From time immemorial the men of the town have been famous seamen, and have divided their energies between fishing and hating the E...nglish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the most part, the town has deserved the name it wears. I find our annals marked with a uniform good sense. I find no ridiculo...us laws, no eavesdropping legislators, no hanging of witches, no whipping of Quakers, no unnatural crimes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, an...d the town must save that the State may spend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is said to have been the last Red Man In Acton. And the Miller is said to have laughed... If you like to call such a sound a laugh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The town is divided into various groups, which form so many little states, each with its own laws and customs, its jargon and its ...jokes. While the association holds and the fashion lasts, they admit nothing well said or well done except by one of themselves, and they are incapable of appeciating anything from another source, to the point of despising those who are not initiated into their mysteries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-gown,... Tirling at the window, crying at the lock, \'Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a mystery that floats between The tourist and the town. Imagination... Estranges it from her. She need not suffer Or die here. It is none of her affair, Its calm heroic vistas make no claim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of high...ways, then of forest paths and all across-lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, where the public heel had testified to their utility. I have looked after the wild stock of the town,... and I have had an eye to the unfrequented nooks and corners of the farm.... I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons. In short, I went on thus for a long time (I may say it without boasting), faithfully minding my business, till it became more and more evident that my townsmen would not after all admit me into the list of town officers, nor make my place a sinecure with a moderate allowance. My accounts, which I can swear to have kept faithfully, I have, indeed, never got audited, still less accepted, still less paid and settled. However, I have not set my heart on that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out t...he dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sure I do not know why the beauty of Monte Carlo should not satisfy more than it does. The bluest of all seas is nowhere blue...r than when you see it between the marble balustrades of the long white terrace before the casino, palms are nowhere greener than in that high garden which the mountain screen from every unkind breath, no colours could be more rich and various than those of the red and purple Alps that tower up behind the town, on whose summit such violent thunderstorms gather and break. But for me, at least, there was not at all the pleasure I had anticipated in this dazzling white and blue, these feathery palms and ragged Alps. ...I had a continual restless feeling that there was nothing at all real about Monte Carlo; that the sea was too blue to be wet, the casino too white to be anything but pasteboard, and that from their very greenness the palms must be cotton. ... in atmosphere and spirit the entire kingdom of Monaco is an extension of the casino.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »