I was exhilarated but also resented the intervening grille. As I sat down myself, she said, Forgive me, Artem. They did not let me come earlier. Then she choked on tears for a while. Diffused though she was by wire mesh, I got a sense from her look of health and her outright beauty, that if I con...
Old police problem: don’t know whether the boy who shot Mrs. Kuzich is very brave or very stupid. Certainly stupid, a woodcutter from over Gomel way. Question of his bravery hangs in balance, though he’ll certainly die well. Apolitical. The Germans unleashed the Latvian militia on his village las...
But it had not got support from others in IRD, who secretly believed the entire party were dead or captured by Christmas. It was all distressingly vague, and the bereaved hate vagueness, especially if they don't know whether they're really the bereaved or not. Dotty and I spent a miserable Christ...
In their big first-class seats, all of them, even tormented Bluey Kannata, looked as self-contained as rich children. They had conquered New York, and it was hard to know what that mean to them. Now they were going—composedly—to Frankfurt. There the full-color programs had already been printed up...
We walk to the centre of the town past road gangs who yell at us in the usual way. In the barracks we find first a constable and then a solid young police magistrate in his navy blue coat who was just sitting to his luncheon. So we stand together in the yard and we all think how the Factory is be...
He was glad. To live in that grey elephant of a house on any other terms would have been a test of sanity he did not wish to undergo. Yet his success had its blemishes, as when Costello bombarded him with applause. Nolan, having carried so funereal a face on the question, kept clear. It was not u...
But my father incorrectly registered me under the name Thomas Michael. At home and in the world my mother and father called me Michael. It suited my nature to have an untouched and unsuspected legal first name in reserve, though two-named possibilities did not tease me at that stage nor need dela...
I looked around for the Mercedes and its fierce little driver, but an enormous white limousine – aerialed and winged – came to us. Jacko opened the door before the driver could get around to do it, and waved me in. I found myself in a dark, plush interior. Jacko entered quickly. The driver arrive...
Ireland’s ingratitude remained puzzling to the British government, indicating to it an innate turbulence in the Irish. In fact, the so-called rural outrages were based on the reality that, in the name of political economy, throughout the period of the famine, grain and other produce, including li...
Klein, pp. 117, 118, 130–132. 2. Forney, pp. 317–318; Fiske, p. 29. 3. Edmund Porter to Sickles, July 23, 1853, NYPL; Teresa Sickles to Sickles, August 1853, NYPL. 4. Sickles’s notes, December 3, 1852, to August 4, 1853, NYPL; signed note in favor of Antonio Bagioli, August 18, 1853, NYHS; Ernst,...