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Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I next submit a copy of a letter addressed by the late Chemistry-Professor Fontaine to an honoured friend and colleague. This gentleman is still living; and he makes it a condition of supplying the copy that his name shall not appear:—

‘Illustrious Friend and Colleague,—You...
Chapter IX
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The widow stopped at a jeweller’s window in the famous street called the Zeil. The only person in the shop was a simple-looking old man, sitting behind the counter, reading a newspaper.

She went in. ‘I have something to show you, sir,’ she said, in...
Chapter X
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The office-hours, in the winter-time, began at nine o’clock. From the head-clerk to the messenger, not one of the persons employed slept in the house: it was Mr Keller’s wish that they should all be absolutely free to do what they liked with their...
Chapter XII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

As the presiding genius of the household, Madame Fontaine was always first in the room when the table was laid for the early German dinner. A knife with a speck on the blade, a plate with a suspicion of dirt on it, never once...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Jack looked eagerly into the cell again. There was no change—not a sign of that happy waking in which he so firmly believed.

Schwartz opened the drawer of the table. Tobacco and pipes; two or three small drinking-glasses; a dirty pack of playing-cards; the mad...
I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On the twelfth of December, I received a letter from Mrs Wagner, informing me that the marriage of Fritz and Minna had been deferred until the thirteenth of January. Shortly afterwards I left London, on my way to Frankfort.

My departure was hurried, to afford...
VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

‘The Looking Glass Drops. Fatal Dose, as discovered by experiments on animals, the same as in the case of Alexander’s Wine. But the effect, in producing death, more rapid, and more indistinguishable, in respect of presenting traces on post-mortem examination.

‘After many patient trials, I...
The Gypsy’S Song
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

Come, cross my hand! My art surpasses

All that did ever Mortal know;

Come, Maidens, come! My magic glasses*

Your future Husband’s form can show:

For ’tis to me the power is given

Unclosed the book of Fate to see;

To read the fixed...
The Exile
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

Farewell, Oh! native Spain! Farewell for ever!

These banished eyes shall view thy coasts no more;

A mournful presage tells my heart, that never

Gonzalvo’s steps again shall press thy shore.

Hushed are the winds; While soft the Vessel sailing

With gentle motion plows the...
Volume III Chapter I
Authors: Lewis Matthew
Published: December 2020

The crickets sing, and Man’s o’er-laboured sense

Repairs itself by rest: Our Tarquin thus

Did softly press the rushes, ere He wakened

The chastity He wounded––Cytherea,

How bravely thou becom’st thy bed! Fresh Lily!

And whiter than the sheets!*

Cymbeline.

All the researches...
A Day in the City
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Melmotte had got back his daughter, and was half inclined to let the matter rest there. He would probably have done so had he not known that all his own household were aware that she had gone off to meet Sir Felix Carbury, and...
‘The Wheel of Fortune’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was a long time now since Lady Carbury’s great historical work on the Criminal Queens of the World had been completed and given to the world. Any reader careful as to dates will remember that it was as far back as in February...
Chapter V
Authors: Equiano Olaudah
Published: December 2020

The author’s reflections on his situation—Is deceived by a promise of being delivered—His despair at sailing for the West Indies—Arrives at Montserrat, where he is sold to Mr. King—Various interesting instances of oppression, cruelty, and extortion, which the author saw practised upon the slaves in...
Chapter II: The Christmas Holidays
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and colour with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Snow lay on the croft...
Chapter II: Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob’s Thumb
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

While Maggie’s life-struggles had lain almost entirely within her own soul, one shadowy army fighting another, and the slain shadows for ever rising again, Tom was engaged in a dustier, noisier warfare, grappling with more substantial obstacles, and gaining more definite conquests. So it...
Chapter VII: A Day of Reckoning
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr Tulliver was an essentially sober man—able to take his glass and not averse to it, but never exceeding the bounds of moderation. He had naturally an active Hotspur* temperament, which did not crave liquid fire to set it a-glow; his impetuosity...
Chapter II: First Impressions
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘He Is very clever, Maggie,’ said Lucy. She was kneeling on a footstool at Maggie’s feet, after placing that dark lady in the large crimson-velvet chair. ‘I feel sure you will like him. I hope you will.’

‘I shall be very difficult to...
Chapter VII A Horse-Quarter in Scotland
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The next morning, amid varied feelings, the chief of which was a predominant, anxious, and even solemn impression, that he was now in a great measure abandoned to his own guidance and direction, Edward Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings and tears...
Chapter IX More of the Manor House and its Environs
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

After having satisfied his curiosity by gazing around him for a few minutes, Waverley applied himself to the massive knocker of the hall-door, the architrave of which bore the date 1594. But no answer was returned, though the peal resounded through a number of...
Chapter I A Stag-hunting and its Consequences
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Shall this be a short or a long chapter?—This is a question in which you, gentle reader, have no vote, however much you may be interested in the consequences; just as probably you may (like myself) have nothing to do with the imposing a...
Chapter IV Upon the same Subject
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Fergus
Mac-Ivor had too much tact and delicacy to renew the subject which he had interrupted. His head was, or appeared to be, so full of guns, broad-swords, bonnets, cantines, and tartan hose, that Waverley could not for some time draw his...
Chapter XIII An Incident
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The dinner-hour of Scotland Sixty Years since, was two o’clock. It was therefore about four o’clock of a delightful autumn afternoon that Mr Gilfillan commenced his march, in hopes, although Stirling was eighteen miles distant, he might be able, by becoming a borrower on...
Chapter III Rather unimportant
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

“I Was turned back,” said Fergus to Edward, “by a message from the Prince. But, I suppose, you know the value of this most noble colonel Talbot as a prisoner. He is held one of the best officers among the redcoats; a special...
Chapter VIII A brave Man in Sorrow
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

If my fair readers should be of opinion that my hero’s levity in love is altogether unpardonable, I must remind them, that all his griefs and difficulties did not arise from that sentimental source. Even the lyric poet, who complains so feelingly of the...
Chapter XII A Skirmish
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The reader need hardly be reminded, that, after a council of war held at Derby upon the 5th of December, the Highlanders relinquished their desperate attempt to penetrate farther into England, and, greatly to the dissatisfaction of their young and daring leader, positively determined...
Chapter XIV A Journey to London
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

The family at Fasthwaite were soon attached to Edward. He had, indeed, that gentleness and urbanity which almost universally attracts corresponding kindness, and to their simple ideas his learning gave him consequence, and his sorrows interest. The last he ascribed, evasively, to the loss...
Chapter XXI “To-morrow? O that’s sudden!—Spare him, spare him”
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Shakspeare*

Edward, attended by his former servant Alick Polwarth, who had re-entered his service at Edinburgh, reached Carlisle while the commission of Oyer and Terminer* on his unfortunate associates was yet sitting. He had pushed forward in haste, not, alas! with...
Preface to the Third Edition [1814]
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish manners, the public have been more attentive than the Author durst have hoped or expected. He has heard, with a mixture of satisfaction and humility, his work ascribed to more than one respectable name....
‘Love-o Women’
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The horror, the confusion, and the separation of the murderer from his comrades were all over before I came. There remained only on the barrack-square the blood of man calling from the ground.°...
The Cat that Walked by Himself
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

EAR and attend°and listen; for this and the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself,...
The Bonds of Discipline
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Poseidon’s Law°
‘They’
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The Return of the Children
The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat(1913)
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Our drive till then had been quite a success. The other men in the car were my friend Woodhouse, young Ollyett, a distant connection of his, and Pallant, the M.P. Woodhouse’s business was the treatment and cure of sick journals. He knew by instinct the...
The Story of Uriah
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

‘Now there were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.°
Chapter I
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

hile* the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall,* a large family coach, with two fat...
Chapter XV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

very reader of a sentimental turn (and we desire no other) must have been pleased with the tableau with which the last act of our little drama concluded ; for what can be prettier than an image of Love on his knees before...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

ur surprised story now finds itself for a moment among very famous events and personages, and hanging on to the skirts of history. When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where they had perched after a brief...
Chapter XXXIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

hekind reader must please to remember—while the army is marching from Flanders, and, after its heroic actions there, is advancing to take the fortifications on the frontiers of France, previous to an occupation of that country—that there are a number of persons living...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

henews of the great fights of Quatre Bras and Waterloo reached England at the same time. The Gazette first published the result of the two battles ; at which glorious intelligence all England thrilled with triumph and fear. Particulars then followed...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

emust suppose little George Osborne has ridden from Knightsbridge towards Fulham, and will stop and make inquiries at that village regarding some friends whom we have left there. How is Mrs. Amelia after the storm of Waterloo ? Is she living and thriving...
Chapter XXXIX
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

urduty now takes us back for a brief space to some old Hampshire acquaintances of ours, whose hopes respecting the disposal of their rich kinswoman’s property were so wofully disappointed. After counting upon thirty thousand pounds from his sister, it was a heavy...
Chapter XLI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

othe mourning being ready, and Sir Pitt Crawley warned of their arrival, Colonel Crawley and his wife took a couple of places in the same old ‘ Highflyer ’ coach*, by which Rebecca had travelled in the defunct baronet’s company, on...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

At last Becky’s kindness and attention to the chief of her husband’s family, were destined to meet with an exceeding great reward; a reward which, though certainly somewhat unsubstantial, the little woman co veted with greater eagerness than more positive benefits. If she...
Chapter LVI
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

*

Georgy
Osborne was now fairly established in his grandfather’s mansion inRussell Square : occupant of his father’s room in the house, and heir-apparent of all the splendours there. The good looks, gallant bearing, and gentlemanlike appearance of the boy won the grandsire’s heart...
Chapter LXII
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

The above every-day events had occurred, and a few weeks had passed, when, on one fine morning, Parlia-ment being over, the summer advanced, and all the good company in London about to quit that city fortheir annual tour in search of pleasure or...
Chapter 4
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Pierre was standing in the hall of the big house, in a suit and white tie, opening the door every time a cab drew up. A breath of damp air wafted in, a yellow reflection of the rainy afternoon lit up the narrow hall...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

One morning in May, Rosalie came rushing out of her kitchen still holding a dishcloth in her hand. And speaking as if she were a member of the family:

‘Oh, Madame, come quickly... Monsieur l’Abbé’s down in the doctor’s garden digging around in the earth!’...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

By evening Jeanne was feeling better. She was able to get up. She insisted on doing so, to reassure her mother, and she trailed around in the dining room and sat down in front of her empty plate.

‘It’s nothing,’ she said, forcing a smile....
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

The convalescence lasted for months. In August Jeanne was still in bed. She got up for an hour or two towards evening and it tired her dreadfully to walk even as far as the window, where she remained lying back in an armchair, looking...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Hélène did not sleep a wink that night. She tossed and turned in a fever and whenever she sank into a slumber the same anguish always woke her with a start. In the nightmare of this half-sleep she was tormented by one thought and...
Chapter 5
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Jeanne, her eyes on the door, was still very upset by the abrupt departure of her mother. She looked round. The bedroom was empty and silent, but she could still hear the sounds of her leaving, the hurried steps retreating, the rustle of her...
Chapter 1
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

When Hélène returned, night had long fallen.

As she struggled up the stairs holding on to the banisters, her umbrella dripped on to the steps. Outside her door she stayed there for a second or two to catch her breath, being still rather light-headed from...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Next day Hélène was full of practical ideas. She woke with a compelling need to protect her own happiness, trembling with the fear she might lose Henri by doing something wrong. Getting up in the chill of the morning while the bedroom was still...
Chapter XXVI Married Woman’s Property
Authors: Gissing George
Published: December 2020

On her return from church that Sunday Mrs Edmund Yule was anxious to learn the result of the meeting between Amy and her husband. She hoped fervently that Amy’s anomalous position would come to an end now that Reardon had the offer of something...
The American’s Tale
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

‘It air strange, it air,’ he was saying as I opened the door of the room where our social little semi-literary society met; ‘but I could tell you queerer things than that ’ere—almighty queer things. You can’t learn everything out of books,...
Uncle Jeremy’s Household
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

I

M
y life has been a somewhat chequered one, and it has fallen to my lot during the course of it to have had several unusual experiences. There is one episode, however, which is so surpassingly strange that whenever I look back to...
The Third Generation
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Scudamore
Lane, sloping down riverwards from just behind the Monument,* lies, at night, in the shadow of two black and monstrous walls which loom high above the glimmer of the scattered gas-lamps. The footpaths are narrow, and the causeway is paved...
The Sealed Room
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

U solicitor of an active habit and athletic tastes who is compelled by his hopes of business to remain within the four walls of his office from ten till five must take what exercise he can in the evenings. Hence it was that I...
The Pot of Caviare
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

I
t was the fourth day of the siege. Ammunition and provisions were both nearing an end. When the Boxer insurrection* had suddenly flamed up, and roared, like a fire in dry grass, across Northern China, the few scattered Europeans in the...
The Lift
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

F
light-Commander
Stangate should have been happy. He had come safely through the war without a hurt, and with a good name in the most heroic of services. He had only just turned thirty, and a great career seemed to lie ahead...
Jack & Alice
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Is respectfully inscribed to Francis William Austen Esqr, Midshipman on board his Magesty’s Ship the Perseverance* by his obedient humble Servant

Chapter the First

Mr Johnson* was once upon a time about 53; in a twelvemonth afterwards he...
The adventures of Mr Harley
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

a short, but interesting Tale, is with all imaginable Respect inscribed To Mr Francis Willm Austen Midshipman on board his Magestys Ship the Perseverance* by his Obedient Servant

Mr Harley* was one of many Children. Destined by his father...
Memoirs of Mr Clifford
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr Clifford lived at Bath; & having never seen London, set off one monday morning determined to feast his eyes with a sight of that great Metropolis. He travelled in his Coach & Four,* for he was a very rich young Man &...
Lesley Castle
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

June 13th 1790*

To Henry Thomas Austen Esqre.*

Sir

I am now availing myself of the Liberty you have frequently honoured me with of dedicating one of my Novels to you.* That it is unfinished, I greive;...
Kitty, or the Bower
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

To Miss Austen*

Madam

Encouraged by your warm patronage of The beautiful Cassandra, and The History of England, which through your generous support, have obtained a place in every library in the Kingdom,* and run through threescore Editions,* I take...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Stepan
Arkadyich had done well at school due to his natural abilities, but he was lazy and disobedient so had ended up near the bottom of his year, yet despite his always dissolute life, modest rank, and young age, he occupied a venerable and...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

At four o’clock, feeling his heart beating, Levin stepped out of his cab at the Zoological Gardens, and set off along the path towards the toboggan runs and the skating-rink, knowing he was bound to see her there, because he had seen...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Levin entered the hotel with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain particular expression of a kind of suppressed elation on Stepan Arkadyich’s face and about his whole person. Oblonsky took off his coat, and with his hat set at a jaunty...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The ball had just begun when Kitty and her mother stepped on to the central staircase, which was bathed in light and embellished with flowers and powdered footmen in red livery. From the interior came a steady rustle of movement which filled the rooms...
30
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The terrible storm was tearing and whistling around the corner of the station between the wheels of the carriages and along the posts. Carriages, posts, people—everything that was visible was covered on one side with snow, and being continually covered with more. The storm...
7
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Steps could be heard at the door, and Princess Betsy glanced at Vronsky, knowing this was Karenina. He was staring at the door, and his face had acquired a strange new expression. He was looking intently, joyfully, and also shyly at the woman coming...
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From that evening a new life began for Alexey Alexandrovich and for his wife. Nothing particular happened as such. As always, Anna went into society, visiting Princess Betsy particularly often, and meeting Vronsky everywhere. Alexey Alexandrovich saw this, but there was nothing...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin put on big boots and a cloth coat for the first time instead of his sheepskin, and walked round the farm, treading on ice one minute and into sticky mud the next, and stepping over streams which sparkled so brightly in the sunshine...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the way home Levin asked for all the details of Kitty’s illness and the Shcherbatskys’ plans, and although he would have been ashamed to admit it, he was pleased by what he found out. He was pleased that there was still hope, and...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Despite the fact that Vronsky’s inner life was completely taken up with his passion, his outer life continued to roll inalterably and inexorably along its usual old rails of social and regimental connections and interests. Regimental interests occupied an important place in Vronsky’s life,...
19
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On the day of the Krasnoye Selo races,* Vronsky arrived earlier than usual to eat his steak in the officers’ mess. He did not need to be particularly strict with himself, as he happened to weigh the regulation eleven and a half...
28
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

By the time Alexey Alexandrovich arrived at the races, Anna was already sitting next to Betsy, in the pavilion where all the high-society people had gathered. She caught sight of her husband from afar. There were two people who were the focal points of...
31
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

It was a wet day, rain had been falling all morning, and the invalids had crowded into the arcade with their umbrellas.

Kitty was walking with her mother and the Moscow colonel, who was proudly showing off his European jacket, bought off the peg in...
34
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Before the end of his course of treatment, Prince Shcherbatsky, who had gone on from Carlsbad to see Russian friends in Baden and Kissingen in order to stock up on Russian spirit, as he put it, returned to his family.

The views of the Prince...
3
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘You know, I’ve been thinking about you,’ said Sergey Ivanovich. ‘The things that are going on in your district are quite appalling, so that doctor was telling me; he’s a bright fellow. I’ve told you before and I’ll tell you again: it’s not...
6
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

They mowed Mashkin Hill, finished the last rows, put on their kaftans, and merrily set off for home. Levin got on his horse, said a wistful goodbye to the peasants, and rode home. He looked back from the hill; they could not be seen...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The load was tied. Ivan jumped down and led the docile, well-fed horse by the bridle. The young wife tossed the rake up on to the cart and, swinging her arms, marched off briskly to join the women who had gathered in...
15
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Although Anna had stubbornly and bitterly contradicted Vronsky when he told her that her position was impossible and urged her to tell her husband everything, in the depths of her soul she regarded her position as false and dishonest, and longed with all her...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Porters, gardeners, and servants were going in and out of every room of the country house, carrying things out. Wardrobes and chests of drawers were opened; twice they had to run over to the shop for twine; the floor was littered with newspaper. Two...
31
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After running halfway down the stairs, Levin heard a familiar sound of coughing in the hall; but he heard it indistinctly because of the sound of his footsteps and hoped he was mistaken; then he saw all of the lanky, angular, familiar figure, and...
32
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin had long ago observed that whenever it is uncomfortable being with people who are excessively accommodating and humble, it will very soon become unbearable due to their being excessively demanding and captious. He felt this would happen with his brother. And indeed, his...
2
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When he returned home, Vronsky found a note from Anna. She wrote: ‘I am ill and unhappy. I can’t go out, but I can’t go any longer without seeing you. Come over this evening. Alexey Alexandrovich goes to the council at seven and will...
5
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The waiting-room of the famous Petersburg lawyer was full when Alexey Alexandrovich entered it. Three ladies—an old woman, a young one, and a merchant’s wife—and three gentlemen—one a German banker with a ring on his finger, the second a merchant with a beard, and...
8
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After returning from church, Alexey Alexandrovich spent the whole morning indoors. There were two things he had to do that morning: firstly, receive and send on its way a deputation of ethnic minorities which was bound for Petersburg and currently in Moscow, and secondly...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Kitty left and Levin remained on his own, he began to feel such restlessness without her, and such an impatient desire for time to pass quickly, as quickly as possible, until the following morning, when he would see her again and...
17
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Unconsciously sifting through the impressions of the conversations held during and after dinner in his mind, Alexey Alexandrovich returned to his lonely hotel room. What Darya Alexandrovna had said about forgiveness merely annoyed him. Whether or not to apply this Christian rule in his...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Alexey
Alexandrovich took his leave of Betsy in the ballroom and went to his wife. She was lying down, but she hurriedly sat up in her previous position when she heard his steps and looked at him with trepidation. He saw she had been...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Stepan
Arkadyich entered Alexey Alexandrovich’s study with the same slightly solemn face with which he would sit down in the chairman’s seat at his board. Alexey Alexandrovich was walking around the room with his hands clasped behind his back, thinking about the very thing...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘They’ve arrived!’ ‘There he is!’ ‘Which one?’ ‘The younger one, you mean?’ ‘But look at her, poor dear, she looks more dead than alive!’ people in the crowd were saying when Levin met his bride at the doorway and walked with her into...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The old, neglected palazzo, with its high stucco ceilings and frescos on the walls, mosaic floors, heavy yellow damask curtains at the high windows, vases on consoles and mantelpieces, carved doors, and sombre rooms hung with paintings—this palazzo, after they had moved into it,...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

As he went into the studio, Mikhailov scrutinized his visitors once again and this time took note in his imagination of Vronsky’s facial expression, particularly his cheekbones. Despite the fact that his artistic sense was constantly at work gathering material, and despite the fact...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin had been married for over two months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected. At every step he encountered disenchantment with his old dreams and unexpected new enchantment. Levin was happy, but after embarking on family life,...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Alexey
Alexandrovich had forgotten about Countess Lydia Ivanovna, but she had not forgotten him. At this most painful moment of his solitary despair she had come to his house and walked into his study without being announced. She found him in the position in...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Alexey Alexandrovich entered Countess Lydia Ivanovna’s cosy little study, which was chock-full of old china and hung with portraits, the hostess herself had not yet appeared. She was changing.

The round table was covered with a cloth, and on it stood a Chinese tea-service,...
29
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

One of the goals of the trip to Russia for Anna was a meeting with her son. From the day she had left Italy the thought of this meeting had not ceased to agitate her. And the nearer she drew to Petersburg, the greater...
30
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Vasily
Lukich, meanwhile, not having understood at first who this lady was, and discovering in conversation that this was the very mother who had left her husband and whom he did not know, since he had joined the household after her departure, was in...
4
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Varenka, with her white kerchief covering her black hair, surrounded by the children, good-naturedly and happily busy with them, and clearly excited by the possibility of receiving a declaration of love from a man she liked, was extremely attractive. Sergey Ivanovich walked beside her...
12
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Waking in the early dawn, Levin tried to rouse his companions. Vasenka, lying on his stomach with one stockinged leg stretched out, was sleeping so deeply it was impossible to get a response from him. Oblonsky, half-asleep, refused to go out so early. And...
13
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The huntsman’s saying that you will be lucky in the field if you do not miss your first beast or bird turned out to be true.

Tired, hungry, and happy after tramping about twenty miles, Levin returned to his lodgings towards ten o’clock with nineteen...
16
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Darya
Alexandrovna carried out her intention and went to visit Anna. She was sorry to upset her sister and displease her husband; she understood that the Levins were right in not wanting to have anything to do with Vronsky; but she considered it her...
21
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘No, I think the Princess is tired, and horses don’t interest her,’ Vronsky said to Anna, who had suggested that they go on to the stud farm, where Sviyazhsky wanted to see the new stallion. ‘You go on, and I will escort the...
22
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Finding Dolly had already returned, Anna looked intently into her eyes, as if asking about her conversation with Vronsky, but did not put her question into words.

‘It seems it’s already time for dinner,’ she said. ‘We haven’t seen each other at all yet. I...
23
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Dolly was about to get into bed when Anna came in to her, already in her nightgown.

Anna had begun talking about intimate matters several times over the course of the day, and each time she had stopped after saying a few words....
30
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Sviyazhsky took Levin’s arm, and they went to join his friends.

It was now impossible to escape Vronsky. He was standing with Stepan Arkadyich and Sergey Ivanovich, and looking straight at Levin as he walked over.

‘Very good to see you. I believe I...
32
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Before Vronsky’s departure for the elections, having thought about the fact that the scenes that always took place between them every time he left home could only estrange him rather than draw him closer to her, Anna resolved to make every effort to bear...
9
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Oblonsky’s carriage!’ the porter shouted out in an angry bass. The carriage drew up and they both got in. It was only for the first few moments while the carriage was driving out through the club gates that Levin continued to experience the...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The doctor was not yet up, and the footman said that he ‘had gone to bed late and asked not to be woken, but would be up soon’. The footman was cleaning the glass lampshades and seemed very preoccupied with this. The...
18
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Now there is something else I want to talk about, and you know what it is. It’s about Anna,’ Stepan Arkadyich said, having paused briefly and shaken off the unpleasant impression.

As soon as Oblonsky uttered Anna’s name, Alexey Alexandrovich’s face completely changed; it...
25
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Feeling that the reconciliation was complete, Anna threw herself energetically into preparations for their departure in the morning. Although it had not been decided whether they would go on the Monday or the Tuesday, since both had given way to each other the night...
26
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Never before had a quarrel lasted a whole day. Today it had happened for the first time. And it was not a quarrel. It was a clear admission that his feelings had completely cooled. Was it possible to look at her in the ...
29
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Anna got into the carriage in an even worse state than when she had left home. To her previous agonies was now added the feeling of being insulted and rejected, which she had clearly felt during the meeting with Kitty.

‘Where to? Home?’ asked Pyotr....
10
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

When Levin thought about what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer and was driven to despair; but when he stopped questioning himself about this, he seemed to know what he was and what he was living for,...
11
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

The day on which Sergey Ivanovich arrived in Pokrovskoye was one of Levin’s most harrowing days.

It was the most frenetic period of work, when the peasants all display an extraordinary intensity of self-sacrifice such as they never display in any other circumstances in life,...
14
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Levin looked straight ahead and saw the herd of cattle, then he saw his trap drawn by Raven, and the coachman, who drove up to the cattle and spoke to the herdsman; then he heard the sound of wheels and the snort of a...
20
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Once he had left the nursery and was alone, Levin immediately recalled the thought in which there had been something unclear.

Instead of going into the drawing room, from where voices could be heard, he stopped on the veranda and, leaning on the balustrade, started...
Chapter V A Crisis In My Mental History. One Stage Onward
Authors: Stuart Mill John
Published: December 2020

For some years after this time I wrote very little, and nothing regularly, for publication: and great were the advantages which I derived from the intermission. It was of no common importance to me, at this period, to be able to digest and mature...
Chapter Six
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘Jesus Christ!’ said Chouteau the next morning, waking up frozen and exhausted inside the tent. ‘What I wouldn’t give for a nice drop of broth with some meat in it!’

At Boult-aux-Bois, where they had camped, the only food they’d had the previous evening had...
Chapter Six
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

High up on the roof terrace, where he’d gone to get an overview of the situation, Delaherche eventually began to grow restless and impatient, anxious to know what was going on. He could see for himself that the shells were passing over the town, and...
Chapter One
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Throughout the endless day of the battle, back at Remilly, where old Fouchard’s little farm sat perched on the hillside, Silvine hadn’t taken her eyes off Sedan, watching it through the thunder and smoke of the cannons, trembling all over, thinking of Honoré. The next...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon’s orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived, and waiting to...
Chapter I
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily expected his coming: he was...
Chapter II
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days; and still he did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the continent and...
Chapter III
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small room, and in a...
Chapter VII
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow: the whirling storm continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls: by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I had closed my shutter, laid a...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It was wonderful to Sir James Chettam how well he continued to like going to the Grange after he had once encountered...
Chapter XXIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

‘I found that no genius in another could please me. My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort.’—Goldsmith*

One morning some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea—but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible...
Chapter LXI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The same night, when Mr Bulstrode returned from a journey to Brassing on business, his good wife met him in the entrance-hall and drew him...
Chapter LXIX
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Mr
Bulstrode was still seated in his manager’s room at the Bank, about three o’clock of the same day on which he had received Lydgate there, when the clerk entered to...
Book VI. Consolidation.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Make the Constitution.*

Here perhaps is the place to fix, a little more precisely, what these two words, French Revolution, shall mean; for, strictly considered, they may have as many meanings as there are speakers of them. All things...
As Monsieur Pleases
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Three seconds before J. B. Hobson’s letter arrived, I no more dreamed of hunting the unicorn than of attempting the Northwest Passage.* Three seconds after reading the letter from the honourable Secretary to the Navy, I realized that my real vocation, my...
Full Steam Ahead
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At this cry the whole crew ran towards the harpooner: captain, officers, mates, seamen, and cabin boys—even the engineers abandoned the engine-room, and the stokers the boilers. The order ‘Stop her!’ was heard, and now the frigate was gliding over the water...
Mobilis in Mobili
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

This action, so roughly executed, was carried out with lightning speed. My companions and I had no time to look around. I do not know what Ned and Conseil felt as they entered the floating prison, but for my part I must...
Ned Land’s Fits of Anger
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

How long we slept I do not know, but it must have been a considerable period, for we awoke completely refreshed. I was the first to stir. My companions had not yet moved, stretched out in their corners like inert masses.

Scarcely had I got...
A Letter of Invitation
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day, 9 November, I woke up after a sleep of twelve hours. Conseil came in as usual to find out ‘how monsieur had slept’ and to offer his services. He had left his friend the Canadian slumbering like one who had never...
An Underwater Forest
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

We had finally reached the edge of the forest, doubtless one of the most beautiful in Captain Nemo’s immense dominion. He considered it his own, claiming the same rights as the first men in the first days of the world. In any case, who...
Four Thousand Leagues under the Pacific
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following morning, 18 November, I had completely recovered from my fatigue of the day before. I went up on the platform just as the Nautilus’s first officer was enunciating his daily phrase. The idea then came to me that it referred...
Captain Nemo’s Lightning
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

We looked in the direction of the forest without getting up, my hand suspended half-way to my mouth, although Land’s reached its destination.

‘Stones do not fall from the sky,’ said Conseil; ‘unless they are meteorites.’

A second stone, of carefully rounded shape, took...
Ægri Somnia
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The next day, 10 January, the Nautilus continued its progress underwater, but at a remarkable speed that I cannot estimate as less than 35 knots. The speed of its screw was such that I could not follow its revolutions, let alone count...

When...
Underwater Coalmines
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The next day, 20 February, I woke up very late. The fatigue of the night had extended my sleep until eleven o’clock. I got up quickly. I was keen to know what direction the Nautilus was heading in. The instruments showed me...
Conclusion
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

This is the conclusion of our journey under the seas. What happened that night, how the boat escaped from the formidable undertow of the Maelstrom, how Ned, Conseil, and I emerged from the deep, I cannot say. But when I came to, I was...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods* with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter.

The park was very large, and contained great variety of...
Chapter IV.
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...
Chapter VIII: The Present
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Six weeks had passed away. It was a splendid morning about the close of June. Most of the hay was cut, but the last week had been very unfavourable; and now that fine weather was come at last, being determined to make the most...
Chapter XX: Persistence
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

September 24th.—In the morning I rose, light and cheerful, nay, intensely happy. The hovering cloud cast over me by my aunt’s views, and by the fear of not obtaining her consent, was lost in the bright effulgence of my own hopes, and the too...
Chapter XXXIII: Two Evenings
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Seventh. Yes, I will hope! To-night, I heard Grimsby and Hattersley grumbling together, about the inhospitality of their host. They did not know I was near, for I happened to be standing behind the curtain, in the bow of the window, watching...
Chapter XXXVI: Dual Solitude
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

December 20th, 1824.—This is the third anniversary of our felicitous union. It is now two months since our guests left us to the enjoyment of each other’s society; and I have had nine weeks’ experience of this new phase of conjugal life—two persons living...
Chapter XLII: A Reformation
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Sept. 1st.—No Mr. Huntingdon yet. Perhaps he will stay among his friends till Christmas; and then, next spring, he will be off again. If he continue this plan, I shall be able to stay at Grassdale well enough—that is, I shall be...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and...
XVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She had had no hidden motive in wishing him not to take her home; it simply struck her that for some days past she had consumed an inordinate quantity of his time, and the independent spirit of the American girl whom extravagance of aid...
XX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Some fortnight after this Madame Merle drove up in a hansom cab to the house in Winchester Square. As she descended from her vehicle she observed, suspended between the dining-room windows, a large, neat, wooden tablet, on whose fresh black ground were inscribed in...
XXXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Isabel came back to Florence, but only after several months; an interval sufficiently replete with incident. It is not, however, during this interval that we are closely concerned with her; our attention is engaged again on a certain day in the late spring-time, shortly...
The Isle of Tiboulen
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

DantÈs, although dazed and almost suffocated, had yet sufficient presence of mind to hold his breath; and as his right hand (prepared as he was for every possibility) held his knife open, he rapidly ripped up the sack, extricated his arm, and then his...
At Marseilles Again
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Daylight, for which Dantès had so eagerly and impatiently waited, again broke upon the desert shores of Monte Cristo. With the first dawn of day Dantès resumed his researches. Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and...
La Mazzolata
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘Gentlemen,’ said the Count of Monte Cristo as he entered, ‘please excuse me for suffering my visit to be anticipated; but I feared to disturb you by presenting myself earlier at your apartments; besides, you sent me word you would come to me,...