On descending to dinner, explanations ensued. A little girl, I was told, would shortly be my companion: the daughter of a friend and distant relation of the late Dr. Bretton's. This little girl, it was added, had recently lost her mother ; though, indeed, Mrs. Bretton ere long subjoined, the loss was not so great as might at first appear. Mrs. Home (Home it seems was the name) had been a ver y pretty, but a giddy, careless woman, who had neglected her child, and disappointed and disheartened her husband. So

Şehir tarihlerinin birer birer yazılması ile bir araya gelecek parçaların ışığında Osmanlı Devleti tarihi daha sağlıklı irdelenebilecektir. Anadolu'nun ortasında tarihin ilk dönemlerine ait kalıntıların halen ayakta durduğu bir vilayet Çorum. Şehrin Osmanlı öncesi devri yeterince bilinmemesine rağmen Çorum yöresinin tarihi antik dönemlere kadar iner. İdari teşkilatlanmasına baktığımızda genellikle sancak olarak karşımıza çıkan Çorum, Kaza olarak yer aldığı sürecin sonunda tekrar sancak statüsüne bildik bir

Letters from foreign countries arrive in the afternoon. Each envelope advertises a break in the monotony of days; each reveals on penetration only one more facet of a standard world. But latterly another kind has come, strangely addressed, stranger still within. We learn, runs one, that you are safely returned to your own glorious country and are already in the midst of your dearest ones, enjoying the best of health...PS.— We have experienced no cold this year hitherto. I am proud, says another, that the al

He began by saying very much what Dr. Greenslade had said the night before. A large part of the world had gone mad, and that involved the growth of inexplicable and unpredictable crime. All the old sanctities had become weakened, and men had grown too well accustomed to death and pain. This meant that the criminal had far greater resources at his command, and, if he were an able man, could mobilise a vast amount of utter recklessness and depraved ingenuity. The moral imbecile, he said, had been more or less

Lucy Watson did not leave home without regrets. For a long time she gazed at the desert scenery through tear-blurred eyes. But this sadness seemed rather for the past-the home that had been, before the death of her mother and the elopement of her younger sister with a cowboy. This escapade of Clara's had been the last straw. Lucy had clung to the home in the hope she might save her sister from following in the footsteps of others of the family. Always she had felt keenly the stigma of being the daughter of

She laughed at the elasticity of my character. Well, in the first place, I don't think my ideal would speak like that, said she. He would be a harder, sterner man, not so ready to adapt himself to a silly girl's whim. But, above all, he must be a man who could do, who could act, who could look Death in the face and have no fear of him, a man of great deeds and strange experiences. It is never a man that I should love, but always the glories he had won; for they would be reflected upon me. Think of Richard B

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars a piece all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the

How much sweet solace, how much valued counsel has our archdeacon received within that sainted enclosure! 'Tis there alone that he unbends, and comes down from his high church pedestal to the level of a mortal man. In the world Dr Grantly never lays aside that demeanour which so well becomes him. He has all the dignity of an ancient saint with the sleekness of a modern bishop; he is always the same; he is always the archdeacon; unlike Homer, he never nods. Even with his father-in-law, even with the bishop a

We had met there accidentally, and were bathing together. If we had been engaged in any exercise peculiar to my own nation I should, of course, have looked after Pesca carefully; but as foreigners are generally quite as well able to take care of themselves in the water as Englishmen, it never occurred to me that the art of swimming might merely add one more to the list of manly exercises which the Professor believed that he could learn impromptu. Soon after we had both struck out from shore, I stopped, find

But we did not sit cooped up in the boathouse always. We saved that for sultry afternoons or days of rain and fog. Late June was wild strawberry time and mother saw to it that I picked plenty for preserving. There were fine large strawberries in the garden, but the wild ones were held a special delicacy and I was good at finding and picking. Sometimes we persuaded mother to put us up a lunch and Rissa and Nat spent the day with me roaming the half cleared pastures and the fields on either side of Fortune's

Bu kitabı, hakikat sırrına ermiş vicdanlar, naif konuları seven insanlar zevkle okuyabilirler. Bir asırdır, bu muhit ve bu millet hayli alimler yetiştirdi ve daha birçokları yetişecektir. Okuyucularıma sunduğum bu hikâyeler (Acaba hikâye mi?!) düşüncesine mazhar olursa kendimizi bahtiyar sayarız. Çünkü bu hikâyeye rağbet, hakıkadere eğilim gösterme manasını taşıyacaktır. Bu ise okurlarımızdan uzak görülmez. Bu muhterem millet, içinde hakikat düşüncesi taşıyan binlerce hassas yürek mevcut olduğunu yâr ve ağ

But after a little he and Anna must get talking, amusing themselves irrespective of Stephen, inventing absurd little games, like two children, which games did not always include the real child. Stephen would sit there silently watching, but her heart would be a prey to the strangest emotions—emotions that seven-years-old could not cope with, and for which it could find noadequate names. All she would know was that seeing her parents together in this mood, would fill her with longings for something that she

Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty- seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all ove

The chick which the parent bird has hidden remains a puzzle. It moves not, it may not blink. Its crafty parent has so nibbled and frayed the edges of the decaying brown leaves among which it nestles that it has become absorbed in the scene. There is nothing to distinguish between the leaf-like feathers and the feather-like leaves. The instinct of the bird has blotted itself out. It is there, but invisible, and to be discovered only by the critical inspection of every inch of its environment. You have found

It went beautifully. Odd trains of thought coursed through the heads of both. Why is she such a hypocrite? he wondered. She was practising it half the afternoon....Simultaneously Lucia was saying to herself, Georgie can't be reading it. He must have tried it before. At the end were mutual congratulations: each thought that the other had read it wonderfully well. Then bed-time. She kissed her hand to him as she closed her bedroom door, and Georgie made a few revolutions in front of his mirror before divestin

But I don't want a china doll, Mother. Nellie is china.' Darkness overwhelmed her. All the shining bliss was blotted out as suddenly as it had flashed into light. Her heart sank down, far, far down into emptiness, and instead of the happy sighing of the leaves she heard only a mournful whisper from the flames that crawled over the lightwood knots on their way into smoke. Never, never as long as she lived would she have a doll with real hair that she could comb and brush. Something would always stand in the

One time we went over to Hoboken to a place where a merry-go-round was operating, and my stepmother sent me into the crowds to take pocketbooks and anything else I could put my hands on. A detective saw me take a woman's pocketbook and he carried me off to jail in his arms, my stepmother disappearing in the crowd. I remained in the Hoboken jail several days and was very happy there, for the policemen used to give me candy and let me play around the place, and did not beat me, as my stepmother used to do. A

Duydum ki bizi bırakmaya azmediyorsun etme Başka bir yar başka bir dosta meylediyorsun etme Sen yad eller dünyasında ne arıyorsun yabancı Hangi hasta gönüllüyü kastediyorsun etme Çalma bizi bizden bizi gitme o ellere doğru Çalınmış başkalarına nazar ediyorsun etme Ey ay felek harap olmuş alt üst olmuş senin için Bizi öyle harap öyle alt üst ediyorsun etme Ey makamı var ve yokun üzerinde olan kişi Sen varlık sahasını öyle terk ediyorsun etme Sen yüz çevirecek olsan ay kapkara olur gamdan Ayın da e

For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over- dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in

He learned what he had asked some three or four days ftlater, after Morris Townsend, with his cousin, had called in Washington Square. Mrs. Penniman did not tell her brother, on the drive home, that she had intimated to this agreeable young man, whose name she did not know, that, with her niece, she should be very glad to see him; but she flwas greatly pleased, and even a little flattered, when, late on fta Sunday afternoon, the two gentlemen made their appearance. His coming with Arthur Townsend made it mo