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being apt to be troublesome when the hands are engaged. Of course the pipe was the long German one, consisting of mouth-piece, flexible tube, polished or cherry-tree stem, schwammdose or receiver, and the more or less ornamented head or bowl. Since I am speaking of pipes, I ma...
being apt to be troublesome when the hands are engaged. Of course the pipe was the long German one, consisting of mouth-piece, flexible tube, polished or cherry-tree stem, schwa...
4. CHAPTER XXXVII.The disappointment we had suffered was not the only circumstance adverse to our expedition. The rain had now swollen the smallest rivulets to the size of torrents; in many place...
16. CHAPTER XII.As the company assembled in the drawing-rooms, Mr. Egerton introduced Randal Leslie to his eminent friends in a way that greatly contrasted the distant and admonitory manner whi...
2. CHAPTER XXXV.I had scarcely finished my breakfast, when a group of officers rode up to our quarters to visit me. My arrival had already created an immense sensation in the city, and all kind...
3. CHAPTER XXXVI.If the natural perils of the expedition were sufficient to suggest grave thoughts, the sight of the troops that were to form it was even a stronger incentive to fear. I could no...
9. CHAPTER V."Hip--hip--hurrah!" Such was the sound that greeted our young traveler as he reached the inn-door--a sound joyous in itself, but sadly out of harmony with the feelings which the...
12. CHAPTER VIII.At last they came within easy reach of London; but Leonard had resolved not to enter the metropolis fatigued and exhausted, as a wanderer needing refuge, but fresh and elate, as...
14. CHAPTER X."But do come; change your dress, return and dine with me; you will have just time, Harley. You will meet the most eminent men of our party; surely they are worth your study, phi...
5. BOOK VI.--INITIAL CHAPTER."Life," said my father, in his most dogmatical tone, "is a certain quantity in time, which may be regarded in two ways--1st, as life _Integral_; 2d, as life _Fractional_. Life i...
6. CHAPTER II.On their escape from the prison to which Mr. Avenel had condemned them, Leonard and his mother found their way to a small public-house that lay at a little distance from the tow...
13. CHAPTER IX.At noon the next day, London stole upon them, through a gloomy, thick, oppressive atmosphere. For where is it that we can say London _bursts_ on the sight? It stole on them thro...
15. CHAPTER XI."Mr. Leslie," said Egerton, when Harley had left the library, "you did not act with your usual discretion in touching upon matters connected with politics in the presence of a t...
8. CHAPTER IV.Leonard walked sturdily on in the high-road to the Great City. The day was calm and sunlit, but with a gentle breeze from gray hills at the distance; and with each mile that he...
11. CHAPTER VII.At noon that same day, the young man and the child were on their road to London. The host had at first a little demurred at trusting Helen to so young a companion; but Leonard,...
10. CHAPTER VI.Leonard opened his door and stole toward that of the room adjoining; for his first natural impulse had been to enter and console. But when his touch was on the handle, he drew b...
7. CHAPTER III."Listen to me, my dear mother," said Leonard the next morning, as with his knapsack on his shoulder and Mrs. Fairfield on his arm, he walked along the high road; "I do assure yo...