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1 VI | challenge under two conditions: (1) If the challenged, in the 2 I | of Heaven were open, [Pg 10]and it naturally occurred 3 XXI | bequeath the interest of 10,000 florins to the gardeners 4 IV | thought that you had had[Pg 100] any idea of this abomination, 5 XII | There we shall meet. Rudolf. 1000." This "thousand" signified 6 IV | member of the family could[Pg 101] touch a thing - then Mr. 7 IV | follow from that, that she[Pg 102] had sold herself. Those 8 IV | an appeal! He forgave[Pg 103] her, of course, and a coach 9 IV | And all of them were[Pg 104] great votaries of art, 10 IV | Meyer had an unusual and[Pg 105] surprising visitor. A bevy 11 IV | a bygone generation.[Pg 106]~ ~Papa Meyer, when he did 12 IV | offer I shall petition[Pg 107] the highest authorities 13 IV | strode rapidly up and down[Pg 108] the room like a stage hero, 14 IV | the worse for Teresa.[Pg 109]~ ~Mr. Schmerz had evidently 15 IV | himself when, by dint of[Pg 110] superior acumen, he had 16 IV | his lungs, rushing upon[Pg 111] his unfortunate client 17 IV | none of these things.[Pg 112]~ ~"And now, sir, you have 18 IV | had entered, and he had[Pg 113] to grope his way down to 19 IV | child with all these[Pg 114] lamentations, and it was 20 IV | heart bleed for her.[Pg 115]~ ~The sisters tried to 21 IV | England, some in Turkey.[Pg 116]~ ~ ~ ~ 22 V | pleasant side likewise.[Pg 117] Teresa's confidence grew 23 V | for a happier future.[Pg 118]~ ~And, indeed, poverty 24 V | the world, and she had[Pg 119] been obliged to live in 25 I | began to grow beautifully[Pg 12] dark. Mr. Peter Bús, with 26 V | prettily enough - blonde and[Pg 120] brunette, blue eyes and 27 III | of Kázmér Almásfalvi, for 120,000 florins, with the full sanction 28 V | on the occasion of the[Pg 121] assembling of the Diet 29 V | more and more angry[Pg 122] every day, used to meet 30 V | fever the whole night.[Pg 123]~ ~Meanwhile the two old 31 V | his soul so abundantly.[Pg 124]~ ~She saw before her a 32 V | old lady to herself.[Pg 125]~ ~"I must regretfully confess, 33 V | me altogether happy!"[Pg 126]~ ~"How so, sir?"~ ~"The 34 V | necessary tuition; but pray[Pg 127] do not let her know that 35 V | to Teresa, after all.[Pg 128] From the very first she 36 V | name to be mentioned?[Pg 129]~ ~What more natural, then, 37 I | On their heads were[Pg 13] tschako-shaped kalpags 38 V | advance by an old lackey.[Pg 130]~ ~What fine calculation!~ ~ 39 V | her disappointment. She[Pg 131] confessed that now she 40 V | behind for kind inquirers.[Pg 132]~ ~ ~ ~ 41 VI | last moment of her life.[Pg 133]~ ~Poor Alexander!~ ~So 42 VI | had accepted earnest[Pg 134] money from a rich gentleman 43 VI | him all the way. There[Pg 135] he got into a carriage 44 VI | an arrogant tone, and[Pg 136] then the antechamber also 45 VI | specimens of furniture."[Pg 137]~ ~"Sir, it is not I who 46 VI | hidden in her breast, as[Pg 138] if she feared that this 47 VI | on the date indicated.[Pg 139]~ ~Abellino was immensely 48 I | rotundity warranted the[Pg 14] suspicion that they must 49 VI | notice was to be read[Pg 140] in the columns of that 50 VI | thereby, such a question[Pg 141] never once arose. We all 51 VI | Master Boltay's house?"[Pg 142]~ ~"It is," replied Alexander. 52 VI | remarked Conrad in[Pg 143] voice of thunder; and was 53 VI | foster-father, is not[Pg 144] present, and everything, 54 VI | Livius to Conrad, as they[Pg 145] went away, "that that young 55 VI | one of us would have[Pg 146] done the same thing. If 56 VI | Alexander was ready[Pg 147] waiting for them. He had 57 VI | large-limbed Conrad,[Pg 148] and Livius. A surgeon and 58 VI | one of them back. Did[Pg 149] they wish to insult him? 59 I | through the head. We[Pg 15], however, who are in no 60 VI | hit him in the skull."[Pg 150]~ ~Meanwhile they were loading 61 VI | in case of ill luck,[Pg 151] he gives his adversary 62 VI | Conrad's reproaches,[Pg 152] and the blood slowly began 63 VI | returned on foot to town.[Pg 153]~ ~ ~ ~ 64 VII | remained behind, came [Pg 154]tottering home - some half-dead, 65 VII | beyond fastening a pair[Pg 155] of silver spurs in his 66 VII | Draw nearer!" cried the[Pg 156] confidential heyduke Palko, 7 67 VII | black ribbon. Behind him [Pg 157]stands the old heyduke Palko 68 VII | and hold your tongue."[Pg 158]~ ~"I am ready to eat up 69 VII | go on! Another time[Pg 159] things shall be different; 70 I | castle, so at last he[Pg 16] had hit upon the idea of 71 VII | upon me in the future."[Pg 160]~ ~"On that account, however, 72 VII | little bundle over there?"[Pg 161]~ ~"That is the report of 73 VII | observation, Master Jock[Pg 162] thought fit to make the 74 VII | rubbish, I warrant you."[Pg 163]~ ~"Here is a proposal to 75 VII | sympathetic man than [Pg 164]the fiskal had been present, 76 VII | of course, that early[Pg 165] morning dreams are the 77 VII | portion of his attire.[Pg 166]~ ~"But is there not some 78 VII | the Large Room they are[Pg 167] going to act the Marriage 79 VII | face, to the intense[Pg 168] delight of the assembled 80 VII | could not even remember[Pg 169] with what words the "Our 81 I | he had to do. He now[Pg 17] grasped the fact that they 82 VII | foot. Ordinarily, Master[Pg 170] Jock would have been much 83 VII | could not have given any[Pg 171] reason for his belief, 84 VII | verses nine years running.[Pg 172]~ ~"And God grant your honour 85 VII | awaiting, but that the[Pg 173] horses of the other world 86 VII | patriarchal condescension,[Pg 174] approached the damsel, 87 VII | last he pitched upon[Pg 175] a son-in-law agreeable 88 VII | Come, guess now!"[Pg 176]~ ~"My little brother Béla!" 89 VII | Kutyfalvi on before.[Pg 177] It was very nice of him 90 VII | between all the dishes.[Pg 178]~ ~A whole museum of gold 91 II | long ago, somewhere about 1780, Griffard was nothing more 92 VII | s wine-glass when he[Pg 179] wasn't looking, etc. The 93 I | all the more amused.[Pg 18]~ ~Meanwhile, the gipsy 94 VII | box which contained the[Pg 180] birthday gift, and they 95 VII | to bed, others went to[Pg 181] fetch the doctors. The 96 IV | beautiful daughters. In 1818 two of the girls were already 97 VII | inasmuch as it was now quite[Pg 182] impossible to exchange 98 I | CHAPTER I.~ ~AN ODDITY, 1822.~ ~It is nasty, dirty weather 99 III | assembled at Pressburg in 1823, and Master Jock, with great 100 VII | was about to introduce[Pg 183] a series of radical reforms 101 VII | natural supposition.[Pg 184]~ ~"I have brought a letter 102 VII | men! It was scandalous![Pg 185]~ ~Abellino was the last 103 VII | means to live for ever!"[Pg 186]~ ~ ~ ~ 104 VIII | on the other hand, had[Pg 187] rather more difficulty 105 VIII | whose horns had to grow[Pg 188] before he could butt with 106 VIII | misfortune to your house."[Pg 189]~ ~"Not yet, sir," said 107 Pre | NISBET BAIN.~ ~ August, 1898.~ ~ ~ ~[Pg 9]~ ~A HUNGARIAN 108 I | this extemporized verse[Pg 19] -~ ~"If thou bring not 109 VIII | present, in the expectation[Pg 190] that I should make use 110 VIII | of that satisfaction."[Pg 191]~ ~"May I give you a piece 111 VIII | as my wife!"~ ~"What?"[Pg 192]~ ~"My lawful consort, I 112 VIII | which seems so sweet,[Pg 193] bitter, and that which 113 VIII | chance I left a diamond [Pg 194]ring behind me here. If 114 VIII | you give it all to me?"[Pg 195]~ ~"Because I am weary of 115 VIII | trickled from the old[Pg 196] man's eyes. He himself 116 VIII | and get supper ready."[Pg 197]~ ~Master Boltay hastened 117 VIII | ready to marry him."[Pg 198]~ ~"Give me pleasure, indeed! 118 VIII | gentleman of the same name[Pg 199] who is the cause of most 119 VI | advertisement complained of, and (2) if Mr. Boltay caused to 120 I | and its quick black[Pg 20] eyes like sparkling diamonds! 121 VIII | You promised to give a[Pg 200] million and a half for 122 VIII | make her their wife.[Pg 201]~ ~Where is he now - the 123 VIII | their horrible fate.[Pg 202]~ ~Yes, good damsel, yes; 124 VIII | come for it himself.[Pg 203]~ ~ ~ ~ 125 IX | at Boltay's feet, and[Pg 204] covering first his hands 126 IX | your back, the very cap[Pg 205] on your head, you got from 127 IX | thanks; but I am not a bit[Pg 206] hungry. I am too put out 128 IX | that Teresa will raise[Pg 207] me up to her level, but 129 IX | expected to pay back[Pg 208] as much again at the proper 130 IX | job to see to; he had[Pg 209] to say a few words to a 131 I | magnates of Hungary![Pg 21]~ ~Meanwhile, the mouse 132 IX | she might kiss them.[Pg 210] This greatly alarmed Fanny, 133 IX | of your approaching[Pg 211] wedding. Keep it a secret 134 IX | Teresa felt quite certain.[Pg 212]~ ~It was only natural too, 135 IX | most watchful guardian.[Pg 213]~ ~This particular night, 136 IX | in the same room with[Pg 214] you. How oddly things come 137 IX | tempting her, and she[Pg 215] fancied that, through the 138 IX | laid stress upon the[Pg 216] more disagreeable features 139 IX | as follows: "I don't[Pg 217] know how it is, but I don' 140 IX | not a look for them;[Pg 218] but I liked him, because 141 IX | to despair altogether,[Pg 219] for he fancied that they 142 I | unbuttoned the frock-coat[Pg 22] which it was his master' 143 IX | lovely girl as my Fanny."[Pg 220]~ ~"Good night; I want to 144 IX | could have had her way.[Pg 221]~ ~"Mamma," said the girl, 145 IX | nine hundred florins!"[Pg 222]~ ~"Now say, mamma, has 146 IX | her eyes, and all her[Pg 223] mouth too; she had never 147 IX | aunty to bring me a ball[Pg 224] of cashmir harras, a yard 148 IX | drawn of him to Fanny.[Pg 225]~ ~Well, let us leave them 149 IX | began to understand.[Pg 226]~ ~So they had to send at 150 IX | terrible; but for an[Pg 227] occasional chuckle, one 151 IX | servant arrived at Boltay's[Pg 228] country house by the market 152 IX | nod to immediately rise[Pg 229] to their feet and declaim 153 I | time the poor fellow[Pg 23] began to breathe hard, 154 IX | day fixed for Fanny's[Pg 230] appearance by Abellino 155 IX | to dispense with the[Pg 231] services of go-betweens 156 IX | immediately introduced,[Pg 232] though it is possible that 157 IX | whether the old Nabob, on[Pg 233] whose skin he had staked 158 IX | heart was full of gall[Pg 234] and venom. More than once 159 IX | bit, and returned to[Pg 235] the assembly room, and 160 IX | mantle floated, wave-like,[Pg 236] round her superb figure; 161 IX | now a paradise to me."[Pg 237]~ ~And laughing aloud, and 162 IX | those of Squire John, who[Pg 238] had just then reached the 163 IX | to the table and sat[Pg 239] down among them. Why did 164 I | creatures eat, and by degrees[Pg 24] the wine put them all on 165 IX | the thought that this[Pg 240] woman would find some one 166 IX | minutes afterwards every[Pg 241] one knew that Fennimore 167 IX | spend their honeymoon.[Pg 242]~ ~ ~ ~ 168 X | her honour, and had had[Pg 243] a list made of the intended 169 X | with a smile. "If you[Pg 244] have brought nothing but 170 X | if she did! Poor lady![Pg 245]~ ~So she ran her eyes down 171 X | from the inside pocket[Pg 246] of his dolman a checkered 172 X | tender encouragement.[Pg 247]~ ~"My dear friend, look 173 X | those persons towards[Pg 248] whom - how shall I put 174 X | list, he was horror-[Pg 249]stricken to observe how 175 I | an honest gentleman."[Pg 25]~ ~"Die by all means," said 176 X | misery, poor women bending[Pg 250] beneath the crosses of 177 X | lot so lavishly that it[Pg 251] has become a proverb, and 178 X | she was unable to move[Pg 252] her arms without saying 179 X | other side of the room.[Pg 253]~ ~"I must ask your pardon, 180 X | i.e. Don't give yourself[Pg 254] airs, you little fool! 181 X | object; "but I must own to[Pg 255] feeling a sort of hesitation - 182 X | you doing?" said Flora;[Pg 256] and thus, in order to prevent 183 X | this as will do us good?[Pg 257] Listen to me! If you promise 184 X | short time with Fanny."[Pg 258]~ ~Dame Marion, with an 185 X | to keep her for ever.[Pg 259]~ ~"Ah, indeed!" remarked 186 I | deposited him in the porch.[Pg 26]~ ~It will be worth while 187 X | such a sound as that.[Pg 260]~ ~ ~ ~ 188 XI | ladies might have been[Pg 261] seen together, engaged 189 XI | names, which had caused[Pg 262] Mr. Varga so much sweat 190 XI | respect, and must not be[Pg 263] blamed like other men. 191 XI | laughter are on his side."[Pg 264]~ ~"Count Gregory Erdey," 192 XI | already than I like."[Pg 265]~ ~"Last of all come the 193 XI | ague fit when they see[Pg 266] her, for she inspires them 194 XI | Mephistopheles in female form.[Pg 267] She is the enemy of every 195 XI | scandalizing ways of the world.[Pg 268]~ ~ ~ ~ 196 XII | members of the company.[Pg 269] The young housewife curtsied 197 I | waistcoat dangled all[Pg 27] sorts of jingling-jangling 198 XII | end of it the company[Pg 270] began to grow uproarious. 199 XII | vociferously: we know,[Pg 271] of course, that a good 200 XII | snatch beforehand at[Pg 272] least a hundred of the 201 XII | smiling countenance she[Pg 273] had been thinking of so 202 XII | Well, to-morrow![Pg 274]~ ~ ~ ~ 203 XIII | broad flat buttons, and[Pg 275] velvet caps with crane' 204 XIII | beamed at the thought[Pg 276] that she was such a pretty 205 XIII | immediately to Madame Kárpáthy,[Pg 277] whom, without the slightest 206 XIII | whole competition was[Pg 278] obtainable, and there were 207 XIII | Count Gregory, who was[Pg 279] riding by her side, "I 208 I | ça? Tell me the name!"[Pg 28]~ ~"My name, sir? Peter 209 XIII | the galloping groups[Pg 280] scattered in every direction, 210 XIII | there was no refuge to be[Pg 281] found anywhere, and the 211 XIII | endeavour to tire his enemies[Pg 282] out, and ceaselessly threw 212 XIII | they, would be upon him.[Pg 283]~ ~Suddenly the fox stood 213 XIII | gnashing his teeth: all in[Pg 284] vain - he had now to do 214 XIII | confronted the hunters,[Pg 285] which they were obliged 215 XIII | this woman. He had no[Pg 286] idea that he had met her 216 XIII | dashed wildly onwards.[Pg 287]~ ~ ~ ~CHAPTER XIV.~ ~MARTYRDOM.~ ~ 217 XIII | the other - Teresa.[Pg 288]~ ~Though nothing in the 218 XIII | happiest of spouses too![Pg 289]~ ~What must her portion 219 I | led them out of Asia."[Pg 29]~ ~"Ah, c'est beau! Very 220 XIII | weather was fine, and[Pg 290] she was well wrapped up, 221 XIII | still closer to her.[Pg 291]~ ~"Don't go away," she 222 XIII | that there were no end[Pg 292] to your wishes! Believe 223 XIII | down the room. Day by[Pg 293] day her health returned, 224 XIII | Poor girl! poor girl!"[Pg 294]~ ~ ~ ~ 225 XV | the table, in a vase[Pg 295] of genuine Herculanean 226 XV | your baboon with you,"[Pg 296] cursed the new arrival. " 227 XV | then, but let us talk of[Pg 297] other things. It looks 228 XV | what has it all got to[Pg 298] do with me? I think as 229 XV | contented? Her husband[Pg 299] is incapable, I'll swear, 230 I | guest-chamber here?"[Pg 30]~ ~"There is, but it is 231 XV | fear really happens, I[Pg 300] shall blow my brains out. 232 XV | of a speedy au revoir.[Pg 301]~ ~ ~ ~ 233 XVI | and anxious to make her[Pg 302] comfortable, but she did 234 XVI | more and more natural;[Pg 303] every day she began to 235 XVI | loved, she adored him.[Pg 304]~ ~All at once she began 236 XVI | offered her his arm.[Pg 305]~ ~Poor lady, she was scarce 237 XVI | despair. Surely, my friend[Pg 306] Kárpáthy is not such an 238 XVI | that Mr. Kecskerey was a[Pg 307] personage of remarkable 239 XVI | thousand florins upon her."[Pg 308]~ ~"What do you mean by 240 XVI | instant, an unpleasant[Pg 309] feeling took possession 241 I | dexterity of a professional[Pg 31] gipsy fiddler, at the same 242 XVI | hastily, disengaging[Pg 310] herself from the encircling 243 XVI | Poor Rudolf is afraid[Pg 311] the conversation would 244 XVI | last. "Another husband[Pg 312] would only have been afraid 245 XVI | that only the energy of[Pg 313] good kinsfolk saved Fanny 246 XVI | weak - weak not even in[Pg 314] respect to you." And with 247 XVI | these he went to sleep.[Pg 315]~ ~ ~ ~ 248 XVII | threshold of her bedroom, and[Pg 316] Rudolf heard her double-lock 249 XVII | with them. That young[Pg 317] woman would be certain 250 XVII | castle at Madaras. Old[Pg 318] Kárpáthy had yielded to 251 XVII | be?" asked the Squire.[Pg 319] He must have been somewhat 252 I | the camp-chairs, and[Pg 32] threw one of his heavily 253 XVII | hours of the afternoon[Pg 320] together; only at the dinner-table 254 XVII | through the medium of that[Pg 321] world of fancy which is 255 XVII | that, therefore, is the[Pg 322] wife; the darker one is 256 XVII | handsome china vase, in the[Pg 323] midst of which he immediately 257 XVII | he felt he must take a[Pg 324] deeper glance into the 258 XVII | when, day after day, I[Pg 325] have been praying God that 259 XVII | sins, that if ever I[Pg 326] see you again, that same 260 XVII | very, very unhappy!"[Pg 327]~ ~ ~ ~ 261 XVIII | crowds of eager listeners.[Pg 328]~ ~Something particular 262 XVIII | laughter over to his side.[Pg 329]~ ~"Don't you know that 263 I | the most fashionable[Pg 33] name just then happened 264 XVIII | quietly dispersed. It[Pg 330] was a horrible thought 265 XVIII | between his shoulders, and [Pg 331]continued - "How many times 266 XVIII | alluded to in the club.[Pg 332]~ ~ ~ ~ 267 XIX | beautifully that would sound![Pg 333]~ ~Presently they brought 268 XIX | ask what was going on[Pg 334] or what had happened since, 269 XIX | himself to be led into the[Pg 335] dying woman's chamber. 270 XIX | within himself, thinking[Pg 336] it a sign of amendment; 271 XIX | bitterly, oh, so bitterly![Pg 337]~ ~ ~ ~ 272 XX | towards Kárpáthy Castle.[Pg 338]~ ~In the rear of the sledge 273 XX | tomb for the worms just[Pg 339] as the wife of the poorest 274 I | folios written of my[Pg 34] travels by the best French 275 XX | two of the dogs, and[Pg 340] sending his escort on in 276 XX | became Dame Kárpáthy had[Pg 341] been engaged to a poor 277 XX | for me to do at home."[Pg 342]~ ~He could not prevail 278 XX | kissed the five letters[Pg 343] one after another, just 279 XX | him that very night.[Pg 344]~ ~ ~ ~ 280 XXI | beside me. I know what[Pg 345] that means. Twice I have 281 XXI | holy. In front of the[Pg 346] bed are her two little 282 XXI | friend in the days of his[Pg 347] tribulation. The fiscal 283 XXI | loved so much, - and have[Pg 348] them planted regularly 284 XXI | during which time a[Pg 349] mournful silence prevailed 285 I | to him; and he keeps a[Pg 35] whole palace for his dogs, 286 XXI | opened the vault, they[Pg 350] are to break down the partition 287 XXI | manifest what ours ought to[Pg 351] have been! May his wealth 288 XXI | placed my child in the[Pg 352] arms of your wife, she 289 XXI | rejoice beforehand at the[Pg 353] coming of that day every 290 XXI | priest send in the sexton.[Pg 354]~ ~He entered accordingly, 291 XXI | will be his father."[Pg 355]~ ~A few hours later the 292 XXI | since yesterday evening.[Pg 356]~ ~ ~ ~ 293 XXII | visible in every feature.[Pg 357]~ ~He had died so quietly 294 XXII | every one who saw it[Pg 358] maintained that she embraced 295 I | stammered in his terror[Pg 36] -~ ~"Est-ce possible? Can 296 I | do you say! Why, 'tis[Pg 37] only a matter of one or 297 I | know, practically, or[Pg 38] at least will be one day. 298 I | kicking up a row," said[Pg 39] Abellino, with ironical 299 I | has to be burnt down."[Pg 40]~ ~"Que diable! How dare 300 I | em-tear-'em" csárda.[Pg 41]~ ~ ~ ~ 301 II | sort, a relapse into[Pg 42] insignificance may be very 302 II | beheld with amazement the[Pg 43] splendid five-storeyed 303 II | enough that the garden[Pg 44] itself should stand on 304 II | themselves, whence the stream[Pg 45] flowed among Oriental reeds 305 II | they have to redeem on[Pg 46] their return in exchange 306 II | most taking. Not only[Pg 47] the dress, but the whole 307 II | you nothing but bad."[Pg 48]~ ~"Par exemple?"~ ~"Par 308 II | paragraphs you will also find[Pg 49] these words written, 'There 309 II | through the Porte St.[Pg 50] Denis quite recently, in 310 II | on the poor fellows.[Pg 51] You would not choke off 311 II | matter over with a jest.[Pg 52]~ ~"The Latin proverb says, ' 312 II | when my uncle expires."[Pg 53]~ ~"And if your uncle's 313 II | they may chance to cast[Pg 54] their eyes upon, even if 314 II | prohibitions somewhat[Pg 55] grievous, but I know of 315 II | I have a great deal[Pg 56] of strength of mind. If, 316 II | not keep you waiting."[Pg 57]~ ~Abellino took his leave, 317 II | of a foreign banker.[Pg 58]~ ~ ~ ~ 318 III | blared all the louder.[Pg 59]~ ~Everywhere the loud music 319 Pre | most likely to appeal[Pg 6] to healthy English taste, 320 III | community-room, hanging in[Pg 60] long rows on the walls, 321 III | had twined it out of[Pg 61] weeping-willow leaves and 322 III | girls have you befooled?"[Pg 62]~ ~"Why should they let 323 III | that you've paid for,[Pg 63] and be punished for your 324 III | In front trotted two[Pg 64] sworn burghers with ribbon-bedizened 325 III | dust in their efforts to[Pg 65] overtake the horses in 326 III | preferred to go on foot,[Pg 66] unless he could drive in 327 III | the Whitsun Kingship.[Pg 67]~ ~"Don't ask me who or 328 III | to his horse's flanks,[Pg 68] lash out with his whip, 329 III | half-minute before Martin, and[Pg 69] was already standing there 330 III | steeds strenuously towards[Pg 70] the goal. Almost to the 331 III | stranger-youth dismounted from his[Pg 71] horse, and cutting a supple 332 III | to pieces in the dust.[Pg 72]~ ~"That is not fair!" exclaimed 333 III | timorous part of the crowd[Pg 73] tried to get behind the 334 III | and it is the chief[Pg 74] business of the gulyás 335 III | taken the other path,[Pg 75] but pride restrained him. 336 III | irritated Martin, and,[Pg 76] creeping closer to the 337 III | the ground, he began[Pg 77] taking short runs at them, 338 III | out from behind at the[Pg 78] bull, which rushed on even 339 III | fine young fellow. You[Pg 79] please me greatly. So now 340 III | whether you think so, too?[Pg 80] How the gentlemen will 341 III | here; but this fellow,[Pg 81] metaphorically speaking, 342 III | without the slightest[Pg 82] exertion. "But now, let 343 III | kill the whole company."[Pg 83]~ ~At these words there 344 III | is the stable dodge,[Pg 84] which can be safely employed 345 III | the handsome youth, and[Pg 85] what a capital jest it 346 III | much-befêted cavalier would[Pg 86] turn out to be nothing 347 III | for me - d'ye hear?"[Pg 87]~ ~"Light it yourself!" 348 III | won a good deal more[Pg 88] than that, but the balance 349 III | him by way of a joke.[Pg 89]~ ~ ~ ~ 350 Pre | August, 1898.~ ~ ~ ~[Pg 9]~ ~A HUNGARIAN NABOB.~ ~ ~ ~ 351 IV | would become a famous[Pg 90] artiste, and another would 352 IV | often when there was only[Pg 91] just enough money left 353 IV | fruits of many years[Pg 92] of pinching and sparing - 354 IV | might earn her bread as a[Pg 93] milliner's apprentice, 355 IV | his and her duty, and[Pg 94] prosperity would flow into 356 IV | if it be in the bosom[Pg 95] of their families, unless 357 IV | of Meszely had soothed[Pg 96] his nerves, would his tongue 358 IV | entered the room, the[Pg 97] conversation was suddenly 359 IV | recently been sewn on to his[Pg 98] overcoat, so he stuck the 360 IV | simpleton," said she, "I[Pg 99] should take you for an 361 VIII | Fashionable gentlemen came a-hunting in the neighbourhood of 362 I | him."~ ~His lordship fell a-laughing at this insipid jest. Such 363 I | Meanwhile, the mouse was a-roasting. The innkeeper himself brought 364 XVII | whispered me that you would go a-spying. Well, what have you discovered?"~ ~" 365 XVII | seen.~ ~And again they fell a-talking about trifling general topics, 366 XXI | round the table there fell a-weeping, and not one of them felt 367 IV | took the judge somewhat aback at first, but he soon found 368 I | opera-dancers, nor am I given to abducting Moorish princesses, or clambering 369 XVIII | winter season would have been abominably dull. There was no mention 370 IV | Pg 100] any idea of this abomination, I would sweep you out of 371 IX | If I were to tell of the abominations that go on in my house every 372 VII | that great forecourt where Abraham, Isaac, and the other Jewish 373 XIII | that the young man came abreast of her; her flying locks 374 II | the more, and you would be absolved from your onerous engagement, 375 VIII | to discover. He was quite absorbed in his work.~ ~"Alexander," 376 XII | which I conscientiously abstain - firstly and lastly because 377 XII | success of all manner of abstract objects, such as social 378 XVI | the imagination label - absurd.~ ~On the day of the installation, 379 VII | he lost, and its flowing abundance is brushed backwards and 380 V | the rapture of his soul so abundantly.[Pg 124]~ ~She saw before 381 IV | together they would gossip and abuse the younger generation, 382 VIII | rays and leaps across dizzy abysses in order to get nearer to 383 VII | from the beginning of his academical course) - a student togatus, 384 I | written them myself. The Académie des Sciences has elected 385 II | take the trouble, I could accelerate his departure from the world 386 XIII | paces in front of them, and accelerating his pace whenever he perceived 387 I | had a distinctly foreign accent.~ ~"Milles tonnerres!" he 388 III | at all!" cried Mike Kis, accomplishing the feat without the slightest[ 389 IV | acquire other lady-like accomplishments. And all the time their 390 VI | which every Hungarian, who accounted himself a good patriot and 391 VI | property which his thrift had accumulated.~ ~These letters, enclosed 392 I | the air, pulled an ugly, acidulous face, shook his head, constrained 393 IX | siren song is generally acknowledged to be the gem of the evening, 394 XVIII | gentleman is as sound as an acorn, or as a ripe apple freshly 395 I | poet. The Nabob gradually acquired an appetite by watching 396 II | very little difficulty in acquiring distinctions which will 397 III | Kingship competition, and there acquitted himself like a man.~ ~Every 398 XIII | dogs should regard me as an Actæon."~ ~"To give your ladyship 399 IV | are the master of your own actions. You have one daughter who 400 VII | generally did; the gipsies, actors, and students were told 401 IV | names of several celebrated actresses who had also sprung from 402 VII | well advanced in years, who acts the young missies. They 403 IV | dint of[Pg 110] superior acumen, he had enabled the righteous 404 VI | and was on the point of adding something of a very imposing 405 VI | forwarded to their respective addresses. Then he got into the carriage 406 IX | this was not the place for adjusting affairs of honour. The appeal 407 VII | estates of the Nabob were administered.~ ~"With your honour's gracious 408 X | man if you like! Every one admires his intellect and his great 409 IX | serious to say to him, which admits of no delay. Send immediately.~ ~" 410 VIII | the world would envy and adore? Before very much longer 411 XVI | in when their portraits adorn the picture-galleries. With 412 IX | they had not turned her adrift; there was no need for her 413 V | proffered bouquet. This was adroitly calculated upon by the sender. 414 IV | his innocent, well-meaning advances should have occasioned such 415 III | his was not without its advantages, for whenever his acquaintances 416 VII | police-constables perform on earth, the advent of Squire John's birthday 417 IX | them all about her happy adventure: how she had struggled, 418 III | covered with kisses the astute adventurer who had more foresight than 419 IX | generous to spurn her mother in adversity. I'll take you home with 420 VI | challenge should be sent to this advertising pater-familias.~ ~"What, 421 XVIII | killed, my friend, I should advise you to read Pitaval, 11 422 Pre | work, and this I have done advisedly, having always been very 423 XI | against the most astute of advocates, drinks like a fish, and 424 V | on the other hand, did he affect gentility; but there was 425 XIII | And, indeed, Squire John's affection must have been something 426 X | immediately embraced her affectionately, by way of signifying that 427 XVI | myself badly, I ought to say affreuse alliance! Why, separately 428 VII | eastern curtain of the sky was aflame with purple, pink, carmine, 429 IV | the jovial young fellows aforesaid jumped up and opened the 430 XVII | would not have given up his after-dinner repose for the sake of all 431 IV | this expectation was the afterthought that, perhaps, when she 432 II | masterly reproduced ruins, with agaric and cactus monsters planted 433 Pre | meaning into that miracle of agglutinative ingenuity, an Hungarian 434 XIII | understand any attempt to aggravate him.~ ~And now the company 435 VIII | The enemy was an airy, agile, artful, experienced creature 436 XIII | opportunity of showing their agility; both of them successfully 437 I | shouted the old man, deeply agitated, and his face suddenly turned 438 XIII | faces of the two ladies were aglow with the passionate ardour 439 VI | Rudolf. "Mine are new."~ ~"We agree," replied Conrad; "only 440 IX | likely to pass the time most agreeably until the arrival of Fanny.~ ~ 441 XI | very young men have a cold ague fit when they see[Pg 266] 442 IX | talking about, what she was aiming at, how she was tampering 443 X | t give yourself[Pg 254] airs, you little fool! Don't 444 VIII | nobody! The enemy was an airy, agile, artful, experienced 445 VI | such circumstances somewhat akin to cowardice. Abellino, 446 X | projecting breast-bone, an alarming spectacle. She had hands, 447 VIII | there were fresh rumours and alarms every day. Fashionable gentlemen 448 XVIII | and were therefore on the alert for the point of the jest, 449 III | second they grew quite still, alertly pricking up their ears; 450 I | mantle, declaiming d - d bad Alexandrine verses on the spur of the 451 VIII | usurers, shopkeepers, and aliens, and all through the very 452 VI | the responsibility of the alleged insult on his own shoulders, 453 II | pageant of the march of the allied armies through Paris from 454 I | course - these frogs are the alligators of the Nile. And this miserable 455 I | not ask you for a yearly allowance, ce serait bien fatigant 456 X | cast of countenance which allows you to read right through 457 XXI | his nearest relative - I allude to my nephew Béla - it would 458 VIII | enough to reject the dazzling allurements of wealth, even when it 459 XVIII(11)| The allusion, no doubt, is to F. G. de 460 XIII | impression, from slight allusions he let drop, that some serious 461 XVII | herself would be his best ally.~ ~With such ideas in his 462 III | neither a parson nor an almanac-maker."~ ~"Eh, eh! Recollect that 463 III | Kis, Esq., proprietor of Almásfalva, which I purchased the day 464 III | of the estate of Kázmér Almásfalvi, for 120,000 florins, with 465 VII | still continued to mount aloft from the blazing firework 466 V | sitting by one of the side altars, enjoying in her own way 467 III | qualities, and the only alteration required of him was that 468 XII | adjoining chamber resounded, alternately grave and gay, the notes 469 X | double interpretation, each alternative of which was equally insulting, 470 XV | carrying on his old business of amalgamating the various elements of 471 XXI | late autumn, irises and amaranths, - flowers which 'she' loved 472 VIII | honour's offer flatters and amazes me. You are a gentleman, 473 X | shoulders, which gave a martial, amazonic cast to her figure, and 474 V | everything - her dreams, her ambitious longings, and her disappointment. 475 XIX | thinking[Pg 336] it a sign of amendment; but the doctor shook his 476 II | another is returning from America, and he travelled third 477 II | thrown across it, from an American suspension-bridge to a rustic 478 I | had left him.~ ~"Ah, cher ami! won't you leave the furniture 479 X | at last, we will conspire amiably together to make every one 480 VIII | pressed Master Boltay's hand amicably, and left him in a perfect 481 V | curiosity. What could be amiss with this mysterious youth? 482 II | world. He would lend large amounts to ruined spendthrifts whom 483 XV | are the fruit of her base amours."~ ~At these words Kecskerey 484 II | a seat beside him on the ample sofa, and thus obliged him 485 I | cosaque, which appeared to amplify downwards, bulged over the 486 VI | and he has to wait for an amputation till he is carried into 487 XIX | wine-cup with the primal ancestor of the House of Kárpáthy 488 III | their nicknames only - Mike, Andy, Larry, Fred, Ned, for instance. 489 VII | peace with all who ever angered me, therefore I now, as 490 IV | Bordácsi roared at him in the angriest of voices -~ ~"And why do 491 II | all the fresher and more animated; his teeth were white and 492 XXI | their marriage. On every anniversary of the day on which my unforgettable 493 IX | flunkey whose duty it was to announce the arrivals, entered the 494 III | moment the report of a mortar announces that the prime patron of 495 IX | sighed Mrs. Meyer, by way of announcing that she was about to begin 496 IV | of giving contradictory answers, and once or twice his impatience 497 IX | man said; she was in the ante-chamber, but could not come in, 498 II | banker's staircases and antechambers are swarming with hosts 499 II | another year. Pardon me for anticipating so bluntly the decease of 500 III | perturbation, polishing the antique opal buttons of his attila 501 VII | weapons from our museum of antiquities. The students meanwhile 502 VII | horned heads of the noble antlered stags bobbed up and down; 503 V | for all the labours and anxieties of the last three years, 504 I | voice. "Throw open your apartments, and make ready for our 505 III | discharged through every aperture of the suffocating wretch 506 VI | give explanations and offer apologies, and we'll drink a toast 507 XIII | reached the cavalcade, and was apologizing to the ladies for having 508 Pre | Let this, therefore, be my apology to Dr. Jókai and, as I trust, 509 XX | perceiving the figure of a man, apparently in a state of collapse, 510 II | your rights, but stupidly appeals to that big book, among 511 IV | the elder girls with their appetites spoilt by a surfeit of sweetmeats, 512 V | world has loaded with its applause. And every fresh attempt 513 IX | Kárpáthy, the proverb ill applies to you also: you are unlucky 514 IX | love,' does not seem to apply to you. Poor Fennimore, 515 II | well-sharpened knife than applying it to his own throat, so 516 XXI | more wisely. The man whom I appoint the legal guardian of my 517 IX | it secret.~ ~ ~ ~On the appointed day, old Kárpáthy - if it 518 II | transactions are in the habit of appraising the lives of people, and 519 Pre | sentence, will be able to appreciate the immense labour of rendering 520 X | Fanny's face showed that she appreciated the tender insinuation.~ ~" 521 XI | dressmakers without the slightest apprehension. The appearance of Lady 522 VI | away with a will among his apprentices; but in vain was all the 523 IX | expressions of amazement, horror, approbation, or other stimulating interjections. 524 X | calendar that it has not appropriated;" which meant, being interpreted, " 525 XI | be sure that she will not approve of anything you may say, 526 I | in its mouth, the usual appurtenances of a very different animal.~ ~ 527 VII | telling her not to hold her apron before her mouth, as they 528 III | covering their bosoms with aprons, popped their heads out 529 III | stripling, with a large hooked, aquiline nose, and a long moustache 530 II | turn he would come upon arcades of jasmine with idyllic 531 IX | fortress, or if wrathful archangels had guarded her with flaming 532 III | him, pawed the ground and arched his head. The sworn umpires 533 II | a great point with the architects of the day, who, equally 534 VIII | you truly, loyally, and ardently."~ ~"I know. You mean Alexander," 535 IV | nothing at all about the arduous artistic labours of the 536 III | had trampled down a large area of rushes all round about 537 III | plunged forward into the arena.~ ~Five or six immediately 538 V | evening. There are cases, he argued, in which similar proposals 539 III | afterwards a cloud of dust arising from below the gardens declares 540 XI | good-natured man, but a frightful aristocrat. It delights him to do good 541 XIII | her of my departure."~ ~Armed with this commission, and 542 II | the march of the allied armies through Paris from his own 543 VI | stranger.~ ~It was only the armoury behind him that prevented 544 I | frock-coat lay just beneath his armpits, but the tails reached to 545 III | of the bull, and tried to arouse it by making as great a 546 IX | allowing herself time to arrange her hair in the simplest 547 I | perceiving the brilliant array of serving-men, who lit 548 III | which was disgusted at the arrogance of Martin, and in the carriages 549 VI | outside making inquiries in an arrogant tone, and[Pg 136] then the 550 I | give us also pheasants, artichokes, and crab salad."~ ~The 551 XV | notes, and other perishable articles of the same sort. Round 552 VIII | and hit upon a thousand artifices for obtaining admittance. 553 IX | evening. First of all, the artists and artistes recited, sang, 554 II | must also drink no wine and ascend no staircase, as the drink 555 VIII | when the dog-star is in the ascendant. He fumed and fussed and 556 VII | members, male and female, in ascendenti et descendenti, both in 557 V | remain virtuous. If I should ascertain the contrary, my patronage 558 V | So one day, when he had ascertained that Fanny was alone at 559 XIII | with this commission, and ascertaining first of all from Teresa 560 II | afraid. I am accustomed to ascetic deprivations. Once I cured 561 XVII | life. Nevertheless, the ashen-purple colour of the flower shows 562 I | lightened heart, knocked the ashes of his pipe-bowl into the 563 I | leaders who led them out of Asia."[Pg 29]~ ~"Ah, c'est beau! 564 II | know, perhaps, that in the Asiatic kingdom where my inheritance 565 XVI | faces, such a different aspect did their Oriental gravity 566 V | occasion of the[Pg 121] assembling of the Diet at Pressburg, 567 XVI | notice that somebody in the assembly-hall below was making frantic 568 VIII | the claims of nature will assert themselves. Then will come 569 XX | to confirm his master's assertion.~ ~"Follow the trail as 570 XIII | tender affair, a private assignation for instance, was the cause 571 I | might fairly have been assumed to contain some living creature, 572 IX | ranks of the wranglers, and, assuming his most imposing manner, 573 IV | fancy will not very greatly astonish you, and the knowledge that 574 V | inquiries. I have heard the most astonishing reports of this young woman' 575 XVI | Madame Kárpáthy."~ ~"Ah!" So astounded was Flora, that that was 576 I | bunda, and with a large astrachan cap on his head drawn down 577 III | with sturdy young bachelors astride every barrel. Then followed 578 VII | Suddenly all four clamps burst asunder, the four sides of the box 579 VI | in Monsieur Gaudehoux's atelier at Paris?"~ ~"Yes, I did."~ ~" 580 VI | Conrad, was an herculean, athletic-looking fellow, whom, on that very 581 I | it would be wrong to cut athwart the ways of Providence.~ ~ 582 IX | of them had an honourable attachment, and well for them had they 583 XVI | And suppose you are attacked?"~ ~"I don't understand."~ ~" 584 XVI | of citizens should have attained the highest dignity in the 585 XII | servants to be constantly in attendance on her ladyship, and fulfil 586 VII | had had to submit to while attending to his parliamentary duties 587 IX | lavished his most delicate attentions upon the eminent stranger, 588 VI | sorrowful, but was doubly attentive to Fanny. It was a case 589 VI | man thereupon thrust the attested document into his pocket, 590 IX | it must be the tiniest of attics in which she could only 591 X | stood on the threshold in an attitude of the deepest respect, 592 X | sofa.~ ~Fanny was strangely attracted towards the old man. There 593 V | Kramm pointed out had no attraction for her. On the contrary, 594 VII | stewards as of very good augury: it showed that they already 595 XVIII | be sicker still."~ ~"Poor auntie!" said Abellino. "No doubt," 596 IV | petition[Pg 107] the highest authorities to favour my request which 597 VI | former said that a written authorization on Alexander's part was 598 VI | at the same time.~ ~"I am authorized by Mr. Boltay during his 599 I | travels by the best French authors, and I publish them as if 600 XXI | from early spring to late autumn, irises and amaranths, - 601 I | struggled, but it was of no avail; there they kept him till 602 XVI | and head, and using every available limb to attract her attention; 603 IX | Mademoiselle Fanny de Meyer avec famille."~ ~Quite a family 604 III | floor, they carried the avenger of their long years of contumely 605 XVI | more closely with a look of aversion - it was Mr. Kecskerey.~ ~ 606 XVII | the young woman was so avid of pleasure, that she was 607 XVII | never see you again? When I avoided every place where I might 608 VII | amusement awaits him. He was awakened long before sunrise by the 609 X | always treated with the most awful reverence, but not one of 610 II | and place you in such an awkward position that you cannot 611 IX | blurted out honest Boltay, awkwardly. "I've servants enough of 612 VII | pointed than a shoemaker's awl, and waxed to a fearful 613 XX | sledge, and, taking his axe in his hand, directed his 614 III | ribbon-bedizened copper axes in their hands; after them 615 I | stuck fast in mud up to the axles of the wheels, and the horses 616 IV | access of temper. "Hundreds, aye thousands, of times have 617 XIX | stone was ever of a purer azure, were all the larger by 618 XIX | read a meaning in his sweet babblings, to speak words to him that 619 IV | was Councillor Schmerz, a bachelor of about forty, a smooth-faced, 620 III | wine-carts, with sturdy young bachelors astride every barrel. Then 621 III | handsome, manly figure, backed up by the best letters of 622 VII | whole assembly of genteel backsliders.~ ~He would very much have 623 IV | earn it, for she was very backward in learning - in fact, she 624 VII | when the granaries and bacon-larders were in such tempting proximity, 625 IV | asked Fanny. Like all badly-brought-up children, she always said, " 626 Pre | contending with a strange and baffling non-aryan language. Only 627 VII | and the rattling of the baggage-waggons into the courtyard. The 628 III | young men in short, strong, baggy knee-breeches and broad-buttoned 629 III | of these defunct patrons, baillies, curators, and charity-founders 630 Pre | forgiveness.~ ~R. NISBET BAIN.~ ~ August, 1898.~ ~ ~ ~[ 631 III | liberate himself.~ ~The baited bull stood on the plain 632 III | waggon was full of freshly baked white rolls; fastened behind 633 III | Pg 88] than that, but the balance will do to build up a splendid 634 XVI | Flora was still in full ball-dress; her maid was doing up her 635 II | into no liaison with any ballet-dancer; in a word, you must engage 636 XV | I would rather be a bandit than a beggar."~ ~"Take 637 VI | contemptuously on his heel and, banging the door to behind him, 638 XVI | This is a sentence of banishment, eh?"~ ~"It is."~ ~"For 639 XXI | never learnt anything: he is bankrupt both in body and mind. He 640 VII | doors which led into the banqueting hall.~ ~The vast and splendid 641 VII | allowed to come into the banqueting-room and pick the fat morsels 642 VII | have the agent postpone the baptism of his son even for the 643 I | it. "I was born in this barbarous land, and the father who 644 V | seriously believed that the bare receiving such a letter 645 III | oxen, led by a couple of bare-armed butcher's lads; and then 646 XVI | He himself was sitting bareheaded in the open carriage, and 647 II | bridge, composed of wood and bark, and covered with ivy. And 648 IX | trees, the roaming dogs barked and howled as if they were 649 XIII | were unleashed; and how, barking and yelping, they leaped 650 VII | s such an enormously big barn on the estate, that the 651 I | Peter Bús threw open a large barn-like room for his guests, the 652 XI | write after his name then: 'Baron George Málnay, an amiable 653 IV | you have sold, you have bartered them away to the highest 654 XV | have had one of these same base-born brats yourself a year ago."~ ~" 655 IV | addressing in the face, which bashfulness deprived him, of course, 656 VII | the room stood a silver basin, from whose cunningly devised 657 II | plashed and gurgled in marble basins, throwing jets of water 658 I | fenced about with large baskets, whose rotundity warranted 659 XII | time, and exclaiming in her bass-viol-like voice, "We like each other, 660 I | cold meat, which had been basted with the finest lard and 661 II | the emigrés, who came in batches in the rear of the triumphant 662 VII | all of them more or less battered and penniless.~ ~Squire 663 IV | I shall take your part?" bawled the judge, as if he were 664 XIII | much row as possible, and bawls in a voice that is quite 665 VII | the nimblest. He took a beaker and, filling it with wine, 666 VII | were to drink out of silver beakers. In the midst of the room 667 XIII | and the third a beautiful bear-skin; and no doubt the victorious 668 II | Now it is the turn of my beard, I suppose," murmured Abellino, 669 V | refuse them?~ ~Only when the bearer of the missive had withdrawn 670 VI | courtyard. A big porter in bearskins was standing at the entrance.~ ~" 671 VII | over the shoulders of the beaters. The cook came forth to 672 XVI | different. Woman is born to beautify the domestic circle, woman 673 VII | me, therefore I now, as becometh a kinsman, offer my hand 674 IX | huddling up beneath the bed-clothes.~ ~"I thought I heard you 675 I | will fancy I am in some Bedouin shanty, and this river here 676 XII | Fanny flew off to their bedrooms unobserved, to read the 677 XIII | spent half the day by her bedside in gentle prattle, listening 678 I | himself lay down on the camp bedstead prepared for him, his heydukes 679 VII | misfortune could possibly befall any of them.~ ~All the guests 680 III | brawl, cudgel the men, and befool the women to the top of 681 XV | not allow a downtrodden beggar-woman to force her way into an 682 XV | talk of nothing but your beggarly duel for a whole twelve-month. 683 XXI | for dowering girls of good behaviour on their marriage. On every 684 VII | respect. Well, I'll not be behindhand in expressing my regret 685 I | coachman in an embroidered bekes, or fur-pelisse, whose sole 686 XI | the whip from his hand and belabouring him with the handle. For 687 XXI | God grants to every true believer. Amen!"~ ~And all those 688 XVI | with that she sprang to the bell-rope and pulled it violently 689 XVI | walk, arm-in-arm. A true belle alliance! Nay, I express 690 I | windows like a savage, and bellowed at the top of his voice -~ ~" 691 XXI | beneath which is a white bench." Here the Squire sighed, 692 II | of jasmine with idyllic benches underneath, or marble statues 693 III | signet-rings that he could scarce bend them. But what distinguished 694 X | gratefully pressed her hand.~ ~A beneficent attack of coughing here 695 IV | live by their labour with a beneficial instinct, which makes them 696 VI | with the benefactor whose benefits she had one day meant to 697 X | compassionately in high places: her benevolence goes much further than all 698 XXI | rise up no more. My first bequest, then, is 50,000 florins, 699 I | rate, he had learnt from Béranger), as he kicked at the kitchen 700 IX | catch glimpses of their tiny beribboned feet as they dismounted 701 III | Number three was Lörincz Berki, the most famous hunter 702 X | advice."~ ~Mr. Varga looked beseechingly at Fanny, as if to insist 703 XI | and the pitfalls which beset their path, - that is a 704 VII | your felicity may never be bespattered by the puddles of tribulation. 705 VI | I have come to you to bespeak an order for a whole établissement, 706 XI | For the rest, she is the best-hearted creature in the world, and 707 IV | looked at it.~ ~Without bestowing a glance on any one, he 708 I | Luckily for me, my father died betimes, and I went with my mother 709 VIII | her, and we'll have such a betrothal that the very angels shall 710 VII | Here is a suggestion for bettering the position of the National 711 I | required to wait upon your betters, and look sharp about it!"~ ~ 712 XVII | moaning, hold him embraced betwixt unspeakable agony and unspeakable 713 I | of farmyard wenches, and betyárs similar to himself dance 714 IX | saloons. One after another bevies of charming women alighted 715 IV | 105] surprising visitor. A bevy of good-humoured youths 716 III | trampled to death.~ ~The bewildered beast, feeling the suffocating 717 XVII | him. How beautiful, how bewitchingly beautiful she was in her 718 I | beautiful damsel of the Bey from his harem. I spend 719 VIII | like the rich man in the Bible. But I know, sir, that wealth 720 IV | them away to the highest bidder; you have taught them that 721 VII | rumours, and resolved to bide his time, await more reliable 722 I | and, springing from his bier, rushed towards the stranger, 723 II | possession, let him be the biggest usurper in the world, may 724 II | for which reason many a bigwig thought it de bon ton to 725 IV | degree, bankers, and other bigwigs.~ ~It is true that it struck 726 XII | and gay, the notes of the Bihari fiddlers; one or two of 727 VI | gentlemen, as to receipt this bill," said Alexander, turning 728 IX | on which is a couple of billing doves in the middle of a 729 II | break my neck?"~ ~"I won't bind you too strictly. I admit 730 VI | obligations of the firm are binding upon both of us equally. 731 VII | a spot where some fifty birch-trees were withering in the sand 732 VII | to be there on the other birthdays also, for there, from year 733 IX | years ago, beginning from births and christenings, and going 734 II | The Latin proverb says, 'Bis dat qui cito dat - 'He gives 735 XIII | is the bite of all other bites they like the least. He 736 XXI | who was the cause of the bitterest moments of my life. I mean 737 III | don't know."~ ~"The bigger blackguard you are, the greater gentleman 738 VII | poor fellows are not to blame. Rely upon me in the future."[ 739 XI | and must not be[Pg 263] blamed like other men. The respect 740 XVI | position and altogether blameless; but, for that very reason, 741 II | quiet," remarked the banker, blandly. "Every one believes what 742 VII | is concerned, if they put blank paper before your honour; 743 X | No sooner had the old wet blanket disappeared than the two 744 III | slowly, while the trumpets blared all the louder.[Pg 59]~ ~ 745 IX | of beauty and enjoyment; blasé souls, who infected others 746 IV | thief, or a brigand, or a blasphemer?"~ ~And all the time he 747 VII | to mount aloft from the blazing firework and write the name " 748 VII | family. A village barber had bled him, whereupon he had somewhat 749 IV | that made his own heart bleed for her.[Pg 115]~ ~The sisters 750 III | run races in the fields. Bleeding profusely, it falls back 751 XI | much better have been born blind. Our very young men have 752 III | tightly round its neck, and blindly, helter-skelter, it had 753 XVIII | great deal, and there was no blinking it, not only because Rudolf 754 X | moment she let it go the blissful vision would vanish.~ ~By 755 I | displaying a number of nice blood-coloured banknotes.~ ~The gipsy squinted 756 VI | will not be much need of blood-letting, I fancy. What! not brought 757 XX | master, was impatiently blowing his horn in every direction. 758 IV | handkerchiefs to their eyes, and blubbered more than ever; but his 759 IV | the meaning of all this blubbering?"~ ~The girls raised their 760 XI | Szentirmay's hand. What blunders she must have made but for 761 II | Pardon me for anticipating so bluntly the decease of a dear relative!"~ ~" 762 XIX | chamber. The whole world was blurred before him, he saw nobody, 763 XIII | to speak of him, lest her blushes and the tremor of her voice 764 II | duels, go to no stag or boar hunts, undertake no long 765 IV | come here to me and make a boast of it!"~ ~"What! Which of 766 IV | labours. None of them ever boasted of having made any progress. 767 IV | the evening, each member boasts of how much he has done 768 VII | the noble antlered stags bobbed up and down; heaps of pheasants 769 XIII | attire, the close-clinging bodices exhibiting to admiration 770 I | horse-hair plumes, on their bodies were scarlet dolmans with 771 I | centre, surrounded by his bodyguard, was his lordship, in a 772 I | and learnt to know all its boggy and hilly turnings and windings 773 XVIII | not hide the fury which boiled up within him.~ ~"Why, how 774 IV | would find his daughters boisterously singing. His wife, too, 775 VI | a great advantage. This boldness, however, had the effect 776 II | they called chapeau à la Bolivar, a hat with so broad a rim 777 I | at such times would sit bolt upright as if determined 778 VII | at supper-time; and he so bombards the ears of God with my 779 II | In an hour's time that bon-mot will be repeated in every 780 II | million, and I'll give you a bond for two millions, payable 781 VI | or leg, and then if the bone is injured and he has to 782 VI | What! not brought your bone-saw with you, eh? My friend, 783 XVI | returned.~ ~The best and bonniest of the whole country-side 784 IV | offering your services as a book-keeper to any tradesman who will 785 XIII | up, lest the spurred and booted heroes around them should 786 IV | invisible shapes of tailors, bootmakers, milliners, mercers, and 787 III | young women, covering their bosoms with aprons, popped their 788 I | gipsy's throat with half a bottle at a time to assist the 789 I | Ah, ah, ah, Monsignore Bouche, then you are a gentleman 790 II | five-storeyed palace in the Boulevard des Italiens, which was 791 XVII | had, he said, to settle a boundary dispute between two counties, 792 III | a loud cry, and in three bounds was ahead of the others.~ ~ 793 III | of them would venture a bout with him, especially as 794 XI | your seat instead of merely bowing - Louis will lose his temper, 795 IX | Griffard, the banker."~ ~Fresh bowings and scrapings and shaking 796 XVI | friends, to at least three boxes on the ears. I remember 797 IV | more trouble than three boys. I should not refuse this 798 V | rode in a carriage and wore Brabant lace, while she herself 799 Note | with corrections noted in brackets.~ ~ Chapter III~ ~There 800 IX | their natures either to brag about or lament over it.~ ~ 801 III | the judge, reprovingly. "Bragging does not become a young 802 IV | him all the time, and who brags about the meerschaum pipe 803 VII | Tarisa. He always mixes bran with his meal."~ ~"Let him 804 I | moustache, pointed at each end, branched upwards towards the sky 805 III | front, adorned with green branches and crammed with merry holiday-folks 806 IV | untrue. She bought everything brand new. This very week she 807 Words | wine.~ ~Pálinka, Hungarian brandy.~ ~Primás, the conductor 808 I | shirt frills, and while the brass buttons of his coat were 809 XX | young artisan who had so bravely, so chivalrously, exposed 810 III | shall drink, dice, bully, brawl, cudgel the men, and befool 811 I | of a sucking deer, and a brawn of pickled salmon spawn. 812 IX | there was ever the slightest breach of good manners at Mr. Kecskerey' 813 II | pour-boires. These worthy bread-wasters know Abellino of old, for 814 IX | rooms, his suppers, his breakfasts were the usual rallying 815 III | customs, and to improve the breed of our horses by gathering 816 II | suspension-bridge to a rustic Breton bridge, composed of wood 817 IX | this he explained with such brevity that he had quite finished 818 I | you fellows! Put a warm brick under my dear uncle's feet! 819 III | and, whipping off his cap, briefly expressed the wish to compete 820 IV | of me! Am I a thief, or a brigand, or a blasphemer?"~ ~And 821 XVII | of them seems to be of a brighter green than the other: that, 822 IX | gentle creature sparkle so brightly.~ ~The hunter had fallen 823 XII | ladies themselves seizing brimmers and clinking them with him.~ ~ 824 II | that he stands at the very brink of death, and that his vital 825 XIX | and again with his stiff, bristly moustache, he began to smile 826 V | which could not even be broached in her presence.~ ~But the 827 III | baggy knee-breeches and broad-buttoned pelisse-like dolmans. Every 828 XV | of genuine Herculanean bronze, were the visiting-cards 829 VII | on every feature of his bronzed countenance. His moustache 830 V | journeyman. She would sit and brood for hours together, and 831 V | together, and after such broodings she would frequently say 832 IX | and his father and his two brothers all died of apoplexy much 833 Pre | learnt, in the sweat of their brows, to read a meaning into 834 I | leave Paris. C'est pour brûler la cervelle! It was enough 835 V | enough - blonde and[Pg 120] brunette, blue eyes and black; he 836 XXI | times a quick current of air brushes past my ear, as if some 837 IX | of a man!"~ ~Fanny began brushing the crumbs off the table-cloth 838 IX | covered by a slight veil of Brussels lace, which allowed her 839 III | Kutyfalvi was a big, strong brute of a man. He could take 840 III | And do you know how many buckets of wine you have drunk during 841 III | Bandi at last, and gallantly buckled to the attempt; but the 842 I | at the horses, and then, buckling to, dig the whole conveyance 843 VII | permanent Hungarian theatre at Buda-Pest."~ ~"Whoever wants play-acting 844 V | unmercifully, to tear off her budding leaves one by one, hurl 845 III | roared at him, but did not budge from the spot. On the contrary, 846 I | Really?"~ ~"Oh yes. He never budges from his native village; 847 XV | abducted some Hindu vestal from Budhur?"~ ~"Answer me first of 848 IV | or played at blindman's buff; elegant dandies diverted 849 III | found a seal on his white bulging shirt, search as you might, 850 III | were tomes of tremendous bulk, pressed down by a large 851 VI | capable of shielding even his bulky frame.~ ~A clapping of hands, 852 III | reeds. Hearing a sound like bull-baiting, he had hastened to the 853 III | only brought hither two bullocks - and little enough too. 854 VI | when a little judicious bullying might be necessary. This 855 IV | by absolutely impregnable bulwarks.~ ~Ah! an honest, honourable 856 I | the waggon, or they would bump their heads together, and 857 VII | Look to your cap, you bumpkin! Why don't you doff it, 858 I | them, I scatter among the bumpkins who till my fields, or, 859 VII | chock-full of longish tied-up bundles of documents, which Mr. 860 X | grand name, both rather burdens than blessings as a rule.~ ~ 861 IX | marriages to deaths and burials, till at last a half-snore 862 III | table arose, the company bursting with laughter, while Bandi, 863 XIII | army, and advanced into the bushy plain, sending the dogs 864 VIII | gravely with his fellow-men, busied himself about political 865 XX | merry groups of sportsmen bustled about the well-filled courtyard; 866 IV | too well, and he would lie busy all night long thinking 867 VIII | of any of these painted butterflies! I am not a gentleman, I 868 II | squares every one was either buying or selling Mississippi shares. 869 XVIII | Abellino, beside himself.~ ~The bystanders began to pity him, and the 870 V | accosted her in the streets and byways, and offered her their flattery, 871 V | lived there was an Hungarian cabinet-maker, who owned several houses 872 II | reproduced ruins, with agaric and cactus monsters planted amongst 873 I | and they feed it up in cages with nuts and almonds, and 874 V | is not such a very great calamity, after all. Those who have 875 V | bouquet. This was adroitly calculated upon by the sender. Any 876 VII | use of a ramshackle old calèche, to which he attached two 877 I | Ha, ha! That was a good calembourg of mine, c'est une plaisanterie. 878 X | there's not a name in the calendar that it has not appropriated;" 879 III | of them be only a growing calf, they are quiet enough, 880 XVII | little fairy, a Nero, a Caligula was a veritable philanthropist.~ ~" 881 XVII | breast, the poor lady grew calmer, and ceasing her sobbing, 882 I | himself lay down on the camp bedstead prepared for him, 883 I | nonchalance into one of the camp-chairs, and[Pg 32] threw one of 884 VII | heydukes brought in large candelabras, the clinking of glasses 885 I | phlegm, he neatly applied his candle to the rush-thatched eaves 886 IX | demonstration with a heavy candlestick; but he thought better of 887 V | proportionately with Fanny's candour. She frequently left the 888 XIII | say nothing of the whole canine army behind them, were hard 889 VI | opinion was a veritable canon to the jeunesse dorée of 890 VII | Come, my girl, make haste. Canst thou not choose thee a husband 891 XIII | then, snarling savagely, cantered on again. Even from afar 892 V | could sing these divine canticles with just such a beautiful 893 XXI | burial. Let the selfsame cantors come from Debreczen and 894 XIII | the party, on splendidly caparisoned rustic nags; and, last of 895 III | of his horse, caps fell, capes flew, and in mid-course 896 II | MAN.~ ~One of the richest capitalists in Paris at this time was 897 VII | entertainment.~ ~The feast went off capitally. Music, singing, the clinking 898 XI | pretensions, partialities, and caprices of a whole army of guests. 899 XII | Madame Kárpáthy won and captivated every heart. Of course she 900 XVII | handsome face; she was as captivating, as fascinating as ever, 901 XVII | variations.~ ~His wife was captivatingly amiable. Like a seductive 902 III | as Bandi Kutyfalvi's huge carcase smote the floor, and saw 903 III | all; and when it came to card-playing, he won whole heaps of money 904 III | savagely worrying its bit, and careering round and round. The spectators 905 V | lying in wait for her. Be careful, madam, and warn the young 906 XXI | should wither, or if any careless descendant of mine should 907 IV | church, say her prayers, and caress her cat; and whenever she 908 XVI | The Madonna of Mount Carmel, for all the world!" said 909 VII | aflame with purple, pink, carmine, and saffron hues. The whole 910 IV | their last year's dresses. Carnival time came round again, and 911 VII | the whirl of an unwonted carouse. But she was always married 912 VIII | romantic little valley in the Carpathians, to pay his ward a visit.~ ~ 913 XV | of the smartest set. The carpets were all woven by delicate 914 IV | light pottage flavoured with carroways, with a wheaten loaf broken 915 VII | whole host of managers, cashiers, scribes, shepherds, tenants, 916 IX | bring me a ball[Pg 224] of cashmir harras, a yard of pur de 917 VIII | down his cheeks. Then the cast-iron truisms of ancient experience 918 XII | not. He was wont to say Castis sunt omnia casta, "To the 919 XI | lived all her life in the castles of countesses.~ ~And when 920 III | has taken refuge, until casually passing csikóses have come 921 IV | For a whole fortnight this catastrophe was the sole talk of the 922 XIII | well-known to crayfish catchers and summer-bathers as a 923 X | to none of the recognized categories of rhetoric, and which continually 924 V | Stabat Mater Dolorosa" in the cathedral sublimely, and the heart 925 I | he immediately called the cats into the room to assist 926 VII | perceived that he had carried a cattle-book into the pulpit, was so 927 XVIII(11)| is to F. G. de Pitaval's "Causes célèbres et intéressantes." - 928 V | suspicion and made her more cautious, but flowers harmonize so 929 XIII | enemies[Pg 282] out, and ceaselessly threw glances behind him 930 III | four your Whitsun Kingship ceases!"~ ~"And what then?" inquired 931 XVII | poor lady grew calmer, and ceasing her sobbing, said in a determined 932 VII | in which he did not duly celebrate it; and any of his acquaintances 933 IX | ridicule. The dandy, who was celebrating his uncle's wedding! The 934 XVIII(11)| G. de Pitaval's "Causes célèbres et intéressantes." - Tr.~ ~ 935 IX | friend, such a cosmopolitan celebrity, who, only this very hour, 936 IX | Squire John with impatient celerity, while Palko clambered up 937 II | to the very depths of my cellar."~ ~"Ha, ha, ha! Well said, 938 II | has lain imprisoned for centuries in a coal-seam, and the 939 XVI | upon her.~ ~The official ceremonies were generally terminated 940 IX | mirror), and announced in his ceremonious salon voice, "Madame Fanny 941 VI | his pocket-book, and then ceremoniously holding the letter by the 942 I | Paris. C'est pour brûler la cervelle! It was enough to make me 943 I | readily learnt. All at once ces fripons de créanciers, those 944 XV | Pest, where he had elegant chambers and all his old renown, 945 IX | Sometimes a few glasses of champagne were drained to toast the 946 XI | love you, make herself your champion, and woe betide whomsoever 947 XVI | drawn Rudolf underneath a chandelier, whether that people might 948 IX | the very least! It was a changeling, surely!~ ~"To-morrow, then, 949 II | ears to the nose, and quite changing the character of the face. 950 XXII | vault there as the wailing chant ascended up through the 951 VIII | and left him in a perfect chaos of conflicting thoughts. 952 II | thing, which they called chapeau à la Bolivar, a hat with 953 XVI | worthy cavalier, saluting her chapeau-bas, and confidently drawing 954 XVII | to each of them its own characteristics, and associates little fables 955 VII | of them, I pray that the chariots of heaven may not keep your 956 VII | Your honour's donations and charities."~ ~"Don't undo them. You 957 X | was also in need of your charity; but the greatness of that 958 III | baillies, curators, and charity-founders also. On the table were 959 XVII | for using any particular charm or seduction, the young 960 I | a living one. C'est bien charmant! The Goddess of Fortune 961 X | are alike, at which I am charmed. I hope, however, my dear 962 I | gipsy on his return from Charon's ferry-boat.~ ~"Thank you," 963 IV | on. All of them were very chary how they opened a conversation, 964 VIII | unruly spirit was about who chased slumber from everybody's 965 III | carts on the high-road, and chasing the labourers out of the 966 III | punished either by corporal chastisement or imprisonment."~ ~"Bravo, 967 XVII | yourself as you please. Have a chat with my wife, or, if you 968 IX | extinguished, old women can chatter their best, especially when 969 XIII | consciousness; she no longer chattered oddly and unintelligibly, 970 IV | At home they were still chattering and exclaiming at the pretensions 971 IV | fancy, sister. She wears cheap dresses which she bought 972 IV | which is certainly the cheapest way of taking one's ease; 973 XI | That always holds him in check. I have tried it, and never 974 XIII | fellow had succeeded in checkmating all his pursuers and reaching 975 IX | the idea.~ ~And again he cheered up a bit, and returned to[ 976 XII | not prevent anybody from cheering him vociferously: we know,[ 977 XXI | honour and virtue; who would cherish and defend him better than 978 VII | hitherto most carefully cherished for years and years.~ ~On 979 I | coat were no larger than cherry pips, the monstrously puffed 980 III | in a large tub of water, chewing a couple of bitter almonds. 981 IV | attempt at sophistry or chicanery made him downright venomous, 982 I | the three personages who chiefly ministered to his amusement, 983 III | their gubas, the two hostile chiefs should encounter each other, 984 XIX | been taught to say in her childhood -~ ~"O God, my God, be merciful 985 V | marriage turned out unhappy and childless; and by the time his wife 986 IX | all, so to speak - a mere chimera, which is no good to anybody 987 IV | through door, window, and chimney.~ ~Mrs. Meyer had now to 988 XX | only the blue smoke of the chimneys showed that it was still 989 III | Another cut reached its neck, chipping away the skin with a sharp 990 XX | artisan who had so bravely, so chivalrously, exposed himself to death 991 I | and serve it up as the choicest of savouries!~ ~Nevertheless, 992 V | she might sing it in the choir at church.~ ~Teresa trembled 993 IV | his mouth that he nearly choked. "'Tis easy to say that, 994 I | mouth.~ ~"Look, look, he's choking!" cried several voices.~ ~ 995 IV | what my views are as to choosing a profession - I admit that 996 IV | words the whole family in chorus sent up a piping wail like 997 IV | for a time, lest the other chorus-girls should come to know of it, 998 VII | order that he might attend a christening, stacked the crop so hastily 999 IX | beginning from births and christenings, and going right on through 1000 VI | solemn procession on Corpus Christi Day! He'll never accept