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3001 XVII | with this little fairy, a Nero, a Caligula was a veritable 3002 XI | sufficient to utterly embarrass a nervous man, especially as she has 3003 XIX | and held the little child nestling on her bosom to the sick 3004 V | begotten among the souls of the nether world!~ ~So the chase was 3005 XVI | The maid entered.~ ~"Netti, you will sleep in here 3006 V | innocent, as was my beloved, my never-to-be-forgotten Maria!" And the young man 3007 XVII | just then walking in the newly-laid-out English garden. The gentle 3008 XXI | matter-of-fact lawyer spoilt his nib, and could not see the letters 3009 XIII | Mehadia, I think, would be the nicest place. That is far enough 3010 XXI | partition wall between the two niches, so that there may be nothing 3011 III | call the gentry by their nicknames only - Mike, Andy, Larry, 3012 X | chère voisine! Adieu, chère nièce, adieu!"~ ~This ambiguous 3013 VII | whose tongue wagged the nimblest. He took a beaker and, filling 3014 XVI | world since Helen of Troy or Ninon d'Enclos. He was quite mad 3015 Pre | upon his forgiveness.~ ~R. NISBET BAIN.~ ~ August, 1898.~ ~ ~ ~[ 3016 I | where we are to find the Noah to save man and beast from 3017 XII | as a great orator and a noble-minded man. The Count inwardly 3018 III | amongst a group of young nobles, with all their eyes - the 3019 I | and when an impertinent nocturnal gadfly attempted to cultivate 3020 VI | but in vain was all the noise and racket - every tool 3021 V | into a garden, gave the noisier of his tenants notice to 3022 IX | continued Mrs. Meyer, noisily shifting her pillows from 3023 V | and charged her a purely nominal rent. And yet, for all that, 3024 Pre | with a strange and baffling non-aryan language. Only those few 3025 XI | but he will not have a non-noble person in his service even 3026 VI | enemy, smiling, and with nonchalant haughtiness, came strolling 3027 II | escorted by plumed outriders, a northern prince, whose name is on 3028 III | the houses of the civic notabilities, and here he had to go indoors, 3029 Pre | naturally be still more noticeable in a translation, and I 3030 XII | happy till he comes, he has notified the day of his arrival. 3031 XVI | childlike mind can form no notion."~ ~"Oh, don't suppose me 3032 V | And gradually, as Fanny's notions of right and wrong grew 3033 III | contempt for money, for it was notorious that Franky never paid anything 3034 Pre | that, of all continental novelists, he is most likely to appeal[ 3035 | nowhere 3036 IV | loafers there who saw him nudged each other with a grin and 3037 XVII | wife at dinner before a numerous company. There was no trace 3038 XVIII | that I have just come from nunky, my dear?"~ ~"Ah, that's 3039 IV | the pots and pans to the nursemaid, and gossiped with her neighbours; 3040 XVII | has planted it beside a nut tree, and that is no mate 3041 I | feed it up in cages with nuts and almonds, and serve it 3042 VII | Kajaput, the overseer of the Nyilasi estate."~ ~"Ah! that is 3043 VII | backwards all round the large oak table, to avoid the discourtesy 3044 VII | was a bad year, you know," objected Master Jock. "The corn was 3045 VIII | for Alexander was quite obliterated by the delight he felt that 3046 VII | old-fashioned, scrupulously obsequious, and infallibly respectful 3047 VII | honour."~ ~Upon this moral observation, Master Jock[Pg 162] thought 3048 XI | world à la Talleyrand. He observes every one, and is very particular 3049 II | the gauntlet of all these obstructions and admired all these marvels, 3050 XIII | competition was[Pg 278] obtainable, and there were field-glasses 3051 VIII | a thousand artifices for obtaining admittance. Sometimes disguised 3052 III | Franky Kalotai, thereby obviously displaying an utter contempt 3053 IX | terrible; but for an[Pg 227] occasional chuckle, one would have 3054 XVII | lovers ought to quarrel occasionally in order to love each other 3055 IV | well-meaning advances should have occasioned such a misunderstanding. 3056 XI | is certainly not a nice occupation, I call it ungentlemanly 3057 II | would not be a very rare occurrence. It often happens that elderly 3058 IX | her kisses, and shedding oceans of tears. Boltay, who was 3059 VII | and the heyduke made up an odd-looking trio between them. Kárpáthy' 3060 VII | learnt nice congratulatory odes, and set fine old folk-ballads 3061 VII(8) | Öcse, a familiar and affectionate 3062 VII | carrying round szilvorium and öszibaraczk liqueur, ten years old, 3063 VI | the town all day on the offchance of calling some one out; 3064 III | and be punished for your offences if to-day or to-morrow you 3065 III | out his pockets, without offending him the least bit in the 3066 IV | work. Don't be ashamed of offering your services as a book-keeper 3067 XVI | choose the better of two good offers, and accepted him. But not 3068 VII | of all his good friends, officials, domestics, and buffoons, 3069 IV | a father cannot slay his offspring for the sake of a little 3070 IV | passers-by in the street with an ogle or a stare, that they must 3071 XXI | quitted me. I take it as an omen of my death. Do not gainsay 3072 VI | very thankful that he had omitted doing so.~ ~Abellino durst 3073 XII | wont to say Castis sunt omnia casta, "To the pure all 3074 I | resounding kisses - "Adieu, cher oncle! adieu, dear Jock bácsi! 3075 II | would be absolved from your onerous engagement, and be quite 3076 I | perfume, here the smell of onions. C'est le même chose! 'tis 3077 III | distract the attention of the onlookers.~ ~Before engaging in the 3078 I | subsided. Every one gazed open-mouthed at the stranger who had 3079 IV | accepted this proposal, and, opening the door before her, led 3080 IV | Sodom and Gomorrah which opens its doors wide to all the 3081 I | not waste my substance on opera-dancers, nor am I given to abducting 3082 I | time with the other to an operatic tune, which he whistled 3083 V | direct attack; it was, he opined, the best way of conquering 3084 VI | expression of the artisan's face, opining, as he no doubt did, that 3085 VI | was the signal for the opponents to advance.~ ~Alexander 3086 X | hand in hand with her. The oppressed and downtrodden find in 3087 XV | of the ottoman sat a huge orang-outang of about his own size, in 3088 XII | to admire him as a great orator and a noble-minded man. 3089 XII | hunt on the morrow), the orators dreamt of assemblies, Mr. 3090 XIII | ones, and Rajkó, Matyi, big Ordas, Michael Kis's Fecske, and 3091 X | had to face so rigorous an ordeal.~ ~If Lady Kárpáthy had 3092 IV | going to lead a new and orderly life, that every one would 3093 VII | horseback, and some on foot. Ordinarily, Master[Pg 170] Jock would 3094 IV | up a piping wail like an organ. Mr. Meyer pretended to 3095 I | girls that his dilapidated organism might borrow warmth from 3096 II | matinée, a horse race, an orgie, an elopement, were not 3097 XVII | all the potentates of the Orient.~ ~"And meanwhile, little 3098 IV | she knew of the festive origin of the present, Teresa also 3099 III | frankness; bad language, originality; violence, manliness; and 3100 Note | following sentences are as they originally appeared, with corrections 3101 XI | now we come to the young originals."~ ~"Oh," said Fanny, "I 3102 V | of vengeance against the originator of all this trouble, and, 3103 VI | have to write to a poor orphan like him, they the great 3104 IX | whom he had pursued so ostentatiously with his love, should have 3105 VII | disturbed by nobody except an ostracized mouse or two; and what accursed 3106 IV | was incontinently kicked out-of-doors, and if any pretty woman 3107 VII | cronies began to commit any out-of-the-way absurdity, the thought immediately 3108 VI | But at that moment the outer door also opened, and Mr. 3109 IV | wherever dissolute youths and outraged fathers are to be found."~ ~ 3110 II | and escorted by plumed outriders, a northern prince, whose 3111 III | horses to the front at the outset, only to fall behind afterwards: 3112 III | consisted in swallowing with outstretched neck a whole bumper of wine 3113 III | course neither was able to outstrip the other; but when they 3114 III | circle. In his cups he far outstripped them all; and when it came 3115 III | a frantic bound forward, outstripping Martin's steed by a head, 3116 I | as possible.~ ~From his outward appearance it was plain 3117 IX | his uncle's wedding! The outwitted suitor, whose adored one 3118 XI | after dinner that he has over-eaten himself, and if you don' 3119 Words | district.~ ~Kaczagány, a fur over-mantle.~ ~Kalpag, the Hungarian 3120 IX | is up to the neck in this overbearing rural felicity. All day 3121 II | them on entering of their overcoats, sticks, hats, and gloves, 3122 III | gentleman, I say, was so overcome thereby that he burst into 3123 I | here is the Nile, that has overflowed, and these beasts that are 3124 V | vigorous, and sedate, she so overflowing with tenderness and feeling; 3125 II | statues of ancient divinities overgrown with creeping gobæas, or 3126 VI | letters which he had written overnight, one to his master, reporting 3127 VIII | composure, "Get up, my girl! Overrule your heart I cannot; it 3128 VII | of Taddeus Kajaput, the overseer of the Nyilasi estate."~ ~" 3129 XIII | her horse in the hope of overtaking her friend.~ ~The lady was 3130 III | herds, destroying the crops, overturning the carts on the high-road, 3131 V | Hungarian cabinet-maker, who owned several houses in Pressburg, 3132 X | lest he might offend their owners by such ignoble contact. 3133 XVI | arm through Rudolf's, and paced with him up and down the 3134 VIII | Impatiently, Boltay began pacing up and down the room. What 3135 XIII | familiar whistle, the various packs of hounds were separated 3136 IV | spectacles and put them on the page of the document before him, 3137 II | who watched the gorgeous pageant of the march of the allied 3138 Pre | rendering some four hundred pages of a Magyar masterpiece 3139 I | thereupon murmured heavily, "Pah! don't taste it, your honour!"~ ~ 3140 IX | possible. Say not that I paint monsters; it is life that 3141 VII | is a little difficult to paint-in blood-red on scarlet.~ ~" 3142 IX | too. I might say that that painter has founded his reputation 3143 X | not only in hovels, but in palaces. This lady brings a blessing 3144 V | What a dish for the fine palate of a connoisseur! What a 3145 V | herself as a tall, gloomy, pale-faced youth, who never smiled 3146 IX | distinguished guest with a face even paler than usual; but this pallor 3147 XVI | an angel. Madame Kárpáthy pales before her. Hers is not 3148 IX | ended in his setting off for Palestine, to visit the Holy Sepulchre, 3149 I | his seat, and, resting the palms of both hands on his knees, 3150 IV | dishes, and pocketing the pancakes. Oh, they were such funny, 3151 III | only a horse can fly when, panic-stricken, it ravishes its perishing 3152 IV | Meyer confided the pots and pans to the nursemaid, and gossiped 3153 I | and mouth, he intimated in pantomime that it had all dissolved 3154 IV | midst of a heap of dusty papers. Mr. Bordácsi, for that 3155 II | exalted into a hill, and its parade looked into the waters of 3156 II | big book, among whose many paragraphs you will also find[Pg 49] 3157 I | his gipsy jester, and his parasitical poet, all three of whom 3158 X | amazement, with her long-handled parasol in her hand - like Diana 3159 II | If you were to marry."~ ~"Parbleu! Rather than do that I would 3160 II | thread in the hands of the Parcæ prove longer than the million 3161 VII | started."~ ~"Newspaper! - a parcel of lies! I'll not spoil 3162 I | Szabolcs, eh? Szabolcs? C'est parceque, no doubt, so many szabos3 3163 XXI | lawyer looked up from his parchment by way of signifying that 3164 I | with his pale, withered, parchment-like face peevishly regarding 3165 VII | brushed and combed his hair, pared his nails, shaved him, tied 3166 XI | condescension might bear a little paring down. Rigorously virtuous 3167 XXI | other family servants; the parish priest, and Mike Kis. That 3168 VII | to while attending to his parliamentary duties at Pressburg had 3169 IX | Meyer from the hall into the parlour, where they compelled her 3170 XIII | voices in the halls and parlours, the baying of dogs in the 3171 III | suffer from the drollest paroxysms. Sometimes, in the gravest 3172 I | and with a bit of green parsley in its mouth, the usual 3173 III | with me? I am neither a parson nor an almanac-maker."~ ~" 3174 I | save man and beast from a partial deluge."~ ~This melancholy 3175 XI | thousand and one pretensions, partialities, and caprices of a whole 3176 IX | whole month, and when he had partially recovered, he received a 3177 VII | They brought still further particulars of the bodily condition 3178 X | not have been now, a good partie, eh!" (i.e. Squire John 3179 XXI | 350] are to break down the partition wall between the two niches, 3180 II | the shoulder, revealed the parvenu most completely.~ ~The banker 3181 I | horse, do you mean?"~ ~"Pas donc! They don't call it 3182 IV | them that they must catch passers-by in the street with an ogle 3183 III | huzzah, which presently passes over into peals of merry 3184 II | of the most harmonious of passwords. An elegant soirée, a genial 3185 XV | you some of those famous pastilles which you mentioned in your 3186 II | was nothing more than a pastry-cook in one of the suburbs of 3187 II | Monsieur Griffard left his pastry-shop in the charge of his eldest 3188 III | the whip cut out a whole patch on the skin of the savage 3189 VII | about clothed in velvet well patched with gold ducats, and ride 3190 XII | stronger, so that his bald pate quite scared the weak-nerved 3191 I | and set off through the pathless darkness with twelve heydukes, 3192 XXI | son!" What feeling, what pathos was in that one phrase: " 3193 II | read the symptoms of my patients from their faces. Suppose, 3194 II | inheritance of mine, a certain patrimony which would bring me in 3195 V | of the noblest and most patriotic of the younger noblemen 3196 V | ascertain the contrary, my patronage will instantly cease. Be 3197 III | the arms of these defunct patrons, baillies, curators, and 3198 XXI | wine in it and a golden patten with a thin slice of bread 3199 V | with delight to the rain pattering against the window-panes.~ ~ 3200 XII | then drew her towards her, patting her on the back all the 3201 X | conducting finger would pause at a name, and Mr. Varga 3202 IX | questions."~ ~Here Mrs. Meyer paused for a moment, to give Fanny 3203 II | Amongst all the villas and pavilions on the Ile de Jerusalem, 3204 III | horse was curveting and pawing the ground.~ ~When the third 3205 II | a bond for two millions, payable when my uncle expires."[ 3206 XI | involuntarily; for her husband pays his court to every one of 3207 VI | My acquaintances are all peaceable working men, who would have 3208 XVII | them. There was not a pure pearl in the Indies that she would 3209 I | abroad. He does not allow peas to appear on his table, 3210 III | came huddled up in a common peasant-cart immediately afterwards, 3211 III | zanies, his heydukes, and peasant-wenches, in order to attend to his 3212 VII | cut up the beautiful round pebbles with which the courtyard 3213 VII | whose chief defect and peculiarity consisted not in delivering 3214 II | who, equally rejecting all pedantic classicism, and all rococo 3215 VII | was happy enough till the pedants got into it. We learn quite 3216 XVI | with you?" inquired Rudolf, peeping through the door.~ ~Flora, 3217 VII | danced before his eyes as he peered into it. The letter, which 3218 I | withered, parchment-like face peevishly regarding the whole entertainment. " 3219 I | forwards like the top-knot of a peewit, and then, seizing the horrible 3220 III | knee-breeches and broad-buttoned pelisse-like dolmans. Every one of them 3221 XV | mean time by throwing paper pellets at the baboon.~ ~"And what, 3222 IV | angry, and if the whole penal code had been his ring, 3223 IX | wags, he was going to do penance for his sins. Thither we 3224 XI | underscored him with her lead pencil, and wrote underneath, " 3225 II | knee, buttoned by broad pendant gew-gaws, with stiff, inexpressibly 3226 IV | rushed towards her with a penitent countenance, just as if 3227 VII | more or less battered and penniless.~ ~Squire John himself was 3228 III | it was there that the pens were usually thrown.~ ~The 3229 III | adorned by a couple of large peonies in full bloom; in his button-hole 3230 XVII | snow-white dahlia with a scarce perceptible rosy tinge in its innermost 3231 III | he was so accustomed to a peremptory tone now that he could use 3232 III | naturally requires for its performance an extraordinarily concave 3233 IX | street; for I would rather perish than accept another morsel 3234 XV | musical notes, and other perishable articles of the same sort. 3235 III | panic-stricken, it ravishes its perishing rider along with it. None, 3236 VII | background stood a colonaded peristyle, in the centre of which 3237 VII | is a proposal to found a permanent Hungarian theatre at Buda-Pest."~ ~" 3238 IX | with delicate coquetry, permitting the eye-glassed cavaliers 3239 VII | Horhi, as he was wont to perpetrate the most ungodly pleasantries - 3240 XIX | who would be his heir and perpetuate his name! who was born in 3241 IX | put aside for once that perpetuum mobile which women call 3242 IX | grown up in the heart of the persecuted girl, and made the eyes 3243 VIII | ward - a girl whom Abellino persecutes, and Abellino's associates 3244 Pre | purpose, have encouraged me to persevere to the end of my formidable 3245 I | Nevertheless, the whole company was persuaded that the very idea of such 3246 III | Mike, without the slightest perturbation, polishing the antique opal 3247 VII | accursed appetite or hereditary perversity constrained even them to 3248 I | we keep in our rooms and pet and play with; nay, it is 3249 XVII | rosy tinge in its innermost petals was just then beginning 3250 VII | are, besides, a heap of petitions and circulars."~ ~"What 3251 I | little ears, what wee little pets of feet! And then its comically 3252 X | remarked Dame Marion, petulantly. "Well, well! young women 3253 XIII | fevered brains are full of phantoms.~ ~A soft smooth hand stroked 3254 VII | meaning of this strange phenomenon.~ ~In point of fact, this 3255 XVII | Caligula was a veritable philanthropist.~ ~"But how long is this 3256 I | thereupon, with the utmost phlegm, he neatly applied his candle 3257 IX | to the box from whence he phlegmatically looked down upon his master.~ ~" 3258 III | Polite society had a peculiar phraseology in those days. Rudeness 3259 II | of ragged citizens with Phrygian caps on, bawling at the 3260 IV | use, now it only caused physical pain. And all the time Mr. 3261 VII | family, and on the side, picked out with large silver nails, 3262 I | sucking deer, and a brawn of pickled salmon spawn. I never eat 3263 XVI | their portraits adorn the picture-galleries. With women it is quite 3264 XV | hung all kinds of select pictures, which would certainly have 3265 VIII | descendant, were dribbling away piecemeal and passing into the hands 3266 VI | confusion. Why, a man who can pierce a falling leaf with a bullet, 3267 VI | agony.~ ~Abellino thereupon pierced his fourth linden leaf at 3268 X | terrible torture, the most piercing shame!~ ~Flora convulsively 3269 VII | bent beneath the weight of pies and tarts; the most magnificent 3270 VII | approached, an unwonted piety used to take possession 3271 IV | at me there like a stuck pig!" cried Teresa, with a sudden 3272 IV | thick hair, twisted into two pigtails, dangled down her back. 3273 IX | skin he had staked such a pile of money, was really going 3274 XX | meant, he said, to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of the dead 3275 VII | removed with the aid of strong pincers.~ ~What could be in this 3276 VII | approached the damsel, pinched her cheek, patted her head, 3277 XX | strode rapidly towards the pine grove.~ ~On reaching the 3278 IV | fruiterer's and bringing back a pine-apple.~ ~One day it happened that 3279 VII | fruit - golden melons, scaly pine-apples, whole stacks of them - 3280 XX | recognized the funereal pine-grove which John Kárpáthy had 3281 VIII | no idea that a heart is pining for him in secret, in tribulation, 3282 VII | was aflame with purple, pink, carmine, and saffron hues. 3283 I | knocked the ashes of his pipe-bowl into the palm of his hand. 3284 I | which goes to prove that pipes were invented in order that 3285 IV | family in chorus sent up a piping wail like an organ. Mr. 3286 I | were no larger than cherry pips, the monstrously puffed 3287 I | out; if it is a dame, tant pis pour elle, so much the worse 3288 III | to pound him to pieces, pitching all the chairs out of his 3289 XIII | a red cut-away coat, and piteously begged every one to explain 3290 XI | flints, the vermin, and the pitfalls which beset their path, - 3291 XVIII | no pity for him. He never pitied any one who was unfortunate; 3292 X | being who thinks of me, pities me, and has made me happy!"~ ~" 3293 IV | more furious, and in the pitilessness of his rage he commanded 3294 I | it," responded Gyárfás, placidly, "inasmuch as the Turk needs 3295 XVI | threatening little hands, and, placing it first to his lips and 3296 I | mouse!"~ ~"Only one?"~ ~"Plague on such a question! Dost 3297 VI | insult him? He meant in the plainest, most unmistakable manner, 3298 XIX | of Kárpáthy on the fair plains of Hunnia. It should be 3299 I | calembourg of mine, c'est une plaisanterie. Dost understand?"~ ~"I 3300 III | whip. The hooked steel wire plaited round the end of the whip 3301 XVI | he had lived in another planet.~ ~Flora welcomed her friend 3302 XXII | Everything was done as he had planned it.~ ~They attired him in 3303 VIII | whisper as if they were planning some design against Abellino, 3304 VII | post-office, laid down fir plantations in drift-sand, not to mention 3305 II | fountains and waterfalls plashed and gurgled in marble basins, 3306 VII | Buda-Pest."~ ~"Whoever wants play-acting can come here to me. There' 3307 IV | entered into the head of some play-writer to put you into a farce! 3308 VII | hands on, and the Strolling Players' Society began, in secret, 3309 IV | herself never entered a playhouse, and if any one should whisper 3310 XVIII | resemblance to the historical playing-card already mentioned, and this 3311 XVI | certainly be the first to plead guilty of contumacy; and 3312 X | legal sentence, for whom she pleads compassionately in high 3313 VII | perpetrate the most ungodly pleasantries - letting off fiery crackers 3314 II | Monsieur Griffard, with similar pleasantry, "I am your servant to the 3315 V | and the number of these pleasure-hunters was considerably increased 3316 V | influence upon her youthful and pliable disposition. At first Teresa 3317 III | struggle lasts for hours on a plot of meadow, which they denude 3318 III | cleanly as if it had been ploughed. Finally, the beast who 3319 I | instead of wheat, the stork is ploughing, the duck is fishing all 3320 I | to the very throat with plover's eggs, and died early in 3321 I | kalpags with white horse-hair plumes, on their bodies were scarlet 3322 IX | reached Fanny, down she plumped on her knees again, and 3323 XIX | wrinkled everywhere from very plumpness, his mouth was hardly larger 3324 Words | Szilvorium, a spirit made from plums.~ ~ ~ ~ 3325 III | from me a thousand florins plunder money. The first thousand 3326 III | steeds began to rear and plunge; at the second they grew 3327 XIII | them off his track. He kept plunging into the bushes while his 3328 I | this Hungarian Nabob, this Plutus, one night crammed himself 3329 VI | were indicated by white pocket-handkerchiefs.~ ~The seconds stepped aside, 3330 II | the same time in a little pocket-mirror to see whether his smooth 3331 II | he added.~ ~The banker pocketed the affront with a smile, 3332 IV | tasting the dishes, and pocketing the pancakes. Oh, they were 3333 IX | else to depend upon. Those poetic gentlemen love to scribble 3334 XVI | comprehensible much which poetical logic and the imagination 3335 IX | yard of pur de laine, or poil-de-chevre - - "~ ~Boltay was frightened 3336 II | aristocrats!" and carrying on a pole by way of a banner the last 3337 VII | were carried between two poles; well-fattened heath fowl 3338 VII | angels perform in heaven, and police-constables perform on earth, the advent 3339 III | slightest perturbation, polishing the antique opal buttons 3340 I | on the dike between two ponds, with the ground so soaking 3341 IX | the shame, the disgrace? Pooh, such is life!~ ~Fanny, 3342 XV | civilization. It is a somewhat poorer diversion than spending 3343 XX | 339] as the wife of the poorest artisan might have been, 3344 IX | whether you were well or poorly off. Oh! that man was positively 3345 XIII | the long avenue of Italian poplars, they perceived a solitary 3346 VIII | the servants in the act of popping a suspicious looking letter 3347 VII | would go off, while the poppy-cakes intended for the banquet 3348 VI | idols of the nation, the popular heroes of the day, to a 3349 Pre | masterpiece. It has maintained its popularity ever since; and now, despite 3350 I | safely deposited him in the porch.[Pg 26]~ ~It will be worth 3351 II | there rode through the Porte St.[Pg 50] Denis quite recently, 3352 V | with the caretaker, unknown porters had removed everything, 3353 XVI | to see them in when their portraits adorn the picture-galleries. 3354 X | illustrious men in high positions, and unexceptionable women. 3355 X | assume, of course, that they possess in their own honourable 3356 X | world cannot give their possessor peace, joy, love, contentment, 3357 IV | incontinently dismissed from his post, and the little property 3358 IX | it abroad - that he came, post-haste, all the way to Pressburg, 3359 I | distance off, drawn by four post-horses, struggling along the[Pg 3360 VII | sugar-works, a silk-factory, a post-office, laid down fir plantations 3361 I | be there, and making the postillion march in front with the 3362 IV | pleasant little trick of posting off to the fruiterer's and 3363 VII | man, I ask, have the agent postpone the baptism of his son even 3364 VII | another. "Why, he generally postpones this little ceremony to 3365 XVI | always preserve the precise postures you are wont to see them 3366 III | in his button-hole was a posy of pinks and vine leaves; 3367 XVII | for the sake of all the potentates of the Orient.~ ~"And meanwhile, 3368 I | indicated, but hastened into his pothouse to strip off his saturated 3369 IX | fleeing from a new Madame Potiphar! You had much better take 3370 IV | Mrs. Meyer confided the pots and pans to the nursemaid, 3371 I | which his little family of poultry, all huddled up together 3372 III | with open arms, in order to pound him to pieces, pitching 3373 II | in exchange for liberal pour-boires. These worthy bread-wasters 3374 IX | was very stormy. The rain poured, the tempest shook the trees, 3375 XIII | Diana, eh?"~ ~Dame Marion pouted, and turned her head aside; 3376 VII | kitchen, and filled the powder-flasks of the heydukes with poppy-meal 3377 VII | bestowed upon his marvellous powdered top-knot - itself a survival - 3378 III | floor, and saw the big, powerful man lying motionless beneath 3379 VI | greatest misery would have been powerless to make her do - she went 3380 II | paths before me is the most practicable. The money you offer I will 3381 I | expression. "'Tis mine, you know, practically, or[Pg 38] at least will 3382 IV | given away. It was a common practice at the theatre, she said.~ ~ 3383 XV | affair in the hands of sharp practitioners; but leave me in peace, 3384 III | of them make their horses prance and curvet to show their 3385 III | remain quiet, but danced and pranced continually.~ ~They made 3386 XIII | slim, supple amazons, on prancing steeds, in the midst of 3387 XIII | by her bedside in gentle prattle, listening to the modest 3388 XII | this particular to give the pre-eminence to an honoured lady, the 3389 IV | half-tipsy, on Sunday afternoons preaches moral sermons to daughters, 3390 IX | them: 'What do you mean by preaching at us? What business is 3391 VII | so he descended from the preaching-stool again without uttering a 3392 IX | that the marriage must be preceded by sundry legal and other 3393 I | greyhound. So it was to him that precedence belonged! And this he seemed 3394 IV | and a fine flood of moral precept would pour forth for the 3395 III | showed signs of retiring precipitately. "They must be fools to 3396 XVI | not always preserve the precise postures you are wont to 3397 I | in the spirit of a true predestinarian. Frantic cries and the cracking 3398 Pre | PREFACE.~ ~This noble novel, now 3399 XI | great world. Even the most prejudiced became more favourably disposed 3400 V | approach any one without making preliminary inquiries. I have heard 3401 VII | Squire was suspicious of all premature rumours, and resolved to 3402 III | raised his head. One horn, prematurely developed, bent forwards, 3403 I | gentleman, who knows how to prendre son air in whatever company 3404 VIII | The person accosted was so preoccupied that the only answer he 3405 I | would arrive, but if it were preordained to stick fast in the mud 3406 III | All this was by way of preparation for the evening's debauch.~ ~" 3407 XIII | drawing-room dandies, when he prepares him for the chase, puts 3408 XIII | that nobody knows how to prescribe for the heart.~ ~For a long 3409 XIII | and they consulted and prescribed for her, but none of them 3410 IV | how happy he was at having preserved the honour of his name, 3411 VI | it to the editor of the Pressburger Zeitung, and the next day 3412 X | their hearts. Pardon me for presuming so far. I know right well 3413 IV | such an elegant education presupposes an elegant income; but, 3414 XVII | impossible to suspect her of any pretence.~ ~Rudolf whispered lovingly 3415 XVI | woman."~ ~"My wife is the prettier," replied Rudolf, with mild 3416 V | much of. They contrasted prettily enough - blonde and[Pg 120] 3417 II | classicism, and all rococo prettiness, strove instead to make 3418 XX | Pg 342]~ ~He could not prevail upon him; a man's sorrow 3419 X | Lady Szentirmay succeed in preventing Fanny from flinging herself 3420 IV | their wont, without any previous notification, visited and 3421 III | arranged in a row, having previously drawn their places by lot, 3422 III | grew quite still, alertly pricking up their ears; one or two 3423 IX | everybody, that is, who prided himself upon being somebody, 3424 XIX | the same wine-cup with the primal ancestor of the House of 3425 VII | folk-ballads to music; the gipsy primas bought up all the resin 3426 Words | Pálinka, Hungarian brandy.~ ~Primás, the conductor of a gipsy 3427 IV | experienced the world's primest joys, are so jealous of 3428 IX | that restraint.~ ~Fanny primly sipped her coffee, looking 3429 XIX | the name of one of those princes who drank out of the same 3430 XVI | opened the ball with the Princess * * * who was considered 3431 VI | tell them that."~ ~"That is principally what induced us to offer 3432 IX | intervention. He gave the poets printed sheets, in which they could 3433 IV | degradation than being thrust into prison. You know what I mean. Get 3434 XV | through the door. "These privileged friends of mine are vastly 3435 VI | gentlemen then, having, pro superabundante, written 3436 VIII | not consent, and as in all probability my road to death is much 3437 II | next few years he himself probably could not have told you; 3438 XVI | but he had the knack of probing down into the deepest hidden 3439 IV | and to abandon criminal proceedings against him.~ ~Meyer, on 3440 X | by way of advice, which proceeds, believe me, from the purest 3441 II | own peculiar trumpets to proclaim loudly to approaching guests 3442 II | I have everywhere been proclaiming that I intend to bring an 3443 VI | immensely at the idea, and, procuring a pen and ink from the first 3444 III | there advertised that a prodigal member of the Szabolcs branch 3445 VI | turning to the seconds, and producing the written challenge which 3446 VI | time a simple middle-class production, quite in the middle-class 3447 XXI | grant that they may be more productive of blessings in the hands 3448 XII | enjoyment, from the native products of Hungarian cookery to 3449 VIII | am a table-maker; I don't profess to make staves. If you wish 3450 I | grace and dexterity of a professional[Pg 31] gipsy fiddler, at 3451 XI | with as much terror as any professor, and, besides that, can 3452 V | astonishment, accepted the proffered bouquet. This was adroitly 3453 IX | have it, and only becomes profitable when it is parted with - 3454 IV | her from withering away profitlessly in the claws of a pack of 3455 VIII | me, and we'll share the profits. Don't you admire my cunning? 3456 IV | street-lounging, rake-hell young profligates, from living a life of wretchedness 3457 III | to assemble around him, profoundly irritated by the cowardice 3458 III | in the fields. Bleeding profusely, it falls back again, crushing 3459 XII | wealth, pomp, splendour and profusion that the occasion and the 3460 XVIII | saw her, the doctors had prohibited both riding and driving."~ ~ 3461 XV | that hour.~ ~Despite this prohibition, however, it chanced that 3462 II | may find the enumerated prohibitions somewhat[Pg 55] grievous, 3463 XV | well pleased with him. New projects began to spring up in his 3464 III | feet and uttered a wild prolonged roar. Martin, who wished 3465 VI | putting an end to this cruel prolonging of the agony.~ ~Abellino 3466 I(4) | Pronounced Bush.~ ~ 3467 IV | furnish the most incontestible proofs, under his own hand and 3468 II | know very well that the properties of these three gentlemen 3469 V | Teresa's confidence grew proportionately with Fanny's candour. She 3470 V | argued, in which similar proposals lead most rapidly to the 3471 VI | said Conrad, "what you propose is only usual among gentlemen."~ ~" 3472 XV | into the face of their proposer, but he executed them all 3473 IV | forward in this manner. My proposition does not require much consideration. 3474 III | I am Michael Kis, Esq., proprietor of Almásfalva, which I purchased 3475 VII | to clinch the matter in prose of his own making.~ ~Master 3476 IV | for fear of spoiling their prospects.~ ~Just at that very time 3477 IV | and her duty, and[Pg 94] prosperity would flow into the house 3478 XVIII | all his sympathy for the prosperous.~ ~"Then there's nothing 3479 VI | entreated him to defend, to protect the girl, for this was a 3480 I | not a woman for nothing. I protest that she has quite befooled 3481 XV | Abellino what to do. He protested against every attempt to 3482 III | élite of society, and the protocols were being read, the old 3483 I | myself," said the stranger, protruding one of his legs in front 3484 XI | admitted to her friendship. The proudest dowagers, who hitherto considered 3485 III | I also know that whoever proves to be the victor on that 3486 I | You should thank me for providing you with such a rare dish 3487 III | lads; and then came the provision-waggons; and last of all the wine-carts, 3488 III | morass, and also, by way of provocation, cracked his long whip loudly. 3489 XII | his wig in another, which provoked a roar of Homeric laughter 3490 VI | the expression of teasing, provoking scorn, with which Abellino 3491 XIII | and carrying behind him a provokingly big brush. He trotted leisurely 3492 III | stray bull, which has been prowling in these parts for the last 3493 X | a woman. Gentleness and prudence go hand in hand with her. 3494 V | her very soul, seizing and pruning down every thought as it 3495 III | instance, to introduce the pseudonymous young gentleman to the various 3496 VI | the firm he was defending, publicly declared that there was 3497 I | best French authors, and I publish them as if I had written 3498 I | features were noble but puckered up in bizarre wrinkles. 3499 IV | such a large spoonful of pudding into his mouth that he nearly 3500 III | which extends as far as Püspök-Ladány and Tisza-Füred, in which 3501 I | cherry pips, the monstrously puffed sleeves rose as high as 3502 VIII | from his face, the drunken puffiness from around his eyes; he 3503 XV | away at a huge chibook, puffing smoke all round him, and 3504 VII | horse the steward of the Pukkancs estate, one of the first 3505 VII | carried a cattle-book into the pulpit, was so dumfounded that 3506 III | down with his knee, and pummelled him from head to foot, as 3507 VII | the Kálla duet in velvet pump-hose. God grant your honour many 3508 IX | was not in his power to be punctual. An elderly foreign gentleman 3509 IV | slightest reason why he should punish her so severely, for that 3510 XVI | innocent party who bears the punishment."~ ~"Ah, Rudolf, that was 3511 IV | down, like the mouth of a puppet that you pull with a string.~ ~" 3512 IX | cashmir harras, a yard of pur de laine, or poil-de-chevre - - "~ ~ 3513 VII | from waiting too long for purchasers, so that we could only get 3514 IV | you are a scandal to every pure-minded man. You are the corrupter 3515 XIX | precious stone was ever of a purer azure, were all the larger 3516 X | proceeds, believe me, from the purest intention and the utmost 3517 V | That star was the star of purity.~ ~The discomfited youths, 3518 III | the bad habit of instantly purloining whatever came in his way, 3519 V | billet-doux of the following purport: If Fanny were inclined 3520 XVI | times, at least, I have purposely passed by where Rudolf was 3521 VI | suitably applied to charitable purposes."~ ~The affair made a great 3522 II | has only nine sous in his purse, there's no reason why he 3523 VIII | unconscious of the lunatic who pursues her rays and leaps across 3524 IV | return to their engrossing pursuits again.~ ~There are certain 3525 XII | the young wags thereupon pushed their chairs away, went 3526 IX | there was no need for him to puzzle his head over it, for the 3527 IX | continually; he doubled, trebled, quadrupled his stakes; he doubled them 3528 XI | with you. It is of no use quarrelling with her. The very next 3529 III | of a high mountain into a quarry, the jagged stones of which 3530 I | be burnt down."[Pg 40]~ ~"Que diable! How dare you say 3531 XI | be present, he tells such queer stories that even the more 3532 XV | dishonourable commission and query with the utmost indignation, 3533 II | Latin proverb says, 'Bis dat qui cito dat - 'He gives twice 3534 XVIII | mind, had not a couple of quicker-witted gentlemen, who had come 3535 IX | joys of life, wither the quickest - - ~"Hush! Mr. Boltay is 3536 XII | letter in all peace and quietness; for Fanny, also, naturally 3537 XXI | was there also, cutting quills for every one present, and 3538 XI | in convulsions with his quips and cranks. He can imitate 3539 I | large mantle with its short Quiroga collar, he revealed a costume 3540 XII | departure, the whole company quitting the tables, and scattering 3541 III | subdued, husky voice, which quivered with rage. "We want to prove 3542 III | the Whitsun King, who was quivering with passion, placed it 3543 IV | Oh, they were such funny, quizzical young fellows!~ ~Four of 3544 Pre | upon his forgiveness.~ ~R. NISBET BAIN.~ ~ August, 3545 VII | bushel to a corn-dealer of Raab, I see, thus making a total 3546 XIII | Lady Szentirmay boldly raced towards it, and was over 3547 XII | happiness!~ ~The two ladies with radiantly happy faces returned to 3548 VII | introduce[Pg 183] a series of radical reforms among the domestics 3549 IX | throw away or sell in the rag-market; bring them back to me."~ ~( 3550 III | good-for-nothing rascal, a runaway ragamuffin, that's what you are! And 3551 IX | place a shabbily, not to say raggedly, attired female whom Master 3552 IX | Paris (and there was no railway communication between the 3553 XVII | matters?~ ~In the afternoon, rainy weather set in, whence arose 3554 II | family relations of the Rajah of Nepaul in the East Indies 3555 IV | rowdy, street-lounging, rake-hell young profligates, from 3556 III | moving a muscle of his face, raking the dollars in with as much 3557 IX | breakfasts were the usual rallying points of the whole world 3558 XVIII | experiences during his artistic ramblings, that even the tea-tables 3559 XII | Lady Szentirmay which a rapid runner had brought from 3560 XVI | assembly-room with magical rapidity was converted into a dancing-room, 3561 XVI | pair!" cried Kecskerey, rapturously. "To which of them would 3562 V | praising her. The girl, indeed, rarely went there alone. Either 3563 II | the last case is much the rarer.~ ~Fortunately for himself, 3564 XVII | to bloom. It was a great rarity in Europe at that time. 3565 III | run, if we die for it. Eh, Ráró?"~ ~The good steed, as if 3566 III | mistake in answering so rashly, but as it would have been 3567 XVIII | Kecskerey's strident rasping voice seemed to cut clean 3568 VI | these Philistines smell a rat, then?~ ~"What sort of an 3569 IV | Imbecile, to give bread to the rats that they might not disturb 3570 VII | long-drawn-out, painful rattle. Then he raised his hands 3571 VII | baying of the dogs and the rattling of the baggage-waggons into 3572 IV | are angry, you storm and rave when a respectable person 3573 III | with rage, lashed at the ravished flag with his whip, and 3574 III | when, panic-stricken, it ravishes its perishing rider along 3575 IX | picturesque, his cravat was ravishing, and his vest magnificent.~ ~ 3576 IX | marble-smooth shoulders and ravishingly beautiful bosom. And then 3577 II | fluid or other, possibly a raw egg beaten up in tea and 3578 VIII | lunatic who pursues her rays and leaps across dizzy abysses 3579 VIII | who, fool as he is, has re-christened himself Abellino. You have 3580 Pre | idiomatic difficulty into fairly readable English. But my profound 3581 VII | Kakadi estate."~ ~And now, reader, let us listen. You may 3582 IX | mention, lest any of my readers should be blessed with as 3583 VI | Then, mind you hold them in readiness. There will not be much 3584 XVIII | of itself, and a man who reads it patiently through to 3585 IX | collecting all sorts of ready-made garments, and returned home 3586 X | and woe to her also if she realized it and did not keep her 3587 VII | impossible to exchange a reasonable word with him, which signified 3588 VI | talk anywhere. This was reassuring in one way, as tending to 3589 IX | Abellino, since his late rebuffs, had, full of passionate 3590 VII | sermons, but rather in the rebuking of Master Jock roundly, 3591 VII | Thrice it was repeated, to recall any guest who might, perhaps, 3592 VI | to duelling rules. Livius recalled similar cases, but only 3593 VII | feature; and when he heard the recapitulation of his merits, he cast down 3594 V | when a young man or woman receives the reward of his honest 3595 IX | more florins than he had reckoned upon, and at such times 3596 IX | wiped her mother out of the reckoning altogether!~ ~Away! Back 3597 III | weaker antagonist out of all recognition.~ ~No wonder, then, if every 3598 XV | years younger; one scarcely recognizes him. He leads a regular 3599 VII | the door than he suddenly recollected that he had left his tobacco-pouch 3600 VIII | earlier impressions and recollections. She was wont to see vice 3601 X | one of whom he would have recommended to the confidence of his 3602 VII | Master Jock handsomely recompensed the youth who had rattled 3603 XI | lay hold upon their most recondite faults and carefully pass 3604 XVI | world hers is a very dubious record; but I also know that, so 3605 X | honourable name in the family records."~ ~Dame Marion, however, 3606 VI | so.~ ~Abellino durst not recount this scene to his comrades. 3607 IX | most convenient time for recounting all that has happened ten, 3608 VIII | and the mere fact of my recovering my strength and good humour 3609 XXI | prayers in church for my recovery, - it would be useless; 3610 V | left a margin for a little recreation. The other half she carefully 3611 II | taste for stony, wall-like, rectilinear alleys. A man might now 3612 XVII | immediately arose from her recumbent position and confusedly 3613 VII | side with three and thirty red-breeched, heaven-ascended gipsy fiddlers, 3614 III | however, on this occasion a red-liveried menial was lounging about 3615 XIII | s face that instant grew redder than ever, while Fanny's 3616 VII | at both ends; the fiery redness of his eyes had vanished, 3617 III | the shrubs of the little reedy island opposite he had made 3618 I | hours to move it from the reef on which it had foundered, 3619 XXI | will and testament with a reference to her who was dearest to 3620 XX | remained immersed in his own reflections, and thought - and thought -~ ~ 3621 VII | 183] a series of radical reforms among the domestics attached 3622 XIX | her dear lips, with the refracted gleam of death in her beautiful 3623 XV | take part in them. Griffard refuses to lend me another sou, 3624 III | made frantic efforts to regain its feet; in vain! The savage 3625 XIII | days longer.~ ~So Fanny regained life and consciousness; 3626 IX | millionaires, who desired to be regaled with an exhibition of beauty 3627 X | dispositions are, how the world regards them, which of them are 3628 XI | required for commanding a regiment; while her gruffest voice 3629 I | be marching after you in regiments, and now you find me alive. 3630 XX | of the sort in the whole region. They had all been planted 3631 III | And it appeared from the register that Martin, during the 3632 V | herself.[Pg 125]~ ~"I must regretfully confess, madam," pursued 3633 VII | forgiveness. Then came the regulation interview between the Nabob 3634 V | band, took upon himself to rehabilitate their renommée, as he called 3635 IV | never appeared at any of the rehearsals, and her salary went for 3636 III | exert all his strength to rein up his maddened steed. He 3637 III | not long about that - he reined up, and, whipping off his 3638 II | of the day, who, equally rejecting all pedantic classicism, 3639 VIII | here. If the answer be a rejection, you will send back this 3640 IX | good-naturedly at the comic rejoinder, and a few moments later 3641 II | things of the same sort, a relapse into[Pg 42] insignificance 3642 IV | friend, never quarrel with a relation for showing a disposition 3643 VII | he gave a great sigh of relief, as if two hundred thousand 3644 IV | preach about morality, or religion, or God, or maidenly innocence, 3645 III | The people, after a short religious service, made their way 3646 III | Master Jock, with great reluctance, forsook his dogs, his cronies, 3647 XVIII | account; your uncle feels remarkably well. But your aunt is sick, 3648 II | was said to be a very good remedy against chest complaints, 3649 IV | enemy, and then the God who remits sins have mercy upon you!"~ ~ 3650 IV | led her into one of the remoter rooms. They had scarcely 3651 XXI | himself knew best.~ ~"Further, remove none of the mourning draperies 3652 III | umpires hastened up, and, removing the floral crown from the 3653 VII | presents except for services rendered. Anybody else in his place 3654 Pre | appreciate the immense labour of rendering some four hundred pages 3655 V | himself to rehabilitate their renommée, as he called it, and with 3656 VIII | trustworthy stewards and bailiffs, renounced riotous pastimes, spoke 3657 IX | hours later the door was reopened, and they all four appeared 3658 VII | had been kept in proper repair, the water would not have 3659 X | Kárpáthy and Dame Marion repaired to the family archives, 3660 VII | church to the castle, some repairing thither on horseback, and 3661 VI | tool he took up seemed to repeat one name continually in 3662 X | order to prevent Fanny from repeating her action, she took her 3663 XVIII | full of his lackeys, that repellent beauty, for his features 3664 XXI | in his old age he may not repent him of his youth. I would 3665 II | burning lamps, which were replenished with oil early every morning, 3666 XV | executed them all the same, and reported accordingly.~ ~"What business 3667 I | goblets and dishes, and, reposing among the ice in large silver 3668 VII | now making ready to give a representation this evening. When your 3669 V | her unknown defender? She represented him to herself as a tall, 3670 VII | tableaux, amidst Greek fire, representing the flight of Dobozy, and 3671 VI | himself heard none of Conrad's reproaches,[Pg 152] and the blood slowly 3672 II | he would behold masterly reproduced ruins, with agaric and cactus 3673 III | Martin!" said the judge, reprovingly. "Bragging does not become 3674 I | neglected moustache, caused repulsion at the first glance; but 3675 XVIII | and enjoyed the best of reputations, but also because he was 3676 IV | daughter of a man of good repute would not be honourable; 3677 IX | to content himself with requesting his future father-in-law - 3678 IV | left to pay for kitchen requisites for another couple of days, 3679 XII | salutation from afar, which he requited by saluting her with his 3680 VIII | make happy, whom she could rescue from bitter shame, reproach, 3681 I | on the back of the other, resembled a half-submerged giant.~ ~ 3682 IV | they had seen a man greatly resembling him, some said in England, 3683 XXI | the earth, I await with resignation my dissolution, and, putting 3684 VII | primas bought up all the resin in the shops he could lay 3685 VIII | girl would not be able to resist the tempting prospect, and 3686 IV | been made of stone to have resisted such an appeal! He forgave[ 3687 XVII | his house with the fixed resolve to deceive another man's 3688 I | a few moments the empty, resonant room was changed as if by 3689 XVII | last extremity could it be resorted to.~ ~No, instead of that, 3690 I | lavish accompaniment of resounding kisses - "Adieu, cher oncle! 3691 II | banker himself was a very respectable-looking old gentleman of about seventy, 3692 IV | not always brought her up respectably? Can any one say anything 3693 X | list such persons as will respond to your ladyship's goodness 3694 III | whip, whereupon his steed, responding to the stimulus, took a 3695 VI | was doing, to take all the responsibility of the alleged insult on 3696 III | was a splendid animal - a restive Transylvanian full-blood, 3697 II | again in the days of the Restoration, Monsieur Griffard was one 3698 IX | house also did something to restore the good-humour of the majority. 3699 IX | she was freed from that restraint.~ ~Fanny primly sipped her 3700 II | if I can put up with the restrictions you have laid upon me. Oh! 3701 IV | She fancies your curse rests upon her. Since she departed - - "~ ~ 3702 IV | in his cash - the natural result of papa's frivolity. Meyer 3703 III | foolhardiness generally resulted in the monstrous Cyclops 3704 II | possibly have the usual results."~ ~"I have no uneasiness 3705 XXI | till the day of that joyful resurrection which God grants to every 3706 VIII | for a moment did her soul retain it, and then she brushed 3707 III | first thousand is in this reticule. Now be off! My heydukes 3708 X | kicked out in the mean time," retorted Lady Szentirmay, jocosely; 3709 VI | shoulders, and he had nothing to retract.~ ~Ah! he had far better 3710 VII | hand extended towards him, retreated backwards all round the 3711 IX | endeavours threatened to reveal to the world, the disgraceful 3712 VII | were to be thrown open, revealing a magnificent display of 3713 XI | drinks like a fish, and revels in tobacco. It is true she 3714 IX | the sparks of triumphant revenge were in them after all.~ ~ 3715 V | spinsters know how to be revengeful! They left the back door 3716 XIII | And now she could coldly review the whole course of her 3717 VII | new landlord would have revived in his own favour some old 3718 XVI | Eugene Darvay, the handsome Rezsö Csendey, and that genial 3719 X | recognized categories of rhetoric, and which continually suggested 3720 II | stores to the army of the Rhine, or the army of Italy, and 3721 XVIII | men of breeding to make ribald jests about the name of 3722 III | 64] sworn burghers with ribbon-bedizened copper axes in their hands; 3723 VI | that it had gone through my ribs."~ ~"I wish it had with 3724 I | Kárpáthy, who was very much richer than my father - - ~"Aha!"~ ~" 3725 Pre | episode. This embarras de richesse would naturally be still 3726 II | know of the embarras de richesses of the one as of the splendour-environed 3727 II | if some one would neatly rid me of my uncle."~ ~"Sir, 3728 XVI | if I were to tell, the riddle would be at an end. You 3729 VI | air in front of him, and riddled them with bullets three 3730 XVI | we will play at guessing riddles. Let us lay a wager that 3731 VIII | vice fêted and sobriety ridiculed. That, sir, is a bad apprenticeship, 3732 IV | Now, when this partly ridiculous, partly malevolent old lady 3733 I | already occupied."~ ~"C'est rien! We'll go halves. If it 3734 XV | illustrious family, and rob the rightful heirs of their inheritance 3735 VI | man, you have acted quite rightly. In your place any one of 3736 XVII | private, and love to be rigid moralists in public at the 3737 IX | The part of all this rigmarole which appealed to Master 3738 XIII | parts, forming a centre and rings like an army, and advanced 3739 VIII | and bailiffs, renounced riotous pastimes, spoke sensibly 3740 XVIII | sound as an acorn, or as a ripe apple freshly plucked from 3741 VIII | hand of the artisan, to rivet his attention the better, 3742 X | company she happened to be in riveted with a horrible fascination 3743 IX | tempest shook the trees, the roaming dogs barked and howled as 3744 VI | deserve to be called thief and robber if ever he took part in 3745 Words | under-garment.~ ~Köntös, a gown, or robe.~ ~Ménes, a stud of horses.~ ~ 3746 XVI | Mr. Kecskerey began to rock himself gently to and fro 3747 IX | had been fenced about in a rock-girt fortress, or if wrathful 3748 XV | himself to and fro in a rocking-chair.~ ~"If I could only prove 3749 II | pedantic classicism, and all rococo prettiness, strove instead 3750 VIII | basket with it?" inquired the roguish damsel.~ ~"No need of that; 3751 III | full of freshly baked white rolls; fastened behind the waggons 3752 II | early every morning, or a Roman altar with vessels of carved 3753 IX | strike!~ ~"Ah, my daughter, romance is, no doubt, a very fine 3754 Pre | the illustrious Hungarian romancer, and my intimate conviction 3755 IV | some of the old-fashioned romances of the day.~ ~Now, such 3756 IV | ever to appear beneath his roof again. A tiger could not 3757 XIX | lad it was, like a little rosy-cheeked angel; his little hands 3758 VIII | smash 'em like a piece of rotten glass. Just tell that to 3759 I | should wear, contracted his rotund, foolish face into a squarish 3760 I | with large baskets, whose rotundity warranted the[Pg 14] suspicion 3761 VIII | coffin-sender. For all the young roués were still greatly amused 3762 VII | rebuking of Master Jock roundly, in the name of the Lord, 3763 III | against even the strongest rowdies.~ ~Meanwhile those of his 3764 IV | claws of a pack of gross, rowdy, street-lounging, rake-hell 3765 I | nothing. James Stuart was of royal blood, and at last he also 3766 XVI | intimacy with Madame Kárpáthy, rub shoulders every day with 3767 III | youth. He was a handsome, ruddy young fellow of about six 3768 III | phraseology in those days. Rudeness used to be called frankness; 3769 VI | Poor young fellow!" sighed Rudolph to himself, while his fellow-second 3770 X | Dr. Legrieux's, No. 11, Rue Vivienne, Paris), but the 3771 II | his seat and smoothing his ruffled shirt-front with the tips 3772 I | concealed by the huge projecting ruffles. The whole costume was set 3773 XXI | it would mean his utter ruin. I charge that kinsman of 3774 VII | have a fresh relay at the Rukadi Csárda waiting for you! 3775 XVII | down the walk. Suddenly the rumble of a carriage was audible 3776 VI | finished his scribbling and rummaging, and he now beckoned Kárpáthy 3777 III | where they sit in long-eared rummers."~ ~"Any more commands, 3778 II | his smooth hair had been rumpled, "if you have only got good 3779 III | good-for-nothing rascal, a runaway ragamuffin, that's what 3780 X | time since those walls had rung with such a sound as that.[ 3781 VI | membrane of the ear was ruptured, and that all his life long 3782 IX | neck in this overbearing rural felicity. All day long she 3783 I | applied his candle to the rush-thatched eaves of the house, and 3784 III | you to be. It is only our rustics who are modest and respectful 3785 XIII | around them should trample ruthlessly thereon. And who so beautiful 3786 VII | maidens played at blindman's-buff, kiss-in-the-ring, and other 3787 V | Kramm, decked out in all her Sabbath finery, was sitting by one 3788 I | Eh, ventre bleu! eh, sacré bleu!" exclaimed the new-comer ( 3789 XXI | humility, approached the sacred elements, the others stood 3790 XV | of their inheritance by saddling her decrepit husband with 3791 XXI | face was there no sign of sadness. He spoke like one bent 3792 V | heart, perhaps, is in the safekeeping of some honest, romantic 3793 VII | purple, pink, carmine, and saffron hues. The whole plain around 3794 I | pheasants, artichokes, and crab salad."~ ~The innkeeper humbly 3795 XXI | on receiving their usual salaries, and they are not to lose 3796 XII | have said that, for witty sallies and the draining of bumpers, 3797 I | and a brawn of pickled salmon spawn. I never eat anything 3798 IX | turned into a pillar of salt.~ ~But meantime John Kárpáthy, 3799 I | cried, "I have the honour to salute you!"~ ~The tumult instantly 3800 VII | when they prepared to fire salvoes in honour of their master, 3801 III | 120,000 florins, with the full sanction of the Court, wherefore 3802 XIX | family doctor invaded the sanctum of the Nabob with the joyful 3803 VII | birch-trees were withering in the sand like so many broomsticks, 3804 X | to mean, either that no sane person had any reason whatever 3805 I | my glass for me. A votre santé, messieurs et mesdames! 3806 III | cutting a supple willow sapling from a tree in the cemetery, 3807 II | half his moustache from the Saracens of Toledo. Come now! an 3808 Note | And now comes Count Sarosdy [Sárosdy], the főispán.~ ~ 3809 V | reply, "Get thee hence, Satan!"~ ~The huntsman had laid 3810 IX | Kárpáthy!~ ~Every eye that had sated itself with gazing on the 3811 I | with good cream-like wine sauce, and began to cram himself 3812 I | cap, somewhat like a tin saucepan in shape, with such a narrow 3813 II | sipped from a half-filled saucer some fluid or other, possibly 3814 IX | thirty thousand of it in the savings bank on her own account, 3815 I | it up as the choicest of savouries!~ ~Nevertheless, the whole 3816 I | sat him down before the savoury cold meat, which had been 3817 IV | out of doors on a larger scale, one of them turning out 3818 VII | magnificent fruit - golden melons, scaly pine-apples, whole stacks 3819 XI | also had fallen into the scandalizing ways of the world.[Pg 268]~ ~ ~ ~ 3820 XI | of them - a treacherous scandalmonger, with an ill word for every 3821 VII | cupola of a temple, the scanty remains of his grey hair 3822 III | across his snout was the scar of a large and badly healed 3823 XII | that his bald pate quite scared the weak-nerved members 3824 I | what I spend on them, I scatter among the bumpkins who till 3825 X | every house she enters, and scatters happiness and contentment 3826 XV | all about were heaps of scented billet-doux, verses, musical 3827 VI | fairy-tale dragons that scents human flesh, and then roared -~ ~" 3828 IX | therefore concocted a little scheme whereby Mrs. Meyer (the 3829 VI | pair of good flint-locked Schneller pistols, and exhibited his 3830 XVII | maintained that only at Schönbrunn was a more beautiful one 3831 IV | instead of to the national schools in the neighbourhood, where 3832 I | myself. The Académie des Sciences has elected me a member 3833 I | quite evident how ill that scornful, mocking expression of his 3834 X | In his despair Mr. Varga scoured the floor with his heel, 3835 IX | he was absent from her in scouring about the slop-shops and 3836 X | catch a good glimpse of her scraggy shoulders and projecting 3837 III | had come to see the sport, scrambled on to the high dyke, from 3838 IX | for all that, they bow and scrape to one another as politely 3839 IX | banker."~ ~Fresh bowings and scrapings and shaking of hands.~ ~" 3840 I | moment, then condescended to scratch his aristocratic ears with 3841 VII | moustaches left. Some of them scratched their heads, some burst 3842 III | would bite at it till it screamed again.~ ~After him, in a 3843 I | chance of it."~ ~It was a screaming joke, no doubt; yet suddenly 3844 XVIII | Béla; good evening, Béla!" screeched our friend Kecskerey, while 3845 V | of God, behind a closed screen, sublime and edifying hymns 3846 XIX | perceiving that the child was screwing up his little round lips 3847 IX | poetic gentlemen love to scribble about ideals and such like 3848 II | these institutions."~ ~"Your scruples are superfluous. I have 3849 VII | with the old-fashioned, scrupulously obsequious, and infallibly 3850 XII | black eyebrows as if to scrutinize her the better, and then 3851 XVI | hide her very soul from the scrutiny of this man; so she accepted 3852 III | loosely.~ ~The smitten steed scudded off like a tempest. Wildly, 3853 I | whether she was a spouse or a scullery-maid, appeared at the extreme 3854 VII | finally, when that merciless scytheman cometh who makes hay of 3855 I | fishing all over the precious sea-like expanse. "This judgment 3856 IX | and so it was.~ ~Fanny searched for the letter till she 3857 IX | his eyes were anxiously searching for Abellino in the most 3858 IV | dresses which she bought second-hand from the prima donna."~ ~" 3859 IX | demanded a similar promise of secrecy, so he told Teresa of the 3860 XVI | at Pest."~ ~"The lady is secretive," thought Kecskerey. "I 3861 XVI | words Rudolf succeeded in securing one of the threatening little 3862 V | he so bold, vigorous, and sedate, she so overflowing with 3863 XIII | broom, coarse grass, and sedges, - a true realm of foxes. 3864 VIII | the glorious resolution of seducing your ward."~ ~"I know it, 3865 XVII | any particular charm or seduction, the young woman was so 3866 XX | F-a-n-n-y, gleamed before him so seductively.~ ~For a long time he remained 3867 VIII | raise her at once into this seemingly unattainable world.~ ~She 3868 II | looked into the waters of the Seine. In point of style it owed 3869 III | the rule is that whoever seizes the banner first, he is 3870 XIII | very beasts.~ ~Squire John selected from among the rest two 3871 XVIII | loves some one with shameful self-abandonment. And that old scoundrel, 3872 VIII | moments of bitterness and self-forgetfulness, when she will readily listen 3873 III | competitors. His modest self-reliance and forbearance quite won 3874 IV | shown a greater spirit of self-sacrifice than by condescending to 3875 IX | Mrs. Meyer, dressed in the self-same garments which Master Boltay 3876 XVI | replied Rudolf, with mild self-satisfaction.~ ~"I honour you for that 3877 I | the young dandy, with a self-satisfied voice. "So long as a man 3878 V | proud consciousness of being self-sufficient, of being able to live without 3879 XX | through that featureless, semi-obscure wilderness towards Kárpáthy 3880 VII | not the scientific but the semi-scientific who do the mischief. Science 3881 IV | Eliza got a situation with a sempstress; but instead of trying to 3882 V | adroitly calculated upon by the sender. Any other missive might 3883 XV | in the clearest, the most sensational manner that she had secret 3884 I | and wide for his peculiar sensitiveness to insult; the merest trifle 3885 Note | corrected. The following sentences are as they originally appeared, 3886 VII | observed Master Jock, sententiously, when he had laughed heartily 3887 IX | worthy man escaped from the sentimental creature in time, and employed 3888 XI | him over to more liberal sentiments, but if we both combine 3889 II | and the wardens had little sentry-boxes to correspond with the style 3890 XIII | various packs of hounds were separated from each other; how the 3891 XVI | affreuse alliance! Why, separately they are capable of subjugating 3892 IX | Palestine, to visit the Holy Sepulchre, where, said the wags, he 3893 II | for his property has been sequestered on account of some political 3894 I | for a yearly allowance, ce serait bien fatigant for us both. 3895 III | Indeed!" said the youth, serenely; "I did not know that. I' 3896 I | little wenches, from the seriousness, not to say anxiety, of 3897 IX | and mine are bad; but it serves me right! I am the cause 3898 I | for a gentleman - and my serving-maid is as ugly as night."~ ~" 3899 XIX | tearless. The room was full of serving-maids and nurses. Here and there 3900 III | lost and won during the sessions of the Diet at Pressburg. 3901 VII | A pretty present for a seventieth birthday! A black coffin 3902 III | had cost the community seventy-two firkins of wine, and more 3903 IV | collar had recently been sewn on to his[Pg 98] overcoat, 3904 XXI | bade the priest send in the sexton.[Pg 354]~ ~He entered accordingly, 3905 IX | rushed into the place a shabbily, not to say raggedly, attired 3906 X | coughing to give the proper shade of respect to his voice, 3907 I | of them were beside the shafts and three in front, and 3908 XIII | the skin of his back, well shaken, and then released. Let 3909 V | pursued the young dandy, in a shaky voice, "that I have not 3910 | shalt 3911 V | than mere giddiness; it was shamelessness, jealousy, hatred! Matilda 3912 I | all will be mine, and I shan't owe you a thank you, for 3913 IV | was spread, the invisible shapes of tailors, bootmakers, 3914 II | his sous, and had it well sharpened with the remaining two; 3915 I | starched cravat, with two sharply-pointed linen ends, that one could 3916 II | old fellow's health may be shattered by peasant-girls and fat 3917 I | by a heap of horseradish shavings, and with a bit of green 3918 XXI | chair yonder she lost her shawl - it is there still. On 3919 IX | He gave the poets printed sheets, in which they could read 3920 III | learn at the first of the shepherd huts scattered along the 3921 XIII | himself was in the saddle, and shewed all the world that he could 3922 III | horse got frightened and shied. But just you try a second 3923 VI | huge poplar, capable of shielding even his bulky frame.~ ~ 3924 IX | by them, I might go and shift for myself, for Pressburg 3925 IX | continued Mrs. Meyer, noisily shifting her pillows from one side 3926 VIII | would cut him off with a shilling."~ ~"Why, man, you understand 3927 XI | nimbus of gentility began to shine around her.~ ~The whole 3928 IX | eyelids.~ ~The sun was already shining through the window-panes 3929 II | and smoothing his ruffled shirt-front with the tips of his nails.~ ~" 3930 IX | I thought I heard you shiver."~ ~"No, I didn't."~ ~"You 3931 III | take it, man! What are you shivering at? Why, he hasn't lain 3932 VI | been so startled by the shock as to have involuntarily 3933 II | servant to the very heel of my shoe."~ ~"Monseigneur," replied 3934 VII | moustache is more pointed than a shoemaker's awl, and waxed to a fearful 3935 VII | good nag shod with silver shoes. I pray that your honour 3936 VII | his great bald forehead shone like the cupola of a temple, 3937 II | killing, I am capable of shooting or cutting down the man 3938 VI | might hear any talk of a shop-girl who had accepted earnest[ 3939 XI | festival where a ci-devant shopkeeper's daughter would play the 3940 VIII | into the hands of usurers, shopkeepers, and aliens, and all through 3941 VII | up all the resin in the shops he could lay his hands on, 3942 I | an elegant villa on the shores of the Lake of Como. I have 3943 VIII | my road to death is much shorter than his, the contest is 3944 X | every one of them in the shortest conceivable space of time, 3945 I | Master Jock himself had shouldered a fiddle (he always carried 3946 XIII | blessings which Gratitude will shower upon your name."~ ~"Then 3947 VII | as many blessings may be showered upon your shoulders as you 3948 XVII | before him.~ ~Each of them shrank back from the other.~ ~The 3949 IV | exceedingly dry man - practical shrewdness and commonsense personified. 3950 II | replied the banker, with a shrug, "I know very well that 3951 XXI | illuminated by candles - Rudolf shrunk back.~ ~"Old friend, that' 3952 VIII | of her adored idol.~ ~A shudder ran through her at the thought.~ ~ 3953 VI | up in her heart, and she shuddered at the idea that that man 3954 IX | conversation with something of that shuddering curiosity with which Damiens 3955 XXI | place of the door, and iron shutters will cover all the windows. 3956 VIII | over seventy, after coldly shutting her heart against a handsome 3957 XIII | Flora, who watched by the sick-bed night and day, denying herself 3958 IX | which I had passed at their sick-beds? for taking the very food 3959 XIII | that Madame Kárpáthy was sickening for small-pox.~ ~If that 3960 XVIII | all appearance she will be sicker still."~ ~"Poor auntie!" 3961 IV | for the doctor?"~ ~"Her sickness is not to be cured by any 3962 XVII | broke off an iris from a side-bed.~ ~"Look, here is a happy 3963 XIII | of a sudden, darted off side-ways. But fruitless was all his 3964 IX | when Abellino's lackey sidled up to his master and whispered 3965 III | the rest.~ ~At last the signal-guns were fired. At the first 3966 VI | looked first of all at the signature. A cry of astonishment burst 3967 VII | that Master Jock really signed the codicil in favour of 3968 III | gentleman. Look, here on my signet-ring is my crest."~ ~This joke 3969 III | so swollen with hoop and signet-rings that he could scarce bend 3970 IX | Boltay.~ ~Mrs. Meyer cast a significant glance at the girl out of 3971 I | run away with the light, signore contadino!" cried the stranger.~ ~" 3972 III | pinks and vine leaves; his silk vest had silver buttons; 3973 VII | glass-works, sugar-works, a silk-factory, a post-office, laid down 3974 VI | same evening a gorgeous silver-laced heyduke might have been 3975 II | loafers strutting about in the silvered liveries of lackeys, who 3976 VII | the nape of his neck in silvery wisps; he was shaved beautifully 3977 XV | about his own size, in a similarly charming position, wrapped 3978 IX | arrange her hair in the simplest manner possible.~ ~Breakfast 3979 IV | know you for a credulous simpleton," said she, "I[Pg 99] should 3980 XI | twist of his hat. The very simplicity of his absurdity makes him 3981 XI | fear her, for she loves you sincerely, and will never betray, 3982 X | the genuine and touching sincerity of these words, and, after 3983 I | and his business is no sinecure.~ ~While he was thus murmuring 3984 V | but do you not know the singer personally? I have so many 3985 I | most famous dancers and singers. I have travelled in Egypt. 3986 V | Fanny to take her to the singing-master, she found Teresa's house 3987 X | would look again at the name singled out by his finger, think 3988 V | Abellino Kárpáthy.~ ~"She sings beautifully, sir, does she 3989 XVIII | Kecskerey himself was a singularly interesting person, and 3990 VII | had all seen John Kárpáthy sink back in his chair, stricken 3991 IX | sleep," stammered Fanny, sinking back again between her pillows; 3992 VII | years old, with wheat-bread sippets, which signified that dinner-time 3993 VII | happened at that moment to be sipping an egg beaten up in his 3994 II | has been before me, and sits comfortably in possession."~ ~" 3995 XX | the two lean horses.~ ~The sitter behind frequently stood 3996 VI | if he were used to such situations.~ ~It was still very early 3997 XXI | she used to sit when she sketched. There's the piano, still 3998 VI | your workmanship to the skies, my good, honest fellow. 3999 VII | features are so simple that a skilful artist could have hit them 4000 III | its head with a jerk. A skilfully thrown noose had gripped