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The Last Visit to Saulsby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas, as he journeyed down to Saulsby, knew that he had in truth made up his mind. He was going thither nominally that he might listen to the advice of almost his oldest political friend before he resolved on a matter of...
Chapter 6 an old friend goes to windsor
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘And what are they going to make you now?’

This question was asked of her husband by a lady with whom perhaps the readers of this volume may have already formed some acquaintance. Chronicles of her early life* have been written, at...
Chapter 38 sir orlando retires
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘He is a horrid man. He came here and quarrelled with the other man in my house, or rather down at Richmond, and made a fool of himself, and then quarrelled with his wife and took her away. What fools, what asses, what...
Chapter 49 ‘where is guatemala?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Though his daughter’s words to him had been very wild they did almost more to convince Mr Wharton that he should not give his money to his son-in-law than even the letters which had passed between them. To Emily herself he spoke very little...
Chapter 53 mr hartlepod
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the time came at which Lopez should have left Manchester Square he was still there. Mr Wharton, in discussing the matter with his daughter,—when wishing to persuade her that she might remain in his house even in opposition to her husband,—had not told...
Chapter 58 ‘quite settled’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The abuse which was now publicly heaped on the name of Ferdinand Lopez hit the man very hard; but not so hard perhaps as his rejection by Lady Eustace. That was an episode in his life of which even he felt ashamed, and of...
Chapter 75 the great wharton alliance
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr Wharton got home on that day he said not a word to Emily as to Arthur Fletcher. He had resolved to take various courses,—first to tell her roundly that she was neglecting her duty to herself and to her family, and that...
The Father of the Marshalsea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Thirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the Borough of Southwark, on the left hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison. It had stood there many years before, and it remained...
Little Dorrit’s Party
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Arthur Clennam rose hastily, and saw her standing at the door. This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit’s eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him.

Little Dorrit looked into a dim room, which seemed a spacious one to her, and grandly furnished....
Nobody’s Rival
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Before breakfast in the morning, Arthur walked out to look about him. As the morning was fine, and he had an hour on his hands, he crossed the river by the ferry, and strolled along a footpath through some meadows. When he came back...
Little Dorrit’s Lover
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Little Dorrit had not attained her twenty-second birthday without finding a lover. Even in the sallow Marshalsea, the ever young Archer* shot off a few featherless arrows now and then from a mouldy bow, and winged a Collegian or two.

Little Dorrit’s lover, however,...
Moving in Society
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

If Young John Chivery had had the inclination, and the power, to write a satire on family pride, he would have had no need to go for an avenging illustration out of the family of his beloved. He would have found it amply in...
Mr. Merdle’s Complaint
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Upon that establishment of state, the Merdle establishment in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, there was the shadow of no more common wall than the fronts of other establishments of state on the opposite side of the street. Like unexceptionable Society, the opposing rows of...
The Word of a Gentleman
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

When Mr. and Mrs. Flintwinch panted up to the door of the old house in the twilight, Jeremiah within a second of Affery, the stranger started back. “Death of my soul!” he exclaimed. “Why, how did you get here?”

Mr. Flintwinch, to whom these...
A Shoal of Barnacles
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Henry Gowan and the dog were established frequenters of the cottage, and the day was fixed for the wedding. There was to be a convocation of Barnacles on the occasion; in order that that very high and very large family might shed as...
The Dreams of Mrs. Flintwinch Thicken
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The shady waiting-rooms of the Circumlocution Office, where he passed a good deal of time in company with various troublesome Convicts who were under sentence to be broken alive on that wheel, had afforded Arthur Clennam ample leisure, in three or four successive days,...
Introduces the Next
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The passengers were landing from the packet on the pier at Calais. A low-lying place and a low-spirited place Calais was, with the tide ebbing out towards low water-mark. There had been no more water on the bar than had sufficed to float...
Reaping the Whirlwind
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

With a precursory sound of hurried breath and hurried feet, Mr. Pancks rushed into Arthur Clennam’s Counting-house. The Inquest was over, the letter was public, the Bank was broken, the other model structures of straw had taken fire and were turned to smoke....
Going
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Arthur continuing to lie very ill in the Marshalsea, and Mr. Rugg descrying no break in the legal sky affording a hope of his enlargement, Mr. Pancks suffered desperately from self-reproaches. If it had not been for those infallible figures which proved that...
Introduction to Redgauntlet
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected, for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war, and its remarkable events, were remembered by the existing...
Letter VIII: Alan Fairford to Darsie Latimer
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Thou mayst clap thy wings and crow as thou pleasest. You go in search of adventures, but adventures come to me unsought for; and oh! in what a pleasing shape came mine, since it arrived in the form of a client—and a fair client...
Chapter IX: Latimer’s Journal in Continuation
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

There is at length a halt—at length I have gained so much privacy as to enable me to continue my Journal. It has become a sort of task of duty to me, without the discharge of which I do not feel that the business...
Chapter XXI: Narrative of Alan Fairford
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Our readers may recollect, that Fairford had been conducted by Dick Gardener from the House of Fairladies, to the inn of old Father Crackenthorp, in order, as he had been informed by the mysterious Father Buonaventure, that he might have the meeting which he...
The English Mail-Coach, or The Glory of Motion
Authors: De Quincey Thomas
Published: December 2020

Some twenty or more years before I matriculated at Oxford, Mr Palmer, M.P. for Bath,* had accomplished two things, very hard to do on our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may happen to be held by the eccentric people in...
A Humbug!
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

My master was not immediately suited,* but in a few days my new groom came. He was a tall, good-looking fellow enough; but if ever there was a humbug in the shape of a groom, Alfred Smirk was the man. He was...
Jerry Barker
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I never knew a better man than my new master; he was kind and good, and as strong for the right as John Manly; and so good-tempered and merry, that very few people could pick a quarrel with him. He was very fond of...
The Golden Rule
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Two or three weeks after this, as we came into the yard rather late in the evening, Polly came running across the road with the lantern (she always brought it to him if it was not very wet).

‘It has all come right, Jerry; Mrs....
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He sat there a good while: there was a great deal of talk; it was all pitched in a key of expression and emphasis rather new to him. Every one present, the cool maidens not least, personally addressed him, and seemed to...
Chapter V: Influence of Political Institutions Exemplified
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Robbery and fraud, two great vices in society—originate, 1. in extreme poverty—2. in the ostentation of the rich—3. in their tyranny—rendered permanent—1. by legislation—2. by the administration of law—3. by the inequality of conditions.

The efficacy of political institutions will be rendered still...
Chapter XI: Moral Effects of Aristocracy
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Importance of practical justice.—Species of injustice which aristocracy creates.—Estimate of the injury produced.—Examples.

There is one thing, more than all the rest, of importance to the well being of mankind, justice. Can there be any thing problematical or paradoxical in this fundamental principle,...
Chapter XVIII: Of the Conduct of War
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Offensive operations.—Fortifications.—General action.—Stratagem.—Military contributions.—Capture of mercantile vessels.—Naval war.—Humanity.—Military obedience.—Foreign possessions.

Another topic respecting war, which it is of importance to consider in this place, relates to the mode of conducting it. Upon this article our judgments will be greatly facilitated by a recollection...
Chapter XXIII: Of National Assemblies
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

They produce a fictitious unanimity—an unnatural uniformity of opinion.—Causes of this uniformity.—Consequences of the mode of decision by vote—1. perversion of reason—2. contentious disputes—3. the triumph of ignorance and vice.—Society incapable of acting from itself—of being well conducted by others.—Conclusion.—Modification of democracy that results from...
Chapter VI: Of Libels
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Public libels.—Injustice of an attempt to prescribe the method in which public questions shall be discussed—its pusillanimity.—Invitations to tumult.—Private libels.—Reasons in favour of their being subjected to restraint.—Answer.—1. It is necessary the truth should be told.—Salutary effects of the unrestrained investigation of character.—Objection: freedom of...
Maxim Maximich
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

After parting with Maxim Maximich, I drove quickly through the Terek and Daryal gorges, ate my luncheon at Kazbek, drank tea at Lars, and by suppertime I had reached Vladikavkaz.* I’ll spare you any descriptions of the mountains, cries of admiration that...
‘Omnes Omnia Bona Dicere’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When young Mark Robarts* was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. This father...
A Matter of Conscience
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is no doubt very wrong to long after a naughty thing. Nevertheless we all do long. One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam’s fall. When we confess...
Hogglestock Parsonage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At the end of the last chapter, we left Lucy Robarts waiting for an introduction to Mrs Crawley, who was sitting with one baby in her lap while she was rocking another who lay in a cradle at her feet. Mr Crawley, in the...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Mouret made a gesture of annoyance. He really wasn’t expecting his tenant for another two days at the earliest. He got up quickly as Abbé Faujas appeared in the doorway to the passage. He was a tall, strong man with a wide, square face,...
Chapter 13
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At that time Serge was nineteen. He had a little room on the second floor opposite the priest’s rooms, and there he led a monk-like existence, reading a lot.

‘I ought to chuck your books on the fire,’ said Mouret angrily. ‘You’ll end up bedridden.’...
Chapter 22
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the hut at Les Tulettes it was blackest night. An icy draught brought Mouret out of the cataleptic stupor he had been thrown into by the crisis that evening. Crouched against the wall, he remained motionless for a moment, his eyes open, rolling...
The Jupiter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Though Eleanor Harding rode off from John Bold on a high horse,* it must not be supposed that her heart was so elate as her demeanour. In the first place, she had a natural repugnance to losing her lover; and in the...
Jack Hollycombe
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Peppercorn’s visit to the bank had been no doubt inspired by Dr Freeborn. The Doctor had not actually sent him to the bank, but had filled his mind with the idea that such a visit might be made with good effect....
Hiram’s Hospital according to Act of Parliament
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is hardly necessary that I should here give to the public any lengthened biography of Mr Harding,* up to the period of the commencement of this tale. The public cannot have forgotten how ill that sensitive gentleman bore the attack that...
A Morning Visit
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was known that Dr Proudie would immediately have to reappoint to the wardenship of the hospital under the act of Parliament to which allusion has been made; but no one imagined that any choice was left to him,—no one for a moment thought...
The Dean and Chapter take Counsel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

All Barchester was in a tumult. Dr Grantly could hardly get himself out of the cathedral porch before he exploded in his wrath. The old dean betook himself silently to his deanery, afraid to speak; and there sat, half stupefied, pondering many things in...
Mrs Proudie’s Reception—Commenced
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The bishop and his wife had only spent three or four days in Barchester on the occasion of their first visit. His lordship had, as we have seen, taken his seat on his throne; but his demeanour there, into which it had been his...
Slope versus Harding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Two or three days after the party Mr Harding received a note, begging him to call on Mr Slope, at the palace, at an early hour the following morning. There was nothing uncivil in the communication, and yet the tone of it was thoroughly...
The New Champion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The archdeacon did not return to the parsonage till close upon the hour of dinner, and there was therefore no time to discuss matters before that important ceremony. He seemed to be in an especially good humour, and welcomed his father-in-law with a sort...
Baby Worship
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, dum, dum, dum,’ said or sung Eleanor Bold.

‘Diddle, diddle, diddle, diddle, dum, dum, dum,’ continued Mary Bold, taking up the second part in this concerted piece.

The only audience at the concert was the baby, who however gave...
Barchester by Moonlight
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was much cause for grief and occasional perturbation of spirits in the Stanhope family, but yet they rarely seemed to be grieved or to be disturbed. It was the peculiar gift of each of them that each was able to bear his or...
The Thornes of Ullathorne
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following Sunday Mr Arabin was to read himself in at his new church.* It was agreed at the rectory that the archdeacon should go over with him and assist at the reading-desk, and that Mr Harding should take the archdeacon’s...
Mr Slope’s parting Interview With the Signora
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following day the Signora was in her pride. She was dressed in her brightest of morning dresses, and had quite a levée round her couch. It was a beautifully bright October afternoon. All the gentlemen of the neighbourhood were in Barchester, and...
Miss Thorne shows her Talent at Match-making
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On Mr Harding’s return to Barchester from Plumstead, which was effected by him in due course in company with the archdeacon, more tidings of a surprising nature met him. He was, during the journey, subjected to such a weight of unanswerable argument, all of...
The Archdeacon is satisfied with the State of Affairs
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The archdeacon, in his journey into Barchester, had been assured by Mr Harding that all their prognostications about Mr Slope and Eleanor were groundless. Mr Harding, however, had found it very difficult to shake his son-in-law’s faith in his own acuteness. The matter had,...
Introductory
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity;* but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society...
Of individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless this liberty...
General Remarks
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which...
Of the Infirmities and Dangers to Which Representative Government is Liable
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

The defects of any form of government may be either negative or positive. It is negatively defective if it does not concentrate in the hands of the authorities, power sufficient to fulfil the necessary offices of a government; or if it does not sufficiently...
I
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

The object of this Essay is to explain, as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead...
Chapter 5 The Tragedy Of Pondicherry Lodge
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was nearly eleven o’clock when we reached this final stage of our night’s adventures. We had left the damp fog of the great city behind us, and the night was fairly fine. A warm wind blew from the westward, and heavy clouds moved...
Chapter 9 A Break In The Chain
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him, save that he had laid aside his violin and was deep in a book. He looked across at me as...
A Scandal In Bohemia
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love...
The Red-Headed League Is Dissolved. Oct. 9, 1890.
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

‘I cannot see that there is anything very...
Chapter 7
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

It was already broad daylight when Effi woke the next morning. She had difficulty finding her bearings. Where was she? Of course, in Kessin, in the house of the Landrat, von Innstetten, and she was his wife, Baroness Innstetten. Sitting up, she looked round, full...
Chapter 9
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Such was Effi’s first day in Kessin. Innstetten allowed her half a week to give her time to get settled in and write her various letters to Hohen-Cremmen, to her Mama, to Hulda and the twins; but then the visits in the town had to...
Chapter 13
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

The New Year’s Eve Ball had lasted until late in the morning, and Effi had been extensively admired, though not quite as uncritically as her bouquet of camellias, that everyone knew came from Gieshübler’s hothouse. In general, though, things remained as they were after the...
Chapter 22
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

The next morning the two of them had a somewhat belated breakfast together. Innstetten had overcome his ill-humour and worse, and Effi was so full of the feeling of liberation that she was once more not only able to display a slightly forced good mood...
Chapter 28
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

As agreed, Innstetten set off the next evening. He took the same train as Wüllersdorf had the previous day, and soon after five in the morning he was at the station where the road to Kessin went off to the left. As always, as long...
Chapter 34 mrs proudie sends for her lawyer
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was great dismay in Barchester Palace after the visit paid to the bishop and Mrs Proudie by that terrible clerical offender, Mr Crawley. It will be remembered, perhaps, how he had defied the bishop with spoken words, and how he had defied the...
Chapter 39 a new flirtation
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

John Eames sat at his office on the day after his return to London, and answered the various letters which he had found waiting for him at his lodgings on the previous evening. To Miss Demolines he had already written from his club,—a single...
Chapter 51 mrs dobbs broughton piles her fagots
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The picture still progressed up in Mrs Dobbs Broughton’s room, and the secret was still kept, or supposed to be kept. Miss Van Siever was, at any rate, certain that her mother had heard nothing of it, and Mrs Broughton reported from day to...
Chapter 55 framley parsonage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At this time Grace Crawley was at Framley Parsonage. Old Lady Lufton’s strategy had been quite intelligible, but some people said that in point of etiquette and judgment and moral conduct, it was indefensible. Her vicar, Mr Robarts, had been selected to be one...
Chapter 79 mr crawley speaks of his coat
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At this time Grace had returned home from Framley. As long as the terrible tragedy of the forthcoming trial was dragging itself on she had been content to stay away, at her mother’s bidding. It has not been possible in these pages to tell...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Once again it was haymaking time, under a blue and extremely hot sky, refreshed by breezes; and the wedding had been set for Midsummer Day, which fell that year on a Saturday.

The Fouans had strongly recommended that Buteau start the invitations with La Grande,...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘I only hope Coliche doesn’t have her calf when I have my baby,’ Lise would say every morning.

She would drag her huge belly along to the cowshed and stand gazing anxiously at Coliche, whose belly had grown enormous too. Never had a...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“Philistia, be thou glad of me!”

Grandcourt having made up his mind to marry Miss Harleth showed a power of adapting means to ends. During the next fortnight there was hardly a day on which by some arrangement or other he did
Chapter XVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

On a fine evening near the end of July, Deronda was rowing himself on the Thames. It was already a year or...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In all ages it hath been a favourite text that a potent love hath the nature of an isolated fatality, whereto the mind’s opinions and wonted resolves are altogether alien: as, for example, Daphnis his frenzy,*wherein it had little availed him to have...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“No man,” says a Rabbi, by way of indisputable instance, “may turn the bones of his father and mother into spoons”—sure that his hearers felt the checks against that form of economy. The market for spoons has never expanded enough for anyone to say, “Why...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When Deronda arrived at five...
Chapter LII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“La même fermeté qui sert à résister à l’amour sert aussi à le rendre violent et durable; et les personnes foibles qui sont toujours agitées des passions n’en sont presque jamais véritablement remplies.”—La Rochefoucauld.*

Among Deronda’s letters the next morning was...
Chapter LVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Deronda did not take off his clothes that night. Gwendolen, after insisting on seeing...
The Sandman
Authors: Hoffmann E. T. A.
Published: December 2020

Nathanael to Lothar

You must all be very worried by my not having written for so long. Mother is probably angry, and Clara, I dare say, thinks that I am living in the lap of luxury and have completely forgotten the lovely, angelic image...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was happy for the Rev. Amos Barton that he did not, like us, overhear the conversation recorded in the last chapter. Indeed, what mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents...
Chapter X
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

That evening Captain Wybrow, returning from a long ride with Miss Assher, went up to his dressing-room, and seated himself with an air of considerable lassitude before his mirror. The reflection there presented of his exquisite self was certainly paler and more worn than...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Some of Mrs Sharp’s earliest thoughts, the next morning, were given to Caterina, whom she had not been able to visit the evening before, and whom, from a nearly equal mixture of affection and self-importance, she did not at all like resigning to Mrs...
Epilogue
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

This was Mr Gilfil’s love-story, which lay far back from the time when he sat, worn and grey, by his lonely fireside in Shepperton Vicarage. Rich brown locks, passionate love, and deep early sorrow, strangely different as they seem from the scanty white hairs,...
Chapter III
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was quite as warm on the following Thursday evening, when Mr Dempster and his colleagues were to return from their mission to Elmstoke Rectory; but it was much pleasanter in Mrs Linnet’s parlour than in the bar of the Red Lion. Through the...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The loss of Mr Jerome as a client proved only the beginning of annoyances to Dempster. That old gentleman had in him the vigorous remnant of an energy and perseverance which had created his own fortune; and being, as I have hinted, given to...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When Dempster awoke in the morning, he was at no loss to account to himself for the fact that Janet was not by his side. His hours of drunkenness were not cut off from his other hours by any blank wall of oblivion; he...
Chapter XX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

On Sunday morning the rain had ceased, and Janet, looking out of the bedroom window, saw, above the house-tops, a shining mass of white cloud rolling under the far-away blue sky. It was going to be a lovely April day. The fresh sky, left...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The servants at Dempster’s felt some surprise when the morning, noon, and evening of Saturday had passed, and still their mistress did not reappear.

‘It’s very odd,’ said Kitty, the housemaid, as she trimmed her next week’s cap, while Betty, the middle-aged cook, looked...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The next morning Janet was so much calmer, and at breakfast spoke so decidedly of going to her mother’s, that Mrs Pettifer and Mrs Raynor agreed it would be wise to let her know by degrees what had befallen her husband, since as soon...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

That was the last terrible crisis of temptation Janet had to pass through. The goodwill of her neighbours, the helpful sympathy of the friends who shared her religious feelings, the occupations suggested to her by Mr Tryan, concurred, with her strong spontaneous impulses towards...
Conversion—Concluded
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

In this lecture we have to finish the subject of Conversion, considering at first those striking instantaneous instances of which Saint Paul’s is the most eminent, and in which, often amid tremendous emotional excitement or perturbation of the senses, a complete division is established...
The Value of Saintliness
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

We have now passed in review the more important of the phenomena which are regarded as fruits of genuine religion and characteristics of men who are devout. To-day we have to change our attitude from that of description to that of appreciation; we have...
A Pilot Study of a Chronic Pain Self-Management Program Delivered by Community Health Workers to Underserved African American Older Adults
Authors: Janevic Mary , Robinson-Lane Sheria G , Murphy Susan L , Courser Rebecca , Piette John D
Published: December 2020

Objective

African American older adults living in disadvantaged communities are disproportionately burdened by disabling pain. To address their needs, we tested the feasibility and potential effects of a cognitive-behavioral chronic pain self-management program delivered by community health workers.

Design

A single-group, pre-post evaluation of the STEPS-2 (Seniors using Technology to Engage in Pain Self-management) intervention, in which participants learned pain-management skills through web-based videos. They were also given wearable activity trackers to facilitate incremental increases in walking. In weekly telephone calls, community health workers helped participants apply skills and set goals.

Subjects/setting

Thirty-one adults in Detroit, Michigan (97% African American, 97% female, mean 68.7 years), with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Methods

Participants completed telephone surveys at baseline and eight weeks. We measured changes in PROMIS pain interference and pain intensity, as well as Patient Global Impression of Change in pain and functioning. Feasibility indicators included participant engagement and satisfaction, and fidelity to session protocols by community health workers.

Results

Participants on average completed 6.6/7 sessions, and 100% agreed or strongly agreed that they improved their understanding of pain management. Average community health worker fidelity score was 1.79 (0 to 2 scale). Pain interference decreased from baseline to post-program (T-score 61.6 to 57.3, P=.000), as did pain intensity (0 to 10 scale, 6.3 to 5.1, P=.004). Approximately 90% of participants reported that pain and function were at least “a little better” since baseline.

Conclusions

An intervention combining mobile health tools with support from community health workers holds promise for improving pain outcomes among underserved older adults.
Impact of Implementing an Academic Detailing Program on Opioid-Benzodiazepine Co-Prescribing Trends at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Authors: Bounthavong Mark , Lau Marcos K , Kay Chad L , Wells Daina L , Popish Sarah J , Harvey Michael A , Himstreet Julianne E , Grana Andrea , Freeman Blake A , Morillo Christina M , Christopher Melissa L D
Published: December 2020

Objectives

To assess the process and outcomes of academic detailing to enhance the Opioid Safety Initiative and the Psychotropic Drug Safety Initiative to reduce co-prescribing of opioid-benzodiazepine combinations in veterans.

Methods

A retrospective cohort design was conducted to evaluate the impact of implementing an academic detailing program on opioid-benzodiazepine co-prescribing between October 2014 through March 2019 at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The primary outcome was the monthly prevalence of veterans (number per 1,000 population) who were co-prescribed opioid-benzodiazepine combination. Process measure was evaluated using implementation reach (proportion of providers who received academic detailing). Station-level analysis was performed using a linear fixed effects regression model to evaluate the rate of change in the prevalence of veterans co-prescribed opioid-benzodiazepine.

Results

Altogether 130 VA stations was included for analysis; 119 stations implemented opioid-related or benzodiazepine-related academic detailing, and 11 stations did not. Stations that had implemented academic detailing had a 33% greater monthly reduction on the opioid-benzodiazepine co-prescribing prevalence compared to stations that did not implement academic detailing (P = .036). In the linear fixed effects regression model, stations that were expected to have 100% of providers exposed to academic detailing were statistically associated with a greater decrease in the monthly prevalence of Veterans co-prescribed opioid-benzodiazepine by 4.9 veterans per 1,000 population (P < .001) compared to stations with 0% of providers exposed to academic detailing.

Conclusions

Stations that implemented academic detailing and had a higher proportion of providers who were exposed to opioid- or benzodiazepine-related academic detailing had a significant decrease in the monthly prevalence of Veterans co-prescribed opioid-benzodiazepine combinations.
Association between E-cigarette use and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in non-asthmatic adults in the USA
Authors: Antwi Godfred O , Rhodes Darson L
Published: December 2020

Background

Concern about the health impacts of e-cigarette use is growing; however, limited research exists regarding potential long-term health effects of this behavior. This study explored the relationship between e-cigarette use and COPD in a sample of US adults.

Methods

A secondary data analysis using data from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey in the USA was computed to examine associations between e-cigarette use and COPD controlling for conventional cigarette smoking status, past month leisure physical activity and demographic characteristics including age, sex, education, race, marital status and body mass index.

Results

Significant associations between e-cigarette use and COPD among former combustible cigarette smokers and those who reported never using combustible cigarettes were found. Compared with never e-cigarette users, the odds of having COPD were significantly greater for daily e-cigarette users (OR = 1.53; 95% CI: 1.11–2.03), occasional users (OR = 1.43, 95% CI: 1.13–1.80) and former users (OR = 1.46 95% CI: 1.28–1.67).

Conclusions

Findings from this study indicate a potential link between e-cigarette use and COPD. Further research to explore the potential effects of e-cigarette on COPD is recommended.
Vertical Education-Occupation Mismatch and Wage Inequality by Race/Ethnicity and Nativity among Highly Educated US Workers
Authors: Lu Yao , Li Xiaoguang
Published: December 2020

Despite remarkable educational gains of minorities, ethnoracial wage inequality persists and has even expanded among highly educated workers. Conventional explanations for this inequality are primarily derived from comparing workers across different educational levels and are less salient for understanding inequalities within the highly educated workforce. This study examines a previously overlooked source of ethnoracial inequality among highly educated workers: vertical mismatch between workers’ educational level and the education requirements for their occupation. Using a longitudinal sample of college graduates from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we find that vertical mismatch accounts for a large part of racial/ethnic and nativity wage inequality. Specifically, highly educated minorities (especially blacks and Hispanics) and immigrants (especially those holding a foreign degree) are disproportionately channeled into mismatched jobs and subsequently consigned to such positions. Also, highly educated Hispanics and Asians, as well as foreign-educated immigrants, face greater wage penalties of vertical mismatch. The findings offer new insights into a key source of ethnoracial and nativity stratification.
The Comparative Method is Not Macroevolution: Across-Species Evidence for Within-Species Process
Authors: Olson Mark E
Published: December 2020

It is common for studies that employ the comparative method for the study of adaptation, that is, documentation of potentially adaptive across-species patterns of trait–environment or trait–trait correlation, to be designated as “macroevolutionary.” Authors are justified in using “macroevolution” in this way by appeal to definitions such as “evolution above the species level.” I argue that regarding the comparative method as “macroevolutionary” is harmful because it hides in serious ways the true causal content of hypotheses tested with the comparative method. The comparative method is a means of testing hypotheses of adaptation and their alternatives. Adaptation is a population-level phenomenon, involving heritable interindividual variation that is associated with fitness differences. For example, given heritable intrapopulational variation, more streamlined individuals in populations of fast-moving aquatic animals have higher locomotory efficiency and thus better survivorship and more resources directed to reproduction than less streamlined ones. Direct evidence consistent with this population-level scenario includes the observation that many unrelated species of fast-moving aquatic animals have similar streamlined shapes, an example of the comparative method. Crucial to note in this example is that although the data are observed across species, the comparative method for studying adaptation tests hypotheses regarding standard population-level natural selection with no content that can be construed as “macro.” Even less “macro,” individual-level developmental dynamics can limit or bias the range of variants available for selection. Calling any of these studies “macroevolutionary” implies that some additional process is at work, shrouding the need to test adaptation hypotheses and study the range of variants that can be produced in development. [Adaptation; comparative method; constraint; macroevolution; optimality models; population biology.]
Tissue tolerance mechanisms conferring salinity tolerance in a halophytic perennial species Nitraria sibirica Pall.
Authors: Tang Xiaoqian , Zhang Huilong , Shabala Sergey , Li Huanyong , Yang Xiuyan , Zhang Huaxin
Published: December 2020

Plant salt tolerance relies on a coordinated functioning of different tissues and organs. Salinity tissue tolerance is one of the key traits that confer plant adaptation to saline environment. This trait implies maintenance low cytosolic Na+/K+ ratio in metabolically active cellular compartments. In this study, we used Nitraria sibirica Pall., a perennial woody halophyte species, to understand the mechanistic basis of its salinity tissue tolerance. The results showed that the growth of seedlings was stimulated by 100–200 mM NaCl treatment. The ions distribution analysis showed that the leaves act as an Na+ sink, while the plant roots possess superior K+ retention. The excessive Na+ absorbed from the soil was mainly transported to the shoot and was eventuallysequestrated into mesophyll vacuoles in the leaves. As a result, N. sibirica could keep the optimal balance of K+/Na+ at a tissue- and cell-specific level under saline condition. To enable this, N. sibirica increased both vacuolar H+-ATPase and H+-PPase enzymes activities and up-regulated the expressions of NsVHA, NsVP1 and NsNHX1 genes. Vacuolar Na+ sequestration in the leaf mesophyll, mediated by NsVHA, NsVP1 and NsNHX1, reduced the Na+ concentration in cytosol and inhibited further K+ loss. Meanwhile, N. sibirica enhanced the Two Pore K+ expression at the transcriptional level to promote K+ efflux from vacuole into cytoplasm, assisting in maintaining cytosolic K+ homeostasis. It is concluded that the tissue tolerance traits such as vacuolar Na+ sequestration and intracellular K+ homeostasis are critical to confer adaptation of N. sibirica to soil salinity.
Genomic epidemiology of a densely sampled COVID-19 outbreak in China
Authors: Geidelberg Lily , Boyd Olivia , Jorgensen David , Siveroni Igor , Nascimento Fabrícia F , Johnson Robert , Ragonnet-Cronin Manon , Fu Han , Wang Haowei , Xi Xiaoyue , Chen Wei , Liu Dehui , Chen Yingying , Tian Mengmeng , Tan Wei , Zai Junjie , Sun Wanying , Li Jiandong , Li Junhua , Volz Erik M , Li Xingguang , Nie Qing
Published: December 2020

Analysis of genetic sequence data from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic can provide insights into epidemic origins, worldwide dispersal, and epidemiological history. With few exceptions, genomic epidemiological analysis has focused on geographically distributed data sets with few isolates in any given location. Here, we report an analysis of 20 whole SARS- CoV-2 genomes from a single relatively small and geographically constrained outbreak in Weifang, People’s Republic of China. Using Bayesian model-based phylodynamic methods, we estimate a mean basic reproduction number (R0) of 3.4 (95% highest posterior density interval: 2.1–5.2) in Weifang, and a mean effective reproduction number (Rt) that falls below 1 on 4 February. We further estimate the number of infections through time and compare these estimates to confirmed diagnoses by the Weifang Centers for Disease Control. We find that these estimates are consistent with reported cases and there is unlikely to be a large undiagnosed burden of infection over the period we studied.
Identification and Characterization ofColletotrichumSpecies Associated WithCamellia sinensisAnthracnose in Anhui Province, China
Authors: Zhang Lei , Li Xianghan , Zhou Yuanyuan , Tan Genjia , Zhang Lixin
Published: December 2020

Recent advances in Colletotrichum taxonomy have led to the need to conduct fresh surveys of Colletotrichum species associated with important crops. Anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum spp. is one of the destructive diseases on Camellia sinensis. In this study, a total of 22 representative Colletotrichum isolates were obtained from diseased leaves of Ca. sinensis cultivated in four tea plantation regions in Anhui Province of China. The isolates were identified based on multilocus (ITS, ACT, CAL, CHS-1, TUB2, GAPDH) phylogenetic analyses, and their morphological characteristics were also analyzed. Twenty-one isolates belonging to C. gloeosporioides complex were identified as C. camelliae, C. fructicola, and C. siamense. One isolate belonging to C. boninense complex was identified as C. karstii. Pathogenicity tests revealed that the isolates of C. camelliae and C. fructicola were highly virulent when inoculated on the leaves of detached twigs of Ca. sinensis cv. Shuchazao. Furthermore, it was found that the interspecies virulence was less distinct and individual isolates showed varied virulence when inoculated on different varieties of Ca. sinensis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. fructicola, C. siamense, and C. karstii causing anthracnose on Ca. sinensis in Anhui Province, China.
NBS-LRR Gene TaRPS2 is Positively Associated with the High-Temperature Seedling Plant Resistance of Wheat Against Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici
Authors: Hu Yangshan , Tao Fei , Su Chang , Zhang Yue , Li Juan , Wang Jiahui , Xu Xiangming , Chen Xianming , Shang Hongsheng , Hu Xiaoping
Published: December 2020

Xiaoyan6 (XY6) is a wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivar possessing nonrace-specific high-temperature seedling plant (HTSP) resistance against stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Previously, we identified one particular gene, TaRPS2, for its involvement in the HTSP resistance. To elucidate the role of TaRPS2 in the HTSP resistance, we cloned the full length of TaRPS2 from XY6. The transcriptional expression of TaRPS2 was rapidly upregulated (19.11-fold) under the normal-high-normal temperature treatment that induces the HTSP resistance. The expression level of TaRPS2 in leaves was higher than that in the stems and roots. Quantification of the endogenous hormones in wheat leaves after P. striiformis f. sp. tritici inoculation showed that 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, salicylic acid (SA), and jasmonic acid were involved in the HTSP resistance. In addition, detection of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) accumulation indicated that reactive oxygen species burst was also associated with the HTSP resistance. Two hours after exogenous H2O2 treatment or 0.5 h after SA treatment, the expression level of TaRPS2 was increased by 2.66 and 2.35 times, respectively. The subcellular localization of enhanced green fluorescent protein-TaRPS2 fusion protein was in the nuclei and plasma membranes. Virus-induced gene silencing of TaRPS2 reduced the level of HTSP resistance in XY6. Compared with the nonsilenced leaves, the TaRPS2-silenced leaves had the reduction of necrotic cells but a greater number of uredinia. These results indicated that TaRPS2 positively regulates the HTSP resistance of XY6 against P. striiformis f. sp. tritici and is related to the SA and H2O2 signaling pathways.
Organizational Commitment of Nurse Faculty Teaching in Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Programs
Authors: Donovan Laureen M. , Payne Camille L.
Published: December 2020

AIM

The aim of the study was to examine organizational commitment by exploring experiences of faculty in Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) programs.

BACKGROUND

ABSN faculty report that the curriculum is intense and fast-paced.

METHOD

A cross-sectional survey design was used to examine faculty organizational commitment. A 53-item self-reported survey with closed questions measured organizational commitment, global job satisfaction, and work conditions. ABSN programs were recruited using cluster random sampling from a five-region list of programs; 62 programs were recruited with total faculty participation of 104.

RESULTS

ABSN faculty were found to be affectively and normatively committed to their organizations. Significant predictor variables of work environment conditions were stress and experiences of shortcomings, professional development, managerial support, and global job satisfaction.

CONCLUSION

As ABSN programs continue to flourish, it is important to identify strategies for faculty success within the fast-paced curricula.