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Einleitung Die Verfasserin nachstehender Erinnerungen, Gräfin A. A. Tolstoi, war elf Jahre älter als Leo Tolstoi; sie wurde 1817 geboren und starb 1904. Von 1846 bis zu ihrem Tode war sie Hofdame, zunächst bei der Tochter Kaiser Nikolaus’ I., Maria Nikolajewna, späteren Herzogin von Leuchtenburg....

Chronology Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire January 18, 1782 Graduated at Dartmouth College 1801

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed...

I take this public opportunity of thanking Mr. A. H. Millar for his great kindness in writing the very full and accurate biographical notice which is prefixed to this Memorial Volume. Katharine Fittis. 89 High Street, Perth, December, 1906

Mens Conscia. Inspector (who notices a backwardness in History). "Who signed Magna Charta?" (No answer.) Inspector (more urgently). "Who signed Magna Charta?" (No answer.) Inspector (angrily). "Who signed Magna Charta!!?" Scapegrace (Thinking matters are beginning to look serious). "Please, Sir, 'twasn't...

TO H. F. PREVOST BATTERSBY, IN APPRECIATION OF MUCH GOOD FELLOWSHIP. Is happiness courted in vain? A will o' the wisp—nothing more? A bubble? a dream? a refrain? Is happiness courted in vain A certain begetter of pain— A fruit with an asp at the core? Is happiness courted in vain A will o' the wisp——Nothing more

OUT FOR A ROYAL GOOD TIME "Will you do me a favor, Bumpus?" "Sure I will, Giraffe; what is it you want now?" "Then tell me who that is talking to our scoutmaster, Dr. Philander Hobbs; because, you know, I've just come in after a scout ahead, and first thing saw was a stranger...

While life was a fairy tale sung in rhyme, When phantoms grim of a future day Were hid in the mists of the far away; When we carved for ourselves from our June daydreams (Only yesterday now it seems

TO MRS. ANNIE BESANT PRESIDENT THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

"For Heaven's sake, Sally, don't say, 'Isn't it hot?' or, 'Did you ever know such weather for April?' or, 'Doesn't it seem as if the mud was just as bad as it used to be before we had the State Road?' again. It is hot. I never did see such weather. The mud is worse if anything. I've said all this...

I Dedicate this Book TO CHARLES F. ADAMS, LEECH’S EARLIEST, WARMEST, AND MOST CONSTANT FRIEND; WITH MY GRATEFUL THANKS FOR THE INTEREST HE HAS TAKEN IN MY WORK, AND FOR THE VALUABLE ASSISTANCE AFFORDED IN THE EXECUTION OF IT

LA VILLE D’AVIGNON Nous ne savons si le prologue que nous allons mettre sous les yeux du lecteur est bien utile, et cependant nous ne pouvons résister au désir d’en faire, non pas le premier chapitre, mais la préface de ce livre. Plus nous avançons dans la vie, plus nous avançons dans l’art,...

The higher Rock. LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I. Psalm 61:2. This is a humble cry: the cry of a soul needing help—a soul looking outside of and beyond self for aid and succor. Strange and unusual as it is to hear it, it is the most rational cry that the human soul ever uttered. It cannot...

Genesis A, B Verse Indeterminate Unknown Us is riht micel æt we rodera weard, wereda wuldorcining, wordum herigen, modum lufien! He is mægna sped, heafod ealra heahgesceafta, 5 frea ælmihtig. Næs him fruma æfre, or geworden, ne nu ende cymþ ecean drihtnes, ac he bi a rice ofer heofenstolas. Heagum þrymmum sofæst and swifeorm sweglbosmas heold, 10