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Chapter IV
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

The clock of St. John’s church struck three, and the clock of St. John’s church struck four; and the fifth hour sounded from St. John’s church; and the clock of St. John’s was sounding six. And Gerard had not yet returned.

The time for a...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

Behind the printing office in the alley at the door of which we left Sybil, was a yard which led to some premises that had once been used as a work-shop, but were now generally unoccupied. In a rather spacious chamber over which was...
Chapter X
Authors: Disraeli Benjamin
Published: December 2020

About noon of this day there was a great stir in Mowbray. It was generally whispered about that the Liberator at the head of the Hell-cats and all others who chose to accompany them was going to pay a visit to Mr. Trafford’s settlement,...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

No sooner was her answer dispatched, than Mrs. Dashwood indulged herself in the pleasure of announcing to her son-in-law* and his wife that she was provided with an house, and should incommode them no longer than till every thing were ready for...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure.* She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world. In...
Chapter XXI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The Palmers returned to Cleveland the next day, and the two families at Barton were again left to entertain each other. But this did not last long; Elinor had hardly got their last visitors out of her head, had hardly done wondering at Charlotte’s...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

However small Elinor’s general dependance on Lucy’s veracity might be, it was impossible for her on serious reflection to suspect it in the present case, where no temptation could be answerable to the folly of inventing a falsehood of such a description. What Lucy...
Chapter X
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

When the particulars of this conversation were repeated by Miss Dashwood to her sister, as they very soon were, the effect on her was not entirely such as the former had hoped to see. Not that Marianne appeared to distrust the truth of any...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mrs. Palmer was so well at the end of a fortnight, that her mother felt it no longer necessary to give up the whole of her time to her; and contenting herself with visiting her once or twice a day, returned from...
Chapter VI
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

One other short call in Harley-street, in which Elinor received her brother’s congratulations on their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense,* and on Colonel Brandon’s being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two, completed the intercourse of...
La Débâcle
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

‘My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.’ The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Débâcle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Débâcle has been described as a ‘seminal’ work for all modern depictions of war.
Chapter Two
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At about eight o’clock, the sun dispersed the heavy clouds, and a pure, burning August Sunday shone over Mulhouse, in the middle of the vast, fertile plain. From parishes all around came the sound of church bells, their rapid peals of notes ringing out in...
Chapter Two
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

In the small hours on Floing Plateau, in the thick fog, Gaude the bugler sounded the reveille with all his might. The air was so drenched, though, that the joyous call was muffled. The company’s men, who’d been unable to summon up the courage even...
Chapter Five
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At ten o’clock on the Plateau d’Algérie, Beaudoin’s company was still lying in the field of cabbages where it had been all morning. The crossfire from the batteries up on Hattoy Hill and on the Iges peninsula, which had grown fiercer than ever, had just...
The Staveley Family
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The next two months passed by without any events which deserve our special notice, unless it be that Mr Joseph Mason and Mr Dockwrath had a meeting in the room of Mr Matthew Round, in Bedford Row. Mr Dockwrath struggled hard to effect this...
Commerce
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lucius Mason was still staying at Noningsby when Mr Furnival made his visit to Sir Peregrine, and on that afternoon he received a note from his mother. Indeed, there were three notes passed between them on that afternoon, for he wrote an answer to...
The Angel of Light Under a Cloud
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning, according to appointment, the judge visited Felix Graham in his room. It was only the second occasion on which he had done so since the accident, and he was therefore more inclined to regard him as an invalid than those...
Mrs Furnival’s Journey to Hamworth
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Peregrine got back to The Cleeve he learned that there was a lady with his mother. He had by this time partially succeeded in reasoning himself out of his despondency. He had learned at any rate that his proposition to marry into the...
How Am I to Bear It?
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the first day’s work was over in the court, Lady Mason and Mrs Orme kept their seats till the greater part of the crowd had dispersed, and the two young men, Lucius Mason and Peregrine, remained with them. Mr Aram also remained, giving...
John Kenneby’s Doom
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the evening but one after the trial was over Mr Moulder entertained a few friends to supper at his apartments in Great St Helen’s, and it was generally understood that in doing so he intended to celebrate the triumph of Lady Mason. Through...
The Last of the Lawyers
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I should have done my duty by you, Mr Mason, which those men have not, and you would at this moment have been the owner of Orley Farm.’

It will easily be known that these words were spoken by Mr Dockwrath, and that they were...
Farewell
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘That letter you got this morning, my dear, was it not from Lady Mason?’

‘It was from Lady Mason, father; they go on Thursday.’

‘On Thursday; so soon as that.’ And then Sir Peregrine, who had asked the question, remained silent for a while. The...
Chapter IV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,—I desired and waited it in silence. It tarried, however:...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and in the afternoon, gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed to dine with him. When his sprain was well...
Chapter IV
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

The Library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sybil—if Sybil she were, was seated snugly enough in an easy chair at the chimney-corner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet; or rather, a broad-brimmed gipsy hat, tied down...
Chapter I
Authors: Brontë Charlotte
Published: December 2020

Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked, ‘What am I to do?’

But the answer my mind gave—‘Leave Thornfield at once’—was so prompt, so...
Chapter 2
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

At ten o’clock next morning Nana was still asleep. She lived on the second floor of a large new house in the Boulevard Haussmann whose owner rented it out to single ladies before the paint was even dry. A rich Moscow businessman who had...
Chapter I
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Miss
Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

But Fred did not go to Stone Court the next day, for reasons that were quite...
Chapter XLVIII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Dorothea’s...
Chapter LV
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

If youth is the season...
Chapter LXVI
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his practice did him in counteracting his personal cares. He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research...
Chapter LXXII
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Dorothea’s impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a bribe,...
Book V.Terror the Order of the Day.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: December 2020

Chapter I. Rushing Down.

We are now, therefore, got to that black precipitous Abyss; whither all things have long been tending; where, having now arrived on the giddy verge, they hurl down, in confused ruin; headlong, pellmell, down, down;—till Sansculottism have consummated itself; and...
A Shifting Reef
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

The year 1866 was marked by a strange event, an unexplained and inexplicable occurrence that doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Without mentioning the rumours which agitated the denizens of the ports and whipped up the public’s imagination on every continent, seafaring men felt...
Ned Land
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Captain Farragut was a fine sailor, and worthy of the frigate he commanded. He and his ship were one. He was its soul. He did not allow the slightest doubt about the cetacean to enter his mind, nor did he permit any discussion on...
An Unknown Species of Whale
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

Although I was surprised by my unexpected fall, I retained nonetheless a clear memory of my sensations.

At first I was plunged down to a depth of about 20 feet. I am a strong swimmer, although not claiming to be as good as Byron or...
The Man of the Sea
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

It was the commander of the vessel.

Land got up quickly. The steward, almost strangled, staggered out on a sign from his master; but such was the captain’s authority on board, that the man betrayed no indication of what was surely his resentment against the...
An Excursion over the Plains
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

This compartment was both the arsenal and the cloakroom of the Nautilus. A dozen diving suits were hanging on the walls, ready for the excursionists.

When he saw them, Ned was visibly reluctant to put one on.

‘But, my good Ned,’ I told him,...
A New Invitation from Captain Nemo
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

At noon on 28 February,* when the Nautilus surfaced at latitude 9° 4´ N, it was in view of some land lying eight miles to the west. My eye was drawn to a range of mountains about 2,000 feet high,...
From Cape Horn to the Amazon
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

How I reached the platform I cannot say. Perhaps the Canadian dragged me there. But I was breathing, I was gulping down the invigorating sea air. Beside me, my two companions were drunk on the fresh air. Wretches who are deprived of food for...
Squid
Authors: Verne Jules
Published: December 2020

For several days the Nautilus kept well away from the American coast. It clearly did not wish to tarry in the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean. Nevertheless, its keel would have had plenty of water, for the average depth of these...
I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I address these lines—written in India—to my relatives in England. My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle.* The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in...
IV
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I beg it to be understood that what I write here about my cousin (unless some necessity should arise for making it public) is for the information of the family only. Herncastle has said nothing that can justify me in speaking to our commanding officer....
Chapter XIII
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I found my lady in her own sitting-room. She started and looked annoyed when I mentioned that Sergeant Cuff wished to speak to her.

‘Must I see him?’ she asked. ‘Can’t you represent me, Gabriel?’

I felt at a loss to understand this, and...
Chapter II
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Mr Godfrey followed the announcement of his name—as Mr Godfrey does everything else—exactly at the right time. He was not so close on the servant’s heels as to startle us. He was not so far behind as to cause us the double inconvenience of...
Chapter VI
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

(1.) ‘Miss
Clack presents her compliments to Mr Franklin Blake; and, in sending him the fifth chapter of her humble narrative, begs to say that she feels quite unequal to enlarge as she could wish on an event so awful, under...
Chapter I
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

In the spring of the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine I was wandering in the East, and had then recently altered the travelling plans which I had laid out some months before, and which I had communicated to my lawyer and my banker in...
Chapter V
Authors: Collins Wilkie
Published: December 2020

Having told me the name of Mr Candy’s assistant, Betteredge appeared to think that we had wasted enough of our time on an insignificant subject. He resumed the perusal of Rosanna Spearman’s letter.

On my side, I sat at the window, waiting until he had...
Introduction
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

When a man raises himself from the lowest condition in society to the highest, mankind pay him the tribute of their admiration; when he accomplishes this elevation by native energy, guided by prudence and wisdom, their admiration is increased; but when his course, onward...
Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Experience at Covey’s summed up—First six months severer than the second—Preliminaries to the change—Reasons for narrating the circumstances—Scene in the treading yard—Author taken ill—Unusual brutality of Covey—Author escapes to St Michael’s—The pursuit—Suffering in the woods—Driven back again to Covey’s—Bearing of ‘Master Thomas’—The slave is never...
The Last Flogging.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

A sleepless night—Return to Covey’s—Pursued by Covey—The chase defeated—Vengeance postponed—Musings in the woods—The alternative—Deplorable spectacle—Night in the woods—Expected attack—Accosted by Sandy, a friend, not a hunter—Sandy’s hospitality—The ‘ash cake’ supper—The interview with Sandy—His advice—Sandy a conjurer as well as a christian—The magic root—Strange meeting with...
Twenty-One Months in Great Britain.
Authors: Douglass Frederick
Published: December 2020

Good arising out of unpropitious events—Denied cabin passage—Proscription turned to good account—The Hutchinson Family—The mob on board the Cambria—Happy introduction to the British public—Letter addressed to William Lloyd Garrison—Time and labors while abroad—Freedom purchased—Mrs Henry Richardson—Free papers—Abolitionists displeased with the ransom—How the author’s energies were...
Pride and Prejudice
Authors: Austen Jane , Lupton Christina
Published: December 2020

‘He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention’. Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements bring heartache and scandal, but eventually lead to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. It’s almost impossible to open Pride and Prejudice without feeling the pressure of so many readers having known and loved this novel already. Will you fail the test - or will you love it too? As a story that celebrates more unflinchingly than any of Austen’s other novels the happy meeting-of-true-minds, and one that has attracted the most fans over the centuries, Pride and Prejudice sets up an echo chamber of good feelings in which romantic love and the love of reading amplify each other.
CHAPTER I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is...
Chapter I
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country!* In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from...
Chapter IX
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning—half frost, half drizzle—and temporary brooks crossed our path, gurgling from the uplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low, exactly the humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things.

We entered...
Chapter XII
Authors: Brontë Emily
Published: December 2020

Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride to join her cousin.

It was a close, sultry day; devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and...
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...
Chapter VII.
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,...
Chapter VIII.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

‘Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and...
Chapter VII.
Authors: Shelley Mary
Published: December 2020

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it modelled my feelings, and allowed me to be calculating and calm, at...
Chapter 1
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

A Gentleman and Lady travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex Coast which lies between Hastings and East-Bourne,* being induced by Business to quit the high road, and attempt a very rough Lane, were overturned in toiling up its...
Chapter XI: Hunting a Very Big Boar
Authors: Hope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The terrible temptation which was assailing me will now be understood. I could so force Michael’s hand that he must kill the king. I was in a position to bid him defiance and tighten my grasp on the crown—not for its own sake, but...
The Dairy
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

The dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for with a sort of calenture* in hot and dusty streets—such coolness, such purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of wooden vessels perpetually bathed in...
The Next Morning
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

Arthur did not pass a sleepless night; he slept long and well. For sleep comes to the perplexed—if the perplexed are only weary enough. But at seven he rang his bell and astonished Pym by declaring he was going to get up, and must...
The Hours of Suspense
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

On Sunday morning, when the church bells in Stoniton were ringing for morning service, Bartle Massey re-entered Adam’s room, after a short absence, and said,

“Adam, here’s a visitor wants to see you.”

Adam was seated with his back towards the door, but he started...
Epilogue
Authors: Eliot George
Published: December 2020

It is near the end of June, in 1807. The workshops have been shut up half an hour or more in Adam Bede’s timber-yard, which used to be Jonathan Burge’s, and the mellow evening light is falling on the pleasant house with the buff walls...
Chapter XV: An Encounter and its Consequences
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

That day was rainy like its predecessor; but towards evening it began to clear up a little, and the next morning was fair and promising. I was out on the hill with the reapers. A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature...
Chapter XXXIV: Concealment
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Evening. Breakfast passed well over, I was calm and cool throughout. I answered composedly all enquiries respecting my health; and whatever was unusual in my look or manner, was generally attributed to the trifling indisposition that had occasioned my early retirement last night. But...
Chapter XL: A Misadventure
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Jan. 10th, 1827. While writing the above, yesterday evening, I sat in the drawing-room. Mr. Huntingdon was present, but, as I thought, asleep on the sofa behind me. He had risen however, unknown to me, and, actuated by some base spirit of curiosity, been...
VIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

As she was devoted to romantic effects Lord Warburton ventured to express a hope that she would come some day and see his house, a very curious old place. He extracted from Mrs Touchett a promise that she bring her niece to Lockleigh, and...
XXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs Touchett, before arriving in Paris, had fixed the day for her departure and by the middle of February had begun to travel southward. She interrupted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of...
XXXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Isabel, when she strolled in the Cascine with her lover, felt no impulse to tell him how little he was approved at Palazzo Crescentini. The discreet opposition offered to her marriage by her aunt and her cousin made on the whole no great impression...
XXXVIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

He went to see Madame Merle on the morrow, and to his surprise she let him off rather easily. But she made him promise that he would stop there till something should have been decided. Mr Osmond had had higher expectations; it was very...
XLIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored—bored, in her own phrase, to extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she struggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an unaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town, where...
LIV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Isabel’s arrival at Gardencourt on this second occasion was even quieter than it had been on the first. Ralph Touchett kept but a small household, and to the new servants Mrs Osmond was a stranger; so that instead of being conducted to her own...
On The Geological Succession of Organic Beings
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

On the slow and successive appearance of new species—On their different rates of change—Species once lost do not reappear—Groups of species follow the same general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species—On Extinction—On simultaneous changes in the forms of life throughout the...
The Catalans
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

About a hundred paces from the spot where the two friends sat, with their looks fixed on the distance, and their ears attentive, whilst they imbibed the sparkling wine of La Malgue, behind a bare, and torn, and weather-worn wall, was the small village...
The Inn of Pont du Gard
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Such of my readers as have made a pedestrian excursion to the south of France* may have noticed, midway between the town of Beaucaire and the village of Bellegarde, a small roadside inn, from the front of which hung, creaking and flapping...
The House of Morrel and Son
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Anyone who had left Marseilles a few years previously well acquainted with the interior of Morrel’s house, and had returned at this date, would have found a great change.

Instead of that air of life, comfort, and happiness that characterises a flourishing and prosperous business,—instead...
The Awakening
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

When Franz came to his senses, the objects around him seemed like an extension of his dream. He thought himself in a sepulchre, into which a ray of the sun scarcely penetrated (and then as a look of pity).

He stretched forth his hand...
The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Dinner was waiting when Franz, after a ten minutes’ drive, arrived at the Hôtel de Londres. Albert had told him that he should not return so soon, and Franz sat down without him. Maître Pastrini, who was accustomed to see them dine together, inquired...
The Breakfast
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

‘And what sort of people do you expect to breakfast?’ said Beauchamp.

‘A gentleman, and a diplomat.’

‘Then we shall have to wait two hours for the gentleman, and three for the diplomat. I shall come back for dessert; keep me some strawberries, coffee,...
Major Cavalcanti
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Both the count and Baptistin were telling the truth when they announced to Morcerf the proposed visit of the major, which had served Monte Cristo as a pretext for declining the invitation which he had received from Albert.

Seven o’clock had just struck and M....
M. Noirtier de Villefort
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

We will now turn to what was passing in the house of the procureur du roi after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just reported. M. de Villefort...
The Progress of M. Cavalcanti the Younger
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Meanwhile M. Cavalcanti the elder had returned to his service, not in the army of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, but at the gaming-table of the baths of Lucca, of which he was one of the most assiduous courtiers. He had spent every...
The Journey
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Monte
Cristo uttered a joyful exclamation on seeing the young men together.

‘Ah, ah!’ said he, ‘I hope all is over, explained and settled.’

‘Yes,’ said Beauchamp; ‘the absurd reports have died away, and should they be renewed, I would be the first to oppose...
The Confession
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the same moment M. de Villefort’s voice was heard calling from his study, ‘What is the matter?’ Morrel consulted Noirtier’s look, who had recovered his self-command, and with a glance indicated the closet where once before, under somewhat similar circumstances, he had hidden....
The Serpent
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

Valentine was alone; two other clocks, slower than that of Saint-Philippe du Roule, struck the hour of midnight from different directions; and, excepting the rumbling of a few carriages, all was silent. Then Valentine’s attention was engrossed by the clock in her room, which...
The Departure
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

The recent events formed the theme of conversation throughout all Paris. Emmanuel and his wife spoke with natural astonishment in their little apartment in the Rue-Meslay of the three successive sudden and most unexpected catastrophes of Morcerf, Danglars, and Villefort. Maximilian, who was paying...
Peppino
Authors: Dumas Alexandre
Published: December 2020

At the same time that the steamer disappeared behind Cape Morgiou, a man, travelling post on the road from Florence to Rome, had just passed the little town of Aquapendente. He was travelling fast enough to make a great deal of ground without becoming...
Part II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Cousin Holman gave me the weekly county newspaper to read aloud to her, while she mended stockings out of a high piled-up basket, Phillis helping her mother. I read and read, unregardful of the words I was uttering, thinking of all manner of other...
First Lessons in the Art of Instruction
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

As we drove along, my spirits revived again, and I turned, with pleasure, to the contemplation of the new life upon which I was entering; but, though it was not far past the middle of September, the heavy clouds and strong north-easterly wind combined to...
The Substitution
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

Next Sunday was one of the gloomiest of April days, a day of thick, dark clouds, and heavy showers. None of the Murrays were disposed to attend church in the afternoon, excepting Rosalie: she was bent upon going as usual; so she ordered the...
Confessions
Authors: Brontë Anne
Published: December 2020

As I am in the way of confessions, I may as well acknowledge that, about this time, I paid more attention to dress than ever I had done before . . . this is not saying much, for hitherto I had been a little...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—De gustibus non est disputandum;1—that is, there is no disputing against HOBBY-HORSES ; and, for my part, I seldom do; nor could I with any sort of grace, had I been an enemy to them at the bottom; for happening, at certain...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Upon looking into my mother's marriage settlement, in order to satisfy myself and reader in a point necessary to be clear'd up, before we could proceed any further in this history;—! had the good fortune to pop upon the very thing I wanted before...
Chapter XVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Though my father travelled homewards, as I told you, in none of the best of moods,---pshaw-ing and pish-ing all the way down, yet he had the complaisance to keep the worst part of the story still to himself;—which was the resolution he had taken...
Chapter VII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Whilst my uncle Toby was whistling Lillabullero to my father,—Dr. Slop was stamping, and cursing and damning at Obadiah at a most dreadful rate; it would have done your heart good, and cured you, Sir, for ever, of...
Chapter X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

In the case of knots, by which, in the first place, I would not be understood to mean slip-knots, because in the course of my life and opinions, my opinions concerning them will come in more properly when I mention...
Chapter XXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

From the first moment I sat down to write my life for the amusement of the world, and my opinions for its instruction, has a cloud insensibly been gathering over my father.——A tide of little evils and distresses has been setting in against him....
Chapter XXXVII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

"Nihil me pœnitet hujus nasi,"1 quoth Pamphagus;—that is, "My nose has been the making of me."——"Nec est cur pœniteat,"2 replies Codes; that is, "How the duce should such a nose fail?"

The doctrine, you see, was laid down by ...
Chapter X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Is it not a shame to make two chapters of what passed in going down one pair of stairs? for we are got no farther yet than to the first landing, and there are fifteen more steps down to the bottom; and for aught I...
Chapter XXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

ALBEIT, gentle reader, I have lusted earnestly, and endeavoured carefully (according to the measure of such slender skill as God has vouchsafed me, and as convenient leisure from other occasions of needful profit and healthful pastime have permitted) that these little books, which I here...
CHAPTER XXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

—CAN you tell me, quoth Phutatorius, speaking to Gastripheres who sat next to him,—for one would not apply to a surgeon in so foolish an affair,—can you tell me, Gastripheres, what is best to take out the fire?—Ask ...
Chapter XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——BuT to return to my mother.

My uncle Toby's opinion, Madam, "that there could be no harm in Cornelius Gallus, the Roman praetor's lying with his wife;" ——or rather the last word of that opinion,—(for it was all my...
Chapter XXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As many pictures as have been given of my father, how like him soever in different airs and attitudes,—not one, or all of them, can ever help the reader to any kind of preconception of how my father would think, speak, or act, upon any...
CHAPTER XXX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——No,—I think I have advanced nothing, replied my father, making answer to a question which Yorick had taken the liberty to put to him,—I have advanced nothing in the Tristra-ptedia, but what is as clear as any one proposition in ...
CHAPTER XXXIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

JUST as the corporal was humming, to begin—in waddled Dr. Slop.—'Tis not two-pence matter—the corporal shall go on in the next chapter, let who will come in.——

Well, my good doctor, cried my father sportively, for the transitions of his passions were unaccountably sudden,—and...
Chapter IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——MY uncle Toby went to his bureau,—put his purse into his breeches pocket, and having ordered the corporal to go early in the morning for a physician,—he went to bed, and fell asleep.
Chapter X
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

The sun looked bright the morning after, to every eye in the village but Le Fever's and his afflicted son's; the hand of death press'd heavy upon his eye-lids, and hardly could the wheel at the cistern turn round its circle,—when my...
CHAPTER XIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Le Fever got up to the Imperial army just time enough to try what metal his sword was made of, at the defeat of the Turks before Belgrade;1 but a series of unmerited mischances had pursued him from that...
CHAPTER XIX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

After my father had debated the affair of the breeches with my mother,—he consulted Albertus Rubenius1 upon it; and Albertus Rubenius used my father ten times worse in the consultation (if possible) than even my father had used my...
CHAPTER XXI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

If the reader has not a clear conception of the rood and the half of ground which lay at the bottom of my uncle Toby's kitchen garden, and which was the scene of so many of his delicious hours,—the fault is not...
CHAPTER XXX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Of the few legitimate sons of Adam, whose breasts never felt what the sting of love was,—(maintaining first, all mysogynists to be bastards)—the greatest heroes of ancient and modern story have carried off amongst them, nine parts in ten of the honour;...
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

To conceive this right,—call for pen and ink—here's paper ready to your hand.——Sit down, Sir, paint her to your own mind——as like your mistress as you can——as unlike your wife as your conscience will let you—'tis all one to me ——please but your own fancy...
CHAPTER III
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

It is a great inconvenience to a man in a haste, that there are three distinct roads between Calais and Paris, in behalf of which there is so much to be said by the several deputies from the towns which lie along them, that...
CHAPTER XII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Was I in a condition to stipulate with death, as I am this moment with my apothecary, how and where I will take his glister1 ——I should certainly declare against submitting to it before my friends; and therefore, I never seriously think...
CHAPTER XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——But she did not know I was under a vow not to shave my beard till I got to Paris;—yet I hate to make mysteries of nothing;——'tis the cold cautiousness of one of those little souls from which Lessius1 (lib.13....
CHAPTER XXIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——My dear mother, quoth the novice, coming a little to herself, ——there are two certain words, which I have been told will force any horse, or ass, or mule, to go up a hill whether he will or no; be he never so...
CHAPTER XXXII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——'TWAS by a poor ass who had just turned in with a couple of large panniers upon his back, to collect eleemosunary turnip tops and cabbage leaves; and stood dubious, with his two forefeet on the inside of the threshold, and with his two hinder...
Chapter XV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

IT is a great pity——but 'tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end—provided there is a sufficient wick standing out; if there is not—there's an end of the affair; and if there...
Chapter XVIII
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I THINK, an' please your honour, quoth Trim, the fortifications are quite destroyed and the bason is upon a level with the mole——I think so too; replied my uncle Toby with a sigh half suppress'd——but step into the parlour, Trim, for the stipulation——it lies upon...
Chapter XXVI
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

THERE is nothing shews the characters of my father and my uncle Toby, in a more entertaining light, than their different manner of deportment, under the same accident for I call not love a misfortune, from a persuasion, that a man's heart is...
Chapter XXX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

——But your honour's two razors shall be new set—and I will get my Montero cap furbish'd up, and put on poor lieutenant Le Fever's regimental coat, which your honour gave me to wear for his sake—and as soon as your honour is clean shaved—and has...
CHAPTER I
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

I CALL all the powers of time and chance, which severally check us in our careers in this world, to bear me witness, that I could never yet get fairly to my uncle Toby's amours, till this very moment, that my mother's curiosity,...
CHAPTER IX
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

Now, for what the world thinks of that ejaculation——I would not give a groat.
CHAPTER XIV
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

As I never had any intention of beginning the Digression, I am making all this preparation for, till I come to the 15th chapter——I have this chapter to put to whatever use I think proper——I have twenty this moment ready for it——I could write my...
Chapter the Nineteenth
Authors: Sterne Laurence
Published: December 2020

NOW there are such an infinitude of notes, tunes, cants, chants, airs, looks, and accents with which the word fiddlestick may be pronounced in all such causes as this, every one of 'em impressing a sense and meaning as different from the other,...
The Sphinx without a Secret
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

One afternoon I was sitting outside the Café de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, when I heard some one call my...
The Birthday of the Infanta
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

It was the birthday of the Infanta. She was just twelve years of age, and the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace.

Although she was a real Princess and the Infanta of Spain, she had only one birthday every year, just...
The Disciple
Authors: Wilde Oscar
Published: December 2020

When Narcissus* died the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears, and the Oreads* came weeping through the woodland that they might sing to the pool and give it...

And when...
Leonardo da Vinci
Authors: Pater Walter
Published: December 2020

In Vasari’s life of Leonardo da Vinci as we now read it there are some variations from the first edition.* There, the painter who has fixed the outward type of Christ for succeeding centuries was a bold speculator, holding lightly by other...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Emma and Harriet had been walking together one morning, and, in Emma’s opinion, been talking enough of Mr. Elton for that day. She could not think that Harriet’s solace or her own sins required more; and she was therefore industriously getting rid of the...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as Mrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview, such she appeared whenever they met again,—self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant, and...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The wretchedness of a scheme to Box Hill was in Emma’s thoughts all the evening. How it might be considered by the rest of the party, she could not tell. They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from what she had brought out!—she had then been only daring to hope for a little respite of suffering;—she was now in an exquisite flutter of happiness, and such happiness moreover as she...
Chapter V
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The young people were pleased with each other from the first. On each side there was much to attract, and their acquaintance soon promised as early an intimacy as good manners would warrant. Miss Crawford’s beauty did her no disservice with the Miss Bertrams....
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Mr. Rushworth was at the door to receive his fair lady, and the whole party were welcomed by him with due attention. In the drawing-room they were met with equal cordiality by the mother, and Miss Bertram had all the distinction with...
Chapter XIV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Fanny seemed nearer being right than Edmund had supposed. The business of finding a play that would suit every body, proved to be no trifle; and the carpenter had received his orders and taken his measurements, had suggested and removed at least two sets...
Chapter VIII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

William’s desire of seeing Fanny dance, made more than a momentary impression on his uncle. The hope of an opportunity, which Sir Thomas had then given, was not given to be thought of no more. He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a...
Chapter XV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

As Fanny could not doubt that her answer was conveying a real disappointment, she was rather in expectation, from her knowledge of Miss Crawford’s temper, of being urged again; and though no second letter arrived for the space of a week, she had still the...
Chapter I
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was...
Chapter IV
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

With more than usual eagerness did Catherine hasten to the Pump-room* the next day, secure within herself of seeing Mr. Tilney there before the morning were over, and ready to meet him with a smile:—but no smile was demanded—Mr. Tilney did not...
Chapter III
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

With a mind thus full of happiness, Catherine was hardly aware that two or three days had passed away, without her seeing Isabella for more than a few minutes together. She began first to be sensible of this, and to sigh for her conversation,...
Lady Susan
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Letter 1

Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. Vernon.

langford, December

My dear Brother

I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted, of spending some weeks with you at Churchill, and therefore if quite convenient...
Chapter II
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The acquaintance, thus oddly begun, was neither short nor unimportant. For a whole fortnight the Travellors were fixed at Willingden; Mr. P.’s sprain proving too serious for him to move sooner.—He had fallen into very good hands. The Hey woods were a thoroughly respectable...
Chapter VII
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

The popularity of the Parkers brought them some visitors the very next morning;—amongst them, Sir Edward Denham and his Sister, who having been at Sanditon H— drove on to pay their Compliments; and the duty of Letter-writing being accomplished, Charlotte was settled with Mrs....
Chapter IX
Authors: Austen Jane
Published: December 2020

Anne recollected with pleasure the next morning her promise of going to Mrs. Smith; meaning that it should engage her from home at the time when Mr. Elliot would be most likely to call; for to avoid Mr. Elliot was almost a first object....

She...
The Third Epoch
Authors: Collins William Wilkie
Published: December 2020

I

I open a new page. I advance my narrative by one week.

The history of the interval which I thus pass over must remain unrecorded. My heart turns faint,* my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it. This...
Chapter VII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The next day, for Emma, was funereal. Everything appeared to her shrouded in a black mist that hovered uncertainly over the surface of things, and grief plunged deep into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in an abandoned chateau. She sank into that...
Chapter XIII
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

The very instant he reached home, Rodolphe sat down at his desk, under the mounted stag’s head displayed on the wall. But once he had his pen in his hand he could not think what to say, so, leaning on his elbows, he began to...
Chapter VI
Authors: Flaubert Gustave
Published: December 2020

On those occasions when he travelled to Yonville to see Emma, Léon had often dined at the pharmacist’s; he therefore felt obliged, out of politeness, to return his hospitality.

‘Delighted!’ Homais had replied; ‘it’s high time, in any case, that I got back into the...