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Chapter XLI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov left home early. A peasant from the country was driving along the side-street and calling out in a voice peculiar to his trade, ‘Milk! milk! milk!’

The first warm spring rain had fallen the day before, and now wherever the ground was not paved...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Before this interview Nekhlyudov thought that when she saw him and knew of his intention to serve her, Katusha would be pleased and touched and would be Katusha again; but, to his horror, he found that Katusha existed no more, and that in her...
Chapter XLV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov meant to rearrange the whole of his external life: to send away his servants, let his large house, and move into lodgings; but Agrafena Petrovna pointed out that it was useless to change anything before the winter. No one would rent a town...
Chapter XLVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the usual hour the jailer’s whistle sounded in the corridors of the prison, the iron doors of the cells rattled, bare feet pattered, heels clattered, and the prisoners who acted as scavengers passed along the corridors filling the air with disgusting smells. The...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The jailer who had brought Maslova in sat on a window-sill at some distance from them.

The decisive moment had come for Nekhlyudov. He had been incessantly blaming himself for not having told her the principal thing at the first interview, and was now determined...
Chapter LIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Returning along the broad corridor past the men dressed in light yellow cloaks, short wide trousers, and prison shoes, who looked eagerly at him (it was dinner-time, and the cell doors were open), Nekhlyudov felt a strange mixture of sympathy for them, and horror...
Chapter LIV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The office consisted of two rooms. The first room, with a large dilapidated stove and two dirty windows, had in one corner a black stand for measuring the prisoners, while in another hung a large icon of Christ, as is usual in places where...
Chapter LVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The next day Nekhlyudov went to see the advocate, and spoke to him about the Menshovs’ case, begging him to undertake their defence. The advocate promised to look into the case, and if it turned out to be as Nekhlyudov said, which...
Chapter III
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From Kusminsky Nekhlyudov went to the estate he had inherited from his aunts; the one where he had first met Katusha. He meant to arrange about the land there just as he had done in Kusminsky. But besides this, he wished to find out...
Chapter XI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov was admitted before his turn by the advocate, who at once began to talk about the Menshovs’ case, which he had read with indignation at the inconsistency of the charge.

‘This case is perfectly revolting’, he said. ‘It is quite likely that the owner...
Chapter XII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The prison was a long way off and it was getting late, so Nekhlyudov hired an izvozchik. The izvozchik, a middle-aged man with an intelligent, kind face, turned round towards Nekhlyudov as they were driving along one of the streets...
Chapter XV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Count Ivan Mikhaylich had been a Minister, and was a man of strong convictions. His convictions consisted in the belief that just as it was natural for a bird to feed on worms, to be clothed in feathers and down, and to fly in...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Next day, as soon as Nekhlyudov had finished dressing, and was about to go down, the footman brought him a card from the Moscow advocate. The advocate had come to Petersburg on business of his own, and also, if Maslova’s case was to be...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The man on whom it depended to ease the fate of the Petersburg prisoners was an old General of repute, a baron of German descent, who, as people said of him, had outlived his wits. He had received a profusion of Orders, but wore...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

As soon as the Senators were seated round the table in the debating-room, Wolf with great animation began to bring forward all the reasons in favour of a repeal. The president, an ill-natured man at best, was in a particularly bad humour that day. His...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Leaving the Senate, Nekhlyudov and the advocate walked on together, the advocate having given the driver of his carriage orders to follow them. The advocate told Nekhlyudov the story of the chief of a Government department, about whom the Senators had been...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Yes, that solitary confinement is terrible for the young’, said the aunt, shaking her head, and also lighting a cigarette.

‘I should say for anyone’, Nekhlyudov replied.

‘No, not for all’, answered the aunt. ‘For the real revolutionists, I have been told, it...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

As soon as Nekhlyudov returned that evening and saw his sister’s note on the table, he set off to see her. They had not met since their mother’s death. He found Nataly alone; her husband was resting in the next room. She wore a tightly...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The procession was such a long one that the carts with the baggage and the weak prisoners started only when those in front were already out of sight. When the last of the carts started, Nekhlyudov got into the trap that stood waiting for...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov kept up with the quick pace of the convicts. Though lightly clothed he felt dreadfully hot, and it was difficult to breathe in the stifling, motionless, burning air filled with dust.

When he had walked about a quarter of a mile he again got...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Nekhlyudov arrived at the station the prisoners were all seated in railway carriages with grated windows. Some people, who had come to see them off, stood on the platform, but were not allowed to approach the carriages.

The convoy was much troubled that day....
Chapter XLI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The carriage in which Nekhlyudov had taken his place was half-filled with people. There were servants, working-men, factory hands, butchers, Jews, shopmen, workmen’s wives, a soldier, two ladies (a young one, and an old one with bracelets on her bare arms), and...
Chapter III
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In spite of their hard conditions, life among the political prisoners seemed very good to Katusha after the six years of depraved, luxurious, and effeminate life she had led in town, and after the several months’ imprisonment with criminal prisoners. The fifteen to twenty...
Chapter XI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The political prisoners were kept in two small rooms, the doors of which opened into a part of the passage partitioned off from the rest. On entering this part of the passage Nekhlyudov saw Simonson in his rubber jacket and with a log of...
Chapter XII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

One of the newcomers was a short, thin young man, wearing a cloth-covered sheepskin coat and high boots. He stepped lightly and quickly, carrying two steaming teapots, and holding under his arm a loaf wrapped in a cloth.

‘Well, so our Prince has put in...
Chapter XV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Although Novodvorov was highly esteemed by all the revolutionists, and though he was very learned and considered very wise, Nekhlyudov reckoned him among those who being revolutionists and yet below the average moral level were much below it. The intellectual powers of the man—his...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It had cleared up and the stars were shining. Except in a few places the mud was frozen hard when Nekhlyudov returned to his inn and knocked at one of its dark windows. The broad-shouldered labourer came barefooted to open the door and let...
Chapter XX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The carters had left the inn long before Nekhlyudov awoke. The landlady had had her tea, and came in, wiping her fat, perspiring neck with her handkerchief, to say that a soldier had brought a note from the halting-station. The note was from Mary...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov stood at the edge of the raft, looking at the broad river. Two pictures kept rising in his mind. One was the shaking head of Kriltsov, who was dying in anger, the other, Katusha’s figure vigorously stepping along the road beside...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov did not go to bed but paced up and down his room for a long time. His business with Katusha was at an end. He was not wanted, and this made him sad and ashamed. His other business was not only unfinished, but...
The Inn Kitchen
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?

Falstaff*

During a journey that I once made through the Netherlands, I had arrived one evening at the Pomme d’Or* the principal inn of a small Flemish village. It was after...
Christmas Eve
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Cartwright*

It...
Stratford-on-Avon
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Garrick*

To a homeless man, who has no spot...
Roscoe
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Thomson*

One of the first...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Through the deep silence of the deserted avenue, the carts made their way towards Paris, the rhythmic jolting of the wheels echoing against the fronts of the sleeping houses on both sides of the road, behind the dim shapes of elms. A cart full...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Marjolin had been found in the Marché des Innocents, lying asleep in a pile of cabbages, underneath an enormous white one which covered his rosy face with one of its broad leaves. Nobody ever knew what poverty-stricken mother had left him there. He was...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day at about four o’clock, Lisa went to Saint-Eustache. She had dressed very carefully for the short walk across the square, in black silk, with a woven shawl round her shoulders. La Belle Normande, from her stall in the fish market, watched...
Chapter VIII ‘Your Ladyship’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Early the next morning—directly after twelve—Miss Pole made her appearance at Miss Matty’s. Some very trifling piece of business was alleged as a reason for the call; but there was evidently something behind. At last out it came.

‘By the way, you’ll think I’m strangely...
Chapter X The Voyage
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

All that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire’s friends, Mr Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had a night at...
Chapter XV The Man of the Island
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

From the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged, and fell rattling and bounding through the trees. My eyes turned instinctively in that direction, and I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the...
Chapter XVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-Boat’s Last Trip
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipot* of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded. Five grown men, and three of them—Trelawney, Redruth, and the captain—over six feet high,...
Chapter XXI The Attack
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

As soon as Silver disappeared, the captain, who had been closely watching him, turned towards the interior of the house, and found not a man of us at his post but Gray. It was the first time we had ever seen him angry.

‘Quarters!’ he...
Chapter XXIV The Cruise of the Coracle
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

It was broad day when I awoke, and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island. The sun was up, but was still hid from me behind the great bulk of the Spy-glass, which on this side descended almost to the sea...
Chapter XXV I Strike the Jolly Roger
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I had scarce gained a position on the bowsprit, when the flying jib flapped and filled upon the other tack, with a report like a gun. The schooner trembled to her keel under the reverse; but next moment, the other sails still drawing,...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When you leave Plassans by the Porte de Rome,* on the southern side of the town, you will find, on the right-hand side of the Nice road, a little way past the first houses in the Faubourg,* a patch of...
SECOND WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

Havingtherefore decided that I would describe the habitual state of my soul in this, the strangest position in which any mortal can ever find himself, I could conceive of no simpler or surer way of carrying out my plan than by keeping a faithful...
Chapter I Jonathan Harker’s Journal (Kept in shorthand)
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

3 May. Bistritz.*—Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the...
Chapter X Letter, Dr Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

‘6 September.

‘My dear Art,—

‘My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it: Mrs Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me professionally about...
Chapter XXIII DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

3 October.—The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he...
Chapter XXIV DR SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

This to Jonathan Harker.

You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our search—if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of...
Chapter XXVII MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

1 November.—All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many changes and find the same...
VI MR. TOAD
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as...
VII THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

The Willow-Wren* was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedge* of the river bank. Though it was past ten o’clock at night, the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the...
X THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

The front door of the hollow tree faced eastwards, so Toad was called at an early hour; partly by the bright sunlight streaming in on him, partly by the exceeding coldness of his toes, which made him dream that he was at home in...
XII THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up* for the coming expedition. He was...
The Little Summer-House
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

I Had suffered serious losses in enterprises, alas less solid but quite as honourable as the Panama Syndicates,* the Southern Railways, and suchlike. So the day came when I was forced to make my assets ‘earn their keep’, as they say....
The Sans-Gueule
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

They found them lying next to each other on the burned grass, and gathered them both up. Their clothes had been blown off in shreds. The explosion had burned out the numbers and shattered the metal identity tags. They were like two pieces of...
A Case Without Precedent
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

The library belonging to Monsieur le Président Barbeville of the bench was his haven of delight. He called it: my bachelor’s den.

Every morning, while still in his dressing-gown, he would ascend. Having abandoned his chambers, where he had nothing to do since his retirement...
What the Shadow Demands
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

The scene is the prison of La Roquette,* in the cell of a condemned man.

‘Gentlemen, I thank you. You have brought me paper, envelopes, a pen, an inkwell’ (he arranged these objects before him on the table as he spoke), ‘thank you indeed....
Chapter 26 lady midlothian
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A week or ten days after this, Alice, when she came down to the breakfast-parlour one morning, found herself alone with Mr Bott. It was the fashion at Matching Priory for people to assemble rather late in the day. The nominal hour for...
Chapter 31 among the fells
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Alice came down to breakfast on that Christmas morning at Vavasor Hall without making any sign as to the letter she had received. The party there consisted of her grandfather, her father, her cousin Kate, and herself. They all made their Christmas salutations as...
Chapter 35 passion versus prudence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It had not occurred to Alice that her accepted lover would come to her so soon. She had not told him expressly of the day on which she would return, and had not reflected that Kate would certainly inform him. She had been thinking...
Chapter 55 the will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The coming of Mrs Greenow at this very moment was a great comfort to Kate. Without her she would hardly have known how to bear herself with her uncle and her brother. As it was, they were all restrained by something of the courtesy...
Chapter 57 showing how the wild beast got himself back from the mountains
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

About eleven o’clock on that night,—the night of the day on which Kate Vavasor’s arm had been broken,—there came a gentle knock at Kate’s bedroom door. There was nothing surprising in this, as of all the household Kate only was in bed. Her aunt...
Chapter 61 the bills are made all right
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Vavasor was at his wits’ end about his daughter. She had put her name to four bills for five hundred pounds each, and had demanded from him, almost without an apology, his aid in obtaining money to meet them. And she might put...
Chapter 68 from london to baden
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning everybody was stirring by times at Mr Palliser’s house in Park Lane, and the master of that house yawned no more. There is some life in starting for a long journey, and the life is the stronger and the fuller...
Chapter 71 showing how george vavasor received a visit
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We must go back for a few pages to scenes which happened in London during this summer, so that the reader may understand Mr Grey’s position when he reached Lucerne. He had undergone another quarrel with George Vavasor, and something of the circumstances of...
Chapter 74 showing what happened in the churchyard
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

These arrangements as to the return of Mr Palliser’s party to London did not, of course, include Mr Grey. They were generally discussed in Mr Grey’s absence, and communicated to him by Mr Palliser. ‘I suppose we shall see you in England before long?’...
Chapter 77 the travellers return home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Palliser did not remain long in Baden after the payment of Burgo’s bill. Perhaps I shall not throw any undeserved discredit on his courage if I say that he was afraid to do so. What would he have said,—what would he have been...
‘He is a Gentleman’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke returned to Matching an almost broken-hearted man. He had intended to go down into Barsetshire, in reference to the coming elections;—not with the view of interfering in any unlordly, or rather unpeerlike fashion,* but thinking that if his eldest son...
‘In Medias Res’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Perhaps the method of rushing at once ‘in medias res’ is, of all the ways of beginning a story, or a separate branch of a story, the least objectionable. The reader is made to think that the gold lies so near the surface that...
‘Why Not Like Romeo If I Feel Like Romeo?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

That’s nonsense, Miss Cass, and I shall,’ said Lady Mabel.* They were together, on the morning after the little dinner-party described in the last chapter, in a small back sitting-room which was supposed to be Lady Mabel’s own, and the servant had...
The Duke’s Injustice
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

No advantage whatever was obtained by Lady Mary’s interview with her father. He persisted that Mrs Finn had been untrue to him when she left Matching without telling him all that she knew of his daughter’s engagement with Mr Tregear. No doubt by degrees that...
‘Poor Boy’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The new member for Silverbridge, when he entered the House to take the oath, was supported on the right and left by two staunch old Tories. Mr Monk had seen him a few minutes previously,—Mr Monk who of all Liberals was the firmest and...
The Duke in His Study
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was natural that at such a time, when success greater than had been expected had attended the efforts of the Liberals, when some dozen unexpected votes had been acquired, the leading politicians of that party should have found themselves compelled to look about...
What Came Of The Meeting
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Not a word was said in the cab as Lord Silverbridge took his sister to Carlton Terrace, and he was leaving her without any reference to the scene which had taken place, when an idea struck him that this would be cruel. ‘Mary,’ he...
Killancodlem
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Dobbes was probably right in his opinion that hotels, tourists, and congregations of men are detrimental to shooting. Crummie-Toddie was in all respects suited for sport. Killancodlem, though it had the name of a shooting-place, certainly was not so. Men going there took...
How It Was Done
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The story was soon about the town, and was the one matter for discussion in all racing quarters. About the town! It was about England, about all Europe. It had travelled to America and the Indies, to Australia and the Chinese cities before two...
Miss Boncassen Tells the Truth
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the 20th of the month all the guests came rattling in at Matching one after another. The Boncassens were the first, but Lady Mabel with Miss Cassewary followed them quickly. Then came the Finns, and with them Barrington Erle. Lord Silverbridge was the...
‘What am I to say, sir?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Silverbridge left Mr Boncassen’s house he was resolved to go to his father without an hour’s delay, and represent to the Duke exactly how the case stood. He would be urgent, piteous, submissive, and eloquent. In any other matter he would promise to...
‘Let us drink a glass of wine together’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Silverbridge pondered it all much as he went home. What a terrible story was that he had heard! The horror to him was chiefly in this,— that she should yet be driven to marry some man without even fancying that she could love him!...
‘Mabel, good-bye’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Tregear first came to town with his arm in a sling, and bandages all round him,—in order that he might be formally accepted by the Duke,—he had himself taken to one other house besides the house in Carlton Terrace. He went to Belgrave...
The First Wedding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As Easter Sunday fell on the 17th April, and as the arrangement of the new Cabinet, with its inferior offices, was not completed till the 6th of that month, there was only just time for the new elections before the holidays. Mr Monk sat on...
Reviews and Responses
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Thanks for your noble work on ‘The Descent of Man’ which reached me this morning. It is strong as iron and clear as crystal so fascinating that it has kept me from church and even from dinner. It is beyond all praise and I can...
Chapter 3 Phineas Finn takes his Seat
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas had many serious, almost solemn thoughts on his journey towards London. I am sorry I must assure my female readers that very few of them had reference to Mary Flood Jones. He had, however, very carefully packed up the tress, and could bring...
Chapter 7 Mr and Mrs Bunce
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was three o’clock on the Thursday night before Mr Daubeny’s speech was finished. I do not think that there was any truth in the allegation made at the time, that he continued on his legs an hour longer than the necessities of his...
Chapter 18 Mr Turnbull
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was a Wednesday evening and there was no House;—and at seven o’clock Phineas was at Mr Monk’s hall door. He was the first of the guests, and he found Mr Monk alone in the dining-room. ‘I am doing butler,’ said Mr Monk, who...
Chapter 51 Troubles at Loughlinter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was a dull house at Loughlinter during the greater part of this autumn. A few men went down for the grouse shooting late in the season; but they stayed but a short time, and when they went Lady Laura was left alone with...
Chapter 55 Lord Chiltern at Saulsby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Chiltern did exactly as he said he would do. He wrote to his father as he passed through Carlisle, and at once went on to his hunting at Willingford. But his letter was very stiff and ungainly, and it may be doubted whether...
Chapter 56 What the People in Marylebone thought
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas Finn, when the session began, was still hard at work upon his Canada bill, and in his work found some relief for his broken back. He went into the matter with all his energy, and before the debate came on, knew much more...
Chapter 62 The Letter that was sent to Brighton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Monday morning came and Madame Goesler had as yet written no answer to the Duke of Omnium. Had not Lady Glencora gone to Park Lane on the Sunday afternoon, I think the letter would have been written on that day; but, whatever may have...
Chapter 65 The Cabinet Minister at Killaloe
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas did not throw himself into the river from the Duke’s garden; and was ready, in spite of Violet Effingham, to start for Ireland with Mr Monk at the end of the first week in August. The close of that season in London certainly...
Chapter 67 Job’s Comforters
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Before Phineas had returned to London his engagement with Mary Flood Jones was known to all his family, was known to Mrs Flood Jones, and was indeed known generally to all Killaloe. That other secret of his, which had reference to the probability of...
III
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Esther was one of the Plymouth Brethren.* In their chapel, if the house in which they met could be called a chapel, there were neither pictured stories of saints, nor vestments, nor music, nor even imaginative stimulant in the shape of written...
IV
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Esther’s position in Woodview was now assured, and her fellow-servants recognised the fact, though they liked her none the better for it. Mrs Latch still did what she could to prevent her from learning her trade, but she no longer attempted to overburden her...
XVIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Her hair hung about her, her hands and wrists were shrunken, her flesh was soft and flabby, and she had dark shadows in her face. Nursing her child seemed to draw all strength from her, and her nervous depression increased; she was too weary...
XXXVIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

During the next fortnight Sarah came several times to the ‘King’s Head.’ She came in about nine in the evening, and stayed for half-an-hour or more. The ostensible object of her visit was to see Esther, but she declined to come into the private...
XLIV
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

With fair weather he might hold on till Christmas, but if much fog was about he would go off with the last leaves. One day Esther received a letter asking her to defer her visit from Friday to Sunday. He hoped to be better...
Tankerville
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The great Mr Molescroft himself came over to Tankerville for the purpose of introducing our hero to the electors and to Mr Ruddles, the local Liberal agent, who was to be employed. They met at the Lambton Arms, and there Phineas established himself, knowing...
The Deserted Husband
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas
Finn had been in the gallery of the House throughout the debate, and was greatly grieved at Mr Daubeny’s success, though he himself had so strongly advocated the disestablishment of the Church in canvassing the electors of Tankerville. No doubt he had advocated...
‘I Have Got the Seat’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Phineas returned to London, the autumn Session, though it had been carried on so near to Christmas as to make many members very unhappy, had already been over for a fortnight. Mr Daubeny had played his game with consummate skill to the last....
Trumpeton Wood
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the meantime the hunting season was going on in the Brake country with chequered success. There had arisen the great Trumpeton Wood question, about which the sporting world was doomed to hear so much for the next twelve months,—and Lord Chiltern was in...
‘Purity of Morals, Finn’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Quintus
Slide was now, as formerly, the editor of the People’s Banner, but a change had come over the spirit of his dream. His newspaper was still the People’s Banner, and Mr Slide still professed to protect the existing rights of the people,...
The Duke and Duchess in Town
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At the end of March the Duchess of Omnium, never more to be called Lady Glencora by the world at large, came up to London. The Duke, though he was now banished from the House of Commons, was nevertheless wanted in London; and what...
The Two Gladiators
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The great debate was commenced with all the solemnities which are customary on such occasions, and which make men think for the day that no moment of greater excitement has ever blessed or cursed the country. Upon the present occasion London was full of...
Once Again in Portman Square
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Wednesday in Easter week Lord Brentford and Lady Laura Kennedy reached Portman Square from Dresden, and Phineas, who had remained in town, was summoned thither by a note written at Dover. ‘We arrived here to-day, and shall be in town...
‘I Hope I’M not Distrusted’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Gerard
Maule, as the reader has been informed, wrote three lines to his dearest Adelaide to inform her that his father would not assent to the suggestion respecting Maule Abbey which had been made by Lady Chiltern, and then took no further steps in...
Mr Maule’S Attempt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

About three o’clock in the day the first tidings of what had taken place reached Madame Goesler in the following perturbed note from her friend the Duchess:—‘Have you heard what took place last night? Good God! Mr Bonteen was murdered as he came home...
None but the Brave Deserve the Fair
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Though Mr Robert Kennedy was lying dead at Loughlinter, and though Phineas Finn, a member of Parliament, was in prison, accused of murdering another member of Parliament, still the world went on with its old ways, down in the neighbourhood of Harrington Hall and...
‘I Hate Her!’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady
Laura
Kennedy had been allowed to take no active part in the manifestations of friendship which at this time were made on behalf of Phineas Finn. She had, indeed, gone to him in his prison, and made daily efforts to administer to his...
Phineas Finn is Re-Elected
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The manner in which Phineas Finn was returned a second time for the borough of Tankerville was memorable among the annals of English elections. When the news reached the town that their member was to be tried for murder no doubt every elector believed...
The Trumpeton Feud is Settled
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In these fine early autumn days spent at Matching, the great Trumpeton Wood question was at last settled. During the summer considerable acerbity had been added to the matter by certain articles which had appeared in certain sporting papers, in which the new Duke...
Chapter 14 a lover’s perseverance
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Ferdinand
Lopez learned immediately through Mrs Roby that the early departure for Herefordshire had been fixed. ‘I should go to him and speak to him very plainly,’ said Mrs Roby. ‘He can’t bite you.’

‘I’m not in the least afraid of his biting me.’

‘You...
Chapter 31 ‘yes;—with a horsewhip in my hand’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Emily
Lopez, when she crept out of her own room and joined her husband just before dinner, was hardly able to speak to him, so thoroughly was she dismayed, and troubled, and horrified, by the manner in which he had taken Arthur Fletcher’s letter....
Chapter 41 the value of a thick skin
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Sir
Orlando
Drought must have felt bitterly the quiescence with which he sank into obscurity on the second bench on the opposite side of the House. One great occasion he had on which it was his privilege to explain to four or five hundred...
Chapter 45 mrs sexty parker
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Though Mr Wharton and Lopez met every day for the next week, nothing more was said about the schedule. The old man was thinking about it every day, and so also was Lopez. But Mr Wharton had made his demand, and, as he thought,...
Chapter 46 ‘he wants to get rich too quick’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As they strolled home Lopez told his wife that he had accepted an invitation to dine the next day at the Parkers’ cottage. In doing this his manner was not quite so gentle as when he had asked her to call on them. He...
Chapter 69 mrs parker’s fate
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lopez had now been dead more than five months, and not a word had been heard by his widow of Mrs Parker and her children. Her own sorrows had been so great that she had hardly thought of those of the poor woman who...
Chapter 76 who will it be?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

For the first day or two after the resignation of the Ministry the Duchess appeared to take no further notice of the matter. An ungrateful world had repudiated her and her husband, and he had foolishly assisted and given way to the repudiation. All...
Chapter 79 the wharton wedding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was at last settled that the Wharton marriage should take place during the second week in June. There were various reasons for the postponement. In the first place Mary Wharton, after a few preliminary inquiries, found herself forced to declare that Messrs Muddocks...
Chapter 3 Lucy Morris
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Although the first two chapters of this new history have been devoted to the fortunes and personal attributes of Lady Eustace, the historian begs his readers not to believe that that opulent and aristocratic Becky Sharp* is to assume the dignity of...
Chapter 21 ‘Ianthe’s Soul’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Eustace had been rather cross on the journey down to Scotland, and had almost driven the unfortunate Macnulty to think that Lady Linlithgow or the workhouse would be better than this young tyrant; but on her arrival at her own house she was...
Chapter 29 ‘I had better go away’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Lord Fawn gave a sudden jump and stalked away towards the house on that Sunday morning before breakfast, Lucy Morris was a very unhappy girl. She had a second time accused Lord Fawn of speaking an untruth. She did not quite understand the...
Chapter 35 Too Bad for Sympathy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Frank Greystock left Bobsborough to go to Scotland, he had not said that he would return, nor had he at that time made up his mind whether he would do so or no. He had promised to go and shoot in Norfolk, and...
Chapter 44 A Midnight Adventure
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Something as to the jewels had been told to Lord George;—and this was quite necessary, as Lord George intended to travel with the ladies from Portray to London. Of course, he had heard of the diamonds,—as who had not? He had heard too of...
Chapter 52 Mrs Carbuncle Goes to the Theatre
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs Carbuncle and Lizzie Eustace did not, in these days, shut themselves up because there was trouble in the household. It would not have suited the creed of Mrs Carbuncle on social matters to be shut up from the amusements of life. She had...
Chapter 60 ‘Let it be as though it had never been’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Between her son, and her married daughter, and Lucy Morris, poor Lady Fawn’s life had become a burthen to her. Everything was astray, and there was no happiness or tranquillity at Fawn Court. Of all simply human creeds, the strongest existing creed for the...
Chapter 70 Alas!
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

No attempt was made to send other messages from Hertford Street than those which were taken to the church and to the hotel. Sir Griffin and Lord George went together to the church in a brougham,* and, on the way, the best...
Chapter VIII The Robin Who Showed the Way
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

She looked at the key quite a long time. She turned it over and over, and thought about it. As I have said before, she was not a child who had been trained to ask permission or consult her elders about things. All she...
Chapter IX The Strangest House Any One Ever Lived In
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses, which were so thick that they were matted together. Mary Lennox knew they were roses because she...
Chapter XVIII “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Of course Mary did not waken early the next morning. She slept late because she was tired, and when Martha brought her breakfast she told her that though Colin was quite quiet he was ill and feverish as he always was after he had...
Chapter X: Narrative of Alan Fairford
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The reader ought, by this time, to have formed some idea of the character of Alan Fairford. He had a warmth of heart which the study of the law and of the world could not chill, and talents which they had rendered unusually acute....
Chapter XI: Sir Walter Scott: Redgauntlet
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Five minutes had elapsed after the town-clock struck two, before Alan Fairford, who had made a small detour to put his letter into the post-house, reached the mansion of Mr Provost Crosbie, and was at once greeted by the voice of that civic dignitary,...
Chapter XIV: Narrative of Alan Fairford, Continued
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

We left Alan Fairford on the deck of the little smuggling brig, in that disconsolate situation, when sickness and nausea attack a heated and fevered frame, and an anxious mind. His share of sea-sickness, however, was not so great as to engross his sensations...
Chapter XVI: Narrative of Alan Fairford, Continued
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

On the next morning, when Fairford awoke, after no very refreshing slumbers, in which were mingled many wild dreams of his father, and of Darsie Latimer,—of the damsel in the green mantle, and the vestals of Fairladies,—of drinking small beer with Nanty Ewart, and...
Chapter 13
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Ten days after his first tour of the Old Jago, the Reverend Henry Sturt first preached in the parish church made of a stable, in an alley behind Meakin Street, but few yards away, though beyond sight and sound of the Jago. There, that...
Chapter 16
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Josh Perrott was at church on Sunday morning, as Father Sturt had bid him. Not because of the bidding, but because the vicar overtook him and Kiddo Cook in Meakin Street, and hauled them in, professing to be much gratified at their punctuality, and...
Chapter 17
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

There was much talk of Father Sturt's announcement. Many held it a shame that so much money, destined for the benefit of the Jago, should be spent in bricks and mortar, instead of being distributed among themselves. They fell to calculating the price of...
Chapter 21
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

He handed his father the seven shillings, and received a furious belting for losing his situation. He cried quietly, but it was not because of the strap. All he feared now was to meet Father Sturt. He had rather fifty beltings than Father Sturt's...
Chapter 37
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Kiddo Cook prospered. The stall was a present fact, and the awning was not far off; indeed, he was vigilantly in search of a second-hand one, not too much worn. But with all his affluence he was not often drunk. Nothing could be better...
Chapter III
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The letter from the Russian banker in Constantinople, that Sigismond had translated, was the favourable reply Saccard had been waiting for to get things started in Paris; and two days later, as soon as he woke up, Saccard had the sudden conviction that he...
Chapter XII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Preparations for the trial were taking so long that seven months had already gone by since the arrest of Saccard and Hamelin, and the case had not yet been listed. It was now the middle of September, and that Monday, Madame Caroline, who went...
Birtwick Park
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

At this time I used to stand in the stable, and my coat was brushed every day till it shone like a rook’s wing. It was early in May, when there came a man from Squire Gordon’s, who took me away to the Hall....
A Fair Start
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

The name of the coachman* was John Manly;* he had a wife and one little child, and they lived in the coachman’s cottage, very near the stables.

The next morning he took me into the yard and gave me a good grooming, and...
James Howard
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

One morning early in December, John had just led me into my box after my daily exercise, and was strapping my cloth* on, and James was coming in from the corn chamber with some oats, when the master came into the stable;...
The Old Ostler
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

After this, it was decided by my master and mistress to pay a visit to some friends who lived about forty-six miles from our home, and James was to drive them. The first day we travelled thirty-two miles; there were some long heavy hills,...
John Manly’s Talk
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

The rest of our journey was very easy, and a little after sunset we reached the house of my master’s friend. We were taken into a clean snug stable; there was a kind coachman, who made us very comfortable, and who seemed to think...
Earlshall
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

The next morning after breakfast, Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress’s low chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good bye to us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard. Then John put the saddle on Ginger and...
The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Early in the spring, Lord W —— and part of his family went up to London, and took York with them. I and Ginger and some other horses were left at home for use, and the head groom was left in charge.

The Lady Harriet,...
How it Ended
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

It must have been nearly midnight, when I heard at a great distance the sound of a horse’s feet. Sometimes the sound died away, then it grew clearer again and nearer. The road to Earlshall led through plantations that belonged to the Earl: the...
Ruined, and Going Downhill
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

As soon as my knees were sufficiently healed, I was turned into a small meadow for a month or two; no other creature was there, and though I enjoyed the liberty and the sweet grass, yet I had been so long used to society...
A Thief!
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

My new master was an unmarried man. He lived at Bath, and was much engaged in business. His doctor advised him to take horse exercise,* and for this purpose he bought me. He hired a stable a short distance from his lodgings,...
The Horse Fair
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

No doubt a horse fair is a very amusing place to those who have nothing to lose; at any rate there is plenty to see.

Long strings of young horses out of the country, fresh from the marshes; and droves of shaggy little Welsh ponies,...
A London Cab Horse
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

My new master’s name was Jeremiah Barker, but as every one called him Jerry, I shall do the same. Polly, his wife, was just as good a match as a man could have. She was a plump, trim, tidy little woman, with smooth dark...
An Old War Horse
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Captain had been broken in and trained for an army horse; his first owner was an officer of cavalry going out to the Crimean War.* He said he quite enjoyed the training with all the other horses, trotting together, turning together, to...