The Martian: A Novel

One morning, a day or two before his wife's complete recovery, he found a long personal letter from Martia by his bedside--a letter that moved him very deeply, and gave him food...

"You, Barty, are the only one I have ever been able to hold communication with, or make to feel my presence; it was a strange chance, that--a happy accident; it saved your life....

"Lieber Barty--I'm so stupid about earthly things that I could never even say Boh to a goose, so I can't give you any good advice; all my heart overflowed into my brain when I w...

So Barty saw her off, with her maid, by the _Baron Osy_. She promised to be back as soon as all was over. Even this short parting was a pain--they had grown so indispensable to...

I don't believe I ever gave my father another bad quarter of an hour from that moment. I even went to church on Sunday mornings quite regularly; not his own somewhat severe plac...

Is it only on account of their pretty manners that my titled friends are such favorites with these highly intellectual guests of mine--and with me? If so, then pretty manners sh...

"Millais's portrait of her is very good, and so is Watts's; but the best idea of her is to be got from Josselin's little outlines in 'The Discreet Princess,' and these are out o...

And one day I discovered another Alfred who wrote verses--Alfred the Great, as we called him--one Alfred Tennyson, who had written a certain poem, among others, called "In Memor...

About this time Leah, who had forebodings too, took it into her head to attend a class for book-keeping, and in a short time thoroughly mastered the science in all its details....

Nor did Barty ever again meet Lirieux, in whose existence a change had also been wrought by fortune; but whether for good or evil I can't say. He was taken to Italy and Greece b...

Now this was Barty all over--all through life. He always gave himself away with a liberality quite uncalled for--so he ought to have some allowances made for that reckless and i...

This meeting made a great difference to Barty in many ways--made amends! Lady Caroline meant to pass the winter at Malines, of all places in the world. The Archbishop was her fr...

The old Marquis had died without pain, and with nearly all his family round him; but perfectly childish, as he had been for two or three years. He was to be buried on the follow...

Marianina wept; the signore went down on his knees in a theatrical manner to him, and called him "maestro" and other big Italian names; the Frau signora, with tears in her eyes,...

She grew to admire worldly success, rank, social distinction, the perishable beauty of outward form, the lust of the flesh and the pride of the eye--the pomps and vanities of th...

With all this power of passionate self-surrender to her husband in all things, little and big, she was not of the type that cannot see the faults of the beloved one, and Barty w...

Barty's French grandfather and grandmother came over from Dieppe once a year to see him, and were well pleased with the happy condition, of his new life; and the more Lord and L...

But things did not go smoothly for Josselin all that Saturday afternoon. When Bonzig left, the boys gathered round "le nouveau," large and small, and asked questions. And just b...

They all sang and played, these Josselins; and tumbled and acted, and were droll and original and fetching, as their father had been and was still; and, like him, amiable and fu...

And the happiest of these gifts, and not the least important, was the gift he had of imparting to his offspring all that was most brilliant and amiable and attractive in himself...

For old Lord Whitby, who loved him, was a poor man with a large family; and every penny of Lady Archibald's fortune that didn't go to her husband and daughter went back to her o...

All this time he was busily rehearsing his part in the chorus of _Iphigenia_; he had applied for the post of second tenor chorister; the conditions were that he should be able t...

I then produced _my_ crust and cut it in two, butter and all, and gave Barty half, and we sat very happily side by side, and breakfasted together in peace and amity. I never fel...

_Leah._ "Well, then, pray be cautious with this Monsieur Paroly you think so much of because he's French. Let _him_ talk--interview _him_--ask him all about his family, if he's...

"You mustn't imagine to yourselves, messieurs, that because I teach you boys science at the Pension Brossard, and take you out walking on Thursday afternoons, and all that, that...

I, being the eldest of the large party, chummed most of the time with the two youngest and became a boy again; so much so that I felt myself almost a sneak when I tactfully trie...

Barty lunched at the Koenig's Hotel table d'hote, which was crowded, principally with English people, none of whom he had ever met or heard of. But from these he heard a good de...

Also fencing-masters, gymnastic masters, a Dutch master who taught us German and Italian--an Irish master with a lovely brogue who taught us English. Shall I ever forget the ble...

PETER IBBETSON. With an Introduction by his Cousin, Lady ***** ("Madge Plunket"). Edited and Illustrated by George du Maurier. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50; Three-quarter...

47, 29. "_Mais non, mon ami ... 'je voudrais pouvoir'?_"--"Why no, my friend--you forget your native language--they would say 'to can'! Now, how would you say, 'I would like to...

170, 23. "_Mais quel bonheur.... Je n'en reviens pas!_"--"But what good luck it is to see you again. I think of you so often, and of Whitby! How you have altered! and what a fin...

425, 30. _cour des miracles_--the court of miracles. (A meeting-place of beggars described in Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris." So called on account of the sudden change in the appe...