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The Satisfaction of a Gentleman
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

Long before the days of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’* the Coll, knew that you might discuss his red nose with Dickson Quartus in all amity and safety, so long as it did not turn blue, and he did not gnash his teeth and...
Chapter I
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently considered. How is the son of a British yeoman,* who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast...
The Maypole of Merry Mount
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

There is an admirable foundation for a philosophic romance, in the curious history of the early settlement of Mount Wollaston,* or Merry Mount. In the slight sketch here attempted, the facts recorded on the grave pages of our New England annalists*...
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly. They were all melancholy...
Earth’s Holocaust
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time—but whether in the time past or time to come is a matter of little or no moment—this wide world had become so overburdened with an accumulation of worn-out trumpery, that the inhabitants determined to rid themselves of it by a...
Ethan Brand
Authors: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Published: December 2020

A Chapter from an Abortive Romance*

Bartram the lime-burner,* a rough, heavy-looking man, begrimed with charcoal, sat watching his kiln, at nightfall, while his little son played at building houses with the scattered fragments of marble, when, on the hillside below...
Chapter I
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Faint streaks of crimson glimmer here and there amidst the rich darkness of the Kentish woods. Autumn’s red finger has been lightly laid upon the foliage—sparingly, as the artist puts the brighter tints into his picture: but the grandeur of an August sunset blazes...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

John
Mellish grew weary of the great city of Paris. Better love, and contentment, and a crust in a mansarde, than stalled oxen or other costly food in the loftiest saloons au premier,* with the most obsequious waiters...
Chapter XXV
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The bare-headed seafaring man who stood in the centre of the hall was Captain Samuel Prodder. The scared faces of the servants gathered round him told him more plainly than his own words, which came hoarsely from his parched white lips, the nature of...
Chapter XXXV
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Talbot
Bulstrode and his wife came to Mellish Park a few days after the return of John and Aurora. Lucy was pleased to come to her cousin; pleased to be allowed to love her without reservation; grateful to her husband for his...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

On a brilliant day in May, of the year 1868,* a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carré,* in the Museum of the Louvre. This...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Early one morning, before he was dressed, a little old man was ushered into his apartment, followed by a youth in a blouse who carried a picture in a shining frame. Newman, among the distractions of Paris, had forgotten M. Nioche and his accomplished...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He gave up Bagdad and Bokhara and, returning to Paris before the autumn was over, established himself in rooms selected by Tom Tristram in accordance with the latter’s estimate of his ‘social standing’. When Newman learned that this occult attribute was to be taken...
VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘LOOK here—I want to know about your sister,’ the elder abruptly began.

His visitor arched fine eyebrows. ‘Now that I think of it you’ve never yet made her the subject of a question.’

‘Well, I guess I know why.’

‘If it’s because you don’t trust...
X
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Newman continued to see his other good friends with scarce-diminished frequency, though if you had listened to Mrs Tristram’s account of the matter you would have supposed they had been cynically repudiated for the sake of grander acquaintance. ‘We were all very well so...
XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He kept his promise, or his menace, of presenting himself often in the Rue de l’Université, and during the next six weeks saw Madame de Cintré more times than he could have numbered. He flattered himself he had not fallen, and hadn’t...
XXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

‘I’M very much obliged to you for coming,’ he began with observing. ‘I hope it won’t get you into trouble.’

‘I don’t think I shall be missed. My lady, in these days, is not fond of having me about her.’ This was said with a...
XXIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Sunday was as yet two days off; but meanwhile, to beguile his impatience, Newman took his way to the Avenue de Messine and got what comfort he could in staring at the blank outer wall of Madame de Cintré’s present abode. The street in...
XXVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

In that uninitiated observation of the great spectacle of English life on which I have touched, it might be supposed that he passed a great many dull days. But the dulness was as grateful as a warm, fragrant bath, and his melancholy, which was...
Chapter I
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Preliminary

Langhorne*

‘Most readers,’ says the Manuscript of Mr Pattieson, ‘must have witnessed with delight the joyous burst which...
Chapter II
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Douglas*

Under the reign of the last Stewarts, there was an anxious wish on the part of government to counteract, by every means in their power, the...
Chapter VII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

As You Like it*

We must conduct our readers to the...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Twelfth Night*

It was evening when Mr Harry Morton perceived an old woman, wrapped in her tartan plaid,* supported by a stout, stupid-looking fellow, in hoddin-grey, approach the...
Chapter XI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Swift*

Major Bellenden’s ancient valet, Gideon Pike as he adjusted his master’s clothes by his bedside, preparatory to the worthy veteran’s toilet, acquainted...
Chapter XII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Prior*

The breakfast* of Lady Margaret Bellenden no more resembled a modern dejeuné, than the great stone-hall at Tillietudlem could brook comparison with a modern...
Chapter XIX
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Henry IV, Part II*

We must now return to the tower of Tillietudlem, which the march of the Life-Guards, on the morning of this eventful day, had left to silence and anxiety. The assurances...
Chapter XXIII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Henry IV, Part I*

With the first peep of day Henry awoke, and found the faithful Cuddie standing beside him with a portmanteau in his hand.

‘I hae been just putting your honour’s things in readiness again...
Chapter XXVII
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Old Ballad*

There was now a pause in the military movements on both sides. The government seemed contented to prevent the rebels advancing towards the capital, while the insurgents were intent...
Chapter XXXI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Burns*

Bothwell Lines*

When Morton had left...
Chapter XXXVI
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Lord Byron*

The Privy Council of Scotland, in whom the practice since the union of the crowns vested great judicial powers, as well as the general superintendence of the executive department, was met in the ancient dark Gothic...
Chapter 6
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

We will in all candour admit that Canon Borda’s jealousy was not entirely without foundation; on his return from France Fabrice had seemed, to the Countess’s eyes, like a handsome stranger whom she had once known very well. If he had spoken of love, she...
Chapter 17
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

The Count considered himself as out of office. Let me try to work out, he said to himself, how many horses we’ll be able to keep after my disgrace, because that’s what they’ll call my retirement. He calculated how he stood financially: his fortune had...
Chapter 24
Authors: Stendhal Stendhal
Published: December 2020

The Duchess organized a number of delightful receptions at the palace, which had never known such gaiety; never had she been as charming as she was that winter, and yet she was living in the midst of the most extreme danger; but also, during that...
Notes
Authors: Rousseau Jean-jacques
Published: December 2020

A Herodotus*relates that after the murder of the false Smerdis, the seven liberators of Persia gathered to deliberate the form of government they would give the state. Otanes vigorously urged a republic: a remarkable opinion for a satrap since, over and above...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

That sense of quantities, separate or mixed, was really, no doubt, what most prevailed at first for our slightly gasping American pair; it found utterance for them in their frequent remark to each other that they had no one but themselves to thank. It...
I
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Lord
Mark looked at her to-day in particular as if to wring from her a confession that she had originally done him injustice; and he was entitled to whatever there might be in it of advantage or merit that his intention really in a...
V
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Milly indeed at last couldn’t say; so that she had really for the time brought it along to the point so oddly marked for her by her visitor’s arrival, the truth that she was enviably strong. She carried this out, from that evening, for...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He was really, notwithstanding, to hear more from her of what she saw; and the very next occasion had for him still other surprises than that. He received from Mrs Lowder on the morning after his visit to Kate the telegraphic expression of a...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

She couldn’t have said what it was, in the conditions, that renewed the whole solemnity, but by the end of twenty minutes a kind of wistful hush had fallen upon them, as before something poignant in which her visitor also participated. That was nothing...
IV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The near Thursday, coming nearer and bringing Sir Luke Strett, brought also blessedly an abatement of other rigours. The weather changed, the stubborn storm yielded, and the autumn sunshine, baffled for many days, but now hot and almost vindictive, came into its own again...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He was to remain for several days under the deep impression of this inclusive passage, so luckily prolonged from moment to moment, but interrupted at its climax, as may be said, by the entrance of Aunt Maud, who found them standing together...
A Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

Sir,

It is not necessary, with courtly insincerity, to apologise to you for thus intruding on your precious time, not to profess that I think it an honour to discuss an important subject with a man whose literary abilities have raised him to notice in...
Chapter VIII Morality Undermined By Sexual Notions Of The Importance Of A Good Reputation
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

It has long since occurred to me that advice respecting behaviour, and all the various modes of preserving a good reputation, which have been so strenuously inculcated on the female world, were specious poisons, that incrusting morality eat away the substance. And, that this measuring...
Chapter XI Duty To Parents
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

There seems to be an indolent propensity in man to make prescription always take place of reason, and to place every duty on an arbitrary foundation. The rights of kings are deduced in a direct line from the King of kings; and that of parents...
Book II, Chapter IV
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

The effect produced by the duplicity of courts must be very great, when the vicissitudes, which had happened at Versailles, could not teach every person of common sense, that the moment was arrived, when subterfuge and treachery could no longer escape detection and punishment; and...
From Book V, Chapter II
Authors: Wollstonecraft Mary
Published: December 2020

On the first of October,* in consequence of these fresh machinations, a magnificent entertainment was given in the name of the king’s body-guards; but really by some of their principal officers, at the opera-house of the castle. The affectation of excluding the dragoons,...
The Yellow Face
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

In publishing these short sketches, based upon the numerous cases in* which my companion’s singular gifts have made me the listener to, and eventually the actor in some strange drama, it is only natural that I should dwell rather upon his successes...
A Conference of the Powers
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

The room was blue with the smoke of three pipes and a cigar. The leave-season had opened in...
Rimmon
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

(After Boer War)
‘Wilful-Missing’
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

(Deserters of the Boer War)
Chant-Pagan
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

(English Irregular, discharged)
A Recantation
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

1917

(to lyde of the music halls)
Mesopotamia
Authors: Kipling Rudyard
Published: December 2020

1917
The Good Bargain
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A Countryman once drove his cow to market and sold it for seven talers. On the way home he had to go past a pond, and from far off he could already hear the frogs croaking ‘eex, eex, eex, eex’. ‘Of course,’ he...
The Three Little Men in the Forest
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a man whose wife had died, and there was a woman whose husband had died. Now the man had a daughter, and so did the woman. The girls knew each other, and one day they went for a walk together and...
The Tale of the Fisherman and His Wife
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a fisherman and his wife who lived together in a piss-pot right next to the sea, and the fisherman went every day and fished: and he fished and he fished. One day he went and sat with his rod and gazed...
The Tale of the Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time a mouse, a bird, and a sausage fell in with one another and kept house together, living long and well and delightfully, at peace with themselves and prospering in their goods. It was the bird’s task to fly...
Mother Holle of the Snow
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a widow who had two daughters. The one was beautiful and hard-working, the other was ugly and idle. But she loved the ugly, idle girl better, because she was her own daughter, while the other girl had to do all the...
The Singing Bone
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

In a certain country a great lamentation was once raised on account of a wild boar who grubbed up the farmers’ fields, killed the cattle, and ripped up folks’ bodies with its tusks. The king promised a rich reward to anyone who could free...
The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a poor woman who bore a little son, and because he was born with a good-luck caul wrapped round him, it was foretold that in his fourteenth year he would have a king’s daughter as his wife. Now it...
Sensible Elsie
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a man who had a daughter, and she was called Sensible Elsie. When she had grown up, her father declared: ‘Time we found her a husband.’ ‘Yes,’ said her mother, ‘if only someone would turn up who would have her.’ At...
The Table-Lay, the Gold-Donkey, and the Club in the Sack
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Long years ago there was a tailor who had three sons, with only one goat between them. But because the goat provided all four of them with her milk, she had to be fed well and led out to pasture every day. The sons...
Mrs Fox’s Wedding
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

The First Tale

There was once an old fox with nine tails, who believed his wife wasn’t faithful to him so he wanted to lead her into temptation. He stretched out under the bench, stirred not a limb, and pretended that he was stone...
The Six Swans
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A king once went hunting in a great forest, and he went in such eager pursuit of one deer that none of his huntsmen could follow him. As evening drew near he stopped and looked about him, and saw that he was lost....
Snow-White
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window which had a frame of black ebony. And as she sewed at the window and glanced up at the...
The Golden Bird
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Long, long ago there was a king who had a beautiful pleasure garden behind his palace. In it there grew a tree which bore apples of gold. As the apples ripened they were counted, but on the very next day one was always missing....
The Singing, Soaring Lark
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a man who was about to go on a long journey, and on parting he asked his three daughters what he should bring them back as a present. The eldest wanted pearls, the second wanted diamonds, but the third...
The Young Giant
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A farmer had a son who was only the size of a thumb—and who didn’t get any bigger. And after some years he still hadn’t grown the least bit bigger, not even by the breadth of a hair. Once, when the farmer was...
The King of the Golden Mountain
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A merchant once had two children, a boy and a girl, who were both still little and couldn’t yet walk. Now he had two richly laden ships on the high seas, carrying his entire fortune, and while he was thinking they would gain...
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a woman who had three daughters. The eldest was called One-Eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead. The middle daughter was called Two-Eyes, because she had two eyes, just like everyone else; and the third...
The Shoes That Were Danced To Tatters
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a king who had twelve daughters, each more beautiful than the other. They slept together in one grand room, their beds standing side by side, and in the evenings, when they were in bed, the king would lock the door and...
Reviewing the Brides
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a young shepherd who dearly wanted to get married. Of three sisters he knew, each one was as beautiful as the other, so that he found it very hard to choose and couldn’t decide which he should favour. So he asked...
A Tall Tale From Diethmarsch
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

I’ll tell you something. I saw two roast chickens flying. They were flying fast and had turned their bellies towards Heaven, their backs towards Hell. And an anvil and a millstone were swimming across the Rhine, nice and slow and smooth, and a frog...
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

A poor widow once lived in a lonely little cottage; at the front she had a garden where there were two rose-trees growing; one bore white roses and the other red. And she had two children who were like the two rose-trees in...
The Messengers of Death
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

Long, long ago a giant was once travelling on the great highway when suddenly an unknown man leapt to meet him, crying: ‘Stop! Not a step further!’ ‘What?’ exclaimed the giant. ‘You wretch, I can squash you between finger and thumb—you want to bar...
Children’S Legends
Authors: Grim Jacob , Grim Wilhelm
Published: December 2020

There was once a mother who had three daughters: the eldest was ill-mannered and wicked; the second was a good deal better, though she too had her faults; but the youngest was a good, devout child. But their mother was so peculiar that it...
Chapter I a new neighbourhood, and a strange character
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

At the period when the episode just related occurred in the life of Mr Zachary Thorpe the younger—that is to say, in the year 1837—Baregrove Square was the farthest square from the city, and the nearest to the country, of any then existing in...
Chapter II mr blyth in his studio
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

It was wintry weather—not such a November winter’s day as some of us may remember looking at fourteen years ago, in Baregrove Square, but a brisk frosty morning in January. The country view visible from the back windows of Mr Blyth’s house, which stood...
Chapter V madonna’s misfortune
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

As the clown’s wife ended her narrative, but little was said in the way of comment on it by those who had listened to her. They were too much affected by what they had heard to speak, as yet, except briefly and in low...
Chapter III the search begun
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The street which Mat had chosen for his place of residence in London, was situated in a densely populous, and by no means respectable neighbourhood. In Kirk Street the men of the fustian-jacket and seal-skin cap clustered tumultuous round the lintels of the gin-shop...
Chapter V fate works, with mr blyth for an instrument
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

The great day of the year in Valentine’s house was always the day on which his pictures for the Royal Academy Exhibition were shown in their completed state to friends and admiring spectators, congregated in his own painting-room. His visitors represented almost every variety...
Chapter IX more discoveries
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

When Zack entered the room, and saw his strange friend, with legs crossed and hands in pockets, sitting gravely in the usual comer, on the floor, between a brandy-bottle on one side, and a guttering, unsnuffed candle on the other, he roared with laughter,...
Chapter XIII the search for arthur carr
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mr
Blyth was astir betimes on the morning after Mat and young Thorpe had visited him in the studio. Manfully determined not to give way an inch to his own continued reluctance to leave home, he packed up his brushes and colours, and started...
Chapter XVI the day of reckoning
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

On the forenoon of the day that followed Mat’s return to Kirk Street, the ordinarily dull aspect of Baregrove Square was enlivened by a procession of three handsome private carriages which stopped at Mr Thorpe’s door.

From each carriage there descended gentlemen of highly respectable...
Chapter XVII matthew grice’s revenge
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Neither looking to the right nor the left, neither knowing nor caring whither he went, Matthew Grice took the first turning he came to, which led him out of Baregrove Square. It happened to be the street communicating with the long suburban road, at...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The next day was splendid, as Felix had prophesied; if the winter had suddenly leaped into spring, the spring had for the moment as quickly leaped into summer. This was an observation made by a young girl who came out of a large square...
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It seemed to Robert Acton, after Eugenia had come to his house, that something had passed between them which made them a good deal more intimate. It was hard to say exactly what, except her telling him that she had taken her resolution with...
The Lion’s Mane
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional career should have come to me after my retirement; and be brought, as it were*, to...
Shoscombe Old Place*
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: December 2020

Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph.

‘It is glue,* Watson,’ said he. ‘Unquestionably it is glue. Have a look at these scattered objects in...
Chapter XI
Authors: Scott Walter
Published: December 2020

We must now request our readers to adjourn to the breakfast-parlour of...
Chapter IV: Studies of a grown Gentleman
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

When the tumult of this affair subsided, Mr. Tyrold and his family prepared to re-establish themselves at Etherington; and Mrs. Tyrold, the great inducement for the separation being over, was earnest to take home again the disinherited Camilla. Sir Hugh, whose pleasure in her...
Chapter VI: A Barn
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The first care of Camilla was to interest Sir Hugh in the misfortunes of the prisoner and his family; her next, to relate the invitation of Mrs. Arlbery, and to beg permission that she might wait upon the lady the next morning, with apologies...
Chapter VIII: An Answer
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Tyrold and Lavinia were at breakfast when Sir Hugh entered their parlour, the next morning. ‘Brother,’ he cried, ‘I have something of great importance to tell you, which it is very fit my sister should hear too; for which...
Chapter IX: An Explication
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The visit which Camilla had designed this morning to Mrs. Arlbery, she had been induced to relinquish through a speech made to her by Lionel. ‘You have done for yourself, now!’ said he, exultingly; ‘so you may be governed by that scare-crow, Miss Margland,...
Chapter X: A Panic
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Upon the ensuing Sunday, Edgar proposed that a party should be made to visit a new little cottage, which he had just fitted up. This was agreed to; and as it was not above a mile from the parish church, Sir Hugh ordered that...
Chapter IV: An internal Detection
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

When the chaise drove from Cleves Park, all attempt at any disguise was over with Camilla, who alive only to the horror of appearing ungrateful to Edgar, wept without controul; and, leaning back in the carriage, entreated Eugenia to dispense with all conversation.

Eugenia, filled...
Chapter VI: An Author’s Idea of Order
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Not a bosom of the Cleves party enjoyed much tranquillity this evening. Miss Margland, though to the Baronet she would not recede from her first assertions, strove vainly to palliate to herself the ill grace and evident dissatisfaction with which Edgar had met the...
Chapter VIII: Modern Ideas of Duty
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla now felt more permanently revived, because better satisfied with the rectitude of her conduct. She could no longer be accused of interfering between Edgar and Indiana; that affair would take its natural course, and, be it what it might, while absent from both...
Chapter IX: A Few Embarrassments
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. and Mrs. Tyrold returned to Etherington somewhat relieved in their spirits, though perplexed in their opinions. They had heard from Sir Hugh, that Edgar had decidedly disavowed any pretensions to Indiana, and had voluntarily retreated from Cleves, that his disavowal might risk no...
Chapter X: Modern Ideas of Life
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Grieved at this separation, Mr. Tyrold retired to his study; and his two daughters went to the apartment of Lionel, to comfort him under the weight of his misconduct.

They found him sincerely affected and repentant; yet eager to hear that his mother was actually...
Chapter XI: Modern Notions of Penitence
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

They set out with no other plan than to take a three hours’ stroll. Lionel led the way, and they journeyed through various pleasant lanes and meadows, till, about three miles distance from Etherington, upon ascending a beautiful little hill, they espied, fifty yards...
Chapter XIII: Attic Adventures
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. Tyrold, according to the system of recreation which he had settled with his wife, saw with satisfaction the pleasure with which Camilla began this new acquaintance, in the hope it would help to support her spirits during the interval of suspense with regard...
Chapter IV: The Danger of Disguise
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Edgar remained behind, almost petrified: he stood in the little building, looking after them, yet neither descending nor stirring, till one of the workmen advanced to fetch the ladder. He then hastily quitted the spot, mounted his horse, and galloped after the carriage; though...
Chapter V: Strictures on Deformity
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla went on to Etherington in deep distress; every ray of hope was chaced from her prospects, with a certainty more cruel, though less offensive, to her feelings, than the crush given them by Miss Margland. He cares not for me! she cried; he...
Chapter IX: Three Golden Maxims
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Lavinia, almost equally terrified, followed her sister; and Sir Sedley, burying all foppery in compassion and good nature, was foremost to accompany and assist. Camilla had no thought but to get instantly to Cleves; she considered not how; she only forced herself rapidly on,...
Chapter I: A Pursuer
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Notwithstanding the fears so justly excited from the mixt emotions and exertions of Sir Hugh, Mr. Tyrold had the happiness to see him fall into a tranquil sleep, from which he awoke without any return of pain; his night was quiet; the next day...
Chapter II: An Adviser
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The wish of Camilla was to lay this whole affair before her father; but she checked it, from an apprehension she might seem displaying her duty and confidence at the expence of those of her sister; whose motives for concealment were intentionally the most...
Chapter VII: A Recall
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

After two days passed with tolerable, though not natural cheerfulness at the Grove, Camilla was surprised by the arrival of the carriage of Sir Hugh with a short note from Eugenia.

To Miss Camilla Tyrold.

An incident has happened that overpowers me with sadness...
Chapter II: The Pantiles
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

A Servant tapt early at the door of Camilla, the next morning, to acquaint her that a lady, who called herself the person that had been so much obliged to her the preceding day, begged the honour of being admitted.

Camilla was sorry, after the...
Chapter XII: Traits of Eccentricity
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Thus passed the first eight days of the Tunbridge excursion, and another week succeeded without any varying event.

Mrs. Arlbery now, impelled with concern for Camilla, and resentment against Edgar, renewed the subject of her opinion and advice upon his character and conduct. ‘My dear...
Chapter XIII: Traits of Instruction
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The sixth and last week destined for the Tunbridge sojourn was begun, when Mrs. Arlbery once more took her fair young guest apart, and intreated her attention for one final half hour. The time, she said, was fast advancing in which they...
Chapter III: A Proposal of Marriage
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The increasing depression of Camilla, and the melancholy of her sympathising sisters, though still attributed to the adverse wind by the compass-watching baronet, escaped not the notice of Mr. Tyrold; who, alarmed for the peace of his daughter, determined to watch for the first...
Chapter IV: A Bull-Dog
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Sir Hugh called upon his other nieces to join him; purposing to stroll to the end of a lane which led to the London road.

Camilla accompanied the party in the most mournful silence. The assuming letter she had received; the interview she should have...
Chapter VIII: A Summons to Happiness
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla had but just set out from Cleves, when Sir Hugh, consulting his weather-cocks, which a new chain of ideas had made him forget to examine, saw that the wind was fair for the voyage of his nephew; and heard, upon inquiry, that the...
Chapter XI: Ease and Freedom
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Lynmere, at tea-time, returned from his ride, with a fixed plan of frightening or disgusting the baronet from the alliance; with Eugenia, herself, he imagined the attempt would be vain, for he did not conceive it possible any woman who had eyes could be...
Chapter XII: Dilemmas
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

While the baronet was pondering, in the most melancholy manner, upon this sudden and unexpected demand of absence in Camilla, the grim goddess of Envy took possession of the fine features of Indiana; who declared she was immured alive, while her cousin went everywhere....
Chapter I: A Way to make Friends
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

When Camilla appeared at the hall-door, a gentleman descended from the carriage of Mrs. Berlinton, with an air the most melancholy, and eyes bent to the earth, in the mournful bow with which he offered her his hand: though, when he had assisted her...
Chapter II: A Rage of Obliging
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla, from the instant she had perceived Edgar, had been in the utmost emotion, from doubt if his journey were to seek a reconciliation, or only to return her letters, and take a lasting farewell. Her first feeling at his sight urged her to...
Chapter IV: An Author’s Time-keeper
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. Westwyn, charmed to meet so many near relations of a long-valued friend, struck by the extraordinary beauty of Indiana, and by the sensible answers of the child, as he called Eugenia; as well as caught by the united loveliness of person...
Chapter V: An agreeable Hearing
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Early the next morning, Camilla went to the hotel, in the carriage of Mrs. Berlinton; eluding, though not without difficulty, the company of Mrs. Mittin. She found the party all in good spirits; Indiana, in particular, was completely elated; joined to the
Chapter XII: Juvenile Calculations
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Norfield, a lady whom circumstances had brought into some intimacy with Mrs. Berlinton upon her marriage, had endeavoured, from the first of her entrance into high life, to draw her into a love of play; not with an idea of doing...
Chapter I: A Water Party
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

The ball dress of Camilla was not yet ready, when she set out for the amusement of the morning. Melmond, upon this occasion, was forced into the excursion; his sister represented, so pathetically, the ungrateful ill-breeding of sequestering himself from a company of which...
Chapter V: A Self-dissection
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla remained in a state of accumulated distress, that knew not upon what object most to dwell: her father, shocked and irritated beyond the mild endurance of his character; her brother, wantonly sporting with his family’s honour, and his own morals and reputation; her...
Chapter VIII: A Hint for Debtors
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. Tyrold was well aware that to keep from Sir Hugh the affliction of Camilla, he must keep from him Camilla herself: for though her sighs she could suppress, and her tears disperse, her voice had lost its tone, her countenance its gaiety; her...
Chapter X: A Bride’s Resolves
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

With every allowance for a grief in which so deeply he shared, Mr. Tyrold felt nearly bowed down with sorrow, when he observed his own tenderness abate of its power to console, and his exhortations of their influence with his miserable daughter, whose complicated...
Chapter I: A Surprise
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Camilla strove to check her grief upon entering the carriage, in which Miss Margland had again the charge of the young party; but the interrogatory of her Father, Why will you leave me? was mentally repeated without ceasing. Ah! why, indeed! thought...
Chapter VIII: A Last Resource
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

To leave thus a spot where she had experienced such felicity; to see it naked and forlorn, despoiled of its hospitality, bereft of its master,—all its faithful old servants unrewarded dismissed; in disgrace to have re-entered its pales, and in terrour to quit them;—to fly...
Chapter XI: Means to still Agitation
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Declining all aid, Camilla continued in the same position, wrapt up, coveting the dark, and stifling sighs that were rising into sobs, till she heard a gentle tap at her door.

She started, but still hid herself: Mrs. Marl was already gone; Peggy answered the...
Chapter XII: Means to obtain a Boon
Authors: Burney Fanny
Published: December 2020

Mr. Tyrold was soon, by urgent claims, forced to leave them; and Camilla, with strong secret anxiety to know if Edgar had caused this blest meeting, led to a general explanation upon past events.

And now, to her utter amazement, she found that her...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov went to visit his aunts because their estate lay near the road he had to travel in order to join his regiment (which had already gone to the front), because they had very warmly asked him to come, and especially because he wanted...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

And so the evening passed and night came. The doctor went to bed. Nekhlyudov’s aunts had also retired; and he knew that Matryona Pavlovna was now with them in their bedroom, so that Katusha was sure to be alone in the maids’...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

After the last words of the prisoners had been heard, the form in which the questions were to be put to the jury was settled, which also took some time. At last the questions were formulated, and the president began the summing-up.

Before putting the...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Maslova got out the money, which she had also hidden in a roll, and passed the coupon to Korablyova. Korablyova, though she could not read, accepted it, trusting to Horoshavka, who knew everything, and who said that the slip of paper was...
Chapter XXXIV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On coming into the Law Courts, Nekhlyudov met the usher of yesterday in the corridor, and asked him where the prisoners who had been sentenced were kept, and to whom one had to apply for permission to visit them. The usher told him that...
Chapter XXXVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

On Sunday morning at five o’clock, when a whistle sounded in the corridor of the women’s ward of the prison, Korablyova, who was already awake, roused Maslova.

‘Oh, dear! a convict!’ thought Maslova with horror, involuntarily breathing in the air that had become terribly noisome...
Chapter LIX
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special definite qualities: that he is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, and so on. Men are not like that. We may say of a man that he is more often...
Chapter II
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov woke at nine o’clock in the morning. As soon as the young office clerk who attended on ‘the master’ heard Nekhlyudov stirring, he brought him his boots, shining as they had never shone before, and some cold, beautifully clear spring water, and informed...
Chapter VI
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Again striking his head against the tops of both doors, Nekhlyudov went out into the street, where the white and pink boys were waiting for him. A few newcomers were standing with them. Among the women, several of whom had babies in their arms,...
Chapter VII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

From the crowd assembled in front of the house of the village elder came the sound of voices; but as soon as Nekhlyudov came up the talking ceased, and all the peasants took off their caps just as those in Kusminsky had done. The...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

‘Terrible’, said Nekhlyudov, as he went out into the waiting-room with the advocate, who was arranging the papers in his portfolio. ‘In a matter which is perfectly clear they attach importance only to the form, and decline to interfere. Terrible!’

‘The case was...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

Nekhlyudov would have left Petersburg that same evening, but he had promised Mariette to see her at the theatre; and, though he knew that he ought not to keep that promise, he deceived himself into the belief that it would be wrong to break...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Tolstoy Leo
Published: December 2020

In spite of his non-success at the prison, Nekhlyudov, still in the same vigorous, energetic frame of mind, went to the governor’s office to see if the original of the document had arrived for Maslova. It had not arrived, so Nekhlyudov went back to...
The Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

A tavern is the rendezvous, the exchange, the staple of good fellows. I have heard my great-grandfather tell, how his great-great-grandfather should say, that it was an old proverb when his great-grandfather was a child, that ‘it was a good wind that blew a man...
The Author’s Account of Himself
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

I am of this mind with Homer, that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad, and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on; so the traveller that stragleth from his owne country is in...
Christmas
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing but the hair of his good, gray, old head and beard left? Well. I will have that, seeing I cannot have more of him.

Hue and
Cry
After
Christmas*
Traits of Indian Character
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

I appeal to any white man if ever he entered Logan’s cabin hungry, and he gave him not to eat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.

Speech of an
Indian
Chief*

There is something in the character...
Rural Life in England
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Cowper*

The stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis....
Chapter 3
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

Three days later the formalities were completed, and the Préfecture accepted Florent on the recommendation of Monsieur Verlaque almost without question, as a quite straightforward replacement. Gavard had wanted to accompany them, and did so. When he found himself alone with Florent on the...
Chapter III A Love Affair of Long Ago
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

I thought that probably my connection with Cranford would cease after Miss Jenkyns’s death; at least, that it would have to be kept up by correspondence, which bears much the same relation to personal intercourse that the books of dried plants I sometimes see...
Chapter XI Samuel Brown
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The next morning I met Lady Glenmire and Miss Pole, setting out on a long walk to find some old woman who was famous in the neighbourhood for her skill in knitting woollen stockings. Miss Pole said to me, with a smile half kindly...
Chapter XVI ‘Peace to Cranford’
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was not surprising that Mr. Peter became such a favourite at Cranford. The ladies vied with each other who should admire him most; and no wonder; for their quiet lives were astonishingly stirred up by the arrival from India—especially as the person arrived...
VII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He was, however, by no means so much in earnest as this might seem to indicate; and, indeed, he was more than anything else amused with the whole situation. He was not in the least in a state of tension or of vigilance, with...
XVII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Penniman told Catherine that evening—the two ladies were sitting in the back parlour—that she had had an interview with Morris Townsend; and on receiving this news the girl started with a sense of pain. She felt angry for the moment; it was almost...
XIX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was for reasons connected with this determination that on the morrow he sought a few words of private conversation with Mrs Penniman. He sent for her to the library, and he there informed her that he hoped very much that, as regarded this...
XXIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

If Morris Townsend was not to be included in this journey, no more was Mrs Penniman, who would have been thankful for an invitation, but who (to do her justice) bore her disappointment in a perfectly lady-like manner. ‘I should enjoy seeing the works...
XXXII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Our story has hitherto moved with very short steps, but as it approaches its termination it must take a long stride. As time went on, it might have appeared to the Doctor that his daughter’s account of her rupture with Morris Townsend, mere bravado...
XXXIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was her habit to remain in town very late in the summer; she preferred the house in Washington Square to any other habitation whatever, and it was under protest that she used to go to the seaside for the month of August. At...
Chapter III The Black Spot
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

About noon I stopped at the captain’s door with some cooling drinks and medicines. He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he seemed both weak and excited.

‘Jim,’ he said, ‘you’re the only one here that’s worth...
Chapter IX Powder and Arms
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

The
Hispaniola lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us. At last, however, we got alongside, and were met and saluted...