presented no minority problem.

Athens, the capital, with its port city of Piraeus, was the nucleus of the Greek maritime system; Salonika was a center of land transportation and an important seaport for the more northerly of the Balkan countries. With an economy based chiefly on ocean commerce and agriculture, Greece had no heavy industry. Rather, it restricted its 4


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 ply: "I rather think you have, Mrs. Harfield, but I've forgotten about it. Won't you tell it me again?" And then the old lady would start off full swing, with numerous details. And half of Katherine's mind would be listening, saying the right things mechanically when the old lady paused

Now, with that same curious feeling of duality to which she was accustomed, she listened to Mrs. Harrison.

At the end of half an hour, the latter recalled herself suddenly.

"I've been talking about myself all this time," she exclaimed. "And I came here to talk about you and your plans."

"I don't know that I've got any yet."

"My dearyou're not going to stay on here."

Katherine smiled at the horror in the other's tone.

"No; I think I want to travel. I've never seen much of the world, you know."

"I should think not. It must have been an awful life for you cooped up here all these years."

"I don’t know," said Katherine. "It gave me a lot of freedom."

She caught the other's gasp, and reddened a little.

"It must sound foolishsaying that. Of course, I hadn't much freedom in the downright physical sense"

"I should think not," breathed Mrs. Harrison, remembering that Katherine had seldom had that useful thing as a "day off."

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When Italian forces attacked from occupied Albania on 28 October 1940, the Greeks adopted a strategy of holding lightly on their left, allowing Italian columns to advance deep into the barren Pindus, while they resisted strongly and then launched a counteroffensive on their right. Their advance brought the Greeks into Albania, where they presented a serious threat to the left flank of the Italian forces to the south.

Despite their victories over the Italian invaders, the Greeks could not long resist the fast-moving German forces that intervened in the Greek-Italian conflict on 6 April 1941. Greece surrendered to the Germans on 23 April, and was then required to surrender to the Italians as well. This submission to an enemy they had all but defeated aroused the resentment of the Greeks. Later coupled with the occupation of most of Greece by Italian forces, it contributed in no small measure to the rise of the Greek resistance movement.

A most heterogeneous state, the homeland of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, derived its name from the Slavic terms for South Slav and became a state following World War I. Yugoslavia had a population of nearly sixteen millions by 1941, and in geographic area was slightly smaller than the state of Wyoming. Almost one half of its inhabitants, or six and one-half million people, were Serbs, occupying the areas of the former Kingdom of Serbia and the old provinces of Bosnia, Hercegovina, and Dalmatia. The Serbs used the Cyrillic alphabet, professed mainly the Orthodox faith though many Serbs were Moslems, and stubbornly resisted the Central Powers in World War I. Serbian Belgrade was the seat of the Yugoslav national government, lending credence to the claim of the minorities that the Serbs dominated the state. It was the Serbs' violent protest to Regent Paul's accord with Hitler and their overthrow of the government in March 1941 that precipitated the German attack the following month, and it was from among the Serbs that the Chetniks rose to resist the occupation forces.

Next in numbers to the Serbs were the Croats, some three and three-quarter million, inhabiting the northwestern part of Yugoslavia. The traditional capital of the Croats was Zagreb, and their territory was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of World War I. The Croats were culturally more advanced than the Serbs, were western European in their outlook, and the majority professed Catholicism. Although their language was related closely to that of the Serbs, the Croats used the Latin alphabet. German influence among the Croats in the pre-1941 period was strong, and it was on the tradi-


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 Johns. Pray, Sir, who are those two so very civil persons?

Bayes. Why, Sir, the Gentleman-Usher, and Physicians of the two Kings of Brentford.

Johns. But how comes it to pass, then, that they know one another no better?

Bayes. Phoo! that's for the better carrying on of the Intrigue.

Johns. Very well.

Phys. Sir, to conclude,

Smi. What, before he begins?

Bayes. No, Sir; you must know they had been talking of this a pretty while without.

Smi. Where? in the Tyring-room?

Bayes. Why ay, Sir. He's so dull! Come, speak again.

Phys. Sir, to conclude, the place you fill, has more than amply exacted the Talents of a wary Pilot, and all these threatning storms which, like impregnant Clouds, do hover o'er our heads, (when they once are grasp'd but by the eye of reason) melt into fruitful showers of blessings on the people.

Bayes. Pray mark that Allegory. Is not that good?

Johns. Yes; that grasping of a storm with the eye is admirable.

Phys. But yet some rumours great are stirring; and if Lorenzo should prove false, (as none but the great Gods can tell) you then perhaps would find, that

Bayes. Now they whisper.

Ush. Alone, do you say?

Phys. No; attended with the noble

Ush. Who, he in gray?

Phys. Yes; and at the head of

Bayes. Pray mark.

Ush. Then, Sir, most certain, 'twill in time appear These are the reasons that induc'd 'em to't: First, he

Bayes. Now t'other whispers.

Ush. Secondly, they

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 of scope mentally. You're always free to think. I've had a lovely feeling always of mental freedom."

Mrs. Harrison shook her head.

"I can't understand that."

"Oh! you would if you'd been in my place. But, all the same, I feel I want a change. I wantwell, I want things to happen. Oh! not to meI don’t mean that. But to be in the midst of things, exciting things even if I'm only the looker-on. You know, things don't happen in St. Mary Mead."

"They don't indeed," said Mrs. Harrison, with fervour.

"I shall go to London first," said Katherine. "I have to see the solicitors, anyway. After that, I shall go abroad, I think."

"Very nice."

"But, of course, first of all"

"Yes?"

"I must get some clothes."

"Exactly what I said to Arthur this morning," cried the doctor's wife. "You know, Katherine, you could look possibly positively beautiful if you tried."

Miss Grey laughed unaffectedly.

"Oh! I don't think you could ever make a beauty out of me," she said sincerely. "But I shall enjoy having some really good clothes. I'm afraid I'm talking about myself an awful lot."

Mrs. Harrison looked at her shrewdly.

"It must be quite a novel experience for you," she said drily.

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6 tional Croatian hostility to the Serbs that the invaders placed much confidence in 1941.

Last among the major racial groups comprising the Yugoslav state were the Slovenes, inhabiting the most northerly portion of the country and numbering some one and one-half million. Like the Croats, the Slovenes were culturally well advanced, used the Latin alphabet, were oriented toward the West, and for the most part Catholic. Their historic capital was Ljubljana, and the German influence was very marked.

Smaller national minorities included one-half million Hungarians and almost as many Albanians; one-quarter million Romanians; and splinter groups of Czechs, Slovaks, and other Slavic peoples. There were also well over one-half million Austrians and Germans.

In 1941 over three quarters of the Yugoslav population worked the land, and agriculture formed the nation's economic base. The chief exports were lumber, bauxite, copper, some iron ore, and processed fruits; imports included textiles and machinery. Deposits of iron ore near the surface of the ground could not be used to build up a sizable steel industry because of the shortage of coking coal.

The German onslaught of 6 April 1941 caught the Yugoslavs in the midst of general mobilization, a measure that had been delayed to avoid giving provocation to Hitler. A devastating air attack on Belgrade the day hostilities commenced crippled communications between the Yugoslav High Command and the armies in the field. To placate the dissatisfied minorities, which charged that the Serb-dominated government would defend only Serb-inhabited areas, the Yugoslav Army was deployed all around the borders of the country. To make the Yugoslav position even more difficult, thousands of Croat reservists did not report as directed for military service. By 17 April the German Second Army from the northwest and the Twelfth Army from the southeast, assisted to some extent by their Italian allies, had broken through the thin shell of resistance around the country, captured all major cities, and forced the Yugoslav High Command to capitulate.

This smallest of the Balkan countries, approximately the size of Maryland, had a population of slightly over one million in 1941. After centuries of Turkish domination, Albania had declared its independence in 1912, but it was not until the end of World War I that the tiny state could consider itself free of its stronger neighbors.

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In normal times, Albania exported quantities of wool, dairy products, tobacco, hides, and some cattle. Textiles and other finished products led among imports.

Exploited by the Italians, Albania furnished 12,000 auxiliaries to Mussolini's disastrous campaign against Greece in 1940. A large number of these, however, promptly deserted. In the rugged mountain areas of Albania, Italian control was little more than nominal, and the occupation garrisons usually restricted themselves to the few towns, to the through roads, and to the coastal regions.

Since Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary succumbed to German pressure to become partners of the European Axis, and Turkey remained neutral until the end of World War II, this study will consider these countries but briefly.

Bulgaria, approximately the size of Ohio, had a population of a little more than seven million in 1941. Ethnically close to the Russians, the language of the Bulgarians was Slavonic. With an economy primarily agricultural, the chief Bulgarian exports were fruits and dairy products.

Hungary, not a true Balkan country but adjacent to the Balkan area and continually involved in its problems, had a population of slightly over nine million and was approximately the size of Indiana. The economy of Hungary was agricultural, with meat and cereals the chief exports.

Romania, also outside the Balkan area proper, was approximately the size of Oregon, and had a population of fifteen and one-half million, three quarters of whom were engaged in agriculture. With its rich Ploesti fields, Romania was the largest oil producer in the Balkan-Danubian area.

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"You wouldn't have thought I'd have outlasted Jane Harfield, would you?" she demanded triumphantly of Katherine. "We were at school together, she and I. And here we are, she taken, and I left. Who would have thought it?"

"You’ve always eaten brown bread for supper, haven't you?" murmured Katherine mechanically.

"Fancy your remembering that, my dear. Yes; if Jane Harfield had had a slice of brown bread every evening and taken a little stimulant with her meals she might be here to-day."

The old lady paused, nodding her head triumphantly; then added in sudden remembrance:

"And so you've come into a lot of money, I hear? Well, well. Take care of it. And you're going up to London to have a good time? Don't think you'll get married, though, my dear, because you won't. You're not the kind to attract the men. And, besides, you're getting on. How old are you now?"

"Thirty-three," Katherine told her.

"Well," remarked Miss Viner doubtfully, "that's not so very bad. You’ve lost your first freshness, of course."

"I'm afraid so," said Katherine, much entertained.

"But you're a very nice girl," said Miss Viner kindly. "And I'm sure there's many a man might do worse than take you for a wife instead of one of these flibbertigibbets running about nowadays showing more of their legs than the Creator ever intended them to. Good-bye,


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The rugged terrain of the Balkans proper has been a heavy handicap to the development of an adequate transportation and communication net, and the frequent wars and changes in the political frontiers within the area have made the extension and improvement of facilities even more difficult. Such rail construction as could be compared favorably to that of western Europe in 1941 was restricted to the international lines connecting the capital cities and some lines in the lowland regions in the north.

Although the roads afforded somewhat more complete coverage than the rail lines, there were few hard-surface highways aside from those paralleling the main railroads. The terrain made necessary numerous serpentines and bridges, and detours were often difficult or impossible. On the whole, road repair was very deficient.

Cables connecting the various Balkan capitals were laid before World War I, and some improvements were made during the period preceding the attack in 1941. However, little was done to establish a unified and efficient cable network throughout the Balkan countries. To remain within the scope of this study, it will be necessary to limit consideration of the transportation and communication net to that of importance to the occupation forces and the irregulars arrayed against them.

At the time German forces overran the Balkans, Yugoslavia had approximately 6,000 miles and Greece 1,700 miles of railroad lines; both countries used the standard European gauge. The most important lines were those converging on Zagreb from Austria, Italy, and Hungary; the line Zagreb-Belgrade-Nish; and the lines Nish-Sofiya, and Nish-Salonika-Athens. All were vital to the Italian-German war effort, since British air and naval activity made supply by sea difficult and the Germans did not have the necessary truck transport facilities. Too, in addition to the occupation forces, those units and installations supporting the German air and naval effort in the eastern Mediterranean had to be supplied by rail, along the line Zagreb-Belgrade-Nish-Salonika-Athens. 8


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 my dear, and I hope you'll enjoy yourself, but things are seldom what they seem in this life."

Heartened by these prophecies, Katherine took her departure. Half the village came to see her off at the station, including the little maid of all work, Alice, who brought a stiff wired nosegay and cried openly.

"There ain't a many like her," sobbed Alice when the train had finally departed. "I'm sure when Charlie went back on me with that girl from the Dairy, nobody could have been kinder than Miss Grey was, and though particular about the brasses and the dust, she was always one to notice when you'd give a thing an extra rub. Cut myself in little pieces for her, I would, any day. A real lady, that's what I call her."

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The roads of Greece and Yugoslavia were poor, with the exception of a few international highways and limited areas in and about the capitals and major cities. Of the various road nets, the best were those in northwestern Yugoslavia, in the areas taken from the Austro-Hungarian Empire; about Belgrade; through Skoplje to Salonika; in the industrial area about Salonika; and in the Athens-Piraeus industrial and shipping complex.

To the German and Italian occupation forces, the most important road nets were those roughly paralleling the rail lines through northern Yugoslavia, including Belgrade; along the Vardar River to Salonika, thence along the Aegean coast to Athens; a system of roads through the northern half of the Peloponnesus; a series of secondary roads along the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia; some tortuous roads through the Dinaric Alps; and a few main roads in western Greece. Though some of these roads were paved, the majority were built of crushed stone and unable to support sustained traffic and heavy trucks in any number without constant repair. In many places, lengths of paved road alternated with stretches of crushed stone.

While the Danube played a significant part in the logistical support of the attack forces, the waterways within Greece and Yugoslavia proper played little part in the later supply of the occupation troops. Perhaps that put to the most extensive use was the Corinth Canal, linking the Gulf of Corinth and the Aegean. By using this canal, the Italians were able to cut the distance from their supply bases along the Adriatic and Ionian Seas to Piraeus and Athens by some 130 miles, avoiding the open sea and British aircraft based in Egypt.

Airfield facilities in Greece and Yugoslavia, though not extensive, were more than adequate for the needs of the Germans and Italians. Stocks of gasoline and other supplies left behind in Greece by the British were put to use, and the slight damage to fighter bases was not enough to prevent their immediate utilization. Perhaps most important strategically were the excellent bases on Crete and in the Athens-Piraeus area.

Signal facilities in the various Balkan countries at the time of the occupation were incapable of supporting heavy traffic. Too, it was a simple matter for the guerrillas to disrupt the few long-distance cables and overhead wires that existed. The mountainous nature of the terrain circumscribed the use of radio, but it was on this and field telephone lines, plus liaison aircraft, that the occupation forces usually had to rely.


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 with soot), and madder-red petticoats, were and are the prevalent taste of the ladies."

It will be obvious from the above extracts that from the earliest notice of Ireland to a late period in the last century, the national dress was handed down from generation to generation amongst the peasantry; and that many noblemen and gentlemen wore it within the last two hundred years. Persecution, as usual, but attached them more strongly to the prohibited garb, and it is probable that the free exercise of their fancy granted to them by Charles I. conduced more to the ultimate neglect of the long-cherished costume of their ancestors than the peremptory order to abandon it, issued by the officer of Cromwell, or even the exhortations of the Romish clergy to that effect, which are acknowledged to have been of little avail. Certain it is that the Lord Deputy's court at Dublin was in Charles's reign distinguished for its magnificence; the peers of the realm, the clergy, and the nobility and gentry attending it being arrayed of their own free will in robes of scarlet and purple velvet, and other rich habiliments, after the English fashion.


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 as I saw her as I remember her last  under the trees in a white dress, and her lovely yellow hair, sweet and gentle and shy  you’d understand that I can’t say, “Yes, Kitty is my wife, and Margaret somehow just nothing at all.”

I can hardly wait I’m all on fire and trembling  to see her again.

But I must tell you. I’ve seen her. She came up here yesterday, so kind and sweet, to tell us you were wounded. She’s the greatest dear in the world, but she’s not as you think of her. She’s middle-aged, Chris. She isn’t beautiful any longer. She’s drearily married and tired and sad and worn by poverty and work. She isn’t the Margaret you knew.

It’s something beyond what she looks—it’s what she is. Listen—in the garden of the inn, there was a little Greek temple, and one night we went down there together. It was a marvellous night—warm and blue and scented. The place was flooded with moonlight, and as she stood there I knew that it wouldn’t have mattered if her hair had been white or her face pale and silvered as it looked for a moment. I knew then that my love was changeless—beyond


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 Ush. Thirdly, and lastly, both he, and they [Exeunt Whispering. Bayes. There they both whisper. Now, Gentlemen, pray tell me true, and without flattery, is not this a very odd beginning of a Play?

Johns. In troth, I think it is, Sir. But why two Kings of the same place?

Bayes. Why? because it's new; and that's it I aim at. I despise your Johnson, and Beaumont, that borrow'd all they writ from Nature: I am for fetching it purely out of my own fancie, I.

Smi. But what think you of Sir John Suckling, Sir?

Bayes. By gad, I am a better Poet than he.

Smi. Well, Sir; but pray why all this whispering?

Bayes. Why, Sir, (besides that it is new, as I told you before) because they are suppos'd to be Polititians; and matters of State ought not to be divulg'd.

Smi. But then, Sir, why

Bayes. Sir, if you'l but respite your curiosity till the end of the fifth Act, you'l find it a piece of patience not ill recompenc'd.

Johns. How dost thou like this, Frank? Is it not just as I told thee?

Smi. Why, I did never, before this, see any thing in Nature; and all that, (as Mr. Bayes says) so foolish, but I could give some ghess at what mov'd the Fop to do it; but this, I confess, does go beyond my reach.

Johns. Why, 'tis all alike: Mr. Wintershull has inform'd me of this Play before. And I'l tell thee, Frank, thou shalt not see one Scene here, that either properly ought to come in, or is like any thing thou canst imagine has ever been the practice of the World. And then, when he comes to what he calls good language, it is, as I told thee, very fantastical, most abominably dull, and not one word to the purpose.

Smi. It does surprise me, I am sure, very much.

Johns. I, but it won't do so long: by that time thou hast seen a Play or two, that I'l shew thee, thou wilt be pretty well acquainted with this new kind of Foppery.


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According to wikipedia, although this book was first published in the UK in 1928, it was only published in the US in 1929. Is it PD in the US now, or not until next year ? -- Beardo (talk) 21:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

 * The clock starts when it was published anywhere in the world. For this work, we have a renewal notice: "CHARTERIS, LESLIE. Meet the tiger. © 10Sep28, AI-12008; 8Mar29, A6355. Leslie Charteris (A); 9Mar56; R166213." This gives us an official copyright date of 1928.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * OK - good to know, thanks. -- Beardo (talk) 02:15, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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 anything that time could do to it. She’s Margaret, that’s all. You can’t understand

(She lays her hand on his arm.) Why, Chris, you’re wet.

It’s been raining.

Don’t catch cold don’t stay in wet things. Go along, dear. I’ll call you when Margaret comes.

(He goes to the door L.) You’re a brick, Jenny a real pal.

[He goes out.

''goes over to the windows R., kneels on the window-seat, looking out. She cries a very little, quietly, touching her eyes with her handkerchief. Presently comes in R''.

(announcing) : Mrs. Grey.

[She shows in. retires. comes in quietly, dressed as before.

[She looks round.

He went out for a walk in the rain. He’ll be down soon. Let me take your things.

I’m not wet. It was nice of you to send the car. It’s a beautiful car.

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 garland, and bearing a sceptre; the other with a crescent in his hand, one of the sacred symbols. They are both engraved below, with a crescent of gold, a druidical hook for tearing down the mistletoe, and three other articles, supposed druidical, all of gold, and found in various parts of Ireland

The mantle of one of the Druids, it will be observed, is fastened on the shoulders by a portion of it being drawn through a ring, and instances of this fashion are met with frequently in Anglo-Saxon illuminations. We believe it has never occurred to any previous writer on this subject, that the annular ornaments resembling bracelets (vide fig. d), so constantly dis- covered both here and on the Continent, and pre- sumed to be merely votive, from the circumstance of their being too small to wear on the arm or the wrist, may have been used in this manner as a sort of brooch by the Gaulish and Teutonic tribes.

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 take your hat off, too? This isn’t just an ordinary visit, is it?

I can see nicely in the glass here.

[She stands before the fire and removes her hat, patting her hair. takes the hat and rings the bell.

I know I shouldn’t make personal remarks, but Mrs. Baldry is lovely. It’s all lovely here the house and everything. It’s nice to have everything ready that people can want and everything in its place. I used to try and do it at Monkey Island Inn. Of course, it wasn’t grand like this, but our visitors always came a second time.

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And you’d like some tea, wouldn’t you?

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 : Very good, miss.

[She goes out with things.

[''They sit down. She offers cigarette-box''.

Girls didn’t when I was young, and since I’ve married well, I’ve never thought of it, as you might say. ( takes a cigarette.) How is he? Is he well?

He wrote to me last night. Oh, I don’t know if I’ve done right in coming. The other lady Mrs. Baldry  she was upset yesterday. Even if Chris has forgotten, he’ll want to do what’s right. He couldn’t bear to hurt her.

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 splendid, handsome Chris to be like that. (She cries weakly.) I’ve not been able to sleep for thinking of him broken and queer, like that.

He’s not so bad. He’ll get quite well.

I don’t believe that anything bad could be allowed to happen to Chris for long. And I’m sure you’re looking after him beautifully. It isn’t that. But when a thing you thought had ended fifteen years ago starts all over again, and you're very tired Oh, I suppose I ought to say he isn’t right in his head, and that I’m married, so we'd better not meet, but, oh  I want to see him so! It’s wrong, I know it’s wrong, but I am so glad Chris wants to see me too!

[ enters with tea, which she places on table before, and goes.

Milk and sugar?

I’ve given it up since the war. I thought it was the least I could do. Thank you. I’m glad of a cup of tea. I’ve been baking all the morning, and it takes it out of you. You can’t get a girl nowadays that understands the baking. And my kitchen gets so hot.

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Hese are the two Kings of Brentford; take notice of their stile: 'twas never yet upon the Stage; but, if you like it, I could make a shift, perhaps, to shew you a whole Play, written all just so.

1 King. Did you observe their whisper, brother King?

2 King. I did; and heard besides a grave Bird sing That they intend, sweet-heart, to play us pranks.

Bayes. This, now, is familiar, because they are both persons of the same Qualitie.

Smi. 'Sdeath, this would make a man spew.

1 King. If that design appears, I'l lug 'em by the ears Until I make 'em crack.

2 King. And so will I, i'fack.

1 King. You must begin, Mon foy.

2 King. Sweet, Sir, Pardonnes moy.

Bayes. Mark that: I Makes 'em both speak French, to shew their breeding.

Johns. O, 'tis extraordinary fine.

2 King. Then, spite of Fate, we'l thus combined stand; And, like true brothers, walk still hand in hand. [Exeunt Reges.

Johns. This is a very Majestick Scene indeed.

Bayes. Ay, 'tis a crust, a lasting crust for your Rogue Critiques, I gad: I would fain see the proudest of 'em all but dare to nibble at this; I gad, if they do, this shall rub their gums for 'em, I promise you. It was I, you must know, writ the Play I told you of, in this very Stile: and shall I tell you a very good jest? I gad, the Players would not act it: ha, ha, ha.

Smi. That's impossible.


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--Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

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What is your source, please, for the changes you made? Wikisource publishes only texts that have already been published in a reliable source. We never alter or annotate the original text. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:18, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

 * https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_Arab_Emirates_2009.pdf?lang=en this is the version listed by LOC https://www.loc.gov/item/guide-to-law-online/united-arab-emirates/?loclr=bloglaw. The original text was never published in English, but this is the best translation I could find based on the Arabic version. Vyvagaba (talk) 22:22, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And the existing preamble is wrong anyway. It lists Ras Al Khaimah, which joined the UAE after the preabmle was signed. Vyvagaba (talk) 22:26, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Are these vaild reasons for for the edits, it's my first edit on Wikisource. Vyvagaba (talk) 22:27, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It may be a different edition then. One of the persistent problems with our Constitutions here is that we seldom are given stable sources.  If you can locate a printed copy from an official source, that would be ideal.  We prefer not to pull copies from internet pages unless they are official government postings.  A copy from a web organization that is not the original publisher is not considered acceptable.  And if what you state about our current copy is correct, we may need to take it down. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:30, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The current copy must be based on a non-official source, because there isn't an official English copy out there. I think the copy published by LOC is credible, because 1. its listed by LOC 2. the translation is by a | non-profit that works on allowing people to compare constitutions, and 3. |The same non-profit also published the Arabic version of the constitution which is identical to the official Arabic version |published on the Ras Al Khaimah Courts website. (edited added wrong first Arabic link). Vyvagaba (talk) 22:40, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I can see it's linked from the Library of congress, but that's not the same as being published by the Library of Congress. Credibility is not the sole concern for Wikisource.  Our top three concerns are (1) Published under peer review, such as through a publisher with internal editing or in an academic setting with peer review.  Self-published and web published works are generally not allowed, with a few exceptions. (2) Is the source stable and static, or might it change? If the source might be changed or amended, then it isn't usable. This is why we use almost exclusively print versions of texts to work from: a scan uploaded to Commons won't disappear or change. (3) Is the translation in the public domain?  Wikisource has no fair use criteria; the translation must be in the public domain. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:47, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * One more note to what has been written above. The footnote of the linked PDF says: "This complete constitution has been generated from excerpts of texts from the repository of the Comparative Constitutions Project, and distributed on constituteproject.org. If I understand it right, it means that the English text was compiled by constituteproject.org. Unfortunately, their conditions are not compatible with our licences, as they restrict the usage of their content very much, while we allow our content to be used by anybody for any purpose, even commercially. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:50, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have also added the welcoming message to the top of this page, which includes links to some useful information for contributing to Wikisource, hoping that the discussion above will not discourage you from adding some other texts, which are better suitable for our project :-) See also Help:Adding texts. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I found a English translation | published by the UAE government. Can I archive this website and use it as a source? Vyvagaba (talk) 23:11, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * and UAE government published documents are public domain per Commons. Vyvagaba (talk) 23:16, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is the ideal. Upload the pdf to Commons, and then we can set up a transcription page here.  I can help with that, once the file is uploaded to Commons and fully documented there with source and license. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:19, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Alright, I uploaded it there. Vyvagaba (talk) 23:48, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have set up Index:Constitution of the United Arab Emirates - official translation 2015.pdf. Each page of text is proofread in an Index, using the Page: namespace, then trranscluded to the mainspace. If you aren't sure how to get the formatting to work, then focus on proffreading the text itself.  Lots of folks here can help with the details of formatting. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:54, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks a lot! I'll let you know if I get stuck somewhere. Vyvagaba (talk) 23:57, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've proofread page 10 to illustrate a couple of basics. c the is shortcut for the centering template, and nop is placed at the end of the page if the paragrpah ends on that page and a new paragraph begins on the following page.  I've set things up to auto-generate the page numbers and headers. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:00, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

 * I've also requested an English version of the Council logo at Commons. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, I saw your work, and I proofread pages 3-9. Could you please check them out to see if I messed up something. Vyvagaba (talk) 11:13, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * A few things: (1) SIC is not used to provide commentary; simply include first what appeared that is presumed wrong, then what it should read as, without any embellishment. If it requires embellishment, then you're not using it correctly. (2) smallrefs should be placed in the Footer, no in  the section, or the footnote will appear mid-text when transcluded.  You do not need to use runningheader; the text will normally be left aligned, and on pages where it needs to be moved to the right, use right.  The running-header template is for handling cases where there is more than one item to be aligned in multiple ways. (4) I'm not sure what your intentions are for labelling the start of sections.  Are you planning to break the work up across multiple subpages? --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input, I'll make sure to keep that in mind while proofreading it. I want to divide the work by parts in sub-pages down the line, to provide links to them in the Wikipedia article on the work. Vyvagaba (talk) 08:51, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * OK, if you want to divide it into subpages, we can do that, but not the way you're marking it. Please do not add items like the "start" of a section.  That won't actually be useful.  Also, to divide it into subpages, we'll need a "Contents" on the primary page, and it looks as though that Contents listing is in the final two pages.  So those pages should be done first.  I can help with the table split across two pages. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:22, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I just saw the current index, and it's flooded with typos. Will the subpages be titled using the spellings in the index, or the spellings in the titles of each section. Vyvagaba (talk) 19:05, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * , and how are the sub-sections in part IV (page 96) supposed to be formatted in the index table. Vyvagaba (talk) 19:09, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Standard practice for the labelling of subpages Part 1, Part 2, and so forth, since the sections are called "Parts" and we use Arabic numerals to number parts. Once the table is set up, I can show you how to incorporate that information into the Table.  The subsections appear to be their own rows, so we would follow that formatting. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:11, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

I did some formatting on pages 23 & 28, since it looked as though you needed some assistance. --EncycloPetey (talk) 23:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Thanks a lot, I really had no idea how to do the table especially. I have another question though, on page 40, the page number is not centred even with the c template; how can I fix that, because it happened on a few other pages as well. Vyvagaba (talk) 00:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah, you meant page 39. I put in a nop ahead of it in the footer.  That template functions like a "reset" and fixes the issue. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:17, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

I have tweaked the links in the Index table, and transcluded everything. Also, the header should not point to Wikipedia pages. If there is an Author, then we want a page for that Author here on Wikisource, and that is where the link should point. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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 Bayes. I gad, they would not, Sir: ha, ha, ha. They refus'd it, I gad, the silly Rogues: ha, ha, ha.

Johns. Fie, that was rude.

Bayes. Rude! I gad, they are the rudest, uncivilest persons, and all that, in the whole world: I gad, there's no living with 'em. I have written, Mr. Johnson, I do verily believe, a whole cart-load of things, every whit as good as this, and yet, I vow to gad, these insolent Raskals have turn'd 'em all back upon my hands again.

Johns. Strange fellows indeed.

Smi. But pray, Mr. Bayes, how came these two Kings to know of this whisper? for, as I remember, they were not present at it.

Bayes. No, but that's the Actors fault, and not mine; for the Kings should (a pox take 'em) have pop'd both their heads in at the door, just as the other went off.

Smi. That, indeed, would ha' done it.

Bayes. Done it! Ay, I gad, these fellows are able to spoil the best things in Christendom. I'l tell you, Mr. Johnson, I vow to gad, I have been so highly disoblig'd, by the peremptoriness of these fellows, that I am resolv'd, hereafter, to bend all my thoughts for the service of the Nursery, and mump your proud Players, I gad.

Ow strange a captive am I grown of late! Shall I accuse my Love, or blame my Fate? My Love, I cannot; that is too Divine: And against Fate what mortal dares repine? But here she comes. Sure 'tis some blazing Comet, is it not?

Bayes. Blazing Comet! mark that. I gad, very fine.


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 Nevertheless, it has failed to demonstrate any relationship with the detainees, generally or individually. We therefore must conclude that even assuming the detainees are unable to litigate on their own behalf and even under the most relative interpretaion of the “significant relationship” requirement the Coalition lacks next-friend standing. As the district court aptly stated: "To permit petitioners to seek a writ of habeas corpus on a record devoid of any evidence that they have sought authorization to do so, much less obtained implied authority to do so, would violate the second prong of the Whitmore–Massie test. And it would invite well-meaning proponents of numerous assorted “causes” to bring lawsuits on behalf of unwitting strangers."

Coalition of Clergy, 189 F.Supp.2d at 1044. Having demonstrated no relationship either as to any individual detainee or to the detainees en masse, the efficacy of the Coalition’s representation is in serious doubt. At best, the Coalition can only assert “a generalized interest in constitutional governance.” Whitmore, 495 U.S. at 164, 110 S.Ct. 1717. This relationship is insufficient to support next-friend standing.

 * B. Third-party standing.

It is a well-established rule that a litigant may assert only his own legal rights and interests and cannot rest a claim to relief on the legal rights or interests of third parties. Singleton v. Wulff, 428 U.S. 106, 113–14, 96 S.Ct. 2868, 49 L.Ed.2d 826 (1976); Warth, 422 U.S. at 499, 95 S.Ct. 2197. As the prohibition against third-party standing is prudential, rather than constitutional, the Supreme Court has recognized exceptions to this general rule. For example, in Powers v. Ohio, 499 U.S. 400, 410–11, 111 S.Ct. 1364, 113 L.Ed.2d 411 (1991), which upheld a litigant’s third-party standing to raise equal protection claims of jurors peremptorily challenged due to race, the Supreme Court recognized three requirements for would-be third-party petitioners. "We have recognized the right of litigants to bring actions on behalf of third parties, provided three important criteria are satisfied: The litigant must have suffered an “injury in fact,” thus giving him or her a “sufficiently concrete interest” in the outcome of the issue in dispute; the litigant must have a close relation to the third party; and there must exist some hindrance to the third party’s ability to protect his or her own interests."

Id. (citations omitted); see also Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560–61, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992); Shaw v. Hahn, 56 F.3d 1128, 1130 n. 3 (9th Cir.1995) (third party must have suffered an injury-in-fact) (citing Singleton, 428 U.S. at 112–16, 96 S.Ct. 2868).

Of the three requirements for third-party standing: (1) injury-in-fact; (2) close relationship to the third party; and (3) hindrance to the third party; the Coalition addresses only the last. It contends that a litigant may raise the claims of a third party if there is reason to believe that the individual is unlikely to be able to sue for himself or herself.

Even if we were to assume satisfaction of the third requirement, a hindrance to the detainees’ ability to assert their own claims, we would nevertheless conclude that the Coalition lacks third-party standing because neither it nor its members can demonstrate either the first requirement of an injury-in-fact or the second requirement of a close relationship. As to the first, the Coalition makes no allegation of personal injury to its members, and as to the second, it has alleged no relationship to the detainees. As in Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc., 454 U.S.


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 Pret. But I am so surpris'd with sleep, I cannot speak the rest.

Bayes. Does not that, now, surprise you, to fall asleep just in the nick? His spirits exhale with the heat of his passion, and all that, and swop falls asleep, as you see. Now, here, she must make a simile.

Smi. Where's the necessity of that, Mr. Bayes?

Bayes. Because she's surpris'd. That's a general Rule: you must ever make a simile when you are surpris'd; 'tis the new way of writing.

Cloris. As some tall Pine, which we, on Ætna, find T' have stood the rage of many a boyst'rous wind, Feeling without, that flames within do play, Which would consume his Root and Sap away; He spreads his worsted Arms unto the Skies, Silently grieves, all pale, repines and dies: So, shrowded up, your bright eye disappears. Break forth, bright scorching Sun, and dry my tears.

Bayes. I am afraid, Gentlemen, this Scene has made you sad; for I must confess, when I writ it, I wept my self.

Smi. No, truly, Sir, my spirits are almost exhal'd too, and I am likelier to fall asleep.

Pret. It is resolv'd.

Smi. Mr. Bayes, may one be so bold as to ask you a question, now, and you not be angry?

Bayes. O Lord, Sir, you may ask me what you please. I vow to gad, you do me a great deal of honour: you do not know me, if you say that, Sir.

Smi. Then, pray, Sir, what is it that this Prince here has resolv'd in his sleep?

Bayes. Why, I must confess, that question is well enough ask'd, for one that is not acquainted with this new way of writing. But you must know, Sir, that, to out-do all my fellow-Writers, whereas they keep their Intrigo secret till the very last Scene before the Dance; I now, Sir, do you mark me a


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61.ADVANCE SULFATE FRONT '''61. Advance sulfate front.'''

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62. void advance_sulfate_front ; {   int i, j, k, new_first_cell; sulfate_depth+=sulfate_rate * $$\Delta T$$; if (sulfate_depth>(real) (FIRST_CELL+1) $$\lor\Delta X$$[FIRST_CELL] <0.10) { new_first-cell=(int)(sulfate-depth +0.4);    /* penetration beyond next cell */ /* copy info from old first cell into new first cell */ for(k = FIRST_CELL + 1; k $$\le$$ new_first_cell; k++) { for(i = 0; i < num_cations; i++) cation[i].c[k] = cation[i].c[FIRST_CELL]; for(j = 0; j < num_anions; j++) anion[j].c[k] = anion[j].c[FIRST_CELL]; for (i = 0; i < num_cations; i++) for (j = 0; j < num_anions; j++) sol_array[i][j].s[k] = sol_array[i][j].s[FIRST_CELL]; }    $$\Psi$$[new_first_cell]=$$\Psi$$[FIRST_CELL]; FIRST_CELL = new_first_cell; $$\Delta X$$[FIRST_CELL] = (real) (FIRST_CELL+1)-sulfate_depth; } }


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 a side hole. Prætorius (1620) says that a complete set consisted of eight instruments and that a full flute band numbered twenty-one players, and Burney (1773) mentions one of from thirty to forty. Two "chests" still exist—the Nuremburg set of eight, dating from the sixteenth century, and the Chester set of four—discant, alto, tenor and bass—dating two centuries later.

There were also double and triple recorders. The double recorder consisted of two pipes, generally of unequal length and pitch, running into a common headjoint. The melody was played on one pipe, whilst the other furnished an accompaniment. The triple recorder had the third pipe standing out quite separately, but running into the side of the head-joint near the mouthpiece.

The recorder's tone was very soft and pleasing, but it was practically impossible to increase its volume or vary its quality. Little variety of expression was possible, and the second octave was difficult to produce; moreover, it was defective in tune. Mersenne mentions the curious detail that some players could hum the bass to an air while they played it!

These instruments long enjoyed great popularity all over Europe. The English excelled as performers, as Giovanni B. Doni tells us in his De Præstantia Musicæ Veteris, 1647; it is frequently mentioned in our early literature, and numerous tutors and much music was published for it. King Henry VIII, played it daily. Recorder-players were


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 "If I ever do write another book, I think I will have nothing of what you call 'melodrama;' I think so, but I am not sure. I think, too, I will endeavour to follow the counsel which shines out of Miss Austen's 'mild eyes,' 'to finish more and be more subdued;' but neither am I sure of that. When authors write best, or, at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them, which becomes their master—which will have its own way—putting out of view all behests but its own, dictating certain words, and insisting on their being used, whether vehement or measured in their nature; new-moulding characters, giving unthought of turns to incidents, rejecting carefully-elaborated old ideas, and suddenly creating and adopting new ones.

"Is it not so? And should we try to counteract this influence? Can we indeed counteract it?

"I am glad that another work of yours will soon appear; most curious shall I be to see whether you will write up to your own principles, and work out your own theories. You did not do it altogether in 'Ranthorpe'—at least not in the latter part; but the first portion was, I think, nearly without fault; then it had a pith, truth, significance in it, which gave the book sterling value; but to write so, one must have seen and known a great deal, and I have seen and known very little.

"Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written 'Pride and Prejudice,' or 'Tom Jones,' than any of the Waverley Novels?


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 Smi. Begin the Play, and end it, without ever opening the Plot at all?

Bayes. I do so, that's the very plain troth on't: ha, ha, ha; I do, I gad. If they cannot find it out themselves, e'en let 'em alone for Bayes, I warrant you. But here, now, is a Scene of business: pray observe it; for I dare say you'l think it no unwise discourse this, nor ill argu'd. To tell you true, 'tis a Debate I over-heard once betwixt two grand, sober, governing persons.

Ome, Sir; let's state the matter of fact, and lay our heads together.

Phys. Right: lay our heads together. I love to be merry sometimes; but when a knotty point comes, I lay my head close to it, with a pipe of Tobacco in my mouth, and then I whew it away, i'faith.

Bayes. I do just so, I gad, always.

Ush. The grand question is, whether they heard us whisper? which I divide thus: into when they heard, what they heard, and whether they heard or no.

Johns. Most admirably divided, I swear.

Ush. As to the when; you say just now: so that is answer'd. Then, for what; why, what answers it self: for what could they hear, but what we talk'd of? So that, naturally, and of necessity, we come to the last question, Videlicet, whether they heard or no?

Smi. This is a very wise Scene, Mr. Bayes.

Bayes. Yes; you have it right: they are both Polititians. I writ this Scene for a pattern, to shew the world how men should talk of business.

Johns. You have done it exceeding well, indeed.

Bayes. Yes, I think this will do.

Phys. Well, if they heard us whisper, they'l turn us out, and no bodie else will take us.


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 "I had not seen 'Pride and Prejudice' till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate, daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully-fenced, highly-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk.

"Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even 'Consuelo,' which is the best, or the best that I have read, appears to me to couple strange extravagance with wondrous excellence), yet she has a grasp of mind, which, if I cannot fully comprehend, I can very deeply respect; she is sagacious and profound;—Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant.

"Am I wrong—or, were you hasty in what you said? If you have time, I should be glad to hear further on this subject; if not, or if you think the questions frivolous, do not trouble yourself to reply.—I am, yours respectfully, "C. ."

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"Dear Sir,—I must write one more note, though I