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1. His fingers itched to plunge among the gems he had heard described by story-tellers in the market squares of Keshia, who repeated tales handed down from mouth to mouth through the centuries—jewels not to be duplicated in the world, rubies, emeralds, diamonds, bloodstones, opals, sapphires, the loot of the ancient world
2. Those, I said, which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story-tellers of mankind
3. For we mean to employ for our souls' health the rougher and severer poet or story-teller, who will imitate the style of the virtuous only, and will follow those models which we prescribed at first when we began the education of our soldiers
4. At first each story-teller addressed himself to the company generally, but after a while, finding it impossible to make himself heard, he would select some particular individual who seemed disposed to listen and tell him the story
5. "I'm not much of a story-teller," said our visitor, nervously clasping and unclasping his great, strong hands
6. Yet as I cough’d and sputter’d and shook with Chills, I retain’d a pow’rful Curiosity to know the Outcome of Lancelot’s History, so that, like that fam’d Sultan of Old (who would not slay his Wife because she was such an excellent Story-Teller), I kept Body and Soul together in Hopes of hearing the Conclusion of Lancelot’s History
7. ’Tis frequently the case with Histories of e’en the greatest Men and Women, that if they have no Wit in their Expression nor Instinct for the Story-Teller’s Craft, e’en the most stirring Adventures will seem dull
8. Let us turn back,—that is one of the story-teller's rights,—and put ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took place
9. Although this was the most strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, therefore, never described
10. have already mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap
11. The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller
12. " Well, well thon," cried the landlord, delighted; he had noticed nothing, and was awfully afraid, bs such story-tellers always are, that he would be pestered with questions; "but then a Russian workman walks up, a young felloAv, you know the typical Russian, with a beard like a wetlge, in a long-skirted coat, and perhaps a little drunk too
13. The old prince was so frightened, and at the same time for some reason was so indignant, that Anna Andreyevna was obliged to get rid of the story-teller promptly ; fortunately, dinner arrived, ordered expressly the evening before from somewhere near (through Lambert and Alphonsine) from a remarkable French cook who was out of a place, and wanted to find a situation in a nobleman's family or a club
14. The old man turned out to be a good story-teller on occasions, so that at last he became necessary to her
15. The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles
16. There were good talkers, story-tellers, wits
17. , however, had a speciality and was a very remarkable man; he was a wit, good talker and story-teller, and there was always a circle round him in every drawing-room
18. Zhikínski, tell us that story of the 18th!" he turned to an officer of sharp-shooters, who had the reputation of being a good story-teller
19. All of them rolled in laughter, except the story-teller, who with a most serious face looked at the outstretched hearers and swore that it was a true story
20. Chaucer's famous circle of story-tellers at the Tabard Inn in Southwark was eminently democratic
21. After the story-teller had finished, there was a pause