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Chapter XXI The First Evening at Rufford Hall
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE phaeton arrived the first, the driver having been especially told that he need not delay on the road for the other carriage. She had calculated that she might make her entrance with better effect alone with her mother than in company with Morton...
Chapter XXVI Give Me Six Months
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THERE was a great deal of trouble and some very genuine sorrow in the attorney’s house at Dillsborough during the first week in December. Mr. Masters had declared to his wife that Mary should go to Cheltenham, and a letter was written to Lady...
Chapter XXXII ‘It is a Long Way’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHILE the correspondence given in the last chapter was going on, Miss Trefoil had other troubles besides those there narrated, and other letters to answer. Soon after her departure from Rufford she received a very serious but still an affectionate epistle from John Morton...
Chapter XXXIV Mary’s Letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE silent system in regard to Mary was carried on in the attorney’s house for a week, during which her sufferings were very great. From the first she made up her mind to oppose her stepmother’s cruelty by sheer obstinacy. She had been told...
Chapter XXXV Chowton Farm for Sale
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

JOHN MORTON had returned to town soon after his walk into Dillsborough and had there learned from different sources that both Arabella Trefoil and Lord Rufford had gone or were going to Mistletoe. He had seen Lord Augustus who, though he could tell him...
Chapter XXXVII How Things were Arranged
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘JACK is here,’ said Lord Rufford, as soon as the fuss of his late arrival had worn itself away.

‘I shall be proud to renew my acquaintance.’

‘Can you come to-morrow?’

‘Oh yes,’ said Arabella, rapturously.

‘There are difficulties, and I ought to...
Chapter XXXIX The Day at Peltry
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE duchess did tell the duke the whole story about Lord Rufford and Arabella that night,—as to which it may be said that she also was false. But according to her conscience there were two ways of telling such a secret. As a matter...
Chapter The Senator is Badly Treated
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHILE these great efforts were being made by Arabella Trefoil at Mistletoe, John Morton was vacillating in an unhappy mood between London and Bragton. It may be remembered that an offer was made to him as to the purchase of Chowton Farm. At that...
Chapter XLII Mr. Mainwaring’s Little Dinner
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE company at the rector’s house consisted of the Senator, the two Mortons, Mr. Surtees the curate, and old Doctor Nupper. Mrs. Mainwaring was not well enough to appear, and the rector therefore was able to indulge himself in what he called a bachelor...
Chapter XLIV ‘Particularly Proud of You’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ARABELLA TREFOIL left her uncle’s mansion on the day after her lover’s departure, certainly not in triumph, but with somewhat recovered spirits. When she first heard that Lord Rufford was gone,—that he had fled away, as it were, in the middle of the night...
Chapter L ‘In These Days One Can’t Make a Man Marry’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THIS was going on while Lord Rufford was shooting in the neighbourhood of Dillsborough; and when the letter was being put into its envelope at the lodgings in Orchard Street, his lordship was just sitting down to dinner with his guests at the Bush....
Chapter LI The Senator’s Second Letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

IN the meantime our friend the Senator, up in London, was much distracted in his mind, finding no one to sympathise with him in his efforts, conscious of his own rectitude of purpose, always brave against others, and yet with a sad doubt in...
Chapter LV ‘I Have Told him Everything’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THAT evening was very long and very sad to the three ladies assembled in the drawing-room at Bragton Park, but it was probably more so to Lady Augustus than the other two. She hardly spoke to either of them; nor did they to her;...
Chapter LXI The Success of Lady Augustus
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

LADY AUGUSTUS was still staying with the Connop Greens in Hampshire when she received the duke’s letter, and Arabella was with her. The story of Lord Rufford’s infidelity had been told to Mrs. Connop Green, and, of course, through her to Mr. Connop Green....
Chapter LXVIII Lord Rufford’s Model Farm
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

AT this time Senator Gotobed was paying a second visit to Rufford Hall. In the matter of Goarly and Scrobby he had never given way an inch. He was still strongly of opinion that a gentleman’s pheasants had no right to eat his neighbour’s...
Chapter LXX At Last
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN once Mrs. Morton had taken her departure for London, on the day after her grandson’s death, nothing further was heard of her at Bragton. She locked up everything and took all the keys away, as though still hoping,—against hope,—that the will might turn...
Chapter LXXVIII The Senator’s Lecture.—No. II.
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘IF I see a man hungry in the street,’ said the Senator, instigated by the question asked him at the end of the last chapter, ‘and give him a bit of bread, I don’t do it for my own sake but for his.’...
Chapter II: Isabel Brodrick
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Indefer Jones spoke of living for two years, he spoke more hopefully of himself than the doctor was wont to speak to Isabel. The doctor from Carmarthen visited Llanfeare twice a week, and having become intimate and confidential with Isabel, had told...
Chapter XI: Isabel at Hereford
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Isabel had not been many hours at home at Hereford before, as was natural, her father discussed with her the affairs of the property and her own peculiar interest in the will which had at last been accepted. It has to be acknowledged that...
Chapter XIV: An Action for Libel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the man had asked him that question, —Is there any secret you can tell?—Cousin Henry did, for half a minute, make up his mind to tell the whole story, and reveal everything as it had occurred. Then he remembered the lie which he...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early in March Lady Anna was convalescent, but had not left the house in Keppel Street, and the confusion and dismay of the Countess were greater than ever. Lady Anna had declared that she would not leave England for the present. She was reminded...
Chapter XLI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

So they went on living in utter misery till the month of May had come round, and Lady Anna was at last pronounced to be convalescent.

Late one night, long after midnight, the Countess crept into her daughter’s room and sat down by the bedside....
Chapter XLIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Countess Lovel had prepared herself on that morning for the doing of a deed, but her heart had failed her. How she might have carried herself through it had not her daughter come down to them,—how far she might have been able to...
Chapter III. The Arm in the Clouds
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was plenty of time for full inquiry and full reply between Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Prime before Rachel opened the cottage door and interrupted them. It was then nearly half-past ten. Rachel had never been so late before. The last streak of the...
Chapter XII. Rachel Ray Thinks “She Does like Him”
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Luke Rowan’s appearance at Mrs. Ray’s tea-table, as described in the last chapter, took place on Wednesday evening, and it may be remembered that on the morning of that same day Mrs. Prime had been closeted with Mr. Prong in that gentleman’s parlour. She...
Chapter XVI. Rachel Ray’s First Love-Letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Monday evening, after tea, Mrs. Prime came out to the cottage. It was that Monday on which Mrs. Rowan and her daughter had left Baslehurst and had followed Luke up to London. She came out and sat with her mother and sister...
Chapter XVII. Electioneering
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now, in these days,—the days immediately following the departure of Luke Rowan from Baslehurst,—the Tappitt family were constrained to work very hard at the task of defaming the young man who had lately been living with them in their house. They were constrained...
Chapter XXI. Mrs. Ray Goes to Exeter, and Meets a Friend
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Six weeks passed over them at Bragg’s End, and nothing was heard of Luke Rowan. Rachel’s letter, a copy of which was given in our last chapter, was duly sent away by the postman, but no answer to it came to Bragg’s End. It...
The Prison-Door
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

A Throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes....

The founders...
The Market-Place
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston; all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any...
The Interview
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

After her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrate violence on herself, or do some half-frenzied mischief to the poor babe. As night approached, it proving impossible...
Hester At Her Needle
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal...
THE LEECH
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Under the appellation of Roger Chillingworth, the reader will remember, was hidden another name, which its former wearer had resolved should never more be spoken. It has been related, how, in the crowd that witnessed Hester Prynne’s ignominious exposure, stood a man, elderly, travel-worn,...
The Leech and his Patient
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man. He had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the severe and equal...
The Interior of a Heart
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

After the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than it had previously been. The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it. It was not, indeed,...
The Minister’s Vigil
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Walking in the shadow of a dream, as it were, and perhaps actually under the influence of a species of somnambulism, Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot, where, now so long since, Hester Prynne had lived through her first hour of public ignominy. The same...
A Flood of Sunshine
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Arthur Dimmesdale gazed into Hester’s face with a look in which hope and joy shone out, indeed, but with fear betwixt them, and a kind of horror at her boldness, who had spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak.

But Hester Prynne,...
The Child at the Brook-Side
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

“Thou wilt love her dearly,” repeated Hester Prynne, as she and the minister sat watching little Pearl. “Dost thou not think her beautiful? And see with what natural skill she has made those simple flowers adorn her! Had she gathered pearls, and diamonds,...
The New England Holiday
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Betimes in the morning of the day on which the new Governor was to receive his office at the hands of the people, Hester Prynne and little Pearl came into the market-place. It was already thronged with the craftsmen and other plebeian inhabitants of...
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft, as on the swelling waves of the sea, at length came to a pause. There was a momentary silence, profound as what should follow the utterance of oracles. Then...
Chapter II
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Plans discussed—Pleasures of ‘camping-out,’ on fine nights—Ditto, wet nights—Compromise decided on—Montmorency, first impressions of—Fears lest he is too good for this world, fears subsequently dismissed as groundless—Meeting adjourns.

We pulled out the maps,...
Chapter V
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Mrs P. arouses us—George, the sluggard—The ‘weather forecast’ swindle—Our luggage—Depravity of the small boy—The people gather round us—We drive off in great style, and arrive at Waterloo—Innocence of South Western Officials concerning such...
Chapter IX
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

George is introduced to work—Heathenish instincts of tow-lines—Ungrateful conduct of a double-sculling skiff—Towers and towed—A use discovered for lovers—Strange disappearance of an elderly lady—Much haste, less speed—Being towed by girls: exciting sensation—...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Wargrave—Waxworks—Sonning—Our stew—Montmorency is sarcastic—Fight between Montmorency and the tea-kettle—George’s banjo studies—Meet with discouragement—Difficulties in the way of the musical amateur—Learning to play the bagpipes—Harris feels...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Reading—We are towed by steam launch—Irritating behaviour of small boats—How they get in the way of steam launches—George and Harris again shirk their work—Rather a hackneyed story—Streatley and Goring.

We came...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Washing day—Fish and fishers—On the art of angling—A conscientious fly-fisher—A fishy story.

We stayed two days at Streatley, and got our clothes washed. We had tried washing them ourselves, in the river, under George’s superintendence,...
Foot-Steps
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I was a young man at the time, and intimately acquainted with some of the actors in this strange tale; the impression which its incidents made on me, therefore, were deep, and lasting. I shall now endeavour, with precision, to relate them all, combining, of...
Flight
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Yielding to their persuasions, Barton left Dublin for England, accompanied by General Montague. They posted rapidly to London, and thence to Dover, whence they took the packet* with a fair wind for Calais. The General’s confidence in the result of the expedition on...
Lewis Pyneweck
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

In the meantime, the footman dispatched in pursuit of Mr Peters speedily overtook that feeble gentleman. The old man stopped when he heard the sound of pursuing steps, but any alarms that may have crossed his mind seemed to disappear on his recognizing the livery....
Monsieur Droqville
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Full of this exciting hope, I sauntered out, upon the steps of the Belle Etoile. It was now night, and a pleasant moonlight over everything. I had entered more into my romance since my arrival, and the poetic light heightened the sentiment. What a drama,...
The Oracle Tells Me Wonders
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I forgot for a moment how impervious my mask and domino were to the hard stare of the old campaigner, and was preparing for an animated scuffle. It was only for a moment, of course; but the Count cautiously drew a little back...
The Tenant Of The Palanquin
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The Marquis called on me next day. My late breakfast was still upon the table.

He had come, he said, to ask a favour. An accident had happened to his carriage in the crowd on leaving the ball, and he begged if I were going...
Catastrophe
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘Those seem to be good horses, and we change on the way,’ said Planard. ‘You give the men a Napoleon or two; we must do it within three hours and a quarter. Now, come; I’ll lift him, upright, so as to place his feet in...
A Guest
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I am now going to tell you something so strange that it will require all your faith in my veracity to believe my story. It is not only true, nevertheless, but truth of which I have been an eye-witness.

It was a sweet summer evening,...
Descending
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

It would be vain my attempting to tell you the horror with which, even now, I recall the occurrence of that night. It was no such transitory terror as a dream leaves behind it. It seemed to deepen by time, and communicated itself to the...
American Crisis XIII
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

The times that tried men souls,1 are over—and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.*

But to pass from the extremes of danger to safety—from the tumult of war to the tranquillity of peace, though sweet in...
To George Washington, president of the united states of america.
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

SIR,

I present you a small Treatise in defence of those Principles of Freedom which your exemplary Virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish.—That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your Benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the...
preface to the english edition
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

From the part Mr Burke took in the American Revolution,* it was natural that I should consider him a friend to mankind; and as our acquaintance commenced on that ground, it would have been more agreeable to me to have had cause...
Chapter V Sunday Services
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Service No. I

The boy Waldo kissed the pages of his book and looked up. Far over the flat lay the ‘kopje,’ a mere speck; the sheep wandered quietly from bush to bush; the stillness of the early Sunday rested everywhere, and the air...
Chapter VI Bonaparte Blenkins makes his Nest
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘Ah, what is the matter?’ asked Waldo, stopping at the foot of the ladder with a load of skins on his back that he was carrying up to the loft. Through the open door in the gable little Em was visible, her feet dangling...
Chapter XIII He Makes Love
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘Here,’ said Tant’ Sannie to her Hottentot maid, ‘I have been in this house four years, and never been up in the loft. Fatter women than I go up ladders; I will go up to-day and see what it is like, and put it...
Chapter IX Lyndall’s Stranger
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

A fire is burning in the unused hearth of the cabin. The fuel blazes up, and lights the black rafters, and warms the faded red lions on the quilt, and fills the little room with a glow of warmth and light made brighter by...
The Mother
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Eliza had been brought up by her mistress, from girlhood, as a petted and indulged favorite.

The traveller in the south must often have remarked that peculiar air of refinement, that softness of voice and manner, which seems in many cases to be a particular...
An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to “the house,” as the negro par excellence designates his master’s dwelling. In front it had a neat garden-patch, where, every summer, strawberries, raspberries, and a variety of fruits and vegetables,...
Kentuck
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Our readers may not be unwilling to glance back, for a brief interval, at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, on the Kentucky farm, and see what has been transpiring among those whom he had left behind.

It was late in the summer afternoon, and the doors and...
The Little Evangelist
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

It was Sunday afternoon. St. Clare was stretched on a bamboo lounge in the verandah, solacing himself with a cigar. Marie lay reclined on a sofa, opposite the window opening on the verandah, closely secluded, under an awning of transparent gauze, from the outrages of...
The Slave Warehouse
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

A slave warehouse! Perhaps some of my readers conjure up horrible visions of such a place. They fancy some foul, obscure den, some horrible Tartarus “informis, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.”* But no, innocent friend; in these days men have learned the art...
Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house. I have thus surveyed the country on every side within a dozen miles of where I live. In imagination I have bought all...
Reading
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or...
Visitors
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter...
The Village
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint,* and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which...
The Ponds
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends, I rambled still farther westward than I habitually dwell, into yet more unfrequented parts of the town, “to fresh woods and pastures new,”* or, while...
House-Warming
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

In October I went a-graping to the river meadows, and loaded myself with clusters more precious for their beauty and fragrance than for food. There too I admired, though I did not gather, the cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow grass, pearly...
The Pond in Winter
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain to answer in my sleep, as what—how—when—where? But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live, looking in...
Conclusion
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. Thank Heaven, here is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mocking-bird is rarely heard here. The wild-goose is more of a cosmopolite than...
4
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

‘Has he gone out?’ shouted Martha, running up at the slam of the front door, which had just shaken the house to its very foundations.

‘Yes, completely gone!’

‘But what about his lunch?’

‘He’s not having any!’

‘And his dinner?’

‘No dinner either!’

Clasping...
7
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Our memorable session ended here. The discussion had given me a fever. I left my uncle’s study as if in a trance; there was not enough air to calm me down in all the streets of Hamburg put together. So I made for the...
11
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

In the evening, I went for a brief walk along the sea-front of Reykjavik, came back early, and then retired to my bed of rough planks, where I slept the sleep of the just.

On waking up, I heard my uncle talking volubly in the...
12
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

We had left in overcast but settled weather. No exhausting heat to fear, no disastrous rain. Weather for tourists.

The joy of riding through an unknown land made me easy to please at the beginning of our venture. I was caught up in...
13
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

It should have been dark, but on the 65th parallel, I was not surprised by light during the night in the Arctic regions: in June and July in Iceland the sun never sets.

Nevertheless, the temperature had gone down. I was cold and above all...
16
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Dinner was quickly swallowed and the mini-expedition settled down as well as it could. The ground was very hard, the shelter fragile, the situation very uncomfortable at 5,000 feet above sea-level. But my sleep was especially calm that night, one of the best I’d...
19
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At 6 a.m. the following day, Tuesday, 30 June, the journey began again.

We were still following the lava gallery, truly a natural ramp, as gentle as those inclined planes that still replace staircases in old houses. This continued until 12.17, the precise moment when...
25
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Accordingly I woke up on the Sunday morning without the normal worry about leaving immediately and, although we were amongst the deepest chasms, this was all the same very pleasant. In any case we had got used to our troglodytes’ existence. I hardly thought...
37
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

It would be altogether impossible for me to give any idea of the feelings that shook the professor: amazement, incredulity, and finally rage. Never in my life had I seen someone so crestfallen at first, and then so furious. The fatigues of our crossing,...
43
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Yes, mad! The needle was swinging round from direction to direction with sharp jerks, working its way through every successive point of the compass, as if completely dizzy.

I knew that, according to the generally accepted theories, the Earth’s mineral crust is never in...
Chapter V The Shadow of the Future
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When Mr. Hawbury joined his guests in the breakfast-room, the strange contrast of character between them which he had noticed already, was impressed on his mind more strongly than ever. One of them sat at the well-spread table, hungry and happy; ranging from dish...
Chapter IV The March of Events
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Midwinter’s face darkened when the last trace of the carriage had disappeared from view. ‘I have done my best,’ he said, as he turned back gloomily into the house. ‘If Mr. Brock himself were here, Mr. Brock could do no more!’

He looked at the...
Chapter VIII The Norfolk Broads
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The little group gathered together in Major Milroy’s parlour to wait for the carriages from Thorpe-Ambrose would hardly have conveyed the idea to any previously uninstructed person introduced among them, of a party assembled in expectation of a picnic. They were almost dull enough,...
Chapter VII The Martyrdom of Miss Gwilt
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The outskirts of the little town of Thorpe-Ambrose, on the side nearest to ‘the great house,’ have earned some local celebrity as exhibiting the prettiest suburb of the kind to be found in East Norfolk. Here, the villas and gardens are for the most...
Chapter XV The Wedding Day
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The time was nine o’clock in the morning. The place was a private room in one of the old-fashioned inns, which still remain on the Borough side of the Thames.* The date was Monday, the 11th of August. And the person was...
Chapter II The Diary Continued
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘We went to the San Carlo. Armadale’s stupidity showed itself, even in such a simple matter as taking a box. He had confounded an opera with a play, and had chosen a box close to the stage, with the idea that one’s chief...
Chapter II Midwinter
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The spring had advanced to the end of April. It was the eve of Allan’s wedding-day. Midwinter and he had sat talking together at the great house till far into the night—till so far that it had struck twelve long since, and the wedding-day...
Chapter IV On the Way Home
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Left by ourselves, there was a moment of silence amongst us. Eustace spoke first.

‘Are you able to walk back?’ he said to me. ‘Or shall we go on to Broadstairs, and return to Ramsgate by the railway?’

He put those questions as composedly, so...
Chapter VIII The Friend of the Women
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I find it impossible to describe my sensations while the carriage was taking me to Major Fitz-David’s house. I doubt, indeed, if I really felt or thought at all, in the true sense of those words.

From the moment when I had resigned myself into...
Chapter XII The Scotch Verdict
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

We walked to the far end of the hall. Major Fitz-David opened the door of a long narrow room, built out at the back of the house as a smoking-room, and extending along one side of the courtyard as far as the stable wall....

My...
Chapter XVIII Third Question—What was his Motive?
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The first question (Did the Woman die Poisoned?) had been answered, positively. The second question (Who Poisoned Her?) had been answered, apparently. There now remained the third and final question—What Was His Motive? The first evidence called, in answer to that inquiry, was the...
Chapter XXI I See my Way
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In the grey light of the new morning, I closed the Report of my husband’s Trial for the murder of his first Wife.

No sense of fatigue overpowered me. I had no wish, after my long hours of reading and thinking, to lie down and...
Chapter XXXI The Defence of Mrs Beauly
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The days that elapsed before Major Fitz-David’s dinner-party. were precious days to me.

My long interview with Miserrimus Dexter had disturbed me far more seriously than I suspected at the time. It was not until some hours after I had left him, that I really...
Chapter XLIV Our New Honeymoon
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It is not to be disguised or denied that my spirits were depressed, on my journey to London.

To resign the one cherished purpose of my life, when I had suffered so much in pursuing it, and when I had (to all appearance) so nearly...
Chapter XIV Geoffrey as a Letter-Writer
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Lord holchester’s servants—with the butler at their head—were on the look-out for Mr Julius Delamayn’s arrival from Scotland. The appearance of the two brothers together, took the whole domestic establishment by surprise. All inquiries were addressed to the butler by Julius; Geoffrey standing by,...
Chapter XIX Close on It
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The object of the invasion of the library by the party in the garden appeared to be twofold.

Sir Patrick had entered the room to restore the newspaper to the place from which he had taken it. The guests, to the number of...
Chapter II
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

While one of the lovely beings we have so cursorily presented to the reader, was thus lost in thought, the other quickly recovered from the alarm which induced the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching...
Chapter XII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band. But, as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than described, in the preceding chapter, is conspicuous in the pages...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The reader may better imagine, than we describe, the surprise of Heyward. His lurking Indians were suddenly converted...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjuror’s...
Chapter the Twelfth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

At length the crisis of the old man's disorder was past, and he began to mend. By very slow and feeble degrees his consciousness came back, but the mind was weakened and its functions were impaired. He was patient, and quiet; often sat brooding,...
Chapter the Twenty-First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Kit turned away and very soon forgot the pony, and the chaise, and the little old lady, and the little old gentleman, and the little young gentleman to boot, in thinking what could have become of his late master and his lovely grandchild, who...
Chapter the Twenty-Second
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The remainder of that day and the whole of the next, were a busy time for the Nubbles family, to whom everything connected with Kit's outfit and departure was matter of as great moment as if he had been about to penetrate into the...
Chapter the Thirty-First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

With steps more faltering and unsteady than those with which she had approached the room, the child withdrew from the door, and groped her way back to her own chamber. The terror she had lately felt was nothing compared with that which now oppressed...
Chapter the Thirty-Fifth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Brass on returning home received the report of his clerk with much complacency and satisfaction, and was particular in inquiring after the ten-pound note, which proving on examination to be a good and lawful note of the Governor and Company...
Chapter the Sixty-First
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Let moralists and philosophers say what they may, it is very questionable whether a guilty man would have felt half as much misery that night, as Kit did, being innocent. The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a...
Chapter the Sixty-Sixth
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On awaking in the morning, Richard Swiveller became conscious by slow degrees of whispering voices in his room. Looking out between the curtains, he espied Mr. Garland, Mr. Abel, the notary, and the single gentleman, gathered round the Marchioness, and talking to her with...
Chapter XII preparing for the wedding
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile the love-affairs between the middle-aged couple were prospering well, after a fashion; after the fashion that they liked best, although it might probably have appeared dull and prosaic to younger people. Lord Cumnor had come down in great glee at the news he...
Chapter XVI the bride at home
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Among the ‘county people’ (as Mrs Gibson termed them) who called upon her as a bride, were the two young Mr Hamleys. The squire, their father, had done his congratulations, as far as he ever intended to do them, to Mr Gibson himself when...
Chapter XXI the half-sisters
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It appeared as if Mrs Gibson’s predictions were likely to be verified; for Osborne Hamley found his way to her drawing-room pretty frequently. To be sure, sometimes prophets can help on the fulfilment of their own prophecies; and Mrs Gibson was not passive.

Molly was...
Chapter XLIII cynthia’s confession
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘You said I might come,’ said Molly, ‘and that you would tell me all.’

‘You know all, I think,’ said Cynthia heavily. ‘Perhaps you don’t know what excuses I have, but at any rate you know what a scrape I am in.’

‘I’ve been...
Chapter LII squire hamley’s sorrow
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It seemed very long before Mr Gibson came down. He went and stood with his back to the empty fireplace, and did not speak for a minute or two.

‘He’s gone to bed,’ said he at length. ‘Robinson and I have got him there. But...
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Here the story is broken off, and it can never be finished. What promised to be the crowning work of a life is a memorial of death. A few days longer, and it would have been a triumphal column, crowned with a capital of...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Knowing the likelihood that Clara Hewett would go from home for Bank-holiday, Sidney made it his request before he left Hanover Street on Sunday night that Jane might be despatched on her errand at an early hour next morning. At eight o’clock, accordingly, Snowdon...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

When Miss Peckover suggested to her affianced that their wedding might as well take place at the registry-office, seeing that there would then be no need to go to expense in the article of costume, Mr. Snowdon readily assented ; at the same time...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Michael Snowdon—to distinguish the old man by name from the son who thus unexpectedly returned to him—professed no formal religion. He attended no Sunday service, nor had ever shown a wish that Jane should do so. We have Been that he used the Bible...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

About this time Mr. Scawthorne received one morning a letter which, though not unexpected, caused him some annoyance, and even anxiety. It was signed ‘ C. V.,’ and made brief request for an interview on the evening of the next day at Waterloo Station....
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In a tenement on the same staircase, two doors below, lived a family with whom John Hewett was on friendly terms. Necessity calling these people out of London for a few days, they had left with John the key of their front door ;...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

A Sunday morning. In their parlour in Burton Crescent, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Snowdon were breakfasting. The sound of church bells—r-most depressing of all sounds that mingle in the voice of London—intimated that it was nearly eleven o’clock, but neither of our friends...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

‘And you mean to say,’ cried Clem, when she was in the cab with her husband speeding back to Burton Crescent—‘ you mean to say as you’ve left them people to do what they like ? ’

‘I suppose I know my own business,’...
2: Adrift
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Just before Christmas of 1887, a lady past her twenties and with a look of discouraged weariness on her thin face, knocked at a house-door in a little street by Lavender Hill. A card in the window gave notice that a bed-room was here...
6: A Camp of the Reserve
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

In consequence of letters exchanged during the week, next Sunday brought the three Miss Maddens to Queen’s Road, to lunch with Miss Barfoot. Alice had recovered from her cold, but was still ailing, and took rather a gloomy view of the situation she had...
13: Discord of Leaders
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

A DISAPPOINTMENT awaited him. Miss Barfoot was not well enough to see any one. Had she been suffering long?—he inquired. No; it was only this evening; she had not dined, and was gone to her room. Miss Nunn could not receive him.

He went home,...
16: Health from the Sea
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

From Herne Hill to St Peter Port was a change which made of Monica a new creature. The weather could not have been more propitious; day after day of still air and magnificent sky, with temperature which made a brisk walk at any hour...
20: The First Lie
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Cosgrove was a childless widow, with sufficient means and a very mixed multitude of acquaintances. In the general belief her marriage had been a happy one; when she spoke of her deceased husband, it was with respect, and not seldom with affection. Yet...
21: Towards the Decisive
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Mary
Barfoot had never suffered from lack of interest in life. Many a vivid moment dwelt in her memory; joys and sorrows, personal or of larger scope, affected her the more deeply because of that ruling intelligence which enabled her to transmute them into...
22: Honour in Difficulties
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

At Mrs Cosgrove’s, this Sunday afternoon, Monica had eyes and thoughts for one person only. Her coming at all was practically an appointment to meet Bevis, whom she had seen twice since her visit to the flat. A day or two after that occasion,...
24: Tracked
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

When Widdowson went up to the bed-room that night, Monica was already asleep. He discovered this on turning up the gas; the light fell upon her face, and he was drawn to the bedside to look at her. The features signified nothing but repose;...
31: A New Beginning
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Widdowson tried two or three lodgings; he settled at length in a small house at Hampstead; occupying two plain rooms. Here, at long intervals, his friend Newdick came to see him; but no one else. He had brought with him a selection of solid...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

And we’ll all have tea.*

‘Here we are, wife; did’st thou think thou’d lost us?’ quoth hearty-voiced Wilson, as the two women rose and shook themselves in preparation...
Chapter III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

In the middle of that same night a neighbour of the Bartons was roused from her sound, well-earned sleep, by...
Chapter V
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

There is a class of men in Manchester, unknown...
Chapter VII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The ghoul-like fever...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

It was with a firm step that Deans sought his daughter’s apartment, determined to leave her to...
Chapter XX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Jeanie
Deans was admitted into the jail by Ratcliffe. This fellow, as void of shame...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

From her kind and officious, hut somewhat gossiping friend, Mrs Glass, Jeanie underwent a very close catechism on their road to the Strand, where...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The meeting of Jeanie and Butler, under circumstances promising to crown an affection so...
Chapter XLV
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The next was the important day, when, according to the forms and ritual of the Scottish Kirk, Reuben Butler...
Chapter XLIX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

After this period, but under the most strict precautions against discovery, the sisters corresponded...
Chapter LI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

We are under the necessity of returning to Edinburgh, where the General Assembly was now sitting. It is well known, that some Scottish nobleman is usually...
L’Envoy, by Jedediah Cleishbotham
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Thus concludeth the Tale of ‘The
Heart
of
Mid-Lothian,’ which hath filled more pages than I opined. The Heart of Mid-Lothian is now no more, or rather it is transferred to the extreme side of the city, even as the...
IntroductiontoIvanhoe
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar district of literature, have been termed L’Enfant Gâté* of success. It was plain, however, that frequent publication must finally wear out...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The travellers had now reached the...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the castle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate in a distant and sequestered turret. Hither she had been led by two...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Even Lucas Beaumanoir himself was affected by the mien and appearance of Rebecca. He was not originally a cruel or even a severe man;...
The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the Handkerchief of Aramis
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan, quite furious, had passed through the antechamber in three bounds, and reached the staircase, which he was about to descend by four steps at a time, when he suddenly ran full butt against a musketeer, who was leaving M. de Treville’s suite...
His Majesty King Louis the Thirteenth
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The affair made a great noise. M. de Treville strongly censured his musketeers in public; but privately they heard only his congratulations. As, however, it was essential that no time should be lost in gaining the king, M. de Treville hastened to the Louvre....
The Domestic Manners of the Musketeers
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When d’Artagnan had left the Louvre, and had consulted his friends what he ought to do with his portion of the forty pistoles, Athos advised him to order a good dinner, and Porthos and Aramis to hire a lackey.*

The dinner was accomplished on...
Monsieur Bonancieux
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

There was in all this affair, as might be remarked, a person of whom, in spite of his precarious situation, we have appeared to take very little notice. This person was M. Bonancieux, a respectable martyr to the political and amorous intrigues which so...
Porthos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Instead of returning directly home, d’Artagnan dismounted at M. de Treville’s door, and rapidly ascended the staircase. He was determined to tell him, this time, all that had occurred. Doubtless the captain would give him good advice in this affair; and, as M. de...
The Thesis of Aramis
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’artagnan had said nothing to Porthos, either about his wound, or about the attorney’s wife. Young as he was, our Bearnese was very discreet. Consequently, he had pretended to believe everything that the boasting musketeer had told him, convinced that no friendship can support...
The Wife of Athos
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘Now we must obtain some intelligence of Athos,’ said d’Artagnan to the joyous Aramis, after he had told him everything that had happened since their departure from Paris, and after an excellent dinner had made the one forget his thesis, and the other his fatigue....