- 2023-12-03Korak fast was becoming but a memory. That he was dead
- 2023-12-03. . . I never read anything in the Spectator before with
- 2023-12-03By the way, things in this respect have changed since 1885.
- 2023-12-03off-handedness of manner, has prevented him from becoming
- 2023-12-03The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.
- 2023-12-03and on it in the evenings — for my days were spent in
- 2023-12-03two-column notice of the latter work. It was written by
- 2023-12-03as they all are, is written from Skerryvore, Bournemouth,
- 2023-12-03very slowly northward along the trail that connects with
- 2023-12-03this dark country full of dark deeds of evil and violence.
- 2023-12-03take more trouble, and some parts of your book are infinitely
- 2023-12-03upon his mind. At any rate Bazett informed me that Stevenson
- 2023-12-03might have noticed the reduced numbers of his following.
- 2023-12-03was too shy, nor did I, apparently absorbed in the contemplation
- 2023-12-03I come rarely to town, and am usually damned sick when
- 2023-12-03die decently as die it must, and as we have no fight in
- 2023-12-03big farm, evidently finding in the society of this rougher
- 2023-12-03I set him down as an amiable gentleman with a taste for
- 2023-12-03Excuse the tone of a damned schoolmaster, and believe me,
- 2023-12-03he had something to write about.” The fact is, of course,
- 2023-12-03Morison had been urging his suit once more that evening,
- 2023-12-03I have heard some of yours called in question for steepness;
- 2023-12-03The truth is that Lang is par excellence a litterateur
- 2023-12-03of shying bricks at each other. Honi soit qui mal y pense,
- 2023-12-03lamp was incapable of penetrating the fog. He groped with
- 2023-12-03she speaks of her “delight in his most exquisite work.”
- 2023-12-03great admirers. In a letter which she wrote to me in 1890,
- 2023-12-03on her knees. This was too much for me. Drawing the original
- 2023-12-03gruffly, explaining that he had always been fond of the
- 2023-12-03Allan Quatermain’s habit of attributing sundry quotations
- 2023-12-03one. On such matters, however, only experts can express
- 2023-12-03I believe, although of this I am not sure — that “Andrew
- 2023-12-03than the manners of these people. They generally began
- 2023-12-03his chambers. He was a connection of mine, my cousin Major
- 2023-12-03to me: “I will not sell the copyright; I will take the
- 2023-12-03something lower; and that the beginning must infallibly
- 2023-12-03a quiet old man, who, in his appearance and manner of life,
- 2023-12-03for itself. He says we all had nothing to do. He is wrong
- 2023-12-03in other quarters. Even Mr. Lang’s kind expressions of
- 2023-12-03“King Solomon’s Mines” — Andrew Lang — Estimate
- 2023-12-03nearly pure Indian inhabitants. They were much surprised
- 2023-12-03remember, but I think it must have been before. At any
- 2023-12-03understand all that it meant coming from such a source.
- 2023-12-03(?) be pitched low and kept quiet. But you began (pardon
- 2023-12-03and gunpowder. The latter article was required for a very
- 2023-12-03its truth. Thus to my fancy the first part of “Treasure
- 2023-12-03As to myself I am getting thoroughly sick and tired of
- 2023-12-03Island” is far and away better than its end. In an adventure
- 2023-12-03indigo came next in value; then capsicum, old clothes,
- 2023-12-03the mind in the quiet parts, with at least an accomplished
- 2023-12-03in a close, indeed an almost ferocious study of the map
- 2023-12-03any ready way of gaining the point, I might adopt it. My
- 2023-12-03And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- 2023-12-03The first of the two agreements conveyed the copyright
- 2023-12-03Of his extraordinary readiness I need say little, as it
- 2023-12-03Of course when the two are found together, a rare event,
- 2023-12-03then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-03P.S. — My people, with whom I have been in Galloway,
- 2023-12-03making up a whole that is difficult to comprehend. Others
- 2023-12-03part of the long vacation, not to Ditchingham, which was
- 2023-12-03then directed the ray of the little lamp toward the further
- 2023-12-03manuscript of “Nada the Lily.” I suppose that Lang
- 2023-12-03The next letter, also from Skerryvore, Bournemouth, which,
- 2023-12-03I only wish I could find the “filthy enclosure,” or
- 2023-12-03Korak fast was becoming but a memory. That he was dead
- 2023-12-03is that above all things the written word should be clear
- 2023-12-03in a railway bus from Liverpool Street to the West Kensington
- 2023-12-03making up a whole that is difficult to comprehend. Others
- 2023-12-03wall. He staggered down again; his remarkable physical
- 2023-12-03and on it in the evenings — for my days were spent in
- 2023-12-03man. I wonder how many copies they have sold up to Christmas
- 2023-12-03and lively affection and respect. Indeed we are companions
- 2023-12-03innocent purpose: each parish has a public musket, and
- 2023-12-03writes more easily than he talks, at any rate to most people.
- 2023-12-03The companion volume is entitled “Objects of Pity; or,
- 2023-12-03I had let for some years to a gentleman who unhappily died
- 2023-12-03for tobacco was something quite extraordinary. After tobacco,
- 2023-12-03Perhaps before I go any further I should try to give some
- 2023-12-03Self and Company. By a Gentleman of Quality. Imprinted
- 2023-12-03— for the slack-sided, clerical-cob effusions of the
- 2023-12-03And thus matters stood when, one hot night, Meriem, unable
- 2023-12-03leapt from the train, at which, the unfolded map still
- 2023-12-03can have been referred to in the above letter I am at a
- 2023-12-03was too shy, nor did I, apparently absorbed in the contemplation
- 2023-12-03Three or four inches of water now flooded the cave of the
- 2023-12-03At length, I know not how, the manuscript, which today
- 2023-12-03as a mere jeu d’esprit, especially after its rejection
- 2023-12-03of soul radiate in every common word and act, though often
- 2023-12-03either a watch or a clock; and an old man who was supposed
- 2023-12-03in ancient or modern literature has escaped him — prove
- 2023-12-03do so through a regular gate, and I entered into an arrangement
- 2023-12-03and 29 of the Introduction to the 1888 and subsequent editions
- 2023-12-03a quiet old man, who, in his appearance and manner of life,
- 2023-12-03character in your book that I almost prefer it to “Treasure
- 2023-12-03publish the book and asking me to call re the agreement.
- 2023-12-03one. On such matters, however, only experts can express
- 2023-12-03of an ancient tertiary epoch) of which these islands are
- 2023-12-03men whom it has ever been my privilege to know, although
- 2023-12-03My dear Sir, — Your paper “Bottles” has reached me
- 2023-12-03he is admitted to be perhaps the soundest and ablest critic
- 2023-12-03the gunpowder was wanted for making a noise on their saint
- 2023-12-03a great deal of money when they come on the market, I am
- 2023-12-03Head” has given me. I have not read anything so good
- 2023-12-03again in a small furnished house in West Kensington at
- 2023-12-03reason to believe her dead, and that it was because of
- 2023-12-03he saw such things every day, and that when he wrote to
- 2023-12-03Dear Sir, — Some kind hand has sent me your tale of Solomon’s
- 2023-12-03“A hodman of letters,” a description that may be paralleled
- 2023-12-03the sailors bought with a stick of tobacco, of the value
- 2023-12-03know to what it refers, since the enclosure of which he
- 2023-12-03say I. And I hope you will say the same. We are a large
- 2023-12-03is that above all things the written word should be clear
- 2023-12-03unlocked the door at the foot of the steps. He turned,
- 2023-12-03manuscript of “Nada the Lily.” I suppose that Lang
- 2023-12-03man. I wonder how many copies they have sold up to Christmas
- 2023-12-03What are you about? I am again at a boys’ story; but
- 2023-12-03of the Eurasian. She turned and faced him, threw up both
- 2023-12-03Dear Mr. Rider Haggard, — I have got so far as Sir Henry’s
- 2023-12-03neatness. To this you could easily attain. In other words,
- 2023-12-03Dear Mr. Rider Haggard, — I have got so far as Sir Henry’s