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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 25 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3569 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 72 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Mdlle 7 Mr. 6 Pelet 6 Hunsden 6 Crimsworth 4 little 3 Frances 3 English 3 England 2 monsieur 2 like 2 france 1 time 1 look 1 long 1 large 1 hand 1 eye 1 english 1 devoir 1 Yorke 1 X---- 1 Victor 1 Vandenhuten 1 Seacombe 1 Reuter 1 Mrs. 1 Monsieur 1 Madame 1 Jane 1 Henri 1 French 1 Eulalie 1 Edward 1 Brussels Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 171 eye 143 time 125 hand 121 day 110 man 101 face 97 room 97 house 92 pupil 88 word 88 door 73 mind 73 heart 64 nothing 64 hour 63 voice 63 place 63 moment 62 way 62 night 62 life 59 france 58 side 57 something 57 evening 55 woman 54 school 54 character 53 thing 52 book 50 point 50 lesson 50 head 49 sort 49 pleasure 48 master 47 one 47 feeling 45 name 44 sense 44 nature 44 lady 44 fire 44 course 43 year 43 step 43 smile 42 feature 40 window 40 circumstance Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 147 Hunsden 112 Mdlle 108 Pelet 101 Mr. 98 Crimsworth 73 M. 66 English 57 Frances 50 Monsieur 48 Reuter 45 Henri 44 Madame 42 England 38 French 37 Brussels 36 X---- 32 Edward 28 Zoraide 28 God 26 Mrs. 23 monsieur 21 de 21 Vandenhuten 19 CHAPTER 19 Brown 18 William 17 bien 17 Victor 15 mademoiselle 15 le 15 il 15 Sylvie 15 Mademoiselle 15 Belgium 14 que 14 Seacombe 14 I. 14 Eulalie 12 je 12 Yorke 12 Hall 11 rang 11 Tynedale 11 Rue 10 une 10 Switzerland 9 ne 9 heaven 9 ere 9 Lord Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2938 i 946 it 910 you 876 she 759 me 605 he 342 her 261 him 217 they 157 them 121 we 93 myself 45 herself 44 himself 32 us 29 mine 20 one 16 yourself 13 themselves 9 itself 8 hers 7 ourselves 6 yours 5 theirs 4 je 2 you''re 2 thee 2 his 1 ours 1 i''m Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 2932 be 1476 have 461 do 307 say 232 see 219 think 196 know 194 take 194 look 179 make 174 go 145 give 133 come 120 find 109 feel 104 speak 103 get 98 sit 90 seem 89 leave 85 hear 81 ask 75 turn 72 like 70 stand 68 put 62 pass 61 rise 59 read 58 tell 56 begin 55 call 53 live 52 enter 50 wish 48 walk 48 follow 45 become 44 continue 43 write 43 open 41 keep 41 answer 40 show 39 meet 38 talk 38 suppose 38 smile 37 bring 36 draw Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 795 not 291 so 223 now 210 then 192 little 190 very 173 well 162 more 130 up 128 good 127 first 122 only 121 as 118 long 112 too 112 never 112 much 111 out 105 still 99 own 89 again 85 just 82 once 82 last 81 other 78 such 75 soon 75 old 74 there 72 even 71 most 68 down 64 yet 63 rather 61 always 60 young 59 large 58 on 56 ever 56 enough 55 full 54 away 52 almost 51 here 50 indeed 48 back 47 certain 46 same 45 quite 45 least Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 least 20 good 17 most 5 bad 4 slight 4 eld 2 tall 2 strong 2 high 2 handsome 2 fine 2 fat 2 farth 2 e 2 c'' 1 wise 1 ugly 1 topmost 1 strict 1 soft 1 simple 1 plain 1 oppr 1 near 1 mild 1 mere 1 low 1 lovely 1 long 1 hard 1 happy 1 easy 1 dull 1 deep 1 calm 1 broad 1 bold 1 able 1 Most Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 54 most 9 well 5 least 1 soon 1 near Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 eyes were bent 2 mind was bent 1 crimsworth is better 1 crimsworth is probably 1 crimsworth made inquiries 1 day get blows 1 day had not 1 day were wide 1 days are there 1 days had sodden 1 days were thoroughly 1 door was open 1 english are not 1 eye is yet 1 eye looked straight 1 eye said most 1 eye was flame 1 eyes did not 1 eyes looked reflectively 1 eyes spoke full 1 face looked benevolently 1 face seemed beauty 1 face was better 1 face was broad 1 face was grave 1 face was pale 1 faces were often 1 frances did not 1 frances sat very 1 frances was just 1 frances was serious 1 frances was then 1 heart is not 1 heart like light 1 heart was still 1 hearts was unknown 1 hour had there 1 hour was over 1 house was large 1 hunsden had children 1 hunsden spoke french 1 hunsden was as 1 life are so 1 life is intolerable 1 life is somewhat 1 life was again 1 man is ever 1 man is master 1 men have so 1 men like crimsworth Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 crimsworth had no dignity 1 crimsworth had no special 1 english are not brave 1 heart had no doubt 1 man is no match 1 pelet was no fleming Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 8310 chapter-025 7779 chapter-019 5437 chapter-022 5371 chapter-012 4920 chapter-023 4900 chapter-007 4704 chapter-024 4313 chapter-018 3424 chapter-020 3384 chapter-004 3259 chapter-001 3110 chapter-010 3018 chapter-021 2678 chapter-016 2634 chapter-006 2578 chapter-008 2516 chapter-003 2459 chapter-017 2331 chapter-005 2256 chapter-002 2228 chapter-014 2189 chapter-013 1927 chapter-015 1895 chapter-011 1613 chapter-009 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 83.0 chapter-005 83.0 chapter-006 83.0 chapter-011 82.0 chapter-017 80.0 chapter-002 79.0 chapter-023 79.0 chapter-024 74.0 chapter-018 74.0 chapter-022 73.0 chapter-004 73.0 chapter-009 73.0 chapter-010 72.0 chapter-003 70.0 chapter-015 70.0 chapter-019 70.0 chapter-025 69.0 chapter-001 69.0 chapter-007 69.0 chapter-008 66.0 chapter-012 65.0 chapter-021 63.0 chapter-013 62.0 chapter-016 59.0 chapter-020 56.0 chapter-014 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- chapter-001 "I thought of my uncles; and as I was engaged in wondering whether Edward''s indifference would equal the cold disdain I had always experienced from them, I heard the avenue gates open: wheels approached the house; Mr. Crimsworth was arrived; and after the lapse of some minutes, and a brief dialogue between himself and his servant in the hall, his tread drew near the library door--that tread alone announced the master of the house. "I still retained some confused recollection of Edward as he was ten years ago--a tall, wiry, raw youth; NOW, as I rose from my seat and turned towards the library door, I saw a fine-looking and powerful man, light-complexioned, well-made, and of athletic proportions; the first glance made me aware of an air of promptitude and sharpness, shown as well in his movements as in his port, his eye, and the general expression of his face. chapter-002 I forced my eye to scrutinize this prospect, I forced my mind to dwell on it for a time, and when I found that it communicated no pleasurable emotion to my heart--that it stirred in me none of the hopes a man ought to feel, when he sees laid before him the scene of his life''s career--I said to myself, "William, you are a rebel against circumstances; you are a fool, and know not what you want; you have chosen trade and you shall be a tradesman. "It is well," he said, after a pause, "that you are acquainted with something useful, something that may enable you to earn your board and lodging: since you know French and German, I will take you as second clerk to manage the foreign correspondence of the house. chapter-003 Mr. Crimsworth employed Tim to find out whether my landlady had any complaint to make on the score of my morals; she answered that she believed I was a very religious man, and asked Tim, in her turn, if he thought I had any intention of going into the Church some day; for, she said, she had had young curates to lodge in her house who were nothing equal to me for steadiness and quietness. Mr. Crimsworth, standing on the rug, his elbow supported by the marble mantelpiece, and about him a group of very pretty girls, with whom he conversed gaily--Mr. Crimsworth, thus placed, glanced at me; I looked weary, solitary, kept down like some desolate tutor or governess; he was satisfied. "You think, then, Mr. Hunsden, that patrician descent may be read in a distinctive cast of form and features?" chapter-004 The thing itself--the work of copying and translating business-letters--was a dry and tedious task enough, but had that been all, I should long have borne with the nuisance; I am not of an impatient nature, and influenced by the double desire of getting my living and justifying to myself and others the resolution I had taken to become a tradesman, I should have endured in silence the rust and cramp of my best faculties; I should not have whispered, even inwardly, that I longed for liberty; I should have pent in every sigh by which my heart might have ventured to intimate its distress under the closeness, smoke, monotony and joyless tumult of Bigben Close, and its panting desire for freer and fresher scenes; I should have set up the image of Duty, the fetish of Perseverance, in my small bedroom at Mrs. King''s lodgings, and they two should have been my household gods, from which my darling, my cherished-in-secret, Imagination, the tender and the mighty, should never, either by softness or strength, have severed me. chapter-005 I shut the door and sat down at the desk; my hands, recently washed in half-frozen water, were still numb; I could not write till they had regained vitality, so I went on thinking, and still the theme of my thoughts was the "climax." Self-dissatisfaction troubled exceedingly the current of my meditations. About ten o''clock I heard Mr. Crimsworth''s gig turn into the yard, and in a minute or two he entered the counting-house. Twelve o''clock arrived; the bell rang for a suspension of labour; the workpeople went off to their dinners; Steighton, too, departed, desiring me to lock the counting-house door, and take the key with me. "Look sharp about it, then," said I, and I took down my hat, drew on my gloves, and walked leisurely out of the counting-house--walked out of it to enter it no more. chapter-006 I could not of course be much pleased to see him, considering the manner in which I had parted from him the night before, and as I walked to the hearth, stirred the fire, and said coolly, "Good evening," my demeanour evinced as little cordiality as I felt; yet I wondered in my own mind what had brought him there; and I wondered, also, what motives had induced him to interfere so actively between me and Edward; it was to him, it appeared, that I owed my welcome dismissal; still I could not bring myself to ask him questions, to show any eagerness of curiosity; if he chose to explain, he might, but the explanation should be a perfectly voluntary one on his part; I thought he was entering upon it. "Well, and where''s your gratitude?" demanded Mr. Hunsden; "don''t you know how to say ''Thank you?''" chapter-007 The gentleman, after looking towards me once or twice, politely accosted me in very good English; I remember I wished to God that I could speak French as well; his fluency and correct pronunciation impressed me for the first time with a due notion of the cosmopolitan character of the capital I was in; it was my first experience of that skill in living languages I afterwards found to be so general in Brussels. Pelet was no Fleming, but a Frenchman both by birth and parentage), yet the degree of harshness inseparable from Gallic lineaments was, in his case, softened by a mild blue eye, and a melancholy, almost suffering, expression of countenance; his physiognomy was "fine et spirituelle." I use two French words because they define better than any English terms the species of intelligence with which his features were imbued. chapter-008 On these steps, by-the-by, I have not unfrequently seen Madame Pelet seated with a trencher on her knee, engaged in the threefold employment of eating her dinner, gossiping with her favourite servant, the housemaid, and scolding her antagonist, the cook; she never dined, and seldom indeed took any meal with her son; and as to showing her face at the boys'' table, that was quite out of the question. "We will now speak of business," said Madame Pelet, and she went on to make an elaborate speech, which, being interpreted, was to the effect that she had asked for the pleasure of my company that evening in order to give her friend Madame Reuter an opportunity of broaching an important proposal, which might turn out greatly to my advantage. I manage the house and look after the servants, as my friend Madame Pelet does for Monsieur her son--nothing more. chapter-009 "Doubtless," thought I, "she is some stiff old maid; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I''ll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady''s love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid. This, then, was my first glimpse of the garden; but I had not time to look long, the portress, after having answered in the affirmative my question as to whether her mistress was at home, opened the folding-doors of a room to the left, and having ushered me in, closed them behind me. chapter-010 "Monsieur will give a lesson in the first class to-day," said she; "dictation or reading will perhaps be the best thing to begin with, for those are the easiest forms of communicating instruction in a foreign language; and, at the first, a master naturally feels a little unsettled." Caroline was little, though evidently full grown; raven-black hair, very dark eyes, absolutely regular features, with a colourless olive complexion, clear as to the face and sallow about the neck, formed in her that assemblage of points whose union many persons regard as the perfection of beauty. "Et vous, mademoiselle--donnez-moi le votre," continued I, more mildly, addressing a little pale, plain looking girl who sat in the first row of the other division, and whom I had remarked as being at once the ugliest and the most attentive in the room; she rose up, walked over to me, and delivered her book with a grave, modest curtsey. chapter-011 Pelet would probably have greeted him with a public rebuke, and would certainly have mulcted him both of soup and fish; as it was, that polite though partial gentleman only shook his head, and as I took my place, unrolled my napkin, and said my heretical grace to myself, he civilly despatched a servant to the kitchen, to bring me a plate of "puree aux carottes" (for this was a maigre-day), and before sending away the first course, reserved for me a portion of the stock-fish of which it consisted. "I beg pardon, monsieur," said I, as I followed him to his private sitting-room, "for having returned so late--it was not my fault." chapter-012 Trista thought fit to trouble my first lessons with a coarse work-day sort of turbulence; she made noises with her mouth like a horse, she ejected her saliva, she uttered brutal expressions; behind and below her were seated a band of very vulgar, inferior-looking Flamandes, including two or three examples of that deformity of person and imbecility of intellect whose frequency in the Low Countries would seem to furnish proof that the climate is such as to induce degeneracy of the human mind and body; these, I soon found, were completely under her influence, and with their aid she got up and sustained a swinish tumult, which I was constrained at last to quell by ordering her and two of her tools to rise from their seats, and, having kept them standing five minutes, turning them bodily out of the schoolroom: the accomplices into a large place adjoining called the grands salle; the principal into a cabinet, of which I closed the door and pocketed the key. chapter-013 Pelet, when he entered to breakfast, with an unchanged and tranquil countenance; even a cordial offering of the hand and the flattering appellation of "mon fils," pronounced in that caressing tone with which Monsieur had, of late days especially, been accustomed to address me, did not elicit any external sign of the feeling which, though subdued, still glowed at my heart. "Monsieur Creemsvort," said she, in a whisper: for when the schoolrooms were silent, the directress always moved with velvet tread, and spoke in the most subdued key, enforcing order and stillness fully as much by example as precept: "Monsieur Creemsvort, that young person, who has just entered, wishes to have the advantage of taking lessons with you in English; she is not a pupil of the house; she is, indeed, in one sense, a teacher, for she gives instruction in lace-mending, and in little varieties of ornamental needle-work. chapter-014 The list was headed, as usual, by the name of Sylvie, that plain, quiet little girl I have described before as being at once the best and ugliest pupil in the establishment; the second place had fallen to the lot of a certain Leonie Ledru, a diminutive, sharp-featured, and parchment-skinned creature of quick wits, frail conscience, and indurated feelings; a lawyer-like thing, of whom I used to say that, had she been a boy, she would have made a model of an unprincipled, clever attorney. During a brief interval, employed by the pupils in ruling their books, my eye, ranging carelessly over the benches, observed, for the first time, that the farthest seat in the farthest row--a seat usually vacant--was again filled by the new scholar, the Mdlle. chapter-015 She saw me, and I read in her eye pain that a stranger should witness the insubordination of her pupils; she seemed to entreat order--her prayers were useless; then I remarked that she compressed her lips and contracted her brow; and her countenance, if I read it correctly, said--"I have done my best; I seem to merit blame notwithstanding; blame me then who will." I passed on; as I closed the school-room door, I heard her say, suddenly and sharply, addressing one of the eldest and most turbulent of the lot-Henri turned away; dissatisfaction was plainly evinced in her face, and a smile, slight and brief, but bitter, distrustful, and, I thought, scornful, curled her lip as she took her place in the class; it was a secret, involuntary smile, which lasted but a second; an air of depression succeeded, chased away presently by one of attention and interest, when I gave the word for all the pupils to take their reading-books. chapter-016 So much for her perseverance; as to her sense of duty, it evinced itself thus: she liked to learn, but hated to teach; her progress as a pupil depended upon herself, and I saw that on herself she could calculate with certainty; her success as a teacher rested partly, perhaps chiefly, upon the will of others; it cost her a most painful effort to enter into conflict with this foreign will, to endeavour to bend it into subjection to her own; for in what regarded people in general the action of her will was impeded by many scruples; it was as unembarrassed as strong where her own affairs were concerned, and to it she could at any time subject her inclination, if that inclination went counter to her convictions of right; yet when called upon to wrestle with the propensities, the habits, the faults of others, of children especially, who are deaf to reason, and, for the most part, insensate to persuasion, her will sometimes almost refused to act; then came in the sense of duty, and forced the reluctant will into operation. chapter-017 Henri; it was my intention to ask her how she came to be possessed of two English baptismal names, Frances and Evans, in addition to her French surname, also whence she derived her good accent. I had forgotten both points, or, rather, our colloquy had been so brief that I had not had time to bring them forward; moreover, I had not half tested her powers of speaking English; all I had drawn from her in that language were the words "Yes," and "Thank you, sir." "No matter," I reflected. I earned money a little, and this money I gave for lessons in the studies I have mentioned; some of it I spent in buying books, English books especially; soon I shall try to find a place of governess, or school-teacher, when I can write and speak English well; but it will be difficult, because those who know I have been a lace-mender will despise me, as the pupils here despise me. chapter-018 Henri began to take a new footing in the school; her mental power, manifested gradually but steadily, ere long extorted recognition even from the envious; and when the young and healthy saw that she could smile brightly, converse gaily, move with vivacity and alertness, they acknowledged in her a sisterhood of youth and health, and tolerated her as of their kind accordingly. Henri''s real welfare makes me desirous of screening her from annoyances of this sort; besides, monsieur, as I have before hinted to you, the sentiment of AMOUR-PROPRE has a somewhat marked preponderance in her character; celebrity has a tendency to foster this sentiment, and in her it should be rather repressed--she rather needs keeping down than bringing forward; and then I think, monsieur--it appears to me that ambition, LITERARY ambition especially, is not a feeling to be cherished in the mind of a woman: would not Mdlle. chapter-019 Reuter called one evening, just after I had got my aunt to bed; she went into her room to speak to her, and was extremely civil and affable, as she always is; afterwards she came and sat with me a long time, and just as she rose to go away, she said: "Mademoiselle, I shall not soon cease to regret your departure from my establishment, though indeed it is true that you have taught your class of pupils so well that they are all quite accomplished in the little works you manage so skilfully, and have not the slightest need of further instruction; my second teacher must in future supply your place, with regard to the younger pupils, as well as she can, though she is indeed an inferior artiste to you, and doubtless it will be your part now to assume a higher position in your calling; I am sure you will everywhere find schools and families willing to profit by your talents.'' And then she paid me my last quarter''s salary. chapter-020 So drunk, however, was he upon this occasion, that after having roused the whole establishment (except the pupils, whose dormitory being over the classes in a building apart from the dwelling-house, was consequently out of the reach of disturbance) by violently ringing the hall-bell and ordering lunch to be brought in immediately, for he imagined it was noon, whereas the city bells had just tolled midnight; after having furiously rated the servants for their want of punctuality, and gone near to chastise his poor old mother, who advised him to go to bed, he began raving dreadfully about "le maudit Anglais, Creemsvort." I had not yet retired; some German books I had got hold of had kept me up late; I heard the uproar below, and could distinguish the director''s voice exalted in a manner as appalling as it was unusual. chapter-021 "A week ago, monsieur, I was sent for by a Mrs. Wharton, an English lady; her eldest daughter was going to be married, and some rich relation having made her a present of a veil and dress in costly old lace, as precious, they said, almost as jewels, but a little damaged by time, I was commissioned to put them in repair. One afternoon, Mrs. Wharton brought in a Parisian lady to test the accuracy of my knowledge of French; the result of it was that, owing probably in a great degree to the mother''s and daughter''s good humour about the marriage, which inclined them to do beneficent deeds, and partly, I think, because they are naturally benevolent people, they decided that the wish I had expressed to do something more than mend lace was a very legitimate one; and the same day they took me in their carriage to Mrs. D.''s, who is the directress of the first English school at Brussels. chapter-022 A curious effect this discovery wrought in his strange mind; I am morally certain that if he had found me installed in a handsome parlour, lounging on a soft couch, with a pretty, wealthy wife at my side, he would have hated me; a brief, cold, haughty visit, would in such a case have been the extreme limit of his civilities, and never would he have come near me more, so long as the tide of fortune bore me smoothly on its surface; but the painted furniture, the bare walls, the cheerless solitude of my room relaxed his rigid pride, and I know not what softening change had taken place both in his voice and look ere he spoke again. chapter-023 I read--then dreamily made marks on the margin with my pencil; thinking all the while of other things; thinking that "Jane" was now at my side; no child, but a girl of nineteen; and she might be mine, so my heart affirmed; Poverty''s curse was taken off me; Envy and Jealousy were far away, and unapprized of this our quiet meeting; the frost of the Master''s manner might melt; I felt the thaw coming fast, whether I would or not; no further need for the eye to practise a hard look, for the brow to compress its expanse into a stern fold: it was now permitted to suffer the outward revelation of the inward glow--to seek, demand, elicit an answering ardour. chapter-024 A lace-mender may make a good wife as well as a lady; but of course you have taken care to ascertain thoroughly that since she has not education, fortune or station, she is well furnished with such natural qualities as you think most likely to conduce to your happiness. After sitting in silence a little while longer, Hunsden rose, and was quietly bidding me good evening; the polite, considerate manner in which he offered me his hand (a thing he had never done before), convinced me that he thought I had made a terrible fool of myself; and that, ruined and thrown away as I was, it was no time for sarcasm or cynicism, or indeed for anything but indulgence and forbearance. Frances curtsied with sedate grace, looking, as she always did, when one first accosted her, more a woman to respect than to love; I introduced Mr. Hunsden, and she expressed her happiness at making his acquaintance in French. chapter-025 Frances'' eyes thanked me almost with tears; just a sparkle or two, soon brushed away; she possessed herself of my hand too, and held it for some time very close clasped in both her own, but she said no more than "Thank you, monsieur." I then came home, for my home was my heaven; ever at that hour, as I entered our private sitting-room, the lady-directress vanished from before my eyes, and Frances Henri, my own little lace-mender, was magically restored to my arms; much disappointed she would have been if her master had not been as constant to the tryst as herself, and if his truthfull kiss had not been prompt to answer her soft, "Bon soir, monsieur."