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XLIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

What Henchard saw thus early was, naturally enough, seen at a little later date by other people. That Mr. Farfrae “walked with that bankrupt Henchard’s step-daughter, of all Women” became a common topic in the town, the simple perambulating term being used hereabout to...
Chapter IV Eustacia is led on to an Adventure
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

In the evening of this last day of expectation, which was the twenty-third of December, Eustacia was at home alone. She had passed the recent hour in lamenting over a rumour newly come to her ears—that Yeobright’s visit to his mother was to be...
Chapter I “Wherefore is Light given to him that is in Misery?”
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

One evening about three weeks after the funeral of Mrs Yeobright, when the silver face of the moon sent a bundle of beams directly upon the door of Clym’s house at Alderworth, a woman came forth from within. She reclined over the garden-gate as...
IV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Rolliver’s inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-licence;* hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little...
VII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On the morning appointed for her departure Tess was awake before dawn—at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of...
VIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Having mounted beside her, Alec d’Urberville drove rapidly along the crest of the first hill, chatting compliments to Tess as they went, the cart with her box being left far behind. Rising still, an immense landscape stretched around them on every side; behind, the...
X
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Every village has its idiosyncracy, its constitution, often its own code of morality. The levity of some of the younger women in and about Trantridge was marked, and was perhaps symptomatic of the choice spirit who ruled The Slopes in that vicinity. The place...
XIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The event of Tess Durbeyfield’s return from the manor of her bogus kinsfolk was rumoured abroad, if rumour be not too large a word for a space of a square mile. In the afternoon several young girls of Marlott, former schoolfellows and acquaintances of...
XXI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

There was a great stir in the milk-house just after breakfast. The churn revolved as usual, but the butter would not come. Whenever this happened the dairy was paralyzed. Squish-squash echoed the milk in the great cylinder, but never arose the sound they waited...
XXXIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Angel felt that he would like to spend a day with her before the wedding, somewhere away from the dairy, as a last jaunt in her company while they were yet mere lover and mistress; a romantic day, in circumstances that would never be...
XXXVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Clare arose in the light of a dawn that was ashy and furtive, as though associated with crime. The fireplace confronted him with its extinct embers; the spread supper-table, whereon stood the two full glasses of untasted wine, now flat and filmy; her vacated...
XLIX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The appeal duly found its way to the breakfast-table of the quiet vicarage to the westward, in that valley where the air is so soft and the soil so rich that the effort of growth requires but superficial aid by comparison with the tillage...
LIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was evening at Emminster Vicarage. The two customary candles were burning under their green shades in the Vicar’s study, but he had not been sitting there. Occasionally he came in, stirred the small fire which sufficed for the increasing mildness of the spring,...
Chapter X
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills, to barricade the valley. The abrupt sides...
Chapter XV
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire their virtues, and to deprecate the vices of mankind.

‘As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil; benevolence...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man, with calm and mild manners. He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity: and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion....

About...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The voyage came to an end. We landed, and proceeded to Paris. I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength, and that I must repose before I could continue my journey. My father’s care and attentions were indefatigable; but he did not know...
A Political Romance, &c.
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

SIR,

In my last, for want of something better to write about, I told you what a World of Fending and Proving° we have had of late, in this little Village of ours, about an old-cast-Pair-of-black-Plush-Breeches,° which...
4 An Interview with the Queen-mother
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Queen-Mother was in her bedroom at the Palais-Royal, with Madame de Motteville and the Senora Molena.* The King, who had been impatiently expected the whole day, had not made his appearance; and the Queen,* who had grown quite impatient,...
13 Two Jealousies
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Lovers are very tender towards everything which concerns the person they are in love with. Raoul no sooner found himself alone with Montalais than he kissed her hand with rapture. “There, there,” said the young girl sadly, “you are throwing your kisses away; I...
14 A Domiciliary Visit
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Princess, preceding Raoul, led him through the courtyard towards that part of the building which La Vallière inhabited, and, ascending the same staircase which Raoul had himself ascended that very morning, she paused at the door of the room in which the young...
21 Heu! Miser!
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

“Poor Raoul!” had said Athos. “Poor Raoul!” had said d’Artagnan; and, in point of fact, to be pitied by both these men, Raoul indeed must have been most unhappy. And therefore when he found himself alone, face to face, as it were, with...
28 M. De Baisemeaux’S ‘Society’
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The reader has not forgotten that, on quitting the Bastille, d’Artagnan and the Comte de la Fère had left Aramis in close confabulation with Baisemeaux. When once these two guests had departed, Baisemeaux did not in the least perceive that the conversation suffered by...
29 The Prisoner
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Since Aramis’s singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man. Up to that period the place which Aramis had held in the worthy governor’s estimation was that of a prelate whom he respected, and a friend to...
36 The General of the Order
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

There was now a brief silence, during which Aramis never removed his eyes from Baisemeaux for a moment. The latter seemed only half decided to disturb himself thus in the middle of supper, and it was clear he was seeking some pretext, whether good...
38 Crown and Tiara
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Aramis was the first to descend from the carriage; he held the door open for the young man. He saw him place his foot on the mossy ground with a trembling of the whole body, and walk round the carriage with an unsteady and...
50 Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastille
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Fouquet tore along as fast as his horses could drag him. On his way he trembled with horror at the idea of what had just been revealed to him.

“What must have been,” he thought, “the youth of those extraordinary men, who, even as age...
62 Among Women
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’ Artagnan had not been able to hide his feelings from his friends so much as he would have wished. The stoical soldier, the impassible man-at-arms, overcome by fear and presentiments, had yielded, for a few minutes, to human weakness. When, therefore, he...
65 The Two Lighters
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan had set off; Fouquet likewise was gone, and he with a rapidity which doubled the tender interest of his friends. The first moments of this journey, or better to say, of this flight, were troubled by the incessant fear of all the...
71 The Explanations of Aramis
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

“What I have to say to you, friend Porthos, will probably surprise you, but it will instruct you.”

“I like to be surprised,” said Porthos in a kindly tone; “do not spare me therefore, I beg. I am hardened against emotions; don’t fear, speak...
83 Porthos’S Will
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At Pierrefonds everything was in mourning. The courts were deserted—the stables closed—the parterres neglected. In the basins, the fountains, formerly so spreading, noisy, and sparkling, had stopped of themselves. Along the roads around the château came a few grave personages mounted upon mules or...
Epilogue
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Four years after the scene we have just described, two horsemen, well mounted, traversed Blois early in the morning, for the purpose of arranging a birding party which the King intended to make in that uneven plain which the Loire divides in two, and...
XX grimaud on duty
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Grimaud therefore came to the Vincennes prison with these favourable accessories. The governor piqued himself on possessing an infallible eye, which would make one believe that he was truly the son of the Cardinal Richelieu, who also had had this constant pretension; he therefore...
XXIII the abbÉ scarron
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

There were in the Rue des Tournelles* some rooms which all sedan-bearers and men-servants of Paris knew, and yet they did not belong to a great lord or rich financier. No eating, no playing, and certainly no dancing took place there. Yet...
XXXIX cromwell’s letter
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Just as Madame Henrietta was leaving the Carmelite convent to go to the Palais-Royal, a cavalier dismounted at the gate of the same royal residence, and told the guards that he had something important to say to Cardinal Mazarin. While the cardinal often felt...
XLII the uncle and the nephew
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Winter’s horse and groom were waiting for him at the gate; he took the road to his rooms, very pensive, and looking behind him from time to time to gaze at the silent, gloomy façade of the Louvre. Then it was he saw a...
LXII in which is proved that in the most trying circumstances brave men never lose their courage, nor hungry ones their appetite
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The little troop, without exchanging a word or looking behind, went along at a fast gallop, fording a little river whose name none of them knew, and leaving at their left a city which Athos claimed was Durham. At last they saw a wood,...
LXVII the trial
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Next day a numerous guard conducted Charles I before the High Court instituted to try him. The crowd filled the streets and houses adjoining the palace.

So at the first steps taken by the four friends they were stopped by the almost insurmountable obstacle of...
LXXIV the lightning felucca
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan had guessed rightly; Mordaunt had no time to lose, and had not lost any. He knew how rapidly his enemies decided and acted; he resolved, therefore, to act similarly. This time the musketeers had found an adversary worthy of them.

After having carefully...
LXXVI the port wine (concluded)
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Grimaud waited till he heard the bolt grate in the lock, and when quite sure that he was alone, he slowly raised himself, and groped for the partition.

‘Ah,’ he ejaculated, while wiping off with his sleeve the large drops of sweat which beaded his...
LXXVII fatality
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

In fact, d’Artagnan had hardly finished speaking when a whistle resounded on the felucca, which began to be hidden in the mist and darkness. ‘That, as you well comprehend,’ said the Gascon, ‘means something.’ Then a lantern was seen on deck, and lighted up...
LXXX the ambassadors
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The two friends set off at once, descending the rapid slope of the faubourg; but at the bottom of it they saw with astonishment that the streets had become rivers and the squares lakes. In consequence of the heavy rains during January the Seine...
XCVI where it is shown that it is sometimes more difficult for kings to return to their capital than to leave it
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

While d’Artagnan and Porthos were gone to conduct the cardinal to St Germain, Athos and Aramis, who had left them at St Denis, had reached Paris. Each of them had a visit to make.

In all haste Aramis went to the Hôtel de Ville, where...
Chapter V
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

nd so here’s Rugby, sir, at last, and you’ll be in plenty of time for dinner at the School- house,* as I tell’d you,” said the old guard, pulling...
Chapter I
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Towards the close of the sixteenth century, this castle was in the possession of Ferdinand, fifth marquis of Mazzini, and was for some years the principal residence of his family. He was a man of a voluptuous and imperious character. To his first wife,...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

‘About a quarter of a league from the walls we stopped, and I assumed the habit in which you now see me. My own dress was fastened to some heavy stones, and Caterina threw it into the stream, near the almond grove, whose murmurings...
Chapter IX
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile Julia, sheltered in the obscure recesses of St Augustin, endeavoured to attain a degree of that tranquillity which so strikingly characterized the scenes around her. The abbey of St Augustin was a large magnificent mass of Gothic architecture, whose gloomy battlements, and majestic...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

When Julia had rested, they followed the track before them, and in a short time arrived at a village, where they obtained security and refreshment.

But Julia, whose mind was occupied with dreadful anxiety for Ferdinand, became indifferent to all around her. Even the presence...
Chapter I
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The carriages were at the gates at an early hour; the bustle of the domestics, passing to and fro in the galleries, awakened Emily from harassing slumbers:...
Chapter V
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily was recalled from a kind...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

We now return to Valancourt, who, it may be remembered, remained at Tholouse, some time after the departure of Emily, restless and miserable. Each morrow that approached, he designed should carry him from...
Chapter III
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the following day, Montoni sent a second excuse to Emily, who was surprised at the circumstance. ‘This is very strange!’...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

We now return, for a moment, to Venice, where Count Morano was suffering under an...
Chapter XI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Blanche’s slumbers continued, till long after the hour, which she had so impatiently anticipated, for...
Chapter III
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

We now return to the mention of Montoni, whose rage and disappointment were soon lost in nearer interests, than any, which the unhappy Emily had awakened. His depredations having exceeded...
Chapter VI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The Count gave orders for the...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily, mean while, was still suffering anxiety as to the fate of Valancourt; but Theresa, having, at length, found a person, whom she could entrust...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the following morning, as Emily sat in the parlour adjoining the library, reflecting on the scene of the preceding night, Annette rushed wildly into the room, and, without speaking,...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Some circumstances of an extraordinary...
Barry Lyndon
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler in the dissolute clubs and courts of Europe. In a determined effort to enter fashionable society he marries a titled heiress but finds he has met his match. First published in 1844, Barry Lyndon is Thackeray’s earliest substantial novel and in some ways his most original, reflecting his views of the true art of fiction: to represent a subject, however unpleasant, with accuracy and wit, and not to moralize. The text is that of George Sainsbury's 1908 Oxford edition which restores passages cut when the novel was revised in 1856.
Chapter II In Which I Show Myself to be a Man of Spirit
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

During this dispute, my cousin Nora did the only thing that a lady, under such circumstances, could do, and fainted in due form. I was in hot altercation with Mick at the time, or I should have, of course, flown to her assistance, but...
8 Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

If my Readers have followed me with any attention up to this point, they will not be surprised to hear that life is somewhat dull in Flatland. I do not, of course, mean that there are not battles, conspiracies, tumults, factions, and all those...
12 Of the Doctrine of our Priests
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, ‘Attend to your Configuration.’ Whether political, ecclesiastical, or moral, all their teaching has for its object the improvement of individual and collective Configuration—with special reference of course...
3. Society and Sentiment
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

James Boswell, Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764 (ed. F. A. Pottle; New York, 1953)

In 1764 James Boswell (1740–95), studying civil law at Utrecht, defied the wishes of his father (the formidable Scottish judge Lord Auchinleck) and set out on a...
2. Working Travellers
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1790; ed. Richard Price and Sally Price; Baltimore, 1988)

John Gabriel Stedman (1744–97) joined the Scots Brigade of the Dutch army (in which his father had also served) at the...
3. Planters
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

William Beckford, A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica, With Remarks upon the Cultivation of the Sugar-cane, Throughout the Different Seasons of the Year, and Chiefly Considered in a Picturesque Point of View (1790)

William Beckford (1744–99), first cousin of the author of the...
1. Surveyors and Explorers
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

JOHN LAWSON, A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country: Together with the Present State thereof (1709)

John Lawson (d. 1711) arrived in North Carolina in 1700, worked as a deputy to the colony’s Surveyor-General, and succeeded to...
2. Manners and Morals
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Isaac Weld, Travels through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 (1799)

As a young man Isaac Weld (1774–1856) spent over two years travelling through the United States and Canada, returning home...
1. Privateers, 1680–1744
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697–1703)

William Dampier (1652–1715) joined a crew of privateers in the Spanish Main and crossed the Isthmus of Darien to the Pacific, a wider field for plunder, in 1679. In his series of travel memoirs we read...
4. THE COMING OF THE MISSIONARIES, 1796–1824
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

William Wilson, A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean (1799)

In 1796 a ship chartered by the non-denominational London Missionary Society (founded the previous year) set sail for the South Sea islands, arriving at Tahiti in March 1797. The missionaries were at first beset...
Chapter XVII: John is bewitched
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

TO forget one’s luck of life, to forget the cark* of care, and withering of young fingers; not to feel, or not be moved by, all the change of thought and heart, from large young heat to the sinewy lines, and dry bones...
Chapter XXI: Lorna ends her Story
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

‘IT is scarce a twelvemonth yet, although it seems ten years agone, since I blew the downy globe, to learn the time of day, or set beneath my chin the veinings of the varnished buttercup, or fired the foxglove cannonade, or made a...
Chapter XXXIX: A Troubled State and a Foolish Joke
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

STICKLES took me aside the next day, and opened all his business to me, whether I would or not. But I gave him clearly to understand that he was not to be vexed with me, neither to regard me as in any way dishonest, if...
Chapter XL: Two Fools together
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THAT story of John Fry’s, instead of causing any amusement, gave us great disquietude; not only because it showed that Tom Faggus could not resist sudden temptation and the delight of wildness, but also that we greatly feared lest the King’s pardon might be annulled,...
Chapter XLII: The Great Winter
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT must have snowed most wonderfully to have made that depth of covering in about eight hours. For one of Master Stickles’ men, who had been out all the night, said that no snow began to fall until nearly midnight. And here it was, blocking...
Chapter XLVIII: Every Man must defend himself
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT was only right in Jeremy Stickles, and of the simplest common sense, that he would not tell, before our girls, what the result of his journey was. But he led me aside in the course of the evening, and told me all about it;...
Chapter LV: Getting into Chancery
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

TWO of the Devonshire officers (Captains Pyke and Dallan) now took command of the men who were left, and ordered all to go home again, commending much the bravery which had been displayed on all sides, and the loyalty to the King, and the English...
Chapter LXIII: John is worsted by the Women
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

MOVED as I was by Annie’s tears, and gentle style of coaxing, and most of all by my love for her, I yet declared that I could not go, and leave our house and homestead, far less my dear mother and Lizzie, at the mercy...
Chapter LXVI: Suitable Devotion
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOW Kickums was not like Winnie, any more than a man is like a woman; and so he had not followed my fortunes, except at his own distance. No doubt but what he felt a certain interest in me; but his interest was not devotion;...
Chapter X Goarly’s Revenge
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE Senator and Morton followed close on the steps of Lord Rufford and Captain Glomax, and were thus able to make their way into the centre of the crowd. There, on a clean sward of grass, laid out as carefully as though he were...
Chapter XVI Mr. Gotobed’s Philanthropy
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

MR. GOTOBED, when the persecutions of Goarly were described to him at the scene of the dead fox, had expressed considerable admiration for the man’s character as portrayed by what he then heard. The man,—a poor man too and despised in the land,—was standing...
Chapter XLVIII The Dinner at the Bush
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

HERE is the letter which at his brother-in-law’s advice Lord Rufford wrote to Arabella:—

‘Rufford, 3rd February, 1875.

‘My dear
Miss
Trefoil,

‘It is a great grief to me that I should have to answer your letter in a manner that will...
Chapter LXXV Arabella’s Success
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WHEN Arabella Trefoil got back to Portugal Street after her visit to Rufford, she was ill. The effort she had made, the unaccustomed labour, and the necessity of holding herself aloft before the man who had rejected her, were together more than...
Chapter XIII: The Carmarthen Herald
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was a great deal said at Carmarthen about the old Squire’s will. Such scenes as that which had taken place in the house, first when the will was produced, then when the search was made, and afterwards when the will was read, do...
Chapter XXIII: Isabel’s Petition
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The news was soon all about Carmarthen. A new will had been found, in accordance with which Miss Brodrick was to become owner of Llanfeare, and, —which was of more importance to Carmarthen at the present moment, —there was to be no...
Chapter VII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There was considerable difficulty in making the overture to the two ladies,—or rather in making it to the elder lady; for the suggestion, if made to the daughter, must of course come to her from her mother. It had been decided at last that...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The introduction to Yoxham followed quickly upon the Earl’s visit to Wyndham Street. There was a great consultation at the rectory before a decision could be made as to the manner in which the invitation should be given. The Earl thought that it should...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Do you think that you could be happier as the wife of such a one as Daniel Thwaite, a creature infinitely beneath you, separated as you would be from all your kith and kin, from all whose blood you share, from me and...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Earl, without asking any question on the subject, had found that the Solicitor-General thought nothing of that objection which had weighed so heavily on his own mind, as to carrying on his suit with a girl who had been wooed successfully by a...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The news of the verdict was communicated the same evening to Lady Anna,—as to whose name there could now no longer be any dispute. ‘I congratulate you, Lady Anna,’ said the Serjeant, holding her hand, ‘that everything as far as this trial is concerned...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lady
anna was not told till the Saturday that she was to meet her lover, the tailor, on the following Monday. She was living at this time, as it were, in chains, though the chains were gilded. It was possible that she might be...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On Sunday they all went to church, and not a word was said about the tailor. Alice Bluestone was tender and valedictory; Mrs. Blue-stone was courteous and careful; the Serjeant was solemn and civil. Before the day was over Lady Anna was quite sure...
Chapter XLV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When a month had passed by a great many people knew how Mr. Daniel Thwaite had come by the wound in his back, but nobody knew it ‘officially’. There is a wide difference in the qualities of knowledge regarding such matters. In affairs of...
Chapter I. The Ray Family
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There are women who cannot grow alone as standard trees;—for whom the support and warmth of some wall, some paling, some post, is absolutely necessary;—who, in their growth, will bend and incline themselves towards some such prop for their life, creeping with their tendrils...
Chapter XXV. “The Baslehurst Gazette”
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

By one vote! Old Mr. Cornbury when he heard of it gasped with dismay, and in secret regretted that his son had not been beaten. What seat could be gained by one vote and not be contested, especially when the beaten candidate was a...
The Governor’s Hall
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Hester Prynne went, one day, to the mansion of Governor Bellingham, with a pair of gloves, which she had fringed and embroidered to his order, and which were to be worn on some great occasion of state; for, though the chances of a popular...
The Procession
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Before Hester Prynne could call together her thoughts, and consider what was practicable to be done in this new and startling aspect of affairs, the sound of military music was heard approaching along a contiguous street. It denoted the advance of the procession of...
Chapter I
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Three men need change—Anecdote showing evil result of deception—Moral cowardice of George—Harris has ideas—Yarn of the Ancient Mariner and the Inexperienced Yachtsman—A hearty crew—Danger of sailing when the wind is off the land...
Chapter IV
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Why Harris considers alarm clocks unnecessary in a family—Social instincts of the young—A child’s thoughts about the morning—The sleepless watchman—The mystery of him—His over anxiety—Night thoughts—The sort of work one does...
Chapter VII
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

George wonders—German love of order—‘The Band of the Schwarzwald Blackbirds will perform at seven’—The china dog—Its superiority over all other dogs—The German and the solar system—A tidy country—The mountain valley as...
Chapter XI
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Black Forest House: and the sociability therein—Its perfume—George positively declines to remain in bed after four o ‘clock in the morning—The road one cannot miss—My peculiar extra instinct—An ungrateful party—Harris as a scientist...
The Journey: First Stage
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘When the omnibus drove on, and I was alone upon the road, I looked carefully round to ascertain whether the monkey had followed me. To my indescribable relief I saw it nowhere. I can’t describe easily what a shock I had received, and my sense...
Conclusion. A Word For Those Who Suffer
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

My dear Van L——, you have suffered from an affection similar to that which I have just described. You twice complained of a return of it.

Who, under God, cured you? Your humble servant, Martin Hesselius. Let me rather adopt the more emphasized piety of...
Requiescat
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

It is needless to say, that under these circumstances, no steps were taken toward the fulfilment of that engagement into which he had entered. There was quite disparity enough in point of years, and indeed of habits, between the young lady and Captain Barton, to...
Mr Peters
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

One night during the session of 1746* this old Judge went down in his chair to wait in one of the rooms of the House of Lords for the result of a division in which he and his order* were interested....

This over,...
Interruption in Court
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

In due time Judge Harbottle went circuit;* and in due time the judges were in Shrewsbury. News travelled slowly in those days, and newspapers, like the wagons and stage-coaches, took matters easily. Mrs Pyneweck, in the Judge’s house, with a diminished household—the greater...
A Three Minutes’ Visit
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I have suffered extreme and protracted bodily pain, at different periods of my life, but anything like that misery, thank God, I never endured before or since. I earnestly hope it may not resemble any type of death, to which we are liable. I was,...
Mademoiselle De La Vallière
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

We wandered through the salons, the Marquis and I. It was no easy matter to find a friend in rooms so crowded.

‘Stay here,’ said the Marquis, ‘I have thought of a way of finding him. Besides, his jealousy may have warned him that there...
Strange Story Of The Dragon Volant
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

These fètes were earlier in those days, and in France, than our modem balls are in London. I consulted my watch. It was a little past twelve.

It was a still and sultry night; the magnificent suite of rooms, vast as some of them were,...
A High-Cauld Cap
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I was now upon the road, within two or three hundred yards of the Dragon Volant. I had undertaken an adventure with a vengeance! And by way of prelude, there not improbably awaited me, at my inn, another encounter, perhaps, this time, not so lucky,...
Rapture
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Down the screw-stair I went in utter darkness; and having reached the stone floor, I discerned the door and groped out the key-hole. With more caution, and less noise than upon the night before, I opened the door, and stepped out into the thick brushwood....
An Early Fright
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

In Styria,* we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy...
A Very Strange Agony
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

When we got into the drawing-room, and had sat down to our coffee and chocolate, although Carmilla did not take any, she seemed quite herself again, and Madame, and Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, joined us, and made a little card party, in the course of which...
Search
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

At sight of the room, perfectly undisturbed except for our violent entrance, we began to cool a little, and soon recovered our senses sufficiently to dismiss the men. It had struck Mademoiselle that possibly Carmilla had been wakened by the uproar at her door, and...
Appendix
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

Since the publication of the first edition of this pamphlet, or rather, on the same day on which it came out, the King’s Speech made its appearance in this city.* Had the spirit of prophecy directed the birth of this production, it...
Chapter II Plans and Bushman-paintings
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

At last came the year of the great drought, the year of 1862. From end to end of the land the earth cried for water. Man and beast turned their eyes to the pitiless sky, that like the roof of some brazen oven arched...
Chapter 1 Times and Seasons
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Waldo lay on his stomach on the sand. Since he prayed and howled to his God in the fuel-house three years had passed.

They say that in the world to come time is not measured out by months and years. Neither is it here. The...
Chapter II Waldo’s Stranger
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Waldo lay on his stomach on the red sand. The small ostriches he herded wandered about him, pecking at the food he had cut, or at pebbles and dry sticks. On his right lay the graves; to his left the dam; in his hand...
Chapter VI A Boer-wedding
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘I didn’t know before you were so fond of riding hard,’ said Gregory to his little betrothed.

They were cantering slowly on the road to Oom Muller’s on the morning of the wedding.

‘Do you call this riding hard?’ asked Em in some astonishment.

‘Of...
Chapter VII Waldo goes out to Taste Life, and Em stays at Home and Tastes it
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

At nine o’clock in the evening, packing his bundles for the next morning’s start, Waldo looked up, and was surprised to see Em’s yellow head peeping in at his door. It was many a month since she had been there. She said she had...
Chapter X Gregory Rose has an Idea
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Gregory
Rose was in the loft putting it neat. Outside the rain poured; a six months’ drought had broken, and the thirsty plain was drenched with water. What it could not swallow ran off in mad rivulets to the great ‘sloot’ that now foamed...
Chapter XI An Unfinished Letter
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

Gregory
Rose had been gone seven months. Em sat alone on a white sheepskin before the fire.

The August night-wind, weird and shrill, howled round the chimneys and through the crannies, and in walls and doors, and uttered a long low cry as it forced...
Chapter XIII Dreams
Authors: Schreiner Olive
Published: December 2020

‘Tell me what a soul desires, and I will tell you what it is.’ So runs the phrase.

‘Tell me what a man dreams, and I will tell you what he loves.’ That also has its truth.

For, ever from the earliest childhood to the...
Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“And now, Marie,” said St. Clare, “your golden days are dawning. Here is our practical, business-like New England cousin, who will take the whole budget of cares off your shoulders, and give you time to refresh yourself, and grow young and handsome. The ceremony of...
Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Our friend Tom, in his own simple musings, often compared his more fortunate lot, in the bondage into which he was cast, with that of Joseph in Egypt;* and, in fact, as time went on, and he developed more and more...
Dark Places
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.”*

Trailing wearily behind a rude wagon, and over a ruder road, Tom and his associates faced onward.

In the wagon was seated Simon Legree; and the two women, still fettered together, were...
The Tokens
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“And slight, withal, may be the things that bring

Back on the heart the weight which it would fling

Aside forever; it may be a sound,

A flower, the wind, the ocean, which shall wound,—

Striking the electric chain wherewith we’re darkly bound.”

Childe Harold’s...
Sounds
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves but dialects and provincial, we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak without metaphor, which alone...
Higher Laws
Authors: Thoreau Henry David
Published: December 2020

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize...
10
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Dinner was ready; it was devoured with great gusto by Professor Lidenbrock, whose stomach had become a deep chasm during the forced abstinence on board. The meal, more Danish than Icelandic, involved nothing remarkable in itself; but our host, more Icelandic than Danish, reminded...
24
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day, we had already forgotten about our difficulties. I was amazed at first not to feel thirsty, and wondered why. The stream flowing and gurgling at my feet gave me the answer.

We ate and drank from the excellent ferrous water. I felt...
38
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

To explain this reference to the two distinguished scientists, it should be recalled that a palaeontological event of great importance had taken place some months before our departure.

On 28 March 1863, French workmen under the direction of M. Boucher of Perthes* had...
42
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

It must have been about 10 p.m. The first of my senses to start working after this last attack was that of hearing. Almost straightaway I heard—and this was a definite event—I heard silence falling in the gallery, replacing the roaring which had been...
Chapter III Day and Night
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The morning hours had passed; the noon had come and gone; and Mr. Brock had started on the first stage of his journey home.

After parting from the rector in Douglas Harbour, the two young men had returned to Castletown, and had there separated at...
Chapter XI Love and Law
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On the morning of Monday, the twenty-eighth of July, Miss Gwilt—once more on the watch for Allan and Neelie—reached her customary post of observation in the park, by the usual roundabout way.

She was a little surprised to find Neelie alone at the place of...
Chapter XIII An Old Man’s Heart
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Punctual to the moment, when the half hour’s interval had expired, Mr. Bashwood was announced at the office, as waiting to see Mr. Pedgift by special appointment.

The lawyer looked up from his papers with an air of annoyance: he had totally forgotten the meeting...
Chapter I Miss Gwilt’s Diary
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Naples, October 10th.—It is two months to-day, since I declared that I had closed my Diary, never to open it again.

‘Why have I broken my resolution? Why have I gone back to this secret friend of my wretchedest and wickedest hours? Because...
Chapter III The Diary Broken off
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘London, November 19th.—I am alone again in the Great City; alone, for the first time, since our marriage. Nearly a week since, I started on my homeward journey; leaving Midwinter behind me at Turin.

‘The days have been so full of events since the...
Chapter VII On the Way to the Major
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Yes,’ said Benjamin. ‘It is a coincidence certainly. Still———’

He stopped and looked at me. He seemed a little doubtful how I might receive what he had it in his mind to say to me next.

‘Go on,’ I said.

‘Still, my dear,...
Chapter XXIX In the Light
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

A little interval of solitude was a relief to me, as well as to Miserrimus Dexter.

Startling doubts beset me as I walked restlessly backwards and forwards, now in the ante-room, and now in the corridor outside. It was plain that I had (quite innocently)...
Chapter XXXVIII On the Journey Back
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

If I had been travelling homeward in my own carriage, the remaining chapters of this narrative would never have been written. Before we had been an hour on the road, I should have called to the driver, and should have told him to turn...
Chapter XLV The Dust-Heap Disturbed
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

My head turned giddy. I was obliged to wait and let my overpowering agitation subside, before I could read any more.

Looking at the letter again, after an interval, my eyes fell accidentally on a sentence near the end, which surprised and startled me.
Part the Second: The March of Time
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

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Advancing from time past to time present, the Prologue leaves the date last attained (the summer of eighteen hundred and fifty-five), and travels on through an interval of twelve years—tells who lived, who died, who prospered, and who failed, among the persons concerned...
Chapter X Mr Bishopriggs
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The knock at the door was repeated—a louder knock than before.

‘Are you deaf?’ shouted Arnold.

The door opened, little by little, an inch at a time. Mr Bishopriggs appeared mysteriously, with the cloth for dinner over his arm, and with his second...
Chapter XII Arnold
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Meanwhil, Arnold remained shut up in the head waiter’s pantry—chafing secretly at the position forced upon him.

He was, for the first time in his life, in hiding from another person, and that person a man. Twice—stung to it by the inevitable loss of...
Chapter XXI In It
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘Now,’ said Sir Patrick, ‘what is the question?’

‘The question,’ said Geoffrey, ‘is whether my friend is married to her or not?’

‘Did he mean to marry her?’

‘No.’

‘He being a single man, and she being a single woman, at the time? And both...
Chapter XXVII Traced
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The afternoon wore on. The servants at Windygates, airing themselves in the grounds—in the absence of their mistress and her guests—were disturbed, for the moment, by the unexpected return of one of ‘the gentlefolks’. Mr Geoffrey Delamayn reappeared at the house, alone;...
Chapter XLVI Lady Lundie does her Duty
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

the scene opens on a bedroom—and discloses, in broad daylight, a lady in bed.

Persons with an irritable sense of propriety, whose self-appointed duty it is to be always crying out, are warned to pause before they cry out on this occasion. The lady now...
The Last of the Mohicans
Authors: Cooper James Fenimore
Published: December 2020

The second of Cooper’s five Leatherstocking Tales, this is the one which has consistently captured the imagination of generations since it was first published in 1826. Its success lies partly in the historical role Cooper gives to his Indian characters, against the grain of accumulated racial hostility, and partly in his evocation of the wild beautiful landscapes of North America which the French and the British fought to control throughout the eighteenth century. At the centre of the novel is the celebrated ‘Massacre’ of British troops and their families by Indian allies of the French at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built a romantic fiction of captivity, sexuality, and heroism, in which the destiny of the Mohicans Chingachgook and his son Uncas is inseparable from the lives of Alice and Cora Munro and of Hawkeye the frontier scout. The controlled, elaborate writing gives natural pace to the violence of the novel's action: like the nature whose plundering Copper laments, the books placid surfaces conceal inexplicable and deathly forces.
Chapter XIII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

The route taken by Hawk-eye lay across those sandy plains, relieved by occasional valleys and swells of land, which had been traversed by their party on the morning of the same day,...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

So long as their enemy and...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Fenimore Cooper James
Published: December 2020

During the time Uncas was making this disposition of his forces, the...