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Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The next day Denise had scarcely been in the department for half an hour when Madame Aurélie said to her in her sharp voice:

‘Mademoiselle Baudu, you’re wanted in the head office.’

The girl found Mouret alone, sitting in the great office hung with green...
CHAPTER II
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

ARistide
Rougon swooped down on Paris the day after 2 December,* like a bird of prey scenting the field of battle from afar. He came from Plassans,* a sub-prefecture in the south of France, where his father, in the...
Chapter IV
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The exquisite longing Renée had felt amid the disturbing perfumes of the hothouse, while Maxime and Louise sat laughing on a sofa in the little buttercup drawing room, seemed to vanish like a nightmare that leaves behind it nothing but a vague shudder. Throughout...
Letter I Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Vittars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove

Can there, my good Sir, be any thing more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied....

I...
Letter VII Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, March 26.

Be not alarmed, my worthy friend, at my so speedily troubling you again; I seldom use the ceremony of waiting for answers, or writing with any regularity, and I have at present immediate occasion for begging your patience.

Mrs. Mirvan...
Letter XIV Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Queen-Ann-street, April 13.

How much will you be surprised, my dearest Sir, at receiving another letter from London of your Evelina’s writing! But, believe me, it was not my fault, neither is it my happiness, that I am still here: our journey has...
Letter XVI Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Queen-Ann-street, Thursday morning, April 14.

Before our dinner was over yesterday, Madame Duval came to tea: though it will lessen your surprise, to hear that it was near five o’clock, for we never dine till the day is almost over.* She was...
Letter XVIII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

I had just finished my letter to you this morning, when a violent rapping at the door made me run down stairs; and who should I see in the drawing-room, but—Lord Orville!

He was quite alone, for the family had not assembled to breakfast. He...
Letter I Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Howard Grove, May 10.

Our house has been enlivened to-day, by the arrival of a London visitor; and the necessity I have been under of concealing the uneasiness of my mind, has made me exert myself so effectually, that I even think it is...
Letter XII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

June 10th.

This morning, Mr. Smith called, on purpose, he said, to offer me a ticket for the next Hampstead assembly.* I thanked him, but desired to be excused accepting it; he would not, however, be denied, nor answered, and,...
Letter XXV Mr. Villars to Evelina
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Berry Hill, July 7.

Welcome, thrice welcome, my darling Evelina, to the arms of the truest, the fondest of your friends! Mrs. Clinton, who shall hasten to you with these lines, will conduct you directly hither, for I can consent no longer to be...
Letter I Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Bristol Hotwell, Sept. 12.

The first fortnight that I passed here, was so quiet, so serene, that it gave me reason to expect a settled calm during my stay; but if I may now judge of the time to come, by the present state...
Letter XI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

October 2d.

Yesterday, from the time I received your kind, though heart-piercing letter, I kept my room,—for I was equally unable and unwilling to see Lord Orville: but this morning, finding I seemed destined to pass a few days longer here, I endeavoured to...
Letter XVI Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Clifton, Oct. 7th.

You will see, my dear Sir, that I was mistaken in supposing I should write no more from this place, where my residence, now, seems more uncertain than ever.

This morning, during breakfast, Lord Orville took an opportunity to beg me, in...
Letter XVII Evelina in continuation
Authors: Burney Frances
Published: December 2020

Oct. 9.

I could not write yesterday, so violent was the agitation of my mind,—but I will not, now, lose a moment till I have hastened to my best friend an account of the transactions of a day I can never recollect without...

Mrs....
The Awakening
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

I

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over:

“Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi!* That’s all right!”

He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was...
Wiser Than a God
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

—Latin Proverb

I

“You might at least show some distaste for the task, Paula,” said Mrs. Von Stoltz, in her querulous invalid voice, to her daughter who stood before the glass bestowing...
The Maid of Saint Phillippe
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

An historical incident furnishes the ground-work of this story, the heroine of which is a girl of lofty character and noble purpose. The tale describes the abandonment of Saint Phillippe in favor of the rival village of St. Louis, and shows how the latter settlement...
Beyond the Bayou
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The bayou* curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle’s cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied them with water enough. Through the woods...
Caline
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The sun was just far enough in the west to send inviting shadows. In the centre of a small field, and in the shade of a haystack which was there, a girl lay sleeping. She had slept long and soundly, when something awoke her as...
A Matter of Prejudice
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

The Strange Result of Disturbing Madame Carambeau.

Madame Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave’s birthday party. They carried her big rocking-chair from the back gallery, that looked out upon the garden where the children were going to...
Vagabonds
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Valcour was waiting. A negro who had come to the store for rations told me that he was down below around the bend and wanted to see me. It never would have entered my mind to put myself the least bit out of the way...
Elizabeth Stock’s One Story
Authors: Chopin Kate
Published: December 2020

Elizabeth Stock, an unmarried woman of thirty-eight, died of consumption during the past winter at the St. Louis City Hospital. There were no unusually pathetic features attending her death. The physicians say she showed hope of rallying till placed in the incurable ward, when all...
The Blue Carbuncle
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the right,...
The Engineer’s Thumb
Authors: Doyle Arthur conan
Published: December 2020

Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend Mr Sherlock Holmes for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice, that of Mr Hatherley’s thumb and that of...
The Light upon the Moor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

[Second report of Dr Watson]

Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th

My Dear Holmes, If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

It was now the Dusk of the Evening, when a grave Person rode into the Inn, and committing his Horse to the Hostler, went directly into the Kitchin, and having called for a Pipe of Tobacco, took his place by the Fire-side; where several...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I do assure you, Sir,’ says he, taking the Gentleman by the Hand, ‘I am heartily glad to meet with a Man of your Kidney: for tho’ I am a poor Parson, I will be bold to say, I am an honest Man, and would...
Chapter XV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When he came back to the Inn, he found Joseph and Fanny sitting together. They were so far from thinking his Absence long, as he had feared they would, that they never once miss’d or thought of him. Indeed, I...
Chapter VII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Habit, my good Reader, hath so vast a Prevalence over the human Mind, that there is scarce any thing too strange or too strong to be asserted of it. The Story of the Miser, who from long accustoming to cheat others, came at last...
Chapter XII
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The Pedlar had been very inquisitive from the time he had first heard that the great House in this Parish belonged to the Lady Booby, and had learnt that she was the Widow of Sir Thomas, and that Sir ...
Chapter XV
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

As soon as Fanny was drest, Joseph returned to her, and they had a long Conversation together, the Conclusion of which was, that if they found themselves to be really Brother and Sister, they vowed a perpetual Celibacy, and to...
Religious cautions against showing too much favour to bastards; and a great discovery made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Eight months after the celebration of the nuptials between Captain Blifil and Miss Bridget Allworthy, a young lady of great beauty, merit, and fortune, was Miss Bridget, by reason of a fright, delivered of a fine boy. The child was indeed, to all appearance,...
Containing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

For the reasons mentioned in the preceding chapter, and from some other matrimonial concessions, well known to most husbands, and which, like the secrets of free-masonry, should be divulged to none who are not members of that honourable fraternity, Mrs Partridge was pretty well...
Containing a necessary apology for the author; and a childish incident, which perhaps requires an apology likewise
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Before I proceed farther, I shall beg leave to obviate some misconstructions into which the zeal of some few readers may lead them; for I would not willingly give offence to any, especially to men who are warm in the cause of virtue or...
A short hint of what we can do in the sublime, and a description of Miss Sophia Western
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Hushed be every ruder breath. May the heathen ruler of the winds confine in iron chains the boisterous limbs of noisy Boreas, and the sharp-pointed nose of bitter-biting Eurus. Do thou, sweet Zephyrus,* rising from thy fragrant bed, mount the western sky,...
An apology for the insensibility of Mr Jones to all the charms of the lovely Sophia; in which possibly we may, in a considerable degree, lower his character in the estimation of those men of wit and gallantry who approve the heroes in most of our modern comedies
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

There are two sorts of people who, I am afraid, have already conceived some contempt for my hero, on account of his behaviour to Sophia. The former of these will blame his prudence in neglecting an opportunity to possess himself of Mr Western’s fortune;...
In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Western was become so fond of Jones that he was unwilling to part with him, though his arm had been long since cured; and Jones, either from the love of sport, or from some other reason, was easily persuaded to continue at his...
Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved, beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones retired from the company in which we have seen him engaged, into the fields, where he intended to cool himself by a walk in the open air before he attended Mr Allworthy. There, whilst he renewed those meditations on his dear...
A picture of a country gentlewoman taken from the life
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mr
Western having finished his holla, and taken a little breath, began to lament, in very pathetic terms, the unfortunate condition of men, who are, says he, ‘always whipped in by the humours of some d—ned b—or other. I think I was...
A strange resolution of Sophia, and a more strange stratagem of Mrs Honour
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though Mrs Honour was principally attached to her own interest, she was not without some little attachment to Sophia. To say truth, it was very difficult for anyone to know that young lady without loving her. She no sooner, therefore, heard a...
Containing scenes of altercation, of no very uncommon kind
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Honour had scarce sooner parted from her young lady than something (for I would not, like the old woman in Quevedo,* injure the devil by any false accusation, and possibly he might have no hand in it) but something, I say,...
The conclusion of the foregoing adventure
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Besides the suspicion of sleep, the lieutenant harboured another and worse doubt against the poor sentinel, and this was that of treachery; for as he believed not one syllable of the apparition, so he imagined the whole to be an invention formed only to...
In which the surgeon makes his second appearance
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Before we proceed any farther, that the reader may not be mistaken in imagining the landlady knew more than she did, nor surprised that she knew so much, it may be necessary to inform him that the lieutenant had acquainted her that the name...
In which is introduced one of the pleasantest barbers that was ever recorded in history, the barber of Bagdad, or he in Don Quixote not excepted
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The clock had now struck five when Jones awaked from a nap of seven hours, so much refreshed, and in such perfect health and spirits, that he resolved to get up and dress himself, for which purpose he unlocked his portmanteau, and took out...
A friendly conversation in the kitchen, which had a very common, though not very friendly, conclusion
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

While our lovers were entertaining themselves in the manner which is partly described in the foregoing chapter, they were likewise furnishing out an entertainment for their good friends in the kitchen. And this in a double sense, by affording them matter for their conversation,...
Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The lady had no sooner laid herself on her pillow than the waiting-woman returned to the kitchen to regale with some of those dainties which her mistress had refused.

The company, at her entrance, showed her the same respect which they had before paid to...
In which the history of Mrs Fitzpatrick is continued
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

‘We remained at Bath no longer than a fortnight after our wedding; for as to any reconciliation with my aunt, there were no hopes; and of my fortune not one farthing could be touched till I was of age, of which I now...
Showing what is to be deemed plagiarism in a modern author, and what is to be considered as lawful prize
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

The learned reader must have observed that in the course of this mighty work I have often translated passages out of the best ancient authors without quoting the original, or without taking the least notice of the book from whence they were borrowed.

This conduct...
Containing a remark or two of our own, and many more of the good company assembled in the kitchen
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Though the pride of Partridge did not submit to acknowledge himself a servant, yet he condescended in most particulars to imitate the manners of that rank. One instance of this was his greatly magnifying the fortune of his companion, as he called Jones; such...
Containing little more than a few odd observations
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones had been absent a full half hour, when he returned into the kitchen in a hurry, desiring the landlord to let him know that instant what was to pay. And now the concern which Partridge felt at being obliged to quit a warm...
Containing a scene of distress, which will appear very extraordinary to most of our readers
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Jones, having refreshed himself with a few hours’ sleep, summoned Partridge to his presence; and delivering him a bank-note of fifty pounds, ordered him to go and change it. Partridge received this with sparkling eyes, though when he came to reflect farther, it raised...
By which it will appear how dangerous an advocate a lady is when she applies her eloquence to an ill purpose
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Lady Bellaston heard the young lord’s scruples, she treated them with the same disdain with which one of those sages of the law, called Newgate solicitors,* treats the qualms of conscience in a young witness. ‘My dear lord,’ said she, ‘you...
Containing curious but not unprecedented matter
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

There was a lady, one Mrs Hunt, who had often seen Jones at the house where he lodged, being intimately acquainted with the women there, and indeed a very great friend to Mrs Miller. Her age was about thirty, for she owned six-and-twenty; her...
Schemes of Lady Bellaston for the ruin of Jones
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

Love had taken too deep a root in the mind of Lord Fellamar to be plucked up by the rude hands of Mr Western. In the heat of resentment he had, indeed, given a commission to Captain Egglane, which the captain had far exceeded...
Mrs Miller and Mr Nightingale visit Jones in the prison
Authors: Fielding Henry
Published: December 2020

When Mr Allworthy and his nephew went to meet Mr Western, Mrs Miller set forwards to her son-in-law’s lodgings, in order to acquaint him with the accident which had befallen his friend Jones; but he had known it long before from Partridge (for Jones,...
Chapter II Roses and Thorns
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘By the soft green light in the woody glade, On the banks of moss where thy childhood played; By the household tree, thro’ which thine eye First looked in love to the summer sky.’

Margaret was once more in...
Chapter VIII Home Sickness
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘And it’s hame, hame, hame, Hame fain wad I be.’*

It needed the pretty light papering of the rooms to reconcile them to Milton. It needed more—more that could not be had. The thick yellow November fogs had come on; and the view...
Chapter XIV The Mutiny
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘I was used To sleep at nights as sweetly as a child,— Now if the wind blew rough, it made me start, And think of my poor boy tossing about Upon the roaring seas. And then I seemed To feel that it was hard to...
Chapter III Comfort in Sorrow
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Through cross to crown!—And though thy spirit’s life     Trials untold assail with giant strength, Good cheer! good cheer! Soon ends the bitter strife,     And thou shalt reign in peace with Christ at length.’

‘Ay sooth, we feel too strong in weal, to...
Chapter V Home at Last
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘The saddest birds a season find to sing.’

‘Never to fold the robe o’er secret pain, Never, weighed down by memory’s clouds again, To bow thy head! Thou art gone home!’

Mrs. Thornton came...
Chapter XI Union not Always Strength
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘The steps of the bearers, heavy and slow, The sobs of the mourners, deep and low.’

At the time arranged the previous day, they set out on their walk to see Nicholas Higgins and his daughter. They both were reminded of...
Chapter XVIII Margaret’s Flittin’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘The meanest thing to which we bid adieu, Loses its meanness in the parting hour.’

Mrs. Shaw took as vehement a dislike as it was possible for one of her gentle nature to do, against Milton. It was noisy,...
Chapter XXI Once and Now
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘So on those happy days of yore Oft as I dare to dwell once more, Still must I miss the friends so tried, Whom Death has severed from my side. But ever when true friendship binds, Spirit it is that spirit finds; In spirit then...
Chapter XXVI Meeting Again
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘Bear up, brave heart! we will be calm and strong; Sure, we can master eyes, or cheek, or tongue, Nor let the smallest tell-tale sign appear She ever was, and is, and will be dear.’

It was a hot summer’s evening....
Chapter III A girl on horseback: conversation
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The sluggish day began to break. Even its vacated scene is one of the elements of a new interest, and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there Oak went again into the plantation. Lingering and musing here...
Chapter VIII The malthouse: the chat: news
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Warren’s
Malthouse* was enclosed by an old wall inwrapped with ivy, and though not much of the exterior was visible at this hour, the character and purposes of the building were clearly enough shown by its outline upon the sky. From the walls...
Chapter XII Farmers: a rule: an exception
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The first public evidence of Bathsheba’s decision to be a farmer in her own person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market day in the corn-market at Casterbridge.

The low though extensive hall supported by beams and pillars and latterly dignified...
Chapter XIII Sortes sanctorum: the valentine
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

It was Sunday afternoon in the farm house, on the thirteenth of February. Dinner being over, Bathsheba, for want of a better companion, had asked Liddy to come and sit with her. The mouldy pile was dreary in winter-time before the candles were lighted...
Chapter XVI All Saints’ and All Souls’
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On a week-day morning a small congregation, consisting mainly of women and girls, rose from its knees in the mouldy nave of a church called All Saints’, in the distant barrack-town before mentioned, at the end of a service without a sermon. They were...
Chapter XXV The new acquaintance described
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

He was a man to whom memories were an encumbrance and anticipations a superfluity. Simply feeling, considering and caring for what was before his eyes he was vulnerable only in the present....
Chapter XXXIV Home again: a trickster
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

That same evening at dusk Gabriel was leaning over Coggan’s garden-gate, taking an up-and-down survey before retiring to rest.

A vehicle of some kind was softly creeping along the grassy margin of the lane. From it spread the tones of two women talking. The tones...
Chapter XL On Casterbridge highway
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

For a considerable time the woman walked on.* Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbræ of night. At length her onward walk dwindled to the merest totter, and...
Chapter XLVI The gurgoyle: its doings
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The tower of Weatherbury Church was a square erection of various dates, having a stone gurgoyle on each of the four corners of its parapet, and one in the middle of each face.* Of these eight carved protuberances only two at this...
Chapter L The sheep fair: Troy touches his wife’s hand
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Greenhill was the Nijnii Novgorod* of South Wessex; and the busiest, merriest, noisiest day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep-fair. This yearly gathering was upon the summit of a hill which retained in good preservation the remains...
VI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Now the group outside the window had within the last few minutes been reinforced by new arrivals, some of them respectable shopkeepers and their assistants, who had come out for a whiff of air after putting up the shutters for the night; some of them...
IX
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

When Elizabeth-Jane opened the hinged casement next morning the mellow air brought in the feel of imminent autumn almost as distinctly as if she had been in the remotest hamlet. Casterbridge was the complement of the rural life around; not its urban opposite. Bees...
Chapter IX Love leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Reddlemen of the old school are now but seldom seen. Since the introduction of railways Wessex farmers have managed to do without these somewhat spectral visitants, and the bright pigment so largely used by shepherds in preparing sheep for the fair is obtained by...
Chapter V Through the Moonlight
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The next evening the mummers were assembled in the same spot, awaiting the entrance of the Turkish Knight.

“Twenty minutes after eight by the Quiet Woman, and Charley not come.”

“Ten minutes past by Blooms-End.”

“It wants ten minutes to, by Grandfer Cantle’s watch.”

“And...
Chapter VI The Two stand Face to Face
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The room had been arranged with a view to the dancing, the large oak table having been moved back till it stood as a breastwork to the fireplace. At each end, behind, and in the chimney-corner were grouped the guests, many of them being...
Chapter VI Yeobright goes, and the Breach is Complete
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up came from Yeobright’s room to the ears of his mother downstairs.

Next morning he departed from the house and again proceeded across the heath. A long day’s march was before him, his object being to...
Chapter V The Journey across the Heath
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Thursday the thirty-first of August was one of a series of days during which snug houses were stifling, and when cool draughts were treats; when cracks appeared in clayey gardens and were called earthquakes by apprehensive children; when loose spokes were discovered in the...
Chapter VII The Tragical Meeting of Two Old Friends
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

He in the meantime had aroused himself from sleep, sat up, and looked around. Eustacia was sitting in a chair hard by him, and though she held a book in her hand she had not looked into it for some time.

“Well, indeed,” said Clym,...
Chapter VI Thomasin argues with her Cousin, and he writes a letter
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Yeobright was at this time at Blooms-End, hoping that Eustacia would return to him. The removal of furniture had been accomplished only that day, though Clym had lived in the old house for more than a week. He had spent the time in working...
Chapter I The Inevitable Movement Onward
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The story of the deaths of Eustacia and Wildeve was told throughout Egdon, and far beyond, for many weeks and months. All the known incidents of their love were enlarged, distorted, touched up, and modified, till the original reality bore but a slight resemblance...
Chapter II Thomasin walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Clym saw little of Thomasin for several days after this; and when they met she was more silent than usual. At length he asked her what she was thinking of so intently.

“I am thoroughly perplexed,” she said candidly. “I cannot for my life think...
Chapter IV Cheerfulness again asserts itself at Blooms-End, and Clym finds his Avocation
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Anybody who had passed through Blooms-End about eleven o’clock on the morning fixed for the wedding would have found that, while Yeobright’s house was comparatively quiet, sounds denoting great activity came from the dwelling of his nearest neighbour, Timothy Fairway. It was chiefly a...
III
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

As for Tess Durbeyfield, she did not so easily dislodge the incident from her consideration. She had no spirit to dance again for a long time, though she might have had plenty of partners; but, ah! they did not speak so nicely as the strange...
XII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

The basket was heavy and the bundle was large, but she lugged them along like a person who did not find her especial burden in material things. Occasionally she stopped to rest in a mechanical way by some gate or post; and then, giving...
XVI
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

On a thyme-scented, bird-hatching morning in May, between two and three years after the return from Trantridge—silent reconstructive years for Tess Durbeyfield—she left her home for the second time.

Having packed up her luggage so that it could be sent to her later, she started...
Introduction
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The Publishers of the Standard Novels,1 in selecting ‘frankenstein’ for one of their series, expressed a wish that I should furnish them with some account of the origin of the story. I am the more willing to comply, because I shall thus...
Letter III
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs. Saville, England

My dear
Sister,

July 7th, 17—.

I write a few lines in haste, to say that I am safe, and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel;...
Letter IV
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs. Saville, England

August 5th, 17—.

So strange an accident has happened to us, that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.

Last Monday (July 31st), we were...
Chapter IV
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation. I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern enquirers have written on these subjects. I attended the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

On my return, I found the following letter from my father:—

‘My dear Victor,

‘You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning...
Chapter XI
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being: all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time; and it...
Chapter XII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘I lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occurrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remembered too well the treatment...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

The being finished speaking, and fixed his looks upon me in expectation of a reply. But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition. He continued—

‘You must create a female for me, with...
1 Two Old Friends
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Whilst every one at court was busily engaged upon his own affairs, a man mysteriously entered a house situated behind the Place de Grève. The principal entrance of this house was in the Place Baudoyer; it was tolerably large, surrounded by gardens, enclosed in...
2 Wherein May Be Seen That a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made with One Person, Can Be Carried out with Another
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Aramis had been perfectly correct in his supposition; for hardly had she left the house in the Place Baudoyer, than Madame de Chevreuse proceeded homeward. She was, doubtless, afraid of being followed, and by this means thought she might succeed in throwing those who...
5 Two Friends
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Queen looked steadily at Madame de Chevreuse, and said: “I believe you just now made use of the word ‘happy’ in speaking of me. Hitherto, Duchesse, I had thought it impossible that a human creature could anywhere be found less happy than the...
6 How Jean De La Fontaine Wrote His First Tale
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

All these intrigues are exhausted; the human mind, so variously complicated, has been enabled to develop itself at its ease in the three outlines with which our recital has supplied it. It is not unlikely that, in the future we are now preparing, a...
12 Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Captain was sitting buried in his leathern arm-chair, his spur fixed in the floor, his sword between his legs, and was occupied in reading a great number of letters, as he twisted his moustache. D’Artagnan uttered a welcome full of pleasure when he...
26 Political Rivals
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’ Artagnan had promised M. de Baisemeaux to return in time for dessert, and he kept his word. They had just reached the finer and more delicate class of wines and liqueurs with which the governor’s cellar had the reputation of being most...
XIII how d’artagnan perceived in finding porthos that riches do not make happiness
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan entered the iron gate and found himself in front of the château; he was just alighting when a sort of giant appeared on the front steps. Let us do this act of justice to d’Artagnan, to say that apart from every feeling...
XXXI the oise ferry-boat
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We hope the reader has not quite forgotten the young traveller whom we left on the route to Flanders.

Raoul, on losing sight of his protector, whom he had left following him with his eyes in front of the royal church, had spurred his horse...
XXXII skirmish
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The stay at Noyon was short; all enjoyed a good rest there. Raoul had ordered them to call him if Grimaud came; but he did not come. The horses doubtless appreciated, on their part, the eight hours’ absolute rest and the abundant litter furnished...
XXXVII a dinner as of yore
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The second interview of the former musketeers had not been so formal and threatening as the first. Athos had thought, with that prudence in which he so excelled, that the table would be the most speedy and complete centre of reunion; and just when...
XLIX the riot
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was nearly eleven at night. Gondy had not gone a hundred yards in the streets of Paris before he perceived that a strange change had taken place. The whole city seemed inhabited by fantastic beings; silent shadows were seen removing the street-paving, others...
LXXXVIII strength of mind and strength of arm (concluded)
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘I say,’ said Porthos, ‘here’s mutton again!’

‘My dear M. de Comminges,’ said d’Artagnan, ‘you must know that my friend, M. du Vallon, is determined to go to the last extremities if M. de Mazarin persists in feeding him on this sort of meat.’...
Chapter I
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

he Browns have become illustrious by the pen of Thackeray and the pencil of Doyle,* within the memory of the young gentlemen who are now...
Chapter IX
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

hen Tom came back into school after a couple of days in the sick-room, he found matters much changed for the better, as...
Chapter VI
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

wo years have passed since the events recorded in the last chapter,...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Hippolitus, who had languished under a long and dangerous illness occasioned by his wounds, but heightened and prolonged by the distress of his mind, was detained in a small town in the coast of Calabria, and was yet ignorant of the death of Cornelia....
Chapter II
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Early on the following morning, the travellers set out for Turin. The luxuriant plain, that extends from the feet of the Alps...
Chapter XII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Annette came almost breathless to Emily’s apartment in the morning. ‘O ma’amselle!’ said she, in broken sentences, ‘what...
Chapter I
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Emily was somewhat surprised, on the following day, to find that Annette had heard of...
Chapter I
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

In the evening,...
Chapter IX
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The Baron St. Foix, whom anxiety for his friend had kept awake, rose early to enquire the event of the night, when, as he passed the Count’s closet, hearing steps within, he knocked at the door, and...
Chapter XVI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

On the following evening, the view of the convent towers, rising among the shadowy woods, reminded Emily of...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The marriages of...
Chapter VI The Crimp-Wagon—Military Episodes
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

The covered wagon to which I was ordered to march was standing, as I have said, in the courtyard of the farm, with another dismal vehicle of the same kind hard by it. Each was pretty well filled with a crew of men, whom...
Chapter XV I Pay Court to My Lady Lyndon
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

As my uncle’s attainder was not reversed for being out with the Pretender, in 1745, it would have been inconvenient for him to accompany his nephew to the land of our ancestors, where, if not hanging, at least a tedious process of imprisonment, and...
3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

The greatest length or breadth of a full-grown inhabitant of Flatland may be estimated at about eleven of your inches. Twelve inches may be regarded as a maximum.

Our Women are Straight Lines.

Our Soldiers and Lowest Classes of Workmen are Triangles with two equal...
15 Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

From dreams I proceed to facts.

It was the last day of the 1999th year of our era. The pattering of the rain had long ago announced nightfall; and I was sitting1 in the company of my wife, musing on the events of...
18 How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

An unspeakable horror seized me. There was a darkness; then a dizzy, sickening sensation of sight that was not like seeing; I saw a Line that was no Line; Space that was not Space; I was myself, and not myself. When I could find...
1. Classical Ground
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703 (1705; from Addison, Miscellaneous Works, vol. ii, ed. A. C. Guthkelch, 1914)

Best known as author of the weekly magazine The Spectator (1711–12), Joseph Addison (1672–1719) produced...
4. Revolutionary Tourism
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Arthur Young, Travels, during the Years 1787, 1788 and i789. Undertaken more particularly with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources and National Prosperity, of the Kingdom of France (1792)

Arthur Young (1741–1820), experimental farmer and agricultural writer, made his reputation with a series...
1. The Slave Trade, 1732–1789
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

John Barbot, A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea (1732); from Awnsham Churchill, ed., A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English (1746), vol. v

Jean or John Barbot (1655–1712) was...
2. Infant Colony, 1794
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Anna Maria Falconbridge, Two Voyages to Sierra Leone, during the Years 1791–2–3, in a Series of Letters (1793)

Anna Maria Falconbridge set off with her husband, the abolitionist Alexander Falconbridge, for Sierra Leone in 1791 to rescue the colony of free blacks shipped from London...
3. Explorers, 1790–1822
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

James Bruce, Travels between the Years 1768 and 1773, Through Part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790)

James Bruce (1730–94) was a Scottish laird whose profits from coal mining helped finance his travels. In 1762...
Chapter V: An Illegal Settlement
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

GOOD folk, who dwell in a lawful land, if any such there be, may, for want of exploration, judge our neighbourhood harshly, unless the whole truth is set before them. In bar of such prejudice, many of us ask leave to explain how, and why,...
Chapter X: A Brave Rescue and a Rough Ride
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

IT happened upon a November evening (when I was about fifteen years old, and out-growing my strength very rapidly, my sister Annie being turned thirteen, and a deal of rain having fallen, and all the troughs in the yard being flooded, and the...
Chapter XXIII: A Royal Invitation
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH I had, for the most part, so very stout an appetite, that none but mother saw any need of encouraging me to eat, I could only manage one true good meal in a day, at the time I speak of. Mother was in despair...
Chapter XXX: Annie gets the best of it
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

I HAD long outgrown unwholesome feeling as to my father’s death; and so had Annie; though Lizzie (who must have loved him least) still entertained some evil will, and longing for a punishment. Therefore I was surprised (and indeed, startled would not be too much...
Chapter XLIV: Brought Home at last
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

TO my great delight, I found that the weather, not often friendly to lovers, and lately seeming so hostile, had in the most important matter done me a signal service. For when I had promised to take my love from the power of those wretches,...
Chapter XLV: A Change long needed
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

JEREMY Stickles was gone south, ere ever the frost set in, for the purpose of mustering forces to attack the Doone Glen. But now this weather had put a stop to every kind of movement; for even if men could have borne the cold, they...
Chapter LIII: Jeremy finds out Something
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

‘YOU know, my son,’ said Jeremy Stickles, with a good pull at his pipe, because he was going to talk so much, and putting his legs well along in the settle; ‘it has been my duty, for a wearier time than I care to think...
Chapter LVI: John becomes too Popular
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NO flower that I have ever seen, either in shifting of light and shade, or in the pearly morning, may vie with a fair young woman’s face when tender thought and quick emotion vary, enrich, and beautify it. Thus my Lorna hearkened softly, almost without...
Chapter LXV: Falling among Lambs
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

THAT faithful creature, whom I began to admire as if she were my own (which is no little thing for a man to say of another man’s horse) stopped in front of a low black shed, such as we call a ‘linhay’. And here she...
Chapter V Reginald Morton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

WE will now go back to Hoppet Hall and its inhabitants. When the old squire died he left by his will Hoppet Hall and certain other houses in Dillsborough, which was all that he could leave, to his grandson Reginald Morton. Then there arose...
Chapter VI Not in Love
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

REGINALD MORTON, as he walked across the bridge towards the house, was thoroughly disgusted with all the world. He was very angry with himself, feeling that he had altogether made a fool of himself by his manner. He had shown himself to be offended,...
Chapter VIII The Paragon’s Party At Bragton
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THERE was certainly a great deal of fuss made about John Morton’s return to the home of his ancestors,—made altogether by himself and those about him, and not by those who were to receive him. On the Thursday in the week following that of...
Chapter IX The Old Kennels
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON the next morning Mrs. Morton asked her grandson what he meant to do with reference to his suggested invitation to Reginald. ‘As you will not meet him, of course I have given up the idea,’ he said. The ‘of course’ had been far...
Chapter XII Arabella Trefoil
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON the Sunday the party from Bragton went to the parish church—and found it very cold. The duty was done by a young curate who lived in Dillsborough, there being no house in Bragton for him. The rector himself had not been in the...
Chapter XIV The Dillsborough Feud
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘IT’S that nasty, beastly, drunken club,’ said Mrs. Masters to her unfortunate husband on the Wednesday morning. It may perhaps be remembered that the poisoned fox was found on the Saturday, and it may be imagined that Mr. Goarly had risen in importance...
Chapter XVII Lord Rufford’s Invitation.
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON that same Wednesday afternoon when Morton returned with the ladies in the carriage he found that a mounted servant had arrived from Rufford Hall with a letter and had been instructed to wait for an answer. The man was now refreshing himself in...
Chapter XVIII The Attorney’s Family is Disturbed
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON that Wednesday evening Mary Masters said nothing to any of her family as to the invitation from Lady Ushant. She very much wished to accept it. Latterly, for the last month or two, her distaste to the kind of life for...
Chapter XX There are Convenances
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

BEFORE the Monday came the party to Rufford Hall had become quite a settled thing and had been very much discussed. On the Saturday the Senator had been driven to the meet, a distance of about ten miles, on purpose that he might see...