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Page 29 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Page 36 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says, I never saw an oft removed Tree, Nor yet an oft removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Page 54 - ... scabbard bumping against his spurs, and his spurs clanking against the stones, and the gloves hanging from a steel ring in his belt playing rub-a-dubdub on the leather pouch which held his letters for delivery — my letters, my newspapers, when they hadn't been confiscated — with all the interesting paragraphs neatly daubed out with black paint by the censor. And when this martial postman handed you a letter, you treated him to liquor and gave him copecks. All this kind of thing is altered...
Page 29 - With chaplets green of cerrial-oak were crown'd ; And at each trumpet was a banner bound ; Which, waving in the wind, display'd at large Their master's coat of arms, and knightly charge. Broad were the banners, and of snowy hue, A purer web the silk-worm never drew. The chief about their necks the scutcheons wore, With orient pearls and jewels powder'd o'er : Broad were their collars too, and every one Was set about with many a costly stone.
Page 53 - Platoff leading a pulk of Cossacks over the boundless steppes of the Ukraine. The postman was one of the fiercest little men, with one of the fiercest and largest cocked-hats I ever saw. His face was yellow in the bony and livid in the fleshy parts ; and the huge moustache lying on his upper lip, looked like a leech bound to suck away at him for evermore for some misdeeds of the Promethean kind.
Page 54 - Poste Restante is, like most other things of Spain, a marvel and a mystery. You reach the post-office itself by a dirty little street called, if I remember aright, the Calle de las Carretas, one of the thoroughfares branching from that Castilian Seven Dials, the Puerta del Sol. The entrance to the office is in a dingy little alley, lined with those agreeable blackened stone walls, relieved by dungeon-like barred windows, common in the cities of northern Spain. Opposite the post-office door...
Page 55 - You ascended, so it seemed, several nights, meeting on the way male and female phantoms shrouded in cloaks or in mantillas. The mingled odour of tobacco smoke, of garlic, and of Spain — for Spain has its peculiar though indescribable odour — was wonderful. The odds were rather against you, when you visited the Poste Restante, that the occasion might be a feast or a fast day of moment. In either case the office opened very late, and closed very early ; and the hour selected for your own application...
Page 55 - England has foolishly added the complimentary Esquire. Under those circumstances the best thing you could do was to look for yourself under the head of " Esquire." Failing in unearthing yourself, then you might try Optimus and Terminus, and so up to Penn. When you found yourself a number was affixed to you. At one extremity of the apartment was a grating, and behind that grating sat an old gentleman in a striped dressing-gown and a black velvet sknll-cap.
Page 55 - ... leading article in the Epoca of that morning. Then after a season, remembering you, he arose, offered you a thousand apologies, and went away out of the cage altogether, retiring into some back den — whether to look for your letters, or to drink his chocolate, or to offer his orisons to San Jago de Compostella, is uncertain. By this time there were generally two or three free and independent Britons clamouring at the bars ; the Briton who threatened to write to the Times ; the Briton who declared...
Page 65 - The business shall be conducted by a Board of Managers, consisting of thirty members, to be chosen at the annual meeting of the society to be held on the last Tuesday in October in each year, and nine of whom shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE v.