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Chapter XXV The Curtain
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. In the robin’s nest there were Eggs and the robin’s mate sat upon them, keeping them warm with her feathery little breast and careful wings. At first she was very nervous...
Chapter XXVI “It’s Mother!”
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Their belief in the Magic was an abiding thing. After the morning’s incantations Colin sometimes gave them Magic lectures.

“I like to do it,” he explained, “because when I grow up and make great scientific discoveries I shall be obliged to lecture about them, and...
The Child of the Marshalsea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The baby whose first draught of air had been tinctured with Doctor Haggage’s brandy, was handed down among the generations of collegians, like the tradition of their common parent. In the earlier stages of her existence, she was handed down in a literal and...
Containing the Whole Science of Government
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most important Department under government. No public business of any kind could possibly be done at any time, without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie,...
Bleeding Heart Yard
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

In London itself, though in the old rustic road* towards a suburb of note where in the days of William Shakespeare, author and stage-player, there were Royal hunting seats, howbeit no sport is left there now but for hunters of men, Bleeding...
What Was Behind Mr. Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was at this time, that Mr. Pancks, in discharge of his compact with Clennam, revealed to him the whole of his gipsy story, and told him Little Dorrit’s fortune. Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown...
The Marshalsea Becomes an Orphan
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

And now the day arrived, when Mr. Dorrit and his family were to leave the prison for ever, and the stones of its much-trodden pavement were to know them no more.

The interval had been short, but he had greatly complained of its length, and...
The Evening of a Long Day
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

That illustrious man, and great national ornament, Mr. Merdle, continued his shining course. It began to be widely understood that one who had done society the admirable service of making so much money out of it, could not be suffered to remain a commoner....
An Appearance in the Marshalsea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The opinion of the community outside the prison gates bore hard on Clennam as time went on, and he made no friends among the community within. Too depressed to associate with the herd in the yard, who got together to forget their cares;...
Going!
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but, the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable.

It was Little Dorrit’s lot to wait upon both kinds of change. The Marshalsea walls, during a portion of every day, again embraced...
Gone
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

On a healthy autumn day, the Marshalsea prisoner, weak but otherwise restored, sat listening to a voice that read to him. On a healthy autumn day; when the golden fields had been reaped and ploughed again, when the summer fruits had ripened and waned,...
Letter VI: Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford [In continuation of Letters III and IV]
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

I Told thee I walked out into the open air with my grave and stern landlord. I could now see more perfectly than on the preceding night the secluded glen, in which stood the two or three cottages which appeared to be the...
Chapter II
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Had our friend Alexander Fairford known the consequences of his son’s abrupt retreat from the Court, which are mentioned in the end of the last chapter, it might have accomplished the prediction of the lively old judge, and driven him utterly distracted. As it...
Chapter III: Journal of Darsie Latimer
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

[The following Address is written on the inside of the envelope which contained the Journal]

Into what hands soever these leaves may fall, they will instruct him, during a certain time at least, in the history of the life of an unfortunate young man,...
Chapter VIII: Latimer’s Journal in Continuation
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

I Spent more than an hour, after returning to the apartment which I may call my prison, in reducing to writing the singular circumstances which I had just witnessed. Methought I could now form some guess at the character of Mr Herries, upon...
Chapter XII: Narrative of Alan Fairford, Continued
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The room was no sooner deprived of Mr Maxwell of Summer trees’s presence, than the Provost looked very warily above, beneath, and around the apartment, hitched his chair towards that of his remaining guest, and began to speak in a whisper which could not...
Chapter XVII: Narrative of Darsie Latimer
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Our history must now, as the old romancers wont to say, ‘leave to tell’ of the quest of Alan Fairford, and instruct our readers of the adventures which befell Darsie Latimer, left as he was in the precarious custody of his self-named tutor, the...
Chapter 11
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Josh Perrott reached home late for tea but in good humour. He had spent most of the day at the Bag of Nails, dancing attendance on the High Mobsmen. Those of the High Mob* were the flourishing practitioners* in burglary,...
Chapter 15
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

As for Dicky, he went to school. That is to say, he turned up now and again, at irregular intervals, at the Board School just over the Jago border in Honey Lane. When anything was given away, he attended as a matter of course;...
Chapter 28
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Josh Perrott well understood the advantage of good prison- behaviour, and after six months in his Chelmsford cell he had earned the right to a visit from friends. But none came. He had scarcely expected that anybody would, and asked for the order merely...
Chapter 35
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

All this hard thinking would be over in half an hour or so. What was to come now didn’t matter; no more than a mere punch in the eye. The worst was over on Saturday, and he had got through that all right. Hannah...
Chapter II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

After Saccard’s last disastrous land-deal, when he had to leave his palace in the Parc Monceau, abandoning it to his creditors to avoid an even greater catastrophe, his first idea had been to take refuge with his son Maxime. Maxime, since the death of...
Chapter V
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A month later, in early November, the installation of the Universal Bank was not yet completed. Carpenters were still busy on the woodwork, and painters were finishing the puttying of the enormous glass roof with which the courtyard was now covered.

The cause of the...
My Early Home
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked...
The Devil’s Trade Mark
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

One day when John and I had been out on some business of our master’s, and were returning gently on a long, straight road, at some distance we saw a boy trying to leap a pony over a gate; the pony would not take...
The Fire!
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Later on in the evening, a traveller’s* horse was brought in by the second ostler, and whilst he was cleaning him, a young man with a pipe in his mouth lounged into the stable to gossip.

‘I say, Towler,’ said the ostler, ‘just run...
Only Ignorance
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

I do not know how long I was ill. Mr. Bond, the horse Doctor, came every day. One day he bled me;* John held a pail for the blood; I felt very faint after it, and thought I should die, and I...
Cockneys
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Then there is the steam-engine style of driving; these drivers were mostly people from towns, who never had a horse of their own, and generally travelled by rail.

They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a steam-engine, only smaller. At any...
The Sunday Cab
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

One morning, as Jerry had just put me into the shafts and was fastening the traces, a gentleman walked into the yard; ‘Your servant, sir,’ said Jerry.

‘Good morning, Mr. Barker,’ said the gentleman. ‘I should be glad to make some arrangements with you for...
Jerry’s New Year
Authors: Sewell Anna
Published: December 2020

Christmas and the New Year are very merry times for some people; but for cabmen and cabmen’s horses, it is no holiday, though it may be a harvest. There are so many parties, balls, and places of amusement open, that the work is hard...
The Birthplace
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

I

It seemed to them at first, the offer, too good to be true, and their friend’s letter, addressed to them to feel, as he said, the ground, to sound them as to inclinations and possibilities, had almost the effect of a brave joke...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

At the little town of Vevey,* in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel; there are indeed many hotels, since the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travellers will remember, is seated upon the edge of...
Chapter IV: Three Principal Causes of Moral Improvement Considered
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

I. Literature

Benefits Of Literature.—Examples.—Essential Properties Of Literature.—Its Defects.
Chapter V: Rights of Man
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

The question stated.—Foundation of society.—Opposite rights impossible.—Conclusion from these premises.—Discretion considered.—Rights of kings.—Immoral consequences of the doctrine of rights.—Rights of communities.—Objections: 1. the right of mutual aid.—Explanation.—Origin of the term, right.—2. rights of private judgment and of the press.—Explanation—Reasons of this limitation upon the functions...
Chapter V: Of Legislation
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Society can declare and interpret, but cannot enact.—Its authority only executive.

Having thus far investigated the nature of political functions, it seems necessary that some explanation should be given in this place upon the subject of legislation. Who is it that has the...
Chapter VII: Of Forms of Government
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Argument in favour of a variety of forms—compared with the argument in favour of a variety of religious creeds.—That there is one best form of government proved—from the unity of truth—from the nature of man.—Objection from human weakness and prejudice.—Danger in establishing an imperfect code.—Manners...
Chapter VIII: Of the Principle of Virtue
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Hypotheses of benevolence and self love—superiority of the former.—Action is either voluntary or involuntary.—Nature of the first of these classes.—Argument that results from it.—Voluntary action has a real existence—consequence of that existence.—Experimental view of the subject.—Suppositions suggested by the advocates of self love—that we calculate...
Chapter IX: Of the Tendency of Virtue
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

It is the road to happiness—to the esteem and affection of others.—Objection from misconstruction and calumny.—Answer.—Virtue compared with other modes of procuring esteem.—Vice and not virtue is the subject of obloquy—instanced in the base alloy with which our virtues are mixed—in arrogance and ostentation—in the...
Chapter VII: Of Elective Monarchy
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Disorders attendant on such an election.—Election is intended either to provide a man of great or of moderate talents.—Consequences of the first—of the second.—Can elective and hereditary monarchy be combined?

Having considered the nature of monarchy in general, it is incumbent on us to...
Chapter IX: Of a President with Regal Powers
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Enumeration of powers—that of appointing to inferior offices—of pardoning offences—of convoking deliberative assemblies—of affixing a veto to their decrees.—Conclusion.—The title of king estimated—monarchical and aristocratical systems, similarity of their effects.

Still monarchy it seems has one refuge left. ‘We will not,’ say some...
Chapter VIII: Of the Means of Introducing the Genuine System of Property
Authors: Godwin William
Published: December 2020

Apprehensions that are entertained on this subject.—Idea of massacre.—Inference we ought to make upon supposition of the reality of these apprehensions.—Mischief by no means the necessary attendant on improvement.—Duties under this circumstance, 1. of those who are qualified for public instructors—temper—sincerity.—Pernicious effects of dissimulation in...
TAMAN
Authors: Lermontov Mikhail
Published: December 2020

Taman is the nastiest little hole of all the seaports in Russia. I almost perished of hunger there, and on top of that they tried to drown me. I arrived late one night on a post-carriage, and the driver pulled up his weary troika...
Chapter VII TêTe-À-TêTe.—The Will
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘And now tell me all about t’ folk at home,’ said Philip, evidently preparing to walk back with the girls. He generally came to Haytersbank every Sunday afternoon, so Sylvia knew what she had to expect the moment she became aware of his...
Chapter XIII Perplexities
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Coulson and Philip were friendly, but not intimate. They never had had a dispute, they never were confidential with each other; in truth, they were both reserved and silent men, and, probably, respected each other the more for being so self-contained. There was a...
Chapter XXV Coming Troubles
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear. Daniel seemed to have got over his irritability, and was unusually kind and tender to wife and daughter, especially striving by silent little deeds to make up for the sharp words he...
Chapter XXVII Gloomy Days
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Philip had money in the Fosters’ bank, not so much as it might have been if he had not had to pay for the furniture in his house. Much of this furniture was old, and had belonged to the brothers Foster, and they had...
Chapter XXXIX Confidences
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was a little later on in that same summer that Mrs Brunton came to visit her sister Bessy.

Bessy was married to a tolerably well-to-do farmer who lived at an almost equal distance between Monkshaven and Hartswell; but from old habit and convenience the...
Chapter XL An Unexpected Messenger
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

After this agitation, and these partial confidences, no more was said on the subject of Philip for many weeks. They avoided even the slightest allusion to him; and none of them knew how seldom or how often he might be present in the minds...
Chapter XLIV First Words
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was the spring of 1800. Old people yet can tell of the hard famine of that year. The harvest of the autumn before had failed; the war and the corn laws* had brought the price of corn up to a famine...
Chapter XLV Saved and Lost
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Hester went out on the evening of the day after that on which the unknown owner of the half-crown had appointed to call for it again at William Darley’s. She had schooled herself to believe that time and patience would serve her best. Her...
The Two Pearls of Allington
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘But Mr Crosbie is only a mere clerk.’

This sarcastic condemnation was spoken by Miss Lilian Dale to her sister Isabella, and referred to a gentleman with whom we shall have much concern in these pages. I do not say that Mr Crosbie will...
About L. D.
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Apollo
Crosbie left London for Allington on the 31st of August, intending to stay there four weeks, with the declared intention of recruiting his strength by an absence of two months from official cares, and with no fixed purpose as to his destiny for...
The Last Day
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Last days are wretched days; and so are last moments wretched moments. It is not the fact that the parting is coming which makes these days and moments so wretched, but the feeling that something special is expected from them, which something...
Mr Crosbie meets an Old Clergyman on his way to Courcy Castle
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

For the first mile or two of their journey Crosbie and Bernard Dale sat, for the most part, silent in their gig. Lily, as she ran down to the churchyard corner and stood there looking after them with her loving eyes, had not been...
John Eames encounters Two Adventures, and displays Great Courage in Both
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lily thought that her lover’s letter was all that it should be. She was not quite aware what might be the course of post between Courcy and Allington, and had not, therefore, felt very grievously disappointed when the letter did not come on the...
A Mother-in-Law and a Father-in-Law
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning Mr Plantagenet Palliser was off upon his political mission before breakfast;—either that, or else some private comfort was afforded to him in guise of solitary rolls and coffee. The public breakfast at Courcy Castle was going on at eleven o’clock,...
Adolphus Crosbie spends an Evening at his Club
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Crosbie, as he was being driven from the castle to the nearest station, in a dog-cart* hired from the hotel, could not keep himself from thinking of that other morning, not yet a fortnight past, on which he had left Allington; and...
‘On my honour, I do not understand it’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the meantime Lady Alexandrina endeavoured to realize to herself all the advantages and disadvantages of her own position. She was not possessed of strong affections, nor of depth of character, nor of high purpose; but she was no fool, nor was she devoid...
‘The time will come’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Did you hear that young Eames is staying at Guestwick Manor?’

As these were the first words which the squire spoke to Mrs Dale as they walked together up to the Great House, after church, on Christmas Day, it was clear enough that the...
The New Private Secretary
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Income-tax
Office, April 8, 18—.

‘My dear
Lord
De
Guest,

I hardly know how to answer your letter, it is so very kind—more than kind. And about not writing before,—I must explain that I have not liked to trouble you with...
John Eames Does Things which he Ought Not to have Done
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

John
Eames succeeded in making his bargain with Sir Raffle Buffle. He accepted the private secretaryship on the plainly expressed condition that he was to have leave of absence for a fortnight towards the end of April. Having arranged this he took an affectionate...
The Second Visit to the Guestwick Bridge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Bell had declared that her sister would be very happy to see John Eames if he would go over to Allington, and he had replied that of course he would go there. So much having been, as it were, settled, he was able to...
Not Very Fie Fie After All
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It will perhaps be remembered that terrible things had been foretold as about to happen between the Hartletop and Omnium families. Lady Dumbello had smiled whenever Mr Plantagenet Palliser had spoken to her. Mr Palliser had confessed to himself that politics were not enough...
Showing how Mr Crosbie became Again a Happy Man
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It has been told in the last chapter how Lady De Courcy gave a great party in London in the latter days of April, and it may therefore be thought that things were going well with the De Courcys; but I fear the ...
Lilian Dale Vanquishes her Mother
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Dale had been present during the interview in which John Eames had made his prayer to her daughter, but she had said little or nothing on that occasion. All her wishes had been in favour of the suitor, but she had not dared...
Matrimonial Prospects
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It will of course be remembered that Mary’s interview with the other girls at Greshamsbury took place some two or three days subsequently to Frank’s generous offer of his hand and heart. Mary had quite made up her mind that the whole thing was...
When Greek Meets Greek, then Comes the Tug of War
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The doctor, that is our doctor, had thought nothing more of the message which had been sent to that other doctor, Dr Fillgrave; nor in truth did the baronet. Lady Scatcherd had thought of it, but her husband, during the rest of the day,...
Mr Moffat Falls into Trouble
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

We will now, with the reader’s kind permission, skip over some months in our narrative. Frank returned from Courcy Castle to Greshamsbury, and having communicated to his mother,—much in the same manner as he had to the countess,—the fact that his mission had been...
Sir Louis Goes out to Dinner
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The next day Joe did not make his appearance, and Sir Louis, with many execrations, was driven to the terrible necessity of dressing himself. Then came an unexpected difficulty. How were they to get up to the house? Walking out to dinner, though it...
Sir Louis Leaves Greshamsbury
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Janet had been sedulous in her attentions to Sir Louis, and had not troubled her mistress; but she had not had an easy time of it. Her orders had been, that either she or Thomas should remain in the room the whole day, and...
Lucy Robarts
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now how was he to tell his wife? That was the consideration heavy on Mark Robarts’ mind when last we left him; and he turned the matter often in his thoughts before he could bring himself to a resolution. At last...
Mr Crawley of Hogglestock
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And then there was that other trouble in Lady Lufton's mind, the sins, namely, of her selected parson. She had selected him, and she was by no means inclined to give him up, even though his sins against parsondom were grievous. Indeed she was...
Why Puck, the Pony, was Beaten
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mark
Robarts returned home the day after the scene at the Albany, considerably relieved in spirit. He now felt that he might accept the stall without discredit to himself as a clergyman in doing so. Indeed, after what Mr Sowerby had said, and after...
Non-Impulsive
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It cannot be held as astonishing, that that last decision on the part of the giants in the matter of the two bishoprics should have disgusted Archdeacon Grantly. He was a politician, but not a politician as they were. As is the case with...
South Audley Street
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke of Omnium had notified to Mr Fothergill his wish that some arrangement should be made about the Chaldicotes mortgages, and Mr Fothergill had understood what the duke meant as well as though his instructions had been written down with all a lawyer’s...
The Grantly Triumph
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It has been mentioned cursorily,—the reader, no doubt, will have forgotten it,—that Mrs Grantly was not specially invited by her husband to go up to town with a view of being present at Miss Dunstable’s party. Mrs Grantly said nothing on the subject, but...
Mr Sowerby Without Company
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now there were going to be wondrous doings in West Barsetshire, and men’s minds were much disturbed. The fiat had gone forth from the high places and the Queen had dissolved her faithful Commons. The giants, finding that they could effect little or...
The Philistines at the Parsonage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It has been already told how things went on between the Tozers, Mr Curling, and Mark Robarts during that month. Mr Forrest had drifted out of the business altogether,—as also had Mr Sowerby, as far as any active participation in it went. Letters came...
Nemesis
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

But in spite of all these joyful tidings it must, alas! be remembered that Pœna, that just but Rhadamanthine goddess,* whom we moderns ordinarily call Punishment, or Nemesis when we wish to speak of her goddess-ship, very seldom fails to catch a...
Chapter 9
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

April was a mild month. In the evening after dinner the children left the dining room to go and play in the garden. As the heat was stifling at the back of the narrow room, Marthe and the priest later also went out on...
Chapter 15
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One Friday, Madame Paloque, going into Saint-Saturnin, was most surprised to see Marthe on her knees in front of the Saint-Michel chapel. Abbé Faujas was giving confession.

‘Well, well!’ she thought. ‘Has she finally managed to capture the priest’s heart? I must stay. If Madame...
Chapter 21
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Toulon coach which passed through Les Tulettes, where there was a staging-post, left Plassans at three o’clock. Marthe, driven into action by a sudden thought, did not wish to waste a moment. She put on her shawl and her hat and ordered Rose...
The Bishop of Barchester
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Bold at once repaired to the hospital. The day was now far advanced, but he knew that Mr Harding dined in the summer at four, that Eleanor was accustomed to drive in the evening, and that he might therefore probably find Mr Harding alone....
Plumstead Episcopi
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The reader must now be requested to visit the rectory of Plumstead Episcopi; and as it is as yet still early morning, to ascend again with us into the bed-room of the archdeacon. The mistress of the mansion was at her toilet; on which...
Mr Bold’s Visit to Plumstead
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Whether or no the ill-natured prediction made by certain ladies in the beginning of the last chapter, was or was not carried out to the letter, I am not in a position to state. Eleanor, however, certainly did feel herself to have been baffled...
A Long Day in London
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The warden had to make use of all his very moderate powers of intrigue to give his son-in-law the slip, and get out of Barchester without being stopped on his road. No schoolboy ever ran away from school with more precaution and more dread...
The Stanhope Family
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is now three months* since Dr Proudie began his reign, and changes have already been effected in the diocese which show at least the energy of an active mind. Among other things absentee clergymen have been favoured with hints much too...
St Ewold’s Parsonage
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Mr Harding and Mrs Bold reached the rectory on the following morning, the archdeacon and his friend were at St Ewold’s. They had gone over that the new vicar might inspect his church, and be introduced to the squire, and were not expected...
A serious Interview
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There are people who delight in serious interviews, especially when to them appertains the part of offering advice or administering rebuke, and perhaps the archdeacon was one of these. Yet on this occasion he did not prepare himself for the coming conversation with much...
The Signora Neroni, the Countess De Courcy, and Mrs Proudie meet each other at Ullathorne
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

And now there were new arrivals. Just as Eleanor reached the drawing-room the Signora was being wheeled into it. She had been brought out of the carriage into the dining-room and there placed on a sofa, and was now in the act of entering...
The Lookalofts and the Greenacres
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the whole, Miss Thorne’s provision for the amusement and feeding of the outer classes in the exoteric paddock was not unsuccessful. Two little drawbacks to the general happiness did take place, but they were of a temporary nature, and apparent rather than real....
Mrs Bold at Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Poor Mrs Bold, when she got home from Ullathorne on the evening of Miss Thorne’s party, was very unhappy, and moreover, very tired. Nothing fatigues the body so much as weariness of spirit, and Eleanor’s spirit was indeed weary.

Dr Stanhope had civilly but not...
The new Dean takes Possession of the Deanery, and the new Warden of the Hospital
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr
Harding and the archdeacon together made their way to Oxford, and there, by dint of cunning argument, they induced the Master of Lazarus also to ask himself this momentous question: ‘Why should not Mr Arabin be Dean of Barchester?’ He of...
The Forged Coupon
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Part One

I

Fedor Mikhailovich Smokovnikov, the head of a government department, a man of incorruptible honesty and proud of the fact; a liberal of a gloomy temperament, and not only a free-thinker but a hater of every manifestation of religious feeling, which he regarded...
Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? Where does the authority of society begin? How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society?

Each will receive its proper share, if each has...
The Blue Carbuncle
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Ihad called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right, and...
Chapter IV I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

For a day that was begun so ill, the day passed fairly well. We had the porridge cold again at noon, and hot porridge at night; porridge and small beer was my uncle’s diet. He spoke but little, and that in the same way...
Chapter XVI The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

There is a regular ferry from Torosay to Kinlochaline on the mainland. Both shores of the Sound are in the country of the strong clan of the Macleans, and the people that passed the ferry with me were almost all of that clan. The...
Chapter 4 Ireland—My First Two Novels
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the preceding pages I have given a short record of the first twenty-six years of my life,—years of suffering, disgrace, and inward remorse. I fear that my mode of telling will have left an idea simply of their absurdities; but in truth I...
Chapter 17 The American Postal Treaty—the Question of Copyright with America—Four More Novels
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the spring of 1868,—before the affair of Beverley, which, as being the first direct result of my resignation of office, has been brought in a little out of its turn,—I was requested to go over to the United States and make a postal...
From ‘The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There never surely was a powerful, active, continually effective mind less round, more lop-sided than that of nathaniel hawthorne. If there were aught of dispraise in this, it would not be said by me,—by an Englishman of an American whom I knew,...
Chapter 1
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Outside the manor house in Hohen-Cremmen,* where the Briests had lived since the days when Georg Wilhelm* had been elector of Brandenburg, the village street, quiet at midday, lay in bright sunshine, whilst on the park and garden side a...
Chapter 3
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

On that very same day Baron Innstetten had become engaged to Effi Briest. At the following meal to celebrate the engagement the affable father of the bride, who had some difficulty summoning up the required solemnity, proposed a toast to the young couple, which tugged...
Chapter 11
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

The drive went as planned. At one the sleigh pulled up by the railway embankment outside the ‘Prince Bismarck’, and Golchowski, delighted to see the Landrat in his inn, took pains to prepare an excellent lunch. When the dessert and the Tokay had been served,...
Chapter 20
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

The next morning Innstetten, who had given Effi a sharp look as he lifted her out of the sleigh but avoided any reference to the strange ride the two had had together, was up early and tried as far as possible to get over his...
Chapter 26
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

It was the fifth week of Effi’s absence from home, and she was writing happy, almost over-exuberant letters, especially since she had arrived in Ems where, as she said, they could enjoy company again, that is, the company of men—the occasional one who had appeared...
Chapter 29
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Innstetten was back in Berlin on the evening of the same day. He had driven straight to the railway station in the carriage he’d left at the crossroads in the dunes, without going through Kessin again and leaving it to the two seconds to report...
Chapter 30
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Effi and Geheimrätin Zwicker had been almost three weeks in Ems, where they had the ground floor of a delightful little villa. Between their two living-rooms was a shared parlour with a view out into the garden; it also had a rosewood piano, on which...
Chapter 31
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Minutes passed. When Effi had recovered, she sat down on a chair by the window and looked out at the quiet street. If only there’d been some noise and arguing; but there was just the sunshine on the macadamized surface of the road and the...
Chapter 35
Authors: Fontane Theodor
Published: December 2020

Effi spent the whole day out in the park, because she needed fresh air; old Doctor Wiesike from Friesack was also happy with that, however, in this he gave her too much freedom to do as she liked, with the result that during a chilly...
Chapter 5 what the world thought about it
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Opinion in Silverbridge, at Barchester, and throughout the county, was very much divided as to the guilt or innocence of Mr Crawley. Up to the time of Mrs Crawley’s visit to Silverbridge, the affair had not been much discussed. To give Mr Soames his...
Chapter 8 mr crawley is taken to silverbridge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It had become necessary on the Monday morning that Mrs Crawley should obtain from her husband an undertaking that he would present himself before the magistrates at Silverbridge on the Thursday. She had been made to understand that the magistrates were sinning...
Chapter 13 the bishop’s angel
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was nearly nine before Mr Crawley got back to his house, and found his wife and daughter waiting breakfast for him. ‘I should not wonder if Grace were over here to-day,’ said Mrs Crawley. ‘She’d better remain where she is,’ said he. After...
Chapter 16 down at allington
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was Christmas-time down at Allington, and at three o’clock on Christmas Eve, just as the darkness of the early winter evening was coming on, Lily Dale and Grace Crawley were seated together, one above the other, on the steps leading up to the...
Chapter 17 mr crawley is summoned to barchester
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The scene which occurred in Hogglestock church on the Sunday after Mr Thumble’s first visit to that parish had not been described with absolute accuracy either by the archdeacon in his letter to his son, or by Mrs Thorne. There had been no footman...
Chapter 19 where did it come from?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Christmas morning came no emissary from the bishop appeared at Hogglestock to interfere with the ordinary performance of the day’s services. ‘I think we need fear no further disturbance,’ Mr Crawley said to his wife,—and there was no further disturbance.

On the day after...
Chapter 22 major grantly at home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs Thorne had spoken very plainly in the advice which she had given to Major Grantly. ‘If I were you, I’d be at Allington before twelve o’clock to-morrow.’ That had been Mrs Thorne’s advice; and though Major Grantly had no idea of making the...
Chapter 27 a hero at home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the morning after his visit to Miss Demolines John Eames found himself at the Paddington station asking for a ticket for Guestwick, and as he picked up his change another gentleman also demanded a ticket for the same place. Had Guestwick been as...
Chapter 31 showing how major grantly returned to guestwick
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Grace, when she was left alone, threw herself upon the sofa, and hid her face in her hands. She was weeping almost hysterically, and had been utterly dismayed and frightened by her lover’s impetuosity. Things had gone after a fashion which her imagination had...
Chapter 50 lady lufton’s proposition
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was now known throughout Barchester that a commission was to be held by the bishop’s orders, at which inquiry would be made,—that is, ecclesiastical inquiry,—as to the guilt imputed to Mr Crawley in the matter of Mr Soames’s cheque. Sundry rumours had gone...
Chapter 70 mrs arabin is caught
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

One morning about the middle of April Mr Toogood received a telegram from Venice which caused him instantly to leave his business in Bedford Row and take the first train for Silverbridge. ‘It seems to me that this job will be a deal of...
Chapter 81 barchester cloisters
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the morning of the Sunday after the dean’s return Mr Harding was lying in his bed, and Posy was sitting on the bed beside him. It was manifest to all now that he became feebler and feebler from day to day, and that...
Chapter XII: Peasantry, compared to that of England—Early marriages—Charity—Independence and equality—Cottage prayer-meeting
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

Mohawk, as our little village was called, gave us an excellent opportunity of comparing the peasants of the United States with those of England, and of judging the average degree of comfort enjoyed by each. I believe Ohio gives as fair a specimen as...
Chapter XV: Camp-Meeting
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

It was in the course of this summer that I found the opportunity I had long wished for, of attending a camp-meeting, and I gladly accepted the invitation of an English lady and gentleman to accompany them in their carriage to the spot where...
Chapter XVII: Departure from Cincinnati—Society on board the Steam-boat—Arrival at Wheeling—Bel Esprit
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

We quitted Cincinnati the beginning of March, 1830, and I believe there was not one of our party who did not experience a sensation of pleasure in leaving it. We had seen again and again all the queer varieties of its little world; had...
Chapter XXIV: Journey to Philadelphia—Chesapeak and Delaware Canal—City of Philadelphia—Miss Wright’s Lecture
Authors: Trollope Frances
Published: December 2020

In the latter part of August, 1830,* we paid a visit to Phildelaphia, and, notwithstanding the season, we were so fortunate as to have both bright and temperate weather for the expedition. The road from Washington to Baltimore, which was our first...
Chapter XXXIII: Niagara—Arrival at Forsythes—First sight of the Falls—Goat Island—The Rapids—Buffalo—Lake Erie—Canandaigua—Stage-coach adventures
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

At length we reached Niagara. It was the brightest day that June could give; and almost any day would have seemed bright that brought me to the object which, for years, I had languished to look upon.

We did not hear the sound of the...
Chapter XXXIV: Return to New York—Conclusion
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The comfortable Adelphi Hotel again received us at Albany, on the 14th of June, and we decided upon passing the following day there, both to see the place, and to recruit our strength, which we began to feel we had taxed severely by a...
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The Fouans’ house in Rognes was the first one on the road from Cloyes to Bazoches-le-Doyen, which runs through the village. At seven o’clock on the Monday morning, at daybreak, the old man was just leaving home to meet the others, as arranged, outside...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One day that summer, old Rose, who had been suffering from giddiness and trouble with her legs, sent for her grand-niece Palmyre to come and give the house a good clean. Fouan was out as usual, prowling round the fields, and while the poor...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

by five o’clock in the morning, the mighty August sun had already risen above the horizon and the ripe wheat of the Beauce lay stretched out beneath a fiery sky. Ever since the last summer showers, the expanse of green had turned slowly yellow...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Fouan went off down the slope. His anger had suddenly evaporated and, when he reached the road at the bottom, he stopped, bewildered at finding himself out of doors and not knowing where to go. The church clock struck three; a cold wind was...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

It so happened that the very next day, a Sunday, the young men of Rognes were going to Cloyes to draw lots; and as La Grande and Frimat’s wife, who had run to help, were undressing Françoise and putting her to bed with infinite...
Characters
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Stanhope,* a well-bred woman, accomplished in that branch of knowledge, which is called the art of rising in the world, had, with but a small fortune, contrived to live in the highest company. She prided herself upon having established half a...
Lady Delacour’s History
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Miss Portman was awakened by the ringing of lady Delacour’s bedchamber bell. She opened her eyes with the confused idea that something disagreeable had happened; and before she had distinctly recollected herself, Marriott came to her bedside, with a note from lady Delacour —...
Birthday Dresses
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Lady
Delacour’s history, and the manner in which it was related, excited in Belinda’s mind astonishment — pity — admiration — and contempt. — Astonishment at her inconsistency — pity for her misfortunes — admiration of her talents — and contempt for her conduct....
The Denouement
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Curiosity was not, at this instant, the strongest passion in Belinda’s mind. When the carriage stopped at Mrs. Delacour’s door, her heart almost ceased to beat; but she summoned resolution to go through, with firmness and dignity, the task she had undertaken.

Clarence Hervey was...
Chapter V
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Gwendolen’s reception in the neighbourhood fulfilled her uncle’s expectations. From Brackenshaw Castle to the Firs at Wancester, where Mr Quallon the banker kept a...
Chapter LI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Of gods and men...
Chapter LXIV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

“Questa montagna è tale,

It was not many days after her mother’s arrival that Gwendolen would consent to remain at...
Chapter LXVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Deronda’s eagerness to confess his love could hardly have had a stronger stimulus than Hans had given it...
What Was It?
Authors: O’Brien Fitz-James
Published: December 2020

It is, I confess, with considerable diffidence that I approach the strange narrative which I am about to relate. The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared to meet with an unusual amount of incredulity...
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

‘Halloa! Below there!’

When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he...
The Death of Olivier Bécaille
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

I

It was a Saturday morning, at six o’clock, that I died. I had been ill for three days. My poor wife had just been rummaging through a trunk, looking for some clean linen, and when she turned, she saw me lying there stiff,...
The Yellow Wall Paper
Authors: Gilman Charlotte Perkins
Published: December 2020

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity,—but that would be asking too much of fate!...
August Heat
Authors: Harvey W. F.
Published: December 2020

Penistone
Road, Clapham.*

     August 20th, 190—.

I have had what I believe to be the most remarkable day in my life, and while the events are still fresh in my mind, I wish to put them down on paper...
II
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The father of Charles Deslauriers, a former captain of the line who had resigned his commission in 1818, had come back to Nogent to get married and with the money from his bride’s dowry had bought the office of bailiff, which was barely enough...
Chapter III
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Outside, the moon is shedding its cold light on the cold snow, and the white-bearded fir-trees round Camp Villa are casting a blue shadow across the white ground, while the Rev. Amos Barton and his wife are audibly crushing the crisp snow beneath their...
Chapter III
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The last chapter has given the discerning reader sufficient insight into the state of things at Cheverel Manor in the summer of 1788. In that summer, we know, the great nation of France was agitated by conflicting thoughts and passions, which were but the...