The $30,000 Bequest, and Other StoriesHarper & brothers, 1917 - 380 páginas |
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Página 94 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Página 306 - Sweet to rejoice in lively hope, That, when my change shall come, Angels will hover round my bed, And waft my spirit home.
Página 259 - The (. humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.' The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter. The humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular ; but the comic and witty stories must be brief and end with a point.
Página 263 - To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
Página 257 - I will remark here, in passing, that certain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly well-known in history by their aliases, that I have not felt it to be worth while to dwell upon them, or even mention them in the order of their birth. Among these may be mentioned Richard Brinsley Twain, alias Guy Fawkes; John Wentworth Twain, alias Sixteen-String Jack; William Hogarth Twain, alias Jack Sheppard; Ananias Twain, alias Baron Munchausen; John George Twain, alias Captain Kydd...
Página 260 - ... that he does not know it is a nub. Artemus Ward used that trick a good deal ; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with innocent surprise, as if wondering what they had found to laugh at. Dan- Setchell used it before him, Nye and Riley and others use it to-day. But the teller of the comic story does not slur the nub ; he shouts it at you — every time. And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation...
Página 264 - The pause is an exceedingly important feature in any kind of story, and a frequently recurring feature, too. It is a dainty thing, and delicate, and also uncertain and treacherous; for it must be exactly the right length — no more and no less — or it fails of its purpose and makes trouble. If the pause is too short the impressive point is passed, and...
Página 266 - If you've got the pause right, she'll fetch a dear little yelp and spring right out of her shoes.
Página 314 - ... forms. The Erie railroad kills from 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each ; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to the appalling figure of nine hundred and eighty-seven thousand six hundred and thirty-one corpses, die naturally in their beds ! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me.
Página 59 - ... and next they discussed plants, and that interested me, because in the summer Sadie and I had planted seeds — I helped her dig the holes, you know — and after days and days a little shrub or a flower came up there, and it was a wonder how that could happen; but it did, and I wished I could talk — I would have told those people about it and shown them how much I knew, and been all alive with the subject; but I didn't care for the optics; it was dull, and when they came back to it again it...