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Life in the Great House.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Comforts and luxuries—elaborate expenditure—house servants—men servants and maid servants—appearances—slave aristocracy—stable and carriage house—boundless hospitality—fragrance of rich dishes—the deceptive character of slavery—slaves seem happy—slaves and slaveholders alike wretched—fretful discontent of slaveholders—fault-finding—old barney—his profession—whipping—humiliating spectacle—case exceptional—William Wilks—supposed son of Col. Lloyd—curious incident—slaves prefer rich masters to poor...
Personal Treatment of the Author.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Miss Lucretia—her kindness—how it was manifested—‘Ike’—a battle with him—the consequences thereof—Miss Lucretia’s balsam — bread—how I obtained it—beams of sunlight amidst the general darkness—suffering from cold—how we took our meals—orders to prepare for Baltimore—overjoyed at the thought of quitting the plantation—extraordinary cleansing—cousin Tom’s version of Baltimore—arrival...
New Relations and Duties.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Change of masters—Benefits derived by the change—Fame of the fight with Covey—Reckless unconcern—Author’s abhorrence of slavery—Ability to read a cause of prejudice—The holidays—How spent—Sharp hit at slavery—Effects of holidays—A device of slavery—Difference between Covey and Freeland—An irreligious master preferred to a religious one—Catalogue of floggable...
Various Incidents.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Newspaper enterprise—Unexpected opposition—The objections to it—Their plausibility admitted—Motives for coming to Rochester—Disciple of Mr Garrison—Change of opinion—Causes leading to it—The consequences of the change—Prejudice against color—Amusing condescension—‘Fim Crow cars’—Collisions with conductors and brakemen—Trains ordered not to stop at Lynn—Amusing domestic scene—Separate tables for master and...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Miss
Bingley’s letter arrived, and put an end to doubt. The very first sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for the winter, and concluded with her brother’s regret at not having had time to pay his respects to his...
Chapter V
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

In the course of time, Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and healthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to the chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him, and suspected slights of his authority...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act of stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed with a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild-beast’s fondness or his madman’s rage—for in one he ran a...
Chapter III
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

That Friday made the last of our fine days, for a month. In the evening, the weather broke; the wind shifted from south to northeast, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow.

On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been...
Chapter XI
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

“These things happened last winter, sir,” said Mrs. Dean; “hardly more than a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months’ end, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them! Yet, who knows how long...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step approached—lighter and shorter—and, this time, the person entered the room. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk bonnet on her head, and a willow basket swung to*...
Chapter XX
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

For some days after that evening, Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not consent, formally, to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He had an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing rather to absent himself—And eating once in twenty-four...
Chapter IX.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The being finished speaking, and fixed his looks upon me in expectation of a reply. But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition. He continued—

‘You must create a female for me, with...
Chapter IV.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity; and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this...

About...
Chapter V.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

We had resolved not to go to London, but to cross the country to Portsmouth, and thence to embark for Havre.* I preferred this plan principally because I dreaded to see again those places in which I had enjoyed a...
Chapter 3
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Every Neighbourhood should have a Great Lady.—The great Lady of Sanditon, was Lady Denham; and in their Journey from Willingden to the Coast, Mr. Parker gave Charlotte a more detailed account of her, than had been called for before.—She had been necessarily often mentioned...
Chapter IX: A New Use for a Tea-Table
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

If I were to detail the ordinary events of my daily life at this time, they might prove instructive to people who are not familiar with the insides of palaces; if I revealed some of the secrets I learnt, they might prove of interest...
Chapter X: A Great Chance for a Villain
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was the custom that the Prefect of Police should send every afternoon a report to me on the condition of the capital and the feeling of the people: the document included also an account of the movements of any persons whom the police...
The Preaching
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

About a quarter to seven there was an unusual appearance of excitement in the village of Hayslope, and through the whole length of its little street, from the Donnithorne Arms to the churchyard gate, the inhabitants had evidently been drawn out of...
HETTY’S WORLD
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

While she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant butter as the primrose is set off by its nest of green, I am afraid Hetty was thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast at her than...
In The Cottage
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was but half past four the next morning, when Dinah, tired of lying awake listening to the birds, and watching the growing light through the little window in the garret roof, rose and began to dress herself very quietly, lest she should disturb...
In The Wood
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

That same Thursday morning, as Arthur Donnithorne was moving about in his dressing-room, seeing his well-looking British person reflected in the old-fashioned mirrors, and stared at, from a dingy olive-green piece of tapestry, by Pharaoh’s daughter and her maidens, who ought to have been...
The Two Bed-Chambers
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Hetty and Dinah both slept in the second story, in rooms adjoining each other, meagrely-furnished rooms, with no blinds to shut out the light, which was now beginning to gather new strength from the rising of the moon—more than enough strength to enable Hetty...
In The Cottage
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Adam did not ask Dinah to take his arm when they got out into the lane. He had never yet done so, often as they had walked together; for he had observed that she never walked arm-in-arm with Seth, and he thought, perhaps, that...
Chapter V: The Studio
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

It was about the close of the month, that, yielding at length to the urgent importunities of Rose, I accompanied her in a visit to Wildfell Hall. To our surprise, we were ushered into a room where the first object that met the eye...
Chapter XXV: First Absence
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

On the eighth of April, we went to London; on the eighth of May I returned, in obedience to Arthur’s wish: very much against my own, because I left him behind. If he had come with me, I should have been very glad to...
Chapter XXVIII: Parental Feelings
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

December 25th.—Last Christmas I was a bride, with a heart overflowing with present bliss, and full of ardent hopes for the future—though not unmingled with foreboding fears. Now I am a wife: my bliss is sobered, but not destroyed; my hopes diminished, but not...
Chapter XXX: Domestic Scenes
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

On the following morning, I received a few lines from him myself, confirming Hargrave’s intimations respecting his approaching return. And he did come next week, but in a condition of body and mind even worse than before. I did not however intend to pass...
Chapter XXXII: Comparisons: Information Rejected
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

October 5th.—Esther Hargrave is getting a fine girl. She is not out of the school-room yet, but her mother frequently brings her over to call in the mornings when the gentlemen are out, and sometimes she spends an hour or two in company with...
Chapter XLV: Reconciliation
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Well Halford, what do you think of all this? and while you read it, did you ever picture to yourself what my feelings would probably be during its perusal? Most likely not; but I am not going to descant upon them now: I will...
Chapter LIII: Conclusion
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

While standing thus, absorbed in my gloomy reverie, a gentleman’s carriage came round the corner of the road. I did not look at it; and had it rolled quietly by me, I should not have remembered the fact of its appearance at all; but...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do,—the situation is in itself...
XXVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his friends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in...
XLII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She had answered nothing because his words had put the situation before her and she was absorbed in looking at it. There was something in them that suddenly made vibrations deep,* so that she had been afraid to trust herself to speak....
XLIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Three nights after this she took Pansy to a great party, to which Osmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as ready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had not extended to...
XLV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be displeased by the continuance of Ralph’s visit to Rome. That knowledge was very present to her as she went to her cousin’s hotel the day after she had invited...
XLVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Lord Warburton was not seen in Mrs Osmond’s drawing-room for several days, and Isabel couldn’t fail to observe that her husband said nothing to her about having received a letter from him. She couldn’t fail to observe, either, that Osmond was in a state...
LV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had told her, the first evening she ever spent at Gardencourt, that if she should live to suffer enough she might some day see the ghost with which the old house was duly provided. She apparently had fulfilled the necessary condition; for the...
Natural Selection
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Natural Selection—its power compared with man’s selection—its power on characters of trifling importance—its power at all ages and on both sexes—Sexual Selection—On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species—Circumstances favourable and unfavourable to Natural Selection, namely, intercrossing, isolation, number of individuals—Slow action—Extinction...
The Little Room in the Tuileries
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling with all speed, and penetrate the two or three apartments which precede it, then enter the small cabinet of the Tuileries with the arched window, so well known as having been the favourite bureau...
The Isle of Monte Cristo
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Thus at length, by one of those unexpected strokes of fortune which sometimes occur to those on whom an evil destiny has for a long time vented its spleen, Dantès was about to arrive at his wished-for opportunity by simple and natural means, and...
Roman Bandits
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The next morning Franz woke first, and instantly rang the bell. The sound had not died away when Maître Pastrini himself entered.

‘Well, excellency,’ said the landlord triumphantly, and without waiting for Franz to question him, ‘it is as I feared yesterday, when I would...
Monsieur Bertuccio
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

During this time the count had arrived at his house; it had taken him six minutes to travel the distance, but these six minutes were sufficient to induce twenty young men who knew the price of the equipage they had been unable to purchase...
The Dappled Greys
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The baron led the count through a long suite of apartments of which the prevailing characteristics were heavy magnificence and the gaudiness of ostentatious wealth, until he reached the boudoir of Madame Danglars, a small octagonal-shaped room, hung with pink satin and white Indian...
Ideology
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

If the Count of Monte Cristo had lived for a very long time in Parisian society, he would have fully appreciated the value of the step which M. de Villefort had taken. Standing well at court, whether the king was of the elder or...
Pyramus and Thisbe
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

About the centre of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and at the back of one of the most distinguished-looking residences in this rich neighbourhood, where the various mansions vie with each other in elegance of design and magnificence of construction, was a large garden, whose widely...
A Signed Statement
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Noirtier was prepared to receive them, dressed in black, and installed in his arm-chair. When the three persons he expected had entered, he looked at the door, which his valet immediately closed.

‘Listen,’ whispered Villefort to Valentine, who could not conceal her joy; ‘if M....
The Lemonade
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Morrel was, in fact, very happy. M. Noirtier had just sent for him, and he was in such haste to know the reason for his doing so, that he had not stopped to take a fiacre, placing infinitely more faith in his own two...
The Room of the Retired Baker
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The evening of the day on which the Comte de Morcerf had left Danglars’ house with feelings of shame and anger, caused by the banker’s declining the projected alliance between their two families, M. Andrea Cavalcanti, with curled hair, moustache in perfect order, and...
The Apparition
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As the procureur du roi had told Madame Danglars, Valentine had not yet recovered. Bowed down with fatigue, she was confined to her bed, and it was in her own room, and from the lips of Madame de Villefort, that she heard all the...
The Division
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The first floor of the house in the Rue Saint-Germain-des-Prés, chosen by Albert and Madame de Morcerf for their residence, consisting of one room, was let to a very mysterious person. This was a man, whose face the concierge himself had never seen; for...
The Judge
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We remember that the Abbé Busoni remained alone with Noirtier in the chamber of death, and that the old man and the priest were the sole guardians of the young girl’s body. Perhaps it was the Christian exhortations of the abbé, perhaps his kind...
Luigi Vampa’s Bill of Fare
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We awake from every sleep except the one dreaded by Danglars. He awoke. To a Parisian accustomed to silken curtains, walls hung with velvet drapery, and the soft fragrance of burning wood, the white smoke of which diffuses itself in graceful swirls around the...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship-life, which was varied, beyond the limits of the village and the marshes, by no more remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying another visit to Miss Havisham. I found Miss...
Chapter VII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It
Fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early opportunity of comparing my guardian’s establishment with that of his cashier and clerk. My guardian was in his room, washing his hands with his scented soap, when I went...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

“My
Dear
Mr.
Pip,

“I write this by request of Mr. Gargery, for to let you know that he is going to London in company of Mr. Wopsle and would be glad if agreeable to be allowed to see you. He would call...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Some weeks passed without bringing any change. We waited for Wemmick, and he made no sign. If I had never known him out of Little Britain, and had never enjoyed the privilege of being on a familiar footing at the Castle, I might have...
Chapter XV
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. We had our pea-coats with us, and I took a bag. Of all my worldly...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

He lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his committal for trial, and the coming round of the Sessions. He had broken two ribs, they had wounded one of his lungs, and he breathed with great pain and difficulty, which increased...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Now that I was left wholly to myself, I gave notice of my intention to quit the chambers in the Temple as soon as my tenancy could legally determine, and in the mean while to underlet* them. At once I put bills...
Chapter XX
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

For eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily eyes—though they had both been often before my fancy in the East—when, upon an evening in December, an hour or two after dark, I laid my hand softly on the latch...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anna
Pavlovna’s reception was in full swing. The spindles hummed steadily and ceaselessly on all sides. With the exception of ma tante, beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin tear-worn face was rather out of place...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Vasili kept the promise he had given to Princess Drubetskaya who had spoken to him on behalf of her only son Boris on the evening of Anna Pavlovna’s soirée. The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Mon cher Boris,’ said Princess Anna Mikhailovna to her son as Countess Rostova’s carriage in which they were seated drove over the straw-covered street and turned into the wide courtyard of Count Kiril Vladimirovich Bezukhov’s house. ‘Mon cher Boris,’ said the...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On returning from the review Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room, and calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Pavlograd hussars were stationed two miles from Braunau. The squadron in which Nikolai Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in the German village of Salzeneck. The best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On November 1st Kutuzov had received through a spy news that the army he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in immense force upon Kutuzov’s line of communication with...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince Andrei made his way up to the battery from which the staff-officer had told him the whole field could be seen. Here he dismounted, and stopped beside the farthest of the four...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder-smoke, hung low over the field of battle on the horizon. It was growing dark and the glow of two conflagrations was the more conspicuous. The cannonade was dying down, but the rattle of...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The day after Rostov had been to see Boris, a review was held of the Austrian and Russian troops, both those freshly arrived from Russia and those who had been campaigning under Kutuzov. The two Emperors, the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The day after the review, Boris in his best uniform and with his comrade Berg’s best wishes for success, rode to Olmütz to see Bolkonsky, wishing to profit by his friendliness and obtain for himself the best post he could—preferably that of adjutant to...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On our right flank commanded by Bagration, at nine o’clock the battle had not yet begun. Not wishing to agree to Dolgorukov’s demand to commence the action, and wishing to avert responsibility from himself, Prince Bagration proposed to Dolgorukov to send to inquire of...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, begin!’ said Dolokhov.

‘All right,’ said Pierre still smiling in the same way.

A feeling of dread was in the air. It was evident that the affair so lightly begun could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Iogel’s were the most enjoyable balls in Moscow. So said the mothers as they watched their adolescentes executing their newly-learned steps, and so said the youths and maidens themselves as they danced till they were ready to drop, and so said the...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The pilgrim woman was appeased, and being encouraged to talk gave a long account of Father Amphilochus, who led so holy a life that his hands smelt of incense, and how on her last visit to Kiev some monks she knew let her have...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Rostov had come to Tilsit on the day least suitable for a petition on Denisov’s behalf. He could not himself go to the general in attendance as he was in mufti and had come to Tilsit without permission to do so, and Boris, even...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Andrei had to see the Marshal of the Nobility for the district in connection with the affairs of the Ryazan estate of which he was trustee. This Marshal was Count Ilya Andreevich Rostov, and in the middle of May Prince Andrei went to...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Again Pierre was overtaken by the depression he so dreaded. For three days after the delivery of his speech at the Lodge he lay on a sofa at home receiving no one and going nowhere.

It was just then that he received a letter from...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At that time, as always happens, the highest society that met at Court and at the grand balls was divided into several circles, each with its own particular tone. The largest of these was the French circle of the Napoleonic alliance, the circle of...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Rostovs’ monetary affairs had not improved during the two years they had spent in the country.

Though Nikolai Rostov had kept firmly to his resolution and was still serving modestly in an obscure regiment spending comparatively little, the way of life at Otradnoe—Mitenka’s management...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Suddenly everybody stirred, began talking, and pressed forward and then back, and between the two rows, which separated, the Emperor entered to the sounds of music that had immediately struck up. Behind him walked his host and hostess. He walked in rapidly, bowing to...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After Prince Andrei, Boris came up to ask Natasha for a dance, and then the aide-de-camp who had opened the ball, and several other young men, so that, flushed and happy, and passing on her superfluous partners to Sonya, she did not cease dancing...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Prince
Andrei needed his father’s consent to his marriage, and to obtain this he set out for the country next day.

His father received his son’s communication with external composure, but inward wrath. He could not comprehend how anyone could wish to alter his life...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In 1811 there was living in Moscow a French doctor—Métivier—who had rapidly become the fashion. He was enormously tall, handsome, amiable as Frenchmen are, and was, as all Moscow said, an extraordinarily clever doctor. He was received in the best houses not merely as...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Boris had not succeeded in making a wealthy match in Petersburg, so with the same object in view he came to Moscow. There he wavered between the two richest heiresses, Julie and Princess Marya. Though Princess Marya despite her plainness seemed to him more...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

That evening the Rostovs went to the Opera, for which Marya Dmitrievna had taken a box.

Natasha did not want to go, but could not refuse Marya Dmitrievna’s kind offer intended expressly for her. When she came dressed into the ballroom to wait for her...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The floor of the stage consisted of smooth boards, at the sides was some painted cardboard representing trees, and at the back was a cloth stretched over boards. In the centre of the stage sat some girls in red bodices and white skirts. One...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

That same evening Pierre went to the Rostovs’ to fulfil the commission entrusted to him. Natasha was in bed, the count at the club, and Pierre, after giving the letters to Sonya, went to Marya Dmitrievna who was interested to know how Prince Andrei...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the tavern, before which stood the doctor’s covered cart, there were already some five officers. Marya Gendrikhovna, a plump little blonde German, in a dressing-jacket and night-cap, was sitting on a broad bench in the front corner. Her husband, the doctor, lay asleep...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Napoleon began the war with Russia because he could not resist going to Dresden, could not help having his head turned by the homage he received, could not help donning a Polish uniform and yielding to the stimulating influence of a June morning, and...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Until Prince Andrei settled in Bogucharovo its owners had always been absentees, and its peasants were of quite a different character from those of Bald Hills. They differed from them in speech, dress, and disposition. They were called steppe-peasants. The old prince used to...
29
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On returning from a second careful inspection of the lines, Napoleon remarked:

‘The chessmen are set up, the game will begin tomorrow!’

Having ordered punch and summoned de Beausset, he began to talk to him about Paris and about some changes he meant to make...
35
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the rug-covered bench where Pierre had seen him in the morning sat Kutuzov, his grey head hanging, his heavy body relaxed. He gave no orders, but only assented to or dissented from what others suggested.

‘Yes, yes, do that,’ he replied to various proposals....
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The forces of a dozen European nations burst into Russia. The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolensk to Borodino. The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In the middle of this fresh tale Pierre was summoned to the commander-in-chief.

When he entered the private room Count Rastopchin, puckering his face, was rubbing his forehead and eyes with his hand. A short man was saying something, but when Pierre entered he stopped...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Madame
Schoss, who had been out to visit her daughter, increased the countess’s fears still more by telling what she had seen at a spiritdealer’s in Myasnitsky Street. When returning by that street she had been unable to pass because of a drunken crowd...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

For the last two days, ever since leaving home, Pierre had been living in the empty house of his deceased benefactor, Bazdeev. This is how it happened.

When he woke up on the morning after his return to Moscow and his interview with Count Rastopchin,...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Towards nine o’clock in the morning, when the troops were already moving through Moscow, nobody came to the count any more for instructions. Those who were able to get away were going of their own accord, those who remained behind decided for themselves what...
33
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the 3rd of September Pierre awoke late. His head was aching, the clothes in which he had slept without undressing felt uncomfortable on his body, and his mind had a dim consciousness of something shameful he had done the day before. That something...
1
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In Petersburg at that time a complicated struggle was being carried on with greater heat than ever in the highest circles, between the parties of Rumyantsev, the French, Marya Fyodorovna, the Tsarevich, and others, drowned as usual by the buzzing of the Court drones....
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anna
Pavlovna’s presentiment was in fact fulfilled. Next day during the service at the Palace church in honour of the Emperor’s birthday, Prince Volkonsky was called out of the church and received a dispatch from Prince Kutuzov. It was Kutuzov’s report, written from Tatarinova...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Twenty-Three soldiers, three officers, and two officials were confined in the shed in which Pierre had been placed and where he remained for four weeks.

When Pierre remembered them afterwards they all seemed misty figures to him except Platon Karataev, who always remained in his...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The famous flank movement merely consisted in this: after the advance of the French had ceased, the Russian army, which had been continually retreating straight back from the invaders, deviated from that direct course and, not finding itself pursued, was naturally drawn towards the...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Russian army was commanded by Kutuzov and his staff, and also by the Emperor from Petersburg. Before the news of the abandonment of Moscow had been received in Petersburg, a detailed plan for the whole campaign had been drawn up and sent to...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The French evacuation began on the night between the 6th and 7th of October: kitchens and sheds were dismantled, carts loaded, and troops and baggage-trains started.

At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks and enormous...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The men rapidly picked out their horses in the semi-darkness, tightened their saddle girths, and formed companies. Denisov stood by the watchman’s hut giving final orders. The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘ À vos places!’ suddenly cried a voice.1

A pleasant feeling of excitement and an expectation of something joyful and solemn was aroused among the soldiers of the convoy and the prisoners. From all sides came shouts of command, and from the left...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It would be difficult to explain why, and where, ants whose hill has been destroyed are hurrying: some from the hill, dragging bits of rubbish, eggs and corpses, others back to the hill; why they jostle, overtake one another, and fight, and it would...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At the beginning of winter Princess Marya came to Moscow. From reports current in town she learnt how the Rostovs were situated, and how ‘the son has sacrificed himself for his mother’, as people were saying.

‘I never expected anything else of him,’ said Princess...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

For the solution of the question of freewill or inevitability, history has this advantage over other branches of knowledge in which the question is dealt with, that for history this question does not refer to the essence of man’s freewill, but to its manifestation...
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Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

History examines the manifestations of man’s freewill in connection with the external world in time and in dependence on cause, that is, it defines this freedom by the laws of reason, and so history is a science only in so far as this freewill...
Chapter III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

That night Mrs Leigh stopped at home; that only night for many months. Even Tom, the scholar, looked up from his books in amazement; but then he remembered that Will had not been well, and that his mother's attention having been called to the...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

My father insisted upon driving M. de Chalabre in his gig to the nearest town through which the London mail passed; and, during the short time that elapsed before my father was ready, he told us something more about Chalabre. He had never spoken...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Susan and Michael were to be married in April. He had already gone to take possession of his new farm, three or four miles away from Yew Nook—but that is neighbouring, according to the accept­ation of the word in that thinly-populated district—when William Dixon...
Chapter IV
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The vehemence with which Susan Dixon threw herself into occupation could not last for ever. Times of languor and remembrance would come—times when she recurred with a passionate yearning to bygone days, the recollection of which was so vivid and delicious, that it seemed...
Part III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Just after this I went home for a week's holiday. Everything was prospering there; my father's new partnership gave evident satisfaction to both parties. There was no display of increased wealth in our modest household; but my mother had a few extra comforts provided...
The Walk
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

“O dear! I wish Hatfield had not been so precipitate!” said Rosalie next day at four p. m., as, with a portentous yawn, she laid down her worsted-work and looked listlessly towards the window.

“There’s no inducement to go out now; and nothing to...
Chapter III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

To my uncle Mr. Toby Shandy do I stand indebted for the preceding anecdote, to whom my father, who was an excellent natural philosopher,1 and much given to close reasoning upon the smallest matters, had oft, and heavily, complain'd of the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

In the same village where my father and my mother dwelt, dwelt also a thin, upright, motherly, notable, good old body of a midwife, who, with the help of a little plain good sense, and some years full employment in her business, in which...
Chapter XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The article in my mother's marriage settlement, which I told the reader I was at pains to search for, and which, now that I have found it, I think proper to lay before him,—is so much more fully express'd in the deed itself, than...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As the point was that night agreed, or rather determin'd, that my mother should lye-in of me in the country, she took her measures accordingly; for which purpose, when she was three days, or thereabouts, gone with child, she began to cast her eyes upon...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The wound in my uncle Toby's groin, which he received at the siege of Namur, rendering him unfit for the service, it was thought expedient he should return to England, in order, if possible, to be set to...

He was four years totally confined,—part...
Chapter XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Your sudden and unexpected arrival, quoth my uncle Toby, addressing himself to Dr. Slop, (all three of them sitting down to the fire together, as my uncle Toby began to speak) instantly brought the great Stevinus...
Chapter III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

It was not an easy matter in any king's reign, (unless you were as lean a subject as myself)1 to have forced your hand diagonally, quite across your whole body, so as to gain the bottom of your opposite coat-pocket.—In the year,...
Chapter XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

"By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of our Saviour," I think there is no necessity, quoth Dr. Slop, dropping...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——I Won't go about to argue the point with you,—'tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, "That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position."...

The...
CHAPTER IV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WAS it Makay's regiment, quoth my uncle Toby, where the poor grenadier was so unmercifully whipp'd at Bruges about the ducats.—O Christ! he was innocent! cried Trim with a deep sigh.—— And he was whipp'd, may it please your honour, almost...
CHAPTER XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WE shall bring all things to rights, said my father, setting his foot upon the first step from the landing This Trismegistus, continued my father, drawing his leg back, and turning to my uncle Toby—was the greatest (Toby) of...
CHAPTER XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—THEN reach me my breeches off the chair, said my father to Susannah—There is not a moment's time to dress you, Sir, cried Susannah—the child is as black in the face as my—As your, what? said my father, for like all...
CHAPTER XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I WISH I could write a chapter upon sleep.

A fitter occasion could never have presented itself, than what this moment offers, when all the curtains of the family are drawn—the candles put out—and no creature's eyes are open but a single one, for the...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

'Tis a pity, Trim, said my uncle Toby, resting with his hand upon the corporal's shoulder, as they both stood surveying their works,—that we have not a couple of field pieces to mount in the gorge of that new redoubt;——'twould secure...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

DEAR Yorick, said my father smiling, (for Yorick had broke his rank with my uncle Toby in coming through the narrow entry, and so had stept first into the parlour)—this Tristram of ours, I find, comes very...
CHAPTER XXXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WITH two strokes, the one at Hippocrates, the other at Lord Verulam,1 did my father atchieve it.

The stroke at the prince of physicians, with which he began, was no more than a short insult upon his sorrowful complaint of the Ars longa,...
CHAPTER XLIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

MY father took a single turn across the room, then sat down and finished the chapter.

The verbs auxiliary we are concerned in here, continued my father, are, am; was; have; had; do; did; make; made; suffer; shall; should; will; would; can; could; owe;...
CHAPTER V
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

You see 'tis high time, said my father, addressing himself equally to my uncle Toby and Yorick, to take this young creature out of these women's hands, and put him into those of a private governor. Marcus Antoninus1...
CHAPTER XVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

There are a thousand resolutions, Sir, both in church and state, as well as in matters, Madam, of a more private concern;— which, though they have carried all the appearance in the world of being taken, and entered upon in a hasty, hare-brained, and...
CHAPTER XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I must observe, that although in the first year's campaign, the word town is often mentioned,—yet there was no town at that time within the polygon; that addition was not made till the summer following the spring in which the bridges and sentry-box...
CHAPTER XL
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegitable diet, with a few of the cold feeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby's...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coast—a man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad——and I never gave a peep into Rochester church, or took notice of the dock of Chatham,1 or visited...
CHAPTER X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

ALL which being considered, and that Death moreover might be much nearer me than I imagined——I wish I was at Abbe-ville, quoth I, were it only to see how they card and spin——so off we set.

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de Montreuil a Nampont -poste et demi de...
CHAPTER XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

What a vast advantage is travelling! only it heats one; but there is a remedy for that, which you may pick out of the next chapter.
CHAPTER XXIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

We are ruin'd and undone, my child, said the abbess to Margarita——we shall be here all night we shall be plunder'd ——we shall be ravish'd——

——We shall be ravish'd, said Margarita, as sure as a gun.

Sancta Maria! cried the abbess (forgetting the O!)—why was...
CHAPTER XXXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

O! THERE is a sweet æra in the life of man, when, (the brain being tender and fibrillous,1 and more like pap than any thing else)——a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more...
CHAPTER XXXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——But it is an indubitable verity, continued I, addressing myself to the commissary, changing only the form of my asseveration——that I owe the king of France nothing but my goodwill; for he is a very honest man, and I wish him all health and pastime...
CHAPTER XLIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I HAD not gone above two leagues and a half, before the man with his gun, began to look at his priming.

I had three several times loiter'd terribly behind; half a mile at least every time: once, in deep conference with a...
Chapter II
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IT is with LOVE as with CUCKOLDOM——

——But now I am talking of beginning a book, and have long had a thing upon my mind to be imparted to the reader, which if not imparted now, can never be imparted to him as long as...
Chapter XI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now as widow Wadman did love my uncle Toby——and my uncle Toby did not love widow Wadman, there was nothing for widow Wadman to do, but to go on and love my uncle Toby——or let it alone.

Widow Wadman would do neither the one or...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IT was a thousand pities——though I believe, an' please your honour, I am going to say but a foolish kind of a thing for a soldier

A soldier, cried my uncle Toby, interrupting the corporal, is no more exempt from saying a foolish thing, Trim,...
CHAPTER XXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WE live in a world beset on all sides with mysteries and riddles—and so 'tis no matter——else it seems strange, that Nature, who makes every thing so well to answer its destination, and seldom or never errs, unless for pastime, in giving such forms and...
CHAPTER XXV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

WHEN we have got to the end of this chapter (but not before) we must all turn back to the two blank chapters, on the account of which my honour has lain bleeding this half hour——I stop it, by pulling off one of my yellow...
The Eighteenth Chapter.
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As Mrs. Bridget open'd the door before the Corporal had well given the rap, the interval betwixt that and my uncle Toby's introduction into the parlour, was so short, that Mrs. Wadman had but just time to get from behind the curtain——lay a Bible upon...
CHAPTER XXXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THERE will be just time, whilst my uncle Toby and Trim are walking to my father's, to inform you, that Mrs. Wadman had, some moons before this, made a confident of my mother; and that Mrs. Bridget, who had the burden of her own, as...
The Master
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

Now when the darkness came over the earth Joseph of Arimathea,* having lighted a torch of pinewood, passed down from the hill into the valley. For he had business in his own home.

And kneeling on the flint stones of the Valley of Desolation...
The Poetry of Michelangelo
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

Critics of Michelangelo have sometimes spoken as if the only characteristic of his genius were a wonderful strength, verging, as in the things of the imagination great strength always does, on what is singular or strange. A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of...
Chapter XII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr.
Knightley was to dine with them—rather against the inclination of Mr. Woodhouse, who did not like that any one should share with him in Isabella’s first day. Emma’s sense of right however had decided it; and besides the consideration of what was due...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill’s decease, Emma was called down stairs to Mr. Weston, who ‘could not stay five minutes, and wanted particularly to speak with her.’—He met her at the parlour door, and hardly asking her how she did, in...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The little girl performed her long journey in safety, and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to...