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With the convictions they have, added to the fact that they are in a position of heavy responsibility toward the owners of their property, they cannot be blamed for hesitating to try any experiments." "And the practices are bad?" Victoria asked. "They are entirely subversive of the principles of American government, to say the least," replied Austen, grimly. He was thinking of the pass which Mr.
For ages women were allowed nor higher education than reading, writing, and simple arithmetic, often not even these; yet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Sand, George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, Jane Austen, and some scores of others did work which showed them to be the peers of any minds of their day.
Crewe, as he seized the steering wheel a few moments later, "just drop a line to Austen Vane, will you, and tell him I want to see him up here within a day or two. Make an appointment. It has occurred to me that he might be very useful." Mr. Tooting stood on the driveway watching the cloud of dust settle on the road below.
I do not think I am betraying his confidence when I say that he is impressed with your ability, and that he liked your manner the only time he ever talked to you. He believes that you have got, in some way, a wrong idea of what he is trying to do. Why don't you come up and talk to him again?" "I am afraid your kindness leads you to overrate my importance," Austen replied, with mingled feelings.
Gentlemen, I regret to have to say, for obvious reasons, something which you all know, that my father is at the head of the Northeastern machine, which is the Republican party organization." There was a silence. "You went again' him, and we honour you for it, Austen," said Mr. Redbrook, at length. "I want to say," Austen continued, "that I have tried to look at things as Mr.
At this point Austen looked up and smiled. "Tom," he asked, "has it struck you that this is written in the same inimitable style as a part of the message of the Honourable Asa Gray?" Tom slapped his knee. "That's exactly what I said I!" he cried. "Tooting wrote it. I'll swear to it." "And the twenty prominent citizens do you know any of 'em, Tom?"
It was an open secret to them that Job Braden for reasons of his own had chosen Mr. Crewe to represent them, and they were mildly amused at the efforts of Mrs. Pomfret and her assistants to secure votes which were as certain as the sun's rising on the morrow. It was some time before Austen came upon the object of his search though scarce admitting to himself that it had an object.
It is easy to understand that with her avowed dislike of tragedy, living in a time when it was regarded as the business of fiction to be amusing when, in short, it was not fashionable to be disagreeable, as it has since become Jane Austen should have preferred to round out her stories with a "curtain" that sends the audience home content.
With a roulade the brindisi had ceased and the singer as though pleased, not with herself but with the audience, bowed. The fat woman twisting on her bench, was also smiling. She looked cheerful and evil. "I do believe that's the Tamburini," Mrs. Austen remarked. "I heard her at the Academy, ages ago." The usual touch followed. "How she has gone off!"
It may, therefore, I think, be legitimately said that the externals of the Brontës' life, though singularly picturesque in themselves, matter less than the externals of almost any other writers. It is interesting to know whether Jane Austen had any knowledge of the lives of the officers and women of fashion whom she introduced into her masterpieces.
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