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Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing an Incident full as probable as any in Scudery’s Romances

Sydimiris, To Bellmour.

If that Proof of my Gratitude, which I promised to give you, fall short of your Expectations; blame not the Defect of my Will, but the Rigour of my Destiny:...
Chapter XI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine being mistaken herself, gives Occasion for a great many other Mistakes

As soon as the Ladies enter’d the Room, Mr. Selvin, with more Gaiety than usual, advanc’d towards Arabella, who put on so cold and severe...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroin’s Extravagance will be thought, perhaps, to be carried to an extravagant Length

Madam,

‘I Had the Honour to assure you this Morning on the Parade, that the Insinuations Mr. Selvin made use of to rob me of the...
Chapter V
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A very mysterious Chapter

Arabella, who impatiently long’d for the Hour of meeting the fair Princess, with whom she was extremely delighted, consulted her Watch so often, and discover’d so much Restlessness and Anxiety, that Mr. Glanville began to be surpriz’d; and...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The ‘Jane Guy’ was a fine-looking topsail schooner of a hundred and eighty tons’ burden.* She was unusually sharp in the bows, and on a wind, in moderate weather, the fastest sailer I have ever seen. Her qualities, however, as a rough...
Chapter XX
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

The chief was as good as his word, and we were soon plentifully supplied with fresh provision. We found the tortoises as fine as we had ever seen, and the ducks surpassed our best species of wild fowl, being exceedingly tender, juicy, and well-flavored....
Chapter XXI
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and grovelling in utter darkness among a quantity of loose earth, which was also falling upon me heavily in every direction, threatening to bury me entirely. Horribly alarmed at this...
The balloon hoax
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Astounding News by Express, via Norfolk!—The Atlantic crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason’s Flying Machine!—Arrival at Sullivan’s Island, near Charleston, S. C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steering...
XVI
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

But that evening Ralph was really intolerable; he was duller, more dreary, more tiresome than ever. He could say nothing to the point and, to crown all his clumsiness, it was already late in the evening and he had not yet shown any sign...
Chapter III Knights of the Table Round
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Mainly the Round Table talk was monologues—narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor. As a general thing—as far as I could make out—these murderous adventures were not...
Chapter V An Inspiration
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I was so tired that even my fears were not able to keep me awake long.

When I next came to myself, I seemed to have been asleep a very long time. My first thought was, “Well, what an astonishing dream I’ve had! I reckon...
Chapter IX The Tournament
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

They were always having grand tournaments there at Camelot; and very stirring and picturesque and ridiculous human bullfights they were, too, but just a little wearisome to the practical mind. However, I was generally on hand—for two reasons: a man must not hold himself...
Chapter XLI The Interdict
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

However, my attention was suddenly snatched from such matters; our child began to lose ground again, and we had to go to sitting up with her, her case became so serious. We couldn’t bear to allow anybody to help, in this service, so we...
Chapter XLIV A Postscript by Clarence
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I, Clarence, must write it for him. He proposed that we two go out and see if any help could be afforded the wounded. I was strenuous against the project. I said that if there were many, we could do but little for them; and...
Coriolanus
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Mademoiselle
Moore had that morning a somewhat absent minded pupil. Caroline forgot, again and again, the explanations which were given to her; however, she still bore with unclouded mood the chidings her inattention brought upon her. Sitting in the sunshine, near the window, she...
Phœbe
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Shirley probably got on pleasantly with Sir Philip that evening, for the next morning she came down in one of her best moods.

“Who will take a walk with me?” she asked, after breakfast. “Isabella and Gertrude—will you?”

So rare was such an invitation from...
The Winding-Up
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Yes, reader, we must settle accounts now. I have only briefly to narrate the final fates of some of the personages whose acquaintance we have made in this narrative, and then you and I must shake hands, and for the present separate.

Let us...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Dire was his thought, who first in poison steep’d The weapon form’d for slaughter—direr his, And worthier of damnation, who instill’d The mortal venom in the social cup, To fill the veins with death instead of life.

Anonymous*

‘Upon my word, Mr Francis...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Where longs to fall yon rifted spire, As weary of the insulting air,—

The poet's thoughts, the warrior's fire, The lover's sighs, are sleeping there.

Langhorne*

At the first Scotch town which we reached, my guide sought out his friend and counsellor, to...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Hame came our gudeman at e’en, And hame came he, And there he saw a man Where a man suldna be.

‘How's this now, kimmer?

How's this? quo he,—

How came this carle here Without the leave o’ me?’

Old Song*

The magistrate...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Bagpipes, not lyres, the Highland hills adorn, MacLean's loud hollo, and MacGregor's horn.

John Cooper's Reply to Allan Ramsay*

I Stopped in the entrance of the stable, if indeed a place be entitled to that name where horses were stowed away along...
Chapter LIX
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I receive an extraordinary message at the door of the long room, which I however enter, and affront the Squire, who threatens to take the law of me——I rebuke Melinda for her malice——She weeps with vexation——Lord Quiverwit is severe upon me——I retort his...
Chapter 9
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

In the mean time what did Perdita?

During the first months of his Protectorate, Raymond and she had been inseparable; each project was discussed with her, each plan approved by her. I never beheld any one so perfectly happy as my sweet sister. Her expressive...
Chapter 17
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I have lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. Thus long, I have cradled my heart in retrospection of past happiness, when hope was. Why not for ever...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Several days passed on nearly in the same manner; the mornings were all spent in gossipping, shopping and dressing, and the evenings were regularly appropriated to public places, or large parties of company.

Meanwhile Mr. Arnott lived almost entirely in Portman-square; he slept, indeed, at...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The Harrels and Mr. Arnott waited the return of Cecilia with the utmost impatience; she told them with much concern the failure of her embassy, which Mr. Harrel heard with visible resentment and discontent, while Mr. Arnott, entreating him not to think of it,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia now for about a fortnight passed her time without incident: the Harrels continued their accustomed dissipation, Sir Robert Floyer, without even seeking a private conference, persevered in his attentions, and Mr. Arnott, though still silent and humble, seemed only to live by the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia returned home so late, that she was summoned to the dining parlour the moment she entered the house. Her morning dress, and her long absence, excited much curiosity in Mrs. Harrel, which a quick succession of questions evasively answered soon made general; and...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The reproach which Cecilia had received from young Delvile in the name of his mother, determined her upon making this visit; for though, in her present uncertainty, she wished only to see that family when sought by themselves, she was yet desirous to avoid...
Chapter XII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

When they entered Vauxhall, Mr. Harrel endeavoured to dismiss his moroseness, and affecting his usual gaiety, struggled to recover his spirits; but the effort was vain, he could neither talk nor look like himself, and though from time to time he resumed his air...
Chapter IV
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Early the next morning, Delvile again made his appearance. Cecilia, who was at breakfast with Mrs. and Miss Charltons, received him with the most painful confusion, and he was evidently himself in a state of the utmost perturbation. Mrs. Charlton made a pretence almost...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The day past away, and Cecilia had yet written no answer; the evening came,* and her resolution was still unfixed. Delvile, at length, was again announced; and though she dreaded trusting herself to his entreaties, the necessity of hastening some...
Chapter IX
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

A week passed, during which Cecilia, however sad, spent her time as usual with the family, denying to herself all voluntary indulgence of grief, and forbearing to seek consolation from solitude, or relief from tears. She never named Delvile, she begged Mrs. Charlton...
Chapter VII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia took leave over night* of the family, as she would not stay their rising in the morning: Mr. Monckton, though certain not to sleep when she was going, forbearing to mark his solicitude by quitting his apartment at any unusual hour....
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia’s earliest care, almost at break of day, was to send to the Grove; from thence she heard nothing but evil; Mr. Monckton was still alive, but with little or no hope of recovery, constantly delirious, and talking of Miss Beverley, and of her...
Chapter V
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

This business effectually occupied the present and following day; the third, Cecilia.expected her answer from Delvile Castle, and the visit she so much dreaded from the attorney.

The answer arrived first.

To Miss Beverley.

Madam,

As my son has never apprized me of the...
LETTER VI
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

I have already passed four days beneath this hospitable roof. On the third, a slight fever with which I had been threatened passed off, my head was disencumbered, and on the fourth I was able to leave my bed, and to...
LETTER XXVI
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

Can you recollect who was that rational moderate youth who exclaimed in the frenzy of passion, ‘O Gods! annihilate both time and space, and make two lovers happy’

For my part, I should indeed wish the hours annihilated till I again...
LETTER XXVII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

The priest is gone on his embassy. The rain which batters against the casement of my little hotel prevents my enjoying a ramble. I have nothing to read, and I must write or yawn myself to death.

Yesterday, as we passed...
Conclusion
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

A few days after the departure of the Earl of M. from Dublin, the intended father-in-law of his son, weary of a town life, to which he had hitherto been unaccustomed, proposed that they should surprise the earl at M——House, without waiting for that summons...
4. In Which Phileas Fogg Flabbergasts His Servant Passepartout
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At 7.25 Phileas Fogg, having won a good twenty guineas, said goodbye to his honourable colleagues and left the Reform Club. At 7.50 he opened his front door and went in.

Passepartout, who had meticulously studied the schedule, was a little surprised to see Mr...
9. Where the Red Sea and Indian Ocean Favour Phileas Fogg’s Designs
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The distance from Suez to Aden is exactly 1,310 nautical miles, and the Company’s regulations assign its steamships 138 hours to cover the distance. The Mongolia, whose boilers were stoked up, was moving fast so as to be ahead of the regulation...

Nearly...
12. Where Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Through the Indian Jungle, and What Ensues
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

In order to shorten the distance to cover, the guide headed off to the left, away from the track where the works were still being carried out. The railway line, obstructed by the capricious ramifications of the Vindhya Range, was not the shortest path...
21. Where the Skipper of the Tankadère Runs a Considerable Risk of Losing a Bonus of £200
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Such a voyage of 800 miles, on a ship of twenty tons, was a dangerous expedition, above all at this time of the year. These China seas are generally squally, exposed as they are to terrible gusts of wind, especially during the equinox periods—and...
22. Where Passepartout Realizes That Even at the Antipodes, It Is Wise To Have Some Money in One’s Pocket
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The
Carnatic had left Hong Kong at 6.30 p.m. on 7 November, and was heading at full steam towards Japan. It was carrying a full load of merchandise and passengers. Only two cabins at the stern remained empty: those reserved for Mr Phileas Fogg....

The...
24. In Which the Pacific Is Crossed
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

What had happened off Shanghai is easy to understand. The Tankadère’s signals had been spotted by the Yokohama steamship. Seeing a flag flying at half-mast, the captain had steered towards the little schooner. A few moments later, Phileas Fogg paid his passage...
On Consistency of Opinion
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

Many people boast of being masters in their own house. I pretend to be master of my own mind. I should be sorry to have an ejectment served upon me for any notions...
English Characteristics
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

The English are the only people to whom the term blackguard is peculiarly applicable—by which I understand a reference of everything to violence and a contempt for the feelings and opinions of others. It may be affirmed of them, with few exceptions,...
The Life of Napoleon
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

I

Of my object in writing the Life here offered to the public, and of the general tone that pervades it, it may be proper that I should render some account in order to prevent mistakes and false applications. It is true,...
On Gusto
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

Gusto in art is power or passion defining any object. It is not so difficult to explain this term in what relates to expression (of which it may be said to be the highest degree) as in what relates to things without expression, to...
On the Elgin Marbles
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

At the conclusion of a former article on this subject, we ventured to lay down some general principles, which we shall here proceed to elucidate in such manner as we are able.

1. The first was, that art is (first and last) the imitation...
Hogarth
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

What distinguishes his compositions from all others of the same general kind, is, that they are equally remote from caricature, and from mere still life. It of course happens in subjects taken from common life, that the painter can procure real models, and he...
Coriolanus
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

Shakespeare has in this play shewn himself well versed in history and state-affairs. Coriolanus is a store-house of political common-places. Any one who studies it may save himself the trouble of reading Burke’s Reflections, or Paine’s Rights of Man...
Chapter IX
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

Dr. and Mrs. Leete were evidently not a little startled to learn, when they presently appeared, that I had been all over the city alone that morning, and it was apparent that they were agreeably surprised to see that I seemed so little agitated...
Chapter XI
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

When we arrived home, Dr. Leete had not yet returned, and Mrs. Leete was not visible. “Are you fond of music, Mr. West?” Edith asked.

I assured her that it was half of life, according to my notion.

“I ought to apologize for inquiring,” she...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

I found the processes at the warehouse quite as interesting as Edith had described them, and became even enthusiastic over the truly remarkable illustration which is seen there of the prodigiously multiplied efficiency which perfect organization can give to labor. It is like a...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

That evening I sat up for some time after the ladies had retired, talking with Dr. Leete about the effect of the plan of exempting men from further service to the nation after the age of forty-five, a point brought up by his account...
Chapter VI
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

Dr.
Leete ceased speaking, and I remained silent, endeavoring to form some general conception of the changes in the arrangements of society implied in the tremendous revolution which he had described.

Finally I said, “The idea of such an extension of the functions of government...
4. The perfumer’s sudden access of pity
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

’Well, Madame, will I find such a treasure again at the age of 52? At that age, love costs thirty thousand francs a year. I have learned the figure through your husband, and, for my part, I am too fond of Célestine to ruin her....
9. Character sketch of an old maid
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Cousin Bette, with whom Hortense was chatting, looked from time to time to see when they could go back to the drawing-room, but her young cousin was teasing her so much with her questions just as the Baroness re-opened the french window, that Bette did...
23. An interview
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

After lunch the dealer, the artist, and the group were announced. Her daughter’s sudden blush made the Baroness first worried and then watchful, and Hortense’s embarrassment, the ardour in her eyes, soon revealed the secret that was poorly concealed in her young heart.

Count Steinbock,...
25. Marneffe’s strategy
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Baron Hulot wanted his cousin to become friendly with Madame Marneffe so that he could have a spy in her household, and Lisbeth had already dined with Valérie. For her part, Valérie, wanting to be informed about the Hulot family, was very friendly to the...
47. First scene of clever feminine play-acting
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘You don’t love me any more, Henri, I can see that,’ said Madame Marneffe, hiding her face in her handkerchief and bursting into tears.

It was an exclamation of real love. A woman’s cry of despair is so persuasive that it draws out the pardon...
50. Crevel takes his revenge
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘No, by heaven! It’s only society women who can love like that.’ Crevel said to himself. ‘How she came down the stairs, lighting them up with the beams from her eyes, and I was drawing her on! Josépha never … Josépha, she’s scum!’...
58. In which can he seen the power of that socially disruptive force, poverty.
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘Oh, come, come, my dear,’ said Bette, seeing tears well up in her young cousin’s lovely eyes, ‘you mustn’t give way to despair. A glassful of your tears wouldn’t pay for one plate of soup! How much do you need?’

‘About five or six thousand...
64. The return home
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Wenceslas returned home about one in the morning. Hortense had been waiting for him since about half past nine.

From half past nine to ten o’clock, she had listened to the sounds of carriages, telling herself that Wenceslas had never come home so late before...
87. A sublime courtesan
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Adeline gave Crevel a gracious smile and motioned him to a chair facing her.

‘Here I am, fair lady, at your service,’ said Crevel.

Monsieur le Maire, now a political figure, had taken to wearing black. His face emerged above this apparel like a full...
92. The Prince’s dressing-down
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At that very moment Baron Hulot was leaving the War Ministry and on his way to the office of the Maréchal, Prince de Wissembourg, who had sent for him.

Although there was nothing out of the ordinary in the Minister sending for one of his...
115. In which Madame Nourrisson is seen at work
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

An hour later Montès, Cydalise, and Carabine, back from the Rocher de Cancale, entered Carabine’s little drawing-room in the Rue Saint-Georges.

The courtesan saw Madame Nourrisson sitting in an easy-chair by the fire.

‘Why, here’s my good aunt!’ she said.

‘Yes, my child. I’ve come...
119. The mendicant
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Towards the end of May, Baron Hulot’s pension was completely freed by the successive payments that Victorin had made to Baron Nucingen. Everyone knows that the six-monthly pension payments are only made on presentation of a certificate showing that the recipient is still alive, and...
130. Return of the prodigal father
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Ten minutes later, the Baron and his wife arrived at the Rue Louis-le-Grand, where Adeline found the following letter waiting for her.

‘Madame la Baronne—Monsieur le Baron d’Ervy stayed for a month in the Rue de Charonne, under the name of Thorec, an anagram of...
The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, which shows that naughty boys get bored with being corrected by those who know more than they do.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

So, children, I must tell you that while poor Old Joe was taken off to prison—though he had done no wrong—that scallywag, Pinocchio, set free from the clutches of the policeman, took to his heels down across the fields, so as to get home more...
How Pinocchio gets hungry and looks for an egg to scramble; but how, when least expected, the scrambled egg flies away through the window.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

By now it was getting dark, and Pinocchio, remembering that he had eaten nothing, felt his tummy rumbling in a manner that much resembled having an appetite.

But in youngsters appetite soon takes great strides and, indeed after a few minutes, that appetite became hunger...
How, freed from prison, Pinocchio sets out to return to the Fairy’s house; but on the journey he meets a terrible Serpent, and later gets caught in a gin-trap.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

You can imagine Pinocchio’s joy at being freed. Without any humming and hawing he made haste to leave the town and once more took the road towards the Fairy’s Cottage.

Because of the rainy weather, the road had turned into a morass and was knee-deep...
How Pinocchio exposes the thieves, and as a reward for being trustworthy is given his liberty.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

He had already been sleeping deeply for two hours and more when, at about midnight, he was woken by a murmuring and a whispering of strange little voices which seemed to come from the farmyard. Putting the tip of his nose out of the hole...
Chapter VII: In which Mr. Chevy Slyme asserts the Independence of his Spirit; and the Blue Dragon loses a Limb
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Martin began to work at the grammar-school next morning, with so much vigour and expedition, that Mr. Pinch had new reason to do homage to the natural endowments of that young gentleman, and to acknowledge his infinite superiority to himself. The new pupil received...
Chapter IX: Town and Todgers’S
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Surely there never was, in any other borough, city, or hamlet in the world, such a singular sort of a place as Todgers’s. And surely London, to judge from that part of it which hemmed Todgers’s round, and hustled it, and crushed it, and...
Chapter XVIII: Does Business with the House of Anthony Chuzzlewit and Son, from which One of the Partners retires unexpectedly
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he...
Chapter XXXIII: Further Proceedings in Eden, and a Proceeding out of it. Martin makes a Discovery of some importance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

From Mr. Moddle to Eden is an easy and natural transition. Mr. Moddle, living in the atmosphere of Miss Pecksniff’s love, dwelt (if he had but known it) in a terrestrial Paradise. The thriving city of Eden was also a terrestrial Paradise, upon the...
Chapter XLVII: Conclusion of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas and his Friend
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Did no men passing through the dim streets shrink without knowing why, when he came stealing up behind them? As he glided on, had no child in its sleep an indistinct perception of a guilty shadow falling on its bed, that troubled its innocent...
Chapter LIV: Gives the author great concern. for it is the last in the book
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Todgers’s was in high feather, and mighty preparations for a late breakfast were astir in its commercial bowers. The blissful morning had arrived when Miss Pecksniff was to be united, in holy matrimony, to Augustus.

Miss Pecksniff was in a frame of mind, equally becoming...
Book IX
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

It was the day of the most boisterous festival of the year at the end of the carnival, when the Roman people are seized with a kind of feverish desire for merrymaking, a craze for amusement not to be found elsewhere. The...
Book XV
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

It was with deep emotion that Oswald had read Corinne’s letter. He was troubled by a confusing mixture of different sorrows. At times he would be hurt by her picture of an English provincial town and say to himself in despair that...
Book XVII
Authors: de Staël Madame
Published: December 2020

Chapter I

Meanwhile Corinne had settled near Venice in a district on the shores of the Brenta. She wanted to stay in the area where she had seen Oswald for the last time; moreover, she thought that there she was nearer than in Rome...
On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869)
Authors: Tyndall John
Published: December 2020

Whether we see rightly or wrongly—whether our intellection be real or imaginary—it is of the utmost importance in science to aim at perfect clearness in the description of all that comes, or seems to come, within the range of the intellect. For if we are...
From Unconscious Memory (1880)
Authors: Butler Samuel
Published: December 2020

The passage included here is Butler’s translation of Ewald Hering’s published lecture, ‘Über das Gedächtnis als eine allgemeine Function der organisierten Materie’ (‘On Memory as a General Function of Organized Matter’, 1876). Butler admired Hering’s ideas so much that he incorporated the entire 20-page essay...
From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826)
Authors: Gaspar Spurzheim Johann
Published: December 2020

In 1800 Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832), then a medical student, travelled to Vienna to work with Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), one of the founders of phrenology. Spurzheim became Gall’s research assistant, and the two toured Germany in 1805–7. Rivalry and differences of opinion later ended...
From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)
Authors: Engels Friedrich
Published: December 2020

Manchester lies at the foot of the southern slope of a range of hills, which stretch hither from Oldham, their last peak Kersall-moor, being at once the race-course and the Mons Sacer* of Manchester. Manchester proper lies on the left bank of the...
The Events of A Day and Night
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

§ 1. March the twenty-first. Morning

Next morning the steward went out as usual. He shortly told his companion Anne, that he had almost matured their scheme, and that they would enter upon the details of it when he came home at night. The fortunate...
3
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

One section of the bookshelves lining the walls of his orange and blue study was filled exclusively with works in Latin, works which are classified under the generic term ‘The Decadent Period’* by those intellects which have been tamed into conformity by the...
7
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

After that night on which, for no apparent reason, he had conjured up the depressing memory of Auguste Langlois, he lived his entire life over again.

He was incapable, now, of understanding one word of the books he consulted; his very eyes would no longer...
14
Authors: Huysmans Joris-karl
Published: December 2020

Des Esseintes managed to struggle along for several days, thanks to various ruses with which he successfully deluded his distrustful stomach, but there came a morning when he could no longer tolerate the marinades that masked the odour of fat and the smell of blood...
Chapter 12
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

The Jew who owned the room had found a discreet surgeon who, in his turn grasping that there was money in the purse, told Ludovic that his ‘conscience’ obliged him to make a report to the police concerning the wounds of the young man whom...
Chapter 13
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Every serious idea was forgotten at the unexpected appearance of this charming person. Fabrice settled down to life in Bologna with a feeling of profound joy and complete security. This artless capacity of his to find happiness in whatever was filling his life was apparent...
Chapter 14
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

While Fabrice was occupied in the pursuit of love in a village near Parma, the Public Prosecutor Rassi, who did not know Fabrice was so close at hand, continued to treat his case as though he were a Liberal; he pretended to be unable to...
Chapter 21
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

Almost a year before the period of her misfortunes the Duchess had had a strange encounter: one evening when she was suffering from la luna, as the locals put it, she had set off on the spur of the moment for her villa...
Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men
Authors: Rousseau Jean-jacques
Published: December 2020

I shallbe speaking of man, and the issue I discuss tells me that I shall be speaking to men, for such questions are not raised by persons who are afraid to acknowledge the truth. Thus, I confidently defend humanity’s cause before the men of...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The younger of the other men, it afterwards appeared, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, temporarily relinquished, submitting easily in this interest to Mrs Lowder’s parting injunction not to sit too tight....
The Three Gables
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

I don’t think that any of my adventures with Mr Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables.* I had not seen Holmes for some days, and had no idea of...
The Blanched Soldier*
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own. Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him...
The Retired Colourman
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions.

‘Did you see him?’ he asked.

‘You mean the old fellow who has just gone out?’

‘Precisely.’

‘Yes, I met him at the door.’

‘What...
Chapter V
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The theatre at Fairport had opened, but no Mr Lovel appeared on the boards, nor was there any thing in the habits or deportment of the young gentleman...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The shout of human voices from above was...
Chapter IV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Nekhlyudov had finished his coffee, he went to his study to look up the summons and see at what hour he was to appear at the Court, as well as to write his answer to the Princess. Passing through his studio, where an...
Chapter VII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At last Matthew Nikitich also arrived, and the usher, a thin man, with a long neck and a kind of sideways walk, his lower lip protruding to one side, came into the jurymen’s room. This usher was an honest man and had had a...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At last the president finished his speech, and lifting the list of questions with a graceful movement of his arm, he handed it to the foreman, who came up to take it. The jury, glad to be able to get away into the debating-room,...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Please to walk in, your excellency’, said the friendly, fat doorkeeper of the Korchagins’ big house, opening the door, which moved noiselessly on its patent English hinges; ‘you are expected. They are at dinner, but the orders are to admit you.’ The doorkeeper...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Shameful and horrid, horrid and shameful!’ Nekhlyudov kept saying to himself, as he walked home along the familiar streets. The depression he had felt whilst speaking to Missy would not leave him. He felt that, looking at it externally as it were, he...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From the prosecutor Nekhlyudov went straight to the preliminary detention prison. However, no Maslova was to be found there, and the inspector explained to Nekhlyudov that she would probably be in the old temporary prison.

The distance between the two prisons was very great, and...
Chapter XLII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Well, but I must do what I came here for’, he said, trying to pluck up courage. ‘What is to be done now?’ He looked round for an official, and seeing a thin little man in the uniform of an officer pacing up...
Chapter IV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Coming out of the gate, Nekhlyudov met the girl with the tassel ear-rings returning along the trodden path that lay across the pasture ground overgrown with dock and plantain. She had a long, brightly coloured apron on and was quickly swinging her left arm...
Chapter V
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov felt more at ease with the boys than with the grown-up people, and he began talking to them as they went along. The little one in the pink shirt ceased laughing, and spoke as sensibly and as exactly as the elder one.

‘Can you...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Nekhlyudov remembered the smile that had passed between him and Mariette, he shook his head.

‘You have hardly had time to turn round before you are again drawn into this life’, he thought, feeling that discord and doubt which usually oppressed him when he...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The Countess Catherine Ivanovna’s dinner-hour was half-past seven, and the dinner was served in a way quite new to Nekhlyudov. After they had placed the dishes on the table the footmen left the room and the diners helped themselves. The men would not let...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On his return to Moscow, Nekhlyudov went at once to the prison hospital to take Maslova the sad news that the Senate had confirmed the decision of the Court, and that she must prepare to go to Siberia. He had little hope of success...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The gang of convicts among whom was Maslova was to start on the 5th of July, and Nekhlyudov arranged to start the same day.

The day before, Nekhlyudov’s sister and her husband came to town to see him.

Nekhlyudov’s sister, Nataly Ivanovna Rogozhinskaya, was ten...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The fire had burnt up, and the stove was warm; the tea was made, poured out into cups and mugs, and milk was added to it; and rusks, fresh rye and wheaten bread, butter, hard-boiled eggs, and calf’s head and feet were placed on...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘What do you think of that?’ said Mary Pavlovna. ‘In love, quite in love! Now that’s a thing I never should have expected of him—that Vladimir Simonson should be in love, and in the silliest and most boyish way! It is strange and,...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Passing through the ante-room and the sickening, foul corridor, in which to their astonishment they saw two prisoners making water on the floor, the Englishman and Nekhlyudov accompanied by the inspector entered the first ward, where those sentenced to hard labour were confined. The...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In one of the exiles’ wards Nekhlyudov, to his surprise, recognized the strange old man he had seen crossing the ferry that morning. This tattered and wrinkled old man was sitting on the floor by the beds, barefooted, wearing only a dirty cinder-coloured shirt,...
Rip Van Winkle
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New-York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not...
Chapter IV The Sea Chest
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I Lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man’s money—if he had any—was certainly...
Chapter XXVIII In the Enemy’s Camp
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The red glare of the torch, lighting up the interior of the block-house, showed me the worst of my apprehensions realised. The pirates were in possession of the house and stores: there was the cask of cognac, there were the pork and bread, as...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Antoine
Macquart returned to Plassans after the fall of Napoleon. He had had the incredible good fortune to escape all the final murderous campaigns of the Empire. He had moved from barracks to barracks, dragging out his brutish life as a soldier. This existence...
II THE OPEN ROAD
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

‘Ratty,’ said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, ‘if you please, I want to ask you a favour.’

The Rat was sitting on the river bank, singing a little song. He had just composed it himself, so he was very taken up with...
Chapter V The Headstone at Ventnor
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Yes: there it was, in black and white—‘Helen Talboys, aged twenty-two.’

When George told the governess on board the Argus that if he heard any evil tidings of his wife he should drop down dead, he spoke in perfect good faith; and yet here...
Chapter XIX The Blacksmith’s Mistake
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was exactly five minutes past four as Mr Robert Audley stepped out upon the platform at Shoreditch, and waited placidly until such time as his dogs and his portmanteau should be delivered up to the attendant porter who had called his cab, and...
The Talisman
Authors: de Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Towards the end of last October,* a young man entered the Palais Royal* just as, in accordance with the law that protects an addiction which is by its very nature subject to tax, the gambling-parlours were opening. Without too much hesitation,...
Epilogue
Authors: de Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

‘And what became of Pauline?’

‘Ah … Pauline, well now … Have you ever sat at home by your fireside on a cosy winter’s night, indulging your memories of love or youth, watching the flames creep along an oak log? Here the fire draws red...
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Chapter I: St. Jago—Cape de Verd Islands

After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. The object of...
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

Introduction

The nature of the following work will be best understood by a brief account of how it came to be written. During many years I collected notes on the origin or descent of man, without any intention of publishing on the subject, but...
Chapter 4 Lady Laura Standish
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas, in describing Lady Laura Standish to Mary Flood Jones at Killaloe, had not painted her in very glowing colours. Nevertheless he admired Lady Laura very much, and she was worthy of admiration. It was probably the greatest pride of our hero’s life that...
Chapter 38 The Duel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I knew it was a duel;—bedad I did,’ said Laurence Fitzgibbon, standing at the corner of Orchard Street and Oxford Street, when Phineas had half told his story. ‘I was sure of it from the tone of your voice, my boy. We mustn’t...
Chapter 42 Lady Baldock does not send a Card to Phineas Finn
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Baldock’s house in Berkeley Square was very stately,—a large house with five front windows in a row, and a big door, and a huge square hall, and a fat porter in a round-topped chair;—but it was dingy and dull, and could not have...
Chapter 60 Madame Goesler’s Politics
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It may be remembered that when Lady Glencora Palliser was shown into Madame Goesler’s room, Madame Goesler had just explained somewhat forcibly to the Duke of Omnium her reasons for refusing the loan of his Grace’s villa at Como. She had told the Duke...
XII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

‘They are just crazy about it upstairs. Ginger and the Gaffer are the worst. They say they had better sell the place and build another house somewhere else. None of the county people will call on them now—and just as they were beginning...
XL
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

The magistrate of course sent the case for trial, and the thirty pounds which William had promised to give to Esther went to pay for the defence. There seemed at first some hope that the prosecution would not be able to prove its case,...
XLVII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Days, weeks, and months passed away, and the two women came to live more and more like friends and less like mistress and maid. Not that Esther ever failed to use the respectful ‘ma’am’ when she addressed her mistress, nor did they ever sit...
KÖnigstein
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas
Finn and Lady Laura Kennedy sat together discussing the affairs of the past till the servant told them that ‘My Lord’ was in the next room, and ready to receive Mr Finn. ‘You will find him much altered,’ said Lady Laura, ‘even more...
Phineas Again in London
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas, on his return to London, before he had taken his seat in the House, received the following letter from Lady Laura Kennedy:—

‘Dresden, Feb. 8, 1870.*

‘Dear
Friend,—

‘I thought that perhaps you would have written to me...
The First Thunderbolt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was not till after Mr Slide had left him that Phineas wrote the following letter to Lady Laura:—

‘House of Commons, 1st March, 18—

‘My dear
Friend,

‘I have a long story to tell, which I fear I...
Seventy-Two
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the next morning Phineas, with his speech before him, was obliged for a while to forget, or at least to postpone, Mr Bonteen and his injuries. He could not now go to Lord Cantrip, as the hours were too precious to him, and,...
Mr Kennedy’S Will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Kennedy had fired a pistol at Phineas Finn in Macpherson’s Hotel with the manifest intention of blowing out the brains of his presumed enemy, and no public notice had been taken of the occurrence. Phineas himself had been only too willing to pass...
The Duchess Takes Counsel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas
Finn, when he had been thrice remanded before the Bow Street magistrate, and four times examined, was at last committed to be tried for the murder of Mr Bonteen. This took place on Wednesday, May 19th, a fortnight after the murder. But during...
The Meager Family
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the day after the committal a lady, who had got out of a cab at the corner of Northumberland Street, in the Marylebone Road, walked up that very uninviting street, and knocked at a door just opposite to the deadest part of the...
The Two Dukes
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was necessary that the country should be governed, even though Mr Bonteen had been murdered;—and in order that it should be duly governed it was necessary that Mr Bonteen’s late place at the Board of Trade should be filled. There was...
The Beginning of the Trial
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The task of seeing an important trial at the Old Bailey is by no means a pleasant business, unless you be what the denizens of the Court would call ‘one of the swells,’—so as to enjoy the privilege of being a benchfellow with the...
Mr Chaffanbrass for the Defence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The case for the prosecution was completed on the Saturday evening, Mrs Bunce having been examined as the last witness on that side. She was only called upon to say that her lodger had been in the habit of letting himself in and out...
Phineas Finn Returns to his Duties
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The election at Tankerville took place during the last week in July; and as Parliament was doomed to sit that year as late as the 10th of August, there was ample time for Phineas to present himself and take the oaths before the Session...