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L’Envoy
Authors: Irving Washington
Published: December 2020

Chaucer’s
Belle Dame sans...
Chapter 6
Authors: Zola Émile
Published: December 2020

A week later, Florent thought that at last he was going to be able to take action. An outburst of public discontent provided an opportunity for unleashing his insurrectionary forces on Paris. The Corps Législatif, divided on a law on senatorial annuities,*...
Chapter VI Poor Peter
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Poor Peter’s career lay before him rather pleasantly mapped out by kind friends, but Bonus Bernardus non videt omnia, in this map too. He was to win honours at Shrewsbury School, and carry them thick to Cambridge, and after that, a living...
Chapter VII Visiting
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

One morning, as Miss Matty and I sat at our work—it was before twelve o’clock, and Miss Matty had not yet changed the cap with yellow ribbons, that had been Miss Jenkyns’s best, and which Miss Matty was now wearing out in private, putting...
Chapter XII Engaged to be Married!
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Was the ‘poor Peter’ of Cranford the Aga Jenkyns of Chunderabad-dad, or was he not? As somebody says, that was the question.*

In my own home, whenever people had nothing else to do, they blamed me for want of discretion. Indiscretion was my bugbear...
Chapter XIV Friends in Need
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was an example to me, and I fancy it might be to many others, to see how immediately Miss Matty set about the retrenchment which she knew to be right under her altered circumstances. While she went down to speak to Martha, and...
II
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

When the child was about ten years old, he invited his sister, Mrs Penniman, to come and stay with him. The Miss Slopers had been but two in number, and both of them had married early in life. The younger, Mrs Almond by name,...
III
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

As a child she had promised to be tall, but when she was sixteen she ceased to grow, and her stature, like most other points in her composition, was not unusual. She was strong, however, and properly made, and, fortunately, her health was excellent. It...
VI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Penniman even took for granted at times that other people had as much imagination as herself; so that when, half an hour later, her brother came in, she addressed him quite on this principle.

‘He has just been here, Austin; it’s such a pity...
IX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was a regular custom with the family in Washington Square to go and spend Sunday evening at Mrs Almond’s. On the Sunday after the conversation I have just narrated, this custom was not intermitted; and on this occasion, towards the middle of the...
XIII
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It may be thought the Doctor was too positive, and Mrs Almond intimated as much. But as he said, he had his impression; it seemed to him sufficient, and he had no wish to modify it. He had passed his life in estimating people...
XVI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

They had of course immediately spoken of Catherine. ‘Did she send me a message, or—or anything?’ Morris asked. He appeared to think that she might have sent him a trinket or a lock of her hair.

Mrs Penniman was slightly embarrassed, for she had not...
XXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Dr
Sloper very soon imparted his conviction to Mrs Almond, in the same terms in which he had announced it to himself. ‘She’s going to stick, by Jove! she’s going to stick.’

‘Do you mean that she is going to marry him?’ Mrs Almond inquired....
XXX
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

It was almost her last outbreak of passive grief; at least, she never indulged in another that the world knew anything about. But this one was long and terrible; she flung herself on the sofa and gave herself up to her misery. She hardly...
XXXI
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Though she had forced herself to be calm, she preferred practising this virtue in private, and she forbore to show herself at tea—a repast which, on Sundays, at six o’clock, took the place of dinner. Dr Sloper and his sister sat face to face,...
XXXV
Authors: James Henry
Published: December 2020

Her refreshed attention to this gentleman had not those limits of which Catherine desired, for herself, to be conscious; it lasted long enough to enable her to wait another week before speaking of him again. It was under the same circumstances that she once...
Chapter XII Council of War
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

There was a great rush of feet across the deck. I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the foc’s’le; and, slipping in an instant outside my barrel, I dived behind the fore-sail, made a double towards the stern, and came out...
Chapter XXII How My Sea Adventure Began
Authors: Stevenson Robert Louis
Published: December 2020

There was no return of the mutineers—not so much as another shot out of the woods. They had ‘got their rations for that day,’ as the captain put it, and we had the place to ourselves and a quiet time to overhaul the wounded...
Chapter II JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

5 May.—I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach to such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great...
Chapter VI MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

24 July. Whitby.*—Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent, in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a...
Chapter IX Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

‘Buda-Pesth, 24 August.

‘My dearest Lucy,—

‘I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then...
Chapter XI LUCY WESTENRA’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

12 September.—How good they all are to me! I quite love that dear Dr Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right, for I feel...
Chapter XVI DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark, with occasional gleams of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky. We all kept somehow...
Chapter XVIII DR SEWARD’S DIARY
Authors: Stoker Bram
Published: December 2020

30 September.—I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned...
III THE WILD WOOD
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. But whenever the Mole mentioned his...
IV MR. BADGER
Authors: Grahame Kenneth
Published: December 2020

They waited patiently for what seemed a very long time, stamping in the snow to keep their feet warm. At last they heard the sound of slow shuffling footsteps approaching the door from the inside. It seemed, as the Mole remarked to the Rat,...
The Lucky Sixpence
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

Monsieur
Tertullien had just reached his fiftieth year; his hair was still admirably black, his business successful, and his influence growing daily, when he had the misfortune to lose his wife.

This was a terrible blow. It would have been sheer perversity to imagine a...
The Bath
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

Around his fortieth year, on a rainy evening when he stayed home, alone and ruminating, Joseph Gardar decided he would get married. Why had he taken this sudden decision? He hardly knew. Was he in love? No. Was he ruined, or ill? No. How...
The First Emotion
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

He was an old man, rather bowed, very mild, very silent, very clean, who had never, ever, thought about anything.

His life ran more regularly than clockwork, for even clocks can sometimes stop or go wrong. He had never known the eagerness of being a...
Night
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

I Love the night with a passion. I love it as one loves one’s country, or one’s mistress, with an instinctive, deep, invincible love. I love it with all my senses, with my eyes that can see it, with my sense of smell...
Don Juan’s Crowning Love-Affair
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

Innocence is the devil’s choicest dish.

I

‘Is he still alive, then, the old rogue?’

‘Dear God! Still alive, yes!—and by God’s command, Madame—I added, remembering her piety—of the parish of Sainte-Clotilde, the parish of dukes!—The King is dead! Long live the King!...
Perseus and Andromeda
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

or The Happiest of the Three

I

O Monotonous and ill-favoured country!…

The solitary island, done out in yellow-grey dunes; under meandering skies; and everywhere the sea blocking the view, and the cries of hope and of melancholy.

The sea! From whatever angle you look...
52 and 53 Orfila
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

To one side of a wide road planted uniformly with trees, whose close-cropped foliage made each of them resemble a sugarloaf on a frail stem, was a flat, yellowish wall, with two identical wings at either end. The paint on the entrance gate was...
The Presentiment
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

Attende, homo, quid fuisti ante ortum et quod eris usque ad occasum. Profecto fuit quod non eras. Postea, de vili materia factus, in utero matris de sanguine menstruali nutritus, tunica tua fuit pellis secundina. Deinde, in vilissimo panno involutus, progressus es ad nos, - sic...
The Desire To Be a Man
Authors: Romer Stephen
Published: December 2020

… that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world: This was a Man!

Midnight was tolling from the Bourse,* under a sky filled with stars. At this period, the citizens were still constrained by military law,...
Part Two
Authors: Sade The Marquis De
Published: December 2020

Once I had descended onto the plain I could no longer see the bell-tower. The forest was my only guide, and I began to think that the distance I had to cover, and which I was yet to discover, was far greater than I...
Chapter I Lucy
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It lay low down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes,* bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at...
Chapter IV In the First Page of the ‘Times’
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robert Audley was supposed to be a barrister. As a barrister was his name inscribed in the Law List;* as a barrister, he had chambers in Fig-tree Court, Temple; as a barrister he had eaten the allotted numbers of dinners, which form...
Chapter X Missing
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

When Robert Audley awoke he was surprised to see the fishing-rod lying on the bank, the line trailing idly in the water, and the float bobbing harmlessly up and down in the afternoon sunshine. The young barrister was a long time stretching his arms...
Chapter III Little Georgey Leaves His Old Home
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

‘I am going to take your grandson away with me, Mr Maldon,’ Robert said, gravely, as Mrs Plowson retired with her young charge.

The old man’s drunken imbecility was slowly clearing away, like the heavy mists of a London fog, through which the feeble...
Chapter V Clara
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robert Audley found the driver asleep upon the box of his lumbering vehicle. He had been entertained with beer of so hard a nature, as to induce temporary strangulation in the daring imbiber thereof, and he was very glad to welcome the return of...
Chapter VIII So Far and No Farther
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robert left Audley the next morning by an early train, and reached Shoreditch a little after nine o’clock. He did not return to his chambers, but called a cab and drove straight to Crescent Villas, West Brompton. He knew that he should fail in...
Chapter X Hidden in the Grave
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Upon his return from Wildernsea, Robert Audley found a letter from his cousin, Alicia, awaiting him at his chambers.

‘Papa is much better,’ the young lady wrote, ‘and is very anxious to have you at the Court. For some inexplicable reason, my step-mother has taken...
Chapter I The Red Light in the Sky
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The door between my lady’s dressing-room and the bed-chamber in which Sir Michael lay, had been left open. The baronet slept peacefully, his noble face plainly visible in the subdued lamplight. His breathing was low and regular, his lips curved in a half smile—a...
Chapter II The Bearer of the Tidings
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was very late the next morning when Lady Audley emerged from her dressing-room, exquisitely dressed in a morning costume of delicate muslin, elaborate laces, and embroideries; but with a very pale face, and with half-circles of purple shadow under her eyes. She accounted...
Chapter IV The Hush that Succeeds the Tempest
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Robert Audley followed his uncle into the vestibule after Sir Michael had spoken those few quiet words which sounded the death-knell of his hope and love. Heaven knows how much the young man had feared the coming of this day. It had come; and...
Chapter V Dr Mosgrave’s Advice
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

My lady slept. Through that long winter night she slept soundly. Criminals have often so slept their last sleep upon earth; and have been found in the grey morning slumbering peacefully by the gaoler who came to wake them.

The game had been played and...
Chapter VIII That Which the Dying Man Had to Tell
Authors: Braddon Mary Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Heaven knows whither Mr Audley’s thoughts might have wandered had he not been startled by a sudden movement of the sick man, who raised himself up in his bed, and called to his mother.

The old woman woke up with a jerk, and turned sleepily...
Chapter 4 george vavasor, the wild man
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It will no doubt be understood that George Vavasor did not roam about in the woods unshorn, or wear leathern trappings and sandals, like Robinson Crusoe, instead of coats and trousers. His wildness was of another kind. Indeed, I don’t know that he was...
Chapter 7 aunt greenow
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Kate
Vavasor remained only three days in London before she started for Yarmouth; and during those three days she was not much with her cousin. ‘I’m my aunt’s, body and soul, for the next six weeks,’ she said to Alice, when she did come...
Chapter 9 the rivals
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There had been a pretence of fishing, but no fish had been caught. It was soon found that such an amusement would interfere with the ladies’ dresses, and the affairs had become too serious to allow of any trivial interruption. ‘I really think, Mr...
Chapter 22 dandy and flirt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Alice reached the Matching Road Station about three o’clock in the afternoon without adventure, and immediately on the stopping of the train became aware that all trouble was off her own hands. A servant in livery came to the open window, and touching his...
Chapter 25 in which much of the history of the pallisers is told
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

At the end of ten days Alice found herself quite comfortable at Matching Priory. She had now promised to remain there till the second week of December, at which time she was to go to Vavasor Hall,—there to meet her father and Kate. The...
Chapter 33 monkshade
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When the first of the new year came round Lady Glencora was not keeping her appointment at Lady Monk’s house. She went to Gatherum Castle, and let us hope that she enjoyed the magnificent Christmas hospitality of the Duke; but when the time came...
Chapter 40 mrs greenow’s little dinner in the close
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

How deep and cunning are the wiles of love! When that Saturday morning arrived not a word was said by Cheesacre to his rival as to his plans for the day. ‘You’ll take the dog-cart in?’ Captain Bellfield had asked overnight. ‘I don’t know...
Chapter 62 going abroad
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

One morning, early in May, a full week before Alice’s visit to the bankers’ at Charing Cross, a servant in grand livery, six feet high, got out of a cab at the door in Queen Anne Street, and sent up a note for Miss...
‘It is Impossible’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Down at Matching Lady Mary’s life was very dull after Mrs Finn had left her. She had a horse to ride, but had no one to ride with her. She had a carriage in which to be driven, but no one to be driven...
One Of The Results Of The Derby
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning at about eleven Silverbridge and his brother were at breakfast at an hotel in Jermyn Street. They had slept in Carlton Terrace, but Lord Gerald had done so without the knowledge of the Duke. Lord Silverbridge, as he was putting...
Frank Tregear Wants a Friend
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Six or seven weeks had passed since Tregear had made his communication to the Duke, and during that time he had heard not a word about the girl he loved. He knew, indeed, that she was at The Horns, and probably had reason to...
Major Tifto And The Duke
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I beg your pardon, Silverbridge,’ said the Major, entering the room, ‘but I was looking for Longstaff.’

‘He isn’t here,’ said Silverbridge, who did not wish to be interrupted by his racing friend.

‘Your father, I believe?’ said Tifto. He was red in the face...
Miss Boncassen’s River-Party. No. 2
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Silverbridge made up his mind that as he could not dance with Miss Boncassen he would not dance at all. He was not angry at being rejected, and when he saw her stand up with Dolly Longstaff he felt no jealousy. She had...
The Party at Custins Is Broken Up
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The message was given to Lady Mary after so solemn a fashion that she was sure some important communication was to be made to her. Her mind at that moment had been filled with her new friend’s story. She felt that she required some...
Polpenno
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Polwenning, the seat of Mr Tregear, Frank’s father, was close to the borough of Polpenno,—so close that the gates of the grounds opened into the town. As Silverbridge had told his father, many of the Tregear family had sat for the borough. Then there...
The News Is Sent to Matching
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

There were nine days of this work, during which Lord Silverbridge became very popular and made many speeches. Tregear did not win half so many hearts, or recommend himself so thoroughly to the political predilections of the borough;—but nevertheless he was returned. It would...
The Meeting at ‘The Bobtailed Fox’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It was now the middle of December, and matters were not comfortable in the Runnymede country. The Major with much pluck had carried on his operations in opposition to the wishes of the resident members of the hunt. The owners of coverts had protested,...
‘Bone of my bone’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

How is it now between you and her?’ That was the question which the Duke put to his son as soon as he had closed the door of the study. Lady Mabel had just been dismissed from the front door on her journey, and...
‘He is such a beast’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Silverbridge remained hunting in the Brake country till a few days before the meeting of Parliament, and had he been left to himself he would have had another week in the country and might probably have overstayed the opening day; but he had...
The Major’s Story
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

By the end of March Isabel was in Paris, whither she had forbidden her lover to follow her. Silverbridge was therefore reduced to the shifts of a bachelor’s life, in which his friends seemed to think that he ought now to take special delight....
On Deportment
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Tregear had come up to town at the end of February. He remained in London, with an understanding that he was not to see Lady Mary again till the Easter holidays. He was then to pay a visit to Matching, and to enter...
The Second Wedding
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

November is not altogether an hymeneal month, but it was not till November that Lady Mary Palliser became the wife of Frank Tregear. It was postponed a little, perhaps, in order that the Silverbridges,—as they were now called,—might be present. The Silverbridges, who were...
Reviews and Responses
Authors: Darwin Charles
Published: December 2020

My first meeting with Mr. Darwin was in 1839, in Trafalgar Square. I was walking with an officer who had been his shipmate for a short time in the Beagle seven years before, but who had not, I believe, since met him. I...
Chapter 6 Lord Brentford’s Dinner
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

No;—in such case as that,—should he resolve upon taking the advice of his old friend Mr Low, Phineas Finn must make up his mind never to see Lady Laura Standish again! And he was in love with Lady Laura Standish;—and, for aught he knew, Lady...
Chapter 24 The Willingford Bull
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas left London by a night mail train on Easter Sunday, and found himself at the Willingford Bull* about half an hour after midnight. Lord Chiltern was up and waiting for him, and supper was on the table. The Willingford Bull was...
Chapter 26 ‘The first speech’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the following morning, which was Saturday, Phineas was early at the police-office at Westminster looking after the interests of his landlord; but there had been a considerable number of men taken up during the row, and our friend could hardly procure that attention...
Chapter 49 The Duellists meet
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Chiltern arrived, and Phineas was a little nervous as to their meeting. He came back from shooting on the day in question, and was told by the servant that Lord Chiltern was in the house. Phineas went into the billiard-room in his knickerbockers,...
Chapter 58 Rara Avis in Terris
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘Come and see the country and judge for yourself,’ said Phineas.

‘I should like nothing better,’ said Mr Monk.

‘It has often seemed to me that men in Parliament know less about Ireland than they do of the interior of Africa,’ said Phineas.
Chapter 64 The Horns
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

While looking for Violet Effingham, Phineas encountered Madame Goesler, among a crowd of people who were watching the adventurous embarkation of certain daring spirits in a pleasure-boat. There were watermen there in the Duke’s livery, ready to take such spirits down to Richmond or...
Chapter 66 Victrix
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mr Monk’s holiday programme allowed him a week at Killaloe, and from thence he was to go to Limerick, and from Limerick to Dublin, in order that, at both places, he might be entertained at a public dinner and make a speech about tenant-right....
Chapter I
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties* which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that surprises the modern traveller.

A hundred years ago, its appearance was that...
Chapter II
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

In due time that evening, Mrs. Mason collected ‘her young ladies’ for an inspection of their appearance before proceeding to the shire-hall. Her eager, important, hurried manner of summoning them was not unlike that of a hen clucking her chickens together; and to judge...
Chapter III
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Mr. Bellingham attended afternoon service at St Nicholas’ church the next Sunday. His thoughts had been far more occupied by Ruth than hers by him, although his appearance upon the scene of her life was more an event to her than it was to...
Chapter V
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

The June of 18— had been glorious and sunny, and full of flowers; but July came in with pouring rain, and it was a gloomy time for travellers and for weather-bound tourists, who lounged away the days in touching up sketches, dressing flies,*...
Chapter VII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Ruth put away every thought of the past or future; everything that could unfit her for the duties of the present. Exceeding love supplied the place of experience. She never left the room after the first day; she forced herself to eat, because his...
Chapter XII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

Miss Benson continued in an undecided state of mind for the two next days; but on the third, as they sat at breakfast, she began to speak to her brother.

‘That young creature’s name is Ruth Hilton.’

‘Indeed! how did you find it out?’

‘From...
Chapter XX
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

It was no wonder that the lookers-on were perplexed as to the state of affairs between Jemima and Mr. Farquhar, for they too were sorely puzzled themselves at the sort of relationship between them. Was it love, or was it not? that was the...
Chapter XXXII
Authors: Gaskell Elizabeth
Published: December 2020

If Jemima allowed herself now and then to imagine that one good would result from the discovery of Richard’s delinquency, in the return of her father and Mr. Benson to something of their old understanding and their old intercourse—if this hope fluttered through her...
IX
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Nearly everything came down untouched. Eating and drinking had been in progress almost all day on the course, and Esther had finished washing up before nine, and had laid the cloth in the servants’ hall for supper. But if little was eaten upstairs, plenty...
XI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

For days nothing was talked of but the ball—how this man had danced, the bad taste of this woman’s dress, and the possibility of a marriage. The ball had brought amusement to all, to Esther it had brought happiness. Her happiness was now visible...
XIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

When she arrived at Victoria* it was raining. She picked up her skirt, and as she stepped across a puddle a wild and watery wind swept up the wet streets, catching her full in the face.

She had left her box in the cloak-room,...
XXI
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

It was the beginning of August, and London yawned in every street; the dust blew unslaked, and a little cloud curled and disappeared over the crest of the hill at Hyde Park Corner; the streets and St George’s Place looked out with blind, white...
XXV
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

But when the spring came Esther put Fred off till the autumn, pleading as an excuse that Miss Rice had not been very well lately, and that she did not like to leave her.

It was one of those long and pallid evenings at the...
XXXIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

The crowd shouted. She looked where the others looked, but saw only the burning blue with the white stand marked upon it. It was crowded like the deck of a sinking vessel, and Esther wondered at the excitement, the cause of which was hidden...
XXXIV
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Things went well enough as long as her savings lasted. When her money was gone Bill returned to the race-course in the hope of doing a bit of welshing.* Soon after he was ‘wanted’ by the police; they escaped to Belgium, and...
XXXIX
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

‘Sarah, you must make an effort and try to dress yourself.’

‘Oh, I do feel that bad, I wish I was dead!’

‘You must not give way like that; let me help you put on your stockings.’

Sarah looked at Esther. ‘You’re very good...
XLII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

Esther kept William within doors during the winter months. If his health did not improve it got no worse, and she had begun to hope that the breakage of the blood-vessel did not mean lung disease. But the harsh winds of spring did not...
XLVIII
Authors: Moore George
Published: December 2020

All the winter the north wind roamed on the hills; many trees fell in the park, and at the end of February Woodview seemed barer and more desolate than ever; broken branches littered the roadway, and the tall trunks showed their wounds. The women...
Harrington Hall
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Phineas, on his first arrival in London, found a few of his old friends, men who were still delayed by business though the Session was over. He arrived on the 10th of August, which may be considered as the great day of the annual...
The Address
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Before the 11th of November, the day on which Parliament was to meet, the whole country was in a hubbub. Consternation and triumph were perhaps equally predominant, and equally strong. There were those who declared that now at length was Great Britain to be...
An Editor’S Wrath
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On that Sunday evening in London Mr Low was successful in finding the Vice-Chancellor, and the great judge smiled and nodded, listened to the story, and acknowledged that the circumstances were very peculiar. He thought that an injunction to restrain the publication might be...
Some Passages in the Life of Mr Emilius
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The writer of this chronicle is not allowed to imagine that any of his readers have read the wonderful and vexatious adventures of Lady Eustace, a lady of good birth, of high rank, and of large fortune, who, but a year or two since,...
Lord Fawn’S Evidence
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

A crowd of witnesses were heard on the second day after Mr Chaffanbrass had done with Mr Bouncer, but none of them were of much interest to the public. The three doctors were examined as to the state of the dead man’s head...
The Verdict
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

On the Wednesday morning Phineas Finn was again brought into the Court, and again placed in the dock. There was a general feeling that he should not again have been so disgraced; but he was still a prisoner under a charge of murder, and...
Phineas Finn’S Success
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

When Phineas Finn had been about a week at Matching, he received a letter, or rather a very short note, from the Prime Minister, asking him to go up to London; and on the same day the Duke of Omnium spoke to him on...
Chapter 1 ferdinand lopez
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as...
Chapter 13 mr wharton complains
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

‘I think you have betrayed me.’ This accusation was brought by Mr Wharton against Mrs Roby in that lady’s drawing-room, and was occasioned by a report that had been made to the old lawyer by his daughter. He was very angry and almost...
Chapter 15 arthur fletcher
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It may, I think, be a question whether the two old men acted wisely in having Arthur Fletcher at Wharton Hall when Emily arrived there. The story of his love for Miss Wharton, as far as it had as yet gone, must be shortly...
Chapter 22 st james’s park
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Towards the end of September Everett Wharton and Ferdinand Lopez were in town together, and as no one else was in town,—so at least they both professed to say,—they saw a good deal of each other. Lopez, as we know, had spent a portion...
Chapter 23 surrender
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The letter given in the previous chapter was received at Wharton Hall late in the evening of the day on which it was written, and was discussed among all the Whartons that night. Of course there was no doubt as to the father’s going...
Chapter 26 the end of the honeymoon
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Mrs
Lopez had begged her father to address his reply to her at Florence, where,—as she explained to him,—they expected to find themselves within a fortnight from the date of her writing. They had reached the lake about the end of November, when the...
Chapter 34 the silverbridge election
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

About a month after this affair with the runaway horse Arthur Fletcher went to Greshambury, preparatory to his final sojourn at Silverbridge, for the week previous to his election. Greshambury, the seat of Francis Gresham, Esq., who was a great man in...
Chapter 40 ‘come and try it’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The husband was almost jovial when he came home just in time to take his young wife to dine with their father. ‘I’ve had such a day in the city,’ he said, laughing. ‘I wish I could introduce you to my friend, Mr Sextus...
Chapter 43 kauri gum
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The reader will no doubt think that Ferdinand Lopez must have been very hardly driven indeed by circumstances before he would have made such an appeal to the Duke as that given in the last chapter. But it was not want of money only...
Chapter 47 as for love!
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The time spent by Mrs Lopez at Dovercourt was by no means one of complete happiness. Her husband did not come down very frequently, alleging that his business kept him in town, and that the journey was too long. When he did come he...
Chapter 71 the ladies at longbarns doubt
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

It came at last to be decided among them that when old Mr Wharton returned to town,—and he had now been at Wharton longer than he had ever been known to remain there before,—Emily should still remain in Herefordshire, and that at some period...
Chapter 77 the duchess in manchester square
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The Duke said not a word to his wife as to this new proposition, and when she asked him what tidings their old friend had brought as to the state of affairs, he almost told a fib in his anxiety to escape from her...
Chapter 7 Mr Burke’s Speeches
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lucy Morris had been told by Lady Fawn that,—in point of fact, that, being a governess, she ought to give over falling in love with Frank Greystock, and she had not liked it. Lady Fawn no doubt had used words less abrupt,—had probably used...
Chapter 8 The Conquering Hero Comes
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

The reader will perhaps remember that when Lizzie Eustace was told that her aunt was down-stairs Frank Greystock was with her, and that he promised to return on the following day to hear the result of the interview. Had Lady Linlithgow not...
Chapter 9 Showing what the Miss Fawns said, and what Mrs Hittaway thought
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

In the way of duty Lord Fawn was a Hercules,—not, indeed, ‘climbing trees in the Hesperides,’* but achieving enterprises which, to other men, if not impossible, would have been so unpalatable as to have been put aside as impracticable. On the Monday...
Chapter 19 ‘As my Brother’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lord Fawn had promised, as he put Lizzie into her carriage, that he would come to her soon,—but he did not come soon. A fortnight passed and he did not show himself. Nothing further had been done in the matter of the diamonds, except...
Chapter 34 Lady Linlithgow at Home
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lucy, in her letter to her lover, had distinctly asked whether she might tell Lady Linlithgow the name of her future husband, but had received no reply when she was taken to Bruton Street. The parting at Richmond was very painful, and Lady Fawn...
Chapter 41 ‘Likewise the bears in couples agree’
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Frank Greystock stayed till the following Monday at Portray, but could not be induced to hunt on the Saturday, on which day the other sporting men and women went to the meet. He could not, he said, trust to that traitor MacFarlane, and he...
Chapter 73 Lizzie’s Last Lover
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Lizzie’s interview with the lawyer took place on the Wednesday afternoon, and, on her return to Hertford Street, she found a note from Mrs Carbuncle. ‘I have made arrangements for dining out to-day, and shall not return till after ten. I will...
Chapter 78 The Trial
Authors: Trollope Anthony
Published: December 2020

Having told the tale of Lucy Morris to the end, the chronicler must now go back to the more important persons of this history. It was still early in April when Lizzie Eustace was taken down to Scotland by her cousin, and the trial...
Chapter VII The Key of the Garden
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

Two days after this, when Mary opened her eyes she sat upright in bed immediately, and called to Martha.

“Look at the moor! Look at the moor!”

The rain-storm had ended and the grey mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by...
Chapter X Dickon
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut...
Chapter XVI “I Won’t!” said Mary
Authors: Hodgson Burnett Frances
Published: December 2020

They found a great deal to do that morning, and Mary was late in returning to the house and was also in such a hurry to get back to her work that she quite forgot Colin until the last moment.

“Tell Colin that I can’t...
Home
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

It was a Sunday evening* in London, gloomy, close and stale. Maddening church bells of all degrees of dissonance, sharp and flat, cracked and clear, fast and slow, made the brick and mortar echoes hideous. Melancholy streets in a penitential garb of...
Family Affairs
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

As the city clocks struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs. Clennam was wheeled by Jeremiah Flintwinch of the cut-down aspect, to her tall cabinet. When she had unlocked and opened it, and had settled herself at its desk, Jeremiah withdrew—as it might be, to...
Mrs. Flintwinch has Another Dream
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The debilitated old house in the city, wrapped in its mantle of soot, and leaning heavily on the crutches that had partaken of its decay and worn out with it, never knew a healthy or a cheerful interval, let what would betide. If the...
Nobody’s Weakness
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The time being come for the renewal of his acquaintance with the Meagles family, Clennam, pursuant to contract made between himself and Mr. Meagles, within the precincts of Bleeding Heart Yard, turned his face on a certain Saturday towards Twickenham,* where Mr....
The Father of the Marshalsea in Two or Three Relations
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The brothers William and Frederick Dorrit, walking up and down the College-yard—of course on the aristocratic or Pump side,* for the Father made it a point of his state to be chary of going among his children on the Poor side, except...
Machinery in Motion
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Meagles bestirred himself with such prompt activity in the matter of the negociation with Daniel Doyce which Clennam had entrusted to him, that he soon brought it into business train, and called on Clennam at nine o’clock one morning to make...
Fortune-Telling
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Little Dorrit received a call that same evening from Mr. Plornish, who, having intimated that he wished to speak to her, privately, in a series of coughs so very noticeable as to favor the idea that her father, as regarded her seamstress occupation, was...
Something Right Somewhere
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

To be in the halting state of Mr. Henry Gowan; to have left one of two Powers in disgust, to want the necessary qualifications for finding promotion with another, and to be loitering moodily about on neutral ground, cursing both; is to be in...
In Which a Great Patriotic Conference is Holden
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The famous name of Merdle became, every day, more famous in the land. Nobody knew that the Merdle of such high renown had ever done any good to any one, alive or dead, or to any earthly thing; nobody knew that he had any...
The Progress of an Epidemic
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignity and rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or...
No Just Cause or Impediment why These two Persons Should not be Joined Together
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Mr. Dorrit, on being informed by his elder daughter that she had accepted matrimonial overtures from Mr. Sparkler, to whom she had plighted her troth, received the communication, at once with great dignity and with a large display of parental pride; his dignity dilating...
A Castle in the Air
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Manifold are the cares of wealth and state. Mr. Dorrit’s satisfaction in remembering that it had not been necessary for him to announce himself to Clennam and Co. or to make an allusion to his having ever had any knowledge of the intrusive person...
A Plea in the Marshalsea
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

Haggard anxiety and remorse are bad companions to be barred up with. Brooding all day, and resting very little indeed at night, will not arm a man against misery. Next morning, Clennam felt that his health was sinking, as his spirits had already sunk,...
Closed
Authors: Dickens Charles
Published: December 2020

The sun had set, and the streets were dim in the dusty twilight, when the figure so long unused to them hurried on its way. In the immediate neighbourhood of the old house, it attracted little attention, for there were only a few straggling...
Letter II: Alan Fairford to Darsie Latimer
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Negatur, my dear Darsie—you have logic and law enough to understand the word of denial. I deny your conclusion. The premises I admit, namely, that when I mounted on that infernal hack, I might utter what seemed a sigh, although I deemed it lost...
Letter III: Darsie Latimer to Alan Fairford
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Shepherd’s Bush

I Have received thine absurd and most conceited epistle. It is well for thee that, Lovelace and Belford like,* we came under a convention to pardon every species of liberty which we may take with each other; since, upon my...
Letter VII: The Same to the Same [In continuation]
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Little Benjie, with the pony, having been sent off on the left side of the brook, the Quaker and I sauntered on, like the cavalry and infantry of the same army occupying the opposite banks of a river, and observing the same line of...
Letter IX: Alexander Fairford, W.S., to Mr Darsie Latimer
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Dear Mr Darsie,

Having been your factor loco tutoris, or rather, I ought to say, in correctness, (since I acted without warrant from the Court,) your negotiorum gestor,’ that connexion occasions my present writing. And although having rendered an...
Chapter V: Narrative of Alan Fairford, Continued
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

Two or three days, perhaps more, perhaps less, had been spent in bed, where I was carefully attended, and treated, I believe, with as much judgment as the case required, and I was at length allowed to quit my bed, though not the chamber....
Conclusion: By Dr Dryasdust in a Letter to the Author of Waverley
Authors: Scott Sir Walter
Published: December 2020

I Am truly sorry, my worthy and much-respected sir, that my anxious researches have neither, in the form of letters, nor of diaries, or other memoranda, been able to discover more than I have hitherto transmitted, of the history of the Redgauntlet family. But...
Suspiria De Profundis: Being A Sequel to the Confessions of An English Opium-Eater
Authors: De Quincey Thomas
Published: December 2020

Introductory Notice

In 1821, as a contribution to a periodical work—in 1822, as a separate volume—appeared the ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.’ The object of that work was to reveal something of the grandeur which belongs potentially to human dreams.* Whatever...
Chapter 2
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Three-quarters of a mile east of the Jago's outermost limit was the East End Elevation Mission and Pansophical Institute:* such was the amazing success whereof, that a new wing had been built, and was now to be declared open by...
Chapter 7
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

There was no chance all along Meakin Street. The chandlers and the keepers of cook-shops knew their neighbourhood too well to leave articles unguarded. Soon Dicky reached Shoreditch High Street. There things were a little more favourable. There were shops, as he well remembered,...
Chapter 9
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Dicky came moodily back from his dinner at Mr Weech's, plunged in mystified computation: starting with a debt of twopence, he had paid Mr Weech an excellent clock—a luxurious article in Dicky's eyes—had eaten a bloater, and had emerged from the transaction owing threepence...
Chapter 20
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

Dicky completed his round, and pushed his unladen trolley Grinder-ward with a fuller sense of responsibility than ever. For he carried money. A publican had paid him four and threepence, and he had taken two and tenpence elsewhere. He had left his proud signature,...
Chapter 26
Authors: Morrison Arthur
Published: December 2020

It was Father Sturt's practice to visit every family in his parish in regular order. But small as the parish was—insignificant, indeed, in mere area—its population exceeded eight thousand: so that the round was one of many months, for visiting was but one among...