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Chapter XIII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

I receive an insulting Christmas card. We spend a pleasant Christmas at Carrie’s mother’s. A Mr Moss is rather too free. A boisterous evening, during which I am struck in the dark. I receive an extraordinary letter from Mr Mutlar, senior, respecting Lupin. We miss...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Grossmith George , Grossmith Weedon
Published: December 2020

Marriage of Daisy Mutlar and Murray Posh. The dream of my life realised. Mr Perkupp takes Lupin into the office.

March 20.—Today being the day on which Daisy Mutlar and Mr Murray Posh are to be married, Lupin has gone with a friend...
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Middlesex
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

My Lord,

Such is the Power of Interest over almost every Mind, that no one is long without Arguments to prove any Position which is ardently wished to be true, or to justify any Measures which are dictated by Inclination.

By this subtil Sophistry...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Adventure goes on after the accustomed Manner

Arabella, in the mean time, was wholly taken up with the Adventure, as she called it, at Church: The Person and Dress of the Gentleman who had so particularly gazed on her there, was...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which a Mistake, in point of Ceremony, is rectified

Arabella had scarce done thinking of this last Adventure, when the Marquis communicated a Piece of Intelligence to her, which opened a Prospect of an infinite Number of new ones.

His Nephew, having just returned...
Chapter XII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Reader will find a Specimen of the true Pathetic, in a Speech of Oroondates.—The Adventure of the Books

Arabella saw the Change in her Cousin’s Behaviour with a great deal of Satisfaction; for she did not doubt but his Passion...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The Adventure of the Books continued

In this Temper he went to the Gardens to pass over the Chagrin this unfortunate Accident had given him; when, meeting the Marquis, who insisted upon knowing the Cause of that ill Humour, so visible in his Countenance,...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which treats of a consolatory Visit, and other grave Matters

Arabella, being then awaked from her Slumber, was indulging her Grief by Complaints, which her Women were so used to hear, that they never offered to disturb her. Merciless Fate! said she, in the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which concludes with an excellent moral Sentence

The Day being come on which they designed to be present at the Races (or, as Arabella called them, the Games), Miss Glanville, having spent four long Hours in dressing herself...
Chapter X
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine is engaged in a very perilous Adventure

In the mean time, that solitary Fair one was alarmed by a Fear of a very unaccountable Nature; for, being in the Evening in her Closet, the Windows of which had a Prospect...
Chapter III
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Interview is ended, not much to the Lover’s Satisfaction, but exactly conformable to the Rules of Romance

Arabella, when she had pronounced these Words, blushed excessively, thinking she had said too much: But, not seeing any Signs of extreme Joy in...
Chapter VII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which the Mistakes are not yet cleared up

The Baronet, who had been put into a bad Humour by Arabella’s Insinuations, that Sir George had affronted her, appeared reserved and uneasy; and, being resolved to question her about it,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Containing a Love-Letter in the Heroic Stile; with some occasional Reasonings by Lucy, full of Wit and Simplicity

Our fair Heroine, having ended the foregoing Soliloquy, took up the Letter, and gave it to Lucy, who had, all the time she was...
Chapter II
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Not so long as wasfirst intended; but contains, however, a surprising Adventure on the Road

The Day of their Departure being come, they set out in a Coach and Six, attended by several Servants on Horseback. The First Day’s Journey passed off, without any...
Chapter VI
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which contains some excellent Rules for Raillery1

Mr.
Glanville, who had too much Politeness and Good nature to insist too long upon the Ridicule in the Character of his Acquaintance, changed the Discourse: And Arabella, who had observed, with some Concern,...
Chapter XII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine reconciles herself to a mortifying Incident, by recollecting an Adventure in a Romance, similar to her own

As soon as the Ladies were come to their Lodgings, Arabella went up to her own Apartment to meditate upon what had...
Chapter II
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which our Heroine, as me presume, shews herself in two very different Lights

Arabella, who at her Entrance had perceiv’d some Traces of Uneasiness upon Miss Glanville’s Countenance, tenderly ask’d her the Cause; to which that young Lady answering in a...
Chapter IV
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which Mr. Glanville makes an unsuccessful Attempt upon Arabella

Arabella, when she had finish’d these Words, which banish’d in part Mr. Glanville’s Confusion, went to her own Apartment, follow’d by Miss Glanville, to whom she had made a Sign...
Chapter V
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

In which is introduc’d a very singular Character

Miss
Glanville, whose Envy and Dislike of her lovely Cousin was heighten’d by her Suspicions that she disputed with her the Possession of Sir George’s Heart, she having been long in reality a great...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Which acquaints the Reader with two very extraordinary Accidents

Mr.
Glanville, who did not doubt but Roberts would bring him some Intelligence, sat waiting with anxious Impatience for his Return. The Evening drew on apace, he number’d the Hours, and began to...
Chapter X
Authors: Lennox Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A short Chapter indeed, but full of Matter

Richmond was now a Scene of the utmost Confusion and Distress. Arabella’s Fever was risen to such a Height, that she was given over by the Physicians; and Sir George’s Wounds, tho’...
Chapter II
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

A few days after the funeral, the will was opened before proper witnesses, and John was found to be left sole heir to his uncle’s property , which, though...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘The visits of the stranger were interrupted for some time, and when he returned, it seemed as if their purpose was no longer the same. He no longer...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘That night was the one fixed on for the union of Isidora and Melmoth. She had retired early to her chamber, and...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Maturin Charles
Published: December 2020

‘The intelligence that was the cause of old Sir Roger’s death, who might be said to be conducted from this world to the next by a blessed euthanasia, (a kind...
The narrative of arthur gordon pym
Authors: poe Edgar Allan
Published: December 2020

My name is Arthur Gordon Pym. My father was a respectable trader in sea-stores at Nantucket,* where I was born. My maternal grandfather was an attorney in good practice. He was fortunate in everything, and had speculated very successfully in stocks of...
Chapter IX
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Luckily, just before night, all four of us had lashed ourselves firmly to the fragments of the windlass, lying in this manner as flat upon the deck as possible. This precaution alone saved us from destruction. As it was, we were all more or...
Chapter X
Authors: Allan poe Edgar
Published: December 2020

Shortly afterward an incident occurred which I am induced to look upon as more intensely productive of emotion, as far more replete with the extremes first of delight and then of horror, than even any of the thousand chances which afterward befell me in...
II
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

The two people whom we have just called Indiana Delmare and Sir Ralph, or if you prefer, M. Rodolphe Brown, remained facing each other, as calm and cold as if the husband had been between them. The Englishman did not think at all of...
IV
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

It is perhaps difficult for you to believe that M. Raymon de Ramière, a brilliant young man, intelligent, talented and with many virtues, used to social success and fashionable love-affairs, should have conceived a lasting attachment for the housekeeper of a little industrial establishment...
XI
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

As he got out of his tilbury in the courtyard at Lagny, Raymon felt his courage fail him. So he was about to re-enter the house which brought back such terrible memories! His reasoning, in agreement with his passions, might enable him to dominate his...
XIII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

When Sir Ralph returned from the hunt and, as usual, took Madame Delmare’s pulse as he greeted her, Raymon, who was watching him closely, noticed a faint expression of surprise and pleasure on his calm features. And then, obeying some kind of inner compulsion,...
XVII
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

After leaving Sir Ralph, Madame Delmare had shut herself in her room and a thousand disturbing thoughts had crossed her mind. It was not the first time that a vague suspicion had cast its ominous light on the frail edifice of her happiness. M....
XIX
Authors: Sand George
Published: December 2020

M. Delmare’s plans were quite in accord with what Raymon wanted. He foresaw that this love-affair, which, as far as he was concerned, was nearing its end, would soon lead to his being pestered and harassed. He was quite pleased to see events turning...
At Tikhon’s
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

Nikolai
Vsevolodovich didn’t sleep that night; he spent it sitting on the sofa, often turning his fixed gaze towards a point in the corner near the chest of drawers. A lamp burned in his room all night. Around seven in the morning he...
Chapter 10
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
incident that occurred along the way was also rather remarkable. But I must relate everything in order. An hour before Stepan Trofimovich and I set out on the road, a crowd of workers from the Shpigulin factory, seventy or even more, had...
Chapter 1
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

1

The
fête took place in spite of all the previous day’s confusion over the Shpigulin workers. I think even if von Lembke had died during the night, the fête would still have taken place the next morning—such was the particular importance Yulia Mikhailovna...
First Impressions (II)
Authors: Dostoevsky Fyodor
Published: December 2020

No sooner had Miretsky*(the Pole who had been talking to me) left, than Gazin staggered into the kitchen, quite drunk.

The sight of a drunken prisoner in broad daylight, on a weekday when everybody was obliged to go out to work, with a...
Chapter II King Arthur’s Court
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way—

“Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are you just here on a...
Chapter XII Slow Torture
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Straight off, we were in the country. It was most lovely and pleasant in those sylvan solitudes in the early cool morning in the first freshness of autumn. From hilltops we saw fair green valleys lying spread out below, with streams winding through them,...
Chapter XIV “Defend Thee, Lord!”
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I paid three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind of...
Chapter XVIII In the Queen’s Dungeons
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Well, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was a good, pains-taking and pain-giving official,—for surely it was not to his discredit that he performed his...
Chapter XIX Knight-Errantry as a Trade
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Sandy and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one’s lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-full of the blessed God’s untainted, dew-freshened, woodland-scented air once more, after suffocating body and...
Chapter XXI The Pilgrims
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

When I did get to bed at last I was unspeakably tired; the stretching out, and the relaxing of the long-tense muscles, how luxurious, how delicious! but that was as far as I could get—sleep was out of the question, for the present. The...
Chapter XXX The Tragedy of the Manor-House
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

At midnight all was over, and we sat in the presence of four corpses. We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. Their home must be these people’s grave, for they could not have...
Chapter XXXI Marco
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

We strolled along in a sufficiently indolent fashion, now, and talked. We must dispose of about the amount of time it ought to take to go to the little hamlet of Abblasoure and put justice on the track of those murderers and get back...
Chapter XXXVII An Awful Predicament
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Sleep? It was impossible. It would naturally have been impossible in that noisome cavern of a jail, with its mangy crowd of drunken, quarrelsome and song-singing rapscallions. But the thing that made sleep all the more a thing not to be dreamed of, was...
Chapter XXXVIII Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

Nearing four in the afternoon. The scene was just outside’ the walls of London. A cool, comfortable, superb day, with a brilliant sun; the kind of day to make one want to live, not die. The multitude was prodigious and far reaching; and yet...
Chapter XLII War!
Authors: Twain Mark
Published: December 2020

I found Clarence, alone in his quarters, drowned in melancholy; and in place of the electric light, he had re-instituted the ancient rag-lamp, and sat there in a grisly twilight with all curtains drawn tight. He sprang up and rushed for me eagerly, saying:

“Oh,...
The Curates at Tea
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Caroline
Helstone was just eighteen years old; and at eighteen the true narrative of life is yet to be commenced. Before that time, we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction; delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes; almost always unreal. Before that...
Fieldhead
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Yet Caroline refused tamely to succumb: she had native strength in her girl’s heart, and she used it. Men and women never struggle so hard as when they struggle alone, without witness, counsellor, or confidant; unencouraged, unadvised, and unpitied.

Miss Helstone was in this position....
Shirley and Caroline
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Shirley showed she had been sincere in saying she should be glad of Caroline’s society, by frequently seeking it: and, indeed, if she had not sought it, she would not have had it; for Miss Helstone was slow to make fresh acquaintance. She was...
Which the Genteel Reader is Recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The evening was still and warm; close and sultry it even promised to become. Round the descending sun the clouds glowed purple: summer tints, rather Indian than English, suffused the horizon, and cast rosy reflections on hill-side, house-front, tree-bole; on winding road, and undulating...
Two Lives
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Only half of Moore’s activity and resolution had been seen in his defence of the mill: he shewed the other half (and a terrible half it was) in the indefatigable, the relentless assiduity with which he pursued the leaders of the riot. The mob,...
The Schoolboy and the Wood-Nymph
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Briarmains being nearer than the Hollow, Mr. Yorke had conveyed his young comrade there. He had seen him laid in the best bed of the house, as carefully as if he had been one of his own sons. The sight of his blood, welling...
Appendix
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

No. I Advertisement for Apprehension of Rob Roy

(From the Edinburgh Evening Courant, June 18 to June 21,

A.D. 1712. No. 1058)

‘That Robert Campbell, commonly known by the name of Rob Roy MacGregor, being lately intrusted by several noblemen and gentlemen with...
Chapter III
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The slack sail shifts from side to side, The boat, untrimm’d, admits the tide, Borne down, adrift, at random tost, The oar breaks short, the rudder's lost.

Gay's Fables*

I Have tagged with rhyme and blank verse the subdivisions of this important...
Chapter VI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The rude hall rocks—they come, they come,—

The din of voices shakes the dome;—

In stalk the various forms, and, drest In varying morion, varying vest, All march with haughty step—all proudly shake the crest.

Penrose*

If Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone was in no...
Chapter X
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

Anonymous*

The library at Osbaldistone Hall was a gloomy room, whose antique oaken...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

‘Look round thee, young Astolpho: Here's the place

Which men (for being poor) are sent to starve in;—

Rude remedy, I trow, for sore disease.

Within these walls, stifled by damp and stench,

Doth Hope's fair torch expire; and at the snuff,

Ere yet ‘tis...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Far as the eye could reach no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn’d the lively green;

No birds, except as birds of passage, flew;

No bee was heard to hum, no dove to coo;

No streams, as amber smooth—as amber clear, Were seen...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

Baron of Bucklivie, May the foul fiend drive ye, And a’ to pieces rive ye, For building sic a town, Where there's neither horse meat, nor man's meat, nor a chair to sit down.

Scottish Popular Rhymes on a bad Inn*

The night...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

‘Woe to the vanquish’d!’ was stem Brenno's word, When sunk proud Rome beneath the Gallic sword—

‘Woe to the vanquish’d!’ when his massive blade Bore down the scale against her ransom weigh’d;

And on the field of foughten battle still, Woe knows no limit save...
Postscript
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

The second article of the Appendix to the Introduction to Rob Roy, p. 55, contains two curious letters respecting the arrest of Mr Grahame of Killearn by that daring freebooter, while levying the Duke of Montrose's rents. These were taken from scroll copies in...
Of the Origin of Ideas
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

E
Very one will readily allow, that there is a considerable difference between the perceptions of the mind,* when a man feels the pain of excessive heat, or the pleasure of moderate warmth, and when he afterwards recalls to his memory this...
Textual Variants
Authors: Hume David
Published: December 2020

SECTION I

[Section I, paragraph 14 originally ended with this note, which appeared only in the 1748 and 1750 editions. Hume’s footnotes are indicated with numbers rather than the original symbols.]

That Faculty, by which we discern Truth and Falshood, and that by which we...
Chapter II
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I grow up—am hated by my relations—sent to school— neglected by my grandfather—maltreated by my master— seasoned to adversity—form cabals against the pedant— debarred access to my grandfather—hunted by his heir —demolish the teeth of his tutor

There were not wanting some, who suspected...
Chapter XI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We descry the waggon——get into it——arrive at an inn——our fellow travellers described——a mistake is committed by Strap, which produces strange things

We travelled half a mile without exchanging one word; my thoughts being engrossed by the knavery of the world, to which I must...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Squire Gawky comes to lodge with my master——is involved in a troublesome affair, out of which he is extricated by me——he marries my master’s daughter——they conspire against me——I am found guilty of theft——discharged—deserted by my friends——I hire a room in St. Giles’s—where, by accident, I...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

She is interrupted by a bailif,1 who arrests, and carries her to the Marshalsea——I accompany her——bring witnesses to prove she is not the same person named in the writ——the bailif is fain to give her a present, and discharge her——we shift our lodging——she resumes...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Captain Whiffle sends for me——his situation described——his surgeon arrives, prescribes for him, and puts him to bed—a bed is put up for Mr. Simper contiguous to the state-room, which, with other parts of the captain’s behaviour, gives the ship’s company a very unfavourable idea of...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

A strange adventure—in consequence of which I am extremely happy——Crampley does me ill offices with the captain: But his malice is defeated by the good-nature and friendship of the surgeon——we return to Port-Royal——our captain gets the command of a larger ship, and is...
Chapter XL
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

She is surprized at my learning——communicates her performances to me——I impart some of mine to her——am mortified at her faint praise——Narcissa approves of my production——I gain an involuntary conquest over the cook-wench and dairy-maid——their mutual resentment and insinuations——the jealousy of their lovers

During...
Chapter XLI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Narcissa being in danger from the brutality of Sir Timothy, is rescued by me, who revenge myself on my rival——declare my passion, and retreat to the sea-side——I am surrounded by smugglers, and carried to Bulloign——I find my uncle lieutenant Bowling, in great distress, and relieve...
Chapter XLVI
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

Wagtail introduces me to a set of fine gentlemen, with whom I spend the evening at a tavern——our conversation——the characters of my new companions——the doctor is roasted——the issue of our debauch

I Accepted his offer with pleasure, and we went thither in a...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

We repair to the coffee-house, where we overhear a curious dispute between Wagtail and Medlar, which is referred to our decision——the doctor gives us an account of his experiment—Medlar is roasted by Banter, at the ordinary—the old gentleman’s advice to me

Being as willing...
Chapter L
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I long to be revenged on Melinda——apply to Banter for his assistance——he contrives a scheme for that purpose, which is put in execution with great success——I make an attempt on the heart of Miss Gripewell, but am disappointed I grow melancholy at my disappointment, and...
Chapter LIII
Authors: Smollett Tobias
Published: December 2020

I purchase new cloaths——reprimand Strut well and Straddle——Banter proposes another matrimonial scheme—I accept of his terms——set out for Bath in a stage-coach, with the young lady and her mother—the behaviour of an officer and lawyer, our fellow-travellers, described—a smart dialogue between my mistress and the...
Chapter 10
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Thus sad and disarranged were the thoughts of my poor sister, when she became assured of the infidelity of Raymond. All her virtues and all her defects tended to make the blow incurable. Her affection for me, her brother, for Adrian and Idris, was...
Chapter 13
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

On my arrival, I found that an order had already gone forth for the army to proceed immediately towards Constantinople; and the troops which had suffered least in the battle were already on their way. The town was full of tumult. The wound, and...
Chapter 29
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

Now—soft awhile—have I arrived so near the end? Yes! it is all over now—a step or two over those new made graves, and the wearisome way is done. Can I accomplish my task? Can I streak my paper with words capacious of the grand conclusion?...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next morning, during breakfast, a servant acquainted Cecilia that a young gentleman was in the hall, who begged to speak with her. She desired he might be admitted; and Mrs. Harrel, laughing, asked if she ought not to quit the room; while Mr....
Chapter XI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The moment Cecilia was at liberty, she sent her own servant to examine into the real situation of the carpenter and his family, and to desire his wife would call upon her as soon as she was at leisure. The account which he brought...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Mean time young Delvile failed not to honour Cecilia’s introduction of him to Mr. Harrel, by waiting upon that gentleman as soon as the ill effects of his accident at the Pantheon permitted him to leave his own house. Mr. Harrel, though just going...
Chapter X
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Unable to relieve herself from this perplexity, Cecilia, to divert her chagrin, again visited Miss Belfield. She had then the pleasure to hear that her brother was much recovered, and had been able, the preceding day, to take an airing, which he had borne...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Cecilia was informed the next morning that a young woman begged to speak with her, and upon sending for her up stairs, she saw, to her great surprise, Miss Belfield.

She came in fear and trembling, sent, she said, by her mother, to entreat her...
Chapter VI
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

For two days, in consequence of violent colds caught during the storm, Lady Honoria Pemberton and Cecilia were confined to their rooms. Cecilia, glad by solitude and reflection to compose her spirits and settle her plan of conduct, would willingly have still prolonged her...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Early the next morning Cecilia had a visit from Lady Honoria, who came to tell her story her own way, and laugh at the anxiety of Mrs. Delvile, and the trouble she had taken; “for, after all, continued she, what did the whole matter...
Chapter X
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next morning Cecilia arose late, not only to avoid the raillery of Lady Honoria, but to escape seeing the departure of Delvile; she knew that the spirit with which she had left him, made him, at present, think her wholly insensible, and she...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The day passed on without any intelligence; the next day, also, passed in the same manner, and on the third, which was her birth-day, Cecilia became of age.

The preparations which had long been making among her tenants to celebrate this event, Cecilia appeared to...
Chapter IX
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

At———they stopt for dinner; Mrs. Charlton being too much fatigued to go on without some rest, though the haste of Cecilia to meet Delvile time enough for new arranging their affairs, made her regret every moment that was spent upon the road.

Their meal...
Chapter III
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The next morning, while the family was* at breakfast, Belfield, according to his promise, made his visit.

A high colour overspread his face as he entered the room, resulting from a sensation of grief at his fallen fortune, and shame at his altered appearance,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

The spring was now advancing, and the weather was remarkably fine; when one morning, while Cecilia was walking with Mrs. Harrel and Henrietta on the lawn before her house, to which the last dinner bell was just summoning them, to return, Mrs. Harrel looked...
Sir Guy Eveling’s Dream
Authors: Smith Horace
Published: December 2020

‘Now that we be upon this subject of dreams and apparitions, I may nohow forbear to mention that full strange and terrible one of Sir Guy Eveling, and the consequences tragical issuing therefrom, which do I the more willingly pen, forasmuch as the...
Chapter III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

They went at last, the wiseheads, down to Poynton, where the palpitating girl had the full revelation. ‘Now do you know how I feel?’ Mrs Gereth asked when in the wondrous hall, three minutes after their arrival, her pretty associate dropped on...
LETTER VIII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

The invitation I received from the hospitable Lord of these ruins, was so unequivocal, so cordial, that it would have been folly, not delicacy, to think of turning out of his house the moment my health was re-established. But then, I...
LETTER XII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

Here is a bonne bouche* for your antiquarian taste, and Ossianic* palate! Almost every evening after vespers, we all assemble in a spacious hall,1 which had been shut up for near a century,...
LETTER XVIII
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

‘La solitude est certainement une belle chose, mais il-y-a plaisir d’avoir quelqu’une qui en sache repondre, a qui on puis dire, la solitude est une belle chose.’*

So says Monsieur de Balsac,* and so repeats my heart a...
LETTER XXV
Authors: Owenson Sydney , Morgan Lady
Published: December 2020

Just as I had finished my last, the Prince sent for me to his room; I found him alone, and sitting up in his bed! he only complained of the effects of years and sickness, but it was evident some recent...
Chapter V
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

———Is she a Capulet?

O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.

The Lord Keeper walked for nearly a quarter of a mile in profound silence. His daughter, naturally timid, and bred up in those ideas of filial awe and implicit...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

‘A slight note I have about me for you, for the delivery of which you must excuse me. It is an offer that friendship calls upon me to do, and no way offensive to you, since I desire nothing but right upon both sides.’
Chapter XXII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

And soon they spied the merry-men green,

And eke the coach and four.

Craigengelt set forth on his mission so soon as his equipage was complete, prosecuted his journey with all diligence, and accomplished his commission with all the dexterity...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

hamlet. Has this fellow no feeling of his business—he sings at grave making.

horatio. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

hamlet. ‘Tis e’en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
Chapter XXV
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

True love, an thou be true,

Thou has ane kittle part to play;

For fortune, fashion, fancy, and thou,

Maun strive for many a day.

I’ve kend by mony a friend's tale,

Far better by this heart of mine,

What time and change of fancy...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

It was the copy of our conference.

In bed she slept not, for my urging it;

At board she fed not, for my urging it;

Alone, it was the subject of my theme;

In company I often glanced at it.

The...
6. In Which Detective Fix Shows a Highly Justifiable Impatience
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The telegram concerning Mr Phileas Fogg had been sent under the following circumstances.

On that Wednesday, 9 October, the liner Mongolia was due to arrive at Suez at eleven in the morning. She belonged to the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company and was...
28. In Which Passepartout Is Unable To Make Anyone Listen to Reason
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

On leaving the Great Salt Lake and Ogden Station, the train headed north for about an hour, as far as the River Weber, about 900 miles from San Francisco. From that point, it headed east across the rugged mass of the Wasatch Range. It...
Illustrations of ‘The Times’ Newspaper
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

The meaning of which passage is, that it is easier to sail with the stream, than to strive against it. Our...
On Modern Comedy
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

…But your Correspondent sees nothing in the progress of modern manners and characters but a vague, abstract progression from grossness to refinement, marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility. This sweeping distinction appears to him to explain satisfactorily the whole difference between...
Brummelliana
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

We look upon Beau Brummell* as the greatest of small wits. Indeed, he may in this respect be considered, as Cowley says of Pindar,* as ‘a species alone’, and as forming a class by himself. He has arrived...
Mind and Motive
Authors: Hazlitt William
Published: December 2020

The love of power or action is another independent principle of the human mind, in the different degrees in which it exists, and which are not by any means in exact proportion to its physical sensibility. It seems evidently absurd to suppose that sensibility...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

As Edith had promised he should do, Dr. Leete accompanied me to my bedroom when I retired, to instruct me as to the adjustment of the musical telephone.* He showed how, by turning a screw, the volume of the music could be made...
Chapter I
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. “What!” you say, “eighteen fifty-seven? That is an odd slip. He means nineteen fifty-seven, of course.” I beg pardon, but there is no mistake. It was about four in the...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

That evening, as I sat with Edith in the music room, listening to some pieces in the programme of that day which had attracted my notice, I took advantage of an interval in the music to say, “I have a question to ask you...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

I never could tell just why, but Sunday afternoon during my old life had been a time when I was peculiarly subject to melancholy, when the color unaccountably faded out of all the aspects of life, and everything appeared pathetically uninteresting. The hours, which...
Chapter IV
Authors: Bellamy Edward
Published: December 2020

I did not faint, but the effort to realize my position made me very giddy, and I remember that my companion had to give me a strong arm as he conducted me from the roof to a roomy apartment on the upper floor of...
29. The life and opinions of Monsieur Crevel
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Have you ever noticed how, in childhood, or at the start of our social life, we fashion a model for ourselves, often unawares? Thus a bank-clerk, as he enters his manager’s drawing-room, dreams of owning one just like it. If he is successful, it will...
51. Master Crevel’s little house
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

When they reached the Rue du Dauphin, which at that time had not yet been widened, Crevel stopped before a small door. The door opened on to a long passage paved with black and white flagstones that formed an entrance hall; at the end of...
54. Another view of a legitimately married couple
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Wearing prunella ankle boots and grey silk stockings, equipped with a dress of magnificent Levantine silk, her braided hair surmounted by a very pretty black velvet bonnet lined with yellow satin, Lisbeth went off to the Rue Saint-Dominique by way of the Boulevard des Invalides,...
61. On Poles in general and on Steinbock in particular
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

There is a childish side to the Slav as there is to all those originally primitive peoples that have made an irruption into the civilized nations rather than become really civilized themselves. This race has spread like a flood and covered an immense area of...
63. He is young, Polish, and an artist. What do you expect him to do?
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Just then, Valérie herself brought Steinbock a cup of tea. This was more than a mark of attention; it was a special favour. There is a whole language in the way a woman performs that office, and women are well aware of this. And so...
83. Moral reflections
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Hulot returned home in a state of depression verging on collapse and sunk in thoughts of the deepest gloom. He woke his noble, pure, and saintly wife and poured out the story of the last three years into her heart, sobbing like a child whose...
98. In which Josépha reappears
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The Baron had himself driven to the Place du Palais Royal. He had regained all his mental agility in order to carry out a plan thought out during the days he had stayed in bed overwhelmed with distress and grief, and having crossed the Palais...
106. The angel and the devil hunt in company
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

When she went into her boudoir, the singer found Madame Hulot in a dead faint. But although she was unconscious, she was still shaking with her nervous tremor, just as the sections of an adder still twitch when it has been cut in pieces.

Strong...
114. A courtesan’s dinner-party
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

At seven o’clock they attacked the oysters. At eight o’clock, between two courses, they sipped iced punch. Everyone knows the menu of these parties.

At nine o’clock they were chattering away as people chatter after drinking forty-two bottles of different wines, shared between fourteen people....
116. A little house in 1840
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Cydalise, Montès, and Madame Nourrisson got into a cab which was waiting at Carabine’s door. Madame Nourrisson quietly directed the driver to a house in the same block as the Italian Opera. They could have got there quite quickly, for it is only seven to...
120. Doctor’s comments
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The next day, Doctor Bianchon allowed the Baroness to go down into the garden. He had just examined Lisbeth, who had been confined to her room for a month by a mild attack of bronchitis. The experienced doctor, who did not venture to express his...
124. One aspect of speculation
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

Among the many admirable organizations founded by Catholic charity in Paris, there is one, founded by Madame de la Chanterie, whose aim is to arrange civil and religious marriages for working-class couples who are living together.

Our legislators, anxious to have the registration fees, and...
126. A second Atala, quite as much of a savage as the first one, but not as good a Catholic
Authors: De Balzac Honoré
Published: December 2020

The stove-fitter’s wife made a sign to her eldest daughter, who went out immediately. Ten minutes later she returned, holding by the hand a 15-and-a-half-year-old girl, a beauty of the specially Italian kind.

From her father, Mademoiselle Judici inherited the kind of skin which is...
How the puppet-master, Swallowfire, gives five gold coins to Pinocchio to take to his papa, Old Joe; and how, instead, Pinocchio allows himself to be swindled by the Fox and the Cat and goes off with them.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

The next day Swallowfire took Pinocchio to one side and asked him, ‘What is your father’s name?’

‘Old Joe.’

‘And what’s his trade?’

‘Poor man.’

‘Does he earn much?’

‘He earns just the right amount for never having a halfpenny in his pocket. You know,...
How Pinocchio promises the Fairy to be good and to study, because he is tired of being a puppet and wants to become a good boy.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

At first the good woman tried to say that she was not the little Fairy with the indigo hair; but then, acknowledging that she had been recognized and not wanting to play-act any longer, in the end she made herself known and said to Pinocchio,...
How a great battle takes place between Pinocchio and his school-friends; and how, when one of them is injured, Pinocchio is arrested by the police.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

When he arrived at the beach, Pinocchio immediately scanned the sea, but he could see no Shark. The sea was as smooth as a vast glass mirror.

‘So where’s the Shark?’ he asked, turning to his companions.

‘Maybe he’s gone to have breakfast,’ one of...
How in the Shark’s body Pinocchio meets... whom does he meet once more? Read this chapter and you will find out.
Authors: Collodi Carlo
Published: December 2020

As soon as Pinocchio had said goodbye to his good friend Tunny, he moved off groping about in that darkness; feeling his way through the body of the Shark, he went forward one step at a time towards the little light that he could see...
Three Deaths
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

I

It was autumn. Two vehicles were going along the highway at a quick pace. In the first sat two women. One was a lady, thin and pale. The other was a maidservant, glowingly rosy and plump. Her short dry hair kept slipping out from...
Father Sergy
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

I

In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the cuirassier guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nikolay I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful...
Chapter I: Introductory, concerning the Pedigree of the Chuzzlewit Family
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit Family without being first assured of the extreme antiquity of the race, it is a great satisfaction to know that it undoubtedly descended in a direct line...
Chapter IV: From which it will appear that if Union be Strength, and Family Affection be pleasant to contemplate, the Chuzzlewits were the strongest and most agreeable Family in the World
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

That worthy man Mr. Pecksniff having taken leave of his cousin in the solemn terms recited in the last chapter, withdrew to his own home, and remained there three whole days: not so much as going out for a walk beyond the boundaries of...
Chapter XI: Wherein a certain Gentleman becomes particular in his Attentions to a certain Lady; and more Coming Events than one, cast their Shadows before
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The family were within two or three days of their departure from Mrs. Todgers’s, and the commercial gentlemen were to a man despondent and not to be comforted, because of the approaching separation, when Bailey junior, at the jocund time of noon, presented himself...
Chapter XIV: In which Martin bids Adieu to the Lady of his Love; and Honors an obscure Individual whose Fortune he intends to make, by commending her to his Protection
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The letter being duly signed, sealed, and delivered, was handed to Mark Tapley, for immediate conveyance if possible. And he succeeded so well in his embassy as to be enabled to return that same night, just as the house was closing: with the welcome...
Chapter XXVI: An Unexpected Meeting, and a Promising Prospect
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The laws of sympathy between beards and birds, and the secret source of that attraction which frequently impels a shaver of the one to be a dealer in the other, are questions for the subtle reasoning of scientific bodies: not the less so, because...
Chapter XXVII: Showing that Old Friends may not only appear with New Faces, but in False Colours. That People are prone to Bite; and that Biters may sometimes be Bitten
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Bailey, Junior—for the sporting character., whilom of general utility at Todgers’s, had now regularly set up in life under that name, without troubling himself to obtain from the legislature a direct license in the form of a Private Bill, which of all kinds...
Chapter XLIV: Further Continuation of the Enterprise of Mr. Jonas and his Friend
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a special quality, among the many admirable qualities possessed by Mr. Pecksniff, that the more he was found out, the more hypocrisy he practised. Let him be discomfited in one quarter, and he refreshed and recompensed himself by carrying the war into...
III: Subterranean Reminiscences
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Miriam’s model has so important a connection with our story, that it is essential to describe the singular mode of his first appearance, and how he subsequently became a self-appointed follower of the young female artist. In the first place, however, we must devote...
XII: A Stroll on the Pincian
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Hilda, after giving the last touches to the picture of Beatrice Cenci, had flown down from her dove-cote, late in the afternoon, and gone to the Pincian Hill, in the hope of hearing a strain or two of exhilarating music. There, as it happened,...
XIII: A Sculptor’s Studio
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

About this period, Miriam seems to have been goaded by a weary restlessness, that drove her abroad on any errand or none. She went, one morning, to visit Kenyon in his studio, whither he had invited her to see a new statue, on which...
XVIII: On the Edge of a Precipice
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

“Let us settle it,” said Kenyon, stamping his foot firmly down, “that this is precisely the spot where the chasm opened, into which Curtius precipitated his good steed and himself.* Imagine the great, dusky gap, impenetrably deep, and with half-shaped monsters...
XXI: The Dead Capuchin
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

The dead monk was clad, as when alive, in the brown woollen frock of the Capuchins, with the hood drawn over his head, but so as to leave the features and a portion of the beard uncovered. His rosary and cross hung at his...
XXV: Sunshine
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

“Come,” said the Count, “I see you already find the old house dismal. So do I, indeed! And yet it was a cheerful place in my boyhood. But, you see, in my father’s days, (and the same was true of all my endless...
XXXIII: Pictured Windows
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

After wide wanderings through the valley, the two travellers directed their course towards its boundary of hills. Here, the natural scenery and men’s modifications of it immediately took a different aspect from that of the fertile and smiling plain. Not unfrequently, there was a...