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2001 XIII | herb pottage, dishes à la fourchette, and corresponding drams 2002 I | the gipsy went down on all fours and began sniffing around 2003 VII | poles; well-fattened heath fowl were slung over the shoulders 2004 XIII | all! Ask an enthusiastic fox-hunter how much he would have given 2005 I | and began to whistle a fragment of some vaudeville ditty 2006 IV | which I now sweep up the fragments of your pipe."~ ~Mr. Meyer 2007 VII | everywhere exhaled their fragrance; pasties of terrific size 2008 III | Rudeness used to be called frankness; bad language, originality; 2009 I | conclude that no mere idle freak had lodged them there by 2010 III | only - Mike, Andy, Larry, Fred, Ned, for instance. Me they 2011 IX | around them good-humoured, free-and-easy folks, instead of the usual 2012 IX | effect upon her; now she was freed from that restraint.~ ~Fanny 2013 XI | Englishman, a Spaniard, a Frenchman, and a Jew by a mere twist 2014 IX | had, full of passionate frenzy, plunged deeper and deeper 2015 VI | Boltay took the trouble to frequent the coffee-houses and the 2016 II | clean-shaved, and therefore all the fresher and more animated; his teeth 2017 V | entrusted could scarcely be a fribbler!~ ~Dame Kramm informed Fanny 2018 XV | his back began to hiss for fright.~ ~By way of answer the 2019 VI | and a voice capable of frightening even a bear back into its 2020 I | double and triple shirt frills, and while the brass buttons 2021 I | cross-roads, we call it."~ ~"Fripon! I am not speaking of the 2022 I | learnt. All at once ces fripons de créanciers, those villainous 2023 IV | Public entertainments, frippery, and splendour made frightful 2024 VII | surrounding villages ordered new frock-coats from Debreczin or Nagy-Kun-Madaras 2025 IV | present she was in short frocks, and her long thick hair, 2026 XV | himself out haughtily like a frog, and grunted in a strangulated 2027 X | the hubbub and innocent frolics of these two merry young 2028 IV | trick of posting off to the fruiterer's and bringing back a pine-apple.~ ~ 2029 XIII | darted off side-ways. But fruitless was all his craftiness; 2030 IV | had out at interest - the fruits of many years[Pg 92] of 2031 VII | tenants, and other small fry, arrived to recommend themselves 2032 VI | together with the pretty little fugitive, as Hebe, pouring wine into 2033 III | breast. He did not pursue the fugitives, but, turning back, and 2034 IX | husband is to his wife - fulfils all her desires, and gives 2035 III | a restive Transylvanian full-blood, with tail and mane long 2036 I | look at the carriage. Five full-blooded stallions were harnessed 2037 IV | cash.~ ~Moved partly by the fulness of his joy and partly because 2038 VII | János Kárlátó, and began fumbling about with it till he arrived 2039 VIII | is in the ascendant. He fumed and fussed and swore he 2040 III | on an important official function before ever a drop of pálinka 2041 XXI | 50,000 florins to form a fund for dowering girls of good 2042 XX | gave him, he recognized the funereal pine-grove which John Kárpáthy 2043 X | course it would be one of the funniest, merriest affairs in the 2044 I | an embroidered bekes, or fur-pelisse, whose sole instructions 2045 IV | prepared, if necessary, to furnish the most incontestible proofs, 2046 VIII | ascendant. He fumed and fussed and swore he would do dreadful 2047 VII | there's no need of so much fussing. What else is there?"~ ~" 2048 VIII | evil - all the rest is mere fustian. Go, then, towards thy Fate!~ ~ 2049 XVIII(11)| allusion, no doubt, is to F. G. de Pitaval's "Causes célèbres 2050 I | rolled wildly, and he was gabbling something unintelligible.~ ~" 2051 I | an impertinent nocturnal gadfly attempted to cultivate his 2052 XXI | omen of my death. Do not gainsay me, I beg. I am not afraid 2053 IX | rival. His heart was full of gall[Pg 234] and venom. More 2054 III | in full session, when the galleries were filled with the élite 2055 III | you from starvation or the gallows."~ ~"Excuse me," replied 2056 VII | kiss-in-the-ring, and other artless games, for the old men there was 2057 II | say if they clapped him in gaol for these same paltry francs?"~ ~ 2058 I | with a light, and after gaping sufficiently at the new-comer 2059 VIII | presented themselves in the garb of simple gardeners, but, 2060 IX | of virtue! Abellino as a garde des dames! Why, it's sublime! 2061 IX | having been engaged in gardening from an early hour, she 2062 XII | masterly creations of French gastronomic art, and of wines every 2063 XII | visible that day within the gates of the crowded mansion.~ ~ 2064 III | fashion, flowing curly locks gathered up into a top-knot, black 2065 III | the breed of our horses by gathering together all our young riders, 2066 VI | used to work in Monsieur Gaudehoux's atelier at Paris?"~ ~" 2067 II | man to have safely run the gauntlet of all these obstructions 2068 IX | generally acknowledged to be the gem of the evening, etc."~ ~ 2069 X | one looks for in a woman. Gentleness and prudence go hand in 2070 II | honour an elegant young gentlewoman with your hand. The first 2071 X | which generally interest gentlewomen, so that by the time Dame 2072 I(2) | Relay of horses: Ger. Vorspann.~ ~ 2073 XVI | expect to see there Count Gergely with his mother, young Eugene 2074 I | the[Pg 11] dike. He made a gesture of satisfaction towards 2075 II | buttoned by broad pendant gew-gaws, with stiff, inexpressibly 2076 VII | indeed actually given up the ghost, but was certainly very 2077 XXII | The last hymns sounded so ghostly down in the vault there 2078 III | and is only sensible of a giddy hankering for more. At such 2079 III | kept raising his feet as gingerly as if he were walking on 2080 I | him -~ ~"Here liest thou, gipsy-lad, never to laugh any longer,~ ~ 2081 I | belly of thine. A little gipsy-ragout is at your service, however," 2082 XVI | between the eyes of the giver, one does not do the same 2083 VI | Meanwhile Alexander had been glancing through the letter. He now 2084 IV | of excuses for the most glaring faults than put themselves 2085 VII | other things he had started glass-works, sugar-works, a silk-factory, 2086 III | who told falsehoods as glibly as if he lied from dictation. 2087 XX | bells, might have been seen gliding along through that featureless, 2088 IX | eye-glassed cavaliers to catch glimpses of their tiny beribboned 2089 VIII | from her recollection the gloomy-faced youth and the grotesque 2090 VIII | which would turn the tables gloriously upon the waggish coffin-sender. 2091 III | required not only that the glottis should remain immovable 2092 II | immediately, and give up his gluttonous habits, of which there is 2093 IV | profit out of, eh?"~ ~Meyer gnashed his teeth with rage and 2094 IX | the[Pg 231] services of go-betweens in such affairs? Well, it 2095 VII | his stick.~ ~"I'll have no goat among the sheep," said he. " 2096 III | short runs at them, like goats often do, throwing up the 2097 II | overgrown with creeping gobæas, or pyramids of modish flowers 2098 I | was piled high with silver goblets and dishes, and, reposing 2099 XVI | choose between two such goddesses? And how they walk, arm-in-arm. 2100 XIII | rather shy?"~ ~"The steadiest goer in the world; but perhaps 2101 III | country-folks loudly applauded the gold-bedizened costume till they perceived 2102 VII | s path. I pray that the golden-spurred csizmas of your felicity 2103 II | and enabling merry little goldfish to disport themselves, whence 2104 IV | your house is a Sodom and Gomorrah which opens its doors wide 2105 III | in fact, Mike had drunk good-fellowship with the whole company, 2106 XVI | offended.~ ~Kecskerey laughed good-humouredly. "Ma foi! that is a vain 2107 III | How much of ill-gotten goods has passed through your 2108 II | poison in them, but lots of goose-livers and other delicacies. Eat 2109 IV | pans to the nursemaid, and gossiped with her neighbours; the 2110 XVI | the former's husband as Governor-General, at the town-hall.~ ~Szentirmay 2111 Words | under-garment.~ ~Köntös, a gown, or robe.~ ~Ménes, a stud 2112 I | after another with all the grace and dexterity of a professional[ 2113 VII | standing by the table, "be graciously pleased to cast his eyes 2114 IV | evidently made up his mind to graft an endless series of pinks 2115 IV | whom he found in his garden grafting his pinks. To him he confided 2116 VII | such meagre fare, when the granaries and bacon-larders were in 2117 IX | room of that size, except a granary.~ ~So, at last, she had 2118 II | of the greatest Spanish grandee, and it is as useful to 2119 XIII | the world itself had even grander and finer things to say 2120 VI | gentleman.~ ~With silent, grandseignorial, superciliousness he surveyed 2121 VII | upon another year being granted him? Was he sure of another 2122 IX | Kecskerey, so far from granting his pardon, expressed himself 2123 XXI | joyful resurrection which God grants to every true believer. 2124 III | solid ground, where he could grapple with him better than in 2125 III | warmer blood into every grass-eating beast, then the young bulls 2126 I | poet's turn.~ ~"Pardon, gratia, your Excellency! I am composing 2127 IX | who expressed his intense gratification at finding the Nabob in 2128 III | paroxysms. Sometimes, in the gravest society, he would commence 2129 XVI | aspect did their Oriental gravity and splendid Oriental Köntöses 2130 I | and drew forth a large greasy pocket-book, which he half 2131 I | and hastening to grasp his great-uncle's hand. "But, indeed, evil-minded 2132 X | of your charity; but the greatness of that benefit only I could 2133 VII | morning the Dean arrived to greet him. The very reverend gentleman 2134 VII | their trumpets, and two grey-haired retainers advanced towards 2135 VII | girl's father, then?"~ ~A greyish-haired man lurched forward, holding 2136 II | prohibitions somewhat[Pg 55] grievous, but I know of a case which 2137 XV | Kecskerey made an angry grimace.~ ~"My dear friend," said 2138 IX | have to put his nose to the grindstone for a long, long time before 2139 III | skilfully thrown noose had gripped it round the neck, and the 2140 XIII | He descended among the grooms, and finding old Paul there, 2141 IV | entered, and he had[Pg 113] to grope his way down to the street. 2142 IV | in the claws of a pack of gross, rowdy, street-lounging, 2143 VII | insulted your honour so grossly?"~ ~"What business is it 2144 VIII | gloomy-faced youth and the grotesque old man, both of whom wanted 2145 XX | rapidly towards the pine grove.~ ~On reaching the trench 2146 IX | terra firma it was only to grovel at the feet of Teresa and 2147 VI | surely no need for much growling, thought he.~ ~Conrad, snorting 2148 IX | the trees on which money grows. Why, the whole world runs 2149 I | on follies of purely home growth. I have a whole mob of comrades, 2150 I | himself, but softly, for he grudged taking his pipe out of his 2151 XI | commanding a regiment; while her gruffest voice is sufficient to utterly 2152 IX | wrathful archangels had guarded her with flaming swords, 2153 Words | Hungarian country-dance.~ ~Guba, a shaggy mantle of coarse 2154 XVI | and began counting off her guesses on her fingers.~ ~"You have 2155 I | interessant. Then is there no guest-chamber here?"[Pg 30]~ ~"There is, 2156 X | mother's advice, a mother's guidance. Oh, a mother's watchful 2157 XVI | certainly be the first to plead guilty of contumacy; and with thoughts 2158 I | thing as a squirrel or a guinea-pig, which we keep in our rooms 2159 III | information given by the gulyáses, it was easy to trace the 2160 VI | have to fire off their own guns on the occasion of the solemn 2161 Words | Gulyás, a herdsman.~ ~Gunya, a peasant's jacket.~ ~Hegyalja, 2162 I | couple of pistols. Their gunyás only reached to the girdle, 2163 XIX | and utter a merry little gurgle, which those who were standing 2164 II | and waterfalls plashed and gurgled in marble basins, throwing 2165 VII | wine would run from the gutter for them, they were nevertheless 2166 III | society, he would commence ha-ha-ha-ing at the top of his voice. 2167 XVI | making their palace at Pest habitable. We shall get to the bottom 2168 XXII | where the dead have their habitation, and they laid him by the 2169 II | and give up his gluttonous habits, of which there is but little 2170 XVIII | whispering among Kecskerey's habitués, and they let it be known 2171 I | if the mud of your roads hadn't stopped me. And now give 2172 IX | wretchedness, and so old and haggard. Might I see her for an 2173 XVI | with his handsome wife."~ ~Hah! what impression will that 2174 VII | could have insured against hail at Pressburg, and there' 2175 III | the young noblemen were hail-fellow-well-met with Mike Kis; and here 2176 Pre | of every school at once hailed it as a masterpiece. It 2177 VII | levelled with the ground by hailstorms in the spring, and there 2178 IV | milliners, mercers, and hairdressers sat down and helped to consume 2179 II | had its own warden, with a halbert across his shoulder, and 2180 IX | dawn, serene, and open as a half-blown rose.~ ~Master Boltay was 2181 I | you like, for I am that half-crazy uncle of yours, that rich 2182 VII | 154]tottering home - some half-dead, others wholly drunk, and 2183 II | to time he sipped from a half-filled saucer some fluid or other, 2184 XI | that out already?"~ ~Fanny, half-laughing half-weeping, hid her head 2185 III | reached the goal a whole half-minute before Martin, and[Pg 69] 2186 IX | burials, till at last a half-snore from one quarter or another 2187 I | of the other, resembled a half-submerged giant.~ ~And thus ended 2188 XIII | just as Fanny fell back half-swooning from her saddle, he swiftly 2189 IV | pater-familias who, when he is half-tipsy, on Sunday afternoons preaches 2190 XI | Fanny, half-laughing half-weeping, hid her head in her friend' 2191 XXI | to read, on the table a half-written letter, which nobody has 2192 VI | mean by showing his dirty halfpence to me?" thought Abellino.~ ~" 2193 III | filling it with tobacco.~ ~"Halloa! Mike my son!" said he with 2194 VII | There's no need for so much hallooing, surely! Don't you see that 2195 XIII | of familiar voices in the halls and parlours, the baying 2196 IX | You used to know Rézi Halm, didn't you?"~ ~"Yes," faltered 2197 I | him on a chair, threw the halter round his neck, drew the 2198 III | avoid being lassoed by the halter-line which the horseman held 2199 I | C'est rien! We'll go halves. If it is a man, he need 2200 Words | lord-lieutenant.~ ~Fokos, a hand-axe.~ ~Friss-magyar, an Hungarian 2201 I | sending after him whole handfuls of kisses.~ ~Meanwhile the 2202 IX | Monsieur Griffard.~ ~They were handing round the tea, and the Countess 2203 I | the water; the reins were handled by an old coachman with 2204 IX | in fact, I never saw a handsomer man in my life. What eyebrows! 2205 III | which the horseman held handy.~ ~But now it was the huntsman' 2206 I | would you! I'll have you hanged for this. Here, you heydukes, 2207 VIII | out with the oath that hangs on your lips as loudly and 2208 III | only sensible of a giddy hankering for more. At such times 2209 XIII | man were spouses - and he happiest of spouses too![Pg 289]~ ~ 2210 IV | again.~ ~There are certain happy-minded people who never will believe 2211 I | listened patiently to this harangue. His eyes followed attentively 2212 VIII | for her a worthy, honest, hard-working, sensible young man, on 2213 XVII | did Fanny speak, but she hardened her face as well as her 2214 X | of her dogs instead of a hare. She could not understand 2215 VI | as between gentlemen.~ ~"Hark ye, Alexander Barna," said 2216 XI | absurdity makes him the most harmless of men. You cannot imagine 2217 II | name became one of the most harmonious of passwords. An elegant 2218 V | more cautious, but flowers harmonize so well with a young girl' 2219 IX | sleeping innocence, but harmonizing on the other hand with the 2220 I | full-blooded stallions were harnessed to it, and all of them were 2221 IX | out of my mouth than, like harpies incarnate, they fell upon 2222 IX | ball[Pg 224] of cashmir harras, a yard of pur de laine, 2223 XIII | contented himself therefore with harrying and worrying him as much 2224 VII | because, just in the middle of harvest-time, your honour required the 2225 III | you shivering at? Why, he hasn't lain down yet!"~ ~Mr. 2226 | Hast 2227 VII | expressing my regret for my hastiness - asking his pardon; and 2228 XVII | lonely, sleepless nights to hatch a plan of action. He would 2229 X | small. And although it is a hateful thing for such an insignificant 2230 | hath 2231 VIII | word, and the doors of the haughtiest, the most illustrious houses 2232 VI | smiling, and with nonchalant haughtiness, came strolling arm in arm 2233 VII | birthday gift, and they hauled it on to the table so that 2234 I | of, for he sat up on his haunches in the waggon, gaped majestically 2235 I | possibly reach that sweet haven till he had had endless 2236 VII | man capable of holding a hay-fork at a big hunt. Otherwise 2237 XIII | kept flying towards one haycock after another; as if he 2238 III | rushed to follow and see the hazardous enterprise. All the gentlemen 2239 V | gentleman was determined at all hazards not to approach the girl, 2240 III | front of them, with a long hazel-wood wand in his hand, strutted 2241 XIII | could see her impetuously heading the chase till she threw 2242 III | scar of a large and badly healed wound.~ ~On perceiving the 2243 III | councillors, and there drink their healths in a good bumper, which 2244 Pre | likely to appeal[Pg 6] to healthy English taste, which has 2245 XVI | Every one knew of him by hearsay as the noblest of men, and 2246 VIII | Master Boltay's, and, in the heartiest manner, invited him to go 2247 VII | his dear uncle, with the hearty wish that he might find 2248 VII | got black and sour from heat."~ ~"No, really! And would 2249 XIII | face was pale and her bosom heaved. It was just at this moment 2250 VII | and thirty red-breeched, heaven-ascended gipsy fiddlers, dance the 2251 XIX | tenderly strained it to her heaving breast, and kissed the face 2252 VI | pretty little fugitive, as Hebe, pouring wine into our glasses 2253 V | obstinacy, like a thorny hedge, had to be broken down. 2254 IX | had been carried up to the heights of heaven or down to the 2255 VII | paying their court to the heir-presumptive of the vast possessions 2256 XV | family, and rob the rightful heirs of their inheritance by 2257 I | of heaven into hell?"~ ~"Hélas!" sighed Abellino, drumming 2258 XVI | born into the world since Helen of Troy or Ninon d'Enclos. 2259 IX | not hear of the servants helping her; such a sweet pretty 2260 II | A man might now wander helplessly about for hours among densely 2261 VI | were their commands.~ ~"Hem! young man!" began Conrad, 2262 XVI | parted from Kecskerey. But henceforward an unusual air of disquietude 2263 VIII | while he, with his dull henchman Alexander, was but a stupid, 2264 XIII | to breakfast. Sausage and herb pottage, dishes à la fourchette, 2265 XV | vase[Pg 295] of genuine Herculanean bronze, were the visiting-cards 2266 VI | other second, Conrad, was an herculean, athletic-looking fellow, 2267 III | people, scattering flocks and herds, destroying the crops, overturning 2268 III | warm spring day, when the herdsmen are sleeping beneath their 2269 | hereafter 2270 V | in which she had rejoiced heretofore. She no longer conversed 2271 II | of the bridges, some like hermitages, others like lighthouses, 2272 III | expression, without a single hiccough. Now, such a feat naturally 2273 VII | a new item, to wit, the hides of the sheep and oxen, which 2274 XIII | there was neither stream nor hiding-place which might shelter him 2275 II | with stiff, inexpressibly high-reaching boots. There is no longer 2276 VII | friendly sympathy with his highly respected nephew so far 2277 VII | special permission from his Highness the Palatine to absent himself 2278 IX | off suddenly, all signs of hilarity disappeared, everybody tried 2279 VIII | had somewhere among the hills, whither in his first alarm 2280 I | to know all its boggy and hilly turnings and windings so 2281 XV | that you have abducted some Hindu vestal from Budhur?"~ ~" 2282 XXII | clanged thunderously on its hinges behind them.~ ~And the Nabob? 2283 VI | but raise it from your hip gradually upwards, so that 2284 I | illumination. He found he could hire three good houses for it 2285 XVIII | great resemblance to the historical playing-card already mentioned, 2286 VII | meanwhile will recite the history of Dobozy; the poet Gyárfás 2287 III | twiddling his thumbs, and hitching up his trousers with great 2288 III | big bony arms, and yelled hoarsely, "I'll kill you! I'll kill 2289 II | of possession he is in a hobble; while he who happens to 2290 I | if one of your lordship's hogsheads of wine went mad I would 2291 I | difficulty the heydukes hoisted him into his carriage. The 2292 III | nobody, for he was now the holder of a high office which did 2293 XI | political virtues. That always holds him in check. I have tried 2294 III | branches and crammed with merry holiday-folks with bright, streaming neckerchiefs.~ ~ 2295 I | words he whistled into the hollow end of his cane, flung himself 2296 I | member in consequence. At Homburg I have lost half a million 2297 XII | which provoked a roar of Homeric laughter from the assembled 2298 IX | together, and accompany Boltay homewards also. Teresa was already 2299 II | deprivations. Once I cured myself homœopathically, and for five weeks I was 2300 I | into the house, and he uses honey instead of sugar. Mad, eh?"~ ~" 2301 IX | Kárpátfalva, there to spend their honeymoon.[Pg 242]~ ~ ~ ~ 2302 I | peep inside.~ ~Beneath the hood of the carriage sat an aged 2303 I | or gubas, and drawn their hoods so low down over their heads, 2304 IX | himself had laid. He had been hoodwinked, rejected, worsted utterly.~ ~ 2305 III | fingers were so swollen with hoop and signet-rings that he 2306 II | accept in any case."~ ~"Ah! I hoped as much."~ ~"Only the assurances 2307 VI | Fanny. It was a case of hopeless love all round. He loved 2308 IX | still loves them, still hopes and believes that they may 2309 XX | atmosphere begins to envelope the horizon all round about, rising 2310 I | in the world. Nobody is horrified at a crab being cooked, 2311 I | What, then, is there so horrifying in the idea of cooking a 2312 X | end of the list, he was horror-[Pg 249]stricken to observe 2313 IX | such is life!~ ~Fanny, horror-stricken, waited to see what else 2314 II | your coach-makers, and your horse-dealers because you can't pay them, 2315 I | tschako-shaped kalpags with white horse-hair plumes, on their bodies 2316 VI | head to foot, cracking his horse-whip once or twice by way of 2317 I | surrounded by a heap of horseradish shavings, and with a bit 2318 IX | she had to let them be hospitable to her in their own way, 2319 VI | thirty kreutzers to the civic hospital, which amount the honourable 2320 III | beneath their gubas, the two hostile chiefs should encounter 2321 IX | back during a suspension of hostilities, and again on the shoulder 2322 V | her a splendid bouquet of hot-house flowers, in which was concealed 2323 VI | any particular glory in hounding men on against each other, 2324 V | malicious joy, with the house-keys tucked snugly beneath their 2325 IX | feet but two little old house-slippers, and consequently Mrs. Meyer' 2326 VII | crop could have been safely housed, and then there would have 2327 X | preparations for the coming housewarming which your husband has resolved 2328 VII | distinguished circles, where prudent housewives are wont to take their unfortunate 2329 III | woven into its mane; its housings too were of fox-skin. Martin 2330 X | assistance, not only in hovels, but in palaces. This lady 2331 III | means indisposed to see hovering around their darling daughters; 2332 IX | roaming dogs barked and howled as if they were hunting 2333 I | had nothing for it but to huddle himself in his mantle, whistle 2334 VII | pink, carmine, and saffron hues. The whole plain around 2335 VII | What do I care. Kiss and hug each other if you like, 2336 IV | all the time their father hugged himself with the thought 2337 X | they would snub her; if she humbled herself before them, they 2338 X | of him now. What! he, the humblest of retainers in his own 2339 IX | to give it to them? for humbling myself and going in rags 2340 III | returning to the scene of his humiliation; but he mingles no longer 2341 XXI | Kárpáthy, with Christian humility, approached the sacred elements, 2342 IX | corners of his vest, and humming a tune, and holding his 2343 I | because the innkeeper had humoured him, his intentions towards 2344 VI | out before him a bundle of hundred-florin notes in six lots, together 2345 XIII | his face: and she had a hundredfold more reasons now than ever 2346 X | lawsuit once again for the hundredth time or so, and the two 2347 XIX | Kárpáthy on the fair plains of Hunnia. It should be Zoltán - Zoltán 2348 IV | meerschaum pipe on which hunting-dogs were carved. The whole thing, 2349 XIII | the second was a silver hunting-horn, and the third a beautiful 2350 XIII | Early next morning the hunting-horns awoke the guests. Those 2351 II | duels, go to no stag or boar hunts, undertake no long sea voyage, 2352 V | budding leaves one by one, hurl her back again into the 2353 III | and with frightful force hurled him to the ground, horse 2354 Words | near Eger.~ ~Éljen, vivat! hurrah!~ ~Főispán, a lord-lieutenant.~ ~ 2355 III | bear race, that he never hurt any one whom he found lying 2356 III | the vanquished horseman, huskily, when they offered him a 2357 I | night in as deplorable a hut as this before now; it will 2358 III | the first of the shepherd huts scattered along the border 2359 III | welcomed by a thundering huzzah, which presently passes 2360 III | breathe.~ ~Shouting and huzzahing, the mob escorted the new 2361 IX | relations beyond the chains of Hymen; lively dames, who loved 2362 IV | as the stock-in-trade of hypocrites. I will therefore tell you 2363 I | and, reposing among the ice in large silver pitchers, 2364 XX | himself out there.~ ~In the ice-bound season the young man set 2365 I | about here?"~ ~"Ah! venir ici de Paris, c'est tomber du 2366 VI | whom she had believed to be identical with the benefactor whose 2367 IV | extraordinary faculty for so identifying himself with any complicated 2368 Pre | masterpiece of peculiarly idiomatic difficulty into fairly readable 2369 I | to conclude that no mere idle freak had lodged them there 2370 XVI | of you is so devoted, so idolatrous, that I would have every 2371 VI | they the great men, the idols of the nation, the popular 2372 II | arcades of jasmine with idyllic benches underneath, or marble 2373 X | offend their owners by such ignoble contact. Now and then the 2374 X | to return it, poor little ignoramus?"~ ~And, in fact, so confused 2375 IX | room to the other, feigning ignorance of the fact that the whispering 2376 II | CHAPTER II.~ ~A BARGAIN FOR THE SKIN 2377 VII | buttoned his coat comme il faut.~ ~"And now, sir, you 2378 II | villas and pavilions on the Ile de Jerusalem, Monsieur Griffard' 2379 III | befooled?"~ ~"How much of ill-gotten goods has passed through 2380 X | belonging to a family of ill-repute. The old gentleman was either 2381 XIII | first rumour of her severe illness brought her to her side. 2382 XXI | opened the door of a room illuminated by candles - Rudolf shrunk 2383 I | money he had got for this illumination. He found he could hire 2384 V | attempt has proved a fresh illusion."~ ~And here he again broke 2385 XV | find at London, and as many illusions as you'll find anywhere."~ ~" 2386 XVII | In all my life, no man's image has been in my heart save 2387 XII | and of wines every sort imaginable. The dinner lasted far into 2388 X | her, but what would this imaginary figure be like in reality?~ ~ 2389 XVII | as much as we have. The imaginations of our poets give to each 2390 IV | up and opened the door, imagining that it was some other merry 2391 IV | him come to the house."~ ~Imbecile, to give bread to the rats 2392 II | I can answer for nobody imitating me."~ ~"Good! Let us come 2393 IV | roses and strawberries, into immediate contact with the old lady' 2394 XVII | Like a seductive siren, she immeshed her husband in the magic 2395 I | laughing, and, wishing to immortalize it, exclaimed -~ ~"Where 2396 VII | who ever since he had been immured at college had never set 2397 XVI | filling it with his sublime impassioned words, till all who heard 2398 IV | answers, and once or twice his impatience went so far that he asked 2399 IX | straw hat, which might have impeded her mother's embraces. Teresa, 2400 XVI | bored. You see them with imperfect or unaccomplished toilets, 2401 VII | lower servants also four imperial ducats a head if they did 2402 I | the innkeeper in a loud imperious voice. "Throw open your 2403 III | rest. These were the more impetuous horsemen, who are wont to 2404 X | providence is of inestimable importance to a young wife!"~ ~Fanny 2405 V | if it be from Heaven. I impose but one condition: she must 2406 V | herself a happy future. I only imposed one condition before consenting 2407 I | aloud at the old fellow's impotent rage.~ ~"Come, come, don' 2408 X | and every other sort of impoundable article which it is the 2409 III | may do they are not to be impounded, but the sufferer has to 2410 IV | fenced about by absolutely impregnable bulwarks.~ ~Ah! an honest, 2411 XII | favour of his consort by impressing upon her servants to be 2412 VIII | extinguished, her earlier impressions and recollections. She was 2413 XX | tears.~ ~He noticed the imprints of the knees of the departed 2414 III | corporal chastisement or imprisonment."~ ~"Bravo, little brother! 2415 VI | felt that she had acted improperly in accepting money from 2416 III | our old customs, and to improve the breed of our horses 2417 XI | off," said Fanny. "Count Imre Szépkiesdy: that's his name, 2418 IX | henceforth and for evermore, inaccessible to himself!~ ~Why, if she 2419 VIII | million and a half; you are incalculably wealthy, like the rich man 2420 IX | mouth than, like harpies incarnate, they fell upon me, all 2421 XVI | good Rudolf, why are you so incensed against this poor woman? 2422 IX | to pay. Here, give me an inch of room at the table, and 2423 V | sobbing bitterly, related the incident. She fancied she was disgraced 2424 II | wench. Or it may be some old inclination which, after years and years, 2425 XV | greatly mistaken."~ ~"I rather incline to think that some one else 2426 II | complicated, bizarre, and incongruous as possible. It was not 2427 IX | who was wont to play no inconsiderable part in the refined society 2428 XVII | together; not one of them is inconstant. This is the bliss of flowers. 2429 IV | necessary, to furnish the most incontestible proofs, under his own hand 2430 XVI | way to put himself to any inconvenience without very good reason.~ ~ 2431 IV | was also far-famed for his incorruptibility. Whoever approached him 2432 IX | expenses of housekeeping increase every day, and if a girl 2433 IX | relieve Abellino of this incubus. As for Abellino, he withdrew, 2434 II | uncle, because he had the indecency not to die."~ ~"Then it 2435 II | fellow, and spin the case out indefinitely. Now, here am I, for instance. 2436 X | congregate on his forehead as the index finger left ever more and 2437 IX | said Fanny, putting her index-finger to her pretty little lips.~ ~" 2438 II | for it by eating no end of Indian corn, which was then very 2439 XVI | Mike Kis."~ ~Fanny toyed indifferently with her fan; not one of 2440 II | you not suffering a slight indigestion in consequence of an undigested 2441 VI | completely disconcerted him by indiscreetly tearing open the letter 2442 VI | the sort of man to accept indiscriminate laudation from any one, 2443 III | whom they were by no means indisposed to see hovering around their 2444 XV | leave him out of sight. An individual like him, once seen, may 2445 X | message to each one of them individually and to go on foot, or to 2446 I | seat two ambiguous looking individuals were sitting with their 2447 V | twelve months' time, he would induce this beauty to quit her 2448 XIII | you."~ ~"Nay, be not too indulgent. I warn you that will only 2449 VI | what I like to see. I hold industrious citizens in the highest 2450 X | watchful providence is of inestimable importance to a young wife!"~ ~ 2451 XVIII | laughing.~ ~"Oh, it is infamous!" exclaimed Abellino, beside 2452 IX | enjoyment; blasé souls, who infected others with the contagion 2453 XVII | and did not wish to be inferior to her in beauty.~ ~"I love 2454 XV | of overlooking his wife's infidelity in order to do you out of 2455 XXI | discharged from old age or infirmity. The general management 2456 IX | and public affront as that inflicted upon Fennimore by Abellino; 2457 III | the loud music aroused the inhabitants of the streets. Windows 2458 XX | showed that it was still inhabited.~ ~Alone on these dun-coloured 2459 X | whole world knew who had inherited that name - an old gentleman 2460 I | guests were approaching that inhospitable hostelry. These were the 2461 XVIII | combustion, dissection, or inhumation. The whole twelve volumes 2462 Pre | there is the formidable initial difficulty of contending 2463 III | was nicely covered with ink-blots - it was there that the 2464 III | pressed down by a large lead inkstand. The floor beneath the table 2465 XXI | and sticking them into the inkstands, which were placed all round 2466 VI | Conrad, and he drew from an inner pocket a sealed letter. " 2467 V | address behind for kind inquirers.[Pg 132]~ ~ ~ ~ 2468 XVII | Fanny looked at him inquiringly.~ ~"Yes, if only your ladyship 2469 XVI | after the most rigorous inquisition on your part. It does not 2470 IV | splendour made frightful inroads; and when the domestic table 2471 VI | Mr. Boltay caused to be inserted in the same newspaper in 2472 II | sort, a relapse into[Pg 42] insignificance may be very unpleasant indeed. 2473 IX | own mind the suggestion insinuated above as follows -~ ~"But 2474 I | fell a-laughing at this insipid jest. Such witticisms formed 2475 X | beseechingly at Fanny, as if to insist that she was not to praise 2476 VIII | her by her guardian, the inspiration of these sublime moments 2477 XXI | hands of those who would inspire him with all noble ideas; 2478 XI | see[Pg 266] her, for she inspires them with as much terror 2479 V | from me the first monthly instalment, and employ it conformably 2480 IV | counting-house clerk in a public institution, and blessed with five beautiful 2481 V | go to the precentor, who instructed her with great enthusiasm, 2482 I | fur-pelisse, whose sole instructions were that wherever he might 2483 VI | voice - ~ ~"Have you your instruments with you? Then, mind you 2484 VI | where female protection was insufficient.~ ~Boltay accepted the guardianship 2485 V | hundred florins a year from an insurance office for life, with one 2486 X | like! Every one admires his intellect and his great qualities, 2487 VIII | pastimes, spoke sensibly and intelligibly at the Diet; nobody could 2488 XVI | That your ladyship intends to spend the coming winter 2489 X | and this impression was intensified by the low cut of her dress, 2490 I | to know."~ ~"Ah, ça, 'tis interessant. Then is there no guest-chamber 2491 XVIII(11)| Pitaval's "Causes célèbres et intéressantes." - Tr.~ ~ 2492 I | angrily around him.~ ~The interior of the waggon presented 2493 IX | approbation, or other stimulating interjections. Such occasions are the 2494 VI | Alexander began looking at his interlocutor with surprise and annoyance.~ ~" 2495 VIII | Nabob both externally and internally. His frame had grown so 2496 XIX | the nurses thought well to interpret the little suckling's discourse 2497 X | was capable of a double interpretation, each alternative of which 2498 X | appropriated;" which meant, being interpreted, "Your family is not very 2499 VII | inquired Master Jock, interpreting her desire. "Where is the 2500 XI | has a trick of perpetually interrupting the person talking to her 2501 IX | Abellino; but the company intervened, and dragged Fennimore back.~ ~" 2502 XII | into which he very neatly interwove every applauded phrase which 2503 XVI | in consequence of your intimacy with Madame Kárpáthy, rub 2504 IV | found each other's company intolerable, and all of them eagerly 2505 X | biting, staccato sort of intonation, gazing vaguely into vacancy.~ ~" 2506 XII | from window to window and intoning beneath each one a sleep-compelling 2507 II | the Hungarian language, 'Intra dominium et extra dominium,' 2508 XV | himself, as he perceived the intruder in the doorway; and it seemed 2509 XIII | Quite well," replied the invalid, and she tried to smile.~ ~ 2510 III | realm, who, in his cups, invariably cudgelled all his boon companions; 2511 IV | it; and they will rather invent all sorts of excuses for 2512 VIII | never at the end of his inventions, and had nothing else to 2513 XX | death, an angel with an inverted torch.~ ~The horseman stood 2514 XV | make very conscientious investigations concerning the proper descent 2515 II | and so on. You will be investing your money well, for the 2516 XII | Squire John himself was invincible as a toast-responder, and 2517 IV | domestic table was spread, the invisible shapes of tailors, bootmakers, 2518 IX | naturally sent out all the invitations, as the money for the entertainment 2519 XV | old Squire John himself invites his cronies to Kárpátfalva, 2520 XIII | And now the bell rang inviting the guests to breakfast. 2521 X | them on this earth."~ ~An involuntary, an unconscious sigh arose 2522 XII | noble-minded man. The Count inwardly cursed and swore at meeting 2523 XXI | early spring to late autumn, irises and amaranths, - flowers 2524 I | said[Pg 39] Abellino, with ironical sympathy. "Don't go so quickly 2525 XVIII | beginning to rally Abellino, and ironically beg him not to suspect them 2526 IV | can reckon me as your most irreconcilable enemy, and then the God 2527 III | king, then? The crown was irrecoverably trampled to pieces in the 2528 XIII | the reputation of being irresistible."~ ~"I am not jealous, your 2529 III | thereby that he burst into an irrestrainable fit of laughter on the spot, 2530 IX | I?" asked Abellino, irritably.~ ~"Yes, you. Did you not 2531 I | strident voice, sent an irritating farewell after it with a 2532 VII | forecourt where Abraham, Isaac, and the other Jewish patriarchs, 2533 XIII | when the imposing cavalcade issued from the courtyard of Kárpáthy 2534 XIII | end of the long avenue of Italian poplars, they perceived 2535 II | palace in the Boulevard des Italiens, which was not there at 2536 IV | week. Very often his tongue itched to ask a question or two, 2537 IV | CHAPTER IV.~ ~A FAMILY CURSE.~ ~In 2538 I | a bird's head carved in ivory, which a beau with any pretensions 2539 II | and bark, and covered with ivy. And each of these bridges 2540 VII | silver nails, the name - J-o-h-n K-á-r-p-á-t-h-y.~ ~Horror 2541 Note | There was a pipe in Master Jack's [Jock's] mouth, and he 2542 X | were shod with as tight jackboots as the ones he was himself 2543 Words | herdsman.~ ~Gunya, a peasant's jacket.~ ~Hegyalja, the Tokay district.~ ~ 2544 III | mountain into a quarry, the jagged stones of which smashed 2545 IV | not to put her brother in jail, and to abandon criminal 2546 I | one, eh? That's nothing. James Stuart was of royal blood, 2547 I | and each of the three had jangling bells around his neck, to 2548 VII | the accounts of his agent János Kárlátó, and began fumbling 2549 XVI | impression upon Fanny, and jarred upon her nerves. Every time 2550 II | would come upon arcades of jasmine with idyllic benches underneath, 2551 XIII | the dangerous beast in his jaws for more than one moment, 2552 III | threw back its head with a jerk. A skilfully thrown noose 2553 II | pavilions on the Ile de Jerusalem, Monsieur Griffard's pleasure-house 2554 III | came, besides his court jesters, those of his boon companions 2555 VIII | you?"~ ~"Ah, sir, you are jesting. Why should you give it 2556 II | my pulse then," he said jestingly, "but put your hand, not 2557 VII | Tokay spouted upwards in a jet of topas yellow.~ ~Every 2558 II | marble basins, throwing jets of water into the air, and 2559 II | congratulate him on this jeu d'ésprit, but the other 2560 VI | a veritable canon to the jeunesse dorée of the day. The other 2561 VII | Abraham, Isaac, and the other Jewish patriarchs, side by side 2562 I | soundly. Both their heads were jig-jogging right and left, and only 2563 I | dangled all[Pg 27] sorts of jingling-jangling trinkets, but the boots 2564 IX | Meyer that he had a little job to see to; he had[Pg 209] 2565 VIII | Boltay was all radiant and jocose, but when he had departed, 2566 VII | by way of a joke, also joined himself to them, but Master 2567 Pre | therefore, be my apology to Dr. Jókai and, as I trust, my claim 2568 VII | company, who laughed and joked all the way from the church 2569 I | Kárpáthy whom the country folks jokingly call Master Jock, and who 2570 IV | returned, and a perpetual jollity took possession of it. The 2571 I | each side, and, whenever a jolt came, they clung heavily 2572 I | thrown backwards by the jolting of the waggon, or they would 2573 IX | uncle's wife like a new Joseph fleeing from a new Madame 2574 VII | emotion did not interfere one jot with the good humour of 2575 VI | gentlemen wished him bon jour. He responded in a similar 2576 IX | correspondents, who describe in their journals everything that they hear, 2577 XIII | hearing their names mentioned, joyously leaped and bounded in their 2578 XXI | kinsman of mine before God's judgment-seat with being a bad man, a 2579 IV | her charms influence his judgments, he would treat her so unceremoniously 2580 VI | those cases when a little judicious bullying might be necessary. 2581 VII | force, but he would always jump up again, and remain standing 2582 IV | past enjoying what their juniors liked. But towards nobody 2583 III | run of all festivities and junketings that may be going on; and 2584 IV | the supreme court, eminent jurists whose opinions he could 2585 X | Squire Kárpáthy's director jurium has been filling my ears. 2586 II | suppose? Would it not be juster to pay them up in full?"~ ~" 2587 XIII | cap, and considers himself justified in making as much row as 2588 XVI | much in that past which justifies the world's judgment."~ ~" 2589 VII | master, to whom homage was justly due. On the following day 2590 VII | nails, the name - J-o-h-n K-á-r-p-á-t-h-y.~ ~Horror sealed every mouth, 2591 Words | Hegyalja, the Tokay district.~ ~Kaczagány, a fur over-mantle.~ ~Kalpag, 2592 I | facings, over which fox-skin kaczagánys were cast as a protection 2593 XV | nigger lad talking in his Kaffir tongue to the new arrival, 2594 VII | is the account of Taddeus Kajaput, the overseer of the Nyilasi 2595 VII | gipsy fiddlers, dance the Kálla duet in velvet pump-hose. 2596 Words | Kaczagány, a fur over-mantle.~ ~Kalpag, the Hungarian tall fur 2597 I | were[Pg 13] tschako-shaped kalpags with white horse-hair plumes, 2598 VII | accounts of his agent János Kárlátó, and began fumbling about 2599 VI | Honourable Abellino Kárpáthy, of Kárpáth."~ ~"Thank you."~ ~So his 2600 Note | forget his promise to honour Kárpáthfalva [Kárpátfalva] with his presence 2601 Note | the latest tidings from Kárpáthfálva [Kárpátfalva], notably of 2602 XI | Let us proceed. Count Karvay Louis, a true man of the 2603 III | trustees of the estate of Kázmér Almásfalvi, for 120,000 2604 XI | that, had not Fanny had the keenest appreciation of her friend' 2605 Words | inn.~ ~Csikós, a guard or keeper of horses in the steppe.~ ~ 2606 I | peasant ditties to him; and he keeps a[Pg 35] whole palace for 2607 XXI | or him a more pleasant keepsake. My third good friend is 2608 XI | heart, and there are always keys wherewith to open a good 2609 I | You see, it is of no use kicking up a row," said[Pg 39] Abellino, 2610 IX | and many others of a like kidney, were the sort of guests 2611 VII | deal cures but a little kills."~ ~"Well, well, let us 2612 XVI | acquaintance? Flora was so kind-hearted that she would have raised 2613 XI | your back; but that is the kindest thing you can expect from 2614 IV | pater-familias, "that the old kindliness which you formerly showed 2615 V | opportunity of doing little kindnesses to Teresa, which she could 2616 IX | recommend my dear wife to your kinsmanlike regard!"~ ~Ah, this was 2617 III | if there were any noble Kises who remembered that branch 2618 VII | played at blindman's-buff, kiss-in-the-ring, and other artless games, 2619 IX | content to be her servant, her kitchen-wench, if only my daughter be 2620 XVI | downright libels, but he had the knack of probing down into the 2621 II | had much to do with the kneading of dough.~ ~No sooner did 2622 III | in short, strong, baggy knee-breeches and broad-buttoned pelisse-like 2623 V | paradise. Swarms of those knight-errants who have nothing else to 2624 XVI | clattering escort of twelve knightly horsemen. He himself was 2625 XVII | still!~ ~When there was a knock at the door she was scarce 2626 III | exuberance of high spirits, he knocks any one about a bit, he 2627 Words | a short under-garment.~ ~Köntös, a gown, or robe.~ ~Ménes, 2628 XVI | gravity and splendid Oriental Köntöses give them. Several of the 2629 XVII | at their castle at Nagy Kun Madaras; he would spend 2630 III | high-road, and chasing the labourers out of the fields into the 2631 XI | daughters to thread the labyrinths full of Eleusianian mysteries 2632 IV | heart of the good father was lacerated by this spectacle. So Matilda 2633 VIII | yes; thou wilt have no lack of reasons, but it is no 2634 IV | should be so! Now, the Meyers lacked this instinct. The curse 2635 II | uncle himself, who is so lacking in discretion as to sufficiently 2636 III | Number two was the famous Laczi Csenkö, the owner of the 2637 XVII | She wanted to speak to her lady-companion, she said. She traversed 2638 X | exceedingly obliged to your ladyships for giving me so much encouragement."~ ~" 2639 IX | harras, a yard of pur de laine, or poil-de-chevre - - "~ ~ 2640 I | villa on the shores of the Lake of Como. I have whole folios 2641 VII | heads of the guests, and the lamb-maiden had been caught in the whirl 2642 VII | girl who brought the votive lambs was wont to sit. But now, 2643 IX | either to brag about or lament over it.~ ~Now a very singular 2644 IV | child with all these[Pg 114] lamentations, and it was at last determined 2645 II | outside eternally burning lamps, which were replenished 2646 II | aid of a hastily applied lancet, to do you out of your property, 2647 II | especially necessary in foreign lands to keep up the national 2648 V | slender, ideal creature, with languishing black eyes and a rosy, chubby 2649 I | and observing that the lankiest of the two sleepers was 2650 III | year before. He was a tall, lanky stripling, with a large 2651 XXI | Vidra the jester, and the Lapayi property. May he live there 2652 I | been basted with the finest lard and flavoured with good 2653 IX | and then take a plate of lard-dumplings and a tumbler full of wine 2654 VI | poplar woods - Abellino, the large-limbed Conrad,[Pg 148] and Livius. 2655 II | good prospect of one of the largest landed estates of Hungary 2656 IV | planted with cockscombs and larkspurs. When, however, Mr. Meyer 2657 III | nicknames only - Mike, Andy, Larry, Fred, Ned, for instance. 2658 III | beside himself with rage, lashed at the ravished flag with 2659 XIX | he drooped them the long lashes lay conspicuous on his chubby 2660 III | suffocating pressure of the lasso about its neck, turned towards 2661 III | s head, and throwing the lasso-line across his shoulder, set 2662 III | the reeds to avoid being lassoed by the halter-line which 2663 III | afterwards: among them was the last-comer also. The Whitsun King was 2664 XII | conscientiously abstain - firstly and lastly because such things as dinner-tables 2665 III | Sometimes the struggle lasts for hours on a plot of meadow, 2666 VI | a way they had got into lately.~ ~Suddenly a handsome carriage 2667 VII | was looking down from the latticed-window into the courtyard; even 2668 VI | to accept indiscriminate laudation from any one, so he somewhat 2669 IV | sir, you have made it the laughing-stock of the world. You have traded 2670 XV | feeling of satisfaction, launched the remainder of the crumpled-up 2671 I | farewell after it with a lavish accompaniment of resounding 2672 X | has fallen to his lot so lavishly that it[Pg 251] has become 2673 X | to discuss their eternal lawsuit once again for the hundredth 2674 IV | always said "friend" to lawyers' clerks, lackeys, and even 2675 III | exciting.~ ~"And now he's laying on the whip!" cried he. " 2676 I | of one of their ancient leaders who led them out of Asia."[ 2677 X | correspondingly extraordinary leanness, embellished, why I cannot 2678 XVII | slightest hesitation she leant on Rudolf's arm.~ ~He fancied 2679 VIII | who pursues her rays and leaps across dizzy abysses in 2680 VII | foundation of a Hungarian learned society."~ ~"Not a farthing 2681 XX | four hardy hounds in a long leash.~ ~"I see the trail of a 2682 XXII | CHAPTER XXII.~ ~LEAVE-TAKING.~ ~Every one in the castle 2683 I | during the course of this lecture, turning incessantly in 2684 IX | eh?"~ ~"Oh, it is only a left-handed marriage," said Abellino, 2685 I | Where are his lordship's leg-warmers? Hie! you fellows! Put a 2686 XXI | these dispositions, 'leaving legacies to trees and shrubs!'"~ ~" 2687 VII | unaffected devotion was legible in every feature; and when 2688 IX | his being a member of the legislature, had clean forgotten, though 2689 VII | was regarded as the one legitimate excuse.~ ~The festivities 2690 X | the best procurable at Dr. Legrieux's, No. 11, Rue Vivienne, 2691 IV | to you, and if you have leisure to quit your guests for 2692 VII | pockets "extra large;" the Lemberg firework-makers collected 2693 III | and you ought to stick lemons on the tips of their horns, 2694 III | them at home. Nay, he even lent a lot to Franky Kalotai, 2695 VII | That is the report of the lessee of the opal mines. He has 2696 VII | Master Jock. "The corn was levelled with the ground by hailstorms 2697 XI | communicate them to innocent souls liable to err; to warn and call 2698 II | sea voyage, enter into no liaison with any ballet-dancer; 2699 XXI | forgiven him; but I should be a liar and a hypocrite before God 2700 XVI | not circulate downright libels, but he had the knack of 2701 IX | this or that famous artist; liberal-minded amazons, who extended their 2702 III | stirrups, was unable to liberate himself.~ ~The baited bull 2703 XXI | to take his own life, for libertines do not readily become suicides. 2704 III | falsehoods as glibly as if he lied from dictation. Number four 2705 I | epitaph over him -~ ~"Here liest thou, gipsy-lad, never to 2706 I | borrow warmth from their life-giving magnetism.~ ~All night long 2707 III | do that," replied Martin, lifting his eyebrows, twiddling 2708 V | precentor happened to hear light-hearted Fanny sing the snatch of 2709 I | dark. Mr. Peter Bús, with a lightened heart, knocked the ashes 2710 XX | it; perchance he will be lighter of heart when he has wept 2711 II | hermitages, others like lighthouses, and their own peculiar 2712 VII | youths present the one that liketh thee best, for married thou 2713 XX | afternoon the dark-grey, lilac-coloured atmosphere begins to envelope 2714 III | Everybody had got beyond the limit where the good humour begotten 2715 II | the science of finance was limited to his dealings with the 2716 VII | could be found within the limits of seven villages. She brought 2717 I | his arms and legs grew limp and feeble, and he involuntarily 2718 XIII | simply ran straight on, limping and stumbling on three legs. 2719 X | her on in front while she lingered behind to rally Squire John 2720 Pre | language. Only those few hardy linguists who have learnt, in the 2721 VI | competition among these young lions as to which of them shall 2722 VII | szilvorium and öszibaraczk liqueur, ten years old, with wheat-bread 2723 III | companions; but he had the liquid capacity of a hippopotamus, 2724 XVII | Rudolf.~ ~"Yes, as pearls," lisped Fanny, thinking it quite 2725 XVI | together?"~ ~"I am a good listener."~ ~"During the last few 2726 XVIII | for murderers, including lists of poisons both vegetable 2727 I | array of serving-men, who lit up the whole house with 2728 XV | expression to be taken in the literal sense of the word. He was 2729 Pre | the manifold mutations of literary fashion, in Hungary as elsewhere, 2730 IX | reserve and suspicion with the liveliest attention was undoubtedly 2731 VIII | honourable fellow, a good liver, a diligent mechanic, and 2732 II | strutting about in the silvered liveries of lackeys, who hand the 2733 III | the fellow in the scarlet livery of a heyduke, whose duty 2734 IX | would play no more. He was livid with rage. He had lost his 2735 I | or two hundred thousand livres or so, a mere bagatelle 2736 XIII | herself to make him happy and load him with joy.~ ~During these 2737 VI | 150]~ ~Meanwhile they were loading the pistols, dropping the 2738 II | others were weighed down by loads of fruit. Among these orange 2739 IV | carroways, with a wheaten loaf broken up in it. The Meyer 2740 I | there were coachmen who had loafed about the district so long 2741 Words | Betyár, a vagabond, a loafer.~ ~Bunda, a mantle.~ ~Csárda, 2742 IX | love me any more. She will loathe me."~ ~"Make your mind easy 2743 VII | both sides, for, like a locomotive, he could only get along 2744 I | that no mere idle freak had lodged them there by the side of 2745 XVI | to the county town where lodgings had been provided for the 2746 III | conveyance. Number three was Lörincz Berki, the most famous hunter 2747 XVI | comprehensible much which poetical logic and the imagination label - 2748 III | savage beast transfixed its loins with his horn. Never again 2749 VII | think they had. There's that Lokodi with four others. He himself 2750 III | this drinking-bout began to loll about unsteadily. Everybody 2751 III | his movements, whether he lolled back on a chair, or leaned 2752 XV | pleasure as you'll find at London, and as many illusions as 2753 III | wine from where they sit in long-eared rummers."~ ~"Any more commands, 2754 X | there in amazement, with her long-handled parasol in her hand - like 2755 I | mantle, whistle for his long-legged steed, mount on its back, 2756 X | purpose!), "and I have a long-standing legal suit with Squire John 2757 VII | child who knows that some long-wished-for amusement awaits him. He 2758 XXI | which of us twain will live longest, or die first?"~ ~The Squire 2759 XI | wish, but one desire - the longing to be under the sod as soon 2760 V | her dreams, her ambitious longings, and her disappointment. 2761 VII | carriage was chock-full of longish tied-up bundles of documents, 2762 XX | preserves of the Kárpáthy estate loomed darkly before him, and by 2763 V | So the chase was let loose after the tender roe that 2764 IV | nerves, would his tongue be loosened, and a fine flood of moral 2765 VI | am much honoured by their lordships' offer," said he, turning 2766 IX | the winners and paid the losers. His mind was elsewhere.~ ~ 2767 IX | And still he kept on losing.~ ~He scarce noticed now 2768 IV | fact, however, Mr. Meyer lounged about the coffee-houses 2769 III | red-liveried menial was lounging about the gate, from whom 2770 VII | him - a short, thick-set lout who happened to have a well-to-do 2771 XV | inquired Mr. Kecskerey. "Some love-adventure, some notable affair, I' 2772 XVII | pretence.~ ~Rudolf whispered lovingly in her ear, "Come now, shall 2773 III | face, rubbing foreheads, lowing and walking round and round 2774 VIII | long time loved you truly, loyally, and ardently."~ ~"I know. 2775 XII | patriot, as usual, related his lubricous, equivocal anecdotes without 2776 I | proper name for a gentleman? Luckily for me, my father died betimes, 2777 IX | my friend! the proverb 'Luckless at cards, lucky at love,' 2778 IX | mother, and look after the lucrative business herself unaided? 2779 I | far-extending dike. The lumbering old vehicle on its high 2780 IX | money than be left in the lurch by the girl now.~ ~Presently 2781 VII | A greyish-haired man lurched forward, holding his cap 2782 X | secret insinuation, would lurk behind all the friendly 2783 XIII | pursuers and reaching his lurking-place. The hounds were now far 2784 IV | No, they were brought up luxuriously, splendidly; their vocation 2785 I | the other as villainous as Macbeth's witches; there perfume, 2786 V | had forewarned her of the machinations of others, and acted himself 2787 II | death, and that his vital machinery is so completely out of 2788 IX | foolish girls, each one madder than the other; for if they 2789 IX | enclosed, addressed to - "Mademoiselle Fanny de Meyer avec famille."~ ~ 2790 IV | knowledge and consent; and in a madhouse if they are done without 2791 IX | rate, he came to me like a madman and asked what had become 2792 XVI | Mr. Kecskerey's.~ ~"The Madonna of Mount Carmel, for all 2793 VII | Lakody first exhibited a magic-lantern, and afterwards, with the 2794 XVI | which the assembly-room with magical rapidity was converted into 2795 I | warmth from their life-giving magnetism.~ ~All night long he had 2796 XIII | listen while his name is magnified by another; she must look 2797 I | nice, I mean. The worthy magyars name their departments after 2798 II | open the wings of the lofty mahogany folding-door which led into 2799 IX | worse, have to slave like a maid-of-all-work, be saddled with a lot of 2800 III | youth's shoulders like long maidenhair, leaving only his face free, 2801 IV | or religion, or God, or maidenly innocence, subjects which 2802 VII | pastimes, the youths and maidens played at blindman's-buff, 2803 XXI | obligation it shall be to maintain a conservatory near to the 2804 I | make me blow my brains out. Mais v'la! Fortune favoured me. 2805 VII | seen. At last I asked a maize-reaper I fell in with, where on 2806 I | haunches in the waggon, gaped majestically for a moment, then condescended 2807 VII | desire and pray that the Majesty of Heaven may suffer your 2808 IV | partly ridiculous, partly malevolent old lady heard of her younger 2809 Note | főispán.~ ~ Chapter XII~ ~Mr. Malnay [Málnay] dreamt of parties~ ~ 2810 IV | of his way as far as the Malomligeti pond. What a nice pond! 2811 III | even hear dear, thoughtful mammas making inquiries about the 2812 I | carried to the csárda on man-back instead of on horseback. 2813 XXI | or infirmity. The general management of my estate I leave to 2814 VII | following day a whole host of managers, cashiers, scribes, shepherds, 2815 I | were attached to it, whose manes almost swam in the water; 2816 III | in the monstrous Cyclops mangling his weaker antagonist out 2817 II | accordingly. The Mississippi mania whirled him along with it 2818 XXI | against her! May his life make manifest what ours ought to[Pg 351] 2819 III | originality; violence, manliness; and frivolity, nonchalance. 2820 XIII | By a series of masterly manœuvres he turned the fox back towards 2821 XXII | him down into those silent mansions where the dead have their 2822 I | in their shaggy woollen mantles, or gubas, and drawn their 2823 XVII | ladyship look at those two maples standing side by side? What 2824 II | banner the last number of Marat's newspaper, whereupon it 2825 IX | down on both sides over her marble-smooth shoulders and ravishingly 2826 IV | short time she will be a marriageable girl. I have not come to 2827 IX | through engagements and marriages to deaths and burials, till 2828 IX | quick, cut him to the very marrow. Abellino turned pale and 2829 XIII | 287]~ ~ ~ ~CHAPTER XIV.~ ~MARTYRDOM.~ ~After this event Lady 2830 I | any one at home?"~ ~This marvel brought forth Peter Bús 2831 II | actually was. His hair was of a marvellously beautiful white, but his 2832 II | obstructions and admired all these marvels, he would, at last, somehow 2833 III | dénoûment of this humorous masquerade.~ ~And at last rosy Whitsun 2834 I | been converted into a solid mass of mud, and then proceed 2835 IV | bonnets, while the other was mastering her noble profession, or 2836 I | of good things.~ ~"Look, Mat!" said he to the dog, whereupon 2837 IX | but a bagatelle for such a matchless creature!~ ~ ~ ~At night, 2838 XVII | nut tree, and that is no mate for it. How pale, how yellow 2839 IV | first place, she said, the material of the dresses was not very 2840 IX | time, produced her writing materials and wrote a short letter, 2841 II | elegant soirée, a genial matinée, a horse race, an orgie, 2842 VII | father parts; and there's a matron, well advanced in years, 2843 XXI | before the others. Even the matter-of-fact lawyer spoilt his nib, and 2844 IX | asking leave of anybody.~ ~Maturing thus her amiable designs, 2845 | Maybe 2846 III | his cap, with a tuft of meadow-sweet in it, as gallantly as any 2847 VII | always mixes bran with his meal."~ ~"Let him alone; he has 2848 IX | they said to each other at meals.~ ~The person who observed 2849 II | by an artificial stream meandering in the most masterly style 2850 IV | instead of having his modest measure of Meszely wine on Sunday 2851 III | and the principal jurors measured the racecourse, at one end 2852 I | before the savoury cold meat, which had been basted with 2853 VIII | a good liver, a diligent mechanic, and handsome to boot, and, 2854 XIX | look; and he followed him mechanically into the adjoining room.~ ~" 2855 XIII | wheel which is wanting in my mechanism. I suppose it was left out 2856 I | judgment weather began on St. Medardus' Day, and will last now 2857 IV | outburst of wrath against that meddlesome Aunt Teresa, and Mr. Meyer 2858 XV | eh? We fancied you had mediatized yourself in India. Come 2859 IV | innumerable quantity of medicine-bottles.~ ~The heart of the good 2860 IX | twisting his moustache as if he meditated something terrible; but 2861 XVII | by name, but through the medium of that[Pg 321] world of 2862 VI | the coffee-houses and the meetings of the merchants, and listened 2863 XIII | never come back again!~ ~"Mehadia, I think, would be the nicest 2864 VII | magnificent fruit - golden melons, scaly pine-apples, whole 2865 VI | whispered, too, that the membrane of the ear was ruptured, 2866 I | smell of onions. C'est le même chose! 'tis all one; such 2867 XI | It is easy enough for us men-folk to say, "I will give a great 2868 XIII | couples, were led along by the men-servants; but each of the favourite 2869 VII | usual, tear approaching mendicants to pieces; and the Nabob 2870 III | occasion a red-liveried menial was lounging about the gate, 2871 XI | there any one really worth mentioning among so many?" she asked.~ ~" 2872 V | Perceiving that her rigorous mentor trusted her, Fanny began 2873 IV | bootmakers, milliners, mercers, and hairdressers sat down 2874 VI | and the meetings of the merchants, and listened with all his 2875 IV | God who remits sins have mercy upon you!"~ ~With these 2876 X | your beauty as if it were a merit! You ought to be ashamed 2877 XXI | shall judge to be the most meritorious shall be presented with 2878 VIII | in the habit of carrying messages to my nephew, neither have 2879 I | glass for me. A votre santé, messieurs et mesdames! And to your 2880 III | and curvet to show their mettle, and lay bets with one another. 2881 I | in Paris; I have my own meute and écurie; my mistresses 2882 XIII | fox stopped short again in mid career, and crouched down; 2883 I | Then here I'll remain. Tant mieux; it will not bore me. I 2884 VII | heydukes and doorkeepers also migrated over in a body to Abellino, 2885 XVI | prettier," replied Rudolf, with mild self-satisfaction.~ ~"I 2886 X | out who Fanny was.~ ~"Ah! mille pardons, madame. I recollect 2887 IV | of tailors, bootmakers, milliners, mercers, and hairdressers 2888 VI | sideways, advanced with little mincing steps, frequently pointing 2889 I | guest's room if he was so minded.~ ~The darkness was such 2890 VII | us, we must make up our minds to have dinner at supper-time; 2891 XVIII | poisons both vegetable and mineral, a liberal choice of weapons 2892 VII | of the lessee of the opal mines. He has paid the four thousand 2893 III | his humiliation; but he mingles no longer with the herd, 2894 IX | renown for that. He was no minister of love, not he! He only 2895 I | three personages who chiefly ministered to his amusement, and whom 2896 III | still less upon the gipsy minstrels behind his back; only when 2897 II | must be fresh from the mint, and well sprinkled with 2898 VI | report rang out, and half a minute afterwards another. The 2899 VI | should bear in mind such minutiæ of his past life.~ ~"Then 2900 IV | to send packing after the minx whoever had the audacity 2901 V | her back again into the mire from which she has been 2902 XXI | been buried, and all the mirrors and escutcheons in the rooms 2903 VII | semi-scientific who do the mischief. Science is one of those 2904 VI | make up for his earlier misdeeds. And then? Why, then the 2905 XI | trifle, a letter to him misdirected, is sufficient to upset 2906 X | at the many funny little mishaps which are sure to occur!"~ ~ 2907 IX | at table would never be missed. But what I should desire 2908 VII | years, who acts the young missies. They are now making ready 2909 VII | this odd salutation without missing a word. Yet it was observed 2910 VII | florins for it. Now, that is a misstatement. I know as a fact that there 2911 VII | calm and still; and silver mists lay here and there over 2912 IV | should have occasioned such a misunderstanding. He declared, moreover, 2913 XIII | names.~ ~Unfortunately Fanny misunderstood him, and, regarding everything 2914 XI | men are near. In the most mixed society, where two or three 2915 VII | miller of Tarisa. He always mixes bran with his meal."~ ~" 2916 XVII | breast, and, sobbing and moaning, hold him embraced betwixt 2917 IX | the banker and inquired mockingly -~ ~"Qu'en dites vous, M. 2918 IV | A few years sooner a moderate dose of this discipline 2919 XIII | is the use of expecting moderation or discretion from sportsmen? 2920 XVII | to hide from him? These modern women read risky books in 2921 V | She saw before her a modestly attired gentleman, who wore 2922 V | artiste, and her rare virginal modesty will raise her far above 2923 II | creeping gobæas, or pyramids of modish flowers piled one on the 2924 IV | it was made to look like moiré, but it was only watered 2925 XIII | request of their admirers, to moisten their rosy lips with a few 2926 XIII | beast took advantage of this momentary respite, and with a side 2927 II | in Paris, my dear money monarch? I don't want bad news - 2928 XV | the house."~ ~"Ah, this monkey belongs to the species most 2929 IX | word of truth in the tragic monologue above described. Mrs. Meyer 2930 XX | seemed to make the uniform monotonous landscape still more melancholy. 2931 IX | Ah, a wedding!" exclaimed Mons. Griffard. "Then you are 2932 I | with it."~ ~"Ah, ah, ah, Monsignore Bouche, then you are a gentleman 2933 IV | of sweetmeats, every one moody and bored, as if they found 2934 I | am I given to abducting Moorish princesses, or clambering 2935 II | one except myself and the Moors of Toledo who would do such 2936 XVII | private, and love to be rigid moralists in public at the same time.~ ~ 2937 IV | do I wish to preach about morality, or religion, or God, or 2938 IX | against good manners or good morals. Oh no! Mr. Kecskerey would 2939 III | that moment the report of a mortar announces that the prime 2940 | mostly 2941 VI | guardian from purely artistic motives of the noblest description.~ ~ 2942 II | It was built on a little mound, which human ingenuity had 2943 III | down from the top of a high mountain into a quarry, the jagged 2944 XX | You have come hither to mourn over her?"~ ~"Yes, sir. 2945 XXII | the land were among the mourners that followed after it. 2946 V | his heels for hours in the mouse-trap they had prepared for him, 2947 VIII | were preparing to be the mouth-piece of the whole town. Teresa' 2948 I | followed attentively every movement of the stranger, and a sort 2949 III | gentleman and no boor. All his movements, whether he lolled back 2950 XIII | again on the open. A newly mown field, of a thousand acres 2951 VII | makes hay of every man, and mows down your honour with the 2952 III | that in a very few days the much-befêted cavalier would[Pg 86] turn 2953 VII | one come?"~ ~"As many as muck," replied the old servant; 2954 X | monstrously big swanskin muffs, and as she was unable to 2955 VIII | don't pull such a holy mug as that! Would you keep 2956 III | you will doff your genteel mummery, and become the leader of 2957 II | dandy. "I am not thinking of murder or poison. I am only thinking 2958 I | nothing.~ ~The stranger murdered the Hungarian language terribly, 2959 XVIII | himself that he is a born murderer. I recommend the matter 2960 XVIII | sorts and kinds of tips for murderers, including lists of poisons 2961 XVIII | clean through that desperate murmur.~ ~"If you want to kill 2962 VII | elasticity of his nerves and muscles.~ ~Below, a host of school 2963 IX | cabinet next to Fanny's music-room. When all was ready, Teresa 2964 XXI | fantasia lies, you see, on the music-stand. If she should come back 2965 VII | millet-seed, it is said, got musty from waiting too long for 2966 Pre | now, despite the manifold mutations of literary fashion, in 2967 I | to the devil already," he muttered, "and he'll have the wheat 2968 XV | and so they parted with mutual assurances of a speedy au 2969 XI | labyrinths full of Eleusianian mysteries at Kárpáthy Castle, now 2970 XVI | them would that wretched mythological Paris have given the apple 2971 IX | would not be very long in nabbing a man like him who had so 2972 Pre | classic like "Egy Magyar Nábob." National tastes differ 2973 VII | ducats, and ride a good nag shod with silver shoes. 2974 XIII | splendidly caparisoned rustic nags; and, last of all, the elderly 2975 XVII | were now at their castle at Nagy Kun Madaras; he would spend 2976 I | his fokos up nicely on its nail again, thrust his head into 2977 X | only is it the hungry, the naked, the sick, and the wretched 2978 VI | carpenter. The first was named Livius. In all affairs of 2979 XIII | long ago: what if he, her nameless ideal, were now galloping 2980 | namely 2981 XVII | used generally to have a nap, and it had now become such 2982 VII | round his forehead and the nape of his neck in silvery wisps; 2983 XV | cannot oblige you with a narghilly."~ ~Abellino took off the 2984 IX | course of her entertaining narrative, especially when she told 2985 I | AN ODDITY, 1822.~ ~It is nasty, dirty weather outside there 2986 I | Then, may I ask to what nationality you yourself belong, sir?"~ ~" 2987 XII | dinner-tables are only diverting in natura, but infinitely tiresome 2988 I | of comrades, heydukes and ne'er-do-weels, at my heels, 2989 III | he bethought him of the near-approaching dénoûment of this humorous 2990 X | very foolish. The girl must necessarily be frivolous and forward. 2991 III | holiday-folks with bright, streaming neckerchiefs.~ ~At that moment the report 2992 III | Mike, Andy, Larry, Fred, Ned, for instance. Me they call 2993 XX | snow: "Madame Kárpáthy, nee Fanny Meyer."~ ~The young 2994 IX | Madame Fanny de Kárpáthy, née de Meyer!"~ ~"The deuce!" 2995 VII | are dissolute men, it is needful that there should be dissolute 2996 II | to his dealings with the needy students who ate his wares 2997 V | determined to save her from their nefarious intrigues. She shall be 2998 VI | five-and-twenty.~ ~During this negociation, Abellino produced a pair 2999 XIII | cracking of whips, and the neighing of horses would have sufficed 3000 II | relations of the Rajah of Nepaul in the East Indies are as