The Writings of Mark Twain: The American claimant and other stories and sketchesHarper and brothers, 1899 - American literature |
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Page 357 - Du bist wie eine Blume So hold und schön und rein; Ich schau dich an, und Wehmut Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein. Mir ist, als ob ich die Hände, Aufs Haupt dir legen sollt', Betend, daß Gott dich erhalte So rein und schön und hold.
Page 153 - Cannon to the right of them. Cannon to the left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered...
Page 255 - Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble — a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. It was hard for us to get our bearings.
Page 127 - I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." " You'd take it?" " I would leave the funeral of my dearest enemy to go and assume its burdens and responsibilities." Tracy thought a while, then said : " I don't know that I quite get the bearings of your position. You say you are opposed to hereditary nobilities, and yet if you had the chance you would—" "Take one? In a minute I would. And there isn'ta mechanic in that entire club that wouldn't. There isn'ta lawyer,...
Page 255 - Rails, the practised politician and phrase-juggler, was not similarly in doubt; he knew quite clearly that he had invested us in the cause of the Southern Confederacy. He closed the solemnities by belting around me the sword which his neighbor, Colonel Brown, had worn at Buena Vista and Molino del Rey ; and he accompanied this act with another impressive blast.
Page 322 - I tried, but the little closet would not hold us both with the door shut, unless we could be content to smother. I gasped awhile, then forced my way out. My wife called out: "Mortimer, something must be done for your preservation. Give me that German book that is on the end of the mantelpiece, and a candle; but don't light it; give me a match; I will light it in here. That book has some directions in it" I got the book— at cost of a vase and some other brittle things; and the madam shut herself...
Page 159 - I'll show you how it works. I had an expert come and load this one up yesterday. Hello, it's been left open — it's too bad — still I reckon it hasn't had much chance to collect irrelevant stuff. All you do is to press this button in the floor — so." The phonograph began to sing in a plaintive voice : There is a boarding-house, far far away, Where they have ham and eggs, three times a day.
Page 318 - Oh, yes; now argue it, and argue it, and argue it ! — I don't see how you can act so, when you know there is not a lightning-rod on the place, and your poor wife and children are absolutely at the mercy of Providence. What are you doing? — lighting a match at such a time as this! Are you stark mad?
Page 110 - The deference paid to these two men is not so very far short of that paid to an earl in England, though the method of it differs. Not so much courtliness, but the deference is all there. Yes, and there is obsequiousness, too. It does rather look as if in a republic where all are free and equal prosperity and position constitute rank.