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The Comprehension of Private Copper
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Private Copper’s father was a Southdown shepherd; in early youth Copper had studied under him. Five years’ Army service had somewhat blunted Private Copper’s pastoral instincts, but it occurred to him as a memory of the Chalk that sheep, or in this case buck,...
The Captive
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The guard-boat lay across the mouth of the bathing-pool, her crew idly spanking the water with the flat of their oars. A red-coated militia-man, rifle in hand, sat at the bows, and a petty...
Mary Postgate
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Of Miss Mary Postgate, Lady McCausland wrote that she was ‘thoroughly conscientious, tidy, companionable, and ladylike. I am very sorry to part with her, and shall always be interested in her welfare’.

Miss Fowler engaged her on this recommendation, and to her surprise, for she...
The Frog King, or Iron Henry
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

In the old days, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which after all has seen so many things, marvelled whenever it shone upon her face. Not far...
Our Lady’s Child
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

On the edge of a great forest there lived a woodcutter and his wife. They had only one child, a little girl of three years old. But they were so poor that they no longer had their daily bread and didn’t know how they...
Little Redcap
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a sweet little wench who was loved by everyone who simply cast eyes on her, but she was loved most of all by her grandmother, who gave the child all the presents she could think of. Once she gave her granddaughter...
Clever Hans
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Hans’s mother asks: ‘Where you off to, Hans?’ Hans answers: ‘To Gretel’s.’ ‘Behave yourself, Hans.’ ‘I will. ’Bye, mother.’ ‘ ’Bye, Hans.’

Hans goes to Gretel’s. ‘Good-day, Gretel.’ ‘Good-day, Hans. Brought me something nice?’ ‘Brought nothing. Like being given.’ Gretel gives Hans a needle. Hans...
Godfather Death
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A Poor man had twelve children, and he had to work day and night just to be able to give them their bread. And when the thirteenth came into the world he did not know what to do in his distress, so he...
The Golden Goose
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a man who had three sons. The youngest was called Silly-Billy and he was mocked and jeered at and put down at every opportunity. It happened that the eldest was about to go into the forest to cut wood, and before...
Jorinda and Joringel
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once an ancient castle in the middle of a great, dense forest, and within it there lived an old woman all alone who was a sorceress of sorceresses. By day she turned herself into a cat or a night-owl, but in the...
The Three Children of Fortune
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A father once called his three sons before him, and gave the first a cockerel, the second a scythe, and the third a cat. ‘I’m an old man now,’ he said, ‘and my death is near, so I want to provide for you...
The Starry Coins
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a little girl whose father and mother had died, and she was so poor that she no longer had a little room to live in nor a little bed to sleep in, and at last she had nothing left but the...
The Moon
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Long, long ago there was a land where the night was always dark and the sky was spread over it like a black cloth, for the moon never rose there, and not a star twinkled in the gloom. When the world was created there...
Chapter VII madonna in her new home
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The result of Mr Blyth’s Adventure in the travelling Circus, and of the events which followed it, was that little Mary at once became a member of the painter’s family, and grew up happily, in her new home, into the young lady who was...
Chapter X mr blyth’s drawing academy
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When the week of delay had elapsed, and when Mrs Blyth felt strong enough to receive company in her room, Valentine sent the promised invitation to Zack which summoned him to his first drawing-lesson.

The locality in which the family drawing academy was to be...
Chapter XI the brewing of the storm
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Time had lavishly added to Mrs Peckover’s size, but had generously taken little or nothing from her in exchange. Her hair had certainly turned grey since the period when Valentine first met her at the circus; but the good-humoured face beneath was just as...
VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Charlotteand Mr Brand had not returned when they reached the house; but the Baroness had come to tea, and Robert Acton also, who now regularly asked for a place at this generous repast or made his appearance later in the evening. Clifford Wentworth, with...
The Creeping Man
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Mr Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years ago agitated the University and were echoed in the learned societies of...
Chapter XV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Leaving Mr Oldbuck and his friend to enjoy their hard bargain of fish, we beg leave to transport the reader to...
Chapter I
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Though hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded together: paving the ground with stones, scraping away every vestige of vegetation, cutting down the trees, turning away birds and beasts, filling the...
Chapter III
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Maslova, accompanied by two soldiers, reached the building, wearied out by the long walk, Prince Dmitry Ivanich Nekhlyudov, who seduced her, was still lying on his high bedstead, with a feather-bed on the top of the spring mattress, in a fine, clean, well-ironed...
Chapter IX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When he had finished his speech the president turned to the prisoners. ‘Simon Kartinkin, rise.’

Simon jumped up, his lips moving more rapidly.

‘Your name?’

‘Simon Petrov Kartinkin’, he said rapidly, with a cracked voice, having evidently prepared the answer.

‘What class do you belong...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After that, Nekhlyudov did not see Katusha for more than two years. When he saw her again he had just been promoted to the rank of officer and was going to join his regiment. On the way he came to spend a few days...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In this state of mind Nekhlyudov left the Court and went into the jurymen’s room. He sat by the window listening to what was being said around him, and smoked all the time.

The merry merchant seemed with all his heart to sympathize with Smelkov’s...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When the examination of the articles of material evidence was finished, the president announced that the investigation was now concluded, and immediately called on the prosecutor to proceed, hoping that as the latter was also a man, he, too, might feel inclined to smoke...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

His conversation with the president, and the fresh air, quieted Nekhlyudov a little. He now thought that the feelings he had experienced had been exaggerated by the unusual surroundings in which he had spent the whole of the morning.

‘Of course it’s a strange and...
Chapter L
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Waking early next morning, Nekhlyudov remembered what he had done the day before, and was seized with fear.

But, in spite of this fear, he was more determined than ever to continue what he had begun.

Conscious of a sense of duty, he left...
Chapter LI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov drove straight from Maslennikov’s to the prison and went to the inspector’s lodging, which he now knew. He was again struck by the sounds of the same piano of inferior quality; but this time it was not a rhapsody that was
Chapter X
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The town struck Nekhlyudov in a new and peculiar light on his return. He came back in the evening, after the lamps were lit, and drove from the railway station to his house, where the rooms still smelt of naphthalene. Agrafena Petrovna and Korney...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When he rang the bell at the front entrance Nekhlyudov’s heart failed him at the thought of the state he might find Maslova in today, and at the mystery he felt to be in her, and in the people that were collected in the...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, and how are the children?’ Nekhlyudov asked his sister when he was calmer. His sister told him that the children had remained with their grandmother. And very glad that the dispute with her husband had come to an end she went on...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

There were still two hours before the passenger train, by which Nekhlyudov was going, would start. He had thought of using this interval to see his sister again; but after the impressions of the morning he felt so excited and done up that, sitting...
Chapter I
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The gang of prisoners to which Maslova belonged had gone about three thousand miles. She and the other prisoners condemned for criminal offences had travelled by rail and steamboat as far as the town of Perm. It was only here that Nekhlyudov succeeded in...
Chapter II
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

This is what Mary Pavlovna and Katusha saw when they reached the scene. The officer, a sturdy fellow with fair moustaches, frowning, and uttering words of coarse abuse, stood rubbing the palm of his right hand, which he had hurt by striking a prisoner...
Chapter V
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Until they left Perm, Nekhlyudov managed to see Katusha only twice—once in Nizhny Novgorod, before the prisoners were embarked on a barge on which they were caged in with wire netting, and again in Perm in the prison office. At both these interviews he...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

This halting-station, like all such stations along the Siberian road, was surrounded by a courtyard fenced round with a palisade of sharp-pointed stakes, and consisted of three one-storeyed houses. One of them, the largest, with grated windows, was for the prisoners; another for the...
A Royal Poet
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Fletcher*

On a soft sunny morning, in the...
Chapter IV A Visit to an Old Bachelor
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

A few days after, a note came from Mr. Holbrook, asking us— impartially asking both of us—in a formal, old-fashioned style, to spend a day at his house—a long June day—for it was June now. He named that he had also invited his cousin,...
Chapter XIII Stopped Payment
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The very Tuesday morning on which Mr. Johnson was going to show the fashions, the post-woman brought two letters to the house. I say the post-woman, but I should say the postman’s wife. He was a lame shoemaker, a very clean, honest man, much...
XV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had been puzzled by the way that Catherine carried herself; her attitude at this sentimental crisis seemed to him unnaturally passive. She had not spoken to him again after that scene in the library, the day before his interview with Morris; and a...
XXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had slightly misrepresented the matter in saying that Catherine had consented to take the great step. We left her just now declaring that she would burn her ships behind her; but Morris, after having elicited this declaration, had become conscious of good reasons...
Chapter I The Old Sea-Dog at the ‘Admiral Benbow’
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Squire
Trelawney,* Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there...
Chapter V The Last of the Blind Man
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear; for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door. I was...
Chapter XXVI Israel Hands
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The wind, serving us to a desire, now hauled into the west. We could run so much the easier from the north-east corner of the island to the mouth of the North Inlet. Only, as we had no power to anchor, and dared not...
Chapter XXXI The Treasure Hunt—Flint’s Pointer
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

‘Jim,’ said Silver, when we were alone, ‘if I saved your life, you saved mine; and I’ll not forget it. I seen the doctor waving you to run for it—with the tail of my eye, I did; and I seen you say no,...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The roads stretched far into the distance, white with moonlight. The insurrectionary army continued its heroic march through the cold, clear countryside. It was like a mighty wave of enthusiasm. The epic dreams that transported Miette and Silvère, big children that they were, eager...
THIRD WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

Solonoften repeated this line in his old age. In a sense I too could say it in my old age; but the knowledge that experience has given me in the last twenty years*is a very sad one. Ignorance is still preferable. Adversity...
Chapter VII Cutting from ‘The Dailygraph,’ 8 August (Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal)
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

From a Correspondent

Whitby.

One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August. Saturday...
Chapter XXI DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

3 October.—Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.

When I came to Renfield’s...
The Last Bake
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

When one is dead, it lasts for a long time.

Monsieur
Fiacre-PrÉtextat
Lalbarie had retired from business at the age of sixty, having amassed considerable riches from his coffin-making.

He had never once disappointed his clientèle, and the aristocracy of Geneva,...
Chapter XII Still Missing
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The September sunlight sparkled upon the fountain in the Temple Gardens, when Robert Audley returned to Fig-tree Court early the following morning.

He found the canaries singing in the pretty little room in which George had slept, but the apartment was in the same prim...
Chapter XIV PhŒbe’s Suitor
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Mr George TALBOYS.—Any person who has met this gentleman since the 7th inst., or who possesses any information respecting him subsequent to that date, will be liberally rewarded on communicating with A. Z., 14, Chancery Lane.’

Sir Michael Audley read the above advertisement...
Chapter IV Coming to a Standstill
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr Harcourt Talboys lived in a prim, square, redbrick mansion, within a mile of a little village called Grange Heath, in Dorsetshire. The prim, square, red-brick mansion stood in the centre of prim, square grounds, scarcely large enough to be called a park, too...
Chapter IX Beginning at the Other End
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robert Audley walked slowly through the leafless grove, under the bare and shadowless trees in the grey February atmosphere, thinking as he went of the discovery he had just made.

‘I have that in my pocket-book,’ he pondered, ‘which forms the connecting link between the...
Chapter XII Preparing the Ground
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Lady Audley went from the garden to the library, a pleasant oak-panelled homely apartment in which Sir Michael liked to sit reading or writing, or arranging the business of his estate with his steward, a stalwart countryman, half agriculturist, half lawyer, who rented a...
Chapter 12 mr george vavasor at home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It cannot perhaps fairly be said that George Vavasor was an inhospitable man, seeing that it was his custom to entertain his friends occasionally at Greenwich, Richmond, or such places; and he would now and again have a friend to dine with him at...
Chapter 13 mr grimes gets his odd money
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The handmaiden at George Vavasor’s lodgings announced ‘another gent,’ and then Mr Scruby entered the room in which were seated George, and Mr Grimes the publican from the ‘Handsome Man’ on the Brompton Road. Mr Scruby was an attorney from Great Marlborough Street, supposed...
Chapter 16 the roebury club
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It has been said that George Vavasor had a little establishment at Roebury, down in Oxfordshire, and thither he betook himself about the middle of November. He had been long known in this county, and whether or no men spoke well of him as...
Chapter 17 edgehill
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Of all sights in the world there is, I think, none more beautiful than that of a pack of fox-hounds seated, on a winter morning, round the huntsman, if the place of meeting has been chosen with anything of artistic skill. It should be...
Chapter 29 burgo fitzgerald
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the night before Christmas Eve two men were sitting together in George Vavasor’s rooms in Cecil Street. It was past twelve o’clock, and they were both smoking; there were square bottles on the table containing spirits, with hot water and cold water in...
Chapter 30 containing a love-letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Vavasor, as he sat alone in his room, after Fitzgerald had left him, began to think of the days in which he had before wished to assist his friend in his views with reference to Lady Glencora;—or rather he began to think of Alice’s...
Chapter 37 mr tombe’s advice
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Alice sat alone for an hour without moving when John Grey had left her, and the last words which he had uttered were sounding in her ears all the time, ‘My heart is still yours, as it has been since I knew you.’ There...
Chapter 41 a noble lord dies
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

George
Vavasor remained about four days beneath his grandfather’s roof; but he was not happy there himself, nor did he contribute to the happiness of any one else. He remained there in great discomfort so long, being unwilling to leave till an answer had...
Chapter 42 parliament meets
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Parliament opened that year on the twelfth of February, and Mr Palliser was one of the first Members of the Lower House to take his seat. It had been generally asserted through the country, during the last week, that the existing Chancellor of the...
Chapter 45 george vavasor takes his seat
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

George
Vavasor’s feeling of triumph was not unjustifiable. It is something to have sat in the House of Commons, though it has been but for one session! There is on the left-hand side of our great national hall,—on the left-hand side as one enters...
Chapter 48 preparations for lady monk’s party
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early in April, the Easter recess being all over, Lady Monk gave a grand party in London. Lady Monk’s town house was in Gloucester Square. It was a large mansion, and Lady Monk’s parties in London were known to be very great affairs. She...
Chapter 49 how lady glencora went to lady monk’s party
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady
Monk’s house in Gloucester Square was admirably well adapted for the giving of parties. It was a large house, and seemed to the eyes of guests to be much larger than it was. The hall was spacious, and the stairs went up in...
Chapter 51 bold speculations on murder
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

George
Vavasor was not in a very happy mood when he left Queen Anne Street, after having flung his gift ring under the grate. Indeed there was much in his condition, as connected with the house which he was leaving, which could not but...
Chapter 58 the pallisers at breakfast
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Gentle reader, do you remember Lady Monk’s party, and how it ended,—how it ended, at least as regards those special guests with whom we are concerned? Mr Palliser went away early, Mrs Marsham followed him to his house in Park Lane, caught him at...
Chapter 66 lady monk’s plan
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the night of Lady Monk’s party, Burgo Fitzgerald disappeared; and when the guests were gone and the rooms were empty, his aunt inquired for him in vain. The old butler and factotum of the house, who was employed by Sir Cosmo to put...
Chapter 67 the last kiss
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Alice, on her return from Westmoreland, went direct to Park Lane, whither Lady Glencora and Mr Palliser had also returned before her. She was to remain with them in London one entire day, and on the morning after that they were to start for...
Chapter 70 at lucerne
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I am inclined to think that Mr Palliser did not much enjoy this part of his tour abroad. When he first reached Lucerne there was no one there with whom he could associate pleasantly, nor had he any occupation capable of making his...
Chapter 72 showing how george vavasor paid a visit
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was nearly seven o’clock in the evening,—a hot, July evening,—when the woman went from Vavasor’s room, and left him there alone. It was necessary that he should immediately do something. In the first place he must dine, unless he meant to carry out...
Chapter 73 in which come tidings of great moment to all the pallisers
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was not till they had been for a day or two together at Lucerne that Mr Grey told Mr Palliser the story of George Vavasor’s visit to him in Suffolk Street. Having begun the history of his connection with Alice, he found himself...
When The Duchess Was Dead
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend,* the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after...
Park Lane
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

From the beginning of the affair Tregear had found the necessity of bolstering himself up inwardly in his great attempt by mottoes, proverbs, and instigations to courage addressed to himself. ‘None but the brave deserve the fair.’* ‘De l’audace, et encore de...
‘No; My Lord, I Do Not’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Between two and three o’clock Lord Silverbridge, in spite of his sorrow, found himself able to eat his lunch at his club. The place was deserted, the Beargarden world having gone to the races. As he sat eating cold lamb and drinking soda-and-brandy he...
Sir Timothy Beeswax
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There had lately been a great Conservative reaction* in the country, brought about in part by the industry and good management of gentlemen who were strong on that side;—but due also in part to the blunders and quarrels of their...
Dinner at The Beargarden
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke was in the gallery of the House of Commons which is devoted to the use of peers,* and Silverbridge, having heard that his father was there, had come up to him. It was then about half-past five, and the House...
The Major’s Fate
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The affair of Prime Minister and the nail was not allowed to fade away into obscurity. Through September and October it was made matter for pungent inquiry. The Jockey Club was alive. Mr Pook was very instant,—with many Pookites anxious to free themselves from...
Carlton Terrace
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Three days after this it was arranged that Isabel should be taken to Carlton Terrace to be accepted there into the full good graces of her future father-in-law, and to go through the pleasant ceremony of seeing the house in which it was to...
The Duke Returns to Office
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

That farewell took place on the Friday morning. Tregear as he walked out of the Square knew now that he had been the cause of a great shipwreck. At first when that passionate love had been declared,—he could hardly remember whether with the fullest...
The Making of A Celebrity
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Darwin is dead. Dying in his seventy-third year, he had earned a great reputation before he was thirty, but it was in 1859, on the publication of his “Origin of Species,” that his name became so familiarly known all the world over.

Announcement in ...
Chapter 9 The New Government
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the House of Lords that night, and in the House of Commons, the outgoing Ministers made their explanations. As our business at the present moment is with the Commons, we will confine ourselves to their chamber, and will do so the more willingly...
Chapter 11 Lord Chiltern
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The reader has been told that Lord Chiltern was a red man, and that peculiarity of his personal appearance was certainly the first to strike a stranger. It imparted a certain look of ferocity to him, which was apt to make men afraid of...
Chapter 15 Donald Bean’s Pony
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas liked being told that the pleasures of opposition and the pleasures of office were both open to him,—and he liked also to be the chosen receptacle of Mr Monk’s confidence. He had come to understand that he was expected to remain ten days...
Chapter 20 The Debate on the Ballot
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas took his seat in the House with a consciousness of much inward trepidation of heart on that night of the ballot debate. After leaving Lord Chiltern he went down to his club and dined alone. Three or four men came and spoke to...
Chapter 22 Lady Baldock at Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

About the middle of March Lady Baldock came up from Baddingham to London, coerced into doing so, as Violet Effingham declared, in thorough opposition to all her own tastes, by the known wishes of her friends and relatives. Her friends and relatives, so Miss...
Chapter 34 Was He Honest?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the 10th of August, Phineas Finn did return to Loughton. He went down by the mail train on the night of the 10th, having telegraphed to the inn for a bed, and was up eating his breakfast in that hospitable house at nine...
Chapter 35 Mr Monk upon Reform
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas Finn went to Ireland immediately after his return from Saulsby, having said nothing further to Violet Effingham, and having heard nothing further from her than what is recorded in the last chapter. He felt very keenly that his position was unsatisfactory, and brooded...
Chapter 59 The Earl’s Wrath
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The reader may remember that a rumour had been conveyed to Phineas,—a rumour indeed which reached him from a source which he regarded as very untrustworthy,—that Violet Effingham had quarrelled with her lover. He would probably have paid no attention to the rumour, beyond...
Chapter 71 Comparing Notes
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It would, perhaps, be difficult to decide,—between Lord Chiltern and Miss Effingham,—which had been most wrong, or which had been nearest to the right, in the circumstances which had led to their separation. The old lord, wishing to induce his son to undertake work...
Chapter 74 The Beginning of the End
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The day of the debate had come, and Phineas Finn was still sitting in his room at the Colonial Office. But his resignation had been sent in and accepted, and he was simply awaiting the coming of his successor. About noon his successor came,...
Chapter 76 Conclusion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We are told that it is a bitter moment with the Lord Mayor when he leaves the Mansion House and becomes once more Alderman Jones, of No. 75, Bucklersbury. Lord Chancellors going out of office have a great fall though they take pensions with...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

If Mr. Bellingham did not get rapidly well, it was more owing to the morbid querulous fancy attendant on great weakness than from any unfavourable medical symptom. But he turned away with peevish loathing from the very sight of food, prepared in the slovenly...
Chapter XI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

You have now seen the note which was delivered into Mr. Benson’s hands, as the cool shades of evening stole over the glowing summer sky. When he had read it, he again prepared to write a few hasty lines before the post went out....
Chapter XVI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Sally and Miss Benson took it in turns to sit up, or rather, they took it in turns to nod by the fire; for if Ruth was awake she lay very still in the moonlight calm of her sick bed. That time resembled a...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘He will take him away from me! He will take the child from me!’

These words rang like a tolling bell through Ruth’s head. It seemed to her that her doom was certain. Leonard would be taken from her! She had a firm conviction—not...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The third night after this was to be the crisis—the turning point between Life and Death. Mr. Davis came again to pass it by the bedside of the sufferer. Ruth was there, constant and still, intent upon watching the symptoms, and acting according to...
II
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

A Sloping roof formed one end of the room, and through a broad, single pane the early sunlight fell across a wall papered with blue and white flowers. Print dresses hung over the door. On the wall were two pictures—a girl with a basket...
XVI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

No more than three weeks now remained between her and the dreaded day. She had hoped to spend them with her mother, who was timorous and desponding, and stood in need of consolation. But this was not to be; her father’s drunkenness continued, and...
XX
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Those who came to the workhouse for servants never offered more than fourteen pounds a year, and these wages would not pay for her baby’s keep out at nurse. Her friend the matron did all she could, but it was always fourteen pounds. ‘We...
XXIV
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Humphries, an elderly person, who looked after a bachelor’s establishment two doors up, and generally slipped in about tea-time, soon began to speak of Fred as a very nice young man who would be likely to make a woman happy. But Esther moved...
XXVIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

She went round the house bolting and locking the doors, seeing that everything was made fast for the night. At the foot of the stairs painful thoughts came upon her, and she drew her hand across her eyes; for she was whelmed with a...
XXXVII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

On Sunday, as soon as dinner was over, Esther had intended to go to East Dulwich to see Mrs Lewis. But as she closed the door behind her, she saw Sarah coming up the street.

‘Ah, I see you’re going out.’

‘It don’t matter;...
XLIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

When Matchbox galloped home the winner of the Cesarewitch by five lengths, William was lying in his bed, seemingly at death’s door. He had remained out late one evening, had caught cold, and his mouth was constantly filled with blood. He was much worse,...
XLVI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Esther seemed to have quite naturally accepted Woodview as a final stage. Any further change in her life she did not seem to regard as possible or desirable. One of these days her boy would get settled; he would come down now and again...
Gerard Maule
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ said Phineas that night after Lady Baldock was gone to bed. The two men had taken off their dress coats, and had put on smoking caps,—Lord Chiltern, indeed, having clothed himself in a wonderful Chinese dressing-gown, and they...
The Debate
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The beginning of the battle as recorded in the last chapter took place on a Friday,—Friday, 11th November,—and consequently two entire days intervened before the debate could be renewed. There seemed to prevail an opinion during this interval that Mr Gresham had been imprudent....
Copperhouse Cross and Broughton Spinnies
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

After all, the thing had not been so very bad. With a little courage and hardihood we can survive very great catastrophes, and go through them even without broken bones. Phineas, when he got up to his room, found that he had spent the...
Madame Goesler’S Story
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘After all that has come and gone, is it not odd that you and I should find ourselves riding about Broughton Spinnies together?’ That was the question which Madame Goesler asked Phineas Finn when they had both agreed that it was impossible to...
Macpherson’S Hotel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas, when he was left alone, found himself greatly at a loss as to what he had better do. He had pledged himself to see Mr Kennedy, and was not much afraid of encountering personal violence at the hands of that gentleman. But he...
Madame Goesler is Sent For
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the elder Mr Maule had sufficiently recovered from the perturbation of mind and body into which he had been thrown by the ill-timed and ill-worded proposition of his son to enable him to resume the accustomed tenour of his life, he arrayed himself...
The Spooner Correspondence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It will be remembered that Adelaide Palliser had accepted the hand of Mr Maule, junior, and that she and Lady Chiltern between them had despatched him up to London on an embassy to his father, in which he failed very signally. It had been...
The World Becomes Cold
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A great deal was said by very many persons in London as to the murderous attack which had been made by Mr Kennedy on Phineas Finn in Judd Street, but the advice given by Mr Slide in The People’s Banner to the police...
The Conspiracy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the morning following the great division Phineas was with his friend, Lord Cantrip, by eleven o’clock; and Lord Cantrip, when he had read the two letters in which were comprised the whole correspondence, made to our unhappy hero the following little speech. ‘I...
The Second Thunderbolt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The quarrel between Phineas Finn and Mr Bonteen had now become the talk of the town, and had taken many various phases. The political phase, though it was perhaps the best understood, was not the most engrossing. There was the personal phase,—which had reference...
What The Lords and Commons Said About The Murder
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the House met on that Thursday at four o’clock everybody was talking about the murder, and certainly four-fifths of the members had made up their minds that Phineas Finn was the murderer. To have known a murdered man is something, but to have...
Mrs Bonteen
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At the time of the murder, Lady Eustace, whom we must regard as the wife of Mr Emilius till it be proved that he had another wife when he married her, was living as the guest of Mr Bonteen. Mr Bonteen had pledged himself...
Phineas After the Trial
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Ten days passed by, and Phineas Finn had not been out of his lodgings till after daylight, and then he only prowled about in the manner described in the last chapter. His sisters had returned to Ireland, and he saw no one, even in...
The End of the Story of Mr Emilius and Lady Eustace
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The interest in the murder by no means came to an end when Phineas Finn was acquitted. The new facts which served so thoroughly to prove him innocent tended with almost equal weight to prove another man guilty. And the other man was already...
Chapter 8 the beginning of a new career
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

By the time that the Easter holidays were over,—holidays which had been used so conveniently for the making of a new government,—the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends. The filling...
Chapter 17 good-bye
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Arthur
Fletcher received his brother’s teaching as true, and took his brother’s advice in good part,—so that, before the morning following, he had resolved that however deep the wound might be, he would so live before the world, that the world should not see...
Chapter 19 vulgarity
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke and Duchess with their children and personal servants reached Gatherum Castle the day before the first crowd of visitors was expected. It was on a lovely autumn afternoon, and the Duke, who had endeavoured to make himself pleasant during the journey, had...
Chapter 21 the duchess’s new swan
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the party had been about a week collected at Gatherum Castle, Ferdinand Lopez had manifestly become the favourite of the Duchess for the time, and had, at her instance, promised to remain there for some further days. He had hardly spoken to the...
Chapter 36 the jolly blackbird
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was great triumph at Longbarns when the news of Arthur’s victory reached the place;—and when he arrived there himself with his friend Mr Gresham, he was received as a conquering hero. But of course the tidings of ‘the row’ had gone before him,...
Chapter 42 retribution
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duchess had been at work with her husband for the last two months in the hope of renewing her autumnal festivities, but had been lamentably unsuccessful. The Duke had declared that there should be no more rural crowds, no repetition of what he...
Chapter 44 mr wharton intends to make a new will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On that afternoon, immediately on the husband’s return to the house, his wife spoke to him as her father had desired. On that evening Mr Wharton was dining at his club, and therefore there was the whole evening before them; but the thing to...
Chapter 56 what the duchess thought of her husband
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the Session began it was understood in the political world that a very strong opposition was to be organized against the Government under the guidance of Sir Orlando Drought, and that the great sin to be imputed to the Cabinet was an utter...
Chapter 63 the duchess and her friend
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

But the Duke, though he was by far too magnanimous to be angry with Phineas Finn because Phineas would not fall into his views respecting the proposed action, was not the less tormented and goaded by what the newspapers said. The assertion that he...
Chapter 66 the end of the session
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke of St Bungay had been very much disappointed. He had contradicted with a repetition of noes the assertion of the Duchess that he had been the Warwick* who had placed the Prime Minister’s crown on the head of the Duke...
Chapter 72 ‘he thinks that our days are numbered’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

All the details of the new County Suffrage Bill* were settled at Matching during the recess between Mr Monk, Phineas Finn, and a very experienced gentleman from the Treasury, one Mr Prime, who was supposed to know more about such things than...
Chapter 74 ‘i am disgraced and shamed’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Soon after the commencement of the Session Arthur Fletcher became a constant visitor in Manchester Square, dining with the old barrister almost constantly on Sundays, and not infrequently on other days when the House and his general engagements would permit it. Between him and...
Chapter 80 the last meeting at matching
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The ex-Prime Minister did not carry out his purpose of leaving London in the middle of the season and travelling either to Italy or Norway. He was away from London at Whitsuntide longer perhaps than he might have been if still in office, and...
Chapter 13 Showing what Frank Greystock did
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Greystock escaped from the dovecote before Lady Fawn had returned. He had not made his visit to Richmond with any purpose of seeing Lucy Morris, or of saying to her when he did see her anything special,—of saying anything that should, or anything...
Chapter 14 ‘Doan’t thou marry for munny’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As that Saturday afternoon wore itself away, there was much excitement at Fawn Court. When Lady Fawn returned with the carriage, she heard that Frank Greystock had been at Fawn Court; and she heard also, from Augusta, that he had been rambling about the grounds...
Chapter 22 Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the use of her Cousin
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Eustace could make nothing of Miss Macnulty in the way of sympathy, and could not bear her disappointment with patience. It was hardly to be expected that she should do so. She paid a great deal for Miss Macnulty. In a moment of...
Chapter 25 Mr Dove’s Opinion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Thomas Dove, familiarly known among club-men, attorneys’ clerks, and, perhaps, even among judges when very far from their seats of judgment, as Turtle Dove, was a counsel learned in the law. He was a counsel so learned in the law, that there was...
Chapter 31 Frank Greystock’s Second Visit to Portray
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On this occasion Frank Greystock went down to Portray Castle with the intention of staying at the house during the very short time that he would remain in Scotland. He was going there solely on his cousin’s business,—with no view to grouse-shooting or other...
Chapter 37 Lizzie’s First Day
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The coming of John Eustace was certainly a great thing for Lizzie, though it was only for two days. It saved her from that feeling of desertion before her friends,—desertion by those who might naturally belong to her,—which would otherwise have afflicted her. His...
Chapter 53 Lizzie’s Sick-Room
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the Hertford Street robbery was three days old, and was still the talk of all the town, Lizzie Eustace was really ill. She had promised to go down to Scotland in compliance with the advice given to her by her cousin Frank, and...
Chapter 58 The ‘Fiddle with One String’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Gager reached Ramsgate by the earliest train on the following morning, and was not long in finding out the ‘Fiddle with One String.’ The ‘Fiddle with One String’ was a public-house, very humble in appearance, in the outskirts of the town, on the...
Chapter 61 Lizzie’s Great Friend
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Saturday morning came at last for which Lord Fawn had made his appointment with Lizzie, and a very important day it was in Hertford Street,—chiefly on account of his lordship’s visit, but also in respect to other events which crowded themselves into the...
Chapter 64 Lizzie’s Last Scheme
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lizzie, when she was left alone, was very angry with the Corsair,—in truth, more sincerely angry than she had ever been with any of her lovers, or, perhaps, with any human being. Sincere, true, burning wrath was not the fault to which she was...
Chapter 66 The Aspirations of Mr Emilius
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was acknowledged by Mrs Carbuncle very freely that in the matter of tribute no one behaved better than Mr Emilius, the fashionable, foreign, ci-devant Jew preacher, who still drew great congregations in the neighbourhood of Mrs Carbuncle’s house. Mrs Carbuncle, no doubt, attended...
Chapter 67 The Eye of the Public
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It took Lord Fawn a long time to write his letter, but at last he wrote it. The delay must not be taken as throwing any slur on his character as a correspondent or a man of business, for many irritating causes sprang up...
Chapter 76 Lizzie returns to Scotland
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Greystock, the writer fears, will not have recommended himself to those readers of this tale who think the part of lover to the heroine should be always filled by a young man with heroic attributes. And yet the young member for...
Chapter 80 What was Said about it All at Matching
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Whitsuntide holidays were late this year, not taking place till the beginning of June, and were protracted till the 9th of that month. On the 8th Lizzie and Mr Emilius became man and wife, and on that same day Lady Glencora Palliser entertained...
Chapter IV Martha
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid* had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth-rug raking out the cinders noisily. Mary lay and watched her for a few...
Chapter XVII A Tantrum
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

She had got up very early in the morning and had worked hard in the garden and she was tired and sleepy, so as soon as Martha had brought her supper and she had eaten it, she was glad to go to bed. As...
Chapter XXI Ben Weatherstaff
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn...