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Chapter XVI An unexpected Ally appears
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The Baron returned at the dinner hour, and had in a great measure recovered his composure and good humour. He not only confirmed the stories which Edward had heard from Rose and Baillie Macwheeble, but added many anecdotes from his own experience, concerning the...
Chapter XVII The Hold of a Highland Robber
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The party preserved silence, interrupted only by the monotonous and murmured chaunt of a Gaelic song,* sung in a kind of low recitative by the steersman, and by the dash of the oars, which the notes seemed to regulate, as they dipped...
Chapter XXI The Chieftain’s Sister
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The drawing-room of Flora Mac-Ivor was furnished in the plainest and most simple manner; for at Glennaquoich every other sort of expenditure was retrenched as much as possible, for the purpose of maintaining, in its full dignity, the hospitality of the chieftain,...
Chapter II News from England
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The letters which Waverley had hitherto received from his relations in England, were not such as required any particular notice in this narrative. His father usually wrote to him with the pompous affectation of one who was too much oppressed by public affairs to...
Chapter IX A Conference, and the Consequence
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Major
Melville had detained Mr Morton during his examination of Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his practical good sense and approved loyalty, and also because it was agreeable to have a witness of unimpeached candour and veracity to proceedings...
Chapter XII A Volunteer Sixty Years since
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Upon hearing the unwelcome sound of the drum, Major Melville hastily opened a sashed door, and stepped out upon a sort of terrace which divided his house from the highroad from which the martial music proceeded. Waverley and his new friend followed him, though...
Chapter XV A Nocturnal Adventure
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

There was a moment’s pause when the whole party had got out of the hut, and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in Waverley’s awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall figure who had acted as Donald Bean Lean’s lieutenant, by...
Chapter XXII An Incident gives rise to unavailing Reflections
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When Waverley reached that part of the column which was filled by the clan of Mac-Ivor, they halted, formed, and received him with a triumphant flourish upon the bagpipes, and a loud shout of the men, most of whom knew him personally,...
Chapter XXIV The Conflict
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

When they had slept for a few hours, they were awakened, and summoned to attend the Prince. The distant village clock was heard to toll three as they hastened to the place where he lay. He was already surrounded by his principal officers and...
Chapter XVI Desolation
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Waverley riding post, as was the usual fashion of the period, without any adventure, save one or two queries, which the talisman of his passport sufficiently answered, reached the borders of Scotland. Here he heard the tidings of the decisive battle of Culloden.*...
Chapter XVII Comparing of Notes
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The Baron’s story was short, when divested of the adages and commonplaces, Latin, English, and Scotch, with which his erudition garnished it. He insisted much upon his grief at the loss of Edward and of Glennaquoich, fought the fields of Falkirk and Culloden, and...
Chapter XXIV “This is no mine ain house, I ken by the bigging o’t”
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Old Song*

The nuptial party travelled in great style. There was a coach and six upon the newest pattern, that dazzled with its splendour the eyes of one half of Scotland, which Sir Everard had presented to his nephew; there was the family...
Chapter II: The Legend of Solomon’s Mines
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

‘What was it that you heard about my brother’s journey at Bamangwato?’ said Sir Henry, as I paused to fill my pipe before answering Captain Good.

‘I heard this,’ I answered, ‘and I have never mentioned it to a soul till to-day. I heard...
Chapter III: Umbopa Enters our Service
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

It takes from four to five days, according to the vessel and the state of the weather, to run up from the Cape to Durban. Sometimes, if the landing is bad at East London, where they have not yet got that wonderful harbour*...
Chapter XIV: The Last Stand of the Greys
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

In a few more minutes the regiments destined to carry out the flanking movements had tramped off in silence, keeping carefully under the lee of the rising ground in order to conceal the movement from the keen eyes of Twala’s scouts.

Half an hour or...
Chapter XVI: The Place of Death
Authors: Haggard H. Rider
Published: December 2020

It was already dark on the third day after the scene described in the previous chapter, when we camped in some huts at the foot of the ‘Three Witches,’ as the triangle of mountains were called to which Solomon’s great road ran. Our party...
The Story of Muhammad Din
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The polo-ball was an old one, scarred, chipped, and dinted. It stood on the...
The Devil and the Deep Sea
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘All supplies very bad and dear, and there are no facilities, for even the smallest repairs.’

Her nationality was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list of our mercantile marine. She was a nine-hundred ton, iron, schooner-rigged,°...
In the Presence (1912)
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘So the matter,’ the Regimental Chaplain concluded, ‘was correct; in every way correct. I am well pleased with Rutton Singh and Attar Singh. They have gathered the fruit of their lives.’

He folded his arms and sat down on the verandah. The hot day had...
Chapter IV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Dunstan
Cass, setting off in the raw morning, at the judiciously quiet pace of a man who is obliged to ride to cover* on his hunter, had to take his way along the lane which, at its farther extremity, passed by the...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

While Silas and Eppie were seated on the bank discoursing in the fleckered shade of the ash-tree, Miss Priscilla Lammeter was resisting her sister’s arguments, that it would be better to take tea at the Red House, and let her father have a long...
Chapter X
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

nd now, being received as a member of the amiable family whose portraits we have sketched in the foregoing pages, it became naturally Rebecca’s duty to make herself, as she said, agreeable to her benefactors, and to gain their confidence to the utmost...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia’s letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic. Such a number of notes followed Lieutenant Osborne about the country, that he became almost ashamed of the jokes of his mess-room companions regarding them, and ordered his...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

bout this time there drove up to an exceedingly snug and well-appointed house in Park Lane, a travelling chariot with a lozenge on the panels, a discontented female in a green veil and crimped curls on the rumble*, and a large...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

nemies the most obstinate and courageous can’t hold out against starvation; so the elder Osborne felt himself pretty easy about his adversary in the encounter we have just described; and as soon as George’s supplies fell short, confidently expected his unconditional submission. It...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

at having prepared the sisters, Dobbin hastened away to the City to perform the rest and more difficult part of the task which he had undertaken. The idea of facing old Osborne rendered him not a little nervous, and more than once he...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

R. Jos had hired a pair of horses for his open carriage, with which cattle, and the smart London vehicle, he made a very tolerable figure in the drives about Brussels. George purchased a horse for his private riding, and he and Captain Dobbin...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

edo not claim to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared for action we go below and wait meekly. We should only be in the way of the manoeuvres that the gallant fellows are...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

urold friends the Crawleys’ family house* in Great Gaunt Street, still bore over its front the hatchment which had been placed there as a token of mourning for Sir Pitt Crawley’s demise, yet this heraldic emblem was in itself a very...
Chapter XLV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ir
Pitt
Crawleyhad done more than repair fences and restore dilapidated lodges on the Queen’s Crawley estate. Like a wise man he had set to work to rebuild the injured popularity of his house, and stop up the gaps and ruins in which...
Chapter XLVII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

llthe world knows that Lord Steyne’s town palace stands in Gaunt Square, out of which Great Gaunt Street leads*, whither we first conducted Rebecca, in the time of the departed Sir Pitt Crawley. Peering over the railings and through the black...
Chapter L
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

The Muse, whoever she be, who presides over this Comic History, must now descend from the genteel heights in which she has been soaring, and have the goodness to drop down upon the lowly roof of John Sedley at Brompton, and describe what...
Chapter LV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Becky did not rally from the state of stupor and confusion in which the events of the previous night had plunged her intrepid spirit, until the bells of the Curzon Street chapels* were ringing for afternoon service, and rising from her...
Chapter LVII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

It was one of the many causes for personal pride with which old Osborne chose to recreate himself, that Sedley, his ancient rival, enemy, and benefactor, was in his last days so utterly defeated and humiliated, as to be forced to accept pecuniary...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In August Doctor Deberle’s garden was like a verdant leafy well. The branches of the lilac and laburnum intertwined against the railing while the climbers, the ivies, the honeysuckle, the clematis, put out endless shoots in all directions, sliding, tangling, cascading down, growing into...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day Rosalie was unable to serve coffee until nearly nine o’clock. Hélène had got up late, stiff and very pale because of the nightmare. She rummaged in the pocket of her dress, felt for the note, shoved it back, and came to...
Chapter I A Man of his Day
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

As the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough* parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning. Jasper, listening before he cracked an egg, remarked with...
Chapter III Holiday
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Jasper’s favourite walk led him to a spot distant perhaps a mile and a half from home. From a tract of common he turned into a short lane which crossed the Great Western railway,* and thence by a stile into
Chapter XXIII A Proposed Investment
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Alfred Yule’s behaviour under his disappointment seemed to prove that even for him the uses of adversity could be sweet. On the day after his return home he displayed a most unwonted mildness in such remarks as he addressed to his wife, and his...
Chapter XXXIV A Check
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

Marian was at work as usual in the Reading-room. She did her best, during the hours spent here, to convert herself into the literary machine which it was her hope would some day be invented for construction in a less sensitive material than human...
Chapter XXXVII Rewards
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

When the fitting moment arrived, Alfred Yule underwent an operation for cataract, and it was believed at first that the result would be favourable. This hope had but short duration; though the utmost prudence was exercised, evil symptoms declared themselves, and in a few...
The Captain of the ‘Polestar’
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

[Being an extract from the singular journal of John M‘alister
Ray, student of medicine.]

September 11th.—Lat. 81° 40´ N.; long. 2° E.* Still lying-to amid enormous ice-fields. The one which stretches away to the north of us,...
The Winning Shot
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘Caution.—The public are hereby cautioned against a man calling himself Octavius Gaster. He is to be recognised by his great height, his flaxen hair, and deep scar upon his left cheek, extending from the eye to the angle of the mouth. His...
‘De Profundis’
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

So long as the oceans are the ligaments which bind together the great, broadcast British Empire, so long will there be a dash of romance in our minds. For the soul is swayed by the waters, as the waters are by the moon,...
Lot No. 249
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Of the dealings of Edward Bellingham with William Monkhouse Lee, and of the cause of the great terror of Abercrombie Smith, it may be that no absolute and final judgment will ever be delivered. It is true that we have the full and...
The Brown Hand
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

E
veryone knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon, made me his heir, and that his death changed me in an hour from a hard-working and impecunious medical man to a well-to-do landed proprietor. Many know also that there were at least...
Chapter XI
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At about six o’clock there was a sudden awakening. A noise of doors being opened and shut, accompanied by peals of laughter, shook the whole house, and Désirée appeared, with her hair hanging loose, and her arms still bare up to the elbows.

‘Serge! Serge!’...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Brother Archangias dined at the presbytery every Thursday. He usually came early, to chat about the parish. It was he who, for the past three months, had been keeping the abbé informed, letting him know what was happening in the whole of the valley....
Chapter XV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Abbé Mouret’s room, on one corner of the presbytery, was enormous, with two huge square windows, one on each side; one of the windows looked out on to Désirée’s farmyard, and the other over the village of Les Artaud, with the valley in the...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The sun was indeed there. When Albine had opened the shutters behind the big curtains, that good yellow glow once more warmed up a bit of the white calico. But what made Serge sit up in bed was the sight of the shadow of...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day, at dawn, it was Serge who called Albine. She slept in a room on the upper floor, and he didn’t think of going up there. He leaned out of the window and saw her opening the shutters after leaping out of...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

For the next few days, however, Albine and Serge were not at ease with one another. They avoided any reference to their walk in the trees. They had not exchanged a kiss, they had not said they loved each other. It was not shame...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Abbé
Mouret in his cassock, bareheaded, had returned to kneel at the foot of the altar. In the grey light coming from the windows, his tonsure made a very wide, pale patch in his hair, and the slight shiver that made him...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At first she could see nobody. Outside it was raining again, with a fine, persistent drizzle. She went behind the main altar and then on to the pulpit. In the middle of the nave were the benches disarranged by the catechism children. The pendulum...
Edgar and Emma
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Chapter the first

‘I cannot imagine,’ said Sir Godfrey* to his Lady, ‘why we continue’ ‘in such deplorable Lodgings as these, in a paltry Market-town,’* ‘while we have 3 good Houses of our own situated in some of the’ ‘finest parts...
The beautifull Cassandra
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

dedicated by permission to Miss Austen.*

Dedication

Madam

You are a Phoenix.* Your taste is refined, your Sentiments are noble, & your Virtues innumerable. Your Person is lovely, your Figure, elegant, & your Form, magestic. Your manners, are polished, your Conversation is...
The Mystery
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Dedication

To the Revd George Austen*

Sir

I humbly solicit your Patronage to the following Comedy, which tho’ an unfinished one, is I flatter myself as complete a Mystery as any of its kind.

I am Sir your most Hum.le

Servant

The Author...
Love and Freindship
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

‘Deceived in Freindship & Betrayed in Love’*

Letter the First

From Isabel to Laura*

How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life,* have you...
A Collection of Letters—
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Saturday Nov. 26th. 1791

[Collection of Letters]*

To Miss Cooper*—

Cousin

Conscious of the Charming Character which in every Country, & every Clime* in Christendom is Cried, Concerning you, with Caution & Care I Commend to your Charitable...
Evelyn
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

In a retired part of the County of Sussex there is a village (for what I know to the Contrary) called Evelyn, perhaps one of the most beautiful Spots in the south of England. A Gentleman passing through it on horseback about twenty years ago,...
The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale
Authors: Ford Ford Madox
Published: December 2020

NCE upon a time a Queen sat in her garden. She was quite a young, young Queen; but that was a long while ago, so she would be older now. But, for all she was Queen over a great and powerful country, she led a...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Although high-spirited and vivacious, Angélique loved solitude and took great delight in spending time alone in her room in the mornings or evenings. There, she could let herself go and fully savour her escape into the world of dreams. Sometimes, when she was able...
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day, waking after eight hours’ sleep—sleep of that deep, sweet, restorative sort that follows great happiness, Angélique ran to the window. The sky was clear, and it had turned warm again after the great storm that had left her feeling very worried...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was in the afternoon, between three and four, that Rougon sometimes called on Countess Balbi. He was a neighbour, and would stroll round to her house, which was situated on the Champs-Élysées, a few yards from the corner of the Rue Marbeuf. The...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Once dressed, Stepan Arkadyich sprayed himself with cologne, straightened the sleeves of his shirt, distributed cigarettes, wallet, matches, and watch with two chains and seals* amongst his pockets with a practised gesture, and, after shaking out his handkerchief and feeling clean, fragrant,...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Darya
Alexandrovna, wearing a dressing-jacket, with the braids of her once thick and beautiful but already wispy hair pinned to the nape of her neck, and a haggard, drawn face and large, frightened eyes made prominent by the gauntness of her face, was standing...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Princess
Kitty
Shcherbatsky was eighteen years old. She had come out for her first season that winter.* Her success in society was greater than that of both her elder sisters, and even greater than her mother had expected. Not only were almost...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The next day, at eleven o’clock in the morning, Vronsky drove out to the Petersburg railway station to meet his mother, and the first person he ran into on the steps of the main staircase was Oblonsky, who was expecting his sister on the...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Anna came in, Dolly was sitting in the small drawing room with a fair-haired, chubby little boy who already resembled his father, listening to his French reading lesson. As he was reading, the boy was twisting a button hanging from his jacket and...
27
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anna was standing upstairs in front of the mirror, pinning the last bow on to her dress with help from Annushka, when she heard the sound of carriage wheels crunching on the gravel outside the front door.

‘It’s too early for Betsy,’ she thought, and...
32
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The details that the Princess had found out about Varenka’s past and her relationship with Madame Stahl were as follows.

Madame Stahl, about whom some said that she had persecuted her husband, and others that he had persecuted her with his depraved behaviour, had always...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

There was the sound of footsteps and a man’s voice, then a woman’s voice and laughter, followed by the appearance of the awaited guests: Sappho Stolz and the so-called Vaska, a young man glowing with an over-abundance of vitality. It was evident that he...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Despite Vronsky’s apparently irresponsible social life, he was a man who hated disorder. When he was younger, while still in the Corps, he had experienced the humiliation of a refusal when he asked for a loan after getting into difficulties, and since then he...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vronsky’s wound was dangerous, even though it had missed his heart. And for several days he lay suspended between life and death. When he was able to speak for the first time, only his brother’s wife Varya was in his room.

‘Varya!’ he said, looking...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Levin went upstairs, his wife was sitting next to the new silver samovar by the new tea service and, having seated old Agafya Mikhailovna at the little table and poured her a cup of tea, was reading a letter from Dolly, with whom...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The hotel in the provincial town in which Nikolay Levin was laid up was one of those provincial hotels established according to new, improved specifications, with the very best intentions of cleanliness, comfort, and even elegance, but which, due to the public which frequents...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘You have hidden things from the most wise and revealed them to children and the foolish.’* So Levin thought about his wife as he talked to her that evening.

It was not because he considered himself one of the most wise that Levin...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Kitty was particularly glad of the chance to be alone with her husband, because when he came on to the veranda, asked what they were talking about, and received no answer, she noticed a shadow of consternation flitting across his face, which always registered...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Varvara
Andreyevna, when I was still very young I formed my ideal of the woman I would love and whom I would be happy to call my wife. I have lived a long life, and now for the first time I have found...
27
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The elections for the province were scheduled for the sixth day. The large and small halls were full of noblemen in various uniforms. Many had come just for this day. Acquaintances who had not seen each other for a long time, some of whom...
28
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin was standing some way off. He was prevented from hearing clearly by one nobleman standing near him whose breathing was hoarse and heavy, and by another whose thick soles squeaked. From a distance he could only hear the Marshal’s soft voice, then the...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin arrived at the club at its busiest time. Guests and members were driving up alongside him. Levin had not been to the club for a very long time, not since he had been living in Moscow after leaving university and was going into...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Stepan
Arkadyich was on the verge of leaving when Korney came in to announce:

‘Sergey Alexeyich!’

‘Who is this Sergey Alexeyich?’ Stepan Arkadyich was about to ask, but immediately remembered.

‘Ah, Seryozha!’ he said. ‘I thought “Sergey Alexeyich” was the director of some department.’ ‘Anna...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Undertaking something in family life requires either outright discord between husband and wife or loving harmony. When marital relations are ill-defined and neither the former nor the latter exists, however, nothing can be undertaken.

Many families remain for years stuck in old ruts which are...
24
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘So, did you enjoy yourself?’ she asked as she came out to meet him with a guilty and meek expression on her face.

‘The same as usual,’ he replied, immediately realizing from one look at her that she was in one of her...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Sergey
Ivanovich and Katavasov barely had time to drive up to the Kursk railway station,* which was particularly bustling with people that day, get out of their carriage, and look round for the servant following with the luggage, when some volunteers*...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The complexities of the burial arrangements and certain other matters that had to be attended to detained Lazare and Pauline in Caen for two days. When they set off home after a final visit to the cemetery, the weather had changed and a gale...
Chapter IV Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

The occupation of so much of my time by office work did not relax my attention to my own pursuits, which were never carried on more vigorously. It was about this time that I began to write in newspapers. The first writings of mine...
Chapter III
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Egremont was the younger brother of an English earl, whose nobility being of nearly three centuries’ date, ranked him among our high and ancient peers, although its origin was more memorable than illustrious. The founder of the family had been a confidential domestic of...
Chapter VI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Notwithstanding the confidence of Lady St. Julians, and her unrivalled information, the health of the king did not improve: but still it was the hay fever, only the hay fever. An admission had been allowed to creep into the Court Circular, that ‘his majesty...
Chapter VII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

At the end of a court in Wodgate, of rather larger dimensions than usual in that town, was a high and many-windowed house, of several stories in height, which had been added to it at intervals. It was in a most dilapidated state; the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Morley greeted Gerard and his daughter with great warmth, and then looked at Egremont. ‘Our companion in the ruins of Marney Abbey,’ said Gerard; ‘you and our friend Franklin here should become acquainted, Stephen, for you both follow the same craft. He is a...
Chapter II
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

On the morning of the same day that Mr. Egerton and his friend Mr. Berners walked down together to the House of Commons, as appears in our last chapter, Egremont had made a visit to his mother, who had married since the commencement of...
Chapter IV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

It was night: clear and serene, though the moon had not risen; and a vast concourse of persons were assembling on Mowbray Moor. The chief gathering collected in the vicinity of some huge rocks, one of which, pre-eminent above its fellows, and having a...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

And why was Lord de Mowbray going to the Temple? He had received the day before when he came home to dress a very disagreeable letter from some lawyers, apprising him that they were instructed by their client Mr. Walter Gerard to commence proceedings...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Two and even three days had rolled over since Mr. Tadpole had reported Sir Robert on his way to the palace, and marvellously little had transpired. It was of course known that a cabinet was in formation, and the daily papers reported to the public...
Chapter I
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘Terrible news from Birmingham,’* said Mr. Egerton at Brookes’. ‘They have massacred the police, beat off the military, and sacked the town. News just arrived.’

‘I have known it these two hours,’ said a grey-headed gentleman, speaking without taking his eyes off the newspaper....
Chapter III
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

As Sybil approached her home, she recognized her father in the court before their house, accompanied by several men, with whom he seemed on the point of going forth. She was so anxious to speak to Gerard, that she did not hesitate at once to...
Chapter X
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Mowbray was in a state of great excitement. It was Saturday evening; the mills were closed; the news had arrived of the arrest of the Delegate.

‘Here’s a go!’ said Dandy Mick to Devilsdust. ‘What do you think of this?’

‘It’s the beginning of the...
Chapter III
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

‘I have seen a many things in my time Mrs. Trotman,’ said Chaffing Jack as he took the pipe from his mouth in the silent bar room of the Cat and Fiddle; ‘but I never see any like this. I think I ought...
Chapter XI
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

When the news had arrived in the morning at Mowbray, that the messengers of the Bishop had met with a somewhat queer reception at the Mowedale works, Gerard prescient that some trouble might in consequence occur there, determined to repair at once to the...
Chapter XII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Less than an hour after the arrival of Sybil at Mowbray Castle the scout that Mr. Mountchesney had sent off to gather news returned, and with intelligence of the triumph of Gerard’s eloquence, that all had ended happily, and that the people were dispersing...
Volume I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner, as to engage...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Marianne’s preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries. He was received by Mrs. Dashwood with more than politeness; with a kindness which Sir John’s account of him and...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Edward remained a week at the cottage; he was earnestly pressed by Mrs. Dashwood to stay longer; but as if he were bent only on self-mortification, he seemed resolved to be gone when his enjoyment among his friends was at the height. His spirits,...
Chapter XI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister’s entreaties, and consented to go out with her and Mrs. Jennings one morning for half an hour. She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits, and would do no more than accompany them to Gray’s in...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Jennings was very warm in her praise of Edward’s conduct, but only Elinor and Marianne understood its true merit. They only knew how little he had had to tempt him to be disobedient, and how small was the consolation,...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Miss Dashwoods had now been rather more than two months in town, and Marianne’s impatience to be gone increased every day. She sighed for the air, the liberty, the quiet of the country; and fancied that if any place could give her ease,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

After a proper resistance on the part of Mrs. Ferrars, just so violent and so steady as to preserve her from that reproach which she always seemed fearful of incurring, the reproach of being too amiable, Edward was admitted to her presence, and pronounced...
Chapter Eight
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

What with all the turmoil at the end of the Wadelincourt Road, on the Place de Tourcy, Jean got separated from Maurice; he ran about, getting lost among the trampling crush, but couldn’t find him. It was really unfortunate, because he’d accepted the young man’s...
Chapter Three
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Henriette couldn’t sleep all night. Knowing that her husband was in Bazeilles, so close to the German lines, -was torture. In vain, she repeated to herself his promise to come home at the first hint of danger; and every other minute, she strained her ears,...
Chapter Four
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

On the Balan road, Henriette had been able to walk quickly at first. It was barely after nine o’clock and the wide road, lined with houses and gardens, was still clear, although it grew steadily more obstructed the nearer it got to the village, filled...
Chapter Four
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was a large, tiled room with plain whitewashed walls, which had formerly been used to store fruit. The sweet smell of apples and pears still lingered; and the only pieces of furniture were an iron bedstead, a white wooden table, and two chairs, as...
Chapter Six
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In Sedan, in the Delaherches’ house on the Rue Maqua, life had begun again after the terrible upheaval of the battle and capitulation; and for nearly four months now, day had followed day, under the gloomy oppression of the Prussian occupation.

However, one corner of...
Chapter Seven
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The day after Sedan, the two German armies had started moving their waves of men back up towards Paris, the Meuse army coming from the north through the Marne Valley, while the army of the Crown Prince of Prussia, having crossed the Seine at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges,...
Christmas in Harley Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It seems singular to me myself, considering the idea which I have in my own mind of the character of Lady Staveley, that I should be driven to declare that about this time she committed an unpardonable offence, not only against good nature, but...
Mr Furnival Again at His Chambers
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Christmas doings at The Cleeve were not very gay. There was no visitor there, except Lady Mason, and it was known that she was in trouble. It must not, however, be supposed that she constantly bewailed herself while there, or made her friends...
I Call It Awful
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Oh indeed!’ Those had been the words with which Mr Furnival had received the announcement made by Sir Peregrine as to his proposed nuptials. And as he uttered them the lawyer drew himself up stiffly in his chair, looking much more like a...
What Took Place in Harley Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Tom, I’ve come back again,’ said Mrs Furnival, as soon as the dining-room door was closed behind her back.

‘I’m very glad to see you; I am indeed,’ said he, getting up and putting out his hand to her. ‘But I really never...
The State of Public Opinion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The day of the trial was now quickly coming on, and the London world, especially the world of lawyers, was beginning to talk much on the subject. Men about the Inns of Court speculated as to the verdict, offering to each other very confident...
Showing how Miss Furnival Treated Her Lovers
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is a great thing for young ladies to live in a household in which free correspondence by letter is permitted. ‘Two for mamma, four for Amelia, three for Fanny, and one for papa.’ When the postman has left his budget they should be...
Mr Moulder Backs His Opinion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As the day of the trial drew nigh, the perturbation of poor John Kenneby’s mind became very great. Moulder had not intended to frighten him, but had thought it well to put him up to what he believed to be the truth. No doubt...
Mr Furnival’s Speech
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

All this as may be supposed disturbed Felix Graham not a little. He perceived that each of those two witnesses had made a great effort to speak the truth; — an honest, painful effort to speak the truth, and in no way to go beyond it....
I Love Her Still
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was all over now, and as Lucius had said to his mother, there was nothing left for them but to go and hide themselves. The verdict had reached him before his mother’s return, and on the moment of his hearing it he sat...
Chapter II
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of...
Chapter V
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Five o’clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January, when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and nearly dressed. I had risen half an hour before her entrance, and had washed my face and...
Chapter XII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of...
Chapter XI
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Sophie came at seven to dress me; she was very long indeed in accomplishing her task: so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose, impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just fastening my veil (the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day, and walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Earlier that morning Zoë had made the apartment over to a caterer from Brébant’s* and his staff of helpers and waiters. Brébant’s would provide the food, the crockery, the glasses, the tablecloth and napkins, the flowers, and everything down to the chairs...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At the Variétés it was the thirty-fourth performance of La Blonde Vénus. The first act had just finished. In the green room Simonne, dressed as a little laundry girl, was standing in front of the table over which there was a mirror,...
Chapter II
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘ “Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hácia nosotros viene sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza un yelmo de oro?” “Lo que veo y columbro,” respondiò Sancho, “no es sino un hombre sobre un asno pardo como el mio, que...
Chapter VI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

As Mr Casaubon’s carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening, lived in an old parsonage, built of stone, venerable enough to match the church which...
Chapter LXXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When Lydgate had allayed Mrs Bulstrode’s anxiety by telling her that her husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that he trusted soon to see him better and would...
Chapter LXXV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed from the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors were...
Chapter LXXXIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

On the second morning after Dorothea’s visit to Rosamond, she...
Chapter LXXXIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill:...
Book V. Parliament First.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Grande Acceptation.

In the last nights of September, when the autumnal equinox is past, and grey September fades into brown October, why are the Champs Elysées illuminated; why is Paris dancing, and flinging fire-works? They are gala-nights, these last of September; Paris...
Book II. Regicide.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. The Deliberative.

France therefore has done two things very completely: she has hurled back her Cimmerian Invaders far over the marches; and likewise she has shattered her own internal Social Constitution, even to the minutest fibre of it, into wreck and dissolution....
Book VII. Vendémiaire.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Decadent.*

How little did any one suppose that here was the end not of Robespierre only, but of the Revolution System itself! Least of all did the mutinying Committee-men suppose it; who had mutinied with no view whatever except to continue...
Arabian Tunnel
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

That same day, I told Conseil and Ned the part of the conversation which directly concerned them. When I informed them that within two days we would be in the waters of the Mediterranean, Conseil clapped his hands but the Canadian simply shrugged his...
Accident or Incident?
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day, 22 March, preparations for departure began at six in the morning. The last gleams of dusk were melting into the night. There was a piercing cold. The constellations shone with surprising intensity. At the zenith sparkled the beautiful Southern Cross, the...
Chapter IX
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

June twenty-first, the day of the birthday, was cloudy and unsettled at sunrise, but towards noon it cleared up bravely.

We, in the servants’ hall, began this happy anniversary, as usual, by offering our little presents to Miss Rachel, with the regular speech delivered...
Chapter XII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The Thursday night passed, and nothing happened. With the Friday morning came two pieces of news.

Item the first: the baker’s man declared he had met Rosanna Spearman, on the previous afternoon, with a thick veil on, walking towards Frizinghall by the footpath way over...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The nearest way to the garden, on going out of my lady’s sitting-room, was by the shrubbery path, which you already know of. For the sake of your better understanding of what is now to come, I may add to this, that the shrubbery...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The news of Rosanna’s disappearance had, as it appeared, spread among the out-of-door servants. They too had made their inquiries; and they had just laid hands on a quick little imp, nicknamed ‘Duffy’—who was occasionally employed in weeding the garden, and who had seen...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I had kept the pony-chaise ready, in case Mr Franklin persisted in leaving us by the train that night. The appearance of the luggage, followed down-stairs by Mr Franklin himself, informed me plainly enough that he had held firm to a resolution for...
Chapter X
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

How the interval of suspense in which I was now condemned might have affected other men in my position, I cannot pretend to say. The influence of the two hours’ probation upon my temperament was simply this. I felt physically incapable of...
Chapter I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

But few words are needed, on my part, to complete the narrative that has been presented in the Journal of Ezra Jennings.

Of myself, I have only to say that I awoke on the morning of the twenty-sixth, perfectly ignorant of all that I had...
III
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

With regard to the subject now in hand, I may state, at the outset, that Mr Godfrey Ablewhite’s life had two sides to it.

The side turned up to the public view, presented the spectacle of a gentleman, possessed of considerable reputation as a speaker...
The Author Removed from his First Home.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

The name ‘old master’ a terror—Colonel Lloyd’s plantation—Wye river—Whence its name—Position of the Lloyds—Home attraction—Meet offering—Journey from Tuckahoe to Wye river—Scene on reaching old master’s—Departure of grandmother—Strange meeting of sisters and brothers—refusal to be comforted—sweet sleep.

That mysterious individual referred to in the first...
Gradual Initiation into the Mysteries of Slavery.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Growing acquaintance with old master—his character—evils of unrestrained passion—apparent tenderness—old master a man of trouble—custom of muttering to himself—necessity of being aware of his words—the supposed obtuseness of slave-children—brutal outrage—drunken overseer—slaveholders’ impatience—wisdom of appealing to superiors—the slaveholder’s wrath bad as that of the overseer—a base...
Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

The author’s early reflections on slavery—presentiment of one day being a freeman—combat between an overseer and a slave-woman—the advantages of resistance—allowance day on the home plantation—the singing of slaves—an explanation—the slaves’ food and clothing—naked children—life in the quarter—deprivation of sleep—nursing children carried to the field—description...