The American ClaimantCharles L. Webster, 1892 - 277 Seiten The Earl of Rossmore is deeply distressed when an American of no account claims his title--Novelist. |
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ain't AMERICAN CLAIMANT answer artist ashamed Barrow basket began better Brady cablegram chance Cherokee Strip Cholmondeley Castle chromo clothes Colonel course cowboy Dan Beard dear dollars E. W. Kemble earl of Rossmore earl's earldom England face fact Fancy Series father feeling fire fool friends girl give glad glance gone hand hatchments Hawkins head hear heart Howard Tracy idea Irish stew Irving Bacheller IVAN THE FOOL keep kind knew Lady Gwendolen Lady Rossmore look Lord Berkeley m'lord Mark Twain Marsh matter mean mind Mulberry Sellers never night plain poor portrait presently pretty reckon reverence Sally Sellers Saltmarsh seemed sewer gas Siberia Snodgrass sour-mash sure talk tell there's thing thought thousand tion took Tracy's turn waited Washington words
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Seite 172 - Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front — it was Balaklava come again.
Seite ix - Thus it is plain that persistent intrusions of weather are bad for both reader and author. Of course weather is necessary to a narrative of human experience. That is conceded. But it ought to be put where it will not be in the way; where it will not interrupt the flow of the narrative. And it ought to be the ablest weather that can be had, not ignorant, poor-quality, amateur weather. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article of it.
Seite ix - JN o weather will be found in this book.* This is an attempt to pull a book through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth the while of some dare-devil person to try it, and the author was in just the mood. Many a reader who wanted to read a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather.
Seite 30 - I've seen a good deal of this world. Come, where have you disappeared to all these years, and are you from there now, or where are you from?" "I don't quite think you would ever guess, Colonel. Cherokee Strip." "My land!