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XLIII
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

There was no exaggeration in Marian’s definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village...
XLIV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

By the disclosure in the barn her thoughts were led anew in the direction which they had taken more than once of late—to the distant Emminster Vicarage. It was through her husband’s parents that she had been charged to send a letter to Clare,...
XLV
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

Till this moment she had never seen or heard from d’Urberville since her departure from Trantridge.

The rencounter came at a heavy moment, one of all moments calculated to permit its impact with the least emotional shock. But such was unreasoning memory that, though he...
L
Authors: Hardy Thomas
Published: December 2020

She plunged into the chilly equinoctial darkness as the clock struck ten, for her fifteen miles’ walk under the steely stars. In lonely districts night is a protection rather than a danger to the noiseless pedestrian, and knowing this Tess pursued the nearest course...
Letter II
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

To Mrs. Saville, England

Archangel, 28th March, 17—.

How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow! yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. I have hired a vessel, and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

We passed a few sad hours, until eleven o’clock, when the trial was to commence. My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompanied them to the court. During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice...
A Sentimental Journey &c. &c.
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——They order, said I, this matter° better in France—

—You have been in France? said my gentleman,° turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world.—Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, That one and twenty miles...
The House of Feasting and The House of Mourning Described.
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Ecclesiastes vii. 2, 3.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting.——

That I deny—but let us hear the wise man’s reasoning upon it—for that is the end of all men, and the...
9 M. De Mazarin’S Receipt
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Fouquet would have uttered an exclamation of delight on seeing another friend arrive, if the cold air and averted aspect of Aramis had not restored all his reserve. “Are you going to join us at our dessert?” he asked. “And yet you would be...
10 Monsieur Colbert’S Rough Draft
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Vanel, who entered at this stage of the conversation, was nothing less for Aramis and Fouquet than the full stop which completes a phrase. But, for Vanel, Aramis’s presence in Fouquet’s cabinet had quite another signification; and, therefore, at his first step into the...
18 Rival Affections
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Saint-Aignan had quitted Louis XIV. hardly a couple of hours before; but in the first effervescence of his affection, whenever Louis XIV. did not see La Vallière, he was obliged to talk of her. Besides, the only person with whom he could...
22 Wounds upon Wounds
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Mademoiselle De La
ValliÈRe—for it was indeed she—advanced a few steps towards him. “Yes—Louise,” she murmured.

But this interval, short as it had been, was quite sufficient for Raoul to recover himself. “You, mademoiselle?” he said; and then added, in an indefinable tone, “You...
24 Three Guests Astonished to Find Themselves at Supper Together
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The carriage arrived at the outside gate of the Bastille. A soldier on guard stopped it, but d’Artagnan had only to utter a single word to procure admittance, and the carriage passed on without further difficulty. Whilst they were proceeding along the covered way...
25 What Took Place at the Louvre During the Supper at the Bastille
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

M. De
Saint-Aignan had executed the commission with which the King had entrusted him for La Vallière, as we have already seen in one of the preceding chapters; but, whatever his eloquence might have been, he did not succeed in persuading...
27 In Which Porthos Is Convinced Without Having Understood Anything
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The good and worthy Porthos, faithful to all the laws of ancient chivalry, had determined to wait for M. de Saint-Aignan until sunset; and, as Saint-Aignan did not come, as Raoul had forgotten to communicate with his second, and as he found that waiting...
33 Where, Probably, MoliÈRe Formed His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan found Porthos in the adjoining chamber, but no longer an irritated Porthos, or a disappointed Porthos, but Porthos radiant, blooming, fascinating, and chatting with Molière, who was looking upon him with a species of idolatry, and as a man would who had...
34 The Beehive, the Bees, and the Honey
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Bishop of Vannes, much annoyed at having met d’Artagnan at M. Percerin’s, returned to Saint Mandé in no very good humour. Molière, on the other hand, quite delighted at having made such a capital rough sketch, and at knowing where to find its...
35 Another Supper at the Bastille
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Seven o’clock sounded from the great clock of the Bastille, that famous clock, which like all the accessories of the state prison, the very use of which is a torture, recalled to the prisoners’ minds the destination of every hour of their punishment. The...
39 The ChÂTeau De Vaux-Le-vicomte
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The château of Vaux-le-Vicomte,* situated about a league from Mélun, had been built by Fouquet in 1655, at a time when there was a scarcity of money in France; Mazarin had taken all that there was, and Fouquet expended the remainder. However,...
42 A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’ Artagnan had determined to lose no time, and in fact he never was in the habit of doing so. After having inquired for Aramis, he looked for him in every direction until he had succeeded in finding him. Besides, no sooner had...
44 Jealousy
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The torches we have just referred to, the eager attention which every one displayed, and the new ovation paid to the King by Fouquet, arrived in time to suspend the effect of a resolution which La Vallière had already considerably shaken in Louis XIV.’s...
45 High Treason
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The ungovernable fury which took possession of the King at the sight and at the perusal of Fouquet’s letter to La Vallière by degrees subsided into a feeling of pain and extreme weariness. Youth, invigorated by health and lightness of spirits, and requiring that...
54 The Last Adieux
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Raoul uttered a cry, and affectionately embraced Porthos. Aramis and Athos embraced like old men; and this embrace itself being a question for Aramis, he immediately said, “My friend, we have not long to remain with you.”

“Ah!” said the Comte.

“Only time to tell...
57 Planchet’S Inventory
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Athos, during the visit made to the Luxembourg by Raoul, had gone to Planchet’s residence to inquire after d’Artagnan. The gentleman, on arriving at the Rue des Lombards, found the shop of the grocer in great confusion; but it was not the encumberment of...
60 Captive and Jailers
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When they had entered the fort, and whilst the governor was making some preparations for the reception of his guests—“Come,” said Athos, “let us have a word of explanation whilst we are alone.”

“It is simply this,” replied the musketeer. “I have conducted hither a...
63 The Last Supper
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Surintendant had no doubt received advice of the approaching departure, for he was giving a farewell dinner to his friends. From the bottom to the top of the house, the hurry of the servants bearing dishes, and the diligence of the clerks, denoted...
66 Friendly Advice
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Fouquet was gone to bed, like a man who clings to life, and who economises as much as possible, that slender tissue of existence, of which the shocks and angles of this world so quickly wear out the irreparable tenuity. D’Artagnan appeared at the...
69 In Which the Squirrel Falls—In Which the Adder Flies
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

It was two o’clock in the afternoon. The King, full of impatience, went to his cabinet on the terrace, and kept opening the door of the corridor, to see what his secretaries were doing. M. Colbert, seated in the same place M. Saint-Aignan had...
72 Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D’Artagnan
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The blow was direct. It was severe, mortal. D’Artagnan, furious at having been anticipated by an idea of the King’s, did not, however, yet despair; and, reflecting upon the idea he had brought back from Belle-Isle, he augured from it a new means of...
74 The Son of Biscarrat
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The Bretons of the Isle were very proud of this victory; Aramis did not encourage them in the feeling.

“What will happen,” said he to Porthos, when everybody was gone home, “will be that the anger of the King will be roused by the account...
The Death of D’Artagnan
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Contrary to what always happens, whether in politics or morals, each kept his promise, and did honour to his engagements.

The King recalled M. de Guiche, and banished M. le Chevalier de Lorraine; so that Monsieur became ill in consequence. Madame set out for London,...
VI d’artagnan at forty years of age
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Alas! since the epoch when, in our romance of ‘The Three Musketeers,’ we left d’Artagnan at No. 12, Rue des Fossoyeurs,* many events had happened and many years had passed.

D’Artagnan had not failed his opportunities, but opportunities had failed to d’Artagnan. While...
VII d’artagnan is at a loss, but one of our old acquaintances comes to his aid
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan was returning then in a thoughtful mood, finding a lively pleasure in carrying the bag of Cardinal Mazarin, and thinking of that fine diamond, once his own, and which for an instant he had seen sparkling on the finger of the first...
XV two angels’ heads
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

A long journey was the matter in hand; but d’Artagnan felt no anxiety on that point. He knew that his horses had been well baited* from the plentiful stable-racks of the Lord de Bracieux. He therefore started off with confidence on...
XVI the chÂteau de bragelonne
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

D’Artagnan had remained during this scene with wild look and open mouth. He had found matters so different from his expectations that he was in a state of great astonishment.

Athos took him by the arm, and led him into the garden.

‘While they...
XXXVIII the letter from charles i
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The reader must now cross the Seine with us, and follow us to the gate of the Carmelite convent in the Rue St Jacques.* It was eleven in the morning, and the pious Sisters had come to say a Mass for the...
XLVI the te deum for the victory of lens
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

All the bustle that Madame Henrietta had remarked, and the reason for which she had vainly sought, was occasioned by the victory of Lens, of the news of which Monsieur the Prince had made the Due de Châtillon the bearer, who had taken a...
L the riot becomes a revolt
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The room into which d’Artagnan and Porthos had been shown was separated from the drawing-room, where the queen was, only by hangings of tapestry. The slight thickness of this permitted all that was going on to be heard, while the opening between the two...
LII the interview
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

This same morning d’Artagnan was sleeping in Porthos’s room. Since the disturbances the two friends had adopted this practice. Under their bolsters were their swords, and on the table, within easy reach, were their pistols. D’Artagnan was sleeping still, and was dreaming that the...
LIX oliver cromwell
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘Are you coming to the general’s?’ said Mordaunt to d’Artagnan and Porthos; ‘you know that he ordered you to do so after the action.’

‘We are going first of all to put our prisoners in a safe place,’ said d’Artagnan to Mordaunt. ‘Do you...
LXX remember
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

On finishing his confession, Charles received the communion; he then asked to see his children. Ten o’clock struck; as the king had said, the delay had not been great.

The populace had already gathered; it was known that ten was the hour fixed for the...
LXXI the man in the mask
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Although it was only four o’clock in the afternoon, it was quite dark; the snow was falling thick and icy. Aramis returned next, and found Athos, if not unconscious, at least crushed. At his friend’s first words the count awoke as from a sort...
LXXVIII in which is told how mousqueton, after having missed being roasted, escaped being eaten
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Deep silence reigned for a long time in the boat after the terrible scene which we have just related. The moon, which had shone for a time, as if God intended* that no details of this event should be hidden from the...
LXXXII the combat at charenton
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

As Athos and Aramis rode on, they passed the different corps drawn up on the route, they saw polished bright cuirasses follow rusty arms, and glittering muskets follow all kinds of halberds.

‘I think that here will be the real battlefield,’ said Aramis. ‘Do you...
LXXXVI precautions
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

After having left Anne of Austria, Mazarin started for Rueil, where his house was. He took a strong retinue on account of the troublous state of the times, and he often went in disguise. The cardinal, as we have already said, in the dress...
LXXXIX strength of arm and strength of mind
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The supper was silent, but not sad; for from time to time one of those shrewd smiles which were habitual to him in his moments of good humour, illumined the countenance of d’Artagnan. Porthos did not lose one of those smiles, and at each...
XCI m. mazarin’s oubliettes
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

They reached the door through which Mazarin had disappeared. It was fastened; d’Artagnan tried in vain to open it.

‘Now is the time for using your shoulder. Push, but gently, without noise; don’t burst anything; disjoin the woodwork—that’s all.’

Porthos pressed his sturdy shoulder against...
XCII conferences
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Mazarin drew back the bolt of a double door, at the threshold of which Athos was quite ready to receive his illustrious visitor, according to the information given him by Comminges.

On perceiving Mazarin he bowed. ‘Your Eminence can dispense with any attendance; the honour...
Chapter III
Authors: Hughes Thomas
Published: December 2020

Poor old Benjy! the “rheumatiz” has much to answer for all through English country sides, but it never played a scurvier trick than in laying thee by the heels, when thou wast yet in a green old age. The enemy, which had long been...
Chapter IV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

The nuptial morn, so justly dreaded by Julia, and so impatiently awaited by the marquis, now arrived. The marriage was to be celebrated with a magnificence which demonstrated the joy it occasioned to the marquis. The castle was fitted up in a style of...
Chapter X
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Julia accustomed herself to walk in the fine evenings under the shade of the high trees that environed the abbey. The dewy coolness of the air refreshed her. The innumerable roseate tints which the parting sun-beams reflected on the rocks above, and the fine...
Chapter XI
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

At an early...
Chapter VII
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

It is now necessary to mention some circumstances, which could not be related amidst the events of Emily’s hasty departure from Venice, or together with those, which so...
Chapter IX
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

Leaving the gay scenes of Paris, we return to those of the gloomy Apennine, where Emily’s thoughts...
Chapter IV
Authors: Radcliffe Ann
Published: December 2020

In the morning, Emily found Madame Montoni nearly in the same condition, as on the preceding night; she had slept...
Chapter VIII Barry Bids Adieu to the Military Profession
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

You who have never been out of your country, know little what it is to hear a friendly voice in captivity; and there’s many a man that will not understand the cause of the burst of feeling which I have confessed took place on...
Chapter XII Contains the Tragical History of the Princess of X—
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

More than twenty years after the events described in the past chapters I was walking with my Lady Lyndon, in the Rotunda, at Ranelagh.* It was in the year 1790; the emigration from France* had already commenced, the old counts...
Chapter XIV I Return to Ireland, and Exhibit My Splendour and Generosity In That Kingdom
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

How were times changed with me now! I had left my country a poor penniless boy—a private soldier in a miserable marching regiment. I returned an accomplished man, with property to the amount of five thousand guineas in my possession, with a splendid wardrobe...
Chapter XVII I Appear as an Ornament of English Society
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

[It is, perhaps, as well for the reader that in the following part of his Memoirs, which details the history of Mr. Lyndon’s life after his marriage and during the first years of his fashionable life, the autobiographer has not been more explicit....
Chapter XIX Conclusion
Authors: Thackeray William Makepeace
Published: December 2020

If the world were not composed of a race of ungrateful scoundrels, who share your prosperity while it lasts, and, even when gorged with your venison and burgundy, abuse the generous giver of the feast, I am sure I merit a good name and...
1 Of the Nature of Flatland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other...
4 Concerning the Women
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

If our highly pointed Triangles of the Soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our Women. For, if a Soldier is a wedge, a Woman is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at...
7 Of Irregular Figures
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

Throughout the previous pages I have been assuming—what perhaps should have been laid down at the beginning as a distinct and fundamental proposition—that every human being in Flatland is a Regular Figure, that is to say of regular construction. By this I mean that...
10 Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

The agitation for the Universal Colour Bill continued for three years; and up to the last moment of that period it seemed as though Anarchy were destined to triumph.

A whole army of Polygons, who turned out to fight as private soldiers, was utterly annihilated...
14 How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

Thinking that it was time to bring down the Monarch from his raptures to the level of common sense, I determined to endeavour to open up to him some glimpses of the truth, that is to say of the nature of things in Flatland....
16 How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
Authors: Abbott Edwin A.
Published: December 2020

As soon as the sound of the Peace-cry of my departing Wife had died away, I began to approach the Stranger with the intention of taking a nearer view and of bidding him be seated: but his appearance struck me dumb and motionless with...
5. Off the Beaten Track
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ‘Embassy Letters’ (1716—18; from The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, vol. i, ed. Robert Halsband; Oxford, 1965)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) travelled through eastern Europe to Constantinople with her husband Edward on his appointment as ambassador to...
3. Colonizing New South Wales, 1788–1791
Authors: Bohls Elizabeth A.
Published: December 2020

Hiram Wood, The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1790)

After the loss of the North American colonies in 1776, the new continent claimed by Cook presented a solution to the problem of Britain’s burgeoning criminalized underclass. New South Wales would be developed as...
An Hibernian Tale
Authors: Edgeworth Maria
Published: December 2020

Monday Morningg

Having out of friendship for the family, upon whose estate, praised be Heaven! I and mine have lived rent free time out of mind, voluntarily undertaken to publish the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family, I think it my duty to say...
Chapter III: The War-path of the Doones
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

FROM Tiverton town to the town of Oare is a very long and painful road, and in good truth the traveller must make his way, as the saying is; for the way is still unmade, at least, on this side of Dulverton, although there is...
Chapter VI: Necessary Practice
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ABOUT the rest of all that winter I remember very little, being only a young boy then, and missing my father most out of doors; as when it came to the bird-catching, or the tracking of hares in the snow, or the training of a...
Chapter XXXI: John Fry’s Errand
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

WE kept up the dance very late that night, mother being in such wonderful spirits, that she would not hear of our going to bed: while she glanced from young Squire Marwood, very deep in his talk with our Annie, to me and Ruth Huckaback,...
Chapter XXXV: Ruth is not like Lorna
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH by our mother’s reluctant consent a large part of the obstacles between Annie and her lover appeared to be removed, on the other hand Lorna and myself gained little, except as regarded comfort of mind, and some ease to the conscience. Moreover, our chance...
Chapter LI: A Visit from the Counsellor
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

NOW while I was riding home that evening, with a tender conscience about Ruth, although not a wounded one, I guessed but little that all my thoughts were needed much for my own affairs. So however it proved to be; for as I came in,...
Chapter LIX: Lorna gone away
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH there are very ancient tales of gold being found upon Exmoor, in lumps and solid hummocks, and of men who slew one another for it, this deep digging and great labour seemed to me a dangerous and unholy enterprise. And Master Huckaback confessed that,...
Chapter LX: Annie luckier than John
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

SOME people may look down upon us for our slavish ways (as they may choose to call them), but in our part of the country, we do love to mention title, and to roll it on our tongues, with a conscience and a comfort. Even...
Chapter LXVII: Lorna still is Lorna
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

ALTHOUGH a man may be as simple as the flowers of the field; knowing when, but scarcely why, he closes to the bitter wind; and feeling why, but scarcely when, he opens to the genial sun; yet without his questing much into the capsule of...
Chapter LXXI: A Long Account settled
Authors: Blackmore R. D.
Published: December 2020

HAVING resolved on a night-assault (as our undisciplined men, three-fourths of whom had never been shot at, could not fairly be expected to march up to visible musket-mouths), we cared not much about drilling our forces, only to teach them to hold a musket, so...
Chapter III The Masters Family
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

AT six o’clock one November evening, Mr. Masters the attorney was sitting at home with his family in the large parlour of his house, his office being on the other side of the passage which cut the house in two and was formally called...
Chapter XXV The Last Morning at Rufford Hall
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘WELL, my love?’ said Lady Augustus, as soon as her daughter had joined her in her bedroom. On such occasions there was always a quarter of an hour before going to bed in which the mother and daughter discussed their affairs, while the...
Chapter XXVII ‘Wonderful Bird!’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THERE were but two days between the scenes described in the last chapter and the day fixed for Mary’s departure, and during these two days Larry Twentyman’s name was not mentioned in the house. Mrs. Masters did not make herself quite pleasant to her...
Chapter XXX At Cheltenham
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

THE month at Cheltenham was passed very quietly, and would have been a very happy month with Mary Masters but that there grew upon her from day to day increasing fears of what she would have to undergo when she returned to Dillsborough. At...
Chapter LXIV The Will
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

ON that Saturday the club met at Dillsborough,—even though the Squire of Bragton had died on Friday morning. Through the whole of that Saturday the town had been much exercised in its belief and expressions, as to the disposition of the property. The town...
Chapter XII: Mr. Owen
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In this way Isabel spent four very uncomfortable weeks in her new home before Mr. Owen returned to Hereford. Nor was her discomfort much relieved by the prospect of his return. She knew all the details of his circumstances, and told herself...
Chapter XVI: Again at Hereford
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Some of the people at Carmarthen were taking a great deal of trouble about the matter. One copy of the Herald was sent regularly to Mr. Brodrick, another to Isabel, and another to Mr. Owen. It was determined that they should not...
Chapter XVII: Mr. Cheekey
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A Month had been left for Cousin Henry to consider what he would do, —a month from the day in which he had been forced to accede to Mr. Apjohn’s proposal up to that on which he would have to stand before the barrister...
Chapter XXII: How Cousin Henry was Let off Easily
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was a moment of great triumph and of utter dismay, —of triumph to Mr. Apjohn, and of dismay to Cousin Henry. The two men at this moment, —as Mr. Brodrick was looking at the papers, —were struggling together upon the ground. Cousin Henry,...
Chapter XXIV: Conclusion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Isabel spent one pleasant week with her lover at Hereford, and then was summoned into Carmarthenshire. Mr. Apjohn came over at her father’s invitation, and insisted on taking her back to Llanfeare.

‘There are a thousand things to be done, ’ he said, ‘and the...
Chapter II
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Not word had been heard in Keswick of the proposed return of the old lord,—for the Earl was now an old man,—past his sixtieth year, and in truth with as many signs of age as some men bear at eighty. The life which he...
Chapter X
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

For some days after the intimation of her mother’s purpose, Lady Anna kept her bed. She begged that she might not see a doctor. She had a headache,—nothing but a headache. But it was quite impossible that she should ever marry Earl Lovel. This...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the meantime the week had gone round, and Lady Anna’s letter to the Earl had not yet been written. An army was arrayed against the girl to induce her to write such a letter as might make it almost impossible for her afterwards...
Chapter XXXVII
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

After the scene which was described in the last chapter there was a very sad time indeed in Keppel Street. The Countess had been advised by the Serjeant and Mrs. Bluestone to take her daughter immediately abroad, in the event of the interview with...
Chapter XLIV
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The tailor’s hand was on the lock of the door when he first saw the flash of the fire, and then felt that he was wounded. Though his back was turned to the woman he distinctly saw the flash, but he never could remember...
Chapter X. Luke Rowan Declares his Plans as to the Brewery
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

“The truth is, T., there was some joking among the young people about the wine, and then Rowan went and ordered it.” This was Mrs. Tappitt’s explanation about the champagne, made to her husband on the night of the ball, before she was...
Chapter XXIV. The Election at Baslehurst
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Towards the end of September the day of the election arrived, and with it arrived Luke Rowan at Baslehurst. The vacancy had been occasioned by the acceptance of the then sitting member of that situation under the crown which is called the...
Chapter XXX. Conclusion
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Early in November Mr. Tappitt officially announced his intention of abdicating, and the necessary forms and deeds and parchment obligations were drawn out signed and sealed, for the giving up of the brewery to Luke Rowan. Mr. Honyman’s clerk revelled in thinly-covered folio sheets...
The Pastor and His Parishioner
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Slowly as the minister walked, he had almost gone by, before Hester Prynne could gather voice enough to attract his observation. At length, she succeeded.

“Arthur Dimmesdale!” she said, faintly at first; then louder, but hoarsely. “Arthur Dimmesdale!”

“Who speaks?” answered the minister.

Gathering himself...
Chapter III
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Arrangements settled—Harris’s method of doing work—How the elderly, family-man puts up a picture—George makes a sensible remark—Delights of early morning bathing—Provisions for getting upset.

So, on the following evening, we again assembled, to discuss...
Chapter III
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Harris’s one fault—Harris and the Angel—A patent bicycle lamp—The ideal saddle—The ‘Overhauler’—His eagle eye—His method—His cheery confidence—His simple and inexpensive tastes—His appearance—How to get rid...
Chapter V
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

A necessary digression—Introduced by story containing moral—One of the charms of this book—The Journal that did not command success—Its boast: ‘Instruction combined with Amusement’—Problem: say what should be considered instructive and what amusing—A...
Chapter IX
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Harris breaks the Law—The helpful man: The dangers that beset him—George sets forth upon a career of crime—Those to whom Germany would come as a boon and a blessing—The English Sinner: His disappointments—The German Sinner:...
Chapter X
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Baden Baden from the visitor’s point of view—Beauty of the early morning, as viewed from the preceding afternoon—Distance, as measured by the compass—Ditto, as measured by the leg—George in account with his conscience—A lazy machine...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Jerome Jerome K.
Published: December 2020

Which is serious: as becomes a parting chapter—The German from the Anglo-Saxon’s point of view—Providence in buttons and a helmet—Paradise of the helpless idiot—German conscience: its aggressiveness—How they hang in Germany, very possibly—What...
Prologue. Martin Hesselius, The German Physician
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling...
The Doctor Questions Lady Mary, And She Answers
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘I like your vicar* so much, Lady Mary,’ said I, so soon as he was gone. ‘He has read, travelled, and thought, and having also suffered, he ought to be an accomplished companion.’

‘So he is, and, better still, he is a really good...
An Advertisement
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

Of the new series of impressions which were afterwards gradually to work out his destiny, I that evening witnessed the first; and but for its relation to the train of events which followed, the incident would scarcely have been now remembered by me.

As we...
Somebody Has Got Into The House
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

People remarked that the Judge was in the vapours. His doctor said he should go for a fortnight to Buxton.*

Whenever the Judge fell into a brown study, he was always conning over the terms of the sentence pronounced upon him in his vision—‘in...
Prologue
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

The curious case which I am about to place before you, is referred to, very pointedly, and more than once, in the extraordinary Essay upon the drugs of the Dark and the Middle Ages, from the pen of Doctor Hesselius.

This Essay he entitles ...
On The Road
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

In the eventful year, 1815, I was exactly three-and-twenty, and had just succeeded to a very large sum in consols,* and other securities. The first fall of Napoleon had thrown the continent open to English excursionists, anxious, let us suppose, to...
The Naked Sword
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

A man who has been posting all day long, and changing the air he breathes every half hour, who is well-pleased with himself, and has nothing on earth to trouble him, and who sits alone by a fire in a comfortable chair after having eaten...
Gossip And Counsel
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

My eventful journey was over, at last. I sat in my hotel window looking out upon brilliant Paris, which had, in a moment, recovered all its gaiety, and more than its accustomed bustle. Every one has read of the kind of excitement that followed the...
The Dragon Volant
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I took one look about me. The building was picturesque; the trees made it more so. The antique and sequestered character of the scene, contrasted strangely with the glare and bustle of the Parisian life, to which my eye and ear had become accustomed.

Then...
The Magician
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

No more brilliant spectacle than this masked ball could be imagined. Among other salons and galleries, thrown open, was the enormous perspective of the ‘Grande Galerie des Glaces’,* lighted up on that occasion with no less than four thousand wax candles,...
A Wonderful Likeness
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

This evening there arrived from Gratz the grave, dark-faced son of the picture cleaner, with a horse and cart laden with two large packing cases, having many pictures in each. It was a journey of ten leagues,* and whenever a messenger arrived at...
The Story
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

‘With all my heart,’ said the General, with an effort; and after a short pause in which to arrange his subject, he commenced one of the strangest narratives I ever heard.

‘My dear child was looking forward with great pleasure to the visit you had...
Conclusion
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan
Published: December 2020

I write all this you suppose with composure. But far from it; I cannot think of it without agitation. Nothing but your earnest desire so repeatedly expressed, could have induced me to sit down to a task that has unstrung my nerves for months to...
Appendix
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

As the publication of this work has been delayed beyond the time intended, I think it not improper, all circumstances considered, to state the causes that have occasioned the delay.

The reader will probably observe, that some parts in the plan contained in this work...
Letter Addressed to the Addressers, On the Late Proclamation.
Authors: Paine Thomas
Published: December 2020

Could I have commanded circumstances with a wish, I know not of any that would have more generally promoted the progress of knowledge, than the late Proclamation, and the numerous rotten Borough and Corporation Addresses thereon.* They have not only served...
Discovery
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Shelby, after their protracted discussion of the night before, did not readily sink to repose, and, in consequence, slept somewhat later than usual, the ensuing morning.

“I wonder what keeps Eliza,” said Mrs. Shelby, after giving her bell repeated pulls, to no...
The Mother’s Struggle
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom’s cabin.

Her husband’s suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a confused and...
The Property is Carried Off
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

The February morning looked gray and drizzling through the window of Uncle Tom’s cabin. It looked on downcast faces, the images of mournful hearts. The little table stood out before the fire, covered with an ironing-cloth; a coarse but clean shirt or two, fresh from...
The Quaker Settlement*
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

A quiet scene now rises before us. A large, roomy, neatly-painted kitchen, its yellow floor glossy and smooth, and without a particle of dust; a neat, well-blacked cooking-stove; rows of shining tin, suggestive of unmentionable good things to the appetite; glossy green wood chairs, old...
Henrique
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

About this time, St. Clare’s brother Alfred, with his eldest son, a boy of twelve, spent a day or two with the family at the lake.

No sight could be more singular and beautiful than that of these twin brothers. Nature, instead of...
Fore Shado Wings
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

Two days after this, Alfred St. Clare and Augustine parted; and Eva, who had been stimulated, by the society of her young cousin, to exertions beyond her strength, began to fail rapidly. St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,—a thing from...
“This is the Last of Earth.”—John Q. Adams
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

The statuettes and pictures in Eva’s room were shrouded in white napkins, and only hushed breathings and muffled foot-falls were heard there, and the light stole in solemnly through windows partially darkened by closed blinds.

The bed was draped in white; and there, beneath the...
The Unprotected
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God’s earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

The child who has lost...
The Martyr
Authors: Stowe Harriet Beecher
Published: December 2020

“Deem not the just by Heaven forgot!

Though life its common gifts deny,—

Though, with a crushed and bleeding heart,

And spurned of man, he goes to die!

For God hath marked each sorrowing day,

And numbered every bitter tear;

And heaven’s long years of...
17
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The real journey began. Until now things had been more tiring than difficult; but henceforth problems were literally going to spring forth under our feet.

I had still not looked down at the fathomless pit into which I was going to engulf myself. The moment...
41
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The following day, Thursday 27 August, was an important one in our underground journey. Every time that I think about it now, terror makes my heart beat faster. From that moment on, our reason, our judgement, our ingenuity were to have no influence at...
44
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

When I opened my eyes again, I felt the strong hand of the guide clutching my belt. With the other he was holding on to my uncle. I was not seriously injured, merely bruised and aching all over. I saw that I was lying...
25 The First Wedding
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

The June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were. Quite Bushed with excitement were their ruddy faces, as they swung in the wind, whispering...
27 Literary Lessons
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

Fortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good-luck penny in her path. Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would have given more real happiness than did the little sum that came to her in this wise.

Every few...
38 On The Shelf
Authors: May Alcott Louisa
Published: December 2020

In France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married, when ‘Vive la liberté’ becomes their motto. In America, as every one knows, girls early sign a declaration of independence, and enjoy their freedom with republican zest; but...
Chapter I The Travellers
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It was the opening of the season of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, at the Baths of Wildbad.*

The evening shadows were beginning to gather over the quiet little German town; and the diligence* was expected every minute. Before the door of...
Chapter IX Fate or Chance?
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It was close on six o’clock when Allan and his friends left the boat; and the evening influence was creeping already, in its mystery and its stillness, over the watery solitude of the Broads.

The shore in these wild regions was not like the shore...
Chapter XIII Exit
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It rained all through the night; and when the morning came, it was raining still.

Contrary to his ordinary habit, Midwinter was waiting in the breakfast-room when Allan entered it. He looked worn and weary, but his smile was gentler, and his manner more composed...
Chapter III The Brink of Discovery
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The morning of the interview between Mrs. Milroy and her daughter, at the cottage, was a morning of serious reflection for the squire, at the great house.

Even Allan’s easy-tempered nature had not been proof against the disturbing influences exercised on it by the events...
Chapter IV Allan at Bay
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Two o’clock came; and Pedgift Junior, punctual to his time, came with it. His vivacity of the morning had all sparkled out; he greeted Allan with his customary politeness, but without his customary smile; and when the headwaiter came in for orders, his dismissal...
Chapter VIII She comes between them
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Appointed hours for the various domestic events of the day were things unknown at Thorpe-Ambrose. Irregular in all his habits, Allan accommodated himself to no stated times (with the solitary exception of dinner-time) at any hour of the day or night. He retired to...
Chapter III Ramsgate Sands
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Eustace succeeded in quieting my alarm. But I can hardly say that he succeeded in satisfying my mind as well.

He had been thinking, he told me, of the contrast between his past and his present life. Bitter remembrances of the years that had gone...
Chapter XVI First Question—Did the Woman Die Poisoned?
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The proceedings began at ten o’clock. The prisoner was placed at the Bar, before the High Court of Justiciary,* at Edinburgh. He bowed respectfully to the Bench, and pleaded Not Guilty, in a low voice.

It was observed by every one present, that the...
Chapter XVII Second Question—Who Poisoned her?
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The evidence of the doctors and the chemists closed the proceedings, on the first day of the Trial.

On the second day, the evidence to be produced by the prosecution was anticipated with a general feeling of curiosity and interest. The Court was now to...
Chapter XXV Miserrimus Dexter—Second View
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Thoroughly disheartened and disgusted, and (if I must honestly confess it) thoroughly frightened too, I whispered to Mrs Macallan, ‘I was wrong, and you were right. Let us go.’

The ears of Miserrimus Dexter must have been as sensitive as the ears of a dog....
Chapter XXVI More of my Obstinacy
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Ariel was downstairs in the shadowy. hall, half asleep, half awake, waiting to see the visitors clear of the house. Without speaking to us, without looking at us, she led the way down the dark garden walk, and locked the gate behind us. ‘Good...
Chapter XXXVI Ariel
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I passed a sleepless night.

The outrage that had been offered to me was bad enough in itself. But consequences were associated with it which might affect me more seriously still. In so far as the attainment of the one object of my life might...
Chapter XLVIII What else could I do?
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

As soon as I could dry my eyes and compose my spirits, after reading the wife’s pitiable and dreadful farewell, my first thought was of Eustace—my first anxiety was to prevent him from ever reading what I had read.

Yes! to this end it had...
Chapter L The Last of the Story
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In ten days more we returned to England, accompanied by Benjamin.

Mrs Macallan’s house in London offered us ample accommodation. We gladly availed ourselves of her proposal, when she invited us to stay with her until our child was born, and our plans for the...
Chapter II The Guests
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Who was responsible for the reform of the summer-house?

The new tenant at Windygates was responsible.

And who was the new tenant?

Come, and see.

In the spring of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the summer-house had been the dismal dwelling-place of a pair of...
Chapter III The Discoveries
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

But two persons were now left in the summer-house—Arnold Brinkworth, and Sir Patrick Lundie.

‘Mr Brinkworth,’ said the old gentleman, ‘I have had no opportunity of speaking to you before this; and (as I hear that you are to leave us today) I may find...