The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H.
The Entire Works of Charles Dudley Warner.by Charles Dudley Warner.PREFACE TO JOSEPH H. TWICh.e.l.l It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usu

101 By Charles Dudley Warner The Declaration of Independence opens with the statement of a great and fruitful political truth. But if it had said:--"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their Cre 2024-4-23
102 By Charles Dudley Warner At the close of the war for the Union about five millions of negroes were added to the citizens.h.i.+p of the United States. By the census of 1890 this number had become over seven and a half millions. I use the word negro because 2024-4-23
103 THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE--WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE CRIMINAL CLa.s.s?By Charles Dudley Warner The problem of dealing with the criminal cla.s.s seems insolvable, and it undoubtedly is with present methods. It has never been attempted on a fully scienti 2024-4-23
104 The school and the workshop are both primarily for discipline and the formation of new habits. Only incidentally are the school and the workshop intended to fit a man for an occupation outside of the prison.The whole discipline is to put a man in possessi 2024-4-23
105 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH The county of Franklin in Northwestern Ma.s.sachusetts, if not rivaling in certain ways the adjoining Berks.h.i.+re, has still a romantic beauty of its own. In the former half of the nineteenth century its population was largely given 2024-4-23
106 Whether he wrote sketches of travel, or whether he wrote fiction, the scene depicted was from the point of view of the essayist rather than from that of the tourist or of the novelist. It is this characteristic which gives to his work in the former field 2024-4-23
107 It is not alone of the poetical nations of the East that this is true, nor is this desire for the higher enjoyment always wanting in the savage tribes of the West. When the Jesuit Fathers in 1768 landed upon the almost untouched and unexplored southern Pa 2024-4-23
108 The theory was that, uneducated, he was the proper representative of the average ignorance of his district, and that ignorance ought to be represented in the legislature in kind. The ignorant know better what they want than the educated know for them. "T 2024-4-23
109 It is unnecessary for me to say that all this is only from the unsympathetic and worldly side. I should think myself a criminal if I said anything to chill the enthusiasm of the young scholar, or to dash with any skepticism his longing and his hope. He ha 2024-4-23
110 Equally baseless is the a.s.sumption that it is inartistic and untrue to nature to bring a novel to a definite consummation, and especially to end it happily. Life, we are told, is full of incompletion, of broken destinies, of failures, of romances that b 2024-4-23
111 There is another thought pertinent here. It is this: that no man, however humble, can live a full life if he lives to himself alone. He is more of a man, he lives in a higher plane of thought and of enjoyment, the more his communications are extended with 2024-4-23
112 ( 1 ) Maritime opportunity. The irregular coastlines, the bays and harbors, the near islands and mainlands invited to the sea. The nation became, per force, sailors--as the ancient Greeks were and the modern Greeks are: adventurers, discoverers--hardy, am 2024-4-23
113 No doubt there are more people capable of appreciating a good book, and there are more good books read, in this age, than in any previous, though the ratio of good judges to the number who read is less; but we are considering the vast ma.s.s of the readin 2024-4-23
114 In an old plate giving a view of the north side of Cheapside, London, in 1638, we see little but quaint gable ends and rows of small windows set close together. The houses are of wood and plaster, each story overhanging the other, terminating in sharp ped 2024-4-23
115 The more private amus.e.m.e.nts of the great may well be ill.u.s.trated by an account given by Busino of a masque (it was Ben Jonson's "Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue") performed at Whitehall on Twelfthnight, 1617.During the play, twelve cavaliers in ma 2024-4-23
116 The banquet lasted three hours, when the cloth was removed, the table was placed upon the ground--that is, removed from the dais--and their majesties, standing upon it, washed their hands in basins, as did the others. After the dinner was the ball, and th 2024-4-23
117 A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD By Charles Dudley Warner INTRODUCTORY SKETCH The t.i.tle naturally suggested for this story was "A Dead Soul," but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol--"Dead Souls"--tho 2024-4-23
118 "I found the idea in Rome," said Mr. Lyon, "that the United States is now the most promising field for the spread and permanence of the Roman Catholic faith.""How is that?" Mr. Fletcher asked, with a smile of Puritan incredulity."A high functionary 2024-4-23
119 "Of course. Do you think I want to banish romance out of the world?""You are right, my dear," said my wife. "The only thing that makes society any better than an industrial ant-hill is the love between women and men, blind and destructive as it often 2024-4-23
120 In the midst of the talk Margaret came in. The brisk walk in the rosy twilight had heightened her color, and given her a glowing expression which her face had not the night before, and a tenderness and softness, an unworldliness, brought from the quiet ho 2024-4-23
121 "And do you think it would be any better if all were poor alike?""I think it would be better if there were no idle people. I'm half ashamed that I have leisure to go every time I go to that mission. And I'm almost sorry, Mr. Lyon, that I took you the 2024-4-23
122 "Yes," said Morgan, "since Tolstoi mentioned it."After a little the talk drifted into psychic research, and got lost in stories of "appearances" and "long-distance" communications. It appeared to me that intelligent people accepted this sort of st 2024-4-23
123 "And I am getting a great deal," said Mr. Lyon, rather ruefully. "I'm trying to find out where. I ought to have been born.""I'm not sure," Margaret said, half seriously, "but you would have been a very good American."This was not much of an admi 2024-4-23
124 "Very much. All Americans want to go to Was.h.i.+ngton. It is the great social opportunity; everybody there is in society. You will be able to see there, Mr. Lyon, how a republican democracy manages social life."Do you mean to say there are no distincti 2024-4-23
125 Looking back upon this afternoon in the light of after-years, she probably could not feel--no one could say--that she had done wrong. How was she to tell? Why is it that to do the right thing is often to make the mistake of a life? Nothing could have been 2024-4-23
126 "That is true. And the social side has risen with it. Do you know what an impudent thing the managers did the other night in protesting against the raising of the lights by which the house was made brilliant and the cheap illusions of the stage were dest 2024-4-23
127 "In toleration mainly, and lack of exact knowledge. It is here rather cynical persiflage, not concentrated public opinion.""I don't follow you," said Morgan. "It seems to me that in the city you've got gossip plus the stage.""That is to say, we h 2024-4-23
128 "Yes. Miss Esch.e.l.le almost had a career there last season.""Why almost?""Well--you will pardon me--one needs for success in these days to be not only very clever, but equally daring. It is every day more difficult to make a sensation.""I thought 2024-4-23
129 "Well, our Mr. Lyon." Carmen was still looking into the fire. "He is such a good young man!"Margaret did not exactly fancy this sort of commendation, and she replied, with somewhat the tone of defending him, "We all have the highest regard for Mr. Ly 2024-4-23
130 "That lays the responsibility on me of being serious," he replied, in the same light tone.Later they were wandering through the picture-gallery together. A gallery of modern pictures appeals for the most part to the senses--represents the pomps, the col 2024-4-23
131 "Who taught me?" He raised his left hand. She did not respond to the overture, except to snap the hand with her index-finger, and was back in her chair again, regarding him demurely."I think we shall go abroad soon." The little foot was on the fender 2024-4-23
132 "But it would be very interesting to me," Mrs. Fletcher remarked. "Is there any protection, Mr. Morgan, for people who have invested their little property?""Yes; the law.""But suppose your money is all invested, say in a railway, and something goes 2024-4-23
133 "We shall have to have you painted as spring.""But spring isn't painted at all," she replied, holding up the apple --blossoms, and coming down the piazza with a dancing step."And so it won't last. We want something permanent," I was beginning to s 2024-4-23
134 "Perhaps, if she were asked. But Mr. Lyon appeared rather indifferent to American attractions."Margaret looked quickly at Henderson as he said this, and then ventured, a little slyly, "She seemed to appreciate his goodness.""Yes; Miss Esch.e.l.le has 2024-4-23
135 "Don't say that. But you men are so reckless. Promise you won't stand on the platform, and won't get off while the train is in motion, and all the rest of the directions," she said, laughing a little with him; "and you will be careful?""I'll take 2024-4-23
136 Fletcher and Miss Forsythe in the tatter's cottage--a sort of closing up of the ranks that happens on the field during a fatal engagement. As we go on, it becomes more and more difficult to fill up the gaps.We were very unwilling to feel that Margaret ha 2024-4-23
137 He isn't a bad sort of fellow--very long-headed.""Dear," said Margaret, with hesitation, "I wish you didn't have anything to do with such men.""Why, dearest?""Oh, I don't know. You needn't laugh. It rather lets one down; and it isn't like you 2024-4-23
138 XIV Our lives are largely made up of the things we do not have. In May, the time of the apple blossoms--just a year from the swift wooing of Margaret--Miss Forsythe received a letter from John Lyon. It was in a mourning envelope. The Earl of Chisholm was 2024-4-23
139 "Was Navisson a modern lawyer?" I asked."No; the diary is dated 1648-1679.""I thought so."There was a little laugh at this, and the talk drifted off into a consideration of the kind of conscience that enables a professional man to espouse a cause he 2024-4-23
140 "Perfectly right, Mr. Hopper," said Henderson, with imperturbable good-humor; "the transfer books are open to your inspection.""Well, we prefer to hold on to our bonds.""And wait for your interest," interposed Hollowell.Mr. Hopper turned to the sp 2024-4-23
141 "Do you think there was anything between Miss Esch.e.l.le and Mr. Lyon? I saw her afterwards several times.""Not that I ever heard. Miss Esch.e.l.le says that she is thoroughly American in her tastes.""Then her tastes are not quite conformed to her s 2024-4-23
142 Margaret entered into this life as if she had been born to it. Perhaps she was. Perhaps most people never find the career for which they are fitted, and struggle along at cross-purposes with themselves. We all thought that Margaret's natural bent was for 2024-4-23
143 "That's not always an advantage," retorted Uncle Jerry, seating himself, and depositing his hat beside his chair. "When do you expect your husband, Mrs. Henderson?""Tomorrow. But I don't mean to tell him that you are here--not at first.""No," sa 2024-4-23
144 Carmen was calling from the stairs that it was time to dress for the drive. She dashed off a note. It contained messages of love for everybody, but it was the first one in her life written to her aunt not from her heart.XVII Shall we never have done with 2024-4-23
145 He had left her for the first time since they were married without kissing her! She put her head down on the desk and sobbed; it seemed as if her heart would break. Perhaps he was angry, and wouldn't come back, not for ever so long.How cruel to say that 2024-4-23
146 There was more of this sort in the letter. It was full of a kind of sorrowful yearning, as if there was fear that Margaret's love were slipping away and all the old relations were being broken up, but yet it had in it a certain moral condemnation that th 2024-4-23
147 So the Catachoobee University had its splendid new building--as great a contrast to the shanties from which its pupils came as is the Capitol at Was.h.i.+ngton to the huts of a third of its population. If the reader is curious he may read in the local new 2024-4-23
148 "I should think so. But what do you do with the ebony?""Oh, the ebony and gold? That is the adjoining sitting-room--such a pretty contrast.""And the teak?""It has such a beautiful polish. That is another room. Carmen says that will be our sober roo 2024-4-23
149 "You seem to be in a brown study," said Carmen, who came up, leaning on the arm of the Earl of Chisholm."I'm lost in admiration. You must make allowance, Miss Esch.e.l.le, for a person from the country.""Oh, we are all from the country. That is the 2024-4-23
150 "I should think that would suit you. Last I knew, you were deep in the Mind Cure.""So I was. That was last week. Now I'm in the Faith Cure; I've found out about both. The difference is, in the Mind Cure you don't require any faith; in the Faith Cure 2024-4-23
151 "And a steam-yacht.""Which he never gets time to sail in; practically all the time on the road, or besieged by a throng in his office, hustled about from morning till night, begged of, interviewed, a telegraphic despatch every five minutes, and--""An 2024-4-23
152 The apparition evokes a flutter of applause. It is a superb figure, clad in a high tight bodice and long skirts simply draped so as to show every motion of the athletic limbs. She seems, in this pose and light, supernaturally tall. Through her parted lips 2024-4-23
153 Jack laughed, and ran round to give the only reply possible to such a gibe. These breakfast interludes had not lost piquancy in all these months. "I'm half a mind to go to this thing. I would, if it didn't break up my day so.""As 2024-4-23
154 "What are you two plotting?" asked Mrs. Trafton, coming across to the fireplace."Charity," said Jack, meekly."Your wife was here this morning to get me to go and see some of her friends in Hester Street.""You went?" 2024-4-23
155 "And how many pairs can you finish in a day?" asked Edith."Three--three pairs, to do 'em nice--and they are very particular--if I work from six in the morning till twelve at night. I could do more, but my sight ain't what it used 2024-4-23
156 "Oh, very much. For a time. But she said there was too much of it."And Edith could detect no tone of sarcasm in the remark.Down at the other end of the table, matters were going very smoothly.Jack was charmed with his hostess. That clever woman 2024-4-23
157 From her childhood she had known them, their wants, their sympathies, their discouragements; and in her heart--though you would not discover this till you had known her long and well--there was a burning sympathy with them, a sympathy born in her, and not 2024-4-23
158 "And I will look in tomorrow," said the doctor.When they were in the street, Father Damon thanked her for calling his attention to the case, thanked her a little formally, and said that he would make inquiries and have it properly attended to. A 2024-4-23
159 "Yes. We were great cronies when she was Sadie Mack. She isn't a genius, but she is good-hearted. I suppose she is on all the charity boards in the city. She patronizes everything," Jack continued, with a smile."I'm sure she is,&q 2024-4-23
160 "I do not know," said Edith, "who are the Hendersons' friends.""Oh, that doesn't matter. Ask our friends. If we are going to do a thing to please them, no use in doing it half-way, so as to offend them, by drawing social 2024-4-23
161 "I wonder how he knows?""Observation, probably. Tom startled a dinner table the other day with the remark that when a man once gives himself up to the full enjoyment of a virtuous life, it seems strange to him that more people do not follow 2024-4-23
162 "It's better to buy than build," Jack insisted. "A man's got to have some recreation.""Recreation! Why don't you charter a Fifth Avenue stage and take your friends on a voyage to the Battery? That'll make ' 2024-4-23
163 Jack was grateful for Edith's intervention. He comprehended that she had stepped forward as a s.h.i.+eld to him in the gossip about Carmen. He showed his appreciation in certain lover-like attentions and in a gayety of manner, but it was not in his n 2024-4-23
164 How many are trying to save others--others except the distant and foreign sinners?""You surely cannot ignore," replied the father, still speaking mildly, "the immense amount of charitable work done by the churches!""Yes, I kn 2024-4-23
165 "That is possible," said Father Damon; "but that which drives women into professions now is the desire to do something rather than the desire to make something. Besides, it is seldom, in their minds, a finality; marriage is always a possibi 2024-4-23
166 There was a timid knock at the door, and a forlorn little figure, clad in a rumpled calico, with an old shawl over her head, half concealing an eager and pretty face, stood in the doorway, and hesitatingly came in."Meine Mutter sent me to see how Fat 2024-4-23
167 "I'm going to chaperon you up here," she said, "for Miss Tavish will lead you into all sorts of wild adventures."There was that in the manner of the demure little woman when she made this proposal that convinced Jack that under he 2024-4-23
168 The captain of the steamer raised his hat gravely in reply to the little cheer from the yacht, when Carmen and Miss Tavish fluttered their handkerchiefs towards him. The only chaff from the steamer was roared out by a fat Boston man, who made a funnel of 2024-4-23
169 By the end of October they returned to town, Jack, and Edith with a new and delicate attractiveness, and young Fletcher Delancy the most wonderful and important personage probably who came to town that season.It seemed to Edith that his advent would be un 2024-4-23
170 "That depends," Edith replied, simply, but with that spirit and air of breeding before which Carmen always inwardly felt defeat--"that depends very much upon ourselves."Naturally, with this absorption in the baby, Edith was slow to res 2024-4-23
171 "I never was more surprised. He sent for me to come to his office.Without any circ.u.mlocution, he asked me how I was getting on, and, before I could answer, he said, in the driest business way, that he had been thinking over a little plan, and perha 2024-4-23
172 "Nonsense!" cried Carmen, springing up and approaching Jack with a smile of animation and trust, and laying her hand on his shoulder. "We are old, old friends. And I have just confided to you what I wouldn't to any other living being. 2024-4-23
173 "I promise," said the father, much moved. "But now, my child, you ought to think of yourself, of your--""He is dead. Didn't they tell you? There is nothing any more."The nurse approached with a warning gesture that the i 2024-4-23
174 And Father Damon obeyed. Indeed, he was too exhausted to talk.XVII Father Damon slept the sleep of exhaustion. In this for a time the mind joined in the lethargy of the body. But presently, as the vital currents were aroused, the mind began to play its fa 2024-4-23
175 XVIII The Roman poet Martial reckons among the elements of a happy life "an income left, not earned by toil," and also "a wife discreet, yet blythe and bright." Felicity in the possession of these, the epigrammatist might have added, d 2024-4-23
176 "Famously. The lot is bought. Mr. Van Brunt was here all the morning.It's going to be something Oriental, mediaeval, nineteenth-century, gorgeous, and domestic. Van Brunt says he wants it to represent me.""How?" inquired Jack; &qu 2024-4-23
177 "Nothing," he said, taking a long breath. "Just a st.i.tch. Indigestion.It must have been the coffee."Carmen ran to the dining-room, and returned with a winegla.s.s of brandy."There, take that."He drank it. "Yes, that� 2024-4-23
178 XX The place that Rodney Henderson occupied in the mind of the public was shown by the attention the newspapers paid to his death. All the great newspapers in all the cities of importance published long and minute biographies of him, with pictorial ill.u. 2024-4-23
179 "I am quite at your service, madam.""I wanted to see you before I went to the office with the keys of his safe.""Perhaps," said Mr. Sage, "I could spare you that trouble.""Oh no; his secretary thought I had bet 2024-4-23
180 And in a moment he added, "He never said anything to me about such a disposition of his property."Two things were evident to Carmen from this reply. He saw her interests as she saw them, and it was pretty certain that the contents of the will we 2024-4-23
181 "Oh," she said, with surprise at seeing him, and at his appearance, "I didn't expect to see you here. I thought everybody had gone from the city. Perhaps you are going to the Neighborhood Guild?""No," and Jack forced a l 2024-4-23
182 The Major was more than civil; he was disposed to be sympathetic, but he had the tact to see that Mrs. Delancy did not wish to be questioned, nor to talk."Is Mr. Delancy at home?" she asked the small boy who ran the elevator."No'me.&qu 2024-4-23
183 It was comparatively easy for Jack Delancy in Mr. Fletcher's office to face about suddenly and say yes to the proposal made him. There was on him the pressure of necessity, of his own better nature acting under a sense of his wife's approval; an 2024-4-23
184 It was near sunset. When the train had moved on, and its pounding on the rails became a distant roar and then was lost altogether, the country silence so impressed Jack, as he walked along the road towards the sea, that he became distinctly conscious of t 2024-4-23
185 Swinging in this tree-top, with a vivid consciousness of life, of his own capacity for action, it seemed a pity that he could not follow the drum and the flag into such contests as he read about so eagerly.And yet this was only a corner of the boy's 2024-4-23
186 III "I'm not going to follow you about any more through the brush and brambles, Phil Burnett," and Celia, emerging from the thicket into a clearing, flung herself down on a knoll under a beech-tree.Celia was cross. They were out for a Sat.u 2024-4-23
187 "I don't know," Philip said, reflectively, "but I could make up a story about Murad Ault, and how he got to be a pirate and got in jail and was hanged.""Oh, that wouldn't be a real story. You have got to have different p 2024-4-23
188 V It is the desire of every ambitious soul to, enter Literature by the front door, and the few who have patience and money enough to live without the aid of the beckoning Helen may enter there. But a side entrance is the destiny of most aspirants, even th 2024-4-23
189 "My!"The interior was as fully representative of wealth and of the ambition to put under one roof all the notable effects of all the palaces in the world. But it had, what most palaces have not, all the requisites for luxurious living. The varie 2024-4-23
190 "McDonald! I'd as soon suspect myself. So would you.""Well, everybody knew it already, for that matter. I only wonder that some newspaper didn't get on to it before. What did Evelyn say?""Nothing more than what you heard 2024-4-23
191 IX Celia Howard had been, in a way, Philip's inspiration ever since the days when they quarreled and made up on the banks of the Deer field. And a fortunate thing for him it was that in his callow years there was a woman in whom he could confide. Her 2024-4-23
192 All winter long that face seemed to get between Philip and his work. It was an inspiration to his pen when it ran in the way of literature, but a distinct damage to progress in his profession. He had seen Evelyn again, more than once, at the opera, and tw 2024-4-23
193 "Oh, as I wrote you, at the opera; saw her in her box.""And--?""Oh, she's rather a little thing; rather dark, I told you that; seems devoted to music.""And you didn't tell what she wore.""Why, what th 2024-4-23
194 "Yes, the New York Mavicks, that you wrote us about, that were in the paper.""How long have they been there?""A week. There is Mrs. Mavick and her daughter, and the governess, and two maids, and a young fellow in uniform--yes, liv 2024-4-23
195 Mrs. Mavick thought herself fortunate in finding, in the social wilderness of Rivervale, such a presentable young gentleman as Philip.She had persuaded herself that she greatly enjoyed her simple intercourse with the inhabitants, and she would have said t 2024-4-23
196 "So it is," exclaimed Evelyn. "I can see John the Baptist standing here now, and hear his voice crying in the wilderness.""Very likely," said Mrs. Mavick, persisting in her doubt, "of course in Zoar. Anywhere else in the 2024-4-23
197 "I think the valley, Mr. Burnett, looks a little different already."As they drove home along the murmuring river through the golden sunset, the party were mostly silent. Only Mrs. Mavick and Philip, who sat together, kept up a lively chatter, li 2024-4-23
198 "Not if judge and jury were women," Miss McDonald interposed."And you remember Portia?" Mrs. Mavick continued."Portia," said Evelyn; "yes, but that is poetry; and, McDonald, wasn't it a kind of catch? How beautifull 2024-4-23
199 XIV Of course Philip wrote to Celia about his vacation intimacy with the Mavicks. It was no news to her that the Mavicks were spending the summer there; all the world knew that, and society wondered what whim of Carmen's had taken her out of the regu 2024-4-23
200 "He'd think a great deal more of an invitation to your reception.""But you don't understand. You never think of Evelyn's future. We are asking people that we think she ought to know.""Well, Burnett is a very agreeab 2024-4-23