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Updated: June 21, 2025
But his dreams were not destined to be fulfilled. Thus, at the outset of a career from which much was to be expected, a man, possessed of rare and original qualities of head and heart, sank out of the sphere in which at that time he was the most prominent figure. There was then no Mark Twain or Bret Harte.
Young and good-looking, her face was both refined and strong. Some of Bret Harte's characters were suggested. With great labor and intelligence she had brought order out of chaos, and had so indexed her books with reference to creeks and individuals as to render the work of the searcher comparatively simple. A few words concerning mining law as applied to Alaska seem now appropriate.
In these murals Du Mond has tried to reach as closely as he could to nature without being too literal and without sacrificing artistic effect. He has even introduced among his figures some well-known Californians, a Bret Harte, in the gown of the scholar, and William Keith, carrying a portfolio to suggest his painting."
Christ in Flanders, Honoré de Balzac. A New England Nun, Mary Wilkins Freeman. Outcasts of Poker Flat, Bret Harte. The Siege of Berlin, Alphonse Dadoed. The Prisoner of Assiout, Grant Allen. A Terribly Strange Bed, Wilkie Collins. The Prisoners, Guy de Maupassant. Mr. Isaacs, F. Marion Crawford. Where Love Is, There God Is Also, Leo Tolstoi.
Were you down at the bank cashing a cheque? 'What are you thinking about? There are no banks open on Sunday morning, said Bret, who of course had not the least idea what was meant.
Signed January 16, 1703." In consequence the official, M. Vivant, refused Villot's demand, and ordered her to go home to her husband and cohabit with him as her lawful spouse. Case V. In the suit of Demoiselle Maris Louise Buchères accusing of impotence Antoine de Bret, an inspection was ordered and performed by Venage and Lita, physicians, Lombard and Delon, surgeons.
As a matter of fact they are so serious, even in their fun, that the Californian romancer, Bret Harte, has told us that he never saw a genuine Chinaman laugh, and has even confessed that he is unable to say whether one of the national pieces he witnessed was a tragedy or a farce. In short, Seng Vou was a comedian.
"No; I'd have good cheerful books of the best and brightest sides of human nature Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain, and Bret Harte, and those men. And I'd have all Australian pictures showing the brightest and best side of Australian life. And I'd have all Australian songs.
On the streets of San Francisco, however, Bret Harte was always a notable figure, from the fact that the average man wore "slops," devoid alike of style or cut, and usually of shiny broadcloth. Broad-brimmed black felt hats were the customary headgear, completing a most funereal costume. Mr. Harte impressed me as being singularly modest and utterly devoid of any form of affectation.
"If of all words on tongue or pen, The saddest are 'it might have been, Full sad are those we often see, It is, but it hadn't ought to be." It takes Bret Harte to strike the note for such rivalry and such disappointment.
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