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Chapter XVI Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

It was about half-past one—three bells in the sea phrase—that the two boats went ashore from the Hispaniola. The captain, the squire, and I were talking matters over in the cabin. Had there been a breath of wind we should have fallen...
Chapter XX Silver’s Embassy
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Sure enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them waving a white cloth; the other, no less a person than Silver himself, standing placidly by.

It was still quite early, and the coldest morning that I think I ever was abroad...
Chapter XXIII The Ebb-Tide Runs
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The coracle—as I had ample reason to know before I was done with her—was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a seaway; but she was the most cross-grained lop-sided craft to manage. Do...
Chapter XXIX The Black Spot Again
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them re-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment’s loan of the torch. Silver briefly agreed; and...
Chapter XXXII The Treasure Hunt—The Voice Among the Trees
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent.

The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we...
Chapter XXXIV And Last
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Plassans is a sub-prefecture of about ten thousand people. Built on the plateau overlooking the Viorne and bound on the north by the Garrigues hills, one of the last spurs of the Alps, the town is situated, as it were, at the end of...
FOURTH WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

Amongthe small number of books that I still sometimes read, Plutarch is the author whom I enjoy most and find most useful. He is what I first read as a child, and he will be what I read last in my old age; he...
SIXTH WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

We have very few instinctive actions whose cause we cannot find in our hearts, if only we know how to look. Yesterday, while walking along the new boulevard*on my way to gather plants along the Bièvre*towards Gentilly,* I...
SEVENTH WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

Thiscollection of my long reveries has hardly begun, and already I feel that it is coming to an end. Another pastime has taken over from it, absorbs me, and even deprives me of any time for dreaming. I abandon myself to it with an...
NINTH WALK
Authors: Rousseau Jean-Jacques
Published: December 2020

Happiness is a lasting state which does not seem to be made for man in this world. Everything on earth is in a continual flux which allows nothing to take a constant form. Everything changes around us. We ourselves change, and nobody can be...
Chapter V Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

‘9 May.

‘My dearest Lucy,—

‘Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can walk together...
Chapter XIV MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

23 September.—Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the responsibility...
Chapter XVII DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram waiting for him:—

‘Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.—Mina
Harker.’

The Professor was delighted. ‘Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,’ he said, ‘pearl among women! She arrive, but...
Chapter XX JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

1 October, evening.—I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun...
Pft! Pft!
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time, exactly where I could not say (for in truth, the land has been called by every name and exists at all times), lived a woman whose exact appearance I cannot sketch either.

Every man saw her differently and each was right,...
A Walk
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

When old Leras, bookkeeper with Labuze & Co., left the shop, he was momentarily blinded by the brilliance of the setting sun. He had worked all day under the yellow gas in the back office, which gave onto a courtyard as narrow...
The Tresses
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

The walls of the cell were whitewashed and bare. One narrow window, with bars, placed high up so as to be out of reach, lit the pale and sinister little room. The lunatic, sitting on a straw chair, stared at us unblinkingly, his gaze...
The Student’s Tale
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

In the hotel where I was then lodging on the rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, I became aware of a suspicious-looking client. I was at that time a penniless law student, and very self-involved, so for this woman to attract my attention, she must...
The Time
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

‘Barbe, what is the time?’

‘A quarter to five,’ answered presently the old servant, who had gone to the mantel where, between two old-fashioned vases, stood a small Empire-period clock with four little columns of white marble, bearing aloft a short pinion embellished...
The Faun
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

She had retired early after dinner, believing herself ill but in fact merely sad, and weary of the innocent chiming laughter of the smaller children, of the good-hearted conviviality of the poor relations enjoying a bit of a holiday, that wretched seasonal pantomime dictated...
The Brothel
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

It was a strange house, grey and shuttered, and it seemed to blink from its windows, reclining sleepily as it was on the slope of a long street. Its deep-set door was stained white, and there was no keyhole, bell, or knocker. As if...
Lucretius, Poet
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

Lucretius was born into a grand family that had long since withdrawn from public life. His early days were lived in the shadow of the black porch fronting a tall house built on a mountainside. The atrium was severe and the slaves silent. Since...
Paolo Uccello, Painter
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

His real name was Paolo di Dono; but the Florentines called him Uccelli, or Paul of the Birds, because of the numberless painted birds and beasts that filled his house; for he was too poor to feed animals or procure those he did not...
The Girl With the Golden Eyes
Authors: Balzac Honoré de
Published: December 2020

To Eugène Delacroix, painter*

One of life’s most terrifying spectacles is surely the general appearance of the population of Paris, a people ghastly to behold, gaunt, jaundiced, and leathery. Is Paris not a vast prairie constantly swept by turbulent storms of self-interest, harvesting...
Chapter VII After a Year
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The first year of George Talboys’ widowhood passed away; the deep band of crape about his hat grew brown and rusty, and as the last burning day of another August faded out, he sat smoking cigars in the quiet chambers in Fig-tree Court, much...
Chapter VIII Before the Storm
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

So the dinner at Audley Court was postponed, and Miss Alicia had to wait still longer for an introduction to the handsome young widower, Mr George Talboys.

I am afraid, if the real truth is to be told, there was, perhaps, something of affectation...
Chapter XI The Mark Upon My Lady’s Wrist
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robert found Sir Michael and Lady Audley in the drawing-room. My lady was sitting on a music-stool before the grand piano, turning over the leaves of some new music. She twirled round upon this revolving seat, making a rustling with her silk...
Chapter XVI Robert Audley Gets His CongÉ
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The Christmas week was over, and one by one the country visitors dropped away from Audley Court. The fat squire and his wife abandoned the grey, tapestried chamber, and left the black-browed warriors looming from the wall to scowl upon and threaten new guests,...
Chapter I The Writing in the Book
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr Audley rose from the dinner-table and walked over to the cabinet in which he kept the document he had drawn up relating to George Talboys. He unlocked the doors of his cabinet, took the paper from the pigeon-hole marked Important, and...
Chapter VII Retrograde Investigation
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The dreary London January dragged its dull length slowly out. The last slender records of Christmas time were swept away, and Robert Audley still lingered in town—still spent his lonely evenings in his quiet sitting-room in Fig-tree Court—still wandered listlessly in the Temple Gardens...
Chapter XIII PhŒbe’s Petition
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The division between Lady Audley and her step-daughter had not become any narrower in the two months which had elapsed since the pleasant Christmas holiday time had been kept at Audley Court. There was no open warfare between the two women; there was only...
Chapter IX Restored
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Clara Talboys returned to Dorsetshire to tell her father that his only son had sailed for Australia upon the 9th of September, and that it was most probable he yet lived, and would return to claim the forgiveness of the father he had never...
Chapter 3 john grey, the worthy man
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Grey’s answer to Alice Vavasor’s letter, which was duly sent by return of post and duly received on the morning after Lady Macleod’s visit, may perhaps be taken as giving a sample of his worthiness. It was dated from Nethercoats, a small country-house...
Chapter 6 the bridge over the rhine
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘George,’ said Kate, speaking before she quite got up to them, ‘will you tell me whether you have been preparing all your things for an open sale by auction?’ Then she stole a look at Alice, and having learned from that glance that...
Chapter 8 mr cheesacre
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Yarmouth is not a happy place for a picnic. A picnic should be held among green things. Green turf is absolutely an essential. There should be trees, broken ground, small paths, thickets, and hidden recesses. There should, if possible, be rocks, old timber, moss,...
Chapter 21 alice is taught to grow upwards, towards the light
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Before the day came on which Alice was to go to Matching Priory, she had often regretted that she had been induced to make the promise, and yet she had as often resolved that there was no possible reason why she should not go...
Chapter 24 three politicians
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present...
Chapter 28 alice leaves the priory
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As they came in at the billiard-room door, Mr Palliser was there to meet them. ‘You must be very cold,’ he said to Glencora, who entered first. ‘No, indeed,’ said Glencora;—but her teeth were chattering, and her whole appearance gave the lie to her...
Chapter 43 mrs marsham
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

But Lady Glencora was not brought to repentance by her husband’s last words. It seemed to her to be so intolerably cruel, this demand of his, that she should be made to pass the whole of her first evening in town with an old...
Chapter 46 a love gift
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Alice heard of her cousin’s success, and understood that he was actually Member of Parliament for the Chelsea Districts, she resolved that she would be triumphant. She had sacrificed nearly everything to her desire for his success in public life, and now that...
Chapter 56 another walk on the fells
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

George, when he left the room in which he had insulted the lawyer, went immediately across to the parlour in which his aunt and sister were sitting. ‘Kate,’ said he, ‘put on your hat and come and walk with me. That business is over.’...
Chapter 65 the first kiss
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Hush!’ said the widow, ‘there’s a carriage coming on the road—close to us.’* Mrs Greenow, as she spoke these words, drew back from the Captain’s arms before the first kiss of permitted ante-nuptial love had been exchanged. The scene was on...
Francis Oliphant Tregear
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Francis Oliphant Tregear was a young man who might not improbably make a figure in the world, should circumstances be kind to him, but as to whom it might be doubted whether circumstances would be sufficiently kind to enable him to use serviceably...
Conservative Convictions
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Silverbridge had engaged himself to be with his father the next morning at half-past nine, and he entered the breakfast-room a very few minutes after that hour. He had made up his mind as to what he would say to his father. He...
The Derby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

An attendance at the Newmarket Second Spring Meeting had unfortunately not been compatible with the Silverbridge election. Major Tifto had therefore been obliged to look after the affair alone. ‘A very useful mare,’ as Tifto had been in the habit of calling a leggy,...
Lord Popplecourt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the reader was told that Lord Popplecourt had found Lady Cantrip very agreeable it is to be hoped that the reader was disgusted. Lord Popplecourt would certainly not have given a second thought to Lady Cantrip unless he had been specially flattered. And...
Don’t you think——?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was pretty to see the Duke’s reception of Lady Mabel. ‘I knew your mother many years ago,’ he said, ‘when I was young myself. Her mother and my mother were first cousins and dear friends.’ He held her hand as he spoke and...
Tally–ho Lodge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We all know that very clever distich* concerning the great fleas and the little fleas which tells us that no animal is too humble to have its parasite. Even Major Tifto had his inferior friend. This was a certain Captain Green,—for the...
Grex
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Far away from all known places, in the northern limit of the Craven district, on the borders of Westmorland but in Yorkshire, there stands a large, rambling, most picturesque old house called Grex. The people around call it the Castle, but it is not...
‘And Then!’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the next morning Miss Boncassen did not appear at breakfast. Word came that she had been so fatigued by the lawn-tennis as not to be able to leave her bed. ‘I have been to her,’ said Mrs Montacute Jones, whispering to Lord Silverbridge,...
What Happened at Doncaster
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Leger this year was to be run on the 14th September, and while Lord Silverbridge was amusing himself with the deer at Crummie-Toddie and at Killancodlem with the more easily pursued young ladies, the indefatigable Major was hard at work in the stables....
‘There shall not be another word about it’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early in October the Duke was at Matching with his daughter, and Phineas Finn and his wife were both with them. On the day after they parted at Ischl the first news respecting Prime Minister had reached him,—namely, that his son’s horse had lost...
The Duke’s Arguments
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke before he left Custins had an interview with Lady Cantrip, at which that lady found herself called upon to speak her mind freely. ‘I don’t think she cares about Lord Popplecourt,’ Lady Cantrip said.

‘I am sure I don’t know why she should,’...
‘Then I am as proud as a queen’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During the next day or two the shooting went on without much interruption from love-making. The love-making was not prosperous all round. Poor Lady Mary had nothing to comfort her. Could she have been allowed to see the letter which her lover had written...
The Major Is Deposed
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Silverbridge undertook to return with Tregear to London instead of going off direct to Matching, it is to be feared that he was simply actuated by a desire to postpone his further visit to his father’s house. He had thought that Lady Mabel...
Lord Gerald in Further Trouble
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Silverbridge got back to the house he was by no means well pleased with himself. In the first place he was unhappy to think that Mabel was unhappy, and that he had made her so. And then she had told him that he...
‘I believe him to be a worthy young man’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Mary and Mrs Finn were alone when the tidings came from Silverbridge. The Duke had been absent, having gone to spend an unpleasant week in Barsetshire. Mary had taken the opportunity of his absence to discuss her own prospects at full length. ‘My...
‘Do you ever think what money is?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Gerald told his story, standing bolt upright, and looking his father full in the face as he told it. ‘You lost three thousand four hundred pounds at one sitting to Lord Percival—at cards!’

‘Yes, sir.’

‘In Lord Nidderdale’s house?’

‘Yes, sir. Nidderdale wasn’t playing. It...
Brook Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Silverbridge had now a week on his hands which he felt he might devote to the lady of his love. It was a comfort to him that he need have nothing to do with the address. To have to go, day after day, to...
The Woman without a Heart
Authors: de Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

After a moment’s silence Raphael said, with a gesture of indifference:

‘I really don’t know if I should attribute to the wine and the punch this clear vision that allows me at present to encompass my whole life like a huge picture, in which faces,...
Chapter 8 The News about Mr Mildmay and Sir Everard
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Fitzgibbon and Phineas started together from Pall Mall for Portman Square,—as both of them had promised to call on Lady Laura,—but Fitzgibbon turned in at Brooks’s as they walked up St James’s Square, and Phineas went on by himself in a cab. ‘You should...
Chapter 12 Autumnal Prospects
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The session went on very calmly after the opening battle which ousted Lord de Terrier and sent Mr Mildmay back to the Treasury,—so calmly that Phineas Finn was unconsciously disappointed, as lacking that excitement of contest to which he had been introduced in the...
Chapter 13 Saulsby Wood
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘So you won’t come to Moydrum again?’ said Laurence Fitzgibbon to his friend.

‘Not this autumn, Laurence. Your father would think that I want to live there.’

‘Bedad, it’s my father would be glad to see you,—and the oftener the better.’

‘The fact is,...
Chapter 28 The Second Reading is carried
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The debate on the bill was prolonged during the whole of that week. Lord Brentford, who loved his seat in the Cabinet and the glory of being a Minister, better even than he loved his borough, had taken a gloomy estimate when he spoke...
Chapter 31 Finn for Loughton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

By three o’clock in the day after the little accident which was told in the last chapter, all the world knew that Mr Kennedy, the new Cabinet Minister, had been garrotted, or half garrotted, and that that child of fortune, Phineas Finn, had dropped...
Chapter 33 Mr Slide’s Grievance
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Our hero was elected member for Loughton without any trouble to him or, as far as he could see, to any one else. He made one speech from a small raised booth that was called a platform, and that was all that he was...
Chapter 36 Phineas Finn makes Progress
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

February was far advanced and the new Reform Bill had already been brought forward, before Lady Laura Kennedy came up to town. Phineas had of course seen Mr Kennedy and had heard from him tidings of his wife. She was at Saulsby with Lady...
Chapter 40 Madame Max Goesler
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Day after day, and clause after clause, the bill was fought in committee, and few men fought with more constancy on the side of the Ministers than did the member for Loughton. Troubled though he was by his quarrel with Lord Chiltern, by his...
Chapter 44 Phineas and his Friends
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Our hero’s friends were, I think, almost more elated by our hero’s promotion than was our hero himself. He never told himself that it was a great thing to be a junior lord of the Treasury, though he acknowledged to himself that to have...
Chapter 48 ‘The Duke’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

By the middle of September there was assembled a large party at Matching Priory, a country mansion belonging to Mr Plantagenet Palliser. The men had certainly been chosen in reference to their political feelings and position,—for there was not a guest in the house...
Chapter 52 The First Blow
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Chiltern, though he had passed two entire days in the house with Violet without renewing his suit, had come to Loughlinter for the express purpose of doing so, and had his plans perfectly fixed in his own mind. After breakfast on that last...
Chapter 61 Another Duel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It happened that there were at this time certain matters of business to be settled between the Duke of Omnium and his nephew Mr Palliser, respecting which the latter called upon his uncle on the morning after the Duke had committed himself by his...
Chapter 68 The Joint Attack
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The note from Lord Brentford surprised our hero not a little. He had had no communication with the Earl since the day on which he had been so savagely scolded about the duel, when the Earl had plainly told him that his conduct had...
Chapter 75 P.P.C.
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Thursday morning before Phineas went to Mr Monk, a gentleman called upon him at his lodgings. Phineas requested the servant to bring up the gentleman’s name, but tempted perhaps by a shilling the girl brought up the gentleman instead. It was Mr...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The quiet days grew into weeks and months, and even years, without any event to startle the little circle into the consciousness of the lapse of time. One who had known them at the date of Ruth’s becoming a governess in Mr. Bradshaw’s family,...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was well they had so early and so truly strengthened the spirit to bear, for the events which had to be endured soon came thick and threefold.

Every evening Mr. and Miss Benson thought the worst must be over; and every day brought some...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

While Mr. Benson lay awake for fear of oversleeping himself, and so being late at Mr. Farquhar’s (it was somewhere about six o’clock—dark as an October morning is at that time), Sally came to his door and knocked. She was always an early riser;...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Old people tell of certain years when typhus fever swept over the country like a pestilence; years that bring back the remembrance of deep sorrow—refusing to be comforted—to many a household; and which those whose beloved passed through the fiery time unscathed, shrink from...
XVII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

She was happy, her babe lay beside her. All her joints were loosened, and the long hospital days passed in gentle weariness. Lady visitors came and asked questions. Esther said that her father and mother lived in the Vauxhall Bridge Road, and she admitted...
Temptation
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The circumstances of the general election of 18—will be well remembered by all those who take an interest in the political matters of the country.* There had been a coming in and a going out of Ministers previous to that,—somewhat rapid, very...
Spooner of Spoon Hall
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Adelaide
Palliser was a tall, fair girl, exquisitely made, with every feminine grace of motion, highly born, and carrying always the warranty of her birth in her appearance; but with no special loveliness of face. Let not any reader suppose that therefore she was...
Something Out of The Way
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Brake hounds went out four days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday; but the hunting party on this Saturday was very small. None of the ladies joined in it, and when Lord Chiltern came down to breakfast at half-past eight he met...
The Duke’S Will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the ninth day after Madame Goesler’s arrival the Duke died, and Lady Glencora Palliser became Duchess of Omnium. But the change probably was much greater to Mr Palliser than to his wife. It would seem to be impossible to imagine a greater change...
Political Venom
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Monday Mr Turnbull opened the ball by declaring his reasons for going into the same lobby with Mr Daubeny. This he did at great length. To him all the mighty pomp and all the little squabbles of office were, he said, as...
The Beginning of the Search for the Key and the Coat
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Madame Goesler revealed her plans and ideas to Mr Wickerby, the attorney, who had been employed to bring Phineas Finn through his troubles, that gentleman evidently did not think much of the unprofessional assistance which the lady proposed to give him. ‘I’m afraid...
The Foreign Bludgeon
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the meantime Madame Goesler, having accomplished the journey from Prague in considerably less than a week, reached London with the blacksmith, the attorney’s clerk, and the model of the key. The trial had been adjourned on Wednesday, the 24th of June, and it...
Madame Goesler’S Legacy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

One morning, very shortly after her return to Harrington, Lady Chiltern was told that Mr Spooner of Spoon Hall had called, and desired to see her. She suggested that the gentleman had probably asked for her husband,—who, at that moment, was enjoying his recovered...
Chapter 2 everett wharton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On that same day Lopez dined with his friend Everett Wharton at a new club called the Progress,* of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open hardly more than three years; but...
Chapter 4 mrs roby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Wharton as he walked home, remembered that Mrs Roby was to dine at his house on that evening. During the remainder of the day, after the departure of Lopez, he had been unable to take his mind from the consideration of the proposition...
Chapter 5 ‘no one knows anything about him’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Neither at dinner, on that evening at Manchester Square, nor after dinner, as long as Mrs Roby remained in the house, was a word said about Lopez by Mr Wharton. He remained longer than usual with his bottle of port-wine in the dining-room; and...
Chapter 11 carlton terrace
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Certainly the thing was done very well by Lady Glen,—as many in the political world persisted in calling her even in these days. She had not as yet quite carried out her plan,—the doing of which would have required her to reconcile her husband...
Chapter 20 sir orlando’s policy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the guests began to arrive our friend the Duchess had apparently got through her little difficulties, for she received them with that open, genial hospitality which is so delightful as coming evidently from the heart. There had not been another word...
Chapter 25 the beginning of the honeymoon
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the morning of his marriage, before he went to the altar, Lopez made one or two resolutions as to his future conduct. The first was that he would give himself a fortnight from his marriage day in which he would not even think...
Chapter 28 the duchess is much troubled
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is hardly possible that one man should turn another out of his house without many people knowing it; and when the one person is a Prime Minister and the other such a Major as Major Pountney, the affair is apt to be talked...
Chapter 29 the two candidates for silverbridge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On his arrival in London Ferdinand Lopez found a letter waiting for him from the Duchess. This came into his hand immediately on his reaching the rooms in Belgrave Mansions, and was of course the first object of his care. ‘That contains my fate,’...
Chapter 32 ‘what business is it of yours?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Things had not gone altogether smoothly with the Duchess herself since the breaking up of the party at Gatherum Castle,—nor perhaps quite smoothly with the Duke. It was now March. The House was again sitting, and they were both in London,—but till they came...
Chapter 37 the horns
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The first months of the Session went on very much as the last Session had gone. The ministry did nothing brilliant. As far as the outer world could see, they seemed to be firm enough. There was no opposing party in the House strong...
Chapter 50 mr slide’s revenge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Do you mean to say, my lady, that the Duke paid his electioneering bill down at Silverbridge?’

‘I do mean to say so, Mr Slide,’ Lady Eustace nodded her head, and Mr Quintus Slide opened his mouth.

‘Goodness gracious!’ said Mrs Leslie, who was...
Chapter 51 coddling the prime minister
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Parliament was to meet on the 12th of February, and it was of course necessary that there should be a Cabinet Council before that time. The Prime Minister, about the end of the third week in January, was prepared to name a day for...
Chapter 60 the tenway junction
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And thus the knowledge was conveyed to Mrs Lopez that her fate in life was not to carry her to Guatemala. At the very moment in which she had been summoned to meet Arthur Fletcher she had been busy with her needle preparing that...
Chapter 61 the widow and her friends
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The catastrophe described in the last chapter had taken place during the first week in March. By the end of that month old Mr Wharton had probably reconciled himself to the tragedy, although in fact it had affected him very deeply. In the first...
Chapter 62 phineas finn has a book to read
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The sensation created by the man’s death was by no means confined to Manchester Square, but was very general in the metropolis, and, indeed, throughout the country. As the catastrophe became the subject of general conversation, many people learned that the Silverbridge affair had...
Chapter 64 the new k. g.
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early in June had died the Marquis of Mount Fidgett. In all England there was no older family than that of the Fichy Fidgetts, whose baronial castle of Fichy Fellows is still kept up, the glory of archaeologists and the charm of tourists. Some...
Chapter 67 mrs lopez prepares to move
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duchess of Omnium was not the most discreet woman in the world. That was admitted by her best friends, and was the great sin alleged against her by her worst enemies. In her desire to say sharp things, she would say...
Chapter 73 only the duke of omnium
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The night of the debate arrived, but before the debate was commenced, Sir Timothy Beeswax got up to make a personal explanation. He thought it right to state to the House how it came to pass that he found himself bound to leave the...
Chapter 4 Frank Greystock
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Greystock the barrister was the only son of the Dean of Bobsborough. Now the dean had a family of daughters,—not quite so numerous indeed as that of Lady Fawn, for there were only three of them,—and was by no means a rich man....
Chapter 5 The Eustace Necklace
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

John Eustace, Lady Eustace’s brother-in-law, had told his friend Greystock, the lady’s cousin, that Mr Camperdown the lawyer intended to ‘jump upon’ that lady. Making such allowance and deduction from the force of these words as the slang expression requires, we may say that...
Chapter 16 Certainly an Heirloom
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The burden of his position was so heavy on Lord Fawn’s mind that, on the Monday morning after leaving Fawn Court, he was hardly as true to the affairs of India as he himself would have wished. He was resolved to do what was...
Chapter 17 The Diamonds are seen in Public
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Let it not be supposed that Lady Eustace during these summer weeks, was living the life of a recluse. The London season* was in its full splendour, and she was by no means a recluse. During the first year of her widowhood...
Chapter 18 ‘And I have nothing to give’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was now the end of June, and Frank Greystock had been as yet but once at Fawn Court since he had written to Lucy Morris asking her to be his wife. That was three weeks since, and as the barrier against him at...
Chapter 27 Lucy Morris Misbehaves
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lucy Morris got her letter and was contented. She wanted some demonstration of love from her lover, but very little sufficed for her comfort. With her it was almost impossible that a man should be loved and suspected at the same time. She could...
Chapter 32 Mr and Mrs Hittaway in Scotland
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A great many people go to Scotland in the autumn. When you have your autumn holiday in hand to dispose of it, there is nothing more aristocratic that you can do than go to Scotland. Dukes are more plentiful there than in Pall...
Chapter 36 Lizzie’s Guests
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

True to their words, at the end of October, Mrs Carbuncle and Miss Roanoke, and Lord George de Bruce Carruthers, and Sir Griffin Tewett, arrived at Portray Castle. And for a couple of days there was a visitor whom Lizzie was very glad to...
Chapter 40 ‘You are not angry?’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On their journey back to Portray, the ladies were almost too tired for talking; and Sir Griffin was sulky. Sir Griffin had as yet heard nothing about Greystock’s adventure, and did not care to be told. But when once they were at the castle,...
Chapter 43 Life at Portray
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Monday Frank took his departure. Everybody at the castle had liked him except Sir Griffin, who, when he had gone, remarked to Lucinda that he was an insufferable legal prig, and one of those chaps who think themselves somebody because they are...
Chapter 45 The Journey to London
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When we left Lady Eustace alone in her bedroom at the Carlisle hotel after the discovery of the robbery, she had very many cares upon her mind. The necklace was, indeed, safe under her pillow in the bed; but when all the people were...
Chapter 48 Lizzie’s Condition
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When such a man as Barrington Erle undertakes to send information to such a correspondent as Lady Glencora in reference to such a matter as Lady Eustace’s diamonds, he is bound to be full rather than accurate. We may say, indeed, that perfect accuracy...
Chapter 49 Bunfit and Gager
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

As soon as the words were out of Mrs Carbuncle’s mouth,—those ill-natured words in which she expressed her assent to Mr Bunfit’s proposition that a search should be made after the diamonds among all the possessions of Lady Eustace which were now lodged in...
Chapter 50 In Hertford Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

During all this time Lucinda Roanoke was engaged to marry Sir Griffin Tewett, and the lover was an occasional visitor in Hertford Street. Mrs Carbuncle was as anxious as ever that the marriage should be celebrated on the appointed day, and though there had...
Chapter 57 Humpty Dumpty
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The robbery at the house in Hertford Street took place on the 30th of January, and on the morning of the 28th of February Bunfit and Gager were sitting together in a melancholy, dark little room in Scotland Yard, discussing the circumstances of that...
Chapter 62 ‘You know where my heart is’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Sunday following, Frank, as usual, was in Hertford Street. He had become almost a favourite with Mrs Carbuncle; and had so far ingratiated himself even with Lucinda Roanoke that, according to Lizzie’s report, he might if so inclined rob Sir Griffin of...
Chapter 69 ‘I cannot do it’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Saturday and the Sunday Lizzie passed in outward tranquillity, though, doubtless, her mind was greatly disturbed. She said nothing of what had passed between her and Major Mackintosh, explaining that his visit had been made solely with the object of informing her that...
Chapter 71 Lizzie is threatened with the Treadmill
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early on the Wednesday morning, two or three hours before the time fixed for Lizzie’s visit to Mr Camperdown, her cousin Frank came to call upon her. She presumed him to be altogether ignorant of all that Major Mackintosh had known, and therefore endeavoured...
Chapter 74 Lizzie at the Police-court
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Wednesday and Thursday Lizzie had been triumphant; for she had certainly come out unscathed from Mr Camperdown’s chambers, and a lady may surely be said to triumph when a gentleman lays his hand, his heart, his fortunes, and all that he has...
Chapter 75 Lord George gives his Reasons
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady Eustace did not leave the house during the Saturday and Sunday, and engaged herself exclusively with preparing for her journey. She had no further interview with Mrs Carbuncle, but there were messages between them, and even notes were written. They resulted...
Chapter 77 The Story of Lucy Morris is Concluded
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the day appointed, Lucy Morris went back from the house of the old countess to Fawn Court. ‘My dear,’ said Lady Linlithgow, ‘I am sorry that you are going. Perhaps you’ll think I haven’t been very kind to you, but I never am...
Chapter I There Is No One Left
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

When Mary Lennox* was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and...
Chapter III Across the Moor
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

She slept a long time, and when she awakened Mrs. Medlock had bought a lunch-basket at one of the stations and they had some chicken and cold beef and bread-and-butter and some hot tea. The rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than...
Chapter XII “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Mary ran so fast that she was rather out of breath when she reached her room. Her hair was ruffled on her forehead and her cheeks were bright pink. Her dinner was waiting on the table, and Martha was waiting near it.

“Tha’s a bit...
Five-and-Twenty
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

A Frequently recurring doubt, whether Mr. Pancks’s desire to collect information relative to the Dorrit family could have any possible bearing on the misgivings he had imparted to his mother on his return from his long exile, caused Arthur Clennam much uneasiness at...
Nobody’s Disappearance
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Not resting satisfied with the endeavours he had made to recover his lost charge, Mr. Meagles addressed a letter of remonstrance, breathing nothing but goodwill, not only to her, but to Miss Wade too. No answer coming to these epistles, or to another written...
Mrs. General
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It is indispensable to present the accomplished lady, who was of sufficient importance in the suite of the Dorrit Family to have a line to herself in the Travellers’ Book.

Mrs. General was the daughter of a clerical dignitary in a cathedral town, where she...
Mostly, Prunes and Prism
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mrs. General, always on her coach-box keeping the proprieties well together, took pains to form a surface on her very dear young friend, and Mrs. General’s very dear young friend tried hard to receive it. Hard as she had tried in her laborious life...
The Storming of the Castle in the Air
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The sun had gone down full four hours, and it was later than most travellers would like it to be for finding themselves outside the walls of Rome, when Mr. Dorrit’s carriage, still on its last wearisome stage, rattled over the solitary Campagna.*...
The History of a Self Tormentor
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

I have the misfortune of not being a fool. From a very early age I have detected what those about me thought they hid from me. If I could have been habitually imposed upon, instead of habitually discerning the truth, I might have...
Letter I: Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Dumfries

Cur
me exanimas querelis tuis?* —In plain English, Why do you deafen me with your croaking? The disconsolate tone in which you bade me farewell at Noble –House,2 and mounted your miserable hack to return to your law drudgery,...
Chapter I: Narrativem
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The advantage of laying before the reader, in the words of the actors themselves, the adventures which we must otherwise have narrated in our own, has given great popularity to the publication of epistolary correspondence, as practised by various great authors, and by ourselves...
Chapter IV: Darsie Latimer’s Journal, in Continuation
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The morning was dawning, and Mr Geddes and I myself were still sleeping soundly, when the alarm was given by my canine bedfellow, who first growled deeply at intervals, and at length bore more decided testimony to the approach of some enemy. I opened...
Chapter XVIII: Narrative of Darsie Latimer, Continued
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

‘The House of Redgauntlet, ‘said the young lady, ‘has for centuries been supposed to lie under a doom, which has rendered vain their courage, their talents, their ambition, and their wisdom. Often making a figure in history, they have been ever in the...
Chapter 3
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

There was nobody in chase; but Dicky Perrott, excited by his novel exploit, ran hard: forgetting the lesson first learnt by every child of the Jago, to avoid, as far as may be, suspicious flight in open streets. He burst into the Old Jago...
Chapter 12
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

‘Dicky Perrott, come ’ere,’ said Mr Aaron Weech in a voice of sad rebuke, a few days later. ‘Come ’ere, Dicky Perrott.’

He shook his head solemnly as he stooped. Dicky slouched up.

‘What was that you found the other day an’ didn’t...
Chapter 22
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

The feud between the Jago and Dove Lane was eternal, just as was that between the Ranns and the Learys; but, like the Rann and Leary feud, it had its paroxysms and its intervals. And, in both cases, the close of a paroxysm was...
Chapter 24
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

But indeed Josh Perrott's luck was worse than he thought. For the gross, pimply man was a High Mobsman—so very high a mobsman that it would have been slander and libel, and a very great expense, to write him down a mobsman at all....
Chapter 29
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Things grew a little easier with the Perrotts. Father Sturt saw that there was food while the mother was renewing her strength, and he had a bag of linen sent. More, he carried his point as to parish relief by main force. It was...
Chapter 34
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

The Lion and Unicorn* had been fresh gilt since he was there before, but the white-headed old gaoler in the dock was much the same. And the big sword—what did they have a big sword for, stuck up there, over the red...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It was on 1 April that the Universal Exhibition of 1867 opened,* with great celebrations and ostentatious splendour. It was the start of the grand season of the Empire, a season of supreme festivity that would turn Paris into the hostelry of...
Chapter IX
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Madame
Caroline found herself alone once more. Hamelin had stayed in Paris until the beginning of November for the formalities required for the definitive constitution of the company, with a capital of one hundred and fifty millions; it was he, too, who went, at...
My Breaking In
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I was now beginning to grow handsome; my coat had grown fine and soft, and was bright black. I had one white foot, and a pretty white star on my forehead: I was thought very handsome; my master would not sell me till I...