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Page 92 of 921929 · PDF PAGE 292
… hound that nothing of the sort had been done. The coolies had simply dumped the body in the outer courtyard of the consulate. We hat it taken into an empty room on the opposite side of that in which people were living and sent round for the doctor. He returned an evasive answer. After several further messages, Forrest lost patience and asked me to go round and bring him back by force if necessary. It must not be supposed that Forrest was in any way hysterical. It was immediately urgent to ascertain the cause of Litton's death. The safety of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 436
…ead of exploring the mass of material at random, he would set up a series of geomantic figures and, after less than a hour's work, would take up the volume geomantically indicated and put his finger at once upon the origin of the confusion. On another occasion, he bethought himself that, living as he did in Johannesburg, surrounded by gold and diamonds, he might as well use geomancy to discover a deposit for his own benefit. Indifferent as to whether he found gold or diamonds, he thought to include both by framing his question to cover "mineral…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…oneers in England and Wales. The ordinary way up any Swiss mountain is little more than a scramble. Eckenstein used to say that he would take a cow up the Matterhorn provided that he were allowed to tie its legs. And once, when an ex-president of the Alpine Club began to reply to this remark by
1929 · PDF PAGE 266
…ently unpromising material. They stormed all the more. I ought to have {439} broken the doctor's leg with an axe, but I was too young to take such a responsibility. It would have been hard to prove afterwards that I had saved him by so doing. To my horror, I found that Pache wanted to go down with them. The blackguards had not even had the decency to bring up his valise. I implored him to wait till the morning. I told him he could have the whole of my sleeping kit. But nothing would move him. I explained the situation, but I suppose he could no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 582
…y of her husband's death, till the following day. It is an absolute rule of the abbey not to attack people behind their backs. Betty had taken a frantic dislike to Sister Cypris and pestered us with complaints, not of anything definite that she did, but on general grounds. I happened to hear an outburst of this sort and put my foot down at once. I told Betty that we all agreed with her on many points, but it was none of our business. "If you must abuse anyone, do it to their faces as you see us all do every day, and no ill feeling comes of it."…
1907 · PDF PAGE 248
…ll, O love, and let there be delight, iii. 64 Life hidden in death, iii. 144 Lift up thine eyes ! for night is shed around, i. 90 Plague take these lovers ! : Lift up thine head, disastrous Jezebel, i. 180 Lift up this love of peace and bliss, ii. 110 Light in the sky, i, 242 Light shed from seaward over breakers, ii, ros Like leaves that fall before the sullen wind, il, 129 Like memories of love they come, iii. 96 Like pensive cattle couched upon the sand, li, 16 Like snows on the mountain, i. 55 Linked in the tiny shelf upon the ship, ii. 77 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…g criticism made no wound. I would say frankly and even brutally what I thought of this or that trait in one of the girls, and she would take it in the same spirit as a patient submits to the surgeon's knife, knowing first, that whatever I said was inspired by the wish to eliminate error, and secondly that beneath the most ruthless contempt there was absolute respect as due to a star. "If he be a King, thou canst not hurt him." The instant Jane realized that she was a sovereign soul, unique and of {866} equal splendour to every other, she was n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
…0} to read. I became fascinated and spent night after night poring over the pages. (I have always been singularly thorough in anything I take up. My father had a favourite sermon on the word "but"; and I went through the whole Bible, page by page, enclosing this word, wherever it occurred, with an oblong of ink.) Apart from the few regular pieces for recitation, there was Paradise Lost. This bored me for the most part as much as it does now, but allowed me to gloat over the figures of Satan and sin. After all, Milton was a great poet; and the s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…elf in all kinds of a mess simply because I insist upon putting this into practice. I refuse to consider my enemies as irreconcilable; I take the utmost pains to understand and love them. By this means I invariably succeed sooner or later in destroying them, that is, of incorporating them into my own idea of myself. (I am liable to express this operation by saying that having slain my foe in ambush, I devour his heart and liver raw in order to fortify myself with his courage, energy and other fine qualities, and then I become very sad when I am…
1929 · PDF PAGE 262
…the snow being in excellent condition, it merely required a little scraping and stamping. But at the point where it becomes necessary to take the rocks on the right so as not to be under a small patch of séracs, the slope is in the direction the the tremendous precipice previously described. It was there that I gave an exhibition of glissading. I do not think the men would have been afraid at all if the excited shouts and gesticulations of Reymond and the doctor had not demoralized them. These celebrated climbers were themselves actually afraid…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
… covered with snow. But, not feeling particularly well, he remained at the foot of Deep Ghyll while his friends climbed it, proposing to take photographs of them. He set up his camera on a snow slope no steeper than Ludgate Hill, a place entirely free from danger. But he fell and rolled gently down the slope, {91} making no effort to save himself, finally pitching over a small cliff, at the foot of which he was picked up dead. It was not a climbing accident at all, any more than the death of Norman Neruda, who died of heart failure when he happ…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
… his dedicatory pocm is'the one that fascinates me moste ft is a tender Jittle lyric, delicate, iridescent, fragrant as a summer dawn, I take the liberty of quoting it in full « New Age, ie, Mr, Neubury a most regrettable collection of songs that deal with unrestrained affection. ++, There’s no denying ‘they are frsterate verse."——Pency Face in The Equinox. +4 We are dizzied and dazzled by a foaming rainbow-hued torrent of impassioned words. We are struck’ by the wealth and. boldness of the imagery, and the facility of mechanical execution. . .…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…re then an astronomer? opponent—who would be wiser to surrender— that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime courage to state that my ‘‘ Sword of Song” begins with an effort to expound Buddhism, but that my hatred of Christianity overcame me as I went on, and that I end up literally raving. My book is possibly difficult in many ways, but only Mr. Chester…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
… praiseworthy enthusiasm. Once again I had misjudged humanity. All I got was a leading article beginning the the words, "Insensate folly takes various forms." Another shock was to come. Cousin Gregor suddenly declared that he was engaged to be married and that he didn't think he had the right to climb any more on Beachy Head. My boyhood's idol was shattered at a blow. I received my first lesson in what the religions of the world have discovered long since, that no man who allows a woman to take any place in his life is capable of doing good wor…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…iner character. This criticism is perhaps true in part; but I will not insult the intelligence of my readers. I will leave it to them to take the obvious step and work backwards to the re-exaltation of Lear, Cordelia, Edgar and company, to the heroic fields of their putty Elysium (putty, not 1 This may merely mean ‘‘despite the fact that I am dying—though I am almost too weak to speak.” If so, the one phrase in the play which seems to refute our theory is disposed of. Execution of such criminals would be a matter of routine at the period of the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…ner character. This criticism is perhaps true in part ; but I will not insult the intelligence of my readers. I will leave it to them to take the obvious step and work backwards to the re-exaltion of Lear, Cordelia, Edgar and company, to the heroic fields of their putty Elysium (putty, not 1 This may merely mean “despite the fact that I am dying—though I am almost too weak to spe ak.” If so, the one phrase in the play which seems to refute our the ory is dispose d of. Execution of such criminals would be a matter of routine at the period of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
… his dedicatory poem is the one that fascinates me most, It is a tender little lyric, delicate, iridescent, fragrant as a summer dawn, I take the liberty of quoting it in full. ...."—Wew Age. “Fie, Mr. Neuburg! ... a most regrettable collection of songs that deal with unrestrained affection. . . . There’s no denying they are first-rate verse.”—Percy FLAGE in The Equinox, “We are dizzied and dazzled by a foaming rainbow-hued torrent of impassioned words. We are struck by the wealth and boldness of the imagery, and the facility of mechanical exec…
1913 · PDF PAGE 600
… his dedicatory poem is the one that fascinates me most, It is a tender little lyric, delicate, iridescent, fragrant as a summer dawn, I take the liberty of quoting it in full. ...."—Wew Age. “Fie, Mr. Neuburg! ... a most regrettable collection of songs that deal with unrestrained affection. . . . There’s no denying they are first-rate verse.”—Percy FLAGE in The Equinox, “We are dizzied and dazzled by a foaming rainbow-hued torrent of impassioned words. We are struck by the wealth and boldness of the imagery, and the facility of mechanical exec…
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
… his dedicatory poem is the one that fascinates me most. It is a tender little lyric, delicate, iridescent, fragrant as a summer dawn, I take the liberty of quoting it in full... .”—Mew Age. “Fie, Mr. Neuburg! ... a most regrettable collection of songs that deal with unrestrained affection. . . . There’s no denying they are first-rate verse.”—PERCY FLAGE in The Equinox. “*, . . Weare dizzied and dazzled by a foaming rainbow-hued torrent of impassioned words. We are struck by the wealth and boldness of the imagery, and the facility of mechanical…
1912 · PDF PAGE 428
… his dedicatory poem is the one that fascinates me most. It is a tender little lyric, delicate, iridescent, fragrant as a summer dawn, I take the liberty of quoting it in full... .”—Mew Age. “Fie, Mr. Neuburg! ... a most regrettable collection of songs that deal with unrestrained affection. . . . There’s no denying they are first-rate verse.”—PERCY FLAGE in The Equinox. “*, . . Weare dizzied and dazzled by a foaming rainbow-hued torrent of impassioned words. We are struck by the wealth and boldness of the imagery, and the facility of mechanical…