Love and Valour, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1871 |
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Page 147 - And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage : At his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.
Page 53 - My dear Ted, you never will be a philosopher, -in spite of my example, and the dean's logic lecture. You appear to forget that one of the maxims of Solomon — or somebody or other — is, 'Always put off till to-morrow what you don't want to do to-day.' If you don't act up to that you will bring disgrace upon yourself and misery upon your friends, and never marry and live happily ever afterwards." " I wish I had your good spirits, Tom. \ Apropos of marriage, what about Mary and Emily ? How can we...
Page 36 - To say nothing of the low neighbourhoods he has to scour, and the undignified work he has to do, it must be a really fatiguing task to perambulate the city at all hours of the day and night. And then to think of a reverend gentleman running as hard as he can after some silly boy who shows him a clean pair of heels after some knavish trick ! It is too absurd. Tom and Edward, after parting with the proctor, went straight to college, where they talked the matter over calmly to the accompaniment of a...
Page 70 - WHATEVER the nature of the war in which we are engaged, whether it be limited or unlimited, permanent and general command of the sea is the condition of ultimate success. The only way of securing such a command by naval means is to obtain a decision by battle against the enemy's fleet. Sooner or later it must be done, and the sooner the better.
Page 200 - An odour not of otto of roses diffuses itself through the most splendid apartment when a deceased rodent lies rotting behind the arras. And just in this way the kept-down and crushed-out Poverty of Liverchester made its presence felt. There was the upheaval of the revolution. Gaunt scarecrows fell down dead outside splendid houses. Long, ragged walking funerals crept by like black noisome worms among the glittering equipages in the main streets. Some selfish, disrespectful wretches actually had the...
Page 179 - ... claims. Finally, Edward became acquainted with the signature of Sconger, the. proctor of the Vice-Chancellor's Court, wherein, so that functionary informed him, he would be sued at the instigation of Mr. Blank, and Mr. This, and Mr. That, unless he promptly liquidated the debts he had contracted with them. Edward went to see Sconger, in hopes of talking the matter over with him. Sconger was a member of the University, and Edward thought it possible he might not be a bad sort of fellow. But he...
Page 83 - Well, we must see. Have you got a list of your bills? If so, we'll go over them, and see what they come to." Edward fetched out his list, and the brothers went over it carefully. Then James took a mental tour about Oxford, up one street and down another, mentioning the shops in each street, and asking his brother if he had bills at them. By this method of exhaustion they soon added to the number of creditors, and by the time the last street and the last shop were named, the figures were a little...
Page 158 - ... than the fabulous East) since the old days of that great commander, the uncle of our late faithful ally. Boys who had glowed to read of Waterloo had grown into the men who swept up that deadly slope from the little brook, and made history for other lads to read. Soldiers who had envied the gray-headed veterans that Wellington had commanded, achieved on that hillside experience which future heroes would covet. Those who had gazed with something like awe upon the old warriors who had tasted combat,...
Page 245 - But he had also run through his monqy, his health, and the better instincts of his nature. His distinguished service had not been recognized as he and all his friends expected, and he was, to begin with, a disappointed man on that account, and he was a man of refined tastes and extravagant habits, which he had learnt in the army. So when he came home from India he listened to the advice of his family, and married Charity Golding for her money. He meant to atone to the woman he wedded for her wealth...
Page 164 - days. With his eyes still fixed on the enemy, he saw the old scrimmage in the Turl, and the proctor forcing his way through the crowd of " Town " just in time to receive the first charging gownsman in his arms. That gownsman was Tom, and as he thought of it, — with his eye still fixed on the enemy, — Tom smiled. And then there was time for no more. ' With teeth clenched so fiercely that it...