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Dolly and a Real Gentleman
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

The winter came in early, with a great deal of cold and wet. There was snow, or sleet, or rain almost every day for weeks, changing only for keen driving winds, or sharp frosts. The horses all felt it very much. When it is...
A Friend in Need
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

At last came the election day; there was no lack of work for Jerry and me. First, came a stout puffy gentleman with a carpet-bag;* he wanted to go to the Bishopsgate Station:* then we were called by a party...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He had, however, engaged to do more than proved feasible in promising to present his aunt, Mrs Costello, to Miss Daisy Miller. As soon as that lady had got better of her headache he waited on her in her apartment and, after a show...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Four years ago—in 1874*—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the high, the torrid temperature. Disembarking upon...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In point of fact, as the latter would have said, Mrs Westgate disembarked by the next mid-May on the British coast. She was accompanied by her sister, but unattended by any other member of her family. To the lost comfort of a husband respectably...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Lord
Lambeth came to see them on the morrow, bringing Percy Beaumont with him—the latter having at once declared his intention of neglecting none of the usual offices of civility. This declaration, however, on his kinsman’s informing him of the advent of the two...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Percy
Beaumont had all this time been a very much less frequent visitor at Jones’s Hotel than his former fellow traveller; he had in fact called but twice on the two American ladies. Lord Lambeth, who often saw him, reproached him with his neglect...
Chapter I: Introduction
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Retrospect of principles already established.—Distribution of the remaining subjects.—Subject of the present book.—Forms of government.—Method of examination to be adopted.

In the preceding divisions of this work the ground has been sufficiently cleared to enable us to proceed with considerable explicitness and satisfaction...
Chapter II: Of Education, the Education of a Prince
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Nature of monarchy delineated.—School of adversity.—Tendency of superfluity to inspire effeminacy—to deprive us of the benefit of experience—illustrated in the case of princes.—Manner in which they are addressed.—Inefficacy of the instruction bestowed upon them.

First then of monarchy; and we will first suppose...
The Fatalist
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

I Once happened to spend two weeks in a Cossack village on our left flank. An infantry battalion was stationed there too, and the officers used to take turns to meet in each other’s quarters, and play cards in the evening.

One day, when we...
3
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

Crossing Sagan-Lu. An exchange of fire. Camp life. The Yazidis. Battle with the Seraskie of Arzrum. A blown-up saklia.

I Had arrived just in time. On the same day (13 June) the army received orders to advance. While dining with Raevsky, I listened...
4
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

The battle with Hakki Pasha. Death of a Tatar bek. A hermaphrodite. The Pasha a prisoner. Araks. The Shepherd’s Bridge. Hassan Kale. A mountain spring. The advance on Arzrum. Negotiations. Capture of Arzrum. Turkish prisoners. A Dervish.

Next
Day, before five in the...
5
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

Arzrum. Asiatic luxury. The climate. The cemetery. Satirical verses. The Seraskie’s palace. The Turkish Pasha’s harem. The plague. Death of Burtsov. Departure from Arzrum. The return journey. A Russian journal.

Arzrum (wrongly called Arzerum, Erzrum, Erzron) was founded around the year 415 under...
Chapter X A Refractory Pupil
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Sylvia was still full of the specksioneer and his stories, when Hepburn came up to give her the next lesson. But the prospect of a little sensible commendation for writing a whole page full of flourishing ‘Abednegos,’ had lost all the slight charm it...
Chapter XXII Deepening Shadows
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

But before Coulson was married, many small events happened—small events to all but Philip. To him they were as the sun and moon. The days when he went up to Haytersbank and Sylvia spoke to him, the days when he went up and she...
The Squire makes a Visit to the Small House
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Dale acknowledged to herself that she had not much ground for hoping that she should ever find in Crosbie’s house much personal happiness for her future life. She did not dislike Mr Crosbie, nor in any great degree mistrust him; but she had...
John Eames returns to Burton Crescent
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

John
Eames and Crosbie returned to town on the same day. It will be remembered how Eames had assisted Lord De Guest in the matter of the bull, and how great had been the earl’s gratitude on the occasion. The memory of this, and...
Fie, Fie!
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Will any reader remember the loves,—no, not the loves; that word is so decidedly ill-applied as to be incapable of awakening the remembrance of any reader; but the flirtations—of Lady Dumbello and Mr Plantagenet Palliser? Those flirtations, as they had been carried on at...
Preparations for Going
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Mamma, read that letter.’

It was Mrs Dale’s eldest daughter who spoke to her, and they were alone together in the parlour at the Small House. Mrs Dale took the letter and read it very carefully. She then put it back into its...
Mrs Dale is Thankful for a Good Thing
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On that day they dined early at the Small House, as they had been in the habit of doing since the packing had commenced. And after dinner Mrs Dale went through the gardens, up to the other house, with a written note in her...
The Doctor Drinks his Tea
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The doctor got on his cob and went his way, returning duly to Greshamsbury. But, in truth, as he went he hardly knew whither he was going, or what he was doing. Sir Roger had hinted that the cob would be compelled...
The Proposal
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now the departures from Courcy Castle came rapidly one after another, and there remained but one more evening before Miss Dunstable’s carriage was to be packed. The countess, in the early moments of Frank’s courtship, had controlled his ardour and checked the rapidity...
Louis Scatcherd
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Dr Thorne reached Boxhall Hill he found Mr Rerechild from Barchester there before him. Poor Lady Scatcherd, when her husband was stricken by the fit, hardly knew in her dismay what adequate steps to take. She had, as a matter of course, sent...
Miss Thorne goes on a Visit
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now began the unpleasant things at Greshamsbury of which we have here told. When Lady Arabella walked away from the doctor’s house she resolved that, let it cost what it might, there should be war to the knife between her and...
The Doctor Hears Something to his Advantage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Sir
Louis
Scatcherd had told his mother that he was rather out of sorts, and when he reached Boxall Hill it certainly did not appear that he had given any exaggerated statement of his own maladies. He certainly was a good deal out of...
The Donkey Ride
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Sir
Louis, when left to himself, was slightly dismayed and somewhat discouraged; but he was not induced to give up his object. The first effort of his mind was made in conjecturing what private motive Dr Thorne could possibly have in wishing to debar...
Saturday Evening and Sunday Morning
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We must now go back a little and describe how Frank had been sent off on special business to London. The household at Greshamsbury was at this time in but a doleful state. It seemed to be pervaded, from the squire down to the...
‘Amantium Iræ Amoris Integratio’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now, with my reader’s consent, I will follow the postman with that letter to Framley; not by its own circuitous route indeed, or by the same mode of conveyance; for that letter went into Barchester by the Courcy night mail-cart, which, on its...
Mr Harold Smith’s Lecture
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the whole the party at Chaldicotes was very pleasant, and the time passed away quickly enough. Mr Robarts’s chief friend there, independently of Mr Sowerby, was Miss Dunstable, who seemed to take a great fancy to him, whereas she was not very accessible...
Gatherum Castle
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On Tuesday morning Mark did receive his wife’s letter and the ten-pound note,* whereby a strong proof was given of the honesty of the post-office people in Barsetshire. That letter, written as it had been in a hurry, while Robin postboy was...
The Little Bill
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lucy, during those last fifteen minutes of her sojourn in the Framley Court drawing-room, somewhat modified the very strong opinion she had before formed as to her unfitness for such society. It was very pleasant sitting there in that easy-chair, while Lord Lufton stood...
Mrs Proudie’s Conversazione
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was grievous to think of the mischief and danger into which Griselda Grantly was brought by the worldliness of her mother in those few weeks previous to Lady Lufton’s arrival in town,—very grievous, at least, to her ladyship, as from time to time...
The New Minister’s Patronage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At that time, just as Lady Lufton was about to leave Framley for London, Mark Robarts received a pressing letter, inviting him also to go up to the metropolis for a day or two,—not for pleasure, but on business. The letter was from his...
Impulsive
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I Trust my readers will all remember how Puck the pony was beaten during that drive to Hogglestook. It may be presumed that Puck himself on that occasion did not suffer much. His skin was not so soft as Mrs Robarts’s heart. The...
Miss Dunstable at Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Miss
Dunstable did not look like a love-lorn maiden as she stood in a small ante-chamber at the top of her drawing-room stairs receiving her guests. Her house was one of those abnormal mansions, which are to be seen here and there in London,...
The Goat and Compasses
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Harold
Smith had been made unhappy by that rumour of a dissolution; but the misfortune to him would be as nothing compared to the severity with which it would fall on Mr Sowerby. Harold Smith might or might not lose his borough, but Mr...
Consolation
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the next day at two o’clock punctually, Mark Robarts was at the ‘Dragon of Wantly,’ walking up and down the very room in which the party had breakfasted after Harold Smith’s lecture, and waiting for the arrival of Mr Sowerby. He...
How to Write a Love Letter
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Dr
Thorne, in the few words which he spoke to his niece before he left Boxall Hill, had called himself an old man; but he was as yet on the right side of sixty by five good years, and bore about with him less...
Don Quixote
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the day on which Lucy had her interview with Lady Lufton the dean dined at Framley Parsonage. He and Robarts had known each other since the latter had been in the diocese, and now, owing to Mark’s preferment in the chapter, had become...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next evening at nine, or thereabouts, Abbé Bourrette came to fetch Abbé Faujas. He had promised to be the one to introduce him, to present him to the Rougon salon. When he found him all ready, and standing in the middle of the...
Chapter 7
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That night, Mouret, who couldn’t sleep, plied Marthe with questions, wanting to know what had happened during the evening. She replied that everything had gone as usual; she had not noticed anything out of the ordinary. She simply added that Abbé Faujas had seen...
Chapter 8
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day Marthe first went to see her mother. She told her at length about the good work she had in mind. The old lady nodded and smiled but at the same time she was almost cross; she gave her to understand she...
Chapter 11
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning Abbé Bourrette arrived, looking distraught. He saw Marthe on the steps and came over to wring her hands, stammering:

‘Poor Compan, it’s the end, he’s dying… I’m going up to see Faujas straight away.’

And when Marthe had pointed out the priest taking...
Chapter 12
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When summer returned, the priest and his mother came down again every evening to take the air on the terrace. Mouret grew morose. He refused the offer of piquet with the old lady. He stayed there, tipping back and forth on his chair. As...
Chapter 20
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Abbé
Faujas put his hand on Marthe’s shoulder.

‘What are you doing there?’ he asked. ‘Why have you not gone to bed?… I forbade you to wait up for me.’

She came to with a start.

‘I thought you would come back earlier,’ she stammered,...
Hiram’s Hospital
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman* residing in the cathedral town of ——; let us call it Barchester.* Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that...
Hiram’s Bedesmen
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The parties most interested in the movement which is about to set Barchester by the ears, were not the foremost to discuss the merit of the question, as is often the case; but when the bishop, the archdeacon, the warden, the steward, and Messrs...
Dr Grantly Visits the Hospital
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Though doubt and hesitation disturbed the rest of our poor warden, no such weakness perplexed the nobler breast of his son-in-law. As the indomitable cock preparing for the combat sharpens his spurs, shakes his feathers, and erects his comb, so did the archdeacon arrange...
Sir Abraham Haphazard
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Harding was shown into a comfortable inner sitting-room, looking more like a gentleman’s book-room than a lawyer’s chambers, and there waited for Sir Abraham. Nor was he kept waiting long. In ten or fifteen minutes he heard a clatter of voices speaking quickly...
The Warden Resigns
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The party met next morning at breakfast; and a very sombre affair it was;—very unlike the breakfasts at Plumstead Episcopi.

There were three thin, small, dry bits of bacon, each an inch long, served up under a huge old plated cover;*...
Who will be the new Bishop?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the latter days of July in the year 185—, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways. Who was to be the new Bishop?

The death of old Dr...
Dr and Mrs Proudie
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

This narrative is supposed to commence immediately after the installation of Dr Proudie. I will not describe the ceremony, as I do not precisely understand its nature. I am ignorant whether a bishop be chaired like a member of parliament, or carried in a...
The Widow’s Persecution
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early on the following morning Mr Slope was summoned to the bishop’s dressing-room, and went there fully expecting that he should find his lordship very indignant, and spirited up by his wife to repeat the rebuke which she had administered on the previous day....
Another Love Scene
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

But there was another visitor at the rectory whose feelings in this unfortunate matter must be somewhat strictly analysed. Mr Arabin had heard from his friend of the probability of Eleanor’s marriage with Mr Slope with amazement, but not with incredulity. It...
Ullathorne Sports—Act I
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The trouble in civilised life of entertaining company, as it is called too generally without much regard to strict veracity, is so great that it cannot but be matter of wonder that people are so fond of attempting it. It is difficult to ascertain...
Mr Slope bids Farewell to the Palace and its Inhabitants
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We must now take leave of Mr Slope, and of the bishop also, and of Mrs Proudie. These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life;—not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing,...
Master and Workman
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

I

It happened in the seventies, on the day after the winter feast of St Nicholas.* There was a festival in the parish, and the village innkeeper Vasily Andreyich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant,* was obliged to be there. As a...
Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament?
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

Should a member of the Legislature be bound by the instructions of his constituents? Should he be the organ of their sentiments, or of his own? their ambassador to a congress, or their professional agent, empowered not only to act for them, but to...
Of Nationality, as Connected with Representative Government
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

A portion of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality, if they are united among themselves by common sympathies, which do not exist between them and any others—which make them co-operate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to...
Chapter 4 The Story Of The Bald-Headed Man
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

We followed the Indian down a sordid and common passage, ill-lit and worse furnished, until he came to a door upon the right, which he threw open. A blaze of yellow light streamed out upon us, and in the centre of the glare there...
Chapter 7 The Episode Of The Barrel
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

The police had brought a cab with them, and in this I escorted Miss Morstan back to her home. After the angelic fashion of women, she had borne trouble with a calm face as long as there was someone weaker than herself to support,...
Chapter 8 The Baker Street Irregulars
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘What now?’ I asked. ‘Toby has lost his character for infallibility.’

‘He acted according to his lights,’ said Holmes, lifting him down from the barrel and walking him out of the timber-yard. ‘If you consider how much creosote is carted about London...
A Case Of Identity
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘My dear fellow,’ said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, ‘life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which...
The Man With The Twisted Lip
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Isa
Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St George’s, was much addicted to opium.* The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college, for having read...
The Six Napoleons
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It was no very unusual thing for Mr Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the...
CHAPTER I I Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

I Will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house. The sun began...
Chapter XX The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Sometimes we walked, sometimes ran; and as it drew on to morning, walked ever the less and ran the more. Though, upon its face, that country appeared to be a desert, yet there were huts and houses of the people, of which we must...
Chapter XXIII Cluny’s Cage
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

We came at last to the foot of an exceeding steep wood, which scrambled up a craggy hillside, and was crowned by a naked precipice.

‘It’s here,’ said one of the guides, and we struck up hill.

The trees clung upon the slope, like sailors...
Chapter XXV In Balquhidder
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

At the door of the first house we came to, Alan knocked, which was no very safe enterprise in such a part of the Highlands as the Braes of Balquhidder. No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed by small septs,...
Chapter XXVII I Come to Mr Rankeillor
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The next day it was agreed that Alan should fend for himself till sunset; but as soon as it began to grow dark, he should lie in the fields by the roadside near to Newhalls, and stir for naught until he heard me whistling....
Chapter 5 My First Success
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

I had at once gone to work on a third novel, and had nearly completed it, when I was informed of the absolute failure of the former. I find however that the agreement for its publication was not made till 1850, by which...
Chapter 9 ‘Castle Richmond’, ‘Brown, Jones, and Robinson’, ‘North America’, ‘Orley Farm’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When I had half-finished Framley Parsonage, I went back to my other story, Castle Richmond, which I was writing for Messrs Chapman & Hall, and completed that. I think that this was the only occasion on which I have had...
Chapter 10 ‘The Small House at Allington’, ‘Can You Forgive Her?’, ‘Rachel Ray’, and The ‘Fortnightly Review’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During the early months of 1862 Orley Farm was still being brought out in numbers, and at the same time Brown, Jones, and Robinson was appearing in the Cornhill Magazine. In September 1862 The Small House at...
Chapter 12 On Novels and the Art of Writing Them
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is nearly twenty years since I proposed to myself to write a history of English prose fiction.* I shall never do it now, but the subject is so good a one that I recommend it heartily to some man of letters,...
Trollope on Jane Austen
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Since the writing of Pepys’s Diary, Miss Austen has perhaps gone the nearest towards giving us a true insight into the houses of the people of her day. With Mr and Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine de Burgh we are quite at home. With...
Chapter 12
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

It was late when they set off home. Already at ten o’clock Effi had said to Gieshübler that it must be time, Fräulein Trippelli had a train she mustn’t miss and would have to leave Kessin at six. However, Marietta, who was standing beside them...
Chapter 17
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

It was two when they got back. Crampas took his leave and rode off into the town, to his home on the market square. Effi, for her part, changed her clothes and tried to get some sleep, but without success; her bad mood was worse...
Chapter 21
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Innstetten had been away four days when Crampas returned from Stettin with the news that the powers that be had decided to abandon for good the idea of stationing two companies of cavalry in Kessin; there were so many small towns that would be keen...
Chapter 24
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Three days later Innstetten arrived in Berlin, fairly late, around nine. They were all at the station: Effi, her Mama, her cousin. He was warmly received, warmest of all by Effi, and a whole host of matters had already been discussed by the time the...
Chapter 25
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

The next evening Effi was back in Berlin and Innstetten was there at the station; Rollo was with him and trotted along beside the carriage as they drove, chatting, through Tiergarten Park.

‘I thought you weren’t going to keep your word.’

‘But of course...
Chapter 34
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

When Rummschüttel was called, Effi’s condition caused him no little concern. The feverishness, that he had observed in her for some time now, seemed more pronounced than ever, and what was worse, there were also the first signs of a nervous disorder. His calm, friendly...
Chapter 12 mr crawley seeks for sympathy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Matters went very badly indeed in the parsonage-house at Hogglestock. On the Friday morning, the morning of the day after his committal, Mr Crawley got up very early, long before the daylight, and dressing himself in the dark, groped his way downstairs. His wife...
Chapter 14 major grantly consults a friend
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Grace Crawley passed through Silverbridge on her way to Allington on the Monday, and on the Tuesday morning Major Grantly received a very short note from Miss Prettyman, telling him that she had done so. ‘Dear Sir,—I think you will be glad to learn...
Chapter 40 mr toogood’s ideas about society
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A day or two after the interview which was described in the last chapter John Eames dined with his uncle Mr Thomas Toogood, in Tavistock Square. He was in the habit of doing this about once a month, and was a great favourite...
Chapter 43 mr crosbie goes into the city
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I’ve known the City now for more than ten years, Mr Crosbie, and I never knew money to be so tight as it is at this moment. The best commercial bills going can’t be done under nine, and any other kind of paper...
Chapter 45 lily dale goes to london
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

One morning towards the end of March the squire rapped at the window of the drawing-room of the Small House in which Mrs Dale and her daughter were sitting. He had a letter in his hand, and both Lily and her mother knew that...
Chapter 54 the clerical commission
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was at last arranged that the five clergymen selected should meet at Dr Tempest’s house in Silverbridge to make inquiry and report to the bishop whether the circumstances connected with the cheque for twenty pounds were of such a nature as to make...
Chapter 69 mr crawley’s last appearance in his own pulpit
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

no word or message from Mr Crawley reached Barchester throughout the week, and on the Sunday morning Mr Thumble was under a positive engagement to go out to Hogglestock, and perform the services of the church. Dr Tempest had been quite right in saying...
Chapter 73 there is comfort at plumstead
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Henry Grantly had written the following short letter to Mrs Grantly when he made up his mind to pull down the auctioneer’s bills;—

‘Dear Mother,

‘I have postponed the sale, not liking to refuse you anything. As far as I can see, I...
Chapter 75 madalina’s heart is bleeding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

John Eames, as soon as he had left Mrs Arabin at the hotel, and had taken his travelling-bag to his own lodgings, started off for his uncle Toogood’s house. There he found Mrs Toogood, not in the most serene state of mind as to...
Chapter XX: Voyage to Washington—Capitol—City of Washington—Congress—Indians—Funeral of a Member of Congress
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

By far the shortest route to Washington, both as to distance and time, is by land; but I much wished to see the celebrated Chesapeak bay, and it was therefore decided that we should take our passage in the steam-boat. It is indeed a...
Chapter XXIX: Literature—Extracts—Fine Arts—Education
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

The character of the American literature is, generally speaking, pretty justly appreciated in Europe. The immense exhalation of periodical trash, which penetrates into every cot and corner of the country, and which is greedily sucked in by all ranks, is unquestionably one great cause...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

That morning, Jean had tied a blue canvas seed-bag round his waist, and was holding it open with his left hand while, with his right, he took out a handful of corn and at every third step scattered it in all directions with a...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

As it happened, the following Sunday fell on the first day of November, All Saints’ Day; and nine o’clock was about to strike when the Abbé Godard, the priest of Bazoches-le-Doyen, who was in charge of the former parish of Rognes, appeared...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Lise and Françoise had got rid of Blanchette, who was too fat and no longer calved, so they had resolved, that Saturday, to go to the market in Cloyes to buy another cow. Jean offered to take them there in one of the farm’s...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was now early October, the grape-picking was about to begin, a good week of tippling, in which disunited families usually reconciled around jugs of new wine. Rognes reeked of grapes for seven days; people ate so many the women would hitch up their...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The week went by, but Françoise dug her heels in and refused to go back to her sister’s. There was a hideous scene in the street, when Buteau, who was dragging her by the hair, had to let go after she bit him savagely...
Sortes Virgilianæ
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

When Belinda got home, lady Delacour was busy in the library, looking over a collection of French plays with the ci-devant comte de N—— ;* a gentleman who possessed such singular talents for reading dramatic compositions, that many people declared...
The Exhibition
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Two hours after her ladyship had retired to her room, as Belinda was passing by the door to go to her own bed-chamber, she heard lady Delacour call to her.

‘Belinda, you need not walk so softly, I am not asleep. Come in, will you,...
Chapter IV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“Gorgibus.—… Je te dis que le mariage est une chose sainte et sacrée, et que c’est faire en honnêtes gens, que de débuter par là.

“Madelon.—Mon Dieu! que si tout le monde vous ressemblait, un roman serait bientôt fini! La belle chose que...
Chapter IX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Eight months after the arrival of the family at Offendene,...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Gwendolen looked lovely and vigorous...
Chapter XX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“It will hardly be denied that even in this frail and corrupted world, we sometimes meet persons who, in their very mien and aspect, as well as in the whole habit of life, manifest such a signature and stamp of virtue, as to make our...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it;...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Imagine a rambling, patchy house, the best part built of grey stone, and red-tiled, a round tower jutting at one of the corners,...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

There be who hold that the deeper tragedy were a Prometheus Bound*not after but before he had well got the celestial fire into the νάνννξ*whereby it might be conveyed to mortals: thrust by the Kratos and Bia...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Momentous things happened to...
Chapter XLVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, ‘Because it was he; because it was I.’ There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

’Tis a hard and ill-paid task to order all things beforehand by the rule of our own security, as is well hinted by Machiavelli concerning Cæsar Borgia,* who, saith he, had thought of all that might occur on his father’s death, and had...
Chapter LV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

When Deronda met Gwendolen and Grandcourt on the staircase, his mind was seriously preoccupied. He had just been summoned to...
Chapter LIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Sir Hugo Mallinger was not so prompt in starting for Genoa as Mr Gascoigne had been, and Deronda on all accounts would not take...
Chapter LX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“But I shall say no more of this at this time; for this is to be felt and not to be talked of; and they who never touched it with their fingers may secretly perhaps laugh at it in their hearts and be never the...
Chapter LXVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Ezra and Mirah, whom Gwendolen did not include in her thinking about Deronda, were having their relation to him drawn closer and brought into...
Chapter LXX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press....
Berenice—A Tale
Authors: Poe Edgar Allan
Published: December 2020

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow! How is it...
The Birth-Mark
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

In the latter part of the last century there lived a man of science, an eminent proficient in every branch of natural philosophy, who not long before our story opens had made experience of a spiritual affinity more attractive than any chemical one. He...
II
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

Frédéric found a small mansion at the end of the Rue Rumfort and he bought, all at the same time, a brougham, a horse, some furniture, and two jardinières from Arnoux’s to place each side of the door in his salon. Behind this room...
Chapter V
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The Rev. Amos Barton, whose sad fortunes I have undertaken to relate, was, you perceive, in no respect an ideal or exceptional character, and perhaps I am doing a bold thing to bespeak your sympathy on behalf of a man who was so very...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

In less than a week Mr Tryan was settled at Holly Mount, and there was not one of his many attached hearers who did not sincerely rejoice at the event.

The autumn that year was bright and warm, and at the beginning of October Mr...
Conversion
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right...
Other Characteristics
Authors: James William
Published: December 2020

We have wound our way back, after our excursion through mysticism and philosophy, to where we were before: the uses of religion, its uses to the individual who has it, and the uses of the individual himself to the world, are the best arguments...
An Arrangement
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

“That
is serious,” said Dick, more intellectually than he had spoken for a long time.

The truth was that Geoffrey knew nothing about his daughter’s continued walks and meetings with Dick. When a hint that there were symptoms of an attachment between them had first...
After Gaining her Point
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The visit to Geoffrey passed off as delightfully as a visit might have been expected to pass off when it was the first day of smooth experience in a hitherto obstructed love-course. And then came a series of several happy days of the same...
Street Exhibitors
Authors: Mayhew Henry
Published: December 2020

Punch

The performer of Punch that I saw was a short, dark, pleasant-looking man, dressed in a very greasy and very shiny green shooting-jacket. This was fastened together by one button in front, all the other button-holes having been burst through. Protruding from his bosom,...
Effects of Diacutaneous Fibrolysis on Mechanosensitivity, Disability, and Nerve Conduction Studies in Mild to Moderate Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Authors: Jiménez del Barrio Sandra , Ceballos-Laita Luis , Bueno-Gracia Elena , Rodríguez-Marco Sonia , Haddad-Garay María , Estébanez-de-Miguel Elena
Published: December 2020

Objective

People diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) have fibrosis between the soft, connective, and neural tissues that could worsen the compression of the median nerve. The diacutaneous fibrolysis (DF) technique may release tissue adhesions and increase the mobility of connective tissues. The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes of DF in people with mild to moderate CTS on mechanosensitivity, disability, and nerve conduction studies.

Methods

This was a secondary analysis of a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Patients were recruited between April and September 2016 from the Department of Neurophysiology at the Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain. Thirty-nine people (52 wrists) diagnosed with mild to moderate CTS were included. Participants were randomly assigned to either the DF group (n = 26) or the sham group (n = 26). Both groups received 5 therapy sessions, 2 sessions per week. Mechanosensitivity with the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1, symptom severity and functional status with the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire, and median nerve sensory conduction velocity with nerve conduction studies were the outcomes measured. Assessments were recorded at baseline and after the intervention.

Results

The DF group showed significant improvements in the following: mechanosensitivity, with 28.46 degrees of elbow extension range of motion (95% CI = 19.2–37.7); an increase of 1.0 point (95% CI = 0.7–1.4) for the Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire symptom severity and functional status score; and sensory conduction velocity of median nerve, which improved to 5.8 m/s (95% CI = 2.5–9.2).

Conclusion

Participants with mild to moderate CTS experienced improvements in symptom severity, functional status, mechanosensitivity, and nerve conduction studies after 5 sessions of DF.

Impact

This study provides evidence of an approach based on soft and connective tissues around the median nerve in patients with CTS.
Prevalence of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, autonomic and allergic manifestations in hospitalized patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a case-control study
Authors: Brooks Rachel S , Grady James , Lowder Thomas W , Blitshteyn Svetlana
Published: December 2020

Objective

Previous observations suggest an association between Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and gastrointestinal (GI), cardiovascular, immune, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. We sought to determine whether a hospital diagnosis of EDS is associated with a higher prevalence of these manifestations vs hospitalized patients without EDS. We also evaluated hospital outcomes.

Methods

A total of 6,021 cases and matched controls were acquired from the 2016 National Inpatient Sample. In total, 2,007 EDS patients were identified via ICD-10 code. After bivariate analyses, multivariate logistic regression models were used to adjust for potential confounders.

Results

GI conditions were found in 44% of EDS patients vs 18% of controls [odds ratio (OR) = 3.57, 95% CI: 3.17, 4.02, P < 0.0001], with irritable bowel syndrome, gastroparesis and coeliac disease strongly associated with EDS. Autonomic dysfunction, including postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), neurocardiogenic syncope and orthostatic hypotension was found in 20% of EDS patients vs 6% of controls (OR = 4.45, 95% CI: 3.71, 5.32, P < 0.0001). EDS patients were more likely to have food allergy (OR = 3.88, 95% CI: 2.65, 5.66, P < 0.0001) and cardiovascular complications such as mitral valve disorders, aortic aneurysm and dysrhythmias (OR = 6.16, 95% CI: 4.60, 8.23, P < 0.0001). These conditions remained highly associated with EDS after considering confounders. EDS patients were 76% more likely to have longer than average hospitalizations (OR = 1.76, 95% CI: 1.54, 2.02, P < 0.0001).

Conclusion

GI, cardiovascular, autonomic and allergic manifestations are significantly more prevalent in EDS patients compared with hospitalized patients without EDS. Physicians should consider EDS in patients with unexplained GI, cardiovascular, autonomic and allergic conditions and exercise precautions when treating EDS patients in a hospital setting.
Timing of spring xylogenesis in temperate deciduous tree species relates to tree growth characteristics and previous autumn phenology
Authors: Marchand Lorène Julia , Dox Inge , Gričar Jožica , Prislan Peter , Van den Bulcke Jan , Fonti Patrick , Campioli Matteo
Published: December 2020

We explored the timing of spring xylogenesis and its potential drivers in homogeneous mature forest stands in a temperate European region. Three species with contrasting leaf development dynamics and wood anatomy were studied: European beech, silver birch and pedunculate oak. Detailed phenological observations of xylogenesis and leaf phenology were performed from summer 2017 until spring 2018. Cambium reactivation (CR) occurred before the buds of oak and birch were swollen, whereas these two phenological phases were concurrent for beech. On the other hand, initial earlywood vessels were fully differentiated (FDIEV) after leaf unfolding for all three species. Timing of CR was correlated to average ring-width of the last 10 years (2008–17), tree diameter and, partially, with tree age. In addition, the timing of FDIEV was correlated to tree age and previous year’s autumn phenology, i.e., timing of wood growth cessation and onset of leaf senescence. Multivariate models could explain up to 68% of the variability of CR and 55% of the variability of FDIEV. In addition to the ‘species’ factor, the variability could be explained by ca 30% by tree characteristics and previous year’s autumn phenology for both CR and FDIEV. These findings are important to better identify which factors (other than environment) can be driving the onset of the growing season, and highlight the influence of tree growth characteristics and previous year’s phenology on spring wood phenology, wood formation and, potentially, forest production.
Enterobacter asburiae and Pantoea ananatis Causing Rice Bacterial Blight in China
Authors: Xue Yang , Hu Ming , Chen Shanshan , Hu Anqun , Li Shimao , Han Haiya , Lu Guangtao , Zeng Lisha , Zhou Jianuan
Published: December 2020

Rice bacterial blight is a devastating bacterial disease threatening rice yield all over the world and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is traditionally believed to be the pathogen. In recent years, we have received diseased rice samples with symptoms of blighted leaves from Sichuan and Guangdong provinces, China. Pathogen isolation and classification identified two different enterobacteria as the causal agents, namely Enterobacter asburiae and Pantoea ananatis. Among them, E. asburiae was isolated from samples of both provinces, and P. ananatis was only isolated from the Sichuan samples. Different from rice foot rot pathogen Dickeya zeae EC1 and rice bacterial blight pathogen X. oryzae pv. oryzae PXO99A, strains SC1, RG1, and SC7 produced rare cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs) but more extrapolysaccharides (EPS). E. asburiae strains SC1 and RG1 produced bacteriostatic substances while P. ananatis strain SC7 produced none. Pathogenicity tests indicated that all of them infected monocotyledonous rice and banana seedlings, but not dicotyledonous potato, radish, or cabbage. Moreover, strain RG1 was most virulent, while strains SC1 and SC7 were similarly virulent on rice leaves, even though strain SC1 propagated significantly faster in rice leaf tissues than strain SC7. This study firstly discovered E. asburiae as a new pathogen of rice bacterial blight, and in some cases, P. ananatis could be a companion pathogen. Analysis on production of virulence factors suggested that both pathogens probably employ a different mechanism to infect hosts other than using cell wall degrading enzymes to break through host cell walls.
“Life Isn't as Carefree as It Used to Be”: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Experiences of Women With Fear of Falling During Cancer Survivorship
Authors: Covington Kelley R. , Atler Karen E. , Bailey Jessica James A. , Lucas Katie , Pergolotti Mackenzi
Published: December 2020

Purpose/Objective:

To understand activities and experiences of women with fear of falling during cancer survivorship.

Design:

Parallel, mixed-methods design.

Setting:

Academic research.

Participants and Measurement:

Women who had completed active treatment and reported fear of falling completed structured surveys, the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test, a time-use assessment(s) guided by individual interview, and a focus group. Descriptive statistics, independent-samples t test, and exploratory Pearson correlations were used to analyze quantitative variables. Qualitative themes were identified through inductive, descriptive analysis.

Results:

Three (38%) participants had fallen in the past 6 months and 4 (50%) were considered at risk for falling (ie, TUG >10.7 seconds). Most of participants' time was spent at home versus away from home (t = −1.2, P = .04) and in committed occupations (M = 5.5 ± 2.1 hours; 34.8% of time per day). TUG fall risk (>10.7 seconds) and global mental health (r = −0.83, P = .01), TUG time and Activities Balance Confidence (r = −0.71, P < .05), and fear of falling and global mental health (r = −0.76, P = .03) were significantly correlated. Fear of falling led to (1) identity challenges and (2) ongoing lifestyle adaptations during survivorship. Adaptations included increased awareness, avoidance, or making modifications to support (or diminish) participation in daily activities and roles while avoiding falls.

Limitations:

Small sample and lack of precancer data.

Conclusions:

Fear of falling is an important influence on women's activities and experiences during cancer survivorship. Fear of falling may negatively influence mental health and physical function. Women may experience identity challenges and the need to make ongoing adaptations to participate in important roles and activities during survivorship.