“Yes, it’s a million-pounder, as you see; but it never made but one purchase in its life, and then got the article for only about a tenth part of its value.”

“Papa,

“Oh, you’ll get over it, sweetheart, you’ll get over it; it was only fun, you know. Come, let’s be going.”

future stay and helpmate

character is above reproach,

oh, dear!

Maybe it will teach you not to expect other people to look with your eyes.”

So I loved her all the more, seeing she could be so cheerful when there wasn’t anything to be cheerful about

What in the nation she could find to laugh about I couldn’t see

till her hair turned red

He gripped my hand hard

and she with me

My month ended, my employer back from his journey, I should be all right once more

Because, you see, with all my borrowing, I was carefully keeping within my means – I mean within my salary

take the seat at his dinner-party that night made vacant by the illness of one of his guests.

Within a week I was sumptuously equipped with all needful comforts and luxuries

Sell an eccentric millionaire such an unspeakable suit as that! Tod’s a fool – a born fool. Always doing something like this. Drives every millionaire away from this place, because he can’t tell a millionaire from a tramp, and never could. Ah, here’s the thing I am after. Please get those things off, sir, and throw them in the fire. Do me the favor to put on this shirt and this suit; it’s just the thing, the very thing – plain, rich, modest,

“My friend, you shouldn’t judge a stranger always by the clothes he wears. I am quite able to pay for this suit; I simply didn’t wish to put you to the trouble of changing a large note.”

I couldn’t give it away, if I should try, for neither honest citizen nor highwayman would accept it or meddle with it for anything.

“Give me the change, please.

were not poor enough

English way of settling everything.

pretended that I hadn’t been thinking about the pear at all.

It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor.

nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation

was the only man in the world who could furnish here any detail of the test-mark—by honourable means.  I have finished.”

It’s a lie!  It’s an infamous lie!”

Then the house let go, strangers and all.

two frauds—[The Chair.  “Order!”]—which of these two adventurers—[The Chair.  “Order! order!”]—which of these two gentlemen

can both have happened to say the very same words to the stranger?  It seems to me—”

I publicly charge you with pilfering my note from Mr. Burgess and substituting a copy of it signed with your own name.  There is no other way by which you could have gotten hold of the test-remark; I alone, of living men, possessed the secret of its wording.”

gazed at it with a burning interest, a mouth-watering interest, a wistful and pathetic interest; a minority of nineteen couples gazed at it tenderly, lovingly, proprietarily, and the male half of this minority kept saying over to themselves the moving little impromptu speeches of thankfulness for the audience’s applause and congratulations which they were presently going to get up and deliver.

During that one night the nineteen wives spent an average of seven thousand dollars each out of the forty thousand in the sack—a hundred and thirty-three thousand altogether.

“You were thinking, if a body could only guess out what the remark was that Goodson made to the stranger.” “It’s perfectly true.  I feel guilty and ashamed.  And you?”

and fondled them lovingly

“How you talk!  Not guilty of it!  Everybody knows he was guilty.” “Mary, I give you my word—he was innocent.”

a burglar might come at any moment; it is dreadful to be here all alone with it.”

for we are so poor, so old and poor!

The old lady was afraid of the mysterious big stranger

ertainly without caring

The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy,

the most honest and upright town in all the region round about

waiting for you.

tough pimples

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Logic and sermons never convince,

red marauder,

The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;

I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my neck, By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.

Man or woman, I might tell how I like you, but cannot,

The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)

I am an old artillerist, I tell of my fort’s bombardment, I am there again.

Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

long dumb voices,

liquid trees!

I know I am deathless,

picturesque giant and love him

The beards of the young men glisten’d with wet, it ran from their long hair, Little streams pass’d all over their bodies.

dumbly smoking

I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl,

I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?

Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.

go bathe and admire myself.

Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

I am in love with it,

Hoping to cease not till death.

CELEBRATE myself

hen did Goodman Brown turn pale

“Faith! Faith!” cried the husband. “Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!

loathful brotherhood

My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment

switch.

You will think better of this by-and-by

refused to go any farther

the traveller

state-secrets.”

Take my staff, if you are so soon weary.”

bearing a considerable resemblance to him

in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree

good Mr. Hooper’s

Tremble also at each other!

Dark old man!” exclaimed the affrighted minister, “with what horrible crime upon your soul are you now passing to the judgment?”

On earth, never

venerable

“Yea,” said he, in faint accents, “my soul hath a patient weariness until that veil be lifted.”

he still showed an awful solicitude lest the black veil should slip aside

election sermon.

so that love or sympathy could never reach him.

he should be

Never

“Your words are a mystery, too

entered upon the subject with a direct simplicity

horror

superstitious

It was now an appropriate emblem.

“How strange,” said a lady, “that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr. Hooper’s face!”

sagacious

something awful, only by hiding his face

though still a bachelor

good Parson Hooper

his hair is most unusual

This may be the practice in law, but it is not the usage of reason

The police are entirely at fault—an unusual occurrence in affairs of this nature. There is not, however, the shadow of a clew apparent.

woman

separated from the body, and was also greatly shattered

It was not possible to say how the injuries had been inflicted.

excoriated

hird day before her death, when she took out in person the sum of 4000 francs.

Knew Madame L. and her daughter. Had conversed with both frequently.

foreigner

positive

considerable distance.

métal d’Alger

Stereotomy

Xerxes et id genus omne

quondam

Théâtre des Variétés.”

I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind

—Sir Thomas Browne

Swooning

rapped heavily

hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body

only endeared it to my wife

This had probably been done with the view of arousing me from sleep

The curtains of my bed were in flames.

consummate

I again plunged into excess, and soon drowned in wine all memory of the deed.

regarded all black cats as witches in disguise

expect nor solicit belief.

regret the untimely fate of the lovely Charlotte Temple

perfidy

joy passed across

and bless your dying

I feel I have but little longer to combat with the shafts of affliction

THE reader of sensibility may perhaps be astonished to find Mrs. Crayton could so positively deny any knowledge of Charlotte

I fear I shall never hear from him again

few remaining days

“Oh, shall we not forgive the dear penitent?” said Mrs. Temple. “We must, we will, my love; she is willing to return, and ’tis our duty to receive her.

whom I can unburthen my full heart

You are not happy, Charlotte

reflexions

the hated Montraville.

who almost idolized her

kill me, for pity’s sake kill me

from this instant our connexion is at an en

verlasting leave of her;

of regard to you

forgiveness

once kind

she still loved with the utmost tenderness,

Can neither peace nor comfort find, Nor friend whereon to rest

and I will sit by

villain

woman of fashion; her complexion was a clear brown, enlivened with the glow of health, her eyes, full, black, and sparkling, darted their intelligent glances through long silken lashes; her hair was shining brown, and her features regular and striking

peculiar pleasure

accident.

mourn her disappointment.

entirely occupied his time

the daughter whom you so dearly loved, a poor solitary being, without society

Vengeance is mine and I will repay i

yet you are not deprived of the means of meditation

bear up under all our troubles

This minister of Jesus Christ did not think himself too good to receive the hand, and ride in the chariot with a black man in the face of da

law-giver, Moses,

remainder of his glorious life.

which I had enjoyed in my whole life put together.

I seemed to myself to perceive a glow of divine love

diverce days togither

make it sufficiente

ye

bad to worse

Now the priest would not let the people manufacture prayer offerings

fought right and left but was soon overpowered

to meet them

determination

flight

remain quiet

Lord and Superior of all the men in the world, that all should obey him, and that he should be the head of the whole Human Race

he Lord our God, Living and Eternal, created the Heaven and the Earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and we, all the men of the world at the time, were and are descendants, and all those who came after and before us.

they neither hailed me nor drew near

throw stones with slings, making threats of shooting arrows

Governor

Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person, My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

slipped a letter he had purposely written, into Charlotte’s hand, and five guineas into that of Mademoiselle, who promised she would endeavour to bring her young charge into the field again the next evening.

I will return to Portsmouth and think no more about her.

having therefore spent three whole days in thinking on her and in endeavouring to form some plan for seeing her

I shall rest satisfied in the purity of my own intentions, and if I merit not applause, I feel that I dread not censure.

snares not only of the other sex,

ircumstances on which I have founded this novel were related to me

Susanna Rowson

I mean to bend the whole of my artillery against those supposed proofs, which you have from thence provided, and from which you have formed an intrenchment apparently so invulnerable

O thou genius of my sex

taught to fill up time rationally

sensibility, soft compassion, and gentle commiseration

the ornamenting our exteriour ought to be the principal object of our attention;

thus unassisted, have seized the wreath of fame.

Pity that all such censurers of female improvement do not go one step further, and deny their future existence; to be consistent they surely ought.